Chapter 1371: Those who don't pretend to be forced
Shi Lei gave the yacht company a GPS positioning, although this thing is a little off, but the vicinity of the castle is quite empty, basically the only multi-storey building within a radius of one kilometer.
After the people from the yacht company arrived, they were a little confused, after all, Shi Lei's name was obviously the name of a Chinese person, and the information was also Huaxia, and even the place where the yacht was finally sent was also in Huaxia. They know very well that Shi Lei should be a Chinese. It is unbelievable that a Chinese man can own an ancient castle in a place like London.
Customers who can come up with 30 million euros, although it is rare for a yacht company like them, is really not worth making too much fuss. After all, buying a car or a house may be a local tyrant, and buying a yacht is quite an aristocratic style.
So the one who can buy this yacht at such a fast speed and only after telephone communication must be rich and powerful.
But just because you're rich and powerful doesn't mean you can own a castle, especially in a place like London.
Britain is a notoriously old-fashioned country, although the royal family is only a symbolic existence, but after so many years, it still retains the royal family and retains the title of nobility, which is enough to show how old-fashioned and conservative the country is.
It's not uncommon to own a castle in France, and although it's always a symbol of honor, it's still possible to buy it if you have a lot of money.
In other European countries, there are also many royal families, but like the United Kingdom, which often regards the king or queen as a spiritual symbol, the United Kingdom is almost unique. The royal families of other countries are more or less in name.
Even in those countries, it is possible to "buy" a title of nobility with money, but in England this is extremely unlikely.
But this Mr. Shi Lei actually owns an ancient castle in the suburbs of London, covering a considerable area, which seems to show that his identity is very unusual.
Under such psychological influence, the representatives of the yacht company and the lawyers, before they entered the castle, naturally brought some awe.
When the car arrived at the door, the iron door slowly opened, and an old butler in a tuxedo with gray hair stood respectfully behind the door.
This is the typical old British butler, where every movement is as tight as a part on a machine tool. seems respectful, but in fact it continues the arrogance of the British aristocracy, even if he is just a butler.
After confirming the identity of the person in the car, the old butler motioned for someone from the yacht company to come with him, but the car could only be parked in the parking space near the door.
Looking at the flowers and plants in the yard, everything is taken care of in a very orderly manner, although only one gardener is busy working in the yard, but it does not give people a sense of loneliness at all.
On the contrary, a high aristocratic atmosphere is pervasive.
With a sense of awe, the old butler politely pushed the door, and the maid inside hurriedly opened the door, then folded her hands on her lower abdomen, lowered her head and welcomed the two guests into the castle.
"Wait, two, I'll go and ask the master to come down. ”
Between the words, there is a strong London accent, and there is also an inexplicable sense of the vicissitudes of the nineteenth century.
After the old butler finished speaking, he did not wait for the two of them to answer at all, and walked straight towards the stairs.
The maid had already pushed the cart over, placed two gilded teacups in front of them, and poured tea for them with the same teapot.
"Guest, please use. With that, he put two small plates of refreshments on the coffee table and pushed the cart out of the living room.
This etiquette is simply too forced, even the French, who are no strangers to royal etiquette, will feel that all this has put a lot of pressure on them, making them have a feeling that they dare not breathe.
Sitting on the sofa, they didn't dare to relax in the slightest, and they didn't dare to drink a sip of black tea in front of them, even though they were actually a little thirsty.
After waiting for a while, before Shi Lei appeared, the lawyer looked around, lowered his voice and said, "Who is the client this time? This is London, how did he do it?"
"Maybe it's the knight canonized by the royal family, anyway, try to speak as politely as possible for a while. ”
"The rich should be like this, since the wealth has been exhausted, there is still some prestige. ”
The two nodded together, and they heard footsteps coming from the stairs.
In fact, Shi Lei didn't care too much about this, and he didn't expect that these two people would have such drastic psychological changes in the process of seeing the ancient castle and waiting for him.
Whether he buys an ancient castle or hires a housekeeper or a servant, the purpose is very simple, just to spend money, and he really hasn't developed to the extent that he can consciously use these ways to pretend.
Everything is unconscious, purely for the sake of profligacy, but the way he squanders now is getting closer and closer to the lifestyle of a true aristocracy. That kind of pure local tyrant-style spending is no longer of enough value to him, because that model of spending money is almost unable to support Shi Lei's quota consumption.
The housekeeper led Shi Lei, and after he sat down, he poured tea for Shi Lei and whispered to Shi Lei to introduce the names and identities of the two people.
He only knew all this when he had confirmed his identity at the door just now, but now he spoke as if he were extremely familiar with these two people, and he repeated every word they had said without the slightest mistake.
Shi Lei nodded, waved his hand, and said to the old housekeeper: "Thank you, you go down first, and I will talk to these two gentlemen." ”
The old butler nodded, bowed to Shi Lei, and left the living room.
Shi Lei smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I made you wait for a long time, you got up early in the morning, and you just lay down for a while." ”
The two hurriedly said with sincere fear: "Mr. Shi is too polite, this is what we should have done." You see, we are ......"
Shi Lei picked up the teacup, gestured to the two, and said, "Sign the contract directly, everything that should be discussed before is almost discussed, I think the two of you should be ready for the contract." ”
The lawyer hurriedly took out the contract from his bag, put it in front of Shi Lei, and diligently helped him turn to the first page of the contract text.
After Shi Lei took a sip of tea, the lawyer began to introduce him to the details of the contract, saying that except for some detailed clauses, everything else was their company's standard contract.
"Mr. Shi, this is probably the case, if you are not satisfied with anything, just put it forward, and we will fully cooperate with you to revise it. The representative of the yacht company looked at Shi Lei, although both sides were sitting, there was always a feeling that Shi Lei was sitting on top of their heads, and they were looking up at Shi Lei.
In fact, the modification of the contract still has to be reported back, and finally determined by the legal department, however, with this lawyer, basically from a legal point of view, there should be no problems, and the sales representative of the yacht company, I believe that as long as he explains Shi Lei's situation back to the company, the company will never have any problems.
Shi Lei smiled and said, "There's nothing to modify, everything is fine." It's just to trouble your company to send the yacht to the magic capital as soon as possible. ”
"Please rest assured that we will deliver the yacht within fifteen days after the contract comes into force today. Then there will be a process of commissioning and overhauling, which of course requires some cooperation from Mr. Shi's marina, which generally speaking, will not take more than three days. Ten hours after the launch of the sea trial, the delivery can be carried out. ”
Shi Lei nodded with satisfaction and signed his name on the contract.