Society owes me a brother

"You want to buy an airplane?" Yue Bin held the laptop, looked at Lu Chi on the screen suspiciously, and asked, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

In fact, as early as the end of 2003, Yue Bin had proposed this matter.It's just that Lu Chi lacked interest at the time, and was obviously not interested in such a proposal of high consumption to buy luxury goods.After all, in Lu Chi's view, buying an aircraft for a while, followed by aircraft maintenance, buying airways, burning oil, and hiring professionals, etc. are definitely money-burning behaviors at the level of a crematorium.

At that time, the newly-promoted billionaires still had the simple thinking of the public, and felt that buying an airplane was not as cost-effective as taking an airplane.Compared with this kind of extravagant enjoyment of showing off his wealth, Lu Chi would rather use the money to buy the plane as an investment—the return on profit is enough for him to buy a few more planes.

After understanding Lu Chi's consumer thinking, Yue Bin never brought up the matter of customizing private jets and private yachts.I didn't expect that after so many years, Lu Chi would suddenly bring up this matter.

"They said that after buying the plane, you can name it after your loved one. They also said that after buying the plane, you can do whatever you want." Lu Chi lay on the bed, looking at Yue Bin on the other end of the video, his eyebrows were tender He said with a smile: "You can do whatever you want at an altitude of several thousand meters?"

The deliberately lowered voice was not as clear and calm as usual, like a low-pitched cello, elegant and melodious with a touch of heart-pounding resonance.Yue Bin's ears turned red subconsciously, he stretched out his hand to scratch his cheek, and said with a silly smile, "Then what do you want to do?"

Lu Chi smiled when he heard the words, and slightly curled his right hand to support his cheek: "What do you want to do?"

Yue Bin caught the ball kicked back by Lu Chi, looked at Lu Chi with a wide smile, and his smile became more and more silly.

The atmosphere gradually became ambiguous and charming, neither of them spoke, they just stared at each other with smiles in their eyes.The moment the eyes were hooked, it seemed that even the Pacific Ocean, which was far away, evaporated in an instant. Space and time disappeared invisible under the strong collision. Lu Chi couldn't help stretching out his left hand to touch Yue Bin's cheek——

Only a cold screen was touched.

The pink bubbles rippling around instantly burst, Lu Chi sighed lightly, and couldn't help but said, "When will you come over!"

"It's coming soon." Yue Bin thought for a while, and added: "Next week is the auction. After the auction is over, I will hand over the work and fly over to find you immediately."

After a pause, Yue Bin also lowered his voice, and said with a deep smile, "Let's go buy a plane together."

Early the next morning, as soon as Lu Chi walked into the restaurant, he saw Lei Ting sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, having breakfast and admiring the scenery.

"It's such a coincidence that Mr. Lu also lives in this hotel?" The young person in charge of the Greater China Region of Leishi Group stood up and invited politely: "If you don't mind, Mr. Lu will also sit down and eat together. ?”

Lu Chi smiled slightly, pulled out the chair and sat down.A waiter came over with a menu, and Lu Chi directly ordered a set meal A.Seeing this, Lei Ting smiled with flickering eyes: "Mr. Lu also likes to eat set meals?"

Lu Chi smiled warmly: "The package is very convenient."

"It really saves time." Lei Ting nodded, first echoed Lu Chi's words, then changed the topic, and said with a smile: "However, in my opinion, while the set meal saves time for customers, the greater significance lies in Depending on the popularity of the dishes, the hotel can make an appropriate match, and bundle some dishes that may not be so popular with the special dishes that everyone likes. The profit margin after the package may far exceed its a la carte dishes. Therefore, guests can save time At the same time, I have to spend money to accept some dishes that I don’t like so much.”

"Actually, subordinated bonds are also a kind of package package in the financial field." Lei Ting said here, and smiled slightly at Lu Zhi: "I'm curious, since Mr. Lu likes packages so much, why does he reject subordinated bonds so much?"

The waiter brought up the set meal A ordered by Lu Chi.Lu Chi took a sip of the steaming coffee, and said in a gentle voice, "You also said that the set menu launched by the restaurant is to save customers time and energy, and at the same time, they also need to spend some money to accept dishes that they don't like very much."

"Even so, if every restaurant wants to make their own set menus popular, they must also include the restaurant's special dishes in the set menus. Even if the dishes are not so popular with customers, they must ensure the freshness and quality of the ingredients. But the secondary Securities are not the same..."

As Lu Chi said, he ordered the ham and cheese sandwich in front of him with a knife and fork: "If the set meals offered by the restaurant are all real ingredients, then the ingredients packaged by the secondary securities are discarded or even rotten scraps from the kitchen. .I eat the set meal offered by the restaurant, regardless of whether the price is right or not, at least it guarantees health and nutrition. But if it is replaced by a subprime bond, if you are not careful, you will eat someone to death."

Lei Ting smiled slightly, and said: "The sales of subprime bonds are so hot in the world now, and the housing price index in country M is also rising. It is a good time for global financial people to feast on it. Mr. Lu's idea is quite new. "

Lu Chi just smiled and said nothing.

