Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Auction House
Twelve hours passed quickly, and Wen Qing stopped cultivating and looked at the streets that were still brightly lit and full of people. The pen www.biquge.info put away the spirit stone, walked out of the room, and knocked on the door next door.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Jesse's hurried voice rang out. The door opened from the inside.
"It's Ms. Wen, what's the matter?" Jesse asked, confused.
"Can I go in?" Wen Qing asked lightly.
Jesse smiled, seeing that his boss was already wearing pants and buttoning his belt, and then replied, "Yes." As he spoke, he stepped aside and let Wen Qing in.
Wen Qing walked into the room and saw at a glance that the living room floor was littered with Ximen's precious instruments. Mo Xie took a cup of coffee and sat on the sofa and tasted it elegantly, which was not the same style as Ximen who came out of the room in a hurry.
"Wen Qing, what are you looking for me?" Simon walked out of the room with his slippers on his buttoned shirt.
Wen Qing glanced at the sloppy Ximen with disdain, and sat down on the sofa by himself, "You put on your clothes first." The tone is so good.
"Ms. Wen, would you like a cup of coffee?" Mo Xie raised the coffee in his hand and asked.
Wen Qing shook her head, she didn't have the appetite to drink coffee in the morning. Mo Xie smiled and didn't say anything more, and continued to drink his coffee.
Simon put on his coat, buttoned up his clothes, sat on the sofa opposite Wen Qing and said, "Wen Qing, what are you looking for me?" Do you want me to go out with you? He blinked with a smirk.
Wen Qing ignored Ximen's funny, took out the pocket prepared in advance from the space and put it on the coffee table: "I want to exchange these gems for federal coins." β
Jesse looked at the small bag full of loose gems on the coffee table, thinking that it was some loose gems, and said euphemistically: "Ms. Wen, gems are not based on quantity, even if a big bag of loose gems is terrible, it can't be exchanged for a good price here." "There aren't many people who collect broken gems.
Wen Qing smiled faintly: "You better take a look first, I don't know if it's worth it." "These things are useless to her, and it is naturally best to exchange them for money.
Simon took the bag curiously, opened it and looked inside, his eyes lit up, as if he didn't believe it, and he went in with his hand and touched it. They were all pigeon-egg-sized gems of all colors, including one ruby the size of a baby's fist.
Simon was surprised: "Wen Qing, have you dug up a gem mine?" "Otherwise, how could there be so many superb gems at once.
Wen Qing shook his head, put away the bag and said, "You just need to say whether it's worth it or not, don't worry about the rest." β
"Of course it's worth a lot of money, especially the biggest ruby, I think I can take it to the auction house and try it, and I can find someone to help me collect the smaller ones." Simon said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"You seem to be interested in the auction house." The corners of Wen Qing's mouth were slightly raised.
"Of course, the really good things are there, I have long wanted to see it, but I have never had the opportunity." After Ximen finished speaking, he looked at Wen Qing expectantly.
Wen Qing raised her eyebrows and stood up: "What time does the auction start?" β
Simon's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said: "It starts at eight o'clock in the evening capital time, why don't I accompany you to buy other gems first, and we will go to the auction house in the evening?" β
"No, go directly to the auction house at eight o'clock in the evening, and come and call me when the time comes." With that, Wen Qing walked out and returned to his room.
Watching Wen Qing leave, Ximen jumped excitedly: "Fourth, fifth, I'm going to the auction at night, aren't you excited?" β
Jesse glanced at Simon with an excited look in his eyes, and turned his head to Mo Ye and shook his head helplessly. This boss is so naΓ―ve that he can't bear to look at it.
Finally, at seven o'clock in the evening, Ximen couldn't wait to knock on Wen Qing's door.
Wen Qing opened the door and looked at the three people at the door: "Let's go." He closed the door and walked out.
Simon led the way first, and since it was not very far from the small hotel, several people decided to walk there.
There are many shops on both sides of the street, and the clothes that come and go on the street are neatly dressed mercenaries, and occasionally a mercenary group of more than a dozen people passes by, and they are also full of anger. The shadows in the alleys deep in the street were screaming from time to time, but the pedestrians on the road should not hear them.
No one is nosy, and in this 'beautiful paradise' where all kinds of darkness are hidden, superfluous kindness will only lead to death.
Wen Qing's white robe looked extremely eye-catching against this black and yellow background, and Wen Qing frowned when he felt all kinds of eyes looking at him. The jade hand under the wide sleeve pinched the eye, and the gaze on the body instantly lost most of it, and only the few with extremely high spiritual power noticed the difference between Wen Qing and the front and back.
Wen Qing couldn't see it, and continued to follow Ximen to the auction hall.
The four of them walked in front of a semicircular black building, and Ximen said excitedly to Wen Qing: "This is it!" β
Wen Qing snorted, and walked in first.
"Hello, are you a member? If not, the entrance fee is 10,000 federal dollars per person. A very revealing and sexy maid said to Wen Qing and the others with a smile.
Wen Qing glanced at Ximen and saw him nodding, so he took his brain and swiped it on the machine handed over by the maid, entered the payment password and paid the entrance fees for the four people.
