Chapter 49
"You don't have to worry, our lot Xiao Ming has already been handed in, and the guests of such a charity annual meeting are not selfless, and the lots provided are not limited, and the valuable ones can be, so many guests will take this opportunity to display and promote their products. The lots of our people are provided by Starfish Jewelry every year, and Xiao Ming will not let go of such an opportunity. The Zijun family generally auctions off its own brand of cars, the Lin family auctions antiques and real estate, and the housekeeper auctions off foreign luxury goods. β
Wang Rui was stunned, can you still play like this, isn't this just spending money on advertising? However, it also achieves the purpose of charity, which can be regarded as a win-win situation.
"Are they all your own products? That kind of auction is a bit boring. β
"Not all have independent products, the lots are varied, there are antiques, artworks, jewelry, products, as well as the clothes worn by celebrities, and the accessories they have bred, just like Tang Tianyue last time."
"It's good to have antiques."
After counting the contributions made by the charity annual meeting over the years, Guan Zhongmou announced the start of the auction. "This year's charity auction, thanks to everyone's support, we received 507 lots, which is the largest number of lots in the previous annual meeting, and I hope that this year's donation is also the largest in the previous annual meeting, and I invite today's auctioneer, the gold medal auctioneer Miss Tang Tianyue."
Tang Tianyue wore a tight-fitting red tail evening dress, swaying slowly onto the stage, waving to greet the guests while walking. The audience applauded endlessly, Tang Tianyue still had a lot of fans, and she bowed on stage.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I am Tang Tianyue, the auctioneer of this charity auction, welcome to participate in this charity auction, and thank you for your contributions to charity."
After saying that, bow again. Seeing Mo Sitong roll his eyes, is this another show of career lines?
"First of all, the first lot is the sapphire necklace that I wear all along." Seeing this familiar scene, Wang Rui also began to roll his eyes. But such a reused ordinary necklace, which was finally sold for 1.5 million, was photographed by a middle-aged uncle, but it was not returned, and I don't know if it was not returned in private.
"The second lot is auctioned below, and the second lot is the Tiffany & Co. Global Limited Edition Round Key Pendant provided by the Guan's Group. Using 18K rose gold inlaid with diamonds, it is limited to 100 sets worldwide, with a starting price of 100,000 yuan. β
"One hundred thousand." The "120,000" ......, and finally under the housekeeper's intentional price increase, it was sold for 1.8 million, which is much higher than the market value of the necklace itself.
"The third lot is the glutinous spinach green jade bracelet provided by Starfish Jewelry, this bracelet is meticulous and finely crafted, which is a rare boutique. The starting price is 100,000. β
The housekeeper put the bracelet of Starfish Jewelry after the luxury goods he auctioned, obviously intentionally, and Mo Siming had to ask Zijun to come forward and auction it back for him with two million.
Next, the fourth, the fifth, it's really all sorted. Wang Rui is only interested in antiques and jewelry, and does not pay much attention to anything else.
"The 97th lot in the auction below is a painting by a painter named Yue Ming during the Republic of China. The starting price is 10,000 yuan. "This lot is obviously an item for this charity auction, this is a landscape painting, the level is average, the painter is not famous, and it has a sense of age. For a while, no one made a bid.
"Ten thousand." Wang Rui made a bid, and Mo Sitong and Mo Siming immediately reacted, this painting is definitely a treasure. The other guests, not so much, all looked at Wang Rui like fools.
"Twenty thousand." Guan Yiwei followed suit. Wang Rui has not participated in the auction tonight, and in the first auction, Guan Yiwei immediately jumped out to compete.
"30,000", "40,000", "50,000", "60,000", "70,000", "80,000", "90,000", "100,000"
Now everyone looked at the two of them like fools, just such a worthless painting, the two actually competed, is it still a treasure.
"100,000 yuan for the first time, 100,000 yuan for the second time, 100,000 yuan for the third
After Guan Yiwei finished talking about 100,000 yuan, Wang Rui didn't make a bid, but looked at Guan Yiwei for a long time, Guan Yiwei felt that he had been tricked again, and he didn't make Wang Rui, such a worthless painting was still smashed in his hands.
"One hundred thousand." Tang Tianyue was just about to finish talking about the third time, and then said that the deal was made, and Wang Rui made another bid.
"110,000 for the first time, 110,000 for the second time, 110,000 for the third time, deal." This time, Guan Yiwei did not dare to bid again.
The auction continued, with Mo Sitong auctioning a couple of Parker gold pens, and the others also got their own gains. At the end of the auction at half past nine, the charity auction raised a total of 156 million donations, which will be all injected into the charitable foundation under the name of the housekeeper, the housekeeper is doing foreign trade business, this donation can help the housekeeper exempt a large part of the tax, which is also one of the purposes of the housekeeper insisting on holding the charity annual meeting every year.
After that, everyone was free to move, and everyone still got together in gangs to chat, introduce each other, and look for opportunities for cooperation. Mo Sitong and Mo Siming have gained, and even Zijun has signed out an order for twenty trucks. It wasn't until half past ten that the annual meeting ended.
