Bringing Romance to the Ocean (1)
When Su Yanyi and Qin Jiran came out of their room, it was past the time for an afternoon nap, not to mention lunchtime. Luckily, Kangaroo had made lunch and left it for them in the microwave. Upon seeing the two of them appear, he started to prepare it in the kitchen.
With Su Yanyi and Qin Jiran going to eat, the members of secret team A in the living room stared at their backs.
Rabbit very artificially looked at her watch, read the time, then asked: “They were in there for an entire 4 hours. Do you guys think what I had guessed actually happened or not?”
“You already stood at their door to listen in, did you not hear anything?” Tiger was also very curious and had asked a lot of questions in his mind. Ever since Rabbit had stood at their door to eavesdrop, he had wanted to ask this question.
After hearing Tiger’s question, everyone stared at Rabbit as if they all also wanted to know her answer.
Rabbit’s body went stiff. Under everyone’s gaze, she put on a very innocent front and said: “What are you guys talking about? Are y’all joking? Do you know what kind of place this is? It’s an extremely luxurious banquet s.h.i.+p liner, the soundproofing is very good. What could I have heard? I was just checking to see if the door had been closed properly or not, okay?
“Che!” This was the unanimous sound that came from the other members of the team. If you didn’t hear anything that just say that, do you have to say all these!
The auction could be said to be the thing most people paid attention to at the Banquet. It would go on for three days and every day, it would be different. It would be held after dinner. Naturally, Su Yanyi and co. would not miss it. Before the auction, they entered the luxurious private room Corey had specially arranged for them to wait for the auction to start.
“Sister Yanyi, are you interested in knowing the auction items beforehand? Big bro has a list here y’know.” Corey remained in Su Yanyi’s box without seeming to have any intention of leaving. In his hand, there was a doc.u.ment of some sort. He blinked his eyes at Su Yanyi as he said this.
Maybe it was to raise excitement, or maybe it was to give guests even more of a fresh feeling but the auction did not provide guests with a list of items to be auctioned. However, a lot of people who had good connections would receive some news first. Su Yanyi hadn’t conducted any investigation so naturally, she didn’t know.
“Are you that free as the host of the auction?” Su Yanyi said with a lot of despise towards Corey. After Corey and Qin Jiran fought, she was couldn’t stand Corey more and more.
“I’m naturally very busy but for the sake of accompanying my Sister Yanyi, other matters can wait.” On the other hand, Corey wasn’t able to see the despise in Su Yanyi’s eyes and said this with a thick skin. As he said this, he poured himself a gla.s.s of wine. Just now when Qin Jiran had poured some wine, he had only done so for Yanyi. He had not even bothered with Corey. It really was a case of chicks over d.i.c.ks.
To Corey, after fighting with Qin Jiran, he saw the both of them as friends.
“What about doing something for me?” Su Yanyi asked with a cold face.
Corey’s eyes brightened and he immediately became very excited. He asked happily: “Just say it. As long as it’s within my capabilities, I won’t reject you!” Since it was a time where Su Yanyi looked to him for help, he definitely couldn’t reject her!
“When you go out please close the door, okay?” Su Yanyi pointed in the direction of the door and said very discourteously. This man Corey was really too noisy, making her always feel like rashly punching him!
Su Yanyi really didn’t like noisy men. Of course, she didn’t like noisy women either. Thinking to this point, Su Yanyi was suddenly reminded of a woman. She felt that if Ling Tianyue and Corey were together, they would be very compatible. At the very least, it would be more suitable than with Bai Jing! Su Yanyi had already begun to consider whether or not she should help Bai Jing get rid of this troublesome suitor.
“Sister Yanyi, you don’t have to treat me like that, right. All I did was fight a round with Brother-in-law, that’s all. Besides, I was beaten up more badly, is it really okay to value relations.h.i.+ps over friends.h.i.+ps so much?” Corey complained pitifully. Not long ago, he had thought that the one who valued relations.h.i.+ps over friends.h.i.+ps was Qin Jiran but looking at it now, it really was that only a family entered the family door.
