The auction begins with the young master waiting for his assistant. The young master tells the assistant that although he is a good fighter, he is still useless in his eyes. The assistant replies that he is also useless in the eyes of the master because he is useless to the dogs. The auction ends with the assistant bidding on an emerald melon. He bids 1,000 taels, which is too much for the assistant to pay. The jade pieces that the assistant is cutting off look as if they have fallen from a tree. He is amazed at the skill of the jade expert. He thinks that the jade pieces must have been killed by the next sixteen people present at the auction.