Jin Yutong

Why do you think, it turns out that there are so strange people sitting in the auction hall, not only successful people in suits, but also some old men in Tang suits, Taoist monks, even foreign devils and lamas, it is really amazing at first glance There are all three teachings and nine streams.

"The old man called me to ask about you and Fifth Sister at noon today." Without waiting to look at Chen Ran, he suddenly heard Wu Laosan say to him.

"How do you say it?" Chen Ran asked in a daze.

"You don't seem to be worried at all..." Wu Laosan kept looking at Chen Ran after he said what he said just now. He thought that Chen Ran's face would change drastically after hearing his words, but it turned out that Chen Ran didn't have much reaction after hearing what he said. .

"What's the use of worrying? Besides, I didn't want to hide it from anyone?" Chen Ran looked at Wu Laosan and smiled, "Third brother, maybe you are still the same as you were a few months ago, but I am no longer a few I was a month ago, last time you threatened me to let me leave Xiaoyu, but this time you will not have such an opportunity again, not only you, but also others... No one can make me leave Xiaoyu again."

In the latter sentence, Chen Ran said it very decisively.

Maybe it was deterred by Chen Ran's sudden aura at this moment, or maybe it was shocked by Chen Ran's confident and arrogant words, Wu Laosan looked at Chen Ran in a daze, but after reacting, he He snorted and said, "Do you think that with He Zhenhua Rong Mingyang as your backer, our Wu family can't do anything to you!"

The last time he gambled with Zhang Hongjun at the club, this guy was also there, so he knew that Chen Ran and He Zhenhua knew each other and then met Rong Mingyang.

Chen Ran was not angry, but just said calmly: "I don't deny that there is such a reason, but this is not the key point. The key point is that I don't have any backing, and I will never back down. I don't want to fall out with your Wu family, just because I I don't want to embarrass Xiaoyu, but it doesn't mean I'm afraid of your Wu family."

"Do you believe that our Wu family can make you bankrupt with just one word?" Wu Laosan said with a sneer.

"I believe it." Chen Ran nodded with a smile, then looked at Wu Laosan and said, "Does the third brother believe that as long as I am willing, I can earn a bigger family property than this in just one month? "

Wu Laosan wanted to sneer and retort when he heard this, but then he remembered Chen Ran's gambling skills. He saw it with his own eyes when Chen Ran and Zhang Hongjun gambled against each other, although he didn't see how Chen Ran won when he bet against Sangong Yes, but the dice gambling later could not be seen clearly.

"Are you counting on your gambling skills? Then don't die and don't know how to die..."

It is true that a good gambling skill does not worry about money, but this is only relative to ordinary people. It is obviously impossible to count on this to get rich. The last time I gambled with Zhang Hongjun was a coincidence, and I didn’t know that Chen Ran had a good gambling skill. If you know Chen Ran's gambling skills, then obviously no one would dare to gamble with Chen Ran, especially if you go to the casino to gamble. If you win a little money, the people in the casino will know, and when you meet a real casino, they will give you a fortune Money let you go, but you met a dark heart...

If it wasn't so, knowing that Chen Ran is so good at gambling, Wu Laosan would probably want to save and go to the casino in Macau with Chen Ran to earn some money to spend.

Chen Ran didn't argue with Wu Laosan, but just smiled noncommittally. Gambling is indeed quick money, but he never counted on it to make money.

In fact, thinking about it, there are still many ways for him to make money, but some of them are too slow for him to wait, and some of them are because he doesn't have enough capital to get involved.

It seemed that he had to think carefully about the ways he could use to make money.

"Let's not talk about our Wu family, the old man knows about you and the fifth younger sister. I'm afraid the person in the south will know soon. He is not a soft-hearted person. He is not only supported by major families in Nanyang, but also princes who are almost all over the country. The party worked for him, although the continuous suppression from above reduced his sphere of influence to the Hainan area, but this is only superficial, and there are countless talented people under his rebuilt Longtang, who can be sent out at random. Your life..."

Wu Laosan originally used the guy from the south to scare Chen Ran, but he slowed down his tone.

Chen Ran could naturally see that Wu Laosan was scaring himself on the surface, but in fact he was reminding himself.

"The soldiers came to cover the water and the earth. It is not so easy for him to want my life." Chen Ran's tone was still very indifferent. He was only worried about the people around him, but he was not worried about himself at all, and the people around him...he There is the general staff and He Jiarong's family behind him. As long as the other party has a little bit of scruples, they may not dare to directly attack his family members.

Wu Laosan looked at Chen Ran and said nothing, as if he was looking at Chen Ran's confidence.

"What's the matter?" Just as the two of them fell silent, a voice of inquiry came from the side.

Chen Ran looked up and saw a middle-aged man in his 40s who looked quite dignified standing next to their seats and asked.

