Chapter 65 BMW Z4 (1/2)
Chapter 65: BMW Z4
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Storage unit 102 was opened—a pile of paper boxes was displayed for all to see.
Someone looked into it on tiptoes and saw that some of the paper boxes were damaged. They caught sight of the chinaware within it.
A young woman quickly shone her Wolf Eyes LED Flashlight into the damaged paper box. Glimmers and flashes of light shone back at her. It was definitely chinaware.
Li Du knew that it would be almost impossible for them to get the storage unit.
When everyone had taken their turns to look at the storage unit, the auctioneer raised his hand and yelled, his words rapid like gun-fire. ”Come, come, come! Come over here. You all know what’s in this unit. I must raise the starting price. Let’s start with 500 dollars! 500 dollars, 500 dollars…”
”How do we go about this?” Hans asked quietly.
Li Du smiled wryly. ”I think that it’s worth quite a bit. We won’t have wasted this trip if we can get it for 5,000 dollars.”
Hans’s eyes glowed green. ”There’s an antique in there?”
Having earned a large sum from the antique clocks, he was especially alert when it came to anything related to antiques.
Li Du shook his head. ”That I can’t tell. All I know is that this storage unit is worth quite a lot.”
With the rising popularity of China’s antique chinaware around the world, the chinaware in the storage would no doubt spark a bidding war. The starting price of 500 dollars wasn’t high. The treasure hunters fell over each other in their rush to bid.
”Five hundred dollars. Me, Old Charles, look over here!”
”I’ll pay 600 dollars! This storage unit is mine!”
”The Cerci Family will pay 700 dollars—Okay, 800 dollars! We’ll pay 800 dollars!”
”Here, look here, 2,500 dollars! I’ll pay 2,500 dollars!”
The price rose rapidly. It rose from 500 to 2,500 dollars in less than twenty bids, and the auctioneer hadn’t even said a word!
The auctioneer drank in the sight greedily. His earnings were based on commission, directly related to the selling price of the storage units.
Hans was stunned by the mad rush of treasure hunters. ”What is this? It’s just some chinaware. You can find cheap chinaware for a few dollars in any general store. Anyway, it might not be Chinese porcelain.”
Li Du shook his head. ”It’s not Chinese porcelain.”
The porcelain they were referring to wasn’t the chinaware mass-produced by China nowadays, but antique Chinese porcelainware.
By the time the price reached 2,500 dollars, most of the treasure hunters had calmed down. Many shook their heads, pulling out of the auction.
Hans felt that now was a good time to join in. So he raised his hand and tried his old trick of raising the price drastically. ”Five thousand dollars!”
Hearing his price, the auctioneer was overjoyed. He pointed at Hans and said loudly, ”5,000 dollars 5,000 dollars 5,000 dollars! The price is now 5,000 dollars! Very good, very good! Can I have 5,100 dollars? 5,100 dollars! 5,100 dollars…”
”F*ck, 6,000 dollars!” The woman who had shone her torch to confirm that it was chinaware cursed and raised her price.
The treasure hunters who had calmed down grew agitated again.
”Sh*t. It’s those two from Flagstaff. They never miss a good unit.”
”Cunning China Li, and that idiot, Big Fox. They’re willing to pay 5,000 dollars? What’s in that storage unit?”
”Let me take another look. Maybe there’s something we didn’t notice earlier!”