The car stopped in front of a villa, saying that it was not appropriate to say that it was a villa, but in fact it was a manor.

Generally, there are three kinds of villas living in the United States, one is the townhouse, where the two families share a gable, and each household only has some garden area in front and back; single-family villas refer to single-family houses, with a construction area of about 400 square meters, and a single set covers an area of 2-3 acres, and the American middle class lives in such houses.

Finally, there is the manor, which only a few people can enjoy in the United States, with a single construction area of 1200 square meters, covering an area of 10-100 acres (most), outdoor activities in private gardens, and the owner can not see his neighbors in his own home, and the privacy is very good.

Tian Youqi's friend's manor covers an area of seventy or eighty acres, which is very large and the scenery is also very beautiful.

Tian Youqi informed his friend, and the electronic door slowly opened, and after the car drove in, the electronic door closed again.

While the car was moving, Meng Zitao enjoyed the scenery outside.

Since the United States itself is a country with a history of only 200 years, American villas are actually European "parked products", and it basically has no native American cultural characteristics.

For example, the "California style", "Miami style", and "Hawaiian style" are actually a fusion of Italian and Spanish styles, or Italian and Spanish postmodern styles. Therefore, the American villa style itself is a mixed style.

The style of this manor is like this, and Meng Zitao knows what style is the main style from beginning to end, but it is indeed very beautiful.

After getting out of the car, Meng Zitao met Tian Youqi's friend, a middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old, well-dressed, and his appearance gave people a sense of honesty.

The man's name was Richard, Tian Youqi got out of the car, and he stepped forward to give a warm hug: "Dear Tian, I finally have you here." ”

"Damn, hurry up and let go of me, don't you know how strong you are?" Tian Youqi broke away from Richard's hand.

"Tian, I can't help it, if you don't come again, I'll have to drink the northwest wind. Richard laughed dryly, and then looked at Meng Zitao and the others.

Tian Youqi didn't ask much, pointed at Meng Zitao and said, "This Mr. Jiang just wants to buy your collection of ......."

Before he could finish speaking, Richard pounced on Mencius: "Oh, the God who saved me has finally come!"

Meng Zitao didn't want to hug a big man, so he took two steps back and grabbed Richard's hand: "Hello, sir." ”

Richard felt a little magical, why did he actually shake hands with Meng Zitao?

Just as Richard was about to ask, Tian Youqi stood up: "Okay, Richard, let's get down to business." ”

Speaking of business, Richard retracted the words from his mouth and hurriedly said, "Let's go in and talk." ”

Tian Youqi followed Richard into the house, looked around, and his expression was a little strange: "I remember that you have a lot of servants at home, why are they all gone?"

Richard was a little embarrassed and said, "Oh, I just gave them a holiday." Everyone, please come in!"

Richard warmly beckoned a few people to the living room of the villa.

The interior decoration of the villa has been around for some years, which Meng Zitao also noticed just now, and the interior lights are also very dim, which must be the decoration style of many years ago.

Richard beckoned everyone to sit down, and then said, "Do you have coffee or tea?"

Tian Youqi said: "Let's all drink tea." ”

Meng Zitao and others also nodded yes.

"Wait for me to boil water. Richard quickly stood up and said.

Tian Youqi was stunned: "You still have to do this kind of thing yourself? You won't leave a single servant behind, right?"

This is the second time Tian Youqi has mentioned this issue, and Meng Zitao recalled some details in the manor, all of which show that the manor has not been specially cleaned for a period of time, all of which reveal the owner's current embarrassing situation.

Because of his preconceived notions, Mencius wondered if this was indeed the case, or whether it was deliberately created, or rather, that Richard was not the master here.

Richard said angrily, "Those vampires are so insatiable that I've driven them out!"

Richard didn't want to say more, and got up to boil water to make tea.

Tian Youqi was too lazy to ask, and waved his hand: "Yes, forget it, you have a coffee machine, bring us a cup of coffee, I really don't dare to drink the tea you brewed." ”

Meng Zitao also said that he had no opinion.

Richard suddenly laughed: "Good coffee, I'm the best at this." ”

Waiting for Richard to make coffee, Tian Youqi said: "This guy is not diligent and does not divide grains, don't expect him to do housework at all." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and looked around: "It seems that your friend's situation is not very good." ”

Tian Youqi nodded: "Indeed, I didn't expect his situation to be so bad, but this is the best, and we have room for counteroffer." ”

Seeing that Meng Zitao looked at him with some doubts, Tian Youqi smiled and said: "I am a more realistic person, friendship belongs to friendship, business belongs to business, I can give some benefits to friends, but I can't lose the issue of principle." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "That's not bad. ”

After a while, Tian Youqi came over with a saucer and put a cup of coffee in front of everyone.

