Chapter 721: When Night Comes.

Everything they need to prepare for the auction has been prepared, and all they need to do is wait, wait for the auction to start.

And Ye Xing has also reported the results of the past few days to Zhu Di, Zhu Di saw that his minister had so many valuable antiques in his hands, and he muttered a little in his heart, but now for the expedition, he did not study this matter carefully.

Tomorrow, the auction will begin.

Everyone's hearts are very excited, an irrepressible excitement, I don't know what will happen tomorrow, whether there will be sky-high prices.

Night comes, night gets deeper.

I don't know when, the sound of the night is gone, the frog song is gone, and even some lotus flowers in the pond have bloomed.

Ye Xing watched all this in the courtyard of the Zhongshan Palace, and suddenly realized that summer was finally over, autumn was really coming, and this season was always sad.

Di Xiaojie and the others have been tired enough in the past few days, so they have already gone to bed to rest. Ye Xing was very nervous because he was worried about tomorrow's auction, and he was a little uneasy.

But even if he is uneasy, it is impossible not to sleep, otherwise how can there be a spiritual abbot auction tomorrow.

The night is deeper, the moonlight is very good tonight, if he can, Ye Xing really wants to go to the suburbs with his friends for a barbecue, and then drink wine and eat meat, sing and dance.

But they can't, because they have something to do now.

In the middle of the night, Ye Xing was faintly about to fall asleep, but at this moment, a voice that was almost crazy suddenly came: "It's on fire, everyone come and put out the fire!" ”

The voice was hoarse, scared and anxious.

When Ye Xing heard this voice, he flew out of his room as fast as he could, and when Ye Xing came outside, he found that the warehouse where the antiques were stored was on fire.

The fire has begun to spread, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, the subordinates who have already gotten up began to carry water to extinguish the fire, Di Xiaojie and they all ran out in a hurry, Ye Xing looked at the spreading fire, and his heart was very angry.

"It must be Ji Gang's dog mongrel, he disregarded the national righteousness in order to take revenge!"

For a person who has no shame, mentioning national righteousness to him is simply playing the harp to the cow, they only care about themselves, how the country is doing, what others do, and what matters to him.

The people nearby also came to help, they admired Ye Xing very much, and now that the Zhongshan Palace's mansion is on fire, it is really unreasonable for them not to come to help.

More and more people came to help, and the fire slowly subsided, but the entire warehouse was reduced to nothing.

Everyone looked melancholy, but they didn't know what to do, the soldiers guarding the warehouse were knocked unconscious, after waking them up, Ye Xing asked what happened, they were hesitant, only said that they were really guarding, but suddenly felt their heads sinking, and they fell unconscious, who knocked them unconscious, they didn't have any impression.

By the time all the people had dispersed, the sky was already dark, the autumn dew had moistened the air, and the storehouse was filled with a faint smoke, all of which did not feel so good.

Ye Xing decided to find out the person who set the fire, but at this time, they had a more important thing to consider, and that was the auction held today.

According to the arrangement of Hua Zhimeng, the auction will be held today, and it is in the courtyard of the Zhongshan Palace, in fact, it is said that the courtyard is a little small, and it may be more appropriate to say that this place is a garden.

Since the morning, those wealthy merchants and some officials have come one after another, and in addition to bidding for those antiques, another reason is that they have heard that the Zhongshan Mansion has suffered a fire last night, and they want to see what is going on.

It is none of their business that there is a fire in the Zhongshan Palace, or they are just here to see the excitement, because according to their thinking logic, the warehouse where the antiques are stored has been burned, and they still have antiques there to bid on, so why don't they come to see the excitement?

The auction was set up with a very feelful and modern taste, with rows of chairs underneath, on which were placed some signs for bidding, and at the strongest, a mallet and gong were placed to make the final decision.

It's all so nicely furnished, but if there are no antiques, I'm afraid it's all just decoration.

The wealthy merchants sat down in order, but after they sat down, they kept discussing the fire of last night, and they kept guessing what they would be able to bid on today, and the whole auction room was very lively for a while.

This excitement lasted for a long time, until Ye Xing appeared.

Today's Ye Xing dressed up to attend, he came to the stage, looked at the quiet rich businessmen under the stage and said: "The border is urgent, the Mongolian Tatars have repeatedly harassed our Ming border, my Ming Emperor has decided to drive the expedition in person for the stability of the people in the world, but this time there are 500,000 troops, and grain and grass have become a major problem, so in order to solve these problems, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military are very active in donating their own collection of antiques to charity sale, and those sitting here are all my Ming business elites, all of them are my Ming people, for the safety of the world, I don't think you can sit idly by, so today we hold an auction here, if you have your favorite antiques, you can use the price to fight, all the proceeds of this charity sale will become the military salary and granary of the expedition, and now I announce that the auction has begun! ”

Ye Xing said impassionedly on the stage, and the rich businessmen in the audience were also very excited, but they were very strange in their hearts, didn't the Zhongshan Mansion suffer a fire last night, how could there be antiques?

And just when the big guy was puzzled, a group of subordinates had already moved some antiques up, and the officials who were present saw this and discussed, these are all antiques donated by them, why are they still there?

Ye Xing saw that everyone was puzzled, so he smiled and said: "These antiques are priceless, just in case, we hid these antiques in the underground secret room of Zhongshan Wangfu, and did not put them in the warehouse, so what was burned last night was just a warehouse." ”

Now that Ye Xing explained this, everyone understood, and they admired Ye Xing's foresight, so after the auction began, everyone was very active, they were all rich businessmen, and money was just a tool for them to play, so they were not stingy at all in bidding for antiques.

Moreover, this charity sale is for the country, and they have to make a contribution, so that they can also win favor in front of the people of the world, and their business can continue to do it.

Moreover, this is the first time they have participated in this auction, so they naturally have a sense of curiosity about new things, and it is no wonder that they are not active for all these reasons!