Finally entered the house.

After Shi Lei entered, he did not accept the advice of Jackman and his lawyer Lawrence to sit down and chat, but walked freely upstairs and downstairs as if he were visiting the former residence of a celebrity who had long been uninhabited and developed as an attraction.

When he came down from upstairs, Shi Lei said in an insincere tone: "Oh, I'm sorry, I want to buy a house after all, so I turned around first." Presumably Mr. Fries wouldn't mind. ”

Jackman looked at Shi Lei, and said in his heart, I said mind, is it useful? Now people are poor, short horses, thin horses, and long hair, alas, whatever.

Lawrence knew that Jackman couldn't speak, so he replied for him with a smile: "Mr. Shi is right, you originally came to buy a house, and the first important thing is, of course, to take a good look at the house." Now that Mr. Shi has seen it, I don't know if he is still satisfied with this house?"

Shi Lei was noncommittal, walked to the sofa and sat down, then picked up the whiskey that had been poured on the table, and gestured: "This is poured for me?"

Lawrence nodded hurriedly, and Shi Lei took a sip, frowning slightly, as if he was very dissatisfied with this whiskey.

"About fifteen years of Da Mo, there is no name for the brand. Shi Lei put down the glass of wine, as if commenting casually.

This seemingly casual sentence made both Jackman and Lawrence slightly surprised, after all, it is not difficult to taste what brand it is with just a small bite. The difficulty is to say exactly how old the wine will be, which requires a very accurate understanding of the whisky and the brand itself.

In Jackman's mind, he actually regarded Shi Lei as an upstart like the upstarts in Silicon Valley not far from here. The birth of the Internet has made many people change from having nothing to becoming rich, and old money like Jackman actually looks down on these so-called upstarts.

When he learned that Shi Lei thought that the house he originally wanted to sell was too cheap, and he happened to be short of money and needed to sell the property in his hand as soon as possible, Jackman specially inquired about Shi Lei's background.

And what he could find out, of course, was only those things on Shi Lei's surface.

In the last year of college, I started a business, made a shared bicycle that continued to be popular, and then invested in Hong Kong Ju Gene by chance, and had a considerable amount of net worth.

Jackman looks down on Shi Lei even more, in his opinion, Shi Lei's current net worth is only one or two hundred billion soft sister coins, and this is still rich on paper, and it is impossible to have too much money in his hands. But such a person came to the United States and tried to buy a mansion worth more than 100 million dollars.

This also led to Jackman's attitude towards Shi Lei from the beginning.

But now, Shi Lei's seemingly casual words made Jackman realize that his initial judgment may have been biased. The upstarts in Silicon Valley may have studied a few brands of red wine, and even that research is still at the level of rhetoric.

Like Shi Lei, there are almost no people who can taste Da Mo after one bite and accurately say how long it has been stored.

This requires a very detailed understanding of many brands over a long period of time, and it is not something that can be achieved overnight in a year or two.

The bottle wasn't too expensive, and it wasn't a good wine in the eyes of someone like Jackman, or rather, it wasn't a good wine for anyone earning more than $100,000 a year.

However, tasting and affording are definitely two different things.

Involuntarily, Jackman's posture is not as arrogant as it was at the beginning.

"What's the matter with you? I said I was going to take that bottle of wine from my study to entertain Mr. Shi, why did you take this bottle?"

Jackman used the topic to play, and the maid certainly didn't dare to have any rebuttal, even if it was simply the wine that Jackman took out himself.

The maid quickly took the bottle of wine he said from Jackman's study, and poured it into the wine storage container again, without any brand label to refer to.

After changing the cup for Shi Lei, Jackman personally poured a glass for Shi Lei and said, "Mr. Shi, you might as well taste this glass of wine again." ”

Shi Lei picked up the glass of wine, glanced at the color of the wine slightly, then put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently, and finally took a small sip.

The wine slowly flowed down on the tongue, and the aroma of the wine instantly diffused, Shi Lei put down the wine glass, smiled and said: "Genting 1919, fifty years, this wine is not bad." ”

Jackman and Lawrence glanced at each other, with a little surprise in their eyes, and they completely accepted that Shi Lei was by no means the IT upstart they imagined, but someone with a strong background that they had not investigated.

"Mr. Shi, what do you think of my house?" Jackman completely gave up his arrogance, as if he finally understood where Shi Lei's arrogance came from.

Shi Lei smiled slightly and said: "On the whole, it's not bad, but I always feel a little strange about you Americans building houses, why do you have to have a bathroom in every room? ”

Jackman and Lawrence looked at each other, and to be honest, they didn't quite understand Shi Lei's feelings.

Tom, on the other hand, has dealt with Chinese people a lot over the years, and he still understands some Chinese people's needs for housing.

Tom hurriedly said, "Mr. Shi, this is actually the reason why the cultures of the two countries are different from each other. In the last century, China implemented a policy called family planning, which has made it possible for the younger generation in your country to have almost no brothers and sisters, so there is no need for a large family to live together. There are more rooms, and more are used for various purposes, except for two or three bedrooms, the others are functional rooms. And the United States is different. In the United States, the size of a family is often linked to economic conditions, so a larger house means that there will be more family members. This requires most of the rooms to be treated as bedrooms, so they all have washrooms. Moreover, we Americans regard inviting friends to our home as the highest form of hospitality, and it is too inconvenient for guests to come and stay in the guest room, and they should not be allowed to share a bathroom with the host. Therefore, in American houses, there are fewer functional rooms, and more are bedrooms. ”

Shi Lei listened, nodded, but understood.

"It seems that I was abrupt, so no matter where I go to see the house, as long as it is built, it is almost always like this?"

Tom nodded and said, "Generally speaking, houses in the United States that sell for more than millions of dollars have a few bathrooms with a few rooms, and even the number of bathrooms will exceed the number of rooms. ”

Shi Lei spread out his hands and said with a smile: "Then I don't have any problems, I am basically satisfied with this house." ”

Jackman took a sip of wine and said, "I wonder what Mr. Shi's opinion on the price is?"

Shi Lei glanced at Jackman deeply and said, "Mr. Fries has been short of money lately?"

Jackman was stunned for a moment, and then felt a deep malice, although the American way of communication is indeed more direct, but this kind of questioning can never be asked so directly.

"Why did Mr. Shi say that?"

"If it weren't for Mr. Fries's lack of money, how could a man of a fortune like you sell the house where he had lived for ten or twenty years?

Jackman felt a deep sense of malice again.