"Mr. Lin Hainan:

Spread the letter and open it in person.

I had the privilege of meeting your father more than a decade ago. We had a great conversation, and he mentioned you and told me that you were a very good person. Today, you have indeed lived up to your father's hopes and become a very good person, and I believe that your father is very happy at all.

I regret that I cannot inform you of my identity or even to send this letter in such a way. Thank you for your understanding. We would like to send a ticket to the auction in Segu as a token of apology. ”

This is the whole content of the letter, there is no beginning or end, after reading it, not only Feng Jianfei was confused, but Lin Hainan himself was also confused.

"How did the letter get to you?"

Li Jianshu shrugged his shoulders and said lightly, "Maybe it's because my bookstore is called the 'Forbidden City Intelligence Office'." ”

Lin Hainan raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Jianshu, but the other party had no expression. And Feng Jianfei kept frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lin Hainan took out the other things in the envelope - there was a rather delicate invitation card inside, and the dark green frosted cover was gilded with the two big characters "Xigu". In addition to this, there is also a booklet that indeed, the rules and synopsis of the Interstellar Development Group's Ancient Artifact Restoration Competition.

"What is 'Sigu'?"

Li Jianshu explained to Lin Hainan: "This is a nominal auction, but in fact there are a lot of high-quality imitation Xibei goods, and it is a place where many cultural relics restorers sell their works. Xigu has a wide range of channels, and the people who go are all rich. But whether it is the seller, the buyer, or even the intermediary, the information is strictly confidential. This Xigu has not been established for a long time, but in the past two years, the Cultural Relics Bureau has been tracking them down. But they usually change places with one shot, the auction is held irregularly, their whereabouts are more elusive, and they rely on invitations for each entry, and their invitations are similar in nature to tickets - expired and invalid. That's why I'm in a hurry to find you. ”

Lin Hainan opened the invitation card when he heard this, and the date on it was seven o'clock tonight, at the Hongqiao Hotel.

"Tonight?"

"Yes, you should hurry up and prepare. ”

"Why? We don't know who the other party is, why did we send this thing to Brother Nan, are you going to go?" Yumi didn't know when she stood next to Feng Jianfei, looked at the invitation and asked Feng Jianfei's opinion.

Feng Jianfei was silent for a while, took away the invitation card from Lin Hainan's hand, flipped through it and looked at it, and finally put it on the table, knocked it, and said, "Go."

Although I don't know who the other party is, and I don't know if it's the same as our camp, but there should be no malice towards Hainan, just take it as a help for us, and the most important point is that two days ago, there was news that the Oriental artifact would attend this Xigu auction, regardless of whether the news is true or not, go and see. Feng Jianfei made a decisive decision: "Tonight, Hainan and I will go to Xigu for auction, Youmi and Xu Jin, you two will research and study this ancient cultural relics restoration competition of the Interstellar Development Group." ”

"Yes. Youmi and Xu Jin agreed in unison. Lin Hainan's eyes were dark and he nodded.

At half past six in the evening, half an hour before the auction began, Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei came to the Hongqiao Hotel in advance.

The auction at Xigu was held in the K. Wah Ballroom at the Hongqiao Hotel. The K. Wah Hall is not the most expensive ballroom in Hongqiao Hotel, but it is the largest ballroom in Hongqiao, which can accommodate up to 400 people at a time. Today's K. Wah Hall is arranged like an exhibition, with three rows of glass showcases on the left, center and right, each row of nine glass display cases, in which the auction items are placed.

According to the auction manual, this auction has antique furniture, four treasures of the study, ancient books and paintings, agate jade, ceramics, bamboo, wood and bone carving, Buddhist supplies and other things, the scope is wide and slightly messy.

What attracted Lin Hainan's attention the most was exhibit No. 7, which was very similar to the six Yue kiln celadon that Lin Hainan had come into contact with the night before. It is a 40 centimeter high porcelain vase, the fetal quality is delicate and dense, the fetal bone is fine and light, the enamel is moist and uniform like jade, the glaze color is green and yellow, the carcass is gray tire, delicate and firm; the glaze is green glaze, crystal moist, like jade and ice. The overall shape is neat and meticulous. The edge of the mouth is made into a lotus leaf mouth, and the bottom is widened to make a multi-curved structure, which is very beautiful. But what makes people care is the lines on the bottle, which is a carved flower with a landscape theme, but Lin Hainan recognized it at a glance, it was that oasis!

The carvings are divided into three paintings, and upon careful study, it can be roughly seen that this oasis is in a huge depression deep in the desert, and the dense woods peek out from the basin valley, and the oasis is immeasurably large.

Such a landform is supposed to be a closed valley formed by a volcanic eruption over hundreds of millions of years. It's just that thousands of years have passed, and this oasis may be long gone.

