The man hosting the event had been keeping an eye on them the whole time.
As it approached twelve o'clock, only one last item remained for the day's auction: one hundred grams of Da Hong Pao from the Wuyi Mountain mother trees.
This tea was a hundred times more valuable than gold.
The last harvest was in May 2005, and twenty grams sold at auction for 208,000—equivalent to 10.4 million per kilogram.
Forget the money; the crucial point was that harvesting had ceased entirely.
It now had a price but no market; the average person could never hope to see it, let alone drink it.
When a certain foreign dignitary visited our country back in the day, he was only gifted 200 grams of it.
So one can imagine how sought-after this stuff was. It was beyond what money could measure, serving more as a symbol of status.
Any of it circulating on the market now was stock from previous harvests, held in private collections.
Most of the people here today had come specifically for this tea.
