Chapter 10

The verification of the statue was faster than the identification of the picture. Shahevsky took all-round photos and sent them 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 is that the statue came from the mid-16th century. Seeing this result, shahevsky said firmly: "Congratulations, Mr. Qin, you may have the most valuable statue this year!"

In fact, because of the fake sunflower, Qin Shiou has made psychological preparations, that is, these paintings are worthless. Even if the Picasso portrait is finally verified to be fake, he can even face it calmly.

But now with this result, he really can't keep an ordinary mind: This statue, which he regards as a statue that can't sell copper for hundreds of dollars, is an antique worth 30 million, and the 30 million is still Canadian dollars!

Knowing his idea, shashevsky smiled on his unsmiling face. He said: "if the statue of Perseus and medusa is not rusted due to poor preservation, the value may have to be raised to another 10 million. You may not know that this statue is the greatest work of Mr. Lini, the most famous sculptor in Italy in the 16th century! "

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

After the appraisal, shashevsky and others did not leave, because the general manager of lees auction house set out on the same day with the experts of the sculpture department, and will rush to the fishing ground tomorrow to finalize the authenticity of the statue.

In addition, shashevsky told Qin Shiou that his company hoped to cooperate with him to obtain the auction right of the statue and these paintings.

Qin Shiou hesitated. Although Lee's auction house is well-known, in fact, it is more famous for mechanical auction. As for cultural relics and works of art, Sotheby's and even Sotheby's auction house are more reliable.

Shashevsky is not a salesman. Seeing Qin Shiou's dilemma, he smiled and didn't mention this topic again. Instead, he began to talk about these paintings and statues.

According to shashevsky's conjecture, the woman with the golden drum should be bought by Pina Jean from Picasso through his friends for learning. There was a time when Pina Jean's abstract painting skills improved by leaps and bounds. Maybe he got inspiration after he got Picasso's original work.

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. Auerbach helped him say something and said, "Qin Hongde is a great man. He was the head of the Allied maritime transport team in Newfoundland during the Second World War. I think this may have been obtained by him in that special period."

Qin Shiou fainted. His two grandfathers are so famous?

In the evening, I invited the three of shashevsky to have a meal. The meal was set in the flavor restaurant of father Hickson, enjoyed an original Newfoundland meal, and tasted the world-famous ice wine.

Drunk dizzy, Qin Shiou returned to his bedroom and lay down. His consciousness shifted to the ocean again.

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

What makes a once prosperous fishing ground become today's undersea cemetery? Qin Shiou vowed that he would use the money he got after the auction to improve the fishing ground and make it revitalize.

The consciousness shifted to the pink coral, and the cup sponge swayed slowly around. He felt that the vitality of the cup sponge was no longer a problem, which made Qin Shiou happy at last.

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 coral insects was even worse!

Among the surrounding corals, there is only one living coral with an area of about five or six square meters, half pink and the other half light yellow. There are also corals in the periphery, but they are all gray coral stones.

These coral stones are made of coral corpses.

This piece of living coral, the more it goes around, the lighter the color and the lighter the breath of life. If you only feel the middle position, the corals are indeed full of vitality. But if you feel around, the coral is dead.

Recalling his previous experience of saving the sponge cup, Qin Shiou covered his consciousness on this coral and took care of their lives with the energy contained in his consciousness.

It is well known that the formation of a piece of coral takes years, because coral insects are very small. Although they continue to reproduce, they are also dying.

However, at this moment, pink coral and light yellow coral suddenly began to multiply wildly. Submarine coral spread around at a speed visible to the naked eye. In only two minutes, five or six square meters of live coral expanded to a space of more than ten square meters!

Qin Shiou was also unprecedentedly tired. He withdrew his consciousness directly and fell into a coma.

In the past two days, Qin Shiou woke up on time at more than 6 a.m. this time, he slept more than 8 a.m. and was awakened when the little squirrel knocked on the window.

Qin Shiou is very helpless because his body is unprecedentedly tired. It seems that the energy of his consciousness can not be abused, otherwise his life is in danger.

Qin Shiou opened the window and put in two little squirrels. The latter looked at his tired appearance and turned around and ran out together. Back again, the little squirrels sent two pine nuts.

