Chapter 26: The Treasure Forgotten in the Little Dark Room
"What's the matter with the car? I think it looks like it hit it?" are you alright?" asked Utars.
"It's okay! I hit this car myself, don't you mind?" Jia Lei asked.
"I don't mind! It's just a car, it's nothing. But I want to know what you hit?" asked Utars.
"It's just a praying mantis with a mantis arm blocking the car!" Jia Lei said.
"I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said. Can you say that again? I think you should be considerate, I'm an old man from a foreign country. Utars asked, smiling.
"I hit my former enemy, who came to provoke me today and blocked my way with his car. I'll let the driver hit him!" Jia Lei thought about it, and said in a white sentence that couldn't be more white.
"Is the enemy the enemy?" asked Utars.
"No! I don't want to get you in too much trouble, so I'm careful when I do it. I have taught him a lesson today with your strength, and I have already caused you trouble! The other party has a prominent family background, so he must not embarrass you. Jia Lei shook his head and replied.
"It's not a trivial matter, just be as happy as you please!" said Uttars.
This little thing is nothing to him, but Uttars feels that he needs to teach Jia Lei some principles of life.
"I don't know much about the Chinese language, but I think you have an idiom that says it very well! Cut down the grass and eradicate the root of the enemy! Do you need me to help you destroy this enemy? Save him from coming back to take revenge later." Utarth asked.
This kind of thing is his forte!
"No, I have always advocated that I avenge myself and avenge myself! If a man wants to make a career, he must not rely on others everywhere to stand out! To be a man, he must rely on himself! What I look down on most is the kind of man who relies on the forces behind others or women to support him!" Jia Lei said.
"Why do you think that? You know, marrying a powerful woman can save you at least 30 years of struggle! I originally planned to introduce you to the granddaughters of a few old friends, help you find a few childhood sweethearts, and cultivate feelings from an early age. Utarth asked, frowning.
"30 years less struggle? What about 30 years later? Just like a successful person, in order to prove that he didn't start his family by a woman! After he is developed, will he kick away his bad wife and marry a beautiful confidant who is 30 years younger? Is it interesting to toss and toss back and forth like this?" Jia Lei asked with a sneer.
"You're right, it's really not interesting! It's ridiculous that few people in the world can figure it out......" Uttars said thoughtfully, looking at the night scene in the distance.
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In the capital in the early nineties, traffic jams would never happen, and the scope of the capital was very small at that time, and Jia Lei and the others only spent half an hour to come to the banquet hall of the hotel where the party was gathered.
As soon as Jia Lei walked into this small banquet hall, he found that it was particularly lively.
"Jia Lei, you came back just in time, come here! Uncle is handing out gifts to everyone!" "Aunt Jia Lei immediately greeted Jia Lei and said.
"I said, why is it so lively, it turns out that someone is sending gifts!" Jia Lei put away the sadness on his face and changed it to a smile and said.
"Hey...... This kid is so tired!......" Professor Wang, who had listened to Jia Lei and Utars discuss the world situation all the way, said with a sigh.
"Why do you say that? Jia Lei is very smart, smarter than any of my descendants! Now is an era of turbulent turbulence, and if we don't firmly grasp the pulse of the times, we will be eliminated! If you are tired at this time, you will be able to stand a little higher than others in the future. Utars said.
"I don't understand your political and economic situation...... , I just think that Jia Lei is running around the world outside, and when he gets home, he is afraid that his family will worry about him and has to pretend to be a smile! He refuses to say a word to us no matter what hardships he suffers outside, and every time he sees us, he will have a smile on his face. How tiring this is!" Professor Wang looked at Jia Lei and sighed.
If a person is acting outside, and he still has to act when he comes home! It is indeed too tiring to live......
"Grandpa, come and take a look! This is the Mongolian golden knife given to you by Uncle Wu Tataru, how beautiful do you think?" Jia Lei picked up a Mongolian knife inlaid with gems from the table full of gifts and said.
"It's too expensive, isn't it? Professor Wang walked over, took the knife and looked at it, and then refused.
In order to keep the blade sharp and hard, this knife is not made of pure gold but alloy, but because of the amount of gold inside, it still looks golden.
"You can't refuse this gift! Among the Mongols there is a saying of the golden sword and horse, and Uyunge is the daughter of the head of our tribe, and according to her status, she is the princess of our tribe. Utars reminded Professor Wang.
"Oops...... Isn't this the same as in the Legend of the Condor Heroes? We know the rules, we know!" said the eldest aunt's eyes lit up when she heard the translator's retelling.
"......" Jia Lei's face is full of ellipses, there is nothing to love!
