Chapter 664: Top Protection
When Xia Ruofei came to the courtyard with a big incubator, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan also happened to drive to the door of the villa.
A middle-aged man wearing a navy blue crisp suit and tie quickly got out of the passenger seat and trotted in front of Xia Ruofei.
"Hello Mr. Xia, I'm Xue Ming who just contacted you!" the middle-aged man said respectfully, "The private jet sent by Chairman Ma has landed at Sanshan International Airport, and the crew has sent a message that the route they applied for to take off and return to Hong Kong Island in an hour has been approved. ”
Xue Ming is the newly appointed manager of the Sanshan office of Hengfeng Group, although the office is only a liaison agency, responsible for coordination, security and other work, but he is still a great manager, and he is also a little influential in the whole group.
Because this place in Sanshan is a bit special, Xue Ming knows very well that the father-in-law of the general manager Ma Zhiming is in Sanshan, and Mr. Ma's father-in-law's family is very influential in the mainland political arena, and Mr. Ma's sister-in-law, Ms. Tian Huilan, has reached a high position at the ministerial level.
Coupled with Ma Xiong's age, Ma Zhiming is now more and more in charge of the company's business, and it is only a matter of time before he takes over.
Therefore, the managers of the Sanshan office must be people who are very trusted by the Ma family, and the previous two office managers have been reused without exception after being transferred back to the company's headquarters.
Rao is like this, Xue Ming still didn't dare to slack off in the face of this young Mr. Xia.
Because the previous office manager told him at the time of handover that working in Sanshan, in addition to handling the company's daily business, it is necessary to pay attention to making good friends with two characters, one is naturally Mr. Ma's father-in-law, Professor Tian, and the other is Mr. Xia of Taoyuan Company.
Moreover, this time, Chairman Ma Xiong also sent a special plane to Sanshan to pick up Mr. Xia, which shows how deep the relationship between Mr. Xia and the Ma family is.
In the face of such a character, how dare Xue Ming be the slightest disrespectful?
After he finished speaking, he immediately reached out and took the large incubator in Xia Ruofei's hand, and his movements were very natural.
Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Manager Xue!"
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Xue Ming hurriedly said.
Opening the trunk, the wide trunk space has been transformed in advance, and inside is a small refrigerator - because the Mercedes-Benz car's own car refrigerator is not big enough to fit more than 20 large abalones, so Ma Xiong personally greeted the Sanshan office to modify the trunk of the car overnight.
This Xiaoice box is not standard on the car, so a transformer is specially installed to supply power from the car.
It is only about half an hour's drive from Taoyuan Farm to the airport, which shows how much attention Ma Xiong attaches to these abalones.
Xia Ruofei followed Xue Ming to the back of the car, he personally entered the password to open the incubator, and then together with Xue Ming, put the abalone in the refrigerator one by one.
These abalone Xia Ruofei also put them in the refrigerator at home for a while in the morning, so they were still a little cold in their hands.
Soon after the abalone was loaded, Xue Ming was busy opening the backseat door for Xia Ruofei, and respectfully asked Xia Ruofei to get into the car before he sat in the co-pilot's seat.
The Mercedes-Benz started steadily, left Taoyuan Farm, and drove towards Sanshan Airport, which is not far from the farm.
A small building next to the airport terminal is a special access for private jets and business jets.
After the Mercedes-Benz was fine, Xue Ming hurriedly took the abalone out of the refrigerator again, carefully put it into the incubator, and then personally carried the incubator and walked into the small building with Xia Ruofei.
One of the benefits of flying by private jet is that security is relatively relaxed.
At the entrance of the passage, a security officer checked Xia Ruofei's Hong Kong and Macao pass and Xue Ming's temporary pass to enter and exit the restricted area of the airport in advance, and then conducted a simple inspection of the abalone in the incubator, and then released it.
Xue Ming carried the incubator and took Xia Ruofei through the passage, and soon came to the tarmac.
It is a few hundred meters away from the terminal and is dedicated to small planes and business jets.
A Gulfstream 650 plane was already quietly parked there, with the captain waiting next to the plane with the co-pilot and two flight attendants.
Xia Ruofei has taken Ma Xiong's luxury business jet more than once.
The first time, it was Ma Xiong who had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage on Hong Kong Island, Xia Ruofei and Ma Zhiming's family flew to Hong Kong Island urgently, and successfully pulled Ma Xiong back from the death line.
