By the time Lin Yi seated himself on the sofa, Fatty Lai had regained his composure and was pulling out an album from his office bag, a smile on his face as he handed it to Lin Yi. âBoss, take a look at this!â
Lin Yi took the album and started flipping through it.
âAuction?â Lin Yi saw that it was an album introducing the auction. The location was Yanjing.
âCorrect!â Fatty Lai nodded. âBut this auction isnât just any auction! Itâs an auction where the top tier houses attend, a large-scale super auction hosted every year!â
âOh?â Lin Yi blinked, not expecting such influence from this auction. It seemed that Fatty Lai wasnât just a nobody if he could get his hands on an album to this kind of auctionauction.
âFatty Laiâs right. I know of this auction as well. They send me an invitation every year, but Iâve never attended,â Xuemin said humbly.
Xueminâs position in this day and age was something very coveted by these houses. A miracle doctorâs value, after all, was worth far more than a beneficial business partner! What use was money when one was dead?
So, in order to emphasize the value those houses placed on Xuemin, theyâd always send Xuemin an invitation, and not just one invitation either.
The thing was, Xuemin was more of a plain and honest person. He wouldnât set exorbitant clinical fees, and he naturally wouldnât attend some auction.
âBut you need to go this time, Professor Guan!â Fatty Lai said with a smile. âI wouldnât have had to go through so much trouble getting an invitation if I knew about all the invitation letters you had for people you could bring along!â
âHaâ¦â Lin Yi smiled. Fatty Lai mightâve wanted to show off his invitation a little bit, but it turned out that Xuemin had a couple of them. There wasnât any point of showing off anymore.
âThis auction, thereâll mostly be some rare treasures, things that only the powerful houses can afford with their vast wealth,â Fatty Lai said. âOf course, thereâll also be some newcomers to the realm of entrepreneurs, other than just the regular veteran figures. These newcomers are people with a lot of potential themselves.â
âSo youâre saying that this auction is the one weâve chosen for the Pill of Life Extension and Toxin Cleansing?â Lin Yi said, understanding what Fatty Lai was saying.
âThatâs right. The people attending this auction will be exclusively rich people. As long as thereâs demand from them, itâll be hard for our company products to fail!â Fatty Lai said.
âAlright, you make the decisions.â Lin Yi nodded. Now that heâd let Fatty Lai take charge, the decisions should be left to him as long as he said itâd work.
âItâs really is nice to follow you, Boss!â Fatty Lai almost started crying again as the joy got to him. Lin Yi wasnât involving himself at all and leaving everything to him! It took him quite a bit of willpower to hold the tears back. âBoss, I booked three plane tickets for tonight. Weâll be flying to Yanjing in just a bit.â
âThat fast?â Lin Yi blinked. âDoesnât it say here that the auction starts three days later?â
âThatâs the time for the attendants. If weâre just going to buy an item, itâs fine even if weâre one or two days late,â Fatty Lai said. âBut weâre going there as sellers, so we need to arrive earlier and go through the registration process.â
âI see!â Lin Yi nodded and agreed to Fatty Laiâs plans.
Lin Yi informed Pengzhan and the Miss, texting them that he had something to do for a couple of days and needed to be on leave. Pengzhan didnât mind, naturally, but Mengyao sent a text warning Lin Yi, âRemember who you are, and donât mess with any girls.â
âHaâ¦â Lin Yi shook his head after reading Mengyaoâs text. He then dialed Tang Yinâs number. Her phone was turned off, unfortunately.
Lin Yi could only send her a text and explain that there was nothing going on between Xiaoxiao and him, that he needed to rush to an auction in Yanjing and also bring back a gift for her.
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Miracle Doctor Kangâs house.
Meanwhile, Miracle Doctor Kang himself had, naturally, received an invitation. While the Kangs werenât considered the bottom of the highest tier houses, they were still a leading titan in the industry. It would only make sense for the auction to invite them.
The Kangs did also put a couple of items of their own on auction every year.
âHow come the auction is early this year?â Miracle Doctor Kang looked at the letter in his hand, confused.
âYeah, father. Itâs always in August. Wonder whatâs wrong with the Yu house this year.â Guifeng nodded, curious.
âSilence!â Miracle Doctor Kang glared. âDo you think you can just mouth off about the Yus like that?â
âBut thereâs no outsiders here.â Guifeng knew heâd misspoken, but tried to explain himself anyway.
âNo outsiders? Weâd be in trouble if there were! Youâll doom the Kang house irreparably with that!â Miracle Doctor Kang harrumphed. âDonât even think about this kind of thing from now on! The Kang house is an advanced house, so donât cause any trouble. It may just be us two now, but if you get used to it and let words like that slip outside, itâll ruin everything.â
âI understand, Father! I was wrong,â Guifeng quickly apologized.
âIt doesnât matter why House Yuâs starting the auction early. The Kangs will still have to attend!â Miracle Doctor Kang harrumphed. âThis time Iâll go with you and Zhaolong. Weâll go to the Xiaos for the wedding plans first before heading to the auction.â
âUnderstood, Father!â Guifeng nodded. âDo we also use last yearâs standard for this yearâs auction items?â
âYes, but weâll prepare an extra portion as a gift for the Xiaos,â Miracle Doctor Kang said. âGet things ready as soon as possible! Weâll have to get moving in the next two days!â
âDonât worry, Father!â Guifeng nodded.
Miracle Doctor Kang was more at ease when he let Guifeng handle things. His elder son was a lot more reliable than his younger one. Hopefully, theyâd be able to get House Xiaoâs support during this trip to Yanjing as well as a huge profit from the auction.
The Kangs would always prepare a couple of special, limited edition Golden Creation medicines for the auction every year. These were coveted by the high-class houses, and the bids always skyrocketed!
The profits were so enormous that they were actually a source of the Kangsâ annual income.
But the so-called limited edition Golden Creation was actually just undiluted Golden Creation medicine. Some of the components were also made of more aged reagents.
As a result, the limited edition was naturally different from the regular Golden Creation, and good medicine like it was the ideal target for rich folk who coveted it. Miracle Doctor Kang himself got more popular because of this product.
In Eastern medicine, some ingredients are better the older they are, like ginseng, for example.