Nagao quickly transferred the money to Xiao Yifei's account at Deutsche Bank, so that Xiao Yifei could withdraw money directly in the magic capital. Looking at the 4 zeros on the account, Xiao Yifei was very proud, this number is much more than the money he has saved through his work in the past few years. There are so many things in the space that are worth more than these few gold coins, so this is just the beginning, and there will be more money flowing into his pocket later.

In the evening, Marx of Nagao Company invited Xiao Yifei to have a meal to celebrate the successful completion of the first cooperation.

Xiao Yifei ate this meal very well, because he ate a famous German dish, pork knuckle.

This famous German dish is similar to the Dongpo elbow in China, which is a huge pork knuckle, but it is cooked and grilled, and finally baked at a high temperature for more than ten minutes, so that it becomes a dish that is charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

Xiao Yifei has known about this dish for a long time, but he has never dared to eat it, not because of the price, but because he can't finish it alone. In Germany, the consequences of not being able to eat are so serious that anyone can report you for wasting food and you will face a fine.

Although the fine is not much, it is only a few dozen euros, but this elbow is only more than 10 euros, which is equivalent to spending more than 300 yuan to eat a dish, which is enough to eat ten Dongpo elbows when you want to return to China.

You can imagine the scene of a person killing a Dongpo elbow, Xiao Yifei is overwhelmed anyway, and he really can't do the potato balls with the elbow, so he can only choose to pack. And Marx actually killed the elbow completely by himself, Xiao Yifei had to admire that this 2-meter-high giant sweat was really edible.

After the meal, the two chatted over beer. After a while, Marx asked directly:

"Xiao, is it okay to ask you a presumptuous question?"

Xiao Yifei probably knew what he was going to ask, and he also had this intention, so he nodded very neatly.

"Do you still have gold?"

Gold coins, for Xiao Yifei, are not worth much, and they are not as attractive as cash or gold, but unfortunately there are really none. And those Nazi gold are not needed by the auction company, and now there are all the labels and numbers on it, and they can't sell it at all.

Xiao Yifei shook his head slowly, and said slowly, "The gold coins are gone." ”

Seeing the disappointed expression on Marx's face, Xiao Yifei continued: "But there are still two antique watches and a pocket watch. ”

Marx was only in charge of the numismatic and philatelic department, and did not study much in the jewelry and watch department, but he still had some interest. "Can you tell us about the brand and the situation?"

"A Vacheron Constantin and a Belle Feta watch, and a pocket watch from Rolex."

Marx got some interest, and these brands of watches can now cost as little as tens of thousands of euros. "Can you tell us more about them?"

"When I was a child, my grandfather said that the watch and gold coins were exchanged with an old Jewish man in the magic capital decades ago."

Marx thought for a while, his eyes lit up, there were indeed many Jews who came to the magic capital during World War II, and the things that could be taken with them must be of great value. He urged Xiao Yifei to describe the specific characteristics of the table. Xiao Yifei took his mobile phone and flipped through a few pictures to show Marx.

When Marx called to ask him to dinner, he knew what was going on, so he took a few pictures with his phone. Sure enough, the preparation efforts were not in vain.

Xiao Yifei's thoughts were flying here, and Marx was there holding his mobile phone and looking at it over and over. After a long while, he said to Xiao Yifei: "Do you have these watches with you?" ”

"No, the table is still in the country. I also know that these watches should be valuable and definitely not to wear on the hand. ”

"Oh, that's right. You know, I'm not in charge of the watch department, I don't know much about this thing, can you send me the photo, I'll let the people in charge of the watch department in our company take a look. ”

"Yes, I'll send it to you."

Early the next morning, Xiao Yifei was finally leaving Germany to return to the magic capital. There was a lot of luggage, a trolley suitcase, a backpack, and a computer bag, Xiao Yifei almost didn't have the spare hand to open the door. William was already waiting downstairs, and Aunt Amori was also waiting downstairs.

An expected figure appeared, Marx, who was also tall among the Germans, standing at the door of the hotel, and beside him an old man with graying hair.

Marx said with a smile on his face: "Xiao, I'll take you to the train station." ”

No way, Stuttgart does not have a direct plane to the magic capital, Xiao Yifei can only go to the railway station to take a 2-hour train to Frankfurt, and then take a direct flight from Frankfurt to the magic capital.

Xiao Yifei guessed the identity of the person next to him, and understood their intentions, and he happened to need the help of these two people. "Thank you, you're so kind."

After introducing them to each other, Xiao Yifei first said goodbye to Aunt Amori. The aunt is still her signature bear hug, which makes Xiao Yifei feel a warm current flowing through the bottom of his heart.

"Auntie, I'll come to see you later."

