When Elaine heard this, she immediately came to life, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile,
“Hey! You really don’t say, I have never been to the United States until now, this is a good opportunity to go out and see!”
Said Elaine happily clapped her hands and said, “Good, good! Let’s make a deal, I’ll go with you!”
Because of the leg injury, Elaine seldom went out this time, so it has long been a bit suffocating.
It just so happens that at this time Claire said something about going to the United States.
Elaine’s first thought after hearing it was that she must follow out to see the world.
Moreover, she knows that Charlie is now making easy money, and she doesn’t want to miss this good opportunity to go out with him, so maybe he can buy something for her.
Once Claire heard her mother say that she wanted to follow along, her heart was suddenly a little difficult.
She felt that it would be the best solution for just Charlie to accompany her, and if she takes her mother along, the situation would be really a bit awkward.
So she advised Elaine, “Mom, I think you’d better rest at home, the United States is a long way away,”
“It’s not easy to go there, besides, you don’t have any friends there, it’s easy to get bored.”
Elaine did not hesitate to say: “Will I be bored, but I have to wait until I go first, I’m bored to death at home this time, you can not let me stay at home alone.”
Claire immediately ran out of ideas, can only look at Charlie with a helpless face, does not know if he has any good way to make the mother dispel this idea.
Charlie wants Elaine to give up.
So, he said with reasoning, “Mom, Claire is going to the United States this time to attend master classes and school for further study,”
“So it will probably be very busy at that time, in case she can’t take care of you, won’t it be boring for you to stay there?”
“It’s okay.” Elaine said without thinking, “It doesn’t matter if you can’t take care of me,”
“If you can’t take care of me, I’ll go out by myself, I’ve never been to America anyway, I’m sure I’ll feel new everywhere.”
Speaking of which, Elaine’s whole face is already in a state of longing, excitedly said:
“When we were young, it was the hottest stage to go abroad, at that time the TV was broadcasting”
“‘Eastcliff people in New York’, young people dreamed of having the opportunity to go out to have a look,”
“I was dreaming of going to the United States, wanting to see the Statue of Liberty with my own eyes,”
“And then look at the Hollywood Walk of Fame but in so many years have not had the opportunity to go out,”
“This time, finally have the opportunity and it feels like dream come true!”
Charlie thought: “You have a dream come true, but what about me and Claire? If you really go along, then the two of us will not be destroyed by you?”
Thinking of this, he immediately said: “Mom, I speak from the heart, your leg is still not well, really need to recuperate,”
“Can not run around and toss, if so early to go to the United States, playing around in the mountains, it may affect your recovery, leaving after-effects.”
Saying that, he smiled faintly and said, “In my opinion, you might as well stay in Aurous Hill, rest and recuperate,”
“It just so happens that you have a good relationship with Horiyah now, so you can let her accompany you more.”
Elaine said almost without thinking, “No! When you all leave, leaving me alone at home, I live alone in such a big house, I will be scared to death!”
Charlie said, “Mom, I will leave you 500,000 pocket money before I leave,”
“We are gone for a month or so, you can do whatever you want in Aurous Hill,”
“Nothing to ask Horiyah to accompany you to go out shopping, beauty, and then do SPA,”
“Is it not more comfortable than following us to the United States to run around?”
Elaine once heard Charlie said to give her 500,000 pocket money, immediately excitedly asked:
“Good son-in-law, you …… you really want to give Mom 500,000? You wouldn’t be deliberately lying to mom and making fun of her, right?”
Charlie knew that money was definitely much better for Elaine than any Statue of Liberty.
Seeing that she had really left the American dream behind, he said with a smile,
“Mom, when have I ever made fun of you? You can rest assured that as long as you recuperate well in Aurous Hill,”
“I will definitely cash in the 500,000 at the first time!”
Elaine immediately said with great enthusiasm, “Good son-in-law! Then we have a deal! You can’t renege on anything you say!”
Charlie laughed: “Don’t worry, I won’t renege, I’ll definitely give you the money before I go to America with Claire!”
“Okay!” Elaine said without hesitation, “In that case, then I will not follow you all that far to the United States!”
Charlie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the nak3d eye could see that his wife, who was on the side, was also in a much more relaxed mood at this moment.
As if a hanging heart had finally been released.
Claire said to Charlie with a relaxed face:
“Honey, since this is the case, then I will give Kelly a clear answer and tell her that I will attend this master class.”
