After arriving at the restaurant and taking a seat, the three of them ordered what they wanted to eat. Cen Hao acted like a transparent person and sat beside Chu Heng without saying a word, lowering his head and twiddling his fingers.
Chu Heng and Ben Shaming chatted familiarly.
"Chu, do you know? I have been worried about you for a while." Ben Shaming took the cigarette from Chu Heng, looked at him with a faint look, and gritted his teeth and said: "Last time you told me in the letter
Tell me, there has been no news since you were about to take people to the Worm Valley in Yunnan, which is suspected to contain ancient ruins of the Dian Kingdom. I sent you several letters one after another, but they all seemed to have disappeared. I thought something had happened to you, why?
You have been sad for a long time, but I didn’t expect that you would go to Citigroup and hold an auction!”
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Benshaming. I left the country after I came out of Yunnan Worm Valley. I really didn't have time to write to you, and I didn't receive your reply at all." Chu Heng blinked when he heard this, with a look on his face.
With an apologetic expression, he quickly recalled what he had bragged about in his last letter.
It’s been so long that I’ve forgotten the content…
"If that's the case, then I forgive you." Benshaming nodded in understanding, and said with an expectant look on his face: "But shouldn't you tell me about what you discovered in Worm Valley? I
But I’ve been waiting for this news for a long time.”
"Then the story is quite long."
Chu Heng briefly thought about the plot of the ghost blowing out the lantern, and then started to blow: "On the third day after I sent you the letter, I led the team to Kunming by train, and took another day's rest after arriving there.
We hired a guide to go to our destination, and it wasn’t long before we encountered our first problem, how to cross the Zhelong Mountains that lay across the route..."
As Ya talked about it, Ben Shaming listened with great interest. Occasionally, he would exclaim a few times because of the ups and downs of the story, and ask a few questions from time to time.
In this way, Chu Heng started from lunch to the end of lunch, and then roughly told the story of Yunnan Worm Valley in his modified Ghost Blowing Lantern.
And when Ben Shaming heard that Chu Heng had thrown away many of the treasures he found and only brought out a bronze mask from the Worm Valley in order to save his life, he couldn't help but sigh, and his distressed face wrinkled together: "It's really true.
What a pity that you went through so many dangers and even paid the price of several lives to bring out even one cultural relic."
"There is no way, compared to treasures, life is the most important, isn't it?" Chu Heng smiled very openly.
"I really want to go with you to see that magical insect valley."
Ben Shaming smacked his lips yearningly, then picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "I think we should drink this for your safe return."
"Thank you." Chu Heng raised his cup and gestured. He raised his head and drank all the red wine in the cup. Feeling that it was almost time, he wiped his mouth and said: "By the way, Mr. Benshaming, actually I am asking you to meet this time.
, there is something I want to talk to you about."
"Oh? What's the matter?" Ben Shaming said seriously.
Chu Heng smiled and said: "You also know that I am very interested in the two animal heads in your hand, so I would like to take this opportunity to talk to you about whether you can sell the animal heads to me, or use
Displacement of things.”
Benshaming frowned when he heard this, without even hesitating, he flatly refused: "Sorry, Chu, I'm afraid I can't promise you this. Those two animal heads were left to me by my grandfather. To me,
It has great commemorative significance.”
In fact, Chu Heng himself didn't have high hopes for this visit. He just planned it as a preliminary test. It can be seen that he rejected him like this. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, so he continued unwillingly.
Said: "Do you really not want to consider it? Mr. Benshamin? I can use the bronze mask I got from Worm Valley to exchange it!"
"It's really not possible, Chu, please don't embarrass me anymore." Benshaming shook his head again, his face even looking a little impatient.
Seeing this, Chu Heng stopped forcing him. He cursed his mother a few times in his heart, pretended to be disappointed, sighed, and said, "Okay, I'm sorry to make things difficult for you."
Seeing that he was so knowledgeable, Bensha's expression softened a little. Then the topic changed and they chatted for a while, talking about the items in the auction, and the meeting ended.
Hotel entrance.
Chu Heng waved goodbye to Benshaming with a smile on his face. As soon as he turned around and got into the car, his face drooped. He glanced at the ghost old man's back and spat hard out of the car window.
"It's so shameless! It's still worth commemorating. What on earth do you want to commemorate? To commemorate the burning of the Old Summer Palace?"
…
The sun rises and the moon sets, time flies, and in a blink of an eye it’s the day when the auction begins.
It's about five o'clock in the morning.
Adel took a group of people to the Hilton banquet hall and began to arrange the venue intensively, making final preparations for the auction that will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
When it was about six o'clock, Chu Heng, who had been thinking about the auction yesterday and had hardly slept much, also came down from the room upstairs with Cen Hao with a pair of panda eyes.
He stood at the door of the banquet hall and looked at the workers and auction employees who were busy in an orderly manner. Then he stepped in and found Adel who was standing on the rostrum of the hall directing people to install lamps. He asked him:
"Is everything going well?"
"Don't worry, my friend, these people are all my old friends, nothing will go wrong." Adel smiled confidently.
"That's good." Chu Heng smiled and nodded, and then said, "Have you had breakfast? Do you want to go to the restaurant together?"
"Don't worry about me. You can go ahead. I can't live without me for the time being." Adel bowed his hands and walked toward a worker who was adjusting the lighting.
"Are you a stupid pig? You can't do such a simple thing well!"
Chu Heng took a few glances and saw that there was no big problem, so he went to the restaurant with Cen Hao. After a simple breakfast, he, who was focused on the auction, ran to the banquet hall and sat down to watch.
Lively.
It's past seven o'clock.
A brand new Mercedes-Benz drove into the Hilton parking lot, and then Chrissy, who had recovered from his injury, got out of the car in a high-spirited manner.
"Bang!"
He gently closed the car door and saw a fingerprint on the window. He quickly wiped it away with his sleeve, and then stood in front of the car and took a few glances at the luxury car that he had exchanged for a beating before he entered with satisfaction.
Got to the hotel.
A few moments.
Chrissy came to the banquet hall, took a few glances and found Chu Heng sitting in the corner smoking. He waved his hand from a distance and ran over: "Hey, Chu, Cen, did you miss me?"
?”
"What are you here for?"
Chu Heng glanced at him with disgust.
"Today is your big day to become a multi-millionaire, how could I not come?" Chrissie shamelessly came to sit next to him.
