Live broadcast antique city, others will miss your wholesale?

Chapter 187 No more rules

"How can I help?"

Even Mr. He himself was stunned for a moment.

He didn't even know the second-rate dealer Edward mentioned.

However, Edward reminded with a smile: "Tomorrow Mr. Li will hold an art exchange salon in Repulse Bay. Charles told me that he will also go."

"You mean you can meet Charles at Mr. Li's house?"

Mr. He showed a clear expression.

Edward nodded and looked at Su Bai: "But you have to be introduced by an acquaintance to attend this party."

Repulse Bay is one of the most upscale residential areas on Hong Kong Island.

Many rich and famous people live in that place.

This stumped Su Bai.

She had no acquaintances in Hong Kong Island and wanted to join the salon, so she had no choice but to go back to Boss Yu to find a solution.

Seeing her sad face, Mr. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, Miss Su. I happen to be an invitee to the party and can take you in."

"Really?"

Su Bai was slightly surprised and looked at Mr. He.

I can’t figure out why he helped me.

Mr. He smiled and explained: "I think you are very interested in antiques, so just think of it as a reward for selling me hairpins and brooches."

Su Bai didn't expect that selling trinkets casually would bring him unexpected gains.

Mr. He took out a business card from his jacket pocket, took out a pen and wrote a few words on the card, and handed it to Su Bai.

"It has the address of Mr. Li's house on it. When you get there tomorrow, give your business card to the servants and say you were invited by me, and they will let you in."

"Thank you very much, Mr. He."

Su Bai took the business card calmly.

This business card is made of ordinary stencil paper and looks ordinary.

Unlike some wealthy businessmen's business cards, which are filled with various titles.

Instead there is just a name and phone number.

She looked up at the man.

It turns out that his name is He Qiujun.

After saying goodbye to Mr. He, Su Bai walked out of Edward's antique store.

Then I visited a few antique shops on Hollywood Road.

An antique shop selling porcelain piqued her interest.

There were many broken porcelain pieces on the counter in the store.

These fragments of porcelain come from different dynasties.

Are sold exclusively as specimens.

There are even broken porcelain from Ru kiln.

"These fragments of porcelain are indeed from ancient porcelain and can help improve the level of appreciation."

Su Bai pointed to the broken porcelain on the counter and said.

After hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room expressed that they also wanted a set of broken porcelain pieces.

Su Bai thought for a moment and decided to buy a few more sets of broken porcelain from different kiln entrances in various dynasties as gifts for the lottery in the live broadcast room.

"Look at this plum vase. It's the Yongzheng official kiln with a big door. What do you think of 5?"

The store owner met a big customer and enthusiastically promoted the whole appliance in the store.

"The knock on the mouth is too serious, and there is still a line on the bottle, so let's forget it."

Su Bai glanced at it and confirmed that the shop owner was right.

The things are real, but they are not valuable.

Even buying this thing for 5 feels like a loss.

The only valuable broken porcelain is from Ru kiln, because it is so rare.

As for broken porcelain from the Qing Dynasty, it can be said to be worthless.

It can only be used as a specimen.

"Just buy some broken porcelain pieces."

Su Bai picked up a lot of broken porcelain pieces in the store.

These include broken porcelain from Ru kiln.

It's not big, but it cost her 10,000+.

The shop owner instantly beamed.

"My lady has a good eye. She can accurately select the broken porcelain from each dynasty. She seems to be an expert in the industry."

He praised Su Bai sincerely while helping Su Bai pack the broken porcelain pieces.

"When buying gifts for netizens, you should naturally choose them accurately to avoid misleading others."

Su Bai smiled slightly.

"If you want to buy broken porcelain next time, you can come here again."

The owner is friendly and genuine.

Because Su Bai was thinking about the Dunhuang suicide note, he was not in the mood to continue wandering.

After the live broadcast, I took a taxi back to the hotel.

After taking a short rest, she went to the next door and knocked on the door.

But he saw Yu Qingqian who came to open the door with a grimace on his face.

"Boss Yu, you don't look good. Is something wrong?"

Su Bai said with concern.

Yu Qingqian looked around, and then said: "Let's talk after we come in."

Su Bai was a little puzzled.

It's so mysterious, what are you doing?
Enter the hotel suite.

Yu Qingqian sighed and said: "The person has been found."

"What's wrong with Mr. Li? Is something wrong?"

Su Bai couldn't help but feel anxious.

Yu Qingqian said: "I'm fine."

"That's good, it scared me to death."

"But it got out."

Yu Qingqian's face became serious.

"Leave what?"

Su Bai was a little confused.

"Listen to me slowly..."

Yu Qingqian briefly explained the reason why Mr. Li disappeared these days.

It turned out that he was looking for the owner of the national treasure.

