Chapter 1348 Ask for Double Guaranteed Monthly Pass for a House Worth 1.2 Billion (4300 words)
"Imperial Food Inheritance?" Xia Zekai was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses: "Rubo, you have wasted a lot of time looking for this!"
"Hey, what a coincidence." Liang Rubo sighed.
He said: "Brother Xia, I believe it now. Sometimes a meal depends on fate."
The place is not very far from the villa area of Honolulu, but all the courtyards here are all renovated. The courtyard they stopped at last had two waist-high stone lions with two lion heads at the door.
They all looked forward, their big eyes glaring, their manes fluffy and curled, looking majestic.
The two sides of the door were bare, and there wasn't even a plaque above it.
Xia Zekai smelled it carefully and couldn't smell the aroma of the food even when he was standing at the door. Only then did he really believe that eating a meal depends on fate.
Just like this, if an acquaintance hadn’t brought it here, who would have known that there was actually a place to eat inside.
"Brother Xia, let's go and rest for a while." Liang Rubo said.
"Let's go!" Xia Zekai and Liang Rubo went in together.
"This place was renovated from an old courtyard house. It was bought by the owner a few years ago. It is said that their ancestors cooked royal meals for the nobles in the palace. I don't know whether it is true or not." Liang Rubo said.
"But Yiming and I came here in advance to try it, and the cooking is indeed excellent."
"How do you describe this dish?" Liang Rubo recalled the feeling he had when he and Zhang Yiming came here to eat last time, but he couldn't find the most appropriate adjective.
"It's just delicious anyway." He finally said it in this almost rogue way, which made Xia Zekai amused.
Liang Rubo introduced to him as he walked: "This is a three-entry courtyard, all of which have been converted into dining areas. I think it is a bit wasteful for him to do this, but there is no way. This place does not belong to us, otherwise we need to renovate it."
It will be comfortable to live there soon." Liang Rubo's eyes were a little hopeful.
When Xia Zekai heard what he said, a thought suddenly flashed through his head, and then he asked: "Ru Bo, is there any way you can help me buy a courtyard house?"
"Brother Xia wants it?" Liang Rubo asked.
Xia Zekai nodded heavily: "Last time, your sister-in-law said she wanted to change her house. I have been thinking about what kind of house is suitable to buy. Isn't this courtyard house very good?"
Hearing what Xia Zekai said, Liang Rubo took a deep breath and suddenly said: "Brother Xia, I really know that there is a courtyard house for sale, but I haven't found a suitable seller yet."
"Don't mention it yet, if Brother Xia buys it, it will really be suitable." As he spoke, Liang Rubo's tone changed.
"How?" Xia Zekai asked him, knowing that there must be something fishy here.
As expected, he then heard Liang Rubo say: "There's nothing else about that courtyard house, just two words: 'big enough' and 'expensive enough'. After thinking about it, I can only afford a house of this price, Brother Xia."
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"How big? How much?" Xia Zekai became more and more interested when he heard what he said.
"Brother Xia, let's put it this way, this courtyard house in front of us is incomparable to that one, it's just a fraction of it." Liang Rubo said.
As he spoke, Liang Rubo stretched out his right fist, spread his thumb and little finger, and said: "I remember that the area seems to be more than 6,000 square meters, and the other party wants more than 1.2 billion."
"When you put it like that, it's really not cheap. One square meter is nearly 200,000 yuan!" Xia Zekai said.
The unit price of the villa in Honolulu he bought in 2011 was only 46,500 yuan at that time, which was far from comparable to the price of this courtyard house that Liang Rubo mentioned.
Thinking about this in his mind, Xia Zekai asked: "Ru Bo, do you have any contact information? Tell him that I will look at the house."
"Brother Xia, do you really want to buy it?" Liang Rubo was a little surprised.
Seeing Xia Zekai nod, Liang Rubo said "Yes": "Okay, I will arrange this matter."
"Anyway, Brother Xia, you are not in a hurry to leave after you come back this time. Let's go see the house tomorrow." Liang Rubo said.
Xia Zekai was not impatient. He knew very well that the sale of a house at this price would not happen overnight, and he was not in a hurry over this meal.
"By the way, there is no restriction on buying a courtyard house, right?" Xia Zekai remembered something and asked him.
Liang Rubo was confused by these words, and he asked: "Brother Xia, when did there be restrictions on buying a courtyard house?"
"I know that in Beijing, there are all kinds of messy restrictions on buying commercial housing, but to put it bluntly, they are restricted to ordinary people. As long as you can come up with money, no restrictions are a problem." Liang Rubo said so frivolously.
