Chapter Three Hundred and Three: Chrysanthemum One Character Zezong
…The sixth transaction item came on stage, but this time the transaction item came on stage in a slightly different way than before. Instead of the burly men who had been hiding in the corner of the opera house appearing, they walked up to a man in the front row.
, personally used the key to unlock a long silver suitcase handcuffed on the other party's hand, and was escorted into the backstage of the opera house surrounded by several burly men.
The trading party is indeed a trading party.
Lin Nian also understood why when he entered the market before, he saw many people carrying various boxes, which contained not cash or gold and diamonds, but pieces of trading items ready to be delivered to the trading desk.
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If it is an auction, the auction items will usually be sent to the organizer in advance, and will be put up for auction after being appraised by the organizer. However, this charity dinner is positioned as a trading evening. For the sake of insurance, the sellers will bring the trading items to the auction in person.
It's perfectly normal... In a sense, this can really attract the appearance of some rare trading items, such as the sixth trading item now.
In less than three minutes, the trader came back from the backstage. This time, he naturally presented the trading items in the box that were handcuffed before. He was carrying an ebony display stand with the same
The red velvet cloth outlines the transaction items below and looks very slender and has a certain subtle curvature.
The experts sitting in the VIP room on the second floor guessed what was under the red velvet cloth at a glance, and their pale gold eyes gradually became full of interest.
But in the audience, before the trader started to introduce the trading products, Shao Yifeng, who was in the auditorium high up in the opera house, had already stepped over Chu Zihang next to him, stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Nian, and he burst into tears.
When Lin Nian thought that this guy was going to sing Qiong Yao, he opened his mouth and begged for mercy as if he were a hero in the forest: "Big brother, please keep a line as a human being. My family background is small and I can't stand your torment like this."
“The Black Prince Group is not small anymore, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to raise the price till now.” Lin Nian shook his head and said seriously.
"Are you buying so many things...are you going to open a grocery store?" Shao Yifeng was immediately off guard by Lin Nian's seriousness. He finally couldn't hold it in any longer and looked at him with a sad face, "We haven't even collected the garbage yet.
Is this what you charge? Four million for a broken book? At this price, you can order a new Ferrari directly from the manufacturer, brother!"
“You don’t have to worry about what I buy.”
"..." Shao Yifeng was silent. This was the first time that he was blocked with such words. He felt a sense of déjà vu for no reason. It seemed that his own secretary had persuaded him like this when he was chasing a beautiful woman.
Come by yourself?
…But my uncle, you are using my money!
"I'm just using the auction guarantee provided by your company. I will pay you back the money later." Lin Nian comforted him casually when he saw Shao Yifeng's uncomfortable expression as if he had eaten shit.
He really isn't worried that the college can't afford to repay this kind of problem. Those old guys on the school board of directors control the equivalent of 'syndicates' and 'trusts'. The giant monopoly groups bring things that ordinary people can't imagine.
An unimaginably terrifying empire of wealth. Compared with that behemoth, the Black Prince Group is like a child playing house. With the monopoly power of a mixed-race family, the wealth flowing out from under the fingernails is enough to be worthy of several Black Princes.
If the group is tied together, it will double.
If it is an ordinary executive department specialist, like Wan Boqian, they may not have the courage to raise Shao Yifeng's number plate next to them to bid, because they will worry that the school board will not buy the account of ordinary specialists like them and ask questions afterwards.
When responsible, they will be scolded for not being qualified to make such an important decision.
But Lin Nian is different. Sitting here, he basically represents half of the executive department. If he thinks it is necessary to buy all the transactions tonight, then the school board will pay for him behind his back, no matter what is spent.
Is the number nine or ten digits?
But then again, once the organizer is arrested by them, it won’t cost much to confiscate all the auction items and compensate the seller according to the original price. No matter how great the bidding price is now, it doesn’t mean the final transaction price... Anyway, it will probably be the final price.
They are all capable of flipping tables.
Lin Nian waved his hand, and Shao Yifeng was picked up by the cold-faced Chu Zihang behind him. After that, the leader dragged him back to his seat helplessly and sat down. Wan Boqian looked at the little fat man with a look of sorrow on his face.
