Chapter 142: Hongmen Banquet

After leaving the "Beijing Hotel", Yi Yang and Bai Wenchao returned to the hotel where they stayed, and when they were about to have dinner at about five o'clock in the afternoon, the guest room suddenly received a phone call, which was from the front desk of the hotel, as if they were looking for Yi Yang and them for something.

"Hello, sir." I only heard a crisp and pleasant woman's voice on the other end of the phone.

"Hello, what's the matter?" It was Yi Yang who answered the phone, and he thought it was the hotel selling something or a special service.

"There's a guest looking for you, please come down, he's waiting for you here, it's the hotel lobby." The woman replied.

"Someone looking for us?" Yi Yang was taken aback, and then thought, if it was an acquaintance between him and Bai Wenchao, then just call them directly, why do you have to call from the seat of the guest room, but if it is a stranger, then who will be looking for them.

"Yes, he's waiting for you." The woman replied.

"yes, got it." Yi Yang agreed, and then he hung up the phone.

"Xiaochao, I heard that someone is looking for us and is in the lobby, let's take a look." Yi Yang turned his head and greeted Bai Wenchao.

"Who?" Bai Wenchao was surprised.

"I don't know, maybe it's a friend in the industry." Yi Yang replied.

This may be someone who came to him, after all, this time he was in the limelight in the capital, which made people admire, so some people wanted to ask for help to do the appraisal, which is very possible.

Immediately, Yi Yang and Bai Wenchao walked out of the guest room and quickly came to the hall downstairs.

"Mr. Yi, Mr. Bai, are you coming down?"

As soon as the two of them entered the hall, someone quickly greeted them and greeted them warmly by the lobby manager.

"We just got a call saying that someone is looking for us, who is it?" Yi Yang asked directly.

"Please come with me, it's the gentleman." The female manager replied, and immediately respectfully led Yi Yang and the two towards a box, and it didn't take long to come to the door of the box.

The one who came out to open the door for them was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing a pair of glasses and a gentle appearance.

"You're Brother Yi, right?" The man asked Yi Yang with a smile.

"Yes, I am." Yi Yang nodded.

"It's better to see than to hear!" The man was overjoyed and said, "What a pleasure to see you! ”

"You're welcome." Yi Yang shook his head and said, "I don't know what you're looking for us?" ”

Naturally, he didn't know the man in front of him, but depending on the situation, the other party knew him, otherwise he wouldn't be able to call his name, but he didn't know what happened to the other party.

The man hurriedly said, "Please sit inside, let's sit down and have a good chat." ”

He immediately enthusiastically invited Yi Yang and Bai Wenchao into the box.

"I haven't asked for my name yet." After sitting down, Yi Yang said solemnly.

It seems that the other party is indeed admiring, presumably to ask him to identify antiques, since the other party is so hearted, it doesn't matter if you take a look, of course, it will not be free to do the appraisal.

Yi Yang has already set a principle in his heart, he can show things to friends and acquaintances for free, but he has no obligation to do appraisals for strangers for free, otherwise everyone will come to him, where will he be busy.

"Contemptible people don't have the surname Zhou, you can call me Lao Zhou." The man replied with a smile.

"Mr. Zhou, what are you looking for me?" Yi Yang asked, he was polite and polite from beginning to end, and he had a great demeanor, after all, the other party was his admirer, and he came to him to help him when he saw him, so naturally he couldn't be rude.

At this moment, Yi Yang had a faint sense of accomplishment in his heart, although he was only half a "pseudo-expert", but he was an imposter with unique abilities, and his future in this area was unlimited.

"Brother Yi, it's not that I'm looking for something for you, it's our boss who is looking for something for you." Lao Zhou replied.

"Your boss? Who is he? Yi Yang wondered.

Lao Zhou didn't hide it, and told him bluntly: "Boss Qi, Qi Zhendong, thanks to the friends in the industry, can afford it, and they are used to calling him 'Sixth Master Qi'." ”

"Sixth Master Qi?" Yi Yang was slightly stunned in his heart, he had never heard of this name, but when he heard Lao Zhou say it so strictly, it seemed that the other party was very powerful, it must be not small, and he was a big role in the antique shop in the capital, but he Yi Yang had just arrived, and he didn't know anything about the situation of the antique shop here, where did he know what Qi Liuye was.

However, when he heard Lao Zhou's name, Bai Wenchao, who had been sitting quietly next to Yi Yang just now, was very unsettled, only to see that his expression changed greatly, and his face obviously showed a trace of worry, but Yi Yang didn't notice it at this moment.

