Night.

In the afternoon, I went with Smith to get a bank card.

At about half-past eighteen, Wang Chen and Sister Mei arrived at the Jockey Club on time in a white Rolls-Royce in the hotel.

Nineteen fifteen to start the race.

In the racecourse box.

Wang Chen finally met Li Zekai, known as the little superman.

It's the same as what you see on the news, with a very low hairline, short hair, and a pair of glasses.

Next to Li Zekai sat a twenty-four or five-year-old woman with good looks, this woman Wang Chen knew that she was Li Zekai's rumored girlfriend before, but now she seems to have turned positive, surnamed Guo.

Got inside.

Sister Mei greeted with a smile on her face: "Mr. Li, Miss Guo, good evening." ”

Li Zekai stood up, stretched out his hand to shake her, and said politely in Mandarin: "Hello Mei Dong." ”

Miss Guo was no exception, and got up and said, "Hello Ms. Mei. ”

"Who is this?" Li Zekai looked at Wang Chen.

Sister Mei took the initiative to introduce: "He is my younger brother Wang Chen, Xiaochen, this is Mr. Li Zekai, a famous entrepreneur in Hong Kong, and next to him is his girlfriend Miss Guo." ”

Wang Chen greeted him: "Hello Mr. Li, hello Miss Guo." ”

Li Zekai and Miss Guo were very polite and greeted each other.

After the greetings, the four sat down facing each other.

Wang Chen sat by the window, he looked outside, he could see the racecourse, and around the racecourse, there were already all kinds of spectators, in fact, it was a bit far from here, and it was not clear at all.

Luckily, there was a large TV in the box with a live stream of horse racing.

It's not started yet.

After glancing at it, Wang Chen withdrew his gaze.

Li Zekai took the horse racing newspaper and said with a smile: "Mei Dong, have you bought any horse tonight?"

"Not yet, it's too late. Sister Mei shook her head and said.

"There's still a little time, and I recommend you to buy the first horse in the world, this horse has a good record in the last six times, and although it is rated in third gear, I think it can win alone. Li Zekai recommended.

Miss Guo interjected on the side: "Actually, I think the No. 5 horse is quite good, and it has a rating of fifty-four." ”

Sister Mei also gave face to the two, "Then I will buy 100,000 Hong Kong dollars each of these two horses and win." As she spoke, she looked at Wang Chen, "Xiao Chen, do you want to buy some too?"

Wang Chen didn't understand horse racing at all, but Sister Mei invited him, he couldn't refuse, and thought about it and said, "I will also have 100,000 Hong Kong dollars each for these two horses." ”

Li Zekai laughed and said, "Then I'll bet on you now." As he spoke, he placed a bet on the computer in front of him.

I didn't mention the money at all.

Wang Chen saw that Li Zekai was showing favor to Sister Mei, and the meaning was obvious, Li Zekai would be counted if he lost, and he would be counted as the two of them if he won.

So far, Wang Chen's impression of Li Zekai is very good.

After talking about horse racing.

After a while, Li Zekai smacked his lips and said, "Mei Dong, our contract has expired, will you give some discount this time?"

Sister Mei smiled and said: "The annual order of 300 million Hong Kong dollars is already very discounted, and there are few companies with such a low price as my Internet store, right?"

"Hehe, you're going to have to do it this time. Li Zekai shook his head and said at a lower price: "Recently, a well-known domestic manufacturer of communication cables and optical fibers quoted to me, and they only cost 280 million Hong Kong dollars for the same product. ”

When talking about business, Wang Chen knew that he couldn't interject, so he simply closed his mouth and said nothing, and by the way, he saw how they talked about business.

In his mind, people are 20 million cheaper than Sister Mei's every year, and if he wants to win the order, he must give in.

But Sister Mei didn't give in at all, on the contrary, Xiao Yingying asked rhetorically: "Are you sure that the quality of the products of the manufacturers quoted to you is as good as ours?" Communication optical fibers and cables look no different, but once there is a problem, the cost of project repair may be far more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars per year. She took a sip of water, "We have been working together for three years, have there been any major problems with the products in my company? If you want to find a company that is not sure about the quality of the product to cooperate, then I can leave the previous words unsaid." ”

Li Zekai leaned on the sofa and said lightly: "How do you know that the product quality is not as good as your company if you haven't tried it?"

Seeing the bigwigs talking about business for the first time, Wang Chen was very curious.

Although it was only two or three sentences, he had already heard it, and the initiative was in Li Zekai's hands.

Sure enough, when she heard this, Sister Mei frowned slightly and said: "Mr. Li, I can't back down on the price, the cost of the product is over there, if you want to end the cooperation and get the product from other manufacturers, I can only say regret, and I will have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future." ”

Yes?

An order of 300 million Hong Kong dollars will be given up if you say you will give up?

Wang Chen was a little confused by Sister Mei's words, he didn't know if Sister Mei was trying to get away with it, or if the cost was really too high to give a more favorable price.

The only thing that can be seen is that the form is very unfavorable to Sister Mei.

However, what Wang Chen didn't expect was that after Sister Mei said this, Li Zekai changed his words and said: "Actually, the difference of 20 million Hong Kong dollars is not a big deal, it's not that I can't continue to cooperate with your company." ”

Sister Mei looked at each other and whispered slowly, "What do you want?"

