Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Auction
At the auction, the shouts came and went.
The first few auction items were paintings and calligraphy by foreigners, and Henry showed no interest at all, and drank wine without shouting the price. I thought to myself, you can't do all good deeds, no, others can't come back with a hard time, you can't go home empty-handed!
"Tsk, just a few modern paintings and calligraphy can be sold for such an expensive !!" Helen shook her head and smacked her tongue secretly!
Henry said with a smile: "Where do they buy calligraphy and paintings, but in fact they buy face! In the United States, charity can avoid taxes, and it doesn't matter if they shout a little more." You see, Ted Lynch looks at those who are shouting highly, smiles, and encourages them to shout as high as possible!
"Aren't you going to hold the governor's stinky feet...... Helen burst out laughing.
"I!!'m completely different from them," Henry said righteously, "I really want to do charity, and I want to be poor and help the world." Children with disabilities are so pitiful, and I am going to build a school for them to give them more care. Everyone has self-esteem, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish, and I want to build a school that can teach them survival skills so that they can support themselves without having to rely too much on others......"
At the end, Henry's eyes were slightly red, and he sighed. Although in this life, he has never been in contact with children with disabilities. But in his previous life, he participated in the Wen~Sichuan earthquake relief operation, and also went to a special school for disabled and mentally handicapped children, where he witnessed how the disabled children overcome their own obstacles, become self-reliant, and work hard! That spirit and that touching picture now make Henry's eyes moist!
Helen looked at Henry almost in tears, and this was the first time she had seen another side of Henry. In her eyes, Henry has always been confident, strong, and indifferent, and nothing seems to make him sad! Helen subconsciously held Henry in her arms and comforted: "Okay, let's build a special school for disabled children!"
Henry blinked, calmed down, and said slowly: "Not only one school, I want to build this kind of school all over the world!! Cisco Caring for Children Special School, Nicholas Caring Children Special School, Global Online ......"
Henry said a lot, Helen heard the back, and couldn't help laughing: "Are you advertising for your company or what, the front of the school is the name of the company under your name!"
"Is there anything wrong with doing charity and advertising?" said Henry, "and if a man does a good deed, if he does not receive respect and due glory, then who will want to do good deeds in the future? Not all are gods, they are saints...... We are all just ordinary people, we all have vanity, I just set an example for everyone! Perhaps, someone does good deeds because of a little vanity, and no matter what his purpose is, but he does do good deeds, isn't it a contribution to society?"
"Well, there's a little truth to what you're saying!" Helen nodded, "So, may I ask the great good man, when are you shouting the price, five things have already been auctioned!"
Henry stared at a dragon head on the stage, his face changed, and his tone was firm: "This time I have to shout the price!!
Although Henry was born in a foreign country, he still has a quarter of Yanhuang blood, and he was a 100% Chinese child in his previous life. Henry didn't feel that he had a feeling of being in Cao Ying's heart in Han, and the moment he saw the dragon's head, Henry's heart trembled in vain, and a lyric suddenly sounded in his mind: "Although I wear a dress, my heart is still a Chinese heart......"
The heads of the 12 zodiac animals are scattered in the world, and the shame of the year is still unsettled. When Henry saw the dragon's head, he decided to buy it anyway.
At this time, the host introduced: "This collection is one of the 12 zodiac animal heads of the Old Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty, the dragon head, cast in bronze, finely carved, lifelike, has a very large collection value! Now, the starting price is 500,000 US dollars!!
As soon as the host's voice fell, Henry didn't think about it, and shouted loudly: "A million dollars!!"
As soon as it came, the price was raised to one million, and everyone was also shocked, generally speaking, it was an increase of 100,000 and 100,000!
"Simon Jeffrey, that guy is shouting!" said Simon Jeffrey, a pig friend next to Simon Jeffrey, a young man in cutting-edge technology, pointing at Henry.
Simon Jeffrey's face turned cold, and his sinister gaze was fixed on Henry and Helen in his arms.
"Simon Jeffrey, the girl you're pursuing is being coquettish in someone else's arms, if it were me, I would never be able to look past it, and I would definitely teach him a lesson!"
