Chapter 628 On the Bronze Mirror

How can people who do business in a metropolis like Paris not be familiar with the gold card in Zhuang Rui's hand? After I saw the card, Renault's eyes suddenly stared straight, and his expression became more and more respectful.

In recent years, the art market has continued to heat up, but people's eyesight has also become tricky. It is also difficult to catch a big mistake in the antique industry. When ordinary people buy valuable works of art, they will take professional appraisers. In fact, individual customers like Zhuang Rui can take out 90,000 dollars and euros. It's not often seen.

It's the same at home and abroad, so Renault's eyes are shining at this moment. He can't wait that the Da Vinci paintings in his store are real. It's better to let Zhuang Rui buy them.

"Sir, these things in the store are all valuable works of art, and they are also very old. You can have a look again..."

"Oh, forget it. I don't like these things..."

After hearing the store owner's words, Zhuang Rui shook his head for fun and was ready to take Qin Xuanbing away. This store is already the last one on this street. It seems that the moon abroad may not be rounder than that in China. If you want to find something fun, it's not good.

"Hey, sir, please stay..."

Seeing Zhuang Rui walking out with that woman, Renault was anxious. Just now, he just wanted to fool Zhuang Rui again and sell a few things in the store. Now that he knows that Zhuang Rui really doesn't like it, he will naturally come up with good things.

·Huh? Is there anything else?"

Zhuang Rui looked back at Renault with a faint smile on his face. Although he had just entered the industry, he also knew that if this store was really a century-old store, then the real thing would never be placed in the store.

Renault dared not play tricks anymore. He bowed slightly to Zhuang Rui and said, "Well, respectable sir and madam, if you have a forest, I can take you to see some of my grandfather's collections. I promise, they are all works of great historical value..."

Yun Rui nodded and said, "Okay, I hope your ancestors have lost their collection, and they won't let us down one by one."

"Please wait a moment..."

Renault was alone in this store. After letting Zhuang Rui out, Renault closed the door of the store, took Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing, and turned from this quiet street into an alley not far away.

Renault opened the door to do business, but Zhuang Rui was not afraid of him playing tricks. He followed him for about five minutes and came to a two-story building.

The buildings here are a bit like the quadrangle courtyard of old Beijing. They are all very old 18th-century architectural styles. They are light-structured garden-style mansions. Although they are not big, they are gorgeous and exquisite. I'm afraid it is difficult to have such a villa here.

"This is what my grandfather left behind, you two, please come in..."

After Renault opened the door, he was very gentlemanly and cleared Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing in.

Zhuang Rui returned to a foreigner's home for the first time. As soon as he entered, he was attracted by the bright color and delicate decoration. The furniture inside was also very exquisite and tedious. The cabinet in the corner, even assembled by hand, was very eye-catching.

On the walls and ceilings of the house, there are some murals that have become a little dim, showing the long history of the house.

"Both of you, this way..."

Renault greeted Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing to go through the living room on the first floor and walk to the backyard.

Well, the basement?"

When Zhuang Rui came to the backyard and saw Renault open a door with a complicated password lock, his eyes couldn't help lighting up and his heart was full of expectations.

It may be a shelter during World War II. This basement is very deep and goes straight into the ground seven or eight meters, but every other meter in the passage, there is a wall lamp. The light is very bright and the ventilation facilities are very good, so you won't feel stuffy.

Entering the basement, Zhuang Rui created it. This basement is much larger than the basement of his Beijing quadrangle courtyard. It should be fifty or sixty square meters, and it is divided into two rooms. In each room, there is a ventilation channel and a working dehumidifier.

"Sir, everything here is collected by my father and grandfather. I hope you can find your hobby. This lady can sit here and have a cup of coffee. I have everything here one by one"

When Renault talked about this, his tone was very complacent. He did not lie. There was a coffee machine on the wall table at the entrance.

Zhuang Rui shook his head. The foreigner did not know how to preserve antiques at all. The steam from the coffee machine would harm the life of antiques, but it was someone else's business. He couldn't say, "At the moment, he nodded, took the white gloves handed over by Renault, and walked to the objects piled up in the basement

The room they are in now is a relatively large one. The room is full of all kinds of ancient furniture. Of course, it is just foreign classical furniture. The color is very bright, and on the furniture, there are some small things.

