"Ms. Yi, when you came to the charity dinner this time, you also brought your own auction items. Let us give you this auction item with warm applause!"
As soon as the host finished speaking, applause broke out one after another, and two staff members walked up holding a cone-shaped trophy in their hands.
"Ms. Yi, please introduce the origin of this trophy!" The female host handed the microphone to Yi Shuna.
"Okay." Yi Shuna picked up the microphone gracefully and smiled brightly at the guests in the audience: "This is the trophy I won when I participated in the Austrian Ballet Competition. The Austrian International Ballet Competition is one of the world's first-class ballet competitions and is known as
For the 'Olympics' of ballet."
"I see, oh, this is a gold medal trophy. It's equivalent to winning a gold medal at the Olympics, right?" the male host exclaimed.
"You can say that!" Yi Shuna smiled lightly.
"The importance of this trophy to Ms. Yi is self-evident. Today she can donate this precious trophy as an auction item, which shows Ms. Yi's love for charity. Let us express our heartfelt thanks to Ms. Yi with warm applause.
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Before the host finished speaking, the applause from below started and lasted for three minutes.
"Ms. Yi, as usual, you determine the starting price yourself." The male host Lang said with a smile.
"This...I hand over the power to you!" Yi Shuna smiled slightly.
"You really gave me the power? Then if my price is lower, can you accept it?" the male host teased with a deliberate smile.
"I accept it unconditionally!" Yi Shuna smiled sweetly.
"Okay, since Ms. Yi believes in me so much, the starting price I set cannot be too low, right? That's a lot of words." The male host thought for a moment and said to the audience: "The starting price is one hundred thousand!"
"One hundred and fifty thousand!" As soon as he finished speaking, someone raised the price.
The auction held at this kind of charity dinner is slightly different from the regular auction house. The rules are looser and no deposit is required, so everyone can bid more casually.
The bidding for Yi Shuna's gold medal trophy started at RMB 100,000 and went up all the way. The final transaction price was RMB 500,000 and was snapped up by the owner of a car dealership in Yanjing.
Next, several well-known movie stars and singers performed on stage, and after the performances, they auctioned off their collections of many years. The starting prices ranged from 10,000 to 50,000, and the final transaction prices were all over 200,000.
The dinner was soon over halfway through, and everything seemed very calm. Chu Tianfeng took the time to run to the monitoring room and take a look around.
"Mr. Chu, we have checked 80% of the guests and entourage present, and no suspicious persons have been found." Ding Maochen said to Chu Tianfeng.
"Continue to investigate and investigate repeatedly. If there is any situation, call me immediately." Chu Tianfeng said.
"Okay." Ding Maochen nodded heavily.
"Jinfei, do you think Poison Rose will find that there is no chance to strike tonight and change its strategy?" Chu Tianfeng turned to Shen Jinfei and asked.
"It's possible!" Shen Jinfei rolled his eyes.
"You haven't said anything accurate these days!" Chu Tianfeng said dissatisfied: "Didn't you say that Poison Rose would attack me on the day of the charity dinner? Why is there no movement at all now?"
"Alas, Poison Rose is unpredictable and cunning, so she is not easy to deal with. She may have changed her assassination plan and is waiting for the opportunity." Shen Jinfei said in a deep voice.
"Then we just sit back and wait for death?" Chu Tianfeng asked helplessly.
"Of course not, my brothers are already active, and the poisonous rose cannot hide for long." Shen Jinfei said seriously.
Chu Tianfeng's face was gloomy, he just nodded and stared at the monitoring screen for a while, then walked out of the monitoring room and returned to the dinner scene again...
At this time, the charity dinner has reached its climax. Yu Chengliang, a heavyweight international gymnastics star and double individual all-around champion of the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, took the stage.
Today, the gymnastics star did not wear sportswear, but a crisp suit. He looked graceful and graceful in the wind. He can be said to be one of the most dazzling male stars tonight.
The male and female hosts began to take turns interviewing Yu Chengliang, with humorous words and wise answers. The guests in the audience burst into laughter and applause from time to time.
