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Chapter 64 The End of the Auction
The Queen Mother stared at the golden nanmu furniture on the screen and fell into reminiscence. It took her a long time to come back to her senses: "It's fate that this set of furniture ended up here!"

"How does mother know about this set of furniture?" Emperor Yonghui was a little curious. Is there anything special about this furniture?
Tang Qiao was also very curious. He received this set of furniture from Dai Hou Mansion. He only knew that this set of furniture cost a lot of money back then, and there was nothing special about it.

"Look! There are more than 20 pieces of this furniture still intact. There should have been a few more when she got married."

"This is not something that an ordinary noble family can afford. Even if they can afford it, they can't just marry off one daughter. If you marry the first one, what will you do with the girls behind you?"

"You know those noble families have their own standards for weddings and funerals. If they dote on their daughters, the parents will prepare golden nanmu dowries for their daughters, but it's impossible for them to have the whole set!"

"Another point is that since so many golden nanmu trees can be gathered together, ordinary people will also consider the royal family and choose to piece together other good woods. After all, the emperor's coffin is made of golden nanmu."

"I wasn't even born when the wife of the Marquis of Dai married into the capital! But I grew up listening to these legends, and today I finally got to see the full picture of this set of furniture."

"Then did I offer too low?" Tang Qiao knew that the furniture was valuable, but it was used after all, and the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of collecting old furniture.

"How much did you give them?" asked the Queen Mother.

"Four thousand taels."

"The new one could be worth tens of thousands of taels, but this is an old one after all. Four thousand is not much and is acceptable. You don't need to pay the difference. If you see any difficulties their family has, help them if you can!" the Empress Dowager instructed.

"Okay! Madam Empress, I understand. I am actually friends with their eldest son. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't know that their family has such a set of antiques." Tang Qiao said.

"Eldest Young Master?"

The eldest son of the Daihou Mansion? The Empress Dowager and Emperor Yonghui had never heard of it, but it was not surprising. The Daihou Mansion had not produced any outstanding children in recent years and was gradually marginalized. No one would care how many children they had? Nor would they care why it was the eldest son instead of the crown prince?
"This eldest son is a big shot. He was supposed to take part in this year's imperial examination, but he fell ill right after the Chinese New Year and missed the exam. I was so busy that I didn't go to see him for so long. I don't know how he is doing in such a cold weather. I hope he didn't receive any bad news."

Tang Qiao said with a look of annoyance: "After this auction, I must go see him. If not, I will bring him here to let Doctor Liu see him."

"Yes! Let's go and see what's going on. The medical skills here are really good." The Empress Dowager has grown old and her heart has become soft. She can't bear to see this.

"Of course you can, but you have to do his job well! This is our secret, and it is also the basis for getting through the disaster safely. We cannot afford to make any mistakes." Emperor Yonghui explained seriously.

"He was originally mine, but he fell ill at the wrong time and I was too busy to take care of him. If he hadn't been sick, many things would have been left to him to do," Tang Qiao explained.

Several people were talking while watching the auction. The auction of this set of furniture was also coming to an end. Because the price per piece was too high, it was sold separately.

The price was still very attractive. The step-out bed and two large wardrobes were sold at high prices of over 10 million yuan. The final transaction price of this set of furniture was 108 million yuan.

"I thought this set of furniture would be put at the end. How come it appears so early?"

The Queen Mother asked.

"Let me see!" Tang Qiao now had no problem with simplified Chinese characters, so he took the invitation letter on the table and looked at it.

"Wow! Look, Grandma Empress! What a big gem." Tang Qiao said, pointing to the picture on the invitation.

"Isn't this a picture? How big should the real thing be?"

"It's marked on it. The diameter is 23.4 centimeters, which is about this big." Tang Qiao gestured.

"There is no such a big one in our Ming Dynasty. I have never heard of it."

"It's not from here either. I heard from Miss Xiaoyue that it came from a multi-racial plane where all the races are very powerful." "So that's how it is. It's really special." The Queen Mother was not very interested. She did like it, but she couldn't buy it at this time, so...

Emperor Yonghui knew what was going on as soon as he saw it: "Mother, wait until these two years are over, and then we'll come back to Miss Xiaoyue to buy it. She's sure to have some more."

"I don't need that gem, but I think that relying on the money we get from today's auction to buy food is just a drop in the bucket! I can still watch the auction here, but the people are still hungry. How can I still be in the mood to buy gems!"

"Grandma Empress, everything will be fine. The experts here said that in the second half of the year, we can grow some easy-to-grow crops in the south. Don't worry." Tang Qiao advised.

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It was almost 12 o'clock, long past Wang Yue's usual bedtime.

Wang Yue yawned repeatedly: "Mr. Jiang, how long will it take?"

"It's almost done. There are only two finale gems left." Mr. Jiang replied. Mr. Jiang was in high spirits, much more energetic than Wang Yue.

Song Ji Yang saw that Wang Yue's eyes were a little red and there were tears in the corners of her eyes, and he knew that she was too sleepy.

Every day Song Ji Yang slept next to Wang Yue. Although he didn't see her, his hearing was good. Through observation, he found that Wang Yue slept more than ten hours a day, not including the time spent in bed.

If you don’t get enough sleep, you will feel tired the whole next day.

"Or you can lean on me and sleep for a while, and I'll call you when it's over." Song Ji Yang said to her.

"No, it'll just be a moment." Mainly out of embarrassment.

"Ok!"

The auction officially entered its climax because two large gems, one blue and one red, were auctioned as a bundle, and their quality had never appeared before, and their size was also unprecedented.

After half a month of promotion, the top jewelers from home and abroad gathered together. At this time, except for a few merchants with sufficient cash flow who were still bidding, the others were completely reduced to spectators.

The bidding price has soared to 100 million, and there is no sign of slowing down. The auction is already in full swing, and Wang Yue is actually fishing there.

The atmosphere was so heated that some people had given up their gentlemanly manners and stood up and shouted, "One hundred and fifty million!"

The person who was shouting was not far away from Wang Yue. Wang Yue was so scared by the shout that she would have fallen if Song Jiyang hadn't supported her.

He opened his sleepy eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay!" Song Ji Yang didn't ask her and directly hugged Wang Yue in his arms.

Wang Yue felt something, opened her sleepy eyes and took a look, and when she saw it was Song Ji Yang, she stopped struggling.

The middle-aged man on the other side was not to be outdone: "One hundred and sixty million!"

At the beginning, the man said: "One hundred and eighty million, you can take it if you want." He meant that he would not add any more.

In the end, the two gems were won by the man not far from Wang Yue for 180 million.

The auction is officially over.