Chapter 0624 – Indignation

“Brother Huangfu, trouble you, I still need you to pick up the airplane.”

After Zhuang Rui’s private jet stopped at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Zhuang Rui walked down, the weather in Paris these days is very bad, the sky is drizzling with fine rain, Huangfu Yun is holding an umbrella, standing in front of a black sedan.

“Oh, Zhuang old brother, you have enough faction, this is the younger sibling, right? Holy shit, why did you bring a lion over?!”

Huangfu Yun greeted, saw Qin Xuan Bing behind Zhuang Rui, opened his shoulders and was ready for a hug, but a glance at the white lion that scurried down from the cabin, scared Huangfu Yun hastily threw away the umbrella in his hand and electrically jumped back a few steps.

The white lion lifted its head and looked at Huangfu Yun, shaking the rain that floated down on it, and followed behind Zhuang Rui, who stayed on the airplane for more than ten hours, and the white lion was kind of suffocated enough.

“This is a white lion, it’s a snow mastiff, not a lion, brother Huangfu, it’s fine, the white lion won’t bite.”

Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but laugh when he saw Huangfu Yun’s behavior, but the white lion was really a bit eye-catching, Zhuang Rui pulled away from the car that Huangfu Yun drove, and let the white lion sit in the co-pilot’s seat.

Zhuang Rui bought this airplane’s original intention was to take the white lion out for a stroll, although the first flight white lion did not catch up, but this time to Britain and France, Zhuang Rui still decided to take the white lion with him.

“Zhuang …… Zhuang old brother, this car is still to be driven by you, I …… I am not …… able to do it.”

Fierce to see the white lion that huge size, is Peng Fei will be some legs and feet soft, let alone Huangfu Yun, now did not sit on the ground with a butt, even if he is bold.

At the time in the capital airport, the appearance of the white lion but the Tenya and Liuli screamed in fear, is He Shuang and Ding Hao, see the white lion is also fearful.

However, as long as the white lion was by Zhuang Rui’s side, it was definitely very docile, it was quietly lying there all this way, Tenya and Liuli fell in love with this big guy, but their several moves to feed it to the white lion ended in failure, apart from Zhuang Rui and Qin Xuanbing and the others, the white lion only accepted food from Peng Fei now.

“I’ll drive! Paris is familiar to me ……”

Qin Xuan Bing smiled and sat in the driver’s seat, only Huangfu Yun only drove a car over, Zhuang Rui could only let Peng Fei and the crew go to the hotel together, while He Shuang still had to have some matters to deal with regarding the downtime, and Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Paris is the capital and largest city of France, but also the political and cultural center of France, one of the four world-class cities, and the United States, New York, Tokyo, Japan, London, England, side by side.

Paris is also the largest city on the European continent, is also one of the world’s most prosperous city, off the plane Zhuang Rui felt, the temperature here is a little lower than Beijing, should be less than 10 degrees.

The car drove out of the airport, on a highway, after about twenty minutes, along the beautiful Seine River, into the city of Paris.

Driving in Paris that is full of cultural atmosphere on the street, everywhere you can see a variety of museums, theaters, gardens, fountains and sculptures, artistic atmosphere is extremely thick, this way line, Zhuang Rui more than see a pair of kissing couples in the street, and passers-by seem to be accustomed to it, and no one stops to watch.

“There is Notre Dame, right?”

When the car drove through the center of Paris, Zhuang Rui saw a Gothic style Catholic church, although he was a geography idiot, he still knew about Notre Dame de Paris written by Hugo.

Qin Xuan Bing nodded and said, “Yes, Zhuang Rui, let’s go there together tomorrow!”

Paris is a this is a city with romance, full of sensuality, no matter which country people come here, will be infected by this atmosphere, Qin Xuan Bing is no exception, she also wants to hold hands with Zhuang Rui, slow walking in the streets and alleys of Paris.

The French cuisine is also famous with Chinese food, shopping is more Champs Elysees, Qin Xuanbing in London to do jewelry design work, every week to come to Paris to live for two days, compared to the rainy and humid London, Paris is undoubtedly more attractive.

“Good ah! Let’s go and have a look tomorrow, Brother Huangfu, it seems like the auction is the day after tomorrow, right?”

Since Zhuang Rui figured out that joint, he was not too interested in this auction, taking out treasures looted from China and then selling them to the Chinese at a high price, this was a kind of robber baron behavior.

Before Zhuang Rui came to Paris, the relevant departments of the country, once on the auction protested and condemned, only the French side to private commercial behavior to cover up this ugly auction, the country still can not resist things, Zhuang Rui naturally not the slightest way, just to the auction, interest faded a lot.

