September 13th.
As usual, Su Yu woke up early. After washing up, he headed to the new cafeteria for breakfast. Then, he went back to his dorm and brought some breakfast for his three roommates.
At 8:30 pm, Su Yu left Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in his Lamborghini and headed to Tianyu Investment Center.
After arriving at Tianyu Investment, Su Yu asked Xu Anguo for the invitation to the auction and left immediately.
At nine o'clock, Su Yu drove to the Peninsula Hotel, the venue of the Christie's auction in Shanghai.
After parking the car in the garage, Su Yu walked into the Peninsula Hotel. After showing his invitation, he was led to the auction hall by the waiter.
Su Yu found a seat in the middle and found that there were about seventy to eighty people there.
The Christie's small auction would officially begin at 9:30 am. There were still ten minutes left, so there would probably be about a hundred people attending.
Su Yu looked at seat number 76 and picked up the list of items for this small auction.
After looking around, Su Yu realized that there were three finale items: an 88-carat legendary black diamond, a large gemstone weighing one kilogram, and a precious piece of art with thousands of years of history.
After looking at the last item, Su Yu flipped through it and suddenly found another item that he had to buy. It was the moon rock.
According to the description, the moon rock weighed half a kilogram, which made Su Yu very happy.
Ever since he bought the Aston Martin Moon Valkyrie, Su Yu had been worried that if the Moon Valkyrie got scratched, it would be impossible to repair it.
Because he didn't have any lunar rocks on hand, he couldn't make lunar red car paint at all. This was a very helpless fact.
Now that he had this half-kilogram moon rock, it was very good. It was even heavier than the moon rock of the Moon Valkyrie, which was only about 100 grams.
On the blue planet, moon rocks were extremely rare.
Over the years, humans had collected very few lunar rock samples. There were roughly three sources: 1. Astronauts in the Apollo Moon Landing Program; Second, the former Soviet Union Lunar unmanned lunar probe collection; Third, the moon meteorite that fell to Earth.
In 2018, Sotheby's, a world-renowned auction company, auctioned off three pieces of moon rock fragments, totaling 200 grams, for a sky-high price of 855,000 US dollars.
These three lunar rock fragments were part of the collection of Lunar's unmanned lunar probe.
According to relevant information, there were 873 kilograms of moon rocks on the blue planet, which was close to one ton.
It sounded like a lot, but why was 200 grams of lunar rock fragments so expensive?
Because the nearly 900 kilograms of moon rocks could not be bought or sold, most of them were stored in laboratories for research on the moon.
As a result, the moon rocks on the market were very expensive.
The moon rock that appeared at Christie's small auction today was found a few months ago and only appeared at the auction today.
Su Yu was determined to win him over.
Time slowly passed. Soon, it was 9:30 pm, and the auction officially began.
"Welcome to this Christie's small auction. I wish all guests a fruitful harvest. Now, I won't waste any more time. The auction officially begins.”The auctioneer made an opening remark.
"The first auction item is a freshwater pearl. Although it is smaller than the largest one, it is in better condition. This pearl was 6.3 centimeters long and weighed more than 0.1 kilograms, which was more than two taels. It was said to have come from the Sea Kingdom and was formed in the 17th century. In its more than 300 years of history, it had passed through the hands of colonial merchants, major jewelers, and European royal families.”
"The starting price of this auction item is 1 million Xia Guo Yuan. Each bid increment must not be lower than 100,000 Yuan.”The auctioneer introduced.
Su Yu lost his interest after a glance. However, some people liked it, and quite a few people made bids.
Soon, the price of this freshwater pearl exceeded 2 million Chinese dollars. In the end, Number 42 won the bid at 2.3 million.
"Congratulations to buyer number 42. After the auction ends, you can go backstage to collect your items.”
The auctioneer shouted," Next is item number two. This is a 'pure diamond ring' that is more precious than a diamond ring.”
"As we all know, there are expensive diamond rings from time to time, but I've never seen a ring made entirely of diamonds. This ring did not have any gold or silver rings. It was entirely made of diamonds and had two to five thousand cut surfaces. The craftsmanship was very exquisite and it was made by the chief designer of Inria, Jony Ive.”
"I'm sure everyone knows how precious this pure diamond ring is. It's definitely the best choice to give it to your lover. Its starting price is 800,000 Chinese yuan, and each increment must not be less than 100,000 yuan.”
"This is not bad."
Su Yu's eyes lit up and he raised the sign.
"Number 76 bids 900,000 Xia Guo Yuan.”The auctioneer shouted.
"Number 68 bids 1 million Xia Guo Yuan.”
"No. 15 bids 1.2 million Xia Guo Yuan.”
"Number 33 has bid 1.5 million Xia Guo Yuan. Is there anyone who wants to bid higher?”
Su Yu wrote 1.8 million on the auction board and raised it up.
"Number 76 has bid 1.8 million Xia Guo Yuan. Is there anyone who wants to bid higher?”
The auctioneer shouted three times in a row, and no one bid higher, so he said,"Congratulations to buyer number 76 for bidding 1.8 million for item number 2. Please collect it backstage after the auction.”
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