Qin Shiou was in a daze in his seat, when someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

He was startled, subconsciously hugged the idol, and looked back to see that it was an acquaintance, the new mayor Hamre.

There was a polite middle-aged man beside Hamlet, the middle-aged man was carrying a bag, Qin Shiou didn't care about the mayor, and said to the middle-aged man first: "Sir, can you lend me your bag for use?" I'll pay you back tomorrow. ”

The corner of the middle-aged man's mouth twitched, he looked at Qin Shiou with strange eyes, and said hesitantly: "Sorry, man, I don't think it's very convenient." ”

Hamlet helped Qin Shiou and said, "No, Slavich, we all know that there are only a few irrelevant texts in the bag, you take it out and put it in Little Ika's bag, lend this bag to Qin, I guarantee that he will return it to you." ”

Middle-aged Slavich is clearly a civil servant, what can he do if the mayor speaks? took out Wen Jiàn from his backpack and gave the bag to Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou put the idol in his bag, and the temptation was finally slightly reduced, allowing him to communicate and talk to people normally.

Hamlet sat down with him and said happily: "How long have we not seen each other?" God, you guy only stays in the fishing ground to enjoy his good life, why don't you come to the city to participate in some activities? ”

Qin Shiou said: "You know, Winnie is pregnant, and I have to take care of her all the time." ”

Hamlet nodded and asked, "What about Winnie?" Is she here today? ”

Qin Shiou said that he did not come, the traffic on the road was inconvenient, and the weather was cold. So let Winnie stay at home. He asked Hamlet what he was here for, if he was here to preside over the auction.

He said this as a joke. The mayor is certainly not able to preside over a charity auction for the private sector, and it is not a matter of status. Rather, he is now one of the least desirable people on the scene.

When the Canadian government is promoting itself, there is a phrase that often appears, which means that the primary responsibility of the government is to maintain social fairness and justice and ensure that the disadvantaged groups in society are not eliminated.

What is the purpose of a charity event like the one now? Naturally, it is to help the disadvantaged. But according to the government, shouldn't this be the responsibility of the government? Besides, taxpayers pay their taxes every year, so where does the tax end up? Why does the government still need taxpayer donations when the people in the jurisdiction are affected by the disaster, and the government does not solve the problem of funding?

Sure enough, listening to his words, Hamlet smiled bitterly. Said helplessly: "The government is not omnipotent, Qin, you don't know how bad the stall I took over." I don't want to complain to you, I can only say that this time I came to the charity auction in a private capacity. ”

The two exchanged words, when a white-gloved man in a suit came up to the stage, knocked on the table to signal everyone to be quiet, and then he waved his hand. Some of the children came out to hand out brochures to the people present.

This brochure describes the areas affected by the snowstorm and the devastation it has caused, and is a natural call for everyone to participate in the auction as a way to help the victims.

After reading the brochure, Qin Shiou learned that the Four Towns Charity Auction was organized by the congregants of the Baptist's Rectangular Basilica of Christ. And Cabot is one of the leaders. The manual specifically mentions his second grandfather, Qin Hongde, and introduces the origin of the Four Towns Charity Auction and the results of several previous auctions.

When the auction began, White Glove took out the auction items one by one. There are a lot of things that are involved in the auction, even stick figures drawn by children.

Start for a while. All lots start at $10 and are of little value. Most of the people who take out the auction items and then auction them back themselves, just to take the opportunity to donate a little money.

Qin Shiou raised his cards a few times and took down some small things, these things are useless to him, but as he said before, accumulate virtue for the child, because it doesn't cost much, he is not short of money now.

In particular, he actually got the unexpected joy of the dragon birthday incense statue when he participated in the auction this time, according to the tradition of his hometown, he also had to scatter some wealth, and all good things in the world could not be obtained by him.

And Qin Shiou feels that everything in the world is really destined to drink and peck it, and the ambergris he got is almost all related to goodwill behavior, and the last time he got the ambergris bracelet, it was because he generously gave up the responsibility of the owner of the garbage boat.

The white gloves raised a sculpture tiger again, Qin Shiou is now very sensitive to wood carvings, and he doesn't know if this little thing is related to ambergris from too far away, but it is black, so he simply raised his hand, and would rather kill it than let it go.

As a result, as soon as he raised his hand, Hamlet next to him also raised his hand, and the two glanced at each other, Qin Shiou asked in a low voice, "Are you interested in this?" ”

Hamre said helplessly: "Man, this is the auction item I took out, and it is a small toy that my sister and I carved out of oak wood when we were children. ”

Qin Shiou touched his nose, since Hamlet said that this thing was carved from oak, it obviously had nothing to do with him, so he took the opportunity to go downhill and did not continue to shout.

But someone is on Hamley's shoulder, and that person is also related to Qin Shiou - Nelson.

White Gloves shouted, "Oak Tiger Toy, $200 - OK, that gentleman - $200 - $300, oh, thanks to our mayor Mr., he came out - OK, that gentleman increased the price to $500 CAD ......"

Hamlet looked at Nelson strangely, the two naturally knew each other, and he asked, "What is Nelson doing with this guy?" How could he be interested in such a small toy? ”

Qin Shiou glanced at Hamlet with bad intentions, he wouldn't tell this guy about Paris's situation, it is estimated that Mr. Mayor has been busy with dogs since he took office, and he didn't pay attention to his sister's emotional problems.

Nelson was impatient to fight a tug-of-war with his uncle, and the latter price increase directly mentioned 1,000 yuan.

The scene sounded the first exclamation, everyone didn't understand how such a stall could buy a bunch of broken toys for five yuan could be sold for a high price of 1,000 yuan, but this is a charity auction, and a qiē can't be measured by common sense.

Hearing the white gloves shout the price of '1000', Hamlet whispered: "This bastard will definitely regret it, did he think it was made of gold?" Okay, okay, since he wants it, let him take it! ”

Qin Shiou secretly said You are an unlucky uncle, Nelson is not just a toy to take away, it is estimated that even your baby sister will be taken away.

Later, the value of the things that appeared became higher and higher, and there were auction experts invited by the church in the background, who urgently evaluated the items participating in the auction, and the worthless things were simply divided into grades, and if they were important things, they had to be carefully valued.

The auction is not overnight, but will be divided into several time periods, the first section of the auction into the end, at this time a Chinese painting took out, is a super long picture scroll, the name of the scroll, is "Qingming Riverside Picture"! (To be continued......)