Chapter 41

While Fu Cheng was carrying out his social practice activities these days, Fu Yunshen had already checked the origins of those gangsters. It was obvious that they were sent by the Chen family. After the first absurd incident, several more ferocious groups of people came. Fortunately, Fu Yunshen sent security guards over that day, and those people did not disturb Xie Jingxing too much.

On the other hand, we have to thank the righteous people’s police for maintaining public order and protecting the safety of residents.

Fu Yunshen gave Xie Jingxing a bouquet of ninety-nine red roses every day these days, but he felt that his gift-giving skills were still too mediocre, so he flipped through some invitations sent to him by the auction and took out the catalog to see if there was anything that interested him.

He felt that many of the jewels were lacking in novelty, until he came across an antique auction, where he saw a lot of calligraphy and paintings, ancient books, jade artifacts, and ancient zithers. Jingxing should be interested, right?

More importantly... there was a book called "Mr. Xingyun's Poems" that caught Fu Yunshen's attention. Fu Yunshen recognized the handwriting in the pictures in the catalogue at a glance and found it to be very similar to Xie Jingxing's, and the nickname "Mr. Xingyun" made him associate something with it.

Fu Yunshen looked at the introduction in the catalog. Compared with the detailed introductions of other auction items, this poem actually said "there is controversy over whether it is authentic"? Since when did antiques with doubts become available for auction?

Fu Yunshen carefully checked the information about Mr. Xingyun, but found that he could not even find his name. He only knew that he was an ancient person who left behind many poems and paintings. In the historical and cultural circles, he is also a celebrity who has been studied.

This manuscript of poetry is questionable, but its handwriting is so similar to Xie Jingxing's. Is it Xie Jingxing's imitation? Or is he the original Mr. Xingyun?

Fu Yunshen picked up the invitation to the auction. It seemed that it was necessary to go to this auction.

On Saturday, Fu Yunshen attended the auction with his assistant.

The venue was brightly lit and filled with elegantly dressed people.

Chen Dongkai, who was dressed in fine clothes, saw Fu Yunshen and came over with his female companion and said, "Mr. Fu, I didn't expect to see you here. How could a busy man like you be interested in coming to a place like this?"

Fu Yunshen smiled and said, "Mr. Chen is still busy. I heard that a gangster confessed in the police station that it was Mr. Chen who ordered it?"

Chen Dongkai spread his hands and smiled indifferently: "So what? Mr. Fu, you didn't bring your boyfriend? Are you scared by me and dare not go out?"

Fu Yunshen asked calmly: "How many subsidiaries have gone bankrupt, Mr. Chen? Just take care of yourself." He was not interested in talking more with Chen Dongkai and walked straight to the VIP seat and sat down.

Fu Yunshen was slowly flipping through the catalogue at his seat. He wanted to buy this guqin, and also that pair of paperweights. Why do people with boyfriends like to shop so much?

After a while, the auction was about to start. Fu Yunshen looked up at the stands. Chen Dongkai was sitting at the other end. He leaned out and smiled at him provocatively. Fu Yunshen just thought he was boring.

Unlike Fu Yunshen, who came here just to buy small gifts, Chen Dongkai came here to collect and brought an antique expert with him.

Fu Yunshen crossed his legs and leaned back on the sofa, watching the items come up one by one, being bought or unsold, and slowly waiting for the guqin he liked.

After briefly introducing the guqin, the auctioneer said, "The Yuelu Zhiyin Guqin has a starting price of 10 million."

Fu Yunshen raised his sign: "Sixteen million." The default bid was one million, but Fu Yunshen felt that the number eleven was unlucky, so he directly called out sixteen million.

The sudden increase of 6 million made everyone hesitate. Guqin was not a collection with much collection value. Chen Dongkai had bid for many things and finally waited for Fu Yunshen to raise his hand. This guqin was indeed valuable, so he asked his female companion to raise his hand.

Auctioneer: "Seventeen million."

Fu Yunshen raised the sign slowly.

Auctioneer: "Eighteen million."

Chen Dongkai continued to confront Fu Yunshen: "Nineteen million."

"Twenty million."

…

"Thirty million." The price of this guqin was bid up to thirty million by two people.

The expert beside Chen Dongkai whispered to him: "Mr. Chen, it's OK. The value of this guqin is more than 20 million. 30 million is too high."

Chen Dongkai took the sign from his female companion's hand, fanned himself, turned his head to look at Fu Yunshen, and smiled triumphantly.

"Thirty million, deal." The auctioneer brought down the hammer.

Fu Yunshen smiled back. It was a small gift for her boyfriend, so the price wasn’t important, as long as she bought it.

So Fu Yunshen then bought a pair of paperweights for two million.

Chen Dongkai: You made a loss.

Fu Yunshen: Buying gifts for my boyfriend makes me happy.

Fu Yunshen just casually took pictures of the ones he liked, and let Chen Dongkai, who was bidding against him, take the ones that were dispensable. In this way, he inadvertently cheated Chen Dongkai twice.

