In the afternoon, it was more than two o'clock.

Ji Cheng and the rest of the group sat in the hotel lobby waiting for Steve. The special car sent by Cohen had just communicated with the driver on the phone, and it was expected that the time would come, so they waited in the lobby in advance.

A group of people chatted casually, and Lao Ji looked at his son curiously, "Xiaocheng, did you lose or win when you came back so late last night?" ”

Mom also blinked and stared at Ji Cheng non-stop.

Ji Cheng looked at his parents, and then at Master Cheng, who was also curious, and a few other people who didn't go with him last night, and smiled slightly, "Didn't you just say, you won, you won hundreds of millions of dollars." ”

"You kid!" Lao Ji laughed angrily at his son, "I told you that I have to talk to me, and I won hundreds of millions, do you think you are making a movie, or do you think you are a gambling god?" ”

Well, "God of Gamblers" is a 1989 movie, and Lao Ji is young, and he happened to watch it, so he naturally knows that the God of Gamblers is Gao Jin.

Ji Cheng couldn't help but laugh and said, "Dad, if you don't believe it, forget it." ”

"I don't believe your nonsense."

Lao Ji really doesn't believe it, if Ji Cheng says that he can win three or five hundred million dollars, he may be able to accept it, hundreds of millions? Isn't that a joke!

Don't talk about Lao Ji, Mom, Master Cheng and others all think like this.

Although Cheng Hailin sometimes talks a lot, he still knows some things, such as how much money Ji Cheng won last night, he didn't even reveal it before he got the permission of his boss.

Since Master Cheng, Lao Ji, and Lao Ma are not clear about the situation, it is even more impossible for the remaining few people who have not gone to know.

Everyone thought that Ji Cheng was joking when he said that he had won hundreds of millions of dollars, and he didn't take these words seriously at all.

After chatting for a while, Steve. The three or four extended limousines sent by Cohen were parked outside, and Ji Cheng, his parents, Master Cheng and several others were invited into the first extended Lincoln car.

This courtesy car Ji Cheng knows a little bit and is said to be able to seat nine people, but after he entered it, he found that Steve. The courtesy car sent by Cohen has been remodeled inside, and the seats are not single, but two rows of sofa-like seats, which are very wide and have a screen between them and the driver, which can maintain enough privacy.

In addition, there are wine crates, cigar boxes, refrigerators, and so on in the car.

Anyway, just looking at the interior decoration, Ji Cheng feels that this car is more enjoyable than his Rolls-Royce Phantom.

……

After more than three hours of driving, the car arrived in the town of East Hampton in southeastern Suffolk County, New York.

At the end of Long Island, New York's wealthiest neighborhood is home to many politicians, tycoons, socialites and superstars.

Along the way, Ji Cheng not only saw the beautiful island scenery, but also saw countless mansions.

It didn't take long for Steve. Cohen's mansion.

As soon as he got out of the car, Ji Cheng saw this two-story mansion with a large area and a swimming pool.

Lao Ji looked at the house and said, "What a big house, it is estimated that there are eight or nine hundred square meters." ”

Mom nodded and said, "I think there is." ”

Master Cheng, Cheng Hailin and others also looked at it curiously, as if they wanted to see the whole picture of the mansions where the world's top richest people lived.

In front of him was a white housekeeper, as soon as he saw Ji Cheng and the others getting out of the car, he took the initiative to greet him, he seemed to have seen Ji Cheng's photo, and recognized it at a glance, "Mr. Ji, please inside, Mr. and other guests are waiting for you." ”

Ji Cheng said hello to him, and then said casually without words, "Mr. Cohen's mansion looks quite big." ”

"It's bigger before it was rebuilt." "Today, the house occupies about 9,700 square feet, with more than 4,600 square feet on the second floor, and 10,000 square feet before the reconstruction. ”

Sure enough, it was about the same square as the estimate of his father, who had been a carpenter, covering an area of about 900 square meters.

A group of people chatted and came inside.

As soon as he walked in, Ji Cheng saw a lot of people in formal clothes standing there chatting with red wine glasses and champagne glasses, and from time to time there were waiters holding food trays shuttling through the crowd.

Steve. Cohen was standing there talking with Greg, Susie, and Aurora.

After Ji Cheng and the others approached, they heard that it seemed to be talking about Texas Hold'em.