Chen Ran didn't know each other, so he didn't speak.

"This is my second uncle Yang Xinghe." Seeing that Chen Ran didn't know him, Wu Laosan introduced to Chen Ran, "The clubhouse and auction company are all run by my second uncle."

"Hello, Mr. Yang." Chen Ran said hello, but he was surprised in his heart. He had heard Xiaoyu mention her second uncle before. It is said that her second aunt met when she went to the countryside, and he was also from a poor family in the countryside. After finishing junior high school, he became a primary school teacher in a local elementary school. Later, Xiaoyu's second aunt went to the countryside and came to their place. The two met and got together. If the educated youth returned to the city, if it wasn't for Xiaoyu's second aunt at that time Already pregnant with each other's child and the second aunt Xiaoyu threatened to kill each other... Although the two of them were not forced to leave by the Wu family in the end, they were also angered by the Wu family for this.

According to this statement, Xiaoyu's second uncle should be just an ordinary elementary school teacher. Although he later established a career in the capital, he is not very capable, but the Yang Xinghe in front of him is beyond Chen Ran's understanding. .

Just glanced at Chen Ran and saw that the other party was not a simple person, let alone the aura on his body...Chen Ran felt a very sharp but mysterious aura on the other party...

All of these all show that Xiaoyu's second uncle is a martial arts practitioner and a master, but the other party seems to know some ways to restrain his breath to restrain his breath.

This is also Chen Ran. An ordinary martial arts practitioner might not be able to detect that the opponent has practiced martial arts. Even a master in this field can at most see that the opponent has some martial arts background from other aspects.

"You are Chen Ran?" Yang Xinghe stared at Chen Ran with great interest, and then said with a sigh: "It's really like, if my old friend is still there, it's not good for you two to stand together distinguish..."

He looked at Chen Ran's expression of interest, but he was not surprised. This obviously showed that he had already seen Chen Ran's appearance. Thinking that he was the one who opened this club, Chen Ran knew that the other party must have been watching in the monitoring room just now. I just came here by myself.

"What does it really look like?" Wu Laosan asked strangely.

"Like an old friend of mine." Yang Xinghe sat down beside Chen Ran and looked at Chen Ran.

Wu Lao San looked at Chen Ran strangely when he heard this, but he didn't care too much. Although he had a good relationship with his second uncle, he still looked down on him in his heart after all, and naturally he didn't care about an old friend of the other party.

The other party looked at Chen Ran in a different way, but Chen Ran was not surprised, only when the other party looked at him, he thought of Wang Hongyu who looked very similar to him.

"It seems that I am really similar to Mr. Yang's old friend. Whenever I see Mr. Wang's goodbye, I will ask if my surname is Wang..."

Chen Ran is now more and more curious about Wang Hongyu, who looks very similar to him. First, more than one person met him and asked him if his surname was Wang, which shows that the two really look alike. Second, he Now I am more and more suspicious that Master Miao's taking care of him is also the reason why he and Wang Hongyu look alike.

He clearly remembered that Master Miao was stunned when he saw him for the first time. Although Master Miao didn't ask him if his surname was Wang, he had never met Master Miao. Why did Master Miao be stunned when he saw him? He was startled, so he asked his parents if they knew Master Miao, but his parents said they didn’t know each other. He also asked Miao Hongtao, and it turned out that Master Miao had nothing to do with his family at all. , Then why did Master Miao treat him like that? Even though Master Miao has something to do with his family, but he doesn't look like his father, how could he recognize him the first time he saw him?

Chen Ran used to wonder if Master Miao treated him that way because of Xiaoyu, but when Master Miao met him for the first time, he didn't know Xiaoyu, and later he also asked Xiaoyu that there was no such thing.

He also wondered whether it was because of Uncle Liang, but Uncle Liang never mentioned Master Miao to him, and even if Liang Bo entrusted Master Miao to take care of him, Master Miao's attitude towards him was beyond that kind of "care" "Master Miao would not have recognized him the first time he saw him...

Investigating these reasons, ever since Xiaoyu's second aunt asked him if his surname was Wang last time, he has been wondering if the way Master Miao treated him was also the reason why he and Wang Hongyu looked alike.

"Call me Uncle Yang." Yang Xinghe first asked Chen Ran to change his words, and then asked Chen Ran, "So someone still asks if your surname is Wang?"

Chen Ran nodded, "When I went to Yunnan, the owner of a stone carving shop met me and asked me if my surname was Wang..."

"Stone carving shop?" Yang Xinghe frowned and thought about it, but he didn't seem to come up with anything.

"Uncle Yang, does he know a master named Miao? Master Miao's family is a family of imperial cooks. He himself worked as a cook in Yuquan Mountain, and then returned to the Central Plains..." Yang Xinghe knew the owner of the stone carving, Chen Ran didn't know. He didn't pay much attention, what he cared about was whether Yang Xinghe knew Master Miao or not.

