"Gu, when we meet again, we won't say such polite words as 'nice to meet you'."
Miss Pubouli stretched out her hand openly and skillfully, pretending to be an adult and wanting Gu Kun to act like a gentleman and kiss her hand.
But Gu Kun just shook hands politely: "Nice to see you again."
We all met him more than a year ago in Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, so to be precise, he is not a stranger.
It's just that Pablo was only 14 years old at the time, and she went on vacation with her father in Europe to gain experience. Gu Kun didn't pay attention to the little brat at all. Even now, this little girl is still a little short of reaching 16 years old.
How many months?
But honestly speaking, the age of a foreign girl is not necessarily visible on her face. For those girls who aspire to be regulars in entertainment magazines and socialites, they have to put on smoky makeup at the age of 16 and have early body development.
, if you tell others that you are 18 or 20 years old, they will really believe it.
After everyone exchanged greetings, Richard seemed to be afraid of making the atmosphere awkward, so he tactfully changed the subject:
"Gu, since I heard that you are about to become the person with the most world records in the world, our family has felt that your tourism business in Lanfang will be successful.
I have been lobbying my second brother since the beginning of the year. The family has made a preliminary decision to open a Hilton hotel in Lanfang this year. It will be built according to five-star standards and reach the highest level of our Hilton. Do you like it?
Aren't you afraid that we will steal your hotel business?"
The tone of these words was mostly semi-ridiculous, and he did not really want to express competition.
Of course, Gu Kun responded with a smile: "Uncle Richard, what are you talking about? Hilton is willing to come to Lanfang because he has grown his reputation for us Lanfang."
At least for now, after three to five years, Lan Fang will really rise, it’s hard to say.
We are all old foxes. Obviously knowing that there is a Hilton hotel in a city is also helpful for improving the city's business card.
Especially in East and Southeast Asia.
In cities in developed countries in Europe and the United States, the impact of Hilton on the sensory perception of the city's quality is not obvious. However, in East Asia and Southeast Asia, where the West is generally worshiped, the presence of Hilton will significantly increase tourists' perception of the city's quality.
In the early 1990s, China was still comparing "which city was the first to open KFC and had the most stores" to judge who was the "real first-tier city" or the "strongest second-tier city".
Even in 1996, KFC and McDonald's were no longer so rare, and everyone was still using this value and using other labels.
For example, Gu Kun's ancestral home city, Ark City, had a history of spreading some rumors in 1996: Don't believe that Guangdong is the third first-tier city in the country! Guangdong has not even opened Haagen-Dazs! And Ark City
It is the third country to open a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop after Beijing and Hujiang, so in terms of quality and grade of life, Ark City is the third in the country!
This is an era in which whichever city has Haagen-Dazs first can serve as a benchmark for the quality of urban life.
The lethality of a Hilton hotel will definitely increase the number of Chinese tourists who come to Lanzhou in the future by several percent. Hilton first entered China in 1988. At that time, it was only available in Shanghai and Jiangsu. Even in 1996, it was only available in Beijing and Beijing.
Guangdong is here, but other cities are not there yet.
Even if Chinese tourists come to Lanzhou and cannot stay at the Hilton, they can boast about this when they go back: "I am traveling to a city with a Hilton. Unfortunately, the Hilton is too popular and I can't stay there. It's not that I can't afford the money.
Alas, I have no choice but to give up."
As for the "he lobbied his second brother" that Richard mentioned just now, it is because Richard is not the head of the Hilton family now, and he is only the sixth among his brothers.
Their father is the first generation founder, and the current chairman is his second brother Bob. Richard is just a playboy. He only needs to act like a scumbag for the sake of the family business, and often entertains with Hollywood celebrities.
Just frequent exposure in magazines.
Of course, his second brother was also a scumbag when he was young, but now that he is old and scumbag, he has to ask his younger brothers to help him maintain his popularity as a scumbag.
Most men are willing to do things like "being a scumbag for the sake of family and career". It's really shocking that they are so rich and yet they scumbag themselves.
Even from the age gap between their brothers, it can be seen that their father was also a scumbag back then. Even Elizabeth Taylor married and played with each other. Women kept changing throughout their lives, so the age difference between the oldest son and the youngest son was thirty years.
.This age difference is obviously not caused by the same mother. She has already gone through menopause.
It was a bit far, and Gu Kun and Richard talked for a while. Richard finally brought up the issue of the hotel's land, and smiled and asked Gu Kun to promise:
"We Hilton are going to open a hotel in Lanfang. You can't block us on the land. If there is any trouble in acquiring the land, it will hurt the harmony."
Gu Kun said with certainty: "How is it possible? Our land market in Lanzhou is very free. If you have money, you can get anything. You must not compare it with the experience of the Chinese market. Our Lanzhou is an ignorant and backward country with a monarchy system."
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Richard changed his expression to "you know": "Then it's settled. Why don't you ask your nephew to help you get a good piece of land, acquire it first, and sort out the surrounding areas. By then, our Hilton will start from you.
