"It's an honor to meet you all here."

A deep and powerful voice came, and the owner of the Ophelia, the "King of Ships" Edward Livingston, walked in front of everyone.

He was a burly man, and although he was over sixty years old, he still looked very strong, and a dark blue tattoo of an anchor appeared on the back of his hand, which looked very old.

The old ship king is a North American, and his simple and rough North American British language makes several old British men in the audience very uncomfortable.

Jiang Ting can understand this sentence, but for those who have been dealing with cultural relics all year round, his comprehension is limited to the written language of various documents, but it is not a problem for him to have Wen Xi by his side as a spoken translator.

"First of all, I would like to thank my friend, Mr. Casper Ankergren, whose ancestors were the most famous adventurers in the world, who collected countless rare treasures during his magnificent life, and who provided half of the items in this auction." The old ship king spoke clearly and said with a full sense of temperament.

"Their ancestors were pirates, right?" After listening to Wen Xi's translation, Jiang Ting thought thoughtfully, "Adventurers are just beautification of future generations, no wonder they can save so many treasures." ”

"To be honest, I wouldn't want to sell these things to you if it weren't for my financial resources." The old captain suddenly spread his hands and laughed, and the dozen or so foreigners around him also laughed.

"It's embarrassing......" Jiang Ting was not familiar with this ship king, but he had to accompany a group of people to laugh awkwardly, perhaps because the old captain's facial expression was not rich enough, Jiang Ting didn't get his Western-style humor at all.

"In addition, there are treasures from all over the world, some from the jungles of the Americas, some from the snow and ice of the Arctic, some from the bottom of the riverbed of the Great Rift Valley, and some from the crevices of Mount Everest."

The old ship king looked excited, and continued to introduce, and behind him, boxes were pushed out one by one, containing the items of this auction.

"The auction is now presided over by my faithful and trustworthy steward Felix Wilkenhuysen, who is admirable in character." With a wave of his hand, the old boat king opened the auction.

"How can this rugged old ship king be equipped with such an exquisite butler?" Jiang Ting was puzzled, the old butler was in his early fifties, well-dressed, very upright, and his serious British language made the following British old men feel very comfortable.

"Sure enough, a mouthful of fog is a weapon of force." Jiang Ting was quite perceptive, nodded secretly, and then shook his head and said, "Flashy, flashy, being able to be understood is the right way." ”

"Director, this is not a foggy cavity." Wen Xi whispered, "This is the Oxford dialect. ”

"Does it make a difference?" Jiang Ting leaned his head over and asked in a low voice.

"The Oxford accent is the language spoken by the natives of the Fog Capital, and the Oxford accent is a common intonation used by British television announcers, and the Oxford accent is more popular in British high society, such as the Oxford accent used when the queen gave a speech." Wen Xi patiently explained.

Jiang Ting is clear, to put it simply, the Wudu dialect is the local dialect of Wudu, and the Oxford dialect is the standard Mandarin of British Mandarin, and the latter is relatively more advanced.

"Sure enough, my sister is better than me, and I have really learned something in the past two years studying in Britain." Jiang Ting's heart moved, and he raised his voice a little, so that Ye Daoxuan could hear it clearly, "After you go back, your brother and I will buy you a car, your Maybach has been driving for half a year, in case of oil leakage in the future, it will be delayed." ”

Wen Xi: "??? ”

We haven't rehearsed this before, have we? Director, why do you want to add drama to yourself??

“…… Brother, I still have an i8, and besides, it's almost half of this month, so you have to save some pocket money. Wen Xi was silent for a moment and followed Jiang Ting's words.

As a "small accomplished female entrepreneur", she also can't drive too expensive cars, so she thought about it a little before speaking.

"Okay, well, the diamond mine I invested in West Africa should also produce something, next month is your birthday, I will personally go to pick out a gift for you." Jiang Ting nodded with a smile, reached out and touched Wen Xi's head, looking like he was doting on his "sister".

Ye Daoxuan: "......"

"Corruption and waste are great crimes...... Ye Daoxuan was "disdainful" in his heart, but he was a little more convinced of Jiang Ting's life experience.

Fan Ye Biotech is a giant in the North American pharmaceutical industry, although the Ye family is quite strict, Ye Daoxuan is physically inconvenient, and there are many places to burn money, but he also knows what the life of his friends in North America is like.

Don't think that foreign rich people will put the money they enjoy into business management for the sake of their careers, these rich N generations are nothing more than four major things to eat, drink and have fun, there are elders in the family to organize to make money, and those who have holes in their brains will 996 follow the elders to work.