"I heard that Mei Dong is very famous in the international collecting community. Li Zekai showed his fox tail, "My father, usually like to play a little bit of collection, he especially likes to collect famous watches, Pixiu carvings, wood carvings and ceramics, etc., but he plays more frugal collections, hehe, to put it simply, more stingy, now he has just retired for the first year, seeing that the New Year is approaching, I want to send a better collection to him, can you help? If you can, the order is 20 million and it's okay, I can sign a cooperation with you tonight." ”

Belch.

Doesn't that you don't have a good relationship with your father?

For example, when Lao Li retired, his career was basically distributed to Li Da, and Li Er was more miserable, in addition to getting some cash, even the shares of the trust fund were forced to be transferred to Li Da.

So why is Li Zekai still worried about getting some collections for Lao Li?

Wang Chen couldn't figure it out, it's just that Li Zekai just said that Lao Li was stingy, and this kind of thing is generally said by a son in front of others, it seems that the relationship is really ordinary.

It is also true that Wang Chen has heard of how stingy Lao Li is to play collecting, it seems that it was in the nineties, Lao Li took a fancy to a pair of chess made of ivory in the Ming Dynasty at Ma Weidu's house, the market price was 40,000 yuan, Ma Weidu took the initiative to give a six-fold discount, and Lao Li was still bargaining.

You can imagine how stingy Lao Li is playing with collecting.

Of course, in the end, Ma Weidu said, "You can give it away for free, but the price can't be lower", and the people seem to be so good that Lao Li owes Ma Weidu a favor, and he bought it without saying anything.

And the largest item in Lao Li's collection is 888 Pixiu, one of which is one of a pair of Chiang Kai-shek's collection, and finally fell into the hands of Lao Li, when a certain national leader once looked for Lao Li, imploring to donate this Pixiu to the country, Lao Li directly refused, and said that donating hundreds of millions of dollars is not a problem, but donating Pixiu is not good.

From this point of view, Lao Li actually likes to play collectibles.

It's just that, just like Li Zekai just said, Lao Li is reluctant to spend money to play collecting.

Sister Mei cared about this order and asked, "What kind of collection?"

Li Zekai seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and said bluntly: "As long as it can represent auspicious collections, it doesn't have to be expensive, such as Pixiu carvings, etc., I think my father can collect a thousand Pixiu collections in his lifetime." ”

Sweat.

You said it earlier.

In that case, the buddy would not give the yellow dragon fish pixiu to the future father-in-law, and replace it with something else.

Wang Chen once had a Pixiu, but he had already given it away, and for a while, he really couldn't help Sister Mei, so he could only hope that Sister Mei would have a similar collection herself.

"There are many collections that represent auspiciousness. Sister Mei's brows gradually relaxed, "I don't have it on hand for a while, if you want, wait a few days, I'll find someone to get two pieces over, Pixiu is not a problem, it's a big deal to get two good pieces of jade, and find a famous carving master to carve it." ”

Li Zekai was a little anxious, "How many days do you have to wait? Seeing that there are still three or five days left for the New Year, I really can't wait." ”

Wang Chen thought he was mistaken, and blinked and said, "Mr. Li, there is still more than a month left for the Chinese New Year." ”

"You're talking about the Spring Festival, and I'm talking about New Year's Day. Li Zekai explained: "Originally, yesterday Christmas, I wanted to send him something good, but I didn't get it, and now it's a few days before New Year's Day, and I don't want to delay it until purity." ”

Sister Mei frowned again and said: "The time is a bit rushed, I have a good piece of jade on hand suitable for carving, but the top carver does not say that it can be made in one or two days, in addition, if you want to carve well, you also need to spend energy and time, and you may not be able to get it well in three or five days." ”

If it is engraved by machine, it can be carved very quickly.

But since it is a Christmas gift for Lao Li, it is definitely impossible to make a machine carving so-so, or find a top carving master, and hand carving, even a Buddha pendant will take several days, if it is an ornament like Pixiu, it will take longer.

The master carver pursues meticulous carving and creating high-quality products, and if you let others fool you, people are not happy.

Wang Chen understands these truths, seeing that Sister Mei is at a loss, and Li Zekai's order of 300 million Hong Kong dollars may collapse, he is a little anxious, Sister Mei has always been good to herself, and he really wants to help, but the problem is that the Pixiu sent out cannot come back.

He simply remained silent.

Unexpectedly, he didn't say a word, but Sister Mei found her head, "Xiao Wang, our collection industry says that you have great powers, do you have any Pixiu ornaments?" She also looked at Li Zekai and half-jokingly said: "Sister, whether the order of 300 million Hong Kong dollars can be negotiated depends on you." ”

Wang Chen sweated, Sister Mei was asking for help from herself, this time it seems that she can't help if she wants to, but buddy really doesn't have Pixiu ornaments on hand.

Tell the truth about refusal?

It seems that this is the only way.

Wang Chen was about to bite the bullet and say that he couldn't do anything at the moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, didn't Li Zekai say just now, just a collection that can represent auspiciousness, as if there is a good ornament that can represent auspiciousness in the mysterious space of buddies - Fu Lushou Dushan Jade Ornament.

I don't know if Li Zekai will agree to it, Wang Chen felt that at this time, only dead horses should be regarded as live horse doctors, so he asked tentatively: "Pixiu doesn't, but I have another good thing that represents auspiciousness, Mr. Li, do you want to take a look?"