The Black Card - Chapter 899

[Chapter 897 Encountering an acquaintance by chance]

Wei Puti nodded and said, “That’s pretty much it. I have to rush back to the headquarters immediately. Because of the ferryman, there are many things that I need to go back to handle. Keep in touch, if there is any new news, I will notify you as soon as possible.”

Shi Lei nodded and watched Wei Puti’s back walking away along the bank of the Thames.

Wei Puti took two steps and suddenly turned around, finally with a bright smile on his face.

“Christmas Eve will be in two days. I wish you a Merry Christmas.” After that, he turned around and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Shi Lei smiled and shook his head, yes, it’s the end of the year in a blink of an eye, and it’s almost Christmas in the blink of an eye.

Shi Lei didn’t feel anything about Christmas, he just thought it was a gimmick by merchants to promote consumption.

Christmas has a different meaning to Westerners. It is a major religious festival for them.

The vast majority of Westerners are born as natural believers.

And even for the few who are not religious, Christmas is a holiday, just like the Spring Festival in China.

For the Chinese people, except for a few religious people, everyone else is just joining in the fun.

Shi Lei is not a person who likes to join in the fun, so he certainly has no interest in such festivals.

Turning around and walking towards the hotel, Shi Lei found that even in a place like London, where Christmas was only two or three days away, there didn’t seem to be much Christmas atmosphere on the streets.

For Westerners, Christmas is more of a private holiday, used to spend time with family.

Just like during the Spring Festival, there are no activities for businesses to do. The whole world is empty, which makes you feel that the population of China is not that large.

While walking, Shi Lei suddenly realized one thing. Christmas, for the mayor of London, should be the most relaxing time of the year, right?

Once people relax, they are easier to contact.

Could it be that the contact with the Mayor of London will fall on this Christmas?

In short, he had no clue. Shi Lei had already walked to the door of the hotel. After thinking about it, he still didn’t go back.

Since he knew that the black card would inevitably make some macro adjustments to increase the possibility of Shi Lei and the Mayor of London getting to know each other, Shi Lei naturally wanted to move around the crowd more.

That time in Sydney, didn’t Shi Lei walk around randomly and reach the Sydney Grand Theater before meeting Huo Chengdong for the first time?

In Japan, at Manmaoza in Okinawa, it was because Shi Lei simply took Sun Yiyi to play that he met Liu Qian and Liu Zhen and his wife, and then directly came into contact with Miyamoto Genichi.

Therefore, Shi Lei must spend more time in London.

Unknowingly, Shi Lei wandered near Big Ben, a famous attraction in London.

After all, it was a famous landmark building, so Shi Lei stood still and looked up.

Suddenly a familiar voice came from behind: “Master Shi?”

Shi Lei turned around and saw an acquaintance.

“Manager Zhao? Why are you in London?”

“Isn’t it almost the end of the year? The company is doing statistics on this year’s performance, and our technical department is relatively free. I just took my annual leave and came to the UK with my girlfriend. Play.”

Shi Lei then noticed that there was a woman in her twenties standing behind Zhao Di.

He smiled and stretched out his hand and said: “Hello, I am Shi Lei.”

When the woman heard this, she suddenly seemed a little excited. Shi Lei has become famous in the country in the past year, and many girls regard him as their boyfriend’s best friend. It is a good example that Zhao Di’s girlfriend has never heard of him, not to mention that Zhao Di is still working at Qixuan, and his current position is the vice president in charge of technology.

When she heard Zhao Di calling him Mr. Shi, the woman had already made some guesses. With Shi Lei announcing his family status, the woman was immediately sure that this was the man nicknamed the National Husband among her best friends.

“Hello, Mr. Shi.” The woman quickly reached out her hand and shook it with Shi Lei.

Shi Lei took back his hand and said with a smile: “This is really a coincidence. Are you here just for a trip?”

Zhao Di nodded and said: “It is a trip, but not entirely. My girlfriend is here I went to a university in London, and I came here to accompany her to a class reunion.”

“Oh? I went to a university in London, and she is a top student.” Shi Lei said with a smile, but he was thinking in his heart, it can’t be such a coincidence, Zhao Di’s girlfriend, one of her classmates happens to have something to do with the mayor of London, right?

Zhao Di glanced at his girlfriend, with obvious pride in his eyes, and said: “She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science…” Maybe he was afraid that Shi Lei didn’t know much about it, so he added: “This university is A G5 super elite university in the UK that is as famous as Oxbridge.”

The woman hurriedly said: “What nonsense are you bragging? I studied politics and it’s hard to find a job.”

Shi Lei laughed and said, “Meeting each other means being destined. There are seven or eight years between us. We can meet each other in different time zones. If you have nothing to do tonight, I will treat you to dinner.”

Zhao Di agreed hastily. He felt grateful for Shi Lei in his heart.

When he was retained, to be honest, it was only because of Shi Lei’s broad-mindedness that he could do it.

At that time, he had been flirting with Shi Lei for a long time over the original shares. Fortunately, Shi Lei didn’t mind. Although the shares were indeed much less, their gold content was far from what it used to be.

Today’s Qixuan is said to be valued at over 10 billion, which is definitely the most conservative estimate. This means that Zhao Di is now a person with a net worth of over 100 million.

And if the original company survives until death, Zhao Di’s entire team will be able to divide it into thousands, or even less.

Not just a direct change in net worth.

At the beginning, Zhao Di was just the leader of a small team of less than ten people, but now, he is the vice president of the most popular company in the country.

Seeing that more and more branches are opening, Qixuan is about to establish a group company. By then he will be a group executive, and a technical director will be indispensable.

It is not impossible to protect the vice president. After all, he and Xu Zhida are Shi Qiang’s most important right-hand men in the company’s business.

His team now exceeds a hundred people.

Even if he leaves Kaixuan one day, just because he has been the vice president of Qixuan, he will be able to easily find angel investors to start a business, and if he works part-time, a position at the vice president level will definitely be waiting for him.

It can be said that Shi Lei is his noble man. In less than a year, Shi Lei changed the career trajectory of his entire life.

Now that Shi Lei said he wanted to treat them to dinner, Zhao Di was of course a little flattered. To be honest, he had not seen Shi Lei a few times in the past year.

However, Zhao Di’s girlfriend gently pulled Zhao Di’s sleeve. Shi Lei saw it and said with a smile: “What, is there something going on tonight? It doesn’t matter? You must stay in London for Christmas, right? I can’t do it anyway.” We have to stay for some time, waiting for you

to be free.” “How dare you ask Mr. Shi to wait for us, we…”

Shi Lei waved his hand, interrupted Zhao Di, and said, “Since this is the city where your girlfriend lived, you I came with her to attend the class reunion again, so I must follow her arrangements. Don’t say anything, let her speak. Sister-in-law, are you busy today?” The woman said a little embarrassedly

: “I’m sorry, Mr. Shi, we are here today. I made an appointment with a good friend of mine and agreed to have dinner together in the evening.”

Zhao Di said dissatisfiedly: “Then let’s go together, she is coming alone anyway.”

The woman was a little embarrassed, but she couldn’t refute her boyfriend’s words, thinking After thinking for a while, he said: “Well, let me ask her, her status is a bit special…”

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(End of this chapter)