Chapter 1073 A Trip to London

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Considering that I was about to leave Vancouver, I had limited time. Therefore, Liu Dong finalized all the details of the cooperation as soon as possible before he left.

Soon, with the assistance of the lawyer dispatched by the Dingsheng Fund, Liu Dong took out 150 million Canadian dollars to invest in Long Jianguang's agricultural supermarket, slaughterhouse, and agricultural trading company, occupying 49% of the shares of these branches!

In addition, Liu Dong also registered and established Fengrui Agricultural Company in Vancouver, whose main business is to invest in land and then carry out agricultural and animal husbandry development, including the breeding of cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs, and the cultivation of economic and food crops such as wheat, soybeans and cotton.

At the beginning of its establishment, Liu Dong took the farm in Vancouver. and an 80,000-acre farm in Texas won by Andrew Morgan on the Poseidon last year!

In addition to these two farms, Liu Dong has spent an additional $1 billion to develop agriculture and animal husbandry in Canada and the United States, two countries with few people!

Because Liu Dong still has to participate in the Royal Ascot Jockey Club in the United Kingdom, he can't stay in Vancouver for too long. Therefore, after signing the cooperation documents with Long Jianguang, and then registering Fengrui Agricultural Company in Vancouver, he handed over the establishment of the company to David Coleman of Dingsheng Fund, and then traveled thousands of miles by his own private jet and came to England for the first time!

When Liu Dong walked out of London Heathrow International Airport, he saw Mei Xue waiting at the exit of the station, wearing a pale pink tunic dress, with a slender figure, delicate facial features and a pretty flower!

"Liu Dong, here!"

Facing the joyful call of the beauty, Liu Dong hurriedly took a small amount of luggage and strode up to meet it.

Regardless of the many people around him and the envious eyes, Liu Dong hugged Mei Xue into his arms in public!

"Nasty. So many people are watching?" After patting Liu Dong's strong chest, Mei Xue said with a coquettish expression.

"You're about to become my wife, cuddling and hugging is normal behavior, are you afraid of others looking at you?"

Looking at Liu Dong's scoundrel appearance, Mei Xue was sweet in her heart and said lightly: "Who is going to marry you?"

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if you marry or not. Anyway, I'm going to marry you in this life!"

"Scoundrel!"

"Then I'm only a scoundrel to you!" Liu Dong said.

Flirting and scolding can always enhance each other's feelings, Liu Dong's words quickly made the two disappear because they haven't seen each other for half a year, and the little estrangement caused by the region disappears without a trace!

After the two of them kissed me and I came out of the airport, they came to the hotel booked by Mei Xue together, which she specially booked from Cambridge after she knew that Liu Dong was coming to the UK!

However, what made Liu Dong depressed was that Mei Xue actually booked two suites! This obviously meant sleeping separately, and this result was obviously not what Liu Dong wanted.

He also wants to take advantage of this trip to the UK to develop his childhood girlfriend into a 'husband and wife' who is 'honest with each other'!

Of course. Liu Dong will not use the means of coercion, if there is no slightest taste, then there is only 'desire', and there is no 'love'!

Therefore, on the first night he came to London, Liu Dong honestly guarded a charming beauty, but he slept alone until tomorrow.

That feeling like a cat scratch in my heart, once is enough!

After a day of rest. Liu Dong, who regained his energy, was the first to choose to take Mei Xue with him to the largest in the world. The British Museum with the largest collection!

In this world's oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum, it has a collection of many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world, as well as the manuscripts of many great scientists. The number of them is more than 8 million.

As one of the four most famous museums in the world, Liu Dong yearns for this place the most!

Especially ancient Greece, ancient Rome and India, ancient Egypt. As well as the four major exhibition halls of ancient China, Liu Dong is most interested in the place!

If you look at the Rosetta Stone, the head of Pharaoh Amenhope III and Ramses II, as well as the marble carvings of the Parthenon in Athens and the Elgin marble sculptures of the Parthenon in ancient Greece, you are simply sighing at the beauty of these ancient civilizations.

However, in the Chinese Pavilion, the blue and white porcelain plates with mandarin fish patterns in the Yuan Dynasty, Taoist figures, Shang and Zhou bronzes, the "Female History Atlas", the three-color statues of Song Arhats, the Dunhuang scriptures, and the famous paintings of the Song and Ming dynasties all appeared in Liu Dong's eyes one by one, and were grandly placed in foreign museums. After being admired, a wave of anger and unwillingness rose from the bottom of Liu Dong's heart.

