Chapter 1763 What Is Lacking, What Is Inferiority Complex

The old teahouse in Shanghai is a very romantic tea restaurant. In this era when young people are more yearning for foreign countries, Western food and red wine seem to be the standard of high-end places.

Teahouses and theaters seem to be places where only sleepy old people go.

But in fact, many people who drink red wine and eat Western food are just pretending to be elegant, feeling that foreign famous wines are so face-saving and so awesome. In fact, few of these people are really rich.

Otherwise, look at those real big guys. You give him a jar of ten-year-old daughter red and a bottle of so-called Lafite. Which one do you think he will choose?

There is a dish of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall with good color, fragrance and taste and a so-called five-star Michelin restaurant Wagyu steak. Which one do you think he will eat?

Carefully observe all kinds of people who promote red wine, steak, and Western high-end. In addition to those who don’t know what they are, they are a group of people who have suddenly become rich in recent years.

This group of people can’t flatter or integrate into the real high-end society. They can’t afford antiques worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

So he took a few hundred thousand or a few million yuan to package himself with the so-called gentleman and so-called high-end in the West, and made himself look like a gentleman.

A set of so-called imported furniture from Italy is only a few hundred thousand or a million yuan, which is not enough to cover the price of the armchairs in the living room of Yang Dongxu's Yanjing courtyard.

And imported furniture, whether imported or custom-made, even feels so rare and high-end. It takes half a year or a year for the custom-made furniture to arrive, which makes people feel very eager.

But the armchairs and furniture in the living room of Yang Dongxu's courtyard, let alone half a year or a year, you can't buy them even if you wave your money.

In short, the things that the truly rich and well-off people in China play with are not affordable for those who have become rich, and there is no way to enter this circle.

But he couldn't let others feel that he was a country bumpkin who suddenly became rich, so he pulled a bunch of so-called high-end things from the West to package himself, hoping that others would not see that he was a peasant.

Take the old teahouse in Shanghai for example. It seems that the people drinking tea are all conservative petty bourgeoisie in Shanghai. They look worse than those who came to Shanghai to work and got rich. They are dressed in beautiful clothes and branded clothes.

These people spend thousands of yuan on a western meal, but it seems that drinking tea in the old teahouse for a morning only costs a few hundred yuan. Therefore, the people with beautiful clothes look richer than those who come to the old teahouse to drink tea.

But will the old men and women who come to the old teahouse to drink tea tell you that they got 10 houses when their families were demolished?

Your so-called wealthy family can only buy one house in Shanghai, while they have several houses in their homes that are covered with dust and no one lives in them.

You think you are a company manager with an annual salary of one million yuan and your connections seem amazing, but it turns out that their son works in a bank, their relatives are district heads, or their family members have connections to mine abroad. How can you compare?

So sometimes when it comes to discussing business in an old teahouse, some young people just curl their lips, thinking that those who go to an old teahouse to discuss business are those salespeople who cheat old men and women to buy health products for the elderly.

As a senior white-collar worker, when I go out to discuss business, Blue Mountain and Starbucks are the standard, right?

You asked me to go to an old teahouse that looks like KFC to discuss a few things. Who are you looking down on?

Little do they know that if you can make a deal with an old man who often comes to drink tea in a place like an old teahouse, you may meet a noble person in your life.

For example, at the moment, Yang Dongxu and Wei Fei walked into the old teahouse and happened to see a man wearing glasses and a luxury suit who looked very successful. He was nodding and bowing to send a guest who came out of the old teahouse away.

The guest had just left not far away, and the man who was smiling and nodding could not hide the contempt on his face.

He kept asking the beautiful female assistant next to him for tissues to wipe his hands and clothes. It seemed that after sitting in this low-end teahouse for a while, his awesome brand name clothes were devalued because they were stained with dirty things.

Seeing Yang Dongxu and Wei Fei walking into the teahouse, he didn't let them go, but stood in the middle of the door, cursing and almost wanted to spit out the tea just now, as if he felt that the thing would give him diarrhea.

The security guard at the door of the teahouse frowned and almost went up to beat this guy up. A stinky worker, pretending to be your mother?

Wei Fei and Yang Dongxu walked into the teahouse sideways.

Seeing the employee at the door who didn't know which company was still wiping and wiping, and wanted to open a room and find a bathtub to soak and rub off a layer of skin, Wei Fei couldn't help shaking his head.

"People like this can only get so far."

"The more you lack something, the more you care about it, just like the poor care that others despise him for being poor and not generous enough. Too inferior, so you want to use some things to pretend to be strong." Yang Dongxu couldn't help shaking his head.

The two came here today because Li Yihang treated them to dinner. They didn't expect to see such a scene at the gate.

Li Yihang invited Yang Dongxu to come to discuss business. Wei Fei came to join in the fun after knowing it, and Zhu Hengyi accompanied him.

The four of them asked for a private room, where they sat and drank tea. A girl in a cheongsam with good temperament and good looks served them and played the tea ceremony.

The business the four people discussed was not big, just 1 million US dollars, which is about 7.3 million RMB according to the current exchange rate.

For the account manager downstairs, because he looked down on places like the Old Teahouse, he would say sourly that a business of more than 7 million was nothing, and he had negotiated several hundred million orders at the same time, as if the several hundred million was his.

Although the business was not big, it was about the sale of private islands. Not to mention the account manager who just met at the door and disliked the Old Teahouse, it is estimated that the boss of his company could not intervene in such a business.

Because this business seems to have a small transaction volume, it is not something that ordinary people can play.

"There is no public sale of islands for the time being. At least, at present, countries no longer buy and sell their own islands. Basically, they are mainly leased, such as leasing for 100 or 200 years.

In fact, it is similar to buying and selling, but the concept of selling is that this thing belongs to a private person and no longer belongs to the country's territory. The concept of leasing is that although this place is a private island, it is still someone else's land area.

So if there is no special situation, the island can only be rented now, not bought." After sitting down, Yang Dongxu took a sip of tea.

Listening to the soft and sticky magic city tune on the stage downstairs, I feel that this place is quite good.

"Then let's rent it. Who knows when we'll meet a crazy president who'll sell the island. But even if we rent it for 1 million US dollars, isn't 5.2 square kilometers too small?" Li Yihang couldn't help but say.