The 273 charity auction is nothing more than a large amount of consumption of the good reputation that the rich are keen on.

In this society, you have no money and are looked down upon. But if you have money, you will be abused for all kinds of reasons, you will be scolded for holding the money for your own use, and if you donate money, some people will say that you write empty checks. Therefore, if you have money and don't donate, you will be scolded, it is better to donate and get some benefits.

It's just that the Liu family's charity auction is not purely famous, the Liu family has its own auction house, that is to say, many auction items are genuine and worthy of scrambling to buy.

Therefore, many of the rich people present came to this party for one or several things.

With the guidance of the waiters, the guests walked into the side hall one after another, which was not so much a side hall as another conference hall.

However, the tables and chairs in the venue were neatly arranged, and they were already full of fruits, wine, and number plates of various colors.

According to the number on the invitation, Yang Chen followed Lin Ruoxi to the table specially prepared for the two of them and sat down.

Coincidentally, the seats of the two were behind the Yuan family and his wife, and as soon as they sat down, Yuan Hewei and his wife, who were sitting in front, turned their heads and smiled kindly at Yang Chen and Lin Ruoxi.

Lin Ruoxi is very puzzled why Yang Chen is so familiar with the people of the Yuan family, although Yang Chen said that he would celebrate Yuan Ye's birthday last time, but Lin Ruoxi knows that in such a big family, the social network of children is not the same as that of parents, at least before taking over the position of head of the family, knowing your son does not mean that your parents have a good relationship with you.

No matter how he thought about it, he didn't think that Yang Chen had a reason to meet Yuan Hewei and his wife, but although he was curious, Lin Ruoxi didn't plan to ask Yang Chen.

Yang Chen looked around intentionally or unintentionally, and saw the Cai family sisters sitting at a table in the first row, while the foreigner guests who caught Cai Ning's attention were sitting at the tables relatively far behind, talking with a smile and a relaxed look.

The auction house of the Liu family is a regular large company, and the things in this auction will naturally not be ordinary, and when an auctioneer wearing a white tuxedo walks on the stage, he immediately begins to display the first sale items.

On the huge LED display screen, a 3D rotating pattern of blue and white porcelain appears.

As soon as this collection appeared, it immediately attracted a lot of exclamations from the audience, which was obviously quite successful.

The auctioneer introduced loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the first item sold by our Liu's Auction House today is a piece of Yuan blue and white, 'blue and white peony pattern jar'. Many of the people here are famous antique collectors. I don't need to say much about the value of this collection. Yuan blue and white porcelain is the least surviving blue and white porcelain, representing the period when our ancient Chinese plain porcelain turned to colored porcelain. The style of painting is magnificent, majestic and bold, the layers are complex, and each piece is a rare treasure.

This collection, which is well preserved, is provided by foreign friends, with a starting price of 5 million Chinese coins, and the bidding begins!"

With a "start", many antique lovers present began to scramble to raise the number plate.

"Six million!"

"Eight million!"

"Nine million eight million!"

"I'll give 12 million!!"

……

The voices of shouting prices came and went, and soon, the price of this piece of Yuan blue and white exceeded 20 million.

Yang Chen listened to a group of rich people shouting the price like a blank sheet of paper, and asked Lin Ruoxi, who was silent on the side, with a smile, "Wife, why don't you keep quiet, this thing has great potential for value-added." ”

Lin Ruoxi said lightly: "I'm not interested." ”

Of course, Yang Chen knew that this girl was not without money, but she was shy and embarrassed to shout the price in front of so many people to participate, so she didn't speak again.

In a blink of an eye, someone has already shouted the high price of "43 million", which is equivalent to the total assets of several small businesses!

Although this yuan blue and white flower is expensive, it can be sold for hundreds of millions of sky-high prices, but after all, this is a middle-to-upper quality collection, not the most representative of the famous pieces, so many collectors and big bosses present are a little regretful to put away the brand, feeling that there is no need to compete.

The fact that the people present can come represents the affirmation of social status, and there is no need to make everyone unhappy for this money.

The auctioneer began to shout, "Guest 57 bids 43 million, 43 million at a time...... 43 million ......"

