Originally, Jin Zhu wanted to visit other houses, but after being reminded by Li Xiang, she felt that her stomach seemed to be hungrier, so Li Xiang took her hand downstairs.

The kitchen is on the east side of the first floor, almost exactly like the one in the imperial capital, it is completely designed according to their eating habits, even the cooking utensils, the only difference is that this kitchen is large, connected to the dining room, and there is a small storage room.

Probably considering that there are more people in the family, the kitchen table has been changed to a round table with a turntable.

"Hey, there are also purple casseroles sold here?" As soon as Jin Zhu entered the kitchen, he smelled the smell of chicken soup, and when he saw it, there was indeed a purple casserole cooking soup on the counter.

"Chinatown has everything, I know you can't eat well on the plane, you definitely want to have a Chinese meal." Li Xiang said as he filled a bowl of Jin Zhu and put it on the table.

"That's right, I didn't expect that there were guqins for sale here, so I wouldn't have brought them from the imperial capital." Jin Zhu took a bite of the chicken soup, which tasted a little Chinese medicine, and put some wolfberry, jujube, astragalus and other Chinese medicinal materials in the chicken soup.

"Sure enough, I even got these medicinal herbs. By the way, how does this table look like mahogany? Jin Zhu touched the carvings on the dining table and asked curiously.

In fact, she doesn't know what mahogany is not mahogany, because in the previous life, the time and space in which she lived did not choose the materials for furniture as much as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as sea yellow and red sandalwood, yew and other precious woods.

"You just found out that the furniture upstairs is also made of this kind of Lao red sandalwood, which is very sought after by the Chinese here." Li Xiang smiled.

When Jin Zhu heard this, she wanted to go upstairs to see it again, but Li Xiang held her down.

"Don't worry, eat first, I'll take you around after eating, just to eliminate food, tomorrow Sunday, I don't have to go to school." After Li Xiang finished speaking, he turned around and fried the two semi-finished dishes on the operating table and served them in front of Jin Zhu.

"Is the course tight here?"

"To be honest, it's not an ordinary tight, it's a bit perverted tight, but fortunately, I have a good house now, it's not a big deal, and I can handle it."

Li Xiang had to adapt to the school curriculum during this time, decorate the house, buy furniture, design drawings, and go to New York to shoot a fashion cover, which was really tiring.

"The Li family didn't come to disturb you, did they?"

It is difficult to say that there is no reason for Li Xiang to insist on recuperating in Boston, which shows that after seeing Li Pujia's personality, Jin Zhu really doesn't want to have anything to do with the Li family.

One Yuan Yuan has caused Li Xiang's career to suffer several setbacks, and if one more Li Pujia is added, Jin Zhu doubts whether Li Xiang's company can continue to operate in the imperial capital.

"No, but that Yu Yan came to me once, saying that she came to see Li Ruizhao, and by the way, she came to see me, and the two of them came together, and they didn't say anything, just told me that the old man was recuperating." The corners of Li Xiang's mouth twitched.

He wouldn't be so stupid.

Since I was a child, I was used to seeing the warmth and coldness of people, how could I not see who was sincere and who was false? To put it bluntly, didn't Yu Yan just want him to get close to the old man? I'm afraid the purpose is inseparable from the key that the old man said that day.

In fact, Li Xiang really didn't want the things of the Li family, he didn't have the intention of recognizing the Li family, those things would also become a burden for him, if it weren't for the old man's health, he would have returned the few things that the old man had given him before, and the only thing he wanted to keep was the paintings with his mother's portrait.

"Rest and recuperate." As soon as Jin Zhu heard that Yu Yan had come to Li Xiang, she quickly guessed Li Pujia's intention to come to the door, and she never wanted to visit the old man.

After the meal, Li Xiang led Jin Zhu to visit the house, the changes in other places are not big, but the furniture has been replaced with new ones, there is no terrace, Li Xiang changed an attic on the third floor into a flower room, and the roof is also a lighting glass that can be opened automatically, but this project is obviously not completed, because there is nothing else in it except a rocking chair.

In the next few days, Jin Zhu played the piano and composed music, wrote novels or painted at home during the day, and Li wanted to go to class; In the evening, Jin Zhu and Li Xiang would go to the library to consult materials and sort out their papers, and when they came back, the two of them would sort out music scores or paint together, and occasionally Li Xiang would also pull Jin Zhu to teach him to play chess or play the piano.

