Female Novel
Chapter 543
Chapter 543 Takeshi Tokugawa
Everyone knew that a thousand-year-old ginseng could fetch an exorbitant price. Some would even saythat it was priceless.
It could easily fetch a billion at auctions, so ordinary people did not dare to bid for it.
Therefore, when Alex said he wanted to bid for this thousand-year-old purple ginseng. Stuart could nothelp but feel insulted.
Alex looked at Stuart and said with a smile, “There’s no need to worry. It’s just purple ginseng, so I canstill afford it.”
“You can pretend all you want, but I want to see how the heck are you going to bid for it,” Stuartsneered.
Alex turned away as he did not feel like talking to Stuart anymore. At this moment, the host announced,“Now, we shall begin to accept bids for this one thousand two hundred years old high-grade purpleginseng. The starting price is fifty million, and each subsequent bid must increase by at least onemillion. The auction begins now.”
The host glanced across the audience with a smile. Then, she stepped aside and waited for someoneto make a bid.
Immediately after she spoke, someone in the back row raised his auction paddle and shouted, “Fifty-five million.”
The rest of the attendees were speechless. This man instantly raised the bidding price to fifty-fivemillion. It seemed like he wanted to secure this purple ginseng immediately.
Alex observed what was happening. The bidder was a man in his thirties. Although he spoke theEurasian language fluently, it sounded too precise. Therefore, Alex could tell that the bidder was not aEurasian.
Furthermore, his facial features looked like someone from countries near Eurasia. Thus, he could be atJetroinian or Koandrian.
A beautiful woman in her early twenties sat beside this man. She wore a blue dress. Her facial featureswere delicate, and her skin smooth and fair. She looked like a woman from Jetroina.
Therefore, the man was most likely a Jetroinian.
Apart from Alex, many people in the auction also recognized the bidder.
“Master, I know these two people,” Auriel whispered suddenly.
When Alex turned to Auriel, she continued, “They are siblings. The man is Takeshi Tokugawa, while thewoman is called Haruko Tokugawa. They are both from the Tokugawa family in Jetroina. The Tokugawafamily opened Takeshi Pharmaceutical in Lumenopolis. They invited my grandfather to be their chiefresearcher, but he refused.”
Auriel paused for a moment before continuing. “However, they have stolen many of Eurasia’s medicalformulas and improved on them. It increased the effectiveness of medicine from TakeshiPharmaceutical, leading to a sharp increase in sales. According to grandpa, the Tokugawa familyearned a lot of profit in Eurasia in the past ten years.”
Alex nodded and kept what Auriel told him in mind. He did not know much about the Tokugawa family’spharmaceutical company in Lumenopolis.
After all, he left Lumenopolis at a young age, so he did not know much about businesses there.
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However, seeing how prominent the opponent was, Alex believed he needed to spend a substantialsum to get that purple ginseng.
“Fifty-six million.” Stuart glanced at Takeshi and increased his bid by a million.
Takeshi did bother to look at Stuart and raised his auction paddle immediately. “Sixty million.”
Stuart glared at Takeshi disdainfully and raised his auction paddle. “Sixty-one million.”
Takeshi ignored Stuart’s glare and raised his auction paddle again. “Sixty-five million.”
Everyone else fell silent as the two of them kept bidding against each other.novelbin
Furthermore, not many people knew that the thousand-year-old purple ginseng would be auction today.Therefore, only a few people came to bid for it.
Moreover, no one dared to bid for it as they feared offending those two prominent people.
Stuart narrowed his eyes and increased his bid. “Sixty-six million.”
Takeshi finally glanced at Stuart, but he was not giving up. “Seventy million.”
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At this point, the price had gone incredibly high. It was more than enough under the usual marketcircumstances.
However, this was an auction. Everyone knew that 70 million might not be enough to obtain thousand-year-old purple ginseng.
At this point, Stuart began to hesitate.
After all, he did not need that thousand-year-old purple ginseng.
Even if he got the purple ginseng, he had no use for it other than gifting it or keeping it as a collection.
Stuart suddenly remembered something. He turned to Alex and said mockingly, “Didn’t you brag thatyou’re going to buy this purple ginseng? Why are you so quiet now?”