"Hello, is it Mr. Kong, I'm Wang Chao, and I visited you with Uncle Suo last year"

"Wang Chao? Come to think of it, hahaha, it's been a long time since I've seen my nephew."

"Yes, Mr. Kong, I am accompanying a friend from the mainland to participate in the auction of Sobifu this time, and before I came, Uncle Suo said that I must call you and greet you for him."

"Brother Wen Cheng, he is still so polite", he greeted a few words, and then asked, "You are coming to the auction again, then it will start tomorrow, by the way, do you bring anything good?"

"I've brought a few pieces of jewelry this time, and I'd like you to appraise them."

The other party repeatedly said that he didn't dare to do it, and then asked Wang Chao about the hotel where he was, and said that he would send a car to pick up Wang Chao in half an hour.

Wang Chao expressed his gratitude, hung up the phone and waited at the hotel, last time it was Suo Wencheng who led it, and it was night, Wang Chao didn't remember the way.

It turned out that after Wang Chao sent the new moon away, he thought of where to go for the whole day today? Cao Aoxue went out, leaving herself alone in the hotel, it was a pity to wait for a day like this, and suddenly remembered the place where the last transaction was, "Yes, call Mr. Kong, this time Sobifu auction, if you don't get it, you will organize an underground transaction" Thinking about it, Wang Chao found the other party's phone number and called it.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, the mobile phone remembered, a voice in blunt Chinese came, "Please ask Mr. Wang Chao Wang from the mainland, hello, I am Mr. Kong's driver, come to pick you up, now at the door of the hotel"

"Okay, I'll go down right away"

After speaking, Wang Chao went downstairs with a bag loaded with jewelry in advance, and saw a silver classical car at the door of the hotel, and saw a little angel with wings on the front of the car at a glance. As if it was a work of art, shining in the sun, on the right side of the cab of the car stood a young man with a flat head, looking at Wang Chao with his eyes, and stepped forward and asked,

"You are Mr. Wang Chao, I saw you last time, please get in the car"

After speaking, he turned around and opened the car door, and sat an inviting gesture to invite Wang Chao to get into the car.

When he came to Taiping Mountain along the familiar winding mountain road, Wang Chao took a good look at this Taiping Mountain this time. Seeing that the mountain is very gentle, it is not high, the road is built on the mountain, flat, and on the left side is Victoria Harbour. Farther away is the vast South China Sea, standing on the top of Taiping Mountain and looking ahead. Endless sea. It makes people's hearts suddenly open-minded.

When I came to Kong Weber's manor, parked the car, the car door was opened, and I saw Kong Weber standing in front of Wang Chao with a smile, specially at the door to greet him.

After a few words of greeting, the two walked into the hall side by side, and the guests and hosts sat in the hall. Then Wang Chao took the bag he was carrying, took out the jewelry inside one by one and put it on the coffee table, Kong Weber was still a little careless at first, and when he saw the jewelry on the table, he gradually became serious. Then he took out a magnifying glass from under the coffee table, picked up a string of jewels on the table and put it in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully under the magnifying glass.

The more I looked at my face, the more surprised I became, and suddenly I got up and went back upstairs and took out a mahogany box, put it on the coffee table and opened it gently, only to see that there was a string of equally crystal clear jewels inside, and I picked it up and compared it with the one on the table.

"Mr. Wang, I take the liberty of asking, where did you get these jewels?"

"I collected it myself, why is there anything wrong?"

"Please look at my string," he said, handing the jewelry in his hand to Wang Chao.

Wang Chao took it and glanced at it, and smiled, "You got this string from Uncle Suo!" Hehe, I asked his company to sell my jewelry."

"What? Did he sell it to you? Kong Weber couldn't help but stand up, "Mr. Wang Chao, Wang Chaoxian's nephew, how many such jewels do you have?" I'll pay 30% of the price and buy them all" in a somewhat anxious tone.

"Hehe, I still have some of this kind of jewelry, Mr. Kong, are you interested in these jewelry? Then I'll pass on all this to you."

