At noon that day.

Luxury villa area in Gubei New District, Hai City.

Zhou's single-family villa

"Lin Lang, you just come, why do you buy so many things?"Motorcycle goddess Zhou Mengyao smiled and welcomed Lin Lang in.

Zhou Mengyao had long hair down to her waist, a fair face that was beyond description, delicate features like a painting, noble and elegant temperament, fair skin, beautiful long legs, wasp waist and hips, plump and proud figure, stunning appearance, and beauty that hits the soul.

Lin Lang, who was wearing a white double-breasted suit, smiled and replied:"It's my first visit, so I naturally have to prepare a small gift to show my appreciation."

The maid Aunt Mei took the gift from Lin Lang's hand and said politely:"Mr. Lin, please come in, I'll go and tell the master and the lady that you are here."

Lin Lang replied with one word"OK!"

Zhou Mengyao praised:"Old classmate, you look so handsome today~"

Lin Lang smiled and replied:"Mengyao, your daily outfit of white clothes is more beautiful than snow, and you still have the temperament of a beautiful school girl, it's still hard to look away"

"Lin Lang, when you were in high school, you were not good at speaking, melancholy and introverted, and your mouth was not as sweet as it is now."

"Mengyao, when you were in high school, your figure was not so perfect, with curves where they should be, and curves where they should be. I was embarrassed to look directly at you, for fear of having a nosebleed if I wasn't careful."

"hehe……"

Zhou Mengyao smiled sweetly and said,"Lin Lang, you have become more humorous now, much more interesting than when you were in high school."

Lin Lang shrugged and said,"As the saying goes, money is the courage of a hero, and gold is the waist of a man. When I was in school, my family was ordinary, and I studied in an aristocratic school. I kept my distance from my classmates from rich families, so it was inevitable that I would be a little out of place."

Zhou Mengyao replied after hearing this,"Money is a magic mirror, and silver is a ruler to measure people's hearts. When you are rich, you can understand people's hearts, and when you are poor, you can see human nature."

"Lin Lang, your eyes are still as clear as they were in high school, you are humble and polite, without any arrogance and publicity of a nouveau riche, you are still the introverted and cold boy you once were."

Lin Lang sighed:"It was only after entering society that I realized the beauty of campus life. Those light and shadow years when I studied with you often appear in my mind. That must be the youth we can never go back to."

Zhou Mengyao smiled and said:"Time has never been gentle, so there is youth"

"Time has passed, and there is no need to say more. My youth is also you, my deskmate. We used to be far apart and did not bother each other, but now we have met again. I hope that this time our friendship will not be separated and alienated."

Lin Lang took out a bunch of colorful zinnia flowers from his portable space as if he was taking something from the air, and gave it to Zhou Mengyao, the beautiful school girl in high school.

"Ding ding ding……"

"Change……"

"I give this bouquet of flowers to you, my deskmate. May our youth never end and our friendship never close!"

Zhou Mengyao took the fragrant zinnias, smelled the fresh fragrance, and exclaimed happily:"My old classmate, you can even perform magic to make girls happy!"

"Thanks for the surprise!"

"The words of zinnia are to miss friends far away forever, so let's wish that our friendship can last forever, always as fresh as before, like a poem or a painting!"

Lin Lang smiled warmly after hearing this.

Zhou Mengyao smiled happily and said,"I'll take you on a brief tour of our home. Old classmate, do you want tea, coffee or juice? I'll ask the servant to bring you"

"I'll have some coffee."

Lin Lang followed Zhou Mengyao's footsteps and walked around the huge Zhou's luxurious villa, looking at the antique porcelain, calligraphy and painting artworks on display.

As soon as he entered the villa's living room, what caught Lin Lang's eyes was a complete set of Huanghuali furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The treasure appraisal entry showed that it had a history of more than 300 years and was worth tens of millions of Chinese yuan.

"Wow~"

"Your father is indeed a great collector. Just the set of Huanghuali furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties displayed in the living room is worth tens of millions of Chinese yuan."

"Mengyao, you really are a rich second generation born with a silver spoon in your mouth"

"Lin Lang, you just took a casual look and you said this set of antique furniture is from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and is worth tens of millions. It seems that you are not simple!"

In the living room of Zhou's villa, a group of vases and porcelains are particularly eye-catching. They are imitation cloisonné appreciation vases from the Qianlong period and two blue and white porcelain general jars from the Kangxi period, all of which are very valuable.

On the wall of the living room, there are framed original works of Mr. Qi Baishi, a great master of his generation, which are also priceless. The whole house of Zhou's villa is full of famous paintings and calligraphy, and antiques and curios are filled in every room. It can be said that there are so many things to see that Lin Lang is dazzled.

Lin Lang exclaimed:"Although this is your Zhou family's private residence, the collection inside is as good as a museum. You can see the original works of celebrities everywhere. Your father's collection is shocking."

"The Zhou residence is full of antiques, and you can see with the naked eye that they are worth tens of billions. It's so luxurious!"

Zhou Mengyao replied:"Old classmate, you don't know that I am not a second-generation rich, but a fourth-generation rich of the Zhou family in old Yihai. Many of the tens of billions of antique collections in the Zhou residence villa were left by my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun."

Lin Lang was shocked after hearing this and said:"Mengyao, your grandfather is Zhou Xiangyun, the real estate tycoon in old Yihai?!"

