Chapter 342: Big Oolong
PS: Some book friends reported that these two chapters were a bit miserable recently. I read them and ruined all the three chapters I wrote. Therefore, there was only one chapter in the morning, and the other chapter should be at noon.
Since Li Yi had this idea, there was nothing to hesitate at the moment. He directly told the story of Mayor's Bronze Age and Hans Hoffman's "Dialogue". He wanted to put these two things in the museum of Ma Dashen for exhibition, and then see if there was any chance, and foreign collectors who noticed these two things came to exchange for objects.
"What? Mayor's Bronze Age will actually be in your hands? Come and see it!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Master Ma became excited.
And when he heard that the thing was at Li Yi's house, he glanced at Zhong Haoqing and said:
"Teacher Zhong, let's eat a little faster? After eating, go to Xiao Li's house to see his collection?"
Zhong Haoqing first glanced at Li Yi, and saw that although he was a little confused, he had no clear intention of objection, so he smiled and nodded.
After dinner, Tong Haisong took the light crimson landscape and left alone, while Ma Dashen followed Li Yi and Zhong Haoqing back to Yanyuan. In the car, he talked about the reason why he was suddenly so surprised.
"Do you know Charistin, the last chairman of the French Antique Federation? A few days ago, I suddenly went on a business trip just to go to Hong Kong to attend a private party he organized. At that party, I heard the news about the Bronze Age for the first time..."
Master Ma spoke for about ten minutes. Li Yi had never heard of the names of foreigners in his words, but this did not prevent him from understanding the spirit of Master Ma's speech. That is, his Bronze Age statue stuck to an ancient clock is likely to be awesome!
"The Bronze Age statue is a work by Mayor when he was 63 years old. The time to start the work should be the fifth anniversary of his teacher Rodin's death. The work took Mayor about a year and was lost when France fell during World War II. Since then, people have been secretly looking for its whereabouts. Now, the value they have paid for it has exceeded 100 million US dollars!"
Although it has been a while, Master Ma still couldn't help but feel excited when he spoke of the statue.
100 million US dollars! If the one in Li Yi’s hand is genuine and he is willing to exchange cultural relics, then even the collection like the world-renowned Guiguzi’s Yuan blue and white jar can be exchanged for more than three at a time!
What an exciting news!
Soon, they saw Li Yi's collection.
"This one...is probably what they said! The Bronze Age, 21.3 cm tall, stuck to an ancient clock... Xiao Li, now you are going to develop!"
The three of them were struggling in Li Yi's villa for about an hour. Ma Dashen held a USB flash drive containing photos of the Bronze Age and "Dialogue" inside, sat on the sofa in the living room with satisfaction, slowly drinking tea, thinking about how to negotiate with those people in order to get the greatest benefit.
"The UNESCO survey shows that there are currently 1.67 million Chinese cultural relics recorded in more than 200 museums in 47 countries around the world, and the number of people scattered overseas should be 10 times that of this number, which means about 10 million."
"According to statistics from the Huaxia Auction Industry Association, in the past decade, nearly 100,000 cultural relics and artworks have been returned to the mainland in the form of auctions. In addition to other channels, I estimate that the number of cultural relics returned will not exceed 500,000. Compared with more than 10 million, this number is really a drop in the bucket!"
"And 95% of these returned cultural relics are general cultural relics except first, second and third-level cultural relics, and are not precious cultural relics, because precious things are placed in other people's museums!"
"According to relevant regulations, if you want to get things out of a museum, you can only use the method of exchanging equivalent collections between the museum and the museum."
"So... Li Yi, I solemnly ask you here, hoping that you can entrust this matter to my museum to carry out it on your behalf. I am here, thank you for the vast number of Chinese cultural relics collection enthusiasts and cultural relics workers!"
At the end, the respectable old man stood up and bowed deeply to Li Yi. Li Yi was so panicked that he was busy returning the gifts and supporting him again. After a long time of chaos, the three of them calmed down.
"Old Ma, if you are so polite every time, I will not dare to let this kid bother you anymore. If you are interested, let him tell you about his bargaining matters. Tsk tsk... His luck is simply incredible!"
While shook his head, Zhong Haoqing picked up a few things that Li Yi had picked up.
After hearing this, Master Ma was speechless for a long time, and finally shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"What a pity, no matter how powerful Xiao Li is, there is only one person! 10 million cultural relics, 10 million... Haha, what a heavy topic!"
Indeed, the topic they discussed tonight was a bit heavy, so Li Yi decided to liven up the atmosphere. He took a sip of tea and said with a smile:
"When it comes to luck, today I was almost fooled by a big liar! That guy is gentle and his series of titles are even more terrifying! If he hadn't been anxious, maybe I would have really gotten into the trap!"
