Chapter 295: Is It a National Treasure?
Seeing the arrogance of an American, a French, an Italian, and a Japanese benzene expert, Zheng Xudong was in a good mood today, and he interrupted Ou Zhaolun before introducing the next expert and said: "President Ou Zhaolun, didn't you tell them that I paid for inviting them here?"
Ou Zhaolun was actually very unhappy today, thinking, "TM, Lao Tzu invited you to come and spent a lot of money, so you will treat my VIP customers with this face to Lao Tzu, but now it's too late to say anything, Zheng Xudong is obviously angry." He hurriedly said: "Mr. Zheng, I have already told them, as long as they come, they will be reimbursed for round-trip first-class air tickets, five-star hotel accommodation, plus $10,000 per person for labor expenses." Of course, Mr. Zheng, this part of the fee will be deducted from your account, and I will explain this first. ”
"Yes, I paid for it, but their attitude made me feel like I was giving them love for free. Whether they look down on the dollar, or look down on Sotheby's, or look down on you Citibank, I think you have to review. Zheng Xudong's words are definitely a bit heart-wrenching.
The four experts in front of them stood up at once, they would never offend Citibank Group, which has a huge influence in the United States and even the world, that American expert Dylan Skodario pointed at Zheng Xudong's nose and said: "Young man, we don't mean to disrespect you, and at the same time we also respect Citigroup, I just don't think you can come up with a national treasure American cultural relics." His words clearly pointed his arrogance at Zheng Xudong and picked out Citigroup.
The other three also said something about the same thing, "Yes, do you know what a national treasure is at a young age?" and "Joke, maybe you haven't seen what a national treasure looks like." For a while, the sarcastic words were all spoken, and they didn't believe that he could come up with any national treasure-level cultural relics, and their tones were full of contempt and contempt.
At this time, one of the last two remaining experts suddenly said: "I really can't think of any national treasure-level cultural relics in the United States, they have only been established for more than 200 years, what is a national treasure? This sentence seems to be said by the expert who helped the United States, but if you listen carefully, he is actually helping Zheng Xudong to speak, Zheng Xudong heard it on the spot, and the American expert Dylan Scowdario did not give it in vain, and he heard the strong irony in that person's words, he pointed to the expert who spoke just now and said: "What do you mean by that? What does it mean that our country does not have national treasure-level cultural relics, I need you to explain." With that, he stepped out of his chair and walked over to the expert.
When Ou Zhaolun saw the current situation, the anger in his heart suddenly rushed up, thinking, "I'm the second Ao! This is for your face! Why did I personally organize an appraisal meeting for VIP customers and you just hit me in the face, if this spreads, I can still do it!FUCK!" His face immediately sank, and he stood in front of Dylan Skodario to block his way, and said coldly: " Mr. Skodario, we at Citigroup donate so much money to the National Archives every year, and you treat our VIP customers like this, I will report today's situation to the headquarters and complain to the director of your archives. ”
Hearing President Ou Zhaolun's words, Scottario quickly calmed down, quickly sat back in his chair, and said: "President Ou Zhaolun, please forget my performance just now, I may be a little impulsive, I'M SO SORRY!"
The other three experts now hurriedly sat on the chair and looked at their noses, noses and mouths, and their mouths and mouths were silent, Ou Zhaolun took out the president's momentum and glared at them, and then quickly put away the anger in his heart, and came to Zheng Xudong's side again with a smile, as if nothing had happened just now, and continued to introduce the next expert to Zheng Xudong, "This is Mr. Ma Weidu, the director of the Guanfu Museum." ”
Of course, Zheng Xudong had heard of this famous collection and appraisal expert, and he helped him say a word just now, so he hurriedly stepped forward and took the initiative to shake hands and said: "Mr. Ma's name is like thunder, I am fortunate to see it today, hard, hard!"
Ma Wei didn't expect this young man to know him, "Mr. Zheng, you have been promoted, you are now a famous person, there must be more people who know you than me." Ha... ”
"Mr. Ma, you are too polite. As he spoke, he followed Ou Zhaolun to the last expert, "This is Mr. Song Yikuan, from the Palace Museum on the other side of your Yangwan." ”
Zheng Xudong stretched out his hand and shook hands with the little old man, who was only more than 1.60 meters tall and had a thin figure, "It's hard for you to run all the time." ”
The old man was very kind, stretched out his hand to shake him and said, "You're welcome, I also hope to see a piece of our national treasure appear here." ”
After all the introductions were completed, the security guards downstairs also moved the things in Zheng Xudong's car to the small conference room, and everyone saw a thing wrapped in a military felt cloth that was almost two meters old, and it was very heavy, and there was a very heavy "bang" sound when it was put on the ground.
But obviously Zheng Xudong didn't mean to open it, but opened the special metal box next to it that seemed to be used for transporting banknotes, in fact, they really guessed correctly, this is really a special box for transporting banknotes, and it is a special box for loading dollars at the headquarters of Mitsubishi Bank in the United States when he pit Kotaro of Nippon. It is also printed with the words "Deposit Only".
