I'm reborn and I'm an international student again?

"Congratulations to this gentleman, you have won another item." Soon, this set of cards was won by Chen Xi for 310,000 yuan. The host happily knocked the small hammer in his hand.

Everyone felt that it was a shame to compete with a fool, so the price was not raised any further.

Sun Chen was very unhappy now. If it were any other time, he would have been so happy that he would have flown away. Chen Xi was now offering a higher price each time. There were still many items left for auction. Don’t look at the total amount now being less than 400,000, but if the number was large, the money would be an astronomical figure.

"Haha, baby, be happy. I got you what you wanted."

"Hubby, that's awesome! I'll definitely take good care of you tonight!"

Zhao Lingshan kissed Chen Xi on the face.

This scene caused the people around to burst into laughter.

Sun Chen ran to the backstage and did not see this scene, otherwise he would have a different opinion of Chen Xi.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Be aware of your identity." Jin Nana looked at Zhao Lingshan unhappily.

"lululu~" Zhao Lingshan made a face at Jin Nana.

"Hahaha, those three women over there are jealous of each other. It's great to be rich and handsome. There is no shortage of women anywhere."

"Who says it's not true? I was also very handsome when I was young, but I had no money, hahahaha."

"I am rich but not handsome."

"You? Even though you are...rich...it's hard to find a woman."

"What are you talking about? Am I that ugly?"

"No, no...slip, slip of the tongue."

A few old men were chatting and almost started quarreling.

"The next item to be auctioned is calligraphy and painting... It was painted by Mr. Chen Yifeng, a contemporary art master and president of the XXX Art Association... One is an oil painting, and the other is a splash-color painting, both of which are Mr. Chen's best works... The starting price is 300,000!"

"Pfft~ Cough cough~" Chen Xi had just taken the water handed to him by Zhao Lingshan and took a sip when he was choked by the host's words.

what?
Lao Chen’s paintings?

It was even put up for auction. Is this self-production and self-sales?
Are you kidding me? You can play it like this!
"Drink slowly, don't choke to death."

"Giggle."

"whee."

The three women covered their mouths and laughed secretly, while Jin Nana couldn't help teasing Chen Xilai.

“What is ink splashing?”

Some people who don't know much about painting expressed doubts. Oil painting is something that many people know, but ink splashing is not known to everyone.

"Splashing color is a painting method in traditional Chinese painting and also a kind of freehand painting. Splashing color emphasizes the bold use of colors. The well-blended traditional Chinese painting pigments are directly splashed on rice paper to form a colorful and brilliant picture effect. This technique makes the picture colorful and full of visual impact.

The technique of splashing color pursues unrestrained freedom, not sticking to details, and focusing on understanding rather than resemblance. The painter uses splashing, smudging and other techniques to freely blend colors and ink on rice paper to create a unique artistic effect.

The biggest feature of splashing color is its "randomness" and "uniqueness". Due to the influence of many factors such as air temperature, humidity, color concentration, maturity of rice paper, size and hardness of brush, each splashing color work is unique and cannot be copied. This unrepeatability gives splashing color works extremely high artistic value and collection value.

Splashing color is developed on the basis of inheriting traditional Chinese landscape painting. It combines the essence of traditional landscape painting with new technical expressions, giving people a refreshing feeling. Splashing color works not only embody the masculine beauty, implicit beauty, imagery beauty and abstract beauty of Chinese painting, but also show the painter's unique understanding and perception of nature and art..." A bald old man wearing glasses showed off his knowledge in front of several rich women.

"It sounds like it's very valuable, but the host just said that he is a contemporary painter. Aren't his paintings valuable only after he dies? Is he dead or not?" asked one of the rich ladies with a lot of money.

"Of course he's still alive. This auction house launches this painter's paintings every year. There are rumors that this painter is a good friend of the auction house owner."

"Oh, I just want to ask if this painting is valuable. Why are you talking so much to me?"

"Hey, that depends on how you look at it."

"What do you mean?" The rich woman became interested.

"This painter is also an entrepreneur and has a lot of businesses on his hands. If you are a businessman, if you take a picture of it and then present it to the other party, the value generated will be very high. But if you look at it purely from an artistic point of view, this painting is worth..." The bald old man hesitated.

"How much is it worth?" Several rich ladies gathered together and asked curiously.

"I think it's only worth a few thousand dollars!" The old man stretched out his hand, meaning about five thousand dollars.

"what?"

The rich ladies were amused.

In fact, the man was deliberately giving Chen Yifeng face. Of the five thousand yuan, it is estimated that 90% was worth so much because of the title of president of the Artists Association.

"Three hundred thousand!"

