Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 177
"Ah, Xiao Liang is here, come in, come in!" Fan Meng's mother, a stout Eastern European woman, greeted Liang En in fluent Chinese as soon as she walked through the porch and entered the hall.

"Xiao Meng is ready and ready to go at any time. And if you haven't had lunch, I'll ask the chef to prepare something you like right now."

Because of the relationship between the two families, Liang En and Fan Meng's family members are relatively close, so Mrs. Fan was so enthusiastic when she saw Liang En coming.

"Don't bother, Aunt Natalia, I just came here after eating at the museum, and I'm not hungry now." Because the meal time has passed, there are no customers in the restaurant.So Liang En made it to an empty dining table and said.

Soon, Fan Meng came out from an empty box next door. Judging from his attire, he should have been helping to clean up the trash in that box just now.

"Take care of yourself first, don't worry." Liang En said after seeing Fan Meng coming out with a cart of garbage, and then turned to Aunt Natalia. "Because I still have something to ask about Chinatown."

"No problem, as long as I know, I will definitely tell you." After hearing what Liang En said, Aunt Natalia sat down opposite Liang En, and said.

"After all, we run a restaurant. If we are well-informed, there are not many people on the street who are more well-informed than us. And if I don't know, I can ask Xiaomeng's grandfather."

"That would be great." Liang En said with a smile, "I just want to know what's going on in the house of the collector named Jack Lee on this street?"

"You're talking about that old Li who just passed away last week." Hearing what Liang En said, Natalia found what she needed in her mind after just a little thought.

"To be honest, he is indeed a good man. I remember that he would come to the restaurant once a week and order a good old soup with some seasonal dishes to eat alone. It's a pity that his children are really—— "

Speaking of Mr. Li, Aunt Natalia does have a lot of memories.After all, this gentleman comes over regularly for dinner every week and has maintained this habit for more than 20 years. It is hard not to leave a deep impression on people.

According to her, this Mr. Li was a sailor when he was young. After saving some money, he opened a laundry here, and then gradually developed and became a wealthy man among the Irish Chinese.

"It's a pity that when he was young, he devoted most of his energy to his career, so he neglected to discipline his children." At the end, Natalia shook her head and sighed.

"You know, when an immigrant leaves his hometown and comes to a new country, he always faces a choice between the local culture and his own culture. Normally, immigrants will find a balance in it."

"This balance is very important. On the one hand, if you want to live in the local area, it is obviously difficult to live without being able to test the local situation. On the other hand, it is not a good choice to completely forget the habits of your own ethnicity as an immigrant."

"Especially for you Asians, as long as your appearance remains unchanged, you will never be able to integrate into the local society. And if you abandon your traditional culture at this time, then you will soon have an obvious sense of loss .”

As a descendant of Russians, Aunt Natalia naturally also has the unique habits of Russians who are located between the East and the West. View.

"The children of Mr. Li chose an inappropriate path. They were too westernized. As soon as Mr. Li passed away, he was eager to sell his father's collection and make a complete cut with their lineage. .”

"This sounds really—" Liang En shook his head. Although he believed that everyone had the right to make their own choices, from his point of view, those Li family children had obviously done it too well.

But this is not a bad thing for him, because if the other party is eager to get rid of those collections that represent the past, he should be able to save a lot of money when he buys it himself.

After understanding the outline of the target this time, Liang En and Fan Meng set off from Fan's Restaurant, and after only one block to the east, they came to a shop with a rolling gate pulled down.

Are we in the right place? Looking at the rolling gate that was pulled down, Liang En showed a puzzled expression. "Why is there no one in this place. ""

It should be right. Fan Meng looked at the house number and the notice posted on the side of the house number, and then took out his mobile phone. "Anyway, the other party left a phone number, so we can call him and call him." "

Sure enough, after Fan Meng dialed the number on the notice, the call was quickly connected.Within a few minutes, a young man with red hair in a suit and tie walked over.

"Hello! I'm John, a trainee lawyer, and I'm also a client of the Li family. I'm the sole agent for the sale of all items in this shop." After meeting Liang En and the others, the young man shook hands with them , and made a self-introduction.

"By the way, I need to confirm that you are really here to buy something, and you need to prove that you have more than 5000 euros in liquidity that can be used for shopping."

"No problem." Because he had heard about it from his wife before, Fan Meng quickly took out his bank card and swiped it on the POS machine brought by the other party to complete the capital verification, and then John opened the rolled up the shutter.

This store was one of the first few laundry rooms operated by Mr. Li, but as soon as he passed away, his children closed this low-profit laundry room and dismissed the staff, and then used it as a collection of various collections. warehouse.

After the shutter door was opened, the sun shone through the curtains on the messy things on the ground. Obviously, Mr. Li's children treated their father's collection as garbage, so they piled up in such a mess.

However, judging from the empty space next to those items, someone should have bought some of them before.All they see now is what's left.

"There is a note on each of these things with the price marked on it. If you think it is suitable, you can take it away, and if you don't, you can put it here." John pointed to the pile of things and introduced.

"What's with those boxes over there?" Liang En asked as soon as John finished speaking, pointing to a pile of wood-clad iron boxes in the corner.

"Mr. Li bought some of his collections in boxes, and my client checked the boxes and set a price. The items inside are not for sale alone." Hearing Liang En's question, John replied immediately.

"Understood." Liang En nodded, and then checked the things in this room.

After taking a general look, he found that Mr. Li's collection of items was too mixed.Everything from ancient stone tools to last week's freshly baked copper.

It's a pity that although these things look dazzling, they are not only heterogeneous and unsystematic, but also full of a lot of things that can be seen as fakes at a glance. Liang En guesses that this is the reason why those museums and big auction companies refuse to accept orders.

(End of this chapter)