Li Yibai estimated that this ancient women's wedding dress would not be sold for too much money, but he wanted to do an experiment. Just like the first time he brought a teacup, it was also to validate an idea in his heart.

Li Yibai asked the boss to get him two. A dazzling array of jade, gold and silver rings were hung with all kinds of jade. The other piece does not have any objects hanging on it, but the silk fabric is the same, and it is also a phoenix embroidered with gold thread, and the red Shu brocade is the base.

After Li Yibai bought these two wedding dresses, he named the dazzling array of gorgeous wedding dresses. Name the pendant that there is not a simple wedding dress.

After returning home, Li Yibai asked Gou Yu to put the agarwood table in the rice warehouse.

He explained to Xiaoqing that he might come back late this time, so she and the Wang family should not be in a hurry. After that, Li Yibai walked into the rice warehouse alone.

Li Yibai picked up the agarwood dining table and gave an order with consciousness

[Transmission]

There was a blank slate

Bang. Li Yibai landed. He was seen in a rental house in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Look at the agarwood dining table in front of your eyes, and the things in the cloth bag on your body are also there.

Li Yibai first threw the dining table here, took out a copy of Yang Shixian's "Red Mural Scroll" from the cloth bag, and went out.

Li Yibai came to Zhong Song's antique shop.

Zhong Song was very happy when he saw Li Yibai, last time Li Yibai asked him to get the only copy of "Qiyanlu", and let him open it once and eat it for half a lifetime.

And this lone book is still hidden in his hands, and the interest rate of the annual price increase is higher than that of buying a fund.

So Zhong Song is grateful to Li Yibai, and he knows that this was deliberately given to him by Li Yibai.

After Li Yibai saw Zhong Song, he said, "Boss Zhong, I still have some goods in my hand to come up with, but I want to find you to help me find someone from the auction house." ’

Zhong Song understood what Li Yibai meant, Zhong Song's money was too small, and he couldn't accept Li Yibai's plate at all, if someone else asked him to introduce his peers like this and robbed his business, he would not agree 100%. But Li Yibai once let him earn the money for the rest of his life, which is a great kindness, and he is grateful.

So Zhong Song agreed very enthusiastically, and said, 'My goods were all sold by a man named Allen.' He had a small auction house called Field. I'll help you ask him out in a moment, and the three of us will have dinner together. ’

With knowledgeable acquaintances to make introductions, this will be much faster. In order not to lose face in front of foreign devils, Li Yibai specially went to a high-end suit store and spent $5,000 to change into a brand-name suit.

After Li Yibai and Zhong Song sat down in the private room of a high-end Western restaurant, they waited for a while before the man named Allen came in a hurry.

Alan was wearing a designer suit, with a comb on his hair and a tall one. After sitting down, I didn't apologize for being late.

Instead, he talked about how to get stuck in traffic on the road, met with the CEO of so-and-so Wall Street, and went to meet a certain Hollywood star later.

Allen was contemptuous of Li Yibai, and he kept saying that his grandfather was a British nobleman who immigrated to the United States during World War II. So he looked down on these indigenous Americans and other American immigrants.

Keep saying, 'The Field family is noble. The Field family is noble. ’

He looked down on white people, and of course he looked down on Li Yibai even more.

Although Zhong Song had already told him that Li Yibai was a mysterious and sophisticated person with a large number of good goods in his hands. But he was still skeptical and did not attach much importance to the meeting.

Li Yibai didn't care about his attitude, and the three of them continued to chat and drink.

After three glasses of wine, Alan began to blow, blowing his small auction house with only three people to be comparable to Sotheby's in England and Christie in the United States.

Sotheby's and Christie are both major international companies, with collectibles sold, with annual auction turnover of $70 billion to $80 billion. The company's annual revenue is more than $1 billion.

Alan used to be a connoisseur of collectibles, worked at Sotheby's, and then came out to work alone, but it was not easy to do it in a small company, he recruited two employees, but the main appraisal work, still did it himself. Small companies have very few resources, few people to invest in their collections, and few large buyers can be found.

Allen's auction house, the Chinese antiques that have been auctioned, are a few vulgar couplets of Tang Bohu in the Ming Dynasty. As for the antiquities of the Song Dynasty, he had never even seen Mao.

But he has a goal, which is to hope that his company's collectibles will exceed $1 million this year, but in the previous three years, each year had not exceeded $600,000.

After Alan had two more drinks, he wanted to leave, 'Miss Lee, you can just give your collection to my secretary Anna. Here's her phone. ’

Li Yibai said lightly, "Mr. Allen, I brought a collection of the Song Dynasty today, do you want to take a look." ’

I brought it with me, it was still from the Song Dynasty, and such a precious thing could be carried casually. Alan was a little unconvinced, but Alan was still interested in antiquities appreciation.

