Chapter 80: Poisonous Bees

"The Holy Child is coming, Manchester City has hidden the whole of Europe!" - Sky Sports.

"Golden boys gather in Manchester, the future of football is boiled and up-and-down?" - The Kicker.

"The generous boss of the 'relegation team'!" – The Times.

On the second day of the competition, although it was Christmas, the British media were busy working overtime to catch up with the draft. Even the most professional sports section just mentioned the news that manager Simeone won 1-0 on his debut and Manchester City advanced to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup in a place the size of a tofu block.

And they are all paying attention to this sudden transfer, and they have actually hidden it from all the media, and those bosses have scolded their reporters overnight.

Generally speaking, transfer news will be targeted from the beginning of contact to the time of negotiation, and there is usually some sign of it.

But none of the media knew about Manchester City's signings in advance, and even the best transfer experts in the market were stunned.

Other newspapers, however, focused more on the proposal of the century that preceded the game.

"The Romantic Engagement of a Princess and a Knight" – The New York Times.

"I guess I can watch four more such proposals" - Los Angeles Times.

"Ten thousand people witnessed, the prodigal son returned to his heart? Two or three things that the merry rich have to say ......" - The Sun.

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A Google search for a marriage proposal can get 1.5 million keywords, an orange search for a marriage proposal can get 1.8 million, and there are already complete marriage proposal ceremonies available for netizens to watch on mainstream video-sharing sites such as Hulu, YouTube, and Yahoo Video.

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have begun to bless Chen Bo's marriage proposal, and photos and videos have been frantically forwarded and shared.

The team stole the limelight from the sports version, the marriage proposal stole the limelight from all the gossip, and even the company's movie "Brokeback Mountain" is stealing the limelight from the entertainment version. Do you want Santa Claus to have a hairy use? It's all up to you, people all over the world are staring at you.

Even the light of the big names in the entertainment industry who were watching the game at that time were covered by the marriage proposal of the hero and heroine, what a powerful aura this must be.

Manchester City's statement was quickly spreading, and not just in the football world. Chen Bo's romantic history has also been unfolded and judged in front of the world, and he alone has fed half of the world's media practitioners.

Haya is a real princess again, modern people like to watch stories like the prince and princess Cinderella, but I didn't expect it to be a love fairy tale that witnessed a realistic version of the princess and Dick Si's counterattack, and the topicality is of course stronger than ordinary people.

Especially in Europe, there are many countries with constitutional monarchies, and there are many princesses...... Moments have given many men dreams and hopes.

Although Haya is the latest to know Chen Bo and has the shortest confirmed relationship, he is also the oldest. The result of the family meeting was that everyone had to have a special marriage proposal ceremony, and they couldn't escape anyway, so Chen Bo took the opportunity to solve it quickly.

Not only marriage proposals, but also weddings, everyone's culture is different, and the way of marriage is also different.

This makes him tired, so it can be seen that having more wives is not a good thing. As for Angelina, although she is pregnant, she is not in a hurry, unmarried childbirth is a big deal in China, but it is commonplace in Europe and the United States, but the significance of marriage is greater, and the birth of a child is not impossible to register, and there is no need for a birth permit.

The Christmas charity gala was jointly launched in the name of Orange Charity and Manchester City Club, unlike Christmas Eve, where only sports reporters were present, this time it was all the British media who squatted in front of the hotel in the bone-chilling wind, and I am afraid that Blair, who delivered his Christmas speech in the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street, did not have so many media onlookers. But their wait is also worth it, Chen Bo not only appeared, but also dragged the family, a fiancΓ©e and 4 girlfriends all gathered, and a child was around. Such a rotten bourgeois life is really enviable, there are many women, not to mention, but they don't fight together, that's the real skill.

It's a pity that they only left a few photos and walked into the hotel, after all, it was a charity dinner, so let's leave more opportunities for those celebrities.

The day's fundraising was very fruitful, Mansour donated tens of millions of pounds as soon as he was happy, and although Abu was in a divorce lawsuit and might lose half of his net worth, he was not ambiguous and followed. More than Β£20 million has been raised to help children in disadvantaged areas of Asia.

Despite the rising media attention, Chen Bo continues to live a quiet life in Manchester.

Take a stroll around the UK's largest Chinatown, take the kids to visit the various museums, and as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, it's no worse than London, with everything but the sea. It's just that there are only introductions to World War I and World War II in the Imperial War Museum, so Chen Bo had to make another cameo appearance as a teacher and popularize the crow by the way. Piece of history of the war.

But he didn't have a few days to spare, and someone came to disturb his quiet life, and it all had something to do with the United States.

One is the Gulf of Aden, where 37 security personnel from two speedboats of the Rock Security Team, which were responsible for escorting passing ships, were detained by the U.S. Marines in the waters near the port of Djibouti and disarmed.

Scott in the White House was perfunctory on the grounds that he was on vacation and did not know about it. Although the company is registered in London, the defense minister has not made any statement.

Although the incident happened suddenly, it was not a few days before the Dubai meeting, and Xiao Bu Shilai's hand was obviously not aimed at people, but at threats.

Dog day! Chen Bo could only silently curse the bastard in the White House in his heart, but he was helpless about it. Britain and the United States wear a pair of pants, there are neither Chinese nor Russians in them, and it is useless to find anyone.

