Seeing the earring man's tricycle coming, a man wearing a short-sleeved shirt with a strange animal tattooed on his arm came up. He glanced at Li Yu and others with a slanted eyes, and asked the earring man in local dialect for a few words, and then he spoke in a stiff Chinese to Li Yu and others, "Come with me."

In recent years, China has more and more contacts with Southeast Asian countries, which has led to an increase in the number of people who speak Chinese in various countries. If you want to make money from Chinese, you have to learn to communicate with Chinese people. This is the minimum requirement. When Li Yu and his friends come to Country A, they can more or less speak a few Chinese words, and some can handle more complicated dialogues, which saves Li Yu and his friends a lot of trouble.

The man with earrings left in a tricycle. Before leaving, he quietly greeted Li Yu, saying that if he had anything to do in Country A in the future, he could contact him. Obviously, he found that Cai Meilin was generous and believed that their group was a good customer.

The tattooed man led Li Yu and his party into the tent area. Li Yu found that although there were no fixed buildings here, it was a temporary camp at first glance, but the equipment conditions were much better than the Nei Village they had just visited. The tents tied around were all high-end goods, which could be seen from the fabric and workmanship; the cultural relics dealers standing or standing outside the tent were all dressed very well; some bodyguards or assistants were making food with gas stoves, and there were cans, beer and other items next to them, and even very elite coffee sets.

In a corner of the tent area, there is a very high antenna. Li Yu didn't know what it was, but Dong Bolin knew that it was a mobile communication base station. Although all the merchants who came to participate in the transaction had their communication tools confiscated, the Zhongdu gang, as the organizer of the transaction, still needed to communicate with the outside world. This base station provided this kind of service.

The tattooed man took them into a large tent with tables and chairs, radio stations, computers and other items. It should be the auction office. Seeing them in, a staff member busy in front of the computer looked up and asked: "Do you come from China? Who introduced it?"

Cai Meilin walked forward, said a name to the other party, and handed over his business card. The staff member nodded and accepted Cai Meilin's identity. He took out the form and asked Cai Meilin to register. He charged some more fees, and then called the tattooed man and asked him to settle Cai Meilin and his party for rest.

Like other merchants' treatment, Cai Meilin and others received a tent and needed to find a place to build it up. This is the place where they will live here in the next two or three days. The gas stoves, beer, cans and the like that Li Yu and the others just saw were all provided by the Zhongdu gang, but they all had to charge, and the price was more than five times higher than in the outside market.

Those who can come here to participate in the auction are rich people. These people will not make themselves wronged to save a little money. Cai Meilin and Li Yu are also rich people. After listening to the tattooed man's introduction, they asked the man to send all kinds of luxury goods, regardless of the price. However, Dong Bolin, who has a Visa black card, heard that a bottle of beer costs 20 yuan per bottle, and a can of 100 yuan, was so heartbroken that his muscles twitched. His salary was not low, but he couldn't accept such consumption.

"You don't need beer?"

While building a tent, Dong Bolin carefully suggested to Cai Meilin and Li Yu, "Aren't you just staying here for two days? Just eat some instant noodles and you can deal with it. As for beer, canned food, etc.?"

"Old Dong, don't worry about it. I will pay for all the expenses here." Cai Meilin said generously. In order to cover up, he can only call Dong Berlin the old Dong now. He cannot call him his position.

Dong Bolin said awkwardly: "Mr. Cai, this is not suitable. After all, you came for my business...... I'll pay for the money."

Logically, Li Yu and his party came for Mr. Chen's business, so they should naturally seek reimbursement for their living expenses. But the problem is that the expenditure here is not normal expenses at all. How can Dong Bolin report the accounts to the **** Youth? After hesitation, Dong Bolin could only grit his teeth and accept it himself.

Li Yu smiled and teased, "Brother Dong, don't say such big talk. Didn't you underestimate you? You really gave the expenses here. Are you not afraid that your sister-in-law will punish you to kneel on the washboard when you go back?"

Dong Bolin blushed and said, "Since you know, let's save money for your brother. Tell me, why do we want to buy their beer? With this money, how many drinks can we drink when we go back to China?"

Li Yu said seriously: "Brother Dong, you are wrong. Since we are here to shoot things, we can't look too shabby, otherwise it will be exposed. If people find that we are actually poor but plan to shoot such things, what do you think they will think?"

