"Welcome to the Sofia auction house, today..." A middle-aged man stood on the auction stage with a microphone and greeted.
"Who is this guy? He doesn't look like a host!" Xiao Feng glanced at him and turned to ask Lao Diao.
"Haha, he is the vice president of Sophia Auction House and the son of the chairman."
"Let me tell you, why do you have the aura of a superior person?" Xiao Feng smiled.
The middle-aged man stepped down from the stage in about three minutes without rambling much, and left the rest to professionals.
"Welcome everyone, I am today's auctioneer, Chen Boru." An old man came on stage.
"Why not bring in a beautiful woman instead of an old man?" Xiao Feng muttered again.
Lao Diao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The people who came here are here to auction treasures, not to see beautiful women: "Brother Feng, this Chen Boru is not an ordinary person. He is the top auctioneer in China. It is said that the things he has auctioned have been over five years old.
Ten billion—dollars!”
"Oh? Fifty billion US dollars? This old man is quite awesome." Xiao Feng was a little surprised.
"Auctioneers also get commissions. He has passed over 50 billion US dollars. This old man is also a rich man himself." Lao Diao added.
Xiao Feng nodded. He still knows some things about auctions. Usually the auctioneer will set a price. If it exceeds this price, the extra dissatisfaction will be paid to the auctioneer! A good auctioneer can do that.
Let an item be auctioned at a premium!
"Okay, now we have officially entered the bidding process..." Chen Boru smiled: "The first item to be auctioned today is an antique!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a beautiful woman in cheongsam brought up a tray. Chen Boru put on white gloves and held up the contents: "This is a piece of Ru Kiln porcelain. Ru Kiln is known as one of the five famous kilns.
, the collection value is increasing year by year, and the Ru kiln vase in my hand is definitely one of the best..."
When Xiao Feng saw that it was an antique, he immediately lost any interest. If he wanted to see antiques, he had a lot of them at home, including the old guy's lot, and there were a lot of older antiques in the blood jade treasure, so he was interested in it.
For him, it's not attractive at all!
"The price of this Ru kiln should not be low." Lao Diao muttered: "But I quite like it."
"You like it? Hey, don't buy it here, I'll introduce you to a place to buy it." Xiao Feng said directly.
"Ah? Where?"
"Wait, let me ask if there is one first." Xiao Feng said, took out his cell phone and called Long Sha.
What a joke, my girl owns an antique shop. Of course I have to introduce this good thing to my family. I can’t let others earn this money!
"Hey, Sasha."
"Brother Feng, what's wrong? Didn't you accompany Sister Xu Nuo to Shanghai?"
"Hmm, someone here wants to buy a Ru kiln vase. Do you have any at home?"
"There are Ru kiln vases."
"What kind of things are there, and how many are there?" Xiao Feng asked again. He thought about it until he understood it, so he could tell Lao Diao later.
However, hearing these words in Lao Diao's ears made him twitch the corner of his mouth a few times. Good guys, what kind of ones are there and how many are there? Is this still a Ru kiln vase? Isn't it a modern handicraft?
You know, all the porcelains from the five major kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty are very valuable. There are not many Ru kilns in existence today, especially the fine ones! This thing is rare to find. If you come across it, how can you pick and choose?
What a trick?
"There are seven or eight items..." Long Sha introduced Xiao Feng, and finally said to send photos.
"Okay, then you send the photos and I'll let him see if he likes any of them."
"OK."
Xiao Feng hung up the phone and looked at Lao Diao: "Wait, I'll send you the photos right away. There are seven or eight of them. You can choose from them. There will definitely be better ones than his broken vase!"
"Uh, okay." The corner of Lao Diao's mouth twitched a few more times, but Xiao Feng said so, so he stopped participating in the bidding, otherwise it would not be a loss of face!
"The starting price is 1.5 million, and each increase will not be less than 50,000!" Chen Boru put down the Ru kiln vase and shouted out the starting price.
"1.5 million? It's not expensive." Xiao Feng curled his lips.
"It's US dollars." Xu Nuo said beside him.
"Uh, okay."
"1.6 million!"
"1.65 million!"
"..."
The price of the broken vase Xiao Feng talked about increased fivefold in just five minutes, and looking at the trend, it will continue to rise!
"11 million, is there anything higher?" The first auction item fetched tens of millions of dollars, and Chen Boru was very happy at first.
"11 million for the first time."
"11 million for the second time."
"11 million for the third time, the deal is done. This Ru kiln vase belongs to the friend at table 13!" Chen Boru banged the hammer.
The person at table 13 stood up, smiled, and then sat down again.
"He is a rich man from Mukang." Lao Diao introduced.
"oh."
"Now, let's start the second auction item..."