One sentence.
But he is right, this is how things are in this world, money rules!
"Ru Bo, you are right, let's ignore him. Let's try this imperial cuisine inheritance today and go see the courtyard house worth 1.2 billion tomorrow." Xia Zekai said this.
After entering the house, Xia Zekai and Liang Rubo sat and drank tea. Not long after waiting, Zhang Yiming, Yu Shuping, Yang Bin, and Zhang Xu came over one after another.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Xu opened the wine he had brought, and insisted that today was the first party after the Chinese New Year, so he had to drink some wine to celebrate.
"There will be business tomorrow!" Xia Zekai said.
This made several people look at each other in confusion. Zhang Yiming finally asked: "Brother Xia, it's a good time to travel tomorrow. Toutiao and Xiaoai Technology are not busy. Do you have anything else?"
Before Xia Zekai could speak, Liang Rubo said for him: "Brother Xia is thinking about buying a courtyard house, and there happens to be a suitable one. Brother Xia will go and have a look tomorrow."
"..." Zhang Yiming and the four of them were choked severely.
Zhang Yiming then remembered something and asked: "Old Liang, can it be that way?"
"Yes, besides that one, Yiming, tell me which other house is worthy of Brother Xia." Liang Rubo said.
When Xia Zekai heard what he said, he couldn't help but want to complain: "I said you two are almost done, just buy a house, why are you talking about so much nonsense?"
"Haha, Brother Xia, Lao Liang and I were joking." Zhang Yiming said with a smile.
After waiting for the waiter to bring all the prepared dishes, Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo let Xia Zekai taste them first.
After Xia Zekai tasted it, he suddenly understood what Liang Rubo said to him, and he couldn't find a more suitable adjective.
I just know it’s delicious!
"This dish is really good!" Xia Zekai said simply and straightforwardly.
Several people burst out laughing.
During the dinner, several people talked about interesting things about the New Year and shared them with everyone, which turned out to be the best food to go with wine.
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After Xia Zekai and the others separated, Wang Yi drove Xia Zekai back to the villa area in Honolulu. It was already past three o'clock.
Seeing that it was still early and he didn't feel sleepy, he called his wife.
After waiting for the call to be connected, a childish voice called "Hey, hey, hey" was heard. Xia Zekai knew it was the voice of their youngest child.
"Jing Ling, where is your mother?" Xia Zekai asked him.
Then I heard Jing Ling shouting over there: "Dad, mom is not here."
"Not there? Then what did your mother do?" Xia Zekai was quite puzzled.
Luo Xiyun on the other end of the phone couldn't hold herself any longer. She snatched the phone from her son's hand and asked, "Zekai, what's the matter with you?"
"Didn't Jing Ling just say you weren't here?" Xia Zekai asked her.
Luo Xiyun just rolled her eyes at her husband: "You just believe whatever he says. Are you stupid?"
"Hehe, daddy is stupid!" Chenchen and Qingyu, two siblings, made a stab at the side.
"Qingyu, Chenchen, do you two deserve a beating?" Xia Zekai said into the phone, but unfortunately the siblings didn't respond at all, and they were still making noises and shouting: "Dad is so stupid!"
"Zekai, what's the matter with you?" Luo Xiyun felt a headache when she looked at the three little guys beside her, thinking that if her husband was okay, she would just die as soon as possible.
"Daughter-in-law, didn't you say last time that we should buy another house in the capital? I'm thinking that since I'm buying a house, I don't want to get it right in one step, so I might as well buy a courtyard house. What do you think?" Xia Zekai didn't talk nonsense and just said
He told his wife.
"Uh!" Luo Xiyun was dumbfounded, and then asked: "Why do you suddenly think of buying a courtyard house?"
"Speaking of this, it's a coincidence. Today, Lao Liang and the others invited me to have dinner in a restaurant that was renovated from a courtyard house. He said that he was a chef who inherited the royal cuisine. The dishes are indeed delicious, but I think that courtyard house is better. Looking at it from the outside
It's very ordinary, but once you enter, it's like a different world. It's like a small closed world. I thought it would be very comfortable to live there," Xia Zekai said.
"How much is that? Do you still have enough money?" Luo Xiyun asked.
Her husband has never had much money left in his hands. The last time Xiaoai Technology did an internal private placement, her husband used part of Alibaba's shares as collateral and took away 2 billion from the bank, of which 1 billion was transferred
Here we come to 'Kayun Investment'.
