Chapter 448: Sharpening the Knife
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Wiping his face vigorously and changing into pajamas, Wu Di decided to throw the old man's flicker aside for the time being. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause of the existence of Tianshu, he has a huge advantage over many domestic appraisers in identifying European art, but this does not mean that he can run rampant in this land.
First, because most of the valuable works of art in Europe were created after the Renaissance, which is relatively recent and relatively easy to identify. The second is that there are only some famous oil paintings that can be seen by him, this kind of thing is of high value, and there are many people who pay attention to it, and the number of people circulating among the people is very small. And, most importantly, Europe also has its own master appraisers, who are constantly collecting these works of art on the market. Compared with these earth snakes, he really doesn't have any advantage when he only comes over once in a while, if there is no treasure function that the Book of Heaven is still uncertain about, let alone picking up so many pieces every time, he should burn high incense if he can pick up one or two pieces!
Bored wandering around the room for a while, Wu Di opened the wardrobe, glanced at the few remaining collections, and took out the Indian Ganesha.
This elephant-headed wood sculpture is a very ordinary modern work of art, but the paper ball in the base has given it a mysterious cloak, and now it is time to remove it.
When the military advisor returned to the hotel after sending the big cow, Wu Di was holding a fruit knife and laboriously pried the base of the Ganesha. However, the blade is too thick, and the plug on the base is not thin, so he has been tossing for a long time. No substantial progress has been made.
"You came back just in time, come over and help me take a look, this Indian Ah San's thing is really strong, and I can't pry it off for a long time."
Pry it off? The military advisor took the wood carving suspiciously, and immediately understood Wu Di's actions just now, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise, wasn't this thing originally coated with a thick layer of paint? Fifth brother, how did he see it?
"How? Is there a way? I guess the cork is very thick, so I can't buy a small saw tomorrow. ”
The military advisor shook his head,
"I shouldn't need it, let me try it first."
The strategist put the wood carving down on the desk. With his right hand together, a thin scalpel-like handleless knife crept between his fingers, and he looked at it carefully, raising the knife and cutting it along the lines around the wooden plug on the base.
Five minutes later, the wooden plug was pulled out, and the military advisor poked the tip of his knife out, picked out a white paper ball and handed it to Wu Di.
There are six English letters on the paper, some uppercase and some lowercase, which are divided into two parts by a decimal point. There are also four numbers after the letters. It is also divided into a small short horizontal into the first three and two sections of the front.
"This should be an address, right?"
Wu Di handed the note to the military advisor, the letters on it were exactly the same as the abbreviation of the old foreign name, but there did not seem to be the name of the city. If it's really just a street in a certain city in a certain country, then it's. How powerful must the person holding this thing be to know where in the world it is?!
The military advisor took it and looked at it a few times, and nodded,
"It's true that there is no city name. But it doesn't have to be hard to find. It doesn't matter if we don't know, as long as someone on the Internet knows. I'll check it out later if it's famous. Maybe you can search it directly, but it doesn't matter if you can't search it, you can probably find the answer by posting in the forum. ”
The military advisor tossed on the Internet for three minutes, and suddenly slapped his thigh,
"I almost forgot, it seems that German can write like that......"
German? Wu Di remembered the treasure map in the Rolex gold watch, could it be that this address would also be a treasure trove?
Watching the military advisor tossing on the computer, Wu Di picked up a book introducing European artists and read it. Although he thinks that what Yue Ge depicts is basically impossible to achieve, it should still be possible to work hard and make some small-scale exchanges. But before that, you must first familiarize yourself with which artists they have, don't recognize it by the time of the day, but he misses it because he hasn't heard of it, or if he pays the wrong price, then he will lose a lot of money.
"Fifth brother, there's news! Some people say that this is an old street on the outskirts of Munich, Germany, which is more than 100 years old. ”
"Oh? It should be famous for being able to find it so quickly. Find a time to go over one day and see what kind of mystery there is in that place! ”
Early the next morning, as soon as Wu Di walked out of the room, he saw Yue Ge walking over with a smile.
"The deal is coming, get ready to sharpen your knives."
"What's coming?"
Yan Ju heard the noise and walked out of the room.
"Hehe, Baron Augustus, Professor Emeritus of the Royal British Academy, Honorary Director of the British Museum for Life, Chief Expert of the Shakespeare Research Society, how is it? Do you have any ideas? ”
Wu Di looked at the old man with a smile on his face, and hesitated:
"You're saying let me sell the manuscript to this man?"
"It's not selling, it's exchange! Exchange the precious Chinese cultural relics in his hands! Pierre called me in the middle of the night last night, and the results of the appraisal have come out, the authentic work, and the person who identified it is this Augustus! Xiao Wu, this time we need to sharpen the knife. ”
Wu Di shook his head helplessly,
"Old man, I haven't figured it out yet, whether I can go that way or not!"
