Knowing that Arnault actually knew the number two person in the Holy See, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and now, the most important thing is how to get a suitable gift. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After asking Arnault to help contact the big man he knew, Li Yi said goodbye and left, and as soon as he got into the car, he picked up the phone and called Rogov.

"Artifacts related to the Holy See? Isn't that "Madonna of Goldfinch" good? Preferably around $20 million? Well, I'll help you ask. ”

Li Yi made this call for two purposes, one was really to find another cheaper thing, and the other was that he knew that Rogov would definitely communicate with Adolf, and now it depends on how much Adolf wanted to get the "Summer Carnival".

After arranging all this, Li Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief, thought about things again, and found that there was indeed nothing missing, so he patted Hongchen's shoulder, who was driving,

"Go to the Swiss Village."

After spending so many days in Paris, Li Yi has only been to the Swiss Village once, and he has only seen one antique store in Pat. And this time, he only exchanged and was about to exchange as many as 4 pieces of Western cultural relics, although two of them were new, but now he only has a total of only one Paul in his hands. Sandby's landscape painting, a painting of Titian. Vecellio's masterpiece of the highest level.

He liked these two paintings, "The Old Beech Tree", and he didn't want to exchange them. And Titian's "Love in Heaven and Love on Earth", if there are no heavyweight cultural relics, he should not be easy to get rid of, so he now urgently needs to replenish his ammunition depot, and there is only one way to replenish, that is, to pick up leaks, and it is to pick up leaks of Western antiques.

Even if Chinese antiques are precious, one can only be worth one, but Western antiques are different, if you catch two big fish, I don't know how many precious cultural relics from China can be exchanged for it!

It was only after he really started shopping that Li Yi found that this place was completely different from the antique street or antique market he understood, because there were not only antique shops, tourist souvenir shops, casual cafes, restaurants, and the most amazing thing was that there were even several trendy fashion stores, and there was also a store that was simply Apple......

Well, although many things can't be attributed to antiques at all, the antique shops here are indeed slightly denser than other places, so Li Yi is still patient, and if he finds one, he will look at one, but there is really none, so he just thinks it is shopping and relaxing, and it is not bad to buy two bags for Lu Ningshuang.

The first antique store opened in the corner of a row of storefronts, and the area is very large, but if you just pay attention to the goods displayed in the window, you are likely to miss it, because there is nothing related to antiques in the window except for five models wearing fashion, jewelry, and kun bags.

The layout of this store is also different from that of a normal store, there are almost no counters, and all the jewelry is placed in separate booths. These booths are all various, pillars of different heights, and there are glass cabinets of different sizes on the top of the pillars, and in the glass cabinets, some of them are placed separately with jewelry, and some are a model head with half a ****, and the jewelry is hung on the model's neck.

In addition, the two walls of the store are also very special, one wall is an outstretched arm or slender hand, on which are hung different styles of kun bags, and some of them also wear rings. On the other wall, there are three separate counters about one meter long, and on the wall, there are models with necklaces or earrings hanging from them, and several models wearing wigs and magnificent metal flower crowns on their heads.

Although the layout of the store is extraordinary, but there are few customers, compared with the endless flow of people in the store next to the business lady Kunbao, the decoration has no characteristics, it seems to be desolate to the wilderness, for the 8th arrondissement of Paris such a downtown area, there will be such a deserted storefront, Li Yi said it is very strange.

However, after looking at a few things, he understood that if this kind of shop was full of people, it was a problem, because the things here are so expensive!

Take its main antique jewelry as an example, and many new jewelry similar styles, after being branded as antique, its price will at least quadruple. And at least more than half of them have reached or even exceeded the price level of the jewelry exhibited at the Paris Biennale, which is obviously not open for three years, open for three years, and ordinary customers will see the hell if they are interested!

"Hello, can you help me take out this bracelet and take a look?"

Li Yi also paid special attention to jewelry because he was going to make jewelry, and the first thing he saw was the more than 20 columnar independent booths in the store, and soon, he saw something he was interested in.

This is a Chinese style jade bracelet, the water is just ice glutinous, but the emerald color is very good, close to full green, although there is a little uneven, but it can barely be regarded as a small superlative.

However, unlike the popular plain bracelets now, the outer surface of this bracelet is also engraved with a phoenix soaring with wings!

The dragon and phoenix are all exclusive to the ancient imperial family, so this must be an old palace collection, and most of it is still an old collection of the Qing Palace, and it may even be owned by Cixi.

The reason why this judgment is made is because of the history of jadeite in China.

Jade culture has a long history in China, it has existed in ancient times, although it has always been respected by Hetian jade, but according to historical records, in the Northern Song Dynasty, there has been jadeite.

It's just that the jadeite at that time was not very valuable, and it was not a star and a half worse than Hetian jade. Moreover, the situation did not improve much after the three dynasties of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty, especially after Cixi took power, that the situation changed significantly.

Among the treasures in Cixi's collection, jade watermelons and jade melons are very famous treasures, in addition, jade openwork dragon hairpins, jade cabbage, and even jade wrenches that are said to be from Prince Gong's hand, are Lafayette's favorite things.

What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom. At that time, there was even a saying that the best gift to the palace was a set of jade wrenches and pipes, so during that period, the value of jadeite has been greatly improved.

It's just that, judging from some of the cultural relics unearthed at present, people in that era are more concerned about the emerald color, and there is no modern person so concerned about planting water, which can be seen from this bracelet, when the royal family is definitely not without the strength to find the glass jadeite, but they pay more attention to the color, in their eyes, this kind of green ice glutinous species is definitely better than the glass species that is not prominent in the emerald color.

