"The treasure specially produced by the Faberge family to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the construction of St. Petersburg, this artwork weighing 36 ounces, the outer eggshell is completely wrapped in platinum, inlaid with 20 blue gemstones of different sizes..." one in front of him While wiping the sweat from his brow, the fat jeweler carefully introduced: "Gently opened the eggshell, and there is a miniature model of the iconic sculpture of St. Petersburg - the 'Bronze Horseman'... Look."
In front of you is a small Easter egg, a precious jewel from the royal family of the Russian tsars. I looked at this small egg-sized artwork studded with gems with satisfaction, and smiled with satisfaction: "Very good, very beautiful."
The jeweler breathed a sigh of relief, and then tried to put on a smile: "Mr. Chen... oh no, Mr. Fifth, although this Easter egg is not as precious as the ones at Sotheby's auction house, it is definitely Faber's egg." The real product of the Qi family! You can find this 'Bronze Horseman' from the Faberge family's product catalog!" After a pause, he looked at me cautiously again: "I don't know why you bought this thing for..."
I smiled and took a sip of tea: "Give it to my new wife as a wedding gift."
There was a trace of complicated eyes in the fat jeweler's eyes, and sweat appeared on his fat face. He quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped it clean, and then sighed: "If it is a wedding gift, then a An Easter egg is perfect. Because in history, the Great Czar has a record of giving Easter eggs to his beautiful wives as a symbol of love. There are several world-famous Easter eggs that were created for this purpose. was manufactured."
I didn't say a word, I reached out and picked up the artwork on the table. It was covered with a layer of shiny jewels, placed on the velvet fabric, emitting a faint light, very elegant. The jeweler looked distressed at the few fingerprints I left while holding the egg without gloves, but dared not speak. It was only after I put it down that he carefully picked it up with his gloved hand, then took out a small tweezer, and wiped it gently with a small piece of silk cloth.
"I'm very satisfied with this thing. You can make a price." I leaned on the sofa and looked at this guy at the same level.
The man in front of him is one of the owners of the most famous jewelry shops in Vancouver. It's also a coincidence, I originally planned to buy a piece of jewelry as a wedding gift for Yan Di—as far as I can remember, I have never given her any token of love.
But, I also don't want to buy something like a diamond ring, I think it's too tacky. Also too uncreative.
As a result, Baoya Zhou gave me an idea. The fat jeweler in front of him, his family is in the jewelry business and has been in Vancouver for generations. Although the business is not too big, there are quite a few treasured collections.
Especially after hearing that he has an Easter egg hidden in his hand. This thing is a treasure. The Easter eggs handmade by the legendary Russian jewelry family, the Faberge family, each one is a treasure worth tens of thousands of gold. They are treasures that all jewelry lovers in the world dream of collecting. Originally, although the jeweler had a "Bronze Horseman" in his collection, he kept silent about it, so outsiders didn't know about it.
It just happened to be Baoya Zhou. Through some channels, I learned that the jeweler had an Easter egg in his hand, so he told me bluntly. Easter eggs are gifts from Russian tsars to their wives. They have always been like this, so they have always been regarded as a symbol of love. Naturally, it is a perfect gift for me to give to my newlyweds.
If someone else came to ask for a purchase, the jeweler would naturally simply refuse. Because he has no intention of selling this thing at all... But I'm different!
Now in Vancouver, I can be described as a shaker, a smuggling tycoon, a celebrity, and a gangster. The mayor, councilors, and senior police officials are all my guests. The other big gangsters all follow my example. In such a situation, how dare a small jeweler offend me
I came to ask for it, but he had no choice but to take out this treasure of the store.
I just took one look at it and instantly fell in love with this thing! After the jeweler pinched his nose and introduced it, he was afraid that I would not like the best, but unfortunately, seeing my satisfied expression, he couldn't help it.
"This...Chen, uh, Lord Five Five Five Five." He stammered. However, it is really awkward for a foreigner to call me "Five Master" with his tongue rolling. Seeing his nervousness, I smiled and said, "Okay, you can call me Mr. Chen. I like this thing very much. So, Just ask for a price."
I don't really like to bully others, but I am going to give this thing to my new wife, so he can't help but refuse to transfer it. At worst, I'll just pay more.
