Chapter 431: 430. Secret Collection of the Qing Palace, Famous Pastels (Monthly Ticket 127+)

Forty-five warehouse auctions, this is a medium-sized auction.

But the topic of treasure hunters is not on the warehouse, they are all talking about what happened before:

"Aren't these California guys unlucky? Get sprayed with shit? Pity I didn't see it."

"I have pictures here, Falk, it's too bad man, you didn't see it, I'm sick just looking at it!"

"Oh, my poor California brother, why do I have such a visceral joy hearing this news?"

"You're so mean, man, but why can't I stop laughing out loud? Haha, that's so funny!"

Li Du was listening to the treasure hunters discussing this matter enthusiastically, when suddenly someone touched him from behind.

He turned around immediately, his eyes were cold and his face was instantly gloomy - he thought someone was looking for trouble again.

Because of his Chinese identity and skin color, many treasure hunters like to provoke him and bully him, and he has become a frightened bird now.

In the end, he turned his head and saw that it was an acquaintance with the same skin color as him, Zhang Kai.

"Brother Zhang, what's the matter?"

Zhang Kai was taken aback by his face and eyes, and said in a condescending way: "Oh, no, no, nothing, no, no, something, something big."

After understanding, Li Du basically knew what kind of person Zhang Kai was. This person should be more honest, more timid and fearful, and his personality is similar to that of many Chinese who have just left the country.

He patted Zhang Kai on the shoulder to comfort him, and then asked, "What's the big deal?"

Zhang Kai winked at him and said in a low voice, "You follow me."

Li Du followed Wan Wan around, left the crowd and walked to a secluded place.

However, the ventilation here is not good, and the smell of feces is filled.

Zhang Kai held his nose and complained: "The shit these Yankees poop is stinkier than our Chinese people. What a pity. Their pipes are aging. I'm going to be unlucky again."

Li Du asked, "Why?"

Zhang Kai complained: "These Yankees bully people. They always leave the dirty work to me and a few East Asians, and do the light work themselves."

This is the reality. The United States holds high the banner of equality and shouts that "all men are created equal". In fact, discrimination and oppression are everywhere in society.

Li Du asked: "Is that what you want to talk about? I'll think of a way to help you..."

"No, no." Zhang Kai shook his head and said, "It's more important. Come here and show you something."

He took out a photo from his pocket. In the photo were several bottles and plates, all of which were made of porcelain, with a snow-white background and colorful depictions on them. There were pine trees, small bridges and flowing water, which looked beautiful.

"What is this?" Li Du was immediately attracted.

Zhang Kai lifted his spirits and said, "Have you heard the phrase 'secret treasures of the Qing palace, prosperity pastels'?"

Li Du shook his head and asked: "This is our Chinese porcelain: and it has something to do with the royal family of the Qing Dynasty?"

Zhang Kai's eyes flickered, then he nodded his head, and said, "Yes, yes, do you know them?"

Li Du continued to shake his head, and said awkwardly: "I don't know, I figured it out from your words, do you know these things?"

Zhang Kai chuckled and said, "Yes, I used to be in China, and I actually had some status and money. I have been collecting for a while, and I have seen this kind of pastels."

"The so-called famille rose is glazed ceramics. It is painted on pre-fired glazed white porcelain, and then fired in a kiln at a high temperature of 700 degrees."

"This thing was originally created during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a ceramic technique formed on the basis of our ancient Chinese glaze five-color technique, combined with the enamel color technique introduced from the West..."

Li Du didn't understand these things, so he listened to Zhang Kai quietly.

As a result, Zhang Kai opened the chatter box and couldn't close it for a while. From history to craftsmanship, from craftsmanship to identification methods, from identification methods to some legends, in short, he talked endlessly.

Seeing that the auction time was approaching, Li Du had to interrupt him: "Excuse me, Brother Zhang, why don't we talk in the afternoon? The auction is about to start."

After hearing this, Zhang Kai gave himself a slap in the face: "Oh, look at me, I can't control my mouth, and I like to talk nonsense."

"It's okay, let's talk about the key points."

"Well, the point is, there is such a thing in this auction!" Zhang Kai said mysteriously.

Li Du regained his energy and said, "Is there this in the warehouse? In those warehouses of yours?"

Zhang Kai shook his head and said, "No, if it's in my warehouse, I told you yesterday that it's not in my warehouse, I just got the news."

He paused, then continued: "That's right, I was chatting with a colleague yesterday, and we talked about the warehouse auction, and then he told me that there are good things in his warehouse."

"That guy is an African nigga, uneducated, and doesn't understand anything. He took several photos with his mobile phone. Most of them are worthless, but this photo is different."

As he said, he shook the photo in his hand, "When I saw it, I thought it was very similar to our pastels. After I developed the photo and looked at it carefully, it was even more similar. I think it's the real thing, because Americans don't like it. Knowing this stuff, they don't need to make fakes."

At this time, Li Du had no interest. He knew that except for the warehouses from No. 51 to No. 100 that he hadn't seen, there were no such cultural relics and antiques in other warehouses.

Otherwise, after the little flying insect entered yesterday, it should be attracted to fly over to look for it.

But this is not certain, because he doesn't know much about little flying insects.

So Li Du asked, "Which warehouse are these things in?"

Zhang Kai whispered: "Warehouse No. 44!"

Li Du stroked his chin, Warehouse No. 44? He was very impressed with this warehouse, as if the Warcraft motorcycle he fancied was in this warehouse.

However, he searched the warehouse at that time, and he didn't remember finding these porcelains. Maybe he didn't search carefully. After all, in order to save energy, he just scanned them roughly.

After getting this information, he said to Zhang Kai: "Okay, I will definitely take down Warehouse No. 44. If the pastels in it are real, I will give you a third of the money after I sell it."

Zhang Kai asked, "One-third?"

Li Du thought that he thought it was too little, so he explained: "I cooperate with an American in this business, and he also has to take a share."

Zhang Kai nodded hastily and said, "I understand, I understand, what I mean is, one-third is a bit much, if you give me one-fifth, I'll be satisfied, pastels are always valuable!"

Li Du said: "Don't worry, it must be one third, just wait for my news."

Zhang Kai continued to nod his head, and Li Du found that he liked to nod. It seems that the cervical spine is very healthy.

Back to the warehouse, the visit to the first warehouse has already started at this time, because there are many people and warehouses, so according to the old rules, five people are in a group, and each group has one minute.