Seeing Li Yi staring at the "Ten Thousand Pine Wind Map", with a rich expression on his face, Arnault couldn't help laughing, the more he likes it, the better, and it is best to see that he can't pull it out of his eyes!

"The status of this painting in the history of Chinese painting should be higher than that of "Lavender Mist" in the history of world painting, and there are not many treasures like this, even overseas, ......"

Li Yi knew what he meant, retracted his gaze, looked at him with a smile, and said slowly:

"This painting is very important to Huaxia, but Huaxia's ink painting style has never been the mainstream of this world, so from the perspective of value alone, there is no way to compare with "Lavender Mist", I believe that Mr. Arnault should have also made an evaluation in this regard......

Arnold nodded and said:

"Many times, the value of the same thing in the hearts of different people is different, and sometimes it will be very different. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's just that if both parties to the transaction measure each other in this way, the transaction will often be difficult to conclude, so we might as well stand on a neutral point of view and complete the transaction with a relatively neutral valuation. ”

Li Yi nodded, after all, this guy is still a little unable to judge his attitude towards this painting, or he thinks that his thirst for "Lavender Mist" exceeds his thirst for this painting, and he is afraid that he will knock on his bamboo pole.

However, what he said is very reasonable, no matter who on both sides wants the transaction to be successful, the use of the other party's psychological situation should also be avoided as much as possible, because only fairness can have a future, and he still has a long way to go in the future!

Of course, this psychology is definitely something to be exploited, just don't be as greedy as those who sell beast heads.

"No problem, I couldn't agree more! Mr. Arnott, can you tell us how much you think the painting should be worth? ”

Arnott's eyes rolled twice, and he asked rhetorically without answering:

"Mr. Li, can you tell me what you think of Tang Yin and Tang Bohu's works?"

Li Yi raised his eyebrows, and immediately understood his true intentions, and couldn't help but smile and shake his head.

"Mr. Arnott, do those legendary deals really exist? Or do you think that's really possible? ”

The transactions Li Yi said were all related to Tang Bohu's works. A few years ago, there was a news circulating on the Internet that Tang Bohu's "View of Lushan Waterfall" had sold for an incredible price of $590 million at a special auction held at Sotheby's in New York, and even one of his fan paintings, "Picture of a Lady with a", was sold for as much as $92.7 million.

This kind of news, as long as people with a little common sense will not believe it, but I didn't expect Arnault to want to use it as a bargaining chip, which really made Li Yi not know what to say. In fact, the vertical scroll "Imitation of Li Tang Landscape Map" also from Tang Yin's hand, which is rumored to be worth 1.725 billion soft girl coins on the Internet, was only more than 12 million soft girl coins a few years ago.

Seeing that Li Yi saw through his true intentions at once, Arnault was not a little embarrassed, but laughed out loud,

"Mr. Li, the works of some modern and modern painters who have been more active in the auction market recently, such as this kind of ancient paintings, which are extremely rare in themselves, are very rare, so it will be more difficult to estimate accurately, but ......."

He groaned for a moment, then continued:

"But I think 20 million euros should be a reasonable price, and it is a price that you and I can both accept."

Hearing this, Li Yi was a little surprised, although this price can definitely be among the top ten most expensive ancient Chinese paintings, but for this work, this estimate is indeed a relatively reasonable price. It seems that this guy really wants to get "Lavender Mist"......

Nodding silently, Li Yi didn't say much, and walked around the study with his hands behind his back, but unfortunately, although there are still a few frames hanging on the wall, they are all Western oil paintings, and there is no exchange value.

In addition, there was nothing special in the bookcase and on the desk, Li Yi hurriedly swept it, then walked to the Bogu shelf, first checked the bronze mirror and the blue ground pastel porcelain vase, and after confirming that it was indeed the two things that appeared in the salon yesterday, he turned his eyes to a few blue and white porcelain pieces on the side.