Charlie nodded and smiled, “Give her a letter back, then hurry up and confirm the itinerary, I’ll arrange the time, and book the air tickets.”
Claire nodded repeatedly and said excitedly, “I’m going to give her a call!”
After saying that, she immediately took the phone and ran out of the house joyfully, and went to the courtyard.
A few minutes later, she came back incomparably excited and said to Charlie:
“Honey, I’ve already confirmed with Kelly, we can leave at the end of the month on the 28th!”
Hearing the 28th, Charlie breathed a sigh of relief, the auction was scheduled for the 25th, just enough to leave himself a few days to wrap up.
So, he said without thinking, “Okay, then I’ll book the ticket for the 28th, and by the way, book the hotel near the Rhode Island School of Design,”
“And we’ll leave on time on the 28th of this month.”
“Great!” Claire happily spun in place and said excitedly, “Then I’ll start packing both of our luggage tomorrow!”
……
In fact, in his heart, Charlie was more or less resistant to the matter of going to the United States.
This is mainly because, his grandfather’s family is rooted in the United States, and the family is large.
He was afraid that after he arrived in the United States, will be known by his grandfather’s family.
Charlie and grandpa’s family does not have any grudges, just because, when the mother decided to marry his father.
Her family showed conflict, which is why he feels more distant from them.
Therefore, he remembered that he met with his grandparents a total of only a handful of times.
Later, his parents died, Charlie was hidden in the Aurous Hill orphanage by his father’s loyalists.
He and his grandparents completely cut off contact, and now, nearly twenty years.
Therefore, he was even more distant from his grandparents’ family in his heart and did not want to disturb their lives.
However, since going to Rhode Island School of Design is his wife’s ideal in life, he could only choose to go with her in order to make her wish come true.
In his opinion, if this time to the United States, can not have any interactions with grandparents family, naturally it is the best.
However, if the two sides inevitably have to produce some encounter, then when the time comes, they can only be polite and only pleasantries.
The only thing to note is not to let his wife know.
Charlie is used to being alone, although not social phobia, but most social activities, itself has some resistance.
If only between relatives for the sake of pleasantries, for him will be very uncomfortable, would rather not have any dealings.
Better than everyone pretending to be polite and giving fake pleasantries to each other.
Moreover, Charlie also has self-awareness.
He feels that he and his grandparents are already alienated.
Not to mention that after so many years, Mom is also long gone, grandparents to him are also distant.
After Charlie and Claire settled on accompanying her to the United States.
Claire also immediately gave a clear reply to Kelly.
The efficiency of Kelly is also very high indeed, and quickly reported Claire’s relevant information to the Rhode Island School of Design.
Because it was daytime in the United States, the school responded quickly and immediately sent the electronic version of the master class invitation to Claire’s email address.
The moment Claire saw the invitation letter, she was so excited that she almost shed tears.
She really didn’t expect that what was originally one of her biggest goals in life would be so easy to achieve.
In the excitement, she couldn’t help but say to Charlie: “Honey, they are so good to me because of you, right?”
Charlie did not expect his wife to suddenly ask such a question without a reason, so he smiled and asked,
“Honey, why do you suddenly ask that?”
Claire said seriously: “Doris of the Emgrand Group, Warnia of the Song Group,”
“A”
“And now this Zhan Feier, all take special care of me,”
“The first two not only gave me the project to do but also offered very generous conditions,”
“The latter is the same, so big villa, so high budget, it is enough to hire first-class designers, but she chose to give me the whole project,”
“Knowing that I adore Kelly, and also invited her directly from the United States ……”
Speaking of this, Claire added:
“I believe that the reason why Kelly would give me such a precious spot is definitely because of Miss Zhan’s face ……”
“Miss Zhan wouldn’t treat me so well for no reason, it must be because of you, right?”
Charlie laughed: “Maybe it’s because I helped people read their feng shui and they felt they owed me a favor, so they intended to thank me.”
Claire couldn’t help but ask: “But you usually only charge a few million for reading feng shui,”
“Miss Zhan has already given Dad a Rolls Royce, so by this calculation,”
“He favor has long been repaid, why would they still want to take such good care of me?”
Claire suddenly remembered something and subconsciously said,
“Honey, Miss Zhan should have other things to ask you, right?”
“I remember you told me that the things she begged you for were too big?”
“If that were the case, would it be difficult for you if I took her project and accepted this master class slot?”
