Chapter 38: Antecedents
Bai Wanyan said this very lightly, with coquettishness in his tone, as if there was no planning or calculation behind this, just as if he cared about the emotional status of his distant cousin.
But it's like a flower blooming in the wild, and behind the extreme beauty lies danger.
All the tenderness and beauty of Bai Wanyan are illusions, behind the rich fragrance is demagogic deception, her soft and moving eyes hide merciless analysis and temptation, and even the trills of the words are just the right performance.
And all this is to seize Bai Yicong's handle.
"It turns out that my cousin also knows, I brought this pocket watch on purpose?"
"Falang color copper gold-plated carved pocket watch, the second uncle is so big. Bai Yi never gave any answer, his inky eyes were filled with a cold light, and he continued, "Test me?"
"How can it be said to be a temptation?" Bai Wanyan smiled softly and movingly, and his tone slowed down a little, "Since it is rare to have someone who can make my cousin look high, and just let us know that there is no reason for me not to do anything." Taking 10,000 steps back, Miss He likes pocket watches very much, and she should give them some good ones if she wants to give them, right?"
"How do you know what He Manzhou likes?" Bai Yicong raised his eyebrows, and his tone sank, "Why, it's not enough to investigate me, so you actually hit her with the idea?"
For such a reaction, Bai Wanyan directly regarded it as annoyance.
She watched with interest at Bai Yicong's uncontrollable anger, a little emotion was aroused in an instant, and it was well suppressed, the man had long been accustomed to being condescending, and his body was full of powerful aura that no one could enter, his sharp silhouette was delicate and beautiful, and the darkness revealed in his eyes was not angry and arrogant.
It seems that I really care about that girl.
Bai Wanru thought so, and sure enough, everything was not what she expected.
Today's auction is a temptation for the second master of the Bai family.
If Bai Yicong's attendance at this auction is a calculation, then Bai Wanyan will take the initiative to provide the lots, and even go to the stage to introduce them in person, just to distinguish Bai Yicong's attitude.
As for the news that Bai Yicong was going to cooperate with the Tianwentang Museum and would attend with He Manzhou at that time, Bai Wanyan took some trouble to ask from Liu Mu.
Looking at the entire Bai family's peers, only Liu Mu has always been good friends with Bai Yicong, so he can always peek into Boss Bai's unknown little secrets from his mouth.
And Bai Yi never minded that this big-mouthed cousin would sell him a few times if he had nothing to do, and at first he would symbolically criticize a few words, but later he was probably used to Liu Mu's uncovered, and he also knew that he had this kind of character of remembering what to eat and not remembering, and he didn't even bother to criticize verbally. If there is anything to say, Bai Yicong will still choose to tell him that when it comes to things that need to be executed, he is still looking for Liu Mu alone.
As for the inside story of this auction, Liu Mu inadvertently leaked his mouth.
A few days ago, Bai Wanyan met Liu Mu by chance in the Bai family's shop. She wouldn't have gone that day, but an old customer said that he wanted to choose a Yushanzi to put in the office, and this item was more urgent, and he couldn't trust those clerks, so he had to let Miss Bai receive it in person, so Bai Wanyan had to make a special trip.
Who knows, it was such an accident that actually gave Bai Wanyan an unexpected gain.
Before Bai Wanyan entered the store, he heard a quarrel from afar, or the man with a good voice unilaterally scolded the little girl at the counter so much that he couldn't speak, laughing and scolding took the initiative, and he could shake a few innocuous words.
Bai Wanyan said in her heart, who is so blind, who dares to come to the Bai family's shop to make trouble.
And when she walked over quickly, stood at the gate, and saw Liu Dashao, who was blinded by a trendy brand and dressed like a flower butterfly, she understood everything.
At this time, silence is better than sound, and there is no need to deal with emergencies.
It was no one else who came to the door, but the youngest brother of the Bai family, Liu Mu.
For what kind of virtue Liu Dashao is on weekdays, there are few people in the antique circle in Z City who don't know, his chic deeds, have already reached the level that those gentlemen are familiar with, and when it comes to the dangers in it, it is that there are several bottles of royal salutes that can't be finished, and even a few of them have become classics because they are too pompous, which can be called a textbook-style demon model.
Such popularity is mixed, and Liu Mu doesn't care.
Even because he is too big-hearted, he is still quite happy about his popularity.
After all, Bai Wanyan is Liu Dashao's distant cousin, and she knows him a little better than those outsiders, and she has already understood his arrogant and presumptuous character. Liu Mu's donkey temper came up, and even the face of his own father and mother was selectively sold. In the early years, he was young and frivolous, and it was a thing that made Old Man Liu unable to get off the stage in public, and in the end, he was stunned by his own Lao Tzu who stopped his card for a month.
