Chapter II: Unexpected Joy and Disaster (Revised)
"I'll give you a piece!"
It's cold!
The whole venue was quiet for a moment as if it had been paused, Bai Yuan dared to swear, he had never experienced such a tense atmosphere in his life, and he had not been baptized by so many eyes at the same time, and he was so instigated that he was almost eager to go first, but fortunately, the venue immediately became lively again, some people laughed, some people talked loudly, and some people applauded.
"Who is this, who looks good?"
"Next to him is Boss Jin's son, he should have brought it. ”
"There's a good show to watch now, don't raise the price, let's see what the auction house does!"
"Haha! Well done! If this is really bought for a dollar, Li Shibao must not be angry to death!"
"Don't say it, I think the price is quite suitable for this bead, hehe!"
......
Auctioneer Xiao Jun saw that no one had raised the price below, and was stunned, he had never encountered this situation in his many years of hosting auctions, this is not a novel! At this time, a hostess ran over from the backstage and whispered to Xiao Jun: "Follow the normal process." ”
Xiao Jun seems to have taken a reassuring pill, since the above has decided so, even if he is really bought by someone for a dollar in the end, it has nothing to do with him, but well, he still has to work harder, and the lot he presided over is sold for a dollar, and if it is spread out, it will not look good on his face.
"One dollar at a time! This bead has not been detected by our company with any known ingredients, maybe it is a substance that has never appeared on the earth, and someone will pay a higher price?"
No one raised the price, with an expression of not being afraid of big things, everyone is from high society, and it's not the first time to participate in the auction, if there is any value, you don't keep it yourself, and you are embarrassed to open the price, it is definitely not worth it.
Long Shao's girlfriend was stunned for a moment, the cheapest things before were eight or nine hundred thousand, she subconsciously thought that the auction house must be good things to sell, just now she was still sarcastic about the guy next to her, and in a blink of an eye, he picked up a big bargain for a dollar, how can this work!
was about to increase the price, Long Shao pressed her hand, shook his head at her, just now he laughed at others for not daring to ask for the price, and immediately grabbed it with others, and even if he really bought it, Jin Shao couldn't be proud of the tatters of a dollar, so there was no need to increase the price.
My cousin pretended not to know Bai Yuan, but he was thinking in his heart: Do you want to increase the price, it's embarrassing to add a dollar, but how much can you add, forget it, all the money in my card is the lowest price in the history of the auction house, and it is also a skill to buy something at the Shibao Auction House for one dollar, Xiaobai, you were not such an impulsive person before!
However, what about Bai Yuan's side: If you want to suffer, why didn't anyone increase the price, didn't many people grab everything before, is this thing really worthless?
"One dollar twice, our company has exhausted all means to wear this bead a little, is there anyone who offers a higher price?" Xiao Jun's head was a little sweaty, would he really be ridiculed by his peers in the future?
Some people in the audience were a little moved, and they couldn't even wear and tear, it seemed to be a bit unusual, and a few people began to hesitate to increase the price.
Bai Yuan also felt that the atmosphere around him was strange, many people looked at him with strange eyes, and some people gave him a thumbs up.
"Cousin, can I raise the price for myself? I just shouted low, I ...... I still have a hundred in my pocket. He whispered to his cousin.
"You still want the auctioneer to shout again once or twice, so be it, we'll leave when the next thing starts to be auctioned, if the auction house is reluctant, it shouldn't deliberately stop it, the water in the auction house is deep, and they are not stupid." ”
Bai Yuan chose to give in under his cousin's expression of "believe me", although he was faintly uneasy in his heart, he didn't think much about it.
"Three times for a dollar, congratulations to my friend at number 180 for successfully photographing this item. Hearing this, Xiao Jun was a little unwilling, sighed imperceptibly, wanted to get rid of this embarrassing scene as soon as possible, and immediately began to introduce the next item.
"Let's go!" the cousin said to Bai Yuan.
"Yo, is this a hurry to get something good?" The dragon girl's friend sounded like a mockery, but in fact, she was sincere, a little jealous, and she still insisted that the beads sold by the auction house must be worth a lot of money.
