After all, he quickly said to Ye Chen: "Master Ye, please come in and talk!"

Ye Chen nodded, then turned to Chen Zekai and said, "Old Chen, I'll have a chat with Mr. Lai, you should go back first."

Chen Zekai said respectfully: "Good young master."

After finishing speaking, he said to Lai Qinghua: "Old Mr. Lai, this junior will retire first."

Lai Qinghua cupped his hands at him: "Mr. Chen, walk slowly."

After Chen Zekai left, Ye Chen followed Lai Qinghua into his room.

This is an executive luxury suite with an area of ??more than 200 square meters. The living room alone occupies nearly 100 square meters.

At this time, on the tea table in the living room, there was already a set of purple sand tea set, besides that, there was also a bronze incense burner.

Lai Qinghua asked Ye Chen to sit down on the sofa, and while boiling water to make tea, he took out a piece of wood the size of a palm, and then used a delicate silver knife to gently scrape some powder off the piece of wood.

Afterwards, he took out a set of exquisite copper tools, and first used the tools to flatten and compact the incense ash in the incense burner, and then poured the powder scraped off the wood on the incense ash, and pressed it into a lotus shape with the tools. .

Ye Chen recognized the set of tools he used, which was the famous seal incense.

Most people who like to burn incense buy processed incense sticks or sticks directly, but there are still some fastidious people who like to press seal incense by themselves.

Most of the materials used to press seal incense are leftovers of agarwood or Laoshan sandalwood, which can be regarded as waste utilization, and the cost will not be too high.

But what Lai Qinghua used was a large piece of agarwood, which surprised Ye Chen.

Because the price of a large piece of agarwood is still very expensive in the market, if the price is calculated by weight, it is much more expensive than gold.

If such a piece of agarwood is carved into Buddhist images such as Buddha, Bodhisattva, or Tara, it can sell for at least hundreds of thousands.

At this time, Lai Qinghua ignited the lotus-shaped seal incense with a match, and said to Ye Chen with a smile: "Master Ye, you should not reject the smell of agarwood, right?"

Ye Chen smiled slightly, looked at the wisp of green smoke rising into the sky, and at the same time smelled the unique fragrance of agarwood when it was ignited, and felt very comfortable, so he said: "Mr. Lai is really elegant, this kind of Zhuanxiang, when I was with my mother when I was a child, I smelled it under her light, and after so many years, I smell it again, and the aftertaste is endless."

Lai Qinghua nodded and said seriously: "Your mother is very famous in the United States. It is said that when she was alive, she spared no effort to promote Chinese traditional culture in the United States. Many high-society ladies in the United States are proud to emulate her. , I have been fond of seal incense for many years, and the price of agarwood in the United States has been stable for decades, until your mother's seal incense became highly sought after by the upper class, and the price of this agarwood in the United States more than quintupled within a year."

Ye Chen asked curiously: "Mr. Lai, has he ever met my mother?"

"Yes." Lai Qinghua nodded slightly, and said seriously: "Master Ye, in fact, I have known your great-grandfather for many years. When we met, your grandfather was still in his infancy. I was invited by your great-grandfather. I drank your mother's full moon wine."

Ye Chen's great-grandfather was his grandfather's father, the founder of the An family.

However, Ye Chen had never met this great-grandfather, and Ye Chen hadn't even been born when he passed away.

Hearing Mr. Lai's secret, Ye Chen asked in surprise: "Mr. Lai, are you friends with my great-grandfather?"

"Yes." Lai Qinghua smiled lightly and explained: "Your great-grandfather is about the same age as me. I met him in 1938. At that time, he and I went to the United States on the same boat. Support can be regarded as irreversible."

"So that's it!" Ye Chen said, stood up, and bowed to Lai Qinghua.

Lai Qinghua got up quickly, and said flatteredly: "Master Ye, you are ordered by Longge, how can you salute me...it should be me saluting you!"

Ye Chen said seriously: "You and my great-grandfather are close friends, so naturally you are also my elder. As a junior, I should also salute you!"

Lai Qinghua said very seriously: "Master Ye, what I believe in is the destiny of heaven. From the perspective of fate, you are a king and I am a minister. Even if I am over a hundred years old, I will still be a minister when I see you."

Ye Chen saw that his attitude was firm, so he stopped arguing with him, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Lai, let's omit this set of etiquette, and just treat it as a friend who forgets the year, what do you think?" JrNovels.com