Chapter 305: Sweeping in the Dark

The call came from Robert, an old friend of Sotheby's.

As for the purpose, you don't have to think about it to know, it must be for the two sculptures of Giacometti!

The news of finding two heavy treasures by myself should have spread, and even everyone knows about it! With so many reporters and professional treasure hunters behind him, what secrets are there!

Before answering the phone, Ye Tian already knew it in his heart.

"Hello, Robert, why did you remember to call me? What's the matter? I haven't had any craft products to send for auction lately, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you!"

Ye Tian said with a smile, knowingly teasing the other party.

"Good morning, Steven, you lucky guy, I'm not calling for the craft, but for those two Giacometti sculptures in your hands!"

Robert said excitedly, without any detours, straight to the point!

"Ah! The news has spread so fast! Even those of you in New York know it! What an information age! It's so fast!"

Ye Tian pretended to be surprised and sighed, admitting the existence of the two sculptures.

"The news that you've found two Giacometti has gone viral and has caused a sensation in the collecting world, it's incredible!

At the moment, the two Giacometti sculptures are definitely the center of attention for all collectors, including our auction house!"

"Hahaha, is it that exaggerated? I'm so flattered!"

Ye Tian said with a smile, very proud.

"Man, that's Giacometti! An artist of artists! Can't be exaggerated! How many people dream of an art treasure! Absolutely insane!

Let's talk about these two sculptures, are you sure it's Giacometti? If so, our auction house wants to take over the business and auction these two sculptures on your behalf!"

"Giacometti, of course, I'm pretty sure of that, a work from the late twenties, a work from the mid-thirties, brought back from Europe by World War II veterans!

I don't have any opinion on entrusting you Sotheby's auction, even if you don't contact me, I'll contact you later, but I didn't expect you to move so quickly.

I don't want to carry tens of millions of dollars worth of heavy treasures and swagger around the 127 corridor, that would be too dangerous and would drive countless bastards crazy!"

"Great! As long as you say it's genuine, then it must be true, your appraisal level is the top, we will send someone to go to Corridor 127 to identify and receive!"

"You fly straight to Russell Prince, where we'll settle down tonight, and David will be in touch later to discuss the specifics of the consignment contract.

Later, I will send you detailed photos of the two sculptures, you will do a preliminary appraisal first, I believe these photos will bring you a huge surprise!

One thing I was surprised at was why you called me? Instead of the head of the sculpture department, you changed the business department? It's a bit big, right?"

"Hahaha, I knew you would ask, the head of the European Contemporary Sculpture Department is not in the United States at the moment, and they are not familiar with you, so I contacted you.

The people who will meet you later are the people from the European Contemporary Sculpture Department, as well as the appraisal experts and security personnel, after completing the preliminary appraisal, they will set off immediately, and they will definitely arrive in the evening!"

After a few more words, the two sides ended the call.

After hanging up the phone, Ye Tian immediately turned the lights in the car to the brightest and began to take pictures of the two sculptures, every angle and every detail was taken clearly, without omission!

After the photo was taken, he immediately sent it to Robert and David as well, just in case!

Then, he began to talk to David on the phone, asking him to review the consignment auction contract and complete various legal formalities.

David didn't plan to follow this time, he was going to send an assistant lawyer over to follow Ye Tian throughout the whole process and deal with various legal affairs, so as not to toss back and forth in the future!

This is what Ye Tian wants to see the most, and there is undoubtedly another layer of firewall in front of him.

Twenty minutes later, Robert's call came in again, and they came to a preliminary conclusion.

As expected, after the preliminary appraisal of Sotheby's sculpture experts, these two sculptures are indeed Giacometti's works, and the age is also consistent with Ye Tian's judgment.

However, in order to form a final appraisal conclusion, it must also be after the appraisal of the physical object, which is only a matter of time and procedure, and there can be no other results at all.

What is surprising is that the people in the sculpture department found a photo of one of the sculptures in the relevant literature, which will inevitably make this sculpture double in value and more attractive!

The convoy has been walking and stopping on Highway 127 and heading south.

