Chapter 541: Raise the Price!_1
At two in the afternoon, a man in a designer black suit and gold-rimmed glasses stepped onto the auction stage.
He glanced at the audience below and gave a slight smile before saying, "Hello everyone, I am Jiang Fan, the host of the Wen Family auction. Now we will begin the first medicinal herb auction."
"Qilian Mountains’ nine-year-old Hancongshu, this herb has a pungent smell and can dispel wind and relieve cold, improve vision, and cleanse impurities. It’s an unparalleled medicine for treating cold-induced illnesses and eye diseases."
"This herb has been personally appraised by renowned medical experts and is guaranteed to be of the highest quality, so please bid with confidence!"
"The starting bid is one hundred and fifty thousand, with increments of ten thousand each."
As his voice fell, an eighty-centimeter tall, pitch-black plant was carried onto the auction stage.
Immediately, the crowd below stirred and many seemed eager to try their luck.
Most of those who had come to participate in the medicinal herb auction had at least some understanding of herbs.
Hancongshu thrives in the shade, often found in the sparse forests on the lower slopes of hills. It has a strong survival capacity, but most only live for three years and have very limited medicinal effects. Only a few can survive beyond that term.
A five-year-old Hancongshu is already extremely rare in the medicinal herb market, with prices starting from a few thousand yuan per gram.
A nine-year-old plant like this one can be considered top-notch, and a starting price of one hundred and fifty thousand really isn’t expensive.