Roy isn't eligible for a private office yet.

After he took Fan Liancheng upstairs, he went directly to the reception area, and asked a curly-haired woman with some freckles on her face to help pour coffee, and specially instructed him not to use cheap coffee beans bought from Amazon.com, and to receive distinguished guests, which inevitably paid more attention.

There were no other customers, but you could tell that the staff were busy.

The average annual salary of a local practicing lawyer is more than 50,000 pounds, equivalent to more than 500,000 yuan.

Most lawyers can do well in London, but it's hard to get on well, and in the case of Roy, an assistant earns more than £30,000 a year, and if the family is not rich, the pressure will be greater.

During his college years, Fan Liancheng also fantasized that he would become a small white-collar worker and a small middle class working around Canary Wharf, relying on his job to rent a house and buy food to support himself, which is completely different from his current life.

He can indeed come to Canary Wharf to work now, but as a boss, if he has to say what the family property brings, the most important thing should be freedom.

Fan Liancheng will feel fortunate when he thinks that others have to work hard for others day after day in order to make a living, and do things he doesn't like at all.

Fortunately, I can go to work when I want, sleep until I wake up naturally every day, and there is no pressure from material aspects, and I can finally understand how naïve and hypocritical my thoughts a few years ago are in the eyes of Lao Fan and others.

I have lived in London for ten years, and every time I come here, I always bring back a lot of memories, and in a blink of an eye it seems to have become a long time ago, and every day is still 24 hours, but there is always an illusion that time is speeding up, not as long as when I was in school.

chatted with Roy about all kinds of small stories that happened during his studies at Harrow School, and also heard about the recent situation of many old classmates, and learned that an Edinburgh classmate who had a good relationship with him at the beginning had been hospitalized for acute leukemia two or three years ago and left within a few days, Fan Liancheng was slightly stunned.

I just sent a message to the other party on Facebook, and I didn't expect that people were no longer there, and growing up brought all kinds of troubles, and occasionally looking back to find that I was so interesting when I was young, I can't help but feel a little sad about it......

The female secretary brought coffee, asked for permission and added a few pieces of ice to the cup, leaving no milk or sugar.

Holding the coffee cup, Fan Liancheng finally got down to business and asked bluntly: "So your relationship with the investors of the Shard is only limited to the legal team hired by your law firm, right?" That should be able to get a lot of news, such as are there any financial disputes, or are they administrative?

My dad had other shareholders and was a little worried about the investment, because there was very little business in London, and there was only a majority stake in one of the old Langham hotels, and I was asked to come over and help find out. ”

The name has been on the Forbes 500 rich list, and it is easy to learn about Fan Liancheng's general situation from the Internet, Roy understands that Fan Liancheng can no longer be looked at with ordinary eyes, most Asians living in the United Kingdom can only work in the bottom of society, and London's Chinatown is famous for restaurants, laundry rooms, and massage parlors, which is difficult to be taken seriously.

However, Fan Liancheng is different, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to call and contact, and the opening was that it involved an investment of 1400 million pounds.

Talking about business, Roy sat down and said seriously:

"I can't tell you too much because of the lawyer's confidentiality rules, I can only say that there are no legal disputes at the moment, it's just that there is a shortage of money in investment, and the cost is a bit high, which means that there may be pressure to return to capital, but I think the decline in housing prices affected by the subprime mortgage crisis is only a short-term impact, and the future income prospects are very good.

From what I've heard, there are already a lot of people eyeing those 10 homes, and you can get back £350 million just by selling those apartments, London has no shortage of wealthy buyers from all over the world, and the richest in Asia are the craziest, and if Buckingham Palace is willing to sell, I have no doubt that it will be bought by Asians on the day the news is announced. ”

Boasting about being rich should not be counted as discrimination.

Fan Liancheng thought it was interesting, shrugged his shoulders and said:

"We Chinese are also in Asia, and I just happened to buy a house on Kensington Palace Garden Street, so I admit that you are right, there are indeed a lot of people who come to buy houses and invest, which reminds me of the scene of my own investment in the United States in the last century, the difference is that our real estate will not collapse, and the economic growth rate is higher. ”

“......”

Roy hadn't heard about buying a house yet, otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned it, and he was helpless: "How much is it, how big is the house?" My family lives in Chelsea, and I will be very close to you in the future, forget it, don't tell me the price, now I rent a house outside, so as not to go home and lie on a small bed and have trouble sleeping." ”

Fan Liancheng really didn't say anything more, and told the other party with a smile that he planned to organize a small party.

In Britain and even around the world, many well-known figures live near Kensington Palace, and Roy knows more about these people, helping to count the people who are very worthy of being invited, and finally saying that he will help ask the prince and the future princess who are almost finalized if they have time.

The matter of inviting the old classmates was handed over to Roy, and Roy didn't know much about the specific details of the Shard, and after making a phone call to a senior executive of the building, the other party said that he was free at any time today, and he could visit the construction site to view the sand table and concept map.

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After reading it, Han Xiaowen felt that the house was still a little empty.

The task of hosting a party was entrusted to a professional company, and she happened to have nothing to do, so she didn't wait for Fan Liancheng to come back, so she first checked the Internet and memorized the addresses of some home shopping malls, galleries, and craft stores.

There is also a car specially left for her, and after chatting with the intern housekeeper who claims to have 20 years of driving experience, she set off alone to purchase under the guidance of the bodyguard, and there is a lot of money on the card, which is converted into more than 20 million pounds, and the dividends of the stocks are in the account, and there is no place to spend money on weekdays, so she does not plan to swipe the palladium card given to her by Fan Liancheng, the kind that is not capped.

When you come to the gallery in the same Kensington area, the walls are mostly empty, and there are more than a dozen paintings in total, all of which are the work of well-known modern painters from all over the world, and the prices are not bad.

Painters and critics pursue what depth, connotation, taste, etc., Han Xiaowen has studied oil painting for a few days, but she is more interested in whether the work itself is beautiful and whether she can make herself feel comfortable.

There are so many paintings, and in the end, I only saw one "Zebra", half of the body, except for the zebra itself, which is mostly orange-red, a simple decorative painting, and the price is more than 7,000 pounds.

Thinking that it can be hung in the restaurant, it is pleasing to the eye, and beckons to call a shopping guide.

After asking, he found out that it was a compatriot, and the shopping guide smiled and introduced himself and said that his name was Li Liu, and he might jump up if Fan Liancheng was present.

When he first went to college, he had a good impression of this Li Liu woman, but unfortunately he ran away with a handsome white guy in the end.

Two years ago, Fan Liancheng casually mentioned it in front of Han Xiaowen, but he didn't say his name, so neither party knew each other's identities......