America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 373

Not waiting for little Laura to catch the "personal relationship" between her best friend and her boyfriend.

The next day, she was called back by the shrub family.

It's almost late December.

According to the time agreed between the bush family and the Smith family.

There are only 10 days left until their big day.

As a woman, she has to go back there and prepare.

What's more, it's almost late December now.

Students in many universities here in the United States have traveled a lot.Those who are still in school are generally only really good students, and those graduate students who need to continue to improve.

Ordinary American college students have long been on vacation.

Little Laura left the day after Abel returned to New York and went back to Texas.

She didn't know that as soon as she left, her best friend also left the school.

It's just not going back to Han Country, or going to live with her second sister Li Xuxian.

2001 12 Month 18 Day.

On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, No. 65 East 138th Street, this is a building with a sense of history.

Built in 1900, the four-story townhouse has five bedrooms and six bathrooms, with property taxes of $4 a month.

It is one of New Start Real Estate Company's investments in New York.

But now, it is one of the properties of many other new start real estate companies.

Be one of someone's new golden homes.

Little Laura had only been out of New York for a few hours.

Her best friend, Li Xinyu, brought some clothes and luggage to live here.

Noon today.

When Li Xinyu opened her eyes and woke up in a still unfamiliar bedroom.

This young lady of Han Country's number one chaebol saw a white and unfamiliar ceiling.

"what--"

Li Xinyu breathed a sigh of relief and sat up from Sim Mengsi.

The warm and comfortable velvet brocade quilt fell on her body, revealing her beautiful body without a strand of hair.

In the past, Li Xinyu never liked fruit sleep.

But recently, as long as she rests with someone, she has to fall asleep.

Because of that guy, who loves her baby so much.

If you put it on, you have to take it off anyway, so it's better not to wear it at all...

As always, Li Xinyu, like Abel's other women, didn't see him by his side when he woke up.

Li Xinyu knew that he must have gone out again very early.

She was no stranger to Abel, and she knew that her man was incredibly physically strong.

Even if he doesn't mean much workaholic about work.

But because he has enough energy, he also has enough time to deal with work.

In the end, he is obviously not a workaholic, but he has achieved the workload of a workaholic.

On Simmons, Li Xinyu sat in a daze for a few minutes.

After the blood oxygen refills the hazy head and wakes up completely.

Li Xinyu just got off Sim Mengsi, her beautiful eyes swept the ground——

Sure enough, on the ground, I found the lampshade that had been peeled off last night.

Forget it, after a night on the carpet, it's probably dirty.

Li Xinyu went up and down from Simmons, and found a brand new set of specially made high-end lampshades from Elizabeth's back garden in the cabinet next to her.

The reason for using a special model is because her figure is very unconventional.

It has both the exaggerated quantity of white or black women and the unique quality of Asian women.

The result is that if she wants to dress comfortably.

It can only be customized according to her special shape.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter whether it is the financial resources of the Li family or the financial resources of the man she is following now.

It is common for her to customize a lampshade that fits comfortably.

If it was a girl from an ordinary family who grew up to her figure.

In this regard, it is estimated that it will fall into a more distressed situation.

After getting dressed, go to the bathroom to wash up.

Li Xinyu walked out of the master bedroom on the fourth floor.

This townhouse, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is quoted by a real estate company for around $2000 million.

It has a total of 4 floors, with an average of more than 3000 square feet per floor.

In conversion, the first floor is about 300 square meters, and the fourth floor is about 1300 square meters in total.

Among them, the entire floor of the 4th floor, except for a huge master bedroom, only has a master living room and a large study room.

Li Xinyu, who walked out of the room, saw the female bodyguard Jin Minshan in the corridor outside.

Kim Min-sun is Rock Security, a female member of the specially recruited Asian bodyguards.

You can tell by the name that she is from Han.

Since Li Xinyu is also from Han Country, she was assigned as Li Xinyu's special bodyguard, the kind that would be close to her.

Just like Doni by Abel, Jane by Ikana, Jinna by Anne Hathaway, and Mary by Jessica Alba.

"Miss Li."

Seeing Li Xinyu coming out, Jin Minshan hastily greeted him respectfully in a low voice.

