The cool air flashed, and the Jianling card gave the identification results of this set of Tang Xuanzang's four character tattoos and Huangshi carving ornaments, and he did not misjudge the material, but in this era, it has been more than 70 years to the premise! Moreover, this piece is not carved by a Chinese craftsman, it is actually a plaything carved by a Japanese craftsman!

Emperor Showa!

This set of Tianhuang stone carvings is actually a product of the reign of Emperor Showa!

Showa is the era name used by Japan's Emperor Hirohito from 1926 to 1945, when Japan launched its war of aggression against China and the Pacific War. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info So, it is debatable whether this item was brought to China by a certain high-ranking Japanese general who invaded China, and then lost to Europe, or whether it flowed directly from Japan to Europe.

Li Yi couldn't help but laugh and picked up the chubby Tianhuang stone carving of Sun Monkey, glanced at the four decent seal characters "Monkey King" at the bottom of the stone carving, shook his head slightly, and nodded again.

"A total of 70,000? Okay, wrap it up for me. ”

Marc turned around with a smile to find the package, and the old man who followed Li Yi out picked up a stone carving, looked at it a few times, and sighed:

"It's a pity, this kind of material, if carved into a normal chapter embryo, I'm afraid that the price is twice as expensive and someone will grab it, but I didn't expect it to be treated as a plaything...... Who is so extravagant? How can you use a master carver to make something like this? ”

Li Yi smiled helplessly, of course it is incomprehensible to change to a Chinese, but if you change to a Japanese, this thing is really hard to say. If Japan did not have such a deep-rooted anime plot, it is estimated that it would not be able to strive for the status of the world's largest animation power.

It's just that seventy or eighty years ago they were able to carve this kind of anime image that can still be seen often, so should they praise their ancestors for their imagination? Or should it be said that their descendants are exhausted and do not want to forge ahead?

"Huh? This wood carving ...... Mr. Li, right? This is also something you just picked out of those things? ”

Mr. Zhu put down the stone carving, turned his hand and picked up the Guanyin wood carving, looked at it casually, and when he was about to put it down, he quickly got it in front of him, this time, he looked at it very carefully, and the old eyes gradually became extraordinarily bright.

"Hmm."

Li Yi nodded indifferently, even if he recognized it, what could he do? This thing has already been sold.

"Ten thousand euros?"

"Hmm."

Mr. Zhu immediately stretched out two fingers, thought about it, and added another one,

"How about giving me 30,000 euros?"

Li Yi glanced at him with a smile, the old gentleman's face was red, but he still refused to give up, gritted his teeth, stretched out a slap, and turned back and forth,

"100,000!"

Li Yi rolled his eyes, this old man ......

"Multiply it by 30 and I'll give it to you!"

"Alas!"

Mr. Zhu couldn't help but sigh when he couldn't scare Li Yi, and then slapped his thigh hard, startling Luo Guofu, who had nothing to do.

"I've seen all of these things before, but I picked out this one and let the biggest one go...... Mr. Li, do you have a business card? I'll keep in touch with you more often after I return home. ”

Mr. Zhu pointed to the copper iron he took out with a look of remorse, looking at the posture, as if he wanted to smash the iron into broken copper and iron to slightly eliminate the depression in his heart.

"Mr. Zhu, what do you mean, don't you want this iron anymore? Why don't you give it to me? ”

"Hey, this can't be done, you can take advantage of the big bargain, you have to leave some soup for us talents......"

The old man's head shook like a rattle, and while muttering, he took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Li Yi.

"Jinling Chaotian Palace Antique Market? Sir, your business is not small, and you have come to Europe to buy goods. ”

The old man first smiled proudly, and then showed a bitter face,

"What's the use of making it big, no matter how hard you work for years, you can't buy this wood carving!"

Li Yi smiled and handed over the business card, this old man is really interesting, he doesn't hide his emotions at all, but the words he says are not annoying, this is also a very amazing skill.

"Tong Ruibao? We seem to have cooperated with JETCO Auction before, these two are the same thing, right? ”

Li Yi nodded, pawn shops can't auction pawn items in the auction company they opened, so at the beginning, JETCO Auction was not registered in the name of the Xie family, but the industry knows what these two are about, so there is nothing to hide.

"Speaking of which, it's also fate, Xiao Li, you can become an appraiser of Tongruibao at such a young age, it's amazing, welcome to have time to come to Jinling."

