As soon as the vase from West Asia came on stage, it attracted everyone's attention, and the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.
However, Yin Xiu just grabbed the waiter, asked her for two glasses of champagne, and brought them to her in beer glasses.
"Twenty-two thousand!"
"Twenty-five thousand!"
"Twenty-eight thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand, is there anything higher!?"
Listening to the host's voice and the shouting of prices in the venue, Luo Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Not long after it started, the price already exceeded his and Yin Xiu's combined savings.
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said with a smile: "Why are you anxious? We still have to go up. It's not too late to let them play for a while."
"You're not in a hurry."
Luo Wei shook his head, "But my palms are already sweaty. This is the first time I have seen such a big scene."
"That's why I said you should gain more experience."
Yin Xiu took the heavy glass of champagne from the waiter's hand, which was about to overflow at any moment, took a deep sip, and let out a sigh of relief.
"A big scene like this is much more interesting than catching a thief."
"Of course, when we catch a thief, the thief is visible, but now, I just feel that no matter how fierce the confrontation is, it is actually hidden under the curtain, which makes people shiver down the spine."
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Luo Wei rubbed the goosebumps on the back of his hands, obviously not exaggerating.
"Actually, the people here are similar to you. Do you think they have experienced hundreds of battles? They are all the same."
Yin Xiu handed the wine glass to Luo Wei, "Take a sip of wine first, and we will wait for the second half before taking action."
As Yin Xiu expected, the auction prices continued to rise.
When the price finally reached 200,000, Yin Xiu raised her hand.
"Two hundred and one hundred thousand, that gentleman offered two hundred and ten thousand! Is there anything higher?"
The host was in high spirits.
As soon as he finished speaking, another slender hand was raised on the other side of the seat.
"Two hundred and thirteen thousand, this lady came out to two hundred and thirteen thousand!"
"Twenty-eight thousand, the gentleman just now paid up to two hundred and eighteen thousand!"
"Two hundred and twenty-five thousand!"
"Two hundred and thirty thousand! Two hundred and thirty thousand! The new highest price. There has never been such a high bid in Berlin this month. Tonight, in this glorious night, is there any higher bid?"< br>
Amid the shouting, Karelina looked out from the seat and towards the direction of the bidding, and saw Luo Wei and Yin Xiuzheng sitting on chairs, looking very relaxed.
[These two bastards took the money and treated it as money? 】
Karelina took out her notebook, glanced at the budget above, and finally closed the notebook angrily and withdrew from the competition.
However, she was still unconvinced, biting her lip and staring there again.
"Two hundred and thirty thousand! Congratulations to these two gentlemen!"
The etiquette model came to the two of them holding a plate.
Yin Xiu took the label representing the vase on the plate in his hand - he would not get the physical object before paying.
"My butler will deliver the money before the ball ends tonight."
Yin Xiu nodded gracefully, stood up and left.
His demeanor at this time is quite like those young men from the upper class who spend all their time playing around in nightclubs and hanging out with women, which makes people sincerely believe in his promise.
So no one raised any doubts. Yin Xiu and Luo Wei straightened their collars and left in a swaggering manner.
Also leaving with them was Karelina.
She casually took a glass of champagne from the waiter, held it in her hand, and followed Yin Xiu and Luo Wei from a distance. She looked like an aristocratic lady who was admiring the scenery tonight and intoxicated in the dance.
When she turned the corner seemingly leisurely, she suddenly bumped into someone and almost fell down.
"This is Chanel." Yin Xiu frowned.
"It's not you who got the champagne thrown at you."
Luo Wei wiped his suit, obviously feeling distressed, but he still forced himself to calm down and glanced at Karelina, who almost sat on the ground.
"How can I help you?"
"Of course."
Karelina adjusted her skirt and said angrily: "Give me that West Asian vase. For you, you can't appreciate the artistic value of that thing.
Go buy an oil painting or find a porcelain bottle, which is more suitable for you. ”
"Okay, two hundred and fifty thousand!" Yin Xiu grinned.
"Huh?"