These female bodyguards also called the women around Abel differently.

Some are called Madam, like Ikana, since she was pregnant, she likes the bodyguards to call her Madam.

It seemed that in this way, she really became Abel's wife.

There are those called Miss, like Li Xinyu and Annie.

There are also those called ladies, like Li Fuzhen.

Abel didn't force it. What the female bodyguards called them was completely based on their hobbies and habits.

Li Xinyu's bodyguards all call her Miss Li.

"Minshan." Li Xinyu spoke Korean directly, "Get me something to eat. I'm starving to death. Well...it's almost one o'clock at noon."

"Okay. Miss, do you want to eat Korean food, or something else?"

"What kind of Korean food? Don't eat it, just follow the normal lunch standard." Li Xinyu said. "Let's eat in the outdoor garden on the third floor."

During construction and design, half of the third floor of the villa was vacated, and a beautiful indoor sky garden was created.

There are some flowers and plants and some low trees, which are very beautifully arranged, in the style of Florence in Italy.

In New York, where snowstorms often occur, it is designed in a Florentine style that hardly snows.

It can only be said that rich people are good.

Li Xinyu likes this small courtyard in the sky very much, and wants to eat there for lunch today.

"But it's snowing today." Jin Minshan persuaded, "It's very cold outside now."

"Uh...then forget it." Li Xinyu said, "Go directly to the restaurant to eat."

The restaurant is also on the third floor.

The entire third floor of this townhouse has been turned into a functional area.

The restaurant, the small garden in the sky courtyard, the leisure room, the medical room, etc. are all on this floor.

The second floor is part of the guest bedroom and a small living room.

The first floor is the large living room and reception area.

Li Xinyu walked down from the fourth floor, and the restaurant on the third floor was spacious and comfortable, with a high ceiling and excellent indoor lighting.

Outside the restaurant, in the private courtyard separated by thick insulating glass, even if it snows, it can still be seen that the vegetation is lush, and there are comfortable leisure tables and chairs.

It is blocked by buildings, and there is no snow except for some wind and snow blowing in through the opening of the open design.

What's more, there was not much snow last night, but the cooling was relatively strong.

This villa is in an excellent location with easy access to Central Park, Madison Avenue and other shopping and dining areas.

It only takes ten minutes to walk to these two places.

On the third floor, Li Xinyu sat in the dining room, at the head of the beautiful and huge Italian-Byzantine-style dining table.

The Byzantine style is a style of Italian furniture, which can be regarded as the furniture design of the early Renaissance.

Known for its elegance, simplicity, solemnity and majesty in design, it has pure lines and appropriate classical proportions.

The previous owner of this house was either Italian or a crazy lover of Italian style.

The decoration of the whole house is a fusion of various Italian styles.

Li Xinyu, who has always had a petty bourgeois sentiment, but who was born in a chaebol but somewhat young, loves this kind of sentiment the most.

She loves it here.

While waiting for the maid to prepare the food, Li Xinyu found a stack of newspapers beside her.

She knew it was supposed to be her man, so she watched it while having breakfast in the morning.

Imagine this morning, when I was still sound asleep in Simmons.

His own man came out of the room, leaving behind himself who was exhausted by him last night.

Sitting in this position, I spent a fulfilling morning while eating breakfast and reading the newspaper.

Subconsciously, Li Xinyu also picked up the newspaper, imitating what her man might do in the morning.

She even pretended to read it, and the newspaper she picked up happened to be a copy of the "Wall Street Journal", which was the headline of the day—

【Abe Smith and the Future】

I saw the name of my own man in the title.

Li Xinyu, who was just pretending to imitate a man, immediately started reading with interest.

Of course, it will not be too simple to make the "Wall Street Journal" the news that can be used as the headline on the front page.

In this news report, although the title uses Abel Smith.

However, most of the news content in it is related to the "2001 New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception" held yesterday at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

The New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception is a well-known gathering in New York and the American financial circle.

It is said that in the early days, it was a public wine initiated by the Morgan family.

It mainly invites the elites from New York or the American financial circle to gather together, have a meal together, and chat about their vision for the industry next year.

developed over decades.

