Chapter 141: Participating in the Auction
"Mayor, I guess Tina asked you to do something, right?"
Dave, who was still hesitating how to explain, sighed in his heart, it was disgusting for him to hide it anymore, so he simply nodded and said, "Yes, I would like to invite Miss Chrissy to a party and charity auction, and as a condition, I will help Miss Chrissy find news of someone." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Chrissy Leon nodded as if she had expected it, and suddenly asked, "Is there any news of that person?" ”
As soon as Dave wanted to give it all up, he saw the door of the room in front of him open, and Christina walked out, she came out to remind her about Chu Mo's characteristics again, but she didn't expect to see Dave and her father at the door, so she asked a little unexpectedly, "Father, mayor, why are you here?" ”
"I just went out for a casual stroll and just came back now."
Chris Leon replied with a smile, then looked at Dave, who was hanging his head slightly, and said, "Mayor, tell me everything you find." ”
Hearing this, Christina looked at Dave excitedly and said, "Mayor, you found the news so quickly?" No way? ”
Dave hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, it took me a lot of effort to find this news, I called the transportation department and ...... to the public relations department."
"Okay, okay, I know you've worked hard, what useful news have you found, tell it quickly."
Christina's eager expression made Dave a little incomprehensible, isn't he just a Chinese person? Could it be that he was really tempted by this kid, and he was still saying this kind of thing in front of Chrissy Leon, could it be that the marriage of this big family was so free?
But these are not things he should think about, after thinking about it, Dave told everything he heard in Chinatown, and Christina said in disbelief: "No, he is really alive, he arrived in Los Angeles before us, why?" ”
Chrissy Leon, who was on the side, heard Dave's words, and quietly returned to his room, he had just gone out for a long time to do this, Dave found out that he actually knew it, not only that, but he also used his own means to know that the Chinese man alone subverted the dark forces that had been entrenched here for more than ten years, and he was still a bold person who even dared to kill the police.
"Interesting Chinese people, magical Oriental people, I really want to meet this kind of person."
Chris Leon stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window and muttered to himself, he was particularly fond of Chu Mo's character, this kind of decisive but principled young man is really rare, and he is more outstanding than the elite children of some big families.
Outside the room, Christina couldn't hide the excitement on her face, she didn't have any emotions like Chu Mo, she only had curiosity and gratitude, and the Chinese man who saved her suddenly disappeared, how could this kind of person not make people worry.
She thought for a while, looked at Dave who was waiting on the side, and immediately said, "I attended the party you held tonight, you can go and prepare now, I'll go out first, I'll be back when the time comes, and if my father asks, tell him I'm going out to take a breath." ”
After saying that, he hurried down the stairs, and the clear sound of his high heels stepping on the ground made Dave come back to his senses, and he smiled very comfortably.
He immediately called his secretary Doru and told him to quickly trigger some invitations to the others, as well as some of the biggest names in Los Angeles, to attend the party, and of course, to be careful not to be caught in the damn media, or he, the mayor, would not know how to write it the next day.
After hanging up the phone, Dave found the experience of the hotel Han Hyo-hyun, and asked him to arrange the hotel according to what he said before, hold a party here, and hold a charity auction together, although the venue is not very suitable, but Dave understands that those people will not come for this so-called party and auction, but completely for Miss Chrissy, so even if it is held in the toilet, it is estimated that it is overcrowded.
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"How much do you pay for this?"
In a large antique market, Chu Mo revealed a little bit of one of the paintings he snatched out of Depp's hands to show the other party.
The stall owner was a middle-aged man with shiny yellow hair, and after he saw Chu Mo's movements, he knew that the other party's things were also unsightly, so he approached Chu Mo and looked at the painting, and his eyes immediately lit up.
"Friend, your painting is a little familiar, how did I see it on TV, it seems to be ......"
"Yes, you're right, it's that painting, how much do you pay for it."
Chu Mo didn't mean to hide, most of the things sold by the stall owners in this place were not in the right way, so he would never do anything to hold it.
The middle-aged man thought for a while, gave Chu Mo a business card, and said with a smile: "Friend, although I don't know how you got these things, I kindly remind you that it is best not to sell these things to us people, otherwise you will not only lose a lot, but also make it difficult for our business to continue." ”
"You go to the person on this business card, he probably has the intention of talking to you about cooperation."
Chu Mo quickly understood the truth, these things in his hands are all unsightly things, no matter who he is, it will only bring trouble to the other party, he was a little embarrassed to thank this kind boss, and then stood up and prepared to leave, this antique market is big, but he has no money now, only those few famous paintings and some gold watches, these gold watches are more difficult to sell than famous paintings.
Now, Chu Mo finally regretted that he shouldn't have asked for anything in the first place, just take the money directly, and now he is embarrassed.
He just wanted to leave here, when he suddenly felt a faint aura, Chu Mo's eyes immediately stared in that direction, only to see a stall selling jade, its boss was slowly cutting open a piece of jade to see if there was no good material in it, and then threw it aside.