Soon, Xiao Feng's cell phone beeped. He opened the picture sent by Long Sha and handed it to Lao Diao: "Here, these are Ru kilns. Take a look for yourself."
Lao Diao took it over suspiciously. He said it as if the Ru kiln was Chinese cabbage! However, when he took it and took a look, he was immediately shocked. The photo was very clear. You could tell at a glance that it was indeed the Ru kiln.
!
Of course, you can’t tell the authenticity from the fake ones. If you can tell the authenticity of antiques from just one photo, then he doesn’t have to do business anymore, he can just pick up the missing items every day!
"Brother Feng, these..."
"Don't worry, everything here is absolutely genuine."
"No, that's not what I meant."
"Haha, let's see which one you like."
"Okay." Lao Diao nodded and asked doubtfully: "Brother Feng, why do you have so many Ru kilns?"
"My girlfriend owns an antique store."
"Ah?" Lao Diao was stunned. Girlfriend? He glanced at Xu Nuo, did he have another girlfriend?
As a young man, Lao Diao has no shortage of women. Even he himself has four or five women outside, but these women are not in the open, and they don't know each other's existence!
But Xiao Feng, on the other hand, said it in front of his face. Isn’t this too fierce? He is indeed a brother!
"Well, just let me know when you think about it."
"Okay, let me take a closer look." Lao Diao didn't dare to ask any more questions and lowered his head to look at his phone.
Finally, he chose one he liked: "Brother Feng, this one is better than the one that was auctioned just now."
"Well, wait until I tell Sasha."
"How much is it? I'll transfer it now."
"Haha, I don't know either. Let's wait until you go to Jiuquan to Taobao Zhai to discuss these matters."
"Oh, okay."
Xiao Feng put away his cell phone and felt a little proud. Damn it, he was so business-savvy. When he went back to Shasha to take credit, he helped her sell a set of Ru kiln porcelain and asked her to reward him!
What kind of reward do you want? Well, there was a gesture last time, but the girl refused to give in, saying it was too embarrassing, so let her give in this time, hehe!
As time went by, more than ten items had been auctioned, and Xiao Feng noticed that the two foreigners he had noticed before did not raise their placards once. Instead, they looked at the guests from left to right and whispered a few words from time to time.
What.
"It looks like there really is a ghost." Xiao Feng muttered when he saw this scene. These two guys seemed to be looking for someone here, not to take pictures!
"The thing below is incredible. It is a foreign collection, the Iverui Scepter. It is said that this is..." Chen Borui took out a golden scepter from a long and narrow box, with a diamond on it.
"Isn't this thing in the London Museum?" As soon as this thing came out, the people below immediately started whispering.
"I don't know, maybe it's a fake?"
"Who knows, I also heard that this thing was stolen when it was on display in the United States!"
Xiao Feng also took a look at the scepter. It should be made of pure gold, and Chen Boru also introduced that it once belonged to a king!
What particularly surprised him was that the two foreigners who had not paid attention to the auction items also opened their eyes wide and looked at the Ai Weirui scepter in Chen Boru's hand, their eyes shining with light.
"Could it be that they came here for this scepter?" Xiao Feng guessed.
"The starting price is 3 million, and each increase must not be less than 100,000!" Chen Boru reported the price.
The bidding started, and one of the two foreigners stood up and walked outside.
"Sister Xunuo, Lao Diao, you guys sit down first while I go to the bathroom." Xiao Feng looked at the foreigner's back and couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he stood up.
"Do you need me to accompany you?" Lao Diao asked.
"No, I can find it."
"good."
Xiao Feng straightened his clothes and walked towards the corridor outside, and the foreigner seemed to be walking towards the bathroom.
"Did he just go to the bathroom?" Xiao Feng muttered, "No," looking at the look on his face as he looked at the Ai Weili scepter, how could he go to the bathroom for such an important matter?
There must be something fishy!
Xiao Feng came to the bathroom, and sure enough, the door inside was pushed open. He slowed down and walked in gently.
"The news is accurate, the Iverry Scepter appeared at the auction in Shanghai!" As soon as he entered, he heard such a voice coming from the partition room. Of course, the foreigner spoke in English.
Xiao Feng narrowed his eyes. This guy really came for the Aiwei Rui Scepter, but who was he? He couldn't be a robber, preparing to raid the Sophia auction house, right?
As soon as this thought came out, Xiao Feng's heart skipped a beat. Damn it, he really guessed it, right? He thought for a while and approached the partition, wanting to hear what this guy continued to say!
If it was really a robber, Xiao Feng would naturally take action to deal with this guy. China is not a place where their gringos can do whatever they want!
"In addition to the Aiwei Rui Scepter, there seems to be another collection that will appear in this auction, but I don't know what it is specifically, so I can only wait! It is now confirmed that a batch of lost collections have entered China...
