Liu Guangqi originally came to check out these treasures with full expectations, but when he walked around the boxes, he realized that something was wrong. Because the light was not good in the secret room and time was tight, Liu Guangqi did not check these things carefully. .
But now when the daylight took a look, Liu Guangqi suddenly discovered that half of the more than one hundred boxes looked more like ammunition boxes for weapons than boxes for treasures.
"Fuck, fuck,"
In order to test his conjecture, Liu Guangqi quickly opened a box, and sure enough, there were ten brand-new Monaghans neatly placed inside the box. Seeing these ten rifles, Liu Guangqi kicked the box angrily.
"What's wrong."
Seeing Liu Guangqi's furious look, Bai Hui walked over.
"look by youself"
Liu Guangqi covered his forehead and pointed at the wooden box in front of him, with an ugly expression as if he wanted to eat cake.
"Why are there guns in here? These boxes can't all contain guns. Wouldn't that be a waste of time?"
Bai Hui was also shocked when she saw the rifle in the box. Then he reacted and asked with a painful look on his face.
"Probably not. When I collected them, the outermost boxes must contain treasures. You should get up first."
In order to find out what was stored in these boxes, Liu Guangqi picked up the crowbar and started working. Liu Guangqi didn't stop for a moment in the next three hours, and finally figured out what was in the box.
As Liu Guangqi estimated, sixty-five of the more than one hundred boxes contained arms. There were a total of 450 Monaghans, 36 Madsen light machine guns, and five Marks. Qin heavy machine guns, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of bullets of various types. This much equipment was enough for Li Yunlong to arm two battalions during the Anti-Japanese War.
It seems that the Tsarist Russian royal family still had some ulterior motives and had some back-ups, but this back-up was not used.
In addition to these, Liu Guangqi was more happy with the contents of the more than forty boxes, especially the ten boxes of gold bars weighing two tons. Liu Guangqi was stunned to see that he was in Cixi's treasure. He just discovered 800 kilograms of gold, which more than tripled his value.
In addition to the gold, the remaining boxes also contain valuable items. There are jewelry, Western artworks, oil paintings, porcelain, and Oriental antiques and jades.
What shocked Liu Guangqi the most was the twenty boxes full of jewelry. The first thing that caught his eye every time he opened a box was the dazzling brilliance of various gemstones on the jewelry.
Different from the restrained oriental jewelry, each piece of these jewelry is extremely luxurious and full of pearls. It is inlaid with either diamonds, red sapphires, or lastly crystals and pearls. Anyway, the more sparkly the better.
Although the material looks a bit tacky, the design of the jewelry designer does not look tacky at all, but is full of ingenuity.
After being shocked, Liu Guangqi was confused. Why couldn't Liu Guangqi understand how the Tsarist Russian royal family had so many jewelry? Liu Guangqi wouldn't be surprised if there were three or five boxes.
After all, for the royal family, it is normal for them to have more jewelry. But twenty boxes are too much. Although these jewelry boxes are not big, there is still no problem in one box containing one or two hundred pieces of jewelry. One box is counted as two hundred pieces, and twenty boxes are More than 40,000 pieces of jewelry. Could it be that the royal family kept all their jewelry here?
Of course, Liu Guangqi would not dislike these things. The more of these things, the better. He was simply curious as to whether a woman from the Tsarist Russian royal family could wear so many jewelry. This is too crazy.
Liu Guangqi didn't know that the cause of all this was actually Peter the Great, the Russian Czar hundreds of years ago.
As the fifth tsar of the Russian Romanov dynasty, the first emperor of the Russian Empire, and one of the two great emperors in Russian history, Peter the Great had an almost paranoid fanaticism for jewelry, and even issued a special order to protect treasures, requiring Chinese people are not allowed to sell their precious jewelry and jewelry at will. Diamonds and jewelry above a certain weight must be purchased by the royal family.
In addition, Peter the Great also searched for diamond beads around the world, and built a mysterious building in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg where he lived, and stored all the collected jewelry inside. This place is also known as outsiders. The world calls it the diamond vault.
After generations of royal families continued to collect, the Russian diamond library eventually became the place with the largest concentration of precious diamonds in the world, including three of the top ten largest diamonds in the world.
Influenced by Peter the Great, both Catherine II and the last Tsar Nicholas II perfectly inherited his jewelry taste.
Especially Queen Catherine II. Someone once said that if every woman in the world loves diamonds, then the woman who loves diamonds most is Catherine II. One of her Bibles alone has a silver cover inlaid with 3,017 diamonds. Not to mention her crown and scepter.
