The reason why Chu Ning restored the maple leaf oil painting was, of course, to be able to bring it back to China smoothly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With such a cover, no one else would have thought of the painting elsewhere at all.

As for Chu Yingluo and the others, of course, it is impossible to leak such an important matter.

In this way, the oil painting "Sunset", which has been re-hidden, can be regarded as foolproof.

The next day, Chu Yingluo took everyone to Sotheby's auction house.

At this time, Meng Dongyue, after a whole night of adjustment, has obviously returned to normal. He even joked with Yu Bin and the others again, and he didn't have the expression that was shocked by the matter of hiding the painting in the painting yesterday.

After entering the auction house and sitting down, Chu Ning looked up and found that there were almost thousands of seats in the entire venue, and in the direction of the door, people were coming in one after another.

Moreover, most of the people who enter the auction come in groups, some elders lead juniors, and some bosses lead subordinates.

On such an occasion, even Meng Dongyue, who had always been very casual, suddenly became a lot calmer.

As for Yu Bin and others, it was the first time to come to such a large-scale auction, and it was also the first time to see so many people with extraordinary backgrounds, and they were so nervous that they couldn't speak.

Chu Ning whispered to Shi Jin next to him, "Have you ever been to such a place before?" ”

Looking at Shi Jin's expression, she was not only very accustomed to this place, but also had a feeling of familiarity, so she asked this question.

Shi Jin also said in a low voice: "When I was doing tasks before, I entered this kind of place under the guise of identity. ”

He didn't say much, but it was enough for Chu Ning's brain to make up a wonderful pretender drama.

The two chatted a little, and the auction soon began in earnest.

The opening item is an impressionist painting of children playing in a garden, by the famous French painter Camille Pissarro.

Pissarro was a contemporary of Monet, and he was also the most staunch Impressionist painter, admired and loved by many master painters of the same period.

The moment he saw what was displayed on the big screen, Meng Dongyue's face was a little strange, but he quickly returned to normal.

After all, he only saw a master-level impressionist oil painting yesterday, and he didn't expect that today's auction will also be an impressionist oil painting of the same level, which is also too coincidental.

Chu Yingluo and others came for the stolen tomb relics, and they did not mean to sell these Western antiques, but could look at this oil painting with a pure appreciation attitude.

Eventually, the painting from Pissarro was sold by a French businessman for $48 million.

After Pissarro's paintings, the value of the items sold at auction was much lower.

This is also normal.

Generally speaking, the auction will bring out high-value items for auction at the beginning to stir up the atmosphere of the auction. The subsequent auction is the official auction process, and the prices of the lots will also be displayed from low to high, one by one.

Of course, there will also be some high-value lots in the middle of the auction to ensure that the high atmosphere of the auction will not be affected.

And the lots taken out at Sotheby's auctions, even if they are of the lowest value, are enough to appear as the finale in some small auctions.

Chu Yingluo and others waited and waited, but they never waited for the stolen tomb relics to appear.

But now that the auction is going on, it is obviously coming to an end. Although the stolen tomb artifacts are not low, they are not yet qualified to appear in the final finale.

In those lots just now, there are already many that are worth more than those stolen artifacts.

Chu Yingluo gradually had a bad premonition in his heart.

Chu Ning also discovered this, and said in a low voice: "Dad, with the value of those porcelain, if you want to put them at the end...... Isn't it a packaged auction?! ”

Packaged auctions are also one of the means of auction, but they are not commonly used.

After all, the quality and style of the lots packed are all different, and no one will necessarily look at them together.

Unless, unless, they come in sets, which can add a lot of value.

The stolen ancient tomb relics in Hanzhou can barely be called a set.

After all, they are fired at the same kiln, and they are very consistent in terms of raw materials and style.

But there are only five of these cultural relics in total, including two vases with different shapes, a jade pillow that is not too big or small, a porcelain plate, and a porcelain bowl.

This kind of thing, even if it is the same style, wants to put together a set, it is somewhat nondescript.

No auction will sell anything like this in a package.

Not to mention the famous Sotheby's auction.

It's just that the situation is a little different now.

It is no secret that Chu Yingluo and other people from China are determined to obtain these five pieces of porcelain.

It's not surprising that Sotheby's would do such a thing in order to maximize its benefits.

And Chu Yingluo's heart is most worried about this.

If the normal auction process is followed, these five pieces of porcelain will naturally be auctioned separately. At that time, even if they have to spend a lot of money to achieve this goal, at least, they can control the loss within a reasonable range.

However, if these five pieces of porcelain are packaged and auctioned, the starting price alone will be much more than the starting price of the five pieces of porcelain auctioned separately combined.

If there is a competition between them, whether they can get back this set of porcelain in the end, Chu Yingluo is really bottomless in his heart.

Looking at his father's face, Chu Ning thought for a while and said, "Dad, do we have to bring back those stolen porcelain?" If I can't bring it back, what will happen to me? ”

Chu Ying was stunned for a moment and said: "Of course, the Hanzhou Museum asked us to bring back the stolen cultural relics, but there are no qualitative requirements. For this trip, the municipal government allocated limited funds, and many of the funds we brought this time were donated by the municipal government to find major businesses in Hanzhou. If something goes wrong in the final auction and we can't get the stolen artifacts back, there's no way to do it. As for the consequences...... We were originally commissioned to come, and even if we failed in the end, the crime would not fall on our heads. ”

Chu Yingluo, who reacted, suddenly relaxed a lot.

Whether you can get back the stolen cultural relics depends on the destiny of heaven!

Chu Ning also relaxed a lot.

She had also planned to help her father if he wasn't sure about getting the stolen artifacts back. Now it seems that since her father knows it, she doesn't have to make a move.

As he spoke, the auction had reached the end of the auction.

As Chu Yingluo's father and daughter had guessed before, this last lot was indeed five pieces of porcelain that were packaged and auctioned!