novelPairMe Chapter 1408 The happiness of the rich
Chapter 1408 The happiness of the rich
Li Daofeng held Cao Huifang's waist, looking at the spirit stone in front of him that was like jade yet still radiated light, and felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
It's often said that doing business is about repackaging your own useless things and selling them to others, and that's absolutely true.
Auctions, in particular, are even more exciting than doing business. If those pills he sold today had been sold in a shop, they would never have achieved the same effect. And those spirit stones wouldn't have fetched such an astronomical price either.
Auctions, on the other hand, can achieve this, and the most important reason is the competition. When everyone is competing, people are more likely to get carried away.
When a person gets carried away, they are prone to doing other unusual things, and their intelligent mind is taken over by impulse, leading to irrational judgments.
Even the most level-headed person can get caught up in the frenzied bidding at an auction.
Because! Auctioning is no longer just about buying things, but a competition, both overt and covert.
Everyone has vanity; this desire will always exist in anyone, regardless of who they are.
As long as you're not a god, as long as you still have emotions and desires, this competitive spirit will exist. You see someone at an auction who's even more timid than you usually is suddenly a tycoon, competing with you for the same thing, and bidding higher and higher than you each time. Doesn't that get you excited?
When these rich people were poor, they worked desperately to make money, and they didn't care about saving face. But when they became rich, they started to care about saving face.
At this point, they'll go to extremes for the sake of their reputation, and not just a little bit.
Take this auction for example. Even though the value of those pills had far exceeded their intrinsic worth by the end of the auction, people were still bidding recklessly. That's what happens when you go overboard.
To give a simple example, it's something very simple, like a banana. In a fruit shop, if you ask for a banana, the owner might be generous and give it to you for free.
But a single banana can fetch tens of millions at an auction.
Many people probably don't understand what the person who auctioned off this banana was thinking. Spending so much money just to buy a single banana—isn't that just plain stupid?
Actually, they knew they might have lost their minds, but in that situation, they felt that there was nothing wrong with their brains and that spending so much money to buy such a thing was worthwhile.
Let alone bananas, even a tattered pair of underwear or a piece of toilet paper used to wipe one's bottom would be bought at an auction and taken home to study.
In the eyes of ordinary people, these brainless things might be seen as a sign of good taste by wealthy people.
They believe that spending tens of millions to buy a piece of toilet paper is art, fashion, and a symbol of wealth and status.
Or sometimes, they know that what they're doing is idiotic, like they've been kicked by a donkey, but they just like the feeling, like hearing people yelling when they buy a piece of toilet paper.
This might be a kind of enjoyment for them, just like paying to see a young lady – it's all about seeking happiness, except that their happiness has surpassed the kind you're looking for.
The kind of happiness you seek can be obtained with money. And the kind of happiness you seek is readily available to others, without them even having to lift a finger. They have countless young women scheming to sleep with them all day long.
That's why they spend so much money to buy something useless. Perhaps they never even thought about what the item was; they were just enjoying the auction process.
Of course! I, a poor person, don't understand the society of the rich, so I can't imagine it.
Look at Li Daofeng now, standing in front of that spirit stone! He felt a little moved, but really didn't feel anything.
After all, someone at his level has no concept of money anymore. Just like his master said.
When he was coming down the mountain, his master gave him that card and told him that even if he spent money every day, he wouldn't be able to spend it all in thirty or fifty years, and after thirty or fifty years, he wouldn't need to spend any more money.
At first, he didn't understand what his master meant. He thought the old man was cursing him, saying that he would die in thirty or fifty years and wouldn't need the money.
Later he realized that when his spiritual level reached a certain point, money really became useless.
However, he reached this level too quickly. With his current cultivation level and strength, if he were still in a lower plane, in his world...
To be honest, he doesn't need money to do anything when he goes out; there are countless people behind him waiting to spend money on him.
"I've seen them all! I'll put them away now. These things are useless to us! They're just nice to look at!"
"Of course! Anyone who wants to go out and have fun can do so, it might be quite nice!" Li Daofeng said with a smile.
"Tch! This thing is no different from a stone to us now. Although our cultivation level is low, we can still use it if we want to cultivate. But in our own world, we have much richer spiritual energy, which is more direct and purer than this spirit stone. What's the point of using this?" Huang Wenying said with a smile.
"Sister! You're wrong to say that! Even though we don't use these things, they're still the same few things. After all, I've never seen them before. Let's have some fun with them, so we won't embarrass our husbands when we go out."
“Otherwise! If we don’t know anything, what if we embarrass our husbands in the future? Especially now that we’re different, we can’t teach our children the same things we used to know. So we have to study everything. Spirit stones are the most important thing for martial artists, how can we not study them?” Wu Minhua said with a smile.
To be honest, what she said made a lot of sense. She really thought ahead; she even considered the issue of children.
However, she's right. We have to consider the issue of children, since they might come up any day.
"Hehe, what you said makes sense, you silly girl. So be it! No one else can take some, but you can take the rest, junior brothers!" Shang Wanqiu made the decision, and everyone took some spirit stones.
Then everyone prepared to go back, however! Just as everyone turned around, a cold light suddenly burst through the door and rushed straight towards Su Yunlan.