Chapter 0665 – Treasure Room (I)

After having lunch, Zhuang Rui, accompanied by Ezkena, took the white lion for a walk around the castle.

Although he couldn’t afford it, the castle really attracted Zhuang Rui, standing next to the castle near the Thames River, from afar, he could see the swans roosting in the lake, and the various rare birds and old trees inside the castle also added a lot of romantic interest to the old castle again.

“White Lion, calm down, calm down ……”

Standing at the side of the castle close to the Thames, either in the hotel or stay in the cabin suppressed for a long time, the white lion, suddenly hissed with his head high, the low roar spread out a long way, in the place close to the gate, but also came a cheetah’s low roar, attracted by the white lion a little agitated.

“Zhuang, this Tibetan mastiff of yours, very pure ah! I have been to Tibet in China before, but I have not been able to see such a good Tibetan mastiff.”

Ezkena also appreciated the white lion, he could see Zhuang Rui’s attitude towards the white lion, but he didn’t put forward the intention of wanting to buy it or something like that, just like the black panther that Ezkena raised, other people offered more money, he wouldn’t sell it.

“Of course, the white lion is the king of Tibetan mastiffs, once someone offered forty million yuan, I didn’t sell it!”

Mentioning the White Lion, Zhuang Rui was like a child to himself, he couldn’t help but praise it a few times.

Ezkena nodded and said, “You are right, I also like large dogs, although you have another dog in China that is more expensive than the Tibetan Mastiff, but relatively speaking, I prefer the Tibetan Mastiff.”

“There is a dog that is more expensive than the Tibetan Mastiff?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, in his impression, it seems that in addition to the Tibetan Mastiff one can sell a thousand or so million, the rest of the ornamental dogs, the most expensive but a few hundred thousand, just that this is said from the mouth of Ezkena, it should be a bit of a basis.

“Of course, you don’t know?”

Ezkena looked at Zhuang Rui with some astonishment and said, “During last year, there was a King Eagle Ba Dog from China called the Great Emperor, which was sold at that time at a selling price of ten million dollars, which is by far the most expensive price among international pet dogs.”

“Eagle Ba Dog?”

Not to mention, Zhuang Rui really didn’t know about these things, when he was more than a year ago, he was just a small employee of a pawn shop, he didn’t know anything about these upper class objects.

“Yes, it’s the Eagle Ba Dog, unfortunately, that dog was bought away by a person in France, I went late and only saw the photo.”

Ezkena was full of regret, and gave Zhuang Rui some information about the origin of the Eagle Ba Dog.

Originally, the earliest Eagle Ba dog is Beijing’s Pekingese, in 1995, the Pekingese celebrity Zhang Zhi Zhou’s a breeder named ‘Dudu’, has revealed the characteristics of the eagle version of the Pekingese, and get everyone’s recognition, which is the earliest eagle version of the Pekingese in the history of China.

As the name suggests, the Eagle Ba is a Pekingese with a long eagle-like face.

At first glance, the Eagle Ba is very majestic, with a kingly demeanor and a deterrent to evil, but it is also very gentle and extremely easy to get along with, making it a dog breed that can be handled by both men and women of all breeds.

The Eagle Ba can be said to be one of the rarest, most beautiful and precious rare dog breeds in the world. There are only a few hundred of them, and even fewer fine ones. It is even rarer than the giant panda, which still numbers 2,000.

Because of this, it was also called the panda of dogs, and was extremely sought after in the international pet market.

“Hehe, I really don’t know much about this, shame, shame!”

Zhuang Rui shook his head with a self-deprecating smile, an object produced in China, but letting a foreigner explain it to him, making Zhuang Rui feel rather faceless.

Watching the two men return to the castle entrance again, Zhuang Rui said, “Mr. Ezkena, if possible, I would like to take a look at your collection now, if there are objects I like, I think, when my lawyer comes tomorrow, we can make a deal.”

“Of course, I’ll take you there now.”

Ezkena’s purpose of inviting Zhuang Rui to the banquet was not for those Picasso’s works in Zhuang Rui’s hands, he was now afraid that Zhuang Rui would not be able to see his own collection, and this transaction could not be carried out!

Now that Zhuang Rui mentioned himself, Ezekena immediately let the butler bring a bunch of keys and brought Zhuang Rui into the old castle.

Along the wooden stairs, Zhuang Rui followed behind Ezkena and walked towards the second floor of the castle.

On the walls on both sides of the staircase, the decoration is as brilliant as the banquet hall, but in the gorgeous and beautiful, but do not see vulgarity, and hanging many murals inlaid in glass, although Zhuang Rui does not know how to oil paintings, but with the aura to see, those murals contain a strong aura, obviously are authentic and valuable.

