golden ear

Chapter 142

"This is Patriarch Rukawa, and this is Wu Tianyuan, the curator of Tianyuan Museum."

The next afternoon, Liu Huasheng brought Wu Tianyuan to Rukawa's house, and saw a serious and old-fashioned Rukawa family in their early sixties.

"Oh? There is a private museum at such a young age?"

Old man Ruchuan glanced at Wu Tianyuan lightly, and said with some contempt: "Mr. Hua Sheng, is he the big buyer you mentioned?"

"That's right, Wu Tianyuan not only owns a private museum, but is also a major shareholder of Zhongzheng Auction. He just finished auctioning off the collection of the Macau gambling king. He is very powerful."

Liu Chuan heard the gambling king, nodded and said: "I don't care about China's affairs, I only know who is rich and who is powerful!"

Wu Tianyuan looked at it, and said coldly: "It also depends on whether your things are worth the price? You don't even show your face?"

"Don't be impatient, there will be another buyer coming in a while, so we won't be too late to see it together."

Liu Huasheng and Wu Tianyuan looked at each other, but there were other buyers?

"Sorry, I was late just getting off the plane!"

Wu Tianyuan heard the voice very familiar, but when he looked back, it was none other than Kuang Guoqiang!

"Mr. Kuang has come all the way, it's hard work, please drink tea first."

Rukawa greeted him with a smile, obviously a much more friendly attitude, Wu Tianyuan felt sick for a while, but let's talk after reading the things first.

"Isn't this Boss Wu? I can meet you everywhere, bad luck!"

Wu Tianyuan fought back with disdain: "It seems that the Kuang family really can't get along in the country? Need to sneak to RB? How pitiful!"

Kuang Guoqiang was so angry that he wanted to quarrel, but was held back by two experts behind him, and said in a low voice: "Now is not the time to fight, let's look at things before we talk!"

Although Rukawa didn't know what the two of them said, he knew at a glance that they were not friends, and he was secretly happy.The harder the grab, the better, and the negotiation will be easier.

When everyone saw a room full of collections, they were shocked. Hundreds of Ming and Qing fans, Zhao Zhiqian's calligraphy inscriptions, and more than a dozen master teapots on the bookshelves, the number is astonishing.

At this time, neither Wu Tianyuan nor Kuang Guoqiang was in the mood to quarrel, and quickly began to appraise the collection to determine the authenticity.

"They are all authentic! It really is the precious collection that was rumored to be burned."

After listening to it, Wu Tianyuan quickly came to the conclusion that these were the treasures that the shameless little RB had withheld back then, and after many twists and turns, they came to Rukawa's house.Become the collection of the previous generation of owners.

"Qianlong's Baimei Xinyongtu!"

Baimei Xinyong Illustrated Biography is a well-known woodblock print book of characters in the early Qing Dynasty. It takes more than a hundred women in history and legends as the theme, and includes hundreds of short biographies of famous ladies in China, such as Xishi, Wang Zhaojun, and Yang Guifei. Accompanied by hundreds of pictures and more than two hundred chants by literati.It is a collection of images, biographies, poems and calligraphy.

Qianlong ordered the court painters to recompile it, which is a collection of masterpieces by Castiglione Castiglione, Dong Bangda, Jiang Xichen and other royal painters, which are very precious.

"There is also this set of Castiglione's Twelve Years of Fun in the Old Summer Palace, which best represents the scene of the Old Summer Palace at that time. It is rare to see in a hundred years!"

Castiglione Castiglione's paintings of the Yongzheng Yuanmingyuan in December are a group of works showing the daily life of Emperor Yongzheng. They are arranged in the order of the 12 months of spring, summer, autumn and winter. "Admiring peaches in March", "flowing cups in April", "racing boats in May", "enjoying the cool air in June", "begging for cleverness in July", "appreciating the moon in August", "appreciating chrysanthemums in September", and "portraits in October" ", "Participating in Zen in November" and "Appreciating snow in the twelfth lunar month".

The scene is grand, the characters and buildings are integrated, and the painting is delicate, without any failure.The body of the plate painting is white and firm, with a compact structure, delicate and jade-like, and the glaze as moist as butter exudes a solemn and elegant royal atmosphere.The treatment method with the ginger yellow tone as the main line expresses the concept of "the whole world is the king's land" held by the emperors of all dynasties.

"Lang Shining's pictures of ten horses, here are five!"

Castiglione was the most famous missionary painter in the Qing court. He was originally an Italian and came to China as a missionary. He was appreciated for his painting skills, served in the court, and spent the rest of his life in China.

