Chapter 545: Father and Son Dialogue (I)
"Dad, are you back? Two drinks together? ”
When Xiahou Shang entered the wine room, Xiahou Zhongying was already a little drunk and dazed. Xiahou Shang, the son's amount of alcohol, is naturally knowledgeable, and he has been trained since he was a child with his drunkard master who is as good as his life.
And judging from the empty wine bottle that Xiahou Zhongying threw beside him, he could drink it like this just by drinking wine, which shows that he drank a lot.
Xiahou Shang sighed, walked over, and sat down beside his son. But when he saw the bottle of red wine that his son was still holding in his hand, he almost didn't jump to his feet, and couldn't help but scold: "Bastard boy, your eyes are really sharp, the two bottles of 82-year-old Lafite that I finally collected are more than yours." ”
Xiahou Shang hurriedly snatched the wine bottle from his son's hand, and when he saw that there was only half a small bottle, he suddenly felt a pain in his flesh.
Lafite 1982 is known to be the most famous and classic vintage of French wines, and when it was first sold on the open market in 1983, buyers could buy a case for £255. But today, with constant hype, the price of Lafite '82 is getting higher and higher. If it's just high and nothing, there are a lot of rich people, the key is that you have no place to buy it if you have money, and what you sell in the market is counterfeit. And the real Lafite, they appear more often in the auction house now.
Xiahou Zhongying poured the remaining wine in the cup into his mouth in one gulp, then handed the cup to his father and said, "Dad, it's full." ”
"You're all over the place." Xiahou Shang opened his son's cup. He grabbed the bottle with his hand and blew a few sips directly into his mouth.
"Don't be so stingy, isn't that Raffi?" Xiahou Zhongying pursed his lips, very disdainful of his father's stinginess.
"It's not just Lafite, it's Lafite '82." Xiahou Shang was so angry with his son that he couldn't help but pat the back of his head and scolded: "If you have the ability, you can get me two bottles." ”
"Isn't it just two bottles? I thought you wanted as much as you wanted, just two bottles, what's the big deal? I'll be right back to you in a few days. Xiahou Zhongying said: "At the beginning of September, I happened to auction a box at Sotheby's auction house in New York. ”
Xiahou Shang originally wanted to pat the back of his son's head again. However, his next words made him stop the urge to hit people. Remade to grab, grabbed his son's collar, and asked with glowing eyes: "The box of Lafite auctioned by Thomas Rader was auctioned by you?" ”
Thomas Rader, chairman of the American "Reader's Digest" group, commissioned Sotheby's auction house to auction part of the collection of private wine cellars in New York on September 7 this year, with a total of 487 batches of 5,477 bottles. Among them is a box of 1982 Lafite. Lafite ended up selling for $26,887. At the exchange rate at the time, it was about 13,258 pounds. 202757 RMB, a bottle averages about £1,104, while RMB is 16,896 yuan.
It's not a big deal. It shouldn't have reached Xiahou Shang's ears, but he happened to hear a person at a drinking party who also participated in that auction, and some vain Koreans bragged to others about what they had seen at the auction. For this reason, he also secretly regretted that he didn't get the news in advance, otherwise he would have to run over and grab the box of wine. More than 200,000 yuan to buy a box of 82-year-old Lafite is really worth it for him. You must know that Lu Dao is now in China, and many counterfeits are sold for tens of thousands.
It is said that the box of Lafite was photographed by an Oriental, and the Korean at the reception once swore that the person who photographed Lafite was Korean, so Xiahou Shang did not suspect his son at all.
"yes." Xiahou Zhongying nodded.
"Damn." Xiahou Shang couldn't help but raise his middle finger and fiercely despised the Korean who had misled him.
Later, when he saw his son looking at him in shock, his mouth slightly open. Xiahou Shang was a little embarrassed, and explained with a smile: "I don't rely on you, but on Koreans." ”
Xiahou Shang told his son the whole story, which made Xiahou Zhongying can't help but feel like he can't cry or laugh. Koreans, how to say it, if there are good things, they will pull it on themselves, and if it has nothing to do with them, they will also find ways to turn around, recognize relatives and ancestors, and have to pull some relationship, as if all the good things and all the progress in this world cannot leave the shadow of their Koreans.
I have also been in South Korea for many years, and the disgusting behavior of Koreans is deeply felt by the two fathers and sons of the Xiahou family. In order to prove that the father and son of the Xiahou family have their Korean blood, they also fabricated that their Korean women were snatched back to China by the ancestors of the Xiahou family, and they didn't even want to lose their faces. It's not surprising to think that the mysterious Orientals are Koreans.