But the owner of the jeweler was sweating profusely, hesitating and speechless. As soon as my heart moved, I understood what he was thinking at the moment.
I know that this kind of art is definitely not low in value. So the jeweler was a little afraid to ask for a price—if he asked for a lower price, he was afraid that he would lose a lot. If it's driven too high... Once it annoys me, it's probably even worse. Seeing this man's embarrassed face, I sighed and said softly: "I bought this thing as a wedding gift for my wife, so you can ask the price, no matter how much you ask, I will never make things difficult for you. This is love A symbol, and love, is priceless, isn't it?"
When I said that, he sighed, hesitated, and said in a low voice: "This...Mr. Chen, I was absolutely not going to transfer this thing, but...well, how about it, last year at Sotheby's Auction House The final transaction price of an Easter egg is 6.4 million US dollars. However, the quality of that egg is better than this one. Therefore, I am willing to transfer this item for 6 million US dollars... "
Speaking of this, he looked at me eagerly, with a bit of pain in his eyes involuntarily - I know that the price may actually be low, but he doesn't dare to ask for a higher price.
I smiled, took out the checkbook, wrote a check for eight million dollars and put it on the table: "I won't let you suffer, you take this check, it's my purchase of this thing Goods... Well, I am very grateful that you are willing to transfer this item to me. In this way, when I get married, I will send you an invitation card. In the future, if you encounter any trouble in Vancouver, you can come to me .From today, you can tell others that you are my friend."
The fat man's eyes lit up, and he immediately showed some joy. You know, I can almost cover the sky with one hand in Vancouver now! Just the name of my "Fifth Master" can almost walk sideways here. If this guy develops friendship with me, it will be of great benefit in the future.
…
When Hammer and I walked out of the jewelry store, we checked the time, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon. I got in the car—it was a Rolls Royce I had just ordered, bulletproof from the windows to the tires. After getting in the car, Xiao Zhu who was sitting in the driver's seat looked back at me: "Fifth Brother, where are you going now?"
Xiao Zhu's original job was to take care of Seventh Uncle. After Seventh Uncle passed away, I left him to Xi Luo as an assistant. But this guy doesn't like to do business things. After I came back this time, he tried his best to beg just to stay with me. I also lacked a smart person by my side (Hammer is a stunned young man, and he can't drive), so I allowed him.
"Isn't there an assessment for the little girl this afternoon? Let's go and have a look, and then we will pick her up."
Then we drove to a public opera house in Vancouver. The little girl Xiaowu was placed by me in a self-interested middle school, and in order to cultivate this girl's temperament, and to wear down her wildness, she has been ordered to learn music—violin for more than half a year.
Speaking of this girl learning music, it really gave Yan Di a headache for quite a while. I started to let her learn to sing, and invited a vocal teacher who came to Canada from China to study. As a result, the little girl scared away the high-priced private music teacher in her first music class. Before leaving, the teacher left a sentence: "As soon as she sings her voice, the she-wolves within ten kilometers will come. !"
Then let the little girl learn the piano, but after this girl learned a lesson, she was shocked by the teacher who was hired at a high price and used to be a pianist in the Philharmonic Orchestra! In the end, they didn't even dare to charge the teaching fee and ran away. Before leaving, he left a sentence: "This son's hands are like clouds and flowing water, and the antelope hangs its horns, it's natural... But not a single note is in tune. If I continue to teach, I will feel sorry for the piano!"
Then I thought of a way to let her learn the pipa, thinking that she would not be able to become a piano master, and it should be very pleasant to cultivate a bit of the classical beauty's temperament of "especially holding the pipa and half covering her face". For this reason, a domestic pipa master was invited at a high price, and it is said that he also worked in the Central National Orchestra. This time the teacher didn't let her play directly, but taught her to read the score first - it turned out to be broken, and the first thing the girl opened her mouth was to ask the teacher: "Teacher, can you play eighteen touches?" The teacher, who still has the old charm, is gone.
In the end, for some reason, this little girl became obsessed with the violin by herself. This time, everyone was desperate for her, so they didn't hire any professional teachers at all. They just bought a few violins for her, and then made a lot of audio-visual lessons. Materials, what kind of videos, discs, etc., let her play randomly at home.
