When many people mention 37 degrees north latitude, they will add the word "magical" in front of it, because 37 degrees north latitude is indeed magical.

On the earth, about 90 percent of the birthplaces of ancient civilizations, 70 percent of the ancient architectural remains, and most of the peculiar and magical natural phenomena occur in this region at 37 degrees north latitude. At 37 degrees north latitude, this magical number is like the aura of nature, and this golden latitude line is home to countless beautiful and rich cities, from Athens in Greece, Seoul in South Korea, San Francisco in the United States, Sicily in Italy to Bordeaux in France.

Victor Hugo said: "It's a peculiar city, original, maybe unique, and if you combine the two cities of Versailles and Antwerp, you get Bordeaux." ”

There are no high-rise buildings here!

Standing on the streets of Bordeaux, I felt the silence and glitz of the city.

Meng Yinyun, who is more familiar with France, took Bian Xuedao to find a real estate agency with the abbreviation "MSB" that specializes in vineyard and winery transactions.

Seeing that Zhu Zhichun and the three of them had extraordinary temperaments, they were personally received by the person in charge of the intermediary.

The person in charge is a French woman in her 30s, with brown hair and blue eyes, delicate facial features, and a very charming smile. Her eyes turned around on the three of Bian Xuedao, and the female person in charge finally looked at Meng Yinyun and asked them what they meant.

Hearing that they were coming to see the winery, the woman in charge launched a propaganda offensive: "Bordeaux has many wineries with a long history of winemaking, as well as many vineyards that do not make their own wine, and the legal system here is perfect and transparent, and the investment environment is superior, which has always been very popular with investors from the United States, European countries and Japan." ”

The woman in charge also said: "The current price of vineyards in Bordeaux is between 990,000 and 15 million euros. Most of these vineyards or wineries produce Bordeaux AOC or Bordeaux Superieur wines. A winery or vineyard that produces a Bordeaux regional wine currently sells for an average of $3. €50,000/ha, but in some of the more famous sub-regions such as St-Julien, Pauillac and St-Estephe, the average price is €350,000-€2.5 million/ha. In the famous right-bank appellation of St-Emilion, the average price of such vineyards is between 150,000 and 1 million euros per hectare. ”

After chatting with the female person in charge, Meng Yinyun helped Bian Xuedao translate the information of the winery that was being put on sale, wished Zhichun a lot of boredom, and looked at the photos provided by each winery.

The three of them were watching, and there was another group of Asians in the agency.

This group of Asians has four men and one woman, and judging by the way a few people walk, the short and thin middle-aged man in front of them should be the boss.

As soon as they opened their mouths, this group was also Chinese.

Zhu Zhichun turned his head to look over, and it happened that the short and thin middle-aged man looked over, the two met their eyes, the middle-aged man's expression moved, he squinted his eyes and looked at Zhu Zhichun carefully, changed his smiling face, and walked over and asked Zhu Zhichun very politely: "Take the liberty of asking, your surname is Zhu?"

Seeing that the other party was speaking Chinese, Zhu Zhichun did not refuse to be thousands of miles away, he stood up and looked at the man opposite carefully, blinked suspiciously, and asked, "Do you know me?"

Hearing Zhu Zhichun say this, the smile on the face of the man opposite became a little thicker, and he stretched out his right hand and said, "Oh, Zhu Gongzi, what a coincidence, I can meet you here, my surname is Pan, and I saw you once when I played golf with Zhu Erye." ”

Zhu Zhichun couldn't remember such a person for a long time, but the other party knew that his surname was Zhu, and he also mentioned his second uncle, he should indeed have seen him, and there were a few times when he went to the golf course to talk to his second uncle.

Zhu Zhichun smiled and shook hands with the other party: "Fortunately." ”

The middle-aged man surnamed Pan glanced around and asked Zhu Zhichun, "Zhu Gongzi, do you want to buy a winery?"

Zhu Zhichun was noncommittal: "Just take a look." ”

The man surnamed Pan said: "Zhong, don't bother you, I brought a full-time French translator, and I need you to say hello." Xiao Pei, come over here......" As he spoke, the man gestured to the young short-haired Chinese woman who had come in with him.

Zhu Zhichun smiled and said, "Thank you, I know French." ”

The man surnamed Pan listened, patted his head and said, "Look at my memory, the second master said that you live in Europe, and your foreign language must be good." Your generation is good, you are all educated, unlike me, the old man is coarse. ”

Anyway, he was idle and bored, Zhu Zhichun chatted with the man surnamed Pan for a while, and knew the man's origin and the purpose of this trip.

This short and thin middle-aged man is called Pan Zhongfu, he was a second-class dealer in his early years, and later poured medicine, and then married the daughter of a pharmaceutical factory owner, and then took over the pharmaceutical factory, and then later changed to sell health care products, because he was willing to pay for advertising, he made a fortune selling health care products.

Pan Zhongfu came this time to buy a winery.

