America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 373 A day in the life of the Korean sister-in-law

   Don't wait for little Laura to catch the "personal relationship" between her best friend and her boyfriend.

  The next day, she was called back by the shrub family.

   It's almost late December.

  According to the time agreed between the Bush family and the Smith family.

   There are almost only 10 days left before their big day.

  As the woman, she has to go back there to prepare.

   What's more, it's almost late December now.

  Students in many universities here in the United States travel a lot. Those who are still in school are generally only really good students, and those graduate students who need to continue to improve.

  Ordinary American college students have already been on vacation.

  Little Laura left the day after Abel returned to New York and went back to Texas.

  She didn't know that as soon as she left, her best friend also left the school.

   It's just not going back to Han Country, or going to live with her second sister Li Xuxian.

   December 18, 2001.

   Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, No. 138 East 65th Street, this is a building with a sense of history.

  This townhouse was built in 1900 and has 4 floors. The interior is a 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom unit. The property tax is $7,708 per month.

  It is New Start Real Estate Company, one of the investments in New York.

   But now, it is one of many other new start real estate companies.

   Became one of someone's new gold houses.

  Little Laura had only been out of New York for a few hours.

  Her best friend Li Xinyu brought some clothes and luggage to live here.

  It's noon this day.

  When Li Xinyu opened her eyes and woke up in a still unfamiliar bedroom.

  This young lady of Han Country's No. 1 chaebol saw a white and unfamiliar ceiling.

"what-"

  Li Xinyu breathed a sigh of relief, and sat up from Simmons.

  The warm and comfortable velvet brocade quilt fell on her body, revealing her beautiful body without a strand of hair.

  In the past, Li Xinyu never liked fruit sleep.

  But recently, as long as she rests with someone, she has to sleep.

  Because of that guy, love her baby so much.

  If you put it on, you have to take it off anyway, so it's better not to wear it at all...

  As always, Li Xinyu, like Abel's other women, didn't see him by her side when she woke up.

  Li Xinyu knew that he must have gone out again very early.

  Already familiar with Abel, she knew that her man had incredible physical strength.

  Even if he doesn't mean much workaholic about work.

  But because he has enough energy, he also has enough time to deal with work.

  Finally, he is obviously not a workaholic, but he managed the workload of a workaholic.

   On Simmons, Li Xinyu sat in a daze for a few minutes.

   Wait until the blood oxygen refills the hazy head and wake up completely.

  Li Xinyu just got off Simmons, her beautiful eyes swept the ground—

   Sure enough, on the ground, I found the lampshade that fell off last night.

   Forget it, after a night on the carpet, it might be dirty.

  Li Xinyu went up and down from Simmons, and found a brand new set of specially made lampshades in the cabinet next to it, high-end lampshades for Elizabeth's back garden.

  The reason for using a special model is because her figure is very unconventional.

   It has both the exaggerated quantity of white or black women and the unique quality of Asian women.

   The result is that if she wants to dress comfortably.

  Only people can customize a special model for her according to her special shape.

   Fortunately, it doesn't matter whether it is the financial resources of the Li family or the financial resources of the man she is following now.

   It is common for her to customize a lampshade that fits comfortably.

  If it were a girl from an ordinary family who grew up to her figure.

   In this regard, it is estimated that they will fall into a more distressed situation.

  Get dressed and go to the bathroom to wash up.

  Li Xinyu walked out of the master bedroom on the fourth floor.

  This townhouse is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and the price quoted by the real estate company is about 20 million US dollars.

  It has a total of 4 floors, with an average of more than 3,000 square feet per floor.

   In conversion, the first floor is about 300 square meters, and the fourth floor is about 1300 square meters in total.

  Among the 4th floor is the entire floor, except for a huge master bedroom, there is only a master living room and a large study room.

   Li Xinyu, who walked out of the room, saw the female bodyguard Jin Minshan in the corridor outside.

  Kim Min-sun is a female member of Rock Security, a part of the specially recruited Asian bodyguards.

   You can tell from the name that she is from Han.

  Since Li Xinyu is also from Han Country, she was assigned as Li Xinyu's special bodyguard, the kind that would be close to her.

  Just like Doni next to Abel, Jane next to Ikana, Jinna next to Anne Hathaway, and Mary next to Jessica Alba.

"Miss Li."

