The whole inspection lasted about twenty minutes, and the results came out, and the two appraisers put the three paintings into the original tube, and then took off their gloves and walked over, their faces were full of excitement and joy, and one of the appraisers said to Ranson with a loud voice, "Are you the owner of the painting?" I want to congratulate you! All three paintings are genuine! ”

"This is my client, I am only her lawyer, and she is the owner of these three paintings." Ranson quickly stood up and explained.

Pei Pei closed the magazine, stood up with her, and shook hands with the two appraisers.

"Oh, beautiful young lady, I want to congratulate you, these three paintings of yours are genuine! Combined, these three paintings have a conservative estimate of more than $100 million! The old man smiled as if the painting was his.

Sean had already gotten up, and after Pei Pei shook hands with the two appraisers, he sent them out of the reception room.

Then he asked Pei Pei, "Miss Li, have you decided to entrust our auction house with these three paintings?" ”

Pei Pei nodded, she was most concerned about the specific value of the three paintings, "You just made a conservative valuation, does it mean that the final selling price may exceed 100 million?" ”

Sean nodded, and then began to introduce the auction house's entrustment contract to Pei Pei, Pei Pei listened with a big head, and pointed to Ranson on the side of Sean, "I brought a personal lawyer, you can talk to him about the contract." ”

Ranson then proceeded to his duties, consulted on the consignment auction, and checked the consignment contract again, and the whole process lasted ten minutes before he nodded to Peipei and said that the contract was fine.

Pei Pei took the pen from Ranson and signed the contracts in duplicate, and then she began to wonder when the auction would take place.

Sean explained that while they hold regular auctions two or three times a month, this is only for general lots. Sotheby's will contact some special buyers, who are all over the world, and it will take a while to inform them one by one, and only when these super-rich people from all over the world have arrived, the lot will be sold at the ideal price.

After learning that these three paintings would have to wait for a month to be auctioned at the earliest, Pei Pei was anxious, but her face was calm, and she nodded to Sean and said that she could wait until next month.

Sean said, "Do you entrust these three paintings to our auction house for safekeeping?" Because if you bring it back, we will have to re-evaluate it when it is officially auctioned, which will waste a lot of time. ”

Pei Pei knew that this was an auction to prevent the consignor from dropping the lot, so she asked, "What are the guarantees and security measures if I keep it in your auction house?" ”

Sean replied with a smile: "There is a special vault built in the basement of our auction house, and each safe is a fingerprint password plus a pupil password. After the consignor puts the lot in the safe, he enters his fingerprints and pupil membrane, and one hour before the auction starts, the owner of the lot will open the safe and take out the collection and hand it to us for auction. If there are any problems in between, we will compensate you for the sum of the conservative estimate and multiplied by a 20% premium, which means that your lot is currently valued at 100 million yuan, and if something happens to the lot in our vault, we at Sotheby's will compensate you for 120 million dollars. This is a consignment contract! With that, he took out another contract and handed it to Ranson.

Ranson flipped through the contract and checked it, and after making sure it was okay, he handed the pen to Pei Pei again.

Pei Pei took the pen and signed her name on it, then pointed to the three painting tubes on the side and said, "Then you can take me to the underground vault and put them all in now." ”

The consignment auction contract and the consignment contract are both in duplicate, Sean put away the two contracts of the auction house, handed the remaining two contracts to Peipei, and then said to Peipei: "I have to wait for a while, there is one last thing to do, please wait a moment." With that, he walked out of the reception room with the contract of the auction house.

After waiting for about five or six minutes, he returned, swapping his contract for a camera.

Then Pei Pei watched him take out his glove strap again, open a painting tube, lay out the painting, and shoot it left and right. After one painting was taken, the next one was taken, and after a while, all three paintings were photographed. Then he smiled and explained to Pei Pei: "These photos will be made into the brochure when the time comes, so I have to take a few more pictures, which will delay the two of us, and now we will go to the vault." ”

The group entered the underground vault through the guò elevator, the temperature inside was very low, Pei Pei followed Sean to one of the safes, Sean opened the cabinet, signaled Pei Pei to put three painting tubes into it, and then closed the cabinet door, Sean taught Pei Pei how to record fingerprints and pupil membranes.

Finally, after all the formalities were completed, and Pei Pei paid another 20,000 appraisal fees, Sean enthusiastically sent Pei Pei and Ranson out of the Sotheby's gate.

When Pei Pei and Ranson got into the car and started the engine, Sean waved goodbye at the gate. This service attitude is simply not to be said.

Pei Pei sent Ranson back to the hotel in Silicon Valley, told him to register for the institute and mail him the license, and then took special care of him, telling him not to tell Pei Pei's family about selling paintings when he went back, and Ranson agreed with a smile.

When Pei Pei returned to her apartment in Palo Alto City, it was already past six o'clock, and she casually dealt with a few bites of dinner, and then entered the space and began to cultivate.

After another two days, Ranson called Pei Pei and told her that the registration procedures had been completed, but because the registered capital was not enough, the research institute could not be registered, so Ranson had to register a technology company, because the technology company registered in Silicon Valley, which is known as the "Holy Land of Entrepreneurs", only needs to have a registered capital of more than 100,000 yuan, and the newly registered technology company is called "Pell Biotechnology Company", with a registered capital of 10 million.

Ransen said that all the documents and licenses have been sent to her by express mail, and he also left Pei Pei's mobile phone contact information, and the express mail will contact her by phone before the delivery to the door, and Ranson estimates that he will receive the express mail as soon as the afternoon. Ranson also said that he is now packing his bags and preparing to check out, and is rushing back to Los Angeles to help Pei Pei's father deal with a series of problems with the listing of "Kangmei".

Before Ransen hung up the phone, Pei Pei repeatedly told him that he was not allowed to tell her family about selling paintings when he went back, and Ransen had to make another guarantee before hanging up the phone.

Pei Pei was absent-mindedly waiting for the end of class in the school, there was no class in the afternoon, she cleaned up and went back to the apartment directly, and sure enough, the express mail arrived in the afternoon.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and this east wind refers to money and people. It will take more than a month for the money to be available, but if people are concerned, Pei Pei said, they can now connect one by one.

As soon as she entered the school the next day, Pei Pei found Dr. Duma, couldn't wait to take out the employment (selling) contract, successfully hinted that Dr. Duma signed the contract, and told Dr. Duma to contact other scientific researchers, and then she would conduct interviews one by one (hint below), and then decide whether to hire.

In a month's time, Peipei's recruitment personnel have been allocated, and the hints of the personnel have also been given, and now she is waiting for the auction to sell her three paintings and have the money to buy a house and equipment.