Lei Ting pondered for a moment, and tried to ask: "If I say, I want to ask Mr. Lu to design a set of mini-bonds similar to subprime financial products for the Leishi Fund under the Leishi Group. I don't know if Mr. Lu has this interest?"

Of course Lu Chi didn't.

Lei Ting shrugged his shoulders regretfully, still a little unwilling to give up, trying to convince Lu Chi: "I only represent myself, and I admire Mr. Lu's moral cultivation very much. But it is a pity that we are in finance, and in the final analysis we still want to make money. You I also know that Xiangjiang is a place for all people to speculate in stocks. Even if Lei Ting does not do such a grand event, other investment banks and foundations will do it. I believe that if Lei Shi controls this line, we will at least Know where the bottom line is. I know Mr. Lu's talent. I personally suggest that Mr. Lu should use your ability to develop a set of financial derivatives that allow everyone to make money, instead of just watching from the sidelines."

"This is what Mr. Lu has always insisted on, isn't it?"

Lu Chi smiled.I don't know whether Lei Ting, the young master of Leishi Group, is really innocent or just pretending.But obviously, with Lei Ting's pale and empty eloquence, there was absolutely no way to convince him.

In fact, Lu Chi really wanted to make a CDS—a financial instrument for credit default swaps, in order to short the housing market in country M.

During a breakfast, two vegetarian insiders chatted about the global financial situation.It's a pity that the words are not speculative.

At the end of breakfast, Lu Chi learned that Lei Ting's next trip was to go to Lehman Investment Bank.After drinking the last sip of coffee, Lei Ting stood up, adjusted his suit jacket, and extended his hand to Lu Chi with great regret: "It's a pity that we couldn't reach a cooperation. I hope that next time, we still have the opportunity to cooperate."

After saying goodbye to Thunder, Lu Chi returned to the hotel room alone.By the way, I also brought breakfast for the two lazy little wolf dogs.However, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan, who lived next door, left early in the morning. It is said that they made an appointment to meet with a public relations company that could help "Rejuvenation" be nominated for an Oscar.

Lu Chi, who returned to his room with breakfast, sat silently on the sofa, looking at the steaming breakfast on the coffee table, feeling inexplicably sad for an empty-nest old man.

Fortunately, this kind of cranky thinking didn't last long, and was interrupted by the sudden ringing of the bell.

Knowing that Lu Chi arrived in Manhattan last night, Zhuoyou's classmate called, and the conversation was not about business, but——

"Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a game between the Rockets and the Nets. Are you interested in watching it?"

Lu Chi smiled and asked deliberately: "Fly to New York to watch the football game? This doesn't seem to be your style."

Zhuoyou on the other end of the phone coughed twice as if choked by saliva, and explained uncomfortably: "It's not... just recently, only a few of us stayed in country M. In addition, the campus network and the NBA held activities, so it’s just a little closer.”

"Really?" Lu Chi couldn't help laughing, and of course he was a little worried that if he continued talking, he would make Zhuoyue angry, so he changed the subject: "Since it's tomorrow's game, are you going to come by today's plane?"

"How about this. You send me your flight number, and I'll pick you up at the airport. Then you don't book a hotel, just stay with me. Around Thanksgiving, there are still a few technology summits in Silicon Valley Well, I'll go back with you after the game."

Lu Chi originally thought that his proposal was very considerate and thoughtful, but it turned out that the excellence on the phone was even more embarrassing.

"Hello? Hello? Why aren't you talking? Is the signal bad?" Lu Chi looked at the mobile phone that suddenly didn't move, and said a few words suspiciously.

After being silent for a long time, Zhuozhuo said in a dazed way: "Well, you don't need to pick me up from the plane. My morning plane has already arrived. Xing Yuan picked me up by car. I'll just stay at their hotel by the way."

Lu Chi: "..." There is something inside!

"That's fine. You send me the address of the hotel, and I'll go find you in the afternoon."

After putting down the phone, Lu Chi couldn't wait to call Yue Bin who was staying in China.

Across the Pacific Ocean, the two chatted and gossiped on the phone for more than half an hour. It wasn't until someone from Yue Bin reminded them that a meeting was about to begin, and Lu Chi hung up the phone in full.

It was nine o'clock in the morning of country M time.On Lu Chi's itinerary, at ten o'clock in the morning, he would go to Wall Street to attend a financial summit organized by the Locke Group.

Matthew Locke, who was temporarily acting as the driver, was already waiting downstairs in his car.After seeing Lu Chi, Matthew Locke, who was sitting in the coupe sports car, honked the horn excitedly, and then coaxed the brown-haired beauty sitting in the co-pilot to get out of the car.

Seeing the two people kissing each other passionately, Lu Chi sighed in admiration—he also really admired Matthew's energy for going to work the next morning after being up all night the night before.

"Don't get me wrong. That beauty is a senior consultant of Lehman Investment Bank. We are talking about business." Noticing Lu Chi's expression, Matthew Locke spread his hands and explained with a smile.