After eating at Cathy's place, Zhu Yu returned to the study and began to sort out things and information.
He first took out a few oil paintings from the space and looked at the signatures on them.
Monet, I’ve heard of it.
After checking the information, I found that the famous French painter died before the start of World War II.
One of the representatives and founders of Impressionism.
Zhu Yu was not interested in other introductions.
Since the beginning of this century, the auction price of his works has basically never been less than 20 million US dollars, and the highest price has reached 80 million US dollars!
Zhu Yu counted and found that there were eleven Monet works in his space!
Picasso's, seven paintings!
There are many who don’t know their names at all!
Zhu Yu counted the various paintings he brought back, more than 190 of them.
If these prices are the same, then your assets will have to double!
But he didn't plan to sell all the paintings. He wanted to find out who they belonged to first. After that, go ahead and make your own plans.
Of course, this cannot be rushed.
If you are too hasty, you will easily attract enemies.
What Zhu Yu didn't know was that on the third day after he left Paris, the bodies of Heine and David were found in the villa by workers who came over for cleaning.
He bought the villa where Heine lived and cleaned it once a week.
The cleaning worker had the key. When he arrived, he heard no movement, so he started cleaning. However, he smelled a stink and found David's body in the guest room downstairs, and then called the police.
The police found Heine's online contacts and family members through the call records on his mobile phone.
Because the organization behind Heine was very powerful, through pressure, the police tried their best to crack the case, but there were no clues at all.
In the end, there was no choice but to end the marriage.
The organization behind Heine would not give up. They began to pursue Heine's possible enemies with all their strength.
Zhu Yu didn't know that the danger was approaching step by step. He put the painting back in the space and began to study other things.
With his relatively crude identification methods, he determined that most of the jewelry were European classical style jewelry before World War II, and a small number of them were royal treasures, but they cannot be sold yet.
Too sensitive.
Next, Zhu Yu began to sort out the information received in his mind.
Most of them are the "experiences" of the cross in the church. As a witness, the cross perfectly stores the experience information in the form of energy, and now feeds it back to Zhu Yu.
But most of it was invalid information, so Zhu Yu watched it as if it were a movie.
However, there are also a few of them, such as those records of special powers, the information that a believer donated all his property to the church and was then secretly buried by the priest, and that a holy relic was once transported here from the Holy See for believers to admire, and then Disappeared again and waited for news.
Zhu Yu thought that if nothing happened, he could go on an adventure while traveling to add some fun to his trip.
Nothing happened the next day, so Zhu Yu took Ran Jie and others to the goods yard.
Coincidentally, the cargo yard that Jason was responsible for was conducting an auction of containers.
The auction of the containers was coming to an end. What surprised Zhu Yu was that there were not many people participating in the auction. There were nearly one-third less people than before he went to Europe.
Is it normal, or is there something going on?
One of the containers currently being auctioned can be seen clearly inside. Seventeen or eight magical and different plaster statues are fixed in glass frames.
Although the auctioneer praised these plaster statues to great effect, only two or three kittens participated in the auction.
None of the big names Zhu Yu had seen in the past were there.
Jason saw Zhu Yu coming and immediately came over.
But then his knees bent and he almost fell to his knees.
Fortunately, Zhu Yu helped him at the critical moment and asked:
"what happened?"
"Boss, I feel like you have suddenly changed, like a god..." Jason's words made Ran Jie and others next to him feel numb.
They had just met Zhu Yu and felt that the boss's temperament had changed a lot.
But it's not exaggerated to this extent.
However, looking at Jason's expression, it didn't look like he was exaggerating at all.
Ran Jie and the three of them wanted to laugh but didn't have the nerve to laugh, so they were a little embarrassed.
Because they found that other people who were looking at Zhu Yu had strange expressions at the first moment.
Awe, admiration, reverence and the like are the most common.
Although he quickly adjusted to normal, they still noticed the change in his expression at that moment.
Did the boss have another adventure?
"Tell me, what's the situation?" Zhu Yu already knew the reason, so he didn't say anything and pointed to the situation of the auction container.
