Back at the hotel, Concubine Yue called.

"Mr. Xiao, it seems that Mr. Barrett was miserably cheated by the French this time, and he began to reject me in one bite."

Last year, both the French and Monterena signed formal contracts, and after paying a sum of money, they were notified that the acquisition was cancelled, and a sum of money was lost, but Barrett was depressed for a long time.

But first of all, emphasize the difficulty and exaggerate the difficulty, this is the usual trick of the intermediary, people are difficult to dismantle, Xiao Yifei quietly waited for the turning point behind Concubine Yue. Sure enough, Concubine Yue continued:

After my persuasion, he finally agreed to consider selling. But he has a request, and he wants you to say yes. ”

"What a request, say it."

"Proof of your funds."

Proof of funds, whether it is the kind of house sale that Concubine Yue used to do, or the sale of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ruian, even if you have to look at the proof of funds, you should agree to sell, where is there a reason to decide whether to sell after looking at the money. If it is a large enterprise merger and acquisition, then there is no reason to see the money before saying whether to sell or not.

However, this time the situation is very special, Xiao Yifei can also understand Barrett's decision, and even said that if he changes places, he will do the same.

First of all, Bo did not put the winery up for sale, it was Xiao Yifei who took the initiative to come to the door to buy it. There is no doubt that whoever has the initiative will have an advantageous position.

Second, Xiao Yifei now doesn't have any company or property in the open, and he doesn't have a credit history or anything like that, so he is a foreigner with an unknown background. Beau worries that he's just a white wolf with empty gloves or a joke.

Thirdly, and most importantly, he had just been tricked by the French, and he had become the laughing stock of many wine merchants in Napa, and he really didn't want to be tricked again. If he was tricked a second time, the Napa merchants would laugh at him like a fool.

Fourth, it was the French who gave him a penalty last year, and he just got a loan, which made Barrett's life a little better, and now he is not as eager to sell the winery as last year.

Xiao Yifei thought for a moment and said:

"Let's talk, I'll wait for you at the hotel café."

After meeting in the café, Xiao Yifei asked Concubine Yue to recount the situation of her negotiation with Bo, and asked Bo about his demeanor at that time.

Start of the Monterena winery "owner" Bo. Barrett was surprised that a real estate agent came to him and said that someone wanted to buy his winery. When he saw Concubine Yue and knew that the buyer was a rich Chinese man, he felt a little funny.

Indeed, I have heard that Chinese tycoons have begun to buy properties in foreign countries, on the one hand, to transfer property, and on the other hand, to leave a way back for themselves. In addition to buying real estate, there are also people involved in the wine industry, France, Australia, and even Napa, California, there are such people, but these people are buying small wineries with millions of dollars, and tens of millions are very few. Their own winery is a big guy with hundreds of millions of dollars, and it should not be their target to buy. Coupled with the fact that the buyer consultant is Chinese, a young woman, and a single person, the whole thing seems a little fake.

But the person in front of him is a person from Sotheby's real estate, and this thing seems to be a little true. So he put forward such a condition to judge whether he was ready to play himself or really wanted to buy.

Xiao Yifei thought about it carefully, and in the end, he felt that Barrett's willingness to make a move prevailed, and this thing could be done.

Concubine Yue took the spoon and stirred the coffee, looking at the young man in front of her.

This person is so young, he doesn't dress luxuriously, and he doesn't have the temperament that has been in the top position for a long time, is he really rich? However, this figure is really good, tall and strong.

This is not to blame Xiao Yifei, half a year ago he was an ordinary code farmer, a small white-collar worker, where can he cultivate any temperament, and dress up this thing, Xiao Yifei has not been very particular about this thing since he was a child, he didn't bring clothes at all when he passed through customs, and now he still wears what he bought in Union Square.

"Did you say I won't have the funds until November?"

"Nope."

"Then you call him now and ask him, I have an oil painting auctioned at Southby, and it will arrive after the autumn auction, which is definitely enough to pay for the purchase, and Southby can produce materials to prove the authenticity. Do you ask him if he accepts this proof of funds in lieu of funds? ”

Concubine Yue took out the phone and told Xiao Yifei's request to the other party. Then he held the microphone and said to Xiao Yifei:

"He didn't accept it, saying he wanted to see the cash."

Xiao Yifei frowned:

"It's an embarrassing request, how much can I show him before he's satisfied?"

"He said that as long as it is more than 40 million, you can continue to talk, after all, you can go to the bank with the vineyard transaction contract and take out a loan to pay him the later fees."

"He's thinking about it well."

Xiao Yifei calculated that 40 million yuan could be handled with Sosby's art financing, and the rest should be able to delay until the auction money arrives, or run the loan procedures at the same time as the negotiation.

"Then you tell him to contact him tomorrow."

The next day, Jensen and the others would not be able to get to San Francisco until the afternoon. While there was still some free time, Xiao Yifei found a car rental company early in the morning, rented a car, and continued to tour San Francisco. Continue north from Duban Street, which is directly opposite the hotel, and you will see the sign of Chinatown, the plaque of "The World is for the Public" written by Sun Dacang.

