Chapter 157: I Like You to Shoot Me
Los Angeles hosts an annual charity auction every summer, where tycoons from all walks of life show off their worth and wealth.
The charity activities that were originally motivated by kindness have been added to the flavor of commercial transactions.
Liang Xia took Sheng Jingran's hand and followed the business people who came one after another, walked across the red carpet, entered the auction hall, and sat in the designated position, ignoring the surprised eyes of the people around him.
Many CEOs also came with female companions, but at this time, the ones who had the capital to stay by their side were their main palace maidens, and none of them dared to bring such an arrogant "lover" as her.
After all, the people who show their faces at the moment are all big shots, and they also pay attention to reputation in the business world.
No sooner had they taken their seats than there was an uproar at the door.
Liang Xia looked back when he heard the sound, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and soon returned to nature.
Jiang Jiajia took Shen Xiliang's arm, walked across the red carpet, and smiled appropriately at the constantly flashing flashing lights.
"I heard that Mr. Shen and Miss Jiang have been engaged abroad, may I ask if Miss Jiang is true about this?"
Jiang Jiajia smiled, and was about to answer, but was interrupted indifferently by the man next to him, "Since you heard about it, how can you believe it?" β
Jiang Jiajia's decent smile froze on her face, and Shen Xiliang's next words completely shattered her disguise.
"Our two families are just world friends."
"Friends? Friendship often develops into marriages, you ......."
"If things go in the direction you expected, then you can directly switch to fortune telling, which will definitely be more suitable for you."
Shen Xiliang's mean words made the surrounding reporters laugh for a while, and the little reporters who asked the question smiled awkwardly, Jiang Jiajia stiffened her scalp to the side, and her face was red and white.
Escaping the entanglement of reporters, the two walked towards the designated position.
Shen Xiliang saw Liang Xia, who was sitting in front of him talking and laughing with Sheng Jingran, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and his handsome eyebrows jumped twice imperceptibly.
He paused, sat down beside Sheng Jingran, and politely stretched out his right hand towards Sheng Jingran, "Hello, Mr. Sheng." β
Sheng Jingran also stretched out his hand with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Shen." β
Glanced at the two men who looked good, pouted disdainfully, pretending to be a big-tailed wolf, and it was not that he didn't know.
Sheng Jingran seemed to have eyes behind her, knowing what she was doing, and a fierce eye knife flew by, giving her a heavy warning.
The two men looked at each other and smiled, but did not say anything, and at the same time looked at the auctioneer who walked up to the stage.
At the beginning, there were some ancient calligraphy paintings of famous people that had been circulated for a long time, and Sheng Jingran was not interested in these at all, and let them go to other big bosses.
And Shen Xiliang doesn't seem to be interested in these literary things, squinting his eyes, enjoying the fierce competition between others like watching a play.
Liang Xia looked left and looked, extremely bored, and suddenly glanced at Fu Xudong, who was sitting there not far behind, and turned his warm gaze towards him.
She rolled her eyes, immediately turned her head, and muttered negatively, "No matter how you go, you will meet people who are blocked." β
"What are you muttering about there alone?" Sheng Jingran glanced at her sideways.
"It's nothing, it's just boring and whining." Liang Xia pouted and tugged at the skirt belt around his waist.
"Bored? You had to come yourself, and now you know that you are bored, do you know how I feel now? β
"How do you feel?"
"I can't wait to beat you!" Sheng Jingran glared at her and gritted her teeth.
Liang Xia smiled without fear of death, and pinched his resolute chin, "Are you sure you dare to whip me here?" Aren't you afraid that the queen will come home and you won't be able to get on*? β
Sheng Jingran unceremoniously slapped off her wolf paws and glared at her viciously, "Fuck off, I don't want you to have a hard time in the future, give me some peace." β
Liang Xia pouted at him, straightened up, and inadvertently glanced at Shen Xiliang's cold gaze, his body trembled, and he looked away and cast his eyes on the stage.
Jiang Jiajia looked at the chill emanating from the man next to her, and the sinking face, her heart was full of jealousy and hatred, and she unconsciously clenched the fist on her side.
No wonder he is so abnormal today, it turns out that all of them are because of this woman who has been sitting in it for a long time.
Usually, he almost didn't give any answer to any questions from reporters, and he didn't even explain a word about the negative news himself, but today he just repeated the question that he had been asked countless times, but he explained it himself because he didn't want another woman to misunderstand.
It turns out that he still takes the watery Yanghua woman so seriously, do you still want to continue to have a relationship with her?
She won't allow it!
Jiang Jiajia was pulled back to her thoughts by the auctioneer's explanation on the stage, she looked up, and saw the hostess coming in with a shiny plate, and there was a snow-white hosta on the plate, as if it was white snow from the mountains, natural and pure, without a trace of flaw.
