legendary trader

Chapter 377 Chapter 378 The Boring Afternoon Auction

On Sunday afternoon, the sky in the imperial capital was clear for a long time.

The sun in winter is no longer so scorching and dazzling, but becomes milder. Although the weather is still dry and cold, the sun shines on your face, like a mother's hand gently stroking your cheek; the sun shines on your body, like a hotbed that comforts all things .

Sitting in the car, Chen Fan weighed the gold-plated invitation in his hand. It was the ticket for the Chinese New Year Auction sent by Mr. Zhu Qiye this morning.

"Number 312, it means that more than 300 cards have been sent out, oh, the competition is really big enough." Chen Fan said unconsciously looking at the invitation.

"That's the room number of the box, not the invitation number." Liu Ying said without a trace of emotion beside her.

"Daughter-in-law, you're still angry. I promise not to drink so much in the future. Don't be angry."

After breakfast, Chen Fan coaxed Liu Ying behind his family's back, finally calming her down a bit.

"Hmph." Liu Ying didn't say much, just hummed softly.

The car was speeding on the highway in the suburbs, and it didn't take long to drive into a yard. I have to thank the people Zheng Xiaopang found, Li Wu and the others seemed to be very familiar with the imperial capital.

This is an antique courtyard. Although it looks very functional, Chen Fan can tell at a glance that it should be a modern building.

The car stopped in front of the door, and Chen Fan got out of the car to look around. There were security guards standing everywhere. It seemed that the security level of the auction was very high.

Holding Liu Ying's little hand to pick her up from the car, Li Jian also got off the passenger seat and followed them to the gate, and soon a lady standing at the gate greeted her.

After receiving the invitation card from Chen Fan, he stretched out his hand to help him, "Sir, please come inside." He led the way and led Chen Fan and the others up the stairs on the right hand side of the door, perhaps because he saw Liu Ying's intimate embrace. He held Chen Fan's hand, so he thought they were a young couple, but Chen Fan's heart moved, and he seemed to think of something again, and felt a little guilty. At this time, Chen Fan understood the reason for Liu Ying's temper.

Glancing at Liu Ying beside her, it seemed that she didn't hear the other party's address clearly. After all, there were many guests coming in and out, or talking in twos and threes.

Chen Fan followed Miss Yingbin upstairs and looked down on the stairs. Behind the screen of the gate is a hall, and a tall platform inside should be the auction platform. This should be the venue of the auction. It seems that he does not need to Sitting on the seat under the table, there should be a private room upstairs, it's really big enough.

At this moment, the front of the seats inside is already full of people, only the back is a little sparse. It seems that there are quite a lot of people participating, and there are huge crowds of people, but I don’t need to squeeze underneath anyway, who cares.

Unconsciously, Chen Fan straightened his back and followed upstairs to the third floor. Only now did Chen Fan understand the meaning of 312, box 12 on the third floor, the same house number as the convenience hotel.

Walking into the private room, a window on the opposite side was facing the auction hall below. Chen Fan first went to pull out a chair for Liu Ying to sit down, and then Chen Fan walked to the opposite position and pulled out the chair to sit down.

Soon the welcoming lady brought in a tray with several cups of tea and pastries on it, and at the same time put the invitation on the table in front of Chen Fan, and said softly: "Sir, if you need anything, you can press the button on the table, I will Waiting outside the door, always available."

Chen Fan looked around when he entered the room, and now he looked at the dignified and decent welcome lady and asked, "When will the auction start?" '

"There is still half an hour to start, sir, please wait for a while." The welcoming lady replied hastily, "The catalog of auction items for Auction A will be delivered in a while, please wait a moment."

"It's my first time participating in this auction. If there is a lot that I like, how should I raise my placard?" Chen Fan looked around the room, but he didn't see anything that was up for auction, and he was still wondering.

The welcoming lady bowed and said, "A talker will be sent along with the album in a while. When the time comes, sir, you only need to press the talker to quote the price of any lot you like." She pointed to an electronic screen on the left side of the auction hall outside the window and continued. Said: "The box number and quotation will be displayed on it."

"When will the album be delivered?" Chen Fan was very curious about this auction, especially the auction items, but when he came here, he said that he would have to wait a while to see the album, so he felt that he was being slowed down.

