Chapter 213
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"Mr. Xia, welcome to London, England!"
As soon as he walked out of the passage, a staff member sent by the British Jiashide Auction Company to pick up the airport immediately walked up and bowed to Ling Yun very respectfully, almost making Ling Yun mistakenly think that he had come to Tokyo, Japan.
"Yes!"
After disguising himself to cover up his true face, Ling Yun talked a few words with the staff member sent by the auction company to pick up the airport, walked out of the airport waiting hall with the staff member, and left the airport in a black Mercedes-Benz car and went straight to the Imperial Hotel, the largest hotel in London.
His current identity is Xia Yanchu, chairman and CEO of "Beijing Ruining Trading", a company in Beijing, China, with a registered capital of more than 10 billion yuan and specializing in international import and export trade.
After enjoying an authentic British meal at the hotel, Ling Yun, accompanied by the auction house's staff, drove to the Jiashide auction building in London's central business district for a closed jewellery auction open only to the super-rich.
Founded in 1744, the British Auction Company is the world's oldest, most reputable and largest multinational auction company. They deal in a wide variety of goods, and they are managed scientifically and scientifically planned, and their operating methods have been modernized, so they are often able to sell works several times more than the starting price, so many major international collectors are willing to put their collections at Christie's auction.
Although there are often many peerless treasures for public auction at the Jiashide Auction House, Ling Yun usually does not like to come here to buy private collections.
Because he has worked in the archaeological industry, he can be regarded as half an "insider", so he prefers to visit underground auctions that specialize in auctioning items of unknown origin compared to the auctions held by regular auction houses, because the prices of items auctioned by underground auction houses are much cheaper than the high prices of the items auctioned by regular auction companies.
When Ling Yun walked straight into the auction hall on the 39th floor under the guidance of a staff member of Jiashide Auction House, the front row of the entire hall was already full of jewelry collectors and full-time auction brokers from all over the world, and only the last few rows still had some vacant seats.
And among these well-dressed buyers, there must be many members of the dark world who have bad intentions for this purple heart of Pandora, like the Jewish Holy Order and the ****** Holy Crusade.
"Bang..."
With the sound of a senior British auctioneer, this special auction of jewelry, which only the rich are qualified to participate in, officially kicked off the gorgeous curtain.
"This is a huge 88.88-carat all-American square diamond, originally in the 18th century Hungarian King Riskin to his most beloved daughter for the eighteenth birthday gift, and gave this diamond the very poetic name of 'Phantasy Star', and then mysteriously disappeared in World War II, and when it reappeared at auction in 1965, it was purchased by the American Wykenny family for $1.15 million, with a starting price of $15.5 million......"
"I really don't understand why this glowing stone is so valuable!"
Sitting in the back row, Ling Yun looked bored at a British auctioneer on the stage, spitting and praising the dazzling diamonds that shimmered in the light, although he knew that some movements were very impolite on this occasion, he still couldn't help but reach out to cover his mouth and yawn.
For a man like him, who once owned a box full of two billion dollars worth of diamonds, these glowing stones that could make countless women scream and obsessed were indeed not very attractive.
However, this jewelry auction did not show any twists and turns because of his yawn, and the jewelry pieces that shimmered with moving brilliance and extraordinary experience are still breaking the new record of this auction in the auctioneer's spit everywhere.
The richest man who bought the most jewelry and diamonds on the scene was a Japanese kid who sat in the front row of Lingyun and was said to be the heir of a large multinational consortium in Japan.
"I'll give five million!"
When the diminutive Japanese dwarf Nobuta Yumasa once again spent $5 million to auction off a diamond necklace with a starting price of only $1 million, Ling Yun, who was sitting behind him and was very bored, couldn't help but lean his head in front of the other party and asked softly, "Dude, do you think this diamond necklace with a minimum price of only $1 million can really be worth 5 million?"
"Of course it's not worth it, but as a member of the Great Nippon Nobuta family, a few million dollars is nothing at all!"
Looking back, the latter man who had not raised the bidding card in his hand since the beginning of the auction, as if he had come to see the excitement, this Japanese second ancestor who looked down on the Chinese in his heart, so he was very arrogant and then came up again, saying: "The way of thinking of our super-rich, Chinese people like you will never be able to understand it!"
"It's unforgivable that this guy dares to call a handsome, dashing, suave, young and wealthy super handsome guy like me a nouveau riche!"
Facing the Japanese dwarf in front of him who despised the Chinese and called him a Chinese nouveau riche, Ling Yun just sneered and did not say anything, because he had already secretly decided in his heart that if he had the opportunity, he must teach this rich Japanese son a good lesson.
At this time, the auction is still going on.
I don't know how long it took, just when Ling Yun yawned and prepared to play fugue again, a strange and powerful energy fluctuation made him feel as if he had taken a stimulant, and suddenly opened his eyes and stared at a purple gem on the display table that was not huge, and the gaze in his eyes was so greedy, just like a jackal that was hungry but suddenly found delicious prey in front of him.
"The auction is now open for this purple heart gemstone, which is the first time in history that it has been seen in public, and due to the request of the owner of this 128.64 carat purple gemstone, I will not introduce this gemstone here......" (To be continued.) )