"Hahaha, great, Wang Chao, you don't know, since Brother Wen Cheng launched this series of jewelry, it has attracted much attention in Hong Kong, many famous families in Hong Kong and friends in the collection industry are proud to wear and collect this kind of jewelry, the price is much more expensive than selling in the mainland, and it is priceless, I can't find it at all, I won't tell you, I didn't buy this string directly from Brother Wen Cheng, I poured my hand several times in the middle, and then I took this picture to him, only to know that he was selling, and then I bought two more strings directly from him”

Wang Chao was secretly frightened, thinking that it seems that the purchasing power of Hong Kong people is indeed very strong, and it can be bought twice as high, which shows the prosperity of the Hong Kong jewelry market.

After carefully inspecting the jewelry brought by Wang Chao, according to the market price in Hong Kong, each string was sold at $6 million, and the ten strings of jewelry totaled $60 million, and told Wang Chao that he would bring over as many as he wanted, and it would not be lower than this price, Wang Chao nodded.

After all the formalities were completed, Kong Weber suddenly remembered that Wang Chao brought a few pieces of jade wool last time, and asked him if he still had them, Wang Chao nodded that there were still them, so he told him to bring them next time, and the price would not be lower than the price at the last auction.

Seeing noon, Kong Weber left Wang Chao for lunch, "Wang Chao, I thought of an idea, do you also register a company in Hong Kong, so that it is not only convenient for you to sell antiques, but also convenient to transfer, otherwise there will be so many funds in your personal account suddenly, I am afraid that you will be targeted by the tax department."

"Yes, I've also thought about it, then I'll register a company when I go back," Wang Chao nodded in agreement.

The two were eating and chatting, when suddenly there was a car in the yard, and someone ran in.

"Daddy, Daddy..."

"What's the matter, such a fuss" With Kong Weber's words, Wang Chao turned his head to look and found that there was a twenty-two or three-year-old young man standing in the hall, who looked very similar to Kong Weber.

"Come here, let me introduce you, this is your Uncle Suo's friend in the mainland, called Wang Chao" and then introduced to Wang Chao, "This is my youngest son, Kong Zhiyang, help me in my company"

"Hello Mr. Wang" Kong Zhiyang became very calm and shouted to Wang Chao very respectfully.

Wang Chao nodded and said a few polite words to the other party. He then asked him if he had had lunch, and if he hadn't, he said no, and then sat down next to him.

He wanted to say to Kong Weber several times, "Just say anything, why are you so sloppy, Wang Chao is not an outsider"

"Oh, that's right, I just got a call from Uncle Lee and Uncle Holm, and they said that there were some good horses in Sha Tin today. I'd like to ask you to come and have a look."

"Ah, here again?" After a pause, he turned his head and said to Wang Chao, "Nephew Wang Chaoxian, what other arrangements do you have for the afternoon?" ”

"Mr. Kong, I have nothing to do today. Just wanted to come and visit you."

"Okay, I'll take you to see the Hong Kong Jockey Club when I'm done. There is a Jockey Club in Hong Kong. There are a lot of people here who raise horses, race horses, bet on horses, I like to raise horses myself, and occasionally bet, of course, they are all small bets, and there are a few good horses in the afternoon. You're okay in the afternoon, let's go and see it together."

"Okay, I just want to see it," Wang Chao nodded in agreement.

After eating, after a short rest, Kong Weber and Wang Chao were in a car. Kong Zhiyang had a car and a bodyguard a car, and went straight to the racecourse in Sha Tin.

Horse racing in Hong Kong has a long history, it is one of the most popular sports in Hong Kong, and it is also the only legal gambling sport in Hong Kong, and other gambling businesses such as Macau are illegal, and Hong Kong people can only go to Macau or the high seas to gamble.

The history of the Jockey Club in Hong Kong dates back more than 100 years, when Hong Kong had just become a British colony, and the British brought horse racing to Hong Kong, and conducted horse racing at the racecourse known as Wong Nai Chung Valley at that time, and officially approved horse racing at the end of 1844.

In the early days, horse racing was held only once a year, for several days, and was known as the Annual Race. In 1891, the Club began accepting bets, marking the official establishment of horse racing as a betting activity, which continues to this day.

On the way, Kong Weber told Wang Chao about the situation of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, it turns out that Hong Kong is not as long as you have money to raise horses, but you must first become a member of the Jockey Club, and then you can raise horses, that is to say, entering the Jockey Club is the threshold to enter.

Weber Kong is currently the vice president of the club, has been in the club for more than 20 years, is a real "old horse", and has a few horses himself, and rides them for a walk when he has nothing to do, but professional horse racing still needs professional riders.

