In fact, the second master also knew who did it, but he just pretended not to know, just scolded Hong Tao alone, and didn't say a word about the second grandmother's whistleblowing. Of course, Hong Tao is not afraid of being scolded, if he can be scolded in exchange for good furniture and antiques, he would rather sleep on the second floor of the gadget shop, and admit to being scolded 24 hours a day.

"Then I'll accompany you to go shopping, when you want to see something, just give me a look, I'll carry a sack of money and smash them to death!" Hong Tao is not interested in this kind of auction, but the second master obviously wants to go, why don't you call yourself, this spirit must be understood, you can't let the old man open his mouth to beg for himself.

"I don't have a problem with what you bring with you, you'd better keep your mouth at home...... Pick me up next Friday morning, don't forget!" The second master didn't give Hong Tao a chance to quarrel at all, and hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Early in the morning of October 11, Hong Tao and Dali picked up the second master and an old friend of his, and came to the 21st Century Hotel together. The standard of this auction is quite high, and the Century Theater in the hotel is fully covered, and the banner says that it is the first international auction in China jointly organized by the Beijing Advertising Company, the China International Cultural Relics Exchange Center and the Dutch International Trade Consulting Company in Beijing.

For the first time, Hong Tao didn't know, and he didn't care about this, but looking at the name of the organizer, it seemed that the specifications were quite high, and the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage personally put on the battle and became the leader of the organizing committee. It is said that an auctioneer known as "Hong Kong's No. 1 Hammer" was also invited, named Hu or something, to preside, which is really a good idea. And that's not all, in the brochure distributed at the auction. There are also many items that belong to the cultural relics level and are also auctioned.

According to the cultural relics law at that time, cultural relics of this level could not be bought and sold privately. However, in order to respond to the call to open up the mind and take a bigger step, the state cultural relics department has taken a bigger step. Specially approved 232 pieces of licensed cultural relics, including the bronze jue in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the hub pattern of the Warring States period, the white jade dragon string flower tile in the early Ming Dynasty, and the blessing scroll of the concubine of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, were auctioned at this auction, and many people who came to participate in these items also came to the auction.

"Uncle Tai. Do you think these things are imitations?" Hong Tao didn't believe in the endorsement of the Cultural Relics Bureau, the more this kind of unit, the more unscrupulous he lied, although he didn't have any desire to buy before he came, but when he saw the things on those booklets, he wanted to buy them a little.

This Uncle Tai is also a flag man, and his family opened a shop in the Liuli Factory in the early years, and his ancestral antique skills. But he, like the second master, all the family members died in the ten years of catastrophe. It's still a clear one, and it's an old family. Usually he doesn't have any hobbies, and the money from the implementation of the policy is enough for him to support the elderly, and he is to play with flowers, birds, fish and insects all day long, and then he goes to the people to collect these old gadgets with a black heart, even if he can't afford to see and touch, it's enjoyable.

Last year, he was hired back by the state-run cultural relics store, and he became a consultant, but in fact, he was just an idle errand. Usually I don't have to go to work, and when I catch up with difficult items in the store, I will ask him to come over and give him a palm. It's a good idea to make the best use of your talents. He had heard of it with the second master for a long time, but he didn't know each other, and then he met it by chance, and he went to the second master's store to take a look. He was reluctant to leave immediately, and in his words, all the good things were hidden here.

"No, it won't. Those who dare to come here to buy things are connoisseurs, and I have heard that some Taiwanese businessmen have come with large sums of cash. I'm going to buy whatever I see. "Uncle Tai also knows Hong Tao and is an acquaintance. Not friends.

"Then you said that if the second master likes it, can you buy it?" Hong Tao's little eyes rolled and he had a plan.

"Of course it was, but originally the second master said that he didn't buy it just by looking at it, and he didn't participate in the previous appraisal link, so it's not easy to judge this price, right?" Uncle Tai said while looking at the second master, he didn't understand why Hong Tao asked so.

“…… You're going to use me as a shield again, I thought you hadn't tossed me for several years, you were going to retire me, it's worth it, right?" Uncle Tai didn't understand what Hong Tao meant, but the second master immediately understood.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Lao Ji Fu is ambitious for thousands of miles, and the strong man is ambitious in his twilight years, you are not old, and you can still exert your residual heat, then I will let Dali go back and get the money!"

"Hey...... Don't go, it's almost time to start filming, and it's too late for you to register and pay a deposit when you go and come back. Second master, if you really plan to give it a try, I'll go find someone for you to go through the back door and use our unit as a guarantee. "Uncle Tai originally wanted to come and see, but after a while, when he heard that Hong Tao was encouraging the second master to make a move, he also had a little bit of a sense of watching the excitement and not being afraid of big things, the second master was rich, which was clear to them in that circle.