As before, whenever he passed the courtyard market, Walker would pull over and slowly drive past the market stalls.

Taking this opportunity, Ye Tian will quickly scan or see through these stalls, not letting go of any treasure and any opportunity to make a fortune!

They passed by more than a dozen small courtyard markets and about forty stalls, and also found something valuable, including antiques and works of art.

But the value of these antique artworks is not worth letting Ye Tian do it himself.

And the extremely cautious expressions of those stall owners, and the green eyes that glowed, also made Ye Tian understand that it was definitely not a wise move to buy these low-value things by himself!

As long as they walk in front of the stall, these stall owners will be extremely cautious!

They are afraid that they are ready to ask for a sky-high price, or to go back on it at any time, and in short, they will not allow themselves to take advantage of anything.

The previous method of 'repairing the plank road in the dark and showing the warehouse' will not work, and the lessons from the past are not far away! These stall owners have already seen the video!

So although Ye Tian got off the bus many times along the way, he just walked around casually!

During this period, he secretly instructed the professional treasure hunters who came with him a few times, let them taste the sweetness, and bought a few antiques that were not discovered by the stall owners, or were undervalued, and made a small profit!

After all, I promised to compensate these guys, and I can't break my promise!

But there is a limit to what he can do, once per person, without exception! And the antiques he points out are of limited value, and the maximum profit is not more than $10,000!

Even so, those professional treasure hunters were happy to see each other! they all threw themselves to the ground with admiration for him, and strengthened their determination to follow him through the 127 corridor.

For these guys, money is the second issue, what they value more is Ye Tian's sharp vision, everyone wants to learn something from it!

In this way, Ye Tian and the others took everyone to the south all the time, and the speed was not slow!

But what everyone didn't know was that about 10 kilometers behind them, a Ford Raptor pulling an RV was following the road they had walked, also heading south.

This is Bowie's pickup, and he and Ye Tian secretly cooperated to sweep the 127 corridor.

The mobile phone he had in hand that was specially used to contact Ye Tian would now ring a text message prompt from time to time, and Ye Tian's latest instructions would come.

What coordinates, that booth, specific goods, quotation range and other most detailed information will be quickly transmitted through SMS.

As long as Ye Tian fancies, none of the valuable antiques and works of art have been missed! As for those second-hand goods, they are not in sight at all!

After receiving these messages, Bowie immediately drove to it according to the GPS instructions, and the location was extremely accurate!

What followed was a frantic sweep.

Bowie will sweep away every courtyard market, every stall, every hidden and valuable treasure in his pass!

Knowing that Ye Tian and Bowie were frantically sweeping the 127 corridor, only Betty was alone!

Texting non-stop along the way, using GPS positioning, and being in the car, there is no way to avoid Betty, so she can't think that she is empathetic!

So after sending the text message for the first time, Ye Tian told her the arrangement of this operation, including all the details, including his former colleague relationship with Bowie.

After listening to his explanation, Betty was directly stunned!

What a crazy plan! What a meticulous action! All the antique and second-hand dealers in the 127 corridor are going to be in bad luck!

It's entirely conceivable what the world's largest courtyard market will look like when this 127 corridor tour is over!

At that time, not to mention the corpses everywhere here, I'm afraid it won't be much worse!

With this chilling close-knit cooperation, all the unknown and valuable antiques and works of art along the way will surely fall into the hands of Steven, no exception!

And those antique dealers and second-hand dealers, except for a very small amount of dollars, I am afraid that there are only tears left in the sky!

Seeing Ye Tian finish sending a message to Bowie again, Betty couldn't help but sigh.

"My dear, I sympathize with the antique dealers and second-hand dealers in Hallway 127, they are so pitiful!

"Hahaha, don't pity them, this line is like this, rely on eyesight to eat, my vision is sharp, then I can kill all directions, as long as it is not illegal, no one can say anything!"

Ye Tian put on his mobile phone and said with a smile, confident and full of murderous energy.

Then he opened the intercom and said:

"Guys, go to Danville City, go to lunch, I have to ask these reporter friends for a favor!"