I have been walking for so long, and I don't know how she is learning now. I just heard that she was going to participate in some kind of assessment today, and I just went to have a look after shopping.
I drove to this opera house, although such an assessment, no one else is allowed to enter. But those rules don't work for me. Hammer intentionally lifted the suit on his upper body, revealing the gun holster under his arm, coupled with his sloppy face, who dares to stop us
The staff were too scared to speak, Xiao Zhu had already opened the door of the opera house and led me in.
In the infield of a huge opera house, the seats were empty, only a few people sat in the first and second rows, presumably they were examiners. I didn't speak, just walked over and sat on the edge of the second row. Some of the examiners looked at me, probably a little surprised, I didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded to them.
I looked mysterious, and I was wearing sunglasses. Several examiners didn't know what I was doing, so they hesitated for a while, but no one said anything.
A strange white girl on the stage was playing the violin. After listening to it for a while, I felt that this girl played the violin well. Then I listened to the performances of several children, all of whom looked very skilled. And the little girl hadn't appeared yet, so I couldn't help but feel a little impatient, and couldn't help coughing.
The hammer was the most powerful, and he went straight to the front row, came to an examiner, and without saying a word, grabbed a piece of the exam sequence table on his desk with his hands, ignored the examiner's exclamation, respectfully handed it to me.
I glanced at the list and number above, and the little girl was second behind. I glanced at the examiners in the front row, they were a little agitated, and some stood up and looked at me, probably seeing that I was an idler, and were about to call me to ask me to leave.
I whispered to Xiao Zhu, "Go and tell them what to do."
Xiao Zhu nodded cleverly, walked over and whispered a few words to one of the examiners. After just a few words, the people in front suddenly fell silent, and some people glanced at me twice with apprehensive eyes.
After sitting for a while, and listening to several students taking the exam, the little girl finally appeared.
Seeing a thin and small figure walking out from the backstage, I couldn't help but see a bright light.
And no matter how good her piano skills are now, the actual dressing is already very interesting. The hair that was originally thin and yellow due to malnutrition, after half a year of rich clothes and good food, has turned into a head of black hair like a waterfall. After taking care of it, it looks like black satin. The hair is softly attached to one side of the cheek, and she has a somewhat soft and lovely appearance. A face is also extremely clean and delicate, with big eyes and a small mouth.
Wearing a clean school uniform and black leather shoes, he looks like a child from a well-educated family. Holding a piano case in his hand, he walked to the stage and bowed to the examiner below.
Anyway, it looks very interesting.
I could not help leaning back on the chair, and regardless of the no-smoking rule in the theater, I lit a cigarette by myself, and watched the little girl on the stage open the violin case and take out the violin, and hugged her...
… Um?
etc!
I almost dropped the cigarette in my finger on the floor...
Violin in your arms
He rubbed his eyes, yes... it was in his arms! One of the most standard postures for pulling the erhu! !
Just when I grew my mouth and didn't say anything, the little girl was already holding the piano bar and pulling it up with a serious face...
A long long note... After she played for two bars, I broke out in cold sweat!
no doubt! I am very familiar with this song! !
This... this is clearly the famous erhu solo "Erquan Yingyue"! ! !
The examiners below are all pale, but there is Xiao Zhu standing next to them, and Xiao Zhu may have "raised" them just now, so no one dared to say anything, and they all endured it tenaciously and made a move. With an appearance of listening hard, he just waited for the little girl to finish the song...
Even though the little girl in the middle broke a few long notes, when the whole opera house was filled with harsh sharp notes that could almost break the glass, a row of examiners all looked calm, and no one spoke.
a long time…
Crack, crack, crack...
I stood up, took the lead in applauding, and at the same time gritted my teeth and said to the hammer: "Remember, buy this girl an erhu when I go back!"
…
on the car.
"How am I pulling?" The little girl smiled smugly.
I looked at her coldly: "You don't know the difference between the erhu and the violin, do you?"
"Of course I know." The little girl made a face at me.
"Then why don't you learn the violin well?"
"... Well, I saw a handsome guy at school who was learning the violin." The little girl told the reason without any concealment.
Hmm... I see. Then I asked, "Then why don't you study hard?"
