Chapter 197: Ivory Carving
Qin Xiaoying said: "Wuyang, this is a hot potato, this old Gan, how can you get some of this trick and come back, fooling around." ”
Wuyang smiled: "People are also kind, don't blame him, let's think about how to deal with it." ”
Pei Lei said: "Wuyang, we must not touch this thing, we must dispose of it, and besides, this thing is useless at all, it can only be placed at home as an ornament, and it cannot see the light." I will return it to Lao Gan and let him deal with it himself. ”
Wuyang said: "It's a pity to burn it, how can it be good to let Brother Gan sell it for fear of implicating us." Otherwise, let's let him come over and have a look, and let him figure it out for himself. ”
Xiaoying said: "Burn it, we can't burn it clean because of a small loss." ”
"Okay, let's see, if there's anything else that can't be seen, burn it together." Wuyang said.
Pry open the third box, neatly spread out in the wooden box, is tiger fur, "ah", several wives are amazed, they have only seen tigers in the zoo, today contact with real tigers, it turned out to be tiger skin, and so much.
Wuyang counted them one by one, there were 12 of them, and at the bottom was still a white tiger skin. "It's a hot potato again." Xiaoying said.
Wuyang said with a smile: "This is otherwise, as long as you are an expert, it can be easily distinguished, the difference between the Bengal tiger and the South China tiger is not very big, and the difference between the Siberian tiger is big, the Siberian tiger is larger than the Bengal tiger, the stripes on the body are wide and deep, and the weight difference between the two adult individuals is nearly 100 kilograms." Of course, no matter what kind of tiger it is, it is illegal to smuggle tiger skins, although we do not buy them from tiger hunters. But I'm also afraid that it will affect Brother Tan and Brother Mao. We do it blatantly. Let's get it quietly. ”
Pei Lei said: "Wuyang." It looks like you're not going to give up on these tiger skins. ”
"Of course, tiger skin is a very good thing, we can wrap it in cloth and give it to a few old people to make beds, which is very good for the body of the elderly. This white tiger skin must be Grandpa Zhang's, and the others, Xiaoying's grandparents, Xiaoya's grandparents, and Xiaoli's grandmother. Mingfang's grandmother, my grandmother, these are all to be given, Xiaofang, does your grandfather want one too? ”
Wu Fang said: "My grandfather is in the south, so it's not necessary." ”
Wuyang said: "No matter in the south or north, the humidity of the weather affects people's bodies the same. It's going to be a lot better. Sister, do you want to send one to our parents too? They were the oldest of our older generation. ”
Liu Rong said: "Wuyang, our parents have been using dog skin mats for many years, when our father was working at the grassroots level when he was young, he once injured his waist and had rheumatism, and now he has tiger skins, you think of giving them them, and you should do it, but you can take things back, but you can't give them directly, you have to explore the wind first." After Liu Rong arrived in Lujiang this time, Wuyang wanted to give her money like his wives, Liu Rong didn't want it at first, and then Wuyang said: "Sister, this money is just for you to keep it, and you will give it to our son in the future." Only then did Liu Rong accept it. But because she introduced two automobile factories, Wuyang wanted to give her hard money, Liu Rong resolutely refused, and since then, Liu Rong has never had any performance in speaking and doing things.
Wuyang said: "Okay, but we can't take the plane or train, we can only drive over." "I calculated in my heart, I already need 8 cards in this way, and there are only 4 left, so who will not give it to whom?
"Wuyang, let's continue to unpack, maybe there will be more." Xiaoying said.
Wuyang also agreed, so he pried open a wooden box, and it was really as Xiaoying said, it was really a tiger skin inside, and there were 12 of them. However, there are 4 white tiger skins inside, and all the problems have been solved.
"Wuyang, how can there be so many tiger skins, they are not a professional tiger hunting team, right? These things are not available at all now, and they should be very expensive. Pei Lei said.
