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Chapter 268 Famous wine, the sommelier and Zhang Boju

The main plane is Yanhuang Continent, Beijing.

Yanhuang Club, founded in 1996, is located at No. 51 Xidanrongxian Hutong, Xicheng District (the location itself is the old residence of a Qing prince). It is one of the top private clubs in Yanhuang China. Its annual membership fee for permanent members is as high as US$15,000.

Together with Chang'an Club, Jingcheng Club, Beijing American Club, Yongfu Club, Hong Kong Jockey Club, etc., it is known as the top ten top private clubs in Yanhuang.

The top ten clubs, where the people who come in and out every day are either rich or noble, belong to the top of the pyramid among the 1.3 billion people in Yanhuang. However, although they are all top clubs, they each have their own emphasis: Chang'an Club prefers world businessmen like Li Ka-shing, Fok Ying-tung, and Yang Yuanqing.

Celebrities; the Beijing Club focuses on business elites, emerging industries, and embassy staff; the American Club likes representatives of the world's top 500 companies, corporate executives, and returnees; while the members of the Yanhuang Club are mainly members of foreign royal families, entrepreneurs, and artists

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Since the Yanhuang Society is located in the old residence of a prince of the Qing Dynasty, and the courtyard itself is a key cultural relic protection unit of the Yanhuang Society, it contains the essence of the traditional Yanhuang architecture and culture. Here, many members of the Yanhuang Society often say: "The Yanhuang Society

Everything is antique, only people are new."

On the way to the Yanhuang Club, Wang Fan heard from Mu Yunting that her best friend Tang Ping was quite rebellious in the early days. She refused to listen to her family's marriage arrangements and had a private life-long relationship with an artist. It was a very lively affair for two or three years. But this artist...

After her best friend arranged for her to go abroad for further study, she never returned. Later, I heard that she even changed her nationality and became an honorary citizen of a developed country. After this blow, Tang Ping fell seriously ill and almost collapsed.

He fell out. Later, after his mother took careful care and nursed him back to health, he finally recovered.

However, because of her past experience, she is well-known among the big and small families in the capital, and it is difficult for her to enter the candidate list of the fiancée of other family heirs. In addition, she also has a younger brother who can inherit the family business, so it is a blessing in disguise that she can

She continued to freely choose her favorite person. After a long period of time, Tang Ping chose a successful middle-aged business man who was 10 years older than her. It could be said that she went from one extreme to another. This time Tang Ping and her husband

After Tan Furen returned from traveling abroad, he contacted Mu Yunting and set the meeting place at Yanhuang Club.

After the four of them met, Wang Fan took a look at Tan Furen, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and Tang Ping, whose hair was spontaneously dyed red from the middle to the roots. He couldn't help but murmur in his heart. According to his first impression, this Tang Ping

It can be said to be fashionable and full of personality. It is really difficult to have anything in common with Mu Yunting's aesthetic clothing. Will they be best friends? It stands to reason that best friends should have a common language and values. But looking at the two people with completely different dressing styles, Wang Fan

I can't help but wonder whether it was Tang Ping's ex-boyfriend who led her astray? Or was Mu Yunting originally a rebellious girl, but now she has returned to the normal "quadrant"?

"Tingting, long time no see. This is my husband, Furen, whom you have met. Is this your man?" Tang Ping looked at Wang Fan. Although she had guessed the identity, she still asked, especially the last sentence,

"Thunder" Wang Fan is not light.

"What nonsense are you talking about! His name is Wang Fan, and he is my boyfriend. It's still early for him to become a regular man!"

"Hello, Miss Mu, hello, Mr. Wang Fan." Tan Furen interrupted at the right moment and moved away from what he had just said.

"Mr. Tan Furen is too polite. If we don't meet outside, can we all call him by his first name? This will be more casual." Wang Fan suggested while answering.

"sure!"

A few minutes later.

As the four of them gradually became familiar with each other while chatting, the special private dishes of Yanhuang Club began to be served one after another. The portion of each dish was not large, but the dishes were exquisite and delicious.

