"Hey, Lisheng, good morning."
"Oh, good morning Tina. Why, why are you here?"
"Of course I'm here to look for you. You just happened to come out.
Give me your bank account now, I'll transfer the 110,000 dollars I've exchanged to your new account. Then, we'll go to Kaiserland Town to negotiate. If everything goes well, we should be able to sign the contract today. "
"Sign, sign the contract …"
"What? Did you forget that you gave me a credit card with 700,000 yuan in it and asked me to launder the money and asked me to buy a slaughterhouse?" Tina said softly.
"Of course I haven't forgotten, but, but wasn't that just four days ago?"
"It's been four days, Lisheng. Of course, I've already found the person I want to buy.
Do you know, my dad once said, 'When doing a business, it's best not to take more than three days from the idea to the closing of the deal. Otherwise, there's an 80% chance that the deal won't be successful due to various concerns.'
It's only been four days since the appointment was made. Things have been dragged on for long enough … "
As Tina was speaking, the door behind Zhang Lisheng was opened all of a sudden. Lili walked out of the house, pretending to be unintentional. She said in surprise when she saw Zhang Lisheng and Lili, "Ah, baby, you haven't gone to work yet?
Who is this lady? "
"Hi ma 'am, I'm Lisheng's friend, Tina Douglin. You can call me Tina," Tina took the initiative to wave at Lili and said.
"Oh, Tina, I'm Lili, Lisheng's mother," Lili said with a smile.
"Mom, Tina and I have something going out today, so we won't be working at Dan Souza Butcher Shop. We might even go home late …"
"Very good, baby. Mom doesn't approve of you working so hard. Go and play with your friends.
Bye, Tina, nice to meet you, girl. " She took the opportunity of hugging Zhang Lisheng to say goodbye and put two hundred dollar bills into his pocket. She smiled at Tina and walked to the garage.
Watching Lili walk into the garage, Tina suddenly looked at Zhang Lisheng in a strange way and mocked softly, "Lisheng, so you're mom's little baby."
"That's because my mom feels guilty for abandoning me when I was young. That's why she keeps calling me that. Let's go, let's go to the bank," Zhang Lisheng said and put down his bicycle, walking to the SUV that Tina drove.
"Sorry, I didn't know that was the case.
But you're really boring. How can you explain such an interesting thing into a tragedy in just one sentence? "Tina said with a pout as she followed behind Zhang Lisheng.
The both of them got into the car and Zhang Lisheng rolled down the window a little to let some air in. He asked Tina after applying for sick leave from Dan Souza Butcher Shop's owner, Rocky, "How did the money in my card change to 110,000 dollars?"
Tina answered while driving, "In order to get the business for my birthday party, the public relations company followed the official price of 700,000 Chinese dollars to 110,000 USD.
Even so, they won't actually lose too much. It's only hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's easy for a senior public relations company to 'digest' it. "
Zhang Lisheng nodded and said while looking at the high spirits on Tina's face, "You know what, Tina? Although we've only known each other for a short time, I think you're really different from how you usually are when it comes to business.
By the way, there's one more thing I forgot to tell you, I don't have a bank account. "
"You don't have a bank account? Are you an alien? Then how did the butcher pay you?"
"Cash payment.
The butcher shop only received cash, there's no check. "
"Great, it seems like we'll have to open an account with a bank. Hmm, let's go to United Bank, I'm a VIP there," Tina said and turned on the navigation. She turned on the GPS and dictated the destination. She drove to the United Bank in Lowbige Community under the guidance of the GPS.
As a traditional community in Brooklyn where New York's middle class gathered, the United Bank branch in Lowbige Community was quite decent.
It was located in an old commercial building with nine floors. The courtyard was spacious and grand. There was a bright reddish-brown solid wood floor on the ground as they walked into the lobby. Business managers were providing one-on-one professional services to the customers in the few rows of cubicles on the left side of the wall with a smile on their faces.
On the right side was a customer waiting area with comfortable soft sofas that provided daily newspapers, free coffee and drinks. Although there was no need for bank customers to wait under normal circumstances, everything here was made to be perfect.
However, although the service provided in the lobby was very thoughtful, as a United Bank's Crown VIP, Tina had a completely different and higher requirement for the bank's service.
After walking into the Lowbige branch, she walked directly to a middle-aged man with gray hair in a gray suit who was patrolling in the lobby and said, "Sir, I'm Tina Douglin. I brought my friend to Wachovia Bank to open an account."
