Chapter 158 Wholesale Antiques to Buy Manor

Everyone sat down in the living room. The old woman brought a teapot and poured a cup of black tea for each of them. Jiang Hao wanted to complain when he saw the teapot. It was another set of Chinese porcelain. Looking at the exquisite workmanship and the patterns on it, Maybe it's also a set of royal supplies.

The old man looked at Jiang Hao and asked, "Do you understand those porcelains?"

"I don't understand," Jiang Hao shook his head.

"Then why would you want to buy them."

"I just think their colors and patterns are very beautiful. I'm a painter." Jiang Hao reiterated his previous remarks.

"Well, art is the same, just like this lady, whether he is a child or an old man, he will fall for her beauty." The old man praised Malena again.

Jiang Hao is powerless to complain, it seems that this old guy's playboy attributes have been integrated into his bone marrow, and he never forgets to please women anytime and anywhere.

"My uncle, Baron Siskok Mario, once served as an admiral and conquered that eastern country. That country was once very powerful. Marco Polo once recorded that it was a country paved with gold."

"One of their dynasties, which once hit Europe, is the Mongols, the mighty Russia, the Ottoman Empire, all trembling under their iron hooves"

Sir Mario's eloquence is very good. He explained some of the history he knew. The owner of the antique shop and Marlene listened with great interest, but Jiang Hao felt embarrassed because the history the old man talked about was all specious. It looks like, many of them are wrong, and there are some legends that he made up.

"Sir Mario, I have to interrupt you, what I want to say is that I'm here to buy vases, not stories." Jiang Hao said.

The trick of selling antiques and selling stories has long been played by the Chinese. Jiang Hao didn't want to waste too much time with him.

Sir Mario shook his head, "You are such a boring person, you should know more about history, so as to broaden one's horizons, well, now let's talk about these antiques, I don't think the price I set is high, They are definitely worth the price."

Jiang Hao spread his hands, "If you insist, then we have nothing to talk about." He stood up and pulled Malena before leaving.

"Wait a minute, young man, your character is too impatient, please sit down, I haven't finished, but since you are here, I have to show some sincerity, you are right," the old man said anxiously.

Jiang Hao laughed in his heart, he was so despondent, and he was still showing off in front of me. How could a noble use only one servant. Although the pajamas on him were a luxurious camel wool coat, the cuffs were frayed. This old man should be very poor now, and Jiang Hao has his capital.

"I want to hear the price." Jiang Hao said.

"Okay, I'll give you 500 lire cheaper per piece. This is my biggest concession." The old man gritted his teeth.

"That's fine, I think I can buy a few beautiful glass vases as decorations, and those one only cost tens of lire." Jiang Hao said.

"Young people, this is a different concept, this is an antique from the East."

"It's no different to me, just worth it or not."

"Then how much are you going to pay?"

Jiang Hao pretended to ponder, "500 lire per piece."

The old man jumped up suddenly, "Impossible, they are all antiques, I will never sell them so cheap."

When it comes to money, the old man suddenly loses the elegance he had just now.

Afterwards, Sir Mario and Godfather Mr. Bernano started a price tug-of-war in the living room. Malena was stunned for a moment. When Jiang Hao bought clothes and bags for himself, he never did. Will be so preoccupied, why is it so today.

Is it because she loves me, so she pampers me? Malena suddenly felt very sweet, and watching the man and the old man quarrel and haggle over the price, she also finds it very interesting.

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The price was finally negotiated. Jiang Hao paid 1,800 lire for each piece, and bought 5 pieces together, totaling 9,000 lire. Jiang Hao asked Malena to pay the bill on the spot.

The five pieces of china were in the antique shop owner's car. A few people came out and moved some pieces of china to Jiang Hao's bodyguard's car. The antique shop owner received a commission of 500 lire and said to Jiang Hao, "Will you go back together, Bernano? gentlemen."

"No, I'm going to go back and talk to Sir Mario again. I suddenly find the history of the eastern country he talked about very interesting." Jiang Hao said with a smile.

The owner of the antique shop was stunned for a moment, then realized something.

The other party bought these antiques and asked him to bring them to see the master. I'm afraid he didn't just want to buy them. I don't understand.

Looking at the other's four strong bodyguards, he still decided to leave here.

Jiang Hao took Malena back to the manor again. After seeing Mario this time, Jiang Hao said straight to the point: "Mr. Mario, I heard from the owner of the antique shop that you still have a lot of oriental antiques like this, and I can appreciate them. Well, maybe I still like it."

"You still want to buy, of course, but they are all piled up in the basement, there is no special storage room, it should be a little messy." The old man said.

He is naturally happy to be able to sell more money, but he has been consigning this kind of thing for a long time, and only then has such a guest come.

Holding a bunch of big iron keys, the three walked through the corridor of the manor and came to an iron door. The old man opened the iron door with the key, turned on the electric light inside, and took Jiang Hao and Malena down the spiral staircase. , Going down about two floors, an iron door appeared in front of him again, and the old man plucked through the pile of iron keys to find one to open the iron door.

A faint musty smell came from the basement. There were electric lights in the basement. Jiang Hao looked inside and found that the basement was large in size and high in height. There are china, there are some boxes, and some are covered with cloth and don't know what's underneath.

There is a layer of dust on all these things, and it is estimated that no one has cleaned them for some years.

Jiang Hao walked in, took a look, and took out a scroll in a jar. It was obviously a Chinese painting. There were more than a dozen such scrolls in the jar. Portrait of man.

Some ugly, some familiar.

This,

Isn't this a portrait of Huang Taiji? He remembered that he had seen the portraits of the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty before. He had seen this picture. Among the twelve emperors, Huang Taiji was the fattest, and the emperors behind were thinner than the other, so he There are some impressions in my mind.

The portrait of the authentic emperor should be hung in the ancestral temple, but I didn't expect it to end up here to eat ashes.

"Sir Mario, how many oriental antiques do you have in total?" Jiang Hao asked casually.

"The family records that there are a total of 1,900 oriental antiques. Of course, now you have to remove the few in your hands." Mario said.

Jiang Hao paused and said, "Mr. Mario, do you intend to sell them all at once?"

Sir Mario was surprised, "Why, you want to buy them all."

Jiang Hao shrugged, rolled up the scroll in his hand, and threw it back into the jar just now. He clapped his hands and said, "I don't know if this thing has collectible value. I want to invest in it to see if it can appreciate in value. Of course, the price can't be expensive. Now, if it’s expensive, I don’t think it’s worth investing in, you know, so many things are not a small sum of money.”

Mario rubbed his hands together, with excitement on his face, and said, "If you can buy them all, of course you can give you a discount, I have long wanted to leave here, and when I have the money, I will go back to Rome, Continue to enjoy my life instead of living in the poor countryside."

Jiang Hao's heart moved when he heard it, "Sir Mario, is that even the manor to be sold?"

"If someone is willing to buy it, of course sell it, I've already lived here enough, if it weren't for the money, who would come here." Sir Mario said.

I don't feel bad about the cub selling Ye Tian.

"Sir Mario, let's discuss this manor together." Jiang Hao said with a smile.