As a "veteran" who has been in the auction house for many years, Peter Chen spent a lot of effort in the following days in order to gain Song Zhichao's trust. It can be said that as an excellent English gentleman, Peter Chen has never been so flattering to a person in his life. And what he flattered was a young man with black hair and black eyes.

In the end, Song Zhichao seemed to be moved by Peter Chen's sincerity, let me ask, for a ghost guy who saddled in front of you, constantly flattered you, and called to greet you in the middle of the night, how could you bear it, according to him, thousands of miles away? So Song Zhichao accepted Peter Chen, and entrusted him with more than 100 antique artworks from the Soviet Union that he had sorted out and entrusted him to auction.

After learning of this result, Peter Chen was simply ecstatic, yes, really ecstatic.

Peter Chen never thought that he really won Song Zhichao's trust and affirmation, and handed over the collection worth 300 million yuan to himself for auction.

This time, Peter Chen was excited. You know, he's in a terrible situation right now. On the one hand, the head office wants to give him a promotion and salary increase based on his performance, and on the other hand, other auction companies are pressing him step by step. If you want to improve your performance, you must have a big one, and Song Zhichao's collection of more than 100 pieces is simply a send-off.

In the days that followed, Peter Chan proudly carried out a pre-auction promotional event, sending invitations and invitations to those acquaintances and regulars, to those wealthy and aristocratic who were well-known in Hong Kong, inviting them to participate in this rare auction event.

I have to say that this invitation was very successful, and the most important thing is that during the invitation, Peter Chen took photos of the collections that were about to be auctioned and attached them to the invitation letter, so that the invitees could see if there were any of their favorite collections in this auction.

Obviously, this trick is very effective, so after the auction of this batch of collections, there is an endless stream of people participating in the auction, especially those who are rich and rich, as well as famous officials, etc., almost all come to cheer. Even some celebrities who are inconvenient to show their faces have appointed their cronies to come over, with the aim of photographing their favorite collections.

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At this time, in the Christie's auction hall -

Peter Chen stood at the back of the auction hall and paid close attention to every move of the entire auction site. For him, today is the last and most important day of this Russian art auction, because today there is a heavyweight art to be auctioned, that is, the manuscript of the great Russian writer Pushkin - "Fairy Tale Poems".

Pushkin (179-1837) was Russia's greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. In Pushkin's poetry, fairy tale poems occupy an important place. His fairy tale poems have a strong Russian folk character. As early as 1817 to 1820, Pushkin wrote a long poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" based on folk tales and legends, which caused a sensation in the entire Russian poetry circle, and even his teacher, the most famous poet at that time, Zhukovsky, was amazed, and exclaimed: "Amazing genius! Beautiful poem!" After that, in the thirties of the 19th century, in addition to the unfinished fairy tale poem "The Story of the Mother Bear", Pushkin left the world a complete and precious five fairy tale poems.

In terms of story content, plot development and character imagery, all of Pushkin's fairy tale poems retain the characteristics of Russian folk literature. However, as a rule, Russian folk tales are in prose, while Pushkin's re-creations of fairy tales are in the form of poetry, which is more popular, more fluent, and conducive to recitation and singing. Like folk tales, Pushkin's fairy tales generally have a meaningful ending, which is allegorical and thought-provoking. As the end of "The Tale of the Little Golden Rooster" clearly points out: although fairy tales are fiction, they have a deep meaning, and they are not without benefits to kind-hearted young people.

For this legendary figure, not to mention the buyers who participated in the auction, even Peter Chen himself couldn't help but want to participate in the auction, after all, the name "Pushkin" is too famous all over the world.

After some competition, the manuscript of Pushkin's "Fairy Tale Poems" has soared from a low price of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to 3 million Hong Kong dollars, but looking at the current situation, there are still three bidders who are eyeing this peerless poetry manuscript.

The first place is a distinguished professor at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in Russian literature, so he is very familiar with and loves Pushkin, and he is even more determined to obtain this manuscript.

The second place was an executive of Chow Tai Fu Jewellery in Hong Kong, who was also a foreigner, and he seemed to be very interested in the manuscript, so he pursued it all the way, and also had the intention of pocketing the treasure.

The third was a young man who looked like a weak scholar with glasses, he looked a little embarrassed, and in contrast, he didn't know why, he kept talking on the phone, and kept taking out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat.

Peter Chen has been running an auction house for so many years, and it can be seen at a glance that the young man should be helping someone to auction on his behalf, which is why he is so nervous and hesitant.

As if to prove his suspicions, the auction continued.

Three million soon soared to five and a half million, and it was clear that the jeweler's executive couldn't take it anymore, shook his head, and withdrew.

Next, it was left that professor at the University of Hong Kong and the young man who was bidding for the auction.

The tense auction began again, and the young man kept wiping his sweat and wiping it again.

Soon, the lot has soared from 5.5 million to 5.8 million.

This time, the young man was also discouraged, because the owner who entrusted him with the auction had said that if it exceeded 5.8 million, he would voluntarily give up and not follow the auction.

Wiping a handful of sweat, the young man finally let out a sigh, although it was a pity that he did not help the master complete the task this time, but it was not his fault, who made this lot so expensive.

"Five hundred times!"

"Five million eight hundred thousand for the second time!"

"Five million eight thousand third ......"

Seeing that the master of ceremonies in charge of the auction was about to shout: "5.8 million for the third time, the deal!"

At this time, someone raised his hand and said, "Eight million!"

With a bang, everyone was dumbfounded, and they all looked at the seller who was holding a sign and suddenly raised the price to "eight million".

I saw that the seller was a bald guy, and his physique was even strong, and he didn't look like an art lover.

Everyone was surprised, they didn't understand who this majestic bald guy was, why was he so sharp, and he actually raised the price to eight million in one bite?

Isn't it crazy?

The university professor who originally swore to this manuscript hesitated now, in fact, his psychological price was only six million at most, and now that he was suddenly increased to eight million, how could he fight with others.

"I give up!" the university professor shook his head.

Looking at the bald guy, it was like looking at a fool.

Yes, if you're not a fool, who would raise the price like that? It's just that there is no place to spend it.

The bald guy grinned at him, smiled very majestically, and then said to the master of ceremonies, "Why don't you hurry up and read your lines?"

Seeing that the bald guy was so arrogant, the others could only shake their heads and smile bitterly.

manuscript, also sharp enough.

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As the auction came to an end, the young man who helped the auction was finally sold for eight million, couldn't help but look at the bald guy with envy, and then got up and left his seat and walked out of the auction hall.

Shortly after he left, the bald man glanced sideways at him, then at the other side of the hall, and nodded at a handsome man.

The man also stood up from behind, straightened his extremely modest white narrow suit, and walked out.