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"By the way, now that you have money, it's time to think about starting a family, solve the house matter here as soon as possible, and take your parents over as soon as possible to enjoy the blessings. I'm not saying that the country is bad, but only when a family is neat and tidy, this is like a home! ”

Uncle Fang said to Jin Muchen, and Jin Muchen nodded.

"Well, when the vacation is over, I'll go to Manhattan and contact the real estate agent there."

"I think it's okay, your kid started higher than me, haha, the business will go to Manhattan in one go, it's a good place, it's a good place to do antique business, there are more rich people, the market will naturally be good."

Uncle Fang said with a smile, but Jin Muchen suddenly said at this time.

"Uncle Fang, I plan to buy a big house in Manhattan this time, and I also plan to open a store there, I can move there when I see it, so we can take care of each other. And if I open an antique store in Manhattan, there is still a lack of appraisers in the store, and you know that I am a young man, my temperament is not stable enough, and I like to run around, and there is always a person at home who helps to look after the store, right? Why don't you go over and help me? ”

When Uncle Fang heard Jin Muchen say this, he couldn't help but feel a warm heart when he looked up at his very serious eyes.

Jin Muchen's kindness, how could he not know?

He himself has no children and no daughters, and now he is in his sixties, although he seems to be in good health, but he is old, one is afraid of loneliness, and the other is afraid that there will be no one around to take care of him, otherwise no one will know if he is sick that day.

Jin Muchen said that he asked him to come over to help, but in fact, didn't he just want him to come over, and then help him retire and send him to the end of his life?

As soon as he thought of this, Uncle Fang's heart was warm: "Okay, when your store opens, Uncle Fang will go over to help you take a look." ”

It's all a family, and there's nothing to be pretentious about, Jin Muchen was very happy when he heard Uncle Fang agree, and this matter was settled.

After breakfast, it was already eleven o'clock, the two planned to go downstairs for a walk, Fang Bo wanted to sit downstairs, and Jin Muchen planned to go out for a walk.

But just came to the first floor, and before he could reach the door, suddenly a dark shadow flashed outside the door, and a middle-aged man wearing a beige windbreaker suddenly appeared at the door of the store.

Jin Muchen was startled by the guy who suddenly appeared, and then pointed to the sign hanging at the door that said 'Closed today', signaling that he would not open a store to do business today.

But the foreigner didn't mean to leave at all, but knocked on the door and motioned for him to open the door and speak.

Jin Muchen opened the door in confusion, and the foreigner hurriedly took out a business card from his arms and handed it to Jin Muchen.

"Hello sir, I'm Andrea. Carter is from Christie's. ”

"Christie's? We don't have anything to do with you, do we? ”

"Ahh Sir, that's it, I saw this picture on the Internet, did you hang it? ”

Andre said as he took out an Aipai from his purse, then opened the e-bay website and brought up a page, which happened to be the Hungarian painter Cass that Jin Muchen hung on the website one day. Oil painting by Arnoche.

"Uh...... Yes, I hung it up. ”

"That's right, sir, we talked on the phone the other day, do you remember?"

As soon as Andre said this, Jin Muchen remembered that after putting the painting up for auction on the Internet a few days ago, he received several calls the next day, all of which inquired about some detailed details of this oil painting, and he answered carefully one by one, and several of them were very interested in this painting, and also asked his address, saying that after the New Year's Day holiday, he wanted to come and see the painting in person.

Jin Muchen also told them the address, but he originally thought that no one would come over after the holiday, but he didn't expect that there would be several days before the holiday, so the people from Christie's came to the door first.

It's like if you have a house for sale online, and you originally wanted to face the buyer directly, but you didn't expect the agent to come to the door first.

"Okay, let's talk about it first!"

Looking at Andre's red nose, it seemed that he had been outside for a long time, the temperature in New York was extremely low in the past few days, Jin Muchen let Andre in first, Andre hurriedly thanked Jin Muchen, and then entered the house.

I said hello to Uncle Fang, and then took this Andre to the second floor, the first floor is mainly the area of the store, and there is no meeting space.

The area on the second floor is not small, in addition to the kitchen and dining room, Fang Bo's bedroom study, there is also a relatively large living room.

Jin Muchen brought Andre a cup of coffee, and then the two sat down.

