Chapter 1872 - 690: This Beautiful Athlete Is Really Something! (Bonus - )

Chapter 1872: Chapter 690: This Beautiful Athlete Is Really Something! (Bonus Chapter)

After chatting with Genevieve, Zhang Jingdong said to Sophia and He Jieyu, "Get ready, we’re going to the wine estate in a bit."

Sophia and He Jieyu exchanged a glance, both revealing pleased smiles, then started to pack up.

Zhang Jingdong made a call to Wang Tao: "Prepare, we’ll go to the wine estate in half an hour."

"Alright."

After hanging up, Zhang Jingdong thought for a bit and then sent Genevieve a message: I wanted to ask, were you the one managing the wine estate previously?

Soon, Genevieve replied: Yes, why?

Zhang Jingdong: After our deal is completed, I’d like to invite you to help manage the wine estate, would you be interested?

Genevieve: That might be difficult, my husband wouldn’t agree.

Zhang Jingdong: Is your relationship with your husband good?

This time, there was a half-minute pause before Genevieve replied: But he is my husband, after all.

Zhang Jingdong: I mean no offense, it’s just that when I visited the wine estate yesterday, I noticed you managed it excellently. If you prefer not to help manage it, then how about serving as a consultant? Surely, that’s possible?

Regarding the fee, how about 50,000 US dollars per week? If you think it’s too little, we can discuss further.

Genevieve: I’ll think about it.

Seeing an opportunity, Zhang Jingdong immediately said: Alright, no rush, contact me whenever you’ve made up your mind.

Genevieve: Thank you.

Half an hour later, Zhang Jingdong and his group arrived at Margaux Wine Estate.

This time, Genevieve was still the one welcoming them.

Today, she wore a blue fitted dress and had her hair up, along with a pair of beautifully exquisite pearl earrings.

Elegant, yet refreshingly unique.

Zhang Jingdong sincerely remarked, "Madam, you’re even more beautiful than yesterday!"

Genevieve was clearly surprised by Zhang Jingdong’s directness, first stunned, then blushing: "Thank you."

Zhang Jingdong deliberately looked behind her and then asked, "Where’s your husband?"

Genevieve immediately looked a bit awkward: "He... his leg is injured, he’s waiting for you inside."

Zhang Jingdong meaningfully said, "I think it’s not his leg that’s injured, but because I’m Huaxia, he wants to give me a hard time, right?"

"Tsk, tsk, seems like your husband still doesn’t understand us Huaxia people well, doesn’t he realize this might cost him greatly?"

Genevieve hastily said, "Mr. Zhang..."

Zhang Jingdong quickly waved his hand: "It’s not your concern, no need to explain for him, let’s go inside."

With that, he walked inside.

Seeing this, Genevieve had no choice but to keep quiet and followed him quickly.

Soon they arrived inside the castle.

Admittedly, the interior of the castle was quite luxurious, almost embodying the term ’sumptuous.’

But when they reached the main hall, Genevieve’s husband was nowhere to be seen.

Still, Zhang Jingdong was not at all frustrated, instead, his face was covered in a bright smile.

Wang Tao and He Jieyu, who knew Zhang Jingdong well, understood that he was indeed angry then.

Genevieve also instinctively sensed that Zhang Jingdong was genuinely angry.

So she summoned a maid, whispered something to her, and afterward, the maid disappeared from the main hall.

About five minutes later, Genevieve’s husband came to the main hall with some people.

Her husband, named Gabriel, was in his fifties, but he looked handsome and maintained a good physique, though his height was like Napoleon’s, at most 1.7 meters, just as tall as Genevieve.

He even had a cane, looking quite like The Godfather.

Immediately, Zhang Jingdong felt disdain: Dammit, I detest these European idiots pretending to be classy!

So he didn’t wait for Gabriel to play the noble routine and directly said: "Alright, let’s not waste time, I’m not interested in knowing who you are, nor in befriending you, let’s get straight to the point."

"I originally planned to offer 800 million US dollars, but since you didn’t come to greet us at the door, lacking basic manners, I’m reducing it by 20 million US dollars, my final offer is 780 million US dollars, do you agree?"

Gabriel was instantly a bit dumbfounded.

He initially thought Zhang Jingdong, being Huaxia, would be in awe and even admiration of Europe, like many Asians.

So he intended to intimidate Zhang Jingdong with the European nobility routine, hoping to get a bit more on top of the 800 million US dollars, even just a little.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jingdong had no awe for them Europeans; he didn’t care for their noble antics at all.

He even showed no basic respect, negotiating in a threatening manner.

Most crucially, he dared to lower the price by 20 million US dollars just because Gabriel didn’t greet him at the door!

This... this guy really doesn’t play by the rules!

Wang Tao and He Jieyu, though they had predicted Zhang Jingdong would deal with Gabriel, hadn’t expected him to be so ruthless.

They even started to worry that Gabriel wouldn’t accept it, considering Zhang Jingdong had directly reduced the price by 100 million Huaxia Coin.

But they actually overthought it because, compared to Zhang Jingdong’s 780 million offer, other European buyers had only offered up to 700 million US dollars.

Even though Zhang Jingdong lowered the offer by 20 million US dollars, he was still the highest bidder.

Though Gabriel had no other options, he too didn’t want to be so easily handled by a Huaxia person.