At half past four, Chen Wen picked up Jessica near the apartment building.

The car turned around and drove back to Little Paris.

Jessica showed the way, and Chen Wen drove to a courtyard in the East End of Paris.

On the way, Jessica gave some information about tonight's auction.

A private auction of the collection, which is very common in the wealthy circles of Paris, where everyone takes out their collections and changes the collector in the form of an auction.

As for the authenticity of these lots, it is difficult to say. Jessica gave a piece of advice: "Something that is too expensive, or something you don't understand very well, I suggest you don't bid on it." If it's a piece of jewelry with a certificate of authentication, it's worth buying. ”

Jessica also said: "Many rich people will buy all kinds of collections when they have enough cash, and the money will be taxed in the bank, and they can avoid taxes by turning it into a collection, and when they need money, they will take out the collection and auction it." Chen, you will soon find out that playing in France collectibles, appreciate very quickly. ”

Chen Wen asked in a joking tone: "Jessica, your family is also a wealthy family, do you have any lots to take out?"

Jessica sighed, "My family did have a lot of good things in the past, but almost all of them were sold in my grandmother's generation, and my dad didn't get any inherited relics. ”

Chen Wen thought to himself, no matter whether Jessica's words were true or false, the girl didn't want to, couldn't take out the only treasures left in the house for auction, and he couldn't go to Jessica's house to raid the house.

At half past five, the three of them found an open-air restaurant, had a brief dinner, and then went to the private auction of the collection.

The auction was held in a house.

Very beautiful house.

Jessica reported her name to the security guard at the door, and the security checked the list in the booklet, quickly found Jessica, and let the three of them in.

All the way through the door, Chen Wen quietly looked at it and compared it with his own top mansion "Fuwang Mansion". Soon, he gave up on the contrast, because there was no comparison.

This is a typical European-style garden courtyard, covering an area of at least 1,500 square meters, which is 600 square meters larger than Chen Wen's "Fuwang Mansion".

Two words: spacious.

In the courtyard, there are two single-family villas, all of which are three-storey, with tennis courts and swimming pools. In terms of living experience, this huge European-style garden villa is certainly more comfortable than a narrow courtyard house.

Tang Jin's eyes were also full of curiosity and appreciation, walking and looking around.

Chen Wen asked in a low voice, "Do you like villas?"

Tang Jin nodded: "This place is better than the place you rented in Versailles." ”

Chen Wen smiled: "Versailles is an ordinary house, and this is called a Paris mansion." ”

"Monty!" Jessica finally saw her new boyfriend and rushed out with a yell.

Following the direction of Jessica's run, Chen Wen recognized Monty Widmore, the son of the family behind Chanel, after buying the camel last time, Chen Wen met Jessica and Monty on the banks of the Seine, who studied at the University of Paris 1 and was an alumnus of Zhang Wanting.

Jessica threw herself into Monty's arms and kissed her boyfriend. Subsequently, she introduced Chen Wen and Tang Jin to Monty.

Monty apparently forgot that he had ever met Chen Wen, and expressed the pleasure of meeting for the first time in polite words. Chen Wen doesn't mind this, the other party is Chanel's son, and he has a prominent background, so naturally there is no need to remember Chen Wen's grassroots.

Monty asked, "Did Mr. Chen bring the lot tonight?"

Chen Wen said: "I don't have a lot, and my girlfriend and I were invited by Jessica to participate in the auction tonight. ”

Monty smiled, "I have two lots that will be auctioned tonight, and I welcome Mr. Chen to join the auction." ”

Chen Wen replied: "My honor. ”

Walking into one of the villas with Monty, the hall on the first floor was already crowded, and Chen Wen looked up and saw that it was all white, both male and female. Chen Wen and Tang Jin were the only minorities tonight.

Monty confessed and took Jessica to talk to the other rich people. Chen Wen led Tang Jin and took two glasses of red wine from the waiter's hand.

After tasting it, Chen Wen felt that this wine was okay, a little higher than the table wine bought in the supermarket, but it was certainly not as good as the collection of Bosa that he had drunk in Switzerland, and it was not as good as the wine provided by the Grand Casino in Zurich.

The rules of a private auction are different from those of Sotheby's, where there is no need to pay a deposit, and the bidders are all introduced by friends, and everyone's wealth, fame and credit are well-known.

Chen Wen has two reputations in today's circle, one is that Monty's girlfriend's college classmate is the son of a wealthy man from the East, and the other is that Chen Wen once auctioned an antique at this year's Sotheby's autumn auction for 33,000 US dollars.

Today's auction of private collections, the lots are expensive and cheap, there are a lot of lots of tens of thousands of US dollars, Monty made a credit guarantee for Chen Wen, and everyone believes that Chen Wen can afford the transaction of tens of thousands of US dollars.

At half past six, the auction began.

Several staff members of a small auction house were hired on a temporary basis to serve as auctioneers and assistants tonight, and another notary company was also invited to send someone to issue a notarial certificate of auction.

Chen Wen asked: "Is the notary company here to do the authenticity appraisal of the lots?"

Jessica told Chen:

"A notary is very necessary, if there is no auction notarization, and the seller reports to the police afterwards that the collection has been stolen, then it is not clear. ”

Chen Wen laughed and teased: "You rich French people can actually play yin." ”

Jessica laughed: "Rich people in the world are not a good thing!"

From the conversation, Chen Wen felt that this Jessica was a very funny and cute French girl.

The first lot was taken out of the small room, a Swiss automatic watch from 1940.

Chen Wen is not very interested in watches, and he wears the "Shanghai brand" semi-automatic clockwork watch on his wrist, which was given to him by his parents when he was in the third year of junior high school.

In his previous life, he wore it from 1990 to his death in 2019, and after he was reborn in this life, he met this watch intimately. He just likes his watch, and he doesn't think anything else is good.

The auction was gentle, with no fierce competition like at Sotheby's Autumn Auctions, with only three contenders bidding for the watch.

In the end, the Swiss 1940 watch fell for 40,000 US dollars.

The dozen or so lots that followed, Chen Wen was not very interested, all of them were European-style jewelry, and even a 30s music box inlaid with a few fancy emeralds.

Until the appearance of a lot, to be precise, a pair of antiquities, made Chen Wen's spirit instantly improved.

The two lots that led to Chen Wen's interest were undoubtedly cultural relics of China.

The golden one is the surface of the gold at first glance, at least gilt or gold-filled.

Chen Wen also found his experience very interesting, when he first entered the antique auction house, the first three items he encountered were all gold objects.

In fact, his feelings were completely caused by Chen Wen's own good character. When Sotheby's participated in the autumn auction, there were two porcelain vases in the auction, but Chen Wen was not interested in porcelain, because the inherent cultural component of that thing was very deep, and Chen Wen could not understand it.

Because he couldn't understand it, it was hard to watch, so Chen Wen didn't like it.

This principle is put in many fields, in fact, it is also universal, such as reading, many people read a book, and they can't understand it for a long time, they must be uninterested, and even angry, irritable, and abandon the book. If you can understand it at a glance, and then you can understand it, and you will get a full score in the physics and mathematics test every time, this child will definitely fall in love with school.

The assistant placed the two long boxes on the table, and the auctioneer opened the first box and took out a long object from it, he looked at it and frowned, he couldn't understand what it was.

If a reader can't read a book, he can abandon the book, and the auctioneer can't give up the auction, and he still has to make money.

The auctioneer picked up the certificate in the box again and read it.