Wang Rui and Mo Sitong returned to the office and changed back into clothes, Wang Rui sent Mo Sitong home, and on the way, Mo Sitong couldn't wait to ask.
"That painting must be a treasure."
"I don't know if it's a baby, I'll show it to grandpa tomorrow."
"If you're not sure, you dare to shoot."
"I found some problems, but I don't know what to do."
Early the next morning, Wang Rui rushed to Mo Lao's villa, Mo Lao was waiting for Wang Rui, Mo Sitong and Mo Siming were actually there.
"Xiao Rui, Sitong said that you took a landscape painting of the Republic of China yesterday, did you miss it again?"
"Whether it was a leak or not, I can't be sure. Grandpa, look. β
Unfolding the painting, Sitong and Siming also came up to take a closer look.
"The works of the Republic of China period, the level is average, the techniques are all imitations, and the calligraphy seems to be Yanti, but it's not everyone, Xiao Rui, do you see what's wrong?"
"Grandpa, I was at the auction yesterday and found that the framing of this painting is a little thicker than that of ordinary paintings, so I plan to try my luck at auction, and I will study it carefully when I go home in the evening, you look here."
Where Wang Rui used a strong flashlight to shine on the seal in the upper left, there was actually a faint red color under the seal.
"Rui, what do you think?"
"I suspect there's a painting hidden in there."
"You mean picture-in-picture?" Mo Lao's breathing was a little short.
"Yes, it's a picture-in-picture."
Mo Siming couldn't help but ask: "Grandpa, what is a picture-in-picture?" β
"Picture-in-picture is to hide a famous painting, copy one or another painting, hide the real work under the imitation, is called a picture-in-picture. Rui, what are you going to do? β
"Grandpa, I don't dare to open it, for fear of damaging the painting, and I'm not sure that there must be a real thing hidden in it." In fact, Wang Rui has already seen through it, or he would not have bought it decisively.
"This is easy to do, let's take this painting to find Lao He, he has collected calligraphy and painting all his life, and he is a master of calligraphy and painting identification and mounting, he should have a way."
He Lao's villa is not far from Mo Lao's villa, and it takes more than ten minutes to drive there.
"Old Mo, why did you think of me here, didn't you think about my wine again?"
"Lao He, I'm not here to drink, I need your help with something."
"Hello Grandpa He."
"Hello, it's the first time Xiao Rui has come to me, don't leave at noon, stay and eat. Lao Mo, what's the matter, what do you say, what are you polite to me? β
"Look at this picture."
"This is a landscape painting of the Republic of China, and the level is average, is there anything special?"
"This is what Xiao Rui photographed at the housekeeper's charity annual meeting last night, let Xiao Rui tell you."
"Grandpa He, I found that this painting is thicker than the normal mounting, and you see, through the strong flashlight, you can faintly see the red mark under the seal, and it feels like a seal, so I suspect that this is a picture-in-picture."
"Picture-in-picture?" He Lao became interested immediately, immediately took the flashlight, and observed it carefully.
"It's really a picture-in-picture, you come with me."
On the second floor of the villa, there is a sunny room, which is He Lao's studio, and a huge workbench with many tools and bottles and cans. He Lao spread the painting on the workbench.
"This painting is very delicately framed, and it should be framed by a master in Liuzhou."
He Lao opened a bottle and poured out some medicinal liquid, carefully applying a brush to the painting little by little. Then I lined a piece of rice paper and sprayed it gently with a small watering can, and after waiting for a few minutes, I picked up the rice paper and uncovered it little by little along the edges. Everyone came up to take a look, but they didn't dare to disturb He Lao, and it took more than ten minutes to completely unveil it. There's actually a painting down there.
"This is a linen, this is Dong Yuan's painting."
This vertical scroll landscape painting, the paragraph in the upper left is identified as "Beiyuan Deputy Envoy Dong Yuan Painting", and there are "Tianshui Zhao" and "Ke Jiu Siyin". There is also a large seal of "Xuanwen Pavilion Treasure", which shows that this painting was collected by the inner government of the Yuan Dynasty.
Dong Yuan was a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties period and the originator of the Southern School of landscape painting. The word Shuda, Jiangxi Zhongling (now Jinxian County, Jiangxi), Dong Yuan, Li Cheng, Fan Kuan and known as the three masters of the Northern Song Dynasty in history, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the deputy envoy of Beiyuan, so it is also called "Dong Beiyuan". He is good at painting landscapes, and works part-time with figures and animals. The first master of its landscape is Jing Hao, the pen is Shen Xiong, and then the real scene of the real mountain in the south of the Yangtze River is painted, which is not a strange brush. The sparse forest is far away from the tree, the flat is far and deep, and the law is like a hemp skin, and the descendants call it "Phi Ma Xuan". The moss point of the mountain is fine, the water color is the river sky, the clouds and mist are obscure, the peaks and mountains are haunted, the Tingzhu River Bridge, the rate is more true. Mi Fu said that its painting "plain and naΓ―ve, Tang no such product". The surviving works include "Xiajing Mountain Pass to be crossed", "Xiaoxiang map", "summer mountain map", "river bank map" and so on.