73. Sale of property
After the countess arrived at the bank, she waited at the door for a long time, but did not see Ivanov, so she had to go in first.
The bank manager had just met the Countess yesterday, so he naturally knew her, so he greeted him with a smile: "Madam, may I ask what business you are here to handle today?"
"I'm going to pick up something in the safe, but I've lost the key, and I want to activate the bank's spare key." The Countess was so embarrassed yesterday that she fell from a rickshaw and returned home to find that the key to her bank safe was missing.
"Then please show me the identification I used to register." The bank manager said to the countess with a smile.
"I brought my husband's identification, and he was the one who came to rent the safe." The Countess handed AndrΓ©'s identification to the bank manager.
"Madame, can you prove that you are an immediate member of Mr. Andrei?" The bank manager asked: "According to the regulations, to enable the bank backup key, you need to show your own identification, if it is not me, you must provide proof of immediate family members, otherwise the bank will not be able to provide you with the backup key." Madam, please show me the proof of your relationship with this Mr. Andrew. β
The bank manager briefed the Countess about the bank's rules and explained to her why he could not give her a spare key to the bank.
"But I just came here yesterday to store something, why can't I take it today?" The Countess could not provide proof that she and Andrei were immediate family members, because their marriage certificates were still in Leningrad, and she could not prove that she was Andrei's wife, and she was very annoyed to see that the bank manager insisted that she show her marriage certificate to Andrei.
"I'm sorry, that's what the bank says." The bank manager shrugged helplessly.
"Oh, the damn rule." The Countess was helpless and angry, if she couldn't take the deed from the safe today, she wouldn't be able to get the one hundred and fifty gold bars, and she wouldn't be able to pay off the arrears of Lord Liu, and she would be in trouble.
At this time, Ivanov arrived, he went up to the countess, and the countess explained the situation to him, and Ivanov walked towards the bank manager, who saw a tower pressing towards him, and beat a drum in his heart, and retreated all the way back to the base of the wall.
"Who says no?" Ivanov asked in Russian, glaring fiercely at the bank manager.
Although the bank manager did not understand Russian, Ivanov's expression was still very clear, and he trembled.
Ivanov grabbed the bank manager by the collar with one hand and lifted it up, and the bank manager's feet left the ground.
"Okay, okay, I'll take Madame there." The bank manager was frightened and quickly nodded in agreement.
Ivanov put the bank manager down and helped him straighten his clothes: "That's right. β
The bank manager came to the office tremblingly, opened the safe, took out an envelope with the name of Count AndrΓ© from it, took out the spare key from the envelope, and then took the countess to the underground vault, pressed the code, opened the door of the safe room, and handed the spare key to the countess.
The Countess took the key, went to her safe, pressed the number 1128, opened the safe, took out the title deed, and just wanted to close the safe, after thinking about it, she took out the silk handkerchief with her, and then closed the safe.
The Countess and Ivanov walked out of the bank together, and the Countess raised her hand to look at the beautiful watch in her hand, it was almost five o'clock, and the Chinachem Hotel was not far from Citibank, so the two walked over.
Walking into the lobby of the Chinachem Hotel, Heinz and a middle-aged man in a long shirt were already waiting there. Heinz saw the Countess coming, and hurriedly got up to greet him.
"Countess, are you here? Let me introduce you to each other, this is Mr. Li Qiubai of Fuxiang Foreign Company. Mr. Lee, this is the Countess. β
"Hello, Countess." Mr. Lee reached out and shook the Countess's hand.
The Countess smiled politely at Mr. Lee: "Look, where are we talking?" β
"I'm going to book a room, and we'll go to the room together to talk. Do you think it's okay? Li Qiubai immediately proposed.
"Yes." The Countess nodded.
Li Qiubai went to the front desk to book a room, so the four of them walked into room 326 of the Chinachem Hotel, and as soon as they entered the room, Li Qiubai couldn't wait to put a box full of gold bars in front of the countess.
"Countess, this is according to your request, I have managed to scrape together a hundred and fifty gold bars, please click on them."
The countess glanced at Ivanov, who hurriedly took the mahogany box and counted it, and sure enough, it was one hundred and fifty large yellow croakers of ten taels.
The Countess took out the title deed of No. 8 Anhesi Road from the document bag and handed it to Li Qiubai: "Mr. Li, this is my current residence, from now on, it will belong to you, but I will not be able to move out of this residence in a month, I think Heinz has already made it clear to you, right?" β
"Clear, clear, it doesn't matter, even if the countess wants to stay two or three months longer, it's fine." Li Qiubai readily agreed, because he knew that if he hadn't waited for the money in a hurry, the countess would never have sold this small western-style building at such a low price.
"So should we sign a contract? Heinz, is the contract ready? The Countess turned to ask Heinz.
"I've prepared it for you, so let's take a look."
Heinz handed the two contracts in English to both parties, and the two looked at each other, and decided that there was no problem, so they both signed their names.
The Countess took out a gold bar from the wooden box and handed it to Heinz: "My dear, this is your reward. Thank you, Heinz. β
Heinz took the gold bar, and then kissed the countess's hand: "It is my honor to serve the lady." β
"Shouldn't we celebrate with a glass of champagne?" Li Qiubai proposed.
"Yes, yes, yes, we should celebrate." Heinz raised his hands in agreement.
"In this way, I have booked a table here for the Countess to enjoy."
The Countess nodded elegantly: "Okay, please take care of the host, Mr. Li, please." β
"Madame, please."
Li Qiubai made a respectful gesture, and everyone moved to the private room of the Chinachem Hotel, where a table of sumptuous wine and food had been prepared.
The four of them pushed the cups and changed the lamps, talked and laughed, and Ivanov was even more stormy, eating a table of good wine and food.
The Countess looked at the time, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon, and she must now get out of here and go to Ciroth, there was a hard bone to deal with.
"Heinz, did you come by car?" The Countess asked.
"I came by car, and the car was parked in front of the hotel."
"Could you please drive us to Ciroth."
"Madame is going to dance in Ciroth?" Li Qiubai asked casually.
"I'm going to do a difficult dance." The Countess replied helplessly.
"The Countess looks like a long-sleeved dancer." Li Qiubai hurriedly complimented.
"Mr. Li, you are really good at talking, okay, Mr. Li, we will go first, bye." The Countess bowed her head to Li Qiu.
Ling Yunpeng tracked all the way from Citibank to the Chinachem Hotel, saw Ivanov carrying a suitcase in his hand, knew that the transaction had been successful, and saw the countess and Ivanov both sitting in the tall blonde foreigner's Ford, so he deduced that the tall foreigner was Heinz.
"Drama idiot, get on the bus, next stop, Cirox Ballroom." Ling Yunpeng greeted Fu Xinghan, who was standing outside the car.
Fu Xinghan was bold and sat into the car, and Ling Yunpeng immediately started the engine and followed closely the Ford car in front of him.