Walking into the lobby, there is an elegant and meticulous butler, and several warm and considerate waiters with friendly smiles. If Sun Dahai hadn't known in advance, he would have thought this was a luxury hotel.
Starting from Andrew's great-grandfather, his family has settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York.
During this time, his family moved from the small house on the next street to this place, and they have lived here ever since.
Andrew's family has been working in economics and finance for several generations. Although they are not extremely wealthy, their family background is quite substantial.
When it comes to Hunter's generation, with the help of the booming American economy, their career has reached a higher level. They have become one of the shareholders of their fund and have become their own boss.
At this time, billionaire Hunter Carlson was wearing an apron and gloves, helping Aunt Xu in the kitchen.
When he opened the door for everyone as a family man, it really made Sun Dahai feel cordial.
Sun Dahai said hello to Hunter and Aunt Xu and gave them gifts. After receiving a lot of compliments, he was led by Andrew to visit this new apartment with a history of 60 years.
This apartment is a two-story duplex structure with an area of ​​approximately more than 300 square meters.
The lower floor is a large living room, a small living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a worker's room, two guest bathrooms, and a red wine and cigar room.
The upper floor is hollowed out in the large living room, and contains the master bedroom, Andrew's bedroom, a guest bedroom and study room, as well as a large arc-shaped extended terrace facing Central Park.
This renovated apartment building has a total of ten floors, and Andrew's family lives on the eighth floor. However, since the renovated apartments are all double-story replica structures, the location of his house is actually equivalent to the height of the sixteenth or seventh floors, with most of the center
The beautiful scenery of the park is as far as the eye can see.
According to Andrew, this apartment is currently worth three to four million US dollars. It is so cheap that Sun Dahai couldn't help but smack his lips.
You know, if the development trajectory of the previous life is followed, the price of this apartment will probably increase at least ten times in twenty or thirty years.
This large terrace of more than 30 square meters overlooking Central Park is absolutely impossible to acquire without 10 million US dollars.
Like many Upper East Side millionaires, this apartment is just where Andrew's family usually works and studies.
Mr. Hunter's workplace is on Wall Street, and it only takes half an hour to drive there. Andrew attended Dalton School, a well-known private school on the Upper East Side, which is near the apartment.
Like many wealthy families on the Upper East Side, his family also owns their own independent villa on Long Island, not far away. Every weekend and holiday, their family will go to Long Island to live.
Sun Dahai's schedule was tight this time, so it was a bit of a pity that he didn't have the opportunity to go to Long Island to see the leisure residences where New York's richest people are concentrated.
When Andrew's great-grandfather bought a house, although the housing prices in the Upper East Side were not low, they were not as exaggerated as they are now. But I am afraid no one can imagine that the housing prices here will soar to the sky in the future, and it will still be expensive but not marketable.
Speaking of which, no matter how you look at it, his family can be regarded as natives of the Upper East Side, which is what the locals call "Old Money."
Finally, Sun Dahai visited Andrew's bedroom.
It's a bit inaccurate to say it's a bedroom, because it's not only his bedroom, but also his study and activity room. It's like Andrew's independent world.
Instead of the celebrity posters, comics, and all kinds of unconventional decorations that are plastered everywhere in the room of a sixteen-year-old boy in America, this place is filled with all kinds of books.
The most conspicuous thing is that there are two desks here, one of which has a set of single-board computers on it.
Andrew pointed to the single-board computer and said to Sun Dahai: "Brother Dahai, this is what I told you in my previous letter, my good partner. I have earned more than 100,000 US dollars using it."
It turns out that since Andrew traveled to China and was stimulated by Sun Dahai, he came back to work hard and study hard. He has achieved excellent rankings in middle school mathematics competitions in New York City and New York State many times.
Following the advice given to him by Sun Dahai, he used the bonuses he received from the competition and the bonuses given to him by the school to buy this single-board computer and learn computer programming.
Being young, having no solid thinking, and having strong mathematical skills, he was very comfortable in the field of computer software and quickly stood out.
Andrew independently designed a number of practical small programs, which were purchased by IBM, Wang Computer, Apple, and Microsoft, which had not yet become popular at the time. Although the price was not high, it also made him a lot of money.
Now, he has been registered in the software departments of these companies and can undertake the software outsourcing tasks of these companies.
Andrew was very proud.
Indeed, although his achievements are related to Sun Dahai's suggestions, 99% of the credit comes from Andrew's own talent and hard work.
However, he suddenly thought of Sun Dahai and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
Andrew is quite good among his peers, but compared with that little monster, he is not worth mentioning.
In just a few years, Sun Dahai not only started from scratch and established several companies of his own, but now he has actually entered the United States and bought land and built buildings in Silicon Valley.
You know, Andrew is now making computer software, and it is self-evident what kind of status Silicon Valley has in his mind.
A few lines of understatement in Sun Dahai's letter were enough to defeat the ambitious Andrew.
So Sun Dahai revealed his true age in his last letter, and Andrew didn't care anymore. If you are great, just continue to be a brother. Who knows that we are Americans and we are very realistic!
Sun Dahai's thoughts were different from his.
It is true that if performance is measured solely by money, then Andrew cannot be compared with Sun Dahai at all.
But Sun Dahai's family knew about his family affairs. He was a reborn person and had more money than other teenagers. That could only be called bullying, and it was really too cheap.
Sun Dahai also admired Andrew's achievements. In his two lifetimes, he had never had the talent for pure technical skills, let alone the patience to match them. But he still admired such people.
The two brothers were chatting in the room, and Andrew showed Sun Dahai the various trophies and certificates he had received, as well as photos of his childhood. After a while, Maggie ran up and asked them to go down to eat.
Since today is a family banquet, the dishes prepared by Aunt Xu are relatively casual. They are not as rigid as a formal Western-style banquet, but a hodgepodge of Chinese and Western dishes.
Today's main course is cream cheese baked Boston lobster. It's quite big, probably weighing three pounds. It's also served with mushrooms, onions and other side dishes, filling a large plate.