"Sir, Mr. Ji is here." The butler leaned over and said.

Steve. Cohen hurriedly turned his head and hugged Ji Cheng with a smile, "Ji, I'm finally looking forward to you." ”

"Hello Mr. Cohen."

Ji Cheng hugged the other party, and then took the initiative to introduce his parents, Master Cheng and others.

Steve. Cohen didn't have any rich shelves, and shook hands with everyone who followed Ji Cheng.

Perhaps considering that Ji Cheng and the others were not familiar with the rest of the party, Steve. Cohen took the initiative to take Ji Cheng and the others into a small independent room, which was very luxuriously decorated, and the wine cabinet not far away was full of all kinds of expensive red wine, champagne and so on.

Ji Cheng and the others sat down on the sofa.

"Ladies and gentlemen, champagne or red wine?"

"The Red Bar."

"Well, try my private collection of Penfolds Winery No. 42 Karina Cabernet Sauvignon, which the crowd outside can't drink."

Steve. Cohen took the initiative to take out two bottles of fine red wine, and personally poured a glass for Ji Cheng and Ji Cheng's parents, as for the others, they were not treated so well.

Cheng Hailin, Manager Li and others also knew that they were basically unlikely to have a relationship with Steve. Cohen had too much to talk to, so he just sat there drinking wine and chatting about other things.

Ji Cheng tasted the red wine and said, "This red wine is good." ”

Susie said quietly, "Of course a bottle of red wine for $168,000 tastes good." ”

"Haha, it's not interesting to talk about the price, red wine is for tasting." Greg said with a smile.

Aurora shook her wine glass and said, "Mr. Cohen, don't you have something to tell Mr. Ji?" Now that he's here, you can talk to him about it. ”

"Well, I was about to say that." Steve. Cohen sat down next to Ji Cheng, and then said with a smile: "Ji, do you know why I invited you here today?" ”

Greg, Aurora, and Susie on the side smiled mysteriously when they heard this, as if something good was good.

Ji Cheng said with interest: "What's the matter?" ”

"You probably didn't know that I'm a collector who loves to play with collectibles." Steve. Cohen didn't say anything right away, but introduced himself first, "My total investment in the collection is about $700 million. ”

He's not bragging, Steve. Cohen himself is truly a world-class collector.

Ji Cheng didn't know much about top foreign collectors, but after learning that Steve. Cohen also likes to play collectibles, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, "Could it be that Mr. Cohen knows that I am in the collectibles business, so you want to buy some top-notch collectibles from me?" ”

"Huh?" Steve. Cohen glanced at Ji Cheng in surprise, "You're in the collectibles industry?" ”

"You don't know." Ji Cheng couldn't help but laugh and said: "Well, I have set up a collectibles company in Huaxia, mainly engaged in the sale of antiques, jewelry and artworks, in addition, the company is preparing to hold spring and autumn auctions every year, among which this year's autumn auction, the joint autumn auction jointly organized by our company and several partners surpassed the Xiangjiang Fubi in terms of total turnover." ”

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"Oh? If you have any good collectibles in your company, you can send them to me to see, and if I am interested, I will definitely buy them at the most suitable price. "Steve. Cohen's mood suddenly increased, "But before I get to business. ”

Ji Cheng stretched out his hand and said, "Please speak." ”

Steve. Cohen asked rhetorically, "You should know that I once bought Picasso's famous painting "Dream" for 150 million dollars, right?" ”

To tell the truth, Ji Cheng really didn't know, he looked at Cheng Hailin next to him and asked him if he knew it with his eyes.

Cheng Hailin understood, and hurriedly took over and said: "I have heard a little about this matter, I heard that Mr. Cohen, you want to buy a casino tycoon from the casino tycoon Steve Cohen for a sky-high price of 139 billion US dollars in 06 years. Wayne bought the painting "Dream" in his hands, but when it was displayed, it was accidentally damaged and your purchase was interrupted, and then you bought it for another $150 million after the painting was repaired in a year or three. ”

"Yes." Steve. Cohen nodded: "Personally, I'm more obsessed with Picasso's paintings. ”

Ji Cheng knew that the other party must have something to say behind him, so he simply didn't speak.

