Chapter 129: The Auction

Although it was still slightly awkward, Ye Lingling tried her best not to take the matter to heart.

After a while, Dugu Yan organized the team, wanting to take the team members to the canteen inside Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to eat.

Zhou Heng followed Dugu Yan and the team members to the canteen, accompanied by the seven people from the previous team.

As the canteen for the Imperial Academy, the canteen itself was actually a large restaurant, with gorgeous decor and a huge interior space.

Although it was slightly inferior to the restaurant where Zhou Heng had previously met with Qian Renxue, who was disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, looking at the outside world, it was definitely at the level of a top-tier restaurant of this era.

Basically everything a restaurant should have, the canteen had.

Some things that outside restaurants did not have, the canteen also had.

It was precisely because lewd behavior occurring within the Imperial Academy would disgrace the majesty of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.

Otherwise, with the financial resources of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, they could have even prepared those things unsuitable for children.

Dugu Yan took the members of the two teams to eat a meal in a large private room on the third floor of the canteen; although it was mainly to build rapport, the dishes ordered were still very sumptuous.

After the meal, the twenty-two people, including Zhou Heng, spent a total of over three thousand Gold Soul Coins.

It is worth mentioning that the canteen of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy was subsidized, and the dishes sold to students were basically at cost price, practically given away for free.

If this meal were eaten at an outside restaurant, it would cost at least ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to start, which was not a small sum even for a High-level Soul Master.

Even the noble students would choose to eat in the academy most of the time; after all, the money was their own.

As for the bill, it should have originally been handled by Dugu Yan, who was the captain.

However, as a boyfriend, Zhou Heng still gave Dugu Yan plenty of face, snatching the bill before Dugu Yan could.

After eating and drinking their fill, the group parted ways. Zhou Heng

followed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling back to the courtyard that originally belonged to him.

Because the room that was originally his had already been occupied by Dugu Yan, Zhou Heng chose the room next to Dugu Yan's as his new room.

Although Ye Lingling was not quite used to this state of men and women living together, considering that this courtyard was originally Zhou Heng's and she had only moved over after her grandfather spoke to Dugu Bo about it, Ye Lingling did not voice any objections.

The courtyard was very large, and the three people could only fill one corner.

Although Ye Lingling was not quite used to daily life, it did not reach the point of any awkward incidents occurring.

Zhou Heng stayed at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy for three days, improved his relationship with Dugu Yan, and after casually crushing the current school team and the former school team, he left Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and headed into Heaven Dou City.

When chatting with Xiong Xin, Zhou Heng heard Xiong Xin say that the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House in Heaven Dou City would hold an auction lasting one day, and many precious materials and even soul bones would appear in the auction.

Having transmigrated for so many years, Zhou Heng had never attended an auction.

Thinking about it, he decided to join in the fun; who knows, he might even be able to pick up a bargain like a protagonist.

After staying in Heaven Dou City for one night, Zhou Heng went to the auction venue early the next morning.

The Heaven Dou Royal Auction House mainly targeted Soul Masters and high-level nobles, and the control over the identity of the entrants was relatively strict.

Although this would cause the loss of many potential customers, the wealthy and imposing Heaven Dou Imperial Family did not particularly care.

Of course, this strict control was only aimed at the entrants.

If one wanted to auction some things, the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House did not care about the identity of the seller.

The Tiandou Auction House only cared about the quality of the auction items.

Chen Ming was himself a Viscount, and even within the Heaven Dou Empire, he was considered to be in the category of high-level nobles, so entering the auction house was naturally no problem.

It was just that as soon as he showed his family crest and the student badge of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in front of the inspection personnel, the already very respectful inspection personnel immediately became somewhat panicked.

Several maids with good figures who had been specially dressed bowed their waists and invited Zhou Heng to enter the side to wait for a moment, while the person in charge immediately notified their superior manager.

Zhou Heng was not in Heaven Dou City, but Heaven Dou City was full of legends about Zhou Heng.

These specially trained personnel, after seeing Zhou Heng's personal identity proof, immediately recognized that Zhou Heng was the grandson-in-law of the Poison Douluo.

They hurriedly brought out the highest level of courtesy.

A few minutes later, the person in charge arranged by the auction house staff rushed over; it was an old man wearing a gorgeous robe, aged about seventy or so.

Although he was old enough to be Zhou Heng's grandfather, he immediately acted as if he had regained his youth in front of Zhou Heng, the whole person as respectful as a grandson.

After confirming that Zhou Heng was indeed the grandson-in-law of the Poison Douluo, he brought Zhou Heng to the top-tier VIP room with a fawning attitude.

And he arranged for several maids with beautiful faces and figures that each had their own merits to serve in the VIP room.

A few minutes later, fruit platters, pastries, and drinks were brought up by the waiters.

Although Zhou Heng did not like luxury, he could tell at a glance that the fruits and pastries provided for free by the auction house were made of top-tier materials, and the cost price of a small plate was worth over a hundred Gold Soul Coins.

Why could he recognize it even though he didn't like luxury?

Because these things brought up were the same as what Zhou Heng ate at the canteen a few days ago, to the point that he now kept the prices of these things in his heart.

However, thinking that the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House, like Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, was a direct institution with a Heaven Dou Imperial Family background, Zhou Heng felt that this was very normal.

The location where Zhou Heng was located was the top floor of the auction house, a room with a huge floor-to-ceiling window.

What served as the floor-to-ceiling window was not ordinary glass, but a large piece of polished special crystal.

This kind of crystal possessed properties similar to one-way glass; one could see through it from the inside out, but nothing could be seen from the outside in. Through this transparent crystal, people sitting in the room could look down at the entire auction house.

Looking at the ordinary seats below, it naturally gave people a feeling of being superior.

In the next hour, all kinds of people entered the auction venue. Most of them could only sit in the seats at the very bottom, and only a few people with special identities could enter different private rooms.

And among this small group of noble people, there was one person whose identity was particularly noble.

Several auction house elders in gorgeous clothes stood respectfully in front of the gate, maids with beautiful faces were lined up on both sides of the carpet, some holding bouquets, some bowing their waists, showing their excellent figures through special clothes.

Looking at this grand setup, Zhou Heng could not help but be a little curious about the identity of the person coming.