"Then what is Boss Qi looking for me?" Yi Yang then asked again.

Lao Zhou said solemnly: "Our boss wants to invite you to move, go to the manor to sit, there is something very important to ask you, I hope you will appreciate your face, in fact, it is not a big deal, the main thing is to invite you to dinner." ”

"Is there anything you can't say now?" Yi Yang asked indifferently.

It turned out that there was a big boss in the collecting world who wanted to invite him to dinner, and he held a banquet at their house, which was not small.

"Brother Yi, I'm sorry, except for inviting you to the banquet, he didn't tell me anything else, and when you go, I will know that the time is tonight." Lao Zhou explained.

As soon as he finished speaking, he received a phone call, and then greeted Yi Yang and them, and walked to the side to answer the phone.

For some reason, Yi Yang always felt that the old Zhou in front of him was a little mysterious, he seemed to be hiding something from himself, but his words seemed very sincere.

"Xiaochao, what's wrong with you?" Inadvertently turned around, Yi Yang found that Bai Wenchao's face was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

Bai Wenchao lowered his voice and said, "It turns out that Mr. Zhou is Qi Liuye's person. ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Yi Yang was puzzled, he could naturally see that Bai Wenchao was uneasy at this time, what was he worried about.

Bai Wenchao said: "Brother Yi Yang, this Sixth Master Qi is not a simple character. ”

"I know, so what?" Yi Yang frowned slightly and asked.

Bai Wenchao shook his head and said: "I don't know much about his situation, but I've just heard a little, it is said that Qi Liuye is a 'collection tycoon' here in Beijing, and he has a collection empire, but ...... Many of the things in his collection are not genuine, and they are suspected of smuggling cultural relics, and few people dare to cooperate with him directly, so I always feel that it is not a good thing for him to come to you. Brother Yi Yang, you have to be careful. ”

"So that's it?!" Yi Yang suddenly realized, "Then don't go to his banquet." ”

He didn't expect Qi Liuye to have such an unknown background, since he is a person with a bad heart, what else do you do with him, as the saying goes, "those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black", he Yi Yang is bright and upright in this line, don't be tainted by Qi Liuye's kind of innocent people.

While the two were talking in a whisper, Lao Zhou suddenly finished the phone call and came over.

"Brother Yi, I'm sorry, I suddenly have something urgent to rush back." Lao Zhou said apologetically, "This is our address and contact number, you can also call me to pick it up." ”

As he spoke, he gently put a note on the table in Yi Yang's hand, and then hurriedly said goodbye without saying anything, and then left the box.

"What does that mean?" Yi Yang picked up the note with the detailed address written down, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, as if Lao Zhou and the others expected him to rush to the banquet tonight, this is a very confident expression.

But Yi Yang doesn't eat this, since he knows that Qi Liuye is not right, what else to do, no matter how rich the other party is, no matter how rich the remuneration is, he is not rare.

"Brother Yi Yang, I don't think this matter is so simple." Bai Wenchao said suddenly.

"Xiaochao, why do you say that? Can't I not go? Yi Yang asked.

Bai Wenchao said: "I don't know what Sixth Master Qi is looking for you, but I'm afraid this matter is not simple." Since Qi Liuye can be thriving in this industry, there must be a great force behind him, otherwise he always buys and sells fakes and cultural relics, why has he been fine? ”

"What's wrong with him being rich and powerful? If I don't go to the feast, he will trouble me when he returns? Yi Yang questioned coldly.

The other party asked him for nothing but an appraisal, the two had never met, they had never met, and there was no problem of any entanglement of interests.

"I don't know." Bai Wenchao shook his head heavily and said, "Brother Yi Yang, let's go to Mu Lao first, ask him well, and see what he has to offer." ”

"Well, let's call Mu Lao over for dinner." Yi Yang nodded in response.

So he took out his hand and called Mu Lao, and it didn't take long for Mu Lao to come over.

"Mu Lao, I'll ask you about someone." After Mu Lao sat down and ordered the food and drinks, Yi Yang said.

