Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 168 - 167: Bountiful Harvest

Chapter 168: Chapter 167: Bountiful Harvest

"Miss, who is this person? They are really lucky to have won two bids," Lin Tian asked subconsciously, not expecting Miss to know.

"It must be Uncle from Zhou Botong’s home. I think I’ve seen him before, just can’t remember clearly." Unexpectedly, Miss recognized him.

No one expected it to be someone from Zhou Botong’s home. Logically, the best gambler in his family should be Zhou Botong’s grandfather, and it should have been Elder Zhou who participated. Perhaps Elder Zhou is old now and also does not want to get involved in business matters.

Moreover, if a family always relies on the older generation for everything, it is not far from decline. Elder Zhou probably thinks the same and wants his descendants to venture out. Even if they fail and face numerous setbacks along the way, they will eventually grow.

Because Elder Zhou had gone through the same process, he knew very well that not meddling too much in the family business was helping the younger generations succeed and sustain the family from generation to generation.

The surrounding people also looked enviously at the owner of the bid number 518. Although the winning bid was high, everyone was competing now, and many would leave empty-handed, without even a chance to win a bid.

"Fifth bid, 12 million yuan, winning ID number 129..."

"Sixth bid, 6.6 million yuan, winning ID number 312..."

The auctioneer announced four bids in succession, and strikingly, each bid was no less than five million yuan, which made the previously confident people uneasy. The competition was too fierce, even for those who had experienced emerald bidding before.

In recent years, old emerald mines were successively shut down, showing a decreasing trend in the supply of raw emerald materials. This harsh reality fueled these jade merchants, as each grand Gambling Stone Festival was an opportunity to stock up on goods, and missing one meant one less opportunity.

Missing an opportunity meant being outshined by others in the future, watching others dominate the jade market while having no raw emeralds to compete with.

"Miss, this is too exaggerated!" Lin Tian exclaimed in disbelief.

Lin Tian had also bid on the sixth bid. Its starting price was only 800,000 yuan, and he had bid three million, which was quite high. Moreover, he had timed his bidding perfectly but didn’t expect that there would be even more crazed bidders afterward, driving the price more than double his, these people were insane!

Miss also had a serious expression and said, "This Gambling Stone Festival is even more brutal. The jade market is growing, but the jade mines are decreasing. Under such pressure, it’s no wonder the jade merchants are going crazy."

"Sister, does that mean we won’t have a chance to win any bids?" Xiao Manxuan, unclear about the intricacies, asked worriedly.

"Don’t worry, we submitted bids for more than five hundred tags, it’s impossible for all of them to not win. Some people place fewer bids, focusing on just a few, but there will always be some they win," Lin Tian reassured calmly.

He selected the bids that had the best cost-effectiveness. Even so, Miss had still mobilized eighty percent of Tianxue Jewelry Company’s funds. Though the people from the Bai Family spoke unpleasantly, their logic was sound—without substantial financial power, it really is difficult to play big in the gambling stone business.

The competition heated up right from the start, and the previously quiet merchants began murmuring again. One person’s voice was soft, but when hundreds of people gathered together, it became a buzzing echo that was so loud the auctioneer struggled to continue.

"Seventh bid..." The auctioneer realized even with the microphone, his voice couldn’t suppress the murmurs of the crowd. He raised his voice and shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen, please quiet down. If this continues, we will have to pause the bidding session, and nobody wants that, so please cooperate with us!"

After repeating himself a few times, the auctioneer pretended to walk backstage, making the crowd think the session was really about to be paused. The hall then quieted down.

Such a clever auctioneer, Lin Tian praised silently, leveraging everyone’s anxious psychology.

"Alright, thank you all for your cooperation. Seventh bid, one million yuan, winning ID number 1314..." the auctioneer continued.

"Huh, sister, 1314, ’forever,’ sounds so familiar," Xiao Manxuan whispered.

"Second Miss, that’s my ID, you’ve seen it, of course it’s familiar," Lin Tian said, exasperated, his own family won and yet she was still confused.

Xiao Manxuan paused for a second, then exclaimed with joy, "So we won a bid? Oh yes, finally!"

Just winning one bid and she’s this happy, there’s more joy to come, Lin Tian thought, shaking his head amusedly. The seventh bid was quite cheap at only one million. But as Lin Tian remembered, the materials in the seventh bid contained good-quality jadeite of icy sugary kind, easily made into jewelry worth several million.

After the auctioneer’s subtle "threat," the following announcements went smoothly. After announcing more than two hundred bids, his mouth was dry and the attendees were tired, so he announced a fifteen-minute break.

"Lin Tian, our harvest this time is not bad." Miss took out a notebook, jotting down notes and said happily.

"I remember out of the first two hundred bids we placed, we bid on forty, how many did we win?" Lin Tian was also eager to know.

"All in all, in the first round, we won thirty bids," Miss calculated and spoke excitedly.

Winning thirty out of two hundred bids was astonishing, and the constant exclamation was the best proof. Now people were looking around trying to find out who Lin Tian was, the one with an extremely high win rate. Up until now, more than ninety percent of the people were still empty-handed!

The Xiao sisters and Secretary Xu looked at Lin Tian with admiration. Even though he did look a bit lascivious when eyeing beautiful women, he was indeed very skilled.

Don’t consider these materials to be too fragmented compared to the number one raw material, but they excelled in quantity. The total value also was significantly high, and if we considered the undisclosed bids, the total value could reach up to eight or nine hundred million.

Because Lin Tian chose materials containing high-grade jadeite, some pieces worth millions, others tens of millions, the calculated value would be shockingly high. Of course, that’s the total value, including cost. Excluding the purchase price and cost, the profit should be a few hundred million.

This didn’t even include the number one raw material, because its value would far exceed the sum of the others!

Fifteen minutes went by quickly, almost no one left to use the restroom or for a breath of fresh air, because if you did, your spot would be taken by someone else.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the bidding session continues," the auctioneer resumed on schedule, and the previously relaxed crowd tensed up again.

"Two hundred twenty-second bid, fifty million yuan, winning ID number 918..."

Fifty million yuan, the highest bid so far, everyone was looking around to see who had placed it. Suddenly, a hefty merchant in the distance stood up, sticking out his belly, waved a cigar in his hand, and shouted loudly, "Damn, I finally won one!"

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