"Hmm." Zhou Min answered and then closed the door.
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Early in the morning.
Chen Ge opened his eyes then.
Ever since he had learned about these things, he could not sleep at all, his mind pondering almost every moment, but no matter how much he thought about it, he could not figure it out.
"The one called Zhou Yuantong is here." Bai Xiaofei knocked on the door.
Chen Ge sighed. This feeling of being watched was indeed unpleasant, but he still rolled out of bed, pushed the door open and said, "Let him in."
In the time it took to go wash his face, Zhou Yuantong was sitting in the living room.
"I got up early and went out to buy breakfast, try some, it's all very good." Zhou Yuantong said as he pointed to the handy bags sitting on the table.
"Thank you." Chen Ge was a little helpless, but he could only accept it.
"It's just a bit of breakfast that I bought. It's nothing." Zhou Yuantong, on the contrary, was not a bit uncomfortable, and after seeing Guo Lintian also come out of the room, he immediately said." This uncle. You should eat quickly too, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
"This one is?" Seeing this unfamiliar face, Guo Lintian was a little confused.
"A friend I just met." Chen Ge could only continue with his introduction.
"My name is Guo Lintian, you can just call me Uncle Guo." Guo Lintian nodded his head and extended his hand towards Zhou Yuantong.
"Hello Uncle Guo, my name is Zhou Yuantong, you can just call me Xiao Zhou!" Zhou Yuantong smiled heatedly and reached out his hand to shake Guo Lintian's.
"There's less than half an hour to enter, so eat quickly or you might not be able to squeeze in." Guo Lintian distributed the two entrance tickets in his hand to Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei.
"Uncle Guo, I have one here for the VIP box, let's just go see it together." Who would have thought that before Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei could reach out to take it, Zhou Yuantong directly pulled out a hot-stamped ticket from his pocket and put it on the table.
"How come you have a ticket for the box?" Seeing the ticket on the table, Guo Lintian was a little surprised, knowing that box tickets for auctions. They were usually only given to the big Chinese families or cultivators with very high cultivation levels.
The Guo family was a small family even in South Vietnam, and it was hard to have the opportunity to come and participate, as for the box tickets. He had never even seen one.
Chen Ge and Bai Xiaofei glanced at each other, Bai Xiaofei's eyes were confused while Chen Ge knew exactly what to expect, with his status as a disciple of the organising family, getting such a ticket was not a breeze.
"I got this by chance." Zhou Yuan Tong said what he had thought of long ago, "I was too bored if I went to see it by myself. I just happened to meet Brother Chen Ge, so we can sit in the box together and have someone to talk to. It's quite nice."
"Alright, then I'll be in your good graces." Guo Lin Tian didn't refuse.
"Thank you." Chen Ge arched his hand at him.
"It's alright, it's alright." Zhou Yuantong smiled a little embarrassed.
Last night, before he had even gone to bed, he had received a message from the Third Elder that he had to bring Chen Ge inside the box on the first floor today. This would make it easier for the patriarch to see what position Chen Ge was in.
The four of them set off together.
The auction was right in the middle of the island.
It was the same as the Colosseum in ancient Rome, a large circular building, hollowed out in the middle to ensure light inside.
Inside the auction house, however, there are two levels, the upper level being a circular platform. Each box is arranged in turn, and the box has a huge piece of toughened glass, so that as soon as you look down. You can see the auction platform on the ground floor.
On the lower level, on the other hand, there were rows and rows of wooden benches, at the very least two or three hundred of them at a rough count. Right in front of these benches is the auction platform, with wooden doors on each side of the platform, leading to the back of the platform.
At eight o'clock in the morning, there was already a dense crowd of people heading inside.
As they had box tickets, Chen Ge and the four of them went up through the wooden ladder next to the auction house and entered inside directly from the upper level.
"Go in." The clan member who checked the tickets saw that it was Zhou Yuantong and didn't even look at the tickets handed over to him, waving his hand directly.
"I heard that each box provides quite a lot of food and drinks inside." Zhou Yuantong walked at the front of the line. When it came to the entrance of the box, he pushed open the door.
Inside, apart from a sofa that could seat four or five people, there was a long table with a few bottles of mineral water and a lot of food.
"I've attended six auctions and this is the first time I've sat inside a private box." Guo Lintian walked in. Sitting on the sofa, he could see those people on the lower level as soon as he lowered his head, and looking at the noisy environment, he was not only a little emotional.
"Uncle Guo, with my relationship with big brother Chen Ge, as long as you attend, you will be able to sit inside this box all the time." Zhou Yuantong patted his chest and assured him.
"I hope so!" Guo Lin Tian knew that Chen Ge would leave their family soon, but he also thought that after Chen Ge knew about this matter. He should come here every time there was an auction.
As they spoke, all of them entered the auction house, except what they didn't know was that there was a private box on the first floor directly above the auction stage.
But this box was completely hidden in the building and could not be seen from the outside. From the inside, however, the whole scene can be seen.
Inside this huge box, Zhou Wanjiang was sitting on a sofa. Zhou Min was sitting beside him, while on the other side stood the Third Elder, as well as a dozen clansmen from the family.
"The one with the power of the Ninth Turning Yuan Shen. Where is he sitting?" Zhou Wanjiang swept a glance, "Did that Yuan Tong lead them inside the box?"
"Yuan Tong hasn't done anything wrong, it's these compartments, we'll have to look at them one by one." The Third Elder looked at them for a few moments and said.
"There it is." They didn't see it, but Zhou Min saw Chen Ge at a glance.
"Where?" Zhou Wanjiang asked in a hurry.
Following Zhou Min's slender finger, both Zhou Wanjiang and the Third Elder saw the box sitting diagonally across from them, but did get a little disappointed when they saw an old man and three young men inside with Zhou Yuantong.
"I didn't expect to be so old."
Zhou Wanjiang sighed, he had originally expected a strong man of around forty, but had not expected to be a little more than fifty, which was almost as old as he was.
"That's still older, huh?" The Third Elder forgot that Zhou Wanjiang didn't know Chen Ge, so he didn't even look towards Guo Lintian.
"Being in his early fifties and being able to possess the power of the Ninth Turning Yuan Shen is indeed considered okay, but he's even as old as me, which is a bit unreasonable." Zhou Wanjiang shook his head.
"Patriarch, you are looking at the wrong person, the young man sitting to his left is the one!" The Third Elder explained with a tearful smile.
"That's not right, that one is only twenty-five or twenty-six years old." Zhou Wanjiang changed his eyes from Guo Lintian to Chen Ge.