"Mr. Yu, we heard that you have prepared two auction items today. You have always said that they should be kept secret and they must wait until the dinner party to announce them. Now that you are on stage, should you reveal the secret? A lot of words" asked the host .
"Okay, the first auction item is a set of sportswear with my autograph on it." Yu Chengliang said with a smile.
"As usual, the starting price is determined by you."
"Oh, such a cheap starting price has created the history of our Tianfeng Charity Dinner. Guests here, the starting price of the sportswear signed by the Olympic champion is only one thousand yuan. Do you think it is too high or too low? "The host lost no time in inciting emotions.
"It's too low! It's too low!" Almost all the guests responded cooperatively.
"With such a low starting price, it's like giving it away for free, one thousand yuan, once!" As soon as the host arrived at the auction, he immediately played the role of auctioneer.
"Ten thousand!" A certain guest changed the price of this sportswear from four zeros to five zeros.
"Fifteen thousand!"
"Twenty thousand!" The price continues to rise, which is also expected.
Chu Tianfeng, who was sitting in the front row, was not thinking about the auction at all. He glanced around and thought to himself: "Where is the poisonous rose hidden? Or is she in Yanchen No. 1? About her There is no news at all now, which is really worrying.”
"Two hundred thousand, once!"
"Two hundred thousand, twice!" At this time, Yu Chengliang's sportswear had already sold for two hundred thousand, and none of the guests present raised the price.
"Two hundred thousand, three times!"
Bang - the host quickly dropped the hammer, and Yu Chengliang's signed sportswear was sold for a high price of 200,000.
The buyer is Lu Qun, the chairman of Cangqiong Group. Today he has bought a calligraphy and painting and an antique. Including the sportswear, he has already spent more than one million.
Immediately afterwards, the second auction item was unveiled. Just as the media had predicted, Yu Chengliang decided to get an all-around gymnastics gold medal in the Sydney Olympics.
It is not uncommon for athletes to auction medals for charity. However, it is rare to auction newly won Olympic gold medals. Therefore, after the host announced the auction item, it immediately caused a sensation among the guests present.
"Mr. Yu, what's the starting price?" the host asked.
"Ten thousand yuan." Yu Chengliang was still very modest and did not deliberately raise the price of the gold medal.
"Ten thousand yuan. Apart from the symbolic meaning of the gold medal itself, even the gold on it is worth more than ten thousand yuan." The host said.
"Twenty thousand!" Before the host could finish speaking, someone started bidding immediately.
"Thirty thousand!" The person bidding was Chen Zhenwei, chairman of Huachen Company, Chen Xuewei's brother.
Chu Tianfeng glanced at Chen Zhenwei, who was calm and composed, and thought to himself: "It seems that Brother Chen is going to take action. Haha, I came to the charity dinner last year, but didn't spend a penny. How can I get some blood today? No." Few words"
"One hundred thousand!" Just when he was stunned, the price had more than tripled. The person who shouted one hundred thousand was none other than Fei Hongjun, the boss of Hongjun Securities Company.
"Hey, Professor Fei also participated in the bidding? It's really lively now." Chu Tianfeng muttered to himself...
"One hundred and fifty thousand!" Chen Zhenwei immediately followed up without showing any signs of weakness.
"Two hundred thousand!" Shen Jinsong, the vice president of Shen Group, raised his hands and shouted loudly.
With the addition of the Shen Group, the competition has become more intense, but this is also what the organizers hope to see. The better the price of this gold medal, the greater the amount converted into charity.
Therefore, Yu Chengliang's Olympic gold medal has been rising all the way, from 200,000 to 500,000.
Starting from 500,000 yuan, all the small and medium-sized buyers withdrew from the competition, even Fei Hongjun also withdrew, leaving only Cangqiong Group, Shen Group and Huachen Company competing.