"Who?" Mu Lao asked, "Xiao Yi, is there something wrong?" ”

Yi Yang said: "I did encounter something, someone came to invite me just now." ”

At that moment, he told Mu Lao about Lao Zhou's invitation to him to attend the dinner at Qi Liuye's mansion, and asked, "Mu Lao, what is the origin of this Qi Sixth Master?" Do you say I will go or not go to his feast? ”

"Sixth Master Qi's people are looking for you?" After listening to Yi Yang's words, Mu Lao's face changed suddenly, and he said in a deep voice, "This person is not easy to mess with!" He has a lot of wealth, and no one in our industry can afford to offend him, and of course no one wants to associate with him, unless he is doing 'black business' with him. I heard that Qi Liuye's business has been very prosperous in recent years, and there is a huge industrial chain behind him, that is, the production and sale of counterfeits, and at the same time, he also smuggles cultural relics and sells the stolen cultural relics collected at low prices to foreign countries for huge profits! ”

"It turns out that he really has so much power!" When he heard Mu Lao's words, Yi Yang had no doubts, it seemed that Qi Liuye was even more powerful than he imagined, and he was a difficult person to deal with.

Thinking about it like this, Yi Yang felt that things were not good, if he decisively refused the other party's invitation, wouldn't it be indirectly offended the other party.

That kind of person really can't afford to offend, Yi Yang is still just a budding newcomer in this industry, and he has no power, and he can't compete with the big man who has a huge collection empire behind him.

"Mu Lao, what should I do next? Sixth Master Qi asked me to come over tonight, and he set up a banquet for me, if I didn't go, I would refuse to talk to him about it. Yi Yang asked anxiously.

Mu Lao exhaled in a low breath and said, "I don't know what he is looking for you for, but the reason why he is looking for you must be because of something." Xiao Yi, you haven't been in contact with him before, have you? You haven't offended anyone, have you? ”

"Nope!" Yi Yang nodded affirmatively and replied, they had not been in the capital for a long time since they came to the capital from Chengde, and they had not had any entanglements with anyone during this period, and he and Bai Wenchao were clear about this.

"Is it just that he admires your eyes and wants to ask you to go to his place to do things?" Mu Lao asked rhetorically.

Yi Yang shook his head lightly and said, "I don't know, I thought at first he just wanted to invite me over to see something, that's all, I didn't expect things to be that simple." ”

"He's looking for you to do an appraisal, and it's a real possibility." Mu Lao muttered, "But it doesn't seem to be that simple. Since Qi Liuye appreciates your appraisal level, it must be the one we did in the 'Rong Bao Zhai' of Liuli Factory that day...... Hey, that's not right! ”

He seemed to suddenly think of something bad, and his brow suddenly furrowed even tighter.

"What's wrong?!" Yi Yang said in surprise.

Mu Lao said with a sad face: "Xiao Yi, we were negligent, very negligent!" ”

"What's oversight?" Yi Yang Zhang's second King Kong was confused.

Mu Lao said: "Think about it, Qi Liuye's notorious 'counterfeiting king', he also mainly makes fake porcelain, after the things are made, they are packaged, and then they try to sell them in various ways, and the auction is one of the ways, and it is the best way, because this can sell at the best price." ”

"I know, Mu Lao, do you mean to say that the batch of imitation 'returnee porcelain' of 'Rong Bao Zhai' last time belonged to Qi Liuye? And I identified his stuff, so he came to me for trouble? Yi Yang quickly understood the meaning of Mu Lao's words.

As soon as these words came out, Bai Wenchao also became nervous, he and Yi Yang looked at each other, and there was a look of horror in their eyes.

This is what they didn't think about carefully before, when identifying the batch of official kiln fine returnee porcelain, Yi Yang was very serious, and he wanted to help Mu Lao, who was questioned and rejected by the experts, he told the truth without reservation, and as a result, he and Mu Lao won, and the batch of Ming imitations was returned, unexpectedly offended the owner of the porcelain, and what is even more unexpected is that this person is the famous "wicked" Qi Liuye, which left a great hidden danger.

If it weren't for Mu Lao's analysis, Yi Yang and Bai Wenchao would still not know.

"It's hard to say whether he's looking for trouble with you now." Mu Lao said, "It can be seen that he is still very polite to you, if he really wants to trouble you, how can he send someone to invite you?" Xiao Yi, don't worry too much, you didn't mean to offend him and go against him, I don't think Sixth Master Qi will do anything to you. But don't take it lightly, this may really be a 'Hongmen feast', and there is a certain danger in going. Oh, by the way, I have a friend who has always been very close to Qi Liuye, of course, it's just that they have a normal relationship, and there is no exchange of interests. I'll call him right away, hoping he can help you with anything. ”

"Well, bring that friend over." Yi Yang replied solemnly.

The matter has come to this point, there is no way to escape, the only way is to deal with Qi Liuye, but it depends on the will of heaven whether it is a blessing or a curse.