Chapter 470: A Visit
Sean was on the video intercom at the door of Hillary's small estate when he heard the security guards inside say, "Who are you looking for?"
"Zheng Xudong visits Ms. Clinton!" Sean replied.
"Wait a minute!" replied a voice over the intercom.
After two minutes, a small door opened on the stainless steel door, and out of it came a black man in a black suit, judging from the bulging inside the suit, there must be a gun inside, "Open the door, we have to check." ”
At this time, Zheng Xudong opened a small window in the carriage and said to the black security guard outside: "I am Zheng Xudong, I was invited to Ms. Hillary's dinner, and the things in the car are not convenient to inspect. ”
The black security guard saw Zheng Xudong through a crack in the car window, and he was indeed a VIP invited by Hillary, but he didn't dare to call the shots by letting such a big car in without inspection, so he took out the walkie-talkie and reported it to the security director inside.
This time, it took five minutes for the stainless steel gate to open from the inside, and the black security guard saw that the door was open, and the inside must have agreed to the entry of the vehicle, so he dodged his body away, and then said to Sean: "Just one road, drive along the road to the villa." ”
Sure enough, this manor is not big, a small road stretches straight inward, and it is less than 200 meters, and when you turn to the right, you will see a white three-story villa.
On the porch of the villa, Hillary and former President Clinton stood at the door waiting, which made Zheng Xudong a little flattered, after Sean stopped the car, he didn't use the housekeeper to open the door, and quickly opened the door by himself, and then he hurriedly carried a black suitcase down, and then quickly closed the door tightly, for fear that the big bag containing money inside would fall down.
Clinton was just about to be the host and stepped forward to greet Zheng Xudong, but Hillary had already stepped forward first, gave Zheng Xudong a hug, and kissed the cheek, "Congratulations on the success of your fan meeting!"
"Thank you!" Then he took the initiative to shake Clinton's hand and said: "Mr. Clinton, I finally saw you today, you are one of the few US presidents I admire." Zheng Xudong patted the sycophants round.
"What is there to worship about him, merry ghost!" Hillary made up for it at the right time, which can also be seen that this family is a bit "yin and yang"!
At this time, a blonde girl about twenty years old ran out of the house, saw Zheng Xudong scream first, and then threw herself into his arms, kissed Zheng Xudong twice on the face very politely, Hillary looked at the child lovingly and said: "Anton, don't laugh, this is my daughter, your fan, in the words of you young people, called brain... Brain-dead, yes, brain-dead powder!"
The girl snorted, "Mom, how can you introduce people like this, hello, my full name is Chelsea Victoria Clinton, Anton's little brother, you can call me Chelsea." I just watched your fan meeting on TV, but unfortunately the security staff didn't let me go to such a complicated occasion, otherwise I would have gone to the scene. The girl said with some grumbling as she spoke.
"That's probably the price you have to pay to grow up in a political family, but that's okay, I've come to meet you as a fan in person and bring you new records and novels signed by me. Zheng Xudong said.
"Where?" Chelsea asked in surprise.
"Chelsea, are you going to let your star stand outside the gate?" said Mr. Clinton with a smile.
"Ahh Come in, please come in!" After speaking, he grabbed Zheng Xudong's arm and was about to pull it inside.
"Wait a minute!" Zheng Xudong said, "Mrs. Clinton, there is something wrong with my car, you can ask my lawyer, who is accompanied by your family, to drive it into the garage and inspect it, and try to fix it so that I don't have to trouble you when I leave!"
Zheng Xudong wanted to ask Hillary to arrange for a trustworthy person to count the money for the car, so he asked his family and lawyer to go into the garage together, without saying that he would find a car repair technician to enter the garage. Another one said in front of Clinton that he couldn't say anything about Mrs. Hillary anymore, and could only call Mrs. Clinton, and sure enough, Hillary didn't say anything when he said so.
Hillary and Clinton are both "thousand-year-old demons" in the political arena, and when they heard Zheng Xudong's words, they understood that this was the reason why the vehicle was not allowed to be inspected at the door, in fact, they had already guessed it to some extent.
Clinton called in a butler who had followed him for many years, and this butler was precisely the housekeeper of Hillary's maiden family when she was not married.
As soon as the butler heard it, he understood what the "job" was, opened the door of the passenger of the Ford E350 and sat in. The car drove towards the garage at the back of the villa.
Zheng Xudong picked up the black suitcase next to him and entered the living room on the first floor of this villa, most of the materials in the five-meter living room are logs, the thick logs look old, the brown pure leather sofa, the gray-black pure wool carpet, so that the tone of the whole living room is very gray, but fortunately, there is a large chandelier on the head to illuminate the living room.