In the end, Corey really did leave. He actually was very busy but a small part of him had an idea and he always wanted to see Su Yanyi’s face change, so he couldn’t help but to needle her though in the end, the one who lost out was always himself.
The auction began. A hot lady walked onto the auction stage. Don’t know whether or not it was Corey’s bad taste but the pretty woman was only wearing a bikini. Her proud figure gathered a lot of wolf whistles.
“Welcome everybody to the Banquet. I am the auctioneer, Lilia. Today is the first round of the auction. All the items to be auctioned today are famous items and the Banquet can guarantee the authenticity of these items. I won’t waste anymore time. We’ll now begin auctioning the first item which is a pure breed horse from Y country. This purebred belongs to the fastest breed of horses in the world and is also the breed with the best body structure. Let us now invite this handsome horse on stage!”
As Lilia’s words fell, a platform was raised in the middle of the auction stage. A horse trainer leading an extremely handsome purebred horse appeared on the stage.
“This purebred horse is called Connaux and was the past world champion in high jumps and long jumps. Horse lovers will definitely know of its existence. We’ll now begin bidding, starting at USD$2,000,000. Each call will raise its price by no less than $100,000. The auction begins!”
Those who could partic.i.p.ate in the auction were all people who had gold or silver cards. When these people entered the auction, they were given a bidding device while Lilia had the data which just consisted of the guests’ cards’ numbers who bid.
There were obviously a lot of horse lovers amongst the guests. When they had seen this horse, a lot of people generously raised their hands. The number on the big screen increased very quickly from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 and its upwards trend was very ferocious.
“Do you like it?” Su Yanyi looked towards Qin Jiran and asked. She had seen Qin Jiran looking at this horse with an admiring gaze, that’s why she had thought about winning the bid and giving it to him. Anyway, it was the Old Man’s money. It was a waste to not buy anything.
“It’s alright. I have a horse in the hall but my riding skills aren’t that good.” Qin Jiran was actually someone who did like horses but he already had one. Although it wasn’t a precious breed, he didn’t have the intention to buy one. He had obviously understood why Su Yanyi was asking him.
“Not too good? Not good to what extent, do you need a master to teach you? My riding skills are not bad.” Su Yanyi volunteered her services. She was thinking that when they have time, they could go riding on a date together. It wasn’t a bad choice.
“Not good to the extent that I just nice need your guidance. As long as you don’t despise me for being stupid, it’s exactly what I’m looking for.” Qin Jiran went along with her and smiled. He was already beginning to antic.i.p.ate horseback riding with Yanyi. He especially wanted to see what Su Yanyi looked like in a riding habit, she would definitely look like a queen.
Oh, when that time comes, maybe they should take a few photos and post it online? Qin Jiran thought conflictedly. He wanted other people to look at how magnificent Yanyi looked but at the same time, he wanted to hide Yanyi and not let anyone see how beautiful she was. It really was conflicting!
“You are a bit stupid, but I won’t despise you.”
As the two of them were speaking, the first round of the auction had come to a close. The final price had reached USD$4,800,000. To a lot of people, this was an astronomical sum but in reality to these people, it was just a small side dish.
Because there were a lot of items to be auctioned, the auctioneer Lilia didn’t waste any time and immediately began the auction for the second item. The first day’s auction would hold a lot of legal items which could be traced so there wasn’t anything that would shock anyone, like the next few items. There was a winery from a European country, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, and a vintage car that was no longer in production, or even a one of a kind handmade watch. The lowest price was USD$1 million and the highest price had reached USD$1 billion.
Su Yanyi and Qin Jiran drank wine as they watched on but they didn’t run into any interesting item. In order to not have wasted a trip here and to spend some money on behalf of Grandpa, Su Yanyi obtained two items before the end of the auction.