Charlie smiled faintly and said, “Wife, you don’t need to worry about this matter, I will take care of it myself.”
Claire couldn’t help but ask: “Honey, then do you think I should treat Miss Zhan to a meal to show my appreciation?”
Charlie waved his hand and said, “No, for now, tell her that I’ve been busy lately,”
“So when I’m done with this period, we’ll invite her for a meal together.”
Claire nodded and said, “Okay, then I’ll tell her on WeChat.”
A few moments later, Aurous Hill International Hotel.
Stella saw the text message from Claire and couldn’t hold down the excitement in her heart at once, exclaiming excitedly, “Great!”
Martina on the side hurriedly asked, “Miss, what good thing is it that has made you so excited?”
Stella said, “Sister Claire sent me a WeChat, she said her husband wants to invite me for a meal,”
“But he is busy lately, so he has to wait until after these few days.”
Martina nodded and busily said, “What Charlie means is I should wait until after the auction is over, right?”
“Right.” Stella could not hide her excitement and said,
“Since he can say such words, it proves that my efforts for such a long time have not been in vain!”
“Charlie must feel in his heart that he owes me a favor, that’s why he wants to treat me to dinner!”
Martina said with some concern, “Miss, what if he just wants to invite you for a meal?”
Stella shook her head and said seriously, “Martina you remember, in most cases,”
“The more people in high places, the less they like to take advantage of others,”
“When the favors you give him accumulate into more, he will definitely return this favor to you in something.”
Saying that she continued: “In Stanford, there is a special class,”
“It is to teach those business executives how to be vigilant and respond to commercial bribery,”
“There are many classic cases, commercial bribery of the party,”
“Using almost the same case, is to constantly give each other in various ways but never mention their needs,”
“When the other side of the heart of the sense of indebtedness to a certain degree,”
“As long as he asked, the other party will go to desperate measures for him.”
Martina nodded thoughtfully, and a moment later asked Stella:
“Miss, do you still plan to let the master have a meal with him?”
“No, I won’t first.” Stella busily said, “Since Charlie has said that he will treat me to dinner after he is free,”
“Then let grandpa come over according to the normal time node,”
“And if he fails to win the Rejuvenation Pill at the auction, I will bring him along to meet Charlie.”
……
Two days later.
From four o’clock in the morning, Aurous Hill Airport had its busiest day since its inauguration.
If it was usual, the number of passenger and cargo planes,”
“As well as business planes landing and taking off at the Airport, was only about 800 times a day, of which the number of take-offs and landings were almost equal.
But today, there were nearly 300 more landings than usual.
From the early morning, a large number of private planes started to land one after another one after another.
These private planes, without exception, all came to Aurous Hill to participate in the Rejuvenation Pill Auction.
According to the requirements of the auction organizer, these bidders must arrive in Aurous Hill within today.
Moreover, according to the requirements, from the time they landed until the end of the auction.
They had to listen to the arrangements of the organizer.
And any violation of the requirements would be considered as giving up the right to bid for the Pill.
Therefore, after landing at Airport, these top tycoons could only wait for further arrangements from the organizer in the same place.
At ten o’clock in the morning, nearly one hundred private planes have landed, filling up almost all the parking spaces at the Airport.
There were even some private planes that had to transfer to other airports in the surrounding cities for temporary parking.
After the passengers disembarked because of the lack of parking conditions.
At this time, a Boeing 747 modified private jet was flying rapidly towards Aurous Hill at a height of 10,000 meters.
Less than 1,000 kilometers away from Aurous Hill.
The interior of the huge cabin had been transformed into a mobile air villa.
And in the extremely luxurious parlor at the front of the plane, two old men were sitting.
Both hair and beard have turned pure white, however, one of them looks old and strong.
While the other, it is obvious that the essence and physical condition, have become very poor.
These two people are Douglas and Lai Qinghua, who flew all the way from the United States.
Since Qinghua was invited by Charlie to attend the Rejuvenation Pill Auction as a VIP.
And Douglas had also successfully obtained the qualification to attend the Auction.
Qinghua simply followed Douglas’s private plane and flew all the way to Aurous Hill.
At this time, the service personnel walked to the meeting room and said respectfully,
“Master and Mr. Lai, our plane will land at Aurous Hill Airport in about ninety minutes.”
“Good ……” Douglas nodded gently, then looked at Qinghua and asked him,
“Brother Lai, I wonder if you can draw up a fortune for me to see if I can succeed in getting the Rejuvenation Pill this time or not?”
