However, Chen Wenhan has been well cultivated, and recently learned a lot of pretentious politeness from Shinji Ohno, and he also said politely: "Thank you, Mr. De Sanker, for enduring the pain in your heart and selling the collection of your house, and I will definitely be grateful for the friendship between France and China, and introduce you and your family friendship to my compatriots in the future." ”

After saying that, De Sank led Chen Wen and his party to his family's treasure house.

Chen Wen thought he would go into the basement, but he miscalculated again.

De Sank led him up the stairs to the second floor.

The first floor is very high, and the amount of work required to climb the second floor is equal to the third floor of an ordinary villa.

Going up to the second floor, Chen Wen found that the corridor was not a straight line, but a crescent-shaped arc. Walking in such a corridor, one does not feel uncomfortable, but feels a mysterious anticipation of the room in front of them.

After passing through three doors, he came to a room with double doors, which DeSank unlocked with a key and pushed the door open.

Four people entered the door.

Chen Wen sat down with Monty, and Jessica sat next to her boyfriend, still holding her arms intimately.

The room is about 30 square meters, with a layout similar to a small living room in a late medieval aristocratic mansion, with antique wallpaper and curtains, and high-backed chairs with a royal temperament. It can only be said that it is similar, because Chen Wen saw a row of iron safes, which did not match the decoration style of the room.

Although the modern style of the safe is incompatible with the style of the small living room, Chen Wen knows that this row of iron cabinets is the protagonist of this small living room, and valuable goods must be stored in it.

At the base of the wall was a row of five safes, all of which were not small, as high as DeSanke's shoulders, and looked like they could hold a lot of things.

The safe is complicated, with double locks, one for the key and one for the code dial.

De Sank walked over to the second safe, turned his back to the three of them, unlocked the first lock with the key, and then tinkered with the code turntable for a while.

There was a crunch click.

Chen Wen heard the sound, and the safe opened!

He was full of enthusiasm for the sale that was about to appear in front of him.

With the grandeur of the house of the De Sanke family, and with the name of the shareholder of the Gucci Group, it is not enough to hide a rotten Chinese antique in such a safe.

Desank took out a large wooden box from the safe, turned around and walked over to the three of them, and placed the box on the coffee table.

The master was not in a hurry to open it, and Chen Wen was not convenient to urge him, so he calmly looked at the wooden box.

The wooden box is a cube with a side length of about half a meter, and I don't know what it contains.

From the effort of De Sanke to hold the box, Chen Wenneng guessed that the weight of the objects inside would not be light.

De Sanke's figure is very strong, a big man of more than one meter and eight meters tall, if the box is porcelain, it will not make him work so hard.

Chen Wenchai, is it metal products inside?

It is possible, but it must be a small tripod, if it is like the kind of tripod that is smashed to death, the volume is very huge, and De Sanke may not be able to move it.

The incense burner is not unlikely.

It is also possible that the invaders stole the heads of many Buddha statues from Chinese temples.

While guessing, Chen Wen looked at the appearance of the box.

He couldn't recognize the material of the wood, but could only see that the texture of the board was very dense, the grain was even, and the appearance was dark red. This wooden box alone doesn't look like a bargain.

Chen Wen thought to himself, it would be good if Teacher Ma was here, and he would definitely be able to recognize it.

De Sank spoke at this time: "Mr. Chen, if you can, please allow me to open the box." ”

Chen Wen thought to himself: Who doesn't allow you to open it? Why are you deliberately hanging my appetite!

Cursing in his heart, Chen Wen replied politely: "Trouble Mr. De Sanke to show me the antiquities in the box." ”

Desank opened the lid of the wooden box.

The lid was on top, and the three of them couldn't see what was inside while sitting, and they all stood up in unison.

Chen Wen's position was the closest, he stood up, leaned forward slightly, and looked down at the top of the box.

He was greatly shocked!

He knows what was inside!

Although Chen Wen is a novice in the field of cultural relics, he knows the items in the wooden box!

A bronze statue is not brass or bronze, but a red bronze cast.

The statue is in the shape of a snake's head, which is quite large, more than the size of a normal adult's head.

Chen Wen's heart turned upside down, trying to keep his face calm.

Thanks to the movies of Jackie Chan in the previous life, as well as the good deeds of "cultural relics going home" displayed by many patriotic businessmen at the auction, a set of twelve cultural relics has been deeply rooted in the hearts of Chinese people.

