431: Chapter 0432: License Plate Auction 431: Chapter 0432: License Plate Auction This luxury villa, including all the furniture, was ready to go; moving in would be much the sa as walking in right now and Ye Weidong and Chen Fang had been purchasing everything else they needed over the past few days.
Zhao Ruibing excitedly went up to take a look and even took lots of pictures with her phone, planning to show them to her sister later that day.
After finishing with the third floor, they looked at the second floor, and from the second, they went to the first, and then rode the elevator down to the second level of the basent, followed by the first.
Zhao Ruibing, born into the direct lineage of the Zhao Family, was not like ordinary people, and the Zhao Family in Jinling lived on a secluded Jiangnan-style estate covering tens of thousands of square ters.
However, there were too many people in the Zhao Family, and like Zhao Ruxue, Zhao Ruibing did not enjoy returning to the Zhao estate and the two also disliked relying on the Zhao Family.
In their everyday appearance, they seed almost like any other ordinary people.
After Zhao Ruibing had toured the entire place, she was so exhausted that she sat next to Ye Qiu, blowing the air conditioner, wide-eyed, and asked, “How much did you pay for the down paynt, how much did you borrow, and how much do you repay each month?”
“I paid in full.”
Ye Qiu said.
Zhao Ruibing truly could not believe it.
She had thought at most Ye Qiu had only made a down paynt of thirty or maybe forty percent, but to her surprise, Ye Qiu had paid for it all at once.
It seed that Ye Qiu had even more money than she had imagined.
Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruibing stayed in the villa until 2:15 p.m., then they left, locked the front door, got into the car, and drove towards the auction house.
As Ye Qiu drove to the auction house, he noticed that many people were already waiting.
So of them appeared to be from car dealerships.
After parking the car, Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruibing got out and approached the entrance of the auction house.
It was now 2:45 p.m., just fifteen minutes until the auction for the car license plates.
If they did not arrive by three o’clock, it ant giving up on this auction and even the deposit would not be returned.
After passing through the security check of the auction house, one of the guards gave Ye Qiu a curious glance as Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruibing entered.
Seeing there were many people, Ye Qiu imdiately grabbed Zhao Ruibing’s fair arm.
This was the first ti Ye Qiu had taken hold of Zhao Ruibing’s hand so actively, although he had already had his way with her a few tis before, touching her all over.
Zhao Ruibing did not struggle and let Ye Qiu lead her inside.
Upon arriving at the front desk of the auction hall, Ye Qiu received his bidding number, which was quite far back, number 353.
This indicated that at least 352 people were ahead of him in line.
Additionally, so might be participating online or had entrusted others to bid on their behalf.
Nevertheless, this auction featured only attractive license plates, with a maximum of twenty-five available and a minimum starting bid of 500,000 yuan each.
After Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruibing found a seat, Ye Qiu looked over the materials he had just received from the front desk.
The materials clearly listed all the license plate numbers available in the auction.
Plates like Jiang A88388 and Jiang A99799 were all very attractive numbers.
When Zhao Ruibing took a look, she noticed they all seed quite nice.
Moreover, this auction was releasing the most attractive plates seen in years.
As for her own license plate, it was just an ordinary number.
“Why do you need such a good-looking license plate?”
Zhao Ruibing asked curiously.
Though it’s true that a good horse deserves a good saddle, and Ye Qiu’s rcedes AMG, being a luxury car, would indeed look great with a nice plate, what puzzled Zhao Ruibing was why?
Especially since Ye Qiu’s clothes were cheap street stall items, washed out to the point of being nearly white—this contrast made her wonder.
“Actually, it doesn’t really matter if it looks good or not, I’m just doing it for fun.”
Whether a license plate looks good or not really doesn’t matter to Ye Qiu.
Moreover, he had only planned to randomly pick a license plate at the vehicle managent office.
Unexpectedly, there’s an auction for attractive license plates, so it doesn’t hurt to take a look.
“I don’t know what you’re thinking?”
Zhao Ruibing found Ye Qiu increasingly difficult to understand.
However, since Ye Qiu didn’t care about the money, bidding for a nice license plate number wasn’t a bad idea.
After looking at all the license plates up for auction, Zhao Ruibing asked, “Which one do you want?”
Since a car can only bid for one plate, and Ye Qiu only had one car, naturally he could only bid for one.
“Any will do.”
“How about this one, Jiang A99099?”
“That’s fine.”
Ye Qiu replied.
By three o’clock in the afternoon, the auction hall was already filled with people.
This included individual car owners, so who ca with friends, and also managers of 4S stores who brought people to bid on behalf of custors for these fancy license plates.
The bidding began with the first plate, Jiang A77377, starting at 500,000 yuan, with each incrent set at 50,000 yuan.
Since this wasn’t the plate Ye Qiu had chosen, Zhao Ruibing sat and watched.
Bidding started with the first car owner raising the placard and calling out.
“550,000.”
As soon as that person shouted out, the others naturally laughed.
Thinking they could get such a good plate for such a low price was simply impossible.
As one of the top three economically ranked provinces nationwide, Jiangnan Province, with Jinling City as its provincial capital, leads in all aspects within Jiangnan.
Consequently, the region is destined to be ho to many wealthy individuals and high-ranking officials.
And since each fancy license plate auction ant one less available, and even though the vehicle managent office occasionally released so for auction, the number of attractive plates was more or less fixed.
Therefore, getting the plate for just 550,000 was definitely out of the question.
“Do you feel like stirring up trouble?”
Ye Qiu looked at Zhao Ruibing and said.
“I am not one to stir up trouble!”
But Zhao Ruibing actually wanted to play along, as she knew that even if the plate went for one million, there would still be people scrambling for it.
So when the bid reached 850,000, Zhao Ruibing directly called out, “1.05 million.”
At Zhao Ruibing’s shout, everyone turned to look.
Initially, no one had paid attention to Ye Qiu, who was dressed quite ordinarily; it was the beautiful and elegant Zhao Ruibing who attracted many gazes.
No one expected Zhao Ruibing to jump directly to 1.05 million with her bid.
Although the minimum increase was fifty thousand, indeed one could jump to a higher bid.
The auction hall went quiet for a mont, but soon other people started to call out their bids again.
Many wealthy individuals had co with the determination to win, as long as the price did not exceed their psychological limit.
Zhao Ruibing didn’t continue to bid, but she occasionally played the role of ‘troublemaker’ by randomly shouting a number; otherwise, who knows how long it would take before it was Ye Qiu’s turn to bid for the plate he wanted.
As it got closer to the end, there were fewer bidders, but the competition grew more fierce.
Now, a single license plate was worth a luxury car.
But to the others, it was all worth it.
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