The girl in the photo appears to be holding a folk musical instrument in her left hand, and her right hand is resting on a cute dog's head. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's a cute dog head, but it's not alive: what Zhang Nan bought was not a photo at all, but the image of the dog head in the photo.

"A dog's head, I can't tell what material it's made of. ”

Xiang Weirong glanced at it a few times and distinguished: the photo was hand-colored, but the dog's head was not colored, black and white.

"It should be bronze, probably those royal faucets in the Old Summer Palace, and there are already 5 of them in my house on Long Island. ”

The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace was originally part of the fountain in front of the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace, designed by Lang Shining, an Italian Jesuitian and Qing Dynasty court painter, supervised by the French Jesuit-Jesus priest Jiang Youren, and made by Qing Dynasty court craftsmen.

In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China and burned the Old Summer Palace, and the bronze statue of the beast's head began to be lost overseas.

Just a few days after the New York stock market crash, Zhang Nan asked Paul and Davis to come forward and buy the monkey and pig heads of the 12 bronze beast heads of the Old Summer Palace at Sotheby's in New York, which was also the first public appearance of the twelve royal faucets after the robbery.

They didn't start at $50,000 and sold for $180,000 and $160,000 respectively.

This is still because there is a guy from the Wanwan Collection in the same competition, otherwise the price could be cheaper.

Just three days before Xiang Weirong and the other five came to New York, Jackson and Davis, as antique dealers and bodyguards, bought three bronze beast heads of a cow, a tiger, and a horse from an antique dealer named Charles for a total of $500,000 in cash.

500,000, that Charles has made a lot of money, because he bought these three faucets from other people two years ago and spent a total of $4,500.

In 1985, in Palm Springs, California, Charles bought three Chinese bronze animal heads from a retired police officer, a cow, a tiger, and a horse for $1,500 each.

The three faucets that Charles bought were originally decorations in the retired policeman's villa: it is said that the villa "had the earliest owner who had entered the palace of the Chinese people and sat on the dragon chair of the Chinese emperor."

The heads of the three bronze beasts, the horse and the tiger, were placed by the pool in the backyard of the villa, and the heads of the ox were hung on the wall of the washroom as hooks.

It is said that when Charles subscribed, there was a bath towel hanging from the cow's head.

Zhang Nan had been asking Davis to investigate where this Charles was, but unfortunately there had been no clue before. However, after the monkey and pig heads were auctioned, some people in New York's antique circles mentioned seeing several similar ones somewhere.

Davis played a big role in this, and soon found out what that Charles was.

When Davis and Jackson approached the man under false identities, they refused to sell it at first: he also knew that the monkey head and the pig head were sold for a good price, so he wanted to hold on to the sale.

But Davis had a solution: he spent $10,000, called one of his informants when he was a police officer, and asked the gangsters to go to Charles's for tea, and it was quickly closed.

This price Charles is not a loss, but a little can't shout!

He is just an ordinary antique dealer, and the police can't protect him 24 hours a day, Davis is a forced buy.

"This thing is very valuable?" asked Xiang Weirong.

"Generally, this is still fried by the Chinese people themselves, especially there is a particularly nasty collection company in Wanwan, which hypes this by selling dog meat on the head of a sheep.

In fact, it is just a few beautiful royal faucets, and I plan to move back to use them as faucets when the time comes. ”

If it weren't for Zhang Nan's move, Wanwan would have bought these beast heads everywhere, and they would have been auctioned at a price of tens of millions for more than ten years, and they would have made money in the name of collecting!

That's when Paul came back, "Boss, it's on." ”

Zhang Nan was waiting for him, stood up and walked towards the elevator: "Jack, go to me." ”

When he returned to the suite, Zhang Nan handed the photo to his security director.

"That's it, Davis isn't here, you'll go change your clothes later, go to the photo studio and ask if this old prop is still there. ”

"I understand the boss, if it's still there, I'll take it back, I think it's similar to the previous ones. But boss, my clothes don't fit for this trip. ”

"Jack, this is Italy, go buy a set, I'll reimburse it." ”

This Jackson has bought things and bought experience: it would be better if Davis was here, that guy has been a plainclothes cop for more than 20 years, and he pretends to be like everything.

However, Jackson didn't leave for the time being, but thought for a while and said, "Boss, I'm worried that the people in that antique shop and the photo studio know each other, if something is there, a phone call will be easy to go, I want Miss Jenny to cooperate." ”

After a few people discussed, there was no need to buy the clothes: Jackson was still a bodyguard, and Paul also went with him, and Jenny took the photo as the protagonist to the photo studio.