Sure enough, Steve. Cohen continues: "But in 2015 I missed a Picasso masterpiece called 'Woman in Algiers', which sold for $179 million at Christie's New York, breaking the world record for oil paintings at auction. ”

Ji Cheng was a little dizzy when he heard it, since this oil painting has been auctioned off, what is the point of talking to himself?

"And the person who bought this painting was none other than the casino tycoon Steve Brown, who I had previously bought The Dream. Wayne. "Steve. Cohen smiled bitterly and said, "I thought that I could easily buy that painting with my relationship with him, but Wayne rejected me mercilessly. ”

Ji Cheng seemed to understand a little, "What do you mean......"

Steve. Cohen said, "You listen to me first. ”

"Okay."

"But after a few years of hard work, Wayne finally relented, but he had one condition, and that was to hold a top art charity gala to build momentum for his casino."

"Top Art Gala?"

"Yes, Wayne contacted several top collectors to prepare this charity gala in the form of a bet, which roughly means that he and these top collectors both took out the top artworks, and then let countless poker masters participate, and in the end, whoever had the last laugh, with the chips in his hand, could choose to use these chips to buy each of the top works of art, provided that the value was equal, and the price of these works of art was marked before the game started, for example, you won $200 million in chips, Then he can spend 200 million dollars to buy art, and the money from the sale of art, he will donate it in the form of charity. ”

Ji Cheng was a little dizzy when he heard this, "Then what if someone chooses another collector's art?" Do those collectors donate their art collections for nothing? ”

"Hehe, of course not." Steve. Cohen shook his head, "Wayne will buy the art for the same price and pay the collector the money." ”

Ji Cheng snorted, "Wouldn't this be equivalent to giving two pieces of money and not losing money?" ”

"Of course you won't lose money." Greg took over, "Let me explain to you like this, this time Mr. Wayne prepared each piece of art worth more than 50 million US dollars, and the entry fee is required, and the minimum entry fee for each contestant is 10,000 US dollars, and the maximum is not capped, and your entry fee will become the amount of chips at the time of the competition, you take 10,000 US dollars in chips to register, and the chips when you return to participate in the competition are only 10,000 US dollars, and you take 100,000 US dollars in chips to sign up, and the chips when you participate in the competition are 100,000 US dollars, And then it doesn't mean that you can buy it directly if you pay more than the value of the artwork, only the six people who win round after round of the competition and advance to the finals are eligible to buy. ”

"Imagine that if you pay $10,000 for the finals, you will be eligible to buy top-notch artworks worth at least $50 million, will it attract many people to participate?" Aurora said: "This probability is much higher than buying a lottery ticket and winning the jackpot, others don't know, anyway, I was going to play with 100,000 US dollars." ”

"That's what I thought when I heard the news." Susie laughed.

If you follow this statement, then you can indeed attract countless people to participate in the competition, and in the end, the entry fee alone is probably a lot of money. Wayne organizes such a charity gala, maybe not only will he not lose money, but he may also make money from it.

Ji Cheng probably understood what kind of charity gala this was, and he looked at Steve. Cohen, "You mean Wayne will take 'The Woman of Algiers' as a reward this time?" ”

"Yes." Steve. Cohen replied, "I'd love to get the picture, but I don't have enough confidence to make it to the finals, and even if I do, I can't buy it if I don't win enough, so I want to get a couple of good guys to compete for me, and I'll give each of them a million dollars in chips, and eventually whoever makes it to the finals and buys the painting 'Woman in Algiers,' I'll buy it for the same price." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Ji Cheng with a serious face, "How about it, Mr. Ji, are you interested in participating in this competition for me?" If you agree to participate, I'll give you $10 million for an appearance whether you make it to the finals or not, and if you make it to the finals and buy the painting, I'll give you an extra $10 million, and then I'll buy The Woman of Algiers at the sticker price. ”

As long as you agree to participate, you will have an appearance fee of 10 million US dollars, of course Ji Cheng thinks that he can come and play, and the most important thing is that if he can enter the finals and buy that painting, he will not only get an additional reward of 10 million US dollars, but also at least more than 100 million US dollars to sell that painting.

Perhaps seeing that he was slow to agree, Greg took the initiative to reveal: "Our appearance fee is not as much as yours, I only have five million dollars in appearance fees, Aurora and Susie are a little lower, only three million dollars each, and we have no additional rewards." ”

"Although the appearance fee comes from your own strength, Mr. Ji, you can indeed afford to take more appearance fees than us, but 10 million is still very high." Aurora followed suit.

