Li Xien stuffed his mouth full of sugar cakes, puffed out his cheeks, stared at Lin Qi with big black eyes, looked at Lin Qi blankly, handed half of the sugar cake in his hand to Lin Qi, and said vaguely "Eat".

Lin Qi couldn't cry or laugh, pushed his hand back, and replied kindly: "It's okay, you eat by yourself." ”

Li Xien blinked, looked at Lin Qi, then looked at the half piece of sugar cake in his hand, and then pushed the plate with the sugar cake in front of him to Lin Qi's side.

Looking at the love between the two young uncles and nephews who were only four years old, Lin Ruo suddenly had a sense of quiet years, smiled shallowly, turned his head, and asked King Ning half-jokingly: "Third brother, who do you think will be the last 'painting'?" ”

Looking at Lin Ruo with a wicked smile on his face, King Ning felt sour inexplicably, and when he heard that the little guy beside Bai Que directly increased the price from 22,000 taels to 25,000 taels, he was shocked and frustrated.

"I don't know who the 'painting' is, but I have realized two truths."

"Oh? The third brother said let's hear it. ”

"First, no matter which of the two of them gets the "Qin Chopping Picture", they will all make a lot of money from the Star Building!"

Lin Ruo smiled and nodded: "What about the second?" ”

"Second," King Ning gritted his teeth, "next time, if you fancy something, buy it directly!" ”

Lin Ruozhi knew that he was still regretting, pulled his sleeve, motioned for him to come over, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Yang also received a few volumes of the original paintings of Saint Wu Daozi from the previous dynasty, if you are interested, wait for this to end, let Brother Huai Jin take you to take a look." ”

King Ning's eyes flashed again: "Really? ”

Lin Ruo nodded: "Naturally, it's true." Among them, there is a "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scroll", although it has not been signed, and there is also a controversy that it is not from the hand of Wu Sheng, but Brother Li said that the brushwork of the white handscroll is indeed from the hand of the painting saint. ”

Without the painting of the "Qin Chopping Picture", there is no painting of the saint "Eighty-Seven Immortal Scrolls" is not bad!

What is this called?

Lose in hake, but gain in herring.

Although King Ning's mood did not improve immediately, the frustration and sullenness in his chest also dissipated a lot. When I heard that the auctioneer dropped the hammer and announced that Lu Yiran had won the "Qin Chopping Picture" for 28,000 taels of gold, although he still had regrets, he would not regret it to beat his chest.

Lu Yiran looked at the seventeenth chamber angrily, which was more than double his initial psychological price! However, in order to please the golden backer of the Lu family, he also had to grit his teeth and fight again. I thought that if the one in the seventeenth wing increased the price again, he simply let the other party forget it, but he didn't want to, but the other party neatly gave up the bid.

Sending the little servant under his hand to pay the deposit with the silver ticket, Lu Yiran still felt a sigh of relief in his chest.

However, what made him even more chest tightness was still to come!

In the next few lots, whenever Lu Yiran showed some meaning, the mysterious person behind the light gauze would ask the little guy to raise a sign to bid, and every time the price was raised, it was staggering.

Lu Yiran thought at first that the other party was a childcare arranged by Xingxinglou, and deliberately raised the price several times, so that the other party spent thousands of taels of gold for an extra amount of unjust money - too much, he was afraid of putting himself in.

Unexpectedly, the other party simply let the little guy settle the account, and it was the full amount!!

At this time, not only Lu Yiran, but also Mr. Gao of the Wan family was extremely curious about this mysterious person hiding behind the curtain.

Of the ten lots, three were sold at a high price on the 17th, including the two rare pearls, one gold and one black, which cost no less than 100,000 taels of gold.

Yang Zhuo stepped forward with a smile and expressed his gratitude to the high-rollers present, and then revealed that the next auction of rare treasures will be two or three months later, but during this period, some small auctions will be held.

As for the few wealthy businessmen who spent a lot of money at the auction today, Xinglou also specially prepared a return gift - a jade plaque.

The front of the jade plaque is carved with gluttonous patterns, and the words "Picking Star Tower" are written on it, and the difference is the back of the jade plaque. Except for Bai Que, the others got the auspicious cloud pattern, and Bai Que got the star pattern.

After the light veil, Bai Que was dressed in a moon-white wide-sleeved robe with a royal blue waist seal tied around his waist, and sat casually and lazily on the soft collapse, supporting his cheeks with his hands. With a long figure, you can not only look at the face that is covered by a delicate silver mask, but also praise the jade tree in the wind.

But at this moment, Bai Que played with the mutton fat jade card in his hand, his eyes were cold and thoughtful.

Others have carved auspicious cloud patterns on their jade plates, but only his is a star pattern, did the young lady of the Lin family find or know something?

But soon, Bai Que found himself thinking too much.

This jade plaque is called "Star Picking Talisman", and those who have this charm will be honored as a guest by the Star Picking Tower. This star picking talisman is divided into four gears, and the lowest level is the white jade plate carved with the auspicious cloud pattern, and it only costs a total of 5,000 taels of gold in the star picking building to receive it immediately. What Bai Que got was a star rune one order higher than the cloud rune, and he could only have it if he had consumed more than 100,000 taels of gold in the Star Picking Tower.

Moreover, the jade quality of the star rune is not comparable to that of the cloud rune - it is a mutton fat white jade worth a thousand gold.

Further up, the moon and sun symbols with moon patterns and sun patterns carved respectively, are to buy a total of 500,000 taels of gold and 1 million taels of treasures in the Star Picking Tower.

"Second sister," Lin Qi pulled Lin Ruo's sleeve, his delicate little face wrinkled, and asked in a low voice, "I remember that this star picking talisman is not a Dushan jade carved with a cloud pattern?" How did you change it to mutton fat jade? ”

Mutton fat white jade is several times more expensive than that batch of Dushan jade!

Lin Ruo smiled lightly, leaned close to Lin Qi's ear, and whispered: "That batch of Dushan Jade's star picking talismans is of other uses. Don't feel distressed, you can't lose. ”

With Lin Ruo's permission, Lin Qi's wrinkled little face relaxed.

After being a family for more than half a year, Young Master Lin, who has never known the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, has become more and more responsible for the young owner, and knows the hardships of business and the hard-won wealth, and he will also make small calculations in his heart, calculating whether every business is worth it.

Such a big progress is undoubtedly gratifying to Lin Ruo and Lin Qian.

At the end of the auction, Li Yan and Yang Zhuo led the distinguished guests back to the lobby on the first floor, King Ning took a look at the empty space and told Qin Qinyan that he planned to take a stroll in the Star Picking Building again, Qin Qin did not dissuade him much, and asked Qu Xiaoxiang to accompany her back to the house.

Lin Ruo touched Li Xien's head and said with a smile: "We should also ......"

Before the words were finished, an uninvited guest broke into the wing, and there was more than one.

One of them was Song Huan Chu, holding the brocade box containing the Hetian red jade bracelet in his arms, I don't know if he planned to come to Xingshi to ask for the guilt or send it again; The other was a man dressed as a guard who came out of the seventeenth chamber, with a frosty face.