Of course, the main elders will not let it, after all, the expansion of contacts can be solved through cocktail parties and various so-called charity dinners, if you really let these inexperienced hairy boys participate in the business, I am afraid that you will lose more money than you play.

However, Ye Daoxuan is an exception, his biggest expense is all spent on research, and they all say that "poor play with cars, rich with watches", but he prefers the hydrogen atomic clock in the laboratory to the Patek Philippe borrowed from his father.

In Ye Daoxuan's private laboratory, tens of thousands of Kyushu coins and milligrams of high-purity reagents and chiral blocks worth hundreds of thousands of Kyushu coins are not uncommon, and the reagents he has used up in the past few years alone are enough to exchange for several private helicopters.

After all, research is also his entertainment.

Engaging in scientific research is really burning money.

Jiang Ting collected his thoughts, he stared at the old butler and began to think about it.

"Judging from the age of this butler, if he hadn't deliberately practiced for the purpose of disguise, I'm afraid that this person is not small."

"Even now, most of the students in Oxford and Cambridge are above the middle class, not to mention more than fifty years ago, this person can follow the old ship king to do things, and be trusted by him, there must be something special, maybe he is a waiter in the British royal family, and it is not strange to have an Oxford accent in his ears and eyes." Jiang Ting's brows furrowed, and he secretly analyzed.

"Of course, the biggest possibility is that I'm guessing." Jiang Ting continued to comfort himself, and began to think in his heart, "Maybe people just studied diligently and practiced Mandarin in British high society, how can there be so many twists and turns, and it's not to catch spies, how can there be so many spies in the world...... Besides, what if it's a royal attendant? Maybe people just want to change jobs, is it possible that the ancient royal family of Kyushu still relied on eunuchs to contact others? ”

Having said that, Jiang Ting still made up his mind to ask the Tianshu Management Office to investigate the information of the old ship king. After all, Britain and North America have always been in cahoots, and in the context of the revival of the all-blue star aura, the British royal family and the North American capital tycoon secretly made a match, which made Jiang Ting have to guard against it.

Any factors that may be unfavorable to Kyushu must be nipped in the bud as soon as possible.

"The first auction item that Mr. Casper Ankergren commissioned me was a Siamese Buddha card." The old butler opened his mouth to introduce the Buddha card, and his voice was subdued. Everyone looked at his right hand, and the old butler was holding a wooden box in his hand, and in the wooden box was a white square piece three fingers wide, which was the so-called Buddha card.

"Why does the amulet look like this?" Xu Tao looked puzzled and asked.

"A Buddha card does not just refer to a sign engraved with a Buddha image." Not far away, Ye Daoxuan suddenly spoke, he pulled the wheelchair, approached Jiang Ting and a few people, and explained in a low voice.

"Amulets are usually divided into two kinds, the positive card and the yin card, no matter which kind of Buddha card, it must be participated by people who have learned Buddhism in Siam, and only the blessed Buddha card has the effect of protecting the body." Ye Daoxuan smiled and talked eloquently.

"The so-called genuine card refers to the Buddhist card that has been blessed by the temples and monks in Siam. Its raw materials are often petal powder, incense ash, ore or fragments of Buddhist scriptures, which are usually printed with things such as Chongdi, Xiangshen, Bida, Medicine Buddha, etc., and there are also engraved with the Dharma of the great monks themselves. ”

"The monks in these temples are called Luang Po monks, and the more famous the Luang Po monks, the stronger the mana, and the stronger the mana of the Buddha cards." Ye Daoxuan paused for a moment and added.

Jiang Ting nodded, the so-called blessing of the Dragon Po monk, its effect should be somewhat similar to the "enlightenment" of Kyushu Buddhism, which is to give the aura of the magic weapon.

"And what is the Yin card?" It was rare to have an opportunity to expand his knowledge, and Jiang Ting naturally refused to let it go.

"The so-called yin cards are made and blessed by lay people called 'azan', known as upasai or upasa, who have Brahmanical spells or Aryan primitive witchcraft to bless the yin cards." Ye Daoxuan was knowledgeable and explained to Jiang Ting.

"These Azan are the people who have received the 'Three Returns' and 'Five Precepts' of Buddhism, and they have something in common with the Huoju Taoist priests of Kyushu Daomen." Jiang Ting knew that for research purposes, he had also been exposed to a lot of knowledge of Buddhism and Taoism, so he was naturally no stranger to Ye Daoxuan's statement.

