Chapter 253: The basement of Longshou Castle is very large. The first thing that catches your eye are huge wooden barrels, all made of good oak. Needless to think about it, these are all wine barrels of Zhuang wine.

The world's best wines are made of oak barrels. During the brewing process, some chemical changes will occur between the wine and the oak barrels, making the wine's flavor more complex and the quality is better.

"Your grandpa is a drunkard, right?" Qin Xuebing had no doubts. If he poured all these wines into the swimming pool, he might be able to fill the swimming pool halfway.

"You should know that we French like to hold various alcoholic parties, and wine is in high demand."

Reese's face showed a look of remembrance: "My grandfather liked to entertain guests with the wine he made himself during his lifetime. Many of the wines were brewed by him. I'll give you two barrels in the future."

Walking further forward, there are many rooms. Maybe I know that Qin Xuebing is coming. The door to each room is open. You can see dense collections, including various countries, various periods, and various types.

"How about you collect it?" Reese was a little proud. These were collected by his grandfather in his whole life. If he hadn't had to participate in the treasure hunt, he would have been reluctant to give it to others.

Qin Xuebing was dumbfounded. The rich collection here made him feel like a beggar and even had the intention of robbing.

"Rough!" Qin Xuebing gritted his teeth and said two words, but his eyes were full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

"It's indeed a bit messy!" Reis didn't care. Qin Xuebing was right. Although the collection was huge, it was not a good or bad. Unlike Qin Xuebing, who was taking the high-quality route, each piece was amazingly valuable.

Qin Xuebing continued to walk forward and saw collections from many countries, even mummies in Egypt, which made people wonder if the guy wrapped in a shroud would jump out of the middle of the night.

Suddenly, Reis stopped, pointed to a room in front and said, "Look at the collection in this room?"

"Where did you snatch it?" Qin Xuebing couldn't move. There were not many collections in this room, only a dozen, but each one came from China, covering the five eras of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

There is also a large Yuan blue and white jar, which is definitely a fine product for the annual inspection. Unfortunately, the pictures and texts are flowers, birds, insects, and fish, rather than characters.

Not every Yuan blue and white porcelain can be sold at a sky-high price of 230 million yuan, but it must be the characters' stories. There are only eight Yuan blue and white porcelains with characters' stories.

Reis smiled embarrassedly. Qin Xuebing was right. There were a few items here that were stolen from the Old Summer Palace when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked China. The remaining ones were either bought from cultural relics smugglers or were auctioned at auction.

Even if Reis doesn't say it, Qin Xuebing can guess some of it. After all, there were too many cultural relics lost overseas in that era: "Do you know, I'm already thinking of robbing now."

"But I know you won't do this." Reese smiled. Even if Qin Xuebing snatched so many things, he would probably not be able to transport them out of Paris.

"Maybe I'll do that day!" Qin Xuebing sighed and continued to move forward.

"I thought you would choose from these." Resbon thought Qin Xuebing would walk out with three pieces of porcelain directly.

"Have you ever heard a saying that the best things are always placed at the end?" Qin Xuebing continued to move forward, walked to the last room, his eyes immediately opened with an incredible expression. They were four heads, made of copper imitation animals, namely dragon, snake, chicken and dog.

"This... why are these things here with you?" Qin Xuebing stuttered. It turned out that these things had disappeared long ago, but he didn't expect to see them here.

These things have a name, called the Twelve Beast Heads of the Old Summer Palace, and these four are dragon heads, snake heads, chicken heads and dog heads.

The ancient site of the Old Summer Palace, Haiyantang, was built in 1759 (the 24th year of Qianlong). The word "Haiyan" is based on "The river is clear and the sea is peaceful and the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful." Zheng Xi of the Tang Dynasty said that the word "The word "Zhongyou Wang" is "The river is clear and the sea is peaceful and the time is harmonious and the year is prosperous": "The river is clear and the sea is peaceful and the river is peaceful and the waves are quiet." The river, the Yellow River; Yan, calm. "The river is clear and the sea is clear and the sea is calm and the waves are quiet. This term is used to describe the peace of the world and has the auspicious meaning of praising world peace.

The name of the practical building "Haiyantang" in the Royal Gardens is also derived from this. The essence of this building complex - the bronze statue of the twelve zodiac signs is known worldwide for water.

The head of the beast was designed by Lang Shining, a priest of the Jesuits stationed in China. He used the twelve zodiac signs of the beast's head to represent the twenty-four hours of a day. Each bronze statue took turns to spray water, which was a wonder.

In 1860, the heads of the twelve zodiac animals were plundered by the British and French coalition forces and wandered around. The heads of rats and rabbits were collected by the French; the bronze statues of ox heads, monkey heads, tiger heads, pig heads, sheep heads and horse heads have returned to China and are collected in the Poly Museum of Art; the whereabouts of the dragon heads, snake heads, chicken heads, and dog heads are unknown.