These representatives of Chinese culture, the fine works of Chinese cultural relics, and the works of art of national treasures, in addition to their own value, also represent the humiliating history of China's poverty and weakness in modern times.

Looking at them, Liu Dong thought about bringing them all back with his relics for the umpteenth time. But after thinking about it for a while, Liu Dong let go of his clenched fist.

I let out a long sigh deep inward.

"What if we take all these cultural relics away now? The doom of the past cannot be changed! It is better to let them stay here to warn future generations, and if they fall behind, they will be beaten. We will always remember the humiliation of the past, and never let the country weaken to the point of being slaughtered by others! Moreover, when the country is strong, it is the real victory to bring them back in a bright and bright way.

Thinking of this, Liu Dong's original struggle and hesitation completely disappeared. Finally, he glanced at Xu Wei's calligraphy and painting in the tempered glass, and then turned his head and said, "Xiaoxue, let's go?"

"Let's go, don't you want to watch the rest later?" Mei Xue said in surprise.

Because of studying in the UK, she has been to the British Museum many times with her classmates, and the novelty is gone. However, Liu Dong's enthusiasm for this place has always been very high, so Mei Xue still wanted to accompany him to read it, but thinking that it was less than two hours after he came in, Liu Dong seemed to have lost interest!

This is obviously a bit abnormal, after all, as far as she knows, Liu Dong is a collector of antiques, and he should like exquisite antiques the most!

Faced with Mei Xue's question, Liu Dong didn't want to explain too much, but smiled: "I didn't eat much in the morning." Now I'm feeling hungry, let's go eat first!"

"Dinner?" After being stunned for a moment, Mei Xue reacted and nodded, "Okay, it just so happens that I know there is a very delicious Chinese restaurant around here." I'll take you there!"

"Okay!"

After Liu Dong agreed, the two of them went to a Chinese restaurant after walking two blocks under the guidance of Mei Xue.

The manager is an overseas Chinese who has lived in London for many years, in his forties, and can cook very authentic Sichuan cuisine, which makes Liu Dong, who is in a foreign country, also feel a good taste of China!

"Huh?"

Mei Xue, who had just come out of the restaurant, saw Liu Dong who suddenly stopped, and looked at the other party's eyes while she was puzzled. An antique shop across the street came into view.

In an instant, Mei Xue understood!

"Honey, let's go check it out!"

Mei Xue's empathy made Liu Dong happy in his heart, "When I'm done visiting the antique shop, I'll take you shopping!"

"Okay!"

Mei Xue smiled and nodded, what she really cared about was being able to be with Liu Dong more, as for what she was doing, Mei Xue didn't care too much!

"Mermaid with a broken arm, what a strange name!" after a few glances at the signboard in the store. Liu Dong took Mei Xue and stepped into this somewhat inconspicuous antique shop located on a bustling street. Or rather, the thrift store should be appropriate!

In foreign countries, antiques are equivalent to old goods!

As soon as he entered the door, the first thing Liu Dong saw was a dazzling array of colorful objects on the high shelves, but they also looked cluttered! There were tableware of various materials such as knives and forks, teacups and bowls, as well as newspapers, magazines, posters, gramophones, microphones, radios, and so on. All-inclusive, it's really a bit of a thrift store!

However, the shelves here are still more antique-oriented, but you can see some of them in the large number of porcelain, pottery and paintings.

However, in this thrift store that covers an area of about 150 square meters. There are really few guests. No, or Liu Dong and Mei Xue, who just came in, are the only two customers in this store.

Therefore, after seeing the two of them enter the door, the young man who was cleaning next to him hurriedly greeted him, but the first thing he saw was Mei Xue, after all, beautiful women can always attract men's attention first. Even though the man looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, the pimples on his face were still thriving.

"Sir, madam, welcome, is there anything you need my help with?" The young man, who was not dazzled by Mei Xue's beauty, came back to his senses and hurriedly said under Liu Dong's fierce gaze.

"Let's take a look at the two of us first, and then call you if we want to buy it!" Liu Dong said indifferently.

He is not going to be jealous of a young man who is rapidly secreting hormones.

"Oh, okay, please look at it, both of you!"

Finally, after reluctantly sneaking a glance at Mei Xue, he turned around and went to work on his own business.

But looking at the other party's eyes that frequently looked here, Liu Dong couldn't help but turn his head and smile: "It seems that your charm is really great?