Chen Bo had no choice but to order Li Pu's side to temporarily stop accepting escort orders, and immediately contacted Chirac and asked him to help mediate, after all, most of the people detained were French nationals, and the company's approval was approved by France, and Djibouti was also their sphere of influence.

Somali pirates are just asking for ransom, and you are much more shameless if you rob them directly.

Another annoyance is that there are domestic visitors.

"Xu Zhixin, vice president of Shencheng Automobile Group, this is my business card!" The person who came was a bookish man who had just entered middle age, but he was very polite.

"I don't know if Mr. Xu is visiting in person, what are you doing?" Chen Bo asked carefully, although Shencheng Automobile does not have its own brand, it is a behemoth that cannot be underestimated in China, and someone has to laugh with him wherever he goes at this level, but now he is laughing with him, which shows that the purpose behind it is not simple.

"Mayor Xie recommended me to come." Xu Zhixin first reported his home and explained the recommender, but seeing that the expression on Chen Bo's face still did not change, he said again, "I know that Mr. Chen has rich network resources abroad, so I want to talk to you about a cooperation." ”

"Don't dare to be, I'm just better off than ordinary people." Chen Bo raised his eyebrows, and rationally avoided this compliment, "If there is anything, you might as well say it directly, I will definitely help if I can, and if I can't do it, I won't boast about Haikou." ”

"Mr. Chen is really fast-talking, so I'll just say it. Our group is in talks with BM about the transfer of Rover's core technology and brand, and we want to use McLaren's channels to get through it, and we are willing to pay 20% in return. ”

"Oh?" Chen Bo was noncommittal, frowned and asked, "It's good for such a big group as Shencheng to negotiate by itself, there shouldn't be any technical barriers." ”

"Here's the thing, BM Group formed a new company after the acquisition of MG and Rover. However, the market did not work well, so Land Rover, MINI and Jaguar were split and sold. Now that MG Rover can't hold on and declare bankruptcy, we want to pack it up. In addition to us, there is also Jinling Automobile Group, they are ready to buy fixed assets, we buy technology and brands, but now they have killed an American Ford. ”

"What's the matter with Ford?"

"Ford's acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover coincided with a pre-emptive purchase of Rover trademark rights, and now they plan to exercise that right."

"Just buying a trademark? It doesn't mean much to them. There are so many brands of Ford, is there still a lack of this thing, and the people who drive Rover cars in the UK are all antiques. ”

"That's true, but if Ford does want to exercise his rights now, it's not good for us. This is the first acquisition of the domestic auto industry in Europe, and it has been in operation for three years, and Ford suddenly intervened to suppress the expansion of our Shencheng automobile in the mainland market. ”

"Oh." Chen Bo nodded thoughtfully, "Then what did you do?" Ford couldn't have done it for no reason, right? ”

"Uh...... We started to register some defensive trademarks half a year ago, all of which start with 'road'. Xu Zhixin replied hesitantly.

"Isn't that it, if it were me, I'd be like Ford. I remember a few years ago, Geely's preemptive bet on the 'Land Rover' hurt Ford a lot, right? It's you yourself who provoke each other's sensitive nerves, so it's no wonder that others. Chen Bo didn't want to wade into this troubled water at all, and directly ordered the eviction of customers, "I can't help, you'd better talk to Ford in person, McLaren's face is really not that big." ”

Watching Xu Zhixin leave in a huff, Chen Bo walked to another room, and after Christmas, everyone else was busy with their own things, and Haya who successfully proposed returned to Jordan to discuss the marriage date with his eldest brother, and only Angelina and Lee Yunxi were left in Manchester.

Chen Bo pushed open the door and saw Li Yunxi sitting on the desk, looking very serious, and when he walked behind him, he saw that she was drawing a three-dimensional car model on professional drawing software.

"Is this McLaren's new model this year?" Chen Bo asked curiously.

"Well, Ron decided to discontinue F1, it's a new technical architecture, the suspension is very compact, it's no longer powered by Mercedes' naturally aspirated engine and instead of the turbocharged Cosworth V12, I wanted to design a sporty body, what do you think of the color scheme?" Lee Yoon-hee said as he opened the saved renderings on his computer.

"The orange color is very much in line with the brand VI of the orange company, but as a luxury sports car. Try it out and use this as a base color to outline a hexagonal honeycomb pattern on the surface, then pull a gradient back to black in the middle of the body. ”

Of course, Chen Bo didn't understand the structure of the inside of the car, but he still had some insights on graphic design, so he expressed his thoughts.

"That's good, it's like you're walking through the darkness at breakneck speed, and the hexagonal reticulation adds some wild beauty!" Lee Yoon-hee immediately revised the design according to his idea, and the result was obviously much better than the solid color. "I'll send it to Ron later, what do you think it's a better name?"

"How about being called a 'poisonous bee'? Does the whole car feel like the kind of hornet in the wild? ”

"Poisonous bees? Sounds cool to look at. You're so talented. ”

"Of course, you don't look at who I am? Why don't you comfort me? Chen Bo smiled and pointed to his cheeks, waiting for his little girlfriend's reward.

(End of chapter)