Golden Fishery

The verification of the statue was faster than the identification of the picture. Krzyzewski took a full range of photos and sent it back to the company. Then he took a little copper foam and tested it with the carbon-14 tester he brought.

The result measured by the machine was that the statue was from the mid-16th century. Seeing this result, Krzyzewski said confidently: "Congratulations, Mr. Qin, you may have the most valuable statue this year!"

In fact, because of the fake "Sunflower", Qin Shiou made psychological preparations, that is, these paintings are not valuable, even if this Picasso portrait is finally verified to be fake, he can even face it calmly.

But now that he got this result, he really couldn't keep his composure: this statue, which he thought could not be sold for a few hundred dollars for copper, turned out to be an antique worth 30 million, and the 30 million was in Canadian dollars!

Knowing what he was thinking, Krzyzewski put a smile on his unsmiling face and said, "If this statue of Perseus and Medusa hadn't rusted due to poor preservation, it might have been worth more. Add another ten million. You may not know that this statue is the greatest work of Monsieur Allini, one of the most famous Italian sculptors of the sixteenth century!"

Qin Shiou really doesn't understand these things. All he understands is that he has really become a rich generation now...

At the end of the appraisal, Krzyzewski and others did not leave, because the general manager of Ritchie Auctions set off on the same day with the experts from the sculpture department, and will rush to the fishing ground tomorrow to finalize the authenticity of the statue.

In addition, Krzyzewski told Qin Shiou that their company hoped to cooperate with him to obtain the auction rights for the statue and these paintings.

Qin Shiou was a little hesitant. Although Ricci auction house is not small, it is actually more famous for mechanical auctions. As for cultural relics and works of art, Sotheby's and even Sotheby's auction house are more reliable.

Krzyzewski was not a salesman. He saw Qin Shiou's embarrassment, so he smiled and didn't mention the topic again, but started talking about these paintings and statues.

According to Krzyzewski's conjecture, the "Woman with a Golden Drum" should have been purchased from Picasso by Pinarjan through a friend, specifically for study. There was a time when Pinajan's abstract painting skills advanced by leaps and bounds, probably after he got the original Picasso and got his inspiration.

What he was curious about was where did Qin Shiou get this statue?

Qin Shiou pushed the source of these things to his mysterious second grandfather, and Auerbach helped him speak, saying: "Qin Hongde is an amazing man. During the Second World War, he used to be an alliance member. The head of the Army Marine Corps in the Newfoundland area, I think, maybe he got it at that particular time."

Qin Shiou was dizzy, his second grandfather was so famous?

In the evening, I invited the three of Krzyzewski to have a meal. The meal was set up at the flavor restaurant of Father Hickson. They enjoyed an original Newfoundland feast and tasted the local ice wine that is famous all over the world.

Dizzy after drinking, Qin Shiou returned to the bedroom to lie down, and his consciousness shifted to the ocean again.

The underwater world is still a bit desolate, and his consciousness travels in the sand on the flat seabed. He has not seen life for a long time, and there is a kind of sadness.

What turned a once prosperous fishing ground into an underwater cemetery today? Qin Shiou swore that he would use the money from the auction to improve the fishery and bring it back to life.

His consciousness shifted to the pink coral, and the cup sponge swayed slowly around him. He felt it, and the vitality of the cup sponge was no longer a problem.

This made Qin Shiou finally relieved.

As a result, when he looked at the coral carefully, he found that things were not very good. He didn't pay attention yesterday. In fact, the situation of the corals is even worse!

Among the corals around now, there is only a piece of living coral that may be about five or six square feet in area, half of which is pink and the other half is pale yellow. There are also corals on the periphery, but they are all grayish-white coral stones.

These coral stones are condensed from coral corpses.

The color of this piece of living coral becomes lighter as it goes around, and the breath of life becomes lighter. If you only feel the middle position, the coral polyps are indeed full of vitality. But if you feel the surroundings, the coral is full of death.

Thinking of the previous experience of the rescue cup sponge, Qin Shiou covered the coral with his consciousness and used the energy contained in his consciousness to care for their lives.

This is where the miracle happened. We all know that it takes years and months to form a piece of coral, because the coral polyps are very small, and although they continue to reproduce, they also continue to die.

However, at this moment, pink polyps and pale yellow polyps suddenly began to multiply wildly, and the underwater corals spread around at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just two minutes, five or six squares of living corals expanded to about ten squares in size. Space!

Qin Shiou was also overworked like never before. He directly withdrew his consciousness and fell into a drowsiness.

In the past two days, Qin Shiou woke up on time at six o'clock in the morning. This time, he slept until more than eight o'clock, and was woken up when the little squirrel knocked on the window.

Qin Shiou's body is unprecedentedly tired, and Qin Shiou is very helpless. It seems that the energy of his consciousness cannot be abused, otherwise his life will be in danger.