"Like it? This is the surprise I prepared for you." Reis laughed. He believed that Qin Xuebing would be moved. It is no exaggeration to say that Chinese collectors would be moved when they see these things.

Over the years, as long as the twelve beast heads appear in the airline sales, the Chinese will spend money desperately. Now the unit price of the twelve beast heads has exceeded 100 million yuan, and the highest one has been called 14 million euros, which is equivalent to 140 million yuan.

"Where are you playing with me?" Qin Xuebing suddenly realized something was wrong. This boy knew that he would be moved when he saw these four things, but he only promised three, which clearly wanted to sway his appetite.

"I didn't fool you, you agreed before." Reis looked playful.

"You kid dare say that it was not intentionally arranged this?" Qin Xuebing gritted his teeth, and had the urge to beat this kid up.

The Twelve Beasts are so famous that they cover almost the whole country, and countless collectors are trying hard to bring them back to their country and gather again. Now that they have the chance, Qin Xuebing will never give up.

But he could only take three of them away!

"Boy, let's change the conditions? All three items have been given. It can be seen that you don't care much about these things. It's not as good as the beauty of sincerity and kindness?" Qin Xuebing rarely spoke so softly. He would take these four beast heads back no matter what.

"What do you say in China? A gentleman says a word and a quick horse whip. Do you want to cheat?" Reis's face was more interesting.

"You..." Qin Xuebing was considering whether he should use secret techniques to make this guy suffer a little, but doing that is not much different from robbing him.

Perhaps, from the perspective of the Chinese people, it is natural to get these things back by any means. But it would be too unkind that the other party would pay three of them just to participate in the treasure hunt, and then use forced robbery to get the fourth one away.

"By the way, I remember, you China still have a saying, what you say is like farts, you won't be like this, right?" Reese smiled.

"Boy, where are you blocking my mouth with words?"

Qin Xuebing suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, three are three. I want the snake head, the chicken head and the dog head, and the dragon head, you keep this and play slowly."

"Why is this? Dragon is your totem of China. You should choose the dragon head first." Reis was a little surprised.

"Boy, you're still stunned. If the dragon head was real, I would use all means to bring them all back." Qin Xuebing laughed loudly. It was indeed embarrassing to choose three of them, but one of them was fake, so there was nothing to hesitate about.

The dragon beast has indeed disappeared for many years and has not appeared again, but there has been definite news that the dragon head is on Taiwan.

The collector of the dragon head was originally preparing to go to the auction, but because of the accident in the auction of rat head and rabbit head, the collector began to hesitate whether to go to the auction.

The auction giant Christie's appeared in a special auction "Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Beger Collection" held in Paris, France from February 23 to 25, 2009. At the auction on February 26, it was unveiled at a reserve price of 9 million euros and finally sold for 14 million euros. At that time, Christie's did not reveal the true identity of the buyer.

On March 2, Niu Xianfeng, deputy director-general of the China Rescue Lost Overseas Cultural Relics Special Fund, said at a press conference held by Jingcheng that Cai Mingchao, a collection consultant of the China Rescue Lost Overseas Cultural Relics Special Fund, participated in the auction and became the final bidder. However, since the payment has not been paid yet and is still within the payment period, it is still unknown whether the auction can be finalized.

Cai Mingchao said: "I won't pay. Under such circumstances at that time, every Chinese would stand up, and I just fulfilled my responsibilities."

It is precisely this reason that the dragon head has not appeared in front of the world for a long time, which has also caused many people to doubt whether the dragon head on Taiwan is real.

But Qin Xuebing can now further confirm that the dragon head is very likely to be on Taiwan, and this one in front of him does not cause the energy sensing.

"I have been with you for so long, it's time to talk about your purpose, right?" Qin Xuebing's lips raised, full of playfulness, as if it was Reis's previous expression.

"I just want to know if you are as magical as the legendary one. Now it seems that it is right." Reis smiled embarrassedly. He did not have any malice. This dragon head was just used to test Qin Xuebing's eyesight.

This dragon head was bought by his grandfather for $5 million ten years ago, but it turned out that it was just a high-quality imitation work.

Qin Xuebing could judge without even going up to watch carefully, which is enough to show that the circulating stories about Qin Xuebing were not fabricated out of thin air, but were indeed true.

"Is it fun to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Qin Xuebing still smiled, full of evil spirits and full of playfulness: "You should know that treasure hunting is very dangerous, right?"

The brainless question made Reis feel puzzled, but he replied: "It's indeed very dangerous, but I believe it's definitely okay to follow you."

"I'm sorry, I just promised to take you to treasure hunt, but I didn't promise to protect you. And you also know that the treasure hunt process is prone to accidents." Qin Xuebing said seriously.

"What do you... mean?" Rees had a bad premonition.

"I mean very simple. I can increase protection services, but I have to collect protection fees." Qin Xuebing smiled and looked outside.

(To be continued)
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