The time soon arrived on the day of the auction, and Pepe arrived at the auction house more than an hour early as agreed. After comparing her fingerprints with her pupil membrane, she took out three lots from the safe and handed them to the security guards behind Sean.

Then she returned to the reception room and said to Sean, "I want to sit alone for a while now, and you can inform me when the auction starts." ”

After sending Sean away, Pepe hugged her laptop and surfed the Internet while waiting for the auction to begin.

About an hour later, Sean knocked on the door and came in, telling her that the auction had officially begun, and invited her to watch the auction go live.

Pepe was also very curious about the auction, and second, she had other plans, so she nodded to Sean, closed the notebook, and followed Sean into the auction hall.

The auction has begun in the auction hall, and at this time, the auctioneer standing in front of him is introducing a necklace in a high manner, and the crowd of people sitting below is crowded with people dressed in leather shoes, some of whom are talking to each other, some are holding signs to bid for bids, and some people are holding mobile phones with headphones in their hands and seem to be talking softly.

According to Pepe's request, Sean led Pepe to sit down in the back row of seats, and asked Pepe softly: "Miss Li, do you want to prepare a bidding card for you too, if you have a certain lot, you can also participate in the auction." ”

Pepe shook his head and replied, "No, I'll just see the excitement." If you have other guests, go and get busy, and you don't have to stay with me all the time. ”

Sean nodded and replied softly, "It's okay, I'll go and greet other guests, and I'll come over when Miss Li's lot comes on stage." With that, he quietly got up and walked to a seat in the front row and sat down.

Pepe continued to follow the auction on stage.

After a period of shouting in the venue, the sound of shouting became less and less, and in the end, only a few people were still bidding, and the price of the necklace was finally shouted to $2.35 million by a noblewoman.

The auctioneer shouted a few more times, "Is there anyone else raising the price?" ”

There seemed to be no one bidding, and the hammer of the auctioneer announced the victory of the noblewoman, and then the auctioneer congratulated the noblewoman, who raised the champagne in her hand and touched the glass with her friend next to her, as if to celebrate with her friend that she had won the necklace.

At the end of the auction, the auctioneer brought out a new lot, a set of antique tableware carved in pure gold, and the auctioneer began to introduce its origin and value in a subdued voice, and his words were full of temptation/confusion (this word is also harmonious?). After the introduction, the auctioneer began to quote the reserve price and each round of price increase, and a new round of bidding began.

Pepe sat in the back row and watched with great interest, and after several rounds of lots, her first lot finally came to the stage, this time with a Claude Monet landscape painting in hand.

The auctioneer still introduced the lot first according to the old rules, gave a detailed introduction to the painter's life history, praised the painting with passionate language, and praised the artistic value of the painting very high, and then after the auctioneer quoted the reserve price and each round of price increase, he announced that the auction had begun!

The reserve price for the painting is $20 million, with a $100,000 increase each time.

"Two hundred and one million dollars!" Someone raised a sign.

"Twenty-four million dollars!" Someone else followed suit and held up signs.

"Two hundred and six million dollars!"

"Three million dollars!"

The bidding was fierce, and after the price was pushed all the way to $46 million, the bidding gradually became less and less audible.

As soon as Pepe's first lot came on stage, Sean quietly sat down next to Pepe, and he whispered to Pepe: "Now is the time for the super buyers to bid, and this is the most boring moment and the most thrilling moment, because the final price will only be sold in these few people's bids." ”

Pepe nodded excitedly, focusing on the next shout.

"50 million dollars!" The price was pushed to $50 million, and Pepe clenched his fists and secretly cheered.

"Five million dollars!" It went up again.

Pepe stared at the back of the head of the man holding up the sign and shouting for $50 million, and shouted softly, "Come on!" Come on! Come on"

Sure enough, the man held up the sign again, "Five thousand two million dollars!" ”

Then Pepe stared at the back of the head of the person who had shouted $51 million before, and shouted softly: "Raise the card!" Raise your cards! Hold up the card"

"Five three million dollars!" Sure enough, the man raised his card and raised the price.

Pepe then turned her gaze back to the other person and began her broken thoughts

- Yes, Pepe cheated!

She was cheating with her senses, influencing the two to keep bidding on each other.