Feng Jianfei saw Lin Hainan studying this porcelain vase very carefully, and couldn't help but open the auction manual to inquire. This porcelain vase is called "Wanqing Evergreen", is a group of sixteen sets of porcelain vases, but the remaining fifteen are missing, this porcelain vase is also accidentally lost to the market, in general, although it is a complete porcelain vase, but because it is not a complete set, the value is greatly discounted, and the portrayal on the porcelain vase, the meaning is not too good, in the auction, this is the lowest starting price of the auction item.

Feng Jianfei closed the auction brochure and asked Lin Hainan strangely: "You have taken a fancy to this?"

Lin Hainan shook his head, the auction value of this bottle is not high, it is obvious, but if there are other porcelain vases, it becomes a complete set, then the value is immeasurable. It's just that no matter how valuable the cultural relics are, they are just dead things in this auction house.

"Then let's go and see the Buddha head. ”

As the name suggests, the Buddha's head is the real Buddha's head, not in the Buddhist prayer beads, there is a cone-shaped small pagoda-shaped item, which is generally placed above the mother bead in the prayer beads, which can also be called a stupa thing. This is the highest starting price in today's auction. This Buddha head is the head of a certain Buddha statue, the Song Dynasty poet Ai Xingfu said in the ancient poem "Big Buddha Head": Carved Buddha is not a ghost in the Ling Mountain, and the west wind blows the abalone boat. It is in this way that the Buddha statues are generally rich in categories and exquisite in shape, and there are many cultural relics that integrate historical, scientific and artistic values. Buddhist statues are an important part of Buddhist culture, which is the object of worship and prayer by believers, and provides important material materials for the study of people's religious and cultural life at that time.

The Buddha statue in this auction is a pottery molded Buddha statue in the Northern Dynasties period, and its historical value is extremely high.

Approaching the display cabinet of the Buddha's head, there were already many people gathered around it, roughly watching the Buddha's head, Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei paid attention to the people around them.

The people who come to the auction are either rich or expensive, and another point is that they are very idle, and if there is a special purpose, they should be distinguished. Even if their disguise is natural, they will definitely show their feet when the auction is going on. Lin Hainan raised his vigilance and carefully kept his distance from Feng Jianfei, in Lin Hainan's opinion, it was very likely that he had been exposed to the gaze of the Oriental Artifact. If today's letter was not sent by someone who wanted to help Lin Hainan, then this invitation was just a bait to attract Lin Hainan, but Lin Hainan had to take the bait if he wished. In fact, in the afternoon, Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei discussed this issue, but Feng Jianfei's answer at that time seemed careless: "Okay, okay, you don't have to think about it, I have already been exposed, I have been in contact with the Oriental artifact a few times, and the two of us are not together at all, who will affect whom." ”

Despite this, Lin Hainan still did not relax his vigilance, and after seeing the porcelain vase of exhibit No. 7, he vaguely guessed that perhaps exhibit No. 7 was the target of the oriental artifact. But he hadn't had time to tell Feng Jianfei about the six jars, and all the speculations were just guesses, for the battlefield of the battle with the Eastern Artifact, Feng Jianfei was an experienced veteran.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be calm and thank you for being here today, our auction is about to begin. Please take your seats, and ask the staff to close the doors of the banquet hall. ”

A deep male voice sounded, and the auction was about to begin.

A few minutes later, the lights went out, spotlights and spotlights converged on the stage, and a fat man dressed in black politely appeared on the stage.

"Good evening, distinguished guests!" the man took off his hat and bent over to signal, his movements exaggerated, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was flattering but very joyful, not annoying at all. When everyone's applause fell, the man straightened up, "I'm the host of this auction, and the wind." Before the auction begins, let me briefly introduce the rules of our auction at Segu Auction House. In order to protect the privacy of each auctioneer, our auction will be conducted with lights out, so that you can only see me and the exhibits around me on the stage, and you can't see the other people around you. In order to ensure that the auction can be carried out smoothly and accurately, we have prepared the number plates, all of which are glow-in-the-dark, please hold up your number plate when you confirm the bid, and then put it down when you hear the staff read your number. Thank you for your cooperation. The auction is tentatively estimated to last one and a half hours. An hour and a half, at 8:45 a.m., we will start our show on time, so stay tuned!"

"What show?"

"I don't know. Haven't heard of it. ”

Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei briefly exchanged opinions, relying on their voices to determine the position of the other party beside them.

"I can't see clearly, don't get too far away from me. ”

"I know, but in this way, we can't find the people of the Oriental artifact, and we don't even know what they filmed. ”

"Be flexible. ”

When the commotion at the scene subsided, He Feng showed a warm smile: "Now, our auction has officially begun!

Today's three watches, because I don't know if I can have time to update tomorrow, tomorrow I will go to the Chinese businessman to attend the company's meeting, I don't know when I will be back, so I updated it today, if I go home tomorrow, I will already be in the update, it may not be too late, and the day after tomorrow will be made up!