Even the British princess Alice who married into the Russian royal family wrote in a letter to her mother Victoria in shock: "The jewelry in the Tsar's palace may not even be comparable to your collection."
You must know that the British Empire at that time was a rich empire on which the sun never set. To make the princesses of the British Empire express such emotions is enough to show how amazing the jewelry library of the Tsarist Russian royal family was.
What is good at the top is not as good as the bottom. The royal family's pursuit of jewelry soon spread to the people, and even affected every person in Russia. Someone once commented on Russia like this
"This is a magical country. Even if women are too poor to eat bread, they will still proudly wear their mink coats, sparkling pearl necklaces and diamond necklaces to go to the theater to watch a ballet."
This comment is enough to show the Russian people's pursuit of jewelry. It can be said that if a Russian does not have a few pieces of jewelry in his home, then his life will not be able to survive at all. Even now, Russia has changed from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union. The problem has not been corrected.
In addition to these twenty boxes of jewelry, Liu Guangqi also found some exquisite porcelain and works of art in this box, including more than a dozen Easter eggs. These Easter eggs are not the Easter eggs at the end of the movie, but famous Russian jewelry. The eggs made by Shangfa Berge for the royal family can be regarded as jewelry or as a work of art. They are made of various precious materials, including amber and tortoiseshell.
Along with these eggs, there are some porcelains. These porcelains are not Chinese porcelain, but Western porcelain. Many people know that China is the birthplace of porcelain and has a long history, but few people know that after the 18th century, Western porcelain The skill of firing porcelain has surpassed that of China. He also innovated and produced porcelain that conformed to Western aesthetics.
Although the prices of these porcelains in later auctions are not high, that is mainly because they have a short history and a large number of surviving porcelains, unlike Chinese porcelain which can easily survive for hundreds or even thousands of years and is very rare.
These porcelains are divided into two major categories, one is ornamental porcelain, and the other is daily-use porcelain. The daily-use porcelain is naturally plates and cups. There are many ornamental porcelains, including human figures and animals. There are also vases. Regardless of the type, the workmanship is very exquisite, even luxurious, full of Baroque and Rococo styles, and some of them are just showing off their skills in Liu Guangqi's opinion.
In addition to these, there are two boxes of antique jades from China, as well as several large boxes of oil paintings painted by Western celebrities. Liu Guangqi does not understand oil paintings. Among so many oil paintings, Liu Guangqi only recognized one of Van Gogh's paintings. After all, Van Gogh's paintings are too It has its own characteristics, but I don’t know anything else about it, but since it was collected by the royal family, it must have been painted by celebrities.
After checking these things, Liu Guangqi began to categorize these things. After all, so many things cannot just be left here. Especially since there is a gun inside, it would be troublesome if a child accidentally touches it and discharges it.
But now Liu Guangqi has learned to be smart and no longer moves stupidly by himself. Instead, you use your own abilities to get things into the real world first, then return to the space and run to the place where you want to store the things, and then come out and bring the things back to the space. It is simple and labor-saving.
"Keep an eye on these things, and be sure not to let the children break them."
Looking at the three women surrounding the dozens of boxes of jewelry, Liu Guangqi reminded them and then started to get busy.
"don't want"
Liu Guangqi soon put the arms, gold and jewelry in their respective places. Just when he was about to put the porcelain and oil paintings, he saw Xu Huizhi take out an oil painting from a painting tube and spread it on the box. Ready to open. Seeing this scene, Liu Guangqi quickly stepped forward to stop it, but it was too late. Xu Huizhi had already opened the painting and put her head up.
"ah"
Seeing what was on the canvas, Xu Huizhi's face suddenly turned red, she yelled shyly, and then threw the painting in her hand as if she had got a hot potato. Bai Hui and Yunzi on the side saw what was on the painting. After taking the things, his face turned red and he glared at Liu Guangqi angrily.
"You gangster"
"Why did I become a gangster? What did I do?"
After receiving a scolding, Liu Guangqi asked in confusion.
"You know what you did. Do you already know what is in this painting?"
"I didn't know what was painted on it. It turns out to be this."
Liu Guangqi walked up and took a look at the painting, and he suddenly realized. No wonder the three women blushed after seeing it.
"This is a theme in European oil paintings. It is mainly used to resist oppression and show the natural beauty of the human body. In addition to this kind of painting, there are many sculptures of this theme, which are very common in the West."
Liu Guangqi looked at the three women and explained.
"Then why did you scream just now?"
Yunzi asked with a blushing face.
"I just screamed because this painting has been rolled up for too long and I can't open it just like that. See for yourselves whether there are many cracks on it. Don't underestimate these cracks. It might turn out like this. The value of the painting”
Liu Guangqi pointed at the small cracks on the oil painting and said.
