Chapter 668: The Centennial Rose Tree

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Wang Zheng nodded, his gaze shifted to Ma Yun's side, and he kept looking at his middle-aged man.

"Presumably this is BYD's President Wang, right?"

Looking at the other party's hand that took the initiative to stretch out towards him, Wang Chuanfu was not arrogant, "Mr. Wang, I have heard of your name for a long time!"

"You two are both surnamed Wang, maybe the guys who were still related to each other five hundred years ago should not be polite to each other!" Ma Yun said beside him.

After the two glanced at each other, they each understood, "Brother Ma is right. Now that everyone knows each other today, it's fate. Mr. Wang is old, if you don't mind, how about I call him 'brother'?"

"Okay, then I will also call you 'Brother Wang Zheng' from the good Ruliu!"

Both parties are top business tycoons, and both are interested in making friends with each other, expanding their networks and social circles, and naturally they will not refuse to know each other.

After the greetings, "it happened that the autumn was crisp and sunny today, and it was a good time to visit the garden." It just so happened that my 'rose garden' had just opened, so I invited the two of you to take the lead!"

"Yes, it's a good weather for a walk. Moreover, each attraction of your mountain villa has its own characteristics, and this 'rose garden' will not be ordinary. "Ma Yundao.

"Although it's my first time here, I've heard about the famous name of Brother Wang's Taoyuan Villa for a long time, and I'm very curious. So, I don't think let's waste time here, let's go in early and see the beautiful scenery!"

"That's right, that's right! let's go and see!" Ma Yun echoed.

"In that case, two old brothers, come with me. ”

After the words fell, Wang Zheng stepped forward and led Ma Yun and Wang Chuanfu to bypass the small square in front of the rose garden, cross the zoning boundary composed of trees, shrubs and vines, and truly stepped into the rose garden.

After bypassing the wide green belt that divides the boundary, it is as if you have entered a completely different space. Until then, there were different types of green belts, and even if there were buildings, they were log buildings with natural colors. But the situation after the green belt is very different.

In a quaint house with an area of about 150 square meters and a height of nearly two meters, a tree with a height of nearly two meters, dry stems and branches, and a fluffy canopy full of red bouquets;

"This is a rose?"

Ma Yun couldn't help but ask.

"Of course!"

Wang Zheng smiled and nodded.

After getting a positive answer, Ma Yun and Wang Chuanfu couldn't help but stride forward. However, they were destined not to be able to touch it in person, because at the edge of this rose tree, there was a circle of bluestone more than half a meter high that protected it.

"It's the first time I've seen such a big rose plant, I'm afraid it's not less than a hundred years old, right?" After looking at it for a while, Wang Chuanfu couldn't help but sigh in surprise.

"Brother Wang has good eyesight. This red rose has been growing for 178 years and I spent 290,000 euros to buy it from its original owner in Bulgaria!"

Wang Chuanfu nodded, "Rare, rare." ”

"But I remember that roses shouldn't bloom in May or June? it seems like October now, right?" said Ma Yun suddenly.

In this regard, Wang Zheng has already had a draft.

"Maybe it's because of the climate. Hanzhong is located on the south side of the Qinling Mountains, and the dry and cold air flow from the north cannot go south, and it is a deep mountain here, so the temperature will be higher than that in the north. ”

Although this explanation is far-fetched, Ma Yun and Wang Chuanfu are not biologists, and although they don't believe it in their hearts, they don't say much.

In addition to the red roses in the center of the garden, there are also some white roses planted against the wall on all sides, as well as other plants and elaborate ornamental stones.

Going around the red rose in the center is an arched hanging door. After passing through the pendulum gate, all sides are lined with a variety of different varieties of roses, and after passing through the ten-meter-long flower belt, there is an open crossroads. On the left and right sides of the intersection is a garden road that winds towards the depths of the garden, and directly opposite it is a ten-meter-long stone bridge with a carved stone bridge in the shape of rose petals, a stone screen in the middle is a relief of the image of a classical maid, and at the lower end of the stone bridge, a meandering stream with sparkling waves, under the shade of lush vegetation, flows into the unknown distance.

"Guifei Bridge!"

Looking at the red words on the stone monument erected at the bridgehead, Ma Yun couldn't help but mutter.

"Brother just look at it, the name of this bridge is just for good, and there is no special allusion!"

Ma Yun nodded, "That's a good word!"

"This is my grandfather's handwriting, his old man loves this, and over the years, he has practiced an amazing calligraphy!" Wang Zheng said.

"Really, I'm going to pay a visit when I get back!"

"That's right! If you can write calligraphy to this level, you can already be regarded as a profound attainment in China. In comparison, I'm far behind. Wang Chuanfu smiled and shook his head.