This has become an ultra-small "Davos Forum" similar to the New York financial circle, or even the American financial circle.

But as time went by, after Morgan and Rockefeller gradually faded out.

This financier's reception is becoming more and more "civilian".

The guests who participated in it gradually became middle and high-level Wall Street executives from all the financial bigwigs back then.

In the end, it even reduced to the same level as other famous social drinking parties in New York.

Just like the famous "Metropolis" reception.

Most of the financial bigwigs didn't come to participate.

The people who participated in this public reception mainly became the middle and high-level people in the financial circle and people outside the circle.

However, due to the organizer of the reception, some bigwigs in the circle are still invited to participate every year.

These bigwigs also attract a large number of financial elites to pay fees to participate every year.

This allowed the style of the reception to be barely maintained.

In addition, the cost of each participant is US$6500, excluding alcohol expenses.

The rest are all donated as charitable donations, and the word "charity" in the reception is reflected here.

The $6500 entry fee is expensive by any measure.

But most of the time, the tickets can be sold very well, and sometimes there are even scalped tickets, and the price has increased several times.

When this happens, it is usually only when there are truly top-ranked bosses who will participate, that this effect will be achieved.

Like this year, it was originally scheduled to be held on the evening of December 12, and the organizer was The New York Times.

The organizer of this reception is not fixed.Every few years, the organizer will change.

Well-known local newspapers in New York, such as "Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", "New York Post", "New York Daily News", etc., have all held the event.

Generally, no one will grab it, because if you can't invite big shots to participate, it's a bit thankless to hold this kind of reception.

In many cases, you will even lose money, at least you will lose some favors.

After all, it's not that easy to invite big guys to participate.

The result is on the 16th.

This year's host, The New York Times, suddenly announced that the reception would be handed over to the New York Observer.

Dylan, the editor-in-chief of the "New York Observer", quickly acknowledged the news, announcing that the meeting would be held by himself at the Hilton Hotel on the evening of the 17th.

There are a total of 1000 participants, and other terms are almost the same as the previous reception.

After noon on the 16th, the "New York Observer" announced on its official website the list of invitations from the host of the reception.

The arrangement of names in the United States has always been carried out according to the arrangement of the first letter of the name in the English alphabet.

So someone with a heart found out that the first one on this list is Abel Smith.

Abel is Abel in English, and the initial letter is A.

Being number one is pretty normal.

Then after the first guest Abel Smith, the names of Warren Buffett and George Soros are also impressively among them.

Even more exaggerated, there are names like Leo Melamed, David Rene Rothschild, and Alan Greenspan.

Even names like David Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan appear.

Almost immediately after the announcement.

This has always been there before.But in many cases, it is regarded as a New York social reception for celebrities, outsiders, and Wall Street and the financial circle.

Its degree of attention and popularity has been infinitely elevated in an instant.

Almost to the extent of the white house reception.

From noon on the 16th to noon on the 17th.

I don’t know how many people there are in New York or even in the United States. In order to get this, it only needs 6500 US dollars.

Now that it has been doubled ten times, it is not necessarily possible to get a place to participate in the reception, so go around to fight for it.

Yesterday morning and yesterday noon.

Someone even called from Li Xinyu's side.

Want to bother her, get an invitation or two.

Li Xinyu had the courage to mention it to Abel.

Abel gave her 5 places without any hassle.

This made Li Xinyu feel very happy, felt very honored, and felt that she was valued by him.

Let her, who has always been very passive in that matter, take the initiative last night on a rare occasion.

And now Li Xinyu is reading the newspaper, what is reported in it.

It was a summary of the speeches of the bigwigs who participated in the reception last night.

The "Wall Street Journal" directly listed Abel's name at the first place and reported it as the headline on the front page.

It can only be said that in order to attract traffic and sales, these media all know whose name Americans like to see now.

After reading the whole article, Li Xinyu only noticed her boyfriend's speech at the reception last night, she didn't bother to read the others.

The "Wall Street Journal" claimed that at the reception last night, Abel Smith was very optimistic about China's development.

He said that he would support and urge the White House to give China permanent normal trading status.

