"Okay, put it here, tap it!"

Back at Huashang Bank, Xia Yu took out the antiques he bought one by one from the box and placed or hung them in a suitable position.

After placing it, Xia Yu walked around the office casually, observed it a few times, and showed a satisfied smile.

"Xia Yu, with your arrangement, the grade of the office has gone up all of a sudden. ”

Wu Hongyi also turned around and said with a smile.

"Haha!"

"Come, try what the tea tastes like from this blue and white porcelain teapot of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xia Yu said, first took boiling water and scalded the teapot and teacup a few times, then took out a can of Tieguanyin that Bao Yugang brought from Xiangjiang, scooped a small spoon with a wooden teaspoon, poured it into the teapot, and began to brew tea.

Soon, the four teacups were filled with crystal clear hot tea, and Xia Yu beckoned Wu Hongyi, Li Qian, and Li Wuming to drink tea together.

For this kind of teacup, Li Qian used it for the first time, carefully picked it up, gently blew the heat dissipation, and learned from the costume TV series, scraped the cup with the teacup lid, and took a sip.

"Xia Yu, it feels so interesting to drink tea like this!"

Li Qian blinked her big eyes and said in surprise.

Seeing Li Qian's unpretentious joy, Xia Yu was happy and also picked up the teacup and tasted tea.

"Good tea!"

"Xia Yu, your tea is good, I didn't expect you to have such a good tea! It feels better than my grandfather's tea that is like a treasure, not to mention my tea, it's completely rancid!"

Wu Hongyi is also a person who understands tea, so he sniffed it before drinking, then took a sip and said with admiration.

Xia Yu said with a smile: "This tea was given to me by others, it was picked on the tea tree of Tieguanyin of the Chinese generation, I heard that it was drunk by the leaders of the Chinese country, a friend of mine brought it back after going to China last year, the number is not much, he gave me two small cans, this can is for you!"

As he spoke, Xia Yu put the tea can in front of Wu Hongyi.

"Really, the tea that the country's leaders drink?"

Wu Hongyi's eyes widened, and he took another sip, and seemed to drink more different flavors.

"Really, I still have a can in the manor, so you're welcome. ”

Seeing that Xia Yu didn't look like lying, Wu Hongyi smiled, carefully picked up the teacan, and said happily: "Then I won't be polite to you." ”

"What are you being polite to me about? ”

After taking a few sips of tea, Xia Yu asked, "Hongyi, what's going on with the Treasure Pavilion?" ”

Wu Hongyi gently put down the teacup, spit out a breath of heat, his expression was a little dazed, and he sighed: "There are indeed some stories here, let me tell you about it." ”

"At the beginning of this century, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, when Hua Lao's family was still well-off, because of special reasons, Hua Lao came to settle in England with his parents when he was a child, Hua Lao's parents opened the Treasure Pavilion by virtue of their craftsmanship, because Hua Lao's parents were perfect in craftsmanship, and the porcelain made was beautiful and sought after by the British. ”

Hua Lao was a master of his parents' crafts, and if nothing else, he would carry forward the handicraft industry, but there was an accident. ”

"You also know, from the Tang and Song dynasties, until now, I don't know how many antique cultures are abroad, most of them are in Europe, Hua Lao went to the British Museum in the United Kingdom when he was a child, and saw my Chinese cultural relics displayed in the British museum, I felt a great shame, and when I was a child, I decided to exhaust my life's efforts to get back cultural relics from foreigners. ”

Hua Lao's parents were also very supportive of his ambition, so they invited a few masters to teach Hua Lao, Hua Lao was sensitive and studious, and very talented, all kinds of antique cultural toys have dabbled, and then began to practice Taobao. ”

"Many aristocrats and wealthy people in Britain have antique collections in their homes, many of which are Chinese things, and there are always some nobles whose families are depressed and sell their property, and the Chinese elders will buy them, or pick up the leaks from some families in the countryside of England. ”

"Although the antiques of China are not worth much in the UK, but the vintage is there, so it will not be a tattered price, and the purchase of antiques from the homes of ordinary people in the countryside can also be at an extremely low price, but the British aristocracy is not stupid, and if they want to buy the antiques in the hands of the aristocracy, the price cannot be the price of cabbage, which requires a lot of funds. ”

"The income from the handicrafts of the Treasure Pavilion alone could not support Hua Lao's dream at all, and then he changed his mind and sold part of the purchased antiques to raise funds to buy antiques from the British, but if the antiques sold returned to the British, it would be contrary to his ambition, so he had a rule for selling antiques, not to foreigners, only to Chinese, and also required buyers not to sell to foreigners!"

