Future Optical Brain System

Chapter 140 Scotland buys a castle!

When mentioning Scotland, many people can't help but think of the American blockbuster "Braveheart". William Wallace shouted: 'Freedom', and also Scottish bagpipes, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Scottish plaid skirts. People who love drinking will think of it. Scotch…….

After everything was prepared, the two flew directly from Dinghai Hongqiao Airport to London, England, and then transferred to Edinburgh Airport in Scotland, where they stayed in a five-star hotel.

No need for translation, Chen Dong English PETS level 4, basically able to speak and understand, but not very proficient in speaking, but basically understandable in listening, and Chen Ying often travels abroad because of filming, and can use it very skillfully English.

After resting for one night, the two started to play in Edinburgh the next day.

The scenery of Edinburgh is beautiful, the sky is blue and clear, and the air here is very good and clear.

Walking on the street, it is very clean and tidy, and you can see pedestrians wearing plaid skirts from time to time, which is very ethnic.

Among them, the most worth seeing are the ancient castles. The ancient castles stand tall and upright, very spectacular, very beautiful, very European medieval style, and fascinating.

Every time she visits an ancient castle, Chen Ying always strokes the outer wall of the castle with her hands, feeling the vicissitudes of history of the castle from the mottled outer wall and the architectural style full of medieval style. She looks very, very fascinated.

Chen Ying is a painter and has a special obsession with art.

Seeing this, Chen Dong smiled and said, "Xiaoying, if you like ancient castles, I will buy an ancient castle. We come here for half a month or one month for vacation every year. Anyway, it is beautiful here, the air is very good, and it is very pleasant." Clear and perfect for a vacation.”

Hearing this, although Chen Ying was happy in her heart and felt very sweet about Chen Dong's love for her, she finally shook her head, "Chen Dong, I don't want this, we don't stay in Scotland for a long time, we bought it and put it there for half a day. months or one month, the annual repair fee alone requires a lot of money, which is not worth it.”

Chen Dong took Chen Ying's hand, walked on the street, and said, "Renovation costs a lot of money, and after buying it, in addition to living here for a period of time every year, it can also be used for investment."

In the collection circle, apart from antique collectors, there is also a kind of people called "ancient house collection fans", who collect some ancient houses with historical and cultural significance, to put it nicely, rescue old houses that are on the verge of disappearing, preserve and develop Ancient house culture, to put it bluntly, waits for appreciation.

For example, in the original time and space, Chen Dong occasionally read such a story on the Internet. There was a person who specialized in collecting ancient houses. He also bought a Ming Dynasty house in Shanghai/Shanghai, a modern Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, which he bought for 100 million. He also bought an ancient castle with a history of more than 300 years in Yorkshire, England.

After listening to Chen Dong's words, Chen Ying was really moved, so she nodded, "Okay."

Back at the hotel where he was staying, Chen Dong turned on the computer and looked up some relevant information about the sale of the castle, as well as the procedures and prices for buying the castle.

After searching, Chen Dong learned that the price of castles in Scotland ranges from 10,000+ euros to tens of millions of euros. The main factors that affect the value of the castle are the time when the castle was built, the people who have lived in the castle, and the history of the castle. The scale and completeness of the castle, and whether it has been repaired or not.

In the information about castles, Chen Dong found that some castles even had a title of nobility. For example, he saw a 16th-century first-class castle in BANFF, which was priced at 40 euros. Much refurbished, but with Baron inchdrewer attached.That is to say, if the buyer buys him, he will automatically take over this status. In addition to being the owner of the castle, he will also become a British nobleman.

After seeing the castle listed for sale online, Chen Dong discussed with Chen Ying.

Don’t worry about the dilapidated ones. Chen Dong saw that there are many old castles on the information, and some of them are already dilapidated. If you buy them, you will have to spend a lot of money to repair them. You can only live in them after at least one or two years. Obviously, it has nothing to do with your original intention of buying the old castles. In the opposite direction, some are just a pile of ruins, or a stone pillar with a few windows on it. Although it is cheap, you can buy it for 10,000+, or hundreds of thousands of euros, but these are all abandoned by Chen Dong and Chen Ying. Lost.

Don’t choose the ones that are too expensive, tens of millions of euros, tens of millions of euros, although luxurious, the construction time is very early, and has high historical value. Perhaps celebrities in British history have lived in it or have received queens, princes, princesses, etc. , but it is too expensive, equivalent to hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions of yuan, there is no need for this.

In the end, the two set their sights on a house in the price range of several million euros that would need to be renovated.

In the next few days, I contacted the housing agency, and the staff of the housing agency took Chen Dong and Chen Ying to watch several selected castles in a row.

In the end, he settled on a stone castle located in Dunnet Bay, the southernmost tip of the Scottish island, near the Orkney Islands.

This ancient castle has a long history and was built in the early 18th century. It covers an area of ​​1833 acres and has 10 rooms, multiple outbuildings, private beaches and piers. It has about 1750 acres of shallow mountain open space for development and has a 5-bedroom Building permit for a villa and 10 wooden holiday homes.

And the transportation is also convenient, only 6 miles away from the neighboring town, with complete facilities and convenient transportation, there is also a small airport and car ferry service nearby.

The price is 320 million euros, equivalent to about 3000 million yuan, and the annual maintenance cost is 10,000+ euros.

Chen Ying also felt very satisfied.

Chen Dong immediately decided to buy it so that he could vacation here every year and use it as an investment.

I contacted the seller of the castle. The seller is William Muss, a food processing businessman. Because of the economic downturn in the past few years, the food business has lost money, and urgently needs a sum of money, so he thought of putting the castle up for sale.

Meet at a coffee shop in a small town near the castle.

Chen Dong sat beside Chen Ying.

Soon, a fat middle-aged man pushed open the door of the coffee shop, walked in, looked around, and walked straight towards Chen Dong, "Hi, may I ask you to be Mr. Chen."

Chen Dong nodded, "Yes, you are Mr. William."

The fat man nodded.

"Please sit down." Chen Dong gestured for William Mus to sit down.

"Thank you." William James sat down and asked Chen Dong, "Mr. Chen is so young, he is from China."

(End of this chapter)