Chapter 159: Rosewood
Teach me? What do you mean? Ye Zhenleng said to Li Xiao. "Li Xiao, how is your brother doing? Why haven't I seen you chatting, is your relationship not good?"
When Li Xiao heard this, he immediately pushed Ye Zhen, and pushed Ye Zhen several meters in front of him, when he was a little far away from Jiang Ningning, he said. "Where, no, do you know how many points it is now?"
"What time is it?" Ye Zhen turned to look at Jiang Ningning, and saw Jiang Ningning beckoning Ye Zhen to go. "It's nine thirty o'clock, and Uncle Li is looking for us at ten o'clock, and I've let Brother Hu go now, what's the matter, let's have breakfast after washing."
Breakfast is very simple, to the side of the road to eat some porridge, ordered a small plate of peanuts, and stir-fried vegetables, simply after eating and rushed to the meeting place, this time the meeting place is more ordinary, it is a café, four people sit at a table, Li Chu and Li Xiao are rich people in Qida, the waiter also lingered for a while, before asking something.
All four ordered a sweetened espresso. After chatting for a while, Li Chu said. "I heard Xiao talk about your previous trip to the foot of Kunlun Mountain last night, is it possible that you still want to go back?"
Ye Zhen looked at Li Xiao for a moment, and then Ye Zhen nodded with a smile. "It's all a trivial matter, what, what does Uncle Li mean?"
"Haha, it's nothing, it's just that the Ming people don't say dark words, when you go, just take me there. Li Chu saw that Ye Zhen was a little flustered, and continued. "You bring all your people, I can call a lot of masters. ”
"Without further ado, everyone drinks. Ye Zhen didn't dare to agree casually, he had promised Li Xiao before, but now that he thinks about it, not only can't he take him, but he doesn't plan to tell him about it, Ye Zhen's intestines are now repentant.
Li Chu saw that Ye Zhen didn't speak, so he said a few more words, Ye Zhen reluctantly said a word, look at the time, and think about it.
The four of them chatted for a long time, and it was already noon, "Uncle Li, do you want to eat a hot pot with your face?"
Li Chu took a sip of coffee and said. "Yes, by the way, there is a flight that will fly at 11 o'clock tonight and arrive at 12 o'clock tomorrow at noon. I asked the guy on the other end to take us around at four o'clock in the afternoon, after all, we need to rest when we get off the plane. ”
The four of them had no opinion, but Li Chu excused himself again, Ye Zhen, Li Xiao and Song Hu didn't know what to say, and they couldn't detain people by force, so they agreed.
Then Li Xiao and Song Hu proposed whether they wanted to go to the hotel for a big meal, but Ye Zhen refused, "You stupid, it's been twelve twenty or thirty minutes now, let's eat something simple now, let's go." ”
Li Xiaolian said that Ye Zhen was shrewd and stupid, and he even forgot about it, so the three of them ordered a few more barbecues in the café, and they went straight to their destinations after eating.
When they arrived, time was running out, the door of the exhibition was closing soon, and Ye Zhen and the three of them had just caught up with the last group.
After entering, the whole person was sober, the air conditioner was turned on very low, Ye Zhen immediately sneezed, causing everyone to look at Ye Zhen, Ye Zhen said apologetically. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. ”
Li Xiao patted Ye Zhen and said, "Quiet, just look at it, most of the people here are local tyrants, and in the end, every one you see needs to be auctioned off." Ye Zhen is very interested, this exhibition is a straight line, but there are not many people coming, the whole road is about a few hundred meters, and there are only forty or fifty people.
Ye Zhen walked in the front, and after walking a few steps, he saw a sign that read:
Please be quiet when entering, this time you will invite 50 people, you need to know that you must not cross the red line before watching, and those who cross will be fined and disqualified many times. Auction rules, each auction item has an auction price, each increase is 10% of the price, each auctioneer has an auction bell, the price increase is allowed to ring the bell, and the price display table in front of your table will be automatically displayed. The above is the first ten auction items, the last ninety use blind auction, write your bid on the price display table in front of your table, not less than the starting price, the top three with the highest price after the public, in the form of rush auction and price increase, tips: , blind auction price needs to pay 10% as a fee.
When Ye Zhen saw this, he found that this was actually the mode of pit money, Ye Zhen shook his head, turned around, and found that Li Xiao and Song Hu had walked in, Ye Zhen looked forward, Li Xiao and Song Hu just walked for a while, and they could catch up, so Ye Zhen slowly continued to look.
Each auctioneer has only two chances, and 50 auctioneers grab 100 lots, and if the auctioneer has already won two auctions, no more auctions can be made.
Ye Zhen looked at it for a long time, turned his head Song Hu and Li Xiao had already run in, Ye Zhen also followed, and soon chased after them, and found Li Xiao and Song Hu, the three of them walked to the first auction item, which was a painting with a long history and handed down from the Song Dynasty, and it didn't paint anything, Ye Zhen also felt that it was worthless, but there were many people around who were amazed, and Ye Zhen didn't know what they used to appreciate it, so he patted Song Hu, Song Hu didn't move, Ye Zhen asked.