"The situation has not been very good recently." Jason said with some shame. "Although our containers are still auctioned every two or three days, we have not sold any good items for a week. Treasure hunters have been attracted to other cargo yards. .”
He turned around and pointed at the last container being auctioned and said:
"Seven of them were auctioned today, and the highest value of the items sold was just over 10,000 US dollars worth of machinery."
Zhu Yu obviously felt that something was wrong. He thought for a while and said, "Are there some bidders who just take the things away and don't let others see them?"
"Yes, this is the case." Jason was not stupid and knew some of the reasons, but this was the bidder's freedom and he had no way to interfere.
Seeing that the last container in front of him was going to be sold for two hundred and twenty dollars, Zhu Yu suddenly raised his hand:
"Five hundred dollars!"
His voice startled some people.
Anyone who knows him curls his lips, isn't this trying to build momentum for his own container?
Left hand instead of right hand?
There were also people who didn't know Zhu Yu and thought he was trying to pick up the slack, so they laughed sarcastically.
Zhu Yu didn't care what others thought and waited for someone to increase the price.
Sure enough, someone quoted:
"Six hundred dollars!"
When the auctioneer saw that the bidding price had doubled, he immediately became energetic. Even his usually calm tone of voice fluctuated, and his voice became much louder, with a unique bidding voice without pause:
"Six hundred dollars, six hundred dollars. This gentleman is offering six hundred dollars. Is there anyone who wants to increase the price? Is there six hundred dollars..."
"One thousand dollars!" Zhu Yu felt that today was his lucky day.
His bid once again attracted everyone's attention.
Regardless of whether he was raising the price to his family or not, it was still over a thousand dollars. Since he dared to shout, some people felt that there must be something in it.
"One thousand dollars, one thousand dollars. Is this gentleman's offer of one thousand dollars more than his one thousand dollars..."
The auctioneer was also deeply impressed by Zhu Yu's current image and even gave a special description.
"Twelve hundred dollars!" A treasure hunter who had not made an offer suddenly made an offer.
Zhu Yu turned his head and found that this was a person he had never seen before.
He didn't care and continued to increase the price:
"Fifteen hundred dollars!"
Just like that, one by one the price came up occasionally, and finally the price was pushed to 3,700 US dollars.
Zhu Yu was a little impatient:
"Four thousand dollars!" It was going into his pocket anyway, but he had to give the auctioneer some commission, and he didn't want to break the rules.
"Four thousand dollars, four thousand dollars..." the auctioneer's voice rose again. The container that he originally thought would be sold for a few hundred dollars actually fetched four thousand dollars. His commission was quite a lot!
Others eventually gave up.
"I'm sorry for you!" The stranger said unwillingly, not knowing that Zhu Yu was the owner of the goods yard.
The others dispersed. People who knew that Zhu Yu was the owner of the cargo yard all speculated on the reason why Zhu Yu did this. Zhu Yu ignored their thoughts and asked Jason to lead people into the container:
"Drag this statue out for me!"
He was pointing at a plaster statue of a warrior.
Jason immediately took Xiao Hei to move out the plaster statues.
"You've suffered a big loss!" Someone suddenly said next to him.
Zhu Yu turned his head and found that it was a black man he had never seen before. He was shorter than Jason, but looked smarter.
"What do you want?" Zhu Yu was a little confused. This man must have an idea.
"A statue costs fifty dollars, sell it to me. Or you'll die!" The man looked like he was doing it for your own good.
"Go away! That glass cabinet alone costs more than fifty dollars!" Zhu Yu waved his hand impatiently.
Those people didn't buy it before because it was difficult to sell these plaster statues. After all, it's good to have such a good relationship.
But that doesn’t mean these things are really only worth a few hundred dollars.
"Then it's a hundred dollars for each one." The black man chuckled, not at all ashamed of the low price he just called, "How about that? You can pay less this way?"
"Then do you know why I asked for $4,000?" Zhu Yu asked, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
"You're not stupid, you just want to bet!" The black man saw through Zhu Yu's expression at a glance, "Do you want to bet to see if these plaster statues have works by famous people?
