Chapter 121, French jokes never go out of style
White was very angry because Bai Lu went to France alone without taking him, and then flew to find Bai Lu.
"I'm convinced." Bai Lu looked at White speechlessly. "You can't play on your own?"
"I told you, I can't stay in that house." White grumbled, grinning all over his face. "I'll live here with you, it's big, I don't need to open another room."
Bai Lu's room is of course big, more than 2,000 euros a night, although it is not a presidential suite, but it is not small, and when you go out, of course you can't wronged yourself.
"Then since you're here, don't be idle." Bai Lu pulled White. "Is there a real estate agent who is reliable?"
"Of course." White picked his chin. "Leave everything to me, you just need to tell me how big I need."
"Bigger is definitely better."
White made an OK gesture, then walked to the balcony and started to call, talked for about ten minutes, came back and said to Bai Lu: "There are a lot of wineries for sale, but you said that the bigger the better, I will find you the largest winery on sale, a winery in Burgundy, with a total area of 55 hectares, 42 hectares of grape plantations, and the price per hectare is 7 million euros, can you accept this price?" β
White is very worried that Bai Lu can't afford it, and the overall price is more than 300 million euros, so there should be no problem with a loan.
"How many square meters is a hectare?"
"How do I know?" White said with a straight face. "You know, Europeans and Americans are very bad at math."
The two scumbags stared at each other for a long time, and Bai Lu took his mobile phone to check, one hectare is 10,000 square meters, and fifty-five hectares is 550,000 square meters. It may be hard to imagine without comparison, but if you want to say seventy-seven football fields, you know how big it is.
"When can I go and see it?"
"Someone else will come." White grabbed Bai Lu's shoulders and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I've arranged everything, and we'll take the hotel's helicopter directly later." β
After waiting for almost an hour, a woman in her thirties came, with long golden wavy hair, a handmade lady's suit, the skirt was narrow, and she couldn't take a step half a meter without scruples, but she outlined her figure very conspicuously and looked very beautiful, but the smell of perfume on her body made Bai Lu very unaccustomed.
White introduced, her name is Janet, a senior real estate agent, many of his family's real estate investments are purchased by Janet, and she only does more than 10 million euros of business, and her business is all over the world.
"Hello, Mr. Bai." Janet shook Bai Lu's hand in Chinese with a strange accent, and when she saw Bai Lu's surprise, she explained with a smile: "I will only be a little, business needs." β
After a brief gesture, the three of them got into the hotel's helicopter and went straight to the winery that was ready to be sold.
On the plane, Janet gave Bai Lu a general introduction to the winery.
The most famous in the Burgundy region is the RomanΓ©e Conti winery, as well as Leroy, Contrafant, etc., the winery that Bai Lu is going to buy Janet said several times, it is French, very tongue-twisting, and Bai Lu can't understand it. But it doesn't matter, no matter what it's called now, when he buys it, it's going to be called "Little Joe Winery." β
The helicopter stopped directly in front of the main building of the winery, and before landing, the plane deliberately circled the winery, Bai Lu also took a general look at the situation of the winery, the geographical location is good, and the environment is also very good, at least he is satisfied now.
The current owner of the winery, a man in his forties, wanted to sell the winery because of poor management and failed investments in other areas, so he made a decision against his ancestors and sold the ancestral estate. The attitude is also very resolute, and no counter-offer is allowed, 7 million euros per hectare, a total of 385 million euros.
In addition to these, Bai Lu also has to pay an additional service fee for Janet, one percent of the room price, 3.85 million euros, and it has to be after tax.
Is this money easy to make? It's easy to look at, but it's really not good to change people.
Janet's service fee is not just as simple as taking Bai Lu to see the house and introduce it, all the subsequent procedures and related documents need to be handled by her, without any ability and relationship, just running these procedures can torture people to death. Not only that, but she also has the qualification certificate of an international tax manager, and will also help Bai Lu with all tax issues.
Take a share of money from Bai Lu, and the original owner of the winery will pay her an extra amount of money, I don't know how much, Bai Lu also listened to what White said, and he didn't ask.
Liu Jinnian had already given him Bai Lu's dividend card, and Bai Lu had also checked it, and it was more than 10 billion US dollars, and paying more than 300 million euros was no different from buying a cabbage.
Janet was surprised by Bai Lu's financial resources and pleasure, she saw a lot of rich people, those people, buying a mansion is very grinding, buying a villa of 50 million can be worn for half a month. I thought that even if Bai Lu wanted to buy this winery, it would take about a month, after all, it was hundreds of millions. The result? It was finalized in ten minutes.
