Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 383 - 286: Still Don’t Want It?_2

Chapter 383: Chapter 286: Still Don’t Want It?_2

A pleasant female voice came from the other side.

"Hello, my name is Sean Knight, and I’m currently abroad. I have purchased some bronze wares and would like to cooperate with your museum..."

"You’re Sean Knight? Are you the one who found the Acupuncture Bronze Figure from abroad?"

The female voice suddenly raised in surprise, "Is that true?"

Sean didn’t expect himself to be quite famous!

"It’s me." He sighed in relief, this is more like it!

This is supposed to be a win-win situation, but he had been worrying. It just wasn’t right!

Well, it must be that Deputy Director Harris who’s the odd one out!

"Really, it’s you? You’re amazing!" The other person said happily, "Oh, you said you have bronze wares and want to cooperate with our museum?"

"Yes," Sean said, "I’m in the United Kingdom right now and have bought some bronze wares. However, some of them are rusty and damaged. I want to ship them back to our country, but I don’t have a place to store them. I’d like to cooperate with your museum... "

Sean shared all his thoughts on the matter.

He didn’t intend to hide anything at first, including renting, exhibiting, repairing, and his requirements for monitoring access were all mentioned.

Although not everything was covered, the main idea was there.

There was a rustling sound from the other side as though they were taking notes while listening.

When Sean finished speaking, the other person asked:

"So what about the rent... "

"Let’s make it one yuan per year," Sean thought for a moment, "Actually, this is a win-win situation. I’m sure you’ll invest a lot, so we’ll charge a nominal fee for the rent. Of course, we can sign a long-term contract, like ten years."

The other person was very excited and then said:

"Mr. Knight, is this your phone number? If so, I’ll take note of it right now, and I’ll report it to my superior! I think this is a great opportunity, and it’s really exciting for us... "

The person’s speech became a bit incoherent towards the end, but Sean knew it was due to excitement.

"Yes," Sean said, "You can contact me anytime."

"Alright, wait for my call. I’ll report it to my superior right now, very quickly!"

The person hung up after finishing their sentence.

Sean let out a deep breath.

Although it was already late, he didn’t want to sleep yet.

He felt that he should be able to get this matter settled in a little while.

Well, Xinjiang, although his home province doesn’t have strong capabilities in bronze restoration, at least their sincerity was visible.

Of course, he still needed to see the specific details.

It took a full half-hour before the call came through.

"Mr. Knight, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting." When the phone rang, a gentle middle-aged man’s voice came through, "The main reason is that we couldn’t be sure how many bronze wares you mentioned, from which dynasty, and whether they have... "

"Inscriptions? Yes, they do!" Sean understood immediately and replied.

"That’s great, that’s great. In principle, our museum agrees to such cooperation. Of course, the specifics still need to be seen. Mr. Knight, do you have any photos of these relics? Can you send them over?"

"Yes, just send me an account, and I’ll upload them right away... never mind. If we can cooperate, I’ll ship the items there tomorrow. By air."

"That’s great! We can squeeze the existing exhibition hall and make room for them now. Mr. Knight, how many pieces of these relics do you have?"

"Over a hundred," Sean thought making room might not be enough.

"What? Over a hundred pieces?" The other person exclaimed, "Are you certain it’s more than a hundred pieces? Are they all bronze wares?"

"Yes," Sean was satisfied with the other person’s reaction, "Among them, eleven have inscriptions. And I’ve already had experts confirm that they are all Shang Dynasty bronze wares."

"Th-that’s..." The person on the other end was too excited to speak!

They could open a whole new branch of bronze wares with this!

The surprise was overwhelming!

"Mr. Knight!" The middle-aged man finally managed to calm down and said, "Mr. Knight, we here at our museum are very much looking forward to this collaboration! We will welcome you with open arms! I’ll be sending you my and Li’s phone numbers later, so you can contact us anytime, twenty-four hours a day!"

After chatting for a little longer, the person on the other end said they knew it was early morning for Sean, so they wouldn’t disturb his rest and would talk more once it was daylight there.

After hanging up the phone, Sean lamented that the attitudes of the two sides were indeed very different.

Sean knew that if he had informed Deputy Director Harris earlier that he had over a hundred bronze wares, eleven of which had inscriptions, the Deputy Director’s attitude would have been different as well.

But he thought it was just fine like this.

Soon after, his mobile phone received the messages.

Sean Knight sent several photos to let the other party see them clearly.

The other party sent two big words:

"Welcome!"

Sean became very happy.

His hometown gave him face!

Then he went to sleep peacefully.

The second day, he got up, had breakfast and settled the rental of the airplane.

By the time he and Elijah Hastings and others moved the bronze wares onto the plane, it was already the afternoon.

Fortunately, things went smoothly along the way.

When they arrived at Urumchi International Airport, the museum staff came to meet them.

Three big trucks were lined up at the airport and they were granted special entry. Then, the well-packed bronze wares were loaded into the trucks one by one from the plane.

This time, Sean met two people, a man and a woman.

The man was about forty-five years old. When he saw Sean, he smiled and greeted him:

"Mr. Knight, hello, I am the deputy director of the museum, Joseph Davis, and this is Ms. Li who talked to you on the phone before."

Li, in her early twenties, had only recently graduated and been assigned to the museum. She looked at Sean with a smile and held out both hands to shake his hand:

"Mr. Knight, nice to meet you. I’m so happy to see you!"

When the people and the items arrived at the museum, the main leader talked to Sean for a while, and then handed the matter over to Deputy Director Davis.

Both sides now knew what the focus was, which was to take the items out and count them one by one, then store them in the warehouse, and both sides could rest assured.

Then they discussed the cooperation issue.

According to the museum’s plan, they would first repair the items, while clearing space simultaneously to create a special area for the bronze ware exhibition.

Sean thought for a moment and said:

"I see that your museum has quite a lot of space. I have a suggestion. I can make a donation, and you can build a separate bronze ware branch museum. What do you think?"

Joseph Davis was somewhat surprised by the suggestion. He said with a smile:

"You’ve already contributed the bronze wares for rent to us, how can we still ask you for donations? Shouldn’t we apply for funding ourselves? But it might take a long time, maybe until next year."

"No need for that, I can afford this amount of money," Sean thought that his money would be idle anyway. Besides, these bronze wares were still his and the procedures were very useful when going through customs. Building a house for his own things was no problem!

Seeing Sean’s insistence, Joseph Davis smiled and said:

"Thank you very much, Mr. Knight."

He was truly grateful. There were mummies, gold and silver wares in the museum, but bronze ware was indeed scarce.

"We have two bronze ware restoration staff in our museum. But their skills are not top-notch in China. We are already preparing to invite two experts from the Imperial Palace and two from Baoji."

Joseph Davis was very confident about this.

"Can they be invited?" Sean was a little worried.

"As long as we send the photos of the inscribed bronze wares to them, I think they will be very happy to come!" Joseph Davis smiled, "They are definitely the top restoration experts in China!"

That was true, in their field, who could resist such important items?

If the inscriptions actually revealed significant historical events, they would become famous overseas!

So it was settled.

Sean also had not gone home for a while, after handling this matter, he went back home.

The museum immediately started inviting experts.

Because the circle was so small, more than a hundred and eighty bronze wares settled in Xinjiang Museum, immediately making it sensational news in the circle.

As soon as Melvin Richardson heard about it, he knew it had something to do with Sean.

However, he did not expect there to be so many pieces!

The key point was that the destination was not the museum he had introduced?

He immediately called Thomas Harris.

At that moment, Thomas Harris was regretting so much!

Those were over a hundred pieces!

Eleven pieces with inscriptions!