The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 150 You're Still So Arrogant
November has passed by in a flash, with almost half of it already gone.

Chen Pingsheng didn't care at all about the lawsuit with the fat landlord.

With the legal department putting in a lot of effort, that should be enough. When a company gets big, it's bound to have a lot of lawsuits.

He recently discovered something strange.

Chen An'an, the little rascal at home, has stopped nagging to ride in her mother's LaFerrari to school.

Instead, he grew to enjoy riding his Yadea electric scooter.

Chen Pingsheng thought that this brat had finally come to his senses and stopped being obsessed with those high-profile displays of arrogance.

Who knew she was just using a different method?

For example.

Every time I ride a Yadea, regardless of whether it's raining or not, I must carry a black umbrella, the standard accessory for a Rolls-Royce.

The clothes must also be very ordinary.

In her current understanding, clothes are generally in the range of less than three thousand and more than one thousand.

Besides clothes, one cannot have too many decorations on their body.

She wouldn't take anything like cameras that cost over 100,000 yuan, or any other expensive but useless items.

Chen Pingsheng felt relieved; the little brat had really become sensible.

They've even learned to keep a low profile.

She had a day off today, and when Chen Pingsheng was about to take her out to play, Chen An'an decisively pulled out a large Rolls-Royce umbrella from her mother's car.

Chen Pingsheng looked outside and saw that the sun was shining brightly.

"Why are you carrying an umbrella on such a beautiful day?"

In addition to taking an umbrella, Chen An'an also took out a pair of sunglasses from her large backpack.

"Dad, isn't this for sun protection?"

"What are you trying to protect yourself from? It's not even 15 degrees Celsius, do you think you have room to get sunburned?"

Chen An'an was immediately displeased. She had only learned a higher level of pretentious art from that previous bus ride.

Only then did I realize that my previous high-profile and extravagant entrance was all for naught.

It's flashy and lacks substance.

She's so different now, so low-key.

Sitting on a small Yadea, wearing ten-dollar sunglasses, and holding a ten-thousand-dollar Rolls-Royce umbrella in one's little hand.

There's a saying that goes something like this: trying too hard only lowers your standards.

Being low-key is the best way to show off.

Clearly, she thought the complete opposite of Chen Pingsheng; it wasn't that she didn't like pretending anymore, but rather that she was going further and further down this path.

"Dad, you scold me even for carrying an umbrella."

Chen Pingsheng snorted at her, too lazy to pay attention to this brat.

My little one is six months old now and can sit up and clap his hands by himself.

It's cute when it laughs.

When I need to poop, I want to run as far away as possible.

The overall design for the courtyard house was finished, and Chen Pingsheng took Big Paw to see it.

It takes less than an hour to ride my Yadea bike from Shijingshan to the Second Ring Road.

It's the weekend, and there are a lot of cars on the road.

No wonder Beijing has implemented license plate restrictions; otherwise, walking would be faster than driving.

The Yadea electric scooter was still the most stylish, blowing the father and daughter's flowing black hair all the way.

When they came to the traffic light, they happened to stop in front of a Porsche 718.

An entry-level sports car might not be considered high-class in wealthy circles, but it's perfectly adequate for the average girl.

Chen Pingsheng and Chen An'an happened to be parked on the passenger side. After the car window was opened, the man driving glanced down at them with disdain.

He then boasted to the heavily made-up woman next to him:
"Look, if men don't work hard, their daughters will suffer too. In this kind of weather, they can only ride a Yadea bike. How miserable is that?"

"Darling, you're right. If we marry a man like that, what hope do we women have for the rest of our lives?"

The woman, heavily made up, had bleached blonde hair and a small butterfly tattoo on her neck.

Perhaps she herself isn't that great.

But sitting in the Porsche at that moment gave her the confidence to say those words.

No wonder women love riding in luxury cars.

I always felt that once she sat in that seat, she herself belonged to that class.

Chen An'an chuckled, "This is the fun of riding a Yadea!"

If they were riding in their father's Rolls-Royce or their mother's LaFerrari, no one would mock them so mercilessly.

Her father is just an old man who doesn't care what he hears.

She doesn't even bother to refute such things; she's still young, just a second-grader.

You can talk about her, but you can't talk about her father.

He decisively pulled out the large umbrella and gently tapped on the car window.

"You shameless woman, you think you can marry my father? You should take a good look at yourself in the mirror."

She'd never seen a woman with such a large black umbrella or tattoos before.

Chen An's attempt to force her failed, but she still found joy in her insults.

Sitting behind Chen Pingsheng, he hummed and snorted.

"What are you doing, you rude little girl? This is a Porsche. Can you afford to pay for even a small scratch?"

The man got out of the car looking nervous; it was a car he had just bought, and he had only paid the minimum down payment.

The remaining balance will take three years to pay off, so I cherish it dearly.

I was relieved to see that there were no scratches.

However, he kept staring at Chen An'an.

"Who are you calling rude?"

