Chapter 50: At the Auction
"Sixty thousand!"
Everyone's attention at the auction was no longer on Zhao Bin, but they all gathered on a young man in white next to Qiu Nuo.
Whether it is eye-catching or imposing, young people are obviously much better than Zhao Bin.
The auction scene was noisy, as if it had completely become a stage for Zhao Bin to play with young people. Everyone subconsciously looked at Zhao Bin.
"Sixty thousand two!"
Zhao Bin raised his hand this time obviously without much confidence. It was obvious that the price had exceeded his expectations, but due to his face in public, he still did not intend to give up.
The young man actually smiled slightly and raised his hands without any pressure, his movements looking relaxed and chic.
"Seventy thousand!"
There was another uproar below, and the young man completely pushed the atmosphere and enthusiasm of the scene to **.
Zhao Bin hesitated whether to continue or not, and his opponent's strength and strength seemed to be far superior to him.
"Forget it, I'm lucky that I don't have to force it too much," Chu Tianci said with a smile in his ear.
Zhao Bin seemed to have finally found the steps, smiled awkwardly, and never raised the sign in his hand again.
When the filming team finally announced that the "Twelve Sages" was obtained by the young man, there were warm applause from the audience, and the paintings sent to him were sent to him. The young man didn't even look at them, and directly sent to Qiu Nuo next to him.
"Haha, it turns out that there are people who know goods. Don't think that you are the only one who understands it." Yue Qianling said coldly to Chu Tianci.
"It turned out that I was borrowing flowers to offer Buddha. No wonder I worked so hard to buy this painting." Chu Tianci seemed to have not heard Yue Qianling say anything, and his eyes kept looking at the young man in white clothes.
"Brother, who should I lend flowers to offer Buddha?" Xiao Lianshan asked boredly.
"I haven't seen it yet. This is to please Qiu Nuo. Judging from the actions he took the painting just now, I know that he knows nothing about antiques."
"Oh, why do you feel so sour when you say this?" Yue Qianling looked smiling. "This is called demeanor. To suit her likes, she will win the favor of girls. Of course, telling you this is simply playing the piano with a cow. Anyway, you will never learn it."
Chu Tianci smiled bitterly and did not take Yue Qianling's words, but instead looked at the young man a few more times.
After this little episode, the auction continued, but the young people no longer raised their hands like they did just now. However, as long as the antiques from the Tang Dynasty appeared, regardless of whether they have artistic or commercial value, the young people would win the bid at a high price, and then turn around and give it to Qiu Nuo next to them.
Halfway through the auction, Qiu Nuo was filled with various antiques, all of them from the Tang Dynasty objects. However, Qiu Nuo had no expression of joy on his face, and his face was still as cold as ice, as if everything in front of her was just like this in her eyes.
Chu Tianci thought of Qiu Nuo's reaction to the pottery figurines that day in Qingyang Palace, and suddenly realized that Qiu Nuo liked the things in the Tang Dynasty and had a special liking for them. No wonder young people only bought cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty to give them to her.
"The seventeenth collection is an eight-petal silver cup with Tang Lady's pattern. The starting price is 10,000 yuan, and each increase of 2,000 yuan, please bid."
The silver cup on the auction table is in the shape of eight petals, with beads connected to one side of the outer edge of the mouth and an arc-shaped belly. The lower abdomen has eight petals of the lotus protruding on the surface of the cup body, with a trumpet-shaped ring foot, and the edge of the foot is also decorated with beads for one side. The ring-shaped single handle is covered with Ruyi cloud-shaped flat horses, which are combined with the engraved deer, and the surrounding circle is carved with flower branches.
The eight petals on the belly of the cup are eight patterned areas, each area is engraved with a group of characters, ladies, or hunting figures.
The picture of a lady is a baby play, a lady dressing up, a lady dances and a lady plays; three pictures are riding a horse and chasing a deer, one is a bent bow and shooting a beast, and honeysuckle patterns are filled with lotus petals at the lower abdomen of the cup.
The inner bottom of the silver cup is backed by water ripples, and a Capricorn head and three-tailed fish are engraved in the middle. The eight sunken lotus petals are engraved with flowers and plants. In this way, when wine or water is placed in the cup, it is like fish swimming in the rippling pond, and the water plants are floating. Ordinary dietary activities also add a little fun to view. The exquisite conception is breathtaking.
Chu Tianci smiled faintly, and rarely saw a look of joy and impulse on his face. Yue Qianling asked curiously.
"This silver cup...is valuable?"
"This silver cup is ordinary, and many unearthed. There is nothing particularly rare, but this silver cup has an allusion. I thought it should be lost, but I didn't expect to see it here again." Chu Tianci smiled and said.
"Brother, you obviously only have a wine glass made of silver. Why did you react so much when you see it?" Xiao Lianshan asked in confusion.
"Yes, tell me what allusions are there." Yue Qianling seemed much more interesting to listen to stories than to see a cup that couldn't speak.
"You are a person who studies archaeology, so what is the most famous smile among women in history?" Chu Tianci said to Yue Qianling with interest.
Yue Qianling didn't even think about her confident answer.
"Can you ask some challenging questions? I want to stump me. The most famous laughter is of course the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty: Yang Guifei, who is beautiful in the city and the country, is naturally beautiful, is proficient in music, is good at singing and dancing, and is good at playing the pipa, so that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang favored her. In order to win the favor of Yang Guifei, who was "three thousand beauties, three thousand beloved in one", the Emperor of Tang, who always appointed a special person to travel through the litchi season every five or ten miles station. "After a ride on the red dust concubine, no one knows that it is the litchi." What kind of moving scene was Yang Guifei when she tasted litchi in Huaqing Palace?"