"Okay, let's go to your shop?" smiled and tapped Liu Dong's arm, Mei Xue smiled.

"Let's go, let's go together!"

Pulled Mei Xue's slender hand, and after the beauty smiled a little, she also let him lead the way in this antique shop in London.

Liu Dong, who has been to many antique shops abroad, knows that it is not at all like what is imagined in China, and you can see genuine domestic ceramics, calligraphy and painting antiques everywhere!

The same fakes are also grandly placed on the shelves, and there are quite a few of them.

With Liu Dong's current eyesight, even if he doesn't use relics Yuanguang, many things can be distinguished from fake at a glance.

"Hey, this little bottle is pretty cute!"

In Mei Xue's surprise voice, Liu Dong also saw what she was holding in her hand.

"Honey, what is this? It's so beautiful!" Mei Xue said with affection after flipping it in her hand and looking at it for a while.

"It's a snuffbox!"

"Snuffbox?"

"Yes, in the Qing court dramas you watched before, those princes and Baylors in the Qing Dynasty often put them on the side of their noses and sniffed them twice, and then quickly sneezed a few times, this is what they are!"

As soon as Liu Dong finished speaking, Mei Xue's eyebrows immediately furrowed.

As a girl who loves cleanliness, Mei Xue felt a wave of nausea in her heart at the thought that this snuffbox might be stained with the saliva left by the Qing Dynasty prince Baylor when he sneezed.

Liu Dong next to him looked at Mei Xue's face that quickly pulled down, and threw the snuffbox back in his hand with a disgusted expression, Liu Dong probably understood her thoughts.

After feeling a little amused in his heart, he explained: "Although this snuff bottle is not popular in modern times, you should not underestimate it. The royal snuff box of the Qing Dynasty, any one taken out is millions of Chinese coins!"

"Millions, such a small thing is worth so much money?" Mei Xue said in surprise, pointing to the snuff box that she had just put back on the shelf, not much bigger than a bull's eye.

If the royal tributes of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, especially the snuff bottles with cloisonné painting enamel and gold tires, the price will be even higher!"

Liu Dong's words fell, Mei Xue opened her small mouth and was stunned for a while, then pointed to the snuff box that had just been put back on the shelf by herself and said, "Then is this snuff bottle also worth so much money?"

Hearing this, after Liu Dong smiled, he did not rush to answer Mei Xue's question, but reached out and took the snuff box that the other party had just put back.

The material of the snuff bottle belongs to the crystal, not artificial crystal, but real natural crystal. And although the pattern painted inside is only two butterflies wearing flowers, it is relatively simple, but it looks extremely smart. If you look closely, you can see two butterflies dancing in the summer sun in a sea of flowers.

Liu Dong, who didn't care much about it, looked at the snuffbox in his hand over and over again, and his expression gradually became cautious.

After a long time, he sighed and turned his head to look at Mei Xue.

"What's wrong?, is there something wrong?" asked Mei Xue, who was a little uncomfortable with Liu Dong's eyes, asked softly.

"Xiaoxue, I really didn't expect that I, the so-called appraiser and collector, hadn't seen a single thing since I came in, but I was surpassed by you first!" Liu Dong sighed with a hint of emotion.

"You mean to say that this snuff bottle is an antique?" the intelligent Mei Xue asked immediately after reacting to it.

"That's right!" Liu Dong nodded, "This crystal inner painting snuff bottle is the work of Ma Shaoxuan, one of the four great painters of the Beijing School of Snuff Bottle Painting in the Qing Dynasty!"

"Ma Shaoxuan?"

Looking at Mei Xue with question marks on her face, Liu Dong reluctantly popularized Ma Shaoxuan's simple common sense to her!

In 1918, this famous painter who won the silver medal of the Panama International Exposition has no less status in today's snuff bottle collection than Tang Bohu's reputation in the calligraphy and painting industry!

In the thirties and forties of the twentieth century, Mr. Jin Shoushen, a famous Chinese folklorist, and Mr. Zhao Ruzhen, an antique connoisseur, praised Mr. Ma Shaoxuan's interior painting technique as 'magical' and praised him as the 'most famous' artist of interior painting pots.

Bob Stephens, a well-known American expert on Chinese snuff bottles, commented in his book that Ma Shaoxuan was the Picasso of the artists who painted the pot! )

PS: Today's time is limited, I can only write 4000 words and upload it, so bear with me!