Chapter 49

However, although Fujimoto Tsuyoshi lied, it is true that the knife is indeed an antiquity, extremely sharp, which is true, but his main purpose is not on this knife, but on the fake wooden carved Buddha statue!

Using a genuine product to cover up a fake is an extremely common way to cooperate, the so-called true and false, false and real, the most likely to confuse people's judgment.

Lawrence was not a child, although he didn't look at the wood-carved Buddha statue, but his attention actually fell on it, his eyes looked at the treasure knife in Fujimoto's hand, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Fujimoto, let's make a price, how much does this knife cost?" ”

Fujimoto smiled faintly, put the knife back into the scabbard, placed it on the table, and then turned his head sideways and asked Ito in English, "Mr. Ito, how much does your knife cost?" ”

"Huh?" Ito was stunned for a moment, when Fujimoto just asked him, he didn't pay attention to the situation in the field at all, but he was thinking about Zhou Xuan and Fu Ying in his heart, Fujimoto just asked him, stunned for a moment, and then reacted, and hurriedly said: "At least 300,000 US dollars!" ”

Zhou Xuan measured that this knife was an antiquity, which was not fake, but he didn't know if it was worth 300,000 US dollars, and 300,000 US dollars was worth a person like Lawrence, so what was it? Not to mention Lawrence, even he is now, that is not a big expense!

It's just that although the ability ice qi can detect the authenticity of objects, it can't detect the thoughts in people's heads, and Zhou Xuan has no way to know the thoughts of Fujimoto Gang and Ito, but there is one point, he has no good impression of Ito, plus the previous incident in the Yin River of the Water Cave, it can be said that this Ito wants character without character, and he has no virtue if he wants to be virtuous, and he is definitely not worth believing.

The so-called fox friend dog friend, a nest of snakes and rats, want to come with a character like Ito, where can he get the friends he makes? Looking at Fujimoto's gloomy eyes, this guy must also have a stomach full of bad water, just with his wood carved Buddha statue, Zhou Xuan knew that he didn't have a good heart, and he did it like this, just to make Lawrence fall for it and spend more money to buy it.

Of course, this is just Zhou Xuan's speculation, after all, Fujimoto Tsuyoshi and Ito did not say the price of the Buddha statue.

But what Zhou Xuan felt suspicious was that Ito was obviously the one who had just escaped for his life, and his appearance here in Fujimoto was like a stiff pull for him as a partner.

Lawrence took the short knife over, took it out and carefully looked at the name notch on the knife, the stem of the handle, and the accessories of the handle and scabbard, he didn't pay special attention to the sharpness of the knife, now is not the era of the samurai, collecting this knife is only its own value, but not to fight with others, that is, the knife has no edge, it is blunt, but as long as it is an antiquity and has a high collection value, it doesn't matter.

After visual inspection and inspection, Lawrence confirmed that the knife was genuine, and gently flicked his fingers on the body of the knife, and his voice was quite crisp, and said: "Two hundred thousand! ”

Fujimoto just looked sideways at Ito, and at this glance, his eyes and face just turned to the side of Lawrence, but Zhou Xuan looked at it from the side.

Fujimoto Tsuyoshi glared at Ito fiercely in his eyes, which was obviously not a reminder that Ito Lawrence had paid back the price, but some kind of warning and fierce hint.

Zhou Xuan sensed from his glaring eyes that Ito was by no means the owner of these two items! The one in charge must be Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, and if you put it all together, the two of them are just playing Lawrence.

Ito also glared at Fujimoto, quickly cheered up, and said to Lawrence: "Mr. Lawrence, 200,000 is lower, at least 250,000, let's take a step alone." ”

Lawrence smiled, "Okay, with Mr. Wei here today, I'm also a little more cheerful, 250,000 is 250,000, is it an electronic transfer or a check?" ”

Lawrence said and pointed to the laptop on the table, where Ito could transfer money if he asked for it.

Fujimoto just spoke: "This ...... Wait a minute, isn't there another Buddha statue here, let Mr. Lawrence take a look at your wooden Buddha statue! ”

Although Lawrence wanted to buy the Buddha statue, when he heard Fujimoto say this, his heart suddenly moved, and he slowly retracted his hand and sat down instead.

Fujimoto Gang suddenly realized that he had made an acute mistake in a hurry, and this action language aroused Lawrence's suspicions, and he couldn't help but curse secretly: "Old fox! ”

He meant that as if Lawrence would buy the Buddha statue and wait for the price to be negotiated and collect the money together, Lawrence immediately became suspicious.

