"A dead egg? How do you know?"
Five hundred to a thousand gold coins might not be considered a large sum of money to a noble Lord raised by an entire territory, but to the vast majority of ordinary people, it was considered more than half their fortune.
They auctioned for a dragon egg not to give as a gift to some noble, but because they wanted to be able to hatch a Giant Dragon. If they knew this dragon egg was a dead egg, destined to be unable to hatch, it was estimated that there wouldn't be any suckers willing to spend money here anymore.
Naturally, Jasmine had no intention of opening her mouth to remind them. These guests were mostly not kind-hearted people. If you proactively spoke up to remind them, there was a high probability it would instead invite disaster upon yourself, and might even offend the Lord of the White City and Count Yashan, who provided more than half the auction items for this auction.
