317 Auction Hall

At the same time that Han Daring saw the mirror core, he also saw that by the side door on the side of the auction table, there was a person looking out, but it was Ye Ling.

As soon as Han Dada'er made eye contact with her, she immediately retreated into the darkness in the door, deliberately avoiding Han Dada'er's eyes.

At this time, outside the two doors of the auction hall, there were four big men holding batons, responsible for the security of the auction hall.

In the auction room, most of the guests are already seated according to their seat numbers. There are three seats on each row to the left and right, and everyone can sit in four and a half rows, which means a total of twenty-seven guests, some of whom are the owners of the lots, but also the bidders of the others.

Han Daring sat in the third row, on the chair in the middle aisle on the left side, and Gao Jinghui sat on the left side. Zhang Xi sat in the front row of Han Da'er, and Yan Zhiyi sat next to Zhang Xi.

Mei Ruohong's seat and Han Daring'er were not in the same place, but in the front row. On the seat on the right side of the aisle, Mei Ruohong originally wanted to change seats with Gao Jinghui, but Gao Jinghui felt that he was too far behind, so he also agreed to change seats, but Lao Cai said that the auction organizer required that everyone must follow the seat of the invitation letter and cannot change it at will, so Mei Ruohong had no choice but to give up.

Sitting next to Mei Ruohong was the French antiques dealer, Jean Pierre. He was chatting with a brown-haired Frenchman next to him, and the two whispered, so that Pierre still didn't turn back, and secretly glanced at Han Da'er, and when he saw Han Da'er's knife-like eyes, he was immediately defeated and quickly retracted his head.

The Frenchman next to Pierre turned his head to look at Han Da'er, his eyes contemptuous. In front of Mei Ruohong is the first row, and in front of her sits an old man, who is wiping the magnifying glass in his hand with a velvet cloth, and it is said that this old man is also a famous antique collector.

Sitting next to the old man was a middle-aged man, wearing a suit and leather shoes, and the jewel cuffs on the cuffs looked like they were genuine at a high price. It's just that he wears glasses with a deep degree of myopia, and it is estimated that he will not be able to see anything clearly if he takes off his glasses. That's probably why the auction house deliberately placed him in the first row.

The one on the far right sat Xie An, who looked like an impermanent ghost. Xie An leaned on the outside, and not far to the right, there was a statue and a large vase standing on the side. He was a frequent associate with the Durand auction house and a regular visitor to the French Chamber of Commerce, but it didn't make sense to be placed in the outermost chair.

But Han Daring believes that the reason why Durand Auction House arranged it this way was because they knew that Xie An and Lu Zhengxiong were not compatible, so they tried to keep the two away as much as possible. Because Lu Zhengxiong was sitting on the left side of the first row near the aisle, there were two people between the two of them, and there was also an aisle, which also made the distance between the two people stay away and keep their distance.

Lu Zhengxiong was sitting in the first row in front of Zhang Xi, because he was tall, he almost blocked Zhang Xi's view, which made Zhang Xi very distressed. Lu Zhengxiong is a golden knife, invincible, with a Cuban cigar in his mouth, Zhang Xi in the back row of the smoky and burning fire coughed and suffered unspeakably.

Zhang Xi just patted him on the shoulder and wanted him to put out his cigar, but when Lu Zhengxiong turned his head and glared, he was so frightened that Zhang Xi's words were as small as the sound of mosquitoes. Han Daring couldn't look past it, and was about to step forward to educate this Lu Zhengxiong.

At this time, Lao Cai came over and politely asked Lu Zhengxiong to extinguish the cigar, Lu Zhengxiong was reluctant at first, but Lao Cai was a professional deacon, so he kept smiling and looking at Lu Zhengxiong, which made Lu Zhengxiong a little bored, so he directly put out the cigar in the ashtray that Lao Cai brought.

The two seats on Lu Zhengxiong's left were vacant, and Yan Zhiyi and Zhang Xi's master and apprentice were excluded, and the widow with the child sat on the far left, Mrs. Alina. His son was sitting on her lap, rubbing his eyes and drowsy, for such a place seemed very boring to a child.

Alina remained silent, looking softly in the direction of the auction table. From the moment she entered the hall of the western-style building, she didn't say a word, didn't drink or eat any snacks, just led her son to sit on the sofa in the hall to rest.