When Lawrence sat down, he didn't say anything about looking at the Buddha statue, nor did he say that.

Ito looked at Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, but saw that Tsuyoshi Fujimoto was expressionless, and he didn't look at him at all, and he didn't know what Tsuyoshi Fujimoto meant.

It turned out that Fujimoto Gang was in the branch in New York, and he used his authority to embezzle a sum of money to speculate in futures, but it was a wish, and he lost more than 30 million yuan, but he was a little panicked at the end, and when he came back to his fellow countryman Ito who fled for his life, the two hit it off and started to defraud Lawrence of a large sum of money, Fujimoto Gang is also about to be transferred back to China, even if he cheats Lawrence at this time, it naturally doesn't matter with his big family property, as long as he can live at that time, Lawrence will know that he has been fooled when he returns to China in the future, may not go to the door to retaliate, like this kind of thing, there are more people who suffer losses and are fooled.

But I didn't expect Lawrence to be an old and refined character, but he was suddenly a little alert when he was about to be fooled.

In fact, Lawrence is not false about the Buddha statue, but with his character, he observes the trends he wants to grasp from very small and very weak things, such as the international financial market, if it is not for super vision and judgment, then it is extremely dangerous to do venture capital.

When Zhou Xuan was a little stalemate for a while, he suddenly had an idea!

After thinking about it, he whispered in Wei Haihong's ear: "Brother Hong, buy this Buddha statue, but the price will be lowered, at most less than one million!" ”

Wei Haihong has been watching, in Lawrence's house, of course he will not come forward to compete with Lawrence to snap up these two things, that will only make Little Japan happy and make money, Mo said that Lawrence gave him a lot of face, even if it was a general friendship, he didn't want Fujimoto Gang to get greater benefits.

But after Zhou Xuan said this to him, he also thought about it in his heart, Zhou Xuan has a very special temperament, Wei Haihong has always believed in his feelings, besides, Zhou Xuan did show some things that he thought were incredible, although he didn't say it, because he treated Zhou Xuan as a brother, so he didn't want to interfere too much in Zhou Xuan's ** aspect, but Zhou Xuan never asked him for anything, just said this, it was definitely not to fool him, and there must be his reasons.

Even if you don't mention these, then again, even if Wei Haihong loses, he is willing to lose this money for Zhou Xuan!

Regarding the quality of the Buddha statue, Wei Haihong almost stopped looking at it, and said directly: "How much do you want for this Buddha statue wood carving?" ”

It's a good thing that there are people who fight!

Ito excitedly deliberately said to Fujimoto Tsuyoshi in English: "Brother Fujimoto, this gentleman said that he wanted to buy a Buddha statue, this is a famous agarwood heirloom from our Warring States Period in Japan, the Buddha statue of the god Asura King, a national treasure, how much do you say it is called?" ”

Ito's timely eye-catching, Fujimoto was just silent, but his heart was happy, and if someone made a bid to stimulate him, Lawrence might bleed profusely.

Fujimoto just thought about it, stretched out a finger, and was about to open his mouth to ask Ito to quote 10 million US dollars, but Wei Haihong preemptively said: "At most one million US dollars, sell it, sell it, don't sell it and pull it down, let's go back quickly, and we have to catch a plane back to Beijing!" ”

Fujimoto just didn't understand Chinese, but Ito understood that Wei Haihong's bid was a good thing, but Lawrence had to open his bid to make his wish come true, but Lawrence was already suspicious, and then saw that Wei Haihong also made a bid, and thought that he also took a fancy to this wood carved Buddha statue, so he shut up.

Originally, Lawrence wanted to have a relationship with Wei Haihong, but now when he opened his mouth to buy this thing, he asked him to pay for it and give it away, and Lawrence was also willing, so as soon as Wei Haihong opened his mouth, he would not rob him of this Buddha statue.

Lawrence also wanted to get it, Wei Haihong has been in the mall for a long time, and he is not a person who does not understand things, as the saying goes, a gentleman does not take the favor of others, since he wants this thing in front of him, he really wants it, and this face naturally has to be given.

Fujimoto just had some fire, Lawrence, the old guy sat silently, obviously he would not bid to compete, that Chinese opened his mouth so low, what should I do? If you don't sell it, you can't earn a million, and this thing is a fake made by a master he found, and he knows it in his heart.

Fujimoto just groaned for a while, and then said to Ito Konji: "Okay, one million is one million, sell it to him!" "It seems that Lawrence will not want this Buddha statue is a foregone conclusion, and it is a good thing to sell it to this unknown Chinese and make a million!"

