Liu Yan booked a large box, which was more than enough for six people, and she introduced people who didn't know each other.

Knowing Fang Huaiyuan's identity, Zhou Buxian and Wu Qu suddenly became very cramped, especially Wu Qu, he didn't expect that he would be able to eat at the same table with the president of Capital University in his life. He didn't expect Fang Huaiyuan to appreciate his works very much, and chatted with him about the "Golden House Hidden Jiao" he wrote, and praised him for his good writing!

Liu Yan's heart turned a thousand times, Principal Fang was usually moody, so smiling, and treating a person who had just met for the first time was really rare, it was very likely that Principal Fang was thanking Wu Qu for indirectly helping him avenge Su Xuezhen's revenge for covering his works. Principal Fang didn't say anything, his face was not obvious, but he still had his own plans in his heart. Moreover, the thirty-five-year-old Wu Qu happens to be about the same age as Fang Huaiyuan's only daughter in the United States, and they are the same genus, so it is not surprising that he treats Wu Qu with a little closeness.

On the other side, Yu Zhan asked Liu Yan in a low voice what her expected price was, and she seemed to be very familiar with the auction process in her words, so Liu Yan told him the three numbers she filled in, and asked him, "Do you think it's high?"

Yu Zhan smiled and touched her head, "It should be filled in a little higher." ”

Su Yi heard the two of them whispering, and deliberately asked Liu Yan and the three of them in a loud voice, "What is the expected price of each of our works, tell me." ”

Liu Yan, Zhou Buyan and Wu Qu were all stunned, and they didn't have any auction experience, thinking that Su Yi was just asking the price, so they used the tone of reporting the results to the teacher, and said it all.

Su Yi glanced at Fang Huaiyuan, and Fang Huaiyuan nodded lightly.

At half past one o'clock in the afternoon, the auction will enter the stage of preparing the venue.

Some media have already tried to sneak in as bidders in the hotel lobby, but they were detected and stopped by the hotel security personnel, but there are more and more media people, and where can the hotel's manpower be stopped, they have to report the specific situation to the leadership.

The auction company and the hotel were a little caught off guard, they seemed to underestimate Liu Yan's influence, and this girl is really the focus of the media now.

The media doesn't want to make trouble, they just want to be there at the auction to report the news in real time, find some hot spots, and it would be better if they could broadcast it live.

The leaders of the auction company urgently discussed countermeasures, and the auction is usually a game for the rich, which has always been low-key, and their company holds an auction every week on a different theme, including art, real estate, and jewelry......

Many of the items sold are nearly 100 times more valuable than the newcomers' calligraphy works that are being auctioned today, but no media outlet has ever taken the initiative to ask for an interview. The only place they make public is that before the auction, they open a buyer registration system on the official website and introduce the specific situation of the lot, and they will also update the price changes of the lot on the official website in real time during the auction process, so that those phone buyers can know the latest price and place an order.

Now this situation has surprised them, and it is the first time they have encountered a calligrapher like Liu Yan who also has the status of a super popular Internet celebrity.

The leaders quickly came up with a solution, moving a total of seven works by Liu Yan, Zhou Buyan and Wu Qu to the end, bidding on other people's works first, during which the media was not admitted. In order to avoid unexpected situations, and even more afraid that media people would write the news indiscriminately, they rented a hotel conference room and invited the media people in, waiting for them with good tea and snacks.

When the authors of the other bidding works heard about this, they felt very uncomfortable, and didn't it be obvious that their works were not taken seriously? If Liu Yan's public opinion was suppressed, wouldn't it affect the value of their works? This is what makes everyone unhappy, but they are all literati and newcomers, so they can't make trouble, so they can only swallow their anger.

At the parking lot at the entrance of the hotel, one car after another, the people who got off the car, each richly dressed, with exquisite faces, they were the buyers of this auction, and most of them were small tyrants, or middle class, with some spare money in their hands, they wanted to use the least amount of money to invest in one or several potential newcomers, collect their works, and hope that the value of the works would appreciate in the future, and then sell them to make a big profit, and speculate in stocks and houses.

Buyers who can come to the site must register in advance and pay a small deposit to become VIP, they have a special VIP electronic identity document, which will have a number, which is also the number written on the auction number plate at that time. A VIP can bring a companion into the venue, for example, Fang Huaiyuan brought Su Yi.

When the appointed time comes, the auction officially begins.

It is customary for an auctioneer, dressed in a black suit, to walk up to the stage and read the rules that everyone must follow to the buyers, just as the invigilator reads the rules before each exam.

There are two most important points, one is the prohibition of counterfeiting fraud for sellers, and the other is the prohibition of malicious price inflation for buyers.

After the auctioneer informed the rules, he said, "Now let's start showing the first work to be auctioned...... The auctioneer also introduced the author's background resume, such as who he studied under him, what important awards he has won, etc., only by describing these newcomer authors as having a great background, can the local tyrants contribute money for his future potential, which is also a game and self-promotion.

A wooden frame with calligraphy and paintings was pushed onto the stage, and the author himself appeared at the same time as the work, who first introduced the meaning of his work, the background of the creation, and so on.

Then the auctioneer declared to the buyer: "Now I am bidding on behalf of the seller, and the starting price of this ink painting of flowers and birds is 23,000 yuan." If someone responds to the starting price, please raise the number plate in your hand to meet the price, and please raise the head above the card. If two or more bidders bid at the same time, I have the right to nominate any one of them. ”

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Maybe it's really because Liu Yan bids at the same auction and attracts most of the buyers, there is no high price in the newcomers and new works in front of her, and there are five works that have been unsold, three of which are because the expected price set by the author is too high, the price can't go up, and the other two are because no one is bidding at all, and they leave the scene hastily, and the author himself is very embarrassed. Therefore, if you are not sure, do not auction your own work rashly.

After more than two hours, it was finally Liu Yan's turn to work.

The reporters had been waiting impatiently, and they had wasted two hours just for the sake of this rare auction live broadcast! Yes, the auction company was very kind and generous enough to allow them to broadcast the auction process of Liu Yan's works live.