Chapter 40: The First Day Abroad

[The second update, ask for a collection! There is also a more!]

Next, this Jim introduced to Subei the appraisal fee standard of their auction house.

Seeing the practice of white men talking about charging as soon as they met, and then remembering the way he looked at him, Su Bei knew that it might be his ordinary dress that made the other party despise.

I have been used to staying in the mountain village in the past few months, and I have neglected to dress up, and I didn't think of getting a good look when I went out, but I didn't expect to be despised when I went abroad. It seems that no matter where you are, the saying that people rely on clothing applies.

Originally, Su Bei also wanted the auction house to find a translator for himself, but at this time, it was better to think about it, although this Jim could not fully represent the auction house, but after all, because of this Jim's words, Su Bei's impression of the auction house became a little bad.

The hotel that SP auction house gave to Subei is a star-rated hotel, and before checking in, the Jim also specially told Subei about the price and asked Subei if he wanted to change a hotel. Of course, Su Bei shook his head directly, took out a wad of US dollars exchanged in S City from his backpack, and directly prepaid the hotel expenses for a few days.

As for how the white man Jim thinks of himself, Su Bei Genbu doesn't care, the key hotel location is good, the environment is also very good, and it is close to the auction house, Su Bei thought that it was easy to live here, so he stayed directly. As for whether Jim despises himself and has no money, Su Beigen didn't pay attention to it.

Who is Su Bei, he is this quasi-saint heir, the only two cultivators on the earth now, the other is still the locust tree demon in the infancy of the Yuan Dynasty or the registered disciple he ordered, you have to call him "master", in Su Bei's view, on the whole earth, even those who are rich in the world and powerful in politics, in his eyes, are no different from the beggars on the street.

After staying in the hotel, Su Bei said that he was very tired and wanted to rest for half a day due to jet lag, and he would go to the SP headquarters with the identification items tomorrow morning, and after the brief, that Jim also left.

Now that Subei has the cultivation of the fourth layer of Qi training, it will not be long before he will enter the fifth layer of Qi training, even if he doesn't sleep for three days and three nights, he won't be too tired, not to mention that he flew to Los Angeles and took a first-class cabin, and he had already slept beautifully on the plane, and he was not tired at all at this time.

Zhou Liyi's friend is called Liu Lu, and I heard Zhou Liyi say that this Liu Lu's family is also in Xingshi, Hunan Province, and Zhou Liyi's family is a world friend, and now his parents are still in China. Zhou Liyi is a student who came to the United States for more than ten years, and later stayed in the United States to develop a sand shaker and engage in the animation industry.

According to the phone number Zhou Liyi said, Su Bei asked the hotel staff to help dial the phone. Because before coming to Xingshi, I talked with Zhou Liyi with this Liu Lutong guò video, chatted a few words, and knew each other, so it was not completely strange when I spoke, for the sake of Zhou Liyi's face, Liu Lu was very enthusiastic, and after asking the address of the hotel where Subei was staying, he said that he would come over immediately.

Before Liu Lu came, Su Bei prepared for a while, took out one of the two landscape paintings of the three paintings in the space, and carefully put it in his suitcase with the packaging.

Before going abroad, he thought about selling all three paintings at once, but after meeting with the auction house, he changed his original mind and planned to take out one painting and try it first.

More than an hour later, Subei met Liu Lu.

Liu Lu is the same age as Zhou Liyi, he is over thirty, tall, and he is very well-dressed, and his hair is very neat, he seems to be a very old-fashioned business person, but he is very enthusiastic when he sees Subei, it may be because he is in a foreign country, and it is difficult to see his fellow villagers.

The two had dinner in the restaurant downstairs of the hotel, chatted for a long time, Su Bei talked about his acquaintance with Zhou Liyi, and talked about his main purpose in coming to the United States this time to identify an ancient painting of Van Gogh, if it is genuine, it will be auctioned.

Liu Lu was stunned for a long time when he heard this, he knew that Su Bei came to the United States this time to sell paintings, but he never thought that it would be a Van Gogh painting. Although he was not good at calligraphy and painting, Van Gogh's name was still heard.

"Are you sure it's Van Gogh's words?" Liu Lu couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

Su Bei smiled and nodded: "I communicated with the auction house by email a few times, and I still have a great grasp, by the way, I have to thank Brother Lu for the contact information you helped provide." Zhou Liyi is also the auction house information that Liu Lu found.

Liu Lu looked at Su Bei strangely, looked at Su Bei's feet, and after not finding anything deposited, he then asked, "What about the painting? Have you deposited it in the bank's safe?"

Su Bei pointed upstairs and said, "No, just put it in the room." ”

Liu Lu stood up from the chair and exclaimed, "You...... Hurry up to your room, you actually put this valuable thing in your hotel room...... Won't ......"

Liu Lu never believed that there would be Van Gogh's paintings in the hands of the young man from China in front of him, and he put them in the hotel room at will, and he wondered if this young man wanted to do something bad and come to the United States to cheat money.

When he followed Su Bei to the hotel room and saw the oil paintings wrapped in a few blank sheets of paper, he became even more suspicious. But I thought that the people in the auction house would identify it themselves anyway, and I was just entertaining Zhou Liyi in the face, so why do I care so much.

Su Bei felt very keen, and in the following chat, he could clearly feel that Liu Lu was not confident in the paintings he brought. But he doesn't care, he also knows that this is inevitable, if the painting in his hand is a domestic painter, even if it is a great painter such as Qi Baishi, the credibility is much greater than that of Van Gogh.

The next morning, Liu Lu drove his car to the hotel to pick up Su Bei, and the two rushed to the headquarters of the SP auction house before ten o'clock.

After explaining her intention to the receptionist at the front desk, the black girl in the suit made a phone call, and then guided Su and Bei to a reception room upstairs and sat down.

Soon, Jim, the white man who picked up Subei at the airport yesterday, walked in, followed by another white middle-aged man and four staff members.

After the introduction, Su Bei knew that John, another white middle-aged man in the lead, was the senior leader of the company, and his rank should be much higher than Jim's, which was a bit unexpected by Su Bei, and from Jim's skeptical attitude yesterday, Su Bei thought that he might suffer a cold reception today.

After mutual introductions, the appraisers of several auction houses who followed John began to appraise the paintings on the spot.