The second time was to participate in the truffle auction with Ma Xiong in Shencheng.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei is even more familiar with this captain.
He greeted the crew with a smile, and after Xue Ming handed over the incubator to a flight attendant with a slender figure and a good face, he said goodbye to Xia Ruofei very politely and left the tarmac.
Xia Ruofei got on the plane surrounded by everyone, and the flight attendant had already been instructed to put those precious abalone into the refrigerator on the plane as soon as possible.
The crew had already turned on the APU, so although the plane was docked on the ground, the power supply in the cabin was not affected.
Xia Ruo flew onto the plane, and the hatch quickly closed.
THERE WERE ABOUT 20 MINUTES LEFT BEFORE THE SCHEDULED TAKE-OFF TIME, AND THE CAPTAIN AND CO-PILOT WENT TO THE COCKPIT TO MAKE PRE-FLIGHT PREPARATIONS, WHILE XIA RUOFEI LEANED ON THE SOFT AND WIDE LEATHER SEAT AND TOOK THE IPAD TO READ THE NEWS.
Naturally, he focused on the news about the auction.
After so many days of warm-up, the abalone auction is well known on Hong Kong Island, and many media outlets have been covering it for many days.
Hengfeng's press officer said the auction had received requests from more than 80 media outlets, including more than 50 from mainland and overseas media.
The reaction to the auction on the forum was mixed, as many people still refuse to believe that someone could sell so many excellent abalone at once, and almost all of them were abalone.
Most of these skeptical people think that this is a malicious hype, as for the promotional videos and pictures, the current retouching software is so developed, Sister Feng can become Fan Bingbing, what is it to modify the pictures and videos of abalone?
And the supporters think that it is impossible for Hengfeng Auction House to smash its own signboard, this is a prestigious old auction house!
There are also a few netizens from Southeast Province who expressed their trust in the Taoyuan brand, after all, the brand Taoyuan has become synonymous with high-end in Southeast Province, especially Sanshan City, the capital of Southeast Province.
But after all, the scope of Taoyuan Company's influence is not large enough, so there are not many "positive and negative sides" mentioning Taoyuan Company, and some are also criticizing Taoyuan Company's malicious hype.
Xia Ruofei looked at all kinds of remarks on the Internet with a smile, and was in a pretty good mood.
After a while, a beautiful flight attendant walked to Xia Ruofei's side, squatted down to maintain the same height as Xia Ruofei, and then whispered: "Mr. Xia, the plane is about to take off, please fasten your seat belt." ”
When Xia Ruofei heard this, he put down the ipad and said with a smile: "Okay!"
While Xia Ruofei was fastening his seat belt, the flight attendant also walked back to his seat in the front cabin with elegant steps and fastened the seat belt.
It didn't take long for the plane to shudder slightly and begin to roll backwards.
As it pushes back, the plane's engine starts to turn, and when it reaches the taxiway, the cart is disengaged, and the luxury Gulfstream G650 business jet begins to taxi steadily.
The plane taxied all the way to the entrance to the runway head, and came to a steady stop behind the yellow line, waiting for take-off instructions.
Xia Ruofei also looked out through the porthole, an Airbus Jumbo in the distance was slowly descending, and after a while, the Airbus A380 swept in front of their Gulfstream and landed smoothly on the runway.
Gulfstream business jets are clearly waiting for Airbus to land.
After the A380 landed, Xia Ruofei's Gulfstream was immediately allowed to enter the runway.
The plane taxied slowly again, made a big turn at the head of the runway, and was firmly aligned with the runway centerline.
At this time, the Airbus Jumbo passenger plane at the far end had already left the runway through the taxiway on the right, and the Gulfstream business jet, which had been ready for a long time, immediately refueled the throttle to the take-off thrust after receiving the take-off order.
Xia Ruofei felt the plane tremble slightly, and then began to accelerate on the runway, and he also felt an obvious feeling of pushing back.
This standard runway is too long for the Gulfstream G650 to take off or land.
After taxiing at high speed for several hundred meters, the plane has reached the speed of lifting wheels, the nose of the plane is gently lifted up, and the whole streamlined luxury business jet soars lightly into the sky.
The Gulfstream business jet flies at a higher altitude than ordinary passenger aircraft, so there are very few bumps during the whole flight, and the comfort itself is extremely high, which is completely different from taking a civil airliner.