"I'll take care of all the formalities and taxes." After signing the contract and transferring the money from Bai Lu, Janet happily shook hands with Bai Lu. "Mr. Bai, if you need anything, please feel free to call me."
"There's really something." Bai Lu said. "I'm going to change the name of the winery and name it after my girlfriend."
"Absolutely." Janet said enviously. "She's such a lucky girl, so what's her name?"
"Joe Joe." Bai Lu said. "How about the winery change its name to Little Joe?"
βjoyοΌ Happy? Janet laughed. That's a good name. β
Bai Lu was stunned, is this English? But he also thinks it's good for Janet to say this, it's homophonic, and the meaning is good, so let's do it.
It took about two days to go through the formalities, and the original owner just took some things and left the rest, including the furniture and all the wine in the cellar.
"By the way, there's another question." On the way back, Bai Lu remembered one more thing.
Janet pulled her windswept hair behind her ears, "I can solve any problem." β
"I'm going to push the main building to the cover."
At this moment, Janet's professionalism was vividly reflected, she didn't ask why, she took out a stack of business cards from her bag directly, and picked one for Bai Lu: "The most famous architect in Italy, no matter what style you want, as long as you can say it, he can design it." β
Then he gave Bai Lu a business card: "Home designer, you can find her from decoration to custom furniture." β
Bai Lu was amazed, everyone who took it out alone is a big name in the industry, but together, it is a complete industrial chain, from buying a house to designing to decorating.
"If you're not busy, why don't you have lunch together?" Bai Lu invites Janet to lunch together.
"No matter how busy you are, you still have to have lunch." Janet smiled back. "It's an honor to have you invited."
There are not many other restaurants in France, there are many Michelin restaurants, Bai Lu ordered a three-star one, but he was told that they did not accept temporary table reservations, they could only make reservations, and they had been queuing for half a month.
If this is Shuangwen, Bai Lu directly slapped the card on the table, told the manager that he bought it in this restaurant, and then asked the cook to make him a very cooked steak.
This is not Shuangwen, and Bai Lu didn't do that, but he still got the position.
As a tycoon in the Hollywood film industry, White's father still has a lot of face, and with a phone call, the position is settled.
When eating, Bai Lu's steak was medium-rare, this degree was just right, the outside was charred and the inside was tender, and there would be no so-called myoglobin, that thing in Bai Lu's opinion, it was blood water.
Bai Lu forgot when he had read an introduction, saying that the steak was fully cooked a long time ago, and there was no three, five, or seven medium rare, and this fully cooked steak could not be dried inside and out, which tested the chef's skills. Later, the chefs were troublesome, so they invented three, five, seven medium rare, to put it bluntly, lazy.
Bai Lu is very satisfied with the taste of the meal, but the amount is smaller, which is a common problem of French food, if you want to be full, you still have to eat Northeast food.
After lunch, Janet left, and White contacted the two interior and exterior designers, and the two said that they could arrive in France in the evening and meet the next day.
Bai Lu was about to go back to the hotel, but White didn't want to go back, so he pulled Bai Lu and squeezed his eyebrows: "Do you know why the hotel is so difficult to decide?" β
"How do I know that?"
"Because of Fashion Week." White said with a grin. "It's Paris Fall/Winter Fashion Week these days, why don't we go to the catwalk?"
Bai Lu smacked his lips: "Are you going to see the catwalk?" β
"Of course......," White added, after a pause. By the way, take a look at the models. β
"Go ahead, I'm going back to sleep, the jet lag hasn't been reversed." Bai Lu refused, and reminded White. "When you come back, remember to open another room and don't let me hear you playing basketball."
"Playing basketball, what playing basketball?" White was puzzled. "Why do we play basketball?"
"I want to go myself, and it's easy to talk about river crabs."
"You just come with me." White Terra didn't let go of Bai Lu. "You can't go to bed right now, isn't it just right to sleep at night?"
After speaking, he showed his mobile phone to Bai Lu: "Look, I asked for two invitations." β
Bai Lu was surprised: "When did you get it?" β
"I got it when I came to you." White said triumphantly. "Dear Bai, you must know that this is France, the most romantic place in the world, and if you come to France and just sleep in a hotel, it is better to sleep at home. So, what did you come to France for? β
"To see the surrender?"
"What surrender?" White didn't understand at all.
It was a man who walked by next to him who didn't know which nationality it was, but who was definitely not French, understood, and gave Bai Lu a thumbs up and said with a smile: "French jokes never go out of style, don't they?" β