"Jeffrey, you're not going to be cowardly, are you!"
"Haha......" the crowd said, laughing out loud.
Simon Jeffrey said angrily: "Fart, will Lao Tzu be cowardly!!"
Simon Jeffrey said, then raised his right hand and shouted, "1.5 million !!."
Henry followed the voice and looked, it was actually the young director of cutting-edge technology, Helen's suitor. Henry couldn't help but be slightly startled, but he quickly calmed down. How can an ant challenge a dragon? Henry didn't bird him, and said lightly: "3 million !!."
As soon as Henry finished shouting the price, the hall suddenly fell silent. At this time, the zodiac animal head is not as valuable as it is now, in the eyes of everyone, one million dollars is enough, and Simon Jeffrey surprised everyone when he shouted one and a half million. But soon he was shocked by the three million that Henry shouted!
Is it just a bronze statue, but as for three million dollars?
At this time, Simon Jeffrey's pig friends said to Simon: "Hurry up, Jeffrey, hurry up, are you going to coward?"
"Three hundred...... Three and a half million!" Simon Jeffrey received a stir from the crowd and couldn't help but shout the price. However, his face was like a pig's liver, and if his father knew that he had spent millions on a broken copper and iron, he would have to kill him......
"Jeffrey, well done!"
"Jeffrey,!"
As soon as everyone touted it, Simon Jeffrey was full of vanity. Just when he wanted to continue to enjoy this vanity, he saw Henry say loudly to him: "If you have a kind, go on!!" Immediately, Henry raised his right hand and said to the host, "I will pay ten million dollars!!"
As soon as this remark came out, although many people were very rich, they would not be like this!!
If you have more money and no land to burn, or are you jealous?
Helen hurriedly pulled Henry, "Henry, don't be angry and call such a high price! I understand your intentions......" Helen said, but lowered her head shyly. At this moment, she was happy in her heart, she thought that Henry was shouting this price for her!
Henry smiled, without explanation, and kissed her on the cheek.
At this time, Ted Lynch looked at Henry, and Henry looked up and saw him, and then, the two smiled at each other, but Henry and Ted Lynch both laughed with their own thoughts! Ted Lynch thought that Henry was expressing his position and supported him with practical actions. But Henry thought, Clinton should be in a hurry now! What fool can do it to buy a bronze beast head for 10 million? But obviously Henry is not a fool, so what is the purpose of his doing this?
In Simon Jeffrey's opinion, he is jealous of him. In Clinton's view, this is Henry's support for Ted Lynch.
The audience was silent.
Simon Jeffrey blushed and wanted to find a hole to get into. His fox friend didn't dare to speak, but looked at Henry in surprise. The auction host is a battle-hardened person, and he has encountered a local tyrant like Henry, who spends a lot of money, but he was stunned, and quickly reacted, and then said loudly: "This gentleman bid 10 million US dollars, is there a higher bid?"
The host paused, and glanced at the crowd, but no one seemed ready to continue shouting. So, he said: "I counted down three times in the end, if there is still no one to shout, then this dragon head belongs to this gentleman!!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One !!"
"Congratulations, this collection belongs to you, and we can complete the transaction in the background later!"
"Hmm!" Henry nodded, in understanding.
After the auction of the dragon's head, the auction continued, and now everyone knew that Henry was a tyrant. Sure enough, in the following auction, Henry also did enough of the style of a local tyrant, and when he saw something he liked, he threw a lot of money, such as Tang Bohu's beauty picture, blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty, etc.
After the auction, the charity gala was almost over. Henry goes backstage to complete the auction transaction and has them deliver the things to the designated address. Subsequently, Henry sent Helen home.
When she got out of the car, Helen gave Henry an affectionate kiss.
"Today's award to you !!" Helen smiled, her little face crimson.
Henry looked at the back of Helen running away with her skirt and smiled slightly, this girl actually took the initiative to give me a French deep kiss, it's really rare!! hehe......
Henry was secretly happy for a moment, and then instructed the driver to drive home!(Asking for tickets and collections!! The author Jun has built a book friend group: 424930141, everyone is welcome to join...... )
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