In addition, many upper-class people in Hong Kong raise horses, such as Li Chaoren, people from the Fok family, etc., are frequent visitors to the Hong Kong Jockey Club, in fact, it is also with the help of this platform that everyone often meets and chats about investment, finance and other issues they are interested in.

"A lot of inside information is obtained on this occasion, so when I have nothing to do, I like to ask a few friends to go to the Jockey Club, but a few of us also really like horses, so once there are good horses, we will go to see together, and when I am interested, I will also gamble, hehehe"

Only then did Wang Chao understand the meaning of Kong Weber's coming to the racecourse.

Along the way to the outer ring, reduce a lot of traffic jams, soon to Sha Tin, here is Hong Kong's historic racecourse, there are many people to foster horses here, few people at home, mainly Hong Kong is too small, the land of projectiles, can have a courtyard like Beijing, almost even Li Chaoren is difficult to get, so I ran to the top of the Taiping Peak to buy a house, horses, naturally can not follow the owner at home to raise.

"Brother Kong, you're late, all the good horses have been picked up", Kong Weber just got out of the car, and a man in his fifties walked out of it, making fun of him as he walked.

"Where do they know what horses, maybe the ones left behind are good horses, hahaha" After speaking, he took the lead and walked inside, and introduced Wang Chao on the way, it turned out that this is also one of the vice presidents of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, called Xu Shaoxiong.

When he got inside, Wang Chao saw a thin and tall old man with a long face and big eyes - Li Chaoren, Wang Chao was secretly a little excited, the richest man in the Chinese world was like thunder, I didn't expect to see it here.

There was another old man with a square face next to him, and his spirit was also very strong, Wang Chao also recognized it, this was the head of the Huo family in the legend, and there were several old men who were also not young around them, and they were all there to look at the stables next to them.

Conweber came in, greeted them one by one, and then stared intently at the five horses in the stable, and when he heard that only the second one on the left was left, he couldn't help but look intently at the horse.

I saw this horse standing there, not moving at all, holding the horse's head high, and his eyes faintly revealed an arrogant look, which seemed incompatible with the four horses around him, and his appearance was very thin, with yellow hair and black mouth, and his body hair was curled like fish scales, and it seemed that he had ringworm one by one.

After looking at half of the head, Kong Weber finally had to sigh, "The good horses have been picked by them, and the only horse left is such a horse, it seems that there is nothing to gain today."

"Mr. Kong" remembered Wang Chao's voice behind him, "I think this horse is good, at least it won't run slower than the other four."

"Ah, Wang Chaoxian's nephew, you actually know Soma?"

"I can't talk about Soma, I just know a little bit about it" In fact, where does Wang Chao know the knowledge of Soma, let alone Soma, he has basically never seen any horses since he was a child.

In rural areas, families raise cattle, donkeys or mules, which are mostly used to pull carts, carry weights, plough land and other heavy work in rural areas, but no one can see anyone raising horses, mainly because horses are really chicken ribs in rural areas: the weight is not as good as that of cattle, and the amount of food is twice as large as that of donkeys. Even if there are horses in the countryside, they are often used to breed with donkeys in order to give birth to mules.

Just now, Wang Chao looked intently and found something strange - the blood vessels in this horse's body are abnormally thick, so that when running vigorously, it can instantly speed up the blood flow rate and supply a large amount of blood and strength to the body, and then look down, the horse's hooves are as big as a bowl, and the horse's legs are as thin as a rod, which is the characteristic of the kind of thousand-mile horse mentioned in the book, so he said to Kong Weber.

"Oh, this little brother is also a good horse man" The two were talking, suddenly a deep voice came from behind them, Wang Chao looked back, it turned out to be the head of the Huo family, Huo Lao squinted his eyes while looking at the horse, and asked Wang Chao, "Since you said that this is a good horse, why don't we race, what do you think?"

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wang Chao, and Wang Chao groaned slightly.

"Well, it's not fun to do the game, why don't we add some color, Webb, what do you think?" After speaking, this Huo Lao turned his head to look at Kong Weber, it turned out that he misunderstood that this was Kong Weber's son and nephew, and if he wanted to bet on horses, he had to tell the other party's parents that it was better, on this occasion, he was a junior who still did not have the qualifications to talk to himself. (To be continued......)