If you buy a whole piece of land, you can make a small profit, and that's what you deserve."
This is already a further show of goodwill, hoping to transfer some benefits to Gu Kun, and then bind Gu Kun, the local tyrant.
However, Gu Kun also looked down upon the price difference of several million or even tens of millions of yuan for such cheap land. Lanfang had a sparse population and could not afford to use the favor of a Hilton family for such a small amount of money.
"I'll take care of the land." He agreed directly.
Regarding the hotel cooperation, this can be regarded as a temporary agreement.
Today's cocktail party was originally organized by Emmerich to get in touch with friends before the premiere. Richard was just friends with both parties, so he borrowed flowers and offered Buddhas to establish friendship with Gu Kun.
So after chatting here for so long, the premiere over there was about to start. Emmerich's secretary came over to urge the entrance, and Gu Kun, Richard and others went their separate ways.
Richard pushed his daughter and said to Gu Kun: "You young people have a common language when it comes to watching movies. Gu, you can watch it with your little daughter. Let's change places."
Then, Gu Kun followed Pubouli into the arena and put his arms around her waist.
Of course, Gu Kun would never be interested in a girl with heavy makeup who wanted to be a social butterfly. However, since the other party insisted on making friends with him, for the purpose of mutual use, it was not a bad idea for each to get what he needed.
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Everyone needs to rely on each other to appear on the cover of the entertainment edition. If the other party is destined to be a scumbag in the future, Gu Kun will definitely leave in advance and not get involved.
The premiere was held in a small theater. Because Emmerich is not popular among mainstream Hollywood academics nowadays, there were only a few people in the industry who came to support the film. Most of them were business partners, so Gu Kun, Richard
There are so many positions for these unrelated outsiders.
Gu Kun sat in the back row. As the lights in the hall dimmed, he started chatting with Pablo:
"You are very 'sensible'. You do whatever your father asks you to do."
"Are you sensible? This is what I want. I want to make more friends with long faces. I don't need my dad to teach me. You are tall and majestic, and you are different from all the other Asian classmates and friends in my impression.
"Pabli is obviously dissatisfied with others ignoring her sense of autonomy.
Gu Kun laughed dumbly: "For this reason? The little girl is quite precocious."
Publly: "I'm not a little girl! I will go to high school when school starts in September! You are not much older than me, right? You are only four years old!"
The two parties chatted for a while, and Gu Kun roughly figured out the other party's real motivation for accepting the family mission and becoming friends with him:
vanity.
Although the little girl is a socialite from a wealthy family, the school she goes to is also an aristocratic school, and the female classmates are also competing with each other to see who can make more respectable friends.
If you can become a close friend with a man who is an Olympic champion with n gold medals and has broken the most world records, then your bragging rights after returning to school will be greatly improved. You can crush other best friends and so on.
It is very common for girls of fifteen or sixteen to have this kind of mentality.
Of course, Gu Kun's own handsomeness, mightiness, and masculinity also played a lot of roles. By the way, he also contributed to the promotion of the family business. It is obvious that this little girl has been influenced by the family's style and is a bit precocious. All of these are
Understand.
After finding out the other party's true motives, Gu Kun felt less psychologically burdened.
After watching a movie and fondling her, Publly investigated with a confused breath: "I don't seem to have seen any reports about your girlfriend in the media. You don't seem to have a public girlfriend."
Gu Kun: "I have a girlfriend, I just don't want to make it public. This time she came to Oceania with me and will cheer me on."
Publly: "Then you are really a bad man. You have a girlfriend and you still have sex with others. I won't let you touch me anymore. You just need to be friends with me, and then we will create some fake news together and go to the entertainment industry."
A magazine cover would be nice.”
Gu Kun counterattacked unceremoniously: "Really? I heard that in Oceania, you make a partner first and then talk about a gf/bf? A girlfriend is a girlfriend, it's two different things."
Pablo smiled slightly: "That's right. I know my future destiny, but I'm still a virgin now. How about a bet? It's very exciting."
Gu Kun: "What are you betting on?"
Pablo: "If you can break the world records in all events again during this competition, you can really get me without having to take responsibility."
She is indeed a flirtatious foreign girl with no etiquette or human ethics at all.
Gu Kun: "Then you are exaggerating your own status too much. You are not worthy of my efforts. Besides, you are still a few months away from officially turning 16. I am already a 19-year-old adult. I don't want to be with you."
You take the legal risk."
"Bastard, the law is the law. There are so many people who are messing around when they are in junior high school. Who has seen the law?" Pablo was obviously dissatisfied, although she forgot one detail when she retorted: the examples she mentioned were of both men and women.
Both parties are classmates and both are under the age of 16.
(Note: China counts 14 years old, so 16 years old is only illegal in some states of Oceania, but it is legal in China.)
Fortunately, when the two of them were making dirty jokes, the movie had already ended, and reporters from the entertainment media were filming the entire audience. Pablo restrained herself, deliberately pulled down her shoulder straps, and leaned against Gu Kun to get into the camera.
They're just a couple of bitches taking advantage of each other.