As soon as Luo Xiyun finished asking, she heard her husband say: "You are stupid. Aren't Yitrip and Toutiao about to raise funds soon? Wouldn't it be enough for me to provide a small amount of shares by then?"
"And buying a courtyard house can preserve its value!" Xia Zekai thought.
He is not particularly stingy about shares, but he has always felt that good steel should be used wisely, and it is best to exchange the high-quality assets in his hands for another batch of high-quality assets instead of simply cashing out.
In his opinion, buying a good courtyard house not only has the function of preserving value, but also can meet his needs for "living", which is very good!
Eighteen million dollars of small money, Boss Xia is not short of it!
"In this case, you can do whatever you want, I have no objection." Luo Xiyun said the last thing.
After hanging up the phone, Luo Xiyun thought about what her husband had just said and didn't know how to evaluate it.
Who would have thought that during his trip there, he would actually do something else, such as buying a courtyard house, which seemed to be a good idea from an investment point of view.
When I go to the capital later, it seems quite comfortable to live in a courtyard house.
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Liang Rubo worked quickly and reliably, and he contacted Xia Zekai that night.
Early the next morning, Liang Rubo came to see Xia Zekai. After the two had some breakfast together at a breakfast restaurant outside the Honolulu villa area, they went straight to their destination.
This courtyard house is located near Shichahai and covers an area of more than 6,200 square meters. Other information is currently unknown.
The person who received them was a full-time broker from the Lian Family. After his introduction, it was the original owner of this courtyard who entrusted the Lian Family to sell it on their behalf.
When he saw Liang Rubo and Xia Zekai, he recognized them immediately.
I also know that the two customers I received today are definitely capable of purchasing this courtyard house.
Not only that, the head of the Lian family was still under a lot of pressure. He always felt that every look Xia Zekai looked at him made him tremble.
"Manager Li, right? Just call the owner and tell him that we want to buy this house. If it works, let's meet. If it doesn't work, forget it." Liang Rubo stepped forward and said something to the person in charge named 'Li Guangming'
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Hearing what Liang Rubo said, Li Guangming felt even more stressed, but he did not dare to delay and quickly responded: "Mr. Liang, please wait a moment, I'll call right now."
While waiting, Xia Zekai and Liang Rubo kept looking at the surrounding scenery.
About forty minutes later, they saw a fat man who looked to be around forty years old.
After he came over, all the fat on his body was trembling, making people worried that a piece of it would fall off accidentally.
"Xiao Li, which gentleman did you just say wanted to buy it?" The fat man came over and asked Li Guangming directly.
Then under Li Guangming's recommendation, the fat man met Liang Rubo and Xia Zekai.
Who would have thought that this man also recognized Liang Rubo and Xia Zekai. After seeing them, he smiled and said: "Young, aren't these Mr. Xia and Mr. Liang? You two want to buy my house?"
"Yes, I am Xia Zekai, what is your surname?" Xia Zekai stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party.
He said: "It will be easier if you know me. I plan to buy a courtyard house. Please introduce your house. If it is suitable, I will buy it."
"That's a good relationship, Mr. Xia. My surname is Kang, and my name is Kang Anxiang. My ancestors have some connections with the palace. This house is also a family property passed down from my ancestors. If business hadn't been difficult in the past two years, I would have encountered some problems in my business.
I won't sell it either!" The fat man named Kang Anxiang explained and said he was reluctant to part with it.
In the end, he mocked himself: "In these days, who would want to have the reputation of selling off their ancestral property unless they have to do so as a last resort?"
The smile on Xia Zekai's face never changed. He listened to this as a story.
Not to mention this kind of courtyard house with historical heritage, when selling an ordinary house, many sellers will also tell some random stories, which seems to increase the persuasiveness, but in fact, they also want to give themselves
The house has a good price!
"Mr. Xia, let's put it this way, my house is close to the Shichahai Sea. The geographical location is incredible. Not far away are Prince Gong's Mansion, Prince Qing's Mansion, and the Bell and Drum Tower. If you go to these places in the future, you can just walk there.
It’s done.”
"The house covers an area of more than 6,200 square meters, with a total construction area of almost 11,000 square meters. There are a total of 5 independent courtyards. I later re-done some retro decorations and built 26 underground parking spaces. You can live in this place
It is simply a pleasure to watch it." After seeing Xia Zekai and Liang Rubo, the man named Kang Anxiang had no reservations and went through all the relevant information about the Siheyuan.
He knew in his heart that Xia Zekai could indeed afford his house.
These introductions he made suited Xia Zekai's taste. After hearing Kang Anxiang's introduction, Xia Zekai was really moved.