"The next commodity we want to bid for is a mutton fat jade hosta produced in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which is the remaining material used by Emperor Wu as a jade seal, a hairpin created for Queen Gillian, and later Gillian committed a crime, which was taken back by Emperor Wu, and Emperor Wu was sent to the Western Regions as a gift by Zhang Qian, and was given to the king of the Western Regions at that time, and has been friends forever.
The king of the Western Regions gave this hosta to his most beloved concubine, and this hosta circulated in the Western Regions for several years, and then returned to the Central Plains after many times, and was presented as a tribute to the queen Wei Zifu of the current dynasty as a merchant.
Emperor Wu sighed and gave the hosta the name of "eternal knot and one heart", which has been famous for centuries.
This hosta is worth a lot of money and has a deeper meaning. Our starting price is 8 million, and we invite interested parties to raise their signs. β
"Ten million!" As soon as the auctioneer's words fell, a powerful female voice sounded in the crowd.
She didn't need to look at Liang Xia to know who that person was, she turned her head to look at Sheng Jingran, "Are you interested?" β
Sheng Jingran touched his chin, his eyes fixed on the hosta, shining with a bright light, "You can consider it." β
"I like it, you shoot me."
"Am I rich?" Sheng Jingran squinted at her.
"I'll pay you back." Liang Xia gritted his teeth ruthlessly.
"If it's 100 million shots, how are you going to pay it back?"
Liang Xia rolled his eyes and scolded a nervous disorder, who would be so stupid to spend 100 million to buy a hairpin that the emperor gave to his two wives.
"Forget it then!"
"Well, count you as acquaintances."
Sheng Jingran almost didn't anger her to death with a word, Liang Xia glanced at him fiercely, turned his head angrily, and directly ignored the sharp and cold gaze that had been attached to her since just now.
The auction is still in full swing.
"Twenty million!"
"Twenty-one million!"
Later, there were also interested people who kept soaring the price and did not back down at all.
Liang Xia sat aside without caring about himself, watching the losers from all walks of life squandering their money, and felt a burst of contempt in his heart.
A broken hairpin, as for it.
"Fifty million!" Sheng Jingran beside her suddenly raised the sign, almost making her jaw drop.
Liang Xia stared at the man in front of him incredulously, and said in spoken words for a while, "Are you crazy?" β
Sheng Jingran shrugged indifferently and smiled evilly, "Go home and make my wife happy." β
Liang Xia secretly scolded his ancestors for the eighteenth generation in his heart, and sure enough, he married his daughter-in-law and forgot his mother, although she is not his mother, but she is also a sister, this bastard!
It's a shame that she was still amorous at that moment just now, thinking that he was moved by what she said, what a fucking bastard, hum, it's amazing to be rich, look at the old lady who will marry an old man who is richer than you in the future!
Sheng Jingran's voice had just ended, and everyone looked over here.
Yan Yan gritted his teeth and glared at the man who had just thrown out the heavy price, and he was unwilling.
Fu Xudong patted her shoulder lightly and comforted, "Forget it, even if you buy it at a high price, Auntie may not like it, so let's change it." β
"What, the gift I gave her, she is very precious, she won't like it." Yan Yan bit his lip, looking at the things that were about to be handed over, he was a little indignant.
"You also said that no matter what it is, as long as you give it to her, she likes it, so why are you obsessed with this one?"
"But ......"
"Eighty million!" Before she could finish speaking, one of them suddenly held up a sign before the hammer fell.
The crowd was in an uproar again.
Sheng Jingran looked at the man beside him with a smile, and the man also returned with a decent perfunctory smile, which was perfunctory.
Liang Xia thought so, she was not surprised at all, Shen Xiliang would compete for this product, just as she was not surprised that Sheng Jingran would suddenly let go.
The biggest difference between Sheng Jingran and Shen Xiliang is that he is always sober and will not be provoked by others and let himself suffer losses, of course, Xiao He is an exception.
And Shen Xiliang seems to be wise, but in fact he is more naΓ―ve than anyone else, especially when fighting with others for something that he thinks is destined to belong to him, he will not hesitate to pay a price.
The hammer strikes, and the object falls on the house.
Later, there were precious antique porcelain, and there were rare treasures from abroad, Sheng Jingran just symbolically patted a gemstone necklace and hung it around Liang Xia's neck.
Liang Xia looked at the shiny cheesy gemstone necklace around his neck, and the corners of his eyebrows twitched.
"Why are you not satisfied? Don't you love jewelry? Sheng Jingran looked at her unhappy look and raised her eyebrows.
Love a fart jewel!
Liang Xia almost blew up her lungs, and she wanted to take off the necklace and smash it on his hateful face, but she didn't dare, for the sake of her livelihood and peaceful life in the future.
With the final hammer falling, the auction ends.
Before people could get up, someone made a sensation.
Shen Xiliang ignored everyone's surprised eyes, got up and walked around Sheng Jingran, squatted in front of Liang Xia, reached out and gently stroked her long burgundy hair, and inserted the white hosta in his hand into her hair that she pulled up.
He pinched her stunned cheek and smiled, "My girl is getting prettier!" β