Grant raised his fingers at the hook-nosed trio and pointed at the bar: "Would you like a drink?"
The aquiline nose was stunned for a moment and then smiled: "Of course, Dear Director!"
The surrounding drinkers almost dropped their jaws when they saw this scene.
What does it mean?
Are these loan sharks so cowardly?!
Hook-nosed didn't care what others thought, he came to Grant with his two younger brothers and a smiling face.
Grant asked the boss to bring four times the whiskey, and emphasized "the best"!
Here comes the whiskey.
The hook-nosed man didn't dare to drink casually, so he smiled and said to Grant: "Mr. Director, we know that you are getting rich! So you owe us the money——"
"Don't worry!" Grant picked up a big cigar from the bar and bit it in his mouth.
Don't wait for the boss to hand over the lighter.
Hook-nosed has already taken the initiative to light the fire.
Grant toasted the cigar and took a nice puff. Then he looked at his aquiline nose and said, "I will give you every penny of your money with interest!"
"That's good!"
"Besides -" Grant held his cigar and pointed at his hooked nose, "I'm very unhappy with you, especially last time you were very rude!" As he spoke, Grant held his cigar and flicked it to his hooked nose in a contemptuous manner.
Blow the cigarette ashes.
People around me look stupid!
Is this crazy?
So awesome!
The hook-nosed man didn't dare to act rashly, but he knew clearly that in addition to being rich, Grant was also the Commissioner of the New York Police Department!
"Haha, it was my fault last time, I apologize to you!"
"There's no need to apologize!" Grant said, "Anyway, after I return the money to you, you should show up less in front of me in the future! Otherwise, you will know the consequences——"
Chief Grant put on the police boss attitude.
"Of course! Of course! We know how cruel it is!" The three people with hooked noses nodded and bowed.
Grant held his cigar and took a sip of whiskey. He was very satisfied with the attitude of his hooked nose.
"Then, may I take the liberty to ask - Mr. Director, when are you going to pay back the money?"
"Don't be anxious, it's just for a few days!"
"Haha, we are not in a hurry, we are just thinking about you - think about it, if you don't pay it back, the interest will roll over day by day, and you will need to pay more money!" Hook-nosed said cautiously.
When Grant thought about it, it was really like this. He was very unhappy being kidnapped by this damn interest every day!
On the surface, Grant said calmly: "Why do you care so much? I will definitely return the money to you! Now I don't want to see you again!"
"Eh? Yes, yes! Let's leave now!" Hook-nosed and his two men were about to turn around and leave. Suddenly, they remembered something, and turned around again, picked up the whiskey and drank it all.
The other two did the same and drank the whiskey in one go.
The hooked nose sneered at Grant and said, "Don't waste it! Haha!"
When Hook Nose and the others actually left the bar, Director Grant cursed: "Damn it!"
He crushed the cigar hard and then thought crazily, yes, he must cut his profit as soon as possible! If the price of oil plummets again, he must spit out what he has not yet swallowed!
Thinking of this, Grant didn't care much and rushed out of the bar. He wanted to find Shi Zhijian!
Now that Shi Zhijian is in control of everything, he must be asked to stop his profits as soon as possible! Doubling it is enough!
"You haven't paid yet!" the bar owner yelled from behind.
Grant remembered and quickly took out a hundred dollars and threw it over: "No need to look for it!"
…
Long Island, New York—
A luxury cruise ship is drifting on the sea.
A few seagulls were circling and chirping in the sky.
The sea below is sparkling, and the sky and the earth are the same color.
On the back deck of the cruise ship, a ghost guy wearing a diving suit, holding a sea bass in his hand, said to Rockefeller's female secretary Catherine: "Are you really going to do this, dear Miss Catherine?"
"Yeah, now you dive in, find Mr. Locke's hook, and put this perfect sea bass on his hook!"
"But we have done this many times, will Mr. Locke have noticed it?"
"Oh, dear Mike, you can do whatever I ask you to do. As for you, you don't have to think too much, you just need to carry out my orders! As for the brain-consuming things, just leave them to me!"
"Okay then, Miss Catherine, I listen to you! Who made you Mr. Locke's secretary?" Mike said, biting the oxygen tube, holding the sea bass in one hand and slowly descending into the sea from above.
Catherine stood on the deck and gave him an "OK" sign.
Catherine had been away from home due to business reasons and was not with Rockefeller. Today was the first time she met Shi Zhijian.