Let me tell you, you can tell at a glance that these plaster statues are shoddy and not very valuable at all! If I hadn't had a friend who made sculptures, I wouldn't have them! "
"Okay, except for this, you can pay the other one hundred dollars each!" Zhu Yu thought about it, there is really no use in keeping these things.
The black man thought he had persuaded Zhu Yu and immediately paid for it.
But then he pointed to the plaster statue in front of Zhu Yu and asked:
"Why keep this?"
"Leave it for fun!" Zhu Yu said and asked Jason to collect the money, then took the crowbar from a young man's hand and directly broke the glass cabinet.
The black man couldn't help shouting:
"Why are you knocking it? Won't you sell it to me? Fifty dollars!"
The bidders who were just about to leave looked back when they heard the sound.
Zhu Yu ignored them. In fact, he was attracting them by knocking.
"Is he crazy? He broke it as soon as he took the photo?" Sure enough, some people were puzzled and stopped to watch the fun.
Zhu Yu took a stick and knocked off the upper part of the plaster statue again and again. The plaster fragments were scattered on the floor!
"You're crazy!" the black man yelled.
His cry summoned the others over to see what Zhu Yu wanted to do.
"I'm not crazy." Zhu Yu looked calm and knocked twice more with the crowbar, knocking off the waist of the plaster statue.
Next, he gently knocked on the remaining plaster statue, as if he was afraid of breaking something.
The contrast in his movements made others more interested.
Then, they watched Zhu Yu slowly knocking down the plaster statue little by little. Suddenly, a little golden light flashed!
There is gold in this!
Others suddenly realized!
No wonder he would leave this plaster statue alone, it turns out there is something hidden in it!
Zhu Yu ignored what others thought and continued to knock carefully.
However, the black man suddenly screamed like crazy, grabbed the crowbar from the other black man, ran to the container, and smashed the glass cabinets "bang bang bang".
Everyone immediately knew that he was going to see if there was any gold hidden in those plaster statues.
Zhu Yu turned his head and looked, then continued his actions.
That black guy is destined to be disappointed.
Zhu Yu's force was very gentle and just right. After a while, he took out a golden cover-like thing from the plaster.
"This is a gold war dress!" Someone in the crowd exclaimed, "It must be an antique!"
When other people heard that it was a gold antique, they immediately knew that this thing couldn't be cheap!
Starting at least tens of thousands of dollars!
Tens of thousands of dollars is not impossible!
If the specific era can be verified and it is famous, it can cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars!
These treasure hunters all showed envy and jealousy!
Who would have known that this ordinary and crudely made plaster statue could actually hide such a treasure?
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Some people speculate that 80% of this was smuggled over.
But no one answered him.
Zhu Yu put this thing away and said to Jason:
"Look at that man," he pointed at the container and said, "Let him clean up the container later! I'll leave it to you!"
Through his clairvoyance, he has already seen that this thing has a history of at least 3,800 years. It is really a rare treasure!
This must be taken back as soon as possible to avoid being spotted.
Jason is happy too!
"Boss, you are so awesome!"
He knew that as long as these people publicized this matter, and the containers would be auctioned at his own yard tomorrow, a large number of treasure hunters would come over to see if they could get lucky.
Treasure hunters also believe in this.
Zhu Yu didn't care what these people thought. He returned to the villa, entered the study, found a brush and a towel, and carefully wiped the plaster powder off the golden dress.
There was a knock on the door, and Zhu Yu knew it was Cathy and said:
"come in."
Cathy personally came in with the black tea and placed it gently on the edge of the desk.
Then his eyes fell on the golden battle dress.
The gold war skirt is very thin, about thirty centimeters high, with a belt about three fingers wide and about five centimeters on top, and a skirt with complex patterns on the bottom.
With Zhu Yu's limited knowledge of cultural relics, he could tell that the golden war skirt was made using hammering and carving techniques.
It’s really amazing that something like this could be made nearly four thousand years ago!
"This is..." Cathy said in surprise:
"Golden war skirt? Is this a craft made thousands of years ago?"
Zhu Yu was a little surprised, Cathy actually knew her?
"This is impossible..." Cathy suddenly said, "How could there be such a complete one? I have never heard of it?"
Zhu Yu suddenly thought, does Cathy really know the origin of this thing?
