America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 377 Manhattan Snake

   “…the most understated Michelin star.”

  “…the best Italian restaurant in New York.”

   He is not familiar with Li Xuxian, and the appearance of the other party is not enough to make his heart flutter immediately.

  This time Abel did not sit in the back of the car with his sisters.

   He rarely sits in the Cadillac monster, the passenger compartment.

   Listening to the conversation between the two sisters behind, they were discussing the Italian restaurant called Bellini.

   "A store that is very difficult to make appointments." Li Xuxian said: "I have made appointments at least 20 times before, and I only made appointments 5 times."

   "Oh." Li Xinyu looked forward, she felt that this problem should not be a problem for her man.

  Especially this is in Manhattan. Li Xinyu felt that in Manhattan, there was nothing Abel couldn't do.

   Li Xuxian was probably looking for something to talk about, to buffer the quarrel between the two sisters just now.

  She was still whispering to her sister, introducing the restaurant.

  “…His house is full of old-fashioned retro feeling from the signboard to the storefront.”

  “It’s still open on Upper Thompson Street, which itself is full of Italian restaurants. Whenever it opens, it’s always full of seats.”

   "No matter when we go, there are so many people! It is the busiest restaurant with the most customers in Manhattan!"

   Ten minutes later.

  Manhattan, Upper Thompson Street, in front of Bellini Italian Restaurant.

  In the carriage, Li Xinyu looked at the second sister.

  The latter is a little awkward.

  Because through the car window, the Bellini restaurant in front of me looked in from the outside, and there was not even a single customer except for the waiter in the restaurant.

   "..."

  Li Xuxian thought about this evil way.

  It's such a bustling restaurant with such a good business and such a great reputation.

  Why is there no one today?

  It is obviously dinner time, and it is the peak season for this restaurant.

   Even if it is not a weekend, but for it, there is no distinction between weekends or weekdays.

   Its business will always be so good in Li Xuxian's memory.

  Looking at the embarrassed second sister, Li Xinyu laughed and said softly:

   "It should be reserved for my dear. It may be that the restaurant knew he was coming, so it was not open to the public."

  Li Xuxian looked at the man in the passenger cab.

  Even if you already know that he is very powerful, even your own father can't compare to him.

   But with a phone call, he was able to clear the most famous Italian restaurant in New York within half an hour, for his own use only.

  This power or influence is really terrifying.

   You must know that this is Manhattan, where the richest billionaires walk everywhere, and Manhattan is everywhere for the richest people in the world.

  Many times, just spending money here won't yield much advantage.

  Because it is very likely that the person who is fighting with you to spend money is some oil rich chieftain in the desert area, or a noble plutocrat with a long history in Europe.

   "It's reserved."

   Abel looked at Edward outside and made a safe gesture.

   This means that the rock security staff have taken control of this street.

  He smiled and said to the two sisters behind:

   "But the reservation does not hinder the taste of its food. We are here to eat delicious food, not to see people. Let's go, let's go down."

  Li Xinyu nodded, took the hand of her second sister Li Xuxian, and walked outside after the door opened.

  Abel walked in front, and the two sisters followed.

   In a few steps, I stepped into the warm Bellini Italian restaurant in the cold wind of New York in winter.

  The waiters in the restaurant, as well as the restaurant manager, have long been waiting in line.

  Under the gaze of the rock security staff, they/they shouted in unison:

   "Benvenuti, signories signore."

  Li Xuxian explained to his sister in a low voice, "It's Italian. The waiters here can speak Italian and English. It is said that they are all Italians!"

   Yet they both heard Abel say:

   "Don't speak a language I don't understand. This is Manhattan, this is America. Please speak English, thank you."

  The manager of the restaurant was stunned for a moment, and immediately stepped forward to flatter him and said with a smile:

   "Ah, I'm sorry. Mr. Smith, this is our negligence. I'm very sorry... This way please, the rooms are ready for you."

