Prices are always higher when items are scarce, and her uniqueness made her very expensive.
The auction was based on the highest bid.
Her high price drew a larger crowd.
Bai Xue was standing quite far away, only able to see a rough outline of the female slave, but not her face.
The crowd muttered something unintelligible. The original slave girl on the auction stand, with a round of high shouts, was dragged off by the slave trader and brought to the front of the crowd.
The trafficker, or, as Bai Xue preferred to call him in ancient terms, the Human Trafficker, led the female slave around the crowd, presumably so everyone could see her face clearly.
The female slave seemed frail. Her heavy leg and hand chains made it difficult for her to walk. Seeing this, Bai Xue felt a touch of sympathy, but she dismissed these feelings when she remembered what Su Yan had said about bad people.
Su Yan was growing impatient and wanted to leave, "Let's go!"