Chapter 1338: The Castle Worth 200 Million

Shi Lei was a little surprised by Zidane's answer. He originally just hoped that Zidane could help him make connections. After all, it was normal for a rich old man like him, who was likely to have a noble status, to know more people who owned castles.

The most important thing was that this kind of castle was not easy to buy.

Most people who owned castles were not short of money, and they would never think of selling their castles.

Even if they were short of money, these people would probably not easily sell their castles for the sake of face, especially when the person they were selling to was a young man with no background.

Shi Lei's idea was that Zidane must know a lot of people who owned castles. With him coming forward, those people might be willing to sell their castles for his sake.

The most important thing was that Shi Lei wanted to borrow Zidane's funds. To put it bluntly, it was to let Zidane provide him with a loan. Shi Lei hoped to get a castle with 10 million RMB, and he hoped to pay the rest in a deferred manner, no matter how much.

After all, after this quota cycle, he will definitely be promoted to level 5. By then, he will have a quota of 1 billion, and the quota for city dungeon consumption will reach 300 million yuan, which is close to 40 million per period in US dollars or euros. If he still focuses on those real estates worth 100 million or 200 million RMB, it will not be of much help in consuming city dungeons.

Ordinary residential houses are not outrageously expensive. Even in the central areas of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the housing prices are not scary. In order to successfully apply the consumption of city dungeons to the limit, Shi Lei must buy real estate like castles that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Of course, Shi Lei can actually afford it. After all, in at most ten hours, he will get a sum of 10 billion US dollars of independent funds, but that is independent funds, which will not help him to spend the quota at all.

This is also a chance for Shi Lei to repay Zidane.

A person who is willing to directly give away an antique car worth more than 30 million US dollars, let him use hundreds of millions of dollars as a guarantee, I think he should reluctantly agree.

Shi Lei also hoped that the hundreds of millions of dollars in guarantees would make Zidane think that he was greedy and would cut off contact with him in the future. Shi Lei did not want to have too much contact with Zidane, and the rules of the Dark Night Eye could not be challenged again and again. At least, after the ferryman, the biggest worry in his heart, was solved, the Dark Night Eye would definitely not allow members to communicate so easily.

For Shi Lei, this was a plan that killed two or even three birds with one stone.

Unexpectedly, Zidane actually had a castle in London under his name.

"The castle originally belonged to a duke appointed by the British royal family. The duke and I have always been good friends. Five years ago, the duke passed away. The duke had no children, so before he died, he entrusted the castle to me, hoping to sell it for a good price, and the money, as stated in his will, was intended to be used to establish a fund for charitable purposes."

Shi Lei nodded, thinking that this was the case.

He asked, "I wonder how much the Duke is going to offer for his castle?"

"Haha, Mr. Shi, don't worry. You might as well take a look at the castle before making a decision."

Shi Lei smiled and said, "Let's find out the price first. If the price is too high and I can't afford it, forget it."

Zidane also smiled and said, "Mr. Shi, don't worry about this. Whether you can afford the price of the castle or not, I am willing to buy it and then sell it to you, Mr. Shi. My gratitude is not just verbal, but I am a businessman, and businessmen are always used to solving problems with money."

"Give it to me?" Shi Lei was shocked.

A castle is worth at least tens of millions of dollars, and it may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Zidane's gift seems a bit too generous to be accepted.

Shi Lei doesn't want to fall into a situation where he owes a favor to Zidane because of his generosity.

"It's not a gift. For such a large gift, the tax will be too high to bear. It's just that I can provide Mr. Shi with a high interest-free loan. Mr. Shi can pay me back when he has money."

Shi Lei understood that this was an interest-free loan with no specified term, which means that Shi Lei can pay it back if he wants to, and can just keep delaying it if he doesn't want to. To put it bluntly, this is another way of giving.

But this is for other people. For Shi Lei, of course he will pay it back, and he must pay it back.

Because, whether there is a loan with a time limit or not, for a program like Black Card that only uses logical thinking, it is basically the same. Moreover, this helps Shi Lei consume the city copy consumption, and he has no reason not to pay it back.

And Shi Lei paid back the money, and the repayment period will not be too long, which means that Shi Lei will not owe Zidane a favor in return.

This old guy seems to be very kind, but in fact, I don't know what he is planning in his heart.

Shi Lei always believes that a person will not be so close to another person for no reason, even if it is to repay a favor, there is no need to do this. Especially Zidane's behavior, it is obviously a risk, even risking his life again.

No one would believe that he took such a risk without asking for anything.

Therefore, Shi Lei must not owe Zidane any favors.

Shi Lei insisted: "I'd better listen to the offer first."

Zidane had no choice but to say: "My old friend's psychological price for his castle cannot be less than 200 million euros. It's not that I don't want Mr. Goteshi to offer, but mainly because he wants to do charity. Of course, the more the better, and I also hope to help him achieve his wish. But since Mr. Shi insists so much, I can only feel ashamed of my old friend."

Shi Lei smiled slightly and didn't pay much attention to Zidane's words.

He said: "200 million euros, this price is indeed a bit difficult for me to afford now."

"I said that I can buy it first, and then provide Mr. Shi with an interest-free loan. We can discuss the loan period."

Zidane actually knew that Shi Lei had been rejecting him, at least he didn't intend to accept his "good intentions". He thought it would be difficult for Shi Lei to accept, but unexpectedly, Shi Lei agreed very readily.

Shi Lei nodded and said, "Then I would like to thank Mr. Zidane first. Although I don't know why you are so kind to me, I am poor and have short ambitions. In order to fulfill my wish of owning an ancient castle in Europe, I can only accept it temporarily. However, we still have to make an agreement on the loan period. I will pay off the loan within three years at most."

Zidane was stunned for a moment, and finally laughed. He stretched out his hand and said, "Then it's a deal."

Shi Lei nodded and said, "If it's not troublesome, the transfer procedures of the castle will be completed as soon as possible. I won't stay in London for too long this time."

Zidane laughed and said, "I also thought that after the banquet tonight, I would take Mr. Shi to see the castle. No matter what the price is, I still have to see the real thing."

Shi Lei shook hands with Zidane, and estimated that it was time for the auction of the car outside, so he pushed the wheelchair and returned to the banquet hall with Zidane.

As soon as he sat down, the stage took the legal documents of the car and started the auction of the Bugatti.

On the projection, photos of Bugatti were displayed one by one, and the host also introduced the car destined to be the winner of the bid tonight.

However, the reaction from the audience was very cold, as if no one was very interested in this car.

After a very simple bidding, Shi Lei got the car for 32 million US dollars.

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