In a word, only others have always followed Liu Mu's temper to speak and do things, and I didn't see him look at other people's faces to restrain himself. Even if the object is a high-powered partner, there are no exceptions, just a strange clerk who has no friendship, and it is impossible to ask Liu Dashao and Yan Yuese to give her a little thin face.
Bai Wanyan knew that he could only help his relatives and not help him in this matter, and even slowed down.
At the same time, her brain was racing rapidly, and she began to analyze why Liu Mu, the master of the Three Treasures Hall who had nothing to do, actually came here.
This shop is a branch of the Bai family that has just opened, and the little girl who looks at the store was also recruited by Bai Wanyan not long ago. She is an undergraduate graduate of the Department of History, with good appearance conditions and a wide range of knowledge, and said in the interview that she does not want to stay in school after graduation, and has no plans to do theoretical research, but only wants to have more practical experience and devote herself to the antique industry. Looking at the entire antique industry in Z City, the Bai family is the best choice, so she came to Mao Sui to recommend herself to try.
Bai Wanyan saw that she could speak well and was also clever, so she simply let her follow the store manager and handed over this branch to the two of them to take care of.
But by coincidence, the store manager didn't come to the house today, and the little girl had just passed the internship period, so she didn't know much about the internal situation of the Bai family, and she didn't know who she had provoked.
She was doing business in a good manner, and suddenly saw a gorgeously dressed boy come to the door, and opened his mouth and said that he wanted the best object in this jade shop, and first took out ten or eight, and the little girl was dumbfounded, and she didn't say anything for a long time.
But anyone who is sober-minded and has the ability to think online must be quite incomprehensible to such an act.
Antiques are not cabbages in the vegetable market, not to mention the good quality and low price, you can also put some stir-fried vegetables and stews into it, and it doesn't matter if you stock up a little more. Antiques are eye-catching, the so-called collection is also accumulated over time, slowly put all kinds of favorite objects into the bag, and then from time to time to share with friends, or alone to appreciate or play, how can there be a word to pick up expensive, but also at once ten or eight.
Not to mention whether the economic conditions of a normal human being can support the acquisition of so many objects at once, it is not considered any external factors, just where to buy these things and put them at home, whether they are left out in the basement, or put them in the living room to sit in a row and eat fruits, it is already very incredible.
What kind of arrogance is this, nouveau riche?
The little clerk's first reaction was, is this person here to smash the field, or is he robbing?
But looking at Liu Mu's graceful and chic appearance of a beautiful son, there is a bit of the aura of a rich boy in his gestures, no matter how she looks at it, she doesn't look like a criminal, she came out with a little patience, just as this is a rich second generation who is a playful thing, so she suppressed the irritability in her heart and gave him science popularization.
Who knows that this eldest young master is still a master with eyes above the top, and one mouth is just something that he doesn't like to hear.
"No, don't you want to do it in the Bai family's jade shop, what kind of object dare to be said to be the treasure of the town store, just such a broken jade bracelet, go to Biyun Street for a walk, and you can find a small business shop. I said that this thing is not up to grade, you still have to fight with me, it's thanks to me that you met today, if someone else has good eyesight, didn't you smash the Bai family's signboard?"
The little clerk said in his heart, why didn't I see that you have good eyesight, I didn't listen to you when you were serious, but your ability to lift the bar is quite powerful, and you rely on that mouth to deceive you?
"Sir, this white jade carved eight-horse jade bracelet is really a good thing, we have to speak with our conscience. These slanders turned between the lips and teeth of the little clerk, and in the end they were pressed back by good professionalism, "This is a typical Song Dynasty jade, jade is like condensed fat, the composition is complicated, you look at the ethereal and thorough texture, and this good carver, it is really the best thing in our jade shop, if you can't even look down on such an object, what else do you want to buy, is it difficult to buy the night pearl that the Empress Dowager Cixi held in her mouth when she was buried?"
If you want to say the first few good words that are still decent, the back is already irony that can't be hidden.
And Liu Mu has always had a temper of eating soft rather than hard, and others have lined up noodles for him, but he can't keep a few words of silence. If he encounters someone who can't open his eyes and scolds him, then Liu Dashao will definitely not suffer at all, and if he scares people, he will open his mouth and come.
"As far as you can say, what is the jade of the Song Dynasty, do you still need to tell me? The co-author of the Bai family's jade shop has degenerated to the point of relying on the narrator of the history book to sell things, so it will give people popular science, why haven't I seen you publish a book of appreciation?"
Liu Mu's peach blossom eyes were smiling and smiling, and he looked amorous, but what he said was not like that at all, how angry he said.
"And ah, little sister, your tone is not small, but do you have the ability? I want to buy the night pearl that the Empress Dowager Cixi holds in her mouth, but if you get one for me, the price is arbitrary. What's the matter, you still have the ability to rob tombs, can you go to Putuo Yuding Dongling in the middle of the night and dig one up for me?"
Little clerk: "......."
Look, is this all human talk, is there a way to take it?