The Black Card - Chapter 1338

[Chapter 1336 Zidane]

The auction was of course lackluster, just like all charity dinners.

The organizer’s nagging thanks, the smiles and cheers from various people, and then the performances by some celebrities. All the routines are exactly the same as those in China.

After finally waiting for the second half, the auction finally started, and Shi Lei finally cheered up a little.

All kinds of jewelry will appear in turn, all donated by the “philanthropists” present, and the auction proceeds will be used for charity.

To put it bluntly, it is just a collection exchange event between wealthy people who know each other well. The items are still among this group of people, but they have just changed owners.

The new owner takes out a sum of money and donates it to a charitable organization. The amount of money is often higher than the value of the collection.

All in all, this kind of dinner is a process in which rich people spend a very small amount of money to exchange information with each other and buy reputation.

These donations will be directly fed back to the company’s expenditures or tax reductions. In fact, they do not pay much, it is still a trick of capital exchange.

The host of the auction was as excited as if he had been shot to death, and he praised every item on the auction block to the sky.

Of course, the important thing is how much the original owner of the lot loved the item, but was willing to give it away for charity.

It’s all bullshit.

Shi Lei drank wine slowly and found such a banquet extremely boring.

An old man with silver hair, sitting in an electric wheelchair, came silently behind Shi Lei.

The female companion next to him was a woman of about thirty years old. She walked to Shi Lei, leaned down politely, and said to Shi Lei: “Hello, my grandpa wants to say a few words to you.”

Shi Lei After being slightly startled, he turned around and saw the old man.

When their eyes met, Shi Lei guessed almost immediately that the old man was Zidane.

At tonight’s banquet, Shi Lei only knew three people, the Crawfords and their daughter.

Throughout the dinner, some people were curious about Shi Lei’s identity. After all, such a young Asian man sat in such a front position, and the female companion next to him was Crawford’s daughter. It was unreasonable to attract people. It’s impossible to pay attention.

However, everyone was very restrained and basically just said hello to Shi Lei and gave up after learning that he was the founder of Qixuan Bicycle.

After all, with Shi Lei’s current net worth, he can’t attract the attention of these rich people who easily have net worths of tens of billions of dollars.

In addition, Shi Lei himself seemed taciturn and seemed to have no intention of talking to them. Shi Lei’s side had been deserted for a long time.

Everyone believed that Shi Lei was able to get such a good position entirely because of the Crawfords.

Now that such a person appears, Shi Lei would be too short-sighted if he could no longer think of his identity.

However, no matter how clear Shi Lei was in his heart, he couldn’t show it on the surface. He had to pretend to be a little surprised.

“Oh, hello, who are you…” Shi Lei stood up. No matter what, basic respect should be shown for an elderly man.

With the support of his granddaughter, Zidane reluctantly stood up, shook hands with Shi Lei, and said, “Hello, Mr. Shi, my name is Zidane.”

After saying that, Zidane watched Shi Lei’s reaction with great concern.

Shi Lei acted extremely calm, as if he had never heard of Zidane’s name.

“Oh, it turns out to be Mr. Zidane. Hello, my name is Shi Lei.”

Zidane couldn’t see anything unusual, but he still said politely: “Mr. Shi, can you take a moment to chat for a while? I’d like to thank you I am very interested in the spirit of sharing.”

Shi Lei didn’t know if this was considered a violation, but he was not worried about the trouble the Eye of the Night would bring to him. If something unexpected happened, it would probably be Zidane who would be the unlucky one.

Of course, the Eye of Dark Night still has many methods that can be used, and it may not necessarily kill the old gentleman directly.

So he nodded and glanced at the stage. Zidane hurriedly said: “The car that Mr. Shi is interested in will not show up for at least half an hour. Mr. Shi doesn’t have to worry.”

Shi Lei pretended to be surprised .

, said: “Oh? Mr. Zidane, how did you know that I was interested in a car? Did you donate that car?”

“Mr. Shi really didn’t know?”

Shi Lei frowned, Seemingly ignorant of the situation, he said: “I heard that there will be a Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic produced in 1936 at today’s charity auction. Only three of this car were produced, and one of them no longer exists. , and the remaining one is collected in a car museum in the United States. I am very interested in this. However, I don’t know how Mr. Zidane knew! Oh, this matter, except for the female companion beside me , only the organizer of this charity auction knows that I also found many people to get this invitation. Could it be that you organized this auction?” After hearing this,

Zidane seemed a little disappointed, but he still He smiled and said: “Let’s go over there and have a chat, and smoke a cigar by the way. I also brought a bottle of very good red wine. I think by the time we finish drinking the red wine and smoking the cigar, the car should show up.” “

Shi Lei nodded and made a gesture of invitation.

Zidane pressed the button of the electric wheelchair and walked towards a small door on the right, with Shi Lei patiently following behind him.

Zidane’s granddaughter took the opportunity to sit next to Jenny. The age difference was not too big, and they were both women, so they quickly found the same topic.

I followed Zidane to the small private room behind the small door. There were two people waiting inside for a long time.

Seeing Zidane come in, the two men bent over and pushed him to the sofa.

Zidane smiled and said: “Mr. Shi, please sit down.”

The two people quickly offered cigars, but Shi Lei waved his hand and expressed his refusal. He didn’t like the activity of smoking clouds too much.

Seeing this, Zidane simply said that he would not smoke anymore, but took the initiative to pick up the wine that had been sobered on the table and poured a glass for Shi Lei.

“Li Qibao in 1919, I hope Mr. Shi will like it.”

Shi Lei took a sip, nodded, and said, “It is indeed worthy of the title.”

Zidane smiled slightly, waved, and the two people left consciously. Got this private room.

After the door was completely closed, Zidane said: “Mr. Shi, I want to toast you first and thank you for everything you have done.”

Shi Lei pretended to be stunned and asked in confusion: “Mr. Zidane, what are you doing?” What do you mean? Why do you want to thank me?”

Zidane smiled slightly and did not dwell on the topic. He just took a sip of wine.

Shi Lei pretended to be confused and took a sip of wine. Zidane added: “The original owner of that Bugatti is indeed me. I also hope Mr. Shi will like that car.”

Shi Lei said with a smile: “Can I take a photo of it? I don’t know yet, but I do like this car. Especially I heard that this car can still be driven on the road. It was a car from 80 years ago. It’s really not easy to do this.” “

Listen. Mr. Shi’s company’s next plan is Paris. I wonder if you are interested in cooperating with me?”

Shi Lei pretended to be enlightened and said, “So you want to invest in Qixuan!”

4.

There is another chapter behind it.

(End of chapter)