In recent years, everyone has become wealthy, and they have begun to play with culture. Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, tea ceremony, golf, etc., gradually replaced the wine table and became the new favorite of friends to communicate.

Even Wang Zheng is no exception, in his free time in the villa recently, in addition to accompanying Yu Yixue to paint oil paintings, he is practicing calligraphy with his grandfather.

At first, Wang Zheng didn't feel that he needed this. But then I thought about it, the old man was right. Only by sharing common hobbies can we find a common language and get closer to each other.

At the top of the domestic political and business circles, knowing calligraphy and tea ceremony, he will definitely be able to break the embarrassment at the beginning, quickly find a common topic, and bring each other closer. In foreign countries, knowing red wine and oil painting is also similar.

After a brief conversation about calligraphy, the three of them took their respective secretaries and bodyguards to cross the Guifei Bridge, through the green belt of red and white roses with ornamental stones and shrubs on both sides, and walked into the antique wooden building made of teak on the opposite side.

The antique wooden building is very high, there are six meters up and down, the overall shape is circular, and the lintel of the entrance hangs the plaque of 'Huaxian Building'. After bypassing the screen at the door, in the internal space with a diameter of nearly ten meters, a jade statue with exquisite carving in the middle came into the eyes of the three people.

The image of the jade statue is an image of a woman in palace costume with a golden head and a golden step, high hair, a skirt mopping the floor, a slender waist, and a slender figure.

Not counting the base, the entire jade statue is nearly two meters high. The exterior is shrouded in a thick layer of transparent tempered glass. There are spotlights on the top of the tempered glass, and the bright lights set off the crystal clear of the whole statue, coupled with the exquisite carving, at a glance, it seems to come to life, which is amazing.

"Brother, if you're mistaken, this statue should have been carved out of a piece of jade, right?" Wang Chuanfu couldn't help but exclaim after looking at it for a while.

"Brother has good eyesight!"

"What's even more rare is that the whole piece of material is still high-grade Hetian white jade. At the very least, it is not complete, but one-third of the parts can be called 'seeds'. Not to mention the carving, but this piece of material, you can't take it without two or three hundred million!"

"I didn't expect Brother Ma to be a person who knows goods!" Wang Zheng said.

"As the old saying goes: 'A gentleman is like jade'. Although I'm not a gentleman, I like jade a lot, and I understand the price of Hetian jade and jade!" Ma Yun said. "But whose carver is this? Such a superb craftsman, it must not be unknown!"

"Of course it's not an unknown person, don't you see there's a model here!" Wang Chuanfu pointed to the inside of the cuffs of the statue.

Ma Yun heard this, and after watching it for a while, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Lao Wang, you really didn't say anything about your eyesight." You can also see the name of the miniature carving?"

"Hehe, my eyesight is good, but it's not as good as you think. However, I like the carving of Song Yi, a master of jade carving in the northern school, and I have several pieces of his collection in my hand. Because of this, he has a certain understanding of his carving techniques and style. Master Song Yi has a habit that few people know, when carving people, he likes to hide his name in the folds inside the sleeves of the jade carving, just like you just saw!"

"No wonder!" Ma Yun nodded.

"Good materials with good workmanship, this jade carving is worth a lot of money. It's rare that the old brother is willing to put it here. Wang Chuanfu said.

"What is this. Brother Wang's museum has some valuable things. Not to mention the famous paintings, exquisite porcelain, but there are no less than 20 pieces of jade and mutton fat white jade in the glass imperial green level!"

"Really?"

Wang Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "If my brother is interested, you might as well stay in my villa for two more days." In the middle, I also went to the Taoyuan Museum to have a look. I promise, I won't let you down. ”

"That's good, my favorite thing to play with is jade!"

"Okay! I know you old boy likes it. Anyway, there are still opportunities ahead. Let's go ahead and walk around for now!"

After Ma Yun finished speaking, Wang Chuanfu did not object. Accompanied by Wang Zheng, the three of them walked out of the 'Huaxian Building' together, along the slightly undulating stone path, accompanied by lush roses of different colors on both sides, as well as ornamental stones and scattered trees, and walked towards the depths of the rose garden.

It is said to be a 'garden', but it is actually a valley covering an area of thousands of acres. So the space inside is very large. Coming out of the front of the 'Flower Fairy Building', there are six antique buildings with different shapes such as 'Rose Pavilion' and 'Interpretation Pavilion' in the middle, as well as six white, pink-white, red, pink, purple-red, yellow, and more than 100-year-old rose trees. The largest and oldest of these is a 347-year-old purple-red 'bitter water rose'.

However, he is not the 'oldest' in the entire rose garden.

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