"Three hundred and one thousand!"

Bidding soon began.

"Ah? There are actually people who buy it."

“These people are crazy.”

"In my opinion, it's not as valuable as buying the bracelet that young man bought."

Several wealthy ladies looked in disbelief.

"Wow, Uncle Chen's paintings are so valuable. Wouldn't he become rich if he painted a few more? What kind of business is he going to do?" Zhao Lingshan asked in a low voice close to Chen Xi's ear.

"If he doesn't do business, this painting is not worth a penny. Haha, I used to see many foreigners spending millions to buy his oil paintings. Do you think those foreigners are really stupid? They just want to do business with him..." Chen Xi replied.

In the past, many wealthy people in the Middle East spent a lot of money to make Chen Yifeng happy in order to purchase Huade’s equipment in advance.

Chen Yifeng was a person who cared a lot about his reputation and also felt that someone recognized his work, so he happily sold a large number of equipment to the other party.

You know, Huade only produces a few high-end equipment every year.

If you want to buy it, you have to queue up.

"Half a million!"

"Six hundred thousand!"

"..."

"one million!"

The price was quickly raised to one million.

"These people are crazy." Although Saori didn't understand painting, she knew that only ancient paintings were valuable. This painting was obviously painted by a recent artist, and it was painted by Chen Xi's father. How could it be worth so much money?

"Haha, this is nothing. The two paintings just added up to one million. In the past, a painting would cost at least two or three million. I think these two paintings combined can be sold for at least five million." Chen Xi analyzed in a low voice.

At this time, Sun Chen was smoking silently in the backstage. Whenever Chen Yifeng's paintings were auctioned, he would no longer watch them on site.

Because he is also a painter, and he thinks his oil painting skills are much better than Chen Yifeng's, but his paintings are not as valuable as the other's, which makes Sun Chen feel helpless.

It’s all false to say that artists don’t care about money.

In their eyes, if you are willing to spend a lot of money to buy their paintings, it means recognition of their works.

Although Chen Yifeng had used some tricks to overtake others and sell his paintings at a high price, Sun Chen still felt a little unhappy. He had been painting for decades and had opened a gallery, but a painting could only sell for 10,000 yuan at most. Compared with Chen Yifeng, the gap was too big.

"Oh, it's boring. I don't know if the price of my paintings will exceed that of Old Chen after I die. The art world is really chaotic now." Sun Chen exhaled a cigarette and said depressedly.

"Ha, Mr. Sun, why are you smoking here? I noticed that you never went to see Chen Yifeng's paintings every time they were auctioned. In my opinion, his paintings are worthless. Artists are all taught by famous teachers.

As for him, his family was poor. When he was young, he wanted to learn from a master, but he couldn't afford the tuition. In the end, he could only learn from an unknown painter. How could he learn the essence of art by stealing?

Besides, our Chen family has never produced an artist in the past few generations. As for him, he only has a little artistic talent. Do you know what our Chen family has the strongest inheritance? That is the body! Look, everyone in our family has served in the army, except for him, Chen Yifeng.

Look at Chen Jingrui, he used to be a tank soldier. Although he was kicked out of the army, he was still a soldier. Chen Mingli, that's an artilleryman! Look at me again, this muscle... You said Chen Yifeng is just like Li Kui practicing calligraphy, it's funny! "Chen Lihua came out from nowhere, picked up a cigarette and started smoking.

"That's not the case. It is rumored that Zhang Fei's calligraphy is excellent. Maybe Old Chen is proficient in both civil and military affairs. Didn't he stay in a sports school for a while? It seems he even practiced Baguazhang." Sun Chen smiled and took the cigarette handed to him.

"Baguazhang? Him? He must have learned it from an old guy in some park, hahaha." Chen Lihua laughed disdainfully.

In his opinion, after so many years of training, he could knock Chen Yifeng down in a few seconds.

When I was a kid, it was because I didn’t know anything, so the other side won by numbers.

"Oh my, Chen Xi is messing around again. I told him yesterday that this kid..."

"Huh? What happened to him just now?" Chen Lihua had been in charge of security issues elsewhere and had no idea what had happened at the auction.

"Forget it, it's okay." Sun Chen waved his hand and didn't want to mention it anymore.

"Boss Sun, I think Chen Xi is good. He will definitely do great things after graduation. Don't you like painting? You can ask him to think of a special new business model. What's the point of following Chen Yifeng? This guy is very bad. Sooner or later, he will kick us out..."

"Chen Xi? Haha... let's talk about it later." The scene at the auction just now had made Sun Chen regard Chen Xi as an uneducated kid who only knew how to spend money. There was no way he would follow him to do things.

