Chapter 42: The Li Family's Mansion

It was almost six o'clock in the evening that the women who went out came back with their own big bags.

And the birthday banquet of Li Ka-shing's granddaughter is scheduled at seven o'clock in the evening, only an hour apart, but fortunately, the two families are close, and the gifts for his granddaughter have been bought.

This is hard work for Zhao Xiaolan and Cai Shuqing's mother and daughter, who have been shopping in the mall for a whole afternoon, and they have just returned home and have not rested for long, and they are going to Li Ka-shing's granddaughter's banquet immediately.

Although his mansion is not very far from Li Ka-shing's mansion, and it only takes about ten minutes to walk, but the family went to visit, of course, they couldn't really walk there, so Chen Feng's family of three took the Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car equipped by the Hong Kong government together, plus the Ford sedan of Cai Shuqing's mother and daughter, a police car in front of the road, and a riot car in the back.

Soon arrived at the Li family's mansion at 79 Deep Water Bay Road.

It is rumored that the Li Ka-shing family has lived here for 44 years, and their neighbors include the three Kwok brothers of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Kwok Hok Nien, chairman of Kerry Properties, Michael Kadoorie, chairman of CLP Holdings, and of course, Messer, the world's richest man, and Chen Dayong's family.

It is reported that the Deep Water Bay mansion was built in 1957 and was built by Li Ka-shing at a cost of 650,000 yuan as a love nest with his childhood sweetheart cousin Zhuang Yueming. It has been reported that this Li family mansion is now under the name of Li Ka-shing's eldest son, Li Zeju.

The Li family's mansion has always been heavily locked in the eyes of the outside world, and because it is unusually well guarded, there is almost no coverage of the mansion in the Hong Kong media. Over the years, except for when Li Ka-shing's eldest son Li Zeju got married, the Li family mansion invited the media to visit, and the mansion has never been exposed.

Chen Dayong's family of three, as guests personally invited by Li Ka-shing this time, can go in and have a glimpse.

Chen Feng's family of three and Cai Shuqing's mother and daughter got out of the car together before they arrived at the door of the Li family's mansion, and they saw several security personnel and staff guarding at the gate, one of them was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes who saw them come down and immediately greeted them, politely greeted them in Mandarin, and asked them euphemistically about their identities, after Chen Dayong and Cai Shuqing handed over the invitation to report their names, the middle-aged man immediately stood in awe, obviously he had heard the names of Chen Dayong and Cai Shuqing before, but he didn't seem to recognize Chen Feng who was standing next to him with big sunglasses and a big cap and a scarf, but he still enthusiastically invited a few of them into the mansion in person.

Chen Feng carefully looked at this mansion, which is said to have excellent feng shui, and looked into the gate from the door, there was a slope to connect it, and there was a second door on the slope, and inside the door was the main house. The first floor of the main house is a garage, and the second and third floors are residences.

It is said that Li Ka-shing used to live on the third floor, but since the marriage of his eldest son Li Ze Ju, Li Ka-shing has moved from the master room upstairs of the Deep Water Bay mansion to the downstairs in order to make the eldest son's family live better. No wonder Li Ka-shing made a rare statement to the media the year before last: "Many executives live in bigger places than me." According to media reports, the single-storey area of the mansion is about 760 square meters, which is quite luxurious for Hong Kong, where every inch of land is at a premium.

However, no matter how luxurious the house is, after more than 40 years, it is inevitable that there will be problems. In mid-September of the previous year, it was reported that the roof and walls of the house had water seepage, and the ceiling on the third floor was moldy and blistered. In order to facilitate the maintenance of the house, Li Ka-shing moved out of the mansion with his family and "took refuge" to the Harbour Plaza Whampoa Hotel under his name.

As workers had to repair leaks in the walls, the old green curtains were revealed: a floor full of miscellaneous items and his granddaughter's toys, as well as an old refrigerator. On the second floor, where Li Ka-shing lives, there is not only a study, bedroom and living room, but also a giant bar for receiving guests.

Earlier it was reported that Li Ka-shing had applied to the Buildings Department of the Hong Kong Government to build a 4-storey strata apartment on the site. It is understood that the area of the rebuilt houses will reach almost 3,000 square meters. Although the construction has not yet started, it is believed that the mansion will become a new landmark for luxury homes on Hong Kong Island after redevelopment.