"Mr. Jin, you must already know my intention, the purpose of my visit is for that oil painting, we at Christie's in February, there will be a special auction on oil paintings, and we are currently soliciting lots, I wonder if you are interested in sending this oil painting?"

Andrey's job at Christie's has the task of collecting as many lots as possible for auction in addition to being an appraiser, much like the nature of a real estate agent pulling a property and a bank teller pulling a deposit.

Recently, because the U.S. economy has improved, the auction market is not active, many wealthy people have put their money into the financial market, and as more and more people make money, the more cash they have, the more they don't need to take out their antiques and treasures at home to cash.

Therefore, for auction companies, there has been a shortage of lots on the market in recent times.

Moreover, Sotheby's and Christie's are both headquartered in New York, and they are fiercely competing for the market in this area.

Because of the shortage of lots, the staff of the two companies could not wait at home for customers to take the lots and come to the door to ask for auctions, they would use various means to find things from various places, and then encourage the treasurers to take the things to their companies for auction.

After all, when one company has a lot of lots and another has nothing to sell, this is a reflection of the strength of an auction company.

What's more, in the New York area, there are already a lot of auction companies, in addition to these two giants, there are dozens of small and medium-sized auction companies in the United States, and dozens of overseas auction companies, large and small, everyone eats in this market.

Whenever the economic table is worse and worse, it is often the happiest time for the auction company, because those treasure owners will come to them with a lot of treasures to auction and cash out.

If it was at that time, such a small size and low-grade oil painting, Christie's would not have been able to send someone over, but now in the good economic environment and the shortage of lots, Christie's can't take care of such a reserve at all, and Andre can't even take care of the holidays, so he came to Jin Muchen to collect things, because he received the wind yesterday, and the people from Sotheby's may also come over today, so he waited at the door of Jin Muchen's store early in the morning.

"Hmm...... Well, I really didn't think about sending this painting to auction before......"

"Mr. Kim, you can't think so, don't look at the size of this oil painting, but this is the work of the famous European hyperrealist painter Cass, and this kind of work is very popular with many people in the United States now. If you leave Christie's to us to run the operation, you can rest assured that we will help you get a good price......"

Andre was talking to Jin Muchen, and Jin Muchen was really hesitant at this time.

At this moment, Uncle Fang's shout suddenly came from downstairs: "Mu Chen, someone is looking for you!" ”

"Who?"

"I don't know, one says it's Mr. Vince from Sotheby's?"

When Jin Muchen heard this, his eyes rolled, and then he shouted down at the top of the stairs.

"Alright, let him come up!"

He quietly swept behind him out of the corner of his eye, and Andre, who was sitting behind him, had already changed his face when he heard the name Vince, and his ass began to twist around, as if he was very uncomfortable.

"Hey! Hello Mr. Kim, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Vince from Sotheby's. Carrington, we spoke on the phone before. ”

Soon, up the stairs came a young white man dressed in a casual suit, about thirty years old, of medium height, with a kind smile, and came up to introduce himself enthusiastically.

Jin Muchen replied to him with a smile, and then shook hands with him.

"Please, Mr. Carrington."

"You're welcome, you'd better call me Vince. Oh! Who do I see? Isn't this Andrey? Hey, I heard you don't mix well at Christie's? Why, haven't they fired you yet? ”

As soon as Vince took two steps behind Jin Muchen, he saw Andre sitting in the living room, and hurriedly opened his mouth to say hello, but at this time, although he greeted with a smile, this greeting was not very friendly.

And Andre here is also not to be outdone.

"Who did I think it was? It turned out to be Sotheby's dog, Vince. Carrington, is your dog's nose sharp? ”

"Haha, each other, each other."

This Vince was quite thick-skinned at that time, and when he heard Andre say this, not only was he not angry at all, but he still looked proud.

Andre was older than this Vince, and at first glance he belonged to the old traditional kind, and when he saw Vince not angry like this, he couldn't help but mock him again.

"Hmph, Sotheby's dog skin is really thick enough, it seems that all of them are trained by kissing the boss's ass, by the way, since you are so good at Sotheby's? What else are you doing here? Mr. Kim's painting doesn't seem to be worth the fight of you Sotheby's! ”

This Andre's counterattack made Jin Muchen stunned, and it was full of gunpowder when he came up, and it seemed that the grudge between him and this Vince seemed to be not small.

Being ridiculed by Andre with a gun and a stick, this Vince was not only not angry at all, but seemed to be proud.