Seeing the earring man's tricycle coming, a man wearing a short-sleeved shirt with some strange animal tattooed on his arm greeted him. He glanced at Li Yu and the others with slanted eyes, and asked the earring man a few words in the local dialect, and then greeted Li Yu and the others in stiff Chinese: "You guys come with me." ”

In recent years, China has become more and more connected with Southeast Asian countries, which has led to an increasing number of people in various countries who can speak Chinese. If you want to make money from Chinese, you have to learn to communicate with Chinese, which is the minimum requirement. Li Yu and the others came to country A, and the local residents they met could more or less speak a few words of Chinese, and some of them could handle more complicated conversations, which saved Li Yu and them a lot of trouble.

The earring man drove away on a tricycle, and before leaving, he quietly greeted Li Yu, saying that if there is anything to help in country A in the future, you can contact him.

The tattooed man led Li Yu and his party into the tent area, and Li Yu found that although there was no fixed building here, it looked like a temporary camp, but the equipment conditions were much stronger than the tail village they had just visited. The tents set up in the four corners are all high-end goods, which can be seen from the fabrics and workmanship; The antiquities dealers who stood or stood outside the tents were all dressed very well; Some bodyguards or assistants were cooking food on gas stoves, and there were cans, beer, and even very elite coffee sets next to them.

In one corner of the tent area, there is a tall antenna. Li Yu didn't know what it was, but Dong Bolin knew that it was a mobile communication base station, and although the merchants who came to participate in the transaction were confiscated with communication tools, the loyal gang as the organizer of the transaction still needed to communicate with the outside world, and this base station provided this kind of service.

The tattooed man led the group into a large tent, which was equipped with tables and chairs, as well as radios, computers and other items, which should be the office of the auction. Seeing them come in, a staff member who was busy in front of the computer looked up and asked, "Are you from China?" Who introduced you? ”

Cai Meilin stepped forward. He said his name to the other party and handed him his business card. The staff member nodded and accepted Cai Meilin's identity. He took out the form and asked Cai Meilin to register. collected some more fees, and then called the tattooed man and asked him to settle Cai Meilin and his party to rest.

Like other merchants, Cai Meilin received a set of tents and needed to find a place to set them up. That's where they're going to be living here for the next two or three days. The gas stoves, beer, and canned food that Li Yu and the others saw just now were all provided by the Zhongdu gang, but they all cost a fee, and the prices were more than five times higher than those in the outside market.

The people who can come here to participate in the auction are rich people, and these people will not let themselves be wronged in order to save a little money. Cai Meilin and Li Yu are also people with a lot of money, and after listening to the introduction of the tattooed man, they didn't blink, so they asked the man to send all kinds of luxury goods over, regardless of the price. Dong Bolin, who was carrying a visa black card, heard that 20 yuan a bottle of beer and 100 yuan a can. The muscles on his face twitched in distress, his salary was not low, but he couldn't accept such consumption.

"You don't need beer, do you?"

While setting up a tent, Dong Bolin cautiously said to Cai Meilin and Li Yujian, didn't everyone stay here for two days? Just eat some instant noodles and deal with it, as for the need for beer, canned food or something?

"Lao Dong, you don't care, I'll pay for all the expenses here." Cai Meilin said generously. In order to hide people's eyes, he can only call Dong Bolin Lao Dong now. He cannot be called a position.

Dong Bolin said embarrassedly: "Mr. Cai, this is not appropriate, after all, you are here for my business." …… This money, uh. I'll go out. ”

According to reason, Li Yu and his entourage are here for Chen Lao's affairs, and the living expenses should naturally be reimbursed by **** Qing. But the problem is that the expenditure here is not normal expenses at all, a bottle of beer costs 20 yuan, so how can Dong Bolin report to **** Qing? Hesitantly. Dong Bolin could only grit his teeth and admit it himself.

Li Yu smiled, and he teased: "Brother Dong, don't say such big things." It's not that the little brother underestimates you, you really gave the expenses here, and you're not afraid that your sister-in-law will punish you for kneeling on the washboard when you go back? ”

Dong Bolin blushed and said, "Since you know, then save for your brother." Tell me, what are we going to buy their beers for? With this money, how many drinks will we have enough to drink when we go back home? ”

Li Yu said: "Brother Dong, you are wrong, since we are here to shoot things, we must not look too shabby, otherwise we will be exposed." What do you think people would think if they found out that we were actually poor, but we were going to shoot something like that? ”

Of course, Dong Bolin is not stupid, and he can also think of the problem that Li Yu said. Hearing Li Yu say this, he could only nod helplessly and said, "What you said also makes sense...... Alas, that can only be done by the locals. ”

