"Please come in. ”

Lu Xiu said politely.

Lifting the curtain and coming in was another waiter in uniform and bow tie, holding a wooden tray with an embroidered brocade box in the center.

Lu Xiu didn't even look at it before he said to the man, "Put it there." ”

Xie Lang lowered his voice and asked Xu Chunqiu, "What is this?"

She was keenly aware that the moment she said this, the waiter's gaze deliberately glanced at her.

Xie Langxin said badly, I'm afraid that he won't show his cowardice because of this sentence.

Xu Chunqiu patted her back comfortingly, and then listened to Lu Xiu naturally take over the conversation.

"Inside the brocade box is a bell for the mark-up. ”

He casually knocked on the brocade box and casually took out the contents of the box, as if he was just treating an ordinary object that he was used to.

There is a number engraved on the hand-cranked silver bell, and it is a coincidence that the number on it turns out to be "06", and it is the number six.

"The number on that bell ......"

Lu Xiu nodded: "This is the number that the auctioneer just mentioned." ”

Xie Lang continued to ask curiously, "Then the auctioneer is so far away, how can she see the number on the bell?"

Lu Xiu smiled slightly: "If I guess correctly, the auctioneer's ear power on the stage must be far beyond ordinary people." ”

She didn't have to see the numbers on the bell, she just had to remember where the box was. ”

"We're sitting in Box Six now," he said, turning his head to the waiter, "Am I right?"

The waiter wiped the sweat from his head: "Yes, it's all right, Young Master Lu is right......

He put down the bell and hurriedly ran away with the curtain.

Xie Lang looked at his back as he left suspiciously: "What the hell is going on?"

Lu Xiu shrugged his shoulders and replied disapprehensively: "They just want to verify my identity." ”

Sure enough, the waiter trotted out of the No. 6 box where Lu Xiu and his party were, and reported in a low voice to a manager-like person wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

"At least one of the guests in Box Six is a regular at the auction house. ”

"It should indeed be Master Lu's unmistakable. ”

The manager bowed slightly and waved his hand: "Okay, I know, busy with your go." ”

......

"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the first lot of the day. ”

The noisy seats fell silent, and everyone's eyes were focused on the auction table.

The gloved-wearing auctioneer lifted the gold silk cloth covering the glass cover, revealing the first lot of the day.

A jade bowl with a turquoise body.

Fu Nanxun narrowed his eyes and poked his head out slightly to look down: "I can't see anything at all!"

Lu Xiu patiently answered his questions: "This lot is not for the guests on the second floor at all. ”

"Xiuyu's, it's not worth much. "The first lot was just for the guests downstairs to pat and play." ”

"When it's time to actually photograph something valuable, there will be guys who will send it upstairs and give the guests in the box a closer look. ”

As soon as Lu Xiu's words fell, he heard the female emcee on the auction table raise her voice and say: "Let's look forward to who this lot will be, the starting price is one hundred, and each increase in price must not be less than fifty." ”

"The auction begins. ”

Xie Lang noticed that she didn't add a unit behind the amount, and couldn't help but ask, "Fifty what, Yuan Datou?"

"Yuan Datou" is one of the silver oceans, which is the colloquial name for the Yuan Shikai series of coins, and is also one of the main circulating currencies during the Republic of China.

Lu Xiu shook his head: "US dollars." ”

"During the Republic of China, the value of the currency was very chaotic, and many auction houses liked to trade in US dollars. ”

During the conversation, the price shouted by the audience has risen to two hundred and fifty US dollars.

"Two hundred and fifty yuan to buy a Xiuyu bowl......" Lu Xiu sighed softly, no longer paying too much attention to the auction situation of the elegant seat downstairs.

Rattle bidding is the privilege of the box on the second floor, and the density of guests in the private seats is so dense that no matter how bright the auctioneer's ears are, I am afraid that it is impossible to distinguish which of the two people sitting next to each other rings the bell.

Therefore, the seats on the first floor are auctioned by holding up signs.

"Three hundred. ”

"Three hundred and five. ”

"Four hundred. ”

The auctioneer raised his voice in a low voice: "Guest No. 66 bid $400, is there any more price increase?"

"Four hundred and five. ”

"Five hundred!"

"Guest No. 72 offered five hundred dollars. ”

"$500 once, $500 twice," the emcee raised her wrist and dropped the hammer, and the wooden mallet knocked on the small table on the auction table, making a crisp sound, "Congratulations to the No. 72 guest for successfully bidding for the first lot of this auction at the price of five hundred dollars." ”

Lu Xiu glanced downstairs quietly, his expression as if he was watching children scramble to buy spicy noodles in the commissary.

Du Zigui and Fu Nanxun lay side by side on the railing of the box like two curious babies, their thoughts followed the ups and downs of the bidding from the audience, and Xie Lang also looked curiously at the movements below.

Lu Xiu boredly took the auction roster on the table and looked at the time again, Xu Chunqiu stood up, opened the curtain and probed out, and asked the waiter for a plate of melon seeds and snacks.

It didn't take long for the waiter to bring in the things she had asked for with a tray, and when she came, she added some water to the teapot in the box.

The two of them sat in the box with a glass of Biluochun, and the business downstairs was passing by hundreds of dollars and thousands of dollars, and the two of them sat upstairs contentedly, snorting melon seeds "click-la".

"Next up is our ninth lot. ”

Lu Xiu glanced down at the auction list, patted the melon seed skin on his hand, and wiped his hands with the white towel sent by the waiter on the table.

The auctioneer raises his wrist to remove the gold silk cloth from the glass cover.

The lot is larger than the previous ones, and in a glass enclosure on the auction table is a musical instrument, a violin with sloping shoulders and a flat back.

The body is covered with a dark varnish that shines a beautiful sheen that resembles an enamel surface when illuminated by a crystal chandelier.

"What's the piano?"

"How many articles can I do on the violin?"

"I wonder if there is anything strange about this piano, what does it say on the roster......

“......”

There was a lot of noise in the private seats on the first floor, but the guests on the second floor, like Lu Xiu, invariably became interested in this auction item.

The auctioneer held the instrument in his hand through the white silk gloves and said, "This is a Stradivarius violin." ”

"The starting price is $10,000. ”