"Cut... Later I found out that that guy is beautiful, but she is a sissy." The little girl curled her lips: "I don't bother to learn, but I knew how to play today's song in the past. When we were in Kunming, we Among the group of people, there is an old man who often plays this tune on the street with an erhu to beg for money." After a pause, she frowned deliberately and said, "However, I have tried for a long time to play this tune with the violin. of."
... I really don't know if this girl is smart or an asshole.
"Master, don't let me learn music, okay?" The little girl suddenly threw herself on me, grabbed my arm and shook it a few times.
"What do you want to learn?" I looked at her.
"Learn skills! Real skills! I want to learn your skills, whether it's doing business or being the boss, I want to learn all of them!" The little girl looked at me seriously.
In fact, this girl is really smart. After coming to Vancouver with me, she learned English in only three months. After being sent to that private middle school by me, at first I was worried that she would not be able to follow her because of language problems. Keeping up with the progress of my study, but later found out... I was completely overwhelmed! This girl started to sing rap songs in English with some black people in the third month!
"Master, are you really going to marry Sister Yan Di?" the little girl asked me suddenly.
"Yeah." I took out a cigarette, and the little girl immediately came over and took out the lighter on the car to light it for me, and at the same time begged: "Then can I ask you something?"
"Say it."
The little girl had a cunning face: "After you get married, it will be inconvenient for me to live with you... I don't want to be your newlywed light bulb... You let me move out! I... I can go live with Boss Xi Luo , you can also go to Lawyer Zhou... anyway, you can go anywhere, as long as you don't let me live in your house."
I sneered: "You are so young, you want to learn how to do things with Xi Luo and Lawyer Zhou? It's impossible now." But I pondered for a while: "Since I adopted you, I won't treat you badly. How about it... In the future, when you are on vacation, you can go to Huaxing Company."
The little girl pursed her lips, and muttered in a low voice: "Alas... Treat me as a child. Don't think I don't know, those businesses in Huaxing Company are just a cover for your real business."
how to say? I feel more and more that this girl is really like me... There is a kind of restlessness in her bones. And she's really smart. I looked at her for a long time before I whispered: "Little girl, today I will teach you one more thing... You remember, what your master is doing now is not a good thing. But the general trend of this world is to become bigger and stronger , then bleaching and getting closer to the mainstream are essential. Huaxing Company is still very small now, but in the future, it will be the center of our business! Do you understand?"
Looking at this girl, I suddenly felt that maybe this girl could really become very powerful in the future.
…
My wedding day is set for August 2nd. The reason is simple... because August 2nd is also my birthday. This can be regarded as double happiness.
I am not a Westerner, not a Christian, so my wedding will not involve any priests or oaths. But this is the west, so it's not very convenient to have a completely eastern style wedding. In the end, I simply decided to hold a party in the form of a buffet, and then invite some guests.
Although I have tried my best to control the influence, but I am married, how can the big and small gangsters in Vancouver not be there? And there are the official people, the police people...
In the end, old Sorin expressed that he was not in good health recently and was unable to go, but he sent someone to congratulate me on behalf of him—the representative was his precious daughter, His Highness the Princess. This selection made me a little depressed. I hope that lewd and coquettish princess will not disturb me. Another representative of old Sorin is a young man named Allen, who is said to be the godson of old Sorin!
If it weren't for the deal between me and old Sorin, I formed an alliance, expressing that I would support the princess to inherit the cause of Hell's Angels—Originally, old Sorin meant to make Alan the heir! It is said that this is a very powerful young man.
Although old Sorin didn't come, he was very considerate in doing things. He asked people specifically, and then according to the Chinese custom, he gave me a big gift: two racehorses that are said to have a certain noble lineage in Europe! Also help me with a horse trainer.
Ciro is even more exaggerated. I don't know what method he used, but he invited a pastry chef from London, England to make me a wedding nine-layer cake! It is said that this pastry chef served the British royal family! But I've seen the pastry chef with a frightened look on his face—well, he couldn't be kidnapped by the kid Shiro, right
As for buck teeth period, this guy is the most stingy, he actually gave me a box of condoms! I was so angry that I almost strangled this guy on the spot, but then he said with a strange smile: "Boss, you paid my salary, and you gave me everything. Even if I give you a million gifts, it's nothing What's the point of returning your money to you?"