I want to negotiate with the seller in advance before the auction to acquire the national treasure at a suitable price.

It's a pity that the Japanese people found out about this.

The Japanese also found the seller through connections and offered a higher purchase price.

After Mr. Li found the seller, he was moved emotionally and rationally, but still could not convince the seller to sell the national treasure.

We can only give up the acquisition for the time being and come back to continue to think of solutions.

"How could the Japanese know Mr. Li's intentions?"

Su Bai was puzzled.

This time, only a few experts from Shobo knew that Mr. Li planned to find the seller in advance.

However, the Japanese learned about Shoubo's plan and sent out manpower to negotiate with the seller in advance.

This disrupted the group's plan.

"Someone on our side should have leaked the news."

Yu Qingqian said regretfully.

Su Bai understood instantly.

It turns out that there is a mole among the experts, who secretly leaked the news to the Japanese!

She quickly shook her head: "It's not me, I didn't say anything."

Yu Qingqian laughed: "Don't worry, of course I didn't doubt you, otherwise I wouldn't have told you this."

"I invited you to Hong Kong Island, and you didn't hear about the national treasure until you arrived at the hotel. Naturally, you can't be a mole."

"Then who do you think the mole will be?"

Su Bai asked curiously.

"That's unknown."

Yu Qingqian paused and continued: "It is possible that there are treasure appraisal experts from several other provinces."

"This is also our fault. We did not keep confidentiality in advance, thinking that we could complete the acquisition after negotiating with the seller."

Yu Qingqian looked regretful.

"So, the national treasure has been bought by the Japanese?"

Su Bai couldn't help but worry.

Yu Qingqian finally showed a smile: "Not yet. The seller is greedy. He is not satisfied with the price offered by the Japanese. He is still waiting for the price."

"Of course, Mr. Li is also responsible for this. He deceived the seller and said that he could offer a higher price than the Japanese, so that the seller would not make a move first and give him time to apply for money from China."

"Can I apply for money?"

"No, the funds provided by the above are limited, so we have to find a way on our own."

Yu Qingqian shrugged.

"What should we do?" Su Bai was speechless.

The seller obviously cannot play the emotional card.

How to buy a national treasure without money?

"We are already contacting patriotic businessmen on Hong Kong Island and hope they can also contribute."

Yu Qingqian said with relief: "The first task now is to determine whether the national treasure is authentic!"

Without the ability to authenticate the authenticity, acquisitions are extremely risky.

What troubles Yu Qingqian is that he has never been able to see the national treasure.

Su Bai thought for a moment and suggested: "Otherwise, you can say that the national treasure is a fake after being identified."

"Fake? But we haven't even seen the real thing..."

Halfway through Yu Qingqian's words, he suddenly realized something.

"You mean to make the seller nervous. As long as he is worried that the thing in his hand will not be recognized, he will take the initiative to invite us to appraise it?"

"Yes, that's what it means."

Su Bai nodded, "Besides, when the Japanese hear the news, they will hesitate when making acquisitions, so as not to raise the price too high."

Yu Qingqian suddenly realized: "What you said makes sense, I will find someone to do it right now!"

As he said that, he took out his mobile phone and called someone.

After talking for a few minutes, Yu Qingqian hung up the phone.

Returning to the tea table, he said calmly: "Mr. Li agreed to this idea. As long as the seller is temporarily delayed, we will still have a chance to buy back the national treasure."

Perhaps for confidentiality reasons.

Yu Qingqian never mentioned what the national treasure was.

Su Bai didn't ask any more questions, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Let’s put aside the matter of national treasures for now.

She rummaged through her bag, took out her Zippo lighter, and threw it to Yu Qing.

"Boss Yu, this is what you want."

"I'll wipe it! Don't throw it away!"

Yu Qingqian was so frightened that he finally caught the lighter and held it carefully with both hands.

After looking at it for a moment, his eyes shone: "It is indeed the real thing! Good stuff!"

"What about the money?"

Su Bai asked with a smile.

"I almost forgot, I'll pass it on to you right now!"

Yu Qingqian patted his head and quickly gave Su Bai money.

Just after transferring the money, he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, where is the Bible you found?"

He was very interested in the breeches version of the Bible he saw in the live broadcast room and planned to have a look at it.

Su Bai shook his head: "I have already used it to exchange things with others."

"What?"

Yu Qingqian was a little dumbfounded: "You just exchanged something worth 100 million with others?"

"Yes." Su Bai nodded slowly.

"Okay, what did you change?"

Yu Qingqian asked curiously.

Su Bai didn't waste any time and took out a few ancient books from his bag again and placed them on the table.

"How many books did you change?"

Yu Qingqian frowned, picked up an ancient book, and started reading it carefully.

"The Analects?"