She couldn't help but shake her head. She couldn't explain to this little fat man why they insisted on buying these things.
Alchemy items in the world are best sealed in the college ice cellar. This is the consensus of almost every commissioner in the Executive Department.
Judging from the new situation that has emerged now, it proves that Lin Nian's move is right... Not all trading items are in the organizer's inventory. There may be a large number of truly dangerous alchemical items hidden among the alert ordinary guests.
In their hands, only when the time is right, they will be called out from the sidelines or nearby and put on the stage.
...The organizer really posed a problem for them, asking these ordinary people to collect so many suspected or even alchemical items. If catching the 'Jews' before meant the end of the mission, then their current purpose is very
Obviously, it became 'arrest the organizer, seize all transaction items, and finally suppress the charity gala'.
All participants at tonight's event (except for the mixed-bloods of the aristocratic family) must accept systematic control and review, hand over all information related to alchemy items, and then send them to the Department of Psychology to cleanse their memories.
Obviously, this kind of work cannot be completed by three people. They can control the scene but cannot complete the follow-up complicated work. Therefore, under Lin Nian's instructions, Wan Boqian had already sent a text message half an hour ago.
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At this time, the sixth transaction object on the stage is also ready to be unveiled.
"Ladies and gentlemen, one of the highlights of tonight's charity trading party is about to take place. Please pay attention to your eyes...please be careful not to get cut by it." The trader stood in front of the display table and reached out to pinch it.
He picked up a corner of the red velvet cloth and said, "I wonder if any of you have ever read a book called "The Chrysanthemum and the Knife"?"
The trader always tries to make a little fuss before introducing the trading products, but the questions he raised this time were extremely simple. Almost as soon as he mentioned the book, many experts among the buyers were already talking about it.
After guessing what the trading items under the red velvet cloth were, everyone's eyes were filled with surprise and weirdness.
Without waiting for most of the guests to react, the trader shook off the red cloth, and the spotlight fell on the display table. Many people were stunned when they looked at it. Everyone in the white light seemed to be under a restraining spell, and their eyebrows were
Full of sluggishness.
It was an ancient sword, with chrysanthemums blooming on the blade. The blade was as thin as a willow leaf, longer than the end of a beauty's eyebrows. The blade glowed like splashing water, and the white light from the spotlight fell on it, pouring down like a waterfall.
fall.
"The sword forged by Go-Toba when he was emperor was made by the original swordsmith Norimune. It is said that the first samurai of the shogunate, Okita Souji, once held it. It was so majestic that it could cut ten pieces without damaging the blade.
It is engraved with the 16-petal chrysanthemum family pattern representing the royal family, and there is a horizontal one-character pattern carved under it, so it is called... chrysanthemum one character Zezong!" The trader said, he took a step forward, stretched his right hand slightly backward, and lifted the
The famous national treasure sword was displayed to everyone, "According to the seller's insistence, the starting price starts from 100,000, and each increase in price shall not be less than... 1,000."
Follow the public account: Book Friends Base Camp, follow and you will get cash and coins!
The opera house suddenly fell into silence.
No one called out the price.
Everyone stared blankly at the famous sword, and lived the history of this long sword in their minds. Everyone is familiar with the book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", written by American female anthropologist Ruth Benny.
Dickert's masterpiece has opened a window for many people to the Japanese nation. In the book, the "chrysanthemum" in the emblem of the Japanese royal family and the "sword" symbolizing the bushido are juxtaposed, which easily makes people fascinated.
I am reminded of the ever-famous sword of Kikuichi Mononori Sect.
But it is precisely because this knife is so popular that people can think of it so easily before the red cloth has been unveiled, and the asking price is so ridiculously low, which leads to the strange silence in the whole place now.
The trader was not surprised. When he received the transaction backstage, his reaction was the same as everyone in the opera house.
...It's like someone suddenly put the 'Ruyi Golden Cudgel' up for auction. The auction price is very affordable. It's only 998. If you don't buy it, you will suffer a loss. If you don't buy it, you will be fooled. If you buy it, you can become the next Monkey King.