Holding the bracelet in his hand, Li Yi noticed that what was carved on it was not a phoenix, but two connected from end to end! Moreover, the carving technique is not a simple carving, in the body and tail feathers of the phoenix, some bas-relief techniques are also used to make the phoenix look more lifelike.

Gently wiping the surface of the bracelet with his fingers, Li Yi shook his head, this kind of bracelet with carving is not practical, mainly because of the problem of cleaning. Like this kind of bracelet, worn on the hand for a day, the carved lines may be stained, and if it is cleaned frequently, the polishing of the jadeite surface is also a kind of damage, or only like the royal family, there is a special jade carver service, can not be afraid of this trouble, ordinary people should not wear this kind of bracelet.

However, as a cultural relic, its value is obviously higher than that of the bracelets used by ordinary rich and noble families, especially after seeing the carving, Li Yi couldn't help but guess how likely this bracelet is to belong to Cixi.

In fact, it does not belong to Cixi, so it should be meaningless. Because according to normal speaking, even if you know that a jade bracelet should belong to a celebrity, but if there is no clear inheritance as evidence, it is actually useless, because the average jade bracelet will never leave any inscription.

But this one is a little different, because there is a carving on the outer surface of this one, so it is also a very normal thing to leave an inscription somewhere on the bracelet.

If an inscription can be found to prove that the bracelet was once owned by a member of the royal family, then the bracelet would definitely be worth much more than it is now.

With this in mind, Li Yi carefully inspected the inner and outer surfaces of the bracelet, and not only did not find the inscription, but found a defect, somewhere on the inner surface of the bracelet, there was a black spot the size of a sesame seed!

It's just strange that this spot is not jadeite's ringworm, and as a royal item, it shouldn't have such an obvious flaw, right, but this one ......

Li Yi groaned and rubbed the stain with his fingers repeatedly, he suspected that this might be the place where the inscription was made, but the carver used the technique of miniature carving, and it was later invaded by dirt, and the later owner of this bracelet did not know this secret, so he did not clean it up in time, or cleaned it but could not enter the door, so he had to treat it as a black spot.

However, he rubbed it repeatedly for a long time, and he didn't feel any traces of smoothness or carving, and even if he used a magnifying glass, he still didn't find anything, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and opened the spirit card.

A cool air flowed through, and the spirit card gave a dumbfounded identification result. This jade bracelet with a rare phoenix carved on the outer surface and defects on the inner surface is actually a generation of queens who brought LinkedIn into the "Empire on which the sun never sets", the jewelry of the great Queen Victoria!

How is this Nima possible? This bracelet is a product of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, no matter in terms of style or carving technique, how can it be Queen Victoria's ornament?

However, the spirit card can't go wrong, so Li Yi can only find the reason from himself. If he didn't see it wrong, then, there are often only two possibilities for this situation, that is, this bracelet was given to the queen by the Qing government at that time as a national gift, or it was the queen's subordinates who invaded the East and found someone to make it for the queen!

However, considering the social situation at the time, the possibility of the latter should be relatively small, but it cannot be ruled out that some jade carvers who were sheltered by foreigners or persecuted made this prohibited jewelry at the request of foreigners.

Gently tapping his chin, Li Yi was a little glad that this bracelet belonged to Queen Victoria, because no matter where he got the bracelet from, most of the British royal family has relevant records of this bracelet, and these British records must be far stronger than the Qing court in terms of the integrity of the storage, so this is definitely a peerless good treasure!

In his mind, the image of the Victorian jewelry box that he bought from Dean suddenly flashed over, Li Yi was suddenly stunned, could there be such a possibility, this bracelet was placed in that jewelry box at that time, and the two were still lost together?

It's possible, it's possible! As long as you think about the security force of the British royal family, and then think about their attitude towards their ancestors' treasures, you should know that how difficult it is for a treasure of this level to flow out of Buckingham Palace can be lost again and again?

Perhaps, after receiving the small island rewarded by the Holy See, it is time to talk to the British royal family. These two things, coupled with the influence of the Holy See, may be able to add a double insurance to his small island!

"How much does this cost? Is there a discount? ”

Li Yi glanced down at the price tag and asked.

"Oh sir, I'm sorry, but there are no discounts on anything in our store."

The clerk who had been watching Li Yi inspect the goods after taking out the bracelet just now shook his head, and then said:

"Sir, this bracelet in your hand should be owned by the former royal family of Huaxia, and it is still so chic, don't you think that the current price is already very cheap? If I were you, I would probably buy it without saying a word, and take it with me, and go and propose to my girlfriend, because in my heart, only the once royal jewels are worthy of her! Oh Maiga, what a wonderful scene that would be......"

Hearing the aria-like tone of the clerk, Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, and the royal jewels that used to be worthy of it, does that mean that ordinary jewels can't be wanted? You might as well just say it, you don't want to buy jewelry for others!

"Well, 220,000 euros is not very expensive anyway, so please help me wrap it up!"

“ok！ Sir, I think your girlfriend must be the happiest person in the world because you are willing to spend so much money to give her a piece of royal jewelry......"

"Wait! What royal jewels, let me see it too! ”

Before the clerk's words fell, he was interrupted by a somewhat rude female voice, Li Yi turned his head and glanced at it lightly, and then frowned. (To be continued.) )