Jin Yutong

Chapter 353 Sky-high price auction (1)

The auction hall of the Dingsheng Auction House is quite large, with a total of five or six hundred square meters, like a conference hall, and the decoration is also magnificent, except for the front that is reserved for the auction table, there are tea seats around it. , each tea seat is filled with snacks and other foods and wine glasses filled with red wine.

When Chen Ran and Bai Lei entered the auction hall together, the auction was about to start, and the guests sat down in their respective seats, each holding a number plate in their hands, which means paying Those who get the deposit are generally seated according to the number on the number plate.

When Chen Ran came in, since the guests were taking their seats one after another, he brought the purple unicorn in, which didn't cause much alarm except for a small amount of attention.

I noticed people, but I didn't care too much. I guess they all regarded Chen Ran as a son of some family. They have seen such people a lot, so naturally they don't take it to heart, but they all focus on Zi Qilin. They stayed on the body for a long time, obviously they saw the extraordinaryness of Zi Qilin at a glance.

"Xiao Ran, you are really not in a hurry. If you don't come early or late, you just arrived at the right time." Bai Lei took Chen Ran directly to the teahouse where Bai Lao was, and saw that he was following Bai Lei. Chen Ran, who was in a hurry, Bai Lao laughed.

"Bai Lao. Jiang Lao, you are here too." At the teahouse, besides Bai Lao, Jiang Lao was also there. When he saw Chen Ran coming, he smiled and nodded at Chen Ran. After Chen Ran greeted Bai Lao , and hurriedly greeted Mr. Jiang. The two masters who were jealous when they met each other sat together in a friendly manner, which surprised him.

"It's about to start, sit down quickly." Bai Lao laughed and beckoned Chen Ran to come over and sit beside him. Just as Chen Ran sat down, Zi Qilin also rushed over. When Bai Lao saw it, he was surprised.

"Hey, why did you bring a big guy in?"

"Grandpa, don't touch it, it's powerful." When Bai Lao was young, he was also a big stubborn. Flowers, birds and crickets were no problem. When he saw the purple unicorn rushing towards him, he couldn't help stretching out his hand after being surprised. Wanting to stroke the purple unicorn's head, Bai Lei was so frightened that he hurriedly let out a cry.

"Old Bai, it's okay..." Chen Ran shook his head with a smile, reached out and patted the purple unicorn to make it calmer, and after being patted by Chen Ran, the purple unicorn lay obediently at Chen Ran's feet. Only then did he reach out and 'touch' the purple unicorn's head.

"This big guy is not bad." After 'touching' a bit, Bai Lao nodded and commented.

"That's right. It's so majestic to take it out with you. Grandpa, you can also get me one to keep..." Bai Lei was very envious of Chen Ran's majesty just now. Said with a straight face.

"You think it's Chinese cabbage, you can get it if you want, it's like an antique, it depends on chance, it's not something you can buy with money..."

Bai Lao glared at Bai Lei angrily and cursed with a smile. From his old man's eyes, he can naturally see that the purple unicorn is not an ordinary Tibetan mastiff. He has no objection to Bai Lei's playing this game. Wrong money, worth the money, you can play whatever you want.

Just like Bai Lei wanted to raise one, not only did he not object, he actually quite supported it.On this point, Mr. Bai is still very open-minded. I'm afraid this is the reason why Bai Lei doesn't go home and stays with Mr. Bai all the time.

"Don't look for me about this matter, go to Xiaoran, Xiaoran is lucky, hehe, well, let's not talk about it, the auction has started."

Bai Lao pushed the matter onto Chen Ran, which made Chen Ran smile bitterly. He really wanted to get one for Bai Lei. After all, this kid helped him a lot during this period, and it was all for this kid. The most important thing is that he has no connections, not to mention that since he wants to get one for this kid, he must at least get a purebred Tibetan mastiff. Even if there is a connection, it is not easy to get a purebred mastiff, Zhu Feng It was a fluke to get the purebred Chigu cub, let alone him, so Chen Ran could only pretend that he couldn't see the kid's staring eyes... Bai Lei didn't pester Chen Ran either. , the auction over there started to attract his attention.

After all the guests were seated one after another, a female emcee was the first to appear. Chen Ran didn't know this female emcee, but he had better hearing. From the whispering voices of others, he could hear The hostess is a big star surnamed Cai, who seems to be quite famous.

Chen Ran didn't take it seriously either, no matter what ceremony is being held these days, a big star must be invited to press the stage, not to mention such a private occasion, even official ceremonies often require a celebrity to be the endorser.

None of the people present were ordinary people, so the appearance of this very popular star did not cause much sensation.

The big star said a few words of congratulations such as welcoming the guests, and then focused on a few important guests, and these important guests were indeed heavyweights.

There are those from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, all of whom are celebrities and authoritative experts in the collection field, which can be regarded as letting Chen Ran know a little bit and gain a lot of knowledge.

After saying a few words, he announced the start of the auction.

"Gentlemen and ladies, I am Ma Chao, the auctioneer who presided over this auction. I am very glad that you can come to participate in this special auction of Dingsheng artwork..."

After the female master of ceremonies stepped down, a middle-aged man wearing white gloves walked up to the auction stage, and spoke a prologue in standard Mandarin with passionate emphasis. The applause can be regarded as adjusting the atmosphere of the audience.

"The first item we are going to auction today is a painting, a copy of a painting from later generations, but this copy is more valuable than the real one..."

