To confirm his speculation, he decided to win the auction for the wooden fish.
Chu Ge bid three hundred thousand, and after waiting for a long while without anyone following up, the auctioneer turned back to look at the person in charge with an inquiring look as to whether to finalize the price. This three hundred thousand was historically low for their auction house, breaking records even. She wondered what the leader was thinking, bringing a wooden fish to auction.
The person in charge nodded at the auctioneer, signaling her to quickly move on to the next item.
The auctioneer received the order, picked up the microphone, and was just about to finalize the bid, when suddenly a voice with awkward Chinese shouted, "Four hundred thousand!"
One could tell immediately that the person was a foreigner. Among those present, the only foreigners were the Japanese sitting in Box No. 3, and the voice had come from there.