"I don't know." Yang Xinghe obviously has no impression of Master Miao at all, otherwise he wouldn't just shake his head at the first thought. After shaking his head, he said sadly: "I didn't get along with my old friend for a long time. At that time, he was just One fell to our place, and he left after staying for less than a year, and I never saw him again, and I have been looking for him all these years, but there has been no news of him.”

"By the way, that Master Miao also asked if your surname is Wang?" Yang Xinghe asked immediately after finishing speaking.

"That's not true. It's just because he took good care of me after seeing me, because I'm not related to him." Chen Ran shook his head, and then seemed to see what Yang Xinghe wanted to ask, so he was helpless. He shook his head and smiled, "I can't contact him now, and I don't know where he went."

Yang Xinghe looked at Chen Ran in a daze, then his eyes flickered as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he held back his smile and said: "I'm afraid my old friend's friends will take care of you in every possible way when they see you, This is a good thing for you, but my old friend is not an ordinary person. He seemed to be living with us because someone was dealing with him. If the person who dealt with him saw him, you might think of other aspects and then... ..."

Yang Xinghe didn't specify what aspect it was associated with, but the meaning was very clear.

After hearing Yang Xinghe's words, Chen Ran seemed to be frightened and frowned.

"I have Xiao Hei under my command. He has practiced kung fu with a boxing master for several years. How about I let him follow you?" Seeing Chen Ran frowning, Yang Xinghe took the opportunity to say.

"Uncle, I've asked you how many times you want to meet that little blackie." Before Chen Ran could answer, Wu Laosan's complexion changed and he snorted. Originally, he was not interested in the old man Yang Xinghe was talking about. , but what they said was very interesting, so he listened to it without knowing it, but what he didn't expect was that Yang Xinghe was going to give Xiao Hei to Chen Ran as a bodyguard just after Chen Ran met Yang Xinghe.

Yang Xinghe has such a clubhouse and an auction company under Yang Xinghe's command. An industry like this needs experts to sit in charge. Xiao Hei was recruited by Yang Xinghe a few years ago. He is very skilled. He is an elite soldier king in the army, but he can't take down Xiao Hei. Although the two fought a battle and there was no winner, he knew that his second brother was seriously injured and his arm was crippled for half a month before returning to normal. .

He was in the medicinal material business at the time, because he had to deal with people of all levels and teachings, and knowing how powerful Xiao Hei was, he tried his best to ask Xiao Hei to be his bodyguard, but every time Yang Xinghe thought that the club needed Xiao Hei to be his bodyguard You rejected him, and he even went to find Xiao Hei in private, but Xiao Hei also refused on the grounds that Yang Xinghe had saved his life, leaving him with nothing to do, but now he never thought that Chen Rangang and Yang Xinghe When Xinghe met Yang Xinghe, he gave Xiao Hei to Chen Ran. How could this make him feel bad?

Yang Xinghe ignored Wu Laosan and just looked at Chen Ran.

Chen Ran's frown deepened. Naturally, his frown was not because of being frightened, but because of Yang Xinghe's attitude towards him and what Yang Xinghe said just now...

The last time I saw Second Aunt Xiaoyu, Chen Ran told Second Aunt Xiaoyu that he had nothing to do with that Wang Hongyu. Even if the two looked alike, it was just a coincidence. What he said was impossible for Second Aunt Xiaoyu. Not to Yang Xinghe.

Now, although Yang Xinghe's attitude towards him is not as obvious as Master Miao's towards him, the other party seems to deliberately cover up this, but the other party's actions still show that the other party's attitude towards him is not normal.

Did he and Wang Hongyu really just happen to look alike?

Although Chen Ran was very reluctant to think about it, he couldn't stop thinking about it...

In addition, regarding that Wang Hongyu, Yang Xinghe obviously knew more than Second Aunt Xiaoyu. His words just now were obviously reminding himself that Wang Hongyu's enemies would suspect his identity and deal with him if they saw him.

Yang Xinghe said that Wang Hongyu is not an ordinary person, so did he learn the kung fu from Wang Hongyu?

Master Miao, Wang Hongyu... Now Yang Xinghe came out again.

After recruiting, Chen Ran suddenly remembered the murals on the giant gate when he was underground. According to the scene at that time, the murals above were all real, as long as they appeared there, they would appear in the murals. In those murals at that time He also saw the figure of Master Miao.

There are five people in the mural that Master Miao is in. If Master Miao treated him like that because he and Wang Hongyu look alike, then one of the five people in that mural should be Wang Hongyu?

It's a pity that he only saw the faces of the above two people, one of them was Master Miao, the other didn't know who it was, and the other woman was covered.