After packing up the tent and having lunch made by himself, the tattooed man appeared in front of Cai Meilin and his party again and took them to see the pre-exhibited lots. There is no professional appraisal agency to support this kind of underground cultural relics trading, and the authenticity of the lot depends on the customer's own eyes, so it needs to be exhibited in advance to allow the customer time for identification. Regarding the safety of the exhibits, the Zhongdu gang is not worried at all, the merchants who come in have their weapons confiscated, and there is no means of transportation and communication, and whoever dares to steal the exhibits here will not be able to transport them out even if they succeed. As for the foreign thieves, it is not easy to get through Guòwei Village.

The place where the lots are displayed is another large tent, which covers an area of more than 100 square meters. The tents are dimly lit to protect artifacts that do not have access to light for a long time. When a customer needs to identify a certain cultural relic, someone naturally turns on the table lamp next to it to provide illumination, and these services are very thoughtful.

"Boss Cai, what are you going to see this time?" When he walked into the tent, the tattooed man asked Cai Meilin. Dong Bolin and Li Yu, who followed behind Cai Meilin, were automatically ignored by the tattooed man, and he just regarded the two as Cai Meilin's entourage.

Cai Meilin is a genuine dealer in cultural relics, so he is naturally no stranger to such an occasion. He nodded slightly, and said noncommittally: "Since you are here, you naturally have to take a look, please brother lead me down." ”

"That's natural, Boss Cai, please." The tattooed man replied humbly.

This kind of auction of smuggled antiquities is different from the auction held by a professional auction company. The latter generally has a specific theme, such as a special porcelain auction, or a special Tang and Song ware auction. The auction of the Zhongdu gang is a hodgepodge, with gold and silverware, jade, porcelain, calligraphy and painting all mixed together, and some may even be modern high-quality fakes, whether they can be seen through it depends entirely on the customer's eyesight.

Cai Meilin didn't want to reveal the true purpose of his trip, so he quietly started from the initial exhibits, and asked the tattooed man who accompanied him a few words as he looked. That man has been engaged in the smuggling of cultural relics for so many years, and he has some knowledge, and he can explain the source and characteristics of cultural relics to Cai Meilin. Cai Meilin himself sells cultural relics, and he is really interested in these exhibits, and the enthusiasm he expresses is not entirely fake.

Li Yu also knows a little about cultural relics, but because he is from ancient times, some antiques from the Ming and Qing dynasties are not worth mentioning in his eyes. And the display in this tent is just like this, so he is quite lazy, and he feels average when he looks at everything. Not to mention Dong Bolin, a valuable Ming Dynasty jade is far less attractive than an AK47 in his opinion, and his focus is all on the golden Buddha that he has not yet seen.

In the eyes of those around them, this combination of the three of them is really too normal: a very knowledgeable boss, with a bodyguard who doesn't know anything and another handyman who doesn't care about anything, which is the standard smuggler configuration.

"This jade gold-hearted jade pendant is a product of the Qianlong period, the upper part is carved with ruyi-shaped clouds, and there is a relief narcissus on the front, I heard that it was picked up from the tomb of a minister's book...... "The tattooed man gushed out.

Cai Meilin commented lightly: "The carving is not bad, and the jade is indeed an old jade, but I have seen such a jade pendant once, this one looks too similar to that one, could it be that there will be two identical jade pendants back then?" ”

"Really? Well, I don't know about that. The tattooed man said sneeringly. This jade pendant was collected by them from a tomb robber, and the price was very low, and it was difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. His boss Katsu Puchuan once guessed, saying that this jade pendant may be a fake in the Republic of China, and what price it can be auctioned depends on whether the customers understand it or not.

"Boss Cai, look, this is a flower watering in the Yongzheng period, maybe it was used in the palace, you see this blue and white tangled branches, the color is so positive, I'll turn on the light for you to take a look......"

"Well, it looks like the real thing, but the blue and white flowers in the Yongzheng period can't be sold for price now......"

"Boss Cai is really an expert......"

"It's just a matter of dabbling......"

The two of them exchanged opinions with each other, looked at the exhibits one by one, and walked forward. Bypassing a platform with porcelain, I saw the booth in front of me shining with gold, and on it, it was a sitting Buddha of pure gold.

"Hey, this golden Buddha is quite interesting." Cai Meilin pretended to have a curious expression, looked at the golden Buddha and said.

Li Yu and Dong Bolin's eyes also straightened all of a sudden, but fortunately, the lights in the tent were relatively dim, and others couldn't notice this detail. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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