Chapter 1163

For Lena's hobby, she directly bought the team and invested hundreds of millions of pounds to build a new stadium.

What's more, in order for the team to win the championship, he would rather keep the treatment equipment that can sell for at least one billion US dollars a year and speed up the recovery of trauma for two full years and keep it secret, only for the players of his own team to use.

It wasn't open to the outside world until the team really won the championship.

And to be honest, Americans are actually quite envious of England.

Stark used to despise the nobles, that is, he felt that he was richer than the top ten nobles in England combined, so why should he envy you?

But now facing an obvious asset, the Devonhill family, which is richer than the Stark Group, he is not so confident.

After all, what Westerners talk about is money.

Standing on the virtual imaging platform, after thinking for a while, he suddenly said, "Jarvis, help me show the history of the Devonhill family."

Immediately, a large series of materials and photos, or oil paintings are displayed in the virtual image.

After Stark saw that Lena's father and grandfather's generation sold off a lot of antiques,

Stark smiled and said to Pepper, "It's no secret that William likes antiques from the Celestial Dynasty, and her mother should also care about those family antiques that have been left behind."

Little Pepper immediately nodded with a smile, "Understood, I'll go to the antique middleman and ask."

But it is not a big problem for them to buy antiques from the Celestial Dynasty, but it is not so easy to buy antiques related to the Devonhill family.

For Lena, there is a son who likes antiques from the Chinese dynasty, who often brings antiques to his home and museums to remind her,

She would never think of recycling, even the antiques related to the Devonhill family were impossible.

In addition, Abigail, the family's chief steward, was the head of the museum at the beginning, and her double doctorates are also related to cultural relics.

During the first two years with William, in order to please Lena, she spent a lot of thought and recovered many items related to William's grandfather and Henry Devonhill.

When Lina could find everything from his father's and grandfather's generation, he would have collected almost all of them.

She turned her attention to the objects of the Devonhill family, which were even older.

Over the years, basically as long as an antique middleman came to her, and the price did not exceed the bottom line that she and Abigail negotiated, she would buy it directly.

Even some things related to her mother, even if they were twice as expensive, Lina would not hesitate.

Therefore, there is a super bully, and everyone keeps the antiques related to the Devonhill family in their hands tightly covered.

Just waiting for Lina to buy an antique again at a price higher than the estimated price, the value of the objects in their hands will rise accordingly.

Fortunately, Lina herself is not stupid, and there is Abigail as a staff member by her side. Otherwise, if she let go of the purchase, it would not be double or triple, but ten times possible.

Therefore, Stark originally thought that he would be willing to bid, and it would be very simple to buy an antique with high value and important to the Devonhill family.

But when he and Xiaojiao looked at the virtual image, a pair of oil paintings of Lena's great-grandmother, only 92-73 centimeters,

Stark scolded extremely displeasedly, "Are these people crazy? It's just an oil painting painted by a famous painter in England, and it's only a hundred years old.

How dare you ask for nine million dollars? "

Little Pepper also said with a look of disbelief, "I, I have asked someone, and the real value of this painting may not even be worth 3.5 million U.S. dollars.

But who, who made this painting belong to Mrs. Lena's great-grandmother, and she is also the most famous painter among the painters who helped them paint in the Devonhill family."

"Then why is this painting still on the market?" After Stark finished speaking, he immediately understood, "It's William's mother who thinks the price is too outrageous?"

"No, that's right," Little Pepper nodded helplessly, "When this painting first appeared six years ago, Mrs. Lina paid a price of three million dollars.

But the owner of the oil painting, at that time, asked for five million, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

Six years later, the price kept rising to nine million.

And if the other party says we don’t buy 9 million dollars, maybe we’ll have to wait another ten years, and as Mrs. Lina’s grades get older, the owner of the painting even dares to ask for 50 million dollars.”

"God," Stark said, shaking his head helplessly while covering his head, "These bastards are really determined to get nostalgic as people get older.

It made me feel that the price of 50 million US dollars is really not impossible."

Little Pepper hesitated, "Then, should I buy it or not?"

"Is there no other choice?" Stark said angrily, "I'd rather spend 20 million dollars to buy something worth 15 million than be laughed at."

"Sorry, no," Little Pepper shook his head, "The Devonhill family is not famous in history, except for the rumor that there were Templars in the first few generations,

The Earl of Oxford behind, it is not wrong to say that they are unknown.

And the really expensive ones, except for some things that represent the history of the Devonhill family,

Everything else has to do with Lena's parents and grandparents."

"count?"

Stark immediately thought of William's family, which was really an earl at first, and it was not until William was awarded the title of duke.

"I hope that William and his mother will not laugh at me for being an upstart."

Stark

Looking at the cultural relics of the Devonhill family that Lena had taken back over the years displayed by Jarvis, he shook his head and said,

"Looking at the items and prices that William's mother charged, she must have hired an expert as a consultant."

Pepper immediately smiled and said, "Miss Abigail was the maintenance director of the Declaration of Independence before she went to England.

And helped Mr. Devonhill build and fill a museum with artifacts.

"Forget it, just buy it." Stark shook his head helplessly while envious of William in his heart, "It's just as compensation for knowing William for so many years, but never giving his mother a birthday present."

The oil painting was bought, but a series of procedures were not so fast.

In addition, there was a bronze sword for William to hand over. In order not to make any mistakes, Stark took several experts to finish the work, and the time was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

I found a star-rated restaurant for dinner with Pepper, and I was planning to leave tomorrow evening, and it happened to be the morning of London when I arrived in London.

But I saw that the TV hanging on the wall and usually used to broadcast stock indexes and news, with the sound turned off, was broadcasting the news of the accident in this space station.

Some guests who were paying attention to Stark saw that he had been staring at the TV, so they couldn't help turning their attention to the TV.

Immediately there were bursts of exclamations from the restaurant.

The waiter was called to turn on the voice, and soon everyone understood that this is a private company called White Technology Group, which cooperated with the US government ten days ago to launch a scientific research space station into space.

And the host on TV, in an anxious and worried tone, said that he hoped that William would send a spaceship to help the United States rescue the scientists in the space station.

Stark and Pepper looked at each other, and in the eyes of everyone in the restaurant, they took out their mobile phones and called William.

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