Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Shield
Until the end, Li Yi didn't understand how much this bronze statue could be worth, but based on Liu Xiong's bid and Liu Xibo's subsequent support, he thought that between 15 and 20 million US dollars should be more reliable, and if it is more, it will depend on luck. ยค
It is a pity that Liu Xibo did not win the auction rights of the bronze statue, but today he not only sold Li Yi's "Untitled" in one day, earning 1.5 million US dollars, but also won the "Lotus Wind in the Prosperous Age", which was originally intended to be auctioned at Christie's, to his own auction house, which can be regarded as a very fruitful harvest, and the old guy has nothing to complain about.
Scrapped the previous contract and re-signed another one, Li Yi went downstairs to find the bank to deposit 13 million US dollars, looked at the time, and Shi Shiran walked towards the hotel. At this point, put the grandfather clock back in the hotel, just in time to invite the Chen father and daughter to dinner.
When Li Yi arrived at the exhibition hall, it was already close to closing time, and seeing that there were still a few minutes before the audience was denied, he quickly trotted a few steps.
Ten minutes later, he found the booth of Qiancui Jewelry, and saw Chen Yingtong talking and laughing with a tall and handsome young man from a distance, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart for no reason, and then suddenly woke up, maybe this is someone's boyfriend...... Even if it's not, he's only seen two sides with others, which onion is it? But why is this girl only seen twice, so there is no strange feeling?
When he was about to walk to the booth, Chen Yingtong saw him, suddenly his eyes lit up, he said hello to the young man, and greeted Li Yi with broken steps like a willow swinging in the wind.
If ordinary people walk in this posture, Li Yi will inevitably feel pretended and ugly, but when he changes to Chen Yingtong, who is wearing a plain cheongsam in ink style and embellished with a full set of jade jewelry, he feels extremely harmonious, as if this woman was born to walk like this.
Not only him, but the surrounding tourists, whether male or female, are all paying attention to this side intentionally or unintentionally at the moment, and as for the man behind Chen Yingtong, his eyes are even more reluctant to roll.
In just a few steps, this little woman has walked a lot! Looking at the perfect expression on Chen Yingtong's face, Li Yi didn't know what to say, and eagerly let Chen Yingtong's magic skills be broken with a word.
"Where's your dad?"
Not only Chen Yingtong, but the audience around them who heard this all fainted, you kid, it is estimated that you will not be able to find a girlfriend in this life!
Li Yi also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly remedied,
"I didn't mean that, I just ......"
It's just that I see you looking like a monster, and I don't know how to speak, how can I be embarrassed to say it? So it took a long time to hold back a sentence,
"Where's Boss Chen?"
Chen Yingtong almost couldn't help laughing regardless of her image, this kid is too weak, right? It's not interesting to play with such an opponent.,Forget it.,Sister, I'll let you go in a lot!
"Boss Chen, he is busy with business, and he is still talking about business, little brother, if you have anything, just tell my sister, my sister has a lollipop in her pocket."
Li Yi regretted it, he regretted it very much, originally, please make a phone call for dinner, but he had to run over, and now, he couldn't even open his mouth.
"Oh, it turned out that I was going to invite Boss Chen to dinner......"
Chen Yingtong's tone was subdued, and the tail note dragged on very long, and then suddenly asked:
"What about me, Boss Chen?"
"Together, together."
"In what place? After a while, the museum will be closed, and I will go over with Lao Chen. โ
In what place? Li Yi suddenly remembered the scene of Din Tai Fung queuing up last night, and his heart was terrible, wouldn't it seem too fake if he didn't book a place? In a hurry, he pointed in a direction,
"It's the Renaissance Seaview Hotel next door."
While talking, I thought that I would call later, a VIP who lives in the presidential suite, even if there is no place, let them add a table, right?
"Then thank you, okay, don't tease you, come with me to see the jewelry designed with your high ice, these are my works, remember, only good things to say!"
