Collection of Gods

Chapter 583 Photo Album of East Asia in the th Century

After arriving in London, Tang Yuan took a short rest for two days.

During this period, he asked Lu Shuyuan to bring all the collection albums from this year's Christie's auction house to his room, and used his jet-lagged free time to sort through all the collections.

Christie's Auction House's 2019 autumn auction has a total of 15 special sales, with a total collection of more than items. The collection of albums alone is almost as tall as an adult.

Faced with such a large collection, Tang Yuan temporarily filtered out the wine, jewelry and luxury goods categories based on the elimination method, and focused mainly on calligraphy, painting, sculpture, antiques and other categories.

After two days of preliminary screening, Tang Yuan finally screened out 174 suspicious collections. In the next few days, Tang Yuan will need to use his mysterious ancient ring to further investigate these suspicious collections.

……

In early autumn in September, the weather in London is pleasant.

Tang Yuan was wearing a light brown windbreaker, standing by the Thames River, looking at London's landmark Tower Bridge. Behind him stood Lu Shuyuan and Gami Rafati.

After six consecutive days of inspection, Tang Yuan inspected all 174 suspicious collections that had been screened out a few days ago. The result made Tang Yuan greatly disappointed. Among the 174 suspicious collections, there was nothing he was looking for.

National Memorial, after this period of thinking and consulting relevant information, Tang Yuan had no clue at first, but now he gradually has some ideas.

The vast expanse of China is devastated.

In the glory of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Yuan traveled all over Panjiayuan and looked through all the ancient monuments. If he had not seen the big truck driving into Panjiayuan that day, he might have missed the Twenty-Four Seals of the Ming Dynasty. , enough to be called lucky.

At the beginning of the journey, the process was also ups and downs, from finding the Niu brothers, to opening the bronze tripod, and finally restoring the water-logged bamboo slips. If there was the slightest mistake at each stage, all previous efforts might be wasted and all efforts would be in vain.

'Five-star missions are really difficult to accomplish! '

Tang Yuan shook his head and responded softly: "I'm just asking."

……

After saying that, he continued walking aimlessly along the Thames River.

Today, there are less than five days left before the opening of Christie’s Auction House’s 2019 autumn auction.

'Why……'

After a long time, Tang Yuan turned around and asked Lu Shuyuan: "Mr. Lu, are these the only collections your Christie's auction house will auction this autumn? Will they not change again?"

Not surprisingly, Tang Yuan still gained nothing in the past three days, but as the time gradually approached, Tang Yuan's originally restless heart calmed down.

In the blink of an eye, another three days passed.

Lu Shuyuan and Gami Rafati, who were standing behind Tang Yuan, looked at each other, and both could feel that Tang Yuan's interest seemed to be a little low, but they didn't know exactly what caused Tang Yuan's low interest.

Tang Yuan sighed silently in his heart.

Billions of compatriots are as humble as pigs and dogs.

"The normal situation is like this. Unless there are extremely special circumstances, such as a particularly precious collection being sent for auction, it will not change." Lu Shuyuan replied quickly, and then asked a little cautiously: "Director Tang, is it Do you feel a little dissatisfied with our autumn auction collection this year?”

"Dong dong dong..."

Tang Yuan's intuition told him that the items needed for this mission may not be as precious as the Twenty-Four Seals of the Ming Dynasty, and they may not be as legendary as the authentic works of Dao Zu, but they may be of extraordinary significance.

Looking at ancient and modern times, the only history that can be called national tragedy is the humiliating history full of tragedies a hundred years ago.

The thousand-year-old country fell to the enemy.

As knocks on the door rang, Tang Yuan, who was having breakfast, stood up and opened the door, only to see Lu Shuyuan standing outside.

"Mr. Lu, have you had breakfast?"

"Do you want to come together?"

These days, Lu Shuyuan accompanied Tang Yuan in and out of the major exhibition halls of Christie's auction house. The two gradually became familiar with each other and got along more casually.

Of course, it was just that Tang Yuan was more casual. "Thank you, Mr. Tang. I've already had breakfast."

Lu Shuyuan walked into Tang Yuan's suite and gently closed the door.

"Is there a problem?"

Tang Yuan forked a piece of Italian sausage and put it into his mouth, raised his eyes and asked Lu Shuyuan.

Normally, Lu Shuyuan would wait at the door or in the hotel lobby before Tang Yuan went out every day. It was rare for someone to knock on the door and come in like this.

"Director Tang, our Christie's auction house has just updated the collection list for this year's autumn auction, adding a total of 23 collections. As soon as I got the news, I immediately sent you the latest updated collection list."

Lu Shuyuan stood in front of Tang Yuan's dining table and explained to Tang Yuan truthfully.

"Oh?"

"Let's take a look?"

Tang Yuan's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this.

The emergence of new collections means the emergence of new opportunities.

Seeing Tang Yuan's interest, Lu Shuyuan handed Tang Yuan the latest updated collection list with both hands.

After receiving the collection list, Tang Yuan did not show too much eagerness. After finishing the sandwich on the dinner plate, he opened the collection list slowly and looked through it carefully.

"Oil paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, plum vase with sea dragon pattern from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Harry Winston's Colombian emerald necklace, ink paintings by Zhang Daqian..."

"Sure enough, they are all the best among the best. If any one is put on the auction stage, it will be an item with a starting price of tens of millions."

Tang Yuan said softly with emotion while flipping through the collection list in his hand.

"Ok?"

"What is this?"

“A Photo Album Collection of Twentieth Century East Asia?”

Suddenly, Tang Yuan's left hand, which was flipping through the collection list, paused slightly, with a look of surprise on his face.

How could Tang Yuan not be surprised that a photo album collection could be included in Christie's auction house's autumn auction collection list with Zhang Daqian's oil paintings and other precious collections as an exception?

Lu Shuyuan, who was standing at the table, heard Tang Yuan's exclamation and leaned forward slightly. After she saw the collection Tang Yuan was browsing, she thought for a moment and responded: "Dr. Tang, I heard that this collection The owner is an Italian. He accidentally discovered this photo album when he was cleaning up his ancestral property some time ago. It happened that his family needed money urgently for medical treatment, so he took the photo album with a lucky mentality. Arrived at our auction house.”

"After the appraisal experts from our auction house read through it, they decided on the spot to make an exception and include it in this year's autumn auction, and gave the evaluation that it was of extraordinary significance and priceless value. As for the content of this photo album, I don't know It’s unknown.”

Lu Shuyuan saw that Tang Yuan was more interested in this collection, so she immediately told Tang Yuan all the information she knew.

"Can I make an appointment to view this photo album?"

After listening to Lu Shuyuan's introduction, Tang Yuan felt like a flash of lightning flashed through his mind. At the same time, a strong intuition surged in his heart, and he vaguely felt that this photo album might be what he had been looking for.

"OK."

"Dr. Tang, do you want to make an appointment to view this photo album?"

Lu Shuyuan nodded and asked Tang Yuan.

"That's right!"

"Make an appointment now, I want to see it now!"

After saying that, Tang Yuan stood up first and walked out of the suite.

There was quite a bit of turmoil in the action...

(End of this chapter)