Qinghua couldn’t help but laugh, “Old Fei, in fact, before we left, I already drew a trigram.”
Douglas asked, “Brother Lai, I wonder how the trigram is? Is it good or bad?”
Qinghua sighed lightly and lamented, “Maybe I’m not good enough,”
“I see this matter, like looking at flowers by a fog, and like looking at the moon in the water.”
Douglas listened, could not help but mutter:
“I asked you to tell my fortune, you give me the whole two lines of lyrics count what kind of thing ……”
“Foolish!” Qinghua gave a low whine, with standing eyebrows asked him:
“This is just two idioms, how to be written into the song after I say it becomes the lyrics?”
Douglas hurriedly said, “Brother Lai! That’s not what I meant!”
“I mean, can you work hard and explain it to me more clearly.”
Qinghua shook his head helplessly and said,
“The literal meaning is already very clear, just can’t really see, can’t understand,”
“And this matter has complicated internal causes, too many external causes, great variables,”
“The form may be changing every minute and second, already far beyond my ability.”
Hearing this, Douglas could not help but rub his temples and sighed,
“If you can’t see through it, I may not be able to understand it.”
Saying that, he looked out the window and sighed softly,
“Hey, it’s been a long time since I’ve been back ……”
Qinghua glanced out the window and asked him, “Douglas, your ancestors are from Huizhou, right?”
“Yes.” Douglas nodded and said, “A native Huizhou person.”
Qinghua sighed: “Your ancestors were Huizhou merchants,”
“No wonder your business has been so successful in this life.”
After that, Qinghua looked at him and said, “Douglas, you and I are not young, let me ask you a question, don’t feel abrupt.”
Douglas said, “Brother Lai, please ask.”
Qinghua nodded slightly and asked, “Have you ever considered how to deal with your affairs after death?”
“Should you rest in the United States for a long time or return to your roots?”
Douglas laughed and sighed,
“I have been thinking about this matter since 20 to 30 years ago, but there is no result even now.”
Said, Douglas a slight meal, and said: “My parents died early, they are buried with their ancestors in Huizhou ancestral graves,”
“According to reason, I have been floating outside most of my life,”
“Should return to my roots after death, just come back to be buried with their parents ……”
Then, Douglas lamented:
“But, I have been with my parents for eighty years, after all, I can not remember their appearance,”
“So if I return to my roots in the future, I am afraid that people over there will be more or less uncomfortable,”
“Besides, if I return to my roots, if the children and grandchildren want to pay their respects to me, it will become a problem,”
“I am mostly with them in this life If there is really a soul after death,”
“Then I would prefer to be closer to my children and grandchildren so that I can continue to accompany them.”
Qinghua smiled faintly and said seriously,
“Douglas, don’t overestimate the extent of your own needs in your children and grandchildren when you’re older,”
“Sometimes it’s just wishful thinking on the part of us old bones.”
After saying that, Qinghua smiled and said lightly, “Sometimes I feel like I am still needed by many people, but in reality, I am just a burden to society.”
Douglas laughed, “This is not the same for me and you.”
“You Lai family members saw through the fate of heaven early on, so you are instead a bit thin-skinned towards your bloodline relatives,”
“While I have taught my children since they were young that bloodline trumps everything in many cases, including their own lives.”
“Let’s hope so!” Qinghua smiled noncommittally and did not comment too much more.
Douglas seemed to have a lot of emotions in his heart at this time.
And after sighing, he leaned back on the comfortable sofa seat and looked out the window without saying a word.
Ninety minutes later, the Boeing 747 was finally landed at Aurous Hill Airport.
The moment the plane landed, the normal impact between the landing gear and the ground made Douglas’s heart beat wildly for a while.
And the health care doctor hurriedly helped him with all kinds of soothing before he was a little more comfortable.
Douglas knows very well in his heart that his body has reached the final stage.
If on this trip to Aurous Hill does not get the Rejuvenation Pill, then with his body condition, perhaps there is no way to leave this city alive.
So, victory or defeat, it is only a matter of time.
He looked out the window and prayed in his heart that he would get what he wanted this time.
After the plane landed, it was guided by a ground guidance vehicle and taxied to a hangar rented by Issac.
After the plane stopped, the cabin door opened.
One of Issac’s men took the lift escalator directly to the door of the plane.
