Lin Ling'er smiled: "Tell me, is there anything else we can't see in our country?"

Chen Wen said: "I am going to the Sotheby's autumn auction tomorrow. ”

Lin Ling'er immediately said: "I've seen this in the magazine! Wow, Chen Wen, are you going to bid for curiosities?"

Chen Wen smiled: "I'm just going to see the excitement, if there is anything cheap, such as skeletons, bones, or something, buy two and give it to you!"

Lin Ling'er said in disgust: "Hey~~ Don't! I'm disgusting, Chen Wen, you're too bad!"

Putting down the phone, Chen Wen rode to the post office, selected the photos, divided them into several parts, and sent them to Su Qianqian, Tang Jin, Xu Meiyun and Qin Yang.

Tang Jin's copy has the largest number of photos, and there are duplicates, which are enough for her and Zhang Wan to share.

Su Qianqian's copy also had a few duplicate photos, and Chen Wen guessed that Su Qianqian should give two photos to Ou Kelan and Lin Ling'er.

When he took the address book and copied the address on the envelope, Chen Wen saw a name - Liu Yi. The girl who is not greedy for money at Shanghai Normal University, Zhang Na's senior sister, is door-to-door with Zhang Na in the dormitory.

Chen Wen remembered that he had a good chat with Liu Yi at Shanghai Normal University that day, and Liu Yi told him about Zhang Na's big money. Chen Wen also remembered that Liu Yi once begged him to send her a letter in France, and she had never received a letter from abroad.

Chen Wen thought for a moment, took out a single photo of him on the beach in Sicily from the thick stack of photos in Tang Jin's envelope, and stuffed it into Liu Yi's envelope.

After sending this pile of letters, Chen Wen rode home, and Masako Nakamura had already started to cook dinner.

After the meal, Chen Wen returned to the attic and sat on the single sofa to read the textbook.

The wind is blowing and the rain is falling.

Chen Wen opened the slanted windows on the north and south sides, and the rain was blown into the room by the wind from the north window, so he hurriedly closed the windows and wiped the water stains on the ground with a mop cloth.

Xie Tiantian ran upstairs again, said hello with a smile, and took Chen Wen's tea leaves and teapots. Seeing that Chen Wen was cleaning up the mess of the rain, the girl hurriedly helped with the work.

Chen Wen, as usual, gently hugged Xie Tiantian from behind. Unlike usual, the girl actually struggled a few times.

Chen Wen was surprised: "Don't move! I was asked to hug me every day, what's wrong today!"

Xie Tiantian stopped struggling, stood up straight, and let Chen Wen hug him for a while.

Chen Wen felt that Xie Tiantian's body was a little stiff today, so he asked, "What's the matter, are you not feeling well today?

Xie Tiantian grinned and said, "No, maybe I'm a little tired from work today." ”

Chen Wen hugged Xie Tiantian tightly, and kissed the woman through her half-long hair

Child's ears. Xie Tiantian tickled and laughed, but did not break free from Chen Wen's embrace.

Chen Wen felt that Xie Tiantian was a little wrong today, usually he could only hug, but he wanted to kiss her neck and cheek several times, but Xie Tiantian refused. How could it be so good today, let Chen Wen kiss her ears.

After being kissed on the ear for a while, Xie Tiantian broke free from Chen Wen's embrace, ran away with the teapot, and his face turned red.

Chen Wen was very interesting, and his little relationship with Xie Tiantian became more and more harmonious. He thought to himself, if it was Xie Tingting's ice-faced Wang Zuxian, he wouldn't dare to kiss like this, and he might be slapped by the girl.

Although Chen Wen is not afraid of being beaten by girls, if he is always beaten, it is not a particularly pleasant thing.

......

Sunday, October 11.

Before 9 o'clock, just after 8 o'clock, Han Cunshui and Zhou Wenchang arrived at the shared villa.

Chen Wen was brushing his teeth, answered inarticulately, sat down at the dining table after washing, and had breakfast with the Xie sisters.