These pieces of blue and white porcelain, judging from the characteristics of blue and white and vessel shape, should be blue and white porcelain of the Qing Dynasty. One of the most precious is a blue and white glazed red cloud dragon celestial ball bottle in the Yongzheng period.

Blue and white glaze red, is a kind of porcelain decoration technique between blue and white with glaze red and painted ornamentation, although it was also created in the Yuan Dynasty, but because some problems in firing technology have not been broken through, so there are not many works handed down, among which the fine is naturally more rare.

It's just that this celestial ball vase, whether it is from the perspective of the porcelain fetus, or the hair color of the blue and white, or even the red color of the glaze, is a rare treasure, so Li Yi just glanced at it a few times, and silently classified it into the category of trading.

Normally, the value of "Lavender Mist" should be between 100 million and 120 million US dollars, that is, the value is about 85 million euros, although the painting has not been repaired, there are not many damaged places, and it should not have much impact on its value.

As the other party in exchange, the price of "Ten Thousand Pine Wind Map" is 20 million euros, and the price of the two antiques brought back from the salon should not be lower than Okita's price, that is, 2,300 euros, plus this Tianqiu bottle, the 85 million is more than half.

It's just that, although more than half of it is gone, but the rest of these things, it should be difficult to get together 40 million, is it that Arnott still has any cards that have not been played?

With his eyes flickering, Li Yi inadvertently picked up the last piece of blue and white porcelain. This is a small bowl of blue and white baby play, the baby play picture is a kind of decoration that has appeared more in all dynasties, plus this is a practical device, so unless it is really a fine product, its value is generally not too high.

Judging from the white porcelain exposed on the inner edge of the bowl, this is not a fine product, on the contrary, its loose material is more like a folk kiln product, but the baby shape in this blue and white pattern seems to be a little different from the ones that Li Yi is familiar with.

There is no blue and white bowl, and after a brief look at the exposed part of the bottom of the bowl, Li Yi determined his judgment on the porcelain of this small bowl, and more than 80% of this piece may be a folk kiln porcelain. It's just that the obese baby image in the blue and white ornament makes him feel strange the more he looks at it, because he has already remembered that this shape is a bit like the popular baby shape in the Song Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, could this be a Song Qinghua?

Blue and white porcelain originated in the Tang Dynasty, but it did not really develop after that, but went into decline. Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, the blue and white porcelain handed down was extremely rare, and most of them were Yuan blue and white.

There are some controversies about Song Qinghua in China, but it is indisputable that the Song Qinghua is indeed very rare, and even so rare that many experts who claim to have studied blue and white porcelain have not seen it.

According to records, the only thing that can be determined to be the whole instrument of Song Qinghua in China is Wushan, a mountain city. A small blue and white bowl unearthed from the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty in the county, as well as a small blue and white jar unearthed from the tombs of the Song Dynasty in Yuhang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other places, are basically all broken porcelain pieces.

Relevant experts estimate that with the loss of overseas, whether there are more than ten surviving Song Qinghua whole vessels are problems, and this one will be one of them?

After carefully observing the hair color of Qinghua, Li Yi secretly made a judgment in his heart, saying that it is not good, this may really be an extremely rare Song Qinghua!

A cold air flowed through, and the Jianling card gave the identification results, which was indeed a Song blue and white porcelain, and it was also a blue and white porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty!

Silently sighed in his heart, Li Yi turned his gaze to other places, although this Song blue and white is precious, but the overall value of a piece of porcelain is not only the age, whether the porcelain itself is an official kiln, whether it is exquisite is also a very important aspect, so although this is an extremely rare Song Dynasty blue and white porcelain bowl, but its real value is not very high, if it is auctioned, it is likely to be less than 1 million euros.

And 39 million ......

