The next day, more than 20 professional "garbage handlers" went into battle, from the basement to the attic, from the garage to the storage room, a pile of things that may not have seen the sun for decades or even hundreds of years were all cleared.
There is an old Chinese saying that "a broken family is worth ten thousand", and this sentence still works in the UK.
It has been more than 400 years and nearly 500 years since the construction of the Valdy Castle, and the Vardy family has always lived in this castle, and at its peak, the castle was inhabited by more than 40 direct members of the Valdy family, in addition, the castle was once garrisoned by more than 400 soldiers.
And it's been more than a hundred years since the last time the castle was completely cleaned.
According to Mr.
John, the current steward of the castle, the last time the castle was cleaned was during the First World War.
It's just that after the First World War, the world pattern has changed greatly, the original powerful empire that never sets, and the Vardy family, which relies 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, that is, the old Baron William, would not have invested in IKEA, and also 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 ambition but no dragon-slaying skills, and many important investments have made major mistakes, which directly led to the rapid decline of the Vardy family.
Now, the castle, which has been inhabited for more than 400 years and nearly 500 years, cannot be preserved, and those things that have not been cleaned since the First World War are naturally re-revealed.
There are still three catties of nails in the broken ship.
Although the Vardy family is rapidly declining, there is still a lot of good things in the castle.
Not to mention anything else, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang alone saw with their own eyes that the four garbage handlers in charge of cleaning the basement found a wooden box in a corner of the basement, and found an oil painting from Paul Cézanne's "Still Life" series in the wooden box......
Although the size of the painting is small, with Paul Cézanne's fame, the painting must have a starting price of at least eight figures in euros if it were to be auctioned......
Of course, that painting could not have been taken out of the castle, although Mr.
John was a butler, but his eyes were sharp, and a professional English butler like him knew even more than many experts and professors, and it was difficult to pick it out from under his nose.
Not to mention that during the cleaning of the castle, Baron Vardy also invited a famous connoisseur to sit with Mr.
John in the British Museum.
With these two in charge, it is absolutely impossible for those things that are too valuable to be taken out of the castle.
However, Yang Jing doesn't have to worry about this, the "Dictionary of National Biographies" that he has been paying attention to is mixed with more than 200 books, and if it is not very carefully searched one by one, there will be no flaws at all.
In the end, the books were sold to Yang Jing for five hundred pounds after a rough appraisal by the expert appraisal.
Although those books are some years old, they are all mass-printed books, not rare books, unique books, let alone auctioned, even if they can be sold at the flea market, they can't be sold at any high price.
The price of five hundred pounds is still very suitable for Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang.
Guo Xiaoxiang also estimated that these books could be sold for about 12 to 1,500 pounds in the flea market.
The money was a lot of money for both of them, but Mr.
John didn't look down on it.
There were a lot of them, and Fishguard didn't have a large-scale flea market, so you had to get rid of them in a big city like Cardiff, the capital of Wales, or London.
Mr.
John would not have wasted so much energy on a mere £1,000 fee.
Traditionally, these books, which are useless to the family, are naturally sold as rewards to garbage handlers at low prices.
There were more than 200 of these books, and after the first day of clean-up, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang worked for more than an hour to bring them back to the motel where they lived.
It took two and a half days of busy work for the two of them to clean out the entire attic, and Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang didn't buy anything else except those books.
In the evening, after Yang Jing paid more than 100 pounds to invite 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 are nothing to Yang Jing at all, but Guo Xiaoxiang doesn't know about it yet, so Yang Jing wants to surprise Guo Xiaoxiang tonight.
"I said Lao Yang, what about the surprise you said?"
Guo Xiaoxiang was obviously still thinking about the surprise, and asked Yang Jing while summarizing those books.
Yang Jing held the "Dictionary of National Figures" and searched carefully there.
"Wait, if I'm not mistaken, the surprise is about to happen!"
Hearing Yang Jing say this, Guo Xiaoxiang didn't pick up those books anymore, stood up and wiped his hands, then sat down next to Yang Jing, and asked, "The surprise you said is this book?"
” Yang Jing nodded, he had just finished the book, he didn't see the three sketches, and now he was about to tear open the plastic cover of the book.
However, things are not so 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 wouldn't have been stuffed here by Baron Vardy's father or grandfather." ” Cautiously took out the paper bag.
The paper is a very ordinary white paper, just because it has been a little long, although it has been in the cover, the color has been a little yellowed.
Putting the paper bag on the table, Yang Jing took out a pair of white gloves and put them on, and then carefully opened the paper bag.
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In the paper bag are a few folded white papers, because of the protection of the paper bag, these white papers have not changed color much.
When I opened these blank papers, I found that there were three pieces of paper with a size of sixteen, each of which had a sketch of furniture, and in the lower right corner of the sketch, there was a signature that Yang Jing was extremely familiar with.
Yang Jing had seen that signature too many times since he came to the UK, and of course he knew it.
And after Guo Xiaoxiang saw these three signatures, his mouth involuntarily grew.
"Lao Yang, pinch me!
I'm not dreaming, is this—this is Picasso's signature?
” Yang Jing, who already knew the result, naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and stretched out his hand and pinched the fat man's arm, but the fat man did not react.
The fat man's reaction was to startle Yang Jing a little, and he hurriedly shook the fat man.
After a long time, the fat man shook his head, grinned and covered the pinched position, and said with a smile on his face: "Lao Yang, I'm scared, I know it hurts, this shows that I'm not in a dream!"
But if this is not in a dream, how can we explain these three Picasso paintings......"