Grand Collection

Chapter 47

Several pieces of Ming and Qing porcelain were sold, and the funds were returned to more than 3000 million. Kong Xin and Luo Zigeng flew to Hong Kong a week in advance. His mother Mei Xue and Kong Yangshan have been working in Sotheby’s jewelry department in Hong Kong since their divorce, but she already has a new family. So Kong Xin generally doesn't bother her, and more often contacts her on the Internet.

Coming out of the airport, Kong Xin walked out while talking on his mobile phone, "Hey, Mom, where are you? A bookstore? Where is there a bookstore? Hey, I saw you."

As he spoke, he put away his phone, pulled Luo Zigeng up, and walked forward quickly.

Standing at the door of the bookstore was a graceful and graceful woman with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, flaming red lips, and a huge emerald ring on her hand. Seeing them, she smiled happily and opened her arms far away.

Kong Xin laughed and ran over, hugging his mother, "Big beauty, you miss me so much."

"Oh dear, you're the one who wants to kill me," Mei Xue exaggeratedly kissed Kong Xin twice, without any regard for his son's age and appearance.

Kong Xin made a helpless grimace at Luo Zigeng, and pushed him to his mother, "Do you still remember him?"

"...Son-in-law..." Mei Xue poked Kong Xin's head weakly with an expression on the verge of fainting, "Although your mother and I are very young in mind, don't always provoke me so blatantly, okay? Although you find me I have a very handsome son-in-law, but it is true that I have no grandson, O!K?"

Luo Zigeng laughed, "It's nice to meet you, Aunt Mei. Gains and losses always go hand in hand. Although we don't have children, I feel very happy to be with Brother Kong."

Mei Xue rubbed his hair affectionately, "If you want to be recognized by me, you will be happy with Ashin for the rest of your life!"

"Definitely!" Luo Zigeng nodded solemnly.

Hot mom Mei Xue drove her son and son-in-law home in a bright red Range Rover, "Your stepfather has not come back from a business trip to mainland China. This family is only the three of us for the time being. Don't be cautious."

"Don't worry, we will treat us as our own." Kong Xin took a can of beer from the refrigerator and threw it to Luo Zigeng, opened a can himself, and sat down on the sofa carelessly. I know, let me disclose some inside information, how much money can the transaction be made?"

"I'm not the Miscellaneous Department, where did I get the inside information?" Mei Xue glared at him, "But I heard that a large group of rich people are approaching, and the situation is not optimistic."

"Which ones? What from Macau? Zhang from Taiwan? Honda from Japan?"

"These old-fashioned tycoons are known to like antiques, and they will definitely come. There are also some young tycoons who have developed in recent years. They spend a lot of money on the auction field more generously than the old tycoons," Mei Xue said, "Like the Han family in Hong Kong, now The person in power is only 22 years old, and his enthusiasm for antiques is no less than those of the old rich, especially Moyu, and the Moyu special held last year was almost taken over by his family."

Luo Zigeng said, "You mean the Han family that runs the ocean shipping company?"

Mei Xue nodded, "Yes, this is the best family. The younger brother killed the elder brother, and the son killed the father. The victorious one is called Han Ye, born of his concubine. He has a dark personality and no power to support him. No one paid attention to him at first. Who knows? He was so good at the end."

Kong Xin lazily said, "You don't know, Zi Geng. This Han family was also a high-ranking official in Nanjing back then. They withdrew to Hong Kong on the eve of liberation and brought a large number of antiques with them. If the old man is still alive, we have to call him Han Si." grandfather."

"It is said that the Han family is doing ocean logistics on the surface, but they are actually doing arms business behind their backs. I don't know if it's true or not. It's so scary." Mei Xue shuddered exaggeratedly, but there was no fear in her beautiful phoenix eyes, "Oh no Let’s talk about this, really, even talking about it makes me feel darker, so it’s better to be poor like us, these rich people have a history of blood and tears.”

Kong Xin laughed, "You are poor, but I am not. I came to bid for the national treasure with hundreds of millions."

Mentioning his reason for coming, Mei Xue was quite disapproving, "What are you worrying about for the state cadres? They spend tens of billions a year on food, drink and entertainment, but they don't want to save a few percent to buy back national treasures." , Do you think that if you buy it back and donate it to the museum, you will really return the treasure to the people? The museum hides the treasure in the warehouse, and imitates a replica to show it to the common people. , maybe one day, the one in the warehouse will also become a replica. Think about the sitting statue of Amitayus and the silver mandala that appeared in Christie's special auction of "Royal Faith: Buddhist Treasures of the Qianlong Dynasty". Those with the words "Liu Ping" and "Gu" are in the collection of the Palace Museum."

Kong Xin said with a straight face, "Big beauty, you are so beautiful on the outside, please be more sunny on the inside."

"My heart is already very sunny, son, my mother is a woman with sunflowers in my heart," Mei Xue twisted his nose affectionately, "In this line of work, I have seen too many cases, giving gifts to the superiors of the museum, from the hands of the leaders After getting a special approval note and paying a symbolic deposit of tens of thousands of yuan, you can borrow the fine works of official kilns in the museum for scientific research, and when you return them, they will become outright fakes."

Luo Zigeng frowned, "Isn't the original in the museum not tested by computer when it is put into storage?"

"My child, you are too sweet," Mei Xue said, "If you can handle the upper management, how can you not handle mere machine testing?"