After reading the things on the entire Bogu shelf, Li Yi selected two more pieces, one is a Qingtian stone carving in the Qing Dynasty, estimated at about 800,000 euros, and the other is a small jade carving carved by Zhu Yongtai, a famous court jade carver in the Qianlong period, the material is only ordinary white jade, worth about 1 million euros.

That's a lot worse! After making sure that there should be nothing missing, Li Yi frowned slightly, no matter what, he would not give up the "Ten Thousand Pine Wind Map" and the Jincun bronze mirror, it really can't be done, it's the same as Earl Bob's deal, plus some cash.

"Mr. Arnott, I've finished reading it, although the value of these things is still a little lacking, but I don't think it's a big problem, let's go to the hall and see the paintings."

Li Yi raised his hand to signal, Gu Feng nodded, quickly ran out of the study, took "Lavender Mist" from the car, and then walked into the hall downstairs with Hongchen.

This painting, because it has not been repaired, is still in a state of two pieces, and the reason why Li Yi did not take it out for Arnault to identify at the beginning is a small strategy he deliberately played, because he must make Arnault understand that if there is no other better thing, just the two pieces collected at the salon yesterday, let alone exchange, he may not even see the painting!

"Oh Maiga, poor darling......"

Arnault rubbed his hands excitedly, although he thought that Li Yi would definitely be interested in what he took out to exchange, but Li Yi's strategy just now did give a lot of pressure, and now he was a little excited to finally see "Lavender Mist".

snapped their fingers, and the two experts who had been waiting in the hall for a long time carefully opened the two "Lavender Mist", first looked at one by one, exchanged them after ten minutes, and finally the two discussed a few words, and nodded at Arnott together.

"Great, now, Mr. Li Yi, let's talk about how to trade, shall we?"

"No problem, in addition to the "Ten Thousand Pine Wind Map", bronze mirror, blue ground pastel porcelain vase, I also need ...... Plus, another 40 million euros! ”

"Oh buy ga! No, no, Mr. Li Yi, you are too greedy, although the few things you are talking about are not close to the value of this painting, but 40 million euros is too much, you must know that your painting is not a complete work, and I have to take the risk that will happen during the restoration process......"

"That's not a problem, I can fix this painting before I trade it with you......"

"No, no, let me think, let me think about it......"

Arnott put his hand on his forehead, and the words in his mouth were repeated, and after a long while, as if he had made up his mind, he stood up suddenly.

"You come with me!"

Oh? Could it be that there are still good things hidden and not taken out?

Li Yi raised his eyebrows, and stood up a little excitedly, this thing is probably more precious than "Ten Thousand Pine Wind Map", but, what will it be?

followed Arnault to the door of a room on the first floor, Arnott motioned him to wait, and walked into the room first, and then Li Yi heard a faint sound of heavy objects sliding in the room,

"Mr. Li, please come in alone, and by the way, please help me lock the door."

Li Yi motioned for Gu Feng to wait where he was, then pushed the door and walked in.

The room is not big, looking at the layout, it is either a guest room or a maid's room, but now, a cabinet in the room facing the door has been shifted to the side about a meter or so, revealing a somewhat dim hole.

"I wouldn't have brought you here if it weren't for that thing that was so hard to move, so, whether you choose to swap or not, I hope you'll forget what you've seen when you're out of this room."

Li Yi nodded solemnly, followed Arnott, and walked into the dim hole.

At the entrance of the cave, there are about ten steps, and at the end of the stairs is a heavy gate that looks like a vault and a safe door.

After entering the password and verifying the fingerprint and iris, the door opened, and Arnault was the first to enter the secret room.

The secret room is not very large, only more than 20 square meters, there are five or six safes in large and small places, and there are two large boxes more than half a person high, in addition, there is also a bronze vessel more than one meter long and more than 80 centimeters high, which seems to be a bathtub!

"It's this bronze, but if you want to take it away, you'll need to pay me another 50 million euros!"

Gasping, Li Yi didn't hide his surprise at all, because he had already recognized what it was...... (To be continued.) )