The day before leaving, Li Xiang received a call from Mr. Smith saying that his family would be holding a small charity auction on Saturday afternoon, and asked if he would be interested in attending.

The main purpose of this small charity auction is to raise money for charity, and there may not be anything of serious value, but when Jin Zhu heard it, she was interested, she wanted to see how much her embroidery and paintings were worth, and she wanted to know some differences between Eastern and Western artistic values.

Li Xiang happened to get a reward from Thomson for asking him to shoot the cover a few days ago, and seeing that Jin Zhu was interested, he personally went to the wardrobe to pick out a floral light purple long-sleeved cheongsam-style dress for Jin Zhu, and put a classic Burberry plaid shawl on the outside, with long hair pulled up, slightly powdered, and rushed to Mr. Smith's house.

As soon as the car turned onto the path leading to his house, Jin Zhu saw more than a dozen cars parked in the courtyard of his house, and when he was wondering who was coming, he saw Thomson and a Chinese woman in her thirties standing on the steps talking.

Thomson's eyes lit up when he saw Jin Zhu, and he stretched out his trademark big arm to hug Jin Zhu, but Jin Zhu still smiled and refused.

"Zhu, I'm sad." Thomson made a weird face and spoke Chinese.

"Thomson, I told you she's my wife, and you have to respect our customs." Li Xiang replied in Chinese.

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman next to him looked at the deflated Thomson and sneered.

"No, don't you Chinese have an idiom called "follow the customs?" Thomson still speaks Chinese, and there are no mistakes in grammar except for the pronunciation that is not very standard.

"Yes, you can speak Chinese?" Only then did Jin Zhu believe that the other party could really speak Chinese, because he used an idiom with a fairly accurate meaning.

"Little case, smart people learn everything quickly. By the way, let me introduce you, this young lady's name is ......"

"Just call me Summer, Summer of Summer." Xia is fluent in Chinese and should be an international student from the mainland.

"Hello, my name is Yang Jinzhu, and this is my husband Li Xiang." Jin Zhu's hand has been holding Li Xiang's hand, so as soon as she finished introducing Li Xiang, the other party's eyes fell on the hands of the two of them with their fingers entwined.

"I know you, the youngest actor in China, Li Xiang, I didn't expect you two to be so young and so affectionate." Xia pursed the corners of his lips and smiled slightly.

"Natsu, the wedding dress you fancy ......" Thomson finished his sentence when Mrs. Smith came out to greet everyone.

Miss Xia was a little puzzled by what Thomson was talking about, but she politely didn't ask any more.

A few people followed Mrs. Smith into the living room, and as soon as they entered, they saw the television on the opposite wall showing the items of the auction one by one, seven or eight people standing in front of the television, and many more in front of the paintings hanging on the wall or in front of the display case in the middle of the hall.

It was the first time for Jin Zhu to participate in such an event, and she couldn't help but look at it with some curiosity.

There were about thirty or forty guests in total, and they were generally older, and there were very few young people like Thomson and Xia, and there was no one else in the age group like Li Xiang and Jin Zhu except the two of them.

"Mr. Smith is a trustee of a charitable foundation that holds one or two small charity auctions every year, and each member of the foundation puts up a collection or two for auction, and the money raised is used for health care and education in Africa." Miss Xia could see that it was the first time for Jin Zhu to participate in such an event, and for the sake of being Chinese, she gave her a few words.

"Thank you, can you ask what the things that are put up for auction generally contain?"

"There are a lot of calligraphy and paintings, both in the East and the West, and under normal circumstances, it will not be the work of famous artists and masters, of course, there are exceptions, and if you are lucky, you may also find good things. In addition, there are some clothes worn or used by stars in the film and television or sports worlds. ”

Jin Zhu understood as soon as he heard that due to the cultural differences between the East and the West, many famous painters in China may not be famous abroad, so his works may be sold at a high price in China, but not necessarily in the hands of these illiterate foreigners.

Just as he was about to pull Li Xiang to see if he could pick up a leak, Jin Zhu suddenly saw a red wedding dress suddenly appear on the TV.

"Ahh Jin Zhu nodded to Li Xiang.

She recognized that the phoenix on this wedding dress was designed by her sophomore summer vacation in high school, if she remembered correctly, it seems that Thomson said that this wedding dress was designed by a rich Chinese man who asked him to design it, and the cost was expensive, and Jin Zhu alone got 10,000 US dollars for the design fee alone.

