Zhou Wen ignored Nicholas's expression, but said seriously: "So, we believe that within the time required to protect the safety of you and Natasha, $50,000 a day is a more appropriate price."
"No, Mr. Scholar, you are going too far. This is completely gangsterism and robbery." Nicholas jumped up from the sofa like a frightened rabbit. His agility was not at all like that of a man in his 60s.
old man.
Zhou Wen was still sitting on the sofa, quietly looking at Nicholas who was a little angry.
Nicholas then made a pitiful look and said in a pleading tone: "Mr. Scholar, I don't have that much money, and I have to consider Natasha's future life. You can't be so cruel. Think about how pitiful I am
Natasha, she is so cute, do you want her to starve after she goes to the United States?"
"No, you have money, and you have enough ability to pay the money." Zhou Wen was unmoved by Nicholas' use of Natasha as an excuse.
"Moreover, Mr. Nicholas, I am not here to negotiate with you today, but to sign a contract. The contract is already in Miss Nina's briefcase. If you sign, we will keep it. If you don't sign, we will immediately
Leave. The service from yesterday to today is considered free."
Before Zhou Wen finished speaking, he saw Nina sitting next to him placing the two drafted contracts on the coffee table.
"It's 50,000 US dollars a day until we escort you safely to the ship. It's 7 days in total, that's 350,000 US dollars. Pay 60% first, which is 210,000. Then pay the remaining 4% before boarding the ship.
ten."
To talk about why Zhou Wen proposed such a high price, it can even be called taking advantage of the fire. Is Zhou Wen really going to do anything for money?
In fact, it is not wrong to say that Zhou Wen was taking advantage of the fire to rob, but what he robbed was a gang leader who opened a restaurant in the name of opening a restaurant, a loan shark, and an unscrupulous vampire.
It turned out that after Ming Zheng's investigation, it was discovered that this Nicholas was not a simple person.
It is true that Nicholas was a count during the Tsarist period. But he also had the identity of a colonel in the Russian army and participated in World War I.
Moreover, after Nicholas took his family into exile in China, he also joined the Belarusian army formed by warlord Zhang Zongchang and served as colonel leader.
During the warlord period, the Belarusian troops, with the support of Zhang Zongchang, committed evil on the land of China, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil. In particular, they liked to rob and plunder the people's wealth, and even pretended to be bandits to carry out murders and goods.
Although Zhou Wen didn't know much about how many outrageous things Nicholas had done, he knew that none of the old Belarusian soldiers who had participated in the warlord army during this period was good. It would not be an exaggeration to say that his hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese.
Later, for some unknown reason, Nicholas left Zhang Zongchang's army very early, brought his family from the Northeast to Shanghai and settled there, and soon opened this restaurant called Purple Rose.
Since Nicholas took a lot of gold, silver and jewelry with him when he escaped from the Soviet Union, plus the wealth he participated in plundering with the warlord army, by the time he arrived in Shanghai, he was already an out-and-out little rich man.
At this time, most of the Belarusian residential areas were poor, and these Belarusians did not understand Chinese and had little contact with the Chinese. Naturally, it was inevitable that some Belarusian families would come to Mr. Nikolai to borrow money when they encountered difficulties. I hope that Mr. Nikolai will borrow money.
Ra was able to extend a merciful hand for the sake of the fallen people in a foreign land.
Unexpectedly, this led Nicholas to see a business opportunity, which was loan sharking.
So, Mr. Nicholas was indeed very kind and lent the money, but it would cost a lot of interest.
Of course, Nikola's interest rate was not too outrageous at first, and most people could still afford it after the emergency.
However, there are always some people who cannot afford to pay back their debts in a short period of time, and there are even a small number of people who simply want to refuse to pay back their debts.
Nikolai's son also followed him in the army for a while, and not long after coming to Shanghai, because his family was relatively wealthy and generous, he gathered around him a group of young people who didn't know how to be high-minded.
Therefore, Nicholas asked his son to lead a group of young people to help him collect debts, and also promised to give a certain reward to those young people who had nothing to do.
At the beginning, Nikolai's son and everyone used some civilized methods. However, as more and more people owed debts, coupled with the chaos of public security in the Shanghai Concession, these young debt collectors completely
He became a vicious thug and accomplice.
Over the past few years, Nikolai and his son not only made a lot of money from loan sharking, but also became the leading gangsters in the Belarusian area of the public concession.
And Nikolai's business is not only opening restaurants and loan sharking, but also getting involved in the pornography and smuggling industries.
Because many families who couldn't repay their debts were forced to have no choice but to let their young women go to the streets to sell their bodies to pay back the money. Nicholas took the opportunity to cooperate with several brothel owners to continuously provide them with fresh food.
blood.
In this way, the wealth of the Nikolai family increased, and more and more girls and wives from poor families in Belarus were forced to sell their bodies in brothels.
And Nikolai's title in Belarus also changed from Mr. Nikolai to Mr. Vampire.
However, all this began to change after an accident two years ago.
During a debt collection process, Nikolai's son behaved too violently and even wanted to rape the daughter of the family in front of the parents, which aroused violent resistance from the male owner of the family.
Otherwise, how can we say that Lao Maozi is a fighting nation? Even a man would hate to see his daughter being bullied by others, and most of the families of fighting nations have guns.
As a result, a not-so-fierce gun battle ended, and all the debtor family members were killed, while only one from the gangster side died.
However, the man who was beaten to death on the spot happened to be Nikolai's son.
It seemed that others were risking the lives of their whole family to kill this gangster who dared to challenge the bottom line of the fighting nation.
In this way, Nikolai's son died, and his daughter-in-law bled to death early in the birth of Natasha, so Natasha became an orphan.
After his son died, Nicholas was so sad that his temperament went to extremes.
You know, what Nicholas should do most at this time is to quickly control the gangsters under his son. This is his biggest reliance on maintaining his status and wealth.
However, at this time, Nicholas was overwhelmed by sadness and anger, and he even blamed those gangsters for his son's death.