Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 695: Chapter 675: Bidding, Spending Spree

After the small gambling stones with welfare nature were auctioned off, the real show of the day began. The gambling stones displayed in the exhibition hall since yesterday would start according to the order of the numbers marked in the exhibition hall yesterday.

Luo Qianqian was astonished when she saw the huge gambling stone that three people carried onto the stage. Was Number One too exaggerated? Compared to the ones before it, it was clearly not in the same weight class. It was like comparing a small baby to a super, super heavyweight sumo wrestler.

As she watched the price tag on the stage changing incessantly, Luo Qianqian couldn’t help but stretch out her finger and, with a face full of shock, tugged on Jimo Cheng’s sleeve, ”Senior brother, is that ten million?”

Luo Qianqian was quite certain there was nothing wrong with her eyesight, and she had confirmed the figure back and forth many times because, after all, there were only four digits at the top, and here the amount was calculated based on units of ten thousand yuan. Her mouth twitched involuntarily – this stone was worth tens of millions. She indeed lacked experience. But considering that just before, a much smaller piece had reached a high price of one or two million yuan, it was no wonder that such a large one could go for tens of millions.

Jimo Cheng whispered, ”You better not get carried away with impulse buying. We’re not short of money to spend. This business is risky; one cut can make you rich or leave you poor.”

Luo Qianqian nodded repeatedly. Even if she had the money, she wouldn’t bear to buy a stone of unknown origin. What if it turned out to be just a rock? Wouldn’t she lose everything, even down to her underwear?

However, the price soon settled at eighteen million and didn’t move anymore. Luo Qianqian was amazed – the world of the rich was truly beyond understanding.

The gambling stones that followed, although not as big as the first, were also on a significant scale, much larger than those few batches brought in for warm-up.

Perhaps because they were slightly smaller, the prices were no longer so frightening, all selling at a minimum of three million, with an average price of around five million.

Soon, a stone with a rather nice surface came up. Sure enough, as soon as the host announced the start of the bidding, the price soared to ten million. Luo Qianqian hung her head low, not daring to look, not daring to keep looking; it just made her feel like a poor person.

Her family might not be considered wealthy, but it was at least a well-off household, wasn’t it? Plus, with her grandfather’s family and the Second Uncle from Haoran Group backing her up, she still didn’t dare to look!

The two elders upstairs couldn’t help but find Luo Qianqian’s behavior amusing as they looked down at her; the bidding device was on the table, untouched.

”I have to say, this child is really interesting,” Elder Wu laughed and shook his head. Were these idiosyncrasies really from the closed-door disciple of Jimo Kong?

”I think the old man has a good eye. This girl is much better than that little girl who’s always hovering around, isn’t she?” Elder Hei laughed as he looked towards the stage, ”The surface of this stone isn’t bad, but it’s worth dead max twenty million.”

”That little girl, huh...” As if he had thought of something terrifying, Elder Wu also shook his head repeatedly, ”You don’t know, but it seems... she will soon make her public appearance. Without that identity of hers, I wonder if she can still make a name for herself in one go.”

”What don’t I know? She even found her way to me. You’re the one who doesn’t know. She’s really generous, with all sorts of tonics, nutritional products, famous paintings, calligraphy, antiques, jade ware, oh, it really gets me excited,” said Elder Wu, rubbing his palms together, and looking at the screen with jumping numbers, he said to Elder Hei, ”It seems you’ve miscalculated.”

The price on the screen had already surpassed twenty million, settling at twenty-one million, and it didn’t move anymore.

Elder Hei gave him a look but was intrigued and curved his lips into a smile, ”That’s not necessarily true. After the transactions here end, let Young Master Jin Nian and Miss Jin Yuee return to the country first, don’t stick with us.”

Elder Wu’s brow furrowed as he looked at the screen downstairs, ”Didn’t Young Master Jin Nian schedule his return trip early in the morning? I really don’t understand what the point was in having these two come here just to take a look around.”

”It’s not necessarily just a stroll around,” Elder Hei squinted his eyes. ”Look down there, the younger generation from a few of those old fellows’ families are all here.”