"Shaw, really? Do you still have to come to work? Then you must still live with your aunt. ”

"Auntie, Christmas is coming, I will give you a gift in advance now, I wish you a Merry Christmas."

Aunt Amori opened the package, and it was a huge Chinese knot pendant.

William and Xiao Yifei are about the same age, and their personalities are similar, although they have only been together for two months, the two have already established a friendship.

"William, I've already taken care of your gift, I'll buy it and send it to you when I go back."

"Okay, I'll send you your gift too."

"Then I'll tell you the address msn when the time comes."

"Xiao, if you really want to resign, how about you come to our company? My dad thinks you're pretty good, too. ”

"William, I don't want to think about it that much right now."

William shrugged and said, "Okay then." ”

"I was going to ask you to take me to the train station, but it doesn't seem like I need to."

William asked quietly, "Why are they here?" ”

"I have a gold coin to auction with them. I guess they were looking at something else in my hand. ”

William nodded and reminded Xiao Yifei: "The contract must go through a lawyer first." ”

The two of them also hugged as a farewell.

Xiao Yifei came to Marx.

"I know what you mean, let's go, let's talk as we go."

Marx drove the car, and after his introduction, Xiao Yifei learned that the gray-haired old man was called Leonard, who was the head of the jewelry and watch department of Nagao Auction Company.

"Mr. Xiao, I saw the photos sent to me by Marx last night, and we preliminarily judged that all three of your collections are eligible for auction."

"Mr. Leonard, I don't know much about these things, can you elaborate on them?"

"Okay, Mr. Xiao, those two watches don't show anything special from the photos, if they are genuine, they are estimated to be worth more than 100,000 euros."

Xiao Yifei was a little dissatisfied in his heart, how could it be only 100,000 euros, he thought he could get one million euros.

Leonard continued: "Our focus is on the pocket watch, which we initially judged to be an enamelled pocket watch from the late 19th century. Due to the lack of resolution of the photo, we can only preliminarily judge that his setting is made of diamonds, and the material should be white gold and yellow gold. We need more details to make more judgments. ”

Xiao Yifei didn't understand clocks, he thought that the price of a watch must be higher than that of a pocket watch, but Leonard said that the focus was on pocket watches, that is, the value of pocket watches should be much higher than those two watches. Xiao Yifei saw the light again.

"But my stuff is in China."

"It's okay, we have an office in Kyoto, I'll let them contact you."

Xiao Yifei nodded, this is convenient.

"Rest assured, if this pocket watch is genuine, we estimate that it should be worth 1.5 million euros."

Xiao Yifei was amazed at the high valuation of this pocket watch, and was pleasantly surprised that his fundraising mission had gone one step further. He immediately asked, "Then when is the auction?" ”

Leonard smiled kindly and explained:

"Mr. Xiao, it's not that simple. Our Kyoto office is not equipped to handle such a large contract. After they confirm, our headquarters, that is, I will bring the watch experts to China, and then we will carry out the final appraisal. ”

"As for auctions, we have a special auction for clocks in Switzerland in April. We intend to put these three pieces in this auction. ”

Xiao Yifei thought about it for a while, in April next year, there is still half a year before now, and the time is a little longer. However, a special auction of clocks and watches will definitely attract more watch lovers, which will be more beneficial to the auction. In addition, I can use this half year to do some experiments to study the characteristics of space, and I also have to translate Hans's German diary, and by the way, I will study English and French, which is very time-consuming.

"I need to see how that coin is auctioned before I can make a decision."

"Mr. Xiao, rest assured, we have been busy with this auction recently, and we don't have time to come to China, so you have plenty of time to think about it."

"Okay, if this cooperation is pleasant, then I will definitely prefer to cooperate with you."

"Mr. Xiao, then I wish us a happy cooperation this time."

When I arrived at Stuttgart Railway Station, Xiao Yifei's train took another 1 hour to leave. From the east entrance of the main station, Xiao Yifei takes the elevator to the 10-storey observation deck, which is free and offers a view of Stuttgart's city center and the surrounding mountains. In the center of the platform stands a Mercedes. The huge emblem of Mercedes-Benz cars, like the city logo of Stuttgart, can be seen outside the station with the slowly rotating windwheels glittering.

The city of Stuttgart, surrounded by mountains and flat in the middle, the entire city center of Stuttgart was completely destroyed by the Allied bombing in World War II, so now these buildings were built after World War II, so the buildings of the whole city of Stuttgart are very young. Of course, this young is also quite old compared to other cities, if compared to the domestic city, their city is old.

Looking at the residential groups in the distance under the shade of green trees and along the mountain, Xiao Yifei secretly thought that I would definitely come back to this beautiful and quiet city.