"Hello everyone, I am Huang Yuan, the sommelier of Yanhuang Club. Since the season is already late autumn and early winter, what I recommend to you today is hique from France." A handsome young man in professional attire said,

His right hand was half bent, holding a bottle of wine with French writing on it.

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

"Yes, Medique is the flagship product of the European Standard Group. It is one of the best-performing vin_de_pay_s red wines in France. It belongs to the traditional languedoc-roussillon type and is blended with a variety of varieties; the raw grapes come from the best conditions.

The vineyard's very old vines can therefore show amazing depth and concentration. Its aging process uses French allier oak barrels, one-third of which are new; after 12 months of aging in barrels,

It will be released on the market after at least 6 months of aging in the bottle." Huang Yuan explained, thinking that Wang Fan was asking and testing his professional knowledge.

"Haha, thank you, thank you! You have taught me a lot of knowledge. I'm sorry, I don't know much about red wine. I have only seen on TV that every time I eat expensive Western food, I ask for 'Lafite', 'Lafite'

"." Wang Fan explained.

"You're welcome. It is also one of our sommelier's jobs to explain and introduce the red wine we use to customers. Lafite is indeed world-famous. In France's 1855 list of classified wines, the first growth is

There is Lafite, and the rest are Latour, Margaux, Prince Haut, King Wudang, etc." Huang Yuan said while pouring wine for the four of them.

Seeing the other three people on the table, they all raised the goblet in an elegant manner, slowly approached it to their lips, and then let the red liquid slowly flow to their lips, and tasted it for a while instead of drinking it all. Wang Fan also learned how to do it.

I took a sip. Well, okay, as you said, it's not sweet or spicy, but it has a sour taste.

"How is it?" Tang Ping asked Tan Furen.

"The taste is very good!" Tan Furen commented.

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

"To be honest, I can't taste red wine. I guess the red wine you mixed with 'three sugars and one water' will taste the same when I drink it." Wang Fan shook his head and replied with a smile.

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

"Ahem, it's not like you don't know my details." Wang Fan said nonchalantly. He was not from the upper class. After his adventure, he mostly came into contact with the middle and lower class people, and his target plane was also with the mud-legged people.

The old mao, old Zhu, etc. are used to discussing and making decisions. Of course, to put it nicely, this 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. What Tang Ping means is that you are very real and sincere." Tan Furen, who has rich social experience and knows that many friends have many paths and many enemies have many walls, explained. Although Wang

Fan behaved very poorly from the beginning, but now that he can become Mu Yunting's boyfriend, Tan Furen, who knows Mu Yunting's family background well, feels that he cannot be just an ordinary person.

"Yes, I didn't mean to laugh at you." Tang Ping, who was her best friend and used to talk about everything, was not low on emotional intelligence. She continued: "I just think of Fang Shengpu who used to pursue Tingting desperately.

He is knowledgeable, well behaved, and well-educated, but we have known his true background for a long time. In essence, he is just a playboy who likes to go to nightclubs. The contrast between Wang Fan and him is too great."

"Can I understand that this is a compliment to me?" Wang Fan did not have much emotional fluctuations. He carried out a large-scale charity project in the main plane to relieve people's livelihood, and wiped out tens of thousands of people in the first plane.

The enemy army of the unit, he had personally eliminated giant insect life in the second target plane, and he had already broken away from showing off, showing off his wealth, and showing off, so he was more relaxed and indifferent at this time.

However, not caring does not mean that you should be angry. If someone's behavior insults him, his family or his friends, Wang Fan does not mind using the power behind him or the strength in his hands to make them shut up and admit their mistakes.

"Okay, let's not mention this anymore. He really doesn't understand. And don't talk about him, my father doesn't understand either." Perhaps it was a woman's innate ability to defend her own front, but Mu Yunting subconsciously pointed out the point in her words.

"Mu Huairen doesn't understand red wine, but he is still the commander-in-chief of the navy", and then continued to ask: "Tang Ping, what are you going to do with the Stars and Stripes this time? I remember you just went there last month.