Zhou Mengyao replied:"That's right!"

"When talking about my grandfather, the real estate tycoon Zhou Xiangyun, I have to start with my great-grandfather."

"My great-grandfather Zhou Zilian was a carpenter by birth. He followed the wave of refugees from Ningbo into Old Haikou. He had no relatives and worked as a laborer on the construction site of Sassoon."

"My great-grandfather Zhou Zilian was not content to be a laborer on a construction site. He spent two months' salary to buy a book called"English Notes" and taught himself Pidgin English."

"After learning basic spoken English, my great-grandfather Zhou Zilian soon joined Sassoon & Co. and became a salesman, going in and out of major teahouses on Nanjing Road every day to introduce and sell properties to customers."

"In just a few years, my great-grandfather Zhou Zilian became rich and made a lot of cash."

"Then my great-grandfather Zhou Zilian registered a real estate leasing company with the Municipal Council under the name of"Zhou Lian Ji". This was the first real estate leasing agency established during the Xia Dynasty."

"The main business of Jingzu is to sell or lease commercial housing on behalf of real estate developers and extract a commission of 5%-10% from them."

"Since renting did not require much cost, my great-grandfather Zhou Zilian used his savings to purchase real estate inside and outside the concession, becoming a real estate tycoon among the Chinese merchants in Shanghai in the 19th century."

Lin Lang was amazed after hearing this and said,"I didn't expect that your great-grandfather, Mengyao, Zhou Zilian, was the earliest real estate agent pioneer in Xiaguo during the old Shanghai period."

"It was after your great-grandfather Zhou Zilian became a real estate tycoon that our Xia country had the profession of real estate agent. The ancestors of your Zhou family really pioneered the real estate industry!"

Zhou Mengyao smiled proudly, and then continued:"After my great-grandfather Zhou Zilian left behind many legends of real estate tycoons and died after successfully starting his own business, he left behind his wife Shui Chunlan and two underage sons."

"My great-grandmother Shui Chunlan, known as Mrs. Shui in the beach, after experiencing the grief of losing her husband, she began to take charge of the huge family business and raised my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun and my second grandfather Zhou Chunqing to adulthood."

"My great-grandmother Shui Chunlan was also a rare talent. She was very capable right from the start. Not only did she manage the business left by my great-grandfather in an orderly manner, she also trained my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun and my second grandfather Zhou Chunqing to become top business masters in old Shanghai."

"My great-grandfather Zhou Zilian started the business with great difficulty, my great-grandmother Shui Chunlan continued to expand the business, and my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun took over the family business as a second-generation chaebol. Our Zhou family had become the leading wealthy businessmen among Ningbo people in Shanghai during the old Shanghai period."

"After my great-grandmother Shui Chunlan passed away, my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun was the eldest, so he inherited the Zhou family's real estate business."

"My grandfather Zhou Xiangyun was cautious and conservative. Although he did not expand the Zhou family real estate business, he had good luck that all the merchants in old Shanghai envied. He encountered a golden opportunity when the land prices in the concessions soared several times."

"Before and after the Xinhai Revolution, the population of the Hai Concession increased greatly, and real estate prices soared accordingly."

"In 1924, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War caused refugees from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to flee, which once again caused a sharp rise in land prices in the concessions."

"During the Anti-Japanese War, refugees from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, wealthy families in Kyoto and Tianjin, and wealthy bureaucrats in the late Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang warlord period all tried their best to squeeze into the concessions, driving up the real estate market in Shanghai."

"The real estate business of our Zhou family was all in the International Settlement. My grandfather Zhou Xiangyun made a lot of money from it and became one of the few real estate tycoons in old Shanghai."

"A rich family fortune, plus a strong���My interest made my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun a great collector of old Shanghai."

"The treasures of the current Shanghai Museum, Huaisu's"Kusun Tie" and Mi Youren's"Xiaoxiang Tu", were once my grandfather's collection."

"My father was able to become a treasure appraiser and loved to collect antique porcelain, calligraphy and paintings all his life. This had a lot to do with my grandfather Zhou Xiangyun, who nurtured my father's art since childhood."

After hearing this, Lin Lang exclaimed:"Your grandfather Zhou Xiangyun, as a second-generation real estate tycoon, had the best time and place in old Shanghai. As a collector, he was fortunate to see the original works in that special war-torn era and passed them on to his descendants. It was really worth his life!"

"I didn't expect that your father was a third-generation rich man, and you, Mengyao, are actually a fourth-generation rich man, the daughter of a prominent family in Haihai!"

"No wonder you have such an outstanding temperament, Mengyao, and your every frown and smile is full of elegance. It turns out that your Zhou family has always been the upper class, a powerful family in the beach."

Zhou Mengyao said with a smile:"It's nothing!"

"After all, I am the only daughter of the Zhou family. Whoever marries me in the future will get the antiques and treasures worth billions in the Zhou mansion, plus the family heritage of our Zhou family, which will all be cheap for outsiders."

Lin Lang said with a smile:"It seems that whoever marries you, my deskmate, will not only marry a beautiful and wealthy woman, but also inherit the Zhou family's heritage and social connections, and will step onto the peak of life from now on."

Zhou Mengyao raised her beautiful little face and said half-jokingly:"Lin Lang, are you tempted to marry me and become the son-in-law of our Zhou family?"

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