'Bring it to me and I'll take a look.' ’

Li Yibai handed the imitation of Yang Shixian's "Red Mural Scroll" to Allen.

Alan unfolded it and froze, 'Impossible, impossible. ’。

Yang Shixian's "Red Mural Scroll" is obviously in the Boston Museum in the United States, how can it be in his hands.

This thing is too precious. Allen's hands were trembling, and he couldn't believe that this Chinese Li Yibai in front of him could have such a good treasure in his hands, and he would hand it over to his auction house for auction.

At the same time, Allen's ability to appreciate is limited, and this imitation is too good to make Allen have such confusion. However, Alan woke up and sobered up, still believing that the one in the Boston Museum in the United States was real, after all, it was identified by a master who was more advanced than him.

Although Mies Li Li's "Red Mural Scroll" is an imitation, it is indeed an imitation of the Song Dynasty, and the quality of the imitation is a superior work, which is also a rare treasure. I took this scroll and gave it to our Field Auction House. ’

Alan didn't dare to underestimate Li Yibai.

After Li Yibai handed him the painting, he left. Allen chased after him and asked Li Yibai for his phone number. Li Yibai didn't give it, just said, I live in the Hilton Hotel.

After Allen sent the painting to the insurance company entrusted by the auction house, he hurried to the Hilton Hotel where Li Yibai was. At this time, Li Yibai was in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel, playing the piano.

Alan knew that Li Yibai must have more and better treasures. Such a big seller must be retained, an auction house wants to develop is to have these big sellers send high-end collectibles, in order to attract the attention of buyers, so after the auction, the auction house charges the seller very little, at most only 10% of the turnover, while the buyer has to pay 25% or even 40%, the auction house will subsidize the seller from the buyer's pay, in order to retain the seller.

Alan came to the front desk of the Grand Hotel. 'Help me find out Miss Lee. I'm going to see him in room No. 1. ’

The hotel front desk lady said, 'We can't disturb the distinguished guest casually, but we can call him and ask him if he wants to see you.' ’

Alan nodded, and had to wait anxiously.

Li Yibai played the piano for a while, turned on the hotel computer, and surfed the Internet, when the phone in the room rang. Li Yibai took it and heard that it was Allen looking for him. Deliberately said, there is no time to see.

Li Yibai looked at the webpage for a while and felt that the Internet was really boring. The Internet is just convenient for looking up information. So I went back to bed, turned on the 54-inch widescreen TV, and watched American dramas.

And while eating snacks, I watched American dramas.

At this time, Alan heard the front desk lady in the hall say that Li Yibai didn't see him. Alan is a little disappointed, but he still has to hold on, Alan is an optimistic and self-motivated person, and his usual braggadocio is his performance and disguise. In order to curry favor with and win over some rich buyers, he often has to disguise himself to meet those people, and he will blow up in the chat, and will cater to the topics of those rich people, the other party likes football, he talks about football stars, the other party likes basketball, he talks about NBA stars, the other party likes movies, he talks about Hollywood stars.

Alan waited in the hall for five or six hours at once, for fear that Li Yibai would leave the hotel and he would never find it again. At the same time, he blamed himself for this neglect, and he could no longer underestimate others in the future.

Of course, Alan is not a racist, he just unconsciously shows a tendency, these tendencies, that is, a joking expression, just like Li Yibai may say that Alan is a foreign devil behind his back.

Alan no longer dares to look down on Li Yibai at this moment, he is a person with Carnegie philosophical thoughts, he has already thought about it, and when he sees Li Yibai, he will immediately apologize to him.

Li Yibai felt that he had had enough, knew that it was almost, and didn't want to waste his time. Out of the room, Alan spotted him and ran to him like a rabbit.

'Miss Lee, I'm sorry that today I started to be rude to you. I beg your pardon. Alan bowed as he spoke.

Li Yibai is not a stingy person, he has more collections for Alan to help with the auction. Now that Alan has apologized, he accepted it.

'Alan, I still have a few treasures. I'll give it to you later, let's get rid of them together, and we'll have an auction tomorrow. Li Yibai only has three days, and today's time is for Alan to prepare. The auction must be completed tomorrow, because Li Yibai brought a lot of things this time, and it may take two days for the auction to end.

'Mies Lee, please rest assured, please believe me, this time in the words of you Chinese, even if you go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire, you will have to get things done. ’

Li Yibai took Alan to the front of the rental house, and he handed over Li Tang's imitation of "Fish Hidden Picture", agarwood pen holder, and two bridal wedding dresses to Allen. I went back to the hotel to sleep.

After Alan got these treasures and handed them over to the insurance company, he raced against time to start preparing for tomorrow's auction.

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