After a little greeting, the three old men wanted to look at the painting. Give the paintings you brought to the three old men. Mike led Liu Chao and Ju An to the couch.

"Please don't pay attention to the three gentlemen, they don't care much about anything other than painting." Mike shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"Artists always have a temper, understandable," Liu Chao said with a smile.

"Something to drink, coffee, tea, or something," Mike asked.

"Let's have two cups of coffee," Liu Chao replied.

Next, Liu Chao and Mike chatted happily, chatting and chatting, and found out that both of them had studied at the same university, but one was an undergraduate and the other was a graduate student, and there was a difference of more than ten years. Then the two of them talked about college. From the school's small coffee shop, talk about the professor's dog. The two were having a lot of fun.

Mike's interpersonal skills are high. When I chatted with Liu Chao, I didn't forget Ju An, and I also talked with Ju An about the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. When talking, he is always smiling, and he is like a spring breeze. took care of Liu Chao, and also made Ju An feel cold.

We talked for about an hour. One of them, an old man named Javier, came over: "Our results are basically out, and we need to do a few small tests in the future, probably no problem."

Then Mike took Ju An and Liu Chao up and walked to the table where the paintings were placed.

The old man named Frank, who was wearing glasses and holding a small black tube in his hand, approached the man and beast, and looked at it carefully.

"This one is the work of the Russian painter Repin, the little girl on the painting should be the painter's daughter, Repin also has several works of his daughter Rebina, this work should be earlier than the "Dragonfly" time, but Repin's painting skills have been fully matured, there are not many colors, but it gives people a colorful feeling, the whole figure is dynamic and natural, and the extraordinary brushstrokes. It can be regarded as one of Repin's masterpieces".

Ju An was immediately stunned, and his heart was overjoyed, there was only one voice, it was really true.

Then, Frank pointed to the painting of the ballerina: "This ballet girl is from the famous French artist Degas, as we all know, Degas is famous for painting ballet girls, and the two types of subjects with Degas's highest artistic achievements are nude women, and the other is ballet dancers, and most of the nude girls are from the painter's later years." The painter seems to want to look at it from an unexpected angle, and at the same time, the colors become a whole, and the traces of lines are clearly visible. Compared with the later dancers, the artistic achievements are slightly inferior. Let Frank introduce the last one."

The old man Frank put down the small black tube at this time: "Bougreau painted a lot of mythological stories, this should be one of them, the faun Pan is chasing three maidens, judging from the brushstrokes of the painting, it has an obvious Bougreau style, this painting should be the work of Broger in his later years."

Ju An's heart is already happy, and the eyes are full of soft girls.

The old man Frank looked at Ju An and said, "I'm sorry, sir, if it's convenient, you can tell me how these paintings got into your hands." ”

"Oh, it's okay," Ju An repeated what he had told his senior brother.

Havel listened and said: "It should have flowed into China between the First World War and the Second World War, and then fell into the hands of this gentleman, the teacher of an old friend, although this old gentleman did not understand art, but he kept a few paintings quite well, if it were not for the old gentleman who had passed away, I really wanted to thank him in person."

Ju An thought to himself that it was okay, I was wise to say that he was dead, and if he was alive, I would have to find someone to play it for you to thank him.

Then Juan said to Mike, "I want to entrust these two paintings to your company for auction," and then ordered the little girl and the dancing girl with his hand.

"We're more than happy to help you, and we can also provide custody if you don't want to do it. We have a professional security company, which preserves dozens of world-class paintings, including works by Picasso, Manet, Cézanne and other masters, and the level of security is absolutely reassuring to you" Mike enthusiastically promoted the security company.

"If the gentleman wants to sell, the Bougreo should be worth the most," Javier advised.

"I like this painting myself, I just want to ask how much the other two paintings are worth," Ju An asked.

The three old men looked at each other, "If this ballerina is compared to Degas's nude auction the year before, the price I gave was 35 million dollars." The price I'm giving is conservative, and the real price should be higher," Javier said.

Havel paused: "As for this Repin, it's really hard to estimate, because as the Russian economy has been getting better and better in the past two years, Russian art has also become higher and higher in the international art market in the past two years, about 18 million dollars."

