Chapter 27: A Trip to Hong Kong (Part II)

Less than twenty minutes after the call, the doorbell rang.

Ji Kai opened the door, there were five men with several boxes standing outside the door, the other party said that it was sent by Sotheby's to identify his collection, after Ji Kai invited them in, he picked up the phone and called Tony, and when Tony asked about the appearance of several people, he confirmed that it was the appraiser sent by Sotheby's.

After hanging up the phone, Ji Kai took out the mutton fat white jade bracelet and blood-red gemstone contained in a gold box from his backpack and put them on the coffee table, signaling that he could start the identification.

Listening to the group of experts discussing there, Ji Kai couldn't say anything, and simply took out his mobile phone to inquire about the information he had seen in the language scene last night. This is something that Ji Kai is bound to obtain, and it is also something he dreams of.

After finding the information he wanted, Ji Kai called the hotel front desk to book a car, and asked for an old driver who was familiar with the roads of Xiangjiang. The front desk staff asked when he would leave, Ji Kai thought about it, set the time at half past one in the afternoon, and then ended the call.

As soon as I finished talking on the phone, I saw one of the appraisers step forward and say to Ji Kai:

"Mr. Ji, we have already identified these two treasures of yours. This 275-carat gemstone is indeed the finest pigeon's blood ruby, which we estimate at $800 million, while the other set is a gold box made by a top craftsman during the Tang Dynasty and has an estimate of $2 million, and a pair of top mutton fat white jade bracelets with an estimate of $150 million. If Mr. Ji has no objection to our appraisal, I hope you can hand it over to Sotheby's auction house for auction. ”

"You wait a minute, by the way, have you contacted your auction house and told them the results of the identification?" Ji Kai asked.

"Not yet, we will only report to the industry after your consent is required. This is our strict professional ethics and will never disclose customer information. ”

"I am very satisfied with your service and your professional ethics make me feel at ease to hand over these two treasures to your auction house. In this case, you can contact the person in charge who asked you to come now, and tell him the firm result. Don't worry about anything else. ”

Although he didn't know what Ji Kai meant by this, he still didn't ask, and directly reported the results of the appraisal to the bank.

After he finished his report, less than two minutes later, Tony's call came.

"Mr. Ji, I'm Tony. Just now our appraiser told us the results of the appraisal, so I immediately sent someone to send the commission contract and bring back these items at the same time. You can rest assured that the treatment is the same as the two collections. ”

"Of course, don't worry, your Sotheby's name is worth more than my stuff. The implication is not to ruin Sotheby's credibility over the years for the sake of this money.

After the call, the driver who had come to the airport to pick up the person came over with the contract. It turned out that the driver was Tony's assistant, and after the two signed the contract, they took the collection away with the appraiser, and brought several security personnel outside the door.

Finally, I finished one more thing, and it was already 12 noon. I asked for a set meal from the hotel restaurant, and after a simple meal, I changed into a set of clothes and went out.

Riding in the Rolls-Royce car sent out by the hotel, the driver was a middle-aged man, who didn't talk much, and looked very honest. After telling the driver that he was going to Hollywood Road Antique Street in Central, Ji Kai closed his eyes and rested.

On the surface, Ji Kai seems to be sleeping, but in fact, he is focusing on the language scene about what happened in an antique shop on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong last month. I hope that thing was not sold! Ji Kai was a little worried.

Last night, before going to bed, Ji Kai looked through the final ownership of an ancient jade ring and found that it had been stolen from his grandfather by a gambler and sold to an antique shop on Antique Street on Hollywood Road last month. And after that, there is no such thing in the language scene.

Ji Kai can only hope that this antique ring will not be sold, otherwise he doesn't know where to start.

After the car drove to the place, the driver asked if there was a specific location, Ji Kai thought about the name of the store, it seemed to be called Mo Yuzhai, so he mentioned the name to the driver. The driver actually knew the place, and within two minutes, a shop with a sign saying Mo Yuzhai appeared in front of him.

Ji Kai asked the driver to wait nearby and walked into the store by himself.

Walking into the store, everything is quaint, and the counters are lined with antiques of various sizes, but how many of these are real, it is unknown. A young man sat inside and fiddled with his mobile phone with his head down, listening to the voice should be playing Honor of Kings.

"Knock Knock"

Ji Kai tapped the counter with his finger to remind that a guest was coming.

The young man was playing energetically, when he suddenly heard a sound, his hands shook in fright, and his mobile phone almost flew out. Raising his head, he saw Ji Kai standing in front of the counter, and said angrily:

"What's the matter? I'm so scared that my phone almost broke!" (I'm sorry, I don't know Cantonese, anyway, Mandarin is popular now, and it's normal for people in Xiangjiang to speak Mandarin)

"You are the owner of this store?" Ji Kai couldn't believe that this young man was the owner of the shop, and he had such a bad attitude towards customers.

"You're looking for the boss, the boss has something to do! I'm in charge of this place now, if there's something to do, I have already won this game immediately, but you have done it like this, and I have lost!"

Now, Ji Kai felt in trouble, when the ring was traded, it was received by an old man, and now I don't know if it's still there, and who it's sold to if it's not there.

"I like antique rings, so I wanted to see if you have any rings made of ancient jade. "Just ask, maybe there is hope, Ji Kai thought.

"Antique ring? It has to be made of ancient jade?" The guy thought about it, and remembered that his father seemed to have received a ring like this, but he just put it away, and I heard my father say that this ring may have survived for a long time, maybe for thousands of years, and it is worth at least 20,000 yuan.

"Of course we have rings made of ancient jade. However, this price is very expensive!"

"Hehe, it's good to have it, you take it out and I'll take a look, if you're satisfied, the price won't be a problem." Ji Kai was very happy to hear that the ring was still there.

The guy looks at Ji Kai's dress, wearing a brand-name costume, it is estimated that it will cost forty or fifty thousand yuan for the whole body alone! Now you can knock him on a big bamboo bar, look at the father and say that I can't do business, right?

The guy entered the next room, rummaged through the cabinets, and finally found the ancient jade ring, took it out, and put it on the counter.

"Look at it, this ancient jade ring is full of pulp, at least it must have a history of thousands of years. That's not cheap!"

Ji Kai picked up this ancient jade ring and observed it carefully, comparing whether it was the same as what he saw in the language scene, and when it was finally confirmed that it was this ring. Ji Kai asked:

"Yes, I like this ancient jade ring very much, I don't know how much it costs?"

"Hey, there's an ancient jade ring, where is it, let Young Master Ben take a look!" a flirtatious voice came from behind.