Chapter 9 Target Auctions
Facing the morning sun, I came to the taxi hailing station outside the port, looking at the sparse traffic, and I was very emotionally moved that such a country with a lot of land and resources would be such a "depression" during the morning rush hour!
Flagged down a taxi and told the black driver in English, which was not very fluent, that made the old black shake his head vigorously.
"Man, you're going too far away! It's on the other side of the city, and you're going to pay me fifty yuan? Man, aren't you Chinese people very generous? If you only give you that, I'll take you to the city at most!" he said, flicking the fifty yuan "big bill" in his hand.
Originally, Zhang Yu didn't want to pay half a dime more to this nagging guy. But after thinking about it again, it is not easy for this guy in front of him, not to mention that he will be a "rich man" in the future, so why bother with this lot of hard work, so he simply took out another hundred Australian dollars and stuffed it into the hands of the old man.
After paying a fee of 150 Australian dollars, the black taxi driver's originally reluctant face became like a blooming chrysanthemum, smiling from ear to ear, and kept praising the promising young man in front of him!
Before and after happily sending Zhang Yu to the door of his cousin's house, he also left a business card, hoping that Zhang Yu could take care of his business more in the future. Nowadays, it is rare to see such a generous person, so you have to seize the time to sell yourself.
"Sister~!I'm back!Your lovely cousin is back!" As soon as the doorbell rang, Zhang Yu shouted at the top of his voice, which made passers-by take a detour, for fear that this guy was a psychopath! It's not good to hurt people again!
As a "Kuotai" who moved to Australia, her cousin Zhang Yuan, who lives in the Chinese community in the western suburbs of the city, like most married migrant women, lives a "pampered" full-time wife's life. Taking care of her husband and daughter, who is only three and a half years old, occupies most of her life nowadays.
Cousin Zhang Yu traveled thousands of miles to bring family greetings from her hometown, which also aroused her longing for her relatives and old friends in her hometown. In the past few days, I will make a transatlantic phone call to chat with relatives and friends in China for a while, talk about what I have seen and heard in Australia, ask about the recent situation in China, and so on.
No, I got up early in the morning, made breakfast for my husband and children, followed the fitness class on TV, and exercised my body that was already a little rich.
After serving her husband and children after breakfast, the man in his family went out to work hard for the livelihood of the whole family, and cleaned up the house from the inside out. Just as I wanted to sit down and play with my daughter for a while, I heard a "wolf howl" from outside the door.
When the door opened, I saw a hand full of tea, rice, oil and salt, and grabbed the ear of Zhang Daxia, who was probing his brain, with lightning speed.
"It hurts, it hurts, sister, let it go, it hurts!" With Zhang Yu's current skills, it is not too easy to dodge this "Flying Dragon Cloud Exploration Hand". But is it really necessary for him to hide, and what will happen if he dodges?
"Dead boy, it's just a matter of sneaking around and running chic, and you dare to turn off your mobile phone! Looking for death, right? If something happens to you, how can I explain to my family? Do you dare to scream in pain?" Zhang Yuan pulled Zhang Daxia's ears and made a big loop, but this also fully proves that she attaches great importance to this cousin.
"Sister, go in and talk about it! It's a shame to stand at the door like this! Come into the house, can't I admit punishment?" Zhang Yu let his cousin pull his ears, and still walked towards the house without hesitation, he didn't want to be embarrassed at the door.
When Zhang Yuan saw this posture, he had no choice but to let go, close the door and follow into the house. The heart said, "If you kid doesn't give the old lady a reasonable explanation, then clean you up!"
Came into the house, picked up the niece who was already messing around the house, and pinched the little guy's round face affectionately.
"Mi Qi, do you want to eat the braised pork that your uncle will give you in a while?"
"Mommy said that my uncle is not well-behaved! I don't want to eat braised pork made by bad boys!" said Xiao Miqi with an expression that you are a bad boy. But what's the matter with the saliva hanging on the corner of his mouth? This child was completely taken away by his parents.
coaxed the little cutie in his arms, and finally bought the little Lori with a meal of braised pork and dumplings, and watched the little guy jump up and down to the back garden to play, before walking to his cousin with a hippie smile.
"Sister, don't be angry! My phone has fallen into the sea, and my phone number is all in my phone, and I have gone with the flow!"
"Edit, continue to edit! Isn't it just that I am disturbing your good deeds? What about your affair?" said my cousin with a strange expression of believing you.