Xie Tiantian's spirit was much better than last night, and she chatted happily with Chen Wen. Chen Wenjue, the smiling face Wang Zuxian's mood has improved, indicating that the bad mood she had at work yesterday is gone, a good thing!

Xie Tingting still has an ice face, Chen Wen doesn't talk to her, she can ignore Chen Wen.

After breakfast, Chen Wen led the two Southeast Asian brothers to set off and got into the Peugeot sedan.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, Zhou Wenchang said leisurely: "There are such touching and lovely twin sisters in the family, Brother Chen, you are really enviable!"

Chen Wen, who was driving, said: "Okay, don't make fun of me, do you know the road?

Zhou Wenchang said: "San Dono's Black District Street. ”

During the chat, Han Cunshui and Zhou Wenchang's pronunciation of Sotheby's is Sotheby, and the auditory effect is closer to Sotheby.

Chen Wen then remembered that in his previous life, he had watched Feng Xiaogang's movie, and Uncle Ge called this auction "Sosby" in the film. He also remembered that two years later, Sotheby would set up an office in Shanghai, and only then would he use a Chinese name "Sotheby's" with the flavor of a Chinese tycoon.

This is just a difference in name, whether it is Sotheby or Sotheby's, Chen Wen does not have any special feelings.

Forty minutes later, Chen Wen arrived at his destination by car.

Parking was a little troublesome.

There are only a small number of parking spaces in Sotheby's exclusive parking lot, which are reserved for some super VIP customers, and even ordinary VIPs cannot use these parking spaces, and it is impossible for ordinary individual customers like Chen Wen to enjoy the service.

Chen Wenput

The car was parked in the parking area of a large hotel a block away and paid a few dozen francs for storage. This was a lot of money for Parisians in 1992.

The three brothers walked back to Sotheby's on foot, and each spent 200 francs on tickets and received three booklets.

At the prompting of the staff, well, a prompt, not a guide, the three of them walked into the Sotheby's Paris building, followed the relevant signs, and came to a hall.

Chen Wen didn't know what the theme of the upcoming auction was, he was purely here for sightseeing.

Chen Wen came to Sotheby's to participate in the autumn auction this time, and did not call Mr. Ma in advance.

He felt that it would be troublesome for him not to let Mr. Ma know about this, otherwise if the old thing encouraged Chen Wen to try his best to take a very meaningful national treasure or treasure, Chen Wen would not be able to withstand the pressure of national righteousness and spend all of Carry's beautiful knife, and he would be in trouble if he spent all his beautiful knives, and he was counting on going to Africa with a large amount of money to buy weapons next year.

In his previous life, Chen Wen had never visited an auction house, let alone a world-class occasion like Sotheby's, how could he have such qualifications and opportunities. So every step you take today, every scene you see, it's something new.

Walk into an auction hall, a sizable room with hundreds of chairs, but not crowded.

The hall is decorated in ancient Europe, surrounded by gold and splendor, but it does not look very heroic, and many wall decorations and pendants show the atmosphere of culture.

The chairs are all in the style of a European court with comfortable backrests. Chen Wen found that the placement of the chairs was interesting, not as neat as in an auditorium or a movie theater, but out of a certain kind of careful design.

Some of the chairs in the seating area are separate, some are two side by side, and there are also three side by side, these three types of chairs are closest to the auctioneer's podium, no matter what type of chair, they are all facing the auction table, and the distance between the chairs is relatively spacious, enough for a person to walk easily.

Behind these chairs are a huge number of civilian seats. It is also a palace-style chair, but it is arranged in a compact row, with ten chairs in a row, without any spacing, one next to the other, and only an aisle between the two rows of chairs for two people to walk side by side.

Chen Wen understood that those in the front row were seats for big customers, and these were the places in the back row where individual customers like them were seated.

As he guessed, the staff at the entrance of the hall arranged Chen Wen and the others to the back seats after checking the tickets, and did not even give them the number plate for the auction.

Chen Wen had never participated in this kind of activity, so he asked curiously, "Have you two ever played an auction?"

Both nodded.

Chen Wen asked again: "I have seen in the movie that if you want to raise a sign in the auction, you will raise the sign once and increase the price once. ”