  Seeing Li Xinyu coming out, Jin Minshan hastily and respectfully greeted her in a low voice.

  These female bodyguards called the women around Abel differently.

  Some people call her madam, like Ikana, since she was pregnant, she likes the bodyguards to call her madam.

  It seems that in this way, she really became Abel's wife.

   There are Misses, like Li Xinyu and Annie.

   There are also ladies, like Li Fuzhen.

  Abel didn't force it. What the female bodyguards called them was completely based on their hobbies and habits.

   Li Xinyu's bodyguard here is called Miss Li.

   "Min Sun." Li Xinyu spoke Korean directly, "Get me something to eat. I'm starving to death. Well...it's almost one o'clock at noon."

   "Okay. Miss, do you want to eat Korean food, or something else?"

   "What kind of Korean food. Don't eat it, just follow the normal lunch standard." Li Xinyu said. "Let's eat in the outdoor garden on the third floor."

  The third floor of the villa was half vacated during construction and design, and a beautiful indoor sky garden was created.

   There are some flowers and plants and some low trees planted inside. The layout is very beautiful, in the style of Florence in Italy.

  In New York, where snowstorms often occur, it is designed in a Florentine style that hardly snows.

   It can only be said that rich people are good.

  Li Xinyu likes this small garden in the sky very much, and wants to eat there for lunch today.

   "But it's snowing today." Kim Min Sun persuaded, "It's very cold outside now."

   "Eh... just forget it." Li Xinyu said, "Go directly to the restaurant to eat."

  The restaurant is also on the third floor.

  The entire third floor of this townhouse has been turned into a functional area.

  The restaurant, the small garden in the sky courtyard, the leisure room, the medical room, etc., are all on this floor.

  The second floor is a part of guest bedroom and a small living room.

  The first floor is the large living room and reception area.

  Li Xinyu walked down from the fourth floor. The restaurant on the third floor was spacious and comfortable, with a high ceiling and excellent indoor lighting.

  Outside the restaurant, in the private courtyard separated by thick insulating glass, even if it snows, it can still be seen that the vegetation is lush, and there are comfortable leisure tables and chairs.

  It is blocked by buildings, and there is no snow except for some wind and snow blowing in through the opening of the open design.

  Besides, there was not much snow last night, but the cooling was relatively strong.

  The location of this villa is excellent, with easy access to Central Park, Madison Avenue and other shopping and dining areas.

   It takes only ten minutes to walk to these two places.

   On the third floor, Li Xinyu sat in the dining room, at the head of the beautiful and huge Italian Byzantine-style dining table.

  Byzantine style is a style of Italian furniture, which can be regarded as the furniture design of the early Renaissance.

   It is famous for its elegant, simple, solemn and majestic design, with pure and beautiful lines and appropriate classical proportions.

  The previous owner of this house was either an Italian, or a crazy lover of Italian style.

  The decoration of the whole house is a fusion of various Italian styles.

  Always has a petty bourgeois sentiment, but Li Xinyu, who was born in a chaebol but somewhat young, loves this sentiment the most.

  She loves it here.

  While waiting for the maid to prepare the food, Li Xinyu found a stack of newspapers beside her.

  She knew this should be her man, so she watched it while having breakfast in the morning.

  Imagine this morning, when I was still sound asleep in Simmons.

  My man came out of the room, leaving behind himself who was exhausted by him last night.

   Sitting in this position, I spent a fulfilling morning while eating breakfast and reading the newspaper.

   Subconsciously, Li Xinyu also picked up the newspaper, imitating what her man might do in the morning.

  She even pretended to read it, and the newspaper she picked up happened to be a copy of The Wall Street Journal, which was the headline of today—

  【Abe Smith and the Future】

   I saw the name of my man in the title.

   Li Xinyu, who was just pretending to imitate a man, immediately started reading with interest.

  It will certainly not be too simple for the "Wall Street Journal" to be used as the headline on the front page.

  In this news report, although the title uses Abel Smith.

  But most of the news content in it is related to the "2001 New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception" held at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan yesterday.

  New York Financiers Charity Christmas Reception is a well-known gathering in New York and American financial circles.

   It is said that in the early days, it was a public wine initiated by the Morgan family.

  Mainly invite elites from the New York or American financial circles to gather together, have a meal together, and chat about their vision for the industry next year.