"There is such a good thing, and I don't know how to honor you, Lao Tzu and me." Xiahou Shang couldn't help but curse again, "By the way, you won't just auction such a box of Lafite at the auction, right?" ”
"Of course not." Xiahou Zhongying smiled and said, "Thomas Red's collection has a lot of good things, and what can be put up for auction is the best of the good things, and I naturally won't let it go when I encounter it." ”
"Good boy, I know that you won't be so stupid." Xiahou Shang is not stingy now, there is a box of Lafite as a base, and he is not distressed about the remaining half bottle, he got up and took a cup, poured it for himself and his son first, and then continued: "When will you help me get some back, I don't ask for more, I only need half of what you photographed." ”
"Half? Dad, you're embarrassed to say it. Do you know how much wine I bought that day? Xiahou Zhongying couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "I spent almost 800,000 US dollars that day, and it can be said that most of the more classic ones were looted by me." ”
"It's only $800,000, what do you have to worry about?" Xiahou Shang said angrily: "Compared to the family property I left you, the little money you spent is just a drop in the bucket." I can't bear to take some wine to honor my old man, and I'll feed you for nothing. ”
"Dad, your money is poison." Xiahou Zhongying sighed, "If you want to eat it, you have to be poisoned." ”
"Are you unwilling?" After being silent for a while, Xiahou Shang asked softly.
"What can you do if you are willing? What can you do if you are unwilling? Xiahou Zhongying chuckled, showing helplessness, "Dad, you are caught in the whirlpool of factional struggle, and now you are still regarded as a gap in the attack, and the most chilling thing is that there are still many people in the faction you belong to who want to treat you as an outcast." Uncle is a little powerless for this, and he can only rely on the Yu family to save you from prison, what choice do I have? ”
Xiahou was still silent, but his heart was full of anger. How many things he did and how many benefits he gave to those people, but when it came to the critical moment, those people not only did not help, but also fell into the ground.
What's even more infuriating is that everything he does is for the interests of the country, but for the sake of the interests of their respective factions, the people in the country not only disregard the interests of the country and his contributions, but also think about calculating him.
Xiahou Shang is actually like a mirror, and the reason why all this happened is because he has earned so much money, so much that few people can withstand the temptation. Politics has always been bloody, and in the face of interests, any friendship and any national interest are fake.
"Dad, what do you say, ......" After a pause, Xiahou Zhongying said hesitantly: "If you give up that money and buy those people to protect you, and then we get out of that circle and never touch politics again, do you think it's possible?" Anyway, I can make money now, although my net worth can't be compared with you, but there is no problem in keeping our family worry-free, the most important thing is that my money has nothing to do with those people, and it is all abroad, very clean. ”
"Do you want me to depend on you for support in the future? Then where do I put my old face? Xiahou Shang couldn't help but breathe.
"Hehe...... " Xiahou Zhongying laughed dryly, and also knew that his father, a figure standing on the top of the mountain, if he lost his position and was knocked into the dust, he would have to rely on his son to support him, this kind of life would inevitably make him extremely aggrieved, and it would be more uncomfortable than killing him.
Xiahou Zhongying did think about giving up domestic assets, although he was inevitably unwilling in his heart, but compared with the feeling of being manipulated, he was even more unwilling.
Scottish-American Patrick. The last sentence of Henry's speech to the Colonial Virginia Assembly on March 23, 1775 was: "Freedom or death."
Xiahou Zhongying is naturally not so great that he is willing to die for freedom, he lives well, and there are countless beauties waiting for him to love, so he is naturally reluctant to die. But if he only chooses freedom and money, he wants freedom more.
If it's just about him, it's likely that he will lose it directly, anyway, his father is rich, but now the money has nothing to do with him, for him, the money is just a number, if you want to inherit, I don't know when Lu Dao will have to wait, and in the process of inheritance, there must be a lot of trouble. But the most crucial figure in this is his father, and he has to consider his father's feelings.
"And are you really willing to give up those possessions? You must know that Lu Dao is not a small amount, although you are also a little rich now, but compared to me, it is still not enough to see. ”
"Isn't it tens of billions?" Xiahou Zhongying said confidently: "I can earn seven or eight billion yuan from scratch in three years, and now with the foundation of ZX Group, I believe that in a few years or so, I can also earn your net worth." ”
"Tens of billions?" Xiahou Shang had a smile on his face, and said slightly smugly: "Don't think that you make money fast, you and I can make money faster than you." I forgot to tell you that in the past two years, the domestic real estate and electronics industry have been doing well, and my investment has also received a good return, and the market value of the shares has more than doubled, and now the total value is about 256 billion. ”
"Bang dang."
Xiahou Zhongying fell to the ground. (To be continued......)