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Half an hour later, the VIP room of the jewelry department of the Dejia Art Center.

Li Shi sat on a chair, surrounded by three people, in addition to senior business manager Zhou Yajuan and senior expert He Yiwei, there was also general manager and senior expert Ge Yun, who also came forward to receive him personally.

The fundraising event was nearing its end, and they didn't expect to receive such a rare item, which was a real surprise.

After some appraisal, we began to negotiate the starting price and the save price.

After Ge Yun and He Yiwei discussed, the estimate was 39 million Hong Kong dollars, and the recommended starting price was set at 36 million Hong Kong dollars.

Li Shi accepted this suggestion, and after careful consideration, set the save price at 36.2 million Hong Kong dollars, and if no one bids higher than this amount, the auction will fail.

According to the information he found, at the recent spring auction of Liberty Auction Company in Yangcheng, the transaction price of a green jade bracelet was 31.2 million yuan, and the exchange price for Hong Kong dollars was 34.62 million yuan, and that bracelet was worse than his own one in terms of planting, and it could only be regarded as a high ice species, and the color was not so positive - otherwise Ge Yun and He Yiwei, two big experts, would not be valued at 39 million Hong Kong dollars.

After negotiating the details, the next step is to sign the consignment auction contract.

During the whole negotiation and signing process, the bracelet appraisal and handover, the two parties retained the images.

After more than two hours, everything was done, Li Shi refused the invitation to entertain, returned to the hotel, stood in front of the window, he took out the contract and read it twice, the suppressed excitement in his heart finally couldn't be controlled, he waved his fist excitedly, jumped a few times, and laughed.

"As long as the auction is not unsuccessful, the transaction price is at least 36.2 million Hong Kong dollars, deducting taxes and auction company fees, what you can get is ......"

He took out his mobile phone and calculated it, 31.132 million Hong Kong dollars, which is converted to 28.077 million yuan!

"In other words, as long as you don't lose the auction, you can get at least more than 28 million!"

Thinking that it wouldn't be long before he could get so much money, Li Shi was excited, and at the same time, he couldn't help but think about how to spend this money if it was in hand.

"One day, I'm going to be bothered by spending money?"

For a moment, he was a little crazy.

When I was in junior high school, I loved to dream of winning the lottery, that would always be yy, if I won five million, what should I do, and I saved money to contribute to the lottery station twenty or thirty times, and then I saw more, knew more about the dark side of society, and never had such a daydream.

"First of all, the house and the car, and the improvement of the mother's living environment, and the rest...... We'll talk about that then. ”

He lived more than 20 years before, just an ordinary young man from the countryside, after entering the society, in Tanzhou, a city with a low income level, the monthly salary plus part-time salary, the most income was only more than 10,000 yuan.

"More than 20 million, if you rely on yourself to work for the capitalists, it will take more than 200 years without eating or drinking to earn it."

For a moment, he let out a long sigh of emotion.

"The money hasn't arrived yet, don't be in a hurry to think about how to spend it, put the enjoyment later, and temporarily raise Chinese learning to the mastery stage."

Li Shi struggled to keep himself awake.

He felt that he should control money in the future, not be a slave to money.

I have the confidence to have my own learning panel.

With a flick of the jade wrench on his thumb, Li Shi bought a high-speed rail ticket, took a taxi to Hucheng Hongqiao Station, and got on the train back to Tanzhou.

Without waving his hand, he immersed himself in the book and left the prosperity of Shanghai without seeing it.

"There is no need to say goodbye, this drunken metropolis, one day, I will come back, and at that time, I should be able to enjoy the charm of this city."

Back in Tanzhou, Li Shi'an lived in a newly rented house, studying the courses of the university period, the progress was much slower than expected, an average of three to five days, to finish a book, half a month later, on the learning panel, the "Chinese (proficient)" being studied was promoted to "Chinese (proficient +)".

In the past half a month, Dejia Auction Company has also been in touch.

Since signing the consignment auction agreement, they have specially built a WeChat working group for Li Shi, called "Mr. Li Entrustment Group", and the catalogue of the special auction of Xiangjiang jewelry was also updated in the WeChat group for the first time.

Li Shi carefully looked at all the lots in the catalogue, jadeite, diamond, ruby, sapphire ...... A variety of luxury jewelry is available, with estimates ranging from tens of thousands to millions.

His bracelet and another Colombian emerald and gemstone ring, the two finales of the sale, were not indicated, but were written "estimate to be consulted."

Li Shi is cautious by nature, after reading the catalogue in the WeChat group, he still checked it on the official website of Dejia Company, compared the catalogue published on the official website, and after confirming that it was the same as the catalogue of the WeChat group, he was finally relieved.

A few days later, when he was studying "Comparative Literature", Zhou Yajuan made a special call and invited him to Xiangjiang to participate in the auction, but he directly declined.

"Thanks, I'll just watch the live video then."

After hanging up the phone, Li Shi continued to study with an unchanged expression.

He has a feeling that he is not far from breaking through Chinese (proficient +).

Then, more than ten days passed, and the time came to August, and he successively reviewed five or six textbooks such as "Ancient Chinese I and II", "Modern and Contemporary Literature", "Modern Called Tutorials", and "History of Chinese Literary Criticism".

I always feel that there is only a thin film separated from the promotion, and it seems that it will be pierced with a slight touch, but it can't be broken.

On August 8, the auction was held in Hong Kong as scheduled.

Li Shi opened the live broadcast on the official website early, and while gnawing on "Selected Notes on Chinese Literary Works", he paid attention to the bidding of jadeite and diamond lots.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the middle-aged male auctioneer began to introduce the finale lot 3622, a green jade bracelet.

He suddenly came to his senses, raised his head, closed the book, and looked at the tablet on the stand in front of him.

"I don't need to introduce this lot, the starting price is 36 million Hong Kong dollars, is there a bid?"

"Okay, call 86 bid 36 million!"

"37 million!"

……

When someone shouted 37 million, the tight strings in Li Shi's heart suddenly loosened - don't worry about the missed auction.

When Li Shi chose to exchange bracelets, he used the best part of the ring surface as a reference, the color was uniform, transparent, and the most rare thing was the whole bracelet, which was exchanged for the best part, so there was no impurity cotton wool, which was extremely rare.

The higher the price, the higher it gets.

Li Shi stared quietly, but his heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

"45.8 million, deal!"

As the auctioneer dropped the hammer, Li Shi let out a long breath.

He quickly calculated it with his phone, converted it into RMB on the search page, and quickly came up with the number he could get - more than 35 million!

According to the contract, as long as the buyer pays for the goods, within ten working days, this huge amount of money will be transferred to the ICBC account reserved by himself!