Chapter 458

birthday present

After the banquet, An Zaiming took his aides and Rumsfeld to Washington, D.C., and the US Government and the military were very happy to learn that An Jia was willing to provide a huge amount of military spending free of charge, and there was no big obstacle to the arms sales contract he proposed, because after all, An Jia was originally the largest arms supplier to the US military, and in the eyes of politicians in the White House and the Pentagon, they undoubtedly took advantage of this deal

But only Chen Chen knows that the An family will make eye-popping profits because of this paper contract, if nothing else, the war in Afghanistan will last for ten years, with direct military spending of more than one trillion US dollars, and a total cost of more than two trillion, even if only 50% of it is used to purchase arms, it can also make the An family earn a few dollars and count the cramps!

A certain man originally wanted to follow his future father-in-law to Washington, but considering that it was the capital of the United States, the nest of the Tyrannosaurus special forces dispelled this idea, and the US government and military may not move him, but the group of madmen of the Tyrannosaurus are difficult to say, and he is not afraid of 10,000 in case, he has no intention of falling into the tiger's mouth.

After returning to Los Angeles, Chen Chen didn't go anywhere, he stayed in Anjia Manor all day to practice qi and boxing, and occasionally sparred with An Yue, but none of them won, although Xiao Nizi only used fifty percent of his strength, but he was still not an opponent, but in the process of constantly fighting with a strong person who held the virtual realm, he benefited a lot, under An Yue's suggestion, his understanding of the essence of martial arts became more and more thorough, and his combat power improved almost every day, and he was infinitely close to the realm of refining the gods and returning to the great perfection of the void.

He sometimes meditates and practices qi, and in a trance, he can sense the mysterious layer of heaven and man barrier that binds the spirit and spirit to climb again, it is so majestic, so firm, like a galaxy between the sky and the earth, blocking his progress.

Chen Chen once tried to rush through the level, but no matter how hard he tried, the Celestial and Human Barrier did not move at all, in terms of combat power, he is definitely the strongest under the Grandmaster now, but the particularity of the Celestial and Human Barrier is that it is strong when it is strong, the more talented it is in martial arts, the more amazing people want to break through to the Great Perfection Realm, the stronger it is, like a heavenly moat, before breaking through the five decays of heaven and man, no martial artist has the qualification to challenge it.

An Yue was very amazed by the speed of her sweetheart's entry, a week ago, the little man's strength was already the same as when she was promoted to grandmaster, originally she thought that Chen Chen's five decays of heaven and man should be coming, but she didn't expect that after waiting day after day, her sweetheart's combat power was still rising, as if it was endless, making it difficult to figure out where his limit was

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In this regard, the beautiful girl is happy and worried, the stronger the peak half-step grandmaster is before breaking through to the realm of the Great Perfection, the higher the achievement after being promoted to the grandmaster, but relatively, the more terrifying his heaven and man are in the five decays, the danger is beyond the limit, and the slightest carelessness will go mad and die, in the past, she went through nine deaths when she passed this level, and almost fell, and now the strength of her sweetheart has surpassed her at the beginning, isn't it more dangerous?

Recalling her previous experience of breaking through the five decays of heaven and man, An Yue is still afraid for a while, the kind of thing that she watched herself withered day by day, his qi and blood dried up, his internal organs decayed, and time passed rapidly in a short period of time, as if the experience of quickly draining his life was not something anyone could bear, so there have always been countless peak half-step grandmasters who could not bear this pain when they were promoted to grandmaster.

And only a few people with strong martial arts wills can refine their hearts for gods, livers for souls, spleens for intentions, lungs for spirits, and kidneys for essence, and then perfectly integrate the spirits and souls into a flat boat, carrying themselves across the sea of suffering formed by the barrier between heaven and man, descending to the other side, and becoming a grandmaster.

An Yue felt an unprecedented fear of her sweetheart's endlessly rising combat power, and under her advice, Chen Chen no longer deliberately pursued the improvement of his strength, and every day he was either racing horses with the unconvinced An Baoer, or playing with Xu Fenghuang with mandarin ducks and playing in the water, or playing Go with An Yue Pintea, but even so, his strength is becoming more and more sophisticated, and the momentum of the whole person is becoming more and more powerful and sharp, like a peerless axe that opens the world! ..., for the sake of safety, An Yue has not agreed to her sweetheart going out, until one day in late July, Ming'er is her grandfather's 80th birthday banquet, all the children of the An family, no matter how important the matter at hand is to rush back to the old house in New York for the old man's birthday, she, the future head of the family, and Chen Chen, the future grandson-in-law, are another focus of the birthday banquet, and it is absolutely impossible not to go.

Chen Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief after learning about this, God, he hasn't been out of Anjia Manor for nearly a month, and if he doesn't go out to breathe the wind, he'll go crazy!

To celebrate the birthday of the old man An, the birthday gift is naturally indispensable, An Yue knew that her grandfather liked antique jade, and originally wanted to choose a boutique from a private collection as a gift for Chen Chen, but he refused, the little man said righteously that he must personally buy a gift to reflect his heart, and the smart little girl didn't know that he wanted to take the opportunity to go out shopping, but he didn't say anything.

