Chen Rui raised his eyebrows and continued to ask.

"Yes, the auction just started yesterday. It is said that it will last three days. After three days, the owner will sell all the houses..."

Perhaps because of Chen Rui's generous spending, this stall owner behaved very honestly.

He almost answered every question and told Chen Rui the origins of these candlesticks.

Chen Rui wrote them down one by one, then borrowed a trolley from the stall owner and bumped all the bronze candlesticks onto the trolley.

After pushing the cart out of the tent, Chen Rui walked back quickly.

As soon as he arrived at his T-Rex pickup truck, Karen called and asked where he was.

He told Karen the location of the car, then opened the back bucket and started loading the candlesticks into the car.

These candlesticks look quite big, but they are hollow and not heavy.

Those pig and dog candlesticks were thrown carelessly into the back bucket.

But the open vase-like object was carefully wrapped and put into the back seat by him.

Just when he was using the on-board air pump to inflate the air column of the package.

Karen is back, and she's bringing a bunch of loot with her.

Mainly all kinds of second-hand jewelry, all of good quality.

Chen Rui looked at it, complimented him a few words casually, and then started busy with the work at hand.

"How much did you spend on these candlesticks?"

Karen also saw the candlesticks bought by Chen Rui at this moment and asked.

"Four hundred and one!"

"Oh my God! You must have made a mistake this time."

Karen took a look at the candlesticks thrown into the back bucket and said.

"These are all modern handicrafts, and they only cost a hundred dollars each..."

But Chen Rui smiled and shook his head at her: "Those are really worthless."

"This is the most valuable thing."

He pointed to the candlestick placed in the car. Karen came over and wanted to reach out to pick it up, but Chen Rui stopped her.

"Go and look in the car, don't look outside."

It was getting brighter now, and the night market was about to end.

Many people who had visited the ghost market were returning to the parking lot one after another, and it was crowded and crowded.

Chen Rui didn't want to expose this treasure, so Karen opened the car door doubtfully.

Chen Rui had also inflated the air column and put away the air pump. He opened the door and got in the car and started the car.

Karen was left alone in the back seat, studying the candlestick.

Forty minutes later, the two finally returned to the hotel.

But as soon as he walked in, Karen hugged him excitedly.

"Ricky, you are really amazing. Where did you find this thing?"

Obviously Karen was talking about the bronze candlestick, and Chen Rui smiled.

I told Karen my experience of discovering and purchasing this candlestick.

"When I first took a look at it, I felt that this thing was not simple. It was very similar to the ancient bronzes of our Dragon Kingdom."

"So it cost one thousand and six, how about it? Have you found out what this thing is?"

Although Chen Rui knew that this candlestick must be an antique, he didn't know what it was specifically.

Seeing how excited Karen is now, she must have found the corresponding information in the car just now.

Sure enough, after hearing his question, Karen excitedly pushed the phone in front of him: "See for yourself!"

Chen Rui took it over and saw that it happened to be a photo of the same type of bronze.

It turns out that this thing is called a goblet, which is a kind of wine vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties in ancient China.

In fact, it’s just a wine glass…

Many of these things have been unearthed in China, and many have been lost overseas.

It is a coincidence that this goblet appears in this market...

"Wow, this goblet looks more and more like the one that was lost in the Boston Museum thirty years ago!"

Karen looked at the bronze goblet in her hand, then looked at the pictures on her phone, and then murmured to herself.

Chen Rui was stunned when he heard these words: "What did you say?"

Karen rolled her eyes: "Didn't you see the introduction under this picture?"

Chen Rui took a closer look and found that there was a very small prompt under the picture.

"Image courtesy of the Boston Museum."

"This goblet was in the collection of the Boston Museum and was stolen in 1990, along with fifteen famous oil paintings."

"Currently, the museum is offering a reward of US$10 million to find the whereabouts of these antique oil paintings."

"If anyone can provide valid information, please call the following phone number xxxxxx"

Chen Rui suddenly realized: "Is it possible that this bronze goblet is the one lost in the Boston Museum?"

He turned his attention to the bronze goblet again, looking at the soft yellow light emitting from the goblet.

He confirmed that this must be the stolen one.

Although this bronze goblet is not the same as the lost small rhinoceros statue that I collected from the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

The origin of that little rhinoceros statue has been clearly recorded.

This bronze goblet does not have such identification, but this does not hinder its preciousness...

Because this kind of bronze was very valuable during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was impossible for ordinary people to own it.

This kind of wine vessel was mainly popular in the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. Especially in the Shang Dynasty, it was extremely precious.

Because bronze itself is so rare, in the Shang Dynasty, this kind of wine vessel was often a symbol of power and status.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the improvement of smelting and casting technology, this kind of goblet gradually evolved into jue.

Therefore, this thing may not be sold at a high price abroad, but in the domestic antique circle, its status is definitely extraordinary.

Many museums even regard this kind of bronze as a treasure.

"By the way, Ricky, did that person tell you where he got this bronze goblet?"

Karen asked Chen Rui, and Chen Rui smiled slightly.

"I think it is necessary for us to go to Roland Heights."

"Well, what are you doing there?"

Karen was very surprised when she heard this place name.

Because they had just been to this place during the day yesterday, because Jasper's family lived in that neighborhood.

"Because these things were collected by the stall owner from No. 168 Roland Heights."

"It is said that that family is holding a family auction..."

When Karen heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go take a look. Maybe we can find something good."

This woman, when she heard there was an auction, she was even more excited than Chen Rui.

But Chen Rui smiled bitterly and shook his head: "There's no need to be in such a hurry, you have to rest first anyway."

"Haha, that's right. Let's rest for a while and then set off in the afternoon."

The two of them slept in the motel until the afternoon, then simply washed up.

I didn’t even eat when I left the house, so I drove straight to Roland Heights.

Before setting off, Karen collected information online. Today was the last day of the home auction for this family.
Chapter completed!