Super Zoo

Before dinner, Su Ming and Zhao Yun discussed the auction of wine.

Zhao Yun meant that it would be better to send the winemaking tree together and auction them together, so that the Monkey Wine would appear more authentic and more legendary.

Cutting a tree in the mountains is not a big deal, and it is even easier and simpler for Zhao Yun's social power, as long as Su Ming points the way.

After the finalization, dinner finally started. Su Ming and Zhao Yun's family sat around the round table, and there was no distinction between the upper and lower.

Zhao Qian and Zhao Yun were college classmates. Zhao Yun's business was booming, and Zhao Qian was a teacher in a school in Yangchuan City. Since Zhao Yun's business was more cultural, and it was already on track, he didn't need to run around all day, so the family was happy and the couple loved each other.

Zhao Qian was a very good cook, with a full table of dishes and a bottle of Moutai.

But when eating, Zhao Yun and Su Ming both felt a little dull. Su Ming was better, after all, he was used to drinking monkey wine all day long, but Zhao Yun had never tasted it before. After drinking it, he felt a little dull with other wines.

"You kid has ruined me. How can I drink in the future!" Zhao Yun smiled bitterly and tapped Su Ming with chopsticks.

Zhao Qian opened her eyes wide and looked curious: "I saw in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer that Linghu Chong cheated an old beggar for a bottle of monkey wine. I didn't expect that there is such wine in the world!"

"The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders. What we humans can know is just a small piece of sky above our heads. The so-called sitting in a well and looking at the sky is about us humans." Zhao Yun said with a smile.

Chengcheng didn't care about the wine or not. She kept begging Su Ming to take her to see the monkeys. Su Ming said that he would take her when she was on vacation.

There was some perfunctory element in these words. Now Chengcheng was on summer vacation. The truth is that Zhao Qian was really scared last time. In the short term, she probably won't dare to let her daughter go to a 'dangerous' place like the zoo.

Cheng Cheng pouted, her chubby cheeks bulged, and she said angrily: "You adults are all in the same group!"

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A few days later, Sotheby's Cultural Center, Taikoo Plaza, Queensway, Hong Kong.

Sotheby's auction house is the oldest auction house in the world. After more than 200 years of development, it has developed from a bookstore in a small town to one of the world's top three auction houses. It is famous for its high commission, high service quality and high reputation, and is known for its 'three highs'.

In Asia, Sotheby's has set up a Hong Kong branch, with porcelain, calligraphy and painting, wine and other main businesses, and regular classified auctions every year.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sotheby's Hong Kong Annual Wine Auction."

On the auction stage, a well-dressed middle-aged British man with a delicate mustache opened the curtain of the auction with his impeccable aristocratic etiquette.

The auction hall was quite spacious, divided into upper and lower sides like an opera house, and the total number of guests in the hall did not exceed fifty. Sitting in the huge auction hall, it seemed a bit sparse.

But people in the auction industry know that the fewer guests there are, the higher the level and the more professional the auction is.

Because rich people are a minority after all, and there are even fewer rich people who are keen on collecting in a certain field.

Only the auctions of the mainstream goods will gather a large group of people, and ordinary white-collar workers can spend dozens of dollars to buy a ticket to watch the excitement.

In a semi-open small box on the second floor, there sat a young man who was not even a "white-collar worker".

"Don't be nervous, you are the seller, just think that all these people today are here to give you money." Zhao Yun said to Su Ming with a smile on his side.

Su Ming was not nervous, but very curious. He had only seen such a "high-end" scene in TV and movies before.

After dinner that day, Zhao Yun immediately helped to contact the auction house, and also helped to advance the seller's deposit and arrange the auction. Su Ming took two days off and followed Zhao Yun to the auction site in Hong Kong.

After arriving at the auction house, Su Ming found that Zhao Yun's power was indeed not small. It turned out that the vice president of Sotheby's Asia Branch personally received him and arranged a private room on the spot.

"Then you are really wrong. The private room is not arranged for my face, but for you." Zhao Yun shook his head and said with a smile.

"For me?" Su Ming asked puzzledly.

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Think about it, as long as there are good things, why worry about not having buyers? There are too many rich people in the world, but there are only a few good things. Therefore, what the auction house really values ​​is the seller, especially the potential seller. There are quite a few cultural relics in my museum, but the country has regulations that precious cultural relics of a certain level can be collected, but they are not allowed to be sold, especially in international auctions. So in the eyes of Sotheby's, my value is mainly my professional level, not my collections."

"Is monkey wine so precious?"

Su Ming thinks that monkey wine may be sold for hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, after all, it is such a big event.

But even if it is hundreds of thousands, it is a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for Sotheby's, hundreds of thousands of collections are probably too many to count, and there is no need to look at me differently.

"It's open." Zhao Yun did not answer, but pointed down.

The first auction item is a bottle of 1787 sweet white wine produced in Chateau Lusalus, France.

Château Lysalus, also known as Château Dikin, is the only super first-class sweet white winery in Bordeaux's official classification of wineries in 1855. This highest honor placed Chateau Lysalus above the rest of the world. Today there are five major wineries including Lafite, Latour and Margaux.

Just the place and vintage make this bottle worth a lot of money.

The host of the auction, the mustached man named Robben, showed a playful smile and said to the audience: "However, I need to explain to everyone that this bottle of wine may be a bottle of fake wine! Of course, I mean Maybe!"

There was an uproar in the audience. Su Ming was also stunned and asked Zhao Yun, "Is this okay? Selling fake wine in public?"

Zhao Yun, however, remained calm and said with a smile, "You'll know after you read it."

"Everyone, in 2006, American collector Collillo bought this rare wine for US$100,000, setting a world record for the most expensive white wine at that time. However, not long after, Mr. Collillo claimed that the wine It was a bottle of fake wine, and the original owner of the bottle also provided an authoritative certificate of authenticity, so..."

Robben shrugged and said: "So, the authenticity of this bottle of wine has become a mystery. At the beginning of this year, Mr. Corillo entrusted us to auction this mysterious bottle of red wine. The starting price is the same as that of 2006 The auction price was the same, $100,000! Now, please raise your sign!”