"Of course I'm cursing your daughter, she's a brat who was born of a mother but didn't learn anything from her."

Chen Pingsheng frowned and simply knocked down the kickstand of the electric scooter.

He didn't curse. He took off his watch and placed it in front of the tire, then put the large black Rolex umbrella that Chen An'an was holding over there as well.

"Young man, do you think driving a Porsche makes you impressive?"

"Hmph." Cao Lei wasn't very educated, and he was quite young, around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. He bought this car specifically to pick up girls and show off when he went out.

"You, who drives a Yadea, do you have the right to say such things? You could never afford my Porsche in your entire life."

"Fine, then you'd better put some pressure on me."

Chen Pingsheng pointed to the two things he had placed on the ground.

"You're crazy. Someone like you carrying around a broken umbrella and a digital watch, do you think they're some kind of rare find?"

The woman also started to chime in.

After Cao Lei got on the bus, he glared at him dismissively and cursed him as a blind fool.

Then, he drove his newly bought Porsche over the watch and the umbrella.

Not satisfied with just one round trip, they went back and forth again.

"So what if the employers and employees are oppressing us? They deserve to be poor for life, what idiots."

After saying that, Cao Lei left with a dashing air, amidst the adoring gaze of his blond girlfriend.

As soon as he left, Chen Pingsheng immediately used his Yadea to stop the car behind him.

He only needs one, and he also needs to preserve evidence.

After taking a few photos, I called Bai Xin again and asked her to come over from the legal department and also to pick me up by car.

His Maybach S680 was left right downstairs at the company.

"Dad, how could you just let him leave like that?"

"Silly daughter, you need to use your brain to mess with someone. What's the point of just yelling at him?"

Soon, Bai Xin arrived with her people. Yadi let them ride back on their own, while he drove away in his Maybach.

As for the evidence on the ground, the Ministry of Justice will handle it.

There's absolutely no need to waste his time.

……

Talking two ends.

On the other side, after leaving, Cao Lei took his new tattooed girlfriend to watch a passionate little movie.

Then, naturally, they spent the night together at the hotel, where they met a pretty girl and flirted with her a couple of times.

He felt that betting his entire fortune on this Porsche sports car was absolutely the right thing to do.

In the past, pursuing girls required various techniques, but now that I have a Porsche, it's incredibly easy.

In those women's eyes, if you drive a Porsche and don't talk much, it means you're low-key and sophisticated. If you didn't have this sports car, you'd just be a quiet, unassuming guy.

Within three months of buying the car, he had already changed four women.

None of the three were any good, and he knew it himself; one of them was a schoolgirl.

After a few days, she even got pregnant. I promptly deleted her, blocked her, and ran away.

Just as Cao Lei was fantasizing about driving to visit those art schools again that night, the police knocked on the door.

He didn't take the morning's events to heart at all; there are plenty of poor people in the world.

Even if you just run him over with two things, or even if you run him over and kill him, he has insurance, so what's there to be afraid of?

It has to be said that these young people's ideas are truly courageous.

"Cao Lei, right? Why don't you come with us?"

"What's wrong? I haven't broken the law, have I?"

"Suspected of hit-and-run, come with us immediately."

Hit-and-run?
Cao Lei thought it was the pregnant female student who reported it, but he didn't expect it to be a traffic accident.

It even escalated to the point where the police were involved.

Cao Lei had no choice but to obediently follow along; the police officers in Beijing were no ordinary people.

Upon arriving here, he was greeted by Zhang Si, the chief lawyer of Tengying and an outlaw.

Zhang Si gave a brief introduction, then took out the umbrella and digital watch that he had pressed down on three times.

"Sir, these are the items you damaged. Our boss said that considering your limited financial resources and low social standing, he doesn't need you to pay the original price; he only needs to pay 30% of the original price."

Cao Lei glanced at him and immediately recognized him as the guy who rode the electric scooter that morning. He said disdainfully:
"A broken umbrella, a broken digital watch, is a hundred yuan enough for you? You're such a poor idiot, you don't even know what's good for this kind of thing to be reported to the police?"

"One hundred dollars?"

Zhang Si glanced at him sideways and said, "Sir, I think you might have some misunderstanding about our boss. The Rolls-Royce umbrella was completely broken by you. As for this digital watch, our boss's wife bought it for him herself. It's only been less than a month and is worth about two million. You should be able to afford to pay for it at a 30% discount, right?"

What nonsense are you spouting?

Cao Lei suspected him of extortion.

"Officer, arrest him! This is clearly extortion! Extortion in the police station? Are you stupid?"

"When did Rolls-Royce start making umbrellas? I didn't know that."

Cao Lei shrugged, clearly believing the other person was trying to scare him.

Zhang Si still looked at him sideways: "Comrade, you have to have evidence to back up your words. Rolls-Royce doesn't manufacture umbrellas; they only come with a Rolls-Royce. It's normal for someone at your level not to know. You can have these two items appraised. Our boss won't come here to frame you for such a small amount of money."

