The main plane is Yanhuang Continent, Beijing.

Yanhuang Club, founded in 1996, is located at No. 51, Xidan Velvet Line Hutong, Xicheng District (the location itself is the old residence of the prince of the Qing Dynasty), is a top private club in Yanhuang China. Its annual resident membership fee is as high as 15,000 US dollars, and it is known as the top ten private clubs in Yanhuang China, along with Chang'an Club, Beijing Club, Beijing American Club, Yongfu Club, Hong Kong Jockey Club, etc.

These top ten clubs, the people who come and go every day are either rich or expensive, and they belong to the top of the pyramid in the 1.3 billion groups of Yanhuang. However, although they are all top-level clubs, they have their own emphasis: Chang'an Club is biased towards world business celebrities such as Li Ka-shing, Fok Yingdong, and Yang Yuanqing; The Beijing Club focuses on business elites, emerging industry professionals, and embassy staff; The Club of the Americas likes representatives of the world's top 500 companies, corporate executives, and returnees; The members of the Yanhuang Society are mainly members of foreign royal families, entrepreneurs, artists, etc.

Because the location of the Yanhuang Society is the old residence of the prince of the Qing Dynasty, and the courtyard itself is a key cultural relics protection unit of the Yanhuang Society, so it itself is full of the essence of the traditional architecture and culture of the Yanhuang Society. ”

On the way to Yanhuanghui, Wang Fan heard Mu Yunting say that her best friend Tang Ping was quite rebellious earlier, did not listen to the marriage arrangement of her family, and made a private agreement with an artist for life, which was really vigorous for two or three years, but this artist, after going abroad for further study under the painstaking arrangement of her best friend, has never returned, and later heard that she changed her nationality and became an honorary citizen of a developed country. After this blow, Tang Ping fell seriously ill and almost collapsed. Later, after my mother's careful care and recuperation, I finally recovered.

However, because of her past experience, she is well-known in the capital's large and small families, and it is difficult to enter the candidate list of the fiancées of the heirs of other families, plus she also has a younger brother who can inherit the family business, so she can continue to choose her favorite person freely because of a blessing in disguise. After a long time, Tang Ping chose a middle-aged successful man in the business world who was 10 years older than her, which can be said to have gone from one extreme to the other. This time, after Tang Ping and her husband Tan Furen returned from a trip abroad, they contacted Mu Yunting and set the meeting place at the Yanhuang Society.

After the four of them met, Wang Fan glanced at Tan Furen with gold-wire glasses and Tang Ping, whose hair was spontaneously dyed red from the middle to the roots, and couldn't help muttering in his heart. According to his first impression, this Tang Ping can be described as fashionable and full of personality. It is really difficult to have an intersection with Mu Yunting's aesthetic clothing. Will they be best friends? It stands to reason that girlfriends should have a fairly common language and values. But looking at the two people with completely different dressing styles, Wang Fan couldn't help but wonder if Tang Ping's ex-boyfriend led her astray? Or was Mu Yunting originally a rebellious girl, but now she has returned to the normal "quadrant"?

"Tingting, it's been a long time, this is my husband, Furen, you've seen it. Is this your man? Tang Ping looked at Wang Fan, although he had guessed the identity, he still asked, especially the last sentence, Wang Fan of "Thunder" is not light.

"What nonsense! His name is Wang Fan, he is my boyfriend, and he is still early to turn positive! ”

"Hello, Miss Mu, hello, Mr. Wang Fan." Tan Furen interjected appropriately at this time and removed what he had just said.

"Mr. Tan Furen is polite, if you don't see the outside, everyone will call him by his name, okay? It's a little more casual. Wang Fan suggested while replying.

"Absolutely!"

A few minutes later.

As the four of them gradually became familiar with the chat, the special private dishes of the Yanhuang Club also began to be served in turn. The amount of each dish is not large, but it is delicate and delicious.

"Hello everyone, I am Huang Yuan, the sommelier of the Yanhuang Club, because the season is now late autumn and early winter, so today I recommend to you the French Cuvée Mythique." A handsome young man in professional attire, with his right hand half bent, walked with a bottle of wine written in French.

