Star Marriage

Chapter 81

On the top floor of the Treasure Auction House, there is a small office. Simple and cheap white oak furniture is neatly arranged throughout the room.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses calmly examined the documents in his hand. The person standing next to his desk stood with his chest up and his head up like a soldier, not daring to move at all.

Two knocks on the door interrupted his concentration, and he raised his eyes to look at the door.

Because he knew the door was open, he didn't look too surprised when he saw two people standing at the door.

The middle-aged man did not speak, but scanned the person with his eyes, waiting for the person to speak first.

It was Yan Xichen and Shui Ling who came.

When they asked to see the owner of the auction house downstairs, they had already been rejected, and Shui Ling was so domineering that he almost forced his way in.

Yan Xichen was carrying a huge backpack, and running behind Shui Ling was sweating slightly. When he was approaching the door of this office, Shui Ling slowed down, and the guards who had been chasing them also slowed down strangely. .

When they reached the door, Shui Ling knocked on the door very politely, which surprised Yan Xichen, after all, this girl kicked down two guards very forcefully just now and rushed up.

Being glanced at by the shrewd and steady eyes of the middle-aged man, Yan Xichen's throat tightened a little. Before speaking, he took off his hat according to Qixing's etiquette, held it in his hand, put it in front of him, and leaned over to salute.

Shui Ling knew that her mission was basically over, so she quietly stepped aside and confronted the guards who were chasing her.

Before Yan Xichen could speak, the chief of the guard came over with strides. He skillfully blocked Yan Xichen at the door, and said to the middle-aged man inside: "Mr. Wen, these two people rushed up suddenly..."

Before he finished speaking, the President Wen nodded, indicating that he didn't need to say anything.

"Since you came here by force, let's talk about your request." The middle-aged man's voice was thick and powerful. Although he didn't carry a trace of emotion, the captain of the guard subconsciously tightened his facial lines.

"Hmm..." This is Yan Xichen's bad habit when he is nervous, and he always hesitates.

"I want to participate in today's auction." Yan Xichen calmed down, imagining himself as a person like Liu Fei, and said in his most stable tone.

"Then you are looking for the wrong person. You should go to the ticket office." The middle-aged man leaned back in the chair, put his hands in front of him, and responded very freely.

"I'm not here to buy, I'm here to sell." Yan Xichen put the backpack on the coffee table in the room, and took the "clock" out of the backpack.

When he opened the gray cloth wrapped around the clock, the middle-aged man with a calm expression as if he was on a beach vacation suddenly stood up and walked out of the desk in three steps at a time.

Obviously, like Shui Ling and Xiao Zheng, he was also attracted by the things Yan Xichen brought.

"This is..." The middle-aged man obviously understands the value of this thing, the former ease on his face has been completely replaced by shock and excitement, and the questioning voice is trembling like his fingers.

Probably, neither the guard captain at the door nor the bodyguards at the table had ever seen a middle-aged man lose his composure like this, and they also looked at the things Yan Xichen put on the coffee table in amazement.

The second hand of the clock in the glass cover is clicking and clicking along the established route. The second hand has completed a round of tour, and the minute hand has taken a square step.

"This is a timing device, made according to Miles' time system." Yan Xichen explained.

"Oh... by the way, I've seen it. I've seen something similar in Miles." The middle-aged man walked around the coffee table a few times, and he seemed completely unable to calm down.

"Is this made by Miles? An antique?" The reason why the middle-aged man was so excited was that almost all the clocks and watches he saw in Miles were broken, but the one in front of him was still accurate. is running.

"No, I made this with my friend, Master Xiao Bao from Baoji Cast Iron Shop in Muqingcheng. The glass cover was made by Xiao Zheng from Zhengji Glass Shop. This very artistic and colorful dial is made by this lady. Drawn. Ours is a sample, and if possible, we will not sell this sample."

Yan Xichen's words confused Shui Ling and the middle-aged man, because Yan Xichen said the word "not for sale", and the middle-aged man stopped in the room immediately.

"Not for sale?" Shui Ling and the middle-aged man said in unison.

"Ah..., no. I mean this sample is not for sale. If someone buys it, we will make an exact copy for him according to the sample, but it will take some time."

"Oh, that's what you mean." The middle-aged man was obviously relieved.

"Then, you agreed to let me take this thing?"

"Okay, of course you can take the auction."

"Which day is it?" Yan Xichen didn't know the schedule of the auction.

"Today, of course." Shui Ling interrupted suddenly.

Shui Ling's words made the middle-aged man frown.The bodyguard, who had been standing by the table without speaking, suddenly said, "Today's will definitely not work."

"Why not? If you want to buy it, you can buy it today, or we will sell it elsewhere." Shui Ling's toughness came again.

When the bodyguard was still talking, the middle-aged man suddenly raised his hand, and the bodyguard's mouth seemed to be covered with tape, and he swallowed the words that had reached his mouth.

"Okay! Let's go to today's auction. Let Secretary Wu come over and put this auction item at the end."

The words of the middle-aged man once again shocked everyone except Yan Xichen.

What does the last lot of Treasure Auction mean?It means that the value of this lot is higher than all the previous ones.Shui Ling and others know that today is the end-of-month auction, and there are many valuable things up for auction. In the invention category, Feng Weizhi's mechanical invention holds the throne of the last lot. It seems that this throne is going to change owners today.