With this realization, Zhuang Rui feels it would be better to accompany his daughter-in-law to have a good time in Paris, this ancient city with a very strong cultural heritage, there are also many places worth exploring.

“It’s on the day after tomorrow, Elder Brother Zhuang, I have decided to withdraw from this auction.”

Huangfu Yun’s words made Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, since he didn’t want to participate, why did this dude still run to Paris?

“Is it because of that statement in the country that made you see the nature of this matter clearly?”

Zhuang Rui asked with a smile, Huangfu Yun is not a friend to be made, very honest, more importantly, although he took the green card, but the heart is still when he is Chinese.

“This batch of cultural relics is provided to the auction house by the French Frey family, I found a friend to investigate, and found that this batch of cultural relics from China is not the most precious in the Frey family, and the most precious Qianlong Jade Seal and the portraits of the successive emperors and ministers of the Qing Dynasty are still retained in their homes.”

Huangfu Yun didn’t answer Zhuang Rui’s words, but instead said a news that made Zhuang Rui feel shocked.

“Damn, it’s this son of a bitch again.”

Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but burst into foul language, he was not unfamiliar with the name “Frey”, Frey was the top general of the French army during the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces in 1900.

In recent years, this looter’s name has repeatedly appeared in the art market related to Chinese art, and many precious Chinese artifacts together.

Zhuang Rui in the mailbox to see the auction side of a “pure Huifu statue”, the source of its provenance is only one sentence, is the auction catalog “from the collection of the Frey family”.

“By the way, Brother Huangfu, how do you know these things?”

The auction house has always kept the seller’s information strictly confidential, and even if Huangfu Yun’s friend is a staff member of the auction house, I’m afraid he wouldn’t dare to divulge it, which is a violation of the law.

“Go back and let’s talk about it!”

Huangfu Yun shook his head, did not continue this topic, but gave Zhuang Rui introduction to the human landscape of Paris, just brought up the topic, Zhuang Rui is not very interested in these, has been to the hotel, there are some absent-minded.

Although Zhuang Rui is not the kind of hot-blooded little cynic, but for the country thousands of years of heritage of cultural relics, was a robber family out of the public auction, the heart is very uncomfortable.

Entered into the Huangfu cloud has long helped Zhuang Rui booked hotel room, Zhuang Rui eagerly asked: “brother Huangfu, don’t hide, in the end what is going on? How many of our country’s cultural relics does that Frey family still have?”

“It’s like this, I have a schoolmate in Paris, who is very keen on this, but as soon as he did something even as a student, I looked for a private detective to investigate these things, and found that the Chinese artifacts in Paris are basically all passed on by the Frey family.”

Huangfu Yun’s words let Zhuang Rui startled, dare to say that this buddy looks not show, behind the scenes even private detectives are used, just as Huangfu Yun told in-depth, Zhuang Rui’s face gradually became grave, Huangfu Yun’s investigations, more than Zhuang Rui know the history of the history to be more detailed.

When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, the French military command was stationed in Jingshan Shouhuang Temple, according to the Qing dynasty ancestral system: the late emperor and his consort imperial portrait and seal, must be enshrined in the Shouhuang Temple.

Frey, then a major general commander of the French army, and his subordinates naturally would not let go of the treasures in the Shouhuang Temple. It is said that Frey himself has good artistic training, he looted many Chinese works of art have Shouhuangdian archives.

Frey returned to France with a full load, he and his descendants from these “trophies” in the harvest of a very comfortable life.

In recent years, in the auction market to create a considerable performance of the Qing Emperor Kangxi “Peiwenzhai” twelve groups of seals, Qianlong’s side of the “Taishang Emperor’s treasure”, the Qing court painting “Qianlong South Tour – Volume I” and “Qianlong South Tour – Volume VII” are also from the Frey family.

In addition to the works of art on the market, the Frey family donated 18 important Chinese cultural relics to the French government in batches from 1925 to 1934, including the fourth volume of Mulan painted by Lang Shining and four other portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and his consorts.

Of the four canvases, the portrait of the Qianlong emperor in half-length court dress has been recognized as being painted by Lang Shining. Their provenance, as stated in Frey’s 1914 letter to the Guimet Museum, is from “the Shouhuang Hall in Beijing, where the French Expeditionary Command honored the Emperor’s ancestors.”

This auction is another big move by the Frey family. I wonder how many valuable artifacts these robbers took from China back in the day?

“Shit! This son of a bitch doesn’t know to return things to China, what kind of thing is it to give a fucking French museum?”

Zhuang Rui angrily stood up, this thing to hear in the ears, is really let a person hold his breath, that kind of watching the national treasures were auctioned feeling, really is very bad.

In fact, this is also the position of different reasons, Zhuang Rui if the small Japanese palace to rob, that thing is killed will not return.