Please, the Ukrainian Tatar family is a real Tatar noble, how can you use the plot of a Hong Kong and Taiwan TV series to understand the customs that have been passed down by the other party for hundreds of years.
"Uncle Utarus, don't be angry! My eldest aunt is a housewife with long hair and short knowledge, and she doesn't know anything except watching TV!" Jia Lei hurriedly explained to his aunt.
This is a master who kills people if he doesn't agree with him!
"It's okay! I don't understand what she's saying anyway!" said Utarus with a smile.
Although he always felt that these children were not very good in all aspects after seeing his sister's children, when he thought that they were all Uyunge's children, Utaru was not angry.
Regardless of whether these people are good or not, at least Wuyunge lived a happy life with children and grandchildren during his lifetime.
"Jia Lei, do you see what else you like on this table?
"You've already given me a gift, don't spend so much money anymore!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the gold, silver, jewelry, and various luxury goods on the table.
"You don't have any good things here, how can Jia Lei be eye-catching? He is not a group of ordinary people in the house who have never seen the world, where can he see these things!" said Utars, looking at the things on the table with disdain.
"My things are ordinary, not as noble as the ones you give, but few people like your pile of gifts!" said Utarus, pointing to a pile of beautifully wrapped gift boxes on the other table.
Jia Lei followed his finger and immediately knew why no one liked these gifts.
Although the gifts from Uncle Uttars were very valuable, there were clothes from the world's top brands, jewelry, wine, cigars, golf clubs, expensive watches, all kinds of high-end daily necessities and musical instruments - and even a famous oil painting!
Uttars piled almost all the gifts common to Western high society on the table, but unfortunately it was useless!
Jia Lei, these ordinary relatives, have never heard of the names of these niche, world-class luxury brands!
No matter how expensive and tasteful these things are, to a few aunts and cousins, they are not as good as the real money and silver things given by Uncle Utarus.
"Jia Lei, how fun do you see this Easter egg? Our little moon likes it!" Wang Weihong smiled and held a resurrected easter egg inlaid with gems, teasing the little moon.
Wang Weihong's body is already full of all kinds of jewelry, after all, as the only daughter of Wuyunge, Wang Weihong looks very similar to her mother in many places.
Therefore, Wang Weihong is particularly favored by Wu Tatarus!
"It looks pretty good!" Jia Lei nodded, looking at Zhou Yue, who was particularly happy to play, and said.
"Really? Do you think this egg is good, too? I snatched it from the Kremlin back then!" said Utarus happily.
"Hmph, which of the things you have in your hand was not robbed? The entire Kremlin is in Kazan, and I am afraid that when you attacked the Kremlin, you took back a tenth of everything in it, right?" said Utars.
"Did you get your stuff just the right one?, who knows how you got it?" said Utaru disdainfully.
"You two don't quarrel! these gifts are good, I like them all. Jia Lei hurriedly said, and then he picked up a watch given by Utars and put it on his hand.
After all, no one in the audience came to pick his gift, and Jia Lei was afraid that Wu Tatars would be too embarrassed and would not be able to get off the stage.
"Forget it, don't force it if you don't like it, you can't wear this watch at all. Utarth smiled, as if she didn't care if anyone didn't like her gift.
"Really...... I really like it! I'm too young to wear it now, but I'll be able to wear it when I'm older. Jia Lei looked at the watch dangling in his hand and said.
Jia Lei's arms are too thin now, and as long as he puts his hand down the watch, it will fall off.
"Giving gifts is about giving things that can be used now! If you can only use them in ten or twenty years, these things will not be popular. It doesn't make sense to wear it!" Utars said with a frown.
"It's the world's top brand, how can it be meaningless! This kind of thing can maintain and increase in value! I really like it. Jia Lei hurriedly said.
"If you like gifts that preserve and increase in value, that's fine! The autumn auction at Sotheby will start in two days, and I'll show you when the time comes, and tell me what you like when the time comes." Uncle took a picture of it and sent it to you!" Uttarus said after a moment's thought.
Among all the descendants of Wuyunge, only Jia Lei can enter the eyes of Utars, and the others, including Professor Wang, feel that they are a little too much to be on the table.
Therefore, Wu Tatars is particularly partial to Jia Lei, he likes Jia Lei's attitude of positive struggle and courage to break into the world.
"Ah—— how did I forget such an important matter?" Jia Lei suddenly knocked his head hard and shouted.
"Jia Lei, what are you calling if you're okay?" scare me to death!" said the eldest aunt patting her chest.
"Jia Lei, you shouldn't be causing something again, right?" Professor Wang asked nervously, he now felt that his chest was stuffy again.