The reason is that Pan Zhongfu participated in the "Chinese Enterprise CEO Course" of Dajiang Business School, and at a class reunion, because of his limited understanding of red wine, he was insulted by the courtesans who were listening to the two gasseres. Pan Zhongfu, who lost face in front of his classmates, decided to come to France, buy a winery in Bordeaux, and then invite his classmates to his castle to party, and fight back against the words of courtesans with actions.

His team this time consisted of five people, in addition to himself, as well as his only scholar friend Wang Tianming, who taught at the university, a lawyer, a secretary, and a translator. The translator is a female student studying in France, who was a student of Wang Tianming before going abroad, and this time she was hired by Pan Zhongfu as a translator, and it was Wang Tianming who contacted her.

Speaking of the process of Pan Zhongfu and Wang Tianming's acquaintance, it is still a bit legendary.

About three years ago, Pan Zhongfu's S600 was scratched by a vendor's cart selling roasted sweet potatoes, and it happened that a reporter passed by and witnessed the whole process. At that time, Pan Zhongfu was having dinner with someone in the restaurant, and the driver told him that his car was cut underneath, Pan Zhongfu came out and saw the man selling roasted sweet potatoes sitting on the road, and the whole person was already stupid.

S600's wound is quite long, and he got a lot of money to go to the 4S store, but seeing the expressions and eyes of onlookers, Pan Zhongfu walked to the man selling roasted sweet potatoes, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's not a big deal, be careful next time, you go, I'll fix it myself." ”

Pan Zhongfu's words won a round of applause from the surroundings, and the reporters present posted the incident as a social news.

I have seen a lot of people who spend money to show off their wealth and are unkind to the rich, and occasionally there is a sympathetic person who does things righteously, and after the report was issued, the society was well received.

On the third day, Wang Tianming, who had been running a short commentary column in the newspaper's comment section, posted an article commenting on the incident, saying that Pan Zhongfu's behavior was at least "rich and benevolent" and worthy of encouragement and advocacy. At the same time, he also pointed out that the rich are not benevolent to the rich, and the poor hate the rich and worship money, which will inevitably pull Chinese society into "hooliganization"; at that time, the whole society will only be filled with the word "robbery", the rich will grab resources, and the poor will also grab resources, grab all kinds of resources, passengers will grab seats on buses, employees will grab opportunities in the workplace, drivers will rush to drive while driving, and artists will grab headlines in newspapers...... In short, everyone is scrambling to be the first, and in order to be one step ahead, in order to be superior, they would rather give up dignity, courtesy, integrity, conscience and tenderness...... But when this qiē is lost, I don't know what year and month it will take to get it back.

Wang Tianming's comment has caused a lot of repercussions in society, some people think he is alarmist, and some people think that he is to the point. A few days later, the local television station contacted Pan Zhongfu and Wang Tianming and invited them to appear on the program to discuss the issue of wealth and morality. For the show, Wang Tianming is familiar with the road, but Pan Zhongfu has many concerns. Entrusted by the program team, Wang Tianming contacted Pan Zhongfu by phone, and then the two met, Wang Tianming persuaded Pan Zhongfu, and the two went on the show together. After that time, a businessman, a professor, an unattractive and a dignified, inexplicably became friends.

Pan Zhongfu has little reading, although he is rich, but he respects intellectuals very much, he feels that having a friend like Wang Tianming can improve his social level, so during the New Year's holidays, he often contacts Wang Tianming and takes it to order good cigarettes, good wine and good tea.

Wang Tianming is a scholar, he has a very special energy, he likes the person in his eye, he can talk nonsense with him, he doesn't like you, you give him gold bricks, he doesn't care about you. Simply, Wang Tianming has a good impression of Pan Zhongfu, and the two have compatible personalities and no conflict of interest, so they have become irreversible friends.

On this trip to France, Pan Zhongfu took Wang Tianming out to relax, but he didn't say so when he invited Wang Tianming, he said: "I went to France this time, and I was going to spend a lot of money, I can't make up my mind, you go with me, help me go to the palm of my eyes." ”

Wang Tianming shirked and said: "I don't know French, I don't know red wine, and it's useless to go, so you'd better find someone who understands it in China." ”

Pan Zhongfu said: "It doesn't matter if you don't know French, we can find another translator, it doesn't matter if you don't know red wine, the French wineries themselves have ratings to follow." Actually, I want you to go with me, because I heard that most of the wineries in France are family-owned, and many of them used to be aristocrats. Those people are more pretentious, have a lot of things, pay attention to etiquette, and it is said that if they don't like you, they are likely not to do business with you. I pondered, when you go abroad to talk about business, you can't lose our Chinese face, you are a cultural person, and you must know more about politeness and rules than me, and your image is ...... Sitting here is bookish, much stronger than my old Pan, so ah, I want you to come forward to talk to the other party for me. ”

Pan Zhongfu said everything about this, Wang Tianming asked for a leave of absence from the school and came to France together.

Before coming to France, Wang Tianming contacted one of his students studying in France, and asked this student to be a translator for Pan Zhongfu and accompany the team to guide the itinerary throughout the process.

As a result, Pei Tong, who studied fashion design in France, became the ground companion of Pan Zhongfu and Wang Tianming's team.