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Subei's cooking skills can only be regarded as ordinary, but as a gluttonous who has lived independently, his cooking skills are still a little better than ordinary people, above the level.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the limited cooking skills in northern Jiangsu that the deliciousness of the ingredients is more brought out.

At dinner, Zhou Liyi and Peng Suqi almost swallowed their tongues, whether it was the fish in Zishan Lake or the vegetables in the yard, in their opinion, they were too delicious. Especially Zhou Liyi, who is in the high-end food business, has never eaten any good things, but he never thought that an ordinary carp and an ordinary green vegetable would actually make him eat so with relish, it seems that these dishes made in northern Jiangsu are extraordinarily delicious, much better than the carefully selected ingredients in his restaurant.

As a senior gourmet, Zhou Liyi was like discovering a treasure hidden in the mountains, he was so excited that his appetite skyrocketed, and he ate three bowls of rice in a row before he slowed down, but he still pulled Subei in his mouth and kept chatting about the topic of food.

"Nowadays, whether it is the world, or our country, the market for high-end ingredients is getting bigger and bigger, and now people are rich, so they naturally want to eat something good, and there are really a lot of good food and wine in those huge rich, some time ago a friend of mine participated in an auction in the United States, do you know what the price of the most expensive bottle of red wine is sold?" Zhou Liyi said, and his mouth gushed endlessly.

Su Bei listened with a smile, and Su Ming next to him hurriedly asked, "How much, 20,000?"

Zhou Liyi shook his head with a smile and said, "Although that auction was not an auction with the theme of food and wine, and only a few bottles of wine were auctioned by the way, the price of the most expensive bottle of wine was the third highest price among all the auction items, and those two bottles of tequila were sold for 8.2 million yuan in the end! And it was still in US dollars!"

"More than eight million US dollars, isn't that more than 60 million yuan?" Su Ming was stunned by the price Zhou Liyi said.

Even Subei, who had been mentally prepared, was shocked by this price, he thought that the wine that could be auctioned must be very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive, two bottles of wine more than 60 million yuan, which is the wine.

Su Bei was secretly stunned by the price of wine at first, but then he thought that the third most expensive auction item in this auction that Zhou Liyi participated in could reach more than eight million, and the most expensive one should probably exceed 10 million US dollars.

Three paintings, two landscapes, and a pair of figures, if you follow the information you found on the Internet in northern Jiangsu, once it is identified as genuine, it will be at least more than 10 million US dollars.

At the end of the meal, Su Bei's mind has been thinking about whether to ask Zhou Liyi about foreign auction houses.

In the evening, Su Bei found Zhou Liyi and asked about the auction house in detail, and learned that the auction that Zhou Liyi participated in was hosted by a well-known auction house in the United States, which is headquartered in Los Angeles and is very famous in North America and Europe, almost in Asia, but also has a branch in Hong Kong. When Zhou Liyi went to the United States a few times, he went to play a few times under the guidance of friends.

After understanding, Subei asked Zhou Liyi to help inquire about the details and contact information of this auction house, perhaps out of gratitude, Zhou Liyi patted his chest on the spot and agreed.

The next day, after Zhou Liyi and the two said goodbye, Subei began to apply for visas.

On the third day after Zhou Liyi returned to the provincial capital, some information about the auction house was sent to Su Bei's mailbox, and that night, Su Bei took many photos of the three paintings with his own high-definition camera and sent them to the auction house's mailbox, asking the other party to be firm and expressing his willingness to auction.

Of course, you have to use English to write this kind of email, and the English skills in northern Jiangsu were pretty good, especially the written expression skills, but the spoken English was very poor. I believe that this is a common problem among Chinese students.

Su Bei was very confident in his three paintings and felt that he should be able to receive a reply from the other party.

Sure enough, four days later, Subei received an email from the auction house, the email was all in English, and Subei relied on his English background while checking the English-Chinese dictionary, and quickly figured out the content of the email.

The email asked Subei to take more photos, and also asked for many photo angles. Subei did so one by one. In the following week, the two sides exchanged several more emails, and finally the other party sent an email, saying that it was very likely that the three paintings were authentic through the photos, but if you want to be sure, you have to ask Subei to bring the paintings to the auction house for identification on the spot, or leave more detailed contact information, and the auction house will further contact Subei.

Su Bei did not leave his more delicate contact information, but replied to the email to make an appointment, saying that he would go to the sand machine with the painting in about half a month, and if it was convenient for the other party, please receive it.

Soon, I got a positive answer from the other party.

Su Bei smiled with satisfaction, he knew that the large number of photos in several emails made the other party feel that the painting in his hand was very likely to be genuine, so he would agree to receive it.

Considering that he planned to play outside for more days this trip, in the next few days, Subei made proper arrangements for several projects in the village, and called most of the things to a few uncles and cousin Su Jun and cousin Su Ming. And Su Huai is stationed in Zishan Village on behalf of northern Jiangsu.

After Zhou Liyi came down with a tourist visa from a travel agency, he felt that the provincial city of Xingshi did not particularly contact his classmates and friends in the provincial capital, but just met with Zhou Liyi, got the visa and the address and contact information of Zhou Liyi's friends in the United States, and rushed directly to S City by plane.

After changing some dollars in S City, we will fly directly to Los Angeles from S City.

After more than ten hours of long-distance flight, northern Jiangsu finally set foot on foreign land for the first time.

At the exit, Su Bei saw the person who came to pick him up, a tall white man in his thirties, in a suit and leather shoes, holding a sign of "subei".

"Welcome to America, I'm Jim from SP Auctions. After the white man confirmed Su Bei's identity, he stretched out his hand to greet him enthusiastically at first, but after looking at Su Bei, his eyes became a little strange.

Su Bei's spoken English was really scummy, and he barely chatted a few words, and after refusing the other party to help him with his luggage, he asked to go to the hotel for a temporary rest first, and then went to the headquarters of the auction house.

The white man Jim drove a car whose name Su Bei didn't know, and it looked very high-end, and from the other party's dress, Su Bei estimated that this Jim's position in the auction house should not be low.

On the way to the hotel, Jim said, "Sue, you know, we are not like your country, everything is business, and if your painting is not authentic, you may have to pay for some of the costs." After speaking, he glanced at Su Bei again, and then glanced at the suitcase that Su Bei put in the back seat of the car.

Su Bei smiled and said in his broken English: "No matter where it is, it should be like this, and so is my country, rest assured, Jim, even if my painting is genuine, I will pay for the expenses I spend, including appraisal fees and hotel fees." ”