Chapter 229: "The Poor"

After recommending Yanlin to everyone, even if Li Han's task was completed, no matter how much help he had, he couldn't help, and the next day he went to a place called Richmond in the north of Darlington, which had the same name as the Richmond in the United States, but it was just a small town in the countryside.

From Lydia's birthday on July 31 to now, he has seen several castles this month, Romanesque, Gothic, Victorian...... All of them are beautiful, and Li Han almost bought them all for collecting fetish seizures.

But beautiful is beautiful, like to like, live for a few days is fresh, he is unwilling to live for a long time. The old houses in Britain have one problem with the old houses in Huangguo: the windows are small.

As long as it is an old house, let alone hundreds or thousands of years, even if it is tens or a hundred years old, the windows are not very big. The light is dim, the air is not circulated, and the space is oppressive...... Why is it so difficult to find a spacious and bright castle?

Today I went to see another castle with a history of more than 500 years, Li Han was not very hopeful, but the intermediary Dean swore that this castle was great, and he would definitely be satisfied, and he had nothing to do anyway, so he agreed to go over and have a look. Lydia had already gone to Oxford, where she was going to prepare herself for a year of postgraduate study.

The castle is indeed beautiful, with a large forest green area with white walls and gray tiles towering, and the river loops around and joins the lake not far away. The front of the castle is a wide meadow, and the back is an undulating mountain forest, covering a total area of more than a thousand acres, with beautiful and charming scenery and a wide field of vision, as long as the windows are not too small, Li Han feels that it is still good to live here.

He's luxurious about those decorations these days. The dimly lit castle was tormented enough. Although the luxurious decoration can cause amazement, he still prefers a simple house with light colors and bright colors after staying for a long time. In particular, the castle cannot be altered, and this kind of old house with a history of hundreds of years or thousands of years is regulated by a protection law.

"Very beautiful castle," said Dean, "that's why I'll call you, or I'll have to see where there is a suitable vacant lot, and build it myself." ”

Li Han nodded, looking at the groves of groves in the distance, and there were peacocks hanging out on the grass from time to time. They walked across a wooden arch bridge more than ten meters long. After passing a large meadow, we came to the front of the complex. The building says it's a castle. It is because it has a bell tower on the right side of the main house, and there are arrow towers at the four corners, and there are battlements between the arrow towers, otherwise it is more like a manor.

There are no outer walls. There are no dangerously heavy gates. This made Li Han feel very satisfied. Those things do guarantee security. But that was only in ancient times of war, and now if you still live in a boxy city wall, even if the area enclosed by that wall is more than a few thousand square meters. It's just a small box, and it feels so depressing. And now, whether you sit in front of your house or look out of the window of your room, you can feel good about having a wide view.

Dean opened the castle gate, and under the arched stone door frame was a dark gray log leaf, the same color as the roof. The interior decoration is warm beige, although the furniture is still the color of mahogany, but the light-colored walls and curtains, and the large windows make Li Han breathe a sigh of relief.

The foyer was separated by a red log partition, and there were two square seals on the wall, and there should have been two portraits hanging here, but the owner of the castle put them away when he was ready to sell. Next to it is a small dressing room, into which guests will be welcomed into this room to take off their coats in winter, and there are two rows of places to hang coats, hats, and umbrellas.

The hall is two stories high, with a mahogany staircase leading up to the second floor, with a door on one side and a long sun-drenched corridor on the other. The light red sofa with floral and the light yellow curtains with floral curtains are very suitable for him, and the heavy mahogany furniture has a slight sense of vicissitudes, although there is no storage space for modern furniture, but such a large house, plus the next room has nearly two hundred rooms, everything can be placed. Li Han found that the speed of making a fortune was still a little faster, and he couldn't get rid of the kind of ordinary people in the market, who subconsciously cared about the storage space when buying a house.

The nouveau riche is the nouveau riche, after several generations of edification, the upper-class people buy a house thinking about history and taste, while ordinary people think about the use of space. Even if he is now worth hundreds of millions, he can't get rid of the imprint of living as an ordinary person in the previous 20 years.

Dean strode over to the window and pulled the curtains hard, the windows were big enough, not as big as the floor-to-ceiling windows, but the whole wall except for the foyer had a row of three windows, each of which was two meters wide and one meter five high, and the second floor had five. If the windows on both floors are opened, even if it's not sunny, as long as it's not cloudy, the light from the eight windows is enough.

