Chapter 1972 Exploding water pipe
Li Rui could understand Steinmetz's anger. When a person has wealth and power, he often develops some stubborn emotions. Even if he knows that something is wrong, he should try and make mistakes willfully until he gets bleeding.
This is true for Steinmetz. He clearly obtained the mining rights of the Simandu No. 12 mining area by bribery, but he thought that everyone did this, but Guinea only grabbed him and refused to let go of it. Therefore, he refused to plead guilty and was unwilling to return the mining rights. He acted as a stance that harmed others and was unfavorable to himself and insisted on fighting with Guinea to the end.
Sometimes, Li Rui would have similar ideas. Even though he knew that something was wrong, he thought he could do everything and must make the wrong thing right.
But seeing Steinmetz, Li Rui seriously warned himself: You must not be like him, otherwise you will definitely suffer a big loss in the future!
Jared walked over and asked in confusion: "Why did Benny leave angrily? He said he didn't want to see you in the future? What did you say to him?"
Li Rui sighed and told the story of the Ximangdu No. 1 and 2 mining area.
Jared was stunned: "I know the dispute between Steinmetz and Guinea, but you didn't expect you to have a crush on that iron ore... I really don't understand what you are thinking, why don't you do the Internet, real estate, dig diamonds, and do industries that are easy to make money, and have to do iron ore?
Li Rui spread his hands and said, "I don't understand why I made such a win-win proposal, and Benny refused without even thinking about it. You must know that if Guinea insists on pursuing his bribery, he may be in jail!"
Jared said: "There is a word called face... Do you think the Hebrews don't care about face? This matter... is a long story..."
Li Rui and Jared chatted for a while before they understood why Steinmetz was so sensitive.
It turned out that when Steinmetz won the Simandu No. 12 mining project, he had been widely publicized in the Hebrew circle, claiming to surpass FMG and Vale and impact the iron ore dominance of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
The cowhide was blown away, but the project made no progress. Instead, he fell into endless disputes with Guinea, which made Steinmetz lose face.
If Steinmetz gave up Simandu now, many people in the Hebrew circle who did not like him would regard this as a laughing stock, which is something that Steinmetz firmly cannot tolerate.
After hearing this, Li Rui said with emotion: "All of us are so old, why are we still so superficial? How much is the face worth?"
Jared said strangely: "Don't the people of Huaguo attach the most importance to face?"
Li Rui said: "Then we have to distinguish between situations, occasions, or people. I don't care about face or not... I only care about actual interests, what do you think?"
"Uh... what you said makes sense." Jared thought that in order to obtain investment information, he even asked Ivanka to seduce Li Rui, and felt that what Li Rui said made sense.
How can face bring actual benefits?
Li Rui said: "Jarded, I'm sorry, I didn't expect Benny to react so much. I hope my behavior will not affect your friendship."
Jared curled his lips and said, "The friendship between the Hebrews is like a mirror that is broken and then pieced together. When two people stand together, there will always be cracks in the middle. When there is no conflict of interest, they can be regarded as cracks. Once there is a conflict of interest, they will break with a crack. Benny and I are just a business partnership and will not be affected."
"Then I'll feel relieved." Li Rui said.
Jared said again: "I don't think Benny will change his mind easily. What are you going to do next?"
Li Rui smiled and said, "Then I can only start the second plan. He doesn't eat soft things, so I will feed him some hard things."
Li Rui stayed at Jared's house until after nine o'clock, and then said goodbye and left.
When he went out, Kelly came to him and said, "Can you send me home?"
"Uh?" Li Rui was stunned for a moment, "Why didn't Joshua give you?"
"We're having a breakup," Kelly said directly, "You won't see me again at the next Kushner party."
"Why are you having a good time? It's not because of me, right?" Li Rui joked casually.
"It's because of you." Kelly said.
Li Rui was confused: "Kelly, don't make such jokes, we have nothing to do with each other!"
Kelly said with a smile: "Oh, haven't you seen me in the bathroom?"
"I..." Li Rui was speechless and could not refute.
OK, I did see it, but that look is not much different from Kelly on the runway. It's just two pieces of cloth. Joshua isn't that stingy, right? Do you care about the two pieces of cloth?
Seeing Li Rui's nervous look, Kelly smiled and said, "It has nothing to do with you. It's because he is too jealous and always wants to control my life. The problem is, I don't want to be able to bind myself at such a young age."
"Hu..." Li Rui breathed a sigh of relief.
The two of them left the door, and there was already a car waiting at the door. After getting in, Li Rui took Kelly to the downstairs of her apartment.
"Do you want to go up and have a cup of tea?" Kelly asked.
Li Rui glanced at her single eyelids and thin lips. To be honest, I really wanted to go up and taste the difference between the tea here and other places. Is it sweeter? But... there are still people waiting for him at home!
Holding the throbbing inside, Li Rui shook his head and said, "I think you still need time to think clearly about what kind of future you want. Don't restrain yourself!"
Kelly was a little surprised and said, "I read that right, you are a responsible man... Okay, goodbye!" As she said that, she came up, kissed Li Rui on the cheek with a flash of water, and then jumped out of the car and left.
Li Rui stared at her swaying steps and two long legs. He really wanted to follow her, but he still said to the driver: "Go back to Building 666, Fifth Avenue..."
The building at 666 Fifth Avenue is a property jointly owned by the Kushner family and Li Rui. Some time ago, Li Rui asked someone to open up several rooms on the top floor and renovate them as his destination when he came to New York.
The residence is very large, with a total of 600 square meters, with more than ten bedrooms, twelve bathrooms and a bunch of rooms with various functions. Li Rui specially hired a butler and four servants to take care of him.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Rui saw the spacious living room brightly lit. Shao Xuan and Yu Na and another beautiful woman with bright eyes were chatting together in their hands holding red wine.
Seeing Li Rui come back, Yu Na smiled and said, "You are finally back, Scarlett is anxious!"
The beauty was Scarlett Johnson. She attended a fashion event in New York today. When she knew that Li Rui was also in New York, she temporarily changed her flight ticket to Los Angeles just for the spring night.
Li Rui coughed dryly: "What are you talking about again... Butler, I'll give me a glass of wine."
But Shao Xuan yawned and said, "I won't drink anymore, I'm going to go to bed."
Yu Na also said: "I'm sleepy too... Scarlett, I wish you a good dream tonight!"
The two women were very sensible and slipped away directly, leaving time for Li Rui and Scarlett.
Chapter completed!