"You fart."

Cao Lei felt like he was going crazy, a guy riding a Yadea with a child.

It was broad daylight, yet he was carrying a Rolls-Royce umbrella.

If you have this, why are you even riding a Yadea?

The road belongs to you, why are you trying to harm me?

Cao Lei didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to believe it.

If that's true, even selling him wouldn't be enough to cover the losses.

Zhang Si also stood up and stopped explaining to him: "Get your lawyer ready. When I go crazy, I even want to send the defendant's lawyer to jail."

With the evidence irrefutable, it's definitely impossible for Cao Lei to escape.

His prized Porsche 718 was naturally confiscated without mercy.

Insurance companies won't cover it, because it's very simple: going back and forth several times is clearly intentional.

Insurance only covers unintentional damage; once it's determined to be intentional, then congratulations!

It has nothing to do with them, just laugh it off.

The evidence is clear: both items have invoices.

Cao Lei will eventually have to pay the price for his youthful impulsiveness.

If he hadn't insulted Chen An'an by saying she was born of a mother but raised without one, Chen Pingsheng wouldn't have treated him like this.

Since you've already started hurling insults, you might as well prepare to pay up.

Of course, you can act like a rogue in front of the court, but the price will be high.

Cao Lei was in a terrible predicament, feeling like he was doomed and back to square one.

It's probably impossible for him to enjoy picking up girls in a Porsche anymore.

……

the other side.

Chen Pingsheng brought Chen An'an to the newly purchased courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang.

Waiting for them there was a top-notch courtyard house interior designer.

After a month and a half, they finally managed to complete the overall design drawings for their large courtyard house.

Don't underestimate this picture; it cost a full three million to design.

“Mr. Chen, look, a courtyard house as big as yours, in addition to retaining the unique ancient architecture on the outside, also adopts a certain Suzhou garden design in the interior, combined with modern style.”

There were too many technical terms, so Chen Pingsheng simply looked at the computer renderings.

The courtyard has four entrances and four exits, with a total of sixteen rooms.

One of the rooms on the west side is decorated as a separate tea room, while several others are decorated as a living room, study, banquet hall, gym, and a separate small dining room.

Let's put it this way: wealthy people don't even consider housing too many people in their houses.

The whole family should do whatever makes them comfortable.

Of the sixteen rooms, nine will be converted into additional rooms for the owner.

The remaining seven are the ones that people live in.

Not only will the rooms be completely redesigned, but the entire courtyard will almost be rebuilt.

According to the designer's idea, a small green grove will be arranged behind all the living rooms.

Like looking out from the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows in the master bedroom.

Plant two beautiful crabapple trees, and in spring they will be in full bloom, and in autumn they will be laden with golden fruit, filling the air with fragrance.

Looking at it while I sleep can instantly lift my spirits.

Chen An'an immediately jumped out: "I don't want to plant trees, I want to raise a great white shark outside the floor-to-ceiling window of my room."

Raising sharks is obviously impossible, but building a small aquarium is not a big problem.

This change will undoubtedly increase the cost significantly.

Moreover, the annual maintenance cost of such a miniature aquarium is a huge expense.

It doesn't matter.

Having already paid 200 million for a courtyard house outright, would they still care about these things?
That's why these top designers only like to design houses for rich people.

They're not short of money, so let's do whatever looks good and is comfortable.

Chen Pingsheng told the designer to just do it the way she liked.

Chen An'an giggled, showing great longing and anticipation.

Aside from the rooms where you live and the ancillary rooms that are about to be renovated, the most important part of a siheyuan (traditional courtyard house) is the central courtyard.

According to this designer's idea, a sunken pavilion could be built by excavating half a meter deep.

It's very comfortable to warm yourself by the fire in winter and to have a barbecue for guests in summer.

If you add a small, circular pool around it, the effect will be perfect.

It's just that it's quite expensive, and you also have to make sure the drainage system is in place.

Four more valuable money trees were planted around the courtyard.

It protects the feng shui of all four directions, and the overall effect is indeed very good.

Chen Pingsheng immediately decided to proceed with this plan: "Approximately what will the overall renovation budget be?"

"Between 80 million and 100 million."

The designer explained, "Considering Mr. Chen's high standards for quality of life, this budget is sufficient to fulfill your family's aspirations for a better life."

Just creating a row of small green trees, one meter wide, outside the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows of the room, and planting those highly ornamental crabapple trees, would cost no less than ten million.

It's fair to say that if you want to live comfortably, you'll have to spend a lot of money.

Chen Pingsheng didn't care; the important thing was that his family was happy living together.

Once this house is finished, their family will definitely move here from Shijingshan.

I'll post a long chapter today, and I'll finish the rest later.

I recommend a friend's book, "Reconnecting with My Ex-Wife from Ten Years Ago: A New One Every Week."

Those interested in similar themes can check them out.

I believe the work of a veteran author will not disappoint.

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(End of this chapter)