Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 355: Where is my painting?

Chapter 355: Where is my painting?

A well-dressed gentleman stood behind a podium and addressed the crowd. "Thank you for coming ladies and gentlemen, as always the Danzhi family is happy to see you. We will be following the same rules as usual and for those who are not familiar with the rules refer to your brochure or speak to your attendant.

We will now begin the Hua auction by auctioning off these peony decorated pearls crafted by royal craftsmen. These have been generously provided by the royal family to kick start the auction tonight and they are being priced at four hundred thousand. Can I get four twenty?"

The auctioneer went around announcing new bids as quickly as possible and within two minutes, the peony pearls were at one a half million.

In the private room, Chi Lian said, "Mother, we should take them."

"They will look beautiful if we decorate them the right way, maybe we could attach them to that antique grandfather clock." Mama Chi suggested.

Once the auction started, the attendant in a private booth was not supposed to take his or her eyes off the guests, so the moment Muyang signaled, she started bidding.

"And we have a new bid of two million, can I get two million and twenty thousand?" the auctioneer asked.

The bids continued climbing higher and so did the competition until Chi Lian won the pearls at three million net.

"Next up we have these two floral jade hair pins which belonged to the Shu dynasty empress. They were part of a private collection but now they can be yours, starting price is one million two hundred thousand."

"Chi-Chi those will be go nicely with the dress we picked out for your engagement." The old madam Jun said excitedly.

Chi Lian did not even know what the dress looked like because her mother, grandmother, mother-in-law and old madam Jun had picked the design out and hired the dress maker who was sewing it.

She would see the dress on the morning of the engagement.

"If you say so grandmother, I will love them." She responded.

Old madam Jun won the bid and the hairpins went to her.

Having won the bid, old madam Jun was so excited and cheerful, "That was exciting; I thought that sneaky matriarch of the Chu family would out bid me. Being victorious over me is sweeter than I expected."

"I heard the ghost which was haunting them was dealt with by some kind of shaman from the north. I guess that’s why she is now courageous to come out." Grandma An commented, "Should we ask that shaman to come and take a look at the Feng shui of the house?"

Chi Lian who knew that the ghost was human piped up to say, "No, we have a statue of Buddha in the house, we don’t need a fake priest to cheat us out of our money."

"Up next we have the mythical painting of legend, the lotus blessing. I will not say more about this painting because some are believers in the myth and others are not. Starting price is three million, do I have three million twenty thousand?"

Chi Lian and Muyang remained calm, studying the competition first to see who wanted the painting. She needed to know if the competition was painting lovers or someone who knew what secrets it was hiding.

The painting reached a price of ten million and two of the five fierce competitors dropped out. It cane to twelve million and another one dropped out.

The two remaining competitors went head to head in a fierce battle which drove the price of the painting all the way to twenty million.

This shocked some of the guests because the lotus blessing was beautiful but it was not worth twenty million.

"Twenty million going once, twice,..., we have a new bid of twenty one million." The auctioneer suddenly announced.

The twenty one million bid was from none other than Muyang.

Suddenly a lot of guests in the crowd were wondering if there was a secret to the lotus blessing which they were not aware of. Was the painting worth this much?

Muyang continued raising the bid by one million which got the guests whispering. Eventually, he won the lotus blessing at a price of thirty five million.

"God job." Old madam Jun congratulated her grandson.

"Hmm, well done." His grandfather tapped him on the back.

"Congratulations sir," the attendant stepped up and said politely to Muyang. "Do you wish to pay now by cash, card or wire transfer?"

"Wire transfer and bring the painting immediately." Muyang answered.

The attendant provided an account number and Muyang wired the money immediately.

As the attendant stepped away, Muyang said to Chi Lian, "Congratulations, you now own the lotus blessing."

"Thank you." She replied. "I will..."

"If the next words out of your mouth are promises to pay me back I will drag you back to that RV, put you over my knee and spank you. "

She folded her nose and said, "I was going to say I am so happy to spend your money, in fact if you see anything nice but it all for me."

She was joking but Muyang proceeded to do exactly what she had just said and half of the auctioned items would be going home with them.

The auction was coming to an end and everyone had managed to buy something, even mama Chi had a ruby ring which her husband generously paid two million for.

All that was left was for the items to be delivered to them for authentication and then they would be careful delivered to their car.

Two gallery workers entered the private room and the items they won were cleared and checked one after the other. Because of the delicate nature of the painting, it was brought out last.

Old madam Jun looked at it and smiled, "It’s just as beautiful as I thought."

Chi Lian was about to concur when she heard T4 saying, "Stop, the painting has been tampered with; there is no memory card in the frame of this painting. As a matter of fact, this is a different painting all together. "

She could not believe what she was hearing, so if T4 was not with her, she would have gone home with a fake painting and assumed that Zhangye deceived her. Did the gallery workers think they could steal from her and get away with it?

Unhappily, she looked at the gallery workers who were about to exit the private room and said sternly, "You, the gallery workers, stop moving and tell me where my real painting is."

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