"What did you just say to that cousin, and how did he change his attitude so quickly?" asked Hans, puzzled. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Du said lightly: "I know that he has a trick from Rose, so I used it to threaten him." ”

Hans thought about it for a moment and said, "It's very refreshing, but seriously, Lee, it's not fair to Rose, she trusts you to tell you something, and you should probably keep it a secret." ”

"It's okay. ”

"Very good, then you tell me, I want the whole Flagpole City to know!"

"There is a hair!"

The two were joking, but when they walked to the police warehouse, a white man greeted them: "Good morning, you two, you are the owners of mammoth tusks?"

This white man looked like he was in his fifties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and he was well-dressed in a suit and tie on a hot day.

Hans said, "Oh, yes, but we don't need a lawyer, thank you." ”

"I'm not a lawyer. The white man laughed.

"We don't need financial services, we don't buy insurance, we don't buy stocks, we don't have ...... about funds and futures."

"I'm a zoology expert and I have a bit of research on animal products, my name is Allens Bryan, and it's a pleasure to meet you. The middle-aged man interrupted him and hurriedly introduced himself.

Li Du pushed Hans, shook hands with Allens, and said, "Hello, Mr. Brian, may I ask what you are doing?"

Allens nodded, "Yes, I want to ask, where did you get the ivory inside?"

"The warehouse was auctioned, what's wrong?"

"Are you interested in selling them? I know a couple of ivory carvers who are running out of stock lately, and if you're willing to sell, they're good customers. Allens said with a smile on his face.

Hans laughed too, and he whistled, "Very well, I suddenly realized that it was good to be at the police station, not as bad as we thought." ”

But the police station was not a good place to do business, and they left the address of Hannah's house.

The next morning, three white men about the same age as Allens arrived, and Hans called Li Du over to discuss business.

The business came out so coincidentally that they thought it would take them ten days and a half months to sell the ivory, but they didn't expect to contact the customer in less than 24 hours after the ivory arrived.

Allens introduced the two parties, the three named Alvaradin, Bill, and Todd, all ivory carvers, from different countries in Europe, came to Las Vegas to participate in an art auction, and Allens and they were friends, and then got in touch.

The five tusks were taken out, and the color changed from reddish-brown to yellow-brown, which looked much cleaner, and the sun shone on them, forming a soft halo that made people look comfortable.

Li Du asked, "Hey, why did the color change?"

Hans shrugged, "That's the color they are, I cleaned them last night with water and a brush, and that's how they were." ”

"Yo, overtime?"

Hans smirked, "Of course, I'm a hard-working American. ”

Hearing the words of the two, Allens said: "The skin of mammoth ivory comes in a variety of colors, blue, green, red and yellow, because they are heavily impregnated with iron-copper phosphate when they are buried in the ground, and red is very common. ”

The roots of the five tusks were partially filed with a file, the red part of the upper part is the ivory bark, and the white part of the lower part is the dentine of the mammoth ivory, and there is a line between the two, which looks like it has been cracked.

Li Du noticed it and said, "What's going on? It's cracking?"

Todd, the tooth carver, shook his head and said, "No, this is the dividing line between the skin and the dentin, not a crack, you can know it by picking it with your fingernails." ”

There will be an obvious sense of fracture when the crack is picked up with a fingernail, and there will be no broken feel at the tooth skin dividing line.

Alvaradin took out a flashlight and turned it on, and then used the flashlight to shine the five tusks from beginning to end as if welding.

The mammoth ivory, which looked like a whitish tooth, turned into a flesh and blood red similar to that when it was irradiated on the fingers, the color was soft and warm.

"It's beautiful, mammoth tusks still have this hand?" Li Du exclaimed.

Allens nodded: "Yes, 95% of mammoth ivory is blood tusk, if it is carved, it will be more beautiful in strong light." ”

After the five tusks were finished, Alvaradin pressed the two tusks next to him with lightning speed: "OK, these two are mine, you can pick the rest." ”

", these two are mine, and I don't care about the remaining three. ”

"Dare to grab ivory from me? You are so shameless, I only need one of these two, and I want this more. ”

The three of them began to argue.

"Those two blood aren't red. Hans wondered.

"Yes, but the quality of mammoth tusks is not based on the intensity of blood, but on the softness of the light, and those two are the softest and will make people look more comfortable," Allens explained. ”

The five men quarreled and then redivided, with Alvaradin picking the softest of the bloodiest and the other two splitting into two.

In this way, the next step is to talk about the price, Li Du stepped back, and Hans came forward, which is his forte.

"We all know that ivory is a forbidden and forbidden item, and the best material for you to make ivory carving is mammoth ivory, so this one is 100,000 yuan. ”

Listening to Hans's words, the three carvers suddenly stared at each other: "Well, we read that right, this is ivory, not Burmese jade?"

"Yes, this is ivory, but it is not ordinary ivory, this is mammoth ivory, which is denser and harder than contemporary ivory, and the crafts made also have higher appreciation and collection value...... This 90,000 yuan can't be lower. ”

Alvaradin shook his head vigorously: "No, young man, your offer is outrageously high, this ivory quality is the best of the five, but not the best of the ivory types. 30,000 yuan, it can't be any higher. ”

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you say how much, thirty thousand? It's an insult to mammoth tusks!" exclaimed Hans.

Todd wanted to speak, but Hans didn't give him a chance: "You know, they are scarce materials and non-renewable resources, for every one unearthed in the world, there is one less, regardless of their materials, they are so old, you measure it too vulgar by money, eighty thousand yuan......"

Bill and Todd go into battle, and the three of them bargain with Hans together.

But Hans is not afraid, he is still comfortable in the face of three mouths, from the collection value to the international situation, from the difficulty of mining to the artistic value, the mouth is flying up and down, extremely powerful.

"Don't think we don't know," shouted Bill, "you didn't get it by scavenging and scavenging it, but you didn't go through a lot of hard work to mine it yourself. ”

Hans said: "Look at what you are talking about, and because of this I have to insist on the price, because I have to be worthy of the workers who have been hit by the damned snow and ice in Siberia, and I have to have their hard work respected!"

"50,000 yuan, no matter how low it is, it won't be sold!"

The carvers were not satisfied and were still trying to bargain, while Hans bit the price and played the bitter card, and the two sides fought again.

This opened Li Du's eyes: "Nima, three heroes fight Lu Bu." ”