"But compared with the laymen in Kyushu, Siam Azan is much more evil, and some Azan cultivates black methods and makes yin cards." Ye Daoxuan's face was serious, "The Yin card materials are special, they are all grave soil, shrouds, bones of dead people and ashes of dead people, and some people use the organs of dead babies to make them. ”

Jiang Ting smashed his tongue and looked at the Buddha card in the old housekeeper's hand, the Buddha card was white as a whole, slightly yellowish, and there was some kind of black scripture engraved on it, which was the Yin card that Ye Daoxuan said in his mouth.

"This can't be the skull of a dead man......" Wen Xi shrank back, a little scared in his eyes.

"It's okay, you see that relics and Buddha bones refer to something, aren't they the same thing? The relics or something have to build a tower to enshrine them...... "Jiang Ting" said with relief.

Xu Tao, who was on the side, listened to it straightly, and he found that he couldn't keep up with the director's train of thought, can this be the same! The body of the great virtuous monk who eats fasting and recites the Buddha and does good deeds is cremated, and the things left behind are the treasures of Buddhism. When the wind blows, you won't even be left with dust......

And this skull was dug up from the head of the man who died in the grave of someone, and he slept with it all day long...... Xu Tao shuddered when he thought about it.

"In the future, follow the Pre-Qin Research Institute, you have to dig ...... Gu Ke is much older than this bone......" Jiang Ting thought secretly, he looked at Wen Xi and Xu Tao, and felt full and relieved in his heart.

"Siamese Buddha cards, the starting price is 200,000 US dollars, and the price is increased by 10,000 US dollars each time." The old butler ended the introduction, everyone in the field is rich, and the Siamese Buddha card is only more popular in Asia, and can only be used as an appetizer here.

"Amulet?" The old man in Tang costume had wide eyes, he crossed the Tibetan dzi in his hand twice, and raised his arm.

"Two hundred thousand!"

Before the words fell, everyone was on the edge, and the man named Nagaoka Hantaro Toei opened his eyes and became excited, he said something to his secretary, and then raised his bid.

"Two hundred and one thousand!"

"Two hundred and twenty thousand!"

The old man in Tang costume did not raise his head and continued to increase the price.

"Two hundred and thirty thousand!" Hantaro Nagaoka has a price increase.

Since the secession of a certain island country from Asia and its entry into Europe has not yet been completed, the forces from Asia in the field can be regarded as four strands, namely the Pre-Qin Research Institute, Fanye Biopharmaceutical, which has established a firm foothold in the magic capital of Kyushu, the Co., Ltd. of a non-continental country that has not yet completed its secession from Asia and its entry into Europe, and the old man in Tang costume from Xiangjiang, Kyushu.

Among these four forces, Jiang Ting and Ye Daoxuan are not interested in Buddha cards, and Xiangjiang believes in this kind of thing, but for some reason, this Changgang Hantaro is interested in Buddha cards, and this auction has also become a wrestling between the two of them.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand!" The old man in Tang costume leaned on the leather sofa, calmly coiling the dzi. His son was bidding for him, his face showing a bit of puzzlement, obviously not believing in the effect of the Siamese Buddha card.

"Three hundred and sixty thousand!" Hantaro Nagaoka was cautious, increasing the price little by little, and his secretary sat on the sidelines, making suggestions from time to time.

"Four hundred thousand!" The son of the old man in Tang costume bids, and every time the price increases, it fluctuates up and down within the range given by his father.

Hantaro Nagaoka hesitated, 400,000 US dollars was nothing to him, but the education he received since childhood has always been steady and steady, step by step, which is also the reason why the company under his family's name has been able to go so far.

Although the money is not much, it is worth 400,000 dollars to pursue a vain luck...... Hantaro Nagaoka was a little hesitant at the moment.

"President......" After a moment of hesitation, the secretary spoke, tentatively asked.

Nagaoka Hantaro waved his hand: "Okay, Mr. Tanimoto Takayuki is my father's best friend, he has been looking for a Buddha card, I bought this card, it can be regarded as the end of his old man's wish." ”

Jiang Ting couldn't understand the conversation between the two Dongying people, but Ye Daoxuan had a lot of knowledge and could understand Dongying's dialect, so he directly translated it to Jiang Ting.

Jiang Ting nodded, and then realized a problem.

"Brother Ye, can you hear what they say?" There was a slight glint in Jiang Ting's eyes. The position of the two of them was close to ten meters away from Nagaoka Hantaro, and Nagaoka Hantaro said it in a low voice, in this case, normal people couldn't hear what Nagaoka Hantaro said at all.

How did Ye Daoxuan hear this?!