"The impact is the impact. It's best to destroy this kind of thing. Do you think so?"
Bai Hui said with a look of disgust.
"That's right"
"that is"
Xu Huizhi and Yunzi also echoed.
"Okay, okay, don't stay here and go back and rest."
Seeing that the three women were being unreasonable, Liu Guangqi waved his hand and drove the three of them back to the small foreign-style building. After he finished his work, the three women had returned to their respective houses to catch up on their sleep.
"Ah, comfortable"
After working for several hours, Liu Guangqi, who was already exhausted, went to the bathroom and put a full tank of hot water for himself. Then he dragged his tired body and sat in. Soaking his head in slightly hot water, and then suddenly getting out, Liu Guangqi couldn't help but let out a pleasant moan.
Just as Liu Guangqi was enjoying the bath with his eyes closed, the sound of slippers suddenly sounded behind him, followed by the sound of someone entering the water.
Then Liu Guangqi felt a pair of delicate and delicate hands put on his temples, pressing them gently and gently.
"Why is it you?"
Liu Guangqi originally thought it was Xu Huizhi, but when he opened his eyes, he saw Yunzi's little face.
"Sister Huizhi is busy taking care of the children and doesn't have time to come over. It's inconvenient for Sister Huizi today."
Yunzi explained.
"oh"
Liu Guangqi responded, then closed his eyes while enjoying Yunzi's service, while making small movements on Yunzi's chest. After pressing the temples, the two changed positions and pressed the neck and shoulders.
Then the postures of the two of them became more and more ambiguous. Feeling that the heat was almost over, Liu Guangqi stopped being polite, picked up Yunzi and walked towards her room.
After a romantic night, Liu Guangqi welcomed the morning of the next day. In order to prevent Vladimir's family from noticing anything unusual, Liu Guangqi got up from Yun Zi's soft embrace at around five o'clock.
"Dear Davari Liu, you are really amazing. I have never seen anyone who can drink like you. Where did you get your wine? It is really powerful. I have never drank it. It was such a strong vodka, my head still hurts."
After feeling the sound of someone moving outside the room, Liu Guangqi also put on his clothes and walked out. As soon as he opened the door, he met Andre coming down from upstairs.
After seeing Liu Guangqi, Andre covered his forehead and praised Liu Guangqi's drinking capacity.
"I distilled it myself from vodka. The purity reaches 96 degrees. I usually use it as the base liquor and drink it mixed with others."
Liu Guangqi explained with a smile.
"Oh my god, it's 96 degrees. It's no different from drinking alcohol directly. You can actually drink so much alcohol with such a high alcohol content. It's really amazing."
Hearing this, Andre gave Liu Guangqi a thumbs up again.
"You look good, Vladimir."
After saying hello to Andre, Vladimir also walked down the stairs. His condition was much better than that of old Andre. It seemed that he had a good rest last night.
"I can't compare to you. Oh my god, if I were you, I would definitely not be able to stand up today. I'm even ready to ask for leave for you."
Vladimir looked at the lively Liu Guangqi in disbelief. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a man who drank five bottles of vodka and more than a dozen beers would actually stand in front of him as if nothing had happened to him just a few hours ago.
"It's not a big deal. You should think about where you want to take me to play today."
Liu Guangqi smiled proudly at Vladimir.
After devouring Yin Wa and preparing some breakfast, Vladimir took Liu Guangqi back to Moscow and wandered around various scenic spots in Moscow before sending Liu Guangqi back to the guest house.
Back at the guest house, Liu Guangqi was about to go into his room to take a nap when he saw Wang Dongfang, Qi Sheng and others dressed like dogs walking out of Li Xizheng's room.
"Come back. Guangqi, did you have fun these two days?"
"It's not bad, I'm very happy, and I've gained a lot."
Thinking of what he had gained last night, Liu Guangqi smiled brightly. After finishing laughing, Liu Guangqi looked at the three of them and asked.
"You are dressed up so slim and smooth, what are you going to do?"
"Of course I'm going to the dance. Our embassy and several universities in Moscow organized an exchange dance at the Palace of Culture, inviting international students from all over the world to participate. I heard that many beautiful Soviet female students will go there. Are you going?"
Li Xizheng said excitedly.
"forget it."
Seeing the three people eager to try, Liu Guangqi smiled and refused. This kind of dance is said to be an exchange dance, but some of them are for exchange and study. Basically, they go there to flirt. Of course, they are all young people in their early twenties. It is understandable that there is nowhere to vent the restlessness of adolescence.