"Of course, at the beginning, there must be someone who does not keep his promises, Hua Lao found out, summed up the experience, he can not guarantee that everyone keeps their promises, but he can sell antiques as much as possible to the Chinese who are more likely to keep their promises, generally speaking, the more powerful the rich and the Chinese family will not sell antiques, unless it is about to be ruined and will do so, so Hua Lao is very welcome to every rich man and big family who sincerely buys antique collections, and they have a good connection, our Wu family bought hundreds of antiques from Hua Lao before and after, my grandfather and Hua Lao are also old friends。 ”

"It is in this mode that Hua Lao has been operating day by day for decades, going all over the United Kingdom to other European countries, trying every means to acquire antiques, and this has accumulated the treasures of the Treasure Pavilion that you and I have seen. ”

"In the Chinese community, almost all have heard of Hua Lao's reputation, and they all admire his ambition, and when they have some spare money to buy antiques, they will look for Hua Lao, anyway, until now, I have never heard of Hua Lao selling a fake to the Chinese, and the price will not be too high. ”

"On the contrary, for foreigners, Hua Lao sells handicrafts at high prices, never sells antiques, foreigners do not understand my Chinese broad and profound culture, naturally superficially only look at the surface, but like bright and bright handicrafts. ”

Wu Hongyi finished speaking in one breath, his face was complicated, and he picked up the teacup and took a deep sip.

After listening to Wu Hongyi's narration, Xia Yu and the three of them were shocked, shocked by Hua Lao's great ambition and noble national integrity, this is a lovely old man who can be sung and respected.

At this moment, Xia Yu felt a sense of shame, ashamed of the idea of picking up cheap goods that came out in the afternoon.

At this moment, Wu Hongyi suddenly sighed and said: "It's a pity that there is no successor to Hua Lao, and the only son also died unexpectedly. ”

Xia Yu was silent, and suddenly he thought of Uncle De he saw this afternoon, frowned and asked, "Isn't Uncle De in the store this afternoon Hua Lao's apprentice?"

Wu Hongyi nodded and explained: "Uncle De is Hua Lao's apprentice, but Hua Lao said that Uncle De has not learned his skills, and with Uncle De's connections, he cannot inherit his career, so he is not at ease." ”

"We, the Chinese, also try to help Hua Lao as much as possible, and buy antiques when we have spare money, so that Hua Lao can have more funds to buy antiques from the British. ”

"But you also know that although antiques have the value of collecting, but now it is more important, their own business is not good, where is there enough spare money to collect antiques?"

"If I have enough capital, I am definitely willing to buy as much of Hua Lao's collection as possible, but unfortunately I don't!"

Wu Hongyi sighed, and suddenly said to Xia Yu: "But Xia Yu, our strength is insufficient, if you have enough spare money, you can buy all of Hua Lao's collections, he will definitely not mind, but will be grateful to you." ”

According to Xia Yu's performance this afternoon, Wu Hongyi also guessed a trace of Xia Yu's thoughts, so he said this to Xia Yu.

Wu Hongyi's point of view shocked Xia Yu.

But after thinking about it carefully, it also makes sense, after all, Hua Lao's ambition is to buy back as many antiques as possible from the British, and if Xia Yu buys them all and promises not to sell them to foreigners, it will be in line with Hua Lao's rules.

At this moment, the sense of shame in Xia Yu's heart was swept away, and even more thoughts came out.

After all, he knows what the future strength of Huaxia will be, although now because Huaxia is looked down upon by European and American countries, he even thinks that Huaxia cultural relics have no investment value.

No one would have imagined that in just a few decades, China would grow from the world's seventy or eighty largest economy to the world's second largest economy, and the Chinese people would buy all over the world.

In later generations, I don't know how many European and American families took out Chinese cultural relics for auction one by one, and many of them were auctioned at sky-high prices!

So collecting antiques now, after a few decades, it is not a problem to appreciate a hundred times!

Definitely a great place to invest!

It's just that people in this era can't think of it.

If they knew that the antiques in China could appreciate by tens or hundreds of times, they would still say that they had no money? Maybe they could not have the foundation and smashed all of them into the antiques.

To say that there is no money is to say that you don't realize the value of collecting antiques.

However, others can't recognize the value of antiques, will Xia Yu from later generations not know?

After listening to Wu Hongyi's story about Hua Lao's deeds, Xia Yu's heart was shaken, and a sense of pride also emerged in his chest.

As the saying goes, with great ability comes great responsibility, since he has this strength, and investing in antiques is also a project that he has long considered to make sure that he will not lose money, there is no reason not to find a way to buy back more antique cultural relics from European and American countries.

Moreover, the cultural flow of China fell to Europe and the United States, in addition to the trade reasons between the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, a big reason is that the European and American robbers snatched it from the hands of the Chinese land in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and placed it in the museum for people to see, which is the shame of every Chinese person!

It is difficult to get back the antique cultural relics in the museum, but the Chinese cultural relics that have fallen to the European and American folk must definitely be taken back as much as possible, and now is the best time, otherwise after the rise of China, the price of Chinese cultural relics will be speculated, and the difficulty will be infinitely higher!

So Hua Lao's favor, he helped!

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