How could the other party be willing to put such a commemorative wedding dress up for auction? And in such an informal auction occasion?

Jin Zhu was puzzled.

I wanted to ask Thomson, but Thomson was dealing with someone else, and he didn't have time to talk to her.

"Zhuzhu, let's see if these calligraphy and paintings do we want?"

Of course, Li Xiang also recognized this work, but somehow he suddenly had a bad premonition, he didn't want Jin Zhu to pay attention to the wedding dress, and he didn't want everyone to know that the phoenix on the wedding dress was designed by Jin Zhu.

"It's fine." Jin Zhu accompanied Li Xiang to the paintings.

Turning around, she found that there were two works of her own, an ink painting that she had sold to Thomson, and a purse that Mrs. Smith had bought from her that year, with a starting price of $1,000 and a starting price of $500.

In addition, there is a painting by Li Lao, the price is 30,000 US dollars, which is the highest price of all Chinese paintings, and it seems that his reputation in the United States is still relatively well-known.

"Zhuzhu, we suffered a loss, the four purses of the foreigner cost less than five hundred dollars, and now she just took out one and auctioned it for five hundred dollars." Li Xiang muttered.

"That's good, not everyone knows the goods."

"That's true." Li Xiang nodded.

In fact, Jin Zhu is also very curious, this Smith couple is a famous collector, and their eyes are relatively unique, but many people present may not know the goods, right? Who would pay for the work of an unknown person?

When the fox was suspicious, the auction began, and it was possible that all the visitors were regulars, and the owner did not have any extra nonsense, and went straight to the topic.

At the beginning, he took out an oil painting, the author was an American, I heard Li Xiang say that it should not be very famous, at least he had not heard of this person, the starting price was 1,000 US dollars, and the final price of the family was 1,100 US dollars, and the price increase was not enthusiastic.

When it was Jin Zhu's turn to work, Mr. and Mrs. Smith put the two things together, and pushed Jin Zhu in front of everyone, saying that she was the author of the painting and embroidery, and everyone saw that Jin Zhu was so young, and there was a kind of oriental charm on her body, and they couldn't help but be interested in her paintings and embroidery.

To Jinzhu's puzzlement, Xia seemed to be very interested in Jinzhu's purse, looked at it several times, and finally bought it for two thousand dollars.

The painting was bought by another old American lady for $1,500.

"Is this really what you did?" Xia stood in front of Jin Zhu with his purse.

"Do you really like it?" Jin Zhu didn't understand why he was willing to spend $2,000 to buy such a purse.

The other party is so young and looks so fashionable, he shouldn't really understand the value of this purse.

"I don't like it, someone will." Xia seemed to be a little distracted after speaking, probably remembering the person who liked purses.

It's no wonder.

"Good luck." Jin Zhu smiled.

Originally, Jin Zhu wanted to stay, who would buy the wedding dress, and how much money could be photographed for Li Lao's paintings, but unfortunately, Li Xiang's mobile phone rang, and Qu Feng came to him in a hurry, saying that he wanted to discuss what kind of design, and Li Xiang had to come back with Jin Zhu.

Li Xiang bought the work of a painter he liked for 2,000 US dollars, saying that although this painter is not well-known, he is very aura and is his favorite style.

And Jin Zhu's trip was not without gains, she knew how much her paintings were worth, and she also knew that her embroidery was appreciated by more and more people.

But then again, what kind of person is that Xia, she should have wanted to take the purse she bought with gold beads to give away, listening to her meaning, the other party is a person who knows the goods, from the expression on her face just now and the sadness that flashed in her eyes, the person who knows the goods is obviously very important to her, will it be a man or a woman?

When she was pondering, Li Xiang hugged her from behind, and Jin Zhu let go of the matter.

The next day, Jin Zhu receives a call from Thomson on the way to the airport, saying that he wants to invite Jin Zhu and Li Xiang to have a meal and introduce Xia to them.

Listening to Thomson's meaning, Xia wanted to find a few things to embroider with gold beads, but the other party didn't say anything about them.

Knowing that Jinzhu was already on his way to the airport, Thomson had no choice but to express regret, saying that he would send Xia's contact information to Jinzhu's mailbox and ask Jinzhu to contact the other party. (To be continued.) )