"Fifty-two thousand!" Huachen's Chen Zhenwei took the lead in raising the price. Since Huachen Company merged with the American Yunqiao Group, and Yunqiao Group received a large capital injection from the Hong Kong Peng Group, Huachen Company has become richer in funds. , coupled with the recent hot sales of Huachen-Elegant series computers in China, the company's revenue this year reached 200 million yuan, with a net profit of 30 million yuan.
Chen Zhenwei is very wealthy, and today's charity dinner also wants to create a name for Huachen Company.
"Five hundred and fifty thousand!" Shen Jinsong shouted.
Although Huachen Company has been in the limelight recently, there is still a big gap compared to the Shen Group. Shen Jinsong is not afraid of raising prices. The more the other party increases, the harder he will increase.
I kept shouting like this, and when it reached one million, except for Cangqiong Group, which could barely keep up, Huachen Company basically failed.
"Wow! One million!" The host was moved by the love of the companies and asked slowly and hoarsely again and again: "Is there any more price?"
Olympic champion Yu Chengliang also seemed very excited. He did not expect that his gold medal could be sold for a sky-high price of one million. Moreover, this was not the final transaction price and there was still room for increase.
"One million, once!"
"A million, twice!"
The host picked up the hammer, and just when he was about to shout "the third time", a high-pitched voice suddenly shouted: "1.03 million!"
Chu Tianfeng looked back and saw that it was Fei Hongjun who was bidding. He originally thought that he had withdrawn from the competition long ago, but he did not expect that after the gold medal exceeded the one million mark, he came back again.
"What does Professor Fei mean?" He hurriedly glanced at Fei Hongjun with a searching eye.
At this time, Fei Hongjun happened to be looking at him. When their eyes met, Fei Hongjun smiled and blinked.
Chu Tianfeng understood the idea and smiled secretly: "I understand, Professor Fei must be here to disrupt the situation. With his sudden appearance, he can raise the price to a new high level."
Sure enough, less than a minute after Fei Hongjun’s price was announced, Shen Jinsong from the Shen Group shouted over 1.05 million. He didn’t know Fei Hongjun’s true intention. In short, the Shen family was determined to win this Olympic gold medal, so We must spare no expense and go all out to win it.
"1.1 million!" Lu Qun from Cangqiong Group rejoined the competition.
Faced with such an exciting scene, the beautiful host was so excited that she had tears in her eyes, while the disabled children who needed assistance stood up again and again, cheering and applauding for every price increase. They could not calm down for a long time. Many people on and off the stage Everyone seemed very excited.
When Yu Chengliang stood on the stage, he felt the supreme glory and joy.
When the gold medal price rose to 1.3 million, Fei Hongjun withdrew from the competition, leaving Cangqiong Group and Shen Group to compete.
After a fierce competition, the Shen Group finally bought it at a price of 1.5 million yuan!
Although this price did not exceed the highest auction record in the history of the charity dinner, it set a record for the highest number of athlete medals at auction.
Chu Tianfeng made a rough estimate. Halfway through the dinner, the proceeds from the auction exceeded 5 million, and several heavyweights at the finale had not yet appeared. It seemed that it was not difficult to exceed the goal of 10 million tonight...
After Yu Chengliang stepped down, the celebrities who appeared next were all less famous than him, and the auction prices ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions.
The last person to appear in the finale was naturally Ning Yanni, the internationally influential woman who created a two-million-dollar evening dress last time.
In just one year, with the vigorous operation of the Shen Group, Ning Yanni has risen from a Chinese first-line movie star to an internationally renowned influence. At the beginning of the year, she made a cameo as a supporting actress in the Hollywood blockbuster "Spider King". The response was good, and she was nominated for this year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, taking the first step towards becoming popular in the international film industry.
With Ning Yanni's current identity and status, she naturally does not need to rely on special auction items to create hype, so the auction items she brought this time were all satisfactory. There were two items in total. One was a jadeite dragon and phoenix bracelet that she bought in Yunnan. She bought it from a local collector when she was performing in acupuncture. The other piece was a ruby necklace. Judging from the color and style, it was worth at most US$10,000, but the person who gave her the necklace was a famous Hollywood director. Steven Spielberg, she wore it at this year's Oscar ceremony.