Fu Yunshen finally got his "Mr. Xingyun's Poems", and several experts from the auction house also put the item up for auction.

After a brief introduction by the auctioneer, the experts began to explain the controversy surrounding this item.

"Judging from the handwriting and the style of the poem, this manuscript is undoubtedly the work of Mr. Xingyun."

"The paper is also the Chengxintang paper that Mr. Xingyun often uses."

"Some of the poems in it are Mr. Xingyun's works that have been handed down, and some of his works that have never been handed down. Taken together, it is very likely that they are authentic."

Fu Yunshen waited quietly. So what? What was the controversy? With so many points confirmed, what else could there be?

"But..." The expert switched to the next picture on the big screen, "But, this manuscript contains several obscene poems, and they were written for another man."

Fu Yunshen saw the picture: “Ahem!” He never expected it to be such a controversy.

This is really a very explicit and obscene song and lyrics. It is simply praising the other person in all aspects afterwards, and then concluding that it was very enjoyable for me and you to do that, I like you in many ways, and you should stop being so capricious.

The expert clicked the picture to the next page and said, "We can see that the poet seems to have mentioned the other person's name. The other person's name should contain the word 'Yun Shen', but Yun Shen may refer to something else."

Fu Yunshen: “Cough cough cough!” For some reason, even though he was sitting in the audience, his face turned red.

System: [Hey, Master Wu, you are obviously a top, right? This poem does not match your attributes.]

"But we all know that Mr. Xingyun has a noble character and unparalleled talent, and his works handed down to the present are all classic masterpieces. The gorgeous and lewd style of these poems is really not related to Mr. Xingyun's style, and it is simply an insult to Mr. Xingyun's writing."

"But these pages are integrated with the entire manuscript. Neither the paper nor the handwriting can be taken apart to look at them."

"So, this manuscript is either a collection of miscellaneous poems by people at that time, whose handwriting imitated Mr. Xingyun; or Mr. Xingyun really wrote such poems. It is up to you to judge for yourself."

"But I think that this manuscript of poems is undoubtedly Mr. Xingyun's calligraphy. I will never make a mistake in his beautiful handwriting." Several experts had different opinions. This manuscript of poems was a contradiction.

Fu Yunshen just felt that this was indeed Xie Jingxing's handwriting.

He looked at the erotic poem on the big screen, feeling complicated.

Could it be that I asked him to write this? Look at the helpless tone in the poem. Isn't it the same kind of indulgent attitude he has towards me?

However, this draft of poetry is simply an Easter egg that her boyfriend left for her after a thousand years.

"Mr. Xingyun's Poems, starting price: 2 million."

The expert next to Chen Dongkai whispered, "They are really crazy about money. Two million, are they going to sell it at a discount as an authentic work? Mr. Xingyun is a man of great talent, how could he write such obscene lyrics? The auction house asked a few experts to say that they have doubts, and then they sold this fake thing without taking any responsibility. It's really wishful thinking."

Chen Dongkai also thought that no one would bid for this thing, but as soon as the auctioneer finished speaking, Fu Yunshen raised his card: "Five million and two hundred thousand."

Chen Dongkai: "..." The poem contains the word "Yun Shen". Do you think that the erotic poem is written for you? And 5.2 million? Are you crazy?

But Chen Dongkai still wanted to raise the price for Fu Yunshen, so he raised his sign: "Six million."

Fu Yunshen smiled at him: "One thousand three hundred and four hundred thousand."

Chen Dongkai: “???” Is he really crazy? Or… is this a trap set by Fu Yunshen? Chen Dongkai hesitated and stopped at the right time. Anyway, this fake thing is worthless, and Fu Yunshen has already lost tens of millions.

The auctioneer dropped the hammer: "Thirteen million, one hundred and four hundred thousand, sold."

Fu Yunshen was in a good mood.

After the auction, there was a cocktail party. Chen Dongkai brought a glass of wine and came over to Fu Yunshen and said proudly, "Congratulations, Mr. Fu, for losing tens of millions overnight."

Fu Yunshen chuckled, "After all, Fu's financial situation is not like Chen's. They still have money to buy things they like, unlike Mr. Chen who needs to be careful with his budget."

Besides, one of her boyfriend’s authentic works of calligraphy or painting has been sold at a price of hundreds of millions. Can the value of this manuscript of poems be measured by money?

Chen Dongkai's face turned green with anger at Fu Yunshen's words, and he said, "Mr. Fu seems to be quite satisfied with being the scapegoat..."

Fu Yunshen raised his glass to Chen Dongkai and interrupted, "Please go ahead." Then he turned and left, ready to go and chat with the experts.

However, at this moment, a man in a suit and leather shoes with a cold face blocked Fu Yunshen's way and asked, "Are you Fu Yunshen?"

The system said at the right time: [Story triggered, data loading, please wait...]

[Book Title: "The Shura Field of Four Wealthy Old Men"]

Fu Yunshen looked up at the wealthy old man in front of him: […Is this a similar character to mine?]