Wuyang said: "How can it be a professional tiger hunting team, listen to Brother Mao, this is something that their troops have collected for decades, it is not surprising that there are a little more, and there should be more if they are not confiscated." Brother Mao's army has been stationed there since the early days of liberation, and it has been more than 40 years. These things, they are also beating rabbits, by the way. After the confiscation, it must be the mentality we just faced with the golden monkey skin, burn it, but unfortunately, sell it, don't dare, use it yourself, and don't dare. As for the price, none of us know the way, and we can't know the way, anyway, we use it for ourselves, and there is no difference between a dollar and a million. ”
Pei Lei said: "During the war years, our army had the discipline that all seizures should be returned to the public, but the seized materials at that time were used to equip the troops and improve the lives of the troops. ”
Wang Xiaohui said: "Wuyang, your luck is good, it was originally a problem, but now it has been solved, and everyone's parents have it." ”
Wuyang smiled: "Let's gossip less, let's open these boxes, guess what's in it." ”
Pei Lei said: "Ivory is definitely indispensable. ”
Qin Lan asked, "For what?" ”
Pei Lei said: "Myanmar is one of the production areas of ivory, and ivory cannot be used as clothing, so it is pretended here by Lao Gan. You say, don't you? ”
Shuangshuang said, "I guess everything is possible except gold, silver and jade." ”
Zhu Qing said: "I guess so, gold, silver and jadeite, the objects are not very large, even if they are smuggled, it is difficult to find, and if you take 10,000 steps back, they will be confiscated, and maybe they will also be swallowed." ”
Wuyang said with a smile: "Zhuqing, your first reason is valid, and the second reason is not, the discipline of the army is not something that those of us who have never been a soldier can imagine." As soon as the comrades of the army joined the army, they were instilled with heroism and patriotism, and in peacetime, they must pay attention to their love for the motherland and loyalty to the people, so that they can stand up without hesitation at critical moments. ”
"And obedience to orders is the first and foremost quality." Pei Lei said.
While everyone was talking, Wuyang had already pried open the two wooden boxes, and the women removed the lids. "Sure enough, it's ivory." Yes, yes.
Everybody sees. There are 8 tusks inside the wooden box. The long one is almost as long as the wooden box, and the short one is only about 1.70 meters, and because the ivory is curved, it is impossible to stack it neatly, so it is placed in the wooden box one by one, and the eight tusks are just full. The color of the ivory is not very white, with a slight yellow tinge in the white, and some of the colors are darker. I can't see the white anymore, it's yellow with black, and everyone doesn't understand the tusks, and they can't figure out what it's for.
Wuyang has seen ivory, and last year Boss Chen sent him more than a dozen ivory tusks in a container, but they were stored in the warehouse, and the wives didn't see it.
Pry open all the wooden boxes, 8 boxes are all ivory, which is unexpected, 6 boxes are whole ivory. There are two boxes that are short, and the shortest one is only 20 centimeters. It's only about 1 meter long.
Wuyang took a closer look, these are all carved, picked up one, and saw that the carving on it was the eight immortals crossing the sea in ancient Chinese mythology. The demeanor of the figure carving is realistic and lifelike. Looking at the color of the ivory, you can't see the white of the ivory anymore, only a little yellow in the black, and it must be a long time ago.
I picked up another one about 1 meter long, which was particularly thick, and it was estimated to be a relatively large ivory, and it was a thick section. Don't smooth out the two sides of the ivory, one side has nothing, the other side seems to be a carving, but I can't see what the carving is at all, first I thought it was pasted by flying dust, wiped it with my sleeve, blew it again, or the same, and suddenly thought that it might be a miniature carving. I quickly turned it over in the wooden box to see if there were any miniature carvings.
These two wooden boxes are not the same as the six, they are full of ivory, and you can't see the bottom if you look at the top. In the center of the living room, a thick wool carpet was spread, and Wuyang looked at each one, stacking the ordinary carved and the miniature carved ones separately.
The carved ivory accounts for the vast majority, there are landscape paintings, figure paintings, flowers, birds, fish and insects, as well as calligraphy, the words carved on the ivory, there are thousands of words, and there are few words. There is a 20 centimeter long, only carved a large character, as if it is a "tiger" character, the rest is the payment, all cursive, do not know these words. Among the carving works, they are basically hollowed, and there are very few yang carvings, but there are calligraphy works, and two of them are mixed with Japanese.
After the miniature carving works were cleaned up, there were a total of 9 pieces, of which 6 were paintings and 3 were calligraphy, but basically they were guessed, and the miniature carvings could not be seen with the naked eye, even if they could be seen, it was impossible to figure out. As a college student trained under modern examination-oriented education, I basically don't understand the inheritance of ancient Chinese culture, that is, a few ancient texts and some simple histories, these traditional things, usually no one teaches them, and there is no opportunity to contact them, who can be born to know. Anyway, except for those archaeology students, everyone doesn't understand, and there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
There are 175 carved works, and Wuyang did not carefully classify them, so he put them into wooden boxes, and put the miniature carving works together. Without saying anything, he got up and washed his hands.