After going up to the second floor of the ancient castle, there is also a living room, and there is a separate fireplace, and the light from the sky dome shines down, even if the lights are not turned on, the whole living room also looks very bright.

Ezkena did not stop, directly led Zhuang Rui through a not long corridor, in front of a door that was more than three meters high, standing underneath it was very oppressive, stopped.

Taking out the key to open this solid wood door, Ezkena pushed it open, standing outside the door Zhuang Rui, immediately felt that the temperature seemed to increase by a few degrees, and there was a bit of dryness, as if coming from the forest to the desert all of a sudden.

“Dear Zhuang, from the beginning of my ancestry, I have been collecting some Chinese and European works of art, and now, they have all been presented to you.”

Ezkena entered the room first and opened the lights, the room which was originally a bit dim, suddenly became bright, and the scene that he saw in front of him shocked Zhuang Rui.

“Wait a minute, I have to turn off the anti-theft system first.”

Just when Zhuang Rui was ready to step into the room, Ezkena stopped Zhuang Rui, and operated himself in the doorway facing a display panel for a full minute before nodding his head to indicate that Zhuang Rui could go in.

For this collection room, Ezkena but spent a lot of thought, if just now if Zhuang Rui with infrared glasses, you can see, in every corner of this treasure room, are covered with infrared rays, even if a mosquito flies in, will cause alarm sound.

After receiving Ezkena’s permission, Zhuang Rui walked into the room.

“Geez! These …… are all from your collection?”

Where is this a room, in Zhuang Rui’s opinion, the entire second floor of the castle, except for that living room on the way up, may be all here, at the very least, Zhuang Rui stood by the door, and could not see the end of this treasure room at a glance.

Such a large space, into the eye, all full of things, Zhuang Rui do not know, here exactly how many collections, I’m afraid that is the general museum, but also did not have Ezkena’s family thick it?

Into this comparable to the museum hall, Zhuang Rui found that there is a slight machine sound inside, follow the sound, only to know that is the air dryer, and there is more than one, basically every twenty to thirty meters, in the corner of the wall there is such a machine, so that the air inside, always maintain a dry.

On the floor of the hall, laying a thick red carpet, it is also so that the sound of the dryer is reduced to a minimum, is not very noisy, it must be in the installation of the time, Ezkena took this factor into account.

Zhuang Rui knows that moisture is the factor that causes the most damage to antiques, in the basement of his Beijing courtyard house, the same placed a dehumidifier, but compared to Ezkena’s air dryer here, Zhuang Rui feels that he has so little not very professional anymore.

“Mr. Ezkena, you are a true collector.”

Regardless of how the antique artworks in this treasure room of Ezkena came to be, Zhuang Rui had a trace of respect in his heart, even if his ancestors had once plundered their belongings from China, but to be able to preserve them so well, that was also worthy of respect.

“Oh, art is connected, I believe, dear Zhuang, you will be able to find your favorite object here.”

Ezkena smiled, this collection room of his, he had only brought a very few people in, and none of these people were shocked by his rich collection, now it seems that the hope of reaching a deal between himself and Zhuang Rui is still very high.

Zhuang Rui nodded, did not speak again, Chinese art was speculation time, is in 2005 after the thing, at this time, Ezekiel Kenner has not realized, in his collection, there are a lot of value is not less than the Picasso sketches of the object.

However, this is also a matter of opinion, in the eyes of some big foreign collectors, Chinese art everywhere, still can’t be compared with Picasso and Van Gogh’s works of these masters.

At the entrance of this collection hall of Ezkena, placed in his years of collection of silverware and weapons of various countries, there are some shields and armor, there is a set of medieval armor worn on the model with a helmet, and even Zhuang Rui was startled, and thought it was a real person standing there!

Inside, there are also a few bronze swords from China, but its quality is very general, inside the hidden aura is also relatively thin, and Zhuang Rui collection of the stereo sword is far from, and did not keep Zhuang Rui’s eyes.

Continue to go inside, in those tall walls, everywhere with guns, swords, axes and other cold weapons arranged in a variety of patterns, as well as should be from India or Egypt looted tiger head, crown, so that Zhuang Rui unconsciously reverie, these should be in the heyday of Britain, from various countries to loot.

Of course, these and Zhuang Rui does not have any relationship, his goal, is Ezkena give him a list, that above the Chinese porcelain, is the main purpose of Zhuang Rui this trip.

Looking at the wide array of collections, Zhuang Rui walked to the center of the hall, the rows of porcelain displayed on the wooden shelves, suddenly reflected in Zhuang Rui’s eyes.