"I didn't ...... I didn't make a fuss this time! I just forgot something very important. Jia Lei hurriedly shook his head and said.
"What's important?" asked Professor Wang.
Utarus and Utarus also looked at Jia Lei, wondering what was wrong with him.
"My mammoth! mammoth......" Jia Lei said in Russian, clutching his head in discouragement.
"By the way, I remember you did say that you were going to take that mammoth to the auction house for auction?
I originally wanted to take a plane to the auction in Yekaterinaburg, but I didn't expect to be robbed halfway. In the past few days, I have been running for my life and confessing my relatives, so I forgot about it. Jia Lei squatted on the ground, holding his head and collapsed.
Poor mammoth—it's still in the cold storage of the docks, crouching in a pitiful little dark room!
"Then what are you waiting for, why don't you find a way to arrange it, the auction will start in two days. Professor Wang said anxiously.
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Jia Lei went to the cemetery with the Utaru brothers the next day to sweep the grave of his grandmother Wuyunge, and accompanied the two bigwigs to stand in the cemetery for a long time!
Jia Lei listened to the two bigwigs over there reminiscing about the childhood memories they had experienced with their grandmother, and at the same time secretly talked to his brother-in-law Wang Chidao, who rushed back overnight this morning.
"How is the hotel apartment in Pengcheng, and how is the passenger flow after it opens?" Jia Lei asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, the business of the apartment is very good! It has only been open for less than two months, and eighty percent of the rooms have already been rented out. Wang Chidao said and wiped the sweat from his head.
"Actually, when I saw your weight, I knew that business must be very good, otherwise you wouldn't have gained so much meat with a wide heart. However, the body is too fat and easy to get sick, uncle, you better exercise more, you have a double chin. If you get fat, you won't even be able to marry a daughter-in-law!" Jia Lei complained in a low voice.
"No, I've only gained 20 pounds!" Wang Chidao said in surprise, he weighs only more than 170 pounds now.
"But look at how many fat people there are around now, aren't you as fat as everyone else?" Jia Lei asked.
"This ......" Wang Chidao listened to Jia Lei's words, looked at the people around him with his eyes, and found that he was indeed fatter than others.
In fact, with Wang Chidao's height of 1.7 meters, he is only slightly fat, but he can't stand the fact that people in the early nineties were not rich!
If you look through the old photos of those years, you will find that in the late 80s and early 90s, there were almost no fat pedestrians on the road, and everyone was yellow and thin.
Although everyone was quite thin at the time, everyone looked alive and energetic with red light on their faces!
"You've been standing here with us for a long time, so let's all go back. Utarus stood up from the grave and said.
It may be that he sat for too long and his legs were numb, and Utaru stumbled when he got up.
"Uncle, are you alright?" Professor Wang, who was standing behind him, immediately reached out and helped him.
"I'm fine!" said Utaru unhappily patting Professor Wang's hand away, and then he straightened his waist and walked out slowly.
"You're in your eighties, what else can you do? Uttars himself stood up slowly on crutches.
"You're slow, you're not too young, I'll help you. Jia Lei walked over and said.
"It's fine, I'm not even eighty! Utarth said with a smile.
"Hmph, but your body looks like you're going to be in a coffin. Utarus sarcastically said to his brother.
Don't think he doesn't know, what Utars just sarcastically said is that he is 81 years old this year.
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21 September 1991
A private jet landed in London, Jia Lei helped Utars slowly get off the plane, and Pete and Utars' men stood on the lawn of the airport to greet them.
"Uncle I'm afraid I still have something to discuss with them, so I won't bother you! Jia Lei put Utars into the car, and then stood outside the door and said.
"You've always been so caring and sensible, what a good boy! I wish you were my own grandson. Utars said with a satisfied smile.
"Why? I'm your nephew, don't you like me? Actually, I think it's good, you have so many grandchildren? But you didn't just bring me, my nephew. Jia Lei said with a smile.
"You...... What a naughty ghost!" Utars laughed at Jia Lei's amusement, and then he let people drive away.
"How is Pete's mammoth doing?" Jia Lei asked as soon as he got into Pete's car and didn't sit down steadily.
"Fortunately, you called in time! We shipped the mammoth out of the container at the dock overnight the night before yesterday, and after overnight polishing and decoration, it has been transported to the auction house today. Pete said.
"That's good! Fortunately, we are in a hurry, and if we miss this auction, we will have to transport the mammoth to country M for another auction. That's a lot of work!" Jia Lei said happily.
"Yes, fortunately, it was just in time! Sotheby's autumn auction in London is one of the top auctions in the world. This is the only place where our mammoths can be sold for a good price!" said Pete, too, rejoicing.