Rebirth of the Wild Age

New York, Manhattan, Upper East Side, Sutton Square neighborhood.

A Lincoln car that had long been discontinued stopped by the road. Zhang Lin was holding a wooden box in her hand. After getting out of the car, she waved to the driver arranged by the company and walked to the opposite townhouse No. 11.

Zhang Lin looked at the surrounding houses along the way, her eyes full of envy. The former roommate of Lin Zhuoyun is already the marketing director of the North American branch of Xifeng Canned Food Co., Ltd., but she still does not have the financial resources to buy a house in this neighborhood.

From cultural and artistic celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller to many high-ranking political officials and business wealthy people in the United States, they all like to buy houses and settle here.

The former owner of the townhouse No. 11 where Pei lived was a cousin of old Roosevelt.

"Ding Dong, Ding Dong!"

A blonde young maid opened the small window of the door and looked outside. When she saw that the visitor was an Asian woman, she asked, "Hello, what can I do?"

"Hello," Zhang Lin said with a smile, "I came to visit Mr. Bei on behalf of Mr. Song. I made an appointment on the phone before."

The young maid opened the door immediately and said, "Mr. Pei has not been out, and has been waiting at home for a long time. Please come in!"

Zhang Lin was led by the maid to the garden. An old lady was holding a kettle and watering the flowers. The maid immediately introduced, "Madam, this is a visitor arranged by Mr. Bei."

Zhang Lin hurriedly greeted: "Hello Mrs. Bei!"

The old lady's name is Lu Shuhua, and her English name is Irene Lu. Because of transliteration, she is often written by Chinese media as Lu Shuhua, Lu Ailing, and Lu Ailin. She was born in a prominent Chinese family and graduated from a prestigious American school. She is almost 90 years old this year. She looks intellectual and kind.

"Hello," Lu Shuhua put down the spray can and shook hands with Zhang Lin, "Is the lady Chinese?"

Zhang Lin immediately replied: "My name is Zhang Lin. I am Chinese. I am currently working in the United States. This time I was entrusted by Mr. Song Weiyang to visit Mr. Pei."

Lu Shuhua smiled and switched to Chinese mode, and said in Mandarin with a Cantonese accent: "Miss Zhang, please."

"Thank you!" Zhang Lin hurriedly held the wooden box in her left hand, and helped the old lady walk in with her right hand.

When he came to the living room, Lu Shuhua made coffee for Zhang Lin himself, and shouted in Cantonese: "Old man, there are guests at home!"

This townhouse has four floors. After a while, Pei would walk down the stairs with the handrails. Although the old man behaved very tough, but after all he was too old, Zhang Lin hurried to help him.

"You don't need to help me, I'm not old enough to walk." Pei I.M. smiled.

After Pei I.M. had walked the stairs, Zhang Lin held the wooden box and said, "Mr. Bei, this is a gift that Mr. Song asked me to bring to you."

IM Pei opened the wooden box on the spot, and there was a bottle of red wine in it. He drew out most of the wine bottle, carefully examined the signature of the bottle, and suddenly smiled: "In 1986, Lafite, ah, Mr. Song's gift is precious enough."

Zhang Lin said: "Mr. Song knows that you like red wine, so I specially asked me to take a bottle of it."

IM Pei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "For such a precious gift, Mr. Song must have something to do with me."

Lafite was the most famous in China in 1982, but the ratings given by professional wine appraisers were not the highest. The really top Lafites were in 1901, 1953, 1959, 1986, and 2000. Even the Lafite in 1996 had a higher score than in 82 years.

Pei I.M. is a senior wine lover. When Lafite Winery invites him to drink, he directly chooses the 59-year-old Lafite to entertain him.

Zhang Lin said in Mandarin: "A sword is a gift to a hero."

Pei can understand Mandarin, but only Cantonese speaks fluently. He put the wine bottle back and asked in English: "Does Mr. Song want to ask me to build a house?"

"Please design a science and technology building." Zhang Lin said.