During his decades-long career as a court painter in the Qing Dynasty, he served three generations of emperors Kang, Yong and Qian. He created works including still lifes of flowers and birds, portraits of people, and documentary paintings. He is especially famous for his paintings of horses.

In the eighth year of Qianlong, Castiglione was ordered to draw ten large paintings of "Horse Picture".These ten paintings are portraits of ten steeds, drawn according to real steeds, and the paintings are huge, almost as large as real horses.The pictures of ten steeds are included in the "Shiqu Baoji First Edition", which is described in detail.It has been kept in the imperial study, and Qianlong's favorite treasure is "plain silk book, colored painting", which belongs to the top grade.

"Wanji Cong, Kan Huliu, Perak Xiang, Zizai, Ben Xiaocong! They are all masterpieces of the number one painter in the court."

Liu Huasheng was heartbroken when he saw such a heavy weapon. As a Chinese, seeing so many treasures in the hands of RB people, that feeling is really uncomfortable!

Rukawa proudly said: "How is it? Do you have any comments? These are my father's lifetime treasures, rare boutiques, and there will never be a second copy in Osaka!"

"The Rukawa family is indeed a famous family, and Kuang admires it very much!"

Kuang Guoqiang apologized and said with a smile: "But the price is too high, can Patriarch Rukawa let it go?"

"I found someone to estimate that the value of this batch of collections is at least one billion or more. Even if the market is not good, your auction house will still make a profit. If it weren't for the difficulties of the Rukawa family, I would not be willing to sell the treasures of my ancestors."

Rukawa thought for a while, and said firmly: "140 billion yen, this is the bottom line!"

Kuang Guoqiang smiled wryly, and secretly scolded the little RB for being so cunning and cunning. After talking for a long time, he lost tens of millions, and it cost more than 7 million yuan!

Thinking of the bottom line that Boss Chen gave before he came, it was far behind. I didn't expect that Yuanjia Road was narrow, and I met this kid Wu Tianyuan here again. Let's hear what he said first?
Wu Tianyuan didn't speak. He secretly communicated with Baimeitu to see if there was any news, and suddenly his expression changed: "Patriarch Rukawa, there are too many of these things, and we won't be able to finish them in a while. It's getting late, can we see them tomorrow? ?”

"No problem, everyone has come from afar, the Rukawa family will naturally entertain distinguished guests well, stay here tonight, rest well and we can talk tomorrow."

The old man Rukawa nodded, everyone should be cautious when exchanging tens of billions of transactions, he arranged for guests to stay, and he could study and appraise the collection at night.

This is what Wu Tianyuan wanted. After eating, he found an excuse to visit and went to the easternmost room.

Here is a tea room, empty, except for a Buddha statue enshrined in the middle, there is nothing.

"it's here!"

Wu Tianyuan closed the door, hurriedly walked under the altar, groped with his hands, and suddenly found the hidden compartment Bai Meitu had mentioned, and took out a small bag of things.

"Sure enough, it's a letter left by Rukawa's previous Patriarch. Is this a treasure map?"

Wu Tianyuan looked at more than a dozen letters and a piece of parchment written in Japanese, and hurriedly questioned him.

"What kind of bullshit treasure map! It's a back road left by the old guy before he died. He has done a lot of bad things in his life, and he hid some treasures for fear of retribution to his descendants."

Treasure Map complained: "I have a dignified treasure map, and I have been hiding in a small dark corner for decades. Have you seen the riddles on my body? Each sentence corresponds to a word, and all of them are under the willow tree by the pond in the old house!"

Wu Tianyuan finally got the most important clue, so he hurriedly found an excuse to go out, and followed the instructions of the treasure map to the dilapidated Rukawa family's old house.No one lives here, it has been abandoned for a long time, climb over the wall, find the big willow tree in the pond in the backyard, and dig!
"This is the March Peach Blossom Cup? It's here!"

On the top of the treasure chest is the March Peach Blossom Cup kept in the brocade box. In addition, Wu Tianyuan already has nine in his hand, only six, eight, and September cups are left.

"Sure enough, the remaining five pictures of ten steeds are also there, and now they are all in place!"

"Wang Duo's cursive and cursive hand scrolls!"

"Kangxi Cowpea Red Wenfang Eight Sizes!"

"Ming Dynasty Chenghua blue and white okra bowl!"

Wu Tianyuan was excitedly counting the harvest, especially this Ming blue and white, a rare treasure, now known to have at most ten pieces in existence. Last year, an old collection of Meiyintang was auctioned, and it was sold at a sky-high price of 1.3 million Hong Kong dollars.

"Is this Qi Baishi's twelve screens?"

At the bottom of the box, Wu Tianyuan picked up a scroll and said in shock.

(End of this chapter)