Karelina frowned, "You're just raising your price from the ground up."
Yin Xiu took out the label from his pocket and smiled: "Don't say it so harshly. I gave it to you because you are my cousin. The 20,000 yuan, just treat it as a gift." Our transportation costs are reasonable, do you think?”
"Reasonable, very reasonable."
Karelina's teeth were itching, but she still kept smiling.
"I will give you 200,000. You go and get the bottle back to me. As for the other 30,000, just treat it as your ticket to visit this high society. This must be given."
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"Why, do you think we two are such poor people? I can't afford 230,000 yuan?"
Yin Xiu said disdainfully: "Even if I don't appreciate that vase, can't I just buy a bottle and put it on the table as a pen holder?"
"Then what if I tell the auction house directly that you two have no money at all? Do you think those boxers in the auction house are just having fun and joking with you?"
"Cousin."
Yin Xiu sighed, "Although we met by chance and I helped you without asking for anything in return, but you want to threaten me with this, don't forget, we are distant relatives?
If I go out, won't your cousin also reveal her secret? ”
"What does it matter?"
Karelina blinked her beautiful eyes, "I am a lady, and I did not take pictures of this collection, even though they knew that I went the wrong way and entered this ball by mistake.
Even without an invitation, they would politely call a carriage to take me back. ”
"Damn it, you really can't be loyal to women."
Yin Xiu put the tag back into his pocket, "In that case, I wish you a safe journey and good night."
The two of them turned around and left in unison.
"Hey!"
Karelina shouted unwillingly, "Is there really no more discussion?"
"I said, two hundred and fifty thousand."
Yin Xiu turned her head slightly and glanced at her, "Nothing less is negotiable."
"You said that?" Karelina repeated.
"What I said doesn't change even after God comes."
"Okay!" A strong wind suddenly rose, and the lights in the corridor were extinguished and plunged into darkness.
In the darkness as deep as ink, there was only one window that let in the moonlight.
The moonlight is beautiful tonight. Under the moonlight, Karelina's hair is spread out and flying in the air.
She opened her mouth, with ferocious teeth, red pupils, and skin that was whiter than before, but it made her even more charming and beautiful, not as ugly as other monsters.
The smell of darkness filled the corridor.
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei didn't look surprised, they still stood there without even changing their posture.
Karelina hesitated because of their calm actions, but her vampire instinct told her to be fearless.
So after roaring, Karelina rushed over, stretched out her white hands, and grabbed Yin Xiu with her red nails.
Luo Wei whispered: "She is a girl, please be gentle."
"Don't worry!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Xiu stepped forward, pushed away Karelina's hand that was grabbing for him with one hand, and reached out with the other hand like lightning, grabbing her snow-white neck.
Boom!
Karelina was pushed into the wall by Yin Xiu, causing gravel to fly.
Her eyes widened, not because of pain, but because of surprise, unconcealable surprise.
Yin Xiu still maintained a smile, "Hello, Laura Fanna."
Laura Fana grew paler.
……
call!
Sitting on the bed, Laura Fana was sitting on the bed, wearing only a thin shirt, her hair hanging over her shoulders and falling on her slender waist.
After taking a bath, Laura Fana's accumulated fatigue and injuries disappeared.
She was drying her hair with a towel in one hand and the letter in her other hand, with a rather sad look on her face.
Luo Wei leaned on the edge of the sofa and stared at the inferior oil painting on the wall, not daring to look directly at her.
"Although it is a pity, people are born, old, sick and die. Your father, Count Nicholas, passed away peacefully. Please forgive me and accept him."
"I'm not sad about this."
Laura Fana put her legs together, hugging her knees, revealing her exquisite thigh curves from under her shirt.
"It's just that if you just leave tonight, the vase will be lost. I don't know when I will get it next time."
"..." Luo Wei was quite speechless.
Although he is a Rakshasa, he is not a vampire.
So I don't know that in the long life of a vampire, separation and loss are common things.
