"Eighteen thousand! Eighteen thousand for the gentlemen from Gu Dao Recipe!" The old man called out with the tiniest frown on his lips as he glanced at the people from Gu Dao Recipe before turning back expectantly to the other bidders.
Having people from Gu Dao Recipe making an appearance was always a hit or a miss. Often, they immediately called out a price that scared off most of the competition, allowing them to win directly, but other times when someone competed with them, they would fight to the end.
Once, ten deepsea codfish were auctioned off for three times the market price as a result of a duel between Gu Dao Recipe and another bidder. In the end, the bidder saw that the people from Gu Dao Recipe didn't care how much they paid, so he finally conceded.
Gu Dao Recipe upheld this standard - everything they cooked in their restaurant sold for five or six times the market price. This was what other restaurants couldn't do.