As the cabin door was opened by the attendant, Issac’s man, standing directly at the door of the cabin, asked coldly,
“Is this the plane Mr. Douglas Fei is on?”
One of the attendants said with some annoyance,
“Hey, pay attention to the way you speak, our master’s name is not something you can call straight!”
Issac’s man said disdainfully, “What master’s name, your master is not my master,”
“I only recognize the name of the person who applied here,”
“You’d better go and tell him to bring our electronic invitation letter and his ID out to be verified by our staff!”
The accompanying officer did not expect the young man to speak so rudely, so he coldly questioned,
“Kid, what kind of attitude are you talking with?”
“Do you know who you are talking to?”
Issac’s man sneered, “I don’t know who I’m talking to, and I’m too lazy to know,”
“I only know that if you refuse to obey the arrangement,”
“Or if your efficiency is too slow, I will report directly to my leader, and if your master’s participation is disqualified at that time,”
“Don’t blame me for not reminding you in advance!”
When Douglas’s entourage heard these words, he was scared to the point of cold sweat.
He really didn’t expect that a small staff member could be so tough.
And the matter was so important that it was beyond his control.
So he could only say honestly: “You little brother, don’t be angry,”
“I didn’t think about what I said just now, so don’t be so mean to me!”
At this time, Douglas also came to the cabin door with the help of two health care doctors.
He looked at the young staff and said with an apologetic face,
“Sorry, little brother, this butler of mine has a bit of a rotten temper, don’t be angry with him.”
Issac’s man looked at Douglas and asked, “Who are you?”
Douglas said, “My surname is Fei, my full name is Douglas Fei.”
Issac’s men nodded and said expressionlessly, “From now on, you must obey our arrangements and management in everything!”
“Have your captain roll out of the hangar in ten minutes and take off to transfer to the Penghu Airport”
“In the next city, there are no more parking spaces here,”
“You need to give up the hangar in ten minutes, I still have to receive the next attendee here.”
Douglas hurriedly said respectfully, “Little brother, don’t worry,”
“I’ll arrange for them to take off early and hurry up to give up the hangar.”
At this moment, Douglas’s entourage had a somewhat embarrassed expression and hurriedly said,
“We have two bulletproof cars in this modified belly cargo hold, unloading them may be troublesome, can you give us an extra half hour of grace?”
Issac’s men said coldly,
“We have a unified fleet of vehicles to pick up and drop off, you don’t need to prepare any vehicles.”
After that, he pointed to the corner of the hangar, a few suggested plastic stools as well as a table, and spoke to Douglas:
“Mr. Douglas, from now on, your internal code name is 035, please bring your ID card and report to the staff over there!”
People do business, it is all about being a nice guest.
As the saying goes, the customer is God.
Open for business, we must think of every way to serve customers comfortably.
Only then, to ensure that business is booming.
But Charlie does not like to play this way.
His Rejuvenation Pill deal, the world’s only copy, so no matter how good or bad the attitude.
This group of rich people are still rushing to get it.
Since this is the case, he naturally does not want to give them a good face.
This group of top tycoons, usually are surrounded by those bottomless kneeling to spoil minions.
These service staff no matter how attentive to serve them will never make them feel stunning.
Instead of this, it is better to do the opposite, not only not to kneel to them, but also to step on them.
To let these top tycoons, who are usually high up in the world.
Experience the feeling of being dominated by others and being yelled at by others, instead of making efforts to impress them.
Therefore, these staff members, under the training of Issac, although inwardly they were very vain to these rich people.
Who came to Aurous Hill for more than one billion RMB, but their faces did not give them any half face.
The rude is rude, the reprimand is reprimanded.
Douglas also did not expect that he had come a long way to attend the auction of the Rejuvenation Pill.
The Pill had not yet been seen, but first gained an unusual code of 035.
However, he did not dare to have the slightest dissatisfaction and could only say with a smile,
“Little brother, you have not informed me of the specific itinerary for the auction, may I ask what the next specific arrangements are?”
The staff member said impatiently, “Didn’t I just tell you? You just need to go over to our staff to report and obey our staff’s arrangements,”
“No need to ask about other things!”
No one dared to talk to him like this after Douglas turned forty, and at this moment, being treated like this, he was irritated in his heart.
But he also knew that if he was begging for help on someone else’s turf, he had to learn to bow down, so he could only nod and say,
“Fine, fine, then I’ll go report to work.”