In the end, the price of this painting was pushed to 68 million US dollars by the bidding all the way, and seeing the signs raised again and again in the venue, the bystanders exclaimed one after another, and Sean who was sitting next to him couldn't help but exclaim, whispering to Pepe that their auction house had originally predicted that it would be very high to be able to bid for 55 million, and the current price is the highest price ever seen in the history of Mona's paintings.

Pepe was calmed down by Sean's words, and she felt that the price was about the same, so she withdrew her consciousness and didn't do anything more.

"Sixty-eight million dollars, one time!"

"Sixty-eight million dollars, twice!"

"Sixty-eight million dollars, three times! Deal! Congratulations to this gentleman! ”

The final price of the painting was set at $68 million with the hammer of the auctioneer.

Sean excitedly congratulated Pepe and congratulated her on such a gratifying result.

Pepe was secretly proud, but his expression was very indifferent, and he replied "thank you" to Sean.

The next lot has nothing to do with Pepe, it is a piece of jewelry, and after the fierce bidding for Mona's painting just now, the crowd in the venue seems to maintain the excitement just now, and the bidding is also fierce.

After two more rounds of lots, Pepe's second lot came to the stage

After the fierce bidding in the early stage, this lot has reached the stage of super buyers shouting, and Pepe has used his sense to start cheating again, affecting the bidding in the venue.

Under the influence of her divine sense, the snow painting of Savrasov was pushed from a reserve price of $16 million to $62 million.

At this point, Pepe withdrew her senses, and she felt that the price was very satisfying.

"Sixty-two million dollars, one time!" The photographer began to make final confirmations.

"Sixty-two million dollars, twice!" The beater raised the hammer in his hand.

Suddenly, a bidding card was held up in the air, "Six and three million dollars!" ”

There are still people bidding? And it was when she didn't use the influence of her divine sense.

At this moment, not only Sean was surprised, but even Pepe began to be surprised.

Pepe couldn't help but look at the back of the head of the person who shouted the price, recalled it, and remembered that this person had participated in the bidding at the beginning, but then he kept his head down at the headset and seemed to be talking, Pepe thought he gave up, so he didn't pay attention to him later, but he didn't expect that it was almost the stage of falling the hammer, and he raised his card to shout the price again.

Pepe curiously asked Sean about the origin of this person's identity?

Sean glanced at the other party's bidding card and replied to Pepe: "His bidding number was specially prepared by the auction house for a Russian buyer, but the Russian buyer himself could not come in person, and this person should be his agent." It seems that the Russian buyer is determined to get the painting, so his agent will contact the client at the last minute to confirm the final offer and participate in the price increase! ”

I see, after listening to Sean's explanation, Pepe asked curiously: "It turns out that you can also entrust an agent to participate in the auction." I saw a lot of people in the venue holding mobile phones in their hands, with headphones attached to their ears, and whispering to the headphones from time to time. Is the client on the other end of the line? ”

"Yes, some buyers like to be in the limelight and participate in the auction in person, but there are also many buyers who are unwilling to reveal their identities, so they will arrange agents to participate in the auction, and these buyers who are unwilling to reveal their identities will generally give the agent a final bottom line price in advance, and if it exceeds this bottom line price, the agent will ask the client whether to continue to follow the auction."

At this time, the photographer had already shouted "63 million dollars, three times!" Congratulations to this gentleman! Then with a sound of "wall", the hammer was finalized!

With this hammer drop, Sean stretched out his hand to Pepe again to congratulate him.

Pepe calmly reached out and shook it back, secretly glad that when she was bidding for the first lot, the buyer she influenced with her cheating was a person who liked to show off.

After learning from Sean that some of the bidders in the venue were agents, Pepe began to pay special attention to the bidders who did not have headphones in their ears when her third lot, Poussin's portrait of the Countess, began, and Pepe knew that these should be the buyers that Sean said liked to be in the limelight. So, the last time Pepe cheated with his divine sense, he targeted these buyers.

In the end, the portrait of the countess of Poussin sold for $54 million.

Pepe's three lots sold for a total of $185 million. After deducting the auction house's 20% commission, Pepe ended up with $148 million more in his account.

Pepe looked at the numbers in the account with a smile, haha - now, the money to buy land, buy buildings, buy equipment, hire employees, and pay salaries is there!