"Four and a half million!"

"Four.7 million!"

At the auction, the price of Chen Yifeng's two paintings was over four million.

"Honey, your guess is right. It's about to break five million." Saori said excitedly, pulling Chen Xi's arm.

Jin Nana, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but narrow her eyes again when she saw Saori calling so smoothly.

"Someone actually offers such a high price for these two shabby paintings. Why buy them? Hang them on the wall to pretend to be cultured?" The handsome guy who had bid crazily before looked at the people on the scene with some confusion.

"Young man, you don't understand this. Our money is earned by ourselves, not given by our families. The things we buy have to be able to create extra value for us. Look at the kid who is about your age just now, he actually spent so much money to buy a set of cards, hey~" an uncle in the front row turned his head and said.

"Oh, how do you know that I didn't earn my own money? Just because you look young, you think the money must be given by your family? You are so funny. What's the saying? Yes, taking advantage of your age to bully others!"

"You...what do you do? I don't think I've seen you, an outstanding young entrepreneur, on the news."

"It's none of your business. Do I have to be on the news? Nowadays, truly wealthy people aren't that high-profile. Anyway, I made my money by my own ability."

"Hmph, you're just bragging! I think your appearance is better than this. Are you a celebrity? I don't think I've ever seen you..." The middle-aged man took a look at the young man and felt that the young man was useless except for his good looks, so he was too lazy to argue with him.

"Tsk, is being handsome a crime? If you are handsome, do you have to be a celebrity to make money? You are so short-sighted..."

The handsome guy curled his lips.

"Seven million, deal. Congratulations to this gentleman."

Chen Yifeng's painting was finally sold for seven million, becoming the most expensive item ever sold.

The person who took these two pictures is an old man, and judging from his accent, he sounds like a Hong Kong person.

"There are still a lot of rich people. With more than 7 million, isn't it nice to buy a house?"

"You're just a kid, you know nothing."

"..."

At the meeting, a young man was criticized by someone right after he finished complaining, leaving him speechless.

"hehe."

"What are you laughing at?"

Seeing Chen Xi covering his mouth, Zhao Lingshan leaned over and asked.

"I was wondering, if Lao Chen used his feet to draw a picture of a chicken eating rice, would these people also spend millions to buy it?"

"Hehe, how can anyone say that about Dad?"

"Oh, I think all those art academies should be closed down, and everyone should become a boss. Anyway, the value of a painting is determined by who has more money." Chen Xi sighed.

"The next auction item is limited edition sneakers! There are thirty pairs in total... the reserve price is one hundred thousand!" The host picked up the microphone again.

"One hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Two hundred thousand!"

"..."

"Half a million!"

As soon as these sneakers arrived, they were snapped up by the young people at the scene.

"What's so good about sneakers?" Jin Nana looked around and it seemed that except Chen Xi and that handsome guy, almost all the young people had made bids.

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong here..." Chen Xi touched his chin.

He heard a lot about the girl's phone call yesterday.

These young people were probably sent by their parents.

Chen Xi himself was also sent by Ma Yueling.

There must be some connection here.

Limited edition sneakers often adopt a limited production strategy, with the production quantity far less than that of ordinary edition sneakers. This scarcity directly leads to an increase in market demand and a rise in prices.

Some sneakers also come with unique numbers or details, such as friends and family limited edition sneakers. These special elements further enhance the uniqueness and collection value of the sneakers.

But in fact, the key is speculation. Some professional speculators and capital have poured into the market and made profits by hoarding goods, driving up prices and other means.

There are thirty pairs of sneakers here. Even if they cost ten thousand yuan a pair, that would be three hundred thousand yuan.

If it has the signature of a star player, the value will go up even more.

The current bid is five hundred thousand, which seems reasonable, but Chen Xi still feels weird.

"Didn't this auction say that many of the items were foreclosed? Whose owners do they belong to?" Zhao Lingshan asked.

"There are many. During the financial crisis, many companies in coastal areas went bankrupt, and there were bosses of all sizes. But according to Uncle Sun, the biggest boss is the head of a sugar group in Yuezhou. He is known as the Sugar King of Yuezhou and seems to be a giant in private enterprises."

"The production of sugar shouldn't have much of an impact, it's a necessity. So many foods contain sugar, if people don't eat sugar, they'll feel weak all over."

"There are often many reasons for the company's closure, including changes in the market environment, poor management, and a broken capital chain. However, such a large group has many small companies under it, and its business scope is very wide. I guess the group suffered a setback, which led to a chain reaction, thus affecting the main industry of sugar production..." Chen Xi analyzed based on the information provided by Sun Chen. (End of this chapter)