At this time, Karl Yuan, Douglas’s personal bodyguard, accompanied Qinghua as he stepped off the plane.
Seeing that the staff treated Douglas with some slackness, Karl said in a cold voice, “Little brother, Mr. Fei is over 90 years old,”
“Even if you don’t look at his social status, just as a junior, you should give him enough respect!”
The staff frowned and said, “I was ordered to explain to all the people who came to Aurous Hill to participate in the auction,”
“The specific process of participating in the auction,”
“Our President Chen also specifically explained to me, no matter how big the other party is,”
“We must treat each other equally, and do not need to look at anyone’s face, you do not pay me, why are you here to teach me to do things?”
Karl did not expect that a young man would dare to talk to him like that and was about to get angry.
But Qinghua patted his shoulder and laughed: “Karl, this little brother is also acting under orders, you do not need to get angry.”
When Karl saw that Qinghua had come out to speak, he had no choice but to respectfully say,
“I’m sorry, Mr. Lai, it’s my lack of determination that made you look at me like that.”
Qinghua waved his hand gently and smiled without saying anything.
The staff member looked at Qinghua and asked him, “Are you also here for the auction?”
Qinghua nodded his head and smiled, saying, “That’s right.”
The staff member picked up the roster and asked, “What is your name? Let me check.”
Qinghua smiled slightly and said, “My surname is Lai, my full name is Qinghua.”
As soon as the staff member heard the words Lai Qinghua, his original somewhat condescending attitude immediately became respectful.
He hurriedly bowed and said offhandedly, “Greetings, Mr. Lai!”
“Our President has already explained that you, as one of our VIPs, do not need to register here,”
“So please get in the car later, our fleet will give you priority to the hotel,”
“And there will be special service personnel at the hotel to handle the relevant check-in procedures for you.”
Qinghua did not expect that this arrogant young man would have such a humble attitude towards himself.
And immediately realized that this must have been explained by Charlie in advance, and his heart could not help but be a little more grateful to him.
Although Charlie’s age was much younger than his, but in his opinion, from the point of view of fate, Charlie was the supreme existence.
Although he was already over a hundred years old, but it was only right to bow and curtsy when he saw Charlie.
However, he did not expect that Charlie could deliberately instruct others to take care of his old bones, his heart was somewhat flattered.
After that, he pointed at Douglas and said to the staff, “Little brother, this is my friend,”
“I want to go to the hotel with him after he finishes the check-in procedure, I wonder if it’s okay?”
The staff member, “Mr. Lai, you are a VIP, and VIPs and other bidders participating in the auction won’t live in the same building,”
“So you don’t have to wait for him to join you.”
Qinghua smiled and said, “It’s not in the way, the two of us are good friends, even if we don’t live together, I’ll wait for him to go together.”
“Okay.” The staff hurriedly said, “Mr. Lai, please move to the car first and wait, there are still a lot of formalities to be done on his side,”
“And he still has to collect his clothes afterward.”
Douglas, who was on the side, asked in surprise, “Receive clothes? What clothes?”
The staff immediately regained a cold face and said, “Mr. Chen ordered uniform clothing for the bidders,”
“Before the height and weight data have been confirmed with you?”
“After the registration is completed later, you will be issued two sets of custom-made clothing,”
“And in the following days, until the end of the auction, you must wear the uniform clothing provided by us.”
Douglas was depressed, but he still didn’t dare to make any comments.
So he could only sigh resentfully and went to the registration reception point for registration with the help of the butler.
The hardware of this registration and reception point was too poor.
In addition to a desk, there are only two square plastic stools placed in front of the desk.
In contrast, a few staff behind the desk, sitting in the kind of office chair with backrest, although not of any class.
But compared to the front two plastic stools, they are too much better.
Douglas with some annoyance, a trillionaire, but to sit on a plastic stool, honestly handed his passport to a few young people, waiting for the registration.
One of the young people, holding Douglas’s passport, compared with Douglas’s face.
Repeatedly checked several times, fearing that the situation of the person’s evidence is not the same.
After checking and confirming that it was him, one of the young men said, “035, your accommodation in Aurous Hill will be arranged by us,”
“But you need to bear the cost of the room, the specific room type, and the corresponding price,”
“You need to go to the hotel and a special staff will introduce it to you, understand?”
Douglas felt a taste of going to prison, helplessly nodded gently, and said, “Okay, I understand.”
Then, the staff took out two brand-new sportswear sets.