Without waiting for the auctioneer to continue shouting, he didn't make a sound, and Yuan Hewei, who was sitting in the position watching others bidding, suddenly raised his card, and Zheng Sheng said: "I'll pay 50 million." ”

shouted this time, and the guest who originally shouted 43 million immediately lost his voice, not to mention whether he had funds to add it, at least, to grab things with the Yuan family, it was clear that he didn't want to mix in Zhonghai.

Moreover, Yuan Hewei paid 50 million, not that this collection is really worth so much, it is nothing more than a symbolic participation, buying the first collection at a high price, showing the demeanor of the first family.

Unsurprisingly, everyone chose to remain silent, and after three sounds from the auctioneer, Yuan Hewei spent 50 million yuan to accept the first collection.

When the first round was over, Yuan Hewei turned around and smiled at Yang Chen: "I don't know anything about antiques, and it is estimated that many people laugh at me for being wronged." ”

Yang Chen shook his head, "It will be worth 50 million in a few years, so keep it at home." ”

"Oh, don't you know what to do?" Yuan Hewei asked curiously.

Lin Ruoxi and Yang Jieyu also looked at Yang Chen with a little doubt.

Yang Chen smiled faintly: "I used to study a little when I was bored abroad, three teachings and nine streams, I don't learn and don't know, I probably say that people like me are like me." ”

Of course, this is a lie, Yang Chen knows the price of many antiques, just because many people have given him some yuan blue and white porcelain, he has remembered some knowledge about blue and white porcelain, as for where those things were placed, Yang Chen didn't pay much attention at all, someone must have helped him keep it.

"Haha, it's not that you don't learn and don't know how to do it, it's all culture", Yuan Hewei said with a smile: "Many people here, relying on their sense of smell to do business to this day, come here to participate in this kind of auction, in fact, they are throwing money to make a reputation, and they also envy the so-called 'no learning and no skills'." ”

As we chatted, the auction continued.

The second and third collections were put on the screen one after another.

Ruby jewelry, Western medieval oil paintings, and ancient Chinese calligraphy scrolls are all famous products worth more than 10 million.

It's just that after receiving the first collection, Yuan Hewei didn't shout again, and Lin Ruoxi was as quiet as ever and didn't speak, as if everything had nothing to do with her.

Yang Chen was slightly bored, the rich people's games were actually extremely monotonous, and these money, which they didn't know where it would go, except for bringing them a moment of pleasure, only left a greater emptiness.

To put it mildly, it's not as exciting as smoking a cheap hard cigarette.

However, when the fifth piece of the collection came out, Yang Chen instantly felt a trace of strangeness.

I saw a small dark gold wine glass on the big screen, this Gothic-era style wine glass, which generally holds wine.

The shape of the glass is roughly cylindrical, with a wide mouth and a round bottom and a high foot. The body of the cup is quaint, with some blurred lines and a few metal scratches, but on the whole, it can be distinguished that it should be a noble wine cup mixed with rare metals such as gold and silver.

Yang Chen suddenly had a little realization, no wonder Cai Ning came, no wonder the breath of those white people was so strange.

On the Internet before, what Macedonia said seemed to be true, but I never expected that this legendary "Holy Grail" happened to appear at this charity auction!

Almost at the same time, Yang Chen felt a faint cold fluctuation in the back of the venue, that kind of surging abyss-like energy fluctuation, and Yang Chen immediately concluded the identity of those white people.

"Tsk...... It's really a big deal, all of them are ...... like this," Yang Chen said to himself.

"What did you say?" Lin Ruoxi thought Yang Chen was talking to her, and asked with a frown.

Yang Chen grinned, "Good wife, this cup is good, drink a glass of wine at night to help sleep and beauty, you can buy it back." ”

"If you want to buy it yourself, the starting price is two million, and it's not expensive anyway," Lin Ruoxi said indifferently.

Yang Chen pouted, he didn't have any money.

At this time, the auctioneer introduced: "Ladies and gentlemen, this collection was provided by a seller who asked for secrecy only a few days ago, and it is roughly estimated that it is a wine glass from the first year of the Common Era. The history and mystery of the history are the greatest features of this collection. No one can give a specific name, today's starting price is 2 million, but the real value is difficult to estimate, I hope you seize the opportunity......"

Without waiting for the auctioneer to finish speaking, sitting at the back of the store, a blonde girl with blue eyes, wearing a dark red evening dress, and a hot figure shouted in jerky Chinese script: "Ten million." ”