Qin Xiaoying has liked jewelry since she was a child, and she knows more about it, so when she came back from washing her hands, she asked: "Wuyang, why are you interested in these old things, haven't you been for a few years." ”
Wuyang didn't want everyone to know about it, so he smiled and said, "That's impossible." If there were things that were old, it would not be called smuggling, but the looting of the Ivory Sculpture Museum. ”
Zhu Qing said: "Wuyang, isn't Grandpa Zhang preparing to build a museum, are you using these objects to exhibit and open a special ivory carving exhibition room." ”
Wuyang said: "I don't understand these things, one day ask the boss to come over to appraise it and see if there is any value on display, otherwise I will laugh and be generous." ”
Xiaoying said: "I don't think it's enough to just be the boss, after all, he is a businessman, not a professional. Did you ask the auctioneer to help them send two connoisseurs? ”
I really wanted to come to something, as soon as Xiaoying's words fell, the phone call from the auctioneer Xi came in. The two greeted each other, and Wuyang said, "Teacher Xi, what's the matter?" ”
Xi auctioneer said: "Boss Li, that's the case, our auction house is going to hold 3 large-scale auctions before the Spring Festival, and there are two meanings to call you, one is the cultural relics in this auction, which are almost national treasures, with famous paintings of the Song Dynasty." Arimei blue and white porcelain. There is also a bronze from the Shang Dynasty. Originally, bronzes were not allowed to be bought and sold. But this one is slightly damaged, and we collected it from the people, so we reluctantly agreed, and there are a few other old objects, all of which are priceless, and you deserve to come and participate in the auction; Another meaning is that I want you to take out a few high-end jadeite objects, and we will open a special session for you. In this way, it must be worth more than 100 million yuan, do you think it will work? ”
Wuyang said: "Teacher Xi, I have no problem taking the jade object auction and participating in the auction, but I can't come by myself, because my time has been arranged, and there is really no way." ”
"It's the same when you entrust someone else, I don't know what jade objects you are going to auction up?"
"I haven't thought about it yet, but if you think it's good, let's take out bracelets, necklaces, pendants, etc. in seven colors, and also take statues of leaders, Guanyin, and Buddha statues in several colors. What do you think? ”
Auctioneer Xi said, "Boss Li, how big are your statues?" ”
Wuyang said, "It depends on how big you want." We have busts ranging from 10 cm tall to 1 meter tall full-length statues, in all colors. ”
"Boss Li, do you think this is good, anyway, you also have several gold jewelry stores in the capital, this time you will pull some more, it is better to sell out, even if you can't sell out, you can also put it in the store and sell it slowly, what do you think?"
Wuyang said: "Teacher Xi, if you can do me a favor, I will definitely agree to you." That's right, I recently bought some ivory carvings, and we don't understand it ourselves, so I would like you to arrange for an expert from your auction house to come and take care of it. ”
"That's definitely fine, but we can only have time after the Spring Festival. Anyway, your ivory carving is not going to be sold, so it's okay to delay a few days, right? In this way, you arrange someone to take photos of the jadeite objects you auctioned and hang them on the Internet, so that we can publicize them and invite more guests. ”
"Okay, it'll be done in two days, don't worry. As for who to entrust to participate in the auction, someone will call you then. ”
"Okay, that's it, see you later."
After hanging up the phone, Wuyang told the content of the phone, Liu Rong said: "Wuyang, I'll go back to Beijing, our parents miss their children, and they called me back several times, and I just happened to go back to do things." ”
Qin Xiaoying also said: "Wuyang, I came back from the United States, I haven't gone back yet, my grandparents and mother haven't seen the children yet, I want to go back myself, now the things in the factory have begun to operate, and the sisters are there." Besides, Sister Liu is not as familiar with our gold jewelry store as I am, and I want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a vigorous publicity, improve the popularity of our store, and lay the foundation for future sales. In addition, it is necessary to contact the places where clothing and leather goods are sold in the future. ”
Wuyang said: "Let it be you, when the matter is over, go home." By the way, Xiaoya has been out of the country for so long, and she said on the phone yesterday that she was coming back soon. ”
Wang Xiaohui said: "The deer that Xiaoya bought in the northeast could have been transported back a long time ago, but our fence was not built, so it dragged on for a while, and the wall was completed in the past two days, and the feed for the deer was also prepared, so the deer were transported back quickly." ”
Qin Xiaoying said: "This time Xiaoya went to the northeast, in fact, there were only about 1,500 deer purchased in the northeast, and more than 6,000 in the Yangtze River basin. Now the price of deer antler velvet has risen a lot, but the price of deer skin has dropped, and several deer farms in the south are no longer raised, and all the deer are sold to Xiaoya. ”
Wuyang said: "Actually, you don't have to work so hard, it's all for me, I don't want to go." ”
Shuangshuang said: "Wuyang, you don't need to do this, we just wait for the factory to operate normally, and then we will hand it over to someone else to manage." By the way, didn't you let us raise Luxi cattle last time, and we entrusted a veteran under Lao Gan to buy it this time. The veteran's hometown was Russy's, and their relatives all raised cattle. We let Lao Luo go over with one of the factory managers, and we were really lucky this time, and the price of the cattle was very cheap. ”
"What is this for?" Wuyang asked.
