Volume 1 Chapter 18: Cowhide Diagram

Following the offer of 150,000 yuan, the rush to offer began until it was increased to 230,000 yuan, and then gradually stopped.

I couldn't help but be speechless, I didn't understand why I would throw money like this for a bite of bronze tripod.

Of course, at that time, I was a fledgling, how could I understand the value of this bronze tripod. Ten years later, I happened to meet this bronze tripod again in the capital, and its value has exceeded seven million, and I hate that I didn't let my second brother take this tripod.

Soon, this tripod was finally auctioned for 240,000 yuan.

After the first lot was sold, the atmosphere in the auction room was immediately high, and almost everyone who came to the auction room increased their bids, but our table never increased its bids from beginning to end.

I said to my second brother, "Second brother, since we don't shoot anything, just to throw the black gold box out, why do we come here in person, and just go directly to the person who auctioned the black gold box after the auction is over." ”

"Who said there was nothing to shoot?"

The second brother's eyes lit up, but he didn't mean to explain it to me anymore.

I looked at Master Cao again, and Master Cao just smiled and shook his head at me gently.

Seeing that they didn't want to tell me, I didn't ask again. The next beatings were all things I didn't know, but Master Cao was patiently explaining to me, and I also had a preliminary understanding of antiques.

It wasn't until the fifth lot that the second brother, who was lazily lying on the chair, suddenly sat up straight and looked at the auction table with his eyes.

I also looked at the auction table and realized that this should be what the second brother wanted to auction.

I saw the auctioneer speak: "The fifth lot is a cowhide map, as for what is the effect of the consignment of the guest did not say, the auction reserve price, 50,000 yuan." ”

I wonder if the second brother is just for an inconspicuous piece of cowhide?

The second brother didn't rush to increase the price, and the others didn't increase the price, seeing that the cowhide map was about to be auctioned, the second brother coughed, and Master Cao slowly spoke.

"Seventy thousand!"

I said in my heart that no one wants this cowhide picture, except for Master Cao's price increase, no one will increase the price at all.

Just after the auctioneer repeated seventy thousand twice, suddenly another voice came from the first floor.

"One hundred thousand!"

Master Cao did not hesitate, and immediately continued to increase the price: "130,000!" ”

The people downstairs also increased the price: "180,000!" ”

"Two hundred thousand."

"Two hundred and fifty thousand!"

At this time, in the lowest-level auction seat, the voices of those people were already noisy, and they were all shocked by the second brother and the VIPs on the first floor for a piece of cowhide map, which was increased to 250,000.

At this time, the second brother finally cast his eyes on the first floor, obviously a little surprised.

Master Cao glanced at the second brother, and the second brother nodded, so he continued to increase the price: "300,000!" ”

This time, the people downstairs did not hesitate to increase the price, and after a moment of silence, they seemed to give up this cowhide map, and finally bought this cowhide map by the second brother at a price of 300,000 yuan.

I couldn't wait to know what this kraft chart was for, but the second brother shook his head at me slightly, and I realized that this place might be inconvenient for the second brother to tell me what this kraft chart was for.

After the auction of the cowhide map, it was the last lot of the day, which was the black gold box sent by the second brother, but he asked Master Cao to change his name.

Five dragon plate gold box.

The second brother set the reserve price to 100,000 yuan, and I estimated that this box would be worth at least more than 200,000 yuan if it removed its hidden value, after all, the whole box was made of gold.

After the auctioneer announced the start of the auction, only three or four people increased the price to sell this black gold box, and the second brother was a little disappointed, but said to Master Cao: "Master Cao, raise the price of this box up to attract attention, maybe some auctioneers don't notice it at all." ”

Master Cao nodded, and then spoke: "Two hundred thousand!" ”

After Master Cao quoted, he was silent for a few seconds, and then no one raised the price. My heart suddenly cooled, grass, if no one increases the price, this black gold box will be photographed by ourselves!

Excluding the service fee for the auction, we are losing money.

Just when I was worried about this, someone on the first floor raised the price.

"Four hundred thousand!"

"Shhhh

The entire auction hall gasped, and the price was increased by 200,000 at one time, which was only on the basis of a reserve price of hundreds of thousands, which is rare at an auction.

I saw the corners of the second brother's mouth grinning, and I understood that someone had taken the bait.

The auction was over, and our Wulongpan gold box was auctioned at a price of 400,000 yuan, and the second brother was very happy.

When we left this auction house, the second brother immediately made a phone call to Dawu, which meant that Dawu would follow the person who auctioned our black gold box.

"Qiuzi, go around the street by yourself, I'll go out with Master Cao and deal with some things." The second brother patted me on the shoulder and then put me on the side of the road.

After my second brother left, I suddenly felt a little dazed as I walked down the street, and I didn't know what to do for a while.

There were not as many people on the street as there are now, especially in Shaanxi, where most of them are factories left over from the war years, making airplanes, ship parts, and the like.

I was walking down the street and I met a fortune teller, and I just glanced at him, and the fortune teller grabbed me and smiled at me.

"Little brother, isn't fortune telling?"

"It doesn't count."

"No money!"

I was also bored, so I pulled a small bench and sat down in front of the fortune-telling stall, and said, "You said that you are not allowed to ask for money.... Come, you tell me a hexagram, what will I do for the rest of my life? ”

The fortune teller nodded, handed me a yellow talisman, and asked me to write down the eight characters of my birthday on a piece of paper.

When I was a child, my father had a close friend who was also a feng shui gentleman, and to put it bluntly, it was no different from a fortune teller.

I'm not as superstitious as my father, so I wrote the eight characters of my birthday directly on the yellow symbol.

The fortune teller took the eight characters I had written, and dipped a bowl with a black liquid of unknown origin, and then lit it directly with a fire, and began to mutter.

I squinted at him, and said it was really interesting.

In the middle of the night, the fortune teller suddenly opened his eyes closed, and his face was a little gloomy.

"How's it going, did you figure it out?" I said.

The fortune teller's face was still gloomy, and he said, "Dare to ask this little brother, what do you do?" ”

"Me? I don't have much work and just got out of prison. ”

"And what do you do at home?"

I was shocked, my family has been tomb robbers for generations, and I can tell a fortune teller that I don't want a head.

I realized that this fortune teller may really have two brushes, and I calculated that our family is not a clean business, so I waved my hand and said: "You god stick, Lao Tzu asked you to count what I will do in the next life, you inquired about my family..."

After saying that, I was about to leave here, but the god stick said to me mysteriously: "Little brother, if you don't say it, I can guess it.... Don't do anything that hurts yin virtue before it's too late. ”