  Abel nodded and said to the Li family sisters, "Let's eat in the box."

  Of course they would not refuse. The two followed Abel, with Edward in front, and the other three King Kongs behind.

  The manager of the restaurant sent them into the largest box in the Bellini restaurant.

  In the warm box, several people just sat down.

  I saw the door opened by Edward, and the restaurant manager walked in with a white man dressed as a chef.

  The manager began to introduce the identities of the two of them. This white chef is the chief chef of the restaurant, Blood.

   is an Italian chef who has lived in New York for nearly 20 years. He was once selected as the best chef in the world by the world's number one fashion magazine ".VOGUE". He is also the owner of this restaurant.

  This restaurant was also selected as the best restaurant in the world by ".VOGUE" magazine.

  The chef and owner, logically, was voted the best restaurateur in the world by this magazine.

  Ms. Anna Ventura, editor-in-chief of the American edition of ".VOGUE" magazine, said: For many North Americans, Bloud embodies the best Italian food, and even the best Italian food era.

   is the most indispensable chef and restaurant for anyone in New York who wants to taste Italian food.

   It can be said that the praise is excellent.

  With the endorsement of Anna Wintour and ".VOGUE" magazine, let alone Bloud is indeed a very good Italian chef.

  Even if his cooking skills are bad, he will still be admired by the global fashion industry.

  Who is the Devil of Fashion boasting like this?

  The fashion industry is obviously a bit higher than the food industry in terms of coffee.

   A restaurant that is so praised by the highest figures in the fashion industry, even if the food industry doesn't want to admit it.

  Anna Wintour praises so far.

  There are already 184 top restaurant associations around the world, claiming that Bloud and his Bellini restaurant are just that powerful.

  With all kinds of praise, Bellini became the number one Italian restaurant in New York two or three years ago.

   Possibly even the number one Italian restaurant in all of America.

   It's just that, in front of the world's richest man, it's nothing now.

  The world's richest man is here, America's No. 1 Italian chef, the world's best restaurateur and chef Blood.

  He has seldom done anything, so he came to cook in person, and introduced himself in front of Abel eagerly, like the most ordinary western chef.

  After the self-introduced Blue left, the box became quiet again.

  Looking at Abel who was looking at the menu, Li Xuxian once again realized his power and his influence in this city.

  She is a rich girl, and she can only enter the restaurant 5 times in about 20 times.

  He made a phone call, and the venue was cleared and booked in half an hour.

  She has been here 5 times, and even if she wants to spend more money, she can't eat the Italian food made by the restaurant owner Blood.

  As soon as he came, Blood eagerly came over to be the chef, and he was the chef himself, with a respectful and even flattering attitude...

   This comparison made Li Xuxian feel that Abel in New York seemed to have more power than her father in Korea.

   While feeling emotional, Li Xuxian felt a little embarrassed.

  Li Xuxian whispered to his sister, Li Xinyu nodded to her: "Then you go."

  Li Xuxian stood up, smiled at Abel who was looking over, and walked out of the box door a little embarrassed.

  As long as it is a human being, it is not separated from the mortal body. Even if she is as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn, she still has to eat, **** and sleep.

  Goddesses smell like farts, not because she is beautiful, farts smell like strawberries.

  When the goddess wakes up in the morning, she also has bad breath. Because she is beautiful, she will not have a rose tone.

  People have three urgencies, Li Xuxian went outside to use the bathroom.

  Under the guidance of the waitress in the restaurant, Li Xuxian came out after washing her hands after taking care of her physical needs.

  Just as she was about to walk back to the box where Abel was, she saw Abel's entourage, David Jones, talking to several people at the third stage of the Bellini Italian restaurant.

   What Li Xuxian couldn't help but stop for was that among the people David was talking to, she saw her idol.

The female devil known as the fashion industry, whose experience has been made into animations and comics, was called "the unofficial mayor of New York" by some British newspapers, and the editor-in-chief of the American edition of ".VOGUE" magazine, Anna Wen Miss Tull!