The old man watched Marker stuff the wood carving into the carton unconsciously, shook his head, picked up the iron and prepared to check out and leave, but Li Yi suddenly remembered something and couldn't help laughing. Jinling Chaotian Palace, isn't Shi Chongxuan's painting exhibition going to be held in Jinling? It's just that it's not in Chaotian Palace, but in another Confucius Temple antique market that mainly deals in calligraphy and painting!

The two of them muttered and muttered in Mandarin just now, and Luo Guofu didn't understand a word, but this did not prevent him from guessing the general content of the communication between the two, after all, Zhu Laoyezi's gestures were internationally applicable.

"The old gentleman just now bid 100,000 for this wood carving? You didn't sell, why? ”

As soon as he left Marke's room, Rogov couldn't help but ask.

"What else could there be? Not enough bids! By the way, those two things were just talked about, right? If it's all talked, let's trade as soon as possible, this time it's a little too long, it's time to go back to China. ”

It's okay not to talk about this matter, as soon as he talked about it, Luo Guofu felt aggrieved, but before he could complain, he was blocked back by Li Yi's words.

"I also have a collection of Monet's "Water Lilies" in China, and if you can find an equivalent exchange of cultural relics, I will entrust this matter to you."

"Water Lilies? Which one? ”

"It's not easy to describe, I'll send you the photos when I go back, you give me an estimate first, and then look for something according to the estimate I approve."

"No problem! Boss, you just wait for my good news! ”

Li Yi nodded, as if he had just remembered suddenly, turned around and said:

"By the way, Rogov, although the deal has been negotiated, I still hope that you can lead me to see the antiques brought by your friends, they probably didn't register everything on the file, right?"

Rogov's eyes rolled twice, and then he pointed to the wood carving in the fat elephant's hand and said:

"To find them?"

Li Yi smiled and nodded,

"I'd like to, but it's not that simple."

"Haha, boss, you're so modest. I'm going to take you to a stupid guy this time, and last time, I missed a Chinese antique from him! ”

"Oh? Can you even pick up the leaks? Or is it a Chinese antique? Which one, have I ever seen it? ”

"I sold it a long time ago, and I made a whole 100,000 euros more that time! But these are really not worth mentioning compared to the generosity of your boss...... Turn left ahead and we go to Rue Alexandre Dumas in the 12th district. ”

While bragging about it, Luo Guofu patted Li Yi's ass and showed the way, and he was very busy. However, for all the shops and antiques introduced by him, Li Yi can get a commission as long as he makes a deal, so no matter how hard he works, he is willing to do it, and he is afraid that he will not have the opportunity to work hard!

The dumb guy Rogov was talking about was a local Parisian antique dealer named François, a tall white man in his forties, and his shop was like a grocery store, with all kinds of antiques and a lot of second-hand thrift.

"Oh man, you don't have a shop here, you don't know what business is like here, I make more money selling thrift every month than I make selling antiques. Come on, come on, hurry up and help me digest a little inventory, my warehouse is almost out of stock. ”

Seeing that Rogov had brought a Chinese man and made it clear that he was coming to buy his Chinese cultural relics, François happily said that in the current antique market, only the Chinese people seem to be doing business.

When the last customer in the store left, François closed the door without hesitation.

"To hell with the guys who come to buy thrift, I'm a serious antique dealer! Let's go to the warehouse! ”

Luo Guofu raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders at Li Yi, which clearly meant to say, look, I said that this guy is a little unreliable, right?

Li Yi smiled and nodded, this guy is indeed too enthusiastic, but in this case, if he doesn't buy something later, he really feels a little embarrassed, is this the real purpose of this guy's enthusiasm?

François's warehouse was not too far from his shop, in the basement of a country house. Obviously, he should have brought people to this basement to buy antiques often, because the items here were many times neater than his shop!

"These two rooms are cultural relics from China, the oldest of them is my grandfather's grandfather brought back from China, it is said that he also went to China as a missionary in the Qing Dynasty, oh Maiga, it was really a magical experience......"

François chattered as he proudly took out the antique that his grandfather had brought back, which was a painting, a longitudinal scroll of eight horses on paper and color.

Li Yi didn't believe this guy's words at all, but it didn't affect his appreciation of this work, but the more he looked at him, the more solemn his eyes became.

"This is Lang Shining's "Eight Horses"? Rogov, why didn't you see this work in the information you gave me? ”

Hearing Li Yi's question, Rogov's old face couldn't help but turn red, he forgot that in the catalog he provided, there was no information about the François collection at all, not a single one! (To be continued.) )