The first auction item was finally sold for 600,000 yuan.
The second ruby necklace, because of its symbolic meaning, faced fierce competition, and was finally sold for a sky-high price of 2.2 million yuan.
After Ning Yanni sold two auction items, she single-handedly raised 3.8 million yuan for the entire charity event, setting a new record.
"Ladies and gentlemen, friends and children, let me announce to you that this Tianfeng Charity Foundation charity dinner raised a total of 10.89 million yuan!"
After the host excitedly announced this data, the audience burst into thunderous applause that lasted for a long time.
The last program of this charity dinner was for the stars and the children to sing the closing song "Devotion of Love". The melody of love filled the entire venue.
After the dinner, as usual, there will be a dance.
Chu Tianfeng was not in the mood to dance. After the dinner, he left the scene surrounded by a group of security guards, returned to the monitoring room, opened the door and asked: "Is there anything new?".
"No." Ding Maochen and Tan Kai shook their heads at the same time.
"What a wicked sect. Why hasn't the Poison Rose come out?" Chu Tianfeng glanced at Shen Jinfei behind him with a puzzled look on his face: "Is the information wrong?"
"The information is absolutely correct, the Poison Rose is near Yanjing." Shen Jinfei said with certainty.
"If this continues, I will go crazy." Chu Tianfeng shook his head helplessly. Waiting is undoubtedly the most painful thing.
"Mr. Chu, I think our nerves should not be too tense. Maybe the killer saw that we were on guard and knew that he would not succeed, so he found an opportunity to escape from China." Ding Maochen said.
"It would be easier if we ran away. I'm afraid she would lurk and look for an opportunity to strike at any time. The enemy is in the dark and we are in the open. Who can stand it if this continues?" Tan Kai took over the conversation and said.
"You are wrong. Poison Rose will not lurk in a certain place for more than a month, because Interpol and agents from all over the world are secretly paying attention to her whereabouts. She often lives in no fixed place. As the saying goes, 'The Dragon Walks' When it rains, tigers move with wind. Even if she can hide her identity, there is still a chance of being exposed if she lurks in a certain place for too long. It has been more than twenty days since we got the information. If it takes ten days, If the poisonous rose hasn't appeared yet, it means that she has left China, and by then, we can relax a little bit," Shen Jinfei said.
"Okay, I can only listen to you. Now I feel that our intelligence work is very poor. We are simply blind. You said that the poisonous rose will appear on the day of the charity dinner. Now that the dinner is over, she is not even a shadow. She didn't even come out, maybe she didn't get on Yanchen No. 1 at all." Chu Tianfeng said...
"Haha, it's not possible, it's just that he didn't come at all." Ding Maochen suddenly let out a sigh of relief, turned to Chu Tianfeng and said seriously: "Mr. Chu, I checked all the guests, entourage and staff of Yanchen No. 1. Nothing suspicious is found, Poison Rose is definitely not at Yanchen No. 1."
"Then where could she be?" Chu Tianfeng fell into deep thought.
No one spoke for a while, and the room was quiet. Occasionally, the exciting music of the dance scene could be heard from outside, and Yanchen No. 1 turned into a joyful sea of singing and dancing again.
After midnight, Chu Tianfeng really couldn't stand it any longer, so he found a first-class guest room and stayed there, with "heavy soldiers" guarding the door.
Shen Jinfei controls a special operations team of the Red and Black Society in Yanjing. There are ten people in total, all of whom are dead soldiers with special skills. Their main task tonight is to protect Chu Tianfeng's safety.
Chu Tianfeng slept until ten o'clock the next morning. Yanchen No. 1 had safely sailed to the pier. After a carnival last night, the guests attending the charity dinner were leaving one after another.
Bang bang bang, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" Chu Tianfeng didn't take off his clothes when he went to bed last night. When he heard the knock on the door, he turned over and sat up from the bed.
As soon as the door opened, Shen Jinfei walked in from the outside. Before he could speak, Chu Tianfeng smiled and said: "You came to see if I am still alive, right? There are many words."