   Li Xuxian saw the "alive" Anna Wintour and was talking to David.

   Li Xuxian originally wanted to go in and have dinner with the younger sister, and the lovers of the younger sister and the older sister.

  After seeing Anna Wintour, it was like when ikuns went out to buy ice cream and saw brother kun also queuing.

  The joy of not being confident is beyond words.

  Li Xuxian rushed over almost without hesitation, and came to Anna Wintour with an excited expression.

   On the contrary, Anna Wintour, who was talking to David, was taken aback and made a slight evasive movement.

   But then Wintour may feel that this is not "fashionable" enough, not ladylike enough.

  The old woman calmed down and looked at the agitated Li Xuxian, wondering what this Asian girl wanted to do.

  As for Li Xuxian, because he saw his idol alive in front of his eyes, he couldn't even utter a word of excitement at this time.

   Fortunately, David stood up immediately, smiled and said to Anna Wintour: "This is Miss Lori Lee. She is, she is, she is..."

  Smart and smooth as David, he doesn't know how to introduce Li Xuxian's identity at this moment.

   Let’s say she is the boss’s woman. David doubts whether the boss will want her like this.

   Let’s say she is the boss’s sister-in-law, but the only one that the boss discloses to the public is little Laura.

   "She is a friend of Mr. Smith." That's the only way David could introduce her.

   Li Xuxian, who was still excited, saw Anna Wintour, who was looking at her with a look of disgust, and suddenly became enthusiastic about him.

   "Oh, hello. Miss Lee. I'm Anna Wintour."

  The devil in the fashion industry even stood up with a smile and reached out to Li Xuxian.

  Li Xuxian shook hands with her, and it was only now that he finally calmed down a little.

   But the tone was still a little excited, Li Xuxian said: "Ah, Ms. Wintour. I am so happy to meet you. You you...you are my idol! I admire you so much!"

  Anna Wintour was taken aback. The reserved look of the "Devil of Fashion" that disappeared just now because she heard that Li Xuxian was Abel's friend reappeared.

   "Ah... Thank you very much for your liking. Miss Li, I am very honored." Anna Wintour said with a light smile.

   "Ms. Wintour." David said suddenly: "Miss Li is a close friend of Mr. Smith."

  Anna Wintour was startled again.

   His tone changed again, and he came to face Li Xuxian with an attitude as warm as an old friend.

   "Miss Li. I think you have a very strong fashion temperament. Are you interested in participating in the shooting of an issue of "VOGUE"?"

  Li Xuxian just felt dizzy.

   For her own dream, which is to become a fashion designer, or a student of the Fashion Design Institute.

  "VOGUE" magazine, for her, is the Sunflower Collection in Swordsman, and the Nine Yin Manual in Shooting Condors.

  Li Xuxian nodded without hesitation, his words were temporarily unusable due to emotional excitement.

   "Angelina." Anna Wintour explained to a woman beside her, "Remember Miss Li's contact information. Remember to remind me later."

  Angelina, one of the editors of ".VOGUE" magazine, smiled and took out a pen and paper, and approached Li Xuxian.

  Looking at Angelina in front of him, Li Xuxian also remembered her identity.

  Angelina was once invited to give a lecture at Parsons School of Design, talking about the concept of art design.

  At that time, almost all the students from the entire college went.

  The podium was packed and almost had an accident.

  As one of the editors of ".VOGUE" magazine, an elite of the younger generation in the fashion industry, and a student of the Devil's Fashion, Angelina is also well-known in their circles.

   If Anna Wintour is a legendary figure like Wang Chongyang in the fashion circle.

  How about Angelina, she is also a bigwig at the level of the Quanzhen Seven Sons.

  Li Xuxian and the others are the ones in the background panel who killed more than a dozen with one blow of Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

  The "big brother of the rivers and lakes" is right in front of him, and his attitude is so friendly and so good.

  Li Xuxian felt that his breathing became a little uncontrollably rapid.

