"Old Feng, I see that you didn't take out this thing to remind us out of kindness!”
"I think you're just here to laugh at us!”
"You old fellow, you really are not something!”
An old man who didn't see anything wrong with the item pointed at Elder Feng and scolded him with a smile.
"It's good that you know. There's no need to say it!”Elder Feng laughed out loud." I can't be the only one who gets humiliated. I have to see you guys make a fool of yourselves too. Only then will I feel at peace."”
"I knew it. It would be strange if you didn't have something bad in mind!”
"No, in order to make up for my broken heart, you have to give me some good tea to compensate me!”
"Old fool, I hope you'll fall for it again next time!”
The few elders looked down on Elder Feng. If it wasn't for the fact that his body wasn't so agile, he would probably be like a young man now.
And on this side, a few young people gave Ye Feng a thumbs up.
"Ah Feng, awesome!"
"I thought you were lucky to pick up the painting during the Qingming Festival. I didn't expect you to have such amazing taste!”
"Didn't you just learn antiques? How can he be so powerful!"
"I've been learning from my uncle for more than ten years. Compared to you, I feel like I've lived like a dog all these years!”
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For the rest of the night, the old people talked about the recent situation and interesting things in the antique circle, while the young people sat aside and quietly harvested.
Because there was still an auction the next day, the party did not last too late. At the same time, the old people's bodies could not stay up late, so they left around ten o'clock.
After returning to the hotel, Ye Feng had a good night's sleep.
Interestingly, he actually dreamed of picking up scraps.
The system sent him a pair of small pink cups. It was the pair that Elder Feng had taken out that night. However, the system did not send him fake ones.
The next day, Ye Feng obediently followed Old Man Li to participate in the most eye-catching event of the Poly Autumn Auction-Collection of Rare Paintings and Calligraphy.
That's right. The autumn auctions of other big auction houses were divided into many stages, such as porcelain, ancient paintings, modern paintings, and so on.
For small and medium-sized auction companies like Yaqi, there was only one autumn auction. All types of items were auctioned together and would not be categorized.
It couldn't be helped. Small auction houses didn't have that many resources and channels to gather so many auction items.
Even if this year's autumn auction had a national treasure like Zhao Mengfu's Along the River During the Qingming Festival, the popularity of the autumn auction of Yaqi was still not comparable to that of the big auction houses like Poly.
This was the difference!
"Elder Li, is this artist very famous? Is his painting that valuable?"
Looking at the paintings of an unknown modern artist being bid for more than five million, Ye Feng was a little confused, he could not help but ask Old Li beside him softly.
After all, there was a saying in the collection world that the paintings of a living artist were worthless. When he died, the paintings would be valuable!
And now, a modern artist who wasn't too old, his paintings didn't look that eye-catching, so how could he be so popular?
Were they planning to invest in advance?
Or was it that the painting itself was really good, but he didn't know how to appreciate it?
There was definitely something fishy about such an unusual sky-high price.
Could it be that the things in the joke were about to become reality?
Ye Feng had heard such a story before, it might have really happened before.
The collectibles criminal gang had their eyes on a modern painter, and then secretly collected most of his paintings, and then found an opportunity to murder the painter!
Then, they hyped up the story and made the painter into a lonely genius. Coupled with the strangeness of his murder, the popularity of the painter suddenly rose.
The price of the painting soared, and everyone was scrambling to buy it.
In this way, the criminal gang would make a huge profit!
Could it be that there was a criminal gang targeting this painter?
Hearing Ye Feng's question, Old Man Li's expression was filled with disdain.
However, this disdain was not directed at Ye Feng, it was more like it was directed at the current collection circle that was not developing healthily.
"The painter is not famous, and the painting itself is not worth much.”
"But someone wants it to be valuable!"
"It's that simple!"
Although he did not say it explicitly, Ye Feng understood.
From Old Man Li's attitude, there were only two possibilities.
These two possibilities were a little despicable.
Or they could use the sky-high transaction price to raise the value of the artist. Then, in the future, the other works of the artist would have a corresponding reference price.
The other possibility was probably money laundering!
An item that wasn't worth much was auctioned off at a high price. After the money went around, it was clean!
This was also something that many auction houses were playing with, even the big auction houses were no exception.
Ye Feng's expression turned disdainful, no matter what, it was not a good thing for the collectors.
Once it was mixed with other things, the purpose of collecting it would become impure!
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