Seated idly at the venue, Luo Qianqian looked at the enthusiastic crowd and was also somewhat puzzled, ”Can these stones really guarantee the revelation of jade?”

Her voice was very soft, only letting Jimo Cheng beside her hear it clearly. Jimo Cheng smiled, ”This kind of thing, it’s all about luck, who can guarantee that one will definitely cut out jade? But the ones here are ultimately better than those you see on the roadside, right?”

”...Can you not bring up those marbles?” Luo Qianqian said with an embarrassed face.

Luo Qianqian was chatting happily with Jimo Cheng, but the people behind them directly stood up and started hopping mad, ”Damn it, who is it?! Every time just slightly outbidding me!” Luo Qianqian followed the voice and turned her head, the young man’s voice was slightly hoarse, sounding as if he were in the midst of a voice change, but even though he was dressed in a fine suit, it couldn’t change his nouveau riche aura. The key point was a sense of burliness about him, seemingly the type with well-developed limbs but a simple mind.

Then, someone on the other side of the aisle stood up, chuckling, ”Yo, isn’t that Young Master Wang from Cuiyu Pavilion? If you’re not satisfied with the price, just bid higher... Oh dear, too late.” He watched as the time on the stage had already counted down to half a minute, the youth chuckled, ”Then brother, I’ll gladly accept it.”

Hearing the clear grinding teeth sound from the youth behind her, Luo Qianqian pursed her lips and turned her gaze back to the stage, ”Senior brother, isn’t this place abroad? Why is everyone communicating in Mandarin? At the very least, it should all be in English, right? That way it would seem like a true international stage.”

”It’s because these are domestic buyers. Even if the suppliers aren’t from inside the country, they would still go and learn some Mandarin to facilitate communication. We can’t have people running around looking for a translator when they bump into each other, right?” Jimo Cheng understood Luo Qianqian’s thoughts very well, as this was also his question when he first rushed over from abroad to attend three years ago.

Luo Qianqian was then filled with confusion, why not trade within the country instead of running to such a distant place? Was there no need to pay taxes? Really bad at managing life.

”However, speaking of which,” Jimo Cheng paused as he spoke, his eyes glancing towards the private room above the back, ”it seems like the private rooms haven’t placed any bids.” Elder Hei hadn’t finished introducing the matter yesterday before getting interrupted, so he also did not know the Jimo Family’s purchase order this time.

”Maybe there’s some grand finale item, and they are saving money for that?” Luo Qianqian wasn’t the least bit concerned, as her jade token didn’t react to any of these items.

Suddenly, Luo Qianqian, bored and looking around at the decorations, discovered that her jade token had once again become exceedingly hot, hotter than it had ever been before. She was momentarily stunned, looking at the gambling stone on the stage, her brow furrowing deeply.

Jimo Cheng noticed the person beside him shifting from being nonchalant to serious, and he too shifted his gaze to the stage, watching the still fluctuating price of the gambling stone. Its appearance wasn’t too attractive, so the bids weren’t going higher than a more paltry sum.

Luo Qianqian directly took the bidding device from Jimo Cheng’s hand and entered ten million.

Jimo Cheng’s eyes bulged out. The person who had just been complaining about him spending a million was suddenly increasing the bid tenfold?

Taking back the bidding device and looking at Luo Qianqian, she looked at him with an unquestionable expression. He hesitated for a moment but then saw the price on the stage jump again.

Glancing at Luo Qianqian’s eager eyes, he slightly frowned and upped the bid, skipping over the eleven million on stage and going straight to fifteen million. He stopped, and after seeing the indicator light turn green, Luo Qianqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Jimo Cheng was quite astonished. It was the first time he saw Luo Qianqian this anxious since entering the auction house. He teased her, ”Are you dreaming about this again?”

Luo Qianqian shook her head repeatedly. Since Jimo Cheng holding her jade token didn’t feel any anomaly, it proved that he couldn’t sense the strangeness of the token. Swallowing, she said, ”I feel like there’s a magical gourd inside.”