Bian Xuedao has never liked London very much.

He doesn't like the sunny and rainy weather in London, the food here, the mix of classical and modern avant-garde architectural styles that seem very chaotic, the ever-grey sky and narrow streets, the politeness that exudes a sense of distance, the arrogant and rebellious chavs in sportswear and the naughty kids who are full of racial discrimination, and the fans who are too noisy. In short, Bian Xuedao is incompatible with London's aura.

But Chenfu admires London very much.

Or to put it another way, she needs London, because London is one of the most artistic cities in the world.

Compared with Vienna, Prague, Florence, London's all-encompassing artistic atmosphere is second to none.

Concerts, art exhibitions, photography exhibitions, various market performances, various museums, and the London-Design-Festival held in September every year. This kaleidoscope-like city can meet the artistic exploration and inspiration attempts of most fields of interest and enthusiasts, and has attracted artists from all over the world to temporarily live or settle down. Chen Fu is one of them.

Chen Fu has always wanted to write a high-level work based on her own ability to maintain a trace of pride hidden in her heart. In the past two years, she has worked hard to enrich herself. Almost every month, she has to go to The National Gallery and the British Museum to draw inspiration for accumulated creative works, or linger in Hyde Park, which is as beautiful as oil paintings, breaking through the noisy and noisy city streets.

Therefore, despite being pregnant, Chen Fu is still an excellent guide.

But at this moment, the guide was behind, and two "guided" people were walking in front.

Teacher Shen, who was walking in front, told Bian Xue a difficult problem, but she also left room for her.

To judge whether a person is smart, you can draw a conclusion by whether he leaves room for his life or not.

Teacher Shen, who has been teaching in college for a lifetime, was skilled in human feelings before he got sick, laughed before he could speak, and after major changes in the family, he understood more clearly than most people, and was undoubtedly a smart person.

So, without waiting for Bian Xuedao to express his opinion, Teacher Shen continued: "This is my personal request and my personal idea. Chen Fu doesn't know, and I will not tell her in the future that the decision is up to you, as long as you have a clear conscience."

After hearing this, Bian Xuedao pushed the wheelchair silently without answering the conversation.

As the chairman of a group company with more than 10,000 employees, every thought may determine the life and death of the company or the fate of employees, which has made Bian Xuedao form a thinking habit of making major decisions and repeated considerations. Not accepting words is not because he has no feelings for Chen Fu, but because this matter is so important that he cannot make a statement rashly.

When crossing the "Millennium Bridge" in the wheelchair, Teacher Shen looked at a white father and son walking across from the other side and said, "Maybe you think my thoughts are very inhumane now, but when you have your own children, you will understand the psychology of being a parent. You would rather give up everything than protect your children from harm or suffer less."

From this sentence, I can hear one meaning - in Teacher Shen's eyes, he only brings harm to the rich, and the difference is only more and less.

Bian Xuedao does not agree with this, but he also feels that he has no way to refute it.

After all, "I can give her anything except a marriage book and an identity" is not suitable for her to speak, nor does it necessarily convince people with different outlooks on life, and it is indeed more selfish.

Thinking about things in my mind, I was even more interested in visiting London.

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Some people are indifferent, while others are in high spirits.

On January 10, 2009, the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, Sotheby's [Rare Jewelry New Year Auction] kicked off at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center at 9:50 am.

This auction is a special jewelry show before the Spring Auction.

The reason for setting up a special show is very simple. Under the global economic crisis, the economic impact of the rich is far greater than that of the poor. The funds are really unable to turn over, so they naturally think of taking out jewelry collections for auction to relieve the pressure. Because everyone is in a hurry to use money, the special show will be held before the spring auction in early April.

In order to make the transaction data, the auction house delivered exquisite lots to target customers and potential customers two months earlier. The owner of Hedong Garden, "the most expensive mansion on the top of Taiping Mountain", was naturally listed as a key potential customer.

The album of the lot was always in Liu Yisong's hands. Before the family dinner began, Liu Yisong gave the album to Bian Xuedao to read. After 20 minutes, Bian Xuedao decided to let Qu Wan take the photo instead of him.