There are also a few chairs next to the window on the second floor, and there is a bookshelf on the platform at the end of the corridor, it seems that the previous owner also likes to sit in front of the window and read books like Li Han. On the first floor, there are pairs of sofas and small round tables in front of the windows, which are intended for guests, who are sometimes willing to sit and chat over tea and watch the scenery outside, rather than go to the sunroom or the entertainment room.

Entering through the door on the right hand side of the living room was a large dining room, about 100 square meters, with only a huge dining table in it, which could seat about 30 people at the same time. There was a small room next to the dining room, and there were several long side tables in it, which were used for buffet banquets.

On the other side of the living room is a recreation room, no bigger than the dining room, with billiards, several sets of sofas where you can play cards, and at the end of the rectangular room there is a mini bowling alley with two fairways to play ball.

In addition to going up to the second floor, the stairwell also leads to the basement, which is also an entertainment room, with a large home theater, as well as treadmills, bench presses and other fitness equipment.

"On the second floor is the master bedroom and study, on the third floor there are four children's rooms and a study, and the guest bedroom is in the east wing." Dean said, leading Li Han up to the second floor.

The master bedroom has a small living room, an ancient fireplace and an LCD TV. The living room and bedroom had large windows, the dressing room was no smaller than Lydia's, and the bathroom had a bathtub as large as a plunge pool in which a non-swimmer could drown.

The third floor is said to be a children's room, the layout is actually not naΓ―ve, only a small baby room with cartoon wallpaper, a children's bed, the other three are similar to the master bedroom, but there is no living room and dressing room, and the bathroom is not so big. This should be for older children, or for closer guests.

The staircase can continue to go up, and there is a small attic above, and there are many cabinets, boxes, and other miscellaneous items. Looking out of the attic window, you can see the dark grey roof and the forest meadows in the distance.

The east wing is large, 200 meters long, and looks a bit like a bachelor's dormitory: a long corridor in the middle, with rooms on the left and right. It has doors to the dining room and living room of the main house, but only to the first floor. If the host wants to go to a room in the West Wing, he can only go downstairs to the West Wing and then go upstairs, and the same goes for the guests.

The staircase in the west wing is close to the main house, with the kitchen, utility room and lower room on the first floor and the guest rooms on the second floor. The rooms are not big, each room is only a dozen square meters, fortunately, there are separate bathrooms. The guest rooms are more than 30 square meters, with a living room, dressing room and bathroom, and the furniture inside is also beautiful and high-end.

"What's that place over there?" Li Han pointed to a row of low houses a few hundred meters away outside and asked, "It should also belong to the scope of this castle, right?" ”

"There are stables where you can keep a dozen horses......"

Speaking of the stable, Li Han remembered it and asked, "Where is the garage?" ”

"On the west side, there is a large garage on the west side of the main house, with two floors, which can park more than 20 cars, do you want to go and see it?"

Li Han shook his head and asked, "The mountains behind are also included?" Are there many animals? ”

"Those two mountains are not very high, and there are still deer and foxes in terms of animals, but they are certainly not as good as the territory of the Earl of Reims and Sir Warren." Dean has been in this line of work for so long, and has served Li Han many times, so he naturally knows his relationship with Count Lance and Gavin.

Li Han nodded: "This castle is good, I look quite satisfied, how much is it?" ”

"Seventy-six million pounds."

"How much?" Li Han was shocked, although he guessed that the price would not be too low, but this was too expensive, and all his current net worth was not much more than this, not to mention that almost all his money was invested in clinics and pharmaceutical factories...... Nima, so poor!

Dean smiled bitterly: "This is already the price that I have pressed and pressed with the seller, not to mention that this castle has nearly two hundred rooms, covering an area of nearly a thousand square meters, you just look at the large area in front, at least more than two hundred acres, the back garden is also big and beautiful, plus those two mountains, the seller can open up to 100 million pounds." ”

"I have a small ranch of three hundred acres, three million pounds, and I also bought one of the castles, and it is still the famous vampire castle, and there are more than a hundred rooms, but only ten million. And these two mountains, you also said that they can't be compared with other people's, they are not big, even if I count them as 10 million, this is too outrageous to open to 76 million. "Li Han's psychological price is 50 million, which is half of the price.

"This can't be counted like this, these things are really not too valuable if they are separated, but when added together, it is not a matter of 1+1+1=3. Why don't I give you a fraction and give you a whole number, how about 70 million? Dean's face hurts, people love to buy houses, Li Han was also very generous when he bought a villa before, and he almost didn't talk about the price, and today's bite is really ruthless. (To be continued......)