Each with the three Arabic numerals “035” printed on the plastic bag.
He pushed these two sets of sportswear to Douglas and said,
“These are your clothes, a total of two sets, the hotel will provide you with a clothing cleaning service every day,”
“Two sets of clothes is enough for your daily replacement, but the cleaning service is an additional charge.”
Douglas sighed and nodded, “I see.”
The staff glanced at Douglas’s side butler as well as Karl and said,
“Each participant in the auction, from the day of check-in until the end of the auction,”
“Only one person is allowed to accompany you, and no one can be changed in between,”
“So you should consider clearly in advance who you are going to bring to check-in,”
“And after you have decided, you can directly take him to leave together with the car later on,”
“And the others had better with the plane to go to the airport, or leave the airport, solve their own accommodation problems.”
Douglas did not expect the other party to have so many rules and regulations, and so demanding, he could only helplessly look at Karl, and said,
“Master Yuan, these few days will be hard for you to join me!”
Karl hurriedly arched his hand and said, “You’re welcome, old man Fei, this is my duty!”
When Douglas got into the red flag car prepared by Issac and departed for downtown Aurous Hill.
He was in a boring mood and sat in the back row on the left seat without saying a word.
On his right-hand side, sitting is Qinghua, who is over 100 years old.
Seeing that Douglas was in a bad mood, he smiled and asked him, “Douglas, I see that you don’t seem to be very happy.”
“I can’t be happy ……”
Douglas said resentfully, “I’m not going to lie to you, Brother Lai, I’ve been irritable since I got off the plane!”
Qinghua smiled slightly and reminded,
“Douglas, as the saying goes, you should try to be calm if you are here.”
Douglas reluctantly nodded, then couldn’t help but touch and look at the car, full of disgust that couldn’t be concealed.
Qinghua saw that he must not be very adaptable to this kind of C-class car of several hundred thousand.
After all, the price of this whole car, may not be as good as Douglas’s usual travel with a car seat.
So, he smiled and said to him, “Douglas, don’t underestimate this car, this is the red flag.”
Douglas said with a smile on his face, “I know it’s a red flag, but this is the first time I’ve sat in it.”
Qinghua said seriously, “Red Flag is the first brand of the Republic, the founder of China’s automobile industry,”
“And the leader’s car for decades, it means a lot to the locals here.
Douglas then said, “In that case, the organizer of this auction should be quite patriotic.”
“Yes.” Qinghua nodded and said, “One should respect a patriot because he will not stand in the wrong position before the great right and wrong.”
Douglas did not speak, his brows slightly knitted in thought.
By the time the convoy arrived at Shangri-La, the entire Hotel was under martial law.
Apart from the Shangri-La’s own motorcade which can enter and exit, all other miscellaneous people are prohibited to enter.
However, the lobby of the hotel was bustling with people.
The bidders, who were sent over one after another, were checking in one by one.
However, what made them collapse is that the accommodation price here is simply expensive to the extreme.
A total of three nights of stay, even the most common standard room, the price is more than a million.
Everyone knows that this is the organizers deliberately taking the opportunity to rip them off.
For these people, money is not important, but being knocked around like this, psychologically there is really unacceptable.
When Douglas saw on the price list, the presidential suite for three days actually cost six million, his heart also could not help but curse.
But he still restrained the impulse to explode and said to the receptionist who managed his check-in, “I want the presidential suite.”
The other party immediately replied, “Sorry, the presidential suite has been booked by No. 016, you can see other room types.”
Douglas didn’t know who number 016 really was, but since the room was gone, he had to settle for the second-best and took a luxury suite for two million.
In contrast, Qinghua was treated much better, he was directly arranged into the executive luxury suite in the executive building as a VIP.
Which was the second only to the presidential suite in the entire Shangri-La, and still the fee was totally free.
The first thing that Douglas did after checking in and coming to the room was to immediately make a phone call to Stella.
As soon as the phone call came through, she asked on the other end of the line, “Grandpa, have you finished checking in?”
Douglas let out a sound and said,
“It’s done, you guessed right, they really arranged all the bidders to Shangri-La, I think this is definitely the venue for the auction.”
Stella said, “Grandpa, I’m in a special situation, so I won’t meet with you for the next two days,”
“But I’ll continue to think of ways to continue to mediate with every one of the Rejuvenation Pill outside.”
Douglas asked, “How is it going now?”