"Metik?" Wang Fan repeated in a low voice at this time.

"Yes, Metec is the flagship product of the European Standard Group, it is one of the best vin_de_pay_s red wines in France, it belongs to the traditional Nguedoc-Rousssillon, blended with a variety of varieties; The raw grapes are extremely old vines from vineyards in the best conditions, so they can show amazing depth and concentration. Its aging process uses French Allier oak barrels, of which one-third are new; After 12 months of barrel-in-barrel ageing, it will be available in bottles for at least 6 months. Huang Yuan thought that Wang Fan was asking and testing his professional knowledge, and explained.

"Hehe, thank you, thank you! You have made me gain a lot of knowledge. I'm really sorry, I don't know much about red wine, but I've only seen what 'Lafite' and 'Lafite' are required every time I eat expensive Western food on TV. Wang Fan explained.

"You are kind enough to explain and introduce the wines we use to our customers, which is also part of the job of our sommelier. Like 'Lafite' is indeed world-famous. In the list of French Cru Cru in 1855, Lafite was listed in the first class, and the rest were Latour, Margaux, King Hou Bo and King Wudang, etc. Huang Yuan said as he poured wine for the four of them.

Seeing the other three people at the table, they all raised their goblets elegantly, slowly approached their lips, and then let the red liquid slowly flow to their lips, and tasted it lightly, instead of drinking it all. Wang Fan also learned to take a sip in style. Well, well, what you say, it's not sweet or spicy, but a sour taste revealed.

"How?" Tang Ping asked Tan Furen.

"It tastes good!" Tan Furen commented.

"Wang Fan, what do you think?" Mu Yunting also asked.

"Seriously, I can't taste the wine. It is estimated that the red wine you blended with 'three sugars and one water' for me will have the same flavor when I drink it. Wang Fan shook his head and replied with a smile.

"It's a waste of wine for you to drink." Mu Yunting frowned.

"Ahem, my bottom line, it's not that you don't know." Wang Fan didn't mind saying that he was not an upper-class person, and after the adventure, he was mostly in contact with the middle and lower class people, and the target plane was also to discuss and decide with Lao Mao, Lao Zhu, etc., who were born in mud legs, and he was very used to it. Of course, to put it nicely, it can be described as 'not forgetting the roots'.

"Tingting, the person you are looking for this time is very interesting." Tang Ping laughed.

"Wang Fan, don't get me wrong, Tang Ping means that you are very true and sincere." Tan Furen, who has rich social experience and knows many friends and many roads, multiple enemies and many walls, answered and explained. Although Wang Fan's performance was very unremarkable from the beginning, since he could become Mu Yunting's boyfriend, Tan Furen, who knew Mu Yunting's family background well, felt that the other party could not be just an ordinary person.

"Yes, I didn't mean to laugh at you." is a best friend, Tang Ping, who used to talk about everything, has a low emotional intelligence, and continued: "I just think of Fang Shengpu, who used to desperately chase Tingting, he is desperately knowledgeable, well-behaved, and educated, but we already know the real details." In essence, he is a playboy who likes to go to nightclubs. The contrast between Wang Fan and him is too great. ”

"Can I understand that this is complimenting me?" Wang Fan didn't have much emotional fluctuations, he had already broken away from the main plane, showing off his wealth, showing off his wealth, and showing off his life, so he was more of a light wind at this time. However, not caring doesn't mean being angry, if someone insults himself, family or friends with some behavior, Wang Fan doesn't mind using the power behind him, or the strength in his own hands, to make them shut up and admit their mistakes.

"Okay, don't mention that, he really doesn't understand. And don't talk about him, my father doesn't understand either. Perhaps it was because women were born to maintain their own front, Mu Yunting still subconsciously pointed out in the words, "Mu Huairen doesn't understand red wine, and he still wants to be the commander-in-chief of the navy", and then continued to ask: "Tang Ping, what is the matter with you going to the Star-Spangled Banner this time?" I remember you just went over last month. ”

"That's the case, my husband and I went over, not for anything else, the christies_new_york auction house there (one of the famous auction houses of the Star-Spangled Banner) held a small auction a few days ago, in which there was a handwriting of Zhang Boju, and my husband Furen admired him the most, so he went to auction it."

