When there was still a distance of seven or eight meters from the front desk, Pei Jinming said with some excitement. "John, is that you?"

"It's me. ”

John smiled slightly, and walked towards Bei Jinming with open hands. The two walked together and hugged vigorously.

John and Bei Jinming are old acquaintances, when John was studying painting in France, Bei Jinming came to visit John's mentor, so the two have known each other since then, but after John's mentor died, the two never saw each other again.

"Come on, come on...... Let's go to the office. Pei Jinming excitedly took John's hand and walked towards his office, while instructing the secretary to make a few cups of coffee.

"We haven't seen each other in years. ”

"It's been more than ten years!"

"Yes, you were less than ten years old at the time, and now you are an adult, and time flies so fast. ”

Pei Jinming sat on the sofa and sighed the passage of time, more than ten years seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

"Is this your wife?" Bei Jinming felt a little out of honor to sigh in front of the guests that time had flown by, and hurriedly pointed to Dani on the side and asked John. When people are older, sometimes it is easy to fall into a certain emotion unconsciously.

"Nope. John waved his hand and introduced. "She's the housekeeper Dani Miller. ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Miller. Bei Jinming looked at Dani and said apologetically.

"It's okay, you can call me Dani. Dani smiled slightly, then stopped talking, and took out a notebook from her bag to record the visit.

John also smiled slightly, Dani is about the same age as him, and it is easy to be misunderstood, which is normal.

After apologizing to Dani, Bei Jinming then chatted with John, and the two talked about some past events in France, during which they talked about John's mentor, Bei Jinming sighed and felt that an era was over. At the same time, I also felt sorry for John's mentor.

"John, don't you care that your mentor's descendants are arguing over the inheritance and turning against each other?"

Like most wealthy people, John's mentor died without a will, so after his death, several children fought over the works he left behind, and finally got into court, and even didn't want blood relations for money. After the matter of the inheritance was settled, these people now set up a so-called appraisal committee to verify the authenticity of those who have John's paintings in their hands, so as to obtain a large amount of appraisal fees. In order for people to go to their own appraisal, these people can be said to be ugly, tearing each other down, eager to drink the last drop of blood from Mentor John's bones.

"It's their family's business, and I can't interfere. John shrugged helplessly, it was difficult for the official to cut off family affairs, he didn't want to spread the troubled waters.

"Yes. Bei Jinming sighed.

Perhaps feeling that the topic was a little sad, Pei Jinming then diverted the topic and asked about the purpose of John's visit this time.

"I'm here to ask you to help IBM design a direct store. John's purpose for the future was stated.

Bei Jinming on the side nodded after hearing this, and then asked a few questions about the directly-operated store. "Have you chosen the location of the directly managed store, and do you have any requirements for the design?"

John thought for a moment. "The location was chosen, not far away, right on Fifth Avenue. As for the design, I only have two requirements, one is simple, less is more, and the other is that I want the store to be a glass structure, just like the "pyramid" you designed for the Louvre. ”

"No problem, just leave it to me. After Bei Jinming understood John's request, he took over the job of IBM design store without thinking. Originally, he would not normally take on this kind of job of designing a storefront, but John and he are old acquaintances, so he naturally will not shirk it.

"That's troublesome. John smiled. "As for the design fee, you can open it as you like. John thinks that favors belong to favors, and money still needs to be calculated.

"No need, what money does it cost for a trivial matter. Bei Jinming waved his hand.

"That's not good, the design fee still has to be charged, if you don't charge me, I'll find another designer. John insisted.

"Alas....... Bei Jinming couldn't help John, and sighed. "Okay, okay, let's do it, I'll design a direct store for you, you paint a picture for me, let's meet friends with art, it's a bit vulgar to talk about money like this. What do you think?"

Before John heard this suggestion, Dani, who was making notes on the side, frowned slightly, she felt that Bei Jinming's request was a bit excessive, if it was for the design fee, five million...... Million...... She is not distressed, the Morgan family has money, and it is not a problem to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in minutes. If you want to paint, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh, Monet, whoever she wants, she doesn't blink an eyelid, and there are hundreds of thousands of Morgan artworks, piled up like a mountain, and some of them are almost moldy.

But if you want John's paintings, Dani feels that it is a bit excessive, others don't know, but Dani knows very well that John has a habit of painting, every time he finishes painting, he will burn the painting, from the age of five to learn painting with the greatest contemporary artist to the present, John has painted hundreds of paintings, but only two have not been burned so far. One is a portrait of Queen YLSB painted by John to thank Queen YLSB for taking care of him, and now hangs in the bedroom of the Queen of Buckingham Palace, and Dani also saw her some time ago. Another self-portrait painted by John to ease Mrs. Morgan's longing now hangs in Mrs. Morgan's bedroom.

Therefore, John's paintings can only be obtained by those who have kindness to him, which is beyond the scope of works of art, but a kind of affection, which the Morgan family needs to return, that is to say, when the owner of the painting encounters a problem that he can't solve, as long as the Morgan family is still in this world, he can take the painting to the Morgan Manor in Shangzhou for help.

Therefore, a design drawing wants a promise from the Morgan family, such an offer is too high, IBM is going to open more than 500 directly-operated stores, should the Morgan family make more than 500 promises? Dani felt that it was not appropriate, very inappropriate, and wanted to open her mouth to refuse such a deal for John, but before she could speak, John on the side laughed.

"Okay, as long as you don't think I'm drawing graffiti, we'll decide. John, in Dani's astonished gaze, agreed to Bezinming's request to "meet friends in writing."

And Bei Jinming also laughed when he heard John's promise, and said again and again. "Don't dislike it...... Don't dislike. ”

He didn't know how high John's painting skills were now, after all, he hadn't seen him for more than ten years, but he knew that John studied under two Western contemporary painting masters and an Oriental painting master, so his painting level couldn't be low. What's more important is that he values that affection, the younger generations have to develop in the United States, and he can't always be able to shelter the younger generations, so he is more at ease with a Morgan family talisman.