Sophie stood up and looked up at everything in the room with nostalgia, not realizing that tears were already on her face, and Selene held her and lowered her head and sobbed.

took out a handkerchief and wiped her face clean, Sophie exhaled lightly, her face actually returned to calm, and Chen Dahe nodded secretly, although she was a little out of shape just now, she was able to adjust her mood quickly, this woman is not simple.

Grabbing Selene's hand tightly, Sophie turned her head to look at Chen Dahe, and her face showed a fairly bright smile, "Enzo, please follow me." ”

After saying that, he pulled Selene and walked to the back.

Chen Dahe raised his eyebrows and calmly followed behind.

Passing through a small passage in the back hall, Sophie lit the light, and the dim light illuminated the narrow wooden door next to it.

Pushing the door open, there was a staircase going down, and without any hesitation, Sophie walked straight inside, Selene holding her arm behind her.

Chen Dahe looked inside, and felt a little strange, what were you doing in the basement?

Follow the two of them down, turn a corner, and enter the basement.

At this time, Sophie had already turned on the electric light inside, and what caught Chen Dahe's eyes was a space of fifty or sixty square meters, surrounded by rows of neat wooden frames placed against the wall, and a large wooden platform in the middle, but now the wooden platform and wooden frame were empty, and only two large wooden boxes were placed in the corner.

Sophie called Selene, and the two of them lifted the lids of the two wooden boxes together, and Chen Dahe suddenly stared, and the contents of these two boxes turned out to be objects from China.

Most of it is porcelain, but there are also a small amount of calligraphy, painting and jade.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Sophie looked at Chen Dahe and smiled, "Enzo, the Blois family only has this little thing left now, although it is not valuable, but it is always a Chinese thing, you can choose two as souvenirs." ”

Chen Dahe casually took out a round-mouthed plum bottle more than half a foot high, turned it over and looked at the bottom, and it clearly wrote the six-character seal book of "Qianlong Year of the Great Qing Dynasty", and couldn't help but look at Sophie in surprise, "Madam, are these all fakes?"

"Of course not," Sophie's eyes widened, "why do you say that, these are all brought back from China by the ancestors of the Blois family a hundred years ago,"

As if worried about Chen Dahe's displeasure, he added, "At that time, Mr. Antoine Bruis was engaged in Sino-French trade, which he bought from French soldiers stationed in China. ”

But Chen Dahe's attention was not on this at all, but asked, "Since they are genuine, why don't you sell these and pay them back?"

"Because I can't sell it," Sophie said with a wry smile on her face, "and these things are not worth much, they add up to less than 20,000 francs, I have tried to ask people, but unfortunately no one is interested, so I stayed, and other valuable antiques have already been sold by Selene's father, but the gap is too large, one million in the bank, 500,000 in usury, and now maybe 600,000, and those are just enough to pay the interest." ”

"Less than 20,000 francs? No one has bought it yet?" Chen Dahe felt his brain buzzing, just the Qianlong round-mouthed plum bottle in his hand could be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars in the next generation, and it would be two or three million dollars in exchange, and now Sophie actually said that these two big boxes of things were not worth 20,000 francs?

At this time, the exchange rate of the French franc to the US dollar is about seven to one, which means that these two boxes of things are not worth three thousand dollars, just kidding?!

"Yes?" Sophie was a little surprised by Chen Dahe's reaction, Except for some extremely rare things, the price of Chinese collections in Europe has not been high, generally around a few tens of dollars, and the high is only two or three hundred dollars, there are a total of twenty-seven things here, I asked someone to see them, they gave an estimate of two thousand dollars, converted into francs and fifteen thousand, I also wanted to sell it, but unfortunately this collection company does not accept it, because they have received hundreds of Chinese antiques, but not many people buy them, so they will not add new Chinese collections. ”

Chen Dahe was full of black lines, at this time he also reacted, now is not the time for China in the future to buy all over the world, in fact, at that time, the high price of antiques was eighty percent of the factors that were stirred up by the Chinese themselves, waving banknotes to buy and buy, and their own people fought with their own families, people did not raise the price is strange, the result is that in the end they are cheaper foreigners holding collections, the only consolation is that many national treasures have indeed been recovered.

It's just that this business is really worth doing, counting the factor of inflation, just from the face value, the price of Chinese antiques seems to have increased tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of times in thirty or forty years, what business is more profitable than this?!

When he was in China, he didn't think about buying a batch of antiques to hide, maybe he could build a large-scale private museum in the future, but he was worried that this kind of large-scale sweeping would attract the attention of the relevant departments, so he kept it still, and if he took the route of private collection, he didn't have a trusted expert in this area, and I was afraid that ninety percent of the goods he received would be fakes.

When I was sweeping the four old warehouses in my hometown, I tossed it for so long, and didn't the things that were swept out also make the old principal lose more than half, this thing is too easy to eye, and it can't be a joke if you don't collect it.

I thought I couldn't collect too many antique collections, at most I would buy a few fine pieces from time to time in the future, but he never thought that he could see such high-quality antiques in a foreign country, just with his three-legged cat's eyesight, he can also see that most of the things in this box are royal collections, and now the price of Chinese antiques in the European market is not high, no one will go crazy to come here to counterfeit it, the most important thing is that the price of these things is particularly lower than the things in the domestic cultural relics store.

Chen Dahe took a deep breath, calm, calm.

He seems to see the Chinese antiques in the entire European market in front of him, as long as there is money, there is as much as he wants, in terms of profitability, what is Jones & Company, what is the bank, can have this business more profitable!

"Enzo, what's wrong with you?" Sophie looked at Chen Dahe and seemed to have red eyes, thinking that he was feeling sad about his family's situation, and couldn't help but be moved. Enzo, we will be fine, although this house will be taken away by the bank tomorrow, but when the loan agreement was signed, the premium clause was agreed, if the bank can sell it, even if it is slightly lower than the market price, the extra part is enough to pay off the loan shark, and there are still some small apartments left, although the economic environment is not very good now, but the house here is still very popular. ”

Chen Dahe shook his head and looked at Sophie in a daze, what did she say just now, it seemed that she was talking about the house?

"Oh," Chen Dahe blinked, "Madam, how much is this castle worth?"

"About two and a half million francs," Sophie sighed, her eyes glazed over, not knowing what she was thinking.

Selene hugged her tightly, of course she understood her mother's thoughts, this is the last castle of the Blois family, and if you keep it here, you can keep the last glory of Blois, and if you lose this place, it will be difficult for other nobles to recognize Blois's noble status!

Chen Dahe silently calculated, two and a half million francs, they owe the bank one million, usury six hundred thousand, and then counting the interest, one hundred and eighteen to two million should be enough, it seems that they are not completely without a way out.

However, do you want to buy it, I have been wandering around these days, there is a lot of information about real estate sales, and there are many types of castles, but I have never seen this kind of castle in the aristocratic gathering area of the city, well, the number of two hundred and five is not very good, and it is much better when converted into three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars.

It's just that now whether it's antiques or houses, it's just Sophie's words, and he wants to learn about it from other sources before deciding whether to start or not.