Although she seems very ladylike, she gives people the impression of being overly dignified, after all, she is also an archaeologist and a woman who has worked in the Egyptian wilderness with her husband, and it is reasonable that she would not be so stereotyped. I don't know if the blow of widowhood made him so cold, and only when he treats his son, he will show some smiles.

Han Daring glanced at the three rows in front of him, but he didn't find Lynch, the holder of "Sleeping Girl". When I entered the door just now, I obviously saw him wandering around the statue on the side, and I went up to say a few words to Lu Zhengxiong, but then he disappeared.

He looked at Gao Jinghui again, it was a blonde foreigner, and when he looked back, he found that Wang Weihan was sitting outside the last row with makeup, and Wang Weihan was sitting in the same row, and the person in the aisle was Lin Qi, and there was a foreigner between the two.

At this time, Lynch seemed to be looking in the direction of Mei Ruohong, and his eyes were a little intoxicated, there were only two women in the auction today, one was Mrs. Alina, and the other was Mei Ruohong. Lynch looked at Mei Ruohong's eyes, obviously with a kind of admiration and obsession.

Lynch glanced at Han Da'er, who was looking back at him, so he immediately withdrew his eyes, politely returned a smile, and then looked ahead at the auction table.

Han Daring felt that there was an indescribable feeling in Lynch's eyes, a strange sense of hunger, but it was not like the eyes of a hungry beast seeing its prey, it was not so fierce and sharp, it seemed more like a gluttonous cat seeing a fish with a mouth full of salivation. This feeling made Han Daring very disgusted.

In fact, Han Da'er came this time, mainly to investigate, but his position was very unfavorable for observation, and he wanted to get up and talk to Wang Weihan behind him, asking him to help keep an eye on Lynch. But at this time, Burroughs walked from the back row to the front, ascended the stairs on the side of the auction table, and then invited the organizer, Abel Bertrand, to the stage and gave a brief speech.

Han Daring'er seemed a little impolite to get up at this time, so he glanced back at Wang Weihan, at this time, Wang Weihan was also looking up, and Han Da'er's eyes intersected, seeing him frowning slightly, Wang Weihan saw that he seemed to want to say something, but he didn't understand it.

Han Da'er's eyes swept to the side, and said in his heart, he must have heard the conversation between himself and Xu Lingfeng on the side just now, and the conversation mentioned Lynch. So he swept his eyes in the direction of Lynch, and Wang Weihan immediately understood and nodded.

Han Da'er felt a little relieved at this time, and when he turned his head to look ahead, Bertrand had already finished speaking, took Ye Ling's hand and walked down the auction table, and sat on the two seats next to Lu Zhengxiong in the first row.

The first row where Ye Ling is located, the closest to the auction table, on a long table in front of the auction table, there are four or five exhibition shelves, on which are some of the lots of today's auction, from left to right, a white porcelain statue, next to the statue is placed the mirror core of the Yuanqiao Immortal Mirror, the position of the mirror core is facing Ye Ling, as long as she leans forward slightly, you can reach it, it is estimated that she is sitting here to guard the mirror core.

Further to the right is a pair of cloisonné vases, a large carved wooden pavilion, boxy with two suitcases stacked on top of each other. Then there is a scroll, which should be a work of calligraphy and painting, and then to the right is a large Yuan blue and white jar, and the far right is a Ming Dynasty gem-inlaid waist knife. It's just that I didn't see the oil painting "Sleeping Girl" and the "exquisite gold statue" that Lu Zhengxiong put up for auction as Xu Lingfeng said.

Maybe some important lots have not been taken out yet, maybe they are not well placed, or the size is limited, and when it is the turn of some lots, they will be taken out of the warehouse to continue the lots. Moreover, each lot has been authenticated by the auction house, and it is impossible to buy a fake.

At this time, the auction officially began, Xu Lingfeng walked up to the auction table from the side steps, standing in front of the narrow auction table, he was today's auctioneer, responsible for the final drop.

The items to be auctioned start with white porcelain statues and are carried to the auction table in turn, where they are placed on a table covered with a smooth tablecloth next to the auction table. If the owner of the auction item is present, the owner will be invited to the stage, and after the auction of the item, the donation agreement will be signed directly according to the amount of the auction.

The first white porcelain statue was finally auctioned by the old man in the first row for 500 yuan. The owner of the white porcelain statue was not present, so the auction house counted the donation amount and filled in the donation amount on his behalf.