Speaking of which, Catherine and Shi Zhijian are considered "old friends" and have known each other since they were in Hong Kong.
In particular, Catherine also had a lingering and sentimental "love affair" with Shi Zhijian's best friend Ding Yongqiang. Unfortunately, the two had different identities and now they are far apart.
Thinking of this, a trace of sadness appeared on Catherine's face.
Women are all emotional creatures, and Catherine is the same. I haven’t seen Ding Yongqiang for so long, and I really miss him. Especially Ding Yongqiang is different from Americans, he is so straightforward, funny, and so silly and cute!
…
The other end of the luxury deck.
At the bow of the ship, Rockefeller was wearing a fisherman's hat and fisherman's attire under a parasol, and was fishing with Shi Zhijian.
Shi Zhijian was wearing sunglasses and holding the fishhook with his fingers as he was installing the bait. When he turned around, he saw that the Rockefeller fishhook was empty, but he threw it directly into the sea.
"Don't you use bait?" Shi Zhijian asked curiously.
"Haha, sometimes you don't need bait when fishing - isn't there an old saying in China: Jiang Taigong fishes only when he is willing to take the bait?"
After seeing each other for a few days, Rockefeller's grasp of Chinese culture became even better.
"That's just a legend," Shi Zhijian said, "not to mention that Jiang Taigong is fishing with a straight hook and can't be caught at all!"
Rockefeller shrugged and looked at the fish bladder: "That is to say, his straight hook can be boasted all over the sea, why not my curved hook?"
Shi Zhijian shook his head, as if he couldn't understand.
Rockefeller glanced at him: "What, don't believe me? Do you think I'm fooling around? Do you want to take a gamble?"
"Uh, how to bet?"
"How about a bet of ten thousand dollars on whether I can catch a fish?" Rockefeller said.
Shi Zhijian smiled: "Of course, because I will definitely win!"
"Haha, that's not necessarily the case!"
As he spoke, the fish's swim bladder moved up and down.
"There's fish!" Rockefeller hurriedly pulled the lever!
Shi Zhijian was stunned when a sea bass was perfectly caught by Rockefeller.
Shi Zhijian completely subverts cognition, is this okay?!
"Haha, did you lose? Dear Shi!" Rockefeller said while taking the sea bass off the hook: "It turns out that I can catch fish without bait on my hook, and it is still very big.
One piece!"
Rockefeller deliberately showed off his sea bass in front of Shi Zhijian, "So you lost to me ten thousand dollars! God, this win was too easy!"
Shi Zhijian was almost depressed. How could it be possible? Is this fish stupid? It even eats unbaited hooks?!
"This fish is not stupid, on the contrary, it is very smart!" Rockefeller threw the sea bass into the red plastic bucket. "It knows that I will be very happy if I catch it, and it also knows that you will be very happy if I win!"
Shi Zhijian heard footsteps and turned around to see the female secretary Catherine walking towards them.
Who Shi Zhijian was, he immediately understood. He couldn't help but shake his head and said with a smile: "I didn't lose unfairly! I just hope I can catch a mermaid directly without bait next time!"
Rockefeller glanced at Shi Zhijian and said, "There will be a chance, dear Shi! You are a smart person, you have to know how to give up when you are good -"
After saying that, he looked at Shi Zhijian's swim bladder.
"There's fish!" Shi Zhijian hurriedly put away the fishing rod, only to see the fishhook sticking out of the sea, empty!
"If you close the rod too late, the big fish will run away!" Rockefeller said.
Of course Shi Zhijian knew what he was talking about. Just when he was about to speak, he heard someone coming on a speedboat on the sea and waved to them: "Hi, hello! Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Shi Zhijian!"
Shi Zhijian looked from afar, but Mayor Henry and Director Grant were rushing towards him.
Rockefeller's old eyes were dim and he couldn't see clearly, but his ears were very useful and he asked Shi Zhijian: "Are they the two who played golf last time?"
"Yes!"
Locke turned to Catherine and said, "Well, please come up!"
…
Mayor Henry and Director Grant, two brothers in distress, were finally allowed to board the yacht.
The two of them came all the way by speedboat, and it was inevitable that they would be hit by the wind. Coupled with the bumpy waves, they even felt sick to their stomachs.
After boarding the yacht, the two rushed to the bathroom immediately.
After a moment, the two of them walked out of the bathroom in high spirits. They first smiled apologetically at the maid who was about to clean the bathroom: "Sorry, we suggest you go in later. The smell inside is really... you will understand, won't you?"