Speeches in this regard are common in Wall Street and the international financial community.

Because since the 90s, there have been too many big Wall Street figures who have said similar things.

The fact that capital has no borders is itself the best portrayal of Wall Street.

Huaxia can make money for Wall Street and for capitalists.

It is too easy for capitalists to say a few good things about China in newspapers and media.

But in the same way, as long as it hinders your own interests.The capitalists blocked and blocked certain countries in various ways, and they also did not blink their eyes.

Most of the nice things capitalists say to certain countries are for their own interests.

The reverse is also true.

In addition to this aspect, in this public reception, Abel also said that in the next few years at least, the real estate in the United States will be stable and improve.

Li Xinyu, who wasn't very interested in these things, glanced at them briefly, then put down the newspaper.

At this time, her lunch just arrived.

Li Xinyu started to eat lunch, mainly organic vegetable salad, a small grilled steak, milk, eggs, and bread.

From vitamins to carbohydrates and sugars, from high protein to certain fats, everything is included.

While ensuring the taste, it can also achieve comprehensive nutrition.

This is the result of the cooperation between the private nutritionists hired by the rich and the top private chefs.

After lunch, it was snowing outside.

Little Laura was gone again, with no company.Li Xinyu didn't want to go out.

She decided to simply stay at home, watch TV or read a book.

In the very spacious and huge study upstairs, there are more than 2000 volumes of books.

It is said that some of them are still orphans, which are treasured by the original owner.

After the villa was bought by New Start Real Estate, these orphan books became the selling point of the villa and were not taken away.

Li Xinyu went upstairs and casually looked for books in the study.

As a standard Wenqing girl, many times, she can spend the whole day like this.

Because I heard that many of the books in this collection are orphans.

When Li Xinyu was looking for books in it, she tried to find these legendary copies.

Pick ones that look older and have an older cover.

She searched and searched on the bookshelf, and found a thick book at random, which seemed to be a lonely book after looking at it for some time.

Li Xinyu took it out and found that it looked thick but very light.

She flipped through it casually, and found that it was not a book, but a photo album that obviously seemed to have a history.

The photos above, all in black and white, may be from decades ago.

dong dong——

Just as she was about to take a closer look, there was a light knock on the door of the study.

It was Jin Minshan, the personal bodyguard, holding Li Xinyu's cell phone, "Miss Li, it's your phone..."

"Oh……"

Li Xinyu agreed, put the photo album in her hand on the desk next to her, and walked over to take the mobile phone that Jin Minshan handed over.

Before answering, Li Xinyu took a look and found that it was actually the call from the second sister Li Xuxian.

There are three sisters in the Li family. The relationship between the eldest sister and the second sister has always been normal.

The younger sister, Li Xinyu, has a better relationship with her two older sisters.

Li Xinyu also often talked with Li Xuxian, so she picked it up.

"Yeah, second sister?"

When talking to her family, the language Li Xinyu used changed to Korean again.

Holding her mobile phone, she strolled outside from the study, and chatted with Li Xuxian on the phone with a smile.

On the phone, Li Xuxian, who is also studying in New York, but is studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design, said that she has been on vacation.

She plans to go back to Han to spend the New Year, and then come to New York to study.

Ask Li Xinyu if she wants to go back.

"It's not long since I returned to Han Country. Second sister, it's not like you don't know." Li Xinyu said.

Li Xinyu doesn't want to go back to Han Country now, she is a little reluctant to leave this house.

Well, mostly because I like the house, not because of anyone.

Li Xuxian also said that she would come over to accompany Li Xinyu. The two sisters met for dinner and hadn't met for more than two months.

After two days, if Li Xinyu doesn't return to Han Country, Li Xuxian will go back by himself.

Of course, it was impossible for Li Xinyu to refuse such a small request from her own sister.

Besides, she wanted to see her sister very much.

Just like what Li Xuxian said, the two sisters who have a good relationship haven't seen each other for two months.

Then see you.

Li Xinyu agreed, reported the address and asked the second sister to come over.

Such a beautiful house, she wanted her second sister to see it too.

After all, the second sister is the only designer in the family.

A costume designer is also a designer.

(End of this chapter)