"Sister Ling'er, I'm going out to take a call."

Hong Yu said.

"Um!"

Xiao Ling'er nodded, but didn't think much about it.

Everyone has their own privacy. If Hong Yu doesn't want her to listen, then she won't listen.

After all, she and Hong Yu are just good friends at the moment and have no right to care about each other.

After walking out of the box and leaning on the balcony railing, Hong Yu answered the phone.

"Xiaoyu, I just sent you a message, why didn't you reply to me?"

Zhou Wanrou asked.

"Have you messaged me?"

Hong Yu pretended not to know, "Sorry, I didn't see it."

"Okay." Zhou Wanrou didn't care and asked, "The auction will start in half an hour. Can you come?"

"Well... I guess I can't make it in time. I really have some urgent matters to deal with today."

Hong Yu was helpless and panicked.

There was no other way. If this woman knew that she was accompanying Xiao Ling'er, she would probably become sulky again and go on a hunger strike at home.

"Oh, that's it. Well, you go ahead and go to the auction alone." Zhou Wanrou was a little disappointed.

"Well, I'll accompany you next time I have a chance. Okay, hang up."

Hong Yu hung up the phone and took a long breath. I really can't blame him for lying. He just wanted to do more than to do less.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back to the box, a beautiful figure suddenly appeared in his field of vision downstairs.

"Wanrou?"

Hong Yu was stunned for a moment and quickly shrank back, fearing that he would be discovered.

"Ms. Zhou, what box number are you in?"

"Manager Gao, I'm in box number seven."

"Okay, Miss Zhou, come with me."

Hong Yu looked surprised when he heard the conversation downstairs.

Box No. 7?

He quickly turned around and saw that box No. 7 was right next to him. He smiled bitterly and said, "No way, what a coincidence?"

"I'd better go in quickly to avoid being discovered, which would be embarrassing."

Hong Yu quickly pushed open the door of Box 6 and walked in quickly. He said helplessly: "What the hell is this? I'm just hanging out with a friend. It's like having an affair."

"Brother Xiaoyu, you look a little panicked. Did something happen?"

Xiao Linger raised her head and looked at Hong Yu who walked in.

"Oh, it's okay." Hong Yu shrugged and quickly calmed down.

"Oh." Xiao Linger didn't ask much.

To be on the safe side, Hong Yu walked to the window and gently closed the curtains.

"Brother Xiaoyu, why are you pulling the curtains?"

Xiao Ling'er asked in confusion.

Hong Yu said casually: "The light outside is too strong."

Is the light strong?

Xiao Ling'er looked puzzled, but didn't take it to heart.

at the same time.

Under the leadership of Manager Gao, Zhou Wanrou walked up to the second floor. When she passed by the window of Box 6, she glanced inside out of habit.

Hong Yu's consciousness naturally noticed Zhou Wanrou's small action, and he said happily: "Fortunately, I closed the window, otherwise I would have been discovered."

After Divine Sense watched Zhou Wanrou walk into Box No. 7, Hong Yu withdrew his gaze, walked to the sofa, sat down and said:

"Sister Ling'er, are there any good things in today's auction? There seem to be a lot of people coming."

"You are right, there are indeed many good things."

Xiao Ling'er nodded, "More than 90% of this auction is the Xu family's collection, and they are all high-quality products."

"Xu family, which Xu family?" Hong Yu frowned.

"Which other Xu family could it be? Of course it's the Xu family of the four major business families in Jiangzhou." Xiao Ling'er said.

Hong Yu looked startled, "No way, the Xu family is so rich, why would they need to auction off their collection?"

"Of course we didn't use it before, but it's different now."

Xiao Ling'er said: "With the death of Xu Zhengxiong in the Xu family, the eldest son Xu has become a disabled person again. He is still lying in the hospital ward. As the saying goes, the Xu family group is in chaos, and all the major clan shareholders have started to fight.

Withdrawing capital and selling a large number of stocks, the Xu family's current situation is like a crumbling high-rise building that may collapse at any time."

"So, in this situation, Xu Shuyun, the eldest daughter of the Xu family, stood up and sold some of her family's collections to collect funds, hoping to turn the tide and stabilize the Xu family's current predicament."

Hong Yu didn't expect that killing Xu Zhengxiong would put the Xu family into such a big crisis.

However, he didn't feel guilty.

Xu Zhengxiong deserves to die!

If he hadn't killed Xu Zhengxiong that day, he might have been the one who died.

Just thinking of the innocent eldest daughter of the Xu family, Hong Yu felt a little sorry.

While chatting, Manager Gao's voice suddenly came from the screen in front of him.

"Good afternoon, distinguished guests, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come to this auction. Now I announce that this auction has officially begun."

"Now, here is our first auction item."

On the screen, Hong Yu saw a woman with a very good figure, wearing a blue and white porcelain cheongsam, walking onto the stage holding a Guanyin vase in both hands.

When she placed the Guanyin vase on the booth in the center of the stage, a series of introductions and pictures about the vase, as well as the starting price, appeared on the big screen on the stage.

"Brother Xiaoyu, I really didn't expect that the first auction item would be a five-color Guanyin bottle from Ru kiln in the Song Dynasty. It looks like it is in good condition and is a treasure." Xiao Ling'er said while looking at the screen.

Hong Yu nodded, "It is indeed a treasure, otherwise the starting price would be as high as five million."

"The bidding starts now. The starting price is 5 million. Every time you raise a sign, the price will increase by 500,000."

Manager Gao on the screen started the shooting session after a series of introductions to the Guanyin bottle.

"Boss No. 44 raises his sign once, five and a half million."

"Boss No. 48 raises his sign once, six million."

"..."

"The boss in box No. 7 raises his sign once, ten million."

After many rounds of bidding, the price of this Ru kiln Guanyin vase from the Song Dynasty has been raised to 10 million, and the noise of increasing the price has just stopped.

"This Song Dynasty Guanyin bottle is indeed good, but the price of RMB 10 million is a little bit expensive."

Hong Yu looked at Zhou Wanrou in the box next door and said to himself: "It seems that this girl really likes this Guanyin bottle."

“Once every 10 million times, is there any boss who continues to raise the price by raising a sign?”

Manager Gao's voice sounded on the screen again.

"Brother Xiaoyu, I also like this Guanyin vase from Ru Kiln in the Song Dynasty. How about I bid on it too?"

Xiao Linger said suddenly.

"Ah...this..." Hong Yu was stunned upon hearing this.

If the person in box No. 7 was not Zhou Wanrou, Hong Yu would not care.

But the current situation is that the guest in box No. 7 is indeed Zhou Wanrou.

How could Hong Yu have the nerve to let these two best friends raise each other's prices and give others an advantage?

"Forget it, this Guanyin bottle is not worth so much money." Hong Yu objected.

"Okay, brother Xiaoyu, I'll listen to you. I don't think it's worth more than 10 million," Xiao Ling'er said.

"Two times ten million...three times ten million..."

On the stage downstairs, Manager Gao made the final decision, "Congratulations to the distinguished guest in Box No. 7 for taking this Ru kiln Guanyin vase from the Song Dynasty."

"Now, I would like to invite you for the second auction item. This is a landscape painting by the modern master Zhang Daqian."

…
To be continued...