Han Daring looked at the order, thinking that the second piece would be the mirror core, but who knew that Xu Lingfeng directly skipped the mirror core and continued to auction the next lot, which couldn't help but make Wang Weihan a little puzzled, and his eyes kept looking forward.

The lady Alina seemed to be looking at the wicks as well, but then continued to look at another lot that had been brought on stage.

Han Daring thought to herself, either she didn't auction in order at all, or Ye Ling deliberately asked Bertrand to put the mirror core in the last auction, after all, the original intention of this auction was not to bring out the Sanyang Sect.

The lots were auctioned one by one, and as Han Dadaer expected, in fact, the auction was not in the order of placement, but according to porcelain first, then jade, calligraphy and painting, and finally wood, gold and iron objects. In this order, the mirror core and the Ming Dynasty waist knife should be the last to be auctioned.

Han Daring was not interested in the auction, just waiting for the auction of "The Sleeping Girl" and the final mirror core.

At this time, the auction house carried a wooden box from the storeroom, put it on the long table in front of the auction table, and opened the wooden box. Xu Lingfeng attached great importance to this lot, personally walked off the stage, took out the lot, held it in both hands and brought it to the auction table, and put it on the table next to the auction table.

I saw that this is a statue of a secret religious ghost god!

The statue is not big, only less than a foot, the whole body is black, slightly translucent under the light, the ambilight is shining, barefoot and six arms, the face is fierce, the body is engraved with gold scriptures, in addition to the inlaid gold and jade ornaments, the magic weapon held in the six hands is also carved in one, and inlaid with the eight treasures of Buddhism.

The holder of this statue is Lu Zhengxiong!

Everyone present couldn't help but marvel at the statue, and almost all of them looked at it with straight eyes and were completely speechless. Pierre was about to look at it and couldn't pull it out, but Xie An had a look of horror on his face when he saw this statue.

Han Daring couldn't see what kind of material this was, so he asked Zhang Xi in the front row.

Zhang Xi leaned back and whispered:

"The main body of the statue is carved from Hetian black jade!"

Ever since Han Dada'er found the jade artifact before, he had specifically consulted Lan Banchi about jade.

Lan Banqi also took out all kinds of jade to show Han Da'er to explain, Mo Yu Han Da'er saw it at that time, but the knowledge is not big, and it is not a piece of ink, and there is a little white jade, strictly speaking, it should be a piece of blue and white Hetian jade, but I have never seen such a pitch black as ink, and so big.

The so-called black jade is a kind of Hetian jade, which is divided into white jade, green jade, topaz, sugar jade, jasper, black jade, and red jade. For example, red jade and the like talk about the color of the jade skin, so that the jade is vermilion, but there is no red jade.

Hetian jade is produced in Cambrian metamorphic rocks, which is the product of the interaction between the solution of magma and dolomite marble in the later stage, in which the color of black jade is divided into sheet ink, point ink, poly ink, etc., mainly because of the black substance in white jade.

It is very rare to find a piece of black black jade, and the light transmission of black jade is not good, it is even more rare in the world to be able to be as black as ink like this statue, and so lush, and can also show the texture in the light.

Coupled with the ingenuity of this carving and the vivid expression, it can be said to be vivid.

Han Daring could only see that this statue had an obvious Esoteric religious style, but he didn't know what kind of ghost and god it was carved, so he asked Zhang Xi again.

Zhang Xi explains:

"This statue is one of the protector gods of the Esoteric religion, the Great Black Bodhisattva! The Sanskrit word is Mahagara, and the Tibetan word is Rolling Potcha Jupa. It means the six-armed protector god, or the six-armed deity. Legend has it that it is one of the images of the Great Sun Nyorai subduing demons in the world.

Some people also say that in fact, the ghost king who specializes in eating evil ghosts, in short, there are different versions of it, and there is also a saying that the big black sky is the god of wealth, and the blessing of the big black sky can be rich! It's just ......"

"But what? ......" Han Da'er asked.

Zhang Xi paused and said in a low voice:

"There have long been rumors in the antique world that there is a terrible legend about this black jade and gold statue of the big black sky, saying that it has a vicious spell attached to it, although the person who gets it can make a lot of money, but once he loses this statue, he will immediately be in a different place and die without a place to bury!"

He whispered here, but he didn't know that in an instant, someone was really going to die here!