Stella said truthfully, “I dare not say I have absolute certainty, but at least there has been a certain breakthrough,”
“The other party wants to invite me to dinner after the auction, if you fail to get the Rejuvenation Pill at the auction, I will take you to see him then.”
“Good.” Douglas sighed with relief and exclaimed, “Stella, you really worked hard this time! You’ve been running around for so long for this matter.”
Stella said, “Grandpa, I should have done this.”
Douglas sighed and said, “I hope this auction will go well so that when the auction is over, you can return to New York with me.”
Stella smiled and said, “Grandpa, I believe you will win the auction.”
……
Just when a large number of top tycoons kept moving into Shangri-La.
Charlie was dragged by Claire and arrived at the busiest shopping center in Aurous Hill.
Since she had received an invitation to the Rhode Island School of Design master class, she had always felt, in her heart, that she owed a huge favor to Kelly.
Today it happened that there were not many things going on in the company, so she dragged Charlie to the market with her.
Intending to pick a gift for Kelly.
Charlie asked Claire: “Honey, have you thought of something to give her?”
Claire nodded repeatedly and said, “I have already thought about it, I plan to give her a Hermes handbag,”
“I have seen her interview before, it is said that she personally likes Hermes very much and has a hobby of collecting Hermes bags,”
“Since this is the case, then I might as well throw my hat in the ring and give her one, it will also show my sincerity.”
Claire said: “No, husband, I have saved a lot of savings recently, let me do it myself, otherwise, I will not feel good about it.”
Charlie did not insist too much, and smiled: “Then you should do what you can later, do not buy too expensive gifts.”
Claire smiled sweetly and said, “I have already looked at the official website, there is a bag named Birkin series,”
“Nowadays the best sales, the price is not too expensive, if you do not choose very rare materials and workmanship, it is probably more than 100,000.”
Charlie nodded slightly and said, “A bag at this price is already good.”
Subsequently, the two arrived at the entrance of Hermes’ store, and at this time, outside the store, there was already a long line of several dozen people.
According to the staff outside the door, this is because there are too many customers in the store, and their store is a one-to-one sales service.
And now all the sales are taking customers, so the store will start to limit the flow.
The two people waited outside the door for half an hour in order to get in line to enter the store.
Half an hour later, the security guard outside the door said to Charlie and Claire who were at the front of the line,
“Please come inside, our guide will come to serve you right away.”
As he was saying that, a young man with a warm smile on his face walked towards the two of them with quick steps.
When they met, the man introduced himself:
“Good afternoon, my name is Vivian, I’m your guide, I don’t know what you want to see?”
Claire said without thinking: “Hello, I want to buy a 30cm Birkin bag, I wonder if it’s in stock?”
The guide said with a smile: “Haha, the lady really has an eye, our family’s Birkin series has always been a super best-seller,”
“The number of users who have registered reservations is very large, but the number of arrivals per issue is very small,”
“So if you want to get the bag as soon as possible, you may have to buy more things in our store,”
“Take the membership level up, and then the greater the chance of winning!”
Claire heard this, with a surprised face asked: “Can’t directly buy the bag according to the counter price?”
The guide put away his smile all of a sudden and said in a tone with a bit of sarcasm:
“Lady it should be your first time to Hermes shopping, right? In our store, there is no bag that is sold at the counter price,”
“More or less, you have to buy some other accessories, otherwise, it is impossible to sell to you.”
Claire then came back to her senses and asked, “Need to buy some other accessories? This is what the internet says about matching goods, right?”
The guide rightfully said, “Yes, now if you want to buy Hermes bags, this is the rule, no matter which country you are in.”
Claire asked tentatively, “Then I want to buy a Burkinabe 30, how much money do I need to match the goods?”
The guide said contemptuously, “The 30 cm Birkin bag has always been super popular,”
“You are not sure to get the bag even if you match the goods,”
“Of course, the more you match the goods, the higher the priority, the greater the probability of getting the bag,”
“Whether you can get the bag depends on whether your rank and priority can rush to the front.”
Charlie does not quite like the guide this hidden set, recalling the last time to buy Hermes for his wife as well as his father-in-law.
That guide said a straightforward allotment of 500,000 specific numbers, although Charlie is very upset about this way of allotment.
But compared to that, he still prefers a little more direct.
So, he opened his mouth and said to the shopper:
“Don’t beat around the bush, just tell me directly, buy a Burkinabé 30, how much do we need to match the goods?”
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