In the afternoon, the bedroom at home.

Sitting on a small bench, Liu Xingzheng was silently carrying out his work alone--book appreciation.

There were only two days left before the three-day appointment with Huang Caiyun, and Liu Xing had to hurry up and identify some more books. In the morning, he bought more than 3,000 scrap books, and at this time he was busy appraising, hoping to find good books.

"The Wandering Singer's Woman", musical novel, none, match 1.4%;

"The First Tyrant of the Ages", historical fiction, none, match 0.2%;

"Mechanics", science fiction, none, match 1.2%;

……

One discarded book after another is flipped through in your hand, and each one takes only about five seconds to handle, just like an assembly line work.

Every scrap book is a hope, but unfortunately, it ends in disappointment. Liu Xing has tested more than 1,500 books, but only found two romance novels, worth only more than 1,000 yuan.

Today's luck seems to be worse than yesterday's.

However, Liu Xing's mood was not greatly affected, because he understood that Taoshu had a certain amount of accidentality, and in the case of a relatively small base of scrapped books, it was difficult to guarantee that he would be able to make money, and there was no need to care too much about a temporary failure.

Just when Liu Xing was unprepared, at this time, a bombshell appeared.

Title: Violent Street Fighter

Category: Violent Fiction

Rating: 3 stars

Match: 15%

"Three stars?"

Liu Xing's eyes lit up, and after identifying so many waste books, he finally found a three-star novel!

It's just that after a few pages of "Violent Street Fighter" hastily flipped through the pages, he suddenly felt like a deflated balloon again, and he was lost for a while.

This "Violent Street Fighter" is indeed a three-star novel, and it is worth at least 50,000 yuan according to the market price.

It's just that this is a violent novel, and this kind of novel is easy to stimulate the reader's desire for violence, and after reading the novel, he may become a thug with violent tendencies, which is a threat to social stability and order.

Eight years ago, there was a violent gang in Novel Street, often robbing bookstore star novels, and there was also a murder of a bookseller. Later, the police swept up the violent gang, and after investigation, it was found that all of these thugs were lovers of violent novels, and they also hired some novelists to write violent novels specifically for them.

After this case, the Reading Alliance strengthened its control of violent novels and banned the sale of violence above two stars on the market, so that only connoisseurs had access to novels in this category.

As a result, this three-star "Violent Street Fighter" simply won't sell.

Although it was an empty joy, the appearance of this novel still made Liu Xing more full of expectations for book appreciation, which at least shows that three-star novels can also be found in waste books.

Putting away "Violent Street Fighter", Liu Xing continued his identification work.

When Dangdang, not long, a rush of footsteps came, and Liu Shiming hurriedly ran into the bedroom.

"Ah Xing, your phone. ”

As soon as she entered the room, Liu Shiming immediately handed over her mobile phone, "Director Wu Guokun of the Book Testing Center has something to look for you." ”

"Wu Guokun?" Liu Xing and Wu Guokun are not very familiar with each other, but they met once last time when they appraised "Book Tomb Notes", Wu Guokun suddenly called, what was the matter?

picked up the phone: "Hey, Director Wu, what's the matter?"

"Liu Xing, I have good news for you. Director Wu Guokun's voice came from the phone, "There is going to be an auction this afternoon, the scale is quite large, your last book "Book Tomb Notes" will be auctioned in the afternoon, do you want to come and take a look?"

"Notes on the Book Tomb is going to be auctioned publicly?"

Liu Xing's heart moved, this auction was really timely, it was a send-off. If "Book Tomb Notes" can be sold for a good price in the afternoon, Liu Xing will be able to make a lot of money, "I will definitely participate on time." ”

"Okay, give me a call when you come over, and I'll arrange for someone to pick you up. ”

……

The plan is really catching up with the changes.

Liu Xing was originally going to continue to buy scrap books in the afternoon, and then continue to appraise the novel, but as a result, "Notes on the Book Tomb" was suddenly going to be auctioned publicly, interrupting all his plans.

"Book Tomb Notes" signed a licensing agreement for the auction last month, but the auction house has never arranged the auction, mainly out of profit.