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Wu Lao San was so angry that his face was black, Yang Xinghe looked at Chen Ran and said nothing, Chen Ran frowned and thought about the matter for a while, the three of them were cold, but soon the three people's cold was overwhelmed by the ups and downs in the auction hall The shouting was interrupted.

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Chen Ran and Wu Lao San were talking, but the auction in the auction hall was going on all the time. When Chen Ran came, the auction had already been going on for a long time. At this time, it was time for die-casting.

When Chen Ran came, what was auctioned was a painting by Zhang Daqian, followed by a 500-year-old wild ginseng, and then a piece of white ambergris.

Needless to say, Zhang Daqian’s painting and 500-year-old wild ginseng fetched high prices at auction, and it’s no exaggeration to say that ambergris is placed behind these two, especially this piece of ambergris is white. up.

It was not China that first discovered the secret that ambergris was produced from sperm whales, but China was the first country in the world where ambergris appeared.

In the Han Dynasty, fishermen caught some off-white waxy drifts in the sea, which are the finished ambergris after years of natural denaturation.From a few kilograms to dozens of kilograms, it has a strong fishy smell, but it can emit a long-lasting fragrance after drying, and it is even more fragrant when lit, more fragrant than musk.

Some local officials contributed to the emperor as treasures after purchasing, and used them as spices or medicines in the court.

At that time, no one knew what kind of treasure it was, so they asked the "chemist" alchemists in the palace. They thought it was the saliva that the "dragon" in the sea drools while sleeping, and it dripped into the sea water and solidified. "Amberis".

It is also said that in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people mixed ambergris, musk and plant spices to make sachets and hang them on the bedside or on their bodies.

However, with the progress of the times, natural mysteries have been uncovered one by one. People think that the statement that ambergris is the saliva of "dragon" is unscientific, so various conjectures have arisen: some people think it is a submarine volcanic eruption Some said it was formed by guano droppings on islands floating into the water after a long period of weathering; some said it was beeswax, which was formed after long floating in sea water; fungus.

Ambergris has also aroused the interest of marine biologists. After continuous research, it is believed that it is a huge marine animal intestinal secretion. As for what animal secretes it, it has not been clarified.

It was the fishermen of Kotla Island in Saudi Arabia who really discovered the secret of ambergris. The people on this island mainly live by catching sperm whales. Ambergris is actually the excrement of sperm whales. Once, an old fisherman was cutting open A piece of ambergris was found in the gut of a sperm whale.

At that time, the fishermen thought it was swallowed from the sea, and they didn't take it seriously, but the news spread like wildfire, which aroused the great attention of marine biologists. They immediately conducted in-depth research and finally solved the problem. The Mystery of Ambergris.

It turns out that big squid and octopus have tough horny jaws and tongue teeth, which are not easy to digest. When sperm whales swallow large molluscs, the jaws and tongue teeth accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, which stimulates the intestinal tract, and the intestinal tract secretes a A special waxy substance that wraps food residues, slowly forming ambergris.

Scientists once found a coagulation of intestinal juice and foreign matter in the intestines of an 18-meter-long sperm whale, and believed that this was the beginning of ambergris. Some sperm whales would vomit the condensation, and some would pass it out of the intestine , only a small number of sperm whales keep ambergris in their bodies.

The ambergris discharged into the sea is initially light black, and under the action of sea water, it gradually turns gray, light gray, and finally white. The quality of white ambergris is the best. Only when all the impurities are washed out can it become the top grade of ambergris.

The ambergris taken from the intestines of a killed sperm whale is of no value. It must be floated and soaked in seawater for decades to gain a high status. Some pieces of ambergris are soaked in seawater for as long as More than a hundred years.

Since ancient times, the price of ambergris is expensive, almost equivalent to gold. If you pick up white ambergris, it is even more priceless.

The piece of ambergris in front of me is white. Ambergris is not only a spice, but also has great medicinal value, so this piece of ambergris was finally auctioned for a sky-high price of 2000 million.

Although the auction house under Yang Xinghe is not large in scale, the auction hall is luxuriously decorated, and there is no need to call the price during the auction. There is a price increase device in front of him. If you want to increase the price, you only need to press it Yes, not only the big screen on the stage will display it, but the auctioneer will also quote the price when he sees it, so although there were many voices in the auction hall before, no one yelled, only the one in front The auctioneer also kept ringing "Didi..." sound.

However, after the auction of the last piece of ambergris, the whispers in the auction hall disappeared suddenly. After the auctioneer called for the auction, the auction hall kept ringing, so that the auctioneer didn't even bid. There was no time, and then someone who started shouting out loud suddenly caused other people to shout loudly when the price was increased.

"One hundred million!"

"One hundred and sixty million!"

"One hundred and sixty million!"

"Two billion..."

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The hot scene immediately attracted the attention of Chen Ran and the others.