In the past decade, luxury properties in Hong Kong have sprung up one after another, showing a skyrocketing trend all the way. But it is worth pondering that compared with luxury properties around the world, Hong Kong's luxury properties are not large in size and have no unique characteristics. Why do developers still insist on building luxury homes in Hong Kong, while wealthy people are rushing to buy them first?

In Chen Feng's view, there are two main reasons.

First of all, scarcity is expensive. Taking the Peak property as an example, there is not much land available for development in Hong Kong, so if it can be built successfully, the development potential will be considerable. In addition, Hong Kong locals have always had a saying that "water is wealth", so most of them like to live or do business near the water. Facing the sea and dotted with islands, Hong Kong's southern district is considered by many to be the best place to live.

Second, since many dignitaries and celebrities live on The Peak and in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island, such as Donald Tsang, the current Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, many wealthy people believe that living there is also a symbol of status and power. Considering the above factors, Hong Kong's luxury property market is bound to remain at a premium.

Chen Feng, led by Zhong Wuhua, who claimed to be Li Ka-shing's secretary, walked into the hall on the ground floor of the Li family's old mansion, which has a history of several decades and was renovated last year.

There are already a lot of people standing inside, including several people that Chen Feng knows, I believe everyone knows them, one of them is Andy Lau, the other is Meng Xue, and the other is Faye Wong......

Chen Feng originally thought that his family of three came early, but he didn't expect these people to come earlier.

Zhong Wuhua politely invited the three of them to wait here, and he immediately went to ask Chairman Li to come downstairs to meet them.

During the waiting break, Dinah happily called "Aunt Xue", and then happily ran towards Mengxue, who was talking to a handsome man in a low voice.

Meng Xue raised her eyes and saw Dina and Chen Feng and her party, and she couldn't help but show a surprised expression on her face. After talking to the handsome man in front of him, he greeted Dinah.

Then, he took Dinah's hand affectionately and walked towards Chen Feng and them.

"Uncle Chen, Aunt Lan, are you here too!?" Meng Xue greeted the two happily, looking at her appearance, obviously she didn't know that Chen Feng and his family of three would come here before.

Zhao Xiaolan agreed, happily took her hand and asked, "Mengxue, did they invite you to perform this time?"

"Yes, they specially invited me to perform this time, and I heard them say that their six-year-old granddaughter is my fan. Meng Xue said with a smile on her face and some pride. Six-year-old girls, especially Li Ka-shing's eldest granddaughter, are her fans, and she is something to be proud of.

"Really, I didn't expect his granddaughter to be your fan. His granddaughter seems to be only six years old. Zhao Xiaolan said with some curiosity.

Meng Xue said with a smile: "Actually, as far as I know, Sir Li's eldest granddaughter is not only my idol, but also Andy Lau and Faye Wong, and of course, Long, that is, Chen Feng." I heard that her favorite idol now is Chen Feng. ”

"Is it any wonder?" Chao Xiaolan said with a sudden realization, "Originally, I wondered why Li Ka-shing suddenly invited our whole family to be a guest, and dared to let my son perform for his granddaughter." ”

As for Li Ka-shing, Zhao Xiaolan did not have her husband Chen Dayong's respect for him, not to mention that she thought that Li Ka-shing invited them this time because she wanted his big star son to sing to his granddaughter, and she was even more slightly angry in her heart, thinking why should I let my son please your little granddaughter, is it great that your family is rich and powerful? Chao Xiaolan felt that her whole family had been insulted in some way, and of course her tone was a little bad.

Meng Xue also heard that there was something wrong with Zhao Xiaolan's tone, and when she didn't know what to say, she only heard the greetings of the people in the hall, "Sir Li!" and "Sir Li!"

Chen Feng and the others looked at it, and saw Li Ka-shing, who was wearing black-framed glasses and smiling with a smile on his face, nodding his head back to everyone and walking all the way towards Chen Feng and them.

When everyone saw Li Ka-shing actually going downstairs to see these few faces, they couldn't help but be curious, and asked the people around them about Chen Feng's identity, and many people recognized Cai Shuqing, but they didn't know what kind of characters Chen Dayong and the three of them were, and they were worthy of Sir Li to entertain them personally.

