068: The Mansion
The buzzing sound of Li Wen's mobile phone woke her up from her sleep, she opened her eyes sleepily, picked up the phone listlessly and said, "Shutao, why did you call me so early?" β
The book peach at one end said with a hundred times more energy: "You don't have to go to work these days." β
"The company's affairs have been handed over, and I am waiting for the group interview of "Shangke" in September."
"In that case, can you stay with me during this time?"
"I'll try my best." Li Wen was so noisy by Shutao, he seemed to be much more sober.
"Then you don't hurry up and get dressed, I'm going to let you come to a place today."
Li Wen asked curiously, "What place?" Is it another LVMH party? β
"No, today our family is coming to the villa in the suburbs for a small engagement ceremony for my sister and her fiancΓ©. I came here by myself, and now I'm bored to death! I just asked Erman and Lixuan, you know, Erman has to go to work, Lixuan is busy helping me decorate the gallery, and they won't be there until dinner time. I don't really have a companion right now. You have to come here now! "Listening to the sound of the book peach is indeed a little lost.
"What about the horses?"
"He's coming...... And you haven't met my parents yet, I want them to see my best friend. β
When Li Wen heard Shutao's words, he felt warm in his heart, and felt that he could be regarded as his best friend by Qu Shutao, and he was indeed fortunate to have three lives.
She stood up and walked to the bathroom, squatted down on the toilet and said, "Okay, I'll go with you." β
"I'll let Ma Jun come to your house to pick you up in an hour, I won't toss around, I'll wait for you at the villa."
"Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Li Wen thought that if he wanted to meet Shutao's parents and attend her sister's engagement ceremony, he couldn't dress casually.
She took out a high-imitation Dolce Gabbana petticoat that she bought for 700 yuan a few days ago, paired it with the Valentino pink DEMILUNE double-handle handbag that Shutao gave her, and took a picture in front of the mirror after wearing it neatly, and felt that it was not bad.
It's a pity that the pungent smell of glue on the fake brand shoes she just arrived has not yet dissipated, and she is afraid that she will be in front of Shutao's family when she arrives, so she can only forcefully match the Christian Louboutin heels that Shutao gave her when she went to the party that night.
The shoe clearly didn't fit well with today's dresses, and it was too grand compared to clothes and bags.
And these shoes are too difficult to wear, but I remembered what Shu Tao said: "You have to wear famous brands if they are difficult to wear, and you have to deal with the difficulties of rich people." So he put them on.
She thought that the people she was going to meet today were all people who were either rich or noble. If it's not a famous brand, it will be embarrassing.
I also thought that if I entered "Shangke" in the future, there would be more and more opportunities to contact these people, and if I was not accompanied by famous brands, I would be ashamed to leave the house.
Thinking about it like this, I subconsciously became nervous.
An hour later, everything was ready, Ma Jun arrived, and when Ma Jun saw her, he said, "You are beautiful today." β
"No matter how beautiful it is, it can't compare to your book."
"You are all equal, each has its own merits." Ma Jun smiled, started the car, and drove towards his destination.
Ma Jun's car drove to the front of the house of Shu Tao's family. Out of nowhere, two men wearing black James Perse T-shirts and pants came up.
One helped Li Wen open the car door, and the other said to Ma Jun: "I'm sorry, you can't park the car here, we are waiting for Mr. Qu to arrive, this road is the welcome road." You can also move it to the garage or we will park it for you. β
"I'll move it myself away, thanks." Ma Jun said.
After he moved the car away, he turned around and came to the gate where Li Wen was standing.
After a while, a middle-aged man in a neat black suit walked over: "Hello, I am the manager of the courtyard of Qufu, and Westerners call me a housekeeper, so I don't have your surname Lu." β
"Hello, Mr. Lu." Ma Jun greeted politely.
Mr. Lu had the door open.
When the spectacular retro maple red gate opened, they walked in and found themselves in a huge private farmstead next to a huge, clear and unfathomable pond.
At the foot of the street is a long walkway that runs through the giant pond to a high-roofed lacquered door in a brown color, surrounded by bamboo that surrounds the farmstead like a wall.
The three-person-tall lacquer door slowly opened, revealing the hall hidden deep inside.
In front of them was a huge, magnificently decorated black and white living room, which looked almost a thousand square meters.
Maids dressed in dark green cheongsams stand quietly in front of a giant square pillar with ink calligraphy hanging in the living room. Glossy black floor tiles and low white sofas give the space an inviting feel.
Behind the glass wall at the end of this house, there is an outdoor lounge with some rounded sofas and a dark wood-colored coffee table.
From there, you can see the large sparkling pond of the farmstead and the pavilions that surround it.
Even the villa where Ma Jun took Shutao to swim before, compared to it, it was only a small feather and not worth mentioning.