"The album will be delivered 10 minutes before the shooting, which is also the custom of the shooting." Miss Yingbin said hastily.

Chen Fan suddenly felt bored, and felt a little uncomfortable thinking that he would have to wait for ten minutes. He waved his hand, and the welcoming lady stepped back and closed the door.

At this time, only Chen Fan and Liu Ying were left in the box, and Li Jian was standing outside the door. Chen Fan didn't have any idea about it. When he went upstairs, he noticed that there were people standing on the second and third floors. Outside the box, there are not only bodyguards wearing clothes, but also a welcoming lady like the previous one, it should be that there are already people in the box.

Chen Fan looked downstairs through the window, and there were many people coming in, soon filling up the empty back seats.

"There are quite a few people attending the meeting. I wonder if the bidding will be fierce?" Chen Fan said to Liu Ying with a smile.

At the moment Liu Ying is also paying attention to the changes below, but there is no change below when she comes in. It seems that there is still some time to wait for the auction to start, at least it may not start until the auction album is delivered, but she is a little bit I doubt the album, because each box seems to be in charge of a special person, but what to do with so many people in the downstairs hall, there will be no information about the auction.

"Before, I really wanted to see someone behind the screen hand out a sign according to the invitation. At that time, the sign seemed to be more than 700, so I didn't see it clearly." Liu Ying looked away and glanced at Chen Fan.

Drinking fragrant tea and eating cakes, Liu Ying seemed to be calming down a bit at this time, and started chatting with Chen Fan. It was the first time for both of them to come here, so they whispered about the rules here.

After waiting for a while, there was a knock on the door of "Dong Dong Dong".

"Come in." Chen Fan shouted towards the door.

Immediately the door was pushed open, and the welcoming lady who led them upstairs had turned into a service lady at this moment, she walked in with a thick picture book in both hands, and bowed slightly to Chen Fan and Liu Ying when she got close , "Sir, madam, this is the catalog of the auction items, you can find your favorite items in it, I wish you a happy day."

Chen Fan took the album and the quotation box and nodded, and the service lady withdrew immediately.

Chen Fan looked at the things in his hand, put the ticker directly on the table, and passed the auction album to Liu Ying with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, you should read it first."

At this time, Chen Fan noticed that Liu Ying's pretty face was reddish and she looked shy, very charming and alluring, and swallowed unconsciously.

There was a lot of noise at the door before, Liu Ying really didn't hear what Miss Ying Bin said, but now in the quiet box, she could hear clearly, and she couldn't tolerate her being shy.

Now Liu Ying has faded away from her greenness and started to mature, exuding the smell of a mature woman. She is also a few years older than Chen Fan, and the two of them walking arm in arm look like they have been married for several years couple.

"Daughter-in-law, sister Ying, you should take a look first." Chen Fan shook the album in his hand as he spoke.

Liu Ying came back to look at the auction album handed in front of her, and shook her head, "You should read it first."

Chen Fan didn't say much, he took back the album and began to look through it.

Porcelain bronze ware. Calligraphy and painting
Chen Fan kept flipping through the album, but he felt that some of the items in front of him were not what he liked, so he flipped through them more quickly, and the speed of turning the pages began to slow down after a half-hour. A photo of the lot, on the right is the introduction to the lot, this paragraph is the introduction of several successive jade and ivory carvings.

Although Chen Fan doesn't understand jade, let alone ivory, he seems to have a pair of ivory chopsticks in a small wooden box at home. It seems that his parents have said that these are old objects, and they are still worth a little money. It was for him, so I became a little interested when I saw these ornaments.

Looking at the photos carefully, he pointed to one of the ivory-carved pen holders and said to Liu Ying: "Look, after you buy this, your dad likes to write calligraphy? I looked at it earlier, and jade and ivory carvings are enough to put in the study. The items are all set up for him.”

"Ivory carvings? Ivory products?" Liu Ying asked, before Chen Fan could speak, she shook her head and said, "Forget it, it seems that the country is considering whether to join the International Protection Regulations in the news, and ivory is explicitly prohibited in that regulation." Buying and selling, not only the seller is guilty, but the buyer should also bear the legal responsibility, so let’s forget it and have a look at the jade.”

"There's another theory?" Chen Fan shook his head in doubt, "It's true, behind every ivory is half the life of an elephant."