"You two, please come over here!" Catherine came down and actively invited them, "Mr. Locke and Mr. Shi are up there."
"Thank you!"
“It’s our honor!”
Mayor Henry and Director Grant acted like gentlemen and spoke happily.
Catherine smiled and led the way.
The two of them followed her, looking at Catherine's slender waist, dressed in a female secretary's professional attire and a hip-hugging skirt, and her high legs... It was inevitable that they would be a little fanciful.
Stepping onto the deck, the sea breeze hit me.
The two woke up immediately.
Today we are here to talk about big things, so we can’t mess with the rules!
Immediately, the two people who had just been unconscious immediately transformed into gentlemen.
"Hello, my dear friends! See if the fish I just caught is big?" Rockefeller greeted.
Mayor Henry and Director Grant were flattered!
They never expected that the great Mr. Rockefeller would take the initiative to greet them, and his language would be so warm and friendly!
"We are fine, thank you Mr. Locke!"
"Wow, Mr. Locke, you are so awesome, this fish is so big!"
"Yes, you can tell at a glance that it was caught by a master - the whole fish is full of domineering spirit, and only a great person can surrender it!"
"Haha, thank you for the compliment!" Rockefeller smiled lightly, "By the way, what are you doing here?"
"We are mainly here to visit your old man and say hello to you!" Mayor Henry said.
"Yes, yes! By the way, we also want to discuss something with Mr. Shi." Director Grant said.
Rockefeller smiled and looked at Shi Zhijian: "Did you hear that, if someone wants to discuss something with you, do you need me, an old man, to avoid it?"
"Of course not!" Shi Zhijian shrugged, "I have no secrets to talk about in front of you! So, just stay here!"
"Yes! Yes! Mr. Locke, you can just sit here, we are just doing something small..."
"Haha, since you are talking about trivial matters, let me listen -" Rockefeller said and asked Catherine to prepare some drinks, fruit plates and so on, "When you come, you are a guest, and we have to greet our guests well.
!”
"Yes, Mr. Locke!"
Soon, all the drinks, fruit plates and desserts were served.
Mayor Henry and Director Grant had everything in front of them. Seeing so much wine and food, they almost forgot what they were here for.
After everyone drank a few glasses of wine and ate desserts and fruits——
"Okay, you two, what do you want from me?" Shi Zhijian put down his wine glass, took off the sunglasses on his nose and looked at them.
Mayor Henry and Director Grant looked at each other.
Mayor Henry was the first to speak: "We are here mainly to thank you, Mr. Shi, for your help to us! Yes, God, who would have thought that our investment would turn against the wind and double directly!"
"Yes, we have offended Mr. Shi so much before and asked you to cut your losses - haha, we are so stupid, I hope you don't remember it!" Director Grant continued.
"Don't worry, I never keep such small things in mind!" Shi Zhijian smiled and said, "But, you are here just to thank me?"
"Ahem, thank you is the main thing, and I also want to make some small suggestions - Mr. Shi, we have almost made enough money now! We can stop the profit!"
"Yeah, why don't we take out our capital and the money we make, we'd be very grateful!"
Shi Zhijian smiled and pointed at Henry and Grant's noses.
The two of them giggled.
"You mean to get me out now?"
"Yeah, it's doubled! You can't be too greedy!"
"What should I do if crude oil futures plummet again? If you can make a profit, get out of the way!"
Shi Zhijian glanced at Rockefeller, who was watching the excitement with a smile, then raised his glass and looked at Henry and the two of them: "Then what if I say no?"
"Huh?" Henry and Grant, you look at me and I look at you.
"Mr. Shi, take it easy!"
"We beg you!"
"You don't have to beg me!" Shi Zhijian took a sip of wine and put down his glass, his eyes sharp, "I remember correctly that the agreement we signed is to double every year, and I will return your money double! But it's not even a year yet!"
"No, we are really——"
"I can't hold it anymore! This is too exciting!"
"Haha!" Shi Zhijian laughed, holding his chin and making a leering gesture: "Wait until the profit is quadrupled! Then I will pay you back your money and double the amount you earned!"
"What?"
Henry and Grant's jaws dropped!
Rockefeller, who was drinking, almost spit out a mouthful of wine!
What, four times?
Even Locke, who dominated the world, was shocked by Shi Zhijian's boldness at this moment!
