Chapter 148: The Old Man Is Here Again

"I can't say much about his identity, but you will naturally know it then."

Leswood certainly couldn't guess Roosevelt's identity, and since his boss said so, he couldn't ask more, as for Zhou Yu's trip to the exhibition, it can be said that he returned with a full load.

Due to Duchamp's insistence, the dozen or so works were not collected in the end, but because Zhou Yu also bought many works by other painters, the owner of the gallery still made a lot of money and had no opinion.

In the end, Zhou Yu spent a total of $7,245 to buy more than 100 works, including Marcel Duchamp, and several of them were potential writers he knew well, including Hans Arp, Walter Trier, Edward Hober, and Willem de Kooning.

The paintings of these people are quite representative and are also the founders of modern art.

Zhou Yu only glanced at it, and more than 10 million US dollars accounted for more than half of it, and several of them even fetched hundreds of millions of dollars at auctions in later generations.

After frantically purchasing a batch of artworks, Zhou Yu returned to the villa in a good mood, and after a while, the gallery's delivery truck drove over.

The people of C13 helped move the paintings and artworks into the house, scratching their ears and cheeks, and they really couldn't understand what the paintings were.

"Do you think Mr. Zhou has been deceived? I heard from Rice's lawyer that it cost more than $7,000! ”

Liu Banxian took advantage of Zhou Yu's absence, covered his mouth with his hand, and said worriedly.

Hu Rentian wiped a handful on his face, looked at one of the rather abstract portraits of a woman without clothes, and sighed:

"Probably not, right? How could such a shrewd person as Mr. Zhou be deceived, you see that this mother-in-law painted it very well, and hung it in my house. ”

"Can you tell it's a mother-in-law? I thought it was one of the old sows we raised in the countryside! Lao Hu, have you been single for too long and are a little hungry? ”

The cripple quipped with a teasing expression.

", what do you know, didn't Mr. Zhou say it? These are works of art, art understands? It's those things that mud legs can't understand no matter how you look at them, it's a work of art! ”

Hu Rentian was annoyed and angry, and drove away all the people around him, and he was quite satisfied with the abstract girl's painting back to his room and found a place to hang it.

After sending off the people in the gallery, Zhou Yu walked back to the villa in a good mood and said: "Don't be polite, choose your favorite ones and hang them in the house, and pack the rest and put them in the warehouse, this is the first investment in our Dragon Guild Hall." ”

When everyone heard Zhou Yu say this, they began to choose in it, and it is estimated that they would not have thought that the messy paintings they picked up at will be worth millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years.

However, Zhou Yu's happy hour did not last long, just as he returned to the villa to finish lunch and get ready to take a nap, there was another knock on the door.

When I opened the door, the person who came was a familiar face, one of the two bodyguards who followed Li Xiling.

"Mr. Zhou, my family president is invited, he said that he hasn't seen you for a long time, he misses it very much, and wants to fish with you and chat, just where you met for the first time."

After the man finished speaking, he reached out and held his hat and nodded his head and left, without saying a word.

"Mr. Zhou, why did the old boy come to you again? Definitely not well-intentioned! ”

Hu Rentian said, he had already taken out a pistol from his back waist and began to check the magazine, with a posture of desperate with others.

Hong Ah Ghost was silent and followed closely behind Zhou Yu.

Liu Banxian also echoed: "That's it, Mr. Zhou, let's not go, I invited you to eat fish last time, but it turned out to be a homicide, so you had to go north in advance, and you missed Xiucai's boat." ”

Lu Xiucai had already heard the other brothers recount what happened last time, and said with a calm expression: "Mr. Zhou, it seems that this old man Li really doesn't have any good intentions, we have to deal with it carefully." ”

Lu Xiucai is not like others, he thinks more, and knows that the other party is a local snake in New York's Chinatown, and it is not something that they can directly offend as a newcomer to the Chamber of Commerce, so they still have to go, but they must be careful.

"I know what to do, just follow me, what should you do when you stay at home."

Zhou Yu gave an order, and immediately took Hong Ah Ghost and asked Zack to drive a car to pull the two to the bank of the East River where he and Li Xiling met for the first time.

The car was parked far away next to a clump of aquatic weeds, and Zhou Yu got out of the car and signaled to stop here.

With his hands in his pockets and his head down, he walked to the riverbank in the chilly breeze.

Turning around a piece of grass, Zhou Yu saw the little figure that was a little rickety.

Old man Li Xiling was still sitting on the mazaar, with the fishing rod stuck in the crack of the stone beside him, his hands in his cuffs, and he didn't know whether he was awake or asleep.

Zhou Yu did not hesitate, walked over a few steps, and said, "Old man, I haven't seen you for a while, but your body is still tough?" ”

He didn't take a fishing rod, he just picked a clean stone next to him and sat down, staring at the water in front of him, and there was no emotional fluctuation on his face.

Li Xiling let out a "hmm" from his nasal cavity, like an animal that had been woken up from hibernation, and said in a deep voice:

"Are you finally willing to come back to see me? Little slippery head, I haven't said what I want you to do, so I ran to Canada to avoid me, you must know that others are scolding me An Liangtang, scolding me Li Xiling is too late, you are the first person to run away when you see me, what, isn't it your dog nose smelling any danger? ”

Zhou Yu was not angry when the other party relied on the old man and sold the old man.

"Old man, I'm different from you, my small business is small, your family has a big business, a little turning over and sneezing is enough for the kid, I still want to take root in New York, take my brothers to live a good life, and I don't want to lose my life so quickly."

"Ouch, lost your life? It's exaggerated, it's exaggerated~! Yes, I admit that I asked you to eat that fish, and there are some selfish motives to see so many people, and it is too late to make other young juniors happy.

What does this mean? It shows that my old man looks up to you, and intends to promote this junior, and if someone else is afraid that he will already bow his head and show loyalty to me, but your kid is really not an ordinary person, he runs faster than a rabbit, and he even left New York overnight, can you tell me today, what danger do you smell? ”

Zhou Yu tilted his head and thought for a while: "No matter what the danger is, I only know that staying in Chinatown must be dangerous, the post of president of the Chinese United Trade Union is about to be replaced, and you have no intention of being re-elected, old man, which makes other gangs eager to try, especially that Liao Baihua, who seems to have developed well in recent years, from his arrogant appearance, it is not difficult to see that it is inevitable to win that position, and the other bigwigs in the hall are based on my preliminary observation, observation." ”

Zhou Yu emphasized, and then said: "Counting the professional sycophant Chen Jielai, you should not be of the same mind as the old man, right?" Oh no, except for the four-surnamed hall master Sister Yan who died on the street after eating. ”

Li Xiling smiled, shook his head and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity~!" ”

"Old man, what do you regret?"

"It's a pity that such a smart young offspring can't be used by me, do you think it's better for me to continue to keep you, or get rid of it as soon as possible?"