Chen Fan turned the pages to continue reading while talking, and quickly read all the albums. At this time, someone had already stood on the auction platform downstairs, and the auction was about to start.

After Chen Fan finished reading the album, he handed it to Liu Ying. This time, Liu Ying just smiled and took the album to look through. Chen Fan also turned his attention to the venue.

As the voice of the auctioneer on the stage came out through the speakers, Chen Fan knew that the auction had started, but Chen Fan was really not interested in the first few antiques, so he just looked at who was bidding, so now Looking intently at the seats downstairs, someone raised a placard to bid for it from time to time.

After seeing that the auctioneer quickly completed the auction of several lots, Chen Fan felt a little disappointed.

I saw so many people downstairs, and there are more than 20 boxes on each floor upstairs, which is really a lot, but these few auctions were completed in just a few rounds, and there was no crowd as he imagined. Participate in the bidding scene.

There was even a bronze tripod that was sold at a reserve price, that is, only one customer participated in the bidding, and it was not known whether it was entrusted by the arrangement of the venue, Chen Fan had an evil thought.

"You like collecting jade, don't you?"

At this moment, Liu Ying said to Chen Fan, she looked back at Liu Ying, she was holding the picture album, and the page she turned to was the auction item below.

"Have you finished reading? Jade wares are now available for purchase. I checked and found that all the small objects in the study and the four treasures of the study can be gathered together. When the time comes, we will take a set and take it back." Chen Fan said to Liu Ying with a smile, " I need to coax the old man better."

Liu Ying gave Chen Fan a blank look, "It's better for you to go out and fool around less."

Chen Fan knew it was a bit of a bad idea at this moment. He was drunk last night, and he probably used some postures he learned from outside on Liu Ying. Although he was guilty, he absolutely couldn't admit it.

"What's the matter? I don't like to drink. I usually don't drink when I drink a little. Yesterday I drank two glasses at the beginning, so I couldn't hold back the alcohol." Chen Fan said, but the effect was obviously not good, Liu Ying was just white He glanced at him and said nothing.

After thinking about it, Chen Fan smiled and said to Liu Ying: "I know what you're thinking, last night those were all Xiaopang who watched me depressed some time ago, and found me a few videos, I learned from them. "

Liu Ying raised her head and looked at Chen Fan. She didn't know what she was thinking, but the next sentence made Chen Fan feel relieved.

"In the future, watch less nonsensical things."

The auction continued below. Chen Fan and the others were not interested in the first dozen or so items, so they didn't participate in the bidding. Moreover, Chen Fan also noticed that there seemed to be no bids for the boxes upstairs.

"The auction is not as intense as imagined." Chen Fan sighed, feeling that it was really unnecessary to come here this time, wasting time, thinking about whether to continue participating in the evening auction.

"The current lot doesn't match what they said. Maybe the current lot is not very good. Maybe the night show has what they said." Liu Ying suddenly answered.

Chen Fan thinks about it too. Last night they bragged about how good the items in the Chinese New Year Auction were, but he could tell that the items were good, but they probably weren't good enough, and they couldn't even call them treasures. Come to think of it, it should be some ordinary stuff, something to fool people, no wonder there are not many boxes with people standing upstairs, maybe people who know the details come to participate in the evening.

Chen Fan patted his head, secretly hated himself for not asking about the situation last night, and ran over in the afternoon.

Because there were not many people participating in the auction, many auctions ended after a few rounds of bidding, so the auction proceeded very quickly, and it didn't take long to see the auction before it was the jade article that Chen Fan noticed earlier.

I remember that when Chen Fan came to the Imperial Capital for the first time earlier, Zhang Jianjun took him to see some of them, but Chen Fan didn't like them.

He still didn't like the things in the album this time, but he still planned to take a set of things and put them back in the study. At home, only Liu's father and Liu's mother read books and practiced calligraphy in the study from time to time.

My parents know how to write and can write, but they definitely can't practice calligraphy.

So at this time, the jade wares started to be put on the auction stage, and Chen Fan curled his lips as he watched the Miss Manners bring the items to the auction stage for display.

I still have an atlas here, but the ones below seem to have not got the atlas, and the auctioneer at the top can only start bidding after a brief introduction.

Chen Fan began to complain in his heart.

(End of this chapter)