"The twenty-fifth item: the Chu Dance Bronze Figurine."
On the display platform, Fang Liang pulled off the red cloth.
Everyone saw the lifelike male bronze figurine, its broad sleeves billowing, its bearing as graceful as an immortal's.
Fang Liang spoke fluently. "This figurine was made by Gong Yudai, the chief architect during Emperor Wu's reign in the Western Han, as a funerary offering. Gong Yudai was one of the Western Han's finest craftsmen. His figurines were extraordinarily lifelike, and rumor has it that every bronze figurine in Emperor Wu's mausoleum was his work. Rarer still, this figurine depicts no ordinary pose, but a Chu dance. 'In Nanying of the Chu State, between the Yuan and Xiang rivers, the people believed in spirits and loved sacrifices. At their ceremonies, they sang, played music, drummed, and danced to please the gods.' Li Taibai once wrote, 'Chu dances intoxicate the azure clouds; Wu songs silence the clear-voiced apes,' praising their beauty! Sun Quan used this figurine to honor the gods, giving it extraordinary significance. We have therefore included it here, in the hope that someone of refined taste will treat it well. The starting price is twenty thousand taels."
"Two hundred thousand!"
Gu Xiaoyu's shout made the entire Heaven Round, Earth Square Pavilion rumble!
Everyone was stunned. What was going on?
Had the Gu Family's young master been provoked? Was he spending two hundred thousand on this thing to flaunt his wealth? Wouldn't that just give the Gongshu Family more reason to laugh?
Xia'er was dumbfounded too. What was wrong with these people from the Central Plains?
First, three hundred thousand for two Vermilion Fruits, and now another two hundred thousand for a bronze figurine...
She gave Bai Liuli a strange look, seeking his instructions, but Bai Liuli was absorbing the primordial qi