What impressed Bian Xuedao was the three necklaces and two diamonds in the picture album. They were - a red royal necklace inlaid with a total of 104.51 carats of natural Burmese "Pione Blood Red" ruby; a foot-colored American diamond necklace with a total weight of 85.33 carats; and the famous Hutton-Mdivani natural jade bead necklace; a very rare 10.10 carats of flawless oval colorful blue diamond "De Beers Millennium Treasure No. 4" and a flawless colorful orange diamond weighing 11.82 carats.

After a few thoughts, Bian Xuedao decided not to have a necklace and take down the diamond.

The reason for making this decision was that he bought it and gave it to Dong Xue and Shen Fu's children.

Bian Xuedao has read some reports that jewelry will have some connection with the fate of its owner, and some well-known jewelry even carry curses, such as the "pearl tears" that specializes in women, and the British royal family is frightened and has to take it out to conquer the "Mountain of Light" in the London Museum.

The three necklaces in the picture album, Bian Xuedao originally liked the itchy natural jade bead necklace, which was so green that itchy, but when he learned about the life of the necklace owner Barbara Hutton, he immediately gave up and he didn't buy it for no matter how much.

Barbara Hutton, born with a golden key in his mouth, is very rich, but throughout his life, it can be simply summarized as "a poor rich woman."

Barbara lost her mother at a young age, lost her husband at middle age (7 divorces), and lost her son at an old age. Her father abandoned her. None of her seven husbands could tolerate her. When she died of illness in a hotel, there was no relative or friend around her.

The most perfect thing for Barbara in her life was to spend all her money before she died.

The beloved jewelry of such a woman who was favored and cursed, Bian Xuedao bought it for himself and Shen Fu's daughter after his brain was flooded. So he decided to bid for a relatively "clean" diamond for his first little princess.

Before the auction began, Bian Xuedao used a large amount of funds under his name. In order to make sure that he could get the auction, he even agreed to two loans with Zhu Zhichun and Wang Weiran.

According to the auction house's estimate, the estimated transaction price of the bright blue diamond "De Beers Millennium Treasure No. 4" is between 30 million and 35 million US dollars, and the estimated transaction price of the 11.82 carats of flawless bright orange diamond is between 30 million and 33.5 million US dollars. If you include 12% of the large-scale transaction, that is, if Bian Xuedao wants to buy both diamonds, he needs to prepare at least 450 million RMB of funds. If you want to be safe, you have to prepare 500 million RMB.

After Zhiwei’s Weibo listing, Xuedao’s personal wealth has risen again, but assets and funds are different things. Even if you don’t look at lock-up-period, if Bian Xuedao, as the boss, cashes out immediately after listing, what will investors think? What will employees think? Do you still want to make Youdao a Fortune 500?

But on the other hand, you still have to buy it.

Although the diamond business is monopolized by De Beers, the company has an absolute "monopolized pricing power", resulting in inflated diamond prices; although artificial synthetic diamond technology is becoming more mature and perfect, there is no technical barrier for artificial diamonds; although the argument of "diamond depreciation" is rampant, Bian Xuedao still decided to invest huge amounts of money to buy diamonds.

He did this for three reasons:

First, diamonds have special meanings to women.

Secondly, no matter how mature the technology is, powerful interest groups will not cause diamond prices to plummet. Moreover, Bian Xuedao bought top-level colored diamonds, and their value-preservation ability is much higher than that of ordinary diamonds.

Third, Bian Xuedao never thinks that artificial luxury goods will be more valuable than similar natural luxury goods, nor do he think that artificial diamonds will have a huge impact on the price of natural diamonds.

Because the reason why luxury goods are luxury is that two key elements are "sparseness" and "non-renewable".

Take artificial diamonds as an example. The ability to manufacture infinitely by artificially has eliminated the most important prerequisite attributes for becoming luxury goods, so it is impossible to be valuable at all. Artificial red sapphire is a clear proof.

Artificial red sapphires that cost dozens of dollars, even a few cents each can be found everywhere on the market, but the price and status of natural red sapphires have not been affected at all.

Moreover, can the same 2-carat diamond ring buyer feel the same as the one you buy for 1 million yuan and the one you buy for 1,000 yuan?

It's definitely different!

When a young man proposes, does the boy feel embarrassed to give him 1,000 artificial diamonds?

If you lose a diamond that will not be more than two hours after your heartache, even if the boy is embarrassed to give it, will the girl be embarrassed to wear it on her hands and see someone? Even if the girl is willing to wear it, will she carefully care and always wear it on her hands?