King Asura is a warlike evil god in the legend of the Buddha Kingdom, and there are many versions, and the King of the Buddha Kingdom lives in the north of Mount Meru, at the bottom of the sea. The sea water floats above his palace, and the wind on all sides guards the palace gate, because there are many Asura kings, their shapes are different, and the image of the Asura kings is also said in a variety of ways, some have nine heads and a thousand eyes, fire in the mouth, nine hundred and ninety hands, eight feet, and the body is four times higher than Mount Meru; Some have thousands of heads and two thousand hands, stepping on the sea and crossing Mount Meru; Some have three heads and six arms, three sides are blue and black, and they spit fire in their mouths, and they are angry.

The Asura King occupies a considerable position in Japanese legends and has a strong influence on modern Japanese films, television, anime novels, and the image of the Japanese legendary Asura King is four-handed, three-eyed, and ugly.

The name of the Asura King comes from its own Sanskrit, which means "unprovoked", since it is unprovoked, it is ugly, because the Asura King is familiar to the Japanese people, so Fujimoto just made this fake Buddha statue with the Asura King as a specimen.

Wei Haihong took out the check from the pocket in his chest, filled it out and handed it to Tsuyoshi Fujimoto, asked Wei Xiaoqing to translate, and said: "The check of HSBC in Hong Kong can be exchanged in major banks in the United States, one million US dollars!" ”

Fujimoto Tsuyoshi himself is a banker, and of course he understands the authenticity and process of the check, so he flicked the check, glanced at it and handed it to Ito Konji.

At this time, Zhou Xuan stood up and picked up the woodcarved Buddha statue, and then said: "Mr. Fujimoto, your woodcarved Asura King is a treasure, and we also have a Buddha statue of the Asura King, which is exactly the same as yours, but it is pure gold, how much do you say it is worth?" ”

When Zhou Xuan said this, Ito was stunned for a moment, and then translated it for Fujimoto, but this time it was said in Japanese.

Fujimoto just let out an "oh" and said in disbelief, "Really? The pure gold Asura King has never seen it, but in Japan there are bronze Buddha statues, gilded Buddha statues, and the Buddha statues of other characters have pure gold circulation, but the Asura King has never heard of it, this gentleman, may I ask, where is this Buddha statue of yours? If you have the chance, you would like to see it! ”

Zhou Xuan said lightly: "It's in the car we came from outside the villa, you wait a while, I'll move over." After speaking, he picked up the wooden carved Asura Buddha statue and walked out.

Fujimoto Tsuyoshi and Ito Konji made Zhou Xuan a little confused, it stands to reason that if it is really a pure gold Buddha statue, even if it is not an antiquity, but it is pure gold, it is also an extremely valuable item, why is it so careless to throw it in the car outside? Could it be that this guy is also going to use it to deceive Lawrence? However, they did not spend a lot of money to deceive, but only collected some ancient agarwood, and then spent a sum of money to hire a master craftsman to cast it, and this Chinese said that it was pure gold, then this price is not small!

Because for a collector of Lawrence's level, it must be impossible to hide a copper or gold-plated fake, and he has many instruments to test here, and the truth will come out when he checks it casually.

In the audience, except for Lawrence, he didn't have too many doubts about Zhou Xuan, because he had the mentality of taking a penny from him, and he would only take it out if he was satisfied.

But Wei Haihong and Wei Xiaoqing's uncle and niece were extremely surprised, they came together, what Buddha statue did Zhou Xuan have? Besides, the car he was in was also David's, and now that David's people have been driven away, which car will he go to get it? Could it be that you can pass off this Buddha statue that just cost a million dollars? But even if it's pretending, then at least it has to be decent, and which of these people present is not an expert? Just do one and get by? And even if you want to fake it, you have to need a lot of professional equipment, is it possible to pick up a piece of mud and stick it?

There are a lot of doubts, but I can't figure it out like this, I can only see what kind of things Zhou Xuan brought in from the outside.

Although Wei Haihong was puzzled, he looked as usual, although he did not have a long relationship with this brother, but he was very clear about his character, and he was a bit rustic, but he had absolutely nothing to say about how to deal with people, as long as he was really good to him, it was the same in exchange for him, now I can't figure it out, just see how he does it, for that woodcarved Buddha statue, according to Wei Haihong's own experience, he will never buy it without testing it, and he doesn't trust the devil, but he is not dissatisfied with spending a million dollars, Even if Zhou Xuan asked him to take one million and burn it to ashes, he would not frown, of course, with his understanding of Zhou Xuan, Zhou Xuan would never do such a thing.

(To be continued)