If you want to buy antique jade, Chinatown located on Sunset Avenue in Los Angeles is naturally the first choice, although the Chinatown here is not as big as San Francisco, but it is also one of the largest Chinese communities in North America, with Broadway Street as the main axis and extending to Bernard Street.

According to Chen Chen's meaning, he wanted to pick up a good thing in the antique street, but he miscalculated, the antique shops that can gain a firm foothold in Chinatown are not vegetarians, how can there be a big leak for him to pick up? And some small leaks, he can't look at it, so he can only buy a Ming ware instead, but most of these antique shops have limited capital, and the treasures of the town store are porcelain and calligraphy and paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they are not treasures, and the value is only a few millions, so they really can't be sent.

Later, at An Yue's suggestion, they came to an antique ghost market in Chinatown, and there happened to be a large-scale auction here today, as you can see from the list, there are two finale auction items with a starting price of more than six million, one is the "Frost Forest White Tiger Picture" by the merry and talented Tang Bohu, and the other is the Yuan blue and white porcelain, which has been very popular recently.

The reason why the ghost market is a ghost market is because its auction items are of unknown origin and difficult to distinguish between true and false, here you may pick up a big leak, and you may also spend a lot of money to buy a fake, here is different from the regular auction house, the collection it auctions can not guarantee that it must be genuine, if you buy a fake can not get any compensation, you can only consider yourself unlucky, so it is a great test of the bidder's eyesight, so most of the rich people who are interested in Taobao have brought familiar appraisers to participate.

For the sake of safety, ghost markets generally only welcome regular customers, but who is Miss An Jia, and where in the whole of Los Angeles is there that she can't go? After her attendant and the boss behind the ghost market got to the bottom a little, a middle-aged man who had bowed to the top ran over sweating profusely, nodded and welcomed them to the best position.

Chen Chen came at the right time, the auction was just in the high tide period, and the host was hoarsely touting the blue and white fish dragon Luan Fengguan kiln ware in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty on the red silk platform, which was almost blown into Zhu Di's personal use, but the effect was obvious, and the bidding sound was wave after wave, and it soared to three million US dollars in a blink of an eye!

"Huh!" A certain man laughed after glancing at his magical golden eyes.

"What's wrong?" An Yue asked puzzled.

"This is a high imitation, whoever buys it is unlucky, three million dollars, tsk!" Chen Chen chuckled in Xiao Nizi's ear.

"Wouldn't it? A lot of words and so many people are bidding, if this blue and white porcelain is a fake, can't their appraiser see it? An Yue was a little unconvinced.

Chen Chen pouted and said: "It is said that it is a high imitation, the level of counterfeiters is extremely high, and they have mastered the ancient method of firing official kilns in the Ming Dynasty, which is enough to confuse the real with the fake, except for a few old researchers in the Palace Museum, it is difficult for others to see." ..., An Yue asked curiously, "Then how did you see it?" ”

Chen Chen was speechless for a while, and said perfunctorily, he couldn't tell the little girl that he had a pair of golden eyes and see-through eyes, and he could see that the surface of this fake was glowing with white light, which was obviously recently fired, and there was a line of micro-carved small characters in the dead corner of the porcelain base, which was engraved with the name of the counterfeiter, right? Not a lot of words

In the end, this high-imitation Yongle official kiln was auctioned by a middle-aged man at a price of 3.6 million US dollars, looking at his complacent appearance, Chen Chen shook his head slightly, if this person immediately changed hands after taking the collection, he might be able to make back the capital, but if he hid the appreciation, and when similar imitations flood the collection market in the future, there will definitely be a master to see the flaw, and he will lose all his money.

The auction continued, Xu Fenghuang spent 1.6 million US dollars to auction a more than one-foot-high mutton fat jade Song Dynasty Shakyamuni Buddha statue, An Baoer spent 2.8 million US dollars to auction a landscape painting of Qi Baishi, they also have to go to the birthday banquet of the old man An, naturally they have to prepare a birthday gift, but one of the two has nothing to do with the An family, and the other is the granddaughter of An Lao, the birthday gift is affectionate, there is no need to spend blood.

Chen Chen is different, the future uncle will return to the door, and the birthday gift will be looked down upon by the An family, he has a hunch that someone will jump out of this birthday banquet to make trouble for him, so he must do his best, so that those who find fault can't find fault.

The first piece of the finale collection was finally held on the red silk platform in the thousands of calls, as the picture scroll was opened, Tang Yin's work "Frost Forest White Tiger Picture" slowly displayed in front of everyone, the kind of quaint, atmospheric and the white tiger in the painting desolate, sad and angry, lonely meaning jumped on the paper, people will resonate in their hearts at first sight, and everyone present almost immediately had a consensus, this is absolutely genuine!

"Strange, how can this be?" But among the many praises and affirmations, there is one voice that is extremely harsh!

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