"Zhang Boju?" Wang Fan suddenly answered.

"What's wrong?" Mu Yunting asked.

"Huh? It's nothing, it's just that I'm more interested in him. Wang Fan heard Mu Yunting's question, and quickly explained, he couldn't say that more than a month ago, because of his interest in the four princes of the Republic of China, he went to find Zhang Boju and had a meal together.

"Wang Fan, are you also interested in him? That's great! Hearing that Tan Furen, who was like-minded with him and had always behaved steadily, couldn't help but be a little excited, and immediately asked, "Then what do you like about him?" Origin, personality, talent? Or is it an anecdote about his collection of celebrity paintings? ”

"Well~~" Wang Fan thought about the details of the meal a little, and replied: "There are some, but it is more of his life, opportunities and attitudes." I know that Zhang Boju started from the four princes of the Republic of China. Zhang Boju is a beautiful man, born in a warlord family, but he hates firearms, loves antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and is especially fond of dramas. ”

"Yes, he is often obsessed with calligraphy and painting, and spends a lot of money!" Tan Furen answered.

"Actually, Mr. Tan, if you just say that he is obsessed with calligraphy and painting and spends a lot of money, I'm afraid it's still up for discussion."

"Oh? Why? ”

"I once read a private diary." Because he couldn't say that he had heard what Zhang Boju said with his own ears, Wang Fan had to continue to pull the banner and say: "Zhang Boju bought Lu Ji's "Hand Reply" from Pu Xinshe, and Pu Xinshe asked for 200,000 oceans at that time, and finally he moved out of his family with 40,000 oceans, and he barely took it; In order to buy Zhan Ziqian's "You Chun Tu" from the owner of the Yuchi Mountain House, he sold a house in Gongxian Hutong that was suspected to be Li Lianying's former residence, and also asked his wife to be a pair of gold jewelry, so as to make up the 240 taels of gold requested by the other party; There are also Li Bai's "Stickers on the Balcony", Tang Yin's "Shu Official Prostitute Picture", Fan Zhongyan's "Praise of Taoist Costumes", etc., all of which were sold by themselves to buy them. ”

"Then he should be interested in it, and he can be regarded as earning." Mu Yunting, who didn't know much about Zhang Boju, interjected.

"Yes and no." Tan Furen answered: "I remember that not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he donated these valuable and well-known calligraphy, paintings and characters to the country. In his later years, he once wrote a sentence: 'To be collected, it is not necessary to give it to the body, in order to give it, but to keep it forever in my land, and it will be passed down from generation to generation'. ”

"That's right. In terms of literacy alone, its literary thinking, talent, and divine thinking can be called a must. However, from the perspective of creating value from social industrialization, playboy Zhang Boju has almost no achievements. But in terms of protecting national treasures and inheriting culture, he is a figure, but it will be difficult to produce someone like him in the future. Wang Fan answered.

"Why is there no one like him?" Because of his involvement with art, Tang Ping was very interested.

"Because most of the biggest goals of modern people, that is, us, are nothing more than self-fulfillment. The next thing is how to manage and sell yourself to achieve your goals. This includes precise calculations, effective operations, careful precautions, reasonable strategies, profit-seeking, and ruthlessness. Managing life in this way is something aesthetic and emotional, and most of them have to be discarded. And these are precisely the perceptual cornerstones of Yanhuang's traditional poetry and other cultures, these are gone, or the general environment has disappeared, and Yanhuang's own cultural inheritance will naturally have some faults. From the perspective of the development of productive forces, this may be the inevitable result of the 'slow' life in ancient times entering the 'fast' life in modern times. ”

With Wang Fan's slightly philosophical words, the dining table was quiet for a few seconds