To the New York account manager of an international bank, Tina Douglin's name was almost as famous as the American president's name. The middle-aged man with gray hair bowed without hesitation and said, "Ms. Tina Douglin, I'm Will Smith, the account manager of United Bank Galaxy New York Lowbige Branch. I'm here to serve you and your friend with all my heart."
"Mr. Smith, we're in a hurry so we need you to open a bank account for my friend right now." Tina pointed at Zhang Lisheng. "Mr. Zhang Lisheng, open a bank account and transfer 10, no, no, 110,000 dollars for him.
He just came to New York from China but he's a pure American citizen legally now. "
Currently, unknown funds from China filled the entire New York financial market. Every bank was working hard to have as many invisible rich Chinese customers as possible.
There were two different characteristics of such customers, they were either extremely reserved or extremely ostentatious. The common characteristic was that they had an unimaginable amount of cash.
Another characteristic was that most of the people who opened accounts were very young and they would usually test the water first.
Tina's special identity and her words gave people a lot of hints. Smith thought about it and said politely, "Don't worry, Ms. Tina. Since you and this young man are in a hurry, we'll try our best to simplify the procedures and speed up the process.
Please allow me to bring you guys to the VIP lounge for a cup of coffee and rest for 10 minutes, 10 minutes max. "
"Thank you, Mr. Smith," Tina held Zhang Lisheng's arm as she spoke and followed Smith to the VIP lounge.
As expected, eight to nine minutes later, Zhang Lisheng obtained his first bank account in the US after Smith consulted the senior account manager in New York. Not only that, he avoided the harassment of the Anti-money Laundering Act and successfully transferred 110,000 USD to his account.
After being sent out of the bank's lobby by Smith, Zhang Lisheng sat in the SUV and said while smacking his lips, "That cup of coffee with lingering taste just now finally made me understand why Americans love coffee so much.
It also made me understand why many Americans say 'money is the best friend'. "
"And connections too.
Alright Lisheng, stop being emotional. You'll definitely be rich in the future.
I found out that you have a huge business opportunity when I was studying the slaughtering industry these few days. Cultivating mutated centipedes requires a huge amount of meat, I'm thinking … "
"Tina, I know what you're trying to say but the 'huge amount' that I mentioned earlier is actually much smaller than you think at this stage. Digesting the leftovers from a small slaughterhouse is already the limit."
"It's alright, my dad said 'you must look to the future when you do business'," Tina said as she started the car.
The SUV drove west along 27th Street and soon entered the highway that connected to the suburbs. They left New York City in a narrow sense after driving for 40 minutes.
On weekdays, millions of people in the periphery of the New York metropolitan area would flock to New York City to work like ants attracted by honey.
At night, they would return to their nests one after another like ants that had eaten the honey. They would return to their homes in the satellite towns that were sparsely populated and had pleasant air to rest.
There was no obvious difference between the city and the countryside here, they merged together.
Zhang Lisheng looked out the window at the scattered houses on both sides of the road. He rolled down the window and said while breathing in the cold and fresh air, "I can't believe it's so close to the countryside from New York."
"That's why you can take care of your slaughterhouse without affecting your studies.
I've thought about it for you. You can join the National Farmers Union in Kaiserland Town after buying this small slaughterhouse. The farmers can use your slaughterhouse on their own.
Slaughtering livestock is fully mechanized now, everything can be done by pressing a button. Most farmers know how to operate it.
You can charge 50 dollars for a pig, 150 dollars for a cow and 40 dollars for a sheep. You can let them use your slaughterhouse to deal with their own livestock and only take the clean meat, leaving the internal organs, blood … In short, all kinds of leftovers for you to deal with. I think they'll be very willing to do that. "
All you have to do is to visit your slaughterhouse when you're free and do your cultivation experiments there. "
Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment and said in a tone of admiration, "Tina, God is so unfair.
He gave you the courage to explore the primitive forest without even knowing a leopard. He also gave you the business … "
"Zhang Lisheng, shut up."
Zhang Lisheng's joke proved that he treated Tina as his real friend. Tina seemed to notice that with her sensitive woman's instinct, she could not stop laughing along the way.
Both of them drove on the smooth highway for another 20 minutes. Finally, they saw a border sign with 'Kaiserland Town' written on it at a crossroad. It was placed on the side of the road.
After turning into the fork, the SUV continued driving for another fifteen to sixteen minutes before it entered a small town.
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