IM Pei shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, I have retired."

Zhang Lin said: "Isn't the new Suzhou Museum under construction designed by Mr. Bei?"

Pei explained: "That's my work for closing the mountain."

Zhang Lin said: "I will truthfully convey Mr. Bei's meaning, but Mr. Song may have to visit him in person."

Pei IM smiled and said, "Is he still dependent on me?"

"It's a sincere invitation." Zhang Lin said.

"Mr. Song's famous name, I have also heard of it in Manhattan. It is indeed a prominent figure in contemporary China," Pei thought for a while and said, "Since I have retired, I must not be able to take over again. But I can participate in conceptual design. , The specific design plan is in charge of my son Jianzhong or Lizhong, you can ask Mr. Song if it is feasible."

"Okay, thank you Mr. Bei." Zhang Lin said.

Pei said: "If it is convenient, you can call now, and I will let them go to China after the matter is finalized."

Although Pei I.M. has retired and closed the mountain, sometimes he still can't save face. Take the year before, as an example, he went back to Suzhou to go to the Design Museum, but Jinmen invited him again and again. In desperation, Pei could only agree to be responsible for the conceptual design of Jinmen Dagu Bridge.

As for Pei's three sons, two of them are doing architectural design, and one of them plans to go to Hong Kong City to expand business. I can take this opportunity to open up the Chinese mainland market, and it can be regarded as the old man paving the way for his son.

Song Weiyang will naturally not refuse. The concept design of his father and the specific design of his son can be advertised as the joint work of Pei and his son.

A few minutes later, Zhang Lin put down her mobile phone and said, "Mr. Bei, Mr. Song is very happy to accept your proposal. He said that he will prepare rice wine and braised pork in China and entertain Mr. Bei and his family personally."

"Hahahaha," Pei couldn't help laughing. "You Mr. Song, you know everything clearly. Not only do you know that I like red wine, but I also know that I like rice wine and braised pork, he Didn’t it make a copy of the menu from the last time I returned to China?"

Zhang Lin also laughed: "These are all manifestations of Mr. Song's sincerity."

Pei said: "Well, I will take my son back to China in a few days, and strive to implement the design plan as soon as possible, which can be regarded as living up to Mr. Song's good intentions."

In fact, Pei I.M. was originally going to return to China. Because of the museum project in Jiangsu Province, he has to go to China almost every 15 months, and he has been tossing about it several times. Now the richest man in China has asked him to build a house. He can just take his family back to the country in advance to relax, and work with his son to come up with the design plan for the building, and then he can go to Jiangsu Province to participate in the opening ceremony of the museum.

The old man is not the kind of solitary personality who does not eat the fireworks in the world. He is very real. The friends he makes are all celebrities in the political, business, and literary circles. This time he is just making another China's richest man.

And Song Weiyang?

After getting the exact news about the joint design of Pei and his son~www.readwn.com~ I quickly contacted the Zhongguancun Software Park, and added the 30-story plan to build a 38-story commercial building. . With Pei's famous name as the signboard, even outside the Fifth Ring Road, it can be hyped, and the management of the software park and real estate companies will also help.

Some of the land around the software park has been bought by developers, but construction has not yet started.

Once the Ark Building designed by I.M. Pei is completed, coupled with Song Weiyang's name as the richest man in China, it will inevitably attract many technology companies to move over (Zhongguancun is too crowded and expensive). As long as the software park has enough popularity, the residential community will be formed. Then banks, supermarkets, schools, hospitals and other institutions will settle in, and it should be able to develop in five to eight years.

Song Weiyang even called Xiao Ma. Anyway, Tencent is very rich now, and it happens to be able to build the Tencent Beijing headquarters building in the software park, without having to run to Zhongguancun to squeeze office buildings.

Well, Song Weiyang also handed over a piece of residential land to his father's company for the purpose of building a villa area. Presumably, the senior executives of those technology companies are willing to buy this land as a reward for his vigorously promoting the development of the software park.