"Mr. Chen, I'm glad to be here! Your family can come today, it really makes our family flourish!" Li Ka-shing took the lead in extending his hands to Chen Dayong and holding Chen Dayong's hand, which was obviously a little sluggish.

Seeing this, Chen Feng beside him couldn't help but pull his father's clothes, Chen Dayong sobered up this time, lowered his posture and smiled: "It should be that we feel honored." Our whole family is very happy to be here at Sir Lee's house today. Chen Dayong said and introduced to Li Ka-shing, "This is my wife, Zhao Xiaolan, and this is my son, Chen Feng." ”

Zhao Xiaolan just nodded to Li Ka-shing quietly, but Chen Feng was quite polite, stretched out his hand and shook it, and said politely: "Chairman Li, it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

"Hehe, sure enough, it's a tiger father without a dog! Mr. Chen, this son of yours is really jealous! I think now you can say that the most jealous father in the world has such an outstanding son. Li Ka-shing looked at Chen Feng with admiration on his face, and said with a smile, "My name is Chen Feng, or long, since you are now at my house as a guest, is it time to remove the disguise on your head?"

"Hehe, it's really rude to finish it for a while. Chen Feng said, then loosened his scarf and took off his hat and big sunglasses.

At this time, everyone in the hall who had been paying attention to them all exclaimed in unison after seeing Chen Feng's true appearance.

"Oh my God! it's long!long...... Long is here?"

“……”

Suddenly, the surrounding guests, who had been watching from the wall, suddenly rushed over and surrounded Chen Feng and them.

"Oh my God! It's really long! It's really handsome! It's even more handsome than on TV!"

……

Seeing such a situation at the scene, Li Ka-shing couldn't help but regret that he had asked Chen Feng to remove his disguise just now. He didn't expect these elites in the upper class to lose their temper one by one after seeing Chen Feng.

In the face of so many onlookers, Chen Feng was relatively well-cultivated, and looked at everyone calmly with a slight smile on his face.

"Everyone, Mr. Long is Mr. Chen Feng, who is the guest of honor invited by our family, it is really rude for you to watch like this, please let me go. As he spoke, Li Ka-shing stretched out his hand and invited them to follow him upstairs.

Naturally, there are special security guards at the top of the stairs to prevent irrelevant people from following them upstairs.

Chen Feng and a few people followed him to the second floor, and sure enough, there was a bar counter here, which was full of shelves of all kinds of wine, looking at wine bottles, among which foreign wine was the majority.

"Everyone, do you want a drink or wine?" Li Ka-shing walked inside the bar and asked the crowd.

Chen Dayong said indifferently: "Whatever." ”

Chen Feng considered that his mother couldn't drink, so he said, "The champagne is ready." ”

"Okay, then champagne. Li Ka-shing said, opened a champagne with his own hands with a bottle opener, and then took out a transparent wine glass and poured two-thirds of the champagne for everyone one by one.

"Chairman Li, everyone says that the feng shui in your home is good, and it seems to be really good. Chen Feng said while looking at the layout of the room with champagne.

"Oh, do you also know Feng Shui?" Li Ka-shing took a sip of champagne and looked at Chen Feng with a little inquiry.

Chen Feng shook his head, and when he was about to speak, he only heard a little girl of five or six years old wearing a princess dress running downstairs, followed by a nanny-like servant, who was shouting in Cantonese to let the little girl walk slowly.

"Long! Is it really you?"

When the little girl saw Chen Feng, she shouted, her steps suddenly accelerated, and she rushed down the stairs with great excitement.

"Be careful!" Li Ka-shing shouted slightly discolored.

However, it didn't matter what he shouted, the little girl suddenly stepped on the air, coupled with inertia, when even her frightened face threw her body at a forty-five degree angle and rushed downstairs.

Everyone couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and the nanny, who was originally following the little girl, immediately turned pale and looked at the little girl and rushed downstairs.

The little girl was standing on the stairs, three or four meters away from the floor downstairs, and if she fell, she might not be life-threatening, but she would inevitably be injured, even very severely.