Chapter 161: Auction
"It's not a fundraiser, what is it?" asked Huang Zongliang in surprise.
"Isn't this obvious?" Lu Fan sneered, "A painting of a primary school student can be sold for millions, what else can it be if it's not money laundering?"
Auctions have been used for a long time to launder money, especially at some of the biggest international auctions.
Many people say that the reason why the so-called works of art that people can't understand at all can be sold for astronomical sums is the result of money laundering.
Pengcheng's auction will definitely not be able to get that kind of high-end artwork, so I don't know which genius came up with such an idea, using the method of fundraising, directly auctioning the works of primary school students.
You can't help but give love, right?
Anyway, there is always a way to put this charity money in personal pockets.
It's just that there is a flaw to it.
There must be a limit to the amount of love you can give.
One or two million works of primary school students are enough to express love, and if there are more, it will be too fake.
If the quality is not enough, then it can only be made up by the number of times, which is why they hold this auction once a week.
Lu Fan can now be sure that Zhou Qing must have thought that the fundraising here was a real fundraiser, and wanted to use the charity money here to build a new school building for Izumo Village Primary School.
It's just that I didn't know what happened later, and even she folded here.
Lu Fan is not a messenger of justice or the embodiment of law, he doesn't care at all what Hong Yu's gang is doing with such a charity auction.
He didn't want to be nosy.
But if Zhou Qing really had an accident here, I'm afraid he would have to take care of it.
"Then what should we do now?" Huang Zongliang is everything is under Lu Fan's command.
Anyway, he came here to make soy sauce to satisfy his curiosity.
"Since it's money laundering, then these buyers at the auction must also be their own people, you say, if a strange buyer suddenly breaks in, how will they react?" Lu Fan smiled, and then found a place to sit down.
Xiao Liu's face turned white: "Brother, you can't trick me, didn't we all talk about it just now?"
The person was brought by him, if Hong Yu was frightened, the first person to find him must be him!
"Don't worry, I said that I wouldn't give Hong Yu a chance to embarrass you, so it's absolutely counted!" Lu Fan smiled, and then shouted, "Two million!"
They sat in the back seats, and his shout made the guys in front of them turn their heads one after another.
The people who come to this kind of auction actually say in advance that the price must be within a reasonable range, and they think that a love is reasonable at about one million, so each auction item here is sold for about one million.
But now a two-million-dollar has suddenly appeared, which is completely different from what they had discussed before!
Everyone muttered in their hearts, and couldn't help but look back.
Looking at it this way, there were three people sitting there, two of whom I didn't know, and one who was not a stranger to everyone.
"Liu Wenyuan, why are you here to participate in the auction?" someone shouted directly.
"I have two friends who came from other places, and they are enthusiastic about charity, so I thought about bringing them over to see the charity done by our Pengcheng people. Liu Wenyuan smiled dryly, and finally made up a reason that was not so outrageous.
"Out-of-town friends?" the man before was puzzled.
All these things they did were arranged in advance, and suddenly a foreigner appeared, and I don't know if there would be any problems.
"What's the matter? The auction doesn't continue? I quoted the price of two million, didn't the auctioneer shout?" Lu Fan asked with a pretended surprise of surprise.
"The friend in the back row quoted two million, is there anything higher?" the auctioneer had to start shouting.
"Two million at a time!"
The people in front looked at each other, one took out his phone and started initiating a message, and the other made a look.
"Two million and one million!" a man raised the offer.
"Two million four million!" Lu Fan immediately increased the price.
"The friend in the back row offered 2.4 million yuan, is there anything else to increase?" shouted the auctioneer.
The people in the front row looked at each other again, and the person who sent the message looked at his phone and shook his head.
"Two million four thousand once!"
"Two million four thousand twice!"
"Two million four hundred thousand three times!"
"Congratulations to this friend in the back row for buying this painting full of light and hope for two million and four hundred thousand!" the auctioneer announced the results.
2.4 million yuan to buy a painting of a primary school student is indeed a very ridiculous thing.
After the results were announced, a man who looked like a waiter quietly walked to Lu Fan's side.
"Sir, you have taken a picture of the painting just now, did you swipe the card?"
"Hmm, pay now, isn't the auction not over yet?" Lu Fan frowned, and asked pretending to be puzzled, "I used to participate in the auction, but I always paid together after the auction!"
"If you want to wait until the auction is over, you can pay together, but we need you to pay a deposit first. The waiter's tone, though polite, was unmistakable.
"Okay, I'm so annoyed, don't shoot, take me to the back to pay!" Lu Fan pretended to be very impatient and stood up.
"Please come with me. The waiter led the way and led the three of them to the backstage of the auction.
There, they met a middle-aged man of about forty years old.
"Xiao Liu, these two are your friends?" The middle-aged man obviously knew Liu Wenyuan as well.
"Yes, Mr. Kwan. Liu Wenyuan was very polite to him, and helped him introduce him, "This Mr. Guan is a good friend of our Pengcheng Hong Yu Hong Dashao, Hong Shao will listen to Mr. Guan's opinions on many things!"
Lu Fan knew that this guy was probably Hong Yu's senior think tank.
I didn't expect that Hong Yu even knew to find a special think tank, and it seems that the business is doing a lot.
"I don't dare to be a good friend, but I can't afford it, and I like to ask me about anything. Although Mr. Guan seemed to be humble, there was a hint of pride in his words.
Being able to make the No. 1 son of a city obey his words is not an ordinary ability.
"I don't know what the two of you call you, where you come from, and what you do in Pengcheng? If you two need it, you can also find me Guan, in Pengcheng, I Guan can still do some things. ”
"That's great!" Lu Fan clapped his hands, looking happy.
"We came from Lianhai, and the purpose of coming to Pengcheng was to find a friend of mine, I don't know if Mr. Guan has met this friend of mine. As he spoke, he took out Zhou Qing's photo from his mobile phone and handed it to Mr. Guan.