Shen Dong waved his hand, interrupting Sun Qingyuan, and said, "Old Mu, since you've been in the antique business your whole life, you must be very knowledgeable about antiques and calligraphy, right?"
Mu Xingwen revealed a smug look and said, "When it comes to eye for quality, no antique dealer in Panjiayuan is better than me. Even those masters of antiques and calligraphy may not be as good as me."
Shen Dong asked, "After you sell your antique shop, are you going to the United States to be with your grandson?"
Mu Xingwen said, "I definitely won't go. I have no good feelings towards those foreigners. Even if I die, I'll die in Yandu."
Shen Dong smiled and asked, "Would you like to continue working at the antique shop?"
Mu Xingwen was taken aback and asked, "What do you mean?"
Shen Dong said, "I will invest 100 million yuan to acquire antiques and calligraphy, but I lack a master craftsman who can help me. If you are willing to help, I can pay you 10,000 yuan a month."
Mu Xingwen chuckled and said, "One hundred million? Young man, you don't look that old, but you're quite the braggart."
Sun Qingyuan, who was standing next to him, said, "Old man, this Mr. Shen is a super-rich man from Hong Kong Island with a net worth of hundreds of billions. A mere 100 million is just a piece of cake for him."
Upon hearing this, Mu Xingwen exclaimed in surprise, "Really?"
Shen Dong said, "I do have a lot of money. Old Mu, would you be willing to give me some leeway?"
Mu Xingwen was silent for a moment, then said, "As long as you swear not to sell these antiques and paintings abroad, I'll do it for you."
Shen Dong frowned and said, "Elder Mu, you are insulting me. How could I, a proud descendant of the Yellow Emperor, possibly sell the things of my ancestors abroad?"
Mu Xingwen quickly said, "I'm sorry, but I've seen too many unfilial descendants selling our ancestors' things to foreign tourists, and it pains me to see them like this."
Shen Dong nodded and said, "I can swear to God that I will only buy Chinese antiques and paintings from abroad in my entire life, and I will never sell them abroad."
Mu Xingwen said happily, "That's good. Hahaha, I have many collector friends in Yandu. They have a lot of antiques and paintings they want to sell, but unfortunately they don't have the money to buy them. If I had 100 million yuan, I could buy up all the antiques and paintings in half of Yandu."
Shen Dong snapped his fingers and said, "Great. Mr. Mu, let's talk about the house price. How much are you asking for?"
Mu Xingwen thought for a moment and said, "At least three million Xia Yuan."
Sun Qingyuan exclaimed, "Old man, you're asking for way too much! Three million? I could buy ten of these apartments with that money."
Mu Xingwen said, "I am selling the antiques and calligraphy I have treasured for half my life along with this building, not just this building."
Shen Dong asked, "Mr. Mu, have you acquired a lot of antiques and calligraphy?"
Mu Xingwen nodded and said, "I have a total of 620 paintings and calligraphy works, and 262 antiques of various kinds."
Shen Dong asked, "Why did you sell them all?"
Mu Xingwen sighed and said, "The antique collecting industry is not suitable for ordinary people like us."
Shen Dong gave Mu Xingwen a deep look and said, "Mr. Mu, I have a suggestion for you. You'd better wait a bit longer. I think the antique collecting industry in Xia Kingdom is about to take off. If you sell it to me now, you might suffer a great loss."
In his previous life, Shen Dong was a criminal police officer, but he also knew that the antique industry only began to truly take off five years later, and prices skyrocketed like a rocket.
A well-preserved Yuan blue-and-white porcelain bowl is currently worth at most five thousand, but in the future it could fetch an additional ten thousand.
Shen Dong wasn't a good person, but he really didn't want Mu Xingwen, an old man who genuinely loved antiques, to suffer too much loss.
Mu Xingwen said, “Mr. Shen, the fact that you can say these words shows that you are not a mercenary person. I have been waiting for this golden age of antique collecting for thirty years, and I don’t want to wait any longer. You are a very wealthy man. If you are really interested in collecting, I am willing to do my best to help you. At that time, I can also benefit from it and see some good things that I can never afford.”
Shen Dong has said everything he needed to say.
Since Mu Xingwen insisted on selling his antiques, Shen Dong naturally wouldn't refuse anymore, saying, "Mr. Mu, please take me to see these things."
"good."
Mu Xingwen led Shen Dong, Sun Qingyuan, and Li Jie to a collection room on the second floor.
Inside, there are more than a dozen shelves displaying exquisite antique jade artifacts, a dazzling array that is sure to dazzle the eye.
Mu Xingwen said, "Mr. Shen, I heard that you are very fond of Qi Baishi's paintings?"
Shen Dong nodded and said, "Yes."
Mu Xingwen pointed to a shelf and smiled, "There are more than three hundred paintings by Qi Baishi on that shelf, all of which I bought from the museum a few years ago. I also have works by other modern masters. Mr. Shen, can you guess how much I spent?"
Shen Dong recalled the guy from his past life who spent 200,000 to buy over 10,000 paintings and asked, "100,000?"
Mu Xingwen held up two fingers and said, "Two thousand yuan for five hundred paintings. If I had the money, I would definitely buy them all."
"puff"
Shen Dong was speechless.
Damn it, buying 500 masterpieces for 2,000 yuan? That's an absolute joke.
If this were twenty years from now, you wouldn't even have the right to look at it, let alone buy it, for two thousand yuan.
Shen Dong gently opened one of the paintings and said, "Elder Mu, these must all be masterpieces you've chosen, right?"
Mu Xingwen said proudly, "Of course. They are all works from their peak period. Now, five years later, these works have increased in value twentyfold, which has made me a fortune."
Shen Dong asked, "Elder Mu, you should have a catalog of these items, right?"
"certainly."
Mu Xingwen took out a stack of papers from a drawer and said, "All my things are on this."
Shen Dong took the catalog and immediately noticed two porcelain pieces with the words "Yuan blue and white porcelain" in them.
In the previous life, Yuan blue and white porcelain had already begun to gain fame at this time.
However, perhaps due to their extreme rarity, Yuan blue-and-white porcelain remains unknown to the world.
Even in Mu Xingwen's catalog, the two large Yuan blue-and-white porcelain jars were listed in the middle two lines.
Leaving aside other antiques and paintings, these porcelain pieces alone would be worth at least seven or eight billion in twenty years.
After glancing at the catalog, Shen Dong let out a long sigh and said solemnly, "I believe these items could fetch an astronomical price in the future, so Mr. Mu, I'll ask you one more time, are you really going to sell them to me?"
"yes."
Mu Xingwen gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.
Shen Dong nodded and said, "Including the house price, you want three million, right?"
Mu Xingwen said, "That's right."
Shen Dong said, "This price is too low. I'm not willing to take such a big advantage from you. How about this, I'll give you ten million to buy all your collections and this antique shop. I'll have someone bring the relevant purchase agreement this afternoon, and then we'll go to the notary office together. I'll pay the notary fees."
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