Before eating, Su Ming and Zhao Yun agreed on the matter of sending wine to auction.

Zhao Yun means that it is best to send the wine-making tree together and auction it together, which will make the monkey wine appear more real and enhance the legend.

Cutting down a tree in the mountains is not a big deal, and it is even easier and simpler in terms of Zhao Yun's social energy, as long as Su Ming shows the way.

After finalizing, the meal was finally served, and Su Ming and Zhao Yun's family sat down around the round table, and there was no distinction between upper and lower priorities.

Zhao Qian and Zhao Yun are college classmates, Zhao Yun's business is booming, Zhao Qian is a teacher in a school in Yangchuan City, because Zhao Yun's business nature is biased towards the cultural world, and has been on the track, there is no need to run all day long, this family can be described as happy, husband and wife love.

Zhao Qian did a very good job of cooking in one hand, the table was full of dishes, and she also opened a bottle of Moutai.

But when eating, Zhao Yun and Su Ming both felt a little tasteless, Su Ming was better, after all, he was used to drinking monkey wine all day long, but Zhao Yun tasted it for the first time, and after drinking it, it was a little tasteless with other wines.

"You kid has made me miserable, how will I drink in the future!" Zhao Yun smiled bitterly and tapped Su Ming with chopsticks.

Zhao Qian's eyes widened on the side, and she looked curious: "I see that in the rivers and lakes of Xiaoao, Linghu Chong deceived the old beggar for a bottle of monkey wine, but I didn't expect that there is really this kind of wine in the world!" ”

"The world is so big, there are no wonders, what we humans can know, that is, a small piece of heaven above our heads, the so-called sitting in the well and watching the sky, is talking about us human beings." Zhao Yun said with a smile.

Orange Cheng didn't care about what wine or not, she begged Su Ming to take her to see the monkey, Su Ming said that when you had a holiday, I would take you there.

There are some coping ingredients in this, and now Orange Orange is on summer vacation. The truth is that Zhao Qian was really scared last time, and in a short period of time, I am afraid that I will not dare to let my daughter go to a 'dangerous' place like the zoo again.

Orange pouted, her cheeks puffed up, and she said angrily, "You adults are all in the same group!" ”

……

A few days later, Pacific Place, Queensway, Sotheby's Arts Center.

Sotheby's is the oldest auction house in the world, after more than 200 years of development, from the original book store in a small town, to develop one of the world's three top auction houses, with high commissions, high service quality, high reputation, 'three high' famous in the world.

In Asia, Sotheby's has set up a branch in Hong Kong, with porcelain, calligraphy and painting, wine and other main businesses, and there are regular classified auctions every year.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sotheby's Xiangjiang Annual Wine Auction."

On the auction table, a well-dressed middle-aged Englishman with a delicate mustache opened the auction with his impeccable aristocratic manners.

The auction hall is quite spacious, like an opera house, divided into upper and lower sides, and the guests in the hall together do not exceed 50 people.

But everyone in the auction industry knows that the more guests there are, the higher the grade and the more professional it is.

Because the rich are in the minority after all, and the rich people who are keen on collecting in a certain field are even less.

Only the kind of auction of big road goods will gather a large group of people, and ordinary small white-collar workers can spend dozens of yuan to buy a ticket to watch the excitement.

In a small semi-open box on the second floor, there sat a young man who was not even a 'little white-collar worker'.

"Don't be nervous, you are a seller, you should be these people today, all of them are here to send you money." Zhao Yun was on the side and said with a smile to Su Ming in a low voice.

Su Ming was not nervous, but very curious, this kind of 'tall' scene, he had only seen it in TV movies before.

After eating that day, Zhao Yun immediately helped contact the auctioneer, and also helped pay the seller's deposit and arrange the auction. Su Ming took two days off and followed Zhao Yun to the auction site in Xiangjiang.

After coming to the auction house, Su Ming found that Zhao Yun's energy was indeed not small, and he was actually personally received by the vice president of Sotheby's Asian branch, and a special on-site box was arranged.

"Then you really think wrong, arranging the box is not for my face, but for you." Zhao Yun shook his head and said with a smile.

"Rush me?" Su Ming asked puzzled.

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Do you think, as long as there are good things, are you still worried that there are no buyers?" There are too many rich people in the world, but there are a lot of good things. Therefore, what auction houses really value is sellers, especially potential sellers. There are a lot of cultural relics and treasures in my museum, but the state has regulations that it is okay to collect precious cultural relics at a certain level, but they are not allowed to be bought and sold, especially international auctions. In Sotheby's eyes, my value is mainly my professionalism, not my collection. ”

"Is monkey wine so precious?"

Su Ming felt that the monkey wine might be sold for hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, it was not impossible, after all, it was such a big scene.

But even if it is hundreds of thousands, it is a huge amount of money for ordinary people, but for Sotheby's, hundreds of thousands of collections may not be too many to count, and there is no need to look at yourself differently because of this.

"It's open." Zhao Yun didn't answer, but pointed downward.

The first lot was a bottle of 1787 rotten sweet white wine from Château Lysalus, France.

Château Lysalus, also known as Château d'Igin, was the only super-Cru sweet wine in Bordeaux's 1855 official classification of Cru Cru, a supreme honor that made Château Lysalus at that time above the five great estates of today, including Lafite, Latour and Margaux.

The origin and vintage alone make this bottle valuable.

The auction host, the mustachioed man named Robben, showed a playful smile and said to the audience: "However, I need to explain to everyone that this bottle of wine may be a fake bottle!" Of course, I mean maybe! ”

The audience was in an uproar, Su Ming was also stunned, and asked Zhao Yun: "This is okay, openly selling fake wine?" ”

Zhao Yun was not shocked, and said with a smile: "You will know if you look at it." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, in 2006, the American collector Cerrillo sold this rare wine for $100,000, setting a world record for the most expensive white wine at the time. Soon after, however, Mr. Corillo declared that the wine was a fake bottle and provided an authoritative affidavit. However, the original owner of this bottle of wine also provided a sufficiently authoritative authenticity appraisal, so he ......"

Robben shrugged his shoulders and said, "So, the authenticity of this bottle of wine has become a mystery. At the beginning of this year, Mr. Corillo commissioned us to auction off this enigmatic bottle of red wine, starting at $100,000 as it did in '06! Now, please raise your cards! ”