Zheng Xudong thinks that many people in politics like dark-colored decorations, as if such decorations can show their maturity and stability.
After Zheng Xudong sat down, he put the black suitcase in his hand on the solid wood coffee table, and said: "Mr. Clinton, madam, I brought two bottles of red wine for the first time, and I also brought a few of my personal works to your daughter, I hope you will laugh!"
"This is the wine you found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, isn't it?" Mrs. Clinton said.
"Madame also knows about this?!" Zheng Xudong asked with some curiosity.
"Hmph, I didn't know, but in the past two days, Trump's old guy has been holding this red wine all over Capitol Hill, saying that this is his future son-in-law honoring him. Also went to my office and poured a glass for me to taste. Huh, old fellow, what's the show?" Hillary said angrily.
"A piece of the child's heart, what are you doing with that old thing?" From Clinton's words, Zheng Xudong let him know that Trump, the future old father-in-law, is much more unwelcome! He smiled awkwardly and opened the suitcase, revealing two bottles of red wine with a quaint atmosphere, a few records, and a few novels.
Seeing that the records and novels had been signed, Chelsea happily picked them up, hugged them to his chest, and then politely said, "Thank you, Anton! This is the best gift I have received this year!"
"You can only say that these two bottles of red wine are for Mr. Clinton, not for me, you know?" Mrs. Clinton said.
Clinton saw Zheng Xudong's blank look and explained with a smile: "Mr. Anton, let me explain to you what your aunt just said." As he spoke, he took out a cigarette and handed it to Zheng Xudong, "Do you smoke?"
"Thank you! Mr. Clinton, I only smoke cigars!" After speaking, he took out two cigars from the pocket of his coffee-colored casual suit, and saw that Hillary's face was a little unhappy, so he quickly took out another one, which was a limited edition to commemorate Castro's birthday, and then said: "Let's smoke this one of mine!" After speaking, he took out the cigar cutter and cut off the cigar caps respectively and handed them to the couple, Zheng Xudong did not expect that Hillary would not only smoke cigars, but also look like an old smoker from the posture.
After taking two puffs, Hillary said, "Good cigarettes, but unfortunately we can't buy them." ”
Clinton also took a few puffs and said, "It's really a good cigarette, Adong, I can call you that!" Seeing Zheng Xudong nodded, "I'll tell you why the red wine can only be said to be given to me." The U.S. government stipulates that incumbent officials who receive gifts of more than $5,000 must be registered with the State Department, otherwise they will be charged with the crime of accepting bribes. After registration, this thing is nominally yours, but in fact it is the state and is in the custody of the state. And I inquired with your Aunt Clinton about the two bottles of red wine you took today, and I heard that the French expert at Citibank in Modu that day gave you an appraisal of $50,000 a bottle. Do you think your Aunt Hillary dares to accept it? Including the cigars we are smoking now to commemorate the birthday of that old card in Cuba, they are also very expensive, and we can't accept them, and we don't dare to smoke them if we do, so we have to hand them over to the state. Got it?"
After listening to it, Zheng Xudong suddenly realized that the laws of the United States are so strict about officials, and even there are relevant regulations on gift-giving.
"In fact, all countries in the world have similar requirements in this regard, but they are different in terms of amount, and your country is the same. Hillary added.
"I specially prepared these two bottles of wine to see Mr. Clinton, and I greatly admire Mr. Clinton's contributions to the country during his presidency!" Zheng Xudong first gave Clinton a sycophant.
Hearing Zheng Xudong's words, Clinton laughed heartily, after all, after stepping down from the presidency, there is still a young man from a "hostile" country who can evaluate himself like this, and he is really happy!
"What do you have to admire him, old rascal!" Hillary whispered. Then he glared at Clinton next to him.
Clinton said with some embarrassment: "Hillary, what are you doing talking about in front of your children!"
Zheng Xudong didn't hear Hillary's words, and was afraid that the two of them would quarrel again because of those "Chen chaff, rotten grain" things, so he preemptively said: "Aunt Hillary, Mr. Clinton has done a lot of things during his reign, such as vigorously promoting the information superhighway in the United States, bringing the Internet from military science and technology to civilian use, and then promoting it to the world, setting off the first big explosion of the virtual economy, and giving birth to many network technology companies. Moreover, when he left office, the government had a surplus of finances, as if $200 billion had been left to the successor Bush administration, and for the first time, the US government did not run a deficit. And I've heard that the American people rank all the American presidents, and Mr. Clinton is the three most intelligent American presidents. And Mr. Bush Jr. is also in the ranking of presidents with the lowest IQ, which is really interesting! All this shows that Mr. Clinton is indeed a rare American statesman!"