Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sending You
At four o'clock, Chen Zhijun pulled Ao Qinyu into the room and changed into an evening dress.
The pure white evening dress outlines Ao Qinyu's perfect figure, the half-exposed fragrant shoulders are like pure mutton fat jade, and the snow-white neck is slender and slender. The front of the dress was dotted with white silk flowers, and with her cold face, even Chen Zhijun was ashamed of herself.
It was not the first time that Chen Linxuan was amazed by Ao Qinyu, anyway, every time she tried a new style of dressing, he couldn't find a suitable adjective to describe it, as if the description of words was blasphemous to this beautiful goddess.
The hem of the dress reaches the calf, and a pair of silver-white high heels are stepped underneath. Ao Qinyu wore high heels for the first time and walked slowly, and she was getting used to these shoes.
Going downstairs and getting in the car, Chen Linxuan drove a Lexus to Chen's house, and he and Chen Zhijun also needed to change into formal clothes.
Sometimes I have to sigh that there are indeed many conveniences as a man, such as wearing clothes, and women's dresses are sometimes much more cumbersome than men's. Chen Linxuan only needed to change into a suit and leather shoes, but they needed to wear dresses with complicated processes and uncomfortable high heels.
By the time Chen Zhijun and Chen Jiaqi came out after changing their clothes, it was already past five o'clock. Chen Zhijun is wearing a fiery red dress, delicate and bright, while Chen Jiaqi is a pure black dress, noble and dignified.
Because the Lexus was spacious enough, the few people didn't drive a second car, so they took Chen Linxuan's car directly to the place arranged by the Li family.
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Li Weiming, the head of the Li family, is in the prime of life, and his father was paralyzed at home due to a stroke a few years ago, so he took over the position of head of the family. In recent years, it has become more and more difficult for the Li family to survive, because the state has become more and more severe, and many of their black businesses have been completely unable to do, leaving only some storefront businesses on the surface and some gray businesses behind the scenes.
Li Weiming is an ambitious person, and he wants to take the Li family to the peak of Jiangning City, instead of gradually declining like now. In his father's hands, the Li family was gradually whitewashed, and all those black businesses and illegal income were discarded. But when he got to Li Weiming, he picked it up again, except for the drug business that was not easy to operate, he didn't dare to move, Huang He gambled that he had occupied half of Jiangning City, and the income brought to him every month was extremely considerable. In addition, the antique business that the Li family has never let go of has intensified, in addition to having accidents with some tomb robbers, he even began to contact overseas organizations to illegally trade cultural relics.
His original intention of holding an auction this time was to reproduce the strength of the Li family, and he wanted to let the people of Jiangning City understand that the current Li family has returned to its original peak, so he specially brought a batch of cherished playthings for tonight's auction.
Tonight's auction will be held in one of the Li family's clubhouse, and the interior has long been extremely gorgeous, and the lights are dazzling.
When Chen Linxuan and the four of them arrived at the door of the clubhouse, they handed over the car keys to the doorman, and turned back to the professional staff to help him park. Chen Jiaqi took out the invitation letter and handed it to the waiter at the door, he looked at it and respectfully invited a few people into the club.
As soon as I entered it, I saw that there were already a lot of people inside, chatting together in groups of three or five, gossiping all over the world. Anyway, they won't talk about business, because they understand that what they talk about here will always be two different concepts than what they talk about at the negotiating table.
Wang Xingmin had already arrived, and when he saw Chen Linxuan and a few of them, he came over. Chen Jiaqi asked them to talk first, and she was going to say hello to a few business partners.
At seven o'clock, Li Weiming announced the start of the dinner, and for a while, the lively hall was filled with the sound of staggering. This so-called high-class banquet is just a group of people drinking and chatting, just drinking expensive red wine, eating exquisite food, and talking about topics that ordinary people can't touch.
Ao Qinyu took a sip of red wine, and the strange taste made her choke. Different from the pungency of white wine, she only felt a bitterness when she drank red wine for the first time. Chen Linxuan found a place to sit down with a few people, took some food and chatted while eating.