Yes, Chen Wen recognized it, and the red copper snake head statue in front of him was the sixth bronze statue of the 12 zodiac beast heads in the Old Summer Palace - the snake head!

Chen Wen stared at the snake's head, his mind quickly searching for memories of his past life.

He vaguely remembered that on the eve of his rebirth, seven of the 12 zodiac signs in the Old Summer Palace returned to the motherland, and another dragon head was collected by the Wanwan people, but the whereabouts of the other four were still unknown.

The four missing pieces are snake heads, sheep heads, chicken heads, and dog heads.

Now, the head of the snake is in front of Chen Wen's eyes!

To buy or not to buy?

You don't need to ask that question, okay!

Chen Wen put away his gaze, raised his eyes to look at De Sanke, and asked, "Mr. De Sanke, are you sure this copper product belongs to our Huaxia?"

De Sanke said: "Of course it is your Huaxia, this is an item from your royal garden during the Qing Dynasty, and it was brought back by my ** people." ”

Chen Wen made a disgusted expression and said nonsense in a sanctimonious manner: "This animal head looks like your European craft style, do you have any evidence to prove that it is an item from our Huaxia?"

Desanke smiled, turned around and walked to the safe, took out a paper document bag from it and handed it to Chen Wen.

Chen Wen opened it and saw that there were several old newspapers, French newspapers.

Several newspapers were issued five years ago, with dates very close to each other, and recorded the same thing: the entrepreneur Cai Chennan bought the head of a cow, a tiger, a horse and a monkey at a Sotheby's auction.

However, the newspaper did not write the exact price at which Cai Chennan purchased the four cultural relics, and only described the sentence "more than one million US dollars".

The name Cai Chennan evokes Chen Wen's memories of his previous life.

In his previous life, this Cai Chennan was directly related to one-third of the twelve beast heads.

On April 30, 2000, Cai Chennan took out two animal heads and sent them to Sotheby's auction, namely the head of a cow and a head of a monkey, and the transaction prices were 77.45 million Hong Kong dollars and 81.85 million Hong Kong dollars respectively.

Two days later, on May 2, 2000, Cai Chennan took out another animal head and sent it to Sotheby's auction, which was the head of the tiger, and the transaction price doubled to 155.45 million Hong Kong dollars.

All three animal heads were purchased by Poly Group and stored in the Poly Art Museum.

Since then, the 12 animal heads have become a popular object with the theme of "cultural relics coming home", and many patriotic merchants have actively participated in various auctions to compete for other members of the set of relics, causing the price to soar.

Those holders in Europe and the United States also saw the opportunity to make money from Chinese patriotic businessmen.

Seven years later, on September 20, 2007, Cai Chennan took out another animal head and sent it to Sotheby's auction, this time with a horse head. This horse head is called "Prince Charming" by the antique industry, and it is also the most beautiful one among the twelve beast heads.

The "Afternoon Horse" also has a unique position in use among the twelve beast heads.

The twelve heads of beasts are actually the faucets of the fountain, one of which sprays water every hour. The time of "noon" is noon, when the Old Summer Palace is at noon, in addition to the horse's head spraying water, the remaining 11 animal heads will also spray water together, so the horse's head is called the "general leader" of the twelve beast heads.

The horse head was auctioned in 2007 by Aaron Ho for a record HK$96.1 million. Later, He Gambling King donated the horse's head to the National Museum of China.

It seems impossible to say that Cai Chennan is a patriotic businessman.

From the matter of the twelve beast heads, Cai Chennan made money from other patriotic businessmen. From this point of view, Stanley Ho can be regarded as a patriotic businessman.

Chen Wen stared at the head of the snake, thinking of Cai Chennan and He Hongsen's reputation and status in the history of Chinese cultural relics, and thinking about what he should do.

With this snake head in front of him, Chen Wen felt that he had to work hard to buy it.

Chen Wen believes that he will never be able to sell it in the future, and he is willing to donate it to the museum in Huaxia so that this cultural relic can go home.

Some people may think that buying this artifact and donating it to the state is a loss of money for individuals. But that's the perception of some. Chen Wen doesn't think so.

"My 199288 Reading Network Again"

: 1992 of My Reborn Me.