Charlie quickly asked:
“What really happened?”
Peter Zhou said:
“You got the Nine Mysterious Scriptures” because your father trusted me to bring you the “Nine Mysterious Scriptures but your father got the Preface to the Nine Mysterious Scriptures completely by accident.”
While talking, he explained in detail:
“At that time, your father, like me, also liked studying the Book of Changes and all kinds of Chinese antiques,
so he often came to the shop in Queens looking for me, and they often studied some antiques together,”
At that time, he had not yet begun to restore cultural relics lost overseas to China.
“I just started doing antiques business.”
“However, your father had done this, so I was then influenced by him and I started working with him to help those precious cultural relics.”
“Chinese cultural relics returned to China;”
“Because we had the same hobbies and ambitions, your father and I became good friends.”
“During that time, our family’s antique shop faced many problems one after another and was conspired by many people.”
“It’s all because of your father’s hard work. Only by helping each other can we overcome difficulties, and he is a benefactor to our entire family.”
Speaking of this, Peter Zhou sighed, remembered for a moment and said:
“One day, more than 20 years ago, a sad English nobleman came to our shop in London, because he was experiencing important changes, his family had a family member.”
“Many antiques and cultural relics are in dire need of cash, and most of them come from China.”
“He knew that our family was relatively professional in Chinese antiques, so he approached us and hoped to package and sell all the antiques.”
“A legacy of Chinese culture at home for us,”
“At that time I flew to London specifically to take part in the evaluation.”
“There are a total of 487 Chinese cultural relics in the house of the lower nobles, and apparently many of them are good.”
“There are more than a dozen blue and white porcelains from the Yuan and Ming Dynasties alone.”
“In addition, there are two exquisite cake pieces, and there are many other official oven porcelains from the Ming and Qing Dynasties;”
“In the antique market, blue and white porcelain and pastel porcelain are the ceiling of porcelain, and their prices are always very high. “
“Official ovens are also synonymous with quality and high prices, and they are also very expensive;”
“In addition, there are some magnificent collections that have been clearly registered by the Qing court, and their prices are even higher;”
“For large quantities of cultural relics at the highest level, even if packaged at a discount, the lowest price quoted by others more than 20 years ago was as high as 200 million US dollars.”
“Even though the scale of our family’s business at that time was relatively large, the antiques industry was a project that required large capital.”