"So he is a foodie, hahaha." Xiao Lianshan smiled happily beside him.
"Looking back, a smile makes you look charming, and the six palaces are pink and have no color." Chu Tianci took a deep breath and said with unsatisfactory words. "The most valuable antique so far is the reward of Yang Yuhuan by Emperor Minghuang of Tang. This set of wine utensils is a pot of five cups, the cups are silver cups, and the pots are made of pure gold. Yang Yuhuan loves this set of wine utensils and carries them with you wherever you go. The burial book records Yang Yuhuan's death in Mawei Slope, and he doesn't know where this set of wine utensils is."
"Ah?!" Yue Qianling looked at Chu Tianci in surprise. "This... has this been used by Yang Yuhuan?"
Chu Tianci nodded casually and said lightly.
"There are also records in the history of Yang Yuhuan's good wine. She looked back and smiled and looked charming. The pink and dark palaces were colorless and loved by three thousand people. But she also fell out of favor and drown her sorrow by drinking. After getting drunk, she forgot why she was unrestrained."
"You mean the imperial concubine is drunk?" Yue Qianling said with a blink of an eye.
"Everyone knows this allusion, but they don't know the connection between this allusion and this set of wine glasses."
"Don't keep it a secret, hurry up, what does the drunk concubine have to do with this silver cup?" Yue Qianling asked anxiously.
"The Emperor Xuanzong of Tang made an appointment with Yang Guifei one day and ordered her to hold a banquet for Baihua Pavilion and go to enjoy the flowers and drink together. Yang Guifei then went to Baihua Pavilion first and prepared a banquet for the imperial banquet. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang did not arrive. Suddenly, he reported that the emperor had already been to Jiangfei Palace. When Yang Guifei heard the news, he was frustrated and wanted to die. He was unable to relieve himself for a while. He added wine to his sorrow and was drunk. Unexpectedly, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang missed Yang Guifei and moved the Baihua Pavilion. When he saw Yang Guifei's love in spring, he couldn't help laughing, so he ordered someone to make a set of wine utensils and gave it to Yang Guifei."
Yue Qianling turned around and looked at the silver cup on the auction table. According to Chu Tianci, the value of this silver cup was completely immeasurable.
Chu Tianci's eyes slowly looked at the young man next to Qiunuo. With Qiunuo's understanding of the cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, she must also be very clear about the origin and value of this silver cup. Qiunuo had a special liking for cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the silver cup used by Yang Guifei in front of her. I believe that the young man next to her would not give up on this opportunity to give her what she wanted.
"Thirty thousand!"
Just as Chu Tianci was about to finish his mind, the young man raised his hand to bid, and he added 20,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth. His attitude of spending a lot of money to make a smile on his face is not much worse than Emperor Minghuang of Tang.
It is obvious that the auction house underestimated the value of the silver cup. Although Chu Tianci didn't know much about the antique market and prices, the value of such objects with historical records and cultural heritage could no longer be measured by money.
The young man had always been generous and generous in his previous actions. When he heard him speak, he raised the price to 30,000. Except for the whispering voices, no one in the venue raised his signs.
"Thirty thousand two!"
The voice came from the last row, mature and calm.
Chu Tianci and the others turned around, and the voice came from the mouth of an ordinary-dressed old man.
"Haha, I finally got the goods again." Chu Tianci said with a faint smile.
"Forty thousand!" The young man raised his hand indifferently.
"Forty-two!" The old man raised his hand with a expressionless face.
"Brother, I have a good show. It seems that these two people are exhausted. Guess who will win." Xiao Lianshan said with a gloating smile.
"I'm optimistic that President Wei will win."
Chu Tianci turned around and saw Zhao Bin confidently saying that he was very confident in this old man. He might have been stolen by the young man just now, and he is still angry. Finally, he waited for someone to vent his anger on him, looking very pleased.
"Who is Mr. Wei?" Xiao Lianshan asked.
"It's the person who quoted the price just now, Wei Xiaoli, one of the best people in the business world in the southwest. He is in the business world. He is calling him Mr. Wei. The business is very big, and he is supplying the steel used in infrastructure projects in Sichuan and Chongqing." Zhao Bin explained in a low voice.
"Fifty thousand!" The young man raised his hand and increased the price without looking back.
"Fifty-two!" Wei Xiaoli raised his hand slowly.
The young man finally couldn't help but look back at Wei Xiaoli. Wei Xiaoli's price increase method was low-key and practical. He seemed to be more calm than the young man's ostentatiousness. However, in the eyes of young man, Wei Xiaoli seemed to be deliberately opposing himself, with no more or less than only two thousand.
"Eighty thousand!" the young man said loudly in a irritable manner.
"Eighty-two!"
Wei Xiaoli's movements were still calm and smooth, as if no matter what the young man did, there was no pressure on him.
Chu Tianci saw Qiu Nuo pulling the young man's sleeves, and seemed to be persuading him to give up. Judging from Qiu Nuo's expressionless face, she didn't seem to like what the young man did now.
The abstract thing about face is sometimes difficult to associate with reason. People fight for one breath and receive a stick of incense, but it is nothing more than fighting for others to see, let alone in front of the girl they are determined to please, so Chu Tianci believes that the game will not end so soon.
Chapter completed!