Susie said: "The reason why Mr. Cohen is willing to spend so much appearance fee on you is because he is confident enough that you can crush others to win the championship, and this competition may last about a week, which is a waste of time, so he gives you such a high appearance fee." ”

For a week or so, that is, more than one million dollars per day appearance fee, which is really not high.

But if you can buy that painting "The Woman of Algiers," you'll get at least a little over $100 million, and it seems worth a week's time.

Not to mention just now Steve. Cohen also said that there is more than one top-notch artwork in this competition, and if you win enough chips, you may be able to make even more rewards, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars.

Thinking of this, Ji Cheng raised his head without hesitation and said, "Okay, Mr. Cohen, I can compete for you." ”

Steve. Cohen was overjoyed, "Okay, good, thank you, Mr. Ji, in order to make you feel relieved, I can sign a valid contract with you later." ”

"Okay."

Ji Cheng agreed.

After chatting about business, Ji Cheng was about to ask about luxury yachts.

Suddenly, Steve. Cohen was interested: "By the way, Mr. Ji, you just said that you are in the collectibles industry, are there any top collectibles that you can show me?" If it's right, I can just spend money on it. ”

Ji Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this, some time ago in the eighties time and space harvested a lot of priceless top collections, originally he came to the beautiful country to buy a private jet this time just to see if he could legalize these collections, and then take them out for auction, but I didn't expect Steve. Cohen's willingness to buy privately has saved him a lot of unnecessary trouble, especially since the top Western collectibles can be sold directly.

He blinked and said, "I have a few priceless top collectibles with me, but I don't know if you are interested, Mr. Cohen, why don't we talk in private tomorrow?" ”

It's party time, and it's not a good time to buy or sell collectibles, Steve. Cohen, of course, understood this, and he smiled and said, "Okay, we'll talk about that tomorrow." ”

"By the way, Mr. Cohen, I want to buy a luxury yacht, I heard that Larson is a good company, can you help me ask someone from their company to come and talk?" Ji Cheng said the purpose of coming tonight.

"Mr. Ji, you want to buy a yacht?"

"How much are you going to spend?"

Aurora, Greg, and others were interested.

Steve. Cohen also half-jokingly said: "If the yacht you want to buy is of high value, of course I can help you contact it, but if it is a yacht with an ordinary price, I'm afraid even if I contact the other party, I may not be willing to come." ”

Ji Cheng said with a smile: "I won't trouble you with ordinary yachts, I'm ready to spend about 100 million US dollars." ”

"Hey, $100 million for a yacht? Mr. Ji, you are so generous. Aurora was taken aback.

Susie also kept staring at Ji Cheng's face, as if he had flowers on his face, "There are not many top rich people in the world who are willing to buy such a luxurious yacht, Mr. Ji, when your yacht is bought, can you invite us to have a party in your yacht at that time?" ”

When she said this, she kept flattering Ji Cheng, and it was obvious that even Susie, who had good financial resources, was reluctant to buy this kind of top luxury.

Greg simply joked: "Susie, I think you want to go to the yacht to play is fake, the real purpose is to be the hostess, right?" ”

Everyone was amused by Greg, and Susie also took the opportunity to scold Greg as if jokingly, relieving the embarrassment.

"If you're going to spend $100 million on a yacht, I'll contact someone from Larson and they'll send someone over right away." Steve. Cohen said, pulling out his phone and saying, "I'll call now." ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you." Ji Cheng thanked.

Steve. Cohen sat there and dialed the phone, talking to each other for two or three minutes.

After a while, I hung up.

Steve. Cohen looked at Ji Cheng with a smile, "They heard that a customer like you decided to send a team to fly over overnight, and you can meet people tomorrow, well, I asked them to come to me tomorrow, just so that you can save a lot of effort by bringing the top collectibles with you." ”

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Cohen."

Ji Cheng thanked him again, but he couldn't help but get excited in his heart, he was finally going to buy a luxury yacht, but he had been thinking about it for a long time, well, and there was an unexpected joy, but I didn't know if my collection could enter Steve. Cohen's eyes, how much money can be sold, and it would be great if he could earn back the money he bought the yacht.