"Oh? There is such a thing? Tell me, what treasure did he take out to fool you?"
Hearing Li Yi say this, the two old men immediately became interested. There are even scammers who can almost fool you. Come and listen to it quickly, so let us old guys feel more balanced!
Li Yi laughed and cried and roughly told Lan Zhu about the exchange between noon and then saw that Zhong Haoqing and Ma Dashen’s faces were extremely strange, and he couldn’t help but say:
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
Zhong Haoqing shook her head and asked:
"Is the person you mentioned the surname Lan? Well, Lancao's?"
Li Yi was shocked, why, Master, you have been deceived by him too?
Zhong Haoqing looked amused and crying.
"How is that possible! If what you said and I were thinking of the same person, then I think I should know that person's father."
Master Ma also nodded.
“I know it too.”
"Ah? There's something like this? Then does his dad know that his son is a big liar?"
Zhong Haoqing couldn't help it and slapped Li Yi in the face.
"How did this kid say? Why did he lie to you? His titles are all true!"
"I'll go! Really! This... how is this possible?"
Li Yi was so surprised that he was a little stuttering. Since he decided that Lan Zhu was a liar, he not only lost interest in his educational background and employment experience, but also secretly mocked himself and Wang Haoqing for not knowing about it, but he actually believed in the loopholes of resume!
Originally, how could there be someone so evil in this world besides him?
However, at this moment, someone told him that everything was true, which was even more shocking than when he saw those things just now!
"Well, I remember that kid seemed to have five or six doctoral and master's titles, which was simply a mess. And it is said that when he left Peugeot, Dongfeng's boss could not keep it. In the end, even the officials in the department were alarmed. The deputy minister personally came forward to try to keep it, but he didn't give him face... The monster is really a monster!"
Master Ma picked up the tea, took a big mouthful of it like drinking, and then started to choke and cough. It seemed that only in this way could he express the complex emotions in his heart.
"The 14-year-old Yan University Youth Class has 2 master's titles, three doctors, and one postdoctoral fellow... I think his level of evil is not much different from Xiaoyi!"
Li Yi was shocked. He didn't seem to have said so clearly just now, right? But what the master said was exactly the same as what the guy wrote on his resume. It seems that he really knew him.
"Haha, there's nothing strange about this, because Yueyue was also very smart when he was a child. At that time, Lao Lan brags about his genius son in front of us every day. I was a little dissatisfied and wanted to cultivate Yueyue into that, but the result..."
Zhong Haoqing spread her hands with a wry smile on her face, but you all saw it, and nothing happened!
Master Ma smiled and answered the words.
"This Lao Lan, when it comes to her son, she is even more excited than his successful return of ten or eight cultural relics. He said that his greatest achievement in his life was to give birth to such a son!"
Li Yi blinked his eyes and became more and more curious. What does this Lao Lan do? Hearing you say that, it seems that he is also a collector of this industry?
"He is not a person who collects this industry, but is in charge of this industry. Lanzhou Bureau is the deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage specializing in the pursuit of lost cultural relics overseas. This work is quite depressing, so every time we meet, we don't talk about work, but his son first. Ha! Most people in this industry know that Lanzhou Bureau has an amazing genius son!"
Master Ma laughed, but Zhong Haoqing frowned.
"Hey Xiaoyi, what's going on with your furniture factory? You went to Vietnam because of that one?"
Li Yi smiled awkwardly, nodded reluctantly, but let out a helpless wail in his heart, "Smart and wise master, you just said the opposite. I have that furniture factory because I went to Vietnam!
Zhong Haoqing was a little unhappy.
"Do you... have that much energy?"
"This... Master, I will definitely take the path of collecting in the future, but if I collect it, I basically can't continue without a stable source of income, so I want to take advantage of the fact that I have spare money now and know some wood, so..."
"Well, Xiao Li's point of view makes sense. In fact, most of the so-called collectors work part-time. Think about it, if I had been as rich as I am now, my museum would have doubled in size more than twice! As for young people, they just dare to think and do what they are afraid of? I support you!"
Master Ma didn't know that Li Yi was still learning calligraphy, painting and carving at the same time, so he expressed his support as soon as Li Yi finished speaking.
Zhong Haoqing thought about it again and found that it seemed that this was true. In fact, it was not just collectors, but also so-called calligraphers, painters and sculptors. Except for the few that were numerous, all of them were very hard-working?
Of course, this child is definitely not among them, but if he can have a stable financial source, he should be able to move forward smoothly.
However, now is the time when his academic progress is rapid. Is it a bit of a bit of putting the cart before the horse when going out to do this at this time? How could a person have so much energy?
Chapter completed!