565. Drag Racing (10/10)
I took a nap for a while and it was a little late. I'm sorry, I'm gone in the early morning and I can't get the bullet case. During my part-time job, it's even more difficult to get it at work!&&&&
The exhibition was only two and a half hours. As of noon, the participants went out to have a meal, and the artwork was packed up and put into the backstage for auction.
Qin Shiou pulled Billy and asked in a low voice: "I said you are really brave, you are a court bead that pretends to be a first-class official? Didn't anyone notice the trick inside?"
Billy laughed and said, "Who pretended? Qin, you made a few mistakes. First, the Red Coral Court Bead was the exclusive match of the first and second rank officials of your Qing Empire. It is impossible to say that the original owner of the court bead was Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan and others. Second, these court beads are not just fakes now, you have to understand this."
"What does it mean?" Qin Shiou asked.
"The bead in the middle is real. I spent a lot of effort to buy it from an old Chinese collector in San Francisco. It is indeed the court bead used by Jiang Linzhao. Unfortunately, there is only one. I used this bead to mix it into your court beads. In this way, the whole bead is real. What is this called in your China? Fish-like beads?" Billy asked.
Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "No, this is called fooling in our country, a big fooling!"
I have to admit that Billy is smart. He successfully fooled this time. The original string of red coral beads worth at most 300,000 Canadian dollars. Once it is linked to celebrities, its value will increase immediately.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the auction officially began. An experienced auctioneer auctioned off one lot in a stern voice. Qin Shiou was not very interested in these things. He just held his cell phone and watched the news.
There are many news about him in the fishery industry. In addition to the news that the owner of the Odoto Showa Maru was punished for poisoning the fishery, there is another thing that is that the Japanese tuna farming industry has declared bankruptcy, and the bluefin tuna that has been saved over the years has run away...
It is said that after learning the news, the price of bluefin tuna fillets in Japanese restaurants doubled suddenly.
Billy touched Qin Shiou. He looked up and saw that his red coral beads were placed on the auction table.
After the auctioneer introduced the origin and characteristics of this court bead, he quoted the lowest price: "The starting price is 1.5 million, and the price increase shall not be less than 50,000 per time. Please quote..."
Now Chinese are becoming the mainstream of the art consumer market. Several yellow-skinned men immediately started bidding, and the price quickly rose from 1.5 million to 1.85 million, and after several rounds of bidding. In the middle, a rich Russian businessman participated and shouted the price to 2 million.
Qin Shiou nodded to Billy, you kid have made a contribution this time.
A Chinese man raised his hand and shouted "2.05 million". The rich Russian businessman immediately shouted "2.1 million". Finally, another Chinese man stung the price and finally set the price on "2.25 million".
Qin Shiou felt that the money of rich people is sometimes easy to make. As the saying goes, the cycle of nature is unhappy. These capitalists exploit the working masses, and now he, the working masses, has cheated money from the capitalists again.
Qin Shiou lost interest after taking the Chaozhu out. He took advantage of the rest and patted his butt and left. When he was about to leave, he saw the Russian who had taken the Chaozhu to find Billy and asked: "Are you Mr. Billy Stemmer? Where did you get the Chaozhu from Admiral Jiang?"
Qin Shiou thought there was something secret about this court bead, so he stopped and listened.
As a result, the Russians later said that his family had some connection with Admiral Chiang. His ancestors were persecuted by the Russian Tsar and were trapped in the Qing Dynasty. Admiral Chiang had a keen eye for heroes and incorporated him into the army and became one of the few yellow-bearded soldiers in the Qing army at that time.
Later, Admiral Chiang died of illness, and the Russian ancestors returned to Siberia. In his diary, there was a detailed record of this court bead, saying that this court bead was once something he had dreamed of. The Russians did this to fulfill their ancestor's last wishes.
After understanding this, Qin Shiou couldn't help laughing secretly. This Russian guy must have made a mistake. What his ancestors dreamed of was the status represented by this court bead - from a first-rank official, a nine-sect admiral, a major official of the Qing Dynasty, rather than a single bead.
In the evening, Billy and Blake came to find Qin Shiou, and took him to participate in the midnight racing race with yellingly.
Little Black is wearing a suit and lace during the day and his leather shoes are bright. Now he is dressed in a young and dandy style. His hair is fixed with hair spray and upright like a torch. He is wearing a tight leather jacket full of chains and wolves on his hands, looking very rebellious.
Like Qin Shiou, Blake also drives his Porsche 918, and the two are the same shape and the same model of super sports cars are also quite awesome.
Enjoying the envious gazes of passers-by in the hotel, Qin Shiou said with satisfaction: "Although we will be despised later, it's good to be envied now."
After hearing his words, Little Black asked strangely: "Why should we be despised?"
Qin Shiou said: "Look, we drive a Porsche 918. This kind of sports car that is just a watch should be the most disdainful thing for those car modification experts? I watch movies and racing scenes, but they are all modified crazy sports cars."
Little Black and Billymu looked at him blankly, then looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Billy laughed and said, "What are you kidding? This is the Porsche 918. Although it is not the top sports car, it is also a very top car! Who do you think disdain this kind of car? Car modification experts? Let them eat shit! Is the engineers hired by Porsche company high money not as good as those half-baked guys who have not attended college? What a joke!"
Little Black patted Qin Shiou's shoulder and said, "Buddha, you were cheated by the movie! How many car modification experts are there? Even if you give them the Porsche 918, they can only change the exhaust pipe, the steering wheel, etc. I'm afraid they don't understand the others!"
Then, two Porsche 918s drove to Grebel outside Ottawa, where the midnight racing location was.
Grebel is known as the "Emerald Necklace of the Capital". It is the largest green area in Ottawa. It is located in the northern suburbs of the city. It covers an area of 18,000 hectares and stretches for a total of 45 kilometers. The roads are flat and the roads are twists and turns, which is suitable for racing.
In the movie, thousands of people were crowded with people, but in fact there were not so many. After Qin Shiou drove to the suburbs, he found that there were indeed many cars on the scene, but there were only sixty or seventy sports cars, most of which were ordinary modified cars, SUVs, off-road vehicles, etc.
However, there are many beauties. However, in mid-May, the girls have already put on miniskirts, navel-exposed clothes, and some women simply wear bikini-like bellybands to show off their smooth skin and slim figure.
Chapter completed!