Kong Xin finished the beer, held the empty can, and said slowly, "You can't lose confidence in a whole group just because of individual cases. Why doesn't Dad know about these dirty places? I think he thinks more about it. It is to keep the firewood kiln in China, no matter who owns it, it must stay in China.”

"This is even more narrow-minded," Mei Xue snorted coldly. "At the beginning, I had to divorce him. One reason was that the concept of collection was too inconsistent. I think collection has no country, and the geographical monopoly of cultural relics should be broken, but your father said collection A family has a country, and the Chinese are getting rich now, so they should buy back the cultural relics that were robbed by the big powers back then.”

"Father's thoughts are relatively conservative, and this is also the view held by most people in the country. I think there is nothing wrong with it," Kong Dao said. "After all, those cultural relics are masterpieces of outstanding craftsmen in our history."

Mei Xue: "Although this is true, now that the Chinese people have become rich, so they want to welcome the national treasure back to the country, but how many people's purpose is really so simple? I work in an auction house, and I have seen too many rich people from mainland China. Fighting among compatriots, many of them don't understand antiques at all. What they fancy is the great wealth behind the antiques. Taking national treasures for themselves is also for the price, and their goal is to drive up the price to sky-high prices. People who love them simply can’t afford those antiques, and the worst thing is that they still want to hype them up in the media, packaging themselves as nationalist fighters fighting for the dignity of the country.”

Luo Zigeng drank beer silently, his eyes were complicated. He thought of his father. Mr. Luo was really obsessed with porcelain back then. He borrowed huge sums of money from the bank to snap up antique porcelain in western auction venues. It was obviously only worth a few million things, but It was able to sell at a price of tens of millions, and finally became insolvent and jumped to his death.

He will never forget that night, when his father called him after he was drunk, standing in the wind on the [-]th floor, he told him over and over again: always stay rational, never be blinded by desire...

"So I firmly believe that cultural relics have no geographical monopoly. I would rather let them stay in the hands of foreigners who really love antiques, than let them be treated as golden egg-laying hens by some vulgar rich people," Mei Xue glanced at Through Kong Xin and Luo Zigeng, "You are still young, and you still have decades to go in the antique industry. I hope you can correct your mentality, respect antiques, and truly love antiques."

Kong Xin laughed, "Don't worry, beauty, my concept of collection is the same as yours."

"Of course, you are my good son." Mei Xue couldn't help but hook him and kissed him again, "Oh, he looks more and more handsome, how come my son is so handsome, come and kiss again, mua ~~mua~~mua~~"

Kong Xin went crazy, "I'm 33 years old, don't kiss me all the time, okay?"

Mei Xue immediately covered her mouth with her hands, and her big eyes with exquisite makeup flickered, like a wounded rabbit, "Hey, do you despise my mother? Did you only allow Geng Geng to kiss you? Could it be that after you married yourself, I not only lost Grandson, have you lost the right to kiss my precious son? Oh NO, God..."

"..." Kong Xin turned his head away in pain, "Your acting skills are really terrible."

Luo Zigeng was amused by the pair of mother and son. Kong Xin has always been domineering and bullying the weak, but today he finally met his opponent, and it turned out to be the mother-in-law.

Mei Xue’s family lives in Repulse Bay. After dinner, Kong Xin and Luo Zigeng went for a walk on the beach. It was still dark, and the setting sun reflected on the water was very beautiful. to almost internal injury.

"Okay, okay, be more generous," Kong Xin patted his cheek, "You are the main palace, show your dignity and generosity."

Luo Zigeng got angry, "Didn't you say last time that I was a favorite concubine and Wang Baxian was the main palace?"

"Xiaoyou, that yellow-faced woman has been thrown into the sidelines by me!" Kong Xinliu smiled mischievously, and touched his buttocks, "You little goblin who caused trouble in the harem, don't be angry, there is a dessert station over there." , I invite you to eat a cone."

"Don't think I'm so easy to pass."

Luo Zigeng stood there smiling and watched him run across the road. Kong Xin was queuing up in front of the dessert station and looked back at Luo Zigeng. The two stood on both sides of the road and winked.

Suddenly Kong Xin's expression changed, and he ran to the road. Luo Zigeng was taken aback, "What are you doing? Be careful of the car! Be careful!!! Hey...fuck!"

Luo Zigeng pulled Kong Xin into his arms, and then a car flew past, dragging him to the side of the road. Luo Zigeng yelled, "What's wrong with you? Didn't you see so many cars on the road?"

Kong Xin's face was cloudy and uncertain, and he stared at the direction of the car in a trance.

Luo Zigeng cupped his face and slowed down his voice, "What's the matter? What did you see?"

Kong Xin turned to look at him, with an expression that he couldn't believe, "Xiao Meng... I seem to have seen Xiao Meng."

"How is it possible?" Luo Zigeng was startled, "Is he really not dead?"

Kong Xin tried his best to recall the glimpse just now, "I'm not sure again, I'm not sure if it's him I saw, I just glanced at it just now, and I think it's him... Did I run into a ghost?"

You can still joke, it seems that you are not scared, Luo Zigeng laughed, "The two of us are so full of yang, and we can still bump into ghosts? Then you are too bad."

"Get out of here."

Luo Zigeng said, "If brother Meng is really alive, he must still be doing things related to antiques. Find someone to find out if there is a man named Meng Xin in Hong Kong."

"Well," Kong Xin nodded, hooking his neck, "Go back, we need to think about this matter carefully."