The maximum cruise speed of the Gulfstream G650 has reached Mach 0.925, which is close to the speed of sound, far exceeding that of ordinary civil airliners. So the whole journey from Sam Shan to Hong Kong Island only takes a little more than an hour.
Two-thirds of that time is spent on climbs and approaches.
When this luxurious private jet landed smoothly at Hong Kong Island Airport, Xia Ruofei couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"If you have the chance, you must buy a plane like this! This is the real high-end enjoyment!" Xia Ruofei said secretly in his heart.
Every time he took a private jet, Xia Ruofei couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart.
And now, he is actually not far from owning a private jet, especially after the Taoyuan vegetables in Australia begin to be produced in large quantities, and the profits shared every month are tens of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and the purchase of private jets is nothing.
Of course, a high-end business jet like the Gulfstream G650 is not something that can be owned immediately if you have money, and each Gulfstream series business jet is customized according to customer requirements, and can only be queued up for production after an order is placed.
Yes, it's in line.
There are more rich people in the world, and if someone else's order happens to be in front of you, then you may have to wait longer.
If you're unlucky, it's possible to wait two or three years.
Hong Kong Island Airport is very busy, and the Gulfstream G650 is arranged to dock at a remote stand, but Ma Zhiming of Hengfeng Group, Dong Jiajun, the manager of Hengfeng Auction House, and Feng Jing have already arrived at this parking stand.
As soon as Xia Ruofei got off the plane, he saw these people who came to pick him up.
A big man in a black suit took the cooler from the flight attendant and immediately delivered it to the car and kept it in the car refrigerator.
"Xia Sheng, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are still in style!" Ma Zhiming greeted with a smile in Mandarin with a strong Cantonese accent.
"Haha! Mr. Ma, are Aunt Huixin and Huanhuan all right?" Xia Ruofei asked with a smile.
"Thanks to you, Huixin and Huanhuan are very good!" Ma Zhiming said with a smile, "Huanhuan heard that Xia Sheng was coming, and she was clamoring to come to the airport to pick her up!
Huanhuan suffered from severe autism before, and at that time, Xia Ruofei did not have a prescription for Yangxin Soup, he used the Lingxin Flower Petal Solution to cure Huanhuan, and later Xia Ruofei happened to meet at the same time, and Ma Xiong, who had a severe cerebral hemorrhage, was also rescued from the death line, so the gratitude of the Ma family to Xia Ruofei was really from the heart.
After Xia Ruofei and Ma Zhiming exchanged a few words, they turned to Feng Jing and said with a smile: "Mr. Feng, you have worked hard for the past few days!"
He could see Feng Jing with a trace of tiredness on her face that could not be concealed, and it was conceivable that Feng Jing was on Hong Kong Island these days, and the work intensity must be very high.
Feng Jing smiled slightly and said, "Chairman, it's not hard! When I think of this auction, I feel full of energy!"
"Haha! It's also because you are in charge of Hong Kong Island, I can be so relieved, and I won't come over until the auction starts soon!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "Mr. Feng, when the auction is over, I will seal a big red envelope for you!"
"Okay, I won't be ......polite to you," Feng Jing said with a smile, "The housing prices in Sanshan are getting more and more expensive, and I want to buy a big house as soon as possible!"
"Then you have to work hard!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "The better the company's performance, the more dividends you will receive at the end of the year! If we can rush into the world's top 500 overnight, you can buy ten villas like fun!"
The group walked to the car with a smile.
Ma Zhiming brought an extended version of the Bentley, and the dried abalone had been placed in the ice bar of the Bentley's car just now.
Xia Ruofei, Ma Zhiming, and Feng Jing took a Bentley, and the bodyguards and staff took two other cars, and the group soon left the airport.
Ma Xiong's accommodation for Xia Ruofei is the Hong Kong Island Hengfeng Realm Hotel, which will be auctioned tomorrow.
This is also a high-end brand under Hengfeng Hotel Group, and the last time Xia Ruofei went to Shencheng to participate in the truffle auction, it was also held at Hengfeng Realm Hotel.
After leaving the Hong Kong Island Airport, the car travelled via North Lantau Highway and Tsing Kwai Highway before arriving at the Hengfeng Realm Hotel on the waterfront overlooking Victoria Harbour.
When the car slowly drove into the hotel foyer, Xia Ruofei had already seen Ma Xiong, the founder and chairman of Hengfeng Group, standing at the door of the hotel waiting in person, and he suddenly couldn't sit still.