Boeing airliners from New York, USA to London, UK, are parked at London Heathrow.

Chen Rui stepped off the plane.

"Mr. Chen?" A tall man in a black suit, sunglasses, and a grim expression walked over and asked Chen Rui.

"I am."

"Earl Hill asked me to pick you up, please come with me."

Chen Rui followed the man in black and sunglasses to a luxurious car.

The man opened the back door and let Chen Rui sit in.

Then open the front door, sit in the driver's seat, and start the car towards the London effect.

Half an hour later.

The car pulled up to a stop in front of a manor.

There was already a black-clothed bodyguard waiting here, and when he saw the car stop, he walked up quickly and helped Chen Rui open the door.

Chen Rui got out of the car and looked around.

It is a manor house full of medieval classical style, with thick stone columns and carved statues full of medieval style.

The wall is made of large and small, scattered rocks, and there is an irregular beauty, which is like the 'golden wire' on the kiln, the sickly beauty of the mutilation, and the sickly beauty of the mutilation gives people a different sense of aesthetics.

The wall has been eroded by wind and rain and years, although it looks mottled, old and vicissitudes.

Through the mottled walls, people can intuitively feel the long history and cultural precipitation of the manor.

"Mr. Chen, I am the Earl's butler, Berke. Wise, the Earl is waiting for you in the living room, please come with me. A middle-aged man wearing a tuxedo and a very medieval gentleman walked over and said to Chen Rui.

Approach Hill Manor with Berke.

The black-clothed bodyguards in the manor looked grim.

Several dog handlers each led four German Shepherds back and forth.

In one corner of the manor, several huge iron cages, each containing a ferocious cheetah with a wild and untrained nature.

Sit with Berk in a battery car and follow the lawn aisle to the main building in the middle of the estate.

"Hello, Mr. Chen, welcome to my manor."

"Thank you for having me."

"You may be seated."

The host and guest sit down.

"Do you prefer tea or coffee." Earl Hill asked Chen Rui.

"Let's have tea."

The Berke butler, who stood beside him, whispered to the maid.

Soon, the maid brought a set of tea sets and a pot of tea.

Count Hill personally poured Chen Rui a glass, and then poured himself a glass.

"This is the West Lake Longjing produced in your China, the appearance is flat and beautiful, the color is green and verdant, the inner quality is clear and mellow, soaked in the cup, the buds and leaves are green. It is known as "green, fragrant, sweet, and beautiful". This small tube of tea is the best tea produced in Longjing, and the eighteen imperial tea leaves are the finest pre-rain buds. "Earl Hill is very familiar with Chinese tea culture.

In the past, when I was in college, there was an old professor who took Chen Rui who loved tea very much, and in his spare time, he told Chen Rui some knowledge about tea.

Eighteen imperial teas and fine buds before the rain, Chen Rui has some understanding.

The so-called eighteen imperial teas are said to have Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River six times, and came to the Longjing tea area four times to watch the tea picking and tasted tea poems.

On the way back, the Longjing tea was brought back to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother drank the liver fire and said that this Longjing tea was like a panacea.

Qianlong immediately decreed that the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple were sealed as "imperial tea", which were harvested every year and specially for the Queen Mother to drink.

And the fine buds before the rain, take a flag and a gun, the annual output is particularly small, very rare.

In 2005, in the West Lake Longjing Tea Garden, 100 grams of eighteen imperial tea superlatives were hammered at a sky-high price of 728,000 yuan a catty, and after 10 years, the price has risen several times.

Chen Rui picked up the teacup and looked at it.

The tea leaves are soaked in water, and the buds and leaves are tender and green.

The soup is clear, bright green.

Smell it gently with your nose, and the aroma is tender and fragrant.

Finally, Chen Rui picked up the teacup and took a sip, the taste was mellow and sweet.

"Sure enough, it's the best tea." Chen Rui opened his mouth and praised.

After drinking the tea, Chen Rui's gaze suddenly attracted the cup in his hand.

The cup is light and delicate in the hand, and it feels as light as a floating cloud.

The whole body is exquisitely thin and transparent, giving people a hazy sense of transparency.

The texture is warm, and through the light, you can see that there are tender green tea leaves inside.

The decoration of the cup is also very exquisite, the cup edge is carved with a variety of arts such as round carving, relief carving, hollow carving, etc., and the flower and leaf pattern is carved with the pattern of the Yang pattern technique on the surface of the vessel, that is, the flat bottom is cut first when carving, and then the bas-relief decoration is formed to form a concave and convex visual contrast, and enhance the effect of its artistic expression.

The carved lotus flower buds are about to bloom, as fine as hair, and there are no axe chisel marks.

This is a green and white jade teacup carved from a single piece of green and white jade.

Chen Rui thought of a kind of jade, called Chendustan jade, which is also Hui, Jiaojiao jade or Islamic jade.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs set up a special workshop for imitating the jade of the Tracestein, absorbing the advantages of the unique shape, smooth pattern and thin carcass of the jade, combined with the traditional methods of Chinese craftsmanship, to create a jade with the style of the West.

Chen Rui carefully admired the green and white jade cup in his hand with an appreciative gaze.

"Mr. Chen is also interested in antiques." Earl Hill saw Chen Rui admiring the cup in his hand with an appreciative gaze, and asked with a smile.

Chen Rui put down the white jade cup and said with a smile, "Antiques are the history in your hands, I think antiques are the carrier of culture, the witness of history, through every piece of antiques can understand the history and culture of the past, people can't help but indulge in it."

Moreover, 'playing' through guò can cultivate a person's sentiments. ”

When he was in college, Chen Rui came into contact with antiques by chance, and since then he has been very interested in antiques.

Fun.

The Earl of Hill is also a lover of antiques.

He has a very deep knowledge in art appraisal and appreciation.

Unlike Chen Rui, Earl Hill was rich and could buy any art he liked.

In his family collection, he has more than 2,000 works of British and foreign art from more than 500 years, ranging from medieval furniture and ornaments, paintings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other works of art, including four paintings by Picasso, Andrew Brown, and others. The works of Wise and Monet also include ancient Chinese ceramics, cloisonné, Tang Dynasty tomb sculptures, etc.

The two had a great conversation.

Earl Hill took Chen Rui on a tour of his estate.

The estate is very large, more than 1,000 acres, including the main building, meeting room, 3 living room villas, collection room, 11 artificial lakes, green lawns, ponds, woods, gardens, slopes, mountains and rivers, horse farms, etc.