The six experts all looked at each other, and they didn't know what this young man meant by holding a box for carrying money? Scottdario of the United States and Makoto Inoue of the Japanese were about to say a few sarcastic words, but when they saw Ou Zhaolun's dark face, they took their words back.
"These first things are actually two things, and I hope that this American expert and two Chinese experts will jointly identify them, because these two things together attest to the great friendship between the Chinese and American governments and peoples!" Zheng Xudong opened the box and took out the wooden box containing the Declaration of Independence.
Scottario of the United States didn't say anything except contempt, because he saw that Ou Zhaolun was already on the verge of anger, but Ma Weidu said with a smile: "The little guy is not talking in a small tone, Song Lao, let's go and take a look!" Song Yikuan, who was helping him up, walked next to the American expert who was in the first place, and asked Song Yikuan to sit down before he sat down.
Seeing this wooden box that obviously looked like it contained ancient Chinese paintings, Scoutario "hum!", and didn't do anything at all, but Ma Weidu took out a pair of white gloves from his casual trouser pocket and put them on, and the old man Song Yikuan also took out a pair of white gloves from his trouser pocket and put them on his hands.
Ma Weidu picked up the box first and looked at it carefully, "Golden silk nanmu, it's very rare, this box is worth a lot of money, the workmanship can be regarded as the top grade, the box cover is engraved with the emperor's imperial gift, and I can't tell which emperor it is, you say yes, Song Lao." ”
Old man Song looked at it, nodded and didn't speak, Ma Weidu looked like an expert, saw the position on the box that was pushed and pulled with his fingers, and put it on with his right index finger to pull it to the right, and the lid of the box was smoothly pulled out of the grooves on both sides to reveal the two things inside, Zheng Xudong knew that one of them was the yellowed "Declaration of Independence", and the other was a wine bottle of Qinghua porcelain given by Qianlong.
"Good thing!" said the old man Song Yikuan when he saw the Qinghua porcelain vase, and then he gently took the porcelain vase out of the box with his hands and carefully.
"OLD OBJECT!" MA WEIDU SAID AFTER SEEING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND HE WAS VERY CAREFUL TO TAKE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN HIS HAND AND OPEN IT SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY, "FUCK!THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE." ”
Ma Weidu's words made Scowdario, who was once an expert on cultural relics at the National Archives of the United States, who was still full of contempt just now, "flutter!" and stood up, and the chair behind him was knocked down by his legs. "Put it down, let me down slowly!, be careful!" he said as he came to Ma Weidu's side unusually nervously.
In fact, he saw the contents of the box just now, needless to say, the porcelain vase, with his years of experience, it is Chinese, as for the yellowed paper, he thought that it was at most a Chinese landscape painting, so he didn't care, thinking "what witnesses the friendship between China and the United States", it was really, if it was somewhere else, he would have started spraying Zheng Xudong a long time ago. BUT WHEN HE HEARD THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, HE WAS NOT CALM. Not to mention him, even other people stood up and came around, Ma Wei originally wanted to tease the American expert for a few words, but seeing his cannibalistic eyes, he couldn't help but say nothing after thinking about it.
Scaudario just wanted to open the "Declaration of Independence" with his hand, but he put his hand back again, and wanted to put it on with a white glove, but he didn't have any gloves at all, and he didn't believe in any "national treasure" in his heart, so he didn't believe in any "national treasure" from his heart, so he was blind now, and he couldn't get started directly if he wanted to see it, so he could only look at Ma Weidu with great embarrassment and say: "Mr. Ma, please forgive me for my rudeness just now, can you lend me your glove?"
Ma Weidu didn't bother with him, took off the gloves and handed them to him, Skodario quickly said "Thank you!" and put the gloves on, and began to open the yellowed paper more carefully than Ma Weidu just now.
Scoutario almost put his face on the "Declaration of Independence" and looked at it word by word, and it took him more than thirty minutes to finish it, and he sat down in his chair with a blue face and whispered: "It's really the "Declaration of Independence" that disappeared back then. ”
His words were quiet, but they were heard by everyone in the room, "OH MY GOD!" SAID THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN EXPERTS IN THE ROOM.
Zheng Xudong smiled and said, "Mr. Scottario, are you sure this is true?
"It's absolutely true, I swear to God, it was signed by the hands of fifty-six delegates and chairmen from thirteen states, and fifty-eight secretaries to the Continental Congress, and the manifesto was dictated by Chairman John Hancock, and written by Secretary Charles Thomson himself, and it was written in iron sulphate ink, not in the ink of later printing. And under this Declaration of Independence, it is also written why it was hidden. Unexpectedly, the Declaration of Independence, which had been missing for 234 years, was finally found. ”
"Mr. Scottario, do you think it's a national treasure of the United States?" said Zheng Xudong with a smile.