Moonlit Maiden and Sun Princess

The cold wind in Anhui Province was far more biting than in Fujian Province.

Zhang Jun sat in a café outside the auction venue, drinking hot milk and staring blankly at the mist condensed on the window.

The laptop on the table displayed a live broadcast of the auction.

One mare after another was led into the auction ring by staff. The auctioneer's droning voice came through the earphones, making him drowsy.

Of the thirteen selected mares, seven had been withdrawn before the auction began. The remaining six would appear in the first four days of the auction in a two-one-one-two sequence.

For the Min Province January Auction, whose exhibition would begin the day after tomorrow, Zhang Jun had already sent Li Ying to analyze the bloodlines. During the waiting time at these auctions, he could use the system to see whether there were any suitable ones, then either bid online or have someone bid on-site for him.

"Next up is Lot 137, Lushan Green Grain, a five-year-old gray mare. Her sire is..."

Hearing the name from his shortlist, Zhang Jun set down his hot milk and focused on the screen.

Onscreen, a silver-gray mare was led into the auction ring by a stablehand.

Like Flying Cloud Colt and River Snow, she was a gray horse, but her graying process differed from theirs. Her entire body had grayed at the same time, and she now gleamed with a soft silver-gray sheen beneath the lights.

She seemed to have quite a bad temper, tossing her head every so often and nearly dragging the stablehand off balance.

Zhang Jun frowned slightly, but remembering her six-point foaling attribute, he decided to keep watching.

"How about a starting bid of two hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand... two hundred thousand... Good, the buyer here in