Chapter 1177 Dale's Family (Part 2)
The Spencer family is located in the center of London, a certain distance from Buckingham Palace, the Queen's residence next to St. James' Park.
Unlike the wealthy people who like to build a large manor in the suburbs now. The old houses of British nobles are basically in the center of London.
It can be said that the city of London actually expands outward around the former residences of nobles, just like the ancient Chinese palace is surrounded by the residences of civil and military ministers and the people living in the capital.
Therefore, the old houses of British nobles with reputation and inheritance are all in the city center. This is also one of the differences between new nobles and inherited nobles.
Of course, there are also many new nobles who buy the old houses of those declining nobles and live in them to increase their seemingly thin heritage.
Without Dale sending someone to pick up his Rolls-Royce, several Mercedes-Benz cars came to the old house of the Spencer family. There were guards standing in front of the old house of Spencer, which has always been very low-key in front of the public. It can be seen what kind of heritage and strength this family has under its low-key appearance.
The iron fence door creaked open, not only did not make people feel backward. Instead, it looked like an unfolded ink painting. When the cars entered one after another, a historical atmosphere came over.
Compared with the wooden buildings in ancient China, the castles in the West are basically made of stone. However, the Spencer family did not live in the castles of the Middle Ages in Europe. Although the whole mansion exudes the atmosphere of history, the whole manor does not look as heavy as the castle.
After several repairs and renovations, it looks a bit magnificent. It seems to be a proof of the current strength of the Spencer family.
Opening the car, Dale stood at the door to greet her, and there was a ramen head but dressed very formally, not like the usual decadent playboy, Aston.
"Welcome to the Spencer family." Aston stretched out his hand and shook hands with Yang Dongxu.
"Thank you for coming out to greet me." Yang Dongxu greeted Aston politely.
Then Yang Dongxu stretched out his hand and greeted Dale politely, but Dale suddenly stepped forward and gave him a kiss on the cheek. This made the expression on his mouth stiffen for a moment.
"Talk less for a while." Dale said in Yang Dongxu's ear.
This made his expression pause for a moment.
The butler led the way and the three of them wanted to go inside. Compared with the various European-style furniture placed in the rich man's house, this old house was filled with more antiques.
For example, the oil paintings on the wall, some sculptures and porcelain on the shelves, etc.
Instead of going to the living room, he went straight to the restaurant through the corridor. When he arrived at the restaurant, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but turn his head slightly to look at Dale. At the door, he was a little confused about Dale's request to speak less.
When he came to the restaurant, he saw not only Dale's father Wolf, but also a tall and somewhat cold man. And a beautiful woman who looked very attractive, and the two people's eyebrows were somewhat similar to Dale and Auston who followed behind, and he instantly guessed the identities of the two people.
After all, when he cooperated with the Spencer family, he had done some research on this family. Dale's father Wolf*Spencer was a playboy when he was young.
He had two wives in total, but before getting married, he had a son with his girlfriend when he was still in school. The son with a somewhat stern face in front of him is undoubtedly Dale's brother, Dean Spencer, the eldest son of the Spencer family. The other one is naturally Dale's sister, Glen Spencer.
"Hello, I am Dean Spencer, the brother of Auston and Dale." Seeing Yang Dongxu coming in, Dean stood up politely.
Glen stood up with him, and Wolf nodded to Yang Dongxu as a greeting.
"Hello, Yang Dongxu, Dale's partner." Yang Dongxu smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Dean.
This made the smile on Glen's face, who was standing next to him, thicken for some reason, and then he also stretched out his hand. "Glen Spencer, Dale's sister."
"Yang Dongxu, Dale's partner." I don't know if it's an illusion, when Glen only said that he was Dale's sister, and didn't bring Auston, it seemed to be a normal conversation. But Auston next to him flashed a trace of anger on his face.
"Take a seat. It's a bit rude to ask you suddenly, but I have to see you because of what happened before. After all, your cooperation with Dale is about to be signed, so as a father, I hope you can understand my concern for his daughter." Wolf*Spencer said while sitting in the main seat.
"I can understand, after all, the previous things were not so pleasant." Yang Dongxu smiled and nodded to Wolf, indicating that he understood.
Several people began to sit down. Dean and Glen sat on Wolf's left, so Auston and Dale sat on Wolf's right, and Yang Dongxu sat next to Dale.
It seemed to be just an ordinary family dinner. A father who cared about his daughter wanted to see what the partner who cooperated with his daughter was like, so he didn't care about the ranking.
"I heard that Mr. Yang also runs two teams?" After sitting down, there was obviously no rule of not talking while eating or sleeping at the table. So Ge Lan smiled and said to Yang Dongxu.