At half-past eight, the waiters came up to collect the food, and then set up the stage a little, and everyone knew that the main event of the night was coming, and many people were still coming for this auction.
They knew that although the items that the Li family put up for auction in the auction house were good, they were certainly not particularly valuable treasures. Generally, this kind of thing, the Li family will auction it privately, or these things will open the way to make some equivalent exchanges.
The auctioneer was an elderly man, in his early fifties, who was recognized by sharp-eyed people as Master Guan of the Jiangnan branch of Jiafuji Auction House. So they are even more yearning for tonight's lot, after all, Master Guan is usually in charge of the top auction.
After Li Weiming finished his clichΓ© opening remarks, the auction officially began. The first lot that came up was an ancient jade from the Western Han Dynasty, which was relatively well preserved, carved with delicate patterns, and looked like a thing of a rich and noble family.
This piece of jade was auctioned for a high price of 3.2 million, but this is still the first lot, according to the law, the more rare the later the lot, the more the price will be higher.
The auction was in full swing, but Chen Linxuan and his party did not auction anything, just because they were not interested in these things.
Next up in the auction was a jade bracelet, which, according to the appraiser before the auction, was originally a pair. It was originally a thing in the palace of the Tang Dynasty, but later it was lost to the people, and it was obtained by the Li family after a while. Of course, everyone only listened to half of this and believed half of it, and they all knew where the Li family's things came from. Eighty percent of this jade bracelet was received from the hand of the inverted bucket.
However, this time they were really wrong, this jade bracelet really wasn't collected by the Li family from the tomb robbers. They found it when they were looking for things in a rural village, and according to the farmer, it was handed down from their ancestors, and they must have been in their thirties for more than 30 generations, and they had to collect 800,000 yuan, otherwise they would not sell it.
Chen Zhijun was interested when she saw this jade bracelet, and after she looked at it carefully, she said to Chen Jiaqi: "Sister Jiaqi, I want this jade bracelet, and she will help me take it later." β
Chen Jiaqi saw that she finally had what she wanted, and she would not refuse, so she participated in the auction.
Ao Qinyu saw that Chen Zhijun liked this jade bracelet and remembered something. Then she flipped her palm, and saw a jade bracelet appear in her hand, which was in the same shape as the one auctioned above, but the pattern was slightly different, and it was a pair at first glance.
She handed the bracelet to Chen Zhijun, Chen Zhijun looked at it blankly, and then asked her: "Sister Qinyu, you... How can you have this, this can't be the same as the one above, right?"
Ao Qinyu nodded: "If I guess correctly, it should be a pair, since you like it, then this one will also be given to you, just make it up." β
Chen Zhijun hurriedly excused herself: "No, Sister Qinyu, this is too precious, I can't ask for it." β
Ao Qinyu couldn't help but stuff it into her hand, and then said, "Take it, it's useless to let me do it anyway, I don't like this kind of thing either." Since you like it, I'll give you more when I get back. β
Hearing this, Chen Jiaqi and Chen Zhijun were stunned. Chen Jiaqi directly added a high price, and asked Chen Linxuan after auctioning this single jade bracelet at a price of 2.8 million:
"Xiao Xuan, what's the origin of your girlfriend? Is it a big nerve or really rich, this gift is millions. β
Chen Linxuan didn't argue that Ao Qinyu was not his girlfriend, he couldn't explain it clearly, but replied: "She doesn't have much else, these antique calligraphy and paintings, there must be no shortage of them, as soon as they met, they gave me three calligraphy and paintings, and they are all extremely cherished." β
Chen Jiaqi couldn't help but pout: "Yes, it turns out that she is also a rich woman, can I ask for a little when I go back." β
When Ao Qinyu heard this, he said: "I really don't have any money, these things are too many to count, if you want to go back, I can send you back." β
A few people were chatting, and the last item of the auction was brought up, which was also what Wang Xingmin asked Chen Linxuan to auction...