  Developed over decades.

  This has become an ultra-small "Davos Forum" similar to the New York financial circle, or even the American financial circle.

  However, as time passed, after Morgan and Rockefeller gradually faded out.

  This financier reception is becoming more and more "civilian".

  The guests who participated in it gradually became middle and high-level Wall Street executives from all the financial bigwigs back then.

   Later, it even reduced to the same level as other famous social receptions in New York.

   Like the famous "Metropolis" reception.

  Most of the financial bigwigs didn't come to participate.

  The people who participated in this public reception mainly became the middle and high-level people in the financial circle and people outside the circle.

  But because of the organizer of the reception, some bigwigs in the circle are still invited to participate every year.

  These bigwigs also attract a large number of financial elites to pay fees to participate every year.

   This allowed the style of the reception to be barely maintained.

  Additional participants will pay USD 6,500 per person, excluding alcohol expenses.

   Everything else was donated as charitable donations. The word "charity" in the reception is reflected here.

  $6,500 to qualify, sounds expensive no matter how you look at it.

  But most of the time, the tickets can be sold very well, and sometimes there are even scalped tickets, and the price has increased several times.

  When such a situation occurs, it is usually because there are really top-ranked bosses who will participate, and this effect will be achieved.

  Like this year, it was originally scheduled to be held on the evening of December 17, and the organizer was the New York Times.

  The organizer of this reception is not fixed. Every few years, the organizer will change.

   Well-known local newspapers in New York, such as "Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", "New York Post", "New York Daily News", etc., have all held them.

  Generally, no one will grab it, because if you can’t invite big shots to participate, it’s a bit thankless to hold this kind of reception.

  Many times, you will even lose money, at least you will lose some favors.

   After all, it is not that easy to invite big shots to participate.

  The result is on the 16th.

  The organizer of this year, The New York Times, suddenly announced that the reception would be handed over to the New York Observer.

   "New York Observer" editor-in-chief Dylan quickly acknowledged the news, announcing that the meeting would be held by himself at the Hilton Hotel on the evening of the 17th.

  A total of 1,000 participants, and other terms are almost the same as the previous reception.

  After noon on the 16th, the "New York Observer" announced on its official website the list of invitations from the host of the reception.

  The arrangement of names in the United States has always been carried out according to the arrangement of the first letter of the name in the English alphabet.

  So those who are interested have discovered that the first one on this list is Abel Smith.

  Abel is Abel in English, and the initial letter is A.

   It's normal to be ranked first.

   Then after the first guest Abel Smith, the names of Warren Buffett and George Soros are also impressively among them.

   Even more exaggerated, there are names like Leo Melamed, David Rene Rothschild, and Alan Greenspan.

   Even names like David Rockefeller and John Chris Morgan appear.

   Almost after the announcement.

   This has always been there before. But in many cases, it is regarded as a New York social reception for celebrities, outsiders, and Wall Street and the financial circle.

  Its degree of attention and popularity has been infinitely increased in an instant.

   Almost to the extent of the white house reception.

  From noon on the 16th to noon on the 17th.

   New York or even the whole of the United States, I don’t know how many people, in order to get this, it only needs 6,500 US dollars.

  Now that the number is ten times higher, you may not even get a place to participate in the reception, so go around to fight for it.

  Yesterday morning and yesterday noon.

   Even from Li Xinyu's side, someone called.

   Want to trouble her, get an invitation or two.

  Li Xinyu had the courage to mention it to Abel.

  Abel gave her 5 places without any hassle.

   This made Li Xinyu feel very happy, and felt that she had a lot of face, and felt that she was taken seriously by him.

  Jiang, who had always been passive in that matter, took the initiative last night on a rare occasion.

  The newspaper that Li Xinyu is reading now, what is reported in it.

   It is a summary of the speeches of the bigwigs who participated in the reception last night.

  The "Wall Street Journal" directly listed Abel's name first and reported it as the headline on the front page.

   It can only be said that in order to attract traffic and sales, these media know whose name Americans like to see now.

   Li Xinyu read the whole article, only paying attention to her boyfriend's speech at the reception last night, she didn't bother to read other people.

  The "Wall Street Journal" claimed that at the reception last night, Abel Smith was very optimistic about China's development.

  He expressed that he would support and urge the White House to give China permanent normal trading status.

