In Yang Dongxu's room in Tuoy's manor, Du Fei put down the cardboard box containing the things he purchased at the fair and took out the contents one by one.
In fact, the most important thing is to take out the bronzes. Those plates and vases are not that important. The bronze vessel is roughly shaped like a bird's head, but it is too dirty to see clearly.
Putting the bronze on the table, he found a towel and some other useful things in the bathroom. He knew a lot about the protection of cultural relics. After all, when he was still staying in Yanjing, he often went to the bottom line with Old Man Xuan to take care of his treasures.
It's just that you can't buy some things in the UK, so you can only do more detailed maintenance after returning to your country. What you can do now is to do a simple cleaning of this thing to see what it is.
As he continued to clean the dirty bronze, a dark red light emerged. This was refined red copper, with a deep color, brilliance and restraint that would not rust for hundreds of years.
So it looks dirty on the surface, like an ancient bronze with patina. In fact, these dirty things are all foreign objects. As the emotions are cleaned up, even without some professional maintenance, the restrained luster of red copper is still intoxicating. .
After a while, Yang Dongxu looked at the bronzes that had been cleaned by himself on the table and reflected a deep light under the light in the room. Yang Dongxu's face looked a little dazed: "Really or fake?"
His dazed expression contained excitement, disbelief, and a trace of sluggishness. In short, he was scratching his head and not knowing what to do.
The twelve zodiac avatars are very well-known in later generations. They are definitely national treasures among national treasures. I don’t know how much effort was spent to get them back to China, but in the end there were still four bronze heads missing.
Among them was the bronze head in front of him - a chicken head!
Looking at the realistic chicken head, the small bumps on the comb, and the down on the chicken head are all so clear and lifelike. He felt that this thing should be real.
In fact, with his ability to appreciate antiques, even if he is not as good as some real experts, he can still accurately identify the chicken head in front of him. After all, if he hadn't learned some real skills when he first learned this and satisfied the demanding old man Xuan, his butt would have blossomed long ago.
But at this time, he was so excited that he began to doubt himself. He was unable to use the abilities he had learned to make a step-by-step appraisal.
"This thing... this thing..." Du Fei, who was originally watching Yang Dongxu's busy work without paying attention, also widened his eyes at this time.
When he was in Yanjing, he didn't see Yang Dongxu playing with these things, so he didn't pay much attention at first. But after seeing the shape of this thing clearly, even though he participated in small wars in the chaotic area of the Middle East without a frown, he felt breathless at this time, and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by a big hand.
"Is this... real or fake?" Du Fei asked the same question a while later in a somewhat uneasy tone.
Although the bronze heads of the twelve zodiac signs are still unfamiliar to most ordinary people now, it is not like a few years later when several bronze heads were sold for sky-high prices and instantly attracted everyone's attention.
But Du Fei is not an ordinary person. He knows the significance of the bronze head to the country. So such an awesome national treasure was placed in front of him blankly, and he felt that he needed a quick-acting life-saving pill.
"It should be true, right?" Yang Dongxu said to clear his dry throat. He wanted to reach out and touch the chicken head, but he was afraid that the sweat on his hands would corrode it.
He was so cautious that he wanted to touch but didn't dare to touch him. This was the only time in his life when his son was born and he became a father for the first time and he didn't know how to hold him. He was so at a loss.
"Let's go back to China now and take this thing home to show Master Xuan. He will definitely know whether it is true or false." Du Fei said excitedly.
"Yeah, yeah, let's book a flight and return to China tomorrow." Yang Dongxu nodded in agreement.
"We don't have any purchase receipt or proof for this thing. It should be considered contraband, right? Will it be confiscated and not allowed to be taken on the plane?" Du Fei had a worried look on his face.
"It's really possible." Yang Dongxu's face paused, then he frowned and started searching carefully, "We don't seem to have a smooth way to get this thing back to the country in the UK."
"Why don't you ask Troy? He seems to be quite popular in the UK." Du Fei suggested.
"Then ask." Yang Dongxu stood up.
"Is he interested in stealing? After all, this is a very valuable national treasure. We don't have any proof to prove that this thing is ours. What if he takes it and makes it his own?" Du Fei looked worried. .
"No?" Yang Dongxu looked hesitant.
Then the two people stared at each other, and finally their eyes were focused on the chicken head.
Beep beep... there was a knock on the door.
"Who?" Du Fei shouted and rushed to the door with his hand already touching the back of his waist.
When he went abroad to work with Yang Dongxu, Du Fei usually carried a gun with him. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, where he could apply for legal documents to hold guns, all his documents were complete, so he always carried a gun.
"Dinner time is coming soon. My husband asked me to come over and ask if there is anything I want to eat so that the kitchen can prepare it." The voice of the manor servant came from outside the door.