After all, from ancient times to the present, the purpose of human beings to purchase jewelry is to collect, show off and express the "you are the most precious" intention. This psychological need cannot be replaced or satisfied.

Therefore, Bian Xuedao decided to spend a huge amount of money to buy top-level natural colored diamonds. He felt that this thing could preserve its value and that after he left this time and space or dream, the people he cared about could rely on financially.

For the same consideration, Bian Xuedao did not let Qu Wan participate in the auction anonymously, but went to the scene to raise a sign to bid.

Bian Xuedao didn't mind that the outside world knew that two top colored diamonds were taken into his pocket. He even felt that this was a way to prove the origin and value of the colored diamonds, so as to avoid him from being there. Those with ulterior motives questioned the authenticity of the diamonds owned by the descendants of the Bian family.

"Planning for descendants" is a nature engraved in human genes. I wish the sea and the mountain are like this, and the Bian Xuedao is the same.

The atmosphere at the auction at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center was warm.

"De Beers Millennium Treasure 4" set off a wave of auction climax as expected.

You can't blame everyone for being excited, it's really because this diamond is too precious and rare.

The "De Beers Millennium Treasures" series consists of 12 top diamonds, including a "Millennium Star" weighing 203.04 carats and 11 blue diamonds weighing 118 carats in total.

All 12 diamonds have been carefully cut and polished, each of which is engraved with the corresponding number of Millennium treasures with De Beers' proprietary technology. It can be said that it has an extraordinary status in the gem circle.

After the Millennium Exhibition in 2000, before this special auction, 12 "De Beers Millennium Treasures" disappeared for a full nine years and have never appeared in the open market. This is the first case. Therefore, no matter who buys "De Beers Millennium Treasure No. 4", it will definitely become a good story.

There are many people who want to become a good story and are well prepared, so the auction site has almost fallen into heat from the beginning.

Especially for the two buyers who bid anonymously over the phone, the price increase is very large, which makes people feel very clearly the determination of their determination to win.

Qu Wan, who was taught in person by learning the Tao, was also determined to win, but she didn't hold any cards before the price was increased to $25 million. Until the price was increased to $28 million, Qu Wan finally raised the cards and looked at the auctioneer and said, "$33 million!"

Then……

Nothing happened.

It is true that the rich are rich, but the rich are not stupid. These people are very agile and are more sensitive to the value of goods than ordinary people, so they will not be foolishly taken into the pit by children.

Qu Wan's price increase method in the final stage easily makes people feel that she is maliciously raising the price, so she directly ended the auction.

After the auction of 11.82 carats of flawless orange diamonds started, Qu Wan changed her strategy and joined the auction as soon as possible, with a small price increase. After nearly a hundred rounds of auctions, she finally successfully won the colorful orange diamond for US$31.08 million, successfully completing the money-spending task assigned by Bian Xuedao.

At 9 a.m. on January 12, Bian Xuedao flew from London to Hong Kong by private jet.

Four hours later, a deputy general manager of Sotheby's Hong Kong and several staff members rode in bulletproof vehicles and drove into the gate of Hedong Garden under the escort of two security vehicles.

In the small living room on the second floor of the mansion.

Vice President Sotheby's personally introduced the data of "De Beers Millennium Treasure 4" to the real owner of Diamond.

Bian Xuedao pinched the diamond with his right thumb and index finger, and looked at the saturated colors and charming firelight worth more than 200 million yuan in front of him. For some reason, the bizarre dream about fireflies that Shen Fu told him suddenly appeared in his mind.

After the deputy general manager finished his explanation, Bian Xuedao put the diamond back into the red sandalwood box containing the diamonds, squinted his eyes slightly and said, "From today, this one has a new name, called... the other side firefly star."

Another way to spell the pinyin of "Overseas" is "border".

"Flower Star" means flying firefly star.

The thought of learning the Tao on Bian Shanfang gave Shen Shanfang the name of Bian Yingxing after recognizing his ancestors.

Bian Yingxing, who was still in Shen Fu's belly, was a story later. He rested in Hedong Garden for a night. Bian Xuedao took a colorful orange diamond on the plane and flew to France non-stop. The purpose of his trip was to meet his parents and Dong Xue - Dong Xue, who was willing to wait for his beloved man without regrets, desires and desires.

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