Kelly Hotel in Linhai City, the site of the charity auction.

In the magnificent banquet hall, a group of well-dressed men and women gathered in twos and threes, talking softly, and the beautiful and melodious saxophone tunes flowed in every corner of the hall.

Yang Chen looked at the time on his watch, and there was still half an hour before the auction started, so he and Su Mengqi went to the corner, drinking red wine while chatting.

Su Mengqi glanced around the hall, and asked with some doubts: "Why didn't you see Yang Lin? Isn't he coming too?"

"The Yang family is one of the members of the Linhai Chamber of Commerce. As the speaker, he must negotiate with the organizer of the auction. There are too many twists and turns. Everyone must discuss the distribution of benefits."

"I don't understand. The Chamber of Commerce should be very rich. They won't use this method to make money, right?"

"In theory, it should be. To be honest, I don't really understand how they work, but after tonight, I will understand."

"If they really use this to make money, how do you sanction them?"

"I haven't thought about this yet. After all, the Linhai Chamber of Commerce is just a subsidiary organization. Even if they are sanctioned, it will only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, so I want to wait until I find out the root cause before taking action."

While the two were talking, Yang Lin appeared in the banquet hall, and after finding Yang Chen, he walked towards him directly.

"Brother, just now the organizer asked me to chat about the auction process, so I came late."

There was a hint of helplessness in Yang Lin's words, and Yang Chen immediately noticed this, and asked, "What's wrong with you? Is there anything embarrassing?"

"I still can't hide it from my elder brother," Yang Lin said with a wry smile, "Actually, there is nothing difficult, but the organizer wants our Yang family to set an example during the auction."

Yang Chen raised his eyebrows, "Exemplary spirit? How to set an example?"

"It's just to actively raise the placard! Whether you want to buy it or not, you have to raise it, so as to enhance the atmosphere."

Yang Chen couldn't help laughing, "So, you are being asked to be their babysitter?"

"If I was just being a babysitter, I wouldn't be in such a difficult situation. The key is that the chamber of commerce hinted to me that the Yang family would spend at least [-] million yuan to take some pictures."

"One hundred million?"

Yang Chen was a little surprised. If it was in a formal auction house, spending [-] million yuan to buy things would be a common thing. After all, the old saying goes, 'Antiques in prosperous times are gold in troubled times'. In peaceful and prosperous times, the antique market is very hot. It is nothing new for an ancient painting to sell for hundreds of millions.

But in this kind of charity fundraising auction, basically there will be no antiques or works of art, and the sales are basically worthless things, and buying such things requires a bid of [-] million. Isn't this a clear extortion?

"I can't help it, because it's not worth it to turn against these people for [-] million yuan, so I will treat it as a public welfare."

Yang Chen was silent for a moment, then frowned and asked: "You shouldn't be the only one invited by them to talk, right?"

"Of course, representatives of the eight major families are basically there. The [-] million they apportioned to our Yang family is still relatively small. The Huang family and Hou family in the capital city suggested [-] million."

Hearing this, Yang Chen couldn't help but sucked in a breath of air. Calculated in this way, the money from the eight major families alone was already close to two billion yuan. Adding those scattered small families, the proceeds of this auction were already Very impressive.

Yang Chen couldn't help but muttered to himself: "This hole is too big, it won't work unless it's blocked!"

"Brother, what did you say?"

"Oh, it's nothing. What I mean is that with this calculation, the revenue from this auction may be worth 30 billion yuan!"

"That's right, but the things they put up for auction may not even be worth 3 yuan. This is simply a worthless business."

"If they do this, no one will check their accounts? The country hates this kind of behavior of using charitable donations to collect money."

"These things are out of our control, and we dare not say or ask again." Yang Lin smiled wryly and said, "I only know that if they don't come up with this [-] million to cheer them on, then they will have different business affairs. This kind of run on the Yang family, the money we will lose in the end will definitely be far more than [-] million. There is no way, let's avoid disaster by going bankrupt!"

Yang Chen nodded, "I'm getting more and more curious about this chamber of commerce now, I'll buy something later and see their reaction."