"No special preparation is needed." Yang Dongxu said.
"Okay." The servant outside the door responded, followed by the sound of footsteps gradually moving away.
When the footsteps disappeared, Du Fei opened the door cautiously and took a look outside, then closed the door again.
"Don't be so startled, it makes me nervous." After such an interruption, Yang Dongxu woke up from the anxiety just now.
What’s nothing without any credentials? With his current status and resources at his disposal, even in the UK where private channels are not very smooth, as long as he wants someone to give him the "Mona Lisa Smile", he can find a way to get it back.
It is not easy to safely send chicken heads back to China. I was a little distracted just now because I was so shocked that I almost fell into persecution paranoia. I felt like there were eyes everywhere in the room, monitoring things like that. I didn't pay attention and someone stole the chicken head.
But in fact, except for him and Du Fei, no one knew that the bronze he bought was a national treasure-level chicken head. No one paid any attention to this thing.
"You were still talking about me, you just..." Du Fei curled his lips.
Because he had to ensure Yang Dongxu's safety while abroad, he was always in high tension. I was a little distracted by the stimulation of the chicken head just now, but now my head is obviously clear.
"Okay, tidy up the room. You can take a look at this thing before returning to China." Although he still wanted to take the chicken head in his hand and appreciate it carefully, he was no longer as nervous as before.
"Just watch it, but the question is still the same, can this thing be taken on a plane?" Du Fei stretched his head and walked around the table to admire it.
"I'll ask Troy later about the procedures. It should be no problem to go through the procedures for handicrafts. If that doesn't work, just borrow Troy's private jet.
But having said that, should I also buy a private jet, as long as it is convenient to do things both at home and abroad? If I'm lucky in the future, it won't be that troublesome to find such a treasure and take it back. "Yang Dongxu touched his chin and thought.
I remember that after I bought Maserati, I was so good at getting a Zonda sports car when I returned to China. He can still clearly feel his excitement at that time and the forklift he drove on the main road in Yanjing. It all seemed like it happened just the day before yesterday. Who would have thought that without realizing it, I would start thinking about buying a plane.
"I'm asking you a question." After waiting for a long time and not hearing Du Fei's response, he kicked the opponent as an example.
"Are you asking me?" Du Fei looked away from the chicken head and looked at his boss: "Shouldn't you go to the young mistress to discuss such a matter? Ask me, what advice can I give? Anyway, it's you who spends the money money."
"I don't know how to make progress, and I don't know how to grasp the opportunity given to you to perform." Yang Dongxu glared at Du Fei.
Du Fei curled his lips and was too lazy to speak.
After watching in the room for a while, Yang Dongxu left the room when he felt that dinner was about to begin. Du Fei stayed in the room and watched. Even if Yang Dongxu asked him to go out to eat, he would probably hold the chicken head together when he went to the toilet before returning home.
When they arrived at the restaurant downstairs, Troy hadn't come out of the room yet. There were only Troy's female companions and Hayes, his female companion from before, in the restaurant.
The cross sword was finally bought by Troy, so I don't know if he is collecting his own strength and setting up a Feng Shui array to gather luck and ward off evil spirits.
"Sir, there is still a while before the dinner. Do you need to go to the wine store to pick wine?" Seeing Yang Dongxu coming down, the manor housekeeper came over with a smile on his face. Before speaking, he bent slightly, with a respectful but respectful smile on his face. It's not humble, it makes people feel comfortable.
It made Yang Dongxu wonder if he would find time to find a British butler.
"Then let's go to the wine store and have a look." Yang Dongxu nodded, and then greeted Hayes and the others: "Do you have any wine you want to drink? Let's go to the wine store to pick it up."
Although he had questioned Toy's character just now when he was suffering from paranoia and was paranoid about persecution, Yang Dongxu had no mercy when it came to picking out wine. No matter what, I had to open a bottle of good wine that was almost extinct on the market last year to calm myself down.
"It's a great honor. I've always heard that Mr. Toy has a lot of fine wines in his collection, and now I finally have a chance to see it." Hayes walked over with a smile.
Troy's female companion also followed, and the three of them were led by the housekeeper to the wine cellar of the villa. Although he had seen so-called wealthy wine warehouses in movies and TV shows more than once, Yang Dongxu was still shocked when he actually walked into the wine warehouse.
It's big, very big. Besides being big, it has a dazzling array of fine wines displayed in rows. The worst bottle among them starts at a few hundred dollars. If a robber comes to rob the villa, there is no need to steal any gold, silver and jewelry. If we can empty out the wine warehouse in front of us, we will probably be able to wash our hands and withdraw from the world.