"Hey, you two are going together, then buy it, but there is one thing, I don't show this eye with you, what do you want to buy and sit and mutter, don't sit next to me." "The second master can't even resist Hong Tao, plus an Uncle Tai, he just surrendered directly, got a better attitude, and put forward some conditions.

Uncle Tai went to find someone to make up for the formalities, and Hong Tao sat on the chair and stepped up to look at the atlas to see what he wanted to buy, and then picked it out so that Uncle Tai and the second master could palm their eyes. There are more than 2,000 items in total, which are divided into eight categories: Chinese porcelain, gold, silver and bronze, jewelry and jade, wood and clocks, calligraphy, painting, philatelic products, textiles, cigarette bottles, and automobiles.

There are so many items, Hong Tao can't think carefully one by one, he can only roughly go through them, first planing out the car, he doesn't understand this thing, and if he wants to buy a car, he doesn't need to go here to buy a second-hand car, and he can't just find Zhou Tong. Among the rest of the things, Hong Tao took a fancy to a few pieces of Hetian jade, a few wood-carved Qing Dynasty table clocks, and a few snuff bottles written by famous artists, and roughly calculated, about 80,000 to 100,000 US dollars.

On this point, Hong Tao was very angry! The auction actually costs foreign exchange, and Taiwan dollars, Japanese yen, US dollars, British pounds, and Hong Kong dollars are all collected, but no renminbi is charged. With this restriction, Hong Tao's interest has greatly decreased, and he does not have much foreign exchange in his hand now, if it were not for the hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars he saved when he was doing business with Boss Wan, he would not want to participate.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the auction officially began, and Hu Yimao was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a mouthful of Hong Kong Pu, and a translator standing next to him, who was responsible for introducing the scene in English. There was a young man standing next to him, and his only job was to turn the number plate on the rostrum into the corresponding number according to the results of the auction to indicate the current amount of money.

Uncle Tai also got back a number plate for Hong Tao, because it was a backup, this number plate was actually a number one, it should be a number reserved by the organizing committee, just in case there is a temporary intention of Hong Tao 255, now it seems that this idea is not redundant at all, this is not used.

It may be because this is the first public auction event in Chinese mainland, so there are not many buyers who come on site. Hong Tao and Uncle Tai sat in the back and counted, it seemed that there were only more than 40, not as many as the reporters of various news units. The first item is the auction of bronzes, Hong Tao is not interested in this kind of thing, it is old, tattered, and it doesn't look good at home, except for those who are really engaged in historical research of cultural relics, who buys this thing.

However, Hong Tao was not idle, he held up a sign when he had nothing to do, looked for this feeling, and helped the organizing committee raise the price by the way. This thing is the same as Zakin Flower, playing a psychological game, plus there is Uncle Tai, an expert on the side, pointing out, and lifting it several times, but he successfully avoided the last hammer, and none of it was smashed in his hands. Hong Tao still likes this feeling of secretly harming people, especially those foreigners.

The vast majority of buyers this time are foreigners or Taiwan compatriots, Hong Kong compatriots, overseas Chinese, etc., and there are basically no domestic people and institutions, of course, Hong Tao can't be an exception, so he asked Uncle Tai to register the name of the uncle, and it was worth it that none of the brothers were ruined, and he gave it all to the scourge. In the process of the auction, Hong Tao also found a group of very special buyers, are three Japanese, according to the results of Uncle Tai's inquiry to the organizing committee, the three of them are actually relatives of the Japanese emperor, that is to say, the Japanese imperial family.

"Oh, you little Japanese devils, you actually came to me to take advantage,! This is not to put you Hong Papi Uncle Hong in his eyes, and he doesn't come to worship the mountain gate, he wants to set up a stall to do business, Cheng, you are not kind to me and I am not righteous, you wait!" Hong Tao's attention was not on those auctioned items at all, he just came to see the excitement. But everyone's competition is very gentle, there is nothing to see, which makes him very dissatisfied, since you are not lively, then I will find myself some fun!

After the bronze is gold, silver, bronze and jewelry and jade, Hong Tao is still going to make trouble, but now he has a goal, and his eyes have been staring at the three Japanese, as long as they raise cards, Hong Tao will also raise cards to make trouble. Of course, he is still the purpose, not what he wants, resolutely not to risk raising the brand that is close to the transaction price, he doesn't have so much spare money to play with others to get rich, if he can use the yuan he can still bull x, use foreign exchange or forget it.

As a result, he patronized and made trouble, and the two pieces of Hetian jade material that he saw were taken away by a Taiwanese businessman, but he didn't feel sorry for it, this thing was inevitably taken back and Heiyu drilled a hole, and if it was gone, it would be gone, and it would save money. (To be continued......)