Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

"Mr. Chen, the price has been negotiated for the land you want to purchase."

"Oh? What's the price?"

"Six million dollars."

"What? Tell me again, how much?"

"Six million dollars."

"Are you kidding me?" Chen Zhao exclaimed.

Six million dollars? In Chen Zhao's opinion, US$15 million is almost the price.

It is basically impossible to get any lower.

But Andrews told him that he only needed to pay $6 million.

Chen Zhao thought this was really a joke.

"Of course it's true." Andrews said: "The Dashan Town Government wants to apply for an 80 million U.S. dollar loan from our bank, but their mortgage is slightly low, so it is difficult to get approved."

"That means you are using this loan as a bargaining chip?"

"That's right." Andrews said, "Mr. Chen, when will you be free to come over and sign the land purchase contract?"

"I'm always available."

"How about now?"

"Can."

When Chen Zhao went to Irvine, he found that Citibank's Los Angeles headquarters was currently being renovated, but the office area upstairs was still working normally.

Although it has experienced a series of changes, the bank has not been affected internally.

But this is understandable, after all, with the strength of Citibank.

It is not difficult to suppress this matter. For them, if the gaffe continues to worsen, their business will be affected.

Even if it is just the Los Angeles branch headquarters, the loss will be huge if it is stopped for one day.

Chen Zhao found Andrews' office.

"Hello Mr. Chen."

"Hello."

"This is the land purchase contract. You can take a look at it and sign it if there is nothing wrong with it."

After Chen Zhao read it word for word and confirmed that there was no problem, he signed his name directly.

"Mr. Chen, are you familiar with our general manager?"

Chen Zhao thought for a while: "I just cheated her out of nine million dollars two days ago. Is this familiar?"

"Forehead……"

Andrews' face was full of astonishment: "Did you cheat her out of nine million dollars?"

This is wrong. If the two of them were enemies, why did Yamila help Chen Zhao pay 50% of the land purchase price?

Andrews couldn't figure it out.

He did discover that nine million US dollars were suddenly transferred into Chen Zhao's bank account the day before yesterday.

But Andrews soon gave up speculation.

He really couldn't understand.

"So that land is mine now, right?" Chen Zhao asked.

"Theoretically it's yours, but legally you still have to wait for the results from the notary office." Andrews said.

Chen Zhao nodded. When he originally purchased Mirror Lake, he had to wait two or three months to get the title deed.

Purchasing land here in the United States is relatively simple, and there is no need to run around.

Just sign the contract and pay, then send it to the notary office, and finally the land bureau issues the title deed.

The banking system in the United States is more complete than that in China, so their business will be more sophisticated and safer.

At this point, Chen Zhao is not worried that there will be problems with the bank.

At this moment, Yamila came over.

"Mr. Chen, I'm very sorry for what happened the day before yesterday."

"Um...what is it? Did you say we were betting? No need to apologize. If you want to bet next time, remember to come to me. I will be with you at any time."

Yamila originally wanted to be polite to Chen Zhao, but Chen Zhao was directly rude to her.

Yamila's nose was crooked with anger, but she still kept a smile on her face.

Andrews was even more puzzled. Why did Yamila apologize to Chen Zhao after being cheated of nine million US dollars?

…

Then Chen Zhao went to train Evelei.

After all, the price offered by Evelei is not low, and Chen Zhao must do his best.

"Chen, will you come to the Star Invitational Tournament on November 25th?" Evelei asked as she leaned on the shore.

"where?"

"Montreal, Canada."

"I'm not sure." Chen Zhao couldn't give a definite answer.

The main thing is to seek Fali's opinion. On November 25th, Canada has fully entered winter, and the temperature is more than 20 degrees lower than that of Los Angeles.

If Fali didn't want to go, Chen Zhao didn't want to leave Fali's side.

It's not that Chen Zhao insists on clinging to Fali, the main reason is that Fali is pregnant now, and Chen Zhao wants to stay with Fali to take care of her.

Besides, if your girlfriend stays at home while she's pregnant and goes out to watch other women's games, it doesn't seem like a thing no matter how you think about it.

If Fali is interested in going to Canada for vacation, Chen Zhao will go.

If she doesn't want to go, Chen Zhao won't go either.

"Well, if you want to go, then call me in advance and I will leave a ticket for you."

"Okay." Chen Zhao nodded.

…

When he returned home, Chen Zhao found Fali moving wine.

"Fali, what are you doing? Come up quickly." Chen Zhao quickly stopped Fali.

"I saw that it had been there for a long time, so I thought it should be fine."

"Leave me to do this kind of heavy work from now on. If I'm not at home, let King Kong do it. It's very powerful."

Chen Zhao said: "You step back. When you open your home-brew wine for the first time, some gases that are not good for the human body will be released. In addition, there is a small possibility of an explosion."

Fali looked at Chen Zhao. She felt that Chen Zhao was too careful.

Ever since she got pregnant, Chen Zhao has been a little overprotective of her.

In fact, I am not that fragile.

Doesn't require special care.

Chen Zhao opened a barrel of wine, and a scent of wine filled the air.

It smells so good! Chen Zhao took a deep breath of the wine.

Next comes filtering and bottling.

Generally, high-end wines require secondary sedimentation after filtration before bottling.

These steps do not require Chen Zhao to teach the evil demon specifically.

They may know what to do better than Chen Zhao.

In the next half day, Chen Zhao, Fali and the whole family began to get busy around the wine.

Fali wanted to do her part, so she was there to help during the bottling process.

The lemures looked worried. Not only did Fali take away their jobs, but she also didn't do as well as they did.

But they didn't dare to speak because of Chen Zhao's murderous eyes.

If they said even half a word more, Chen Zhao would stuff them into the toilet.

The bottle was bought by Chen Zhao. A regular wine bottle is about 750 ml.

The final number of bottles was just over a thousand bottles, because wine is more susceptible to deterioration than other grain wines, so it needs to be sealed better.

Chen Zhao and Fali looked at their results with satisfaction, although most of the process was done by lemures.

The next step is to save, and then there is the gift-giving part.

"Chen, send a few bottles to mom and dad." Fali said.

"I know."

"Give more to mom and dad. After all, Kareem, Howard and Kane are all alcoholics."