Li Han is really not a good negotiator, in fact, he doesn't bargain much when he buys things. As a novice, it is normal to bargain with a professional, and the final price is 68 million. As an obsessive-compulsive person who is not unhappy as an integer number, Li Han said, you can't be six thousand, six thousand five is fine, what's going on with six thousand eight? Stumble!

In the end, the purchase contract was signed, Li Han must not have so much cash, and he took out a loan of 60 million with the company's shares and the clinic for the purchase of the house of 68 million...... He still has more than 10 million in his hand, but he always has to leave some pocket money, right? If there is something that needs to be spent, should you not take out a loan for the time being?

There is always a feeling of being poor forever, now his monthly income is tens of millions, but there are many places to spend money, the clinic has almost emptied its savings, and the income of these months has been filled in the Yunnan Baiyao factory in China, fortunately, Yunnan Baiyao does not have to worry about sales, not to mention the annual purchase volume of the army, it is the signboard of the army's designated products, and various pharmacies can rush to buy them. As long as the pharmaceutical factory is built and there is output, it will be able to return to its original cost in a few months, and then it will be a lot of money back.

The loan is 60 million, and Li Han's income will be repaid in less than half a year, but he still chose a one-year term, in case there is anything that needs money in the middle, if not, it is okay to repay the loan in advance. What's more, there are always some parts of the house that need to be changed, such as adding a vault or something. In addition, it is also a large expense to hire housekeepers, cooks and subordinates.

Li Han plans to hire a British butler, who is synonymous with professionalism. To please nature, please the best. Wearing a black dress and white shirt, wearing a black bow tie, polite, considerate and careful, calm and restrained, without the need for the owner's effort, the family affairs are arranged in an orderly manner, and every move represents the etiquette norms of the upper class, which is the traditional image of the British senior butler.

100 years ago, almost every upper-middle-class British family had one such housekeeper. After World War II. With the decline of the UK services sector. Senior housekeepers are also slowly becoming obsolete. However, they did not retire from the stage of history, and in today's super-rich world, the profession of senior housekeepers has been revived.

What surprised Li Han was. The British butler was not at all what he thought: with a high salary of hundreds of thousands. As a servant of the management subordinates. Arrange housework, greet guests, and other similar work of a professional manager. The average annual salary of modern British butlers is no more than 30,000 pounds, and the highest is only 100,000 pounds. Their work is a combination of housekeepers, cooks, drivers, gardeners, tailors, sommeliers, child guardians and even bodyguards.

"It's really hard work." Li Han exclaimed. He knew nothing about the trade, so he called Reims Manor to ask Butler Wood to introduce him to a reliable person.

Although Wood has been in Reims Manor for almost his entire life, he is still familiar with the British butler circle. Within a few days, he recommended a butler named Ian Harrison to Li Han, who is 35 years old and a graduate of the prestigious Gray Collar College.

Grey Collar College is the most famous butler training school in the UK, and the school's secret weapon is Douglas Geroard. The 72-year-old butler worked as a butler's assistant to the famous British publisher Lord Beaverbrook in his youth, and later as a butler for the Archbishop of Coventry and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He has a wealth of experience and knows the rules of doing things, and he has trained disciples all over the world, including Wood and Ian Harrison.

Ian Harrison used to work as a housekeeper for a billionaire, but last month, the rich man died, and several of his sons fought over the inheritance, and Harrison resigned from his position as a housekeeper in order not to be involved, and voted on the recommendation of Wood.

With a housekeeper, and now an all-knowing and all-powerful housekeeper in modern society, Li Han suddenly felt much more relaxed, and he didn't have to take care of anything at home—although there wasn't much to do at home. But if there is a friend or acquaintance's birthday or regularity, someone will remind him to prepare gifts and dresses, the villa is managed, the castle recruits people to have their own housekeepers to do it, and even on the girlfriend's side, the housekeeper will remind him that it is time to give gifts on XX anniversaries or XX holidays.

Although he hadn't moved to the castle yet, Ian was immediately on the job, but fortunately, there were still a lot of rooms at 76 Witfield Street, and there were a few rooms on the third floor that he could choose from.

The day after he moved in, Li Han received an invitation from Buckingham Palace, Prince William invited him to a charity dinner, and asked Li Han to borrow a chef to help.

Li Han knew that this was Prince William's opportunity to give Yan Lin, although it was impossible for Li Han to make all the food by himself at such a formal banquet, and it was even impossible to make him the head chef, but as long as Yan Lin was good and could catch the attention of the guests and catch their stomachs, Yan Lin's name would be known to those who were interested, and Chinese food would open the door to enter high society.

The banquet was arranged ten days later, and Yan Lin needed to go over a few days in advance to prepare with the other chefs, and at that time, there were only a few days left in the month agreed between Yan Lin and Li Han, so Li Han simply waved his hand and said generously: "Then let's do it, after doing these few days, forget the rest of the time, you will probably start to get busy, it is better to simply concentrate on this matter well, I wish you all the best." ”

It's just that after Yan Lin left, there was no cook at home. Although Ian is a good cook, he is good at French and Italian food, and does not know how to cook Chinese food at all. In the past, Li Han cooked by himself, but now that there is a housekeeper, how can the boss cook for the housekeeper? He was not happy to ask Li Han to eat Western food every day, so in the end he could only decide to hire a Chinese chef early, and it would be great if he could have all kinds of recipes like Yan Lin.

Speaking of which, of course, the chef can cook all eight major dishes, but it just depends on whether he is good at it or not, even if it is a dish that has never been cooked, as long as he looks at the recipe, they can make the taste for you. It's just that they can't make every dish as delicious as Yanlin's, which makes people want to stop. This made Li Han, who was already accustomed to Yanlin's cooking skills, extremely painful, he could bear the food he made was not delicious, and how could he bear the food made by others if it was not delicious?

Although there are many Chinese restaurants in the UK, there are many Chinese chefs, but there are not many real chefs, many of them are just like the kind of small restaurants in China, they can cook a few dishes and roll up their sleeves, and many of them are immigrants of the second and third generations, who think they are cooking Chinese food, but in fact, they have improved to the point that they can't taste the taste of Chinese food at all.

In order to recruit a satisfactory chef, Li Han tried more than 20 dishes made by "chefs" in a few days, and when he heard that someone had applied for a job, he immediately had a dish and wanted to pull his legs and run away.

"It's my fault," Yoon said, "it's my job to recruit chefs, and I shouldn't have let you suffer so much." Since you can't find a chef in the UK who satisfies you, I decided to recruit chefs from Huangguo who are good at cooking your favorite Sichuan and Hunan cuisines, right? Most chefs in the UK specialize in Cantonese cuisine, which may not be to your liking. ”

Because of the reason of following a Huang Guo boss, Ian has been working hard to learn Chinese recently and is also learning to cook Chinese food, but these things take time. Fortunately, the staff of the Chef Association still know English, and after receiving Ian's request, he immediately sent the information of the chefs who meet the requirements by email, and Ian only needs to screen from it, and the trouble is that he needs to apply for a work visa for the chef he selected.

Li Han breathed a sigh of relief, although the chef would come over after eating Western food for more than half a month, he was finally liberated from the pain of tasting dishes. And Ian's skills are really good, although they don't meet the standards of a grandmaster, but they can be said to be quite good. Sometimes he is hungry for Chinese food, and he either goes to the Chinese restaurant around the corner to eat, or cooks two dishes by himself, as long as he doesn't incarnate as a chef and feeds Ian together, Ian's fragile housekeeper heart is still acceptable. (To be continued......)