Millionaire Suddenly Appears - C129 The Contest at the Auction
C129 The Contest at the Auction
This banquet was not a formal auction. There was no need to be strict, no need to pay the deposit money in advance, and the auctioneer was hired by the hotel manager on his behalf.
Those who were either rich or powerful enough to participate in the auction would pay for the items they were auctioning on the spot. No one would go back on their words.
To the rich, face was more important than anything else.
The auctioneer walked up to the stage and announced loudly, “The auction officially begins. Please do not blindly bid. The winner will not be allowed to destroy the auction.”
After a series of opening remarks, the auctioneer asked the workers to bring the first item up onto the stage.
The first item was a landscape painting by a primary school student in a poor area. The total amount of money received would be donated to children in poor mountain areas.
The first item had no value in itself, it was mainly for the public good. To put it bluntly, it was to warm up the field.
“The starting price for this landscape painting is 10,000. The auction begins, please bid.” After a brief introduction of the items, the auctioneer began to let the guests compete for the items.
“I’ll pay twelve thousand.”
“Fourteen thousand.”
“Fifteen thousand …”
Below the stage, many people were bidding. Everyone wasn’t interested in landscape painting at all. The main reason for the bidding was to liven up the atmosphere.
Very quickly, the price of the landscape painting broke through 30,000 yuan.
“Fifty thousand.” Wu Tian also couldn’t help but open his mouth to bid. His main goal was to make a small contribution to the children in the poor mountain area.
After the bid was raised to fifty thousand, the guests gradually calmed down and did not continue bidding.
After all, the value of this landscape painting was not high. At most, it was no more than a hundred yuan. There was no need to spend so much money to buy such a useless thing.
“Sixty thousand!” At this moment, Huang Ze couldn’t help but open his mouth to bid.
The reason why he raised the price was naturally not for the children in the poor mountain area. It was just to make Wu Tian lose face in front of everyone.
“Seventy thousand!” Wu Tian continued to raise the price and shot a provocative look at Huang Ze at the same time.
Huang Ze naturally wouldn’t easily admit defeat and continued to raise the price: “Eighty thousand.”
“Ninety thousand.”
“One hundred thousand.”
“One hundred and ten thousand.”
“…”
“Two hundred thousand.”
Under the intense bidding of the two, the price of the painting was raised to an astronomical figure of two hundred thousand.
The atmosphere at the scene became tense. This place seemed to have turned into a battlefield devoid of smoke, and neither one of them was willing to admit defeat.
“Three hundred thousand.” Wu Tian pursed his lips and smiled. He continued to raise the price and directly increased it by 100,000 each time.
Huang Ze still did not show any weakness as he raised the bid: “400,000.”
“Five hundred thousand.”
“Six hundred thousand …”
“One million.”
When the price was raised to one million, the scene instantly boiled up.
They didn’t expect that the worthless landscape painting would be sold for a sky-high price of one million, more than most of the collections.
Even the auctioneer became extremely excited. He scanned the crowd and asked: “One million, is there anyone else?”
“…”
The scene was silent.
After waiting for a few seconds, the auctioneer asked again, “Does anyone continue bidding on this landscape painting?”
“Me!”
When the auctioneer asked for the second time, Wu Tian finally opened his mouth: “I’m sure I’ll buy this painting. I’ll pay two million.”
The moment he said that, the scene erupted. Everyone looked at Wu Tian. They didn’t think that this brat would actually spend two million to buy a worthless painting.
Even Huang Lan was surprised. She nudged Wu Tian’s shoulder and reminded him in a small voice, “Are you crazy? Why did you spend so much money to buy this painting?”
“Don’t worry, I won’t buy it.” Wu Tian pursed his lips and smiled. Once again, he used his provocative gaze to look at Huang Ze.
He just dug a hole for Huang Ze. With Huang Ze’s unyielding personality, he would definitely jump into it.
“But …”
Before Huang Lan could finish her words, Huang Ze, who was standing not far away, once again raised the bid, “I bid 3.5 million.”
The moment he made his bid, the crowd burst into an uproar of exclamations.
“4 million.” Wu Tian did not show any signs of weakness, as if he was determined to win.
“Four million five hundred thousand.” Huang Ze hesitated for a few seconds and finally called out the bid price of 4.5 million.
Of course he wouldn’t be that stupid to spend several million on this broken painting. He only wanted to dig a pit for Wu Tian and let this brat fall into the pit that he dug.
This was his last bid. After he finished, he was waiting for Wu Tian’s bid and wanted this brat to spend 5 million to buy a piece of scrap paper.
The young girl with thick makeup quickly understood Huang Ze’s intention. She looked at Wu Tian with a look of schadenfreude. She was waiting for that brat to fall into the pit dug by Huang Ze. At that time, she would make fun of him.
Huang Ze and the girl with thick makeup stared unblinkingly at Wu Tian as they quietly waited for this kid’s final bid.
After waiting for a long time, he discovered that the kid was standing there unmoved, as if he had forgotten about the auction.
As Huang Ze walked over, he couldn’t help but remind Wu Tian, “Brat, why don’t you continue bidding?”
“Why should I bid?” Wu Tian asked with a smile.
“What? You’re not bidding?” Hearing that, Huang Ze was stunned. His eyes opened wider than a frog’s.
“I feel that Boss Huang’s bid is already high enough, there’s no need for me to continue bidding.”
“You …” Huang Ze was so angry that he didn’t know what to say. Only now did he realize that this brat had already dug a hole for him to jump into.
At this time, the auctioneer on the stage spoke again, “Four million five hundred thousand, is there anyone else who wants to raise the bid?”
“…”
The scene was completely silent. Even a fool would not raise the bid.
“Well then, congratulations to you sir, you actually got our number one item.” The host took the painting of a primary school student off the stage and passed it to Huang Ze, “Now, congratulations, this painting is yours now.”
“I …”
Huang Ze’s mouth twitched as he received the landscape painting with a stiff expression.
Originally, he wanted to raise the price on purpose to let Wu Tian fall into the pit and let the kid suffer a loss.
But who would’ve thought that this brat would go against the rules. Instead, he fell into the pit and lost 4.5 million for nothing.
“Congratulations to Boss Huang for obtaining this item. You are indeed rich.” Wu Tian seemed like he was congratulating Huang Ze, but in reality, he was laughing at Huang Ze’s misfortune.
Only a fool would spend so much money to buy a lousy painting. Not to mention Wu Tian, all the other guests present also laughed.
Although no one said it out loud, they all believed that Huang Ze was a fool. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have spent millions to buy such worthless things.
“You …”
Huang Ze was so angry that his face turned dark and his body started trembling.
Not only did he lose so much money, he even became the laughing stock of the entire stadium. He was too angry.
In this small game, Wu Tian won again.
“Boss Huang.” Wu Tian patted Huang Ze’s shoulder and kindly advised, “I told you a long time ago not to mess with me, why didn’t you believe me?”
“Kid, this matter isn’t over. Sooner or later, I will destroy you.” Huang Ze shook his arm and turned around to the trading area angrily.
Thus, the enmity between the two became deeper and deeper. It would be difficult to forget it if they did not fight to the death.
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