Qin Shiou opened the window and put two little squirrels in. The latter looked at him exhausted and turned around and ran out together. When they came back again, the little squirrels brought two pine nuts.

Qin Shiou's heart was warmed by what the little squirrel did. He held the two in his hands and kissed them. When he found that the other little squirrel was female, he laughed and rubbed Xiaoming's head with his fingertips. Said: "Honestly explain, is it a puppy love?"

Xiao Ming stretched out his pink tongue and licked his fingers, picked up the pine nuts and handed them to him while shouting.

Qin Shiou squatted on the pine nuts and smiled: "Bribery is useless. You are so young to talk about people? Are you trying to piss me off? I'm twenty-six and seven and I don't have a daughter-in-law."

The female squirrel looked at him quietly, Qin Shiou thought about it, and said, "Okay, you will be called Xiaohong in the future, Xiaoming and Xiaohong are a natural pair."

This female squirrel's fur is much redder than Xiao Ming's and is a standard North American red squirrel.

With two little squirrels watching TV and having breakfast together, at noon, a group of experts from Ricci auction house came in a mighty manner.

Qin Shiou took the bronze statue down and saw that he was carrying the statue like a bucket. Krzyzewski's eyes were about to pop out. At this time, a middle-aged man in his thirties with glasses was beside him. The man smiled and said, "Mr. Qin is very powerful."

Hearing this, Qin Shiou suddenly remembered a problem that he hadn't noticed recently. His strength seemed to have increased a lot. In fact, the bronze statue was solid, and the weight might be seventy to eighty kilograms. It feels light and easy, as if it is seven or eight pounds of things.

He guessed that this should also be related to the Heart of the Sea God.

Auerbach introduced him to him. The elegant middle-aged man was Robert Black IV, general manager of Ricci auction house.

Qin Shiou had already understood that Black was a well-known family in eastern Canada. They controlled the Bruce Consortium, one of the eight major consortiums in Canada, with great energy.

"You can call me Little Black. My friends call me that, Little Bu." Robert Black IV took the initiative to extend his hand, shook hands and said with a smile, "Mr. Qin is really young and promising, and now he has so much control. At your age, I still spend my parents' money to pursue beautiful girls."

In just a few words, Little Blake drew closer to Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou made coffee for everyone, and Xiao Blake pulled him to chat, starting with the Forbidden City and the Badaling Great Wall. After learning that his hometown was Dongshan Province, he began to talk about Confucian and Mencius culture and Confucianism.

As expected of being the general manager of a well-known auction house, Little Blake is very good at chatting skills. He only expressed a little understanding of these topics, mainly asking Qin Shiou for advice, and he praised the latter in a few words.

Auerbach smiled and said nothing, this is also an opportunity for Qin Shiou to grow up, let him see the skills of those upper-class capitalists.

The last identification sheet came out. After Little Blake read it, he handed it to Qin Shiou. This statue is indeed the real thing.

Qin Shiou still had some doubts and said, "I checked the Internet yesterday. This "Perseus and Medusa" statue seems to be in the Piazzale Michelangelo in Florida, Italy, right? Why is there another one here?"

Little Blake laughed: "No no no, man, that's a fake, that's a counterfeit. You have to know that this statue was created by the master sculptor Cellini in 1545 at the request of Archduke Cosimo. Two It was lost after a century. It was claimed to have been seen in several parts of Europe, but no one was ever able to actually make it public, and now you have."

Qin Shiou hurriedly said that he was just lucky, and the people around were not making a fuss. They saw more auction items, and many people had better luck.

Little Blake coughed lightly, Qin Shiou knew that the main topic was up, he immediately sat upright, ready to refuse the request of Ricci Auction House.

There is no doubt that artworks of this value can still be sold at auction houses of Sotheby's level.

"Mr. Qin, as you know, our company has been focusing on mechanical auctions, and has achieved mediocre achievements in art. But at the beginning of the year, our board of directors unanimously decided that the company should transform into art, so I hope that you can auction the auction. The glory of these works of art goes to our company."

"I know that Sotheby's and Sotheby's auction houses are more suitable for these works of art, but now the spring auction is less than half a month away. You should understand that the value of works of art is proportional to the publicity investment. I think if you Sending it to the spring auction now will not be able to get a good price.”

"If our company can get the auction rights, I assure you that we will use all our strength to promote these works of art, including the paintings of Mr. Pinarjean."

"In addition, the international practice for the commission of art auctions is 12%. If you are willing to let us do the auction, then we are willing to reduce the commission to 5%; and, I think you may be in urgent need of funds to operate the fishery, our company can send it to us in advance. You pay $10 million in cash!"

Qin Shiou was silent for a while, the deal!

\u0026\u0026\u0026\u0026 Dear book friends, tomorrow is Monday. I hope you can support the cartridges, collect them, and recommend them. We will start the list from next week. The shell is a newcomer now, and the fishing ground is also a new book. How far we can go depends on how far everyone can go!