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Chapter 922 Taken advantage of

All the collections in today's auction must have a touching story behind them. After all, the true value of each antique is not the antique itself, but the historical value it carries. But when Song Jiang read the introduction of the music box, he couldn't help laughing and said, "The music box that Napoleon gave to his lover...? You guys are too ridiculous, aren't you?!"

"Otherwise, how can you have the nerve to ask for 800 million?" Gu Hao said indifferently.

Song Jiang thought so too, so he whispered to Gu Hao, "How is it, have you seen Duan Tiande?"

Gu Hao looked around, then said in a deep voice, "He hasn't appeared yet... but I know he will show up."

At this time, Deng Kai also came back from the next table. Seeing this, Song Jiang asked casually, "Who is that? He looks familiar..."

"Look at your brain... You've seen Big Deng's personal assistant more than once, okay?" Deng Kai shook his head helplessly.

Song Jiang thought about it carefully and felt that there seemed to be such a person beside Deng Yaohui, so he asked in a low voice, "Why? Does your brother also have something to sell?"

Deng Kai rolled his eyes at Song Jiang and said, "Bullshit, he is the buyer..."

At this time, Yan Ruxue, wearing a wine-red high-necked sleeveless cheongsam, walked up to the stage and said with a smile, "Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I am Yan Ruxue, the auctioneer of this auction. Welcome everyone to participate in this auction. I hope that my hosting today can bring you good luck. This auction adopts the ascending auction method, and the highest bidder wins. Next, please invite Miss Etiquette to exhibit the first collection of this auction, a blue and white underglaze red cloud dragon sea pattern celestial globe vase from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The starting price is 30. The bidding will start now."

Then a tall cheongsam beauty slowly pushed out a glass display case covered with red velvet, and then gently peeled off the red velvet, revealing a big-bellied porcelain vase with cloud patterns inside... Then the cheongsam beauty put on white gloves, took the porcelain vase out of the glass display case, and showed the guests in the audience the seal script on the bottom of the vase: "Made in the Yongzheng Period of the Qing Dynasty."

When Song Jiang saw it, he leaned over to Deng Kai and whispered in his ear, "This big-bellied bottle costs 30? It doesn't look good, either, with so many patterns that it makes me feel desperate!"

Deng Kai snorted after hearing this, "You don't know the goods. This pattern is called Cloud Dragons Descending the Sea. It's a royal item... 30 is just the starting price. I estimate it will take at least double the price to make the deal."

As expected, while Song Jiang and Deng Kai were chatting, the big-bellied porcelain vase was sold for 66 yuan. Then the etiquette lady pushed up a glass display case, which contained a Yuan Dynasty blue and white molded dragon chasing pearl high-footed target cup, with a starting price of 450 million yuan.

When Song Jiang saw that it was a porcelain high-foot bowl, he immediately looked puzzled and asked, "This little broken bowl is worth 450 million? It's not as good as the big-bellied porcelain vase just now?!"

Deng Kai, who had always been pretending to be cool, also stood on Song Jiang's side this time and said, "Actually, I also think such a small broken thing is not worth much... But it is an antique, and it has historical value, although we don't understand why this historical value is so valuable."

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhe at the side suddenly said, "It's fake... It's not from the old period, at most it's from the Republic of China."

Song Jiang looked around when he heard it, and when he saw that no one heard what Meng Zhe said, he quickly whispered to him, "Alright, my Lord, you just know it yourself, we won't buy this thing, so who cares if it's real or fake? Besides, isn't our music box fake too?" But Meng Zhe shook his head and said, "That music box is indeed an antique, and the age is correct...but it's hard to say who its original owner was."

After that, several more items were released, some were sold, and some were not, but there was no antique music box, so Song Jiang couldn't help but said, "When will the music box be auctioned?! My legs are almost numb from sitting."

Gu Hao said in a deep voice, "I asked Deng Kai to arrange it until the last minute. We should at least give him some time, right?"

When Song Jiang heard that the auction would have to wait until the very end, he sighed helplessly and said, "It seems that being an upper-class person is not that easy... Each one of them needs to be very strong!"

At this time, the etiquette lady on the stage took out a small brocade box, which contained a dull-colored bone bracelet. It was the dragon bone bracelet that Deng Yaohui wanted to bid for. The price was not high, with a starting price of 90. Song Jiang and Deng Kai turned to look at Assistant Zhao, expecting him to raise his placard and bid, but they heard Meng Zhe suddenly say, "100 million."

At that time, several people including Song Jiang were all dumbfounded. Although they knew that Meng Zhe had some money, it was definitely not enough to squander like this? ! One million to buy a fake bracelet? ! Assistant Zhao at the next table looked at Deng Kai with a confused look on his face, asking him what was going on? !

Seeing this, Song Jiang lowered his voice and said to Meng Zhe, "What are you doing? Deng Yaohui wants that fake bracelet... why are you joining in the fun!?"

Unexpectedly, Meng Zhe said in a deep voice, "One of them is real... I must take a picture of this bracelet."

At this time, a bald man not far away raised a sign and called out, "105 million!"

Assistant Zhao came to his senses at this moment, and quickly raised his sign and shouted, "110 million!"

Three auction houses bid for this half-real, half-fake dragon bone bracelet at 150 million in an instant, which made Deng Kai sweat profusely. He quickly looked at Song Jiang and said, "What's going on?!"

Song Jiang made a helpless gesture towards him, indicating that he was also confused. In the end, Deng Kai sent a message to Assistant Zhao, "Don't bid anymore, we are all family members, and bidding like this will only drive up the price... I will explain this to Mr. Deng when I get back."

Assistant Zhao was waiting for Deng Kai to say this, so he called off the bid and stopped raising the price. The bald man also couldn't resist Meng Zhe's repeated price increases, and finally the dragon bone bracelet was sold for 270 million... But at this time, Deng Kai's face turned pale and blue, because he knew very well that Meng Zhe could not afford the 270 million, and in the end he had to be the one to be taken advantage of.

Except for Gu Hao, all the people present were confused by the dragon bone bracelet. He was still immersed in his own world, closing his eyes to feel if there was any unusual aura in the venue, until Yan Ruxue on the stage said loudly, "Next is the last collection of this auction, an antique music box given to his lover Pauline by Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor of the First French Empire, a famous military strategist, politician, revolutionary, strategist, conqueror. The starting price is 800 million."

At the same time, Gu Hao, who had kept his eyes closed, suddenly opened them and turned his head to look at the guests at the table on his right...