Next, everyone chatted a few words, and Richard also talked about the reason why he was down, because a woman fell into someone else's trap, resulting in most of the property being cheated away.

After that, Richard got down to business: "Jiang, I have some ancestral collectibles to sell, how much do you want?"

Meng Zitao said: "As long as the things are good, it is not a problem to buy them all." ”

"Then let's go check it out now. ”

"Okay. ”

The place to store the porcelain is on the ground floor, but because the villa is big enough, it took a while to get there.

The moment Richard opened the door, a sense of history came to his face, there were many old things in the room, and they were all neatly arranged, and there were some old photos hanging on the wall, from which you could experience the rise and fall of a family.

Richard took everyone to the innermost part of the room, Meng Zitao saw a whole wall of Western-style bookcases, on which there were various types of porcelain, Meng Zitao glanced at it, there were all in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and from the lower rows, you can clearly feel the vicissitudes of history, which is difficult to fake.

"Sir, is all the porcelain here?" Meng Zitao asked, turning around.

"It's all here. Richard said, "You can take a look at it first, but I don't want unnecessary trouble when I take it with care." ”

Meng Zitao smiled, walked to the bookcase, looked at it first, and then picked up a piece of porcelain and looked at it.

This is a square jar of the Wanli period, since ancient times, the difficulty of firing the square ware is much greater than that of ordinary utensils, and the antique shop also has the saying that "one side is worth ten yuan". Moreover, the rigidity of porcelain clay in the late Ming Dynasty is not high, so the firing of square ware is more difficult.

This porcelain period is characterized by a very distinct era, with good blue and white hair color, full composition, but complex but not chaotic, and clear layers. And the selection of the popular and difficult to fire the square shape, can be called a Wanli imperial kiln masterpiece, but the Wanli period of blue and white porcelain is just like that, the current market value is estimated to be about 30,000 or 40,000.

Meng Zitao first looked at the porcelain in the lower layers, this porcelain did not satisfy him, in general, it is almost the price of the square jar, less than the top, more than the bottom, such porcelain is not uncommon in China, and the possibility of wanting to sell for a high price is not high.

However, this is only the porcelain on the lowest floors, and the higher the porcelain, the higher the value, Mencius asked Richard for a herringbone ladder and climbed it to check. During this time, he found several pieces of porcelain that he liked and selected them.

In the last few layers, the highlight came, Meng Zitao saw a Song Dynasty Jun kiln work at a glance, which made his eyes shine, but then, he felt that something was wrong, because there was a layer of dust on the porcelain here, and it was normal to have dust if it was not cleaned, but Meng Zitao found that this dust should have been deliberately put on by someone, and if he was not careful, he would probably not pay attention, but it was unlikely that he would deceive him.

Later, Meng Zitao found that nine times out of ten, including the Jun porcelain, it was high imitation porcelain, so he was basically sure now that Tian Youqi was related to high imitation porcelain, so the next step was to look for evidence.

Meng Zitao picked up the Jun porcelain, it looked like he was observing, but in fact, he was thinking about one thing in his heart, what was going on today.

First of all, Tian Youqi met with him at the auction before, and he must have been vigilant at that time, so even if he had returned to China on the surface, he would definitely still be cautious.

So at this time, if someone wants to do business with him, his first reaction must be, will this be a bureau? Then it must be necessary to test himself, even if he has already investigated his disguised identity.

So, this scene now, could it be Tian Youqi's temptation?

Meng Zitao thought it was very possible, but to confirm this, an experiment had to be done. So, he picked up another piece of high melamine, with an excited look on his face, and at this time, the eyes out of the corner of his eyes noticed that Tian Youqi had a thoughtful look on his face.

Next, Meng Zitao pretended to look at some other porcelain.

Coming down from the ladder, Meng Zitao selected a few pieces of porcelain from the previous selection and put them on the table, he had already made a decision, not a single piece of high melamine would be bought, but he didn't want to go home empty-handed, so he picked out a few pieces at random.

"Jiang, what do you mean by that?" asked Richard in surprise, looking at the porcelain on the table.

"I want to take these pieces of porcelain home with me. Meng Zitao said.

"How many did you choose?" said Richard, even more surprised.

Meng Zitao said: "Yes, I don't like other porcelains very much, please ask for a price." ”