Of course, Dong Bolin was not stupid either. He could think of the problem Li Yu said. After hearing Li Yu said this, he could only nod helplessly and said, "What you said makes sense... Alas, then you can only follow the local customs."

After packing up the tent and having lunch he made, the tattooed man appeared in front of Cai Meilin and his party again and took them to see the pre-exhibited lots. This kind of underground cultural relics transaction has no support, and the authenticity of the lots depends on the customer's own eyes, so it needs to be pre-exhibited so that customers can have time to appraise. The Zhongdu gang is not worried about the safety of the exhibits. The merchants who came in have all had weapons confiscated, and there were no means of transportation or communication tools. Anyone who dared to steal the exhibits here would not be able to transport them out even if they succeeded. As for the thieves, it would be difficult to pass the Omura level.

The place to display the items is another large tent, with an area of ​​hundreds of square meters. The tent is dimly lit, with the purpose of protecting cultural relics that cannot be seen for a long time. When customers need to identify a cultural relics, someone naturally turns on the desk lamp next to it to provide lighting. These services are very thoughtful.

"Boss Cai, what are you going to see this time?" When he walked into the tent, the tattooed man asked Cai Meilin. Dong Bolin and Li Yu, who were following Cai Meilin, were automatically ignored by the tattooed man. He just regarded the two as Cai Meilin's entourage.

Cai Meilin is a real cultural relics businessman, so he is naturally not unfamiliar with such occasions. He nodded slightly and said without objection: "Since you are here, you naturally have to see it. Please guide me to the bottom of the road."

"That's natural, please, Boss Cai." The tattooed man responded humbly.

This kind of auction of smuggled cultural relics is different from auctions held by professional auction companies. The latter generally has specific themes, such as special porcelain auctions or special Tang and Song utensils. The auction of the Zhongdu gang is a hodgepodge, with gold, silver, jade, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings all mixed together, and some may even be modern high-quality fakes. Whether they can be seen through depends entirely on the eyes of the customers.

Cai Meilin didn't want to reveal the real purpose of her trip, so she quietly started looking at the original exhibits, and asked the tattooed man who accompanied her while looking at them. The man had been smuggling cultural relics for so many years, and had some knowledge, so he could explain the origin and characteristics of the cultural relics to Cai Meilin. Cai Meilin himself sells cultural relics and is really interested in these exhibits. The enthusiasm he showed was not entirely fake.

Li Yu also knew a little about cultural relics, but because he came from ancient times, some antiques from the Ming and Qing dynasties were not worth mentioning in his eyes. And the tents were mostly such cultural relics, so he was quite lazy and felt that everything was average. Dong Bolin didn't need to mention it. A valuable Ming Dynasty jadeware was far less attractive than an AK47 in his opinion. His focus was on the golden Buddha that he had not seen yet.

In the eyes of the people around, this combination of the three of them is really normal: a boss who knows a lot, with a bodyguard who doesn't know anything and another slap in disdain. This is a standard configuration of smugglers.

"This jade-like gold-hearted jade pendant was made from the Qianlong period. It has a cloud in a shape of a romance on the upper part and a relief daffodil on the front. I heard that it was taken from the tomb of a minister of the Ministry of Personnel..." The tattooed man introduced incessantly.

Cai Meilin commented lightly: "The carving is pretty good, and the jade is indeed old jade. However, I have seen such a jade pendant once. This one looks too similar to that one. Could it be that there would be two identical jade pendants back then?"

"Is that? Well, I don't know this." The tattooed man said dumbly. The jade pendant was collected by them from a tomb robber. The price is very low, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. His boss Katsuurakawa once guessed that this jade pendant might be a fake from the Republic of China, and the price it can be sold depends on whether the customers understand it.

"Boss Cai, look, this is a flower watering from the Yongzheng period, maybe it was used in the palace. Look at the blue and white branches, the color is so good. I will turn on the lights for you to see..."

"Well, it looks like the authentic one, but the blue and white porcelain from the Yongzheng period cannot be sold at the price now..."

"Boss Cai is really an expert..."

"Just have some knowledge..."

The two of them exchanged opinions one by one, looked at the exhibits one by one, and walked forward. Bypassing a table with porcelain, they saw that the booth in front was shining with golden light, and the one placed on it was a pure gold sitting Buddha.

"Hey, this golden Buddha is quite interesting." Cai Meilin pretended to be curious and said to the golden Buddha.
Chapter completed!