Chapter 520: Bronze Sculpture

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This antique shop is about to take advantage of the off-season to re-layout, the store is scattered with some oil paintings, porcelain and even furniture artworks, and several clerks are busy in it, seeing that Yu Fei Fei did not come to greet him.

The two people who had just bumped into Yu Fei hurriedly put down the bronze sculpture and apologized to Yu Fei.

Yu Fei shook his head generously and asked, "Are you going to redecorate?" ”

One of them said: "There are fewer customers in winter, and the boss said that he should take advantage of this opportunity to change the direction and put some popular artworks in a conspicuous position to attract customers." Like thisβ€”" He pointed to the black bronze statue in front of him and said, "It has been stored in the store for many years, and I have not found a suitable buyer, and the boss thinks that it is a waste of space to put this bronze figure in the store, and it is impossible to even decorate it, so it is better to throw it outside, and maybe someone will like to take it away!" Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the cleaner to pull it away. ”

"Throw it away?" Yu Fei said in disbelief. He had just unexpectedly used his true qi to investigate, and was surprised to find that although the chaotic qi inside the bronze sculpture was not very old, it was very light, and it was obviously a very rare work of art, which was likely to be made by a famous artist. Of course, as for which famous artist it is, Yu Fei doesn't know, he doesn't know much about bronze sculpture, let alone a foreign artist, he doesn't know. But it was such a rare work of art that the shopkeeper wanted to throw him away! It's ridiculous.

"Yes sir." The clerk shrugged his shoulders and said, he didn't understand why Yu Fei was interested in such a bronze sculpture, in fact, he had long felt that this bronze sculpture was an eyesore, and now the new owner had finally made a wise decision to dispose of it. This sculpture is about 1.8 meters tall, which is about the same height as Yu Fei. But the whole body is dark, thin and slender. There is no beauty at all, which is why the owner and the clerk unanimously decided to throw him away.

"If you're interested in this sculpture. Then you might as well take it. The clerk saw that Yu Fei's eyes had been looking at this sculpture, and knew that he was interested in this sculpture, so he said.

Although the origin of this sculpture is not known. But Yu Fei knew that it was by no means simple. It's not impossible to buy it.

"It's a brilliant idea." Yu Fei said: "To tell you the truth, I really have a relationship with this sculpture, and I liked it at first sight." Let's make a price. Although Yu Fei wanted to get it, he didn't want to take advantage of others. Besides, if the shopkeeper finds out that this sculpture is worth a lot of money in the future and wants to get it back, I'm afraid it really can't be said.

The clerk shrugged his shoulders and said, "I think you may not have heard me clearly, this sculpture was originally ours, if you wanted." You don't have to pay for it at all, you can take it away, and it saves us from having to pay someone to throw it away. ”

In the clerk's heart, Yu Fei had become a strange person, and he would be interested in such a bronze sculpture. That's fine. Giving it to him saved him a lot of trouble.

"I think I'd better ask your boss to come out, I still have some antiques that I want to buy together." Yu Fei didn't want to waste too much tongue on this, and he was also worried that his insistence on paying would arouse the suspicion of the other party. The best way is to buy a few more antiques to dispel the suspicion of the other party.

Just now, Yu Fei had already swept around with his true qi and found that there were a lot of antiques in the store, but they were very miscellaneous. There are antiques from Asia, Europe and even Africa. There is really no discipline in the placement, and I really don't know how this antique shop has survived until now.

As soon as he heard that Yu Fei was still going to buy antiques, the clerk didn't dare to slack off, and soon invited the boss out. It's the off-season, and it's nice to be able to sell an antique, let alone it. The clerk's eyes were so sharp, looking at Yu Fei's clothes, and listening to his conversation, he knew that Yu Fei must be a great big customer, so he didn't dare to slack off at all.

The shopkeeper quickly greeted him. His name is Justin, he is in his forties, and he hasn't been in the antique shop for long.

Previously, this antique shop had been run by his father, but unfortunately, his father had just passed away due to a heart attack some time ago. Because he was in a hurry, he didn't leave him with anything to say. Justin didn't have much interest in the antique business, but the antique shop was their ancestor, so he could only barely run it.

Justin is a senior business administration student at Cambridge University, and he wants to use modern management methods to run his ancestors' antique shops, and in his opinion, injecting modern elements into this ancient industry will definitely have unexpected effects, and maybe his ancestors' antique shops will carry forward in his hands.

But reality dealt him a heavy blow, and instead of doing anything, his reforms caused the antique shop to lose many old customers. It's the off-season at the Permondsey antique market, and there are only a few customers every day, let alone buyers.

But Justin doesn't think that there is a problem with his own management style, but suspects that there is a problem with the layout of the antique shop, so he should take advantage of this time to rearrange it and clean up some garbage if it can be cleaned up.

When Justin knew that Yu Fei was Chinese, he was even more enthusiastic. It's not that he has a deep affection for China, but because the Chinese are very arrogant and often spend a lot of money.

"Honorable gentleman, I don't know what I can do for you." Justin said warmly and respectfully.

"I want to pick a few pieces of Chinese art, I don't know what is good?" Yu Fei said. In fact, in just a short period of time, Yu Fei has already investigated all the collections of the entire antique shop, although most of them are open objects, but there are no antiques that can attract him. Asking Justin this question was just a diversion from him.

In the end, under Justin's vigorous promotion, Yu Fei selected five antiques that could barely be seen, including two blue and white plum vases from the Qing Dynasty and two landscape paintings from the Song Dynasty.

"Boss, make a bid." Yu Fei said, and then pretended to be very casual and pointed to the bronze statue that was still next to the gate and said, "Count him together." ”

"So, this is a gift from me, no money." Justin said.

"No, no, no." Yu Fei waved his hand again and again and said: "There is an old saying in China that a brother settles accounts, Mr. Justin is open to do business, how can I take advantage of the whole thing?" ”

Eventually, after some humbleness, the bronze sculpture was sold for a symbolic price of one pound. Of course, it is also written on the details of the transaction.

Seeing that this bronze sculpture was finally under his name, Yu Fei breathed a sigh of relief.

Some people may wonder, isn't Yu Fei not interested in European art? He was even willing to exchange the famous paintings of Picasso and Monet, so how could he be interested in such an aesthetic bronze sculpture? And hesitantly trying to get his hands on it.

In fact, Yu Fei really didn't like this sculpture, but the reason why he bought it was very simple, naturally he wanted to exchange it for some precious Chinese art!

Although I can't look at it, maybe there are other fools who will like it?

Just like last time, those sketches that were smeared and couldn't tell what they were at all were exchanged for precious antiques such as the original "Luo Shen Futu" and the fish intestine sword? And how do you know that Princess Alice won't be stupid again this time?

But after buying these artworks, Yu Fei's problem came again.

This time he thought that as soon as he arrived in London, he would be treated like a guest of honor, and once again live in Princess Alice's royal estate. So I didn't even book a hotel, and I casually walked around the Bermonse antique market, and I bought a few works of art by mistake, and there were also large pieces like bronze sculptures. Seeing that Yu Fei was embarrassed, Justin came up with the idea that Yu Fei could be stored in the store first, and guaranteed that it would be properly kept.

But this is what Yu Fei is unwilling, this bronze sculpture is not ordinary, Justin's mallet can't be seen, it doesn't mean that others can't see it, if two people happen to see it, and then snatch it away at a high price, then he will finally be happy.

After much hesitation, Yu Fei decided to book a hotel first, and then spend some money to ask Justin to hire a car to deliver these antiques to his hotel.

While discussing the details, Yu Fei's phone rang.