"ies_new_york Auction House (one of the famous Stars and Stripes Auction Houses) held a small-scale auction a few days ago. Among them was a handwriting of Zhang Boju. My husband Furen admired him the most, so he went to snap it up."

"Zhang Boju?" Wang Fan suddenly answered.

"What's wrong?" Mu Yunting asked.

"Ah? It's nothing, it's just that I'm also interested in him." When Wang Fan heard Mu Yunting's question, he quickly explained that he couldn't say that more than a month ago, because of his interest in the four major princes of the Republic of China, he went out of his way to

I went to see Zhang Boju and had a meal together.

"Wang Fan, are you also interested in him? That's great!" Hearing that Tan Furen, who has the same goals as him and has always been stable, couldn't help but be a little excited, and immediately asked: "Then what do you like about him? His background and personality.

, talent and learning? Or the anecdotes and anecdotes about his collection of famous people’s paintings?”

"Well~~" Wang Fan recalled the details of that meal and replied: "There are some of them, but more of them are his life, opportunities and attitude. I know that Zhang Boju was from the four major universities in the Republic of China.

It started with the young master. Zhang Boju is a handsome man from a warlord family, but he hates firearms, loves antiques, calligraphy and painting, and is especially fond of drama."

"Yes, he often spends a lot of money because of his obsession with calligraphy and painting!" Tan Furen answered.

"Actually, Mr. Tan, if we just say that he is obsessed with calligraphy and painting and spends a lot of money, I'm afraid it still needs to be discussed."

"Oh? Why?"

"I once read a private diary." Since he could not say that he heard what Zhang Boju said with his own ears, Wang Fan had to continue to raise the banner and said: "Zhang Boju purchased Lu Ji's "Hand Reply" from Pu Xinshe.

At that time, Pu Xinshe was asking for 10,000 yuan. In the end, he moved 40,000 yuan out of his home before reluctantly acquiring it. In order to buy Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Outing" from the owner of Yuchi Shanfang, he bought a house in Gongxian Hutong that was suspected of

Li Lianying's former residence was sold and his wife was pawned for a pair of gold jewelry to get the 240 taels of gold requested; there are also "Up to the Balcony Post" written by Li Bai and "Pictures of Shu Official Prostitutes" written by Tang Yin.

, Fan Zhongyan’s "Taoist Praise" and so on, were all purchased by me by selling off my property."

"Then he should be doing it for his own interests, and it can be considered as a gain." Mu Yunting, who didn't know much about Zhang Boju, interjected.

"Yes and no." Tan Furen answered: "I remember not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he donated all these valuable and well-known calligraphy, painting and text to the country. In his later years, he once wrote a sentence: "If you collect it, you don't have to give it to me forever."

, for the sake of existence, so that it will last forever in our land and be passed down from generation to generation."

"That's right. In terms of literary literacy alone, his writing, talent, and spiritual thinking are outstanding. However, from the perspective of creating value through social industrialization, the playboy Zhang Boju has made almost no achievements. But from the perspective of protecting national treasures and cultural relics and inheriting culture, he is considered a

A character, but it will be difficult to see someone like him again in the future." Wang Fan continued.

"Why are there no people like him anymore?" Tang Ping asked with great interest because he was related to art.

"Because most modern people, that is, us, have nothing more than the greatest goal in life to realize their own self-worth. What follows is how to manage and promote themselves and achieve their goals. This includes precise calculations and effective operations.

, careful prevention, reasonable strategies, pursuit of interests, and ruthlessness. When managing life in this way, most of the aesthetic and emotional things must be abandoned. And these are precisely the perceptual cornerstones of Yanhuang traditional poetry and other cultures. These are gone.

Or if the general environment disappears, there will naturally be some gaps in the cultural inheritance of Yanhuang. From the perspective of productivity development, this may be the inevitable result of the ancient 'slow' life transforming into the modern 'fast' life."
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