One item was a tri-coloured glaze pottery from the Tang dynasty which was very beautiful.1 Although Su Yanyi hadn’t done much research on antiques, her family’s Old Man liked them a lot. Just nice, it could be a present, something like presenting Buddha with borrowed flowers, anyway it was the Old Man’s money.2
The second item was a black sword which was also an antique but it had made Su Yanyi think of Qin Jiran in ancient garb, wearing a suit of armour and holding that sword. That awe-inspiring image. It would really make him seem like a general in ancient times. Under impulse, she spend more than $9,000,000 to buy this black sword that came from some unknown era. At first, the price of the sword had started at only $1,000,000 since the era it came from could not be found but some random guest kept trying to outbid Yanyi. In the end, Yanyi had spent $9,000,000 to buy the sword.
“You like antiques?” Qin Jiran saw the two items Yanyi had bought and had some niggling doubts. In his mind, Yanyi did not have any obvious interest in antiques.
“The tri-coloured pottery is for Grandpa, the sword is for you.” After Su Yanyi had finished saying this, she suddenly felt that she was both virtuous and filial. She bought a present for her elder and also one for her husband but hadn’t bought anything for herself.
“Why are you giving me this sword?” Qin Jiran had some doubts. Yanyi’s presents to him were really more and more special.
“When you wear armour and carry it, you’ll definitely look like a great general.” Su Yanyi spoke out her thoughts.
“… you like role-playing?” Qin Jiran thought for a while then asked with a strange expression.
“…” This was the speechless Su Yanyi.
At this time, the auction had already ended and the auction items would be sent to their respective owners’ rooms. Su Yanyi and co. were heading out but saw that Corey came looking for them again.
“Sister Yanyi, you’ve researched on ancient swords?” Corey asked somewhat curiously.
“I bought it for fun.” Su Yanyi gave Corey a glance then continued walking on.
Corey chased after her and directly stated his objective: “Someone found me, hoping that I could contact the owner of the sword. He is willing to spend $10million to buy the sword that you have. Hehe, don’t you think it’s funny. He didn’t fight for it properly during the auction and came to find me, the host of the auction later on. Don’t even mention causing me to earn less money, does he think I’m an idiot.”
Corey also couldn’t figure out if this person had an IQ problem. As the host of the auction, he naturally wouldn’t like guests doing a private exchange on auction items, but this person insisted on looking for him to help. If it wasn’t for the person working with his father, he would have thrown this person into the ocean. Was it easy for him to earn money!
“Not selling.” She wouldn’t give anyone things that she had bought for her man, no matter who they were.
“The item changing hands could earn you $1million and you don’t want to sell? Hehe, Sister Yanyi, if you like these kind of items, I can pay attention on your behalf?” Corey didn’t really understand these kind of items and didn’t feel they were good in any way. In the past, he didn’t know Su Yanyi liked these kind of things either.
“Then pay attention to it. Jiran likes them.” Does Qin Jiran like them? Actually, Su Yanyi didn’t know either. She had said this obviously to strike a blow at Corey.
Corey’s eyes immediately looked towards Qin Jiran. The corner of his lips pulled down and he said with some jealousy: “It’s for you? Then forget it, I don’t have time to pay attention to such small matters.”
Qin Jiran looked at Corey’s personality change and was a bit speechless. He grabbed Yanyi’s hand and decided to ignore this crazy guy.
After the auction ended, it still wasn’t late. It could be said that now was the time night activities started up. Su Yanyi didn’t want to go back early either, recalled the bar Tiger had mentioned before, and so thought of going to have a look.
“Let’s go to the bar and sit for a while.” Su Yanyi said. Tiger’s face immediately changed. At the same moment, Corey who was sticking by Su Yanyi’s side also had a strange expression.
Corey wordlessly took out his phone then pressed on a few keys. On the screen, a timetable came up. Corey found the right activity then saw two words: training, turntable.
After Corey had looked at the program, he secretly looked towards Su Yanyi, then secretly looked at Qin Jiran and thought about whether he should let them go like that or let them go like that!
As he thought about it, Corey let out a roguish smile. This was definitely a scene to witness. He was really looking forward to seeing the change in the two persons’ expressions when they watched the performance.