Chapter 43 The Ancient Cauldron
Hai Shaoxiang was a little confused. She sat in the tea room and glanced at Gu Fan. She found that her mind seemed to have not been discovered, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I don’t know when it started, but Hai Shaoxiang felt it.
It feels like Gu Fan's eyes can see through people's hearts and what he thinks in his heart.
Gu Fan's eyes were attracted by the auction stage at this time.
The aristocratic family in Chang'an City is still somewhat capable. At this time, the female host is introducing a rusty cauldron.
The rust is blue-green, which obviously means that the material of the casting tripod is bronze.
This is a three-legged bronze tripod with wide ears.
The rust almost completely covered the cauldron, but the area the size of a fingernail is still exposed.
There are Taotie beast patterns on the belly of the tripod, and the ancient bird seal patterns are wrapped around the three legs.
The Taotie pattern and the bird seal pattern were a kind of decoration used in the ancient Chinese civilization period, and the bird seal pattern eventually evolved into a kind of text, recording some ancient secrets.
As he further stared at the ancient tripod, Gu Fan was a little surprised.
At first glance, this is just a complete and preserved utensil of the Xia and Shang dynasties, and was used by the nobles as cooking utensils.
Everyone present also had this view, so they were already competing for it.
The bronze ware of Xia and Shang dynasties is worth a lot of money, so it is rare to have such a well-preserved bronze tripod. It is all the treasures of a museum.
Several of the aristocratic families have opened private museums in the secular world, so they want to take this tripod into the industry under their name for commercial use, attracting attention.
Gu Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, and when the soul-devouring demon eyes appeared, he saw that under the rust, the Taotie beast patterns seemed to flow with light. The patterns outlined, faintly hindering some wonderful power between the sky and the earth, gathering into the cauldron. Although it was already weak, Gu Fan had already made a conclusion in his heart.
Although it looks like an ordinary ancient tripod, its true appearance is a elixir furnace, or to be precise, it is a elixir furnace used by ancient alchemists.
According to rumors in China, during the Xia and Shang dynasties, until the last feudal dynasty in modern times, alchemists appeared in the world, and even among the hundreds of emperors in China, several died suddenly due to taking pills.
At the peak of secular power, he thought about living with heaven and immortality.
The most famous one is the First Emperor, who did not hesitate to support a alchemist in search of immortality for himself. Although he was deceived in the end, after crossing the sea, he established an island country that would endanger China in the future.
It can be seen that alchemists have existed throughout the ages, and before the Qin Dynasty, it was even more frequent.
Gu Fan took out his cell phone and sent a message to Haicong, asking him to take the tripod at any cost.
At this time, the tripod had been sold at a price of 9.6 million yuan. After all, in the eyes of the aristocratic families, this kind of antique is of greater research value, and compared with the previous spiritual stone, it has relatively less practical value.
At the Haijia Tea Room, Haicong put a sign in front of the glass window, and everyone present became noisy in an instant.
"This tripod will not exceed 10 million at most. Although it is completely preserved, this type of tripod was also used by ordinary nobles at that time. Why did the Hai family offer a price of 15 million?"
Some people have begun to wonder: "Is it to compete with the Zheng family?"
Zheng Jiahao laughed and said to Lin Dongchuan: "There is a Feng Shui eye in the company. We can move this tripod back and put it on the Feng Shui eye."
Then a man next to him stood a sign in front of the glass window: "Twenty million."
At this time, Zheng Jiahao said proudly: "I have seen this cauldron for too many times. It must be a treasure that makes other masters excited. This time I want to see how Haicong threw the face of the Hai family at my Zheng Jiahao's feet."
Haicong, not far away, frowned. The Zheng family obviously raised the price by 5 million yuan for the Hai family. However, thinking of Gu Fan's instructions, Haicong placed another sign in front of the glass window and directly raised the price by 10 million yuan.
This price has exceeded the value of this cauldron in the eyes of ordinary people, but when Haicong thought about how Gu Fan used some methods to incite major families to compete for the stone, thus holding back the provocation of the Zheng family, Haicong felt as stable as Mount Tai.
The female host was already a little fluttering, and vaguely felt that the tripod seemed to be able to be sold at a price of over 10 million yuan, so she spoke: "The customer on the second floor directly increased the price by 10 million yuan. It seems that she will definitely get 30 million yuan for the first time."
Seeing Zheng Jiahao waved his hand again, Lin Dongchuan asked the people around him to increase the price, and then said, "Are we too arrogant?"
Zheng Jiahao looked at the young master named Ying and said, "With Master Ying here, the Hai family is no longer a concern. We should beat the dogs in the water. When we advance to the first-class family, we can only let other families know the power of our Zheng family, so this is not a matter of money or a matter of ostentatiousness, but a matter of the Zheng family becoming famous."
Lin Dongchuan frowned and suddenly felt a cold and uneasy feeling.
Gu Fan took his eyes back from the Zheng family's tea room and sent another message to Haicong asking him to increase the price by 60 million. If the Zheng family bids for the auction again, the tripod will not be needed.
In the school, Zheng Fulin and Lin Yue bullied the forbearing Gu Fan, and after Gu Fan traveled and was reborn, they had no good feelings for the Zheng family.
This time, the Zheng family blocked Gu Fan from taking the puppet of this alchemy, which had already aroused Gu Fan's dissatisfaction.
After this auction, Gu Fan decided that even if the Zheng family did not make any clear attacks on the Hai family, he would have to let Haicong arrange it to erase the existence of the Zheng family from Chang'an City.
In Gu Fan's eyes, a Zheng family is nothing but an ant.
Finally, the bronze tripod was sold by the Zheng family for 70 million yuan. Haicong hurriedly walked into Gu Fan's tea room with a look a little apologetic.
Gu Fan said lightly: "It's okay, let them save it for me for a few days first. Have I arranged the lot for you?"
Haicong nodded respectfully and said, "It has been arranged. Tujia is evaluating the goods. The higher the quality, the later it will appear."
Gu Fan nodded slightly, and suddenly had the idea of cheating the Zheng family in his heart.
The next lot is a long sword, with cold light and fluctuating energy. It is a magic weapon for a Qi Refiner. However, the level of the magic weapon is too low, so Gu Fan didn't even have the heart to take a closer look.
However, this sword is a rare weapon for ordinary masters. In the end, it was photographed by the Wu family, another first-class family in Chang'an City. The Zheng family chased after it for a few times, but it seemed that they did not notice the Hai family's bidding, so they easily gave up.
After several items, the Zheng family has been staring at the Hai family. As long as the Hai family offers a price and there are signs of bidding, the Zheng family will raise the price without hesitation.
During this period, there were two herbs and an ancient book that attracted Gu Fan's attention. Gu Fan signaled Haicong to bid for the auction, but at the last moment, he called him Ting Haicong again.
As a result, after more than two hours of the auction, the Hai family did not even get a single item, and all of them were sold by the Zheng family.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!