   Still David next to him couldn’t stand it anymore.

  He felt that this Miss Li, in front of Anna Wintour, was a bit embarrassing to her boss.

   "Ahem..."

  The butler of the Smith family coughed lightly and brought everyone's attention to him.

   "Ms. Wintour, thank you for your help. But if you want to see the boss, I need to ask. Please wait here."

   Without waiting for Anna Wintour to respond, David stood up and gave Donny, the female bodyguard captain next to him, a look.

  Doni nodded indiscernibly, and stepped forward to support the excited Li Xuxian.

  While David was walking into the box, he also brought Li Xuxian there.

  In the private room, Abel, who was talking to Li Xinyu, didn't notice the appearance of star chasing Li Xuxian after hearing David's question.

   Instead, he said to David: "You mean, this restaurant actually belongs to that old lady?"

  David nodded, watching Doni helped Li Xuxian who was still excited to sit next to Li Xinyu, he said softly:

"Bloud, an Italian, owns 33.3% of the restaurant. Anna Wintour owns 33.4%. The remaining 33.3% is owned by German Karl Lagerfeld. In other words, Wintour The lady is the big boss of this restaurant."

   Abel laughed when he heard this. I thought to myself, no wonder ".VOGUE" magazine and that old woman would praise this restaurant so much.

  A fashion magazine to recommend the best chefs and restaurants in the world.

   It turned out to be her own restaurant, no wonder...

   "It's no wonder you're giving face like this." Abel said with a smile:

   "Then why does she want to see me? Does she want to take pictures of me again?"

   When it comes to taking photos, Abel doesn't have any dislike for the old woman Anna Wintour.

  The photographers of "VOGUE" magazine, under the command of Anna Wintour, took photos of him at No. 1, 13th Road, Royal Point, New York, and even he was very satisfied with the photos taken.

  Up to now, Abel’s own paper media, and those paper media all over the world who reported him.

   They're using, mostly, photos of Abel Smith.

   Almost all of them were photos taken by fashion magazines under the command of Anna Wintour, the special photographer of ".VOGUE" magazine at that time.

  Abel in the photo is presented as handsome, sunny, and fashionable for men.

  In the end, he was obviously a top business tycoon and a Wall Street tycoon, but he had an extremely exaggerated number of female fans outside the United States...

  The reason is that in those photos, Anna Wintour took him to be more handsome than several well-known players such as Leonardo, Alain Delon, and Bourne Anderson.

David Jones smiled: "It shouldn't be the reason. But I heard from Allen that the relationship between Ms. Wintour and Donald Newhouse has been tense in recent years. In addition, she tried to contact you several times because of you The schedule is busy, and you declined it."

  Abel nodded, he remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

  At that time, he thought that this old woman wanted to take pictures of herself again.

   Of course he would not agree to such a boring thing.

   Now it seems that she has been looking for herself so many times, but she probably didn't want to take pictures of herself.

   After thinking about it, Abel said to David: "Then let her in."

  David nodded, turned and went out.

   After a while, David led Anna Wintour, Angelina, and another little girl who had been following Anna Wintour, and walked in.

  As soon as she saw Abel, Anna Wintour smiled and said, "Good evening, Mr. Smith."

  Angelina and the little girl, behind Anna Wintour as the backdrop, smile at Abel.

  Abel didn't stand up, neither did Li Xinyu.

   Li Xuxian, a star-chaser fan, saw Anna Wintour, and immediately stood up with a "swoosh", and his expression was a little excited.

   "Good evening, ladies. Please take a seat, and let us taste the delicacies of the Apennine Peninsula together."

   Anna Wintour nodded with a smile, and sat down with the female assistant and the little girl.

   Seeing Abel's gaze, he paused for a moment on the little girl.

  Anna Wintour immediately introduced her identity with a smile—

   "This is my daughter, Catherine E. Shaffer, you can call her Bea Shafer."

  (end of this chapter)