San Francisco's Chinatown is actually built on a hillside, the center is high, and the four sides are low, so pedestrians are easy to get down and difficult to get up. This is worthy of Chinatown, the shops are in Chinese, the people you see are yellow-skinned, and they also speak Chinese, but Chinatown is a little old, and it looks like Hong Kong in the 90s.

After seeing the Pan American Pyramid, Xiao Yifei deliberately went to challenge the famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. Originally the tallest and steepest section of Lombard Street, Lombard Street was transformed into a winding "Lombard Street" that earned it the title of "the most winding street in the United States."

The driving queue experienced the feeling of nine twists and eighteen turns. Xiao Yifei felt that it was not very difficult, and compared with its great fame, there were bubble ingredients, but it was indeed a "flower street", and the greening was done well. The vehicle drove slowly among the twisting flowers, and it felt okay.

Finally, Xiao Yifei went to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to have a look. Today's weather is good, and I can see the whole picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in the sun from a distance, like a long dragon lying in the water. It's a pity that there are too many green trees, and the bridge is blocked by trees again. When I arrived at the parking lot, I found that there were a lot of yellow-skinned people here, and I could hear people talking in Mandarin from time to time. Xiao Yifei walked to the bridge, the bridge is very pleasing, the whole body is orange, the orange railing, the orange steel cable, plus the orange tower, in the sunlight, Xiao Yifei thinks it is really good-looking.

There is also a section of a steel cable placed here, which gives an intuitive impression of the sturdiness of the bridge.

According to domestic accounts, when it comes to the Golden Gate Bridge, one has to say a person, this person has a big name, because he claims to be the emperor of the United States and Mexico, he is Norton I, whose real name is Joshua. Norton. Some people say that the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was built by him, but unfortunately he died for decades when it was actually started and completed.

However, in reality this statement is false. What Norton I proposed was the Bay Bridge, which would connect Oakland and San Francisco, not the Golden Gate Bridge at all.

And it has been said that there is a plaque on the Golden Gate Bridge that reads, "Traveler, please stop and thank the American Emperor and protector of Mexico, Norton I (r. 1859–1880), for his foresight in envisioning and ordering the construction of a bridge over San Francisco Bay." In fact, you've just turned over the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, and you can't find it.

So is there a plaque at all, yes? The plaque, actually called the "1939 Plaque" or "eVc Plaque," was originally intended to be placed on the Bay Bridge, but the bridge's board of directors disagreed, and now it is being placed at a bus station near the Bay Bridge in downtown San Francisco.

After a walk around Golden Gate Park, Xiao Yifei went to Chinatown to have an inexplicable Chinese meal.

In the afternoon, lawyer Ryan drove Xiao Yifei to the agreed laboratory with two oil painting tubes on his back.

Jensen was still so happy: "Xiao, it's a pleasure to see you." ”

"Me too."

Jensen and Ryan hugged for a moment, and then Jensen knocked Ryan on the chest with his fist:

"Yes, it's still so strong."

"That's, let's compete someday."

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled.

It can be seen that the two brothers have a good relationship. Xiao Yifei is not worried about their partnership praising him, unless Ryan doesn't want a lawyer's license anymore, and doing so will affect his father's reputation. For a lawyer, reputation is a very important indicator to attract high-end clients.

This time, Jensen just brought an expert over, and the inspector was the person from the laboratory that was used. They watched Xiao Yifei pull out the oil paintings from the oil painting tube, and then opened them into two oil paintings stacked on top of each other, all of them with convulsions, as if they were constipated.

Xiao Yifei could only explain: "The frame is too big, and it has to be consigned." ”

It's okay if he doesn't explain, explaining that the expert's heart is dripping blood. Hundreds of millions of oil paintings, just to save so much shipping fees, were treated like this, it was too picky, this is the real pearl secret investment.

The appraiser, wearing white gloves, took the oil painting, and after some observation, confirmed that it was the oil painting they had carefully identified last time, so the oil painting was sent for machine inspection. The personnel of these laboratories have been appraising oil paintings for a long time, and they also have some basic literacy, know their value, and all operate them carefully

Xiao Yifei and they chatted and waited while drinking coffee, and talking about other things would definitely make Xiao Yifei cold, so the two brothers Jensen tacitly introduced the eating, drinking and entertainment in California, which is what Xiao Yifei needs to know the most at present.

The sunflower and Renoir's fat models were machine-identified, and each of them matched the characteristics of the era and was determined to be genuine. For the other two oil paintings, the appraiser himself carefully took out the oil paintings from the oil painting tube and slowly opened them. The lab personnel also let out a burst of exclamations.

(The process is sped up here, and the real detection is not so fast.) ）

After a while, the appraiser came to everyone excitedly and told everyone that Picasso had been confirmed to be his own work. Jensenle's eyes couldn't see it.

Picasso's oil paintings have always been sought after, and this one is even more impressive, thinking that the non-existent oil painting can attract a lot of attention just by itself, and I believe that institutions and museums that want to rent it for exhibition will soon come to it.

After a while, the appraiser came running over again to inform everyone that the water lily pond was also genuine.