pappabearbooks Chapter 1640: Ma Zhen’s invitation
Chapter 1640: Ma Zhen’s invitation
However, no one walking in the queue expressed dissatisfaction. They also knew very well what quality the things they bought were.
If you want to keep it in your hands, you really need to be low-key.
They also entered the warehouse one by one.
Lin Ran prepared his bankbook and took photos of three exhibits, totaling only 6 yuan.
After walking to the warehouse and paying the money,
A bald middle-aged man asked if he would pick it up himself or if he would deliver it to a specific place.
He also hinted to Lin Ran: "Don't leave your home address. You can leave it at the designated location. We will keep an eye on it until you pick up the goods."
"I'll take it away myself." Lin Ran replied lightly.
In fact, their anti-investigation methods are meaningless to the Ministry of National Education.
As long as they can catch their organizer and find the list, all the buyer information will be visible at a glance.
Lin Ran left the back door of the hotel with the calligraphy and painting and the three treasures of his study, and drove away from the auction venue.
After returning home, Lin Ran wrote all the valuable cultural relics he was interested in and the auctioneer's number in a book, and handed them to the staff of the Ministry of Chinese Language and Literature along with his auction items.
What he got back was an incentive bonus of 10 yuan.
"Ah, there's still 15 yuan left." Lin Ran thought of the Tang Sancai bought by Ma Zhen. This guy really didn't care about the cost at the auction and actually spent 25 yuan.
He was going to Ma Zhen's residence to get his things back.
By the way, I asked him why he valued the white jade lion statue so much.
From his understanding of Ma Zhen, he was not a person interested in jewelry.
Came to Ma Zhen's residence and took away his Tang Sancai.
I thought he would ask for a lot of money, but I didn't expect that he readily took out the Tang Sancai and gave it directly to Lin Ran.
"It's just a trivial matter, don't take it to heart." Ma Zhen said lightly.
"How can that be done? After all, it's your money." Being able to sit in the boss's position, Lin Ran certainly knew that favors were the most difficult debt to repay.
He had to take out the money and give it to Ma Zhen.
Ma Zhen thought for a while and only accepted half of it.
"Why only half?" Lin Ran didn't know Ma Zhen's intention.
Ma Zhen said: "Actually, Liuyunbao City is holding an event recently. I think you must have participated in many treasure fighting parties, right?"
When it comes to Dou Bao, Lin Ran feels a little overwhelmed.
People in the antiques circle are actually no different from people in other circles. Since there are collections, there will naturally be competition.
Especially now that collecting has become a common trend among the people, it is natural to inevitably compete with each other for treasures.
As an emerging antique trading market, Liuyunbao City is not as well-known as Liulifang and Panjiayuan. In order to attract more customers, a treasure fighting party was planned.
"I'm not very good at treasure fighting." Lin Ran didn't like to participate in this kind of competition, not because he was afraid of losing, but because he was afraid that others would target him if he took out his belongings.
Of course, it also has some worse collectibles, and the probability of winning with these collectibles is not high.
So overall it doesn't want to participate in this kind of activity.
"What does Liuyunbao City have to do with you?" Lin Ran asked.
Previously, we only knew that he opened an auction house in Liuyunbao City, and the items sold there were relatively high-end and were rare goods that could not be seen outside.
"What's the relationship?" Ma Zhen said after thinking for a moment, "I'm just one of the planners. If you want to make more money, it's best if Liuyunbao City is popular."
It was obvious that he was hiding something in his speech, but he was a person who was very good at keeping secrets. As long as he didn't want to tell, he wouldn't be able to find out the truth.
Liuyunbao City is an emerging antique trading market. Although many collectors come here to buy things, the level is still inferior in comparison.
It has only gradually emerged in the past two years.
The reason why we came up with the idea of holding a treasure fighting party is to improve the quality of the people's appraisal of antiques, but it is actually a marketing activity.
After all, in today's era, people's lives are really boring.
For some large-scale events, people from the ten surrounding streets would come to participate.
Speaking of treasure fighting, it actually originated during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
At that time, all the princes in the world were in charge of their own affairs. At that time, there was a prince named Qin Mugong. In order to suppress other people, he posted hero posts widely and invited the princes of the seventeen countries to bring their own national treasures to participate in the exhibition, so that the most valuable ones could be selected in the end. national treasure.
Duke Mu of Qin set up a grand battle in Lintong Mountain and held the first treasure fighting conference.
Rumor has it that the invitations were all exquisite and sent to the hands of the princes and monarchs of the seventeen countries.
At that time, a rule was also established that each prince could bring his own country's rare treasures to participate in the treasure fighting competition without any restrictions.
But if there is a public comparison, which country has the best products will be considered superior.
Other countries will obey his orders.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, everyone was idle and bored. .
The kings of various countries refused to obey anyone, so they took their prime ministers and marshals to attend the conference.
As for not participating, it was impossible. All other countries had gone, and Western Qin was considered the most powerful country in the world at the time, and they all sent invitations. If you didn't go, you would be disrespectful.
Now inviting myself to participate in the treasure fighting conference is not a threat in another sense.
After agreeing to come to Liuyunbao City to participate in the event two days later, Lin Ran and Guan Yun left together.
Just after they left, another old man appeared in Ma Zhen's tea room.
"Do you think Lin Ran can win?" the old man asked.
Ma Zhen had an indifferent attitude: "I never do things based on my feelings."
"Haha, this is the first time I see you so confident in other people." The old man replied.
After saying that, he sat down and enjoyed the tea made by Ma Zhen.
"I have an idea, Guangdou Bao is really boring." The old man put forward his suggestion, "How about we set up a bet?"
"What I hate most is gambling." Ma Zhen said, "If you ever mention this to me again, please leave my house."
Ma Zhen said without mercy.
"Don't be like this." The old man didn't panic at all, but continued: "There is no reason not to participate in anything that can make money."
It is human nature to be fond of gambling, and there has been no progress in all aspects for thousands of years.
The old man’s idea was to set up an off-site gambling game, and the people participating in the treasure fight were all well-known people in the industry.
Then he came to be the banker and distributed flyers outside the venue, inviting all spectators to place bets.
"Haha, you're not afraid of losing even if you lose your pants." Ma Zhen has no interest in making this kind of money, but this activity is still quite interesting.