"Brother, I have already told the organizer that you are a clan member of our Yang family, so you don't have to spend any money. I'll just buy it."

Yang Chen shook his head, "Since you have already said that I am a clan member of the Yang family, then the money I spend on buying things should be counted on the Yang family's head, so don't buy anything, I will come forward and raise the sign .”

"Brother, I don't quite understand what you want to do."

"Don't worry, I'll tell you afterwards, you just need to be obedient and do as I tell you."

Seeing Yang Chen's firm attitude, Yang Lin had no choice but to agree.

While the two were talking, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a Tang suit walked towards Yang Lin with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Yang, this is Yang Chen who has become famous recently, Mr. Yang, right?"

Yang Chen glanced at the middle-aged man, and already guessed that this person should be Jiang Changming, the chairman of the Linhai Chamber of Commerce, but he pretended not to know and asked: "It's just me, I don't know if this senior is—"

"Oh, brother, let me introduce you. This is President Jiang Changming, the leader of our Linhai Chamber of Commerce."

Yang Chen suddenly realized that he stretched out his hand, "I've admired President Jiang's name for a long time, but I'm just entangled in mundane affairs, and I've never had the chance to visit him, I'm so disrespectful!"

Jiang Changming smiled all over his face, took Yang Chen's hand and said enthusiastically: "Mr. Yang is too polite. As the president of the chamber of commerce, he should run errands for his colleagues and do his best. I should be the one who pays a visit to Mr. Yang." ah!"

"..."

The two exchanged pleasantries with each other's thoughts, and all they said were New Year's greetings.

"I heard from Mr. Yang that Mr. Yang is a clan member of the Yang family in Linhai. I don't know which branch is the ancestor?"

There was a trace of vigilance in Yang Chen's eyes, and he said with an unabated smile: "Chairman Jiang is very familiar with the branch of our Yang family clan?"

Jiang Changming smiled lightly, "I can't say I'm familiar with it, but my ancestors were good friends with the ancestors of the Yang family, so I know a little bit."

"I'm afraid that President Jiang will be disappointed. My ancestors were just unknown ordinary people. If I hadn't met Mr. Dai Yaohua by chance, I would still be a poor boy now!"

Jiang Changming smiled slightly, knowing that Yang Chen's words were obviously perfunctory, so he simply didn't ask any more questions.

"Mr. Yang is too modest. Since ancient times, heroes don't ask where they come from. Even if you don't meet Mr. Dai Yaohua, a talent like you will rise sooner or later."

At this moment, a young man who looked like an assistant walked up behind Jiang Changming and whispered something in his ear.

Jiang Changming immediately frowned, and blurted out: "There is such a thing?"

"Yes, President, do you want to take a look?"

"No, bring him here."

"Yes!"

After the assistant left, Jiang Changming said with a smile: "Our chamber of commerce is holding this charity auction. In fact, there is nothing valuable to sell, but it seems that it may change a bit today. The people below said just now that someone brought some treasures. I want to take advantage of our auction to sell it, so I just asked him to open it for me, and I ask you two to help me hold my eyes."

Yang Chen smiled and said nothing, because he suspected that Jiang Changming was directing and acting himself.

Soon, a long-haired man in a khaki jacket walked up to Jiang Changming under the guidance of his assistant, carrying a military rucksack upside down on his chest.

The man's long hair covered half of his face, and the exposed half of his face had rough skin, green stubble, and an indescribably cold look in his narrow eyes, which made people feel a little daunting. Feel.

Jiang Changming asked slowly, "Are you the one who wants to buy something?"

"Hmm." The man's voice was extremely hoarse, without any emotion.

"Take it out and have a look. If it's really a treasure, I'll sell it for you."

"Is it here?"

Jiang Changming laughed, "Why, are you afraid that someone will snatch yours? Don't worry, here are all civilized people, and no one will miss your things."

After hearing this, the man put down his backpack without any expression on his face, and unzipped it.

Jiang Changming looked into the bag, his face suddenly became serious.

"How did you get these things?!"

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