Ma Jun was dumbfounded and said, "Wow! Is this a house, or is it a Four Seasons resort? β
Mr. Lu smiled: "In fact, Shutao is obsessed with SH's Puli Hotel style, and once clamored for her father to help her buy the Puli Hotel. When Mr. Qu went to ask, no matter how much the price was for Puli, he didn't sell it, so Mr. Qu asked the construction engineers of Qu Tang Real Estate to build this place for Shutao and Shulei. This magnificent hall is modeled after the lobby of The Puli Hotel. β
Saying that, Mr. Lu took them on a casual tour and said, "What do you want to drink?" β
Before Li Wen and Ma Jun could respond, Shu Tao walked out of another door.
She wore a white Max Mara knee-length dress, a pair of Roger Vivier pumps, a Borsalino top hat, and the most conspicuous thing was the six-ring pearl necklace that hung from her chest.
"Oops, you're finally here." She was dressed like a cover girl who had just come out of Vogue magazine in the 60s.
Li Wen smiled and said: "Shutao, you are like Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and I didn't expect your house to be so great." Your necklace is so beautiful, is it Chanel's? β
"No, it's a natural pearl from Harry Winston." Shumo chuckled, "Come with me, I'll show you around." But first, we're going to drink! What kind of alcohol do you want to drink? I think Ma Jun must be indispensable for vodka, and I, I need a Campari Sue aperitif to match my dress today. Levin, would you like a Bellini? β
"Yes, as long as it's not too high." After speaking, Li Wen motioned for Shu Tao to look at her heels. She was afraid that if she got drunk for a while, she would fall on her heels when she stepped on these seven inches of hatred.
Shu Tao grimaced, smiled knowingly, and said, "It's okay, you're sure to like this wine, I always ask people to put some fresh peaches in it, don't you?" My Steward Lou? β
Mr. Lu smiled and nodded.
Shu Tao shrugged his shoulders and turned to Ma Jun and Li Wen and asked, "Come with me, did Steward Lu tell you that I proposed the design concept of this house?" β
"I heard him say it's a certain SH hotel, right?" Li Wen didn't know anything about these high-end hotels, so he asked in a hurry.
"Yes, The Puli Hotel! But I'm pretending this to be more luxurious than that! The floor tiles we use are so expensive that even the hotel is reluctant to use them! And I know that many of the country's wealthy people live in places that are so cheesy that they resemble the Louis XVI Bedchamber, where they are clad in gold and silver, with dazzling tones, and are full of European style up and down, complicated and cumbersome! So I think this house, which combines Chinese classical and modern minimalist styles, can become the best example of contemporary luxury housing in China. β
Li Wen followed Shutao's footsteps and looked around with surprised eyes.
Shutao continued, "Every piece of furniture you see in the house is handmade by the top designers of Qutang Real Estate and is handmade by our most outstanding craftsmen using the best materials. Of course, you don't have to think about it, all the ornaments here are museum-quality antiques. β
She glanced at Ma Jun and thought to herself, the things in your haunted house are far worse than mine!
Shutao said as he walked: "You can see all the calligraphy scrolls hanging on the wall, all of which are authentic works by the famous calligrapher Bai Jiao in the 40s. β
Ma Jun looked up at the calligraphy and painting that Shu Tao said, and it read: Gui Yi Mo Ci 300 songs, plum blossom Xiaoshou 1,000 years.
"Did you see that? The Ming Dynasty wine glass over there was bought by my dad from a Xi'an collector for six million two years ago, and the St. Louis Museum wanted to buy it from us for fifteen million dollars!! β
Levine stared at the tiny porcelain cup with several chickens depicted on it, trying to believe that it was worth a hundred times her annual salary.
The rest of them had already walked to the back of the farm, which connected to the cistern.
Walking along the path that juts out into the pool, a burst of fairy music wafts in.
"What I'm most proud of about this house is its flower house β I want to tell you that it's 100 percent green β all the roofs are solar panels, and the water from the pond flows into a mixed farming system called aquaponics."
The few of them came to a large glass space, where there were rows of vegetable greenhouses and fish ponds.
Shutao said proudly: "After all the water in the pond is treated, it will be transported to these fish ponds and vegetable fields, so we raise fish to eat by ourselves, and then use their manure as fertilizer to grow vegetables. β
Ma Jun was a little impatient with Shutao's show-off, so he said, "Got it, Cuihua'er!" When are we going to eat? β
"You know how to eat, I haven't finished yet!" Shu Tao glanced at Ma Jun angrily, turned to Li Wen and continued, "Even if the entire house is built in a modern style, the eight pavilions here are arranged with an imperial feng shui pattern!" Don't move!!! β
Ma Jun and Li Wen were so frightened by Shutao that they stood in place, motionless.
"Now, please take a deep breath, do you feel the feng shui qi wafting around you?"
Ma Jun took a deep breath and only smelled the Narciso Rodriguez men's perfume that he had sprayed on his body this morning, he glanced at Li Wen, and nodded as if Li Wen was pleasing a peach.
At this time, a servant trotted over and said, "Miss Qu, Mr. Qu, they are here." β
Shu Tao's posture of closing her eyes and breathing was interrupted, a little displeased, she opened her eyes and said, "Got it, got it!" I'll go out now to meet my old emperor! β
After speaking, Shu Tao took Ma Jun and Li Wen and walked to the door to greet them.