Chu Mo walked over, staring at the piece of jade with his eyes, and confirmed that it was indeed an aura inside, although it was very rare, but there was an aura.
"Boss, do you still have this piece of jade?"
Hearing Chu Mo's words, the people in this stall scratched their heads, turned out a lot of this stone from the pile of things behind him, and asked Chu Mo, "Do you want to buy this kind of stone?" ”
"Well, I want to buy all of these stones, how much?"
The stall owner's eyes flashed, these jades are worthless, just some good wool companions, so no one will want them at all, just now he himself was also because he couldn't sell it, so he cut it to play, why should this young Chinese man, could it be that there are good things in it that he can't understand.
With this thought, he took a knife and cut a few pieces on the spot, Chu Mo felt that there was indeed a faint aura in the jade that was cut, he looked happy, and the idea of buying these things became stronger and stronger.
"Well, I'll sell it to you, these jade are all good things......"
He cut more than a dozen in a row, there are no good things in it, so he won't cut it anymore, if there is really any good thing, give it to the other party, after all, gambling on jade depends on three points of strength, three points of courage, and four points of luck.
"I don't have any money, but I have these gold watches, can you take them?"
Chu Mo took out five gold watches in a row, and the stall owner was stunned, he took one of them, looked at it carefully, and checked it on the Internet with his mobile phone, the brands of the five watches were different, but all of them were famous brands.
Especially after seeing its price, the owner of this stall widened his eyes, looked at Chu Mo and asked puzzledly, "Are you sure to give me five yuan in exchange for these things?" ”
"Of course not, you have to tell me where you found all these jades."
Chu Mo's question made the stall owner think for a while, but after seeing those few gold watches, he decisively gave up thinking and said to Chu Mo: "This is what I bought, I don't know where these things came from, if you want to know, I can tell you the contact information of that person." ”
After speaking, he handed Chu Mo a business card, looking at the business card, Chu Mo's expression was a little weird, he took out the business card that the person gave him before from his pocket, and found that the two were almost identical, he lowered his head and thought for a while, nodded to the stall owner, and left with a sack of jade weighing dozens of catties.
"Stained, this Chinese man is really strong."
The stall owner looked at Chu Mo's departing back appreciatively, put the five gold watches on his body, and did business there with a smile.
After leaving, Chu Mo found a hotel, which was the cheapest kind, and after spending all the little money he had, he sat in a room of less than twenty square meters, looking at the jade in front of him in a daze.
After thinking for a while, he poured out all the jade stones and arranged them into a strange pattern, while he sat cross-legged inside, running the exercises and beginning to absorb the weak aura of heaven and earth.
He used these jade stones containing faint aura to form a spirit gathering array, Chu Mo is not a formation master, and the few formations he knows are actually the same as a layman except for the practical spirit gathering array, but the reason why he gathered the spirit array was because of the considerable cultivation effect in his previous life, so he studied it and learned it by rote.
The formation operation that had been maintained for ten seconds turned into pieces, and the aura that Chu Mo absorbed was the amount he had absorbed in ten days, and he could only sigh for this.
Placing the remaining jade stones into a large spirit gathering array again, Chu Mo absorbed the aura for nearly a minute this time, and the aura contained in the surrounding and these jade stones poured into Chu Mo's body's spleen, kidney, and internal organs like a trace of spring rain, and finally classified it as a dantian and turned into wisps of true qi.
Opening his eyes, Chu Mo's expression looked a little depressed, after all, this is not as good as a real spirit stone, the effect is not satisfactory, he has a hunch that if he changes to a real spirit stone to cultivate for himself, I am afraid that he will be able to break through to the seventh layer of qi training.
Putting away his thoughts, Chu Mo, who had become penniless, left the small hotel and walked towards the address on the business card, if he didn't dispose of these famous paintings on his body, he probably wouldn't even be able to eat.
Walking to this big store called "Baibaoyuan", Chu Mo immediately found that someone came up to him and asked him in a friendly manner, did he want to talk about business.
Chu Mo nodded, and told the other party that he wanted to sell a few famous paintings, and the person who asked heard this, looked at the protruding place on Chu Mo's chest, nodded, and took Chu Mo into this shop, walked through several floors of courtyard, and took Chu Mo to a chic room where one was sitting
The brown-haired man looked like he was sleeping.
His messy beard made him look extremely depressed, like a dead house that he hadn't been out of for a long time.
"Boss, someone is coming, get up and do business."
The man from the United States who had his eyes closed slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Chu Mo, and then at his subordinates, who were neither big nor small, and scolded him away with a smile.
"Are you Andy, the boss here?"
Looking at this man, Chu Mo asked, but saw that the other party shook his head and said, "I'm not Andy, I'm Andy Bai, I like people to call me by my Huaxia name." ”
Chu Mo reacted, nodded with a smile, and saw that a foreigner was so enthusiastic about Chinese civilization, he felt an indescribable joy and pride in his heart.