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The tickets for the auction are neither cheap nor expensive. It is equivalent to the one-night accommodation fee they spent in the hotel before.

The ticket price is a bit expensive for Yan Xichen now.Fortunately, because he is the auction provider, he has a free ticket from the auction house.

He and Shui Ling were invited by the staff to sit down at the seat closest to the auction platform, so that if the audience had any questions during the explanation, the auctioneer could ask them.

The entire auction hall has about three or four hundred seats, like a small movie theater.There are several super large black crystal curtain walls hanging on the high platform behind the public seats.Behind the black crystal are VIP rooms one by one.

Shui Ling has been a little uneasy since she sat down, she kept looking around, and Yan Xichen, who was not too nervous, was driven a little nervous by her.

"Are you looking for someone?" Yan Xichen couldn't help asking.

"No, it's probably in the box." Shui Ling said to himself.

As soon as they finished speaking, the lantern flowers in the hall seemed to have heard the order, and they all lowered their heads and closed their flowers, but the lantern flowers in every corner of the auction platform bloomed together, illuminating the auction platform very brightly.

The auction officially begins.

According to the basic order, the first auctions are all related to the fish in the Dead Sea.

The first one is a fishbone carving handicraft. Yan Xichen has an advantage over others when he reads the auction. He has an encyclopedia to follow. Xiaolan explains in more detail than the explainer, and the explainer is generally a little exaggerated. Xiaolan definitely only states the facts .

This fishbone carving is made of a deep-sea fish called "Dark Blue". Its body is blue. During the mating and breeding season, its dark blue will turn into fluorescent royal blue. On the sea at night very conspicuous.After the fish bone of this fish is soaked in sulfur, it will show a transparent blue color, and the natural impurities in the fish bone seem to become dotted stars on the transparent texture.

This kind of sculpture made of fish bones is so gorgeous that the supply is basically in short supply.Moreover, since Qi and Miles established business relations, Qi Yunzhi and Li Bin are not the famous Caiyunzhi and Libin, but the semi-finished products of dark blue fish bone carving balls that Qi has exported the most.

The sculpture in front of me was made by everyone, and the materials used are very sufficient. Finally, it was sold to a merchant who did not want to be named at a very good price.

The second one was bought by Yan Xichen, because the second one was the "fish rubber band" mentioned by Xiaobao. It was the first time he saw the real thing, and he admired the ingenuity of nature. Because this kind of fish rubber band is six or seven meters long, it seems that the fish called "Qiuhao" is also a big guy.

Even though the "fish rubber band" cost him 50DL, he felt it was worth it. After all, without this, his sewing machine would not be able to get out.

The next lot is a pile of metals. Starting from the low price, the bidding during this period determines the price trend of metals in Rainbow Island.A pile of metal is something that even an auctioneer can't explain clearly.

The beautiful auctioneer held a blank manuscript with basically nothing written on it, and laughed twice, she was really worried about how to introduce the following thing.

In the magic crystal, Xiaolan can also scan and analyze the composition of the irregular metals on the auction stage.When everyone focused their eyes on the beauty, Xiaolan's identification light spot secretly fell on the dark side of the metal.

After Xiaolan's analysis, it was a piece of space junk.This piece of space junk, whose main component is metal, has been fused into an alloy due to friction with the atmosphere during the fall into the space.

Because the auctioneer was basically unable to explain this item, the merchants in the venue were all lacking in interest. Just when this item was about to pass the auction, Yan Xichen took this piece of irregular metal.

Qixing's metal purification technology is still very primitive, and many alloys basically maintain the composition of the ore when it was mined.People are not interested in this kind of multi-metal mixture because they don't know what to do with this thing when they take it back.

The reason why he wants this is because there is a valve wrapped in this piece of metal, and the valve is filled with high-purity sodium. In addition, most of this piece of metal is an alloy of copper and magnesium-aluminum. He will reuse these three metals in the future. .

After the metal auction, there will be an auction of various new inventions.

The first few pieces that were put up for auction were all from the teachers and students of Muqing Engineering College, a well-known institution in Panluo, which supplies technical blood to large enterprises in Panluo.

Yan Xichen didn't pay attention to these lots, because at that time his attention was attracted by the commotion in the middle of the venue.

The commotion at the venue was caused by a man who walked into the venue alone wearing Qixing's famous Caiyun weave with a spotless bookish look. He was obviously late, but he seemed to be late often, so the receptionist didn't care at all. Make it difficult for him, let him in.

He walked towards the three seats in the middle of the third row of the venue, only then did Yan Xichen realize that those three seats were always vacant, even though the other seats were full of people, and some people even bought standing tickets.Those three seats didn't feel lonely and empty at all.

When the young man walked past the front row of seats, a row of people stood up in unison, like soldiers welcoming the chief inspector, and those people were the teachers and students of Muqing Engineering College.

Yan Xichen happened to know the identity of this young man.He is the person whom the little prince admires, and he can be regarded as the existence of the little prince who is also a brother and a friend.

His name is Feng Weizhi.

Yan Xichen couldn't help but feel admiration for the learned temperament exuding from that person, and praised in his heart: "What a man of grace."

Unlike Yan Xichen and most of the people in the venue, since Feng Weizhi came in, Shui Ling's expression has been very stiff. She did not turn her head to watch the excitement uncharacteristically, but kept her head lowered.