Chapter 487 — The Auction Opens
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The crucial point was that the map was plainly only a small fragment, not a complete map at all, which made it little better than a piece of scrap — of no great value either as a collectible or in actual use.
Had Wei Zhao not already possessed the fragment he had cut from a shark's belly, he would never have given such useless trash a second glance. But from the thumbnail in the catalogue, this map — in its material, its workmanship, even in the stroke of the brush — was identical to the piece he had taken from the shark's belly, and so it naturally caught his interest.
"Will there be many people fighting over this one?" Wei Zhao knew next to nothing about auctions and had no idea what sort of thing might prove popular, so he pointed at the fragment and put the question to Fatty Lai.
"Huh..." Fatty Lai glanced at the item Wei Zhao had indicated and could not help but gape. "You're not serious, Boss — you've taken a fancy to this?"
"What? Is there a problem?" Wei Zhao frowned, at a loss to read Fatty Lai's expression.
Fatty Lai realized he had rather overdone it and hurried to explain, a little embarrassed. "Boss, at this auction, the earlier an item comes up, the less it's worth and the fewer people bid on it — though of course you can never rule out a dark horse. But honestly, I don't see what use this piece of junk is..."
"Heh, then win it for me." Wei Zhao, for his part, breathed a sigh of relief — if there were going to be a crowd of bidders, it would have been awkward. In the catalogue the fragment carried a reserve of a hundred thousand, which seemed to confirm what Fatty Lai had said: not exactly a hot item.
The jadeite with a reserve of one million finally went to a businessman holding a red invitation for one point two million, without provoking any notice or uproar.
The second item, remarkably, was a date with a celebrity, carrying a reserve of a hundred thousand — an invitation to a date issued by a minor star, entitling the winning bidder to go out with her.
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