Chapter 1622 The crime of hiding wine is even greater
Zhou Zhi’s attitude made Leah very happy. It was obvious that the value of this box was now far more than 7,000 US dollars, but Zhou Zhi did not because it was taken from him. The superior went out and showed a little regret, but congratulated Leah seriously. This is the style of a gentleman in the East, or the style of a gentleman in the West, keeping the promise of the transaction.
Except for the small space on the top, the remaining box is now divided into five drawers. The top is two small drawers side by side, and the bottom is three larger drawer spaces.
Each drawer was wrapped in light green canvas, with a metal pull ring on the front. After opening the two small drawers, Leah took out two purple velvet boxes from inside.
These two boxes are obviously customized. They just fit the small drawers. Open them. In one of the drawers are placed two pens, two dip pens, one red, one blue, one black, and three bottles of ink. .
The ink bottle is carved from natural crystal, and its shape is somewhat similar to a snuff bottle. There is still ink inside, but it has turned into a paste.
The workmanship of several pens is very exquisite. The pen barrel is made of a special kind of ironwood in the desert of the United States. The pen head is also inlaid with gems as decoration, ruby for the red pen and sapphire for the blue pen. The black pen is Dominican amber.
Blue amber will show a blue luster under natural light, but that is an optical phenomenon that only occurs when looking sideways. It is a light brown transparent object, placed on a black base, and the front It just looks black.
From this we can also see the exquisiteness of the production of several pens.
The pen barrel is also engraved with a delicate scrolling leaf pattern, which looks like a medieval French style, but Zhou Zhi doesn’t understand it.
The nibs are made of pure gold, with delicate engraved patterns and two floral letters of LS.
"This is a custom-made special pen used to record music scores." Leah nodded: "LS is the acronym for Leopold Stokowski."
It seems that this box belongs to Leopold Stokowski The evidence is mounting.
Opening another small box, a bunch of valuable gadgets appeared inside, including pocket watches with gold cases, gold-rimmed glasses, tie clips, and silk scarves.
In addition, there are two pipes bent in one direction. The pipes are divided into three sections. The mouthpiece is made of silver and the middle is walrus ivory. The part that holds the cut tobacco is made of Western standard pipe material, which is very durable. The burnt heather looks very high-end.
Among the three cabinets below, one contains a stack of hand-recorded music scores. According to Leah, this is the "Seventh Symphony" by the Austrian composer Bruckner, and it can be deduced that this is probably the reason why Leopold Stokowski did not leave the airport in the end. The reason for taking this suitcase back.
The Seventh Symphony is also called the "Eroica Symphony". The second movement coincided with Wagner's death when it was composed, so the second movement was changed into a tribute to Wagner.
Leopold Stokowski's trip to the United States happened to be during the "terror" period, and he might have encountered an investigation by a certain bureau, so he left in a hurry, not even daring to take away the suitcase he had left.
"Maybe there is wine in the cabinet on the second floor." Leah guessed.
“Why?” Zhou Zhi now feels that foreigners’ skills in appreciating and collecting antiques are also unfathomable, and the qualities of an expert are almost as good as a half-fairy in front of an outsider.
Now he can feel how others feel when they look at him.
"Because during that terrible time, the crime of hiding alcohol may be much bigger than hiding the "Seventh Symphony."" Leah said: "But unfortunately, Leopold Stokowski, you hear this last name , you should know that he is Drunkard." "Hahahaha..." When Zhou Zhi opened the drawer: "It's indeed wine!"
It's indeed wine, and there's more than one bottle. In the cabinets below, there's nothing but simple things. of clothing and thin blankets, with three bottles of wine hidden in each layer.
It can even be described this way, the clothes and thin blankets themselves were stuffed in to protect the six bottles of wine.
"Ah ha? There are two bottles of Egon!" Zhou Zhi unexpectedly found his old acquaintance here.
His experience with foreign wine is very shallow, but because he dug out a batch of foreign wine when cleaning Su Huaxuan's cellar, he has a little understanding of old foreign wine.
The best wine in that batch was Egon. Li Laosan took two bottles back to honor Li Qiyan. Afterwards, Zhou Zhi realized that this bottle was worth more than 100,000 yuan.
"George, do you still know how to drink?" This time it was Leah and Old John's turn to be surprised.
“I happen to know this.” Zhou Zhi smiled modestly: “I read it in a magazine.”
"You are the luckiest CurlyCoat in the airport for fifty years!" Even Bonnie in the red hat squeezed into the crowd with a camera: "I heard that the original Stokowski Monogram desk suitcase was found?!"
" Yes, but it has returned to Leah now." Old John said loudly: "Little George is not at a loss, there are many good things in it."
“Not to mention these two bottles of Egon, these two bottles are Beluga vodka, and the other two bottles are Portela red wine.” Leah pointed to the crown on the bottle and said: “This wine is very popular. Russian wine, but with them, it’s different. This kind of wine has two aliases-White Tsar and Red Tsar. They were both reserved for the royal family.”
“Egon is very expensive to me. You know, what about the White Czar and the Red Czar?" Zhou Zhi asked.
“In terms of price, White Czar is not as good as Egon. After all, the audience for spirits is much smaller, while Red Czar can almost rival Egon, and the quantity is even rarer.” Leah couldn’t put it down. The ground turned over the bottle of White Tsar It seems that you can taste the wine inside through the glass bottle: "But for wine connoisseurs, the intensity of White Czar has been greatly reduced after years of evaporation, and it is the best in terms of flavor. .”
"Those who only know how to pursue Egon and Portela cannot actually be called experts."
"What is this?" At this time, Old John dug out a stick from the remaining clothes. It's like a cane. The bottom is like a gourd or a drop of water. It's delicate and smooth. There are thread-like lines on it, and each line is an inlaid spiral. The silver wire divides the water drop into six rotationally symmetrical parts, each part bulges outward, increasing the comfort and firmness of the handshake.
This part is similar to a cane head, but the front part is The stick body is much thinner than an ordinary walking stick, and it is made of unknown materials. It is like plastic and has considerable elasticity.
"Is this plastic?" This thing is very similar to plastic in terms of color, feel, and elasticity. Zhou Zhi couldn't help but blurt out.
“No, no, no, this is an expensive baton.” Even six bottles of fine wine worth tens of thousands of dollars could not move Old Leah, but now his expression became serious: "It's made from narwhal horn and whale bone and is very expensive."
“The handle of this gourd should be the tusks of a narwhal, but this elastic one is actually a whale bone?”
“Whale bone is a customary term in English. It actually refers to filter-feeding whales such as fin whales or blue whales. of whalebone," explained John Sr.
This is the problem caused by non-native speakers. Unless they have integrated into the local life for a long time, many such phrases are not understood accurately.