Li Yi followed Chen Yingtong to the booth, and heard her say to the young man just now:
"Xu Gongzi, I'm sorry, this is the person who invited us to dinner in the evening, just now I said that you still don't believe it, you see, people came to urge."
The son, surnamed Xu, glanced at Li Yi fiercely, as if he wanted to remember his appearance in his heart, and then snorted coldly and turned away without saying a word.
Li Yi smiled bitterly, sister, wouldn't it be okay to let me be a shield without saying hello like this?
"Hehe, I'm telling the truth, what's the matter, isn't it good to be a shield for me? There are a lot of people who want to be it, but they can't! โ
Li Yi shook his head, he used you as a shield, how bold should he be? I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of this pavilion in a while!
Knowing that he was not Chen Yingtong's opponent, Li Yi stopped talking, lowered his head and began to look at the exhibits.
To be honest, there are only a few pure jade jewelry, so Li Yi has no hope for Chen Yingtong's design. Unexpectedly, when I saw it, I was taken aback, probably because this girl herself is enchanting, so this jade jewelry that has almost been finalized made her play a new trick!
Li Yilian looked at more than a dozen models, and finally grasped her design idea, that is, don't treat jadeite as jadeite, just design it as a gemstone. Don't stick to the whole piece of jadeite, cut it as it feels! Don't say it, being by her like this is really different.
"Amazing, really amazing, I've never seen anything like this with jadeite, amazing."
Li Yi's praise made Chen Yingtong smile, to be honest, these designs took her a lot of thought. Because even if the jadeite is designed as a gemstone or diamond, the road will be broader, but the gems and diamonds themselves are almost designed to the extreme, and it is very brain-consuming to think of ingenuity.
After a few more minutes, Li Yi pretended to have something to do, hid to the side and called the hotel, and as expected, the hotel's restaurant was already fully booked. But given that he was a VIP in the presidential suite, the lobby manager directly used a reserved private room, which finally solved his urgent need.
After this matter was done, Li Yi was relaxed, and was ready to take a good look at it, and chose a new jewelry that was not too dazzling for his mother, when he suddenly received a call from Wang Haoqing,
"Brother, what are you doing? My brother invites you to dinner in the evening to celebrate. โ
Li Yi smiled and told him that he had already made arrangements, and after Wang Haoqing knew that he was going to invite Chen Xiangfu, he directly diverted the topic.
"Brother, that Dushan jade set, do you know how many sets were sold today?"
How many sets? Aren't there only three sets left? You can't sell them all, right?
"Two sets?"
Wang Haoqing's hearty laughter came from the phone,
"Haha, I picked up two sets on the spot, and ordered out three sets, I told them that they would be supplied in a month, brother, you really sent it this time! I'm wondering if it's time to raise the price! โ
I'll go, and that's five more sets? Looks like this is going crazy!
"Brother, it's only been two days and I've gone out for seven sets, brother, I really can't hold on, otherwise, I'll charter a plane, you work hard, get some materials?"
Charter...... These words have been said, it seems that it will not work if you don't go back! Li Yi thought about it, anyway, it was still a long time here, and he didn't have anything important here, so it would take three days at most to come and go, so he agreed directly.
"No need to charter a flight, I'll go back tomorrow, you just find someone to come with me."
Wang Haoqing hung up the phone after repeatedly expressing his gratitude, Li Yi thought about it and decided to buy a piece of jewelry for his mother first, what if he didn't want to come back again?
As for the choice of jewelry, he is ready to choose from those designed by Chen Yingtong, one is because the design is indeed ingenious, and the other is, if you want to buy it anyway, why don't you support your acquaintances?
As soon as he turned around and was about to go back to the booth, he saw Chen Yingtong waving to him with a sweet smile from a distance, Li Yi didn't know what it meant, so he smiled and waved his hand, and then saw the girl turn around and say something to a young man who looked outstanding with a sweet face......
Li Yi's heart trembled suddenly, and he suddenly had a feeling of impending disaster, Nima, won't be used as a shield by this girl again?