Ju An and Liu Chao were stunned when they heard this, they glanced at each other, and they both felt incredible, a total of more than 50 million, and it was US dollars, and it was more than 300 million when exchanged for a soft girl.

Mike smiled and looked at the two people: "Don't be surprised, gentlemen, art is one of the best ways to invest, Mr. Ju handed over these two paintings to our auction house, it is really a great trust in us, I don't think that Mr. Ju is now a multimillionaire."

"Mr. Ju, Mr. Liu, if you don't mind, I want to leave for a while, Mr. Brundy will be with you for a while," Mike said.

Ju An and Liu Chao both said they didn't mind.

Next, Ju An and Liu Chao stood next to the painting, and the three old men paid attention to the painting again, ignoring the two of them at all.

The two of them couldn't read it, and they were embarrassed to disturb others when they saw the three old men looking at the painting so intently. I went back to the couch and chatted.

Liu Chao sat down and said, "Damn, you kid is developed, a multimillionaire."

Ju An touched his head and said embarrassedly: "Fuck, where did I think of so much money, don't worry, as soon as I get the money, I will write you a check for five million."

"Five million is not necessary, two million is enough, entrepreneurship is hard and good" Liu Chao smiled and hammered Ju'an.

After chatting for about ten minutes, Mike came back, accompanied by a short old man in his fifties: "Mr. Ju, Mr. Liu, this is the president of our bank, Mr. Philips."

"Fortunately, fortunately," Ju An and Liu Chao got up and shook hands with the short old man.

"Mr. Ju, Mr. Liu, we are very grateful for the trust you have placed in our bank, I hope you can give us a little more time to prepare for this auction, you may not be familiar with our process, we will invite some buyers, prepare a small exhibition before the auction, we are going to prepare a small special auction for these two paintings, inform these buyers that it will take some time, inform which Russian tycoons need more time, can you?" Philips said as he looked at the two.

"Okay, I don't have a problem with the time" Ju An looked at Liu Chao and nodded, agreeing.

"Mr. Ju, have you figured out which bank to put this money in, we need Mr. to provide an account so that we can deliver it after the auction," Philips said with a smile.

"I don't have an account in the U.S., I don't have a green card, can I open an account?" asked Ju An.

"I need my husband's passport, if I don't mind, I can recommend a bank to my husband, Wells Fargo, headquartered in San Francisco, one of the top five in the United States in terms of assets, and one of the shareholders of our auction house, if my husband wants to become an American citizen, we can also help" Philips looked at Juan and said, "I suggest that Mr. become a U.S. citizen, because the tax is different for foreigners and natives, and the difference between tens of millions of dollars is nearly two million."

"Okay," Ju An replied after a moment's thought.

"Well, that's it, I have some other things, I'm very sorry, I can't accompany the two gentlemen" Philips stood up and shook hands with Ju An again, Liu Chao: "The rest of the things, Mike will help you do it, I hope I can have the opportunity to continue to cooperate with the two gentlemen in the future."

After the short old man left, Mike accompanied the two of them to continue chatting.

"I want to ask, isn't it that American citizenship is difficult to get, why do you do it so quickly?" asked Ju An.

"Our boss is not only the owner of this auction house, but also one of the shareholders of Phu Quoc, and the boss family also has shares in several large companies." Mike said with a smile.

"Oh, I know, thank you Mr. Philips for me" Ju An thought to himself, it turns out that Lao Mei also talks about relationships, I thought it was just us Chinese.

Next, Mike asked by the way what Ju An wanted to invest in the United States in the future, and Ju An said that he wanted to invest in buying a ranch. Mike mentioned the next real estate brokerage company, of course, which was also owned by Wells Fargo, and then there were other things, what cars, and the whole mess of insurance made Ju'an's eyeballs fall to the ground. It feels like you don't even want to go out of this door, whatever you want, Wells Fargo can provide you with everything.

I have to sigh at Lao Mei's business acumen. Look at what other people are doing, you go to sell a painting, what banking services do they have, investment and financial management, everything you think about for you.

I went again the next day, chatted with the immigration bureau, and then got a green card, and as soon as the tens of millions of funds arrived, I could be naturalized after verification by the immigration bureau.

Next, Ju An went to take the driver's license test again, successfully got a driving practice permit, and waited for the road test when he came to the United States again.