This is the torture brought about by "immortality". Vampires become bystanders in the long river of time, witnessing the passing of people around them one by one and the disappearance of the things they like.
Moreover, the last time the two of them met was actually a century ago, and Laura Fana only returned to Dunling once seven years ago, but the two of them had never met.
So at this moment, for Laura Fana, the news of her father's death was not as important as the loss of an antique vase.
When the two of them were silent, Yin Xiu opened the door and came in.
"Here! What you want."
He flicked his hand, and something was thrown from the air towards Laura Fana.
Laura Fana quickly reached out to catch it, and then realized that it was the Persian vase she had dreamed of.
First surprised, then confused, she asked: "You suddenly have money? Buy this vase for me?"
"What is money without money?"
Yin Xiuqie asked, "When the auction house snatched this vase from the Persians, did they pay for it?"
"That's it."
Laura Fana lowered her head to admire the vase again, "A month ago, when I saw the promotional poster, I was already planning to buy this vase."
"Then you don't even have an invitation letter? And I heard that you often collect various works of art and are a frequent visitor to auctions, so you can't even come up with more than two hundred thousand?
Logically speaking, you should be a rich woman, an aristocratic lady with a lot of wealth. ”
Yin Xiu asked a series of questions.
"This is how it should be."
At the mention of this, Laura Fana's smile disappeared and she sighed, looking sad.
"This month has really been like a nightmare to me. Although we vampires don't dream, I still have to say this.
I originally had a fortune of several million yuan, not a few hundred yuan, but several million yuan, you bastard!
It's all stored in the fund of that bastard Krupp, the largest arms dealer in western Europe and the boss of the Krupp Ordnance Company. Others call him Mr. Krupp.
Countries in the Far East have to rely on him to provide equipment when they want to fight a war and form an army, otherwise they won't even be able to fight a decent war.
I invested all my money in his company in the Far East and received hundreds of thousands of returns every year. This money was enough for me to live freely in Berlin, buy antiques, and collect art.
But a few months ago, that bastard's company suddenly failed in its investment. He followed others' example of playing stock futures and lost a lot of money, including half of the entire bastard's company.
Immediately afterwards, that bastard Krupp ran away. Later, I heard that that bastard was killed by another bastard. I don’t know whether it was true or not. Anyway, I became a pauper overnight. Nothing is left.
Originally, Krupp might be able to make a comeback and get my money back, but it was all that bastard's fault! ”
Yin Xiu clicked her tongue and frowned: "As a girl, can you please stop being a bastard on the left and a bastard on the right, and be more polite?"
"But I do feel that I am a very innocent person!"
Laura Fana knelt on the bed and buried her face in the pillow, utterly devastated.
“Woooooo, I obviously didn’t do anything, but in the end I became a pauper, and I said goodbye to my leisurely and leisurely life.
Money is also very important to vampires. Do you think it's okay for us to just lie in a coffin during the day and look for people to bite our necks at night?
We need money too, you bastard! ”
"But you invested, didn't you?"
Yin Xiu scratched her face, "Investment is definitely risky. Even if you put your money in a bank, the bank may go bankrupt, right?
If you make such an investment, you may make profits from time to time, but if you encounter any risks, you cannot avoid losses. ”
Yin Xiu's words not only failed to comfort Laura Fanna, but made her even more sad.
Helpless, he and Luo Wei could only sit on the sofa and wait for her to finish crying.
It wasn't until Laura Fanna looked up with red and swollen eyes that Yin Xiu asked her: "Do you want to come back to Dunling with us?"
"Who do you think I am, going back when you say I'm going back?"
Laura Fana looked stubborn, "No one wants to go to that place where it rains ten months a year."
Yin Xiu raised his hand, but Laura Fanna even threw the vase aside before she finished speaking, and quickly covered her head with her hands.
Obviously she was frightened by Yin Xiu's methods.
However, Yin Xiu just raised his hand and scratched his head, and said helplessly: "Don't think that I am born to be violent. I don't like to hit women."
"..."
Laura Fana touched her neck and felt as if a bone was missing. (End of chapter)