"Thank you for your cooperation, is there anything I can do to help you?" The maid looked at Wen Qing with a smile, obviously seeing that Wen Qing was the main one.
"I'd like to put things up for auction with you." Wen Qing said lightly.
The maid stretched out her hand: "Guest, please come with me, I will take you there." β
Wen Qing bowed his head and followed, followed by the three of Simon.
The maid led a few people to the counter of a closed room, and said to the middle-aged man behind the counter, "Uncle Long, this young lady has something to auction here." As he spoke, he smiled at Wen Qing, motioned for Wen Qing to take something, and stepped aside.
Wen Qing took out a black brocade box and put it on the counter, and inside the box was the repackaged red gem.
Uncle Long glanced at Wen Qing, took the brocade box and opened half of it, and a gleam flashed in his eyes. Closing the brocade box again, he smiled at Wen Qing and said, "Does this lady plan to sell it directly to our auction house or take it to auction?" β
Wen Qing said directly: "Auction." β
Uncle Long smiled knowingly and said: "According to the practice of our auction house, five percent of the total auction price is charged as a handling fee, do you think you set the reserve price yourself or our auction house will help you set it?" β
"You can decide, such a big auction house naturally knows better than me how much the reserve price is appropriate." Wen Qing let go directly, if it was really her own decision, she couldn't tell how much she ordered.
"Miss is very happy, don't worry, we will help you get a good price." This is your transaction details card, you put it away. It just so happens that tonight's auction is about to start, so I'll send it to you right now. Uncle Long smiled and handed over the card.
Wen Qing took it, looked at the name and number of the auction items recorded on the card, and was quite satisfied with the service attitude of the auction house. Watching Uncle Long put away the brocade box, he came to the auction hall under the leadership of the maid.
"Miss, the trading card in your hand has the number of the private room, I can only send you here, please forgive me." The maid said with a smile, standing in place and looking at Wen Qing with burning eyes.
Wen Qing knew that this was a tip, and the divine detective entered the space, took out an emerald the size of a little finger from the hairpin on the dresser in the attic, and flicked it into the maid's hand.
In the joyful thanks of the maid, the three of them led Simon to the private room.
The private room is not large, with only six single sand sheets and a coffee table. Opposite the sofa is a large floor-to-ceiling glass window, facing the auction hall, where you can clearly see the auction booth below.
Wen Qing looked over from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and there were too many private rooms like theirs to surround the auction booth.
As soon as he entered the private room, Simon first nestled on the sofa and sighed in enjoyment: "The sofa in this auction room is so comfortable!" β
"Shame on you." Mo Ye glanced at Ximen, who was slumped on the sofa without a breath, and found a place to sit down elegantly.
Jesse smiled embarrassedly at Wen Qing: "Ms. Wen, don't mind, the boss is just, just ......" He couldn't explain it anymore, and the boss was too embarrassed. Jesse found a corner and sat down on his own, glancing at Simon and signaling him not to be so useless.
However, Simon was still auctioning the bidder happily, and he couldn't see the little eyes from his brother at all.
Wen Qing couldn't help but feel funny, he really couldn't imagine how such three people with different personalities got together.
Seeing that the time was about to reach eight o'clock, Wen Qing also found a place to sit down.
As soon as eight o'clock arrived, the lights were turned on on the booth, and a red-haired beauty wearing a professional hip-wrapping skirt walked up to the booth. The sounds of various men's teasing and whistling were instantly heard in each private room.
Some of the flirtatious language was very explicit, but the red-haired woman in the booth only smiled back and did not get angry, this forbearance is not covered.
Ximen couldn't help but whistle, and wanted to learn from other male guests to say a few words of meat, but was beaten by Wen Qing with a fist.
Mo Ye and Jesse cast sympathetic glances one after another. Seeing the boss die again, Mo Ye and Jesse said that they couldn't help it.
The red-haired woman raised her hand and signaled everyone to be quiet, then smiled: "I know that everyone can't wait, and I won't waste everyone's time, now let's start auctioning the first item." β
The crowd waited with bated breath.
A maid dressed in a rabbit coss costume carried a tray covered with a red cloth to the booth, nodded to the redhead, and then unveiled the red cloth.
"This is a set of five-tube spiritual power stimulation potions, there is a 30% chance of breaking through the spiritual power level, the whole group auction, the starting price is three million, and each time the card is raised for 100,000, the guests who like it should hurry up~" The red-haired woman smiled charmingly again.
"Four million!"
I don't know that the voice coming from that private room suddenly raised the price by one million, which is obviously inevitable.
"Four and a half million!"
Seeing that the auction was slowly moving towards the process, Wen Qing retracted his gaze and asked Mo Ye, "There are also potions that can break through the spiritual power level?" β
Mo Ye nodded and replied: "Generally, the auction of spiritual power stimulation potions is either privately made or obtained from the military, but the probability is extremely low, and it is only used for people below the ninth level of spiritual power, which is relatively precious and is not needed by the public." β
No wonder it's so cheap.
Wen Qing nodded and continued to watch the auction below. (To be continued.) )