Bai Yuan and his cousin didn't pay attention to these two people, and left the venue directly, the light outside was very bright, and the two ran out as if they had escaped, squinting their eyes by the light outside, but as if they had escaped from some terrifying place, they breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.
"Haha, Xiaobai, what do you think, they said that if you don't dare to ask for a price, you will pay a piece?" The cousin smiled and patted him on the shoulder and gave him a thumbs up.
"As soon as my brain was hot, I regretted it later, I knew that it was called a hundred. "Now that Bai Yuan mentions it, he still feels a little embarrassed, and he doesn't care about his cousin calling him Xiaobai.
"Come on, what's the difference, one piece and a hundred, the auction house has never seen such a low price, let's get out of here first." ”
After walking through the corridor and returning to the previous elevator, the hostess by the elevator door seemed to have received instructions.
"Are you going to pick up the photograph, please come with me. Although there was an inquiring meaning in the words, the tone was one that no one could refuse.
"We didn't shoot anything, did you make a mistake?" My cousin didn't believe that the auction house really wanted to give them something, but he actually wanted to trick him into going to some corner and beat him up, right?
"Don't be kidding, gentlemen, I've been informed, one of you is the one hundred and eighty guest who bought item twenty-six, please come with me. He made a gesture of please.
They couldn't hide from it, and it wasn't that they didn't have money to get things, and it didn't look like they were looking for trouble.
Followed Miss Manners from the back door of the previous venue directly into the backstage, there were already a few people waiting inside, originally according to the regulations after the end of the auction, the people who auctioned things were in order to trade in a room on the edge of the venue, but every time someone always took what they wanted and left first, these people completed the transaction in the background.
"May I ask who is guest number one hundred and eighty?" asked a middle-aged man standing behind the desk.
"I'm just, don't I want to trade, this is a piece, what about something?" Bai Yuan said and took out a coin from his pocket.
"Ha!" A lady of etiquette standing next to the middle-aged man couldn't hold back her laughter, but she knew that it was wrong, and hurriedly covered her mouth, and endured it very hard, the two security guards and several other lady manners on the side of her laugh couldn't help it, and laughed together, but she didn't dare to laugh out loud, the muscles on the middle-aged man's face twitched slightly, as if she couldn't help it a little, and the original polite smile became more and more brilliant.
The middle-aged man gestured, and a hostess with a tray stepped forward, and there was a very delicate red wooden box in the tray, as well as a certificate-like thing, and a plastic card the size of a playing card.
"This is the item you auctioned, as well as the transaction certificate and the item appraisal certificate issued by our auction house, as long as you sign this document, you can take it. With that, he took out a thick file from the drawer.
Bai Yuan glanced at his cousin, who nodded at him, so he stepped forward and put the money on the table, flipped through the documents, and signed his name.
Seeing that the transaction was completed, the middle-aged man said with a standard office smile on his face: "This transaction with you is very pleasant, and you are welcome to come to Shibao Auction House next time." ”
"En!" Bai Yuan nodded, suddenly his heart tightened, as if he was dragged by someone's hand, and even his breathing was a little shorter, he just wanted to leave quickly, the etiquette lady on the side had already put a few things into a delicate paper bag, Bai Yuan took the bag, pulled his cousin and walked out.
......
A few minutes ago, in the chairman's office, the computer was monitoring the backstage transactions, and a middle-aged man with a grim face asked, "Brother, just let them take things away?"
Sitting opposite was Li Shibao, the founder of the auction house, who nodded expressionlessly: "Then what do you want?"
"I lost such a big person this time, do you really want to give them the beads and let them leave safely?"
"Alas, you've been with me for so long, why are you still like before, you don't use your brain to do things and don't look at the situation?" Li Shibao had a trace of disappointment on his face, and then said: "Look downstairs. ”
The middle-aged man with a grim face walked to the window and looked down, "Why are there so many cars from TV stations and newspaper offices!" This time the people are so lost, who called them here! No, no, they didn't come at us, how could they be so fast?" The middle-aged man was so angry that his face turned red, the blood vessels in his head bulged, and his hands were clutching the edge of the window, and his fingertips turned white.