Go and put on a show.

Jenny returned more than an hour later, Jackson in the back with the royal faucet in his hand, and Paul with a bag of clothes.

"Well done!" said and took the dog's head from Jackson's hand: it was very heavy, about twenty pounds.

Looking closely, this bronze statue of the dog's head is very similar to the picture contained in the documents and materials of the Haiyan Hall Dashui Law Copper Plate in the Forbidden City, about 40 centimeters high, the color is dark, engraved with fine hair, and the bronze statue is intact.

The water diversion hole under the base is the same as the water outlet at the dog's head - no mistake, it is one of the royal faucets that the British and French robbers snatched from the Old Summer Palace.

"There were a lot of old props in that photo studio, and as soon as I went in, I took the photo and said that I wanted to take an exact picture of it, and it should be completely restored, and the price was not a problem. ”

Rich people have a lot of quirks, and the photo studio shouldn't be weird - and some people have to disguise themselves as Audrey Hepburn, and there can be no deviation in a small detail.

Jenny is showing her skills, and she is still holding a tambourine in her hand, and she has been looking at it for decades: only then did Zhang Nan realize that the instrument in the girl's left hand in the photo should be an important percussion instrument in this Western orchestra.

Because of the angle problem, I didn't recognize it at first in the antique store, but in fact, there are quite a lot of this kind of musical instrument in China.

"The photo studio temporarily borrowed one from an antique store, and I changed my clothes and said that I wanted this dog's head in the photo too, and I definitely wanted to restore the way the old photos were taken. It turned out to be out of the storeroom, and the next thing was Jackson's business. ”

A few people looked at Jackson, and the head of the bodyguard smiled and said, "It's easy to do things here." After Miss Jenny finished filming and changed back into her clothes, I asked Paul to pack all the costumes and all the props that Miss Jenny had touched on her body. ”

"Does the other party have any opinions?" asked Zhang Nan.

Paul said that all the things that Miss Jenny had touched would never be used again by anyone else, and that they would have to pay for them. I listened to these tens of thousands of miles and there hundreds of thousands of miles, and finally gave 2,000 dollars. ”

That scene must be very interesting, a bunch of things were taken away, and the other party couldn't figure out what was going on, and really thought it was a quirk of a rich lady.

Several people in the living room passed each other to look at the royal faucet, and Guan Xingquan also said: "The royal thing is different, a faucet costs 200,000 US dollars, but this workmanship is really good." ”

"200,000 yuan? If you let those guys who speculate on antiques in Wanwan take over, you can get tens of millions of dollars in 20 years at most!"

Zhang Nan scolded in his heart.

Even the bronze statue of the dog's head that had not appeared before the rebirth was found by himself, and he already had 6 of them. The head of the rat and the head of the rabbit should be in the hands of the same French collector, and the head of the dragon is estimated to be in the hands of a certain collector in Wanwan.

Sooner or later, the head of the rat and the head of the rabbit will also be their own, as long as they find out who is in their hands, it will not be a problem.

Zhang Nan can't do anything about spending tens of millions of dollars to buy a big faucet, and 5 of the 7 beast heads that have been auctioned in his memory are in his own hands, and the price of this kind of play is hyped up in auctions that have been hyped again and again.

If you don't participate in it, it is estimated that the two in the hands of the French will not be sky-high.

As for the missing snake head, chicken head and sheep head, there is no way to do it yourself, the dragon must first know who is in the hands, and he estimates that he will have a way to get it back when the time comes.

When the time comes, make a copy of the missing one and use it as a fountain faucet.

The royal faucet was a national treasure, and it cost a huge amount of money to buy it back, and the buyers in Huaxia were patriotic, but Zhang Nan felt that he was robbed twice by the robbers!

The most hateful thing is that there are several robbers-he-mothers among them who are also Chinese!

The heavy dog head was handed to Jackson, and the bodyguard took it to store it and brought it back to New York when the time came.

"Alan, how can you thank me for this trip?"

As soon as Zhang Nan heard Jenny's words, he said to Paul: "Go back and get four Oscar statuettes, and they will be solid and gold-plated in pure copper! One of you, plus Davis, I will present you with an award when the time comes." ”

The living room burst into laughter. (To be continued.) )