Renault doesn't seem to be very good at maintaining antiques. The things on the table are just placed casually according to the classification, including clocks from the 17th and 18th centuries, swords and armors from the Middle Ages, and even some Chinese bronzes.

It's just these objects, including those clocks and watches. On the basis, they are all rusty. Zhuang Rui shakes his head. Although these things are real, the aura inside is extremely thin, and obviously the collection is of little significance.

In fact, Zhuang Rui didn't know that these things were received by Renault's grandfather for decades, and some people came to buy them for him. Renault once found someone to identify these things, but they were not worth much. Some things were not as valuable as modern handicrafts. The reason why they were not disposed of was just to commemorate his grandfather. Already.

Just now, Zhuang Rui proposed that it depends on something with a long history, so Renault brought Zhuang Rui. In fact, he didn't have much hope.

"Buddha's head?!"

The e-light that Zhuang Rui looked around was suddenly attracted by an avatar about the size of a person's head. He walked to the table and warily broke the top of the head, and the Buddha's head, which was almost invisible, was picked up with both hands.

The Buddha's head is mutilated with one ear. Except for the bridge of the eyes, nose and mouth, all the faces are very vague. The reason why it is said that the Buddha's statue is full of drums on the head, which is as complete as the Buddha statue sculpture Zhuang Rui saw in the temple.

It's just that the Buddha's head was damaged too much, as if it was knocked down from one ear with a blunt device. Half of the ear was gone, and Zhuang Rui was heartbroken.

Zhuang Rui knows that many Buddha heads were stolen from historical sites by Western colonists. If the whole statue is not removed, the Buddha's head or Buddha's hand will be cut off. In many temples in China, the Buddha's head of many Buddha statues was later carved and placed.

These Buddha heads and other plundered works of art are placed in the rooms of Western colonists or collectors like trophies. If the Buddha's heads were not too dilapidated, I'm afraid they would not have stayed in this basement.

Renault has also opened a store for many years, and there are often some Chinese guests. In Renault's opinion, they have no artistic sense of stone love. Now when he sees Zhuang Rui holding up the stone statue, he immediately came forward and asked, "Mr. Zhuang, do you like this stone statue?"

Zhang Rui nodded, but immediately shook his head again and said, "This Buddha's head is too dilapidated. If the world is intact, I will pay 100,000 euros to buy it, but...' I'm so sorry for it one by one"

Zhuang Rui said it was the truth. This Buddha's head was damaged so badly that the color of the base book was gone. Even if he bought it himself, it was not worth much.

"Oh, that's a pity..."

Renault shrugged his shoulders. He didn't regret that it was broken, but just a pity that he couldn't make this business.

"If you can find a complete sculpture like this in another place, I can buy it: jl\}=r"

Zhuang Rui said reluctantly that these foreign robbers would really rob a lot of good things. Renault's family didn't have them. Maybe other people's houses had them.

Reno shook his head and said, "Sir, such things are usually in museums. I don't know who has it at home..."

"Forget it..."

Zhuang Rui was a little disappointed. He continued to search for objects in the underground. These things have a little bit of aura. It's not too easy for Zhuang Rui to distinguish them one by one.

·Huh? Or what?"

Under the Buddha's head, Zhuang Rui saw several rusty palm-sized bronzes, and couldn't help but be stunned, because he just saw that in those bronzes, there was a strong purple aura, but a few pieces of iron-like things overlapped together, so that Zhuang Rui could not see where it was. One piece.

"Bronze mirror?!"

When Zhuang Rui left the things on the table, he also saw that some rusty objects were originally transported, which were four copper mirrors, but three of them were too corrupt. Not to mention the lack of edges and corners, the characteristics of the bronze mirror could not be completely seen on the mirror.

There is only one piece, that is, Zhuang Rui sensed the aura-rich copper mirror inside. The mirror surface is relatively smooth, but the round edges and back are also full of copper rust. After a few rubs with his hands, the powdered copper rust scattered to the ground one after another.

Because the rust is too thick, Zhuang Rui can't see what the pattern on the back is, so there is no way to break the copper mirror. However, in terms of the content of aura in it, Zhuang Rui knows that this object should not be simplified. The spine rust has become like this, and the aura has not been lost much.

·This...what is this?"

After flipping with the copper mirror for a while, Zhuang Rui inadvertently faced the mirror of the copper mirror against the light. A beam of light that was not very bright was reflected on the wall in front of Zhuang Rui.