"It doesn't matter who is coming, after a while, they will definitely come to us, this time I will say to the reputation, emphasizing that our company is very honest, and at the end of the interview, I will send a red envelope to every reporter who comes", Li Shibao paused and took a sip of black tea, "Do you know the identity of that young man?"
The person below said that it was Kim Sung-tae's son who brought it, and called for the cousin of the person who bought something. ”
"Looking for Boss Jiang to ask for someone to drink some wine before doing things, this is an accident that happened to a drunk driver, understand?" Li Shibao looked out the window, as if there was something outside the window that attracted him.
The middle-aged man nodded, "Brother, don't worry!"
Then he hesitated for a moment and asked, "So, the bead?"
"Let's bury him with him, I can't study anything anyway, so I need to dig it up again. ”
......
He had just been stopped at the elevator once, and this time Bai Yuan subconsciously chose to take the stairs from the escape passage and went down to the parking lot.
Bai Yuan's face was a little pale now, and his panic just now was very uncomfortable, and he almost dragged his cousin to the side of the car all the way, so tired that his cousin shouted to slow down.
"Huhuhu!", running all the way down from the 18th floor, my cousin was a little out of breath, "What's the matter? Isn't it all over, and no one is chasing, why are you running so fast?"
"I don't know, every time something bad is about to happen, I panic, just now I suddenly panicked, don't say go quickly. Bai Yuan sat in the co-pilot as he spoke, took out the beads and put them in his pocket, and threw everything else into the back seat.
"Okay, where are you going? Why don't you find a place to eat first, it's eleven o'clock." My cousin started the car slowly.
"Okay, let's go to a quiet place, I want to calm down", Bai Yuan took off his coat, wiped the sweat on his head, and the feeling of panic gradually disappeared.
There was nothing to say all the way, and it wasn't until after eating that Bai Yuan calmed down and talked and laughed with his cousin again.
As if they had forgotten about the auction, they spent an afternoon playing outside, not noticing that an ordinary-looking man had been following them not far away.
It was already seven forty after dinner, my cousin drove Bai Yuan home, and after a crazy afternoon, their spirits were a little tired, and they chatted about when they would come out to play next time.
At seven fifty-nine, the two were waiting for the green light at an intersection, Bai Yuan, who was originally lazily leaning on the co-pilot, sat up suddenly, tensed his body, that kind of panic came again, and it was more intense than before, and his heart was almost bursting out of his chest!
What's the matter, is there going to be a car accident?
And at this time, the car started and crossed the zebra crossing, and the afterglow of Bai Yuan's right eye seemed to see something rushing over, and it was too late to stop!
"Cousin, speed up, rush!" Bai Yuan grabbed his cousin's shoulder and yelled at him.
"What?", my cousin subconsciously glanced at Bai Yuan, and then saw a truck rushing towards him on the right, he stepped on the accelerator in an instant at a speed that almost exceeded the limit of human reflexes, but it was still too late, and the back third of the car was hit hard!
The right rear side of the car was recessed in a large piece, and the whole car almost went sideways, rushed out in the oblique spur, and slammed into the green belt, and the car flipped over, and smashed the sidewalk with the top down.
The moment he was hit, Bai Yuan turned his head to take a look, the truck driver's expression was hideous, with a murderous aura, this was by no means an accident!
The car slowly stopped, Bai Yuan felt that he was about to die, blood was coming out of his mouth and nose, and a puddle gathered on the roof of the car, and the beads in his pocket rolled out and fell into the blood, gradually wrapped in blood, but a hazy green light came out of it, Bai Yuan struggled to take a look at his cousin, but he couldn't do it anymore, and gradually lost consciousness, and the last word in his heart was: I'm sorry, cousin, it's a ......
At this time, the broken quartz watch on Bai Yuan's wrist also stopped rotating, and the time was exactly eight o'clock!