The Legend of the Guardians of the East Gate
Ch. 113 - Auction I

Everyone in the place started to shout, and it was as if Master Huang Jong had gotten used to advancing into the midst of the meeting.

"How come gentlemen, if anyone is willing to pay the debt of Mr. Li Zhen Chan, if he can, then the evidence of possession of this treasure, and the beautiful woman will be yours," huang Jong shouted while pointing at Hua Mulan.

A younger justice bureau official stood up and read a scroll,

"As our rule if the debt is so high then it can be broken up, and will be at auction, and if anyone pays off in full he will get his as the first priority, he said, but it cannot exceed the amount of debt,"

"for the first, 1 restaurant and 2 luxurious inns in the capital, did anyone bid? I will open for 50 thousand gold coins" the young official shouted.

Everyone fell silent, most of them shaking their heads, even though they were rich but that kind of money was only in the possession of a few people.

"Master better forget it, no one will buy it even if you kill everyone," shouted someone behind with a laugh.

"Well we'll buy it for half the price" said another person who was seen sitting in a group, who seemed to already have an agreement.

And finally there was no agreement at the auction of Li Zhen Chan's wealth, even his residence only got the highest offer of 30 thousand gold coins, far from what Huang Jong wanted.

The young official of the justice bureau just shook his head.

"Mr Huang the highest bid of all the treasures is only 55 thousand coins, only Madam Li is left alone, this will be difficult to reach 150 thousand, no one buys a woman for 95 thousand," said the office.

"If it doesn't reach, it's okay, I'll keep it all to myself" Huang Jong said his eyes never slipped from Hua Mulan's face.

But during the auction for Hua Mulan, everyone started to race,

"All right, I start with 8 thousand gold coins" the judicial bureau official said

some people started to raise their hands,

8500, said an old nobleman.

"9000," shouted someone again.

"10 thousand," cried someone again.

"10. 500.... 11. 000," they sound unpretentious.

"20 thousand," said one young man, making all the bidders speechless.

The young man was sitting with one leg raised to his one thigh, a white fan in his hand was fanning his handsome face, the young man was wearing a golden-striped white outfit, the young man was none other than the prince of Qing Fan.

Everyone was rumbling, some people took a deep breath if anyone bid for such a tall woman, 20 thousand gold coins only a few people had ever seen that much money, at least need two large crates to carry it.

Some people started whispering about the truth of the rumor.

"They are very compatible, so it's true that they were already in a relationship when Madam Hua was still in the Li family's residence" whispered someone who could be heard by almost everyone, and more like an announcement than a whisper.

Huang Jong shook his head,

"Alright it doesn't seem like we'll be collecting the money, let's close this auction without a deal" shouted Huang Jong, who was not at all interested in the Qing Fan prince's offer.

Prince Qing Fan went up on stage,

And again made everyone rumble, not believing the price of women exceeded the price of the Li family residence which was so vast and magnificent as a palace.

"Hahaha. prince I know your fondness for beautiful women, but the price is not comparable to the beauty of this mistress, you can see for yourself Lady Hua has the charisma of a Goddess of Heaven, 40 Thousand is only comparable to this necklace of mine," said the noble Huang Jong, revealing a necklace with a pendulum of a faded green crystal.

Zhi Yuan narrowed his eyes looking at the noble Huang Jong, a small commotion began to take place between the supporters of prince Qing Fan and the residents of Huang Jong, Hua Mulan stood up from her bench, closing her eyes, the crowd said, all the roads looked deadlocked to him, his hands trembled, and slightly retreated, his face staring at Zhi Yuan.

"Zhi Yuan. I used to always act with reason, maybe if I didn't know you I would turn a blind eye on the man like my first marriage, and my life would be back to normal, she said, and there doesn't need to be a drama that I don't like very much like this, but after feeling our fairy tale dreams, I really want to keep it up, for the first time I really wanted something so big like this," Hua Mulan said with a puffy, shaking face.

"Zhi Yuan, I know this is immature, but for 39 years of life, this body of mine felt like a cold and desolate tomb, it made no difference to me from a corpse, it made no difference, so later in the night pull out your sword I'll relax my body and follow your movements, I'll always be in your arms until the end, if I die, i-tu.... it would be better than marrying someone else" whispered Hua Mulan, her eyes already reddened and watery.

The justice bureau official stood up and displayed a sinister face that rivaled the king of hell.

"Madam Li, your time is up, please get closer to Mr. Huang Jong," the official said as he was so angry, but his voice was swallowed by the commotion between Qing Fan's prince and Huang Jong.

Hua Mulan still stared at Zhi Yuan her head shook her head

"No... Zhi Yuan, please defend me!!" hua Mulan's eyeballs moved looking at Zhi Yuan's eyes in turn, her face looking so panicked.

"Zhi Yuan what should I do? I'll do whatever you tell me right now" Hua Mulan's voice trembled like a wife asking for her husband's opinion.

Zhi Yuan looked at Hua Mulan, and recalled her beautiful smile as she danced that morning on the village streets, and made up her mind.

"Go madam," said Zhi Yuan so coldly.

"a-pa? Zhi Yuan?" both of his eyeballs looked back into Zhi Yuan's eyes as if they could not believe what he heard, his two wiggly fingers that had originally squeezed the collar of Zhi Yuan's clothes trembled away from the young man's clothes.

His face looked so beaten, his head bowed and just nodded.

"We will bear it together, Later in the night I will do it, now go," said Zhi Yuan slowly, making the woman's face change, her eyes teary as if so grateful.

"Thank you.... I will entrust my life to you, you are right we have promised to bear it all together," whispered Hua Mulan eagerly hugging the young man but her consciousness still remained, slowly the woman turned around, stepping on the stone stage was so slow as to approach the noble Huang Jong.

"Everything is silent." shouted the judicial bureau official began to lose his patience, making the atmosphere so quiet.

The savage-looking official looked at everyone with an angry look, and when no one spoke his eyes returned to normal and nodded, he nodded,

"Madam please" said the official again in a slightly low tone.

Prince Qing Fan had already stopped arguing with those people, and was staring at his imaginary lover was heading towards that fat man who was like he did not have that neck.

"hahahaha. Come here sister Hua, I can't wait another 10 days, listen to all of you, I'll invite everyone in this place in my wedding in 10 days," huang Jong looked like a wild animal staring at fresh meat.

Prince Qing Fan's hands clenched tightly like they were so angry and jealous of Huang Jong's noble, yet they did not dare to blatantly go against the rules, yet a grand plan had already begun to fill his head.

"It's really none of my business anymore" said Zhi Yuan closing his eyes like he was so annoyed by all of these situations.

The young man slightly retreated and descended from the stone stage, everyone was only focused on the beautiful woman who stepped so gracefully. Zhi Yuan took the opportunity to enter the crowd, the young man quickly upped the knot of his ponytail-like hair, the pointed tip of his hair now only reaching his back neck, and wearing his veil, as well as tidying up her clothes like someone wants to leave.

"Put your face even if your honor is destroyed, the night will all be over, I will go with the man I want, even to hell" Hua Mulan murmured, feeling death was much better than parting ways with Zhi Yuan.

"95,000" said a man who looked old but whose face was so clean of fur, accompanied by a man dressed in high noble clothes with a veiled caping, the old man looked half-bending like a servant.