He glanced at the content and looked normal at first.

But the more he looked at it, the bigger his eyes became.

This ancient book is not an ordinary "The Analects of Confucius", but an annotated "The Analects of Confucius"!
The content of the annotations is the key point for everyone to explain the Analects between the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties!

Yu Qingqian suddenly realized the origin of this book and stood up from the sofa.

His voice was trembling: "Are these Dunhuang suicide notes?!"

Su Bai smiled without saying a word and nodded.

"You just used a broken Bible to get the Dunhuang suicide note?"

Yu Qingqian asked again in an incredible tone.

Dunhuang posthumous writings are also called Dunhuang documents, Dunhuang documents, and Dunhuang manuscripts.

It is the general name for a group of books discovered in the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang in the early 20th century, referring to the ancient manuscripts and prints produced in Dunhuang from the 4th to the 11th century.

The Sutra Cave contains tens of thousands of ancient suicide notes in Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, Sogdian, Sanskrit and other languages, as well as various cultural relics such as Buddhist paintings and flags.

Among the suicide notes, Chinese and Tibetan are the largest groups. The total number of Chinese suicide notes is about [-], of which ninety-nine are Buddhist documents.

In addition, it also includes Taoist classics, traditional classics and history collections, popular literature, medical books, history and geography, etc.

In 1907, a British man named Stein defrauded 14 boxes of suicide notes and 24 large boxes of cultural relics for 5 pieces of horseshoe silver.

Later, a French expedition team went to the cave and stole the most valuable cultural relics in the cave.

It wasn't until the Qing government discovered the value of the Dunhuang posthumous documents that they ordered them to be transported back to the capital. However, when the escort arrived in the capital, they intercepted and confiscated most of the fine works.

Today, dozens of national museums house an unknown number of Dunhuang manuscripts.

It is impossible to recover them all.

Although there are regrets, getting these few Dunhuang suicide notes is already an important gain.

Yu Qingqian didn't dare to have too many extravagant hopes.

"I also changed some trinkets. You should like this sterling silver cigarette case."

Su Bai did another magic trick and took out a palm-sized silver cigarette case from his bag.

The cigarette box is made of polished silver and decorated with blue enamel. There is a peacock in the center of the lid, which is extremely colorful.

Yu Qingqian started playing with it without any courtesy.

"Do you really want to send me?"

"of course."

Su Bai smiled and nodded.

"Su Shen Niu Pi!"

Yu Qingqian flattered him on the spot.

He exchanged a found Bible for the Dunhuang suicide note, a priceless national treasure, and a pile of Western antiques.

Except for Su Bai, no one else could perform such a magical operation!
"What are you going to do with these volumes of Dunhuang suicide notes?"

Yu Qingqian asked.

This kind of thing is already a cultural relic, and many museums are rushing to collect it.

He wouldn't be too surprised if Su Bai offered a high price.

Su Bai said calmly: "I plan to donate it to the Capital Museum."

"Su Shen Gaoyi!"

When Yu Qingqian heard this, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and this time he praised it from the bottom of his heart.

Su Bai was not too happy.

She briefly described the purchasing channels of Edward, the owner of the Western antique shop.

"You want to find that second-rate dealer named Charles?"

Yu Qingqian's tea-making hand stopped in mid-air and asked in a daze.

"I infer that he has more than just these Dunhuang suicide notes."

"If you want to find Charles, you have to go to the art exchange salon held by Mr. Li?"

"good."

Su Bai nodded.

"Leave it to me, I know Mr. Li."

Yu Qingqian said with confidence.

Mr. Li had invited him to participate in the exchange meeting before.

However, Yu Qingqian politely refused.

He didn't have time to fool around with a bunch of blind rich second-generation people.

But now that Su Bai mentioned it, he could use his connections to help.

Su Bai shook his head: "I have found a way to join the salon."

"Do you have any acquaintances in Hong Kong Island?"

Yu Qingqian asked with slight surprise.

"I just met a friend who can help."

Su Bai thought for a moment and said, "But I still need Boss Yu's cooperation."

Then, she briefly talked about her plan.

"Boss Yu was invited by Mr. Li to go to the salon as an appraisal expert."

"At that time, as long as the cultural relics in Charles' hands are reduced to worthless, I can take advantage of it, but it depends on whether Boss Yu is willing to break the rules."

After Su Bai finished speaking, he looked at Yu Qingqian, waiting for his response.

This is an old trick often used by some unscrupulous profiteers.

It is a deceptive method that seriously violates the rules of the antique industry.

If the matter is exposed, Yu Qingqian is afraid that his reputation will be ruined.

Yu Qingqian answered without hesitation:
"Are you kidding me? It's now like this, and I'm still telling them the rules?"

(End of this chapter)