Chapter 538 Meeting Mr. Stone Again
After hanging up the phone from Zhang Xiyue, Shi Lei returned to the hotel room.
Song Miaomiao just finished the phone call, shook her head at Shi Lei, and said regretfully: "I may not be able to help you. I asked many people, and they all contacted local contacts. Then, the answers I got were Same. This Huo Chengdong is a very solitary person. He hardly makes friends with others, and he hardly cares about business matters. He leaves everything to professional managers to take care of. He usually lives like an ordinary person, basically I don’t often attend various gatherings. Even for charity, I just donate the money directly. I won’t participate in charity nights, charity auctions and other activities. All in all, he is a weirdo.”
Shi Lei nodded and said, "I'll try again myself. If it doesn't work, I have no choice but to give up."
"I'm afraid this is really difficult for you. My friend has a good relationship with the president of the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Although Huo Chengdong is considered a very outstanding industrialist among the Chinese, he has always refused to join the Chinese Chamber of Commerce unless he really He has business dealings, otherwise he has the same attitude towards everyone. However, my friend said that he heard from the president of the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce that Huo Chengdong seemed to have very broad interests, including opera, sports, everything related to art and competition. He is interested in everything. And as long as there is nothing special, he will go to watch it. There is an equestrian world championship here tomorrow, you might as well try your luck, if you can meet it, you may have a chance."
Shi Lei drank a glass of wine in silence, and then thought of the man he saw at the Sydney Opera House tonight. He couldn't help but turn on his phone and look at Huo Chengdong's photo, recalling the man carefully. He really didn't look like him, except that he was from China. Apart from their faces, there really aren't many similarities.
After almost drinking, Song Miaomiao naturally wanted to stay with Shi Lei and refused to leave. Shi Lei talked hard and finally used the excuse of "long hair reaching waist" to drive Song Miaomiao out.
After waking up, Shi Lei changed into more casual clothes and went straight to the venue of the Equestrian World Championships.
Australia is originally a country built on grass. For Australians, places like racecourses are as frequent as Chinese people visiting shopping malls.
But even so, tickets for this World Championship are not particularly easy to sell. It is estimated that they will be better in the finals. After all, it is only the preliminaries now. Australians also need to work, and not so many people have time to watch the game.
He bought the ticket smoothly. After entering, Shi Lei followed the picture and found the seat corresponding to the ticket and sat down.
Because he wanted to ruin Joseph's game, Shi Lei bought the high-priced ticket in the front row. Anyway, it was a credit payment. Shi Lei didn't feel sorry for the ticket price of nearly 200 Australian dollars.
As the champion of the obstacle course at the last World Championships, Joseph was the last one to appear. Shi Lei actually had no interest in equestrian and just sat there bored, just waiting for Joseph to appear.
"Young man, we meet again." Someone said behind Shi Lei, speaking a slightly unfamiliar Mandarin.
Shi Lei turned around and saw that it was the man from last night again. He couldn't help but smile and said, "What a coincidence. Are you coming to see the equestrian show too?"
"I usually have nothing to do. I am more interested in art and sports. Although I am not interested in equestrian, I have nothing to do, so I came to take a look."
Uh... I'm more interested in art and sports. Shi Lei looked at this man carefully. He really didn't have the slightest resemblance to the man in the photo. It seems that many Chinese people living in Sydney have quite a lot of leisure time. .
Shi Lei stood up, stretched out his hand and said, "My name is Shi Lei, Four Stones. What do you call me?"
The man smiled, shook hands with Shi Lei, and said with a smile: "It seems that we are able to meet each other two days in a row. It is really a fate. My name is Stone. If translated into Chinese, it should also be stone. Haha. , plus you, the two of us are worth five stones."
Shi Lei was also stunned, and said with a smile: "That's really a coincidence, Mr. Stone, I'm glad to meet you."
Stone's position was originally separated from Shi Lei, but looking at the sparse stands, especially the front row, it was obviously empty, so Stone simply sat next to Shi Lei.
After watching for a while, Stone asked Shi Lei: "It seems that you are not very interested in this. You are here to travel to Sydney. Why are you wasting your time here like me?"
Shi Lei hesitated for a moment, but told the truth: "I'm really not interested in this, but I am very interested in the Joseph who appeared at the end."
"Oh? Joseph, was the obstacle course champion at the last World Championships? Are you friends with him?"
"No, not a friend, even an enemy."
"Enemy?" Stone smiled with interest and asked, "If you don't mind, can you tell me about it? This game is indeed a bit boring. It would be nice to hear a story."
Shi Lei also smiled and said: "I am from Runzhou City, Jiangdong Province, but now I live in Wudong. Because of the Olympics, Wudong built a very large horse farm..."
After more than ten minutes, Shi Lei introduced the general situation of that day. Stone frowned the whole time, seeming to be very dissatisfied with Joseph and the bureaucracy of the sports committee.
"China is now so powerful that it has surpassed Japan and Germany to become the world's second largest economy. Why does it still treat foreigners like this? A world champion in an unpopular competition actually wants to requisition such a large venue. What do domestic officials do? What do you think? This is simply nonsense."
Shi Lei waved his hands with a smile and said, "You can't say that. Firstly, this matter is because Joseph is too arrogant and has an inappropriate mentality of the so-called British aristocrat. Secondly, he is also the person who actually does the work. His identity There was a deviation in knowledge. The behavior of one small official cannot be blamed on all officials. In fact, after the Sports Commission learned of the matter later, it also punished the official who handled it. It’s just Joseph. , It’s really annoying. He obviously promised me that he would make a public apology in the media, but he turned around and forgot about it.”
Stone nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I was a little excited just now, and may have some biased understanding of the situation in the country. This is mainly because when my grandfather left the country, it was during the war years, and the domestic officials at that time That's what soldiers are like, flattering foreign adults and insulting Chinese people wantonly. I'm sorry. But is this why you came to Australia specifically?"
Shi Lei said with a smile: "Half and half, let Joseph be eliminated and miss the trophy is just one of the purposes of my trip. In addition, I have other things to deal with."
"Can you really talk to a horse? Make Joseph's horse obey your command?"
Shi Lei nodded and said: "This may be regarded as a very strange ability of mine. I can't explain it myself, but since I was a child, it has been easy for me to communicate with animals, and it is easy for animals to feel close to me." . I only need to give instructions to the animal, and if the animal can complete it, it will generally carry out my order."
Stone laughed loudly and said: "Then I'm going to take a closer look at this special ability of yours. It's interesting. I didn't expect that I would get such an unexpected reward when I came to watch the equestrian show today. By the way, you just said there was a second one." Purpose, what is that?”
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