Happy Tycoon

The next day, I started to clean up the things in the castle. More than 20 professional garbage disposers went into battle together, from the basement to the attic, from the garage to the storage room, and the piles may have been gone for decades or even hundreds of years. Everything in the sun has been cleaned out.

There is an old saying in China that a broken family is worth ten thousand crowns, and this saying is still valid in the UK.

The Valdi Castle has been built for more than 400 years and nearly 500 years. The Valdi family has always lived in this castle. In its heyday, more than 40 Valdi In addition, there were more than 400 soldiers stationed in the castle.

And it has been more than a hundred years since the last time the castle was completely cleaned up. According to Mr. John, the current housekeeper of the castle, the last time the castle was cleaned up was during World War I.

However, after the First World War, the world pattern has undergone great changes. The original powerful empire on which the sun never sets has disappeared, and the Vardy family, which relied on the development of the British royal family, has also begun to decline with the decline of the British royal family. Otherwise, William Vardy's grandfather, the old Baron William, would not have invested in IKEA, and at the same time began to invest in some other industries.

The current Baron Vardy actually wants to make the family business more prosperous, but he has no dragon slaying ambitions but no dragon slaying skills. Many important investments have made major mistakes, which directly led to the rapid decline of the Vardy family. down.

Now, this ancient castle that has been inhabited for more than 400 years and nearly 500 years can no longer be kept, and those things that have not been cleaned up since World War I will naturally be revealed again.

There are still three catties of nails in the broken ship. Although the Vardy family is declining rapidly, there are still many good things in the castle.

Among other things, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang saw with their own eyes that the four garbage collectors in charge of cleaning the basement found a wooden box in a corner of the basement, and in the wooden box they found a painting of Paul. Oil paintings from Cézanne's Still Life series...

Although the size of the oil painting is not large, but with Paul Cézanne's reputation, if this oil painting is put up for auction, the starting price must be at least eight figures, and the unit is Euro...

Of course, it is impossible for that painting to be taken out of the castle. Although Mr. John is a housekeeper, his vision is sharp. A professional British housekeeper like him knows more than many experts and professors. It's hard to pick up leaks under his nose.

Not to mention that when the castle was cleaned up this time, Baron Vardy also invited a famous appraiser to sit with Mr. John in the British Museum.

With these two in charge, it is absolutely impossible for those things of high value to be taken out of the castle.

However, Yang Jing doesn't have to worry about this. The Dictionary of National Biographies he has been paying attention to is mixed with more than 200 books. If he doesn't search carefully one by one, he won't find any flaws at all. . In the end, these books were sold to Yang Jing at a price of 500 pounds after a rough appraisal by the appraisal expert.

Although those books are some years old, they are all mass-printed books, not rare or unique, let alone auctioned, even if they can be sold at the flea market, they will not fetch a high price.

The price of 500 pounds is very suitable for Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang. Guo Xiaoxiang also estimated that these books can be sold for about 1,200 to 1,500 pounds in the flea market. The money was a lot of income for the two of them, but Mr. John looked down on it.

There are a lot of these books, and Fishgard does not have any large-scale flea market. If you want to dispose of these books, you have to bring them to Cardiff, the capital of Wales, or a big city like London. Mr. John would not waste so much energy just because of a fee of more than a thousand pounds. According to the usual practice, these books that are useless to the family will naturally be sold to garbage collectors at a low price as rewards.

There were more than two hundred of these books. After the cleaning work on the first day, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang worked hard for more than an hour to bring these books back to the motel where they lived.

After two and a half days of busy work, the two of them finally cleared out the entire attic. Except for those books, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang didn't buy anything else.

In the evening, after Yang Jing spent more than one hundred pounds to treat Guo Xiaoxiang to a seafood dinner, the two of them returned to the hotel and began to deal with the books.

In fact, those books were nothing to Yang Jing, but Guo Xiaoxiang didn't know about them yet, so Yang Jing wanted to surprise Guo Xiaoxiang tonight.

I'm talking about Lao Yang, what about the surprise you're talking about? Guo Xiaoxiang was obviously still thinking about the surprise, and asked Yang Jing while summarizing the books.

Yang Jing was holding the Dictionary of National Biographies and looked it up carefully.

Wait, if my judgment is not wrong, a surprise is about to appear!

Hearing what Yang Jing said, Guo Xiaoxiang stopped picking up those books, stood up, wiped his hands, sat down beside Yang Jing, and asked, The surprise you mentioned is this book?

Yang Jing nodded. He had just finished flipping through the book, but he didn't see the three sketches. Now he was about to tear off the plastic cover of the book.

However, things were not that complicated. Yang Jing just opened the cover and took a look, and saw a slightly yellowed paper bag lying quietly under the cover.

What is this? Guo Xiaoxiang asked in surprise.

Yang Jing shook his head and said, I don't know what it is, but I think it should be a good thing, otherwise this paper bag would not have been stuffed here by Baron Vardy's father or grandfather.

Carefully took out the paper bag. The paper is very ordinary white paper, but because it has been in the cover for a long time, the color has turned yellow.

Putting the paper bag on the table, Yang Jing took out a pair of white gloves and put them on, then carefully opened the paper bag.

Inside the paper bag were a few folded white papers. Because of the protection of the paper bag, these white papers did not change color much.

When I opened these blank papers, I found that there were three 16-motage papers in total. On each paper was a sketch of furniture. In the lower right corner of the sketch, there was a signature that Yang Jing was very familiar with.

Yang Jing has seen that signature too many times since he came to the UK, so of course he knows it.

After seeing these three signatures, Guo Xiaoxiang's mouth grew involuntarily.

Lao Yang, pinch me! I'm not dreaming, is this, this is Picasso's signature?

Yang Jing, who had known the result for a long time, naturally would not miss this opportunity, stretched out his hand and pinched the fat man's arm, but the fat man did not respond.

The fat man's reaction startled Yang Jing a little, and he quickly shook the fat man vigorously.

After a long time, the fat man shook his head, grinned and covered the place where he was pinched, and said with a half-smile on his face: Old Yang, I'm afraid, I know it hurts, which means I'm not in a dream! It's not in a dream, how can I explain these three Picasso paintings...