Chapter 14 Auctions

Lei Dong and the fat man arrived home, but they did not have the ease of escaping death and the joy of meeting friends. Grandpa had died of old age in the month he disappeared, and the simple neighbors took care of Grandpa's funeral. According to the villagers, the grandfather left very peacefully, and asked them not to look for Lei Dong to come back, saying that Lei Dong was a person who wanted to do big things, and he did not want to see his children's affection. After Lei Dong paid his respects on his grandfather's grave, he went to the door one by one to thank the villagers who had taken care of his grandfather, and took his friends on the journey to Haizhu City, the most economically developed city in China, and of course two large boxes of luggage.

In Haizhu City, perhaps the smallest hotel in the city, Lei Dong received plenipotentiaries from two of the largest auction houses in the world, Christie's and Sotheby's, accompanied by Fat Man and Song Chutian, and the rest of the people looked at the boxes in another room. Different from the photos provided in the last conversation, Lei Dong asked the fat man to bring the antiques, sculptures, calligraphy and paintings inside again and again. The fat man who felt very bored, after being carried again and again, in the exclamations of the two foreigners again and again, his curiosity was hung high, and he wanted to ask Lei Dong, but he also knew that this occasion was not the time for him to ask questions.

Song Chutian smiled and said to the two representatives who were still intoxicated by the atmosphere of the ancient art of the Huaxia Kingdom: "What Mr. Lei means is that this batch of family heirlooms to be auctioned will be randomly divided into two parts, and the company represented by the two gentlemen will be responsible for the auction, I don't know what the two of them think?" Representatives of Christie's and Sotheby's agreed with Lei's proposal, but expressed disagreement on how to distribute the artworks, and in the end they quarreled like the old ladies who bought vegetables at the market. At the suggestion of the fat man who really gave them a headache, this farce was perfectly resolved, and the fat man was unanimously praised by Lei Dong and Song Chutian until it was later included in history textbooks.

On the second day, Christie's and Sotheby's sent their most proud auctioneers to play poker in Christie's spacious VIP room, under the watchful eye of two accountants. Christie's also hung two banners in the VIP room, one with the words "Friendship first, competition second" and the other "Welcome Sotheby's to visit and guide". The way of the game is to divide the winners and losers by comparing the size of ten playing cards from one to ten, and the winning side will get the right to auction the antiques on the table in advance, until the lot has been allocated and the end is over, and the dealer is the proponent of the event for the sake of fairness.

After intense and friendly competition, both Christie's and Sotheby's achieved satisfactory results, with 32 calligraphy and paintings, 2 carvings, and 26 pieces of jewelry all being satisfactorily distributed. Lei Dong is also very satisfied with this result, he still left a few small things to use in the future, for which the fat man is still very resistant to not let him play happy, he also wants to use this as capital to compete for the best referee of the year.

On the evening of June 21, 3097, Christie's 'Mysterious Ancient Chinese Art Auction' held at the Pearl Center of the East China Sea in Zhuhai City, Huaxia Province was a great success, and a landscape painting "Great Rivers and Mountains" by the famous Chinese painting master Anonymous was sold for 37.563 million US dollars, setting a record for the world's highest price for a landscape painting at auction. At Sotheby's 'Perfect Art Chinese Works Auction' held the night before, it was also a perfect success. "This is the vitality of Chinese art, and this is the charm of the ancient oriental country." This is the closing speech of the auctioneer's chief auctioneer at the end of the auction, which won the long-lasting applause of the audience.

In the past two days, the fat man spent most of his time in excitement, and he almost bought the lot with an excited hand on the spot, but fortunately, the chief auctioneer was the contestant who participated in the competition he presided over that day, and quickly guided many buyers to carefully watch the lot again, and caused everyone to have a new round of bidding. After this little episode, the fat man no longer said anything about Lei Dong leaving some antiques, and took over the task of watching the leopard and the thin monkey. Because the glasses say that I have never seen people's eyes redder than leopards and thin monkeys, will something happen? At that time, the fat man said a lot: "What are you afraid of, they, it's a big deal to steal one and rob the other, it's nothing." "Isn't this ruining the reputation of the innocent monkeys and leopards? When the thin monkey and the leopard group slapped the fat man, Lei Dong realized that this was possible, and ordered the fat man to watch the two of them when the thin monkey and the leopard objected to no avail.

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