What the little squirrel did warmed Qin Shiou's heart. He held them in his hand and kissed them. When he found that the other little squirrel was a mother, he immediately smiled, rubbed Xiao Ming's head with his finger belly and said, "be honest, is it puppy love?"

Xiao Ming stretched out his tender tongue, licked his fingers, picked up the pine nuts and gave them to him.

Qin Shiou knocked pine nuts and said with a smile, "bribery is useless. You talk about objects so young? Are you trying to piss me off? I'm twenty-six or seven, and I don't have a daughter-in-law. "

The mother squirrel looked at him quietly. Qin Shiou thought and said, "well, your name will be Xiaohong in the future. Xiaoming and Xiaohong are made for each other."

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

Take two little squirrels to have breakfast while watching TV. At noon, the expert group of Lee's auction house came.

Qin Shiou carried the bronze carving down and saw that he was carrying the statue like a bucket. Shashevsky's eyes were almost staring out. At this time, a middle-aged man in his thirties with glasses smiled and said, "Mr. Qin has great power."

Hearing this, Qin Shiou suddenly remembered a problem he hadn't noticed recently. His strength seemed to have increased a lot. In fact, the bronze statue was solid, and its weight might be 70 or 80 kilograms, but when he held it in his hand, he felt relaxed, as if he was carrying something of 78 or 80 kilograms.

He guessed that this should also be related to the heart of Poseidon.

Auerbach introduced him to Robert Black IV, general manager of Lee's auction house.

Previously, Qin Shiou had learned that black is a famous family in eastern Canada. They control the Brinell consortium, one of the eight major Canadian consortia, with great energy.

"You can call me little black. That's what my friends call me, little bu." Robert Black IV took the initiative to hold out his hand, shook hands and said with a smile, "Mr. Qin is really young and promising. Now he controls such a large fishing ground. At your age, I still spend my parents' money to pursue beautiful girls."

In a few words, little black drew closer to Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou made coffee for the people. Little blakela began to chat with him. He first started from the Forbidden City and the Badaling Great Wall. After learning that his hometown was Dongshan Province, he began to talk about Confucius and Mencius culture and Confucianism.

He is worthy of being the general manager of a well-known auction house. Little black knows a lot of chat skills. He only knows a little about these topics. He mainly asks Qin Shiou for advice and holds the latter up in a few words.

Auerbach smiled but didn't speak. 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. Little black read it and handed it to Qin Shiou. The statue is really genuine.

Qin Shiou also had some questions and said, "yesterday I checked the Internet. It seems that the statue of Perseus and medusa is on Michelangelo Square in Florida, Italy? Why is there another one here? "

Little black smiled, "no, no, no, man, it's a fake. It's a fake. You should know that this statue was created by the sculptor cherini on the Commission of Archduke Cosimo in 1545 and was lost two centuries later. Later, people claimed to have seen it in several parts of Europe, but no one has really put it into the public. Now, you have done it. "

Qin Shiou hurriedly said that he was just lucky. The people around him didn't make a fuss. They saw more auctions, and many people had better luck.

Little black coughed softly. Qin Shiou knew that the topic was coming. He immediately sat down in a serious position and was ready to refuse the request of Lee's auction house.

There is no doubt that works of art of this value can be sold at Sotheby's auction house at that level.

"As you know, Mr. Qin, our company has always focused on the auction of machinery and achieved mediocre results in art. But at the beginning of the year, our board of directors unanimously decided that the company should transform to art, so I hope you can give the glory of auctioning these works of art to our company. "

"I know Sotheby's and Sotheby's are more suitable for these works of art, but now it is less than half a month from the spring auction. You should understand that the value of works of art is directly proportional to the publicity investment. I think if you send them to the spring auction now, you can't get a good price."

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

"In addition, the international practice of art auction commission is 12%. If you are willing to let us auction, we are willing to reduce the Commission to 5%; In addition, I think you may be short of funds to operate the fishery. Our company can pay you $10 million in cash in advance! "

Qin Shiou was silent for a moment and made a deal!

Dear book friends, tomorrow is Monday. I hope you can support the cartridge case, collect and recommend it. Let's make the list from next week. The cartridge case is a newcomer now, and the fishing ground is also a new book. How far we can rush depends on how far we can top it!