Wang Xiaohui said: "Don't we Chinese all like to follow the trend? Luxi cattle are more famous, people who raised cattle in the past made a lot of money, and now the local government will do it as an industry, you say, there are more people who raise cattle, the price of feed rises, and the cattle cannot be sold, the price will go down, it will be good to be able to sell it, who will account for what price. The original price per cow was more than 10,000 yuan, but now it is only 8,000. Lao Luo They can choose at will this time, it is said that they all choose the best breeding cattle, and many cows still have calves in their stomachs. However, there is still a big problem, that is, the transportation thing is not easy to handle. We have cattle here can hold about 8 heads in a big truck, and these cattle can only fit less than 4 heads, you think, we bought more than 10,000 heads, how much capacity is needed. ”
Wuyang smiled: "Have you ever thought about it, the richer a person is, the easier it is to make money." Is this what the ancients said, wealth into a big companion, a dog bites and barks a flower? ”
Zhu Qing said: "So the ancients also said that people must know how to cherish blessings, and only those who cherish blessings can have long fortunes." ”
Wuyang said: "Yes, so I support the work of the Daddy Foundation." ”
Wu Fang said: "Wuyang, what you told Wang Bin in the morning was that you were going to build a house, did you buy the land somewhere?" ”
"Yes, on the other side of the mountain where the industrial park is. After you buy it, you all go over and have a look, and you all give your opinions on how to build a house. Xiaofang, you and Sister Xia will discuss a design plan. ”
Qin Xiaoying said: "Wuyang, I sometimes think by myself, do we build more houses now, in addition to the Green River, do you want to buy a piece of land in the capital, the East China Sea, the ice city, the island and the Dianchi Lake, and then build about 1,000 villas, in addition to our own family to live, the company's middle-level and above personnel have one, or work in the capital, live in the villas in the capital, and other places are the same, what do you think?" ”
Wuyang smiled and said: "This idea is so good, we can live wherever we want in the future." In winter, you can go to the ice city to enjoy the snow and ice sculptures, or you can go to the island to swim and enjoy the sun. Xiaoying, after you return to Beijing, immediately notify your uncle and let him leave more than 1,500 acres of land in Lianxinzhuang, preferably by the mountain. Zhuqing, you arrange personnel in the East China Sea to look for a piece of land, the land in the East China Sea is not easy to buy, and it doesn't matter if it's a little farther away from the city. I think the island is best in the southernmost place, where I yearn for the sea the most, I immediately called Liu Bingqiu and asked him to do it. Bingcheng can only wait for Xiaoya to go and let her go after the Spring Festival. The land by the Dianchi Lake, I will contact it this time, of course, let Qiu Xiaomu do it. ”
Wu Fang smiled and said, "Wuyang, are you too stingy?" 1,500 acres of land, build 1,000 villas, and it will become a birdcage. If you want to build the atmosphere, public facilities and green belts and roads, should account for one-third of the total area, each villa building, covers an area of 500 square meters, before and after the garden, grass and swimming pools add up, also need about 1,000 square meters, so that calculated, each villa covers an area of no less than 2,200 square meters, 1,000 is 2,200,000 square meters, in addition, some sports fields, shopping malls, kindergartens, and even primary schools can not be less, it needs more than 3,500 acres. ”
Wuyang sighed: "It's really not ignorant of the way, it's shocking, Xiaofang is from a professional class in the end, and she is better than us." If you need to build these, then cinemas, hotels and parking lots can not be less, should be more than 4,000 acres per villa group, of course, larger can also be, we are not short of money, villas more than dozens, hundreds of sets, is not a bad thing. Okay, according to this area, Lianxinzhuang should stay there, and buy it elsewhere. ”
Zhu Qing said: "Wuyang, do you have so much money now, do you know how much money is needed?" ”
"I don't know what to do, but Rome wasn't built in a day, we can build it and make money at the same time. I also want to build villas in two places, West Lake and Xijing. I asked Boss Qiu last time, and now I am building a house in the capital, which is the kind that can prevent a 10-magnitude earthquake, and the various costs add up to about 4,000 per square meter. If you build it in a few years, it may go up a lot. ”
Zhu Qing said: "It's true. Wuyang, do you know that the apartment building we bought by the West Lake, when I bought it, it was 10,000 yuan per square meter with a certificate, and now the purchase price alone is 12,000, only half a year. However, if you still want to buy land and build a house there, you may only be able to buy it in the suburbs. I have a good place to build a house. (To be continued......)