Settled on the Seven Fairies of Taoyuan...Who would inexplicably buy such a thing with unknown origin and extremely cheap price? Probably only Okita Souji's die-hard fans would ask for the price in the first place, right? But Okita Souji has used it.
The existence of this knife is still a matter of history.
This is the situation in the market now. It’s not that they can’t afford it, but everyone is speculating whether this thing is trying to collect their IQ tax...
Kikuichi Monmonori Mune is so famous that whenever you mention Japanese swords, you will easily think of him, and think of the legendary scene of Souji Okita wielding a sword and galloping through the flesh and blood battlefield. When something becomes famous to a certain extent, it suddenly appears in
With a low price marked on the display stand, it is normal for people to question its authenticity.
"No museum has publicly stated that it has collected the authentic Kikuni-Ichimonji Norimune. It is now widely circulated that the Kikuni-Ichimonji Norimune has been missing for hundreds of years, and the famous sword that can still be found today is an imitation.
The seller No. 22 advertised that this craft knife was sold to him by a blond female foreign tourist who visited Japan a few months ago for the same price of 100,000 U.S. dollars. The foreign tourist also claimed that this craft knife was sold to him by a blond female tourist who visited Japan a few months ago.
Zong’s genuine product, in order to verify the authenticity of the famous sword, he even performed a performance on the spot... blowing and breaking his hair." The trader obviously paused at the end, but still maintained a rigorous professional attitude and finished the sentence.
There is no practical verification to verify the authenticity of Ju Yiwen Zezong. The source is that it was taken by someone while traveling. The only way to detect it is to blow off the hair and break it... At any rate, there are several Ruyi Golden Cudgels on the 'Ruyi Golden Cudgel'
You can only use one character to prove your identity, but your chrysanthemum is really in bloom, right?
No matter how weird or outrageous the trader thinks the script he is talking about now, he has to continue talking, because this is the line of trading product description given to him by the buyer on the 22nd, and he has no right to laugh at or change any part of it: "
I repeat, you heard it right, the national treasure-level famous sword 'Kiku Ichimonji Norimune', the starting price starts from 100,000, and each increase in price must not be less than 1,000... If you can't buy it, you will suffer a loss, if you can't buy it, you will be fooled."
Someone laughed out loud...I think the person who laughed out loud must have seen the TV marketing commercial. Unexpectedly, the trader actually said this line. I don't know if it was a whim or the seller No. 22 did it.
He single-handedly added this sentence to the promotional lines of the traded products... Maybe the introduction to Kikuichi Mononori Mun before the trip was copied by seller No. 22 from the encyclopedia?
"One hundred thousand chrysanthemums are worth one word... Buyer No. 66 doesn't seem to care about the price." Someone made a good-natured joke to Buyer No. 66... Then the whole opera house burst into laughter.
Everyone's eyes are filled with joy.
Because it was true as this person said, the young man who had previously bid as fiercely as a lion has not seen him bid after such a long time. It seems that this chrysanthemum has undoubtedly become a joke.
...There is not always something of real value at the trade fair. After all, there is no 'appraisal' process at the trade fair. No one can guarantee whether the things on display are true or false. This is why everyone bought them for No. 66 before.
One of the reasons why I was shocked by the big deal was that the other party’s bidding was as decisive as not afraid of buying fakes!
But now the real fakes are on the scene, and the buyer of the No. 66 plate seems not to want to be deceived out of 100,000 US dollars by this idiot. There is no sense of satisfaction like before by directly making an offer.
With $100,000, wouldn’t it be nice to buy him ribs or put new tires on the Ferrari in the parking lot?
Everyone regarded the "Kiku Ichimonji Zong" as a joke. Buyer No. 22 was no longer present at this moment and entered the backstage. Otherwise, this moment would have become the eye of the typhoon surrounded by laughter.
But no one noticed that in the back seat of the Opera House, the young buyer holding No. 66 in his hand opened the red cloth. Until now, he fell into a long silence, staring at the handle of one hundred thousand yuan to bring home.
The family's "Ju Yiwen Zezong" occasionally crosses the lines of surprise and weirdness.