"Huaxia people, what business do you want to do? Is it to buy or sell? ”
Andy didn't speak English anymore, but spoke a straight Chinese language, which made Chu Mo slightly surprised, and he also replied to the other party in Chinese language: "I want to sell a few famous paintings, and someone introduced me to you." ”
After speaking, he took out a few paintings on his chest and put them on the table where the two were sitting, Andy took it and unfolded it and looked at it, then at Chu Mo, and asked, "Are these all yours?" ”
"Yes."
For Chu Mo, this is his own, so he answered so confidently.
"Hmm."
Andy looked at a few paintings and was silent for a while, and then slowly spoke: "I can accept these paintings, but the price is thirty percent lower than the auction price of each pair, as for the reason, you should also be clear, I don't know if you can accept it." ”
Seeing that Chu Mo was about to nod his head and agree without hesitation, Andy changed his words again: "No, no, no, I still can't accept these things, I can't sell them when I take them out, no one dares to ask for them." ”
Chu Mo looked at Andy's changing hexagram and said funny: "Don't say seventy percent, even if you only give me ten percent of the price, I will agree." ”
For money, Chu Mo doesn't care about how much, only cares about whether it is enough, it is difficult for him to move an inch with these paintings, it is better to take some money and go all over the world.
Andy stared at Chu Mo for a while, and suddenly said with a smile: "It seems that you are in a hurry to get rid of these things, but I have changed my mind again, there is a charity auction at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at eight o'clock tonight, I was invited to participate, you also have to follow me, auction these paintings on the spot, and then I will give you ten percent of the profit according to your own requirements." ”
Hearing this, Chu Mo frowned, looked at Andy's narrow appearance, couldn't help but be a little angry, and asked: "Why, if you give me ten percent of the price now, the transaction between us will be successful, why do you have to be so troublesome." ”
"No, no, no, it's not a trouble, it's about maximizing profits, as far as I know, tonight's charity auction is a good thing for some people to take out things and hand them over to the auction for free, and don't want any money they get, all of them are donated to some disaster areas or used to develop and build cities, which is a good thing."
After a pause, Andy added: "And I'm going to take out these paintings for auction tonight, I can't get a penny, but I have gained fame, as for you, I will give you ten percent of the auction proceeds as a reward, why don't you do this kind of thing that kills three birds with one stone, don't you Chinese people pay the most attention to efficiency?" ”
Andy's words made Chu Mo fall into contemplation, what the Mi man in front of him said really made him have no room for refutation, what he said was reasonable, if he didn't want to do so, he would fall into an embarrassing situation.
"Okay, I promise you, I'll go to that charity auction with you, but I don't want to be noticed by anyone, so I won't go with you, you can just let people put me in when the time comes, I'll watch your party from the sidelines, and you can fulfill your promise when the time comes."
Chu Mo left these paintings here, and then stretched out his hand to Andy and said, "Give me five hundred meters first, I'm hungry, I don't have any money to eat, and I have to rent clothes to go to that party, and you can deduct five hundred meters of yuan when the time comes." ”
A shocked expression appeared on Andy's face, he took a while on his body, and then took out five hundred meters of yuan and handed it to Chu Mo, and said jokingly: "If you don't come, I will treat these paintings as if you gave them to me, and I won't give you a penny at that time." ”
"Don't worry, I'll be there then, my stuff isn't so easy to take."
Chu Mo said something unclear and left directly, looking at his back gradually leaving, Andy took out his mobile phone and sent a message.
"I've found that Huaxia man, bring him over to the party tonight, Chrissy Leon, you owe me another favor."
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Chu Mo stood at the door of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in a rented black dress, and there was a gold watch on his arm, which was the only piece left on his body, and the whole person looked extremely handsome because he was carefully dressed, but the coldness that emanated from the corners of his mouth from time to time made him still not so friendly.
Looking at the time, it was already nine o'clock, and Chu Mo was deliberately late, because he heard from Andy that there was a party before the charity auction, and he didn't want to participate in that kind of thing, so he simply came an hour late, hoping to miss it.
Walking to the door of the hotel, the four heroic security guards immediately surrounded Chu Mo, but after seeing Chu Mo's face, they politely invited him in, Chu Mo could only praise Andy's efficiency, and walked in lightly.
Just stepped in, Chu Mo saw faces that seemed to be a little familiar, and after thinking about it, he thought of the Water Pearl Princess, and the people here seemed to be on that ship.
Is it so coincidental?
Chu Mo deliberately lowered his head so as not to be noticed by others, looking for Andy's figure in this hall the size of a football field, he saw the guy, sitting on the table closest to the center of the hall, next to it Chu Mo saw the cold and beautiful Christina, and a mature and handsome middle-aged man, who looked a little similar to Christina, in addition, there was also the crazy shark-bombing mad Maddick, and the new mayor of Los Angeles, Dave, who had seen it on TV.