"Hehe, Xiao Wu, I'm afraid this can't be caused by us. You must know that there is no explicit rule on the export of first-class cultural relics in Europe, but it is by no means so simple to leave the country for a treasure of this level. If the manuscript is still in Spain, it is likely that it will not be a question of whether it can be replaced. ”
Yan Ju's eyes widened,
"What? Do they still dare to rob it? ”
"If you think about our policy, you can see it. Isn't it easy to withhold the manuscript first, and then find loopholes in the transaction? As long as the transaction is declared invalid, nothing will happen to us. But now the situation is different, and the initiative is in our hands. ”
Wu Di nodded,
"In other words, it's up to me to change it now or not?"
Yue Ge smiled bitterly:
"Yes, it stands to reason that you should have the final say. However, when it comes to something as precious as a manuscript, if not replaced. You're going to be under a lot of stress. ”
Wu Di smiled and said:
"I'm so scared of stress! Forget it, since they are bent on changing, let's change it, anyway, a bunch of ghost talismans, I can't understand it, and I keep it at the bottom of the box at home! But, old man, if they can't make me satisfied, then they don't blame me. ”
"Huh. Don't worry, if you look at the collection of this old fellow Augustus, keep it for you drooling. Now it's up to us how hard our knives can go! Do you know that Augustus was very obsessed with Shakespeare, and more than ten years ago, he was willingly slaughtered for more than 2 million pounds for a Shakespeare's note! What was the concept of more than 2 million more than ten years ago? That's just a sticky note! ”
Wu Di's heart moved, just right, isn't he short of money now? Or. Just sell the manuscript to this old man.
"Sell? I see your kid is in the water! Do you know who his grandfather was? Do you know who the deputy commander-in-chief of the British army was during the Opium War? Do you know who led the army that first attacked the Old Summer Palace? ”
Wu Di gasped,
"Won't it?"
Yue Ge nodded hatefully. was about to speak, but was already hugged by Wu Di,
"Let's go, old man. Let's go to the room and do some research and see what good things we can get from this old fellow......"
Yue Ge asked the military advisor to take the notebook from his room and open a folder.
"Xiao Wu, come here, this is some of the information we have collected over the years, the black font is confirmed to be in his hand, and the yellow font is suspected to be in his hand, you can take a look for yourself first."
"Shang Dynasty inlaid turquoise ivory cup! Tang Dynasty gilt dancing horsebit cup pattern leather bag silver kettle! Warring States white jade inlaid agate wrong gold and silver double live ear! Kowloon Nine Phoenix Crown...... Oh my God, if you don't rob this old boy, I'm really sorry for the party and the country! ”
Yue Ge said angrily:
"Hmph, there are still people who want to sell the manuscript for money! Do you have the money, the money to buy these things? Pick any of these and take them back, they are all first-class cultural relics! ”
Yan Ju looked at Wu Di, who was staring intently, and then at Yue Ge, who was blowing his beard and staring at his eyes, and gently the old man pulled him aside, and while helping him to sit on the sofa, he whispered:
"Old man, you've been fooled! If Xiao Wu didn't have the idea of exchanging and sent all the manuscripts back to China, wouldn't he have it? Why do you want to keep one? As soon as I heard that the police were going to identify it, I pretended to be a good citizen......"
Yue Ge's eyes widened suddenly, he suddenly stood up from the sofa, took two steps towards Wu Di, and suddenly returned his hand to give Li Yanju a nest neck, and said with a smile:
"Lao Tzu can see it, you two don't have a good thing!"
"Who says there's nothing good? Old man, there are so many good things! I'm stuck, this is the white plate of the Western Zhou Dynasty? It's unreasonable, he can have this kind of thing! ”
Yue Ge looked at Yan Ju who ran over, and nodded with a serious expression,
"That one has just been confirmed, but whether it is the same as the one in the History Museum needs to be further confirmed, Xiao Wu, it's all up to you this time!"
Wu Di wiped a handful of saliva and nodded vigorously,
"Grandma's, I'm really sorry for my conscience if I don't take advantage of it this time, old man, let's sum it up and see what we can get back from that old guy...... Alas, is your message accurate? If he doesn't go up the pole and chases us to change, and when we find the door, the broken manuscript will be worthless! ”
Yue Ge smiled, his expression and movements suddenly became particularly obscene,
"Do you know how this information came about? We've got an inside line! Hehe, after I found out it was this old guy last night, I didn't sleep much all night, and I was all worried about sharpening my knife! You see, this one, and this one, and this one...... What do you think of this combination? (To be continued.) )