The Black Card - Chapter 1377

[Chapter 1375: Malicious Questions]

Finally entered the house.

After Shi Lei entered, he did not accept the advice of Jackman and his lawyer Lawrence to sit down and chat. Instead, he put his hands behind his back, as if visiting a celebrity’s former residence that had long been uninhabited and developed into a tourist attraction, walking freely upstairs and downstairs. .

When he came down from upstairs, Shi Lei said with no sincerity: “Oh, I’m sorry, I want to buy a house after all, so I went around by myself first. I believe Mr. Frith won’t mind.”

Jackman looked at Shi Lei and thought to himself, would it be useful if I said I mind?

Nowadays, people are poor, their ambitions are short, and horses are skinny and their hair is long, well, whatever.

Lawrence knew that Jackman couldn’t say anything, so he answered for him with a smile: “Mr. Shi is right. You are here to buy a house. The first important thing is of course to take a good look at the house. Now Mr. Shi has already taken a look at the house.” After that, are you still satisfied with this house?”

Shi Lei was noncommittal, walked to the sofa and sat down, then picked up the whiskey that had been poured on the table and gestured: “Is this for me?”

Lawrence hurriedly said Nodding, Shi Lei took a sip and frowned slightly, as if he was dissatisfied with this whiskey.

“Da Mo, which has been around for about fifteen years, is a brand with a false reputation.” Shi Lei put down the glass of wine and commented casually.

This seemingly casual remark surprised both Jackman and Lawrence. After all, it is not difficult to tell what brand it is after just a small sip.

The difficulty is to accurately tell the age of this wine, which requires an extremely accurate understanding of whiskey and the Dalmore brand itself.

In Jackman’s mind, he actually regarded Shi Lei as a nouveau riche like the upstarts in Silicon Valley not far from here.

The birth of the Internet has transformed many people from penniless to rich, and Old Money like Jackman actually looks down on these so-called upstarts.

When he learned that Shi Lei thought the house he originally wanted to sell was too cheap, and that he was short of money and needed to sell the property as soon as possible, Jackman specifically inquired about Shi Lei’s background.

And of course what he could find was only what Shi Lei had on the surface.

I started my own business in my last year of college and built a shared bicycle that has continued to be popular. Then I invested in Hong Kong Jugene by chance and gained a considerable amount of wealth.

Jackman looked down upon Shi Lei even more. In his opinion, Shi Lei’s current total net worth is only 10 to 20 billion yuan, and this is only on paper, so he cannot have too much money in his hands.

But such a person came to the United States and tried to buy a mansion worth over 100 million US dollars.

This also led to Jackman’s resistance to Shi Lei from the beginning.

But now, Shi Lei’s seemingly casual words made Jackman realize that his initial judgment might be biased.

The upstarts in Silicon Valley may have done some research on certain brands of red wine, and even this research is still at the level of rhetoric.

There are very few people like Shi Lei who can taste Dalmo in one bite and accurately tell the age of its storage.

This requires an extremely detailed understanding of many brands over a long period of time and is by no means something that can be achieved overnight in one or two years.

This bottle of wine is actually not too expensive, and it is indeed not a good wine in the eyes of people like Jackman, or in other words, it is not a good wine to anyone with an annual income of more than 100,000 US dollars.

However, the evaluation of tasting and affordability are definitely two different things.

Involuntarily, Jackman’s posture became less arrogant than at first.

“What’s the matter with you? I said I would use the bottle of wine in my study to entertain Mr. Shi. How come you took this bottle?”

Jackman used the topic. Of course, the maid did not dare to refute anything, even if it was nothing. Jackman brought out the wine himself.

The maid quickly took out the bottle of wine Jackman was talking about from his study room and poured it into the wine storage container without any brand label for reference.

After changing the glass for Shi Lei, Jackman poured a glass for Shi Lei himself and said, “Mr. Shi, you might as well try this glass of wine again.”

Shi Lei picked up the glass of wine, took a brief look at the color of the liquid, and then put it to his nose. Duan sniffed it gently and finally took a small sip.

The wine flowed slowly on the tongue, and the aroma of the wine spread instantly. Shi Lei put down the wine glass and said with a smile: “Genting 1919, fifty years old, this wine is not bad.”

Jackman and Lawrence looked at each other, with a look in their eyes. With a little surprise, they finally accepted that Shi Lei was by no means the kind of IT upstart they imagined, but a person with a strong background that they had not found out through investigation.

“Mr. Shi, what do you think of my house?” Jackman completely gave up his arrogance, and seemed to finally understand where Shi Lei’s arrogance came from.

Shi Lei smiled slightly and said: “Overall, it’s pretty good, but I always feel a little strange when you Americans build houses. Why does each room have to be equipped with a bathroom? It doesn’t feel like you have lived in a home, but instead There is an illusion of staying in a hotel.”

Jackman and Lawrence looked at each other. To be honest, they didn’t quite understand Shi Lei’s feelings.

Tom, on the other hand, has dealt with Chinese people a lot over the years, and he still understands some of the Chinese people’s needs for housing.

Tom said quickly: “Mr. Shi, this is actually the reason why the cultures and lifestyles of the two countries are different. China implemented a policy called family planning in the last century, which made the younger generation of your country have almost no Brothers and sisters, there is no need for a large family to live together. There are more rooms, and they are used for various purposes. Except for two or three bedrooms, the others are functional rooms. But the United States is different. In the United States, The size of a family is often linked to economic conditions. Therefore, a larger house means there will be more family members. This requires that most rooms are used as bedrooms, so they all have bathrooms. Moreover, in the United States, People regard inviting friends to their homes as the highest form of hospitality. When guests come and stay in the guest room, they cannot be allowed to share the same bathroom with the host. This is really inconvenient. Therefore, American houses , there are relatively few functional rooms, and there are more bedrooms.”

After hearing this, Shi Lei nodded, understanding.

“It seems that I was abrupt. So, no matter where I look at the houses, as long as they are built, they are almost always like this?”

Tom nodded and said, “Generally speaking, in the United States, houses priced in the millions exceed A house is equipped with as many bathrooms as there are rooms, and the number of bathrooms may even exceed the number of rooms.”

Shi Lei spread his hands and said with a smile: “Then I don’t have any problem, this house is basically my home. Satisfied.”

Jackman took a sip of wine and said, “I wonder what Mr. Shi has to say about the price?”

Shi Lei looked at Jackman deeply and said, “Mr. Freese is short of money recently?”

Jackman was stunned. , and then I felt a deep malice. Although Americans’ communication style is indeed relatively direct, questions like this cannot always be asked so directly.

“Why did Mr. Shi say that?”

“If Mr. Frith hadn’t been short of money, how could a man of your caliber sell the house he had lived in for more than ten or twenty years? According to my observation , Mr. Frith doesn’t plan to leave Atherton, does he? This house was sold to me. I guess Mr. Frith intends to move to another smaller house?”

Jackman once again felt deeply Malice.

1.

This is a very weird thing. I updated it at three o’clock, then finished writing the remaining two chapters and went out to eat.

Later I found out it was not updated.

I checked with the technical department and found that there was a short circuit in the background, so I changed the chapter to the best physiognomist.

Let me go, a completed book cannot be updated, not to mention that the book has been blocked.

This is really the funniest joke in the world.

I’m adjusting now and will update all four chapters together.

(End of chapter)