After Tong Santong’s speech, the Pingzhou Jade Public Auction officially opened.
Looking at the five areas A, B, C, D, and E, Fu Song asked Jin Xiaobei: "Which one do you think we should choose?"
Jin Xiaobei said without hesitation: "Area B."
"Why?"
"Because this letter is more auspicious."
Fu Song nodded: "Indeed."
After saying that, he and Jin Xiaobei entered the gate of Area B.
Yu Shengman behind him: "?"
The so-called Area B is actually a large open space.
Densely packed jadeite raw stones are placed randomly on the ground in the shape of a Go square.
A dozen uniformed staff members were maintaining order.
After seeing this scene, Fu Song finally understood why the Pingzhou Jade Public Auction Association wanted to divide this bidding into five areas.
There is no way, there are simply too many jadeite rough stones waiting to be auctioned.
Take Area B for example. There were 1,200 rough stones auctioned in the morning alone.
All 1,200 pieces of raw stones will be auctioned before 12 noon.
The morning bidding was divided into two parts.
8:00~10:30 for viewing and selecting stones, 10:30~12:00 for formal bidding.
There is no need to explain the process of viewing and selecting stones. It means that bidders look for their favorite jadeite rough stones through observation and research.
For the bidding, the organizer has given each participant a bidding device.
After the bidding begins, the jadeite rough stone numbers and quotations participating in the bidding in this area will be displayed on the large two-way screen in the middle of Area B.
Once the bidding begins, everyone can increase the price using the bidding machine.
The number of rough stones displayed on the big screen at a time is 100, and the time is five minutes.
Once the five minutes are up, the bidding ends and the person with the highest bid wins.
There are exactly 12 rounds for 1,200 rough stones, plus a 3-minute break after each bidding, for a total of 93 minutes.
That means everything is over at 12:03 noon.
To be honest, after reading this rule, Fu Song was confused.
5 minutes to bid on 100 rough stones...
Don’t even mention the price increase, you can’t even finish watching it!
In other words, it is impossible for you to wait until the bidding starts and then bid based on the actual value you see.
Fortunately, the organizers also took this situation into consideration.
It stipulates that in addition to increasing the price during bidding, participants can also use a bidding machine to quote in advance during the process of viewing and selecting stones.
Before the auction, the system will summarize all bids and finally take the highest price as the starting price of the jadeite raw stone.
For example, if Fu Song takes a fancy to a piece of rough stone, the starting price given by the organizer is 10,000, and Fu Song bids 12,000, then its final starting price is 12,000.
After pondering for a moment, Fu Song started from marker No. 1 and looked all the way forward.
He was extremely fast and stayed on each marker for no more than 10 seconds.
The 10 seconds also includes the time taken to quote the price.
This is the solution Fu Song came up with.
Since there is no time to pay attention to the bidding of these rough stones during the auction, just put all the work in advance.
For example, when he saw the No. 1 rough stone, the price indicated by his eyes was 240,000, while the starting price given by the organizer was 60,000.
He made a compromise and directly quoted a price of 150,000.
Next, let’s look at rough stone No. 2.
The value of raw stone No. 2 is 1.08 million, and the organizer's starting price is 120,000, so... 560,000.
There was no jadeite at No. 3, the organizer’s starting price was 10,000, and Fu Song bid 20,000.
Well, he was deliberately trying to hide it from others.
Having learned the lesson from yesterday's title of "born lustful", Fu Song knew that if his performance today was still outstanding, it would easily arouse suspicion and bring unnecessary trouble.
Instead of doing this, it is better to confuse others and make it impossible for them to understand your intentions.
Of course, this confusion is not blind.
Although Fu Song quoted prices for those broken stones without jade, most of them were not high, with only a few exceptions.
For example, No. 322.
This jadeite rough stone not only has an official starting price, but also has expert comments:
The "ringworm" of this stone is even and not turbid, the "pine flower" is crystal clear, the color bands are slender and bright, and its green is like blue. It is recommended to gamble on the color.
The expert’s name is also included at the end: Yan University Ran Wennian.
It may be because Professor Ran is too famous, and the raw stone has a skylight, and the bright green color inside the window can be seen with the naked eye, so the organizer gave the starting price of 1 million.
But the price shown by Fu Song's eyes was only 120,000.
He couldn't help but curl his lips. He didn't expect that Professor Ran had such a wide range of knowledge.
It's just that wherever you go, you cheat people. Your shamelessness... is comparable to that old guy Wang Fugui!
Fu Song originally wanted to just fill in 1.1 million to get the matter over with.
After all, no matter what position Ran Wennian holds in his heart, his name is still very famous in the entire antique circle.
It is absolutely impossible for a stone that has been commented on by the other party to have only a 10% premium.
But when he put his finger on the bidding machine, Fu Song suddenly changed his mind and went straight to 3 million.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile in his heart, wondering if he could trick anyone.
It doesn't matter if you can't cheat.
Because the bidder's quotation can be canceled before the end of the bidding.
As long as Fu Song remembers the number 322, he won't forget it when the time comes.
This matter was just a small matter to him and was quickly put behind him.
There are still more than 800 pieces of raw stones ahead, and my task is still very difficult.
That’s right, Fu Song is going to quote prices for all the raw stones.
As the saying goes, a thief never leaves empty-handed.
Now that you are here, how can you be worthy of your hard work if you don’t participate?
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