The time soon came to eight o'clock in the evening.

At this time, an older Chinese auctioneer from the Hong Kong Royal International Art Auction walked onto the auction stage.

"At the invitation of Mr. Governor, our Hong Kong Royal International Art Auction is responsible for this charity auction. Here, on behalf of the disaster area, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for taking time out of their busy schedules to come to the site. The auction will now begin.

!" A hammer hit the auction table, indicating the official start of the auction.

"Boss, what do you want to photograph?" Zhong Chuhong looked over the list of auction items handed over by Su Cheng and asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you later." Su Cheng said with a smile.

The first item is an ink painting hand-painted by a teacher from the art museum. The starting price is HK$1,000.

Perhaps because it was the first item to be auctioned, many people wanted to show off in front of Governor Maliho, so the bidding was very fierce.

"10,000."

"50,000."

"100,000."

In the end, the bidding price was fixed at HK$320,000, and the bid was taken by a wealthy Chinese man whom Suzhou had never seen before.

Subsequently, the progress of the auction was obviously much faster. Basically, the auction transaction time for each item was no more than two minutes.

One item after another was photographed by the wealthy people at the scene.

If it were an ordinary auction, this kind of item would be good if it could fetch tens of thousands.

But in this auction, not a single item was priced below HK$200,000.

After all, in this auction, everyone is not coming for the items, but for charity.

When meeting business rivals, even for secret competition, the transaction price of an ordinary calligraphy and painting can be raised to millions.

Most of the people present are wealthy people with a net worth of hundreds of millions or more. Naturally, they don't take it seriously if they have a net worth of one or several hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.

Soon, more than 40 donated items were auctioned off one by one.

Finally it’s time for the auction of the last ten consignment items.

The first item is an item that has attracted much attention. According to the list, it is an jade necklace composed of 8 emerald green jade eggs and 188 diamonds with a total weight of 38.88 carats. The starting price is the list of auction items.

The highest one among them is HK$500,000.

Two hostesses carried a sealed glass box and walked through several aisles until everyone could see its true face before the auction began.

"The 8 jade eggs are all glass jade. The germ plasm is delicate and translucent, the color is bright and brilliant, the emerald green is dense and sunny, round and full, without a trace of impurities. The light penetrates into the bottom of the stone, and the light is agile and crystal clear. It is a century-old

A rare treasure in the green." Xiao Ai commented in Su Cheng's mind.

"Do you want it? How about I take a picture and give it to you?" Su Cheng turned around and said to Zhong Chuhong with a smile.

"It's too expensive, I don't want it." Zhong Chuhong shook his head and said.

Su Cheng smiled and said nothing more.

Soon, the auction started.

"500,000."

"600,000."

"800,000."

Soon, the auction price exceeded 1 million.

After all, the market value of this necklace outside is two to three million. If it lasts another thirty or forty years, it wouldn't be surprising if it could even be worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Everyone is rich at this level, so they naturally know what they are buying.

.

"2.3 million, is there anything higher?" the auctioneer asked repeatedly.

"3 million!" At this time, Su Cheng directly took the sign from Zhong Chuhong's hand and let him call out the price himself.

"3 million, Mr. Su asked for 3 million. Is there anyone who wants to increase the price? This is a rare necklace made of high-quality glass jade. It is very rare on the market." The auctioneer continued to encourage everyone.

However, perhaps everyone gave Sioux City a favor, and because the price was too high, no one continued to compete with Sioux City in the end.

Zhong Chuhong on the side was extremely troubled.

She didn’t know if Su Cheng took this necklace as a gift to her.

If it was given to herself, she felt that she should stop it because she felt that she was not worthy of such an expensive necklace.

But what if the boss didn’t take the photo to give it to me? If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make the boss angry if I stopped him from taking the photo?

Therefore, in the end she remained silent.

After a long time, when no one bid again, the auctioneer could only continue: "3 million once, 3 million twice, the deal is done. Congratulations to Mr. Su for the successful bid."

Three million Hong Kong dollars is not a big sum of money for Sioux City.

Next, one item after another was auctioned off.

The auction prices for the following items are not as high as the jade necklace.

The highest one was a pair of sun-green jade bracelets, which were eventually bought by a foreigner for HK$2.2 million.

Finally, on the third to last auction item, it was the turn of the dog-headed bronze statue.

The bronze statue of the dog's head that was moved out and placed on the auction stage now faces everyone.

The starting price for the bronze dog head statue is not high, only HK$10,000.

Moreover, after hearing the auctioneer's introduction, it was just a nozzle of a fountain in the Old Summer Palace, so not many people paid attention to it.

"Xiao Ai, is this bronze statue of a dog head real?" Although after appraisal at the auction, this one should be authentic, but it would be better for Su Cheng to let Xiao Ai authenticate it multiple times.

Otherwise, if you buy a fake bronze dog head statue and take it home, you will only be embarrassed.

Of course, in this era, the bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads are not well-known yet, and people don’t know enough about them, so there is no need to imitate them.

"Master, this dog head bronze statue has been authenticated by me and is authentic. Master, please feel free to buy it." Xiao Ai quickly fed back the information to Su Cheng.

After getting Xiao Ai's approval, Su Cheng felt relieved.

"20,000."

"30,000."

"40,000."

……

The dog-headed bronze statue was not as popular as expected. Before Su City made any bids, there were only two people bidding, a foreigner and a Chinese.

Su Cheng didn't know either of them, and they seemed to be relatively unknown rich people in the world of rich people.

Moreover, their bids are all ten million land plus.

Perhaps the reason why the owner behind it wants to auction it in Xiangjiang is because he hopes that people in Xiangjiang will pay a high price for it.

However, what he didn't expect was that not many people were interested in the bronze dog-head statue.

"Bid 100,000." Su Cheng said directly to Zhong Chuhong.

So Zhong Chuhong raised the bidding sign and shouted 100,000.

Su Cheng was a very famous celebrity at the scene. After he made a bid, the Chinese who originally bid no longer bid. Perhaps he did not want to offend the famous Hutchison Whampoa Taipan for a cultural relic.

The foreigner, after hesitating for a moment, continued to bid.

"110,000!"

"Bid 150,000." Su Cheng said to Zhong Chuhong.

Zhong Chuhong quickly followed suit.

"160,000!"

"Let's bid 200,000," Su Cheng continued.

"Bid 200,000 on the 12th!" Zhong Chuhong continued to do so.

At this time, the foreigner finally stopped raising his sign.

The expected drag did not appear. This time, the bidding went more smoothly than Su Cheng had imagined. Therefore, this bronze dog head statue was bought by Su City for HK$200,000.

At this price, the owner behind the scenes is actually very satisfied.

If it were auctioned in Europe, it would be good if it could sell for several thousand pounds.

In fact, a few years later, in 1985, a beautiful Chinese antique dealer accidentally discovered the bronze statue of a horse head from the Old Summer Palace in a private residence in California, together with the bronze statues of an ox head and a tiger head. This antique dealer

The merchant bought these three bronze heads at a low price of US$1,500 each.
Chapter completed!