Last month, Yufeng Mountain had just excavated the book tomb, and if the "Book Tomb Notes" had been auctioned at that time, the price would definitely not be high. And now the situation is different, the book tomb of Yufeng Mountain has been unearthed for a month, and the news about the book tomb and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has already spread all over the streets and alleys, under such a social trend, the tomb robbery novel has risen, and the price has nearly doubled compared with a month ago!

Therefore, now is the perfect time to auction Book Tomb Notes.

With such a good thing, Liu Xing naturally wanted to go to the auction site to observe.

After receiving a call from Director Wu Guokun, Liu Xing changed his clothes, and then rode his sister's motorcycle to the auction hall alone.

The auction hall is located at the north end of Novel Street, across the street from the Jianshu Building.

The two organizations have had a partnership since the founding of the Reading Consortium forty years ago. Novels that have been tested in the Jianshu Building can be directly auctioned at the auction house.

However, only novels of a certain value are eligible for auction, and most of them are novels with a two-star rating or higher.

When I came to the square of the auction building, I was greeted by a number of luxury cars, many of which came to participate in the auction.

Without thinking much about it, Liu Xing followed the crowd towards the auction hall.

"Sir, please show me your ID. ”

When he walked to the door of the auction hall, Liu Xing was stopped by the security guard.

According to the relevant provisions of the "Regulations on the Administration of Chinese Books", a mental health certificate is required to purchase a novel with a two-star rating. The novels auctioned tonight are basically above two stars, and all bidders must show a mental health certificate, otherwise they will not be eligible to enter the auction at all.

Liu Xing didn't have the relevant documents, so he naturally couldn't get in. He had no choice but to call Director Wu Guokun, and a few minutes later, Wu Guokun sent a female assistant, and under her leadership, Liu Xing entered the auction site.

Coming to the auction hall, Liu Xing was arranged to sit in the first row of seats. He paid special attention to the fact that there were more than 300 guests attending the auction tonight, in addition to some booksellers on Novel Street, there were also people from all walks of life, including multimillionaires.

To Liu Xing's surprise, Cai Fugui actually came to the auction site and sat in the corner of the seventh row.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the crowd was almost there, and the auction officially began.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to today's auction. There are a total of 18 novels to be auctioned in this auction, and without further ado, the auction will start immediately. ”

The host at the scene held the microphone and then introduced, "The first novel to be auctioned next is a character novel "Iron Man in the Gray World", which is rated as a two-star star, and it is written by Tie Butterfly, a well-known writer of the Tianhai City Human Logistics School. The reserve price is 20,000 yuan, and the price increase is at least 1,000 yuan each time. ”

The so-called character novels refer to genre novels that focus on creating distinct characters. Reading these kinds of novels can help readers develop better character qualities.

As the saying goes, character determines destiny. Having a good character can have a decisive impact on a person's life. Therefore, character novels like "Iron Man in the Gray World" are very popular in Huaxia.

As soon as the auction began, the atmosphere immediately livened up.

"25,000!"

"30,000!"

"42,000!"

……

The price rose like a tide, and after several rounds of bidding, it soon exceeded 50,000 yuan.

Looking at the rising prices, Liu Xing basically understood that there were many rich people among the guests at the scene.

After thinking about it, the auction for the first character novel, "Iron Man in the Gray World", has ended, and it was finally sold by a real estate developer for 219,000 yuan.

As soon as the first novel was auctioned, the auction for the second novel began.

Liu Xing looked at the order of today's auction and found that his "Book Tomb Notes" was arranged in the last place, which was the finale of the auction in the afternoon.

The novels were auctioned one after another, and the prices remained high, and the transaction price was basically more than 150,000 yuan. Among them, the highest transaction price was a three-star science fiction novel, as high as 390,000 yuan, which was auctioned by the general manager of a technology company.

In order to read a science fiction novel, he was willing to spend 390,000 yuan, and Liu Xing finally saw what a local tyrant was tonight.

What made Liu Xing strange was that during the auction, Cai Fugui, who was sitting in the corner of the seventh row, did not bid from beginning to end. Since he didn't ask for a price, what did Cai Fugui come to the auction house for?

Two hours later, 17 of the 18 star novels on the scene have been auctioned, and only the last novel has not been auctioned, which is the highlight of today's auction - "Book Tomb Notes".