Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

"Although it is a folk work, its value is definitely no less than that of palace products!"

The auctioneer shouted with all his strength, and his enthusiasm infected everyone present.

As someone who has seen the exhibits, Lin Ran smiled.

In general, this Ming Dynasty bronze is not as collectible as the auctioneer said, because it was made by an unknown craftsman. In fact, it is equivalent to the work made by ordinary carvers today, and the market price is not much. high.

As for the inscription above, Lin Ran had also studied it, but it actually had no cultural value, because what was written on it was actually a limerick popular in the Ming Dynasty and had no artistic value.

But for laymen, they don’t understand it at all. They only know that bronzes are relatively valuable among collections, and they are endorsed by inscriptions and will definitely increase in value in the future.

"The reserve price is three hundred, the auction begins now!" The auctioneer hammered his hammer and announced that the auction had officially begun.

"I offer four hundred!"

"Four hundred and one, I want it!"

"Four hundred and two..."

After all, there are mostly ordinary people in the audience, and the bidding price is not like a black market auction where the price goes up by hundreds or hundreds.

However, if it continues to grow at this lively pace, it won't be long before it rises to more than [-], and then there will be a gap.

Among the crowd, Chen Cheng clenched his fists.

"What a bullshit auction, are you kidding me?" He gritted his teeth, despising this kind of deceitful behavior from the bottom of his heart.

I originally wanted to expose the true identity of the bazaar in public, but Mr. Xu's teachings echoed in my mind: "Tang Lanxuan has noticed you now. If you don't want to reveal your identity, it's best to keep a low profile recently."

Being in the limelight in such a public place, I'm afraid it's useless to think that Tang Lanxuan won't notice him, so he can only suppress his anger in his stomach.

"Tian Le Xing and Liu Lifang are just scammers, specializing in bullying outsiders." In his mind, he gave the two most famous shops in the capital the lowest scores in history.

Just when the auction item was being sold at a high price, and everyone was still enthusiastic.

Jiang Li walked to the stage.

"Shopkeeper Jiang, what's wrong?" The auctioneer was a little confused. The other person was from the organizer, so he shouldn't have appeared at the front desk.

Jiang Li said, "Sir, could you please give me the microphone?"

"Okay." Although the auctioneer didn't understand, he still gave her face.

Clearing his throat, Jiang Li said: "Thank you for your enthusiastic support, but the 'Mingyi Bronze Cauldron' is not actually of such high value. 500 yuan is already its limit. Please don't continue to raise the price." The price is up, we are a charity sale, and all the money sold will be donated to Project Hope, but I don’t want you to lose money because of this.”

After finishing speaking, Jiang Li looked around.

There were whispers below.

"What? Up to 500 yuan?"

"The bidding has already reached [-]."

"What's wrong with her? She feels guilty because she lied too much?"

"Bah, I am the granddaughter of Jiang Hua, the current head of Liulicang, and she will defraud you of such a small amount of money?"

"A little adds up to a lot."

"If you don't buy it, get out!"

It was Ke Hui who said this. As the eldest son of the Ke family, he had known Jiang Li for five years. In his heart, Jiang Li was simply a perfect being. How could he tolerate such slander from others.

Others didn't think so, especially when she took it upon herself to say that the item wasn't worth the price. Everyone had a different opinion.

Who will have trouble with money? This is the first time they have seen merchants who take the initiative to lower prices. Merchants are only interested in profit, and people firmly believe this.

While everyone was talking about it, Ke Hui shouted: "I will pay 1000 yuan!"

Hearing this, the passerby who had just argued with Ke Hui immediately cast an unbelievable look.

Jiang Li on the stage was stunned for a moment, and then said awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I've already said that this bronze is worth 500 yuan at most, please don't raise the price any more."

Ke Yu felt embarrassed by her brother's abrupt behavior. Everyone's eyes were attracted to her. In order not to implicate herself, she deliberately stayed away from Ke Hui.

Who knew that Ke Hui was not nervous at all, but looked around and shouted: "Is there anyone else bidding? If no one bids, this thing belongs to me!"

Naturally, the people around looked at him like he was a fool. They knew it was worthless, but they still had to pay for it. This kind of taking advantage of someone is something you don’t usually see. Everyone looked at Ke Hui with more interest than looking at the collection.

Jiang Li frowned. Although she knew Ke Hui had a crush on her, she felt a little embarrassed to attract her attention in this way.

"Auctioneer, since no one is bidding, the things should belong to me, right?" Ke Hui looked at the auctioneer and shouted loudly.

The auctioneer was in a dilemma at this time and could only ask in a low voice: "Shopkeeper Jiang, what do you think we should do about this?"

"Sell this collection to him." Jiang Li said coldly, "Sell him whatever he wants to buy from now on, and make the price as high as possible."

The reason Jiang Li was angry was not just because Ke Hui misused money, but because this auction actually used the reputation of Liulifang. In the future, when someone takes these cultural relics for appraisal and finds that they are not worth the price at all, The organizers will obviously be blamed.

Like Tianlexing and Liulicang, they don't actually care about money. For them, reputation is more important.

If Ke Hui bought it, it would at most give them a negative reputation of greed, but if they sold it to others, they would probably be saddled with a bad reputation such as price gouging and commercial fraud.

After weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Li handed the microphone to the auctioneer.

The auctioneer immediately got into work mode, knocked three times on the table with a small hammer, and then announced that the 'Mingyi Bronze Tripod' had been bought by Ke Hui.

"Brother, you are really..." Ke Yu held his forehead, feeling a headache.

However, Ke Hui did not follow the staff directly to the backstage to inspect the goods. Instead, he came to the front of the stage and shouted to the auctioneer: "I paid so much money, can you please let me say a few words to everyone."

"Ah, this..." The auctioneer can't make the final decision. He is only responsible for introducing the auction items and adding to the atmosphere of the scene.

Ke Hui looked at Jiang Li with a smirk on his face. The staff was already preparing to drag Ke Hui away from the venue. Jiang Li said to his subordinates: "Let him speak."

Under the eager eyes of the staff, Ke Hui walked onto the stage.

Seeing the enemy taking the initiative to take the stage, the audience burst into laughter again.

"Silly man, do you regret it?"

"You have to pay for pretending. Your clothes are not cheap, so this little money should be used as a lesson."

"You are not working with the organizer, are you kidding us?"

"Looks like he's not very smart. He probably wouldn't hire such a stupid guy."