   Speeches in this regard are common in Wall Street and the international financial community.

  Because since the 1990s, there have been too many big Wall Street figures who have said similar things.

   Capital without borders itself is the best portrayal of Wall Street.

   Huaxia can make money for Wall Street and capitalists.

  It is too simple for capitalists to say a few good things about China in newspapers and media.

   But the same, as long as it hinders your own interests. The capitalists blocked and blocked certain countries in various ways, and they also did not blink their eyes.

  Capitalists say nice things to some countries, most of them are for profit.

  The reverse is also true.

  In addition to this aspect, in this public reception, Abel also said that in the next few years at least, the real estate in the United States will be stable and improve.

  Li Xinyu, who wasn't very interested in these things, glanced at them briefly, then put down the newspaper.

  At this moment, her lunch just arrived.

   Li Xinyu started to eat lunch, mainly organic vegetable salad, a small grilled steak, milk, eggs, and bread.

  From vitamins to carbohydrates and sugars, from high protein to certain fats, everything is included.

   While ensuring the taste, it can also achieve comprehensive nutrition.

   This is the result of the cooperation of the private nutritionists hired by the rich and the top private chefs.

   After lunch, it was snowing outside.

  Little Laura was gone again, and had no company. Li Xinyu didn't want to go out.

  She decided to simply stay at home, watch TV or read a book.

  There are more than 2,000 books in the very spacious and huge study room upstairs.

   It is said that some of them are orphans, treasured by the original owner.

  After the villa was bought by New Start Real Estate, these orphan books also became the selling point of the villa and were not taken away.

  Li Xinyu went upstairs, casually looking for books in the study.

  As a standard Wenqing girl, many times, she can spend the whole day like this.

  Because I heard that many of the books in this collection are orphans.

  When Li Xinyu was looking for books inside, she also tried to find these legendary orphan copies.

  Pick those that look older and have an older cover.

  She searched and searched on the bookshelf, and found a thick book at random. It took some time to look at it, and it seemed to be a lonely book.

  Li Xinyu took it out and found that it looked thick, but very light.

  She flipped through it casually, and found that it was not a book, but a photo album that obviously seemed to have a history.

  The photos above are all in black and white, probably from decades ago.

  咚咚—

  Just as she was about to take a closer look, there was a light knock on the door of the study.

  It was Kim Min-sun, the personal bodyguard, holding Li Xinyu's cell phone, "Miss Li, it's your phone..."

"Oh…"

  Li Xinyu agreed, put the photo album in her hand on the desk next to her, and walked over to take the mobile phone that Jin Minshan handed over.

  Before answering the call, Li Xinyu looked at it and found that it was actually the call from the second sister Li Xuxian.

   There are three sisters in the Li family. The relationship between the eldest sister and the second sister has always been normal.

  The younger sister, Li Xinyu, has a better relationship with her two older sisters.

  Li Xinyu also often talked to Li Xuxian, so she picked it up.

   "Yeah, second sister?"

   Talking to her family, the language Li Xinyu used changed to Korean again.

  She took her mobile phone, strolled outside from the study, and chatted with Li Xuxian with a smile.

   On the phone, Li Xuxian, who is also studying in New York, but at Parsons School of Design, who is studying fashion design, said that she has been on vacation.

  She plans to go back to Han to spend the New Year, and then come to New York to study.

  Ask Li Xinyu if she wants to go back.

   "It's not long since I returned to Han Country. Second sister, it's not like you don't know." Li Xinyu said.

  Li Xinyu doesn't want to go back to Han Country now, she is a little reluctant to leave this house.

   Well, mostly because I like the house, not because of someone.

  Li Xuxian also said that she would come over to accompany Li Xinyu. The two sisters met for dinner, and they hadn't met for more than two months.

   After two days, if Li Xinyu doesn't return to Han Country, Li Xuxian will go back by himself.

  Li Xinyu couldn't refuse such a small request from her own sister.

   Besides, she really wanted to see her sister.

  As Li Xuxian said, the two sisters who have a good relationship have not seen each other for two months.

   Then let's meet.

   Li Xinyu agreed, and reported the address, so that the second sister could come over.

   Such a beautiful house, she wants the second sister to see it too.

   After all, the second sister is the only designer in the family.

  A costume designer is also a designer.

  (end of this chapter)