"What a loss! The day before yesterday, after you called me, the cruise ship encountered a storm in the evening, and I ran to the cabin, and my mobile phone fell into the sea before I could hold it! Why am I lying to you about this? Hurry up and give me the phone to use, and I will report my safety to my family!"
took my cousin's phone call and reported her safety to her mother who was far away in China, which was naturally another set of rhetoric about the mobile phone falling into the water in the face of wind and waves. Of course, a verbal warning is inevitable, and Zhang Daxia can only listen hard. This called the cousin who was observing the words and expressions on the side, covering her mouth and snickering from time to time.
Hanging up the phone, Zhang Yu smiled bitterly for a while, and had to shake his head and admit defeat......!
drove the old lady's station wagon, carrying a pair of laughing mother and daughter, and went straight to the large comprehensive supermarket far away in the city.
The highway from the suburbs to the city is very smooth, and on both sides of the road, there are endless green pastures as far as the eye can see! Herds of cattle and sheep run and play in it. From time to time, you can also see a few lone kangaroos, jumping around cautiously.
It's a twenty-minute drive, and the speed is not less than fifty miles per hour, you can imagine what kind of road it is, right?
This was a pleasant shopping, Zhang Daxia paid out of his own pocket to purchase a lot of application things for his cousin, plus for his little niece Mi Qi, and bought a lot of delicious snacks for this age. This was an eye-opener for Zhang Yu! Nima, when I was a child, how could I ever see such bells and whistles eating food? People are more dead than people!
On the way back to his cousin's house, Zhang Yu was planning his future life while driving, and when he remembered that he still had three treasures on him, his eyebrows suddenly danced. If you can sell these rare treasures, you will have a lot of income, which is also to prepare for the road to be taken in advance. So I hurriedly asked my cousin for advice.
"Sister, is there a relatively large and well-known auction house in Melbourne? The younger brother wants to see and see, and by the way, see if it is possible to auction some cheap and good things and bring them back as gifts for his family! It is also a heart, right?"
"Auction house, the things there shouldn't be too cheap, right? I really don't know the specifics, why don't you ask your brother-in-law to inquire?" the cousin replied cautiously, then took out her mobile phone and dialed her husband.
After a simple exchange, my cousin told Zhang Yu the news she got from her husband.
There is a well-known auction house in Melbourne, which mainly deals in art auctions, and the scale is not bad in the local area, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the in Sydney.
is a privately owned English auction house founded in 1793 by Thomas Dodd and is one of the few remaining auction houses in England with Georgian origins. Initially known for its auction books, by 1850 the company expanded to include the auction of antique items, jewellery, porcelain, furniture, samurai armour and weapons, as well as fine wines.
Since its launch in Australia in 2010, it has taken only five years to establish a dominant position in the Australian auction house, as Australia's only international auction house, controlling most of the Australian art market, and its total turnover far exceeds that of other competitors in the same industry.
After thinking about it, Zhang Yu finally decided to go to Sydney to find out, and if there is a suitable opportunity, it may be a very good choice to cash out the treasure there.
When I returned to my cousin's house, I made her favorite braised pork, braised mutton, and shrimp-stuffed dumplings for Xiaomiqi as promised. Seeing that the niece was eating with a mouth full of oil, the little eyes were happily fascinated, and the Zhang family sisters and brothers were also in a good mood.
Taking advantage of the good mood of the old lady, Zhang Yu put forward the idea of going to Sydney for a spin. After many times of soft grinding and hard foaming on his face, he finally swore an oath to the gods and Buddhas in the sky with Zhang Yu, and his cousin agreed to his request.
After lunch, I cleaned up, put on my backpack with few luggage, said goodbye to my cousin and Mi Qi, and got into a taxi to Melbourne Airport. Of course, in order to save trouble and convenience, I still called the black guy who sent him back before and asked for his car.
Another bargain, and finally twenty Australian dollars got the black brother, this guy very happily drove Zhang Daxia straight to the airport, and there was constant nonsense along the way, which made Zhang Yu very headache.
When he arrived at the airport, Zhang Yu did not go directly to book a ticket, but hid in a relatively quiet corner and activated the super terminal. Hacking into the booking system, adding personal information, and booking tickets, in less than three minutes, Zhang Daxia smiled and walked to the ticket window with his bag on his back. In line with the principle that capitalism is cheap and not taking advantage of it, Zhang Yu got the ticket that he "booked" without spending a penny without any psychological burden, and sat on the flight to Sydney in fifteen minutes. Until I boarded the plane, I still had a happy smile on my face