"You won't like it, right?" After Ye Zhen finished speaking, Song Hu didn't react, so he pulled Li Xiao, and Li Xiao didn't understand anything, so he responded. "The starting price is two million, is it expensive?"
"It's not good, it's not good, don't buy it cheap. After speaking, Ye Zhen pulled Li Xiao and looked inside, the second auction item was a ceramic bowl from the Qing Dynasty, Ye Zhen didn't like to collect antiques, but the price was good, only 400,000. Ye Zhen stayed here for a long time, this ceramic bowl was very beautiful, and the texture was also very beautiful, until Song Hu followed, and then continued to go down.
Many of the exhibits are from ancient times, not jade seals, famous paintings, ceramics, jadeite, celadon or something. However, Ye Zhen was not interested, it was a somewhat old Tang Dynasty alchemy furnace, Ye Zhen liked it and asked Song Hu. "The alchemy furnace you used to have is still there?"
"I'll tell you the truth, the alchemy furnace, I auctioned it off before, when the funds were lacking, but it was not as exquisite. Song Hu looked at it for a while, but shook his head and continued. "This guy is 30 million, there must be a lot of robbers, this guy is not the top ten, it is estimated that he uses blind shooting, more or less estimated to be tens of millions, what, boss, do you like it?"
"I don't like it, but it's good, and I'll read on. The next few were not of much interest, and the three of them walked quickly, however, Ye Zhen walked around a rosewood for a while, only to see that his introduction was:
Rosewood is also known as "green dragon wood", subtropical evergreen tree, five or six zhang high, the fruit has wings, the wood is very strong, red sandalwood is one of the most precious wood in the world, because of the scarcity of quantity, very precious. (This paragraph is an encyclopedia excerpt.) Auction price, four million.
Ye Zhen didn't think that the piece of wood before him was worth four million, but four million was just the starting price, and it was difficult to say how much money he would get in the end, Ye Zhen touched it while others weren't paying attention, and it felt good, but he was warned once, if there was a second time, Li Xiao and the other three would need to be kicked out.
There is not much time left, almost to the seventieth or eighty pieces, the exhibition began to end, there are indeed a lot of antiques here, and the price is not expensive, the three of them found a nearby restaurant to eat, Ye Zhen also called Jiang Ningning, saying that he was going to fly to Qizhou tonight, let Jiang Ningning and Shengzun stay well, Jiang Ningning said that he would fly back to Fuzhou to rest, Ye Zhen also agreed.
It was almost eight o'clock after the meal, and when they arrived, they were already slightly late, and the three of them bowed and apologized, and sat down on the second floor, there were only fifteen tables on the second floor, and there were thirty-five ordinary tables downstairs, Ye Zhen sat on the table and felt that although Li Xiao was young, he really had a bit of status in Qida.
The auction started soon, the starting price was two million, and the first one to increase the price was Song Hu, knocking it, raising it by 200,000, everyone was stunned for a while, generally a large-scale auction will not be too fast, about a second later, "Knock knock knock." After a while, the price has been locked at six million.
"Table No. 44 once, Table No. 44 twice, boom!" Table No. 44 was at Ye Zhen's neighbor's table, Ye Zhen was at table No. 45, so Ye Zhen knocked it on Song Hu and raised the price to 6.6 million.
"Knock knock. The voice continues, and the price has flown to 13.4 million.
"Knock!" Song Hu knocked on it, but no one continued to bid for it, and three seconds later, Song Hu successfully photographed the painting, and the price was fifteen million.
Ye Zhen was a little angry and said. "Here are fifty tables, there can only be two at one table, you can take one now, and when you see what you like later, how can the three of us grab this one?"
Song Hu slapped himself a few times in the face, but he didn't get Ye Zhen's understanding. Ye Zhen dozed off angrily and asked Li Xiao to call him when he arrived at the alchemy furnace, but this place really made Ye Zhen unable to sleep, and he was just about to sleep with a "bang!"
Ye Zhen still opened his eyes and looked at the auction, the first ten have been auctioned, and now the blind auction mode is used, there is only one piece left from Ye Zhen's alchemy furnace, after one auction, the alchemy furnace finally came out, everyone was very puzzled, most of them didn't know what this thing was, it was difficult to decide, Ye Zhen had already picked up the price display table and entered the price written out: sixty million. In other words, no matter whether it can enter the top three or not, of the 60 million, 6 million has already been paid to the auctioneer.
The top three auctions were: 80 million, table 44.
60 million, table 37, table 45.
"Okay, the three bosses of this auction, the rules, each time the price is increased by 10 million, and there is no cap. ”
Ye Zhen knocked it without hesitation and raised the price to 40 million.
The other two people didn't move, they stayed for most of the day, and finally this thing belonged to Ye Zhen, Ye Zhen needed to pay 46 million to take this thing away, Ye Zhen saw that the auctioned things had already reached two, so he asked to pay and leave the market immediately on the grounds that there was something.
After Ye Zhen and Song Hu finished spending the money, they took the car to Li Xiao's house and packed their luggage.