Ma Chao is the chief auctioneer of Dingsheng Auction House. He has a strong ability to adjust the atmosphere of the audience. The words provoked interest and excitement for the auction.

The auction house didn't directly put the Huashen Cup up for auction, which was expected by Chen Ran. The auction house's usual method is to arrange some other auction items with prices ranging from low to high before the finale. Carrying out an auction, in this way, can not only set off the preciousness of the finale auction, but also gradually warm up the anger of the scene, mainly to adjust the atmosphere, it is like playing cards or mahjong, at the beginning, two yuan and five yuan are too much Yes, but after playing for a while, whether you win or lose, you don't care about five dollars.

In addition to the finale auction, Dingsheng Auction House's other curios are obviously very outstanding. Not to mention other things, only the pre-heating item of this one can be compared to the international auction venue. It can be seen that for this auction, Dingsheng Auction The line also cost a lot of money.

Ma Chao only said the first half of this sentence, but he deliberately paused and didn't say the rest of the sentence, making everyone guess, and correspondingly, it caused a commotion in the venue.

The situation in front of me is the standard for those who know how to watch the doorway, those who don’t know how to watch the excitement, and those who know how to listen to Ma Chao’s words here can basically guess who made this antique painting, and those who don’t know how to know can ask Ask, those who don't know anyone can only stare at the fun.

Hearing Ma Chao's words, Chen Ran knew what was going on with this antique painting almost without thinking. In the line of ancient calligraphy and painting, there is a person whose imitation paintings are more valuable than the real ones.

This person is none other than the famous Zhang Daqian.

When it comes to Huaxia painting circles, there are two famous people who have to say that they are the Southern Zhang and the Northern Qi. The Southern Zhang and the Northern Qi refer to Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi respectively.

Zhang Daqian was originally named Zhang Zhengquan, also known as Zhang Yuan, styled Ji Yuan, nicknamed Daqian, aliased as Daqian Jushi, Xialibaren, and was named Dafengtang.He is the most legendary master of traditional Chinese painting in the Chinese painting circle in the [-]th century. He knows everything about painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and poetry.His painting style is a combination of fine brushwork and freehand brushwork, heavy color, ink and wash, and splashing ink and color techniques have created a new painting art style.

Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings are more valuable than the original ones. It does not mean that Zhang Daqian's painters are better than the original painters. If the painters are good, the imitation paintings are not necessarily valuable. Since they are imitations, they must be compared with the original works. Naturally, the better.

Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings can almost be faked, especially the imitation of Shi Tao has reached the same level of physical and spiritual. As we all know, Shi Tao's paintings are the most difficult to imitate, and only Zhang Daqian can imitate them success.

It is this kind of technique that makes Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings more valuable than the real ones.

"I'll give 65 million..."

Just as Ma Chao announced the reserve price of 60 yuan for this imitation painting of Zhang Daqian, someone began to shout the price immediately below, and the first person shouted the price, and the venue became lively, and the guests present frequently raised their hands , the competition is fierce.

"I offer 70." "75." "85." "I offer 90..."

Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings are still quite popular, not to mention other people, even Chen Ran originally wanted to bid for them. Ma Zhiyuan asked him to find a pair of ancient calligraphy and paintings. Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings can definitely be sold, but he Unexpectedly, there were so many people bidding. In the blink of an eye, it was over a million.

A million is not worth it.

Chen Ran thinks about it or forget it, let Ma Zhiyuan take more than a million ancient calligraphy and paintings as gifts, maybe someone will check him, of course, this is not the main reason, the main reason is that Chen Ran suddenly thought of auctioning at the auction All the items have auction records, no matter who can find them, it is undoubtedly too high-profile for Ma Zhiyuan to give them away.

"Okay, 1605 million yuan, congratulations to this gentleman..."

When the bidding price reached 160 million, there were no more bids. Ma Chao encouraged it a few times, and seeing that there were no more bids, he picked up the auction hammer and knocked it down heavily.

"The omen is good." After Ma Chao called out the deal, Bai Lao said happily.

Elder Jiang also nodded with a smile.

The purpose of the two of them to participate in this auction is naturally for the Flower God Cup. Although the two of them have no intention of taking the auction, they both regard Chen Ran as the junior of their nephew and nephew. The cup was made by Chen Ran, so they paid close attention to it.

Chen Ran couldn't help laughing, he looked a little uplifted, the imitation painting of Zhang Daqian in front of him is not a high-quality goods, and it would be good if it can be sold for a million at the usual auction, but now it has sold for 1605 million It can be said that the price is high.

The high price of the first lot is undoubtedly a good sign. When it comes to die casting, the result is needless to say.

"Let's proceed to the second auction..."

After the first deal was sold, Ma Chao took out the second lot, which turned out to be a bloodstone, which was also sold at a high price.

"I bid 120 million!"

After a young man sitting in the teahouse next to Chen Ran made a bid, it caused a fierce competition, and finally the bloodstone was sold at a high price of 190 million.

In the following process, a total of five or six pieces were auctioned. Regardless of the price, the atmosphere was gradually heightened.

"Okay, my friends must have been waiting impatiently. You must be scolding me in your heart for wasting everyone's time. Next, let's auction the last item, which is..."

When he said this, Ma Chao suddenly stopped, and the atmosphere of the audience was also tense because of his pause, and his breathing was a little short.

Although the auction hadn't started yet, the audience suddenly fell silent, no one made a sound, everyone held their breath, their eyes widened as if they were bloodshot, as if they were about to muster their energy to bid. ...