Ge Lan spoke except for Dean, whether it was Wolf or Auston, or Dale sitting next to Yang Dongxu. The expression on his face didn't seem to be that happy. Even though it wasn't very obvious, he still caught it.
"Well, we bought two teams before, the 76ers in the NBA and Barcelona in La Liga." Yang Dongxu nodded.
"These are two top teams. The 76ers are likely to win the championship this year. And if your team members don't change too much, the chances of achieving continuity in the next few years are also very high. And Barcelona not only swept the La Liga and the Champions League, but also had a lot of stars." Ge Lan praised.
"Maybe I'm lucky. Of course, in addition to luck, I also have a lot of money. Otherwise, I can't sell so many stars." Yang Dongxu made a modest joke.
"Indeed, in addition to luck, you also need money. Otherwise, you can't buy so many stars, and even if you buy them, you can't keep them."
"Are you interested in the team too?" Yang Dongxu felt that Ge Lan seemed to be too enthusiastic about him, so he followed her words and asked.
"I'm not interested in the team, but in the stars. I have a luxury brand Mai Ruibao. When I first did the endorsement survey a few days ago, I was very optimistic about the commercial value of the team stars in your hands, so I gave me some suggestions." Ge Lan said.
"That's really a coincidence. I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate with you in the future." Yang Dongxu smiled a little more, and seemed to be very interested in cooperating with Ge Lan.
However, the smile that had just appeared paused for a moment.
"What's wrong?" The attention was always on Yang Dongxu's face, and they were sitting face to face. So Ge Lan caught the subtle changes in Yang Dongxu's expression.
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of the time when I had dinner with Mr. Roman before. He said he wanted to buy the stars in my hands, and I could set the price." Yang Dongxu evaded the question.
"Mr. Roman is really generous in selling stars." Ge Lan nodded.
"In fact, whether it is NBA or football, there is a lot of room for market improvement. At this time, as long as the performance of the team is not too bad, it should be well managed." The speaker was Dean.
Yang Dongxu glanced at Dale from the corner of his eye. The stagnant expression on his face just now was because Dale stepped on him under the table.
"Indeed, both the NBA and football have developed very fast in the past two years. For example, the NBA has opened up the Chinese market, and the advertising fees and broadcasting rights have been increasing rapidly in the past two years.
Serie A is still the world's top first-class league, and La Liga and the Premier League, which were behind Serie A before, have also caught up quickly in the past two years, which also proves that this industry is booming." Yang Dongxu said.
"The team is indeed a good investment." Wolf, who had been silent, also nodded.
Then several people talked about the team market, and the dinner was over before they knew it.
After drinking tea and chatting for a few words, Wolf politely invited him to stay overnight. Yang Dongxu declined and got in his car and left.
But just after leaving the Spencer family's manor, a text message came on his mobile phone. Yang Dongxu signaled the driver to drive the car into the side road and stopped.
After a while, Dale drove her car into the side road, got out of the car and got into Yang Dongxu's car.
"What's the matter?" Yang Dongxu looked at Dale sideways.
Dai'er didn't say anything and signaled Yang Dongxu to look at the intersection.
A car passed by the intersection.
"Dean's car." Dale said.
Before Yang Dongxu could continue to ask.
Behind Dean was another red sports car.
"Glenn's car."
Then there was another silver-gray sports car. This one must be Dale's brother Auston's car.
"What do you feel?" Dale looked at him.
Frowning, Yang Dongxu said, "The relationship between your family members doesn't seem to be very friendly."
He felt that Dale's family was a little weird at the dinner table before. When he was talking to Glenn, Dale stepped on him.
And he had just left Spencer Manor, and the family who behaved quite harmoniously at the dinner table, left their home one by one as if they were fleeing after the dinner.
"It's not seeming, but really unfriendly." Dale said a little faintly.
Yang Dongxu couldn't help but look at her in surprise. It seemed unnecessary to tell an outsider like him about such family affairs.
"Cooperation with you is very important to me. I don't want anything to go wrong. Or you changed a partner in the middle." Dale spoke as straightforwardly as always.
"Change your partner, your sister?" Yang Dongxu couldn't help but ask.
"Or maybe my father."
Dai'er's answer made Yang Dongxu look surprised again. He originally thought that Dai'er's family just had poor family affection. But when Dai'er said this, it was obviously not just a family affair.
"Although my father is the head of the family, my grandfather just passed away less than two years ago. When my grandfather was alive, he was most optimistic about my eldest brother Dean.
So now most of the Spencer family's industries are managed by my eldest brother Dean. Not my father." Dai'er told another family secret that Yang Dongxu didn't know.