Chapter 1954 Low-Key Luxury
Dong Yao has thought about how luxurious and classy Yang Dongxu's home is countless times, but she has never thought that there is nothing special about the place where a big boss like Yang Dongxu lives, except that it feels big.
First of all, although there is a small pond in the yard, there are no koi of various colors that are currently being speculated. Among the green trees and flowers in the yard, there are no osmanthus, begonia, or peony.
It's just an ordinary green all year round. The flowers blooming in the flower bed are very bright, but the types are just ordinary roses, and there are also seasonal flowers.
However, although there are no precious plants in the greening, there are no hundreds of thousands or millions of orchids or other things placed in the entire yard.
But the layout is still very elegant and looks very comfortable. After entering the hall, I felt like I was back in an old house.
Going back to the old house, this does not mean that Dong Yao’s home was like this when he was a child, but the old wooden furniture in the entire living room gives people a sense of age at first glance. It’s just like my grandpa’s rocking chair when I was a kid, the shiny wooden stool I sat on, and the square, simple-made dining table.
This sense of age is very sympathetic, but it is not liked by today’s young people. Nowadays, young people's homes are often decorated in European style, with various chandeliers in the living room and various wallpapers and murals around them.
It can be said that it is completely opposite to the decoration style in front of us, which is to maintain sufficient lighting and try not to see modern electrical appliances in the house.
Therefore, the entire living room feels similar to the courtyard in front of Dong Yao, although the layout looks very comfortable. But it is a bit inconsistent with the luxurious status of Yang Dongxu, a big boss.
"This chair feels so hard, and the materials are very real. It is made of solid wood, right?" Yang Dongxu has not come back from working outside, and Cui Ma is the only one at home.
Cui Ma led them into the living room to serve tea and then went to prepare dinner. Dong Yao, who was sitting bored, started chatting with Yang Dongjie, who was playing on his mobile phone next to him.
"Antiques must be made of solid wood. In ancient times, no one would dare to make fakes. That would cost you your head." Yang Dongjie replied casually.
"Antique?" Dong Yao's eyes widened instantly.
"Everything you can see in this room are basically antiques. Oh, by the way, not the tea cup, but also the ornaments on the coffee table next to you. Although they are also antiques, they are not very expensive, as well as the chair under your butt, and the ornaments on the porch next to you. The porcelain and the calligraphy and paintings on the walls are incomparable.
It is generally used, or you may accidentally encounter something that is easy to break, either a modern handicraft or an antique that is too valuable.
After all, a guest accidentally knocks over a multi-million dollar antique. Should you let him pay for it or not? Both the host and the guests are in trouble.
Therefore, the ornaments that are usually used here and that can be encountered casually are basically not very good ornaments. The calligraphy and paintings on the walls, the porcelain on the porch.
The chairs we sit on, the coffee table, and the table over there are all real antiques. "Yang Dongjie explained.
When he came to Yanjing to go to school, his uncle and aunt sent him here. Yang Dongxu definitely couldn't let his uncle and aunt stay in a hotel for five days, so he stayed in the courtyard.
In order to avoid unnecessary losses and embarrassment in getting along with his family in the future, Yang Dongxu briefly introduced the things in the courtyard.
Of course, they only said they were antiques and did not mention the specific value of these things. Otherwise, the uncle and aunt knew that the chair under their buttocks was worth hundreds of thousands, and the vases they could see were often worth millions. It would be strange to dare to live here.
After all, Yang Dongjie is a person who went to high school and is going to university. His knowledge and horizons must be wider. In addition, he can use computers, so he just searched for pictures and spent a few days living in the courtyard of the university. I couldn't sleep well.
The uncle and aunt were so depressed that they thought he was not accustomed to the local environment, so they almost asked him to stop going to school and just follow them back to his hometown.
"Is it all true?" Dong Yao's eyes widened as she subconsciously touched the handle of the chair under her butt and glanced at the various furnishings in the room one by one.
"Is the nave at the back also real?"
In traditional Chinese houses, there is a tradition of hanging a nave on the wall behind the living room. As a representative of classical architecture, the courtyard here naturally has a nave hanging on the wall behind the living room. Moreover, it is the kind of nave that is carefully selected with sufficient size according to the size of the living room.
"Really, it has been treated to be moisture-proof and anti-oxidation, and the surface is coated with a removable protective film. In addition to being an antique, it is definitely a treasure that can be treated like this.
My brother sometimes seems to be very diligent, but sometimes he is lazy in certain things. And he obviously has a high level of cultural knowledge and art appreciation ability.
But when measuring the value of antiques, we always talk about how much they are worth. This nave is not only an antique, but it must be very expensive, otherwise my brother would not be so careful to protect it. "Yang Dongjie couldn't help but complain.
People who know Yang Dongxu feel that Yang Dongxu is a very elegant person with his accomplishments, vision, and preference for antiques.
As everyone knows, Yang Dongxu is vulgar in some aspects, for example, as Yang Dongjie said. Unless it's a certain object that Yang Dongxu prefers.
Otherwise, for all the other antiques, the only criterion for him to measure whether he likes them or not, whether he values them or not, is whether they are worth anything and how much they can be worth!
Antiques are considered "elegant" by people in the industry, while money is considered "vulgar" by people in this circle!
But whether an antique is worth collecting depends on how much it is worth. Therefore, antiques, elegance, vulgarity, and money form a wonderful cycle and connection between them.
"How much is this worth?" Dong Yao asked, looking at the central hall.
"I don't know the details, but calligraphy and paintings are difficult to preserve, so their prices in the antique market are generally higher than other antiques. Such a famous central hall with a provenance, and it is from the Song Dynasty. It must be worth hundreds of millions!"
"Hundreds of millions?" Dong Yao widened her eyes and screamed, "Then how much is the chair under our butt worth?"
"These chairs and tables are made of huanghuali. The price of huanghuali has been rising in the past two years. The wood price of this chair under our butt is about 200,000. In addition, it is a conservative estimate that the price of antiques is doubled. If you find something you like, it is possible to spend millions."
"In other words, any random thing in this room is enough to buy a house?"
"The least valuable ones can also pay a down payment in Yanjing. The valuable ones can also buy several villas with full payment."
"This is true." Dong Yao didn't know what to say for a while.
In her impression, those high-end decorations, with chandeliers that look very awesome, the whole house is probably only a few million.
Those furnitures that cost millions of dollars were all sky-high prices in her eyes. But those things that seemed luxurious and awesome to her, the house + decoration + furniture, were not as valuable as an antique that served as a decoration.
This really was because poverty limited her imagination.