Chapter 137 136. Worth Your Mom's Approval
Lucas was also very excited. After Anthony paid 51,000 yuan, he called him and asked him to come and manage the warehouse.
Li Du guessed that Anthony followed him under the command of Lucas, and he guessed right, but what he didn't guess was that Lucas also came to Sedona.
In order to save face, the Mexican did not directly participate in the auction. He stayed in a hotel and has been manipulating Anthony and others by phone.
Anthony didn't have the guts to pay more than 50,000 yuan for a warehouse. He only quoted this price after asking Lucas for instructions.
But what he was sure of was that Li Du really wanted to take pictures of this warehouse. After meeting Lucas, he said: "I can swear by my family, that guy is crazy to get it, I can see his What an intense thought."
"How intense?"
"As intense as the boss wants to get Megan Fox!"
Lucas laughed and said, "Then his thoughts are really intense."
"But in the end it fell into our hands. Although the Chinese guy has a good eye, his courage is far worse than that of the boss." Another subordinate smiled flatteringly.
Lucas snorted, and said, "Damn it, I really don't know why God favors him so much! This time, I must make a lot of money, otherwise I will have to go to pan drug to pay back the money!"
He made a lot of money through storage auctions, but he usually spends money and has no concept of saving money.
Last time he spent more than 80,000 yuan to take pictures of a worthless advertising screen, which caused him a lot of losses. He came to the auction this time to borrow money.
"This warehouse will definitely be a great harvest. The Chinese have been following the price up to 50,000 yuan, and I can see that this guy was very firm when he quoted 50,000 yuan!" Anthony said firmly.
The warehouse opened, and a pile of large and small carvings appeared in front of them.
Looking at these stone carvings, Lucas showed a joyful expression: "Guys, be careful, there must be works of famous masters inside, don't let me break them, otherwise I won't spare you!"
"Don't worry, boss, unless they are made of tofu, they will never be damaged." Anthony laughed.
Lucas also brought a person, together with Anthony and others, he had a total of three men here.
Arranging for three people to carefully pack the statues, he himself contacted a sculpture expert at Arizona State University College of Art with his mobile phone.
When the phone was connected, Lucas immediately became smiling: "Hi, Mr. Russell? Hello, I'm Lucas the mad cow, do you remember me?"
A soft voice came from the phone: "Oh, I remember, you once sold a statue of "Mourning for Christ" to our college, what can I do?"
Lucas nodded like a pounding garlic: "Yes, yes..."
"Boss, it's useless for you to nod, he can't see your movements." Anthony giggled.
Lucas glared at him: "Shut up, do your work buddy, I can't spare you if something goes wrong!"
"What could be the problem?" Anthony muttered.
He said this on purpose because of his meritorious deeds. In his opinion, this kind of cute behavior can bring him and Lucas closer.
The call continued: "Hello, Mr. Lucas, what did you just say? I'm sorry I didn't catch it."
Lucas hurriedly smiled and said, "No buddy, it's like this, I want to ask you for a favor, this time I got another batch of sculptures, and there are probably some good ones..."
At this moment, an exclamation suddenly interrupted his words: "Fake! What's going on with this horse, this horse?!"
Lucas looked over in dissatisfaction, covered his phone and gritted his teeth: "Anthony... Xuete!"
Beside Anthony, a humanoid statue lost half of its body, and a large amount of stone powder was piled up under his feet, and stone powder continued to fall from the statue at this time.
For a moment, several people were stunned: "What's going on?" "I don't know Xuete!"
There is also an expert voice on the phone microphone: "Hello? Hello? Hello?"
Lucas didn't bother to make the phone call. He said something like 'I'll talk to you later' and hung up. Then he glared at Anthony and growled, "Fake! Anthony, what's going on?!"
Anthony said with a mournful face, "Boss, I don't know. This statue seems to be made of tofu. When I touch it with my hand, it collapses!"
Lucas walked over quickly and saw that the statue was not made of tofu, but stone powder. He pushed it with his hands, and the remaining half of his body also collapsed.
Now he was at a loss: "What's going on here?"
Anthony shook his head vigorously, he didn't know what was going on.
The other two came over to watch the fun, Lucas pushed them and said angrily, "Go to work, go to work, what are you looking at?"
The two laughed and prepared to continue moving the statue. One of them carefully picked up a stone sculpture in the shape of a Christmas tree. As a result, when he tried hard, the stone sculpture also turned into stone powder and collapsed!
"Boss, what's going on?" The man was dumbfounded.
Lucas walked over in two steps in three steps. This statue is the same as the one just now, even the material is the same. The stone powder is white and delicate, but it is dull and dull. I don't know what material it is made of.
He rubbed the stone powder on the ground with his hands, looked at all the statues in the warehouse, and had a bad idea in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry about carrying it, go touch it first."
Anthony and others touched these stone sculptures one by one, and then something happened that broke his heart:
Another stone carving turned into powder, and finally counted, and eight stone carvings turned into powder!
"Fack!" Lucas cursed, but there are a lot of stone sculptures in the warehouse, and he can bear the loss of ten.
The men gathered the stone carvings together, and he called the engraver Russell again.
Russell was dissatisfied that he hung up the phone casually just now, so he said: "If you have anything to say, please speak directly."
Lucas laughed and said, "Sorry buddy, I was a little surprised just now. It's like this. I got a batch of stone carvings. Can we make a video? Please appraise their value."
Russell asked, "Do you know who the author of the statue is?"
"Uh, I don't know..."
"Then look for it. The sculptor will leave information such as his name and the year of creation on the work. If there are portraits of people here, the information is usually on the clothes or skirts."
Lucas hurriedly looked at the statues of people gathered together. Indeed, there was a name on the clothes of these statues: "The author seems to be named Leighton Burks?"
Russell said: "Leighton Burks? I haven't heard of this name, just wait a moment, I'll check."
Hearing this, Lucas felt cold. Russell is an expert in the engraving industry, and those he has never heard of are basically out of touch with masters.
Soon, Russell's voice sounded again: "Is that Leighton Burks? I found out that he is a sculptor, so he can be regarded as a sculptor."
"Then the value of his works?"
"His work has no value, I mean no artistic value, maybe it can be used as a home decoration." Russell said.
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Lucas' forehead: "No value? If I have more statues, such as fifty or sixty..."
"Are there any large stone sculptures inside? The ones with a height of more than two meters and a weight of more than two tons?"
"No, no..."
"No matter how many there are, they are of little value. Maybe one can be sold for fifty or one hundred yuan." Russell paused, then added, "I'll hang up the phone first if there's nothing else to do. Goodbye."
Lucas put down the phone in a daze, and Anthony asked, "Boss, how much are these stone sculptures worth?"
"It's worth your mother's money! I'm going to kill you!" Lucas threw his phone at Anthony's long face with a flick of his hand, roaring angrily and pounced on it!