Chapter 161 The Flowing Gironde River
Cang Yaozu and Sophie Marceau chose to walk into Margaux. Before entering the winery, you can feel its unique charm. The quiet and solemn French sycamore tree-lined avenue makes people suddenly stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and quietly immerse themselves in nature. This tranquility is impressive and continues throughout the winery.
The courtyard is a production plant and a wine cellar, everything is in order, which is a typical Medoc style. The owner of the winery has always been careful to take care of everything here and strives to be perfect.
Corinna Menzepoulos stood in front of the castle of Margot, greeting the distinguished guests, beside her young daughter Petty Menzepoulos. This castle is magnificent and is said to have been built during the Napoleon period.
Cang Yaozu and Sophie quickly stepped forward and met Corinna and her daughter. Corinna looked at the two people who arrived. She naturally knew Sophie. Old Agnelli also told her some basic information about Cang Yaozu's situation.
She actually wanted to take back the shares of Margot Village, but she didn't get enough cash for a while. Margot Village is actually relatively stable at this stage. It's no longer a difficult time to find a big backer to prevent others from coveting. Corinna doesn't want any big changes in Margot Village.
Corinna brought Cang Yaozu and her group into the castle. The architectural style here is elegant and retro, with a sense of historical heaviness. First, I visited the castle. Sophie also learned a lot of history. She chattered with Corinna's youngest daughter Petty. Petty clearly knew her. There was admiration in her eyes when she saw her. She was not unfamiliar with chatting with her. This is the treatment of her family. Cang Yaozu's French is also very good, but no one chatted with him.
Everyone sat down in a living room, and the lighting was good. After a few polite words, Cang Yao's ancestors opened the topic.
"Ms. Menzeprous, I'd better call you Corinna. I like the brand Margot very much. You know that our Sigram business mainly sells whiskey and some juice drinks. There are some red wines, but the well-known brands do not.
We hope to take over the Margot shares in the Agnelli family and then enter the French wine market. We will not interfere with your management of the winery. On the contrary, we agree with your past achievements. After we acquire Margot shares, everything is the same as before.
The changes we bring will mainly be in sales and more cooperation can be carried out in sales channels. We at Seagram have recently built a series of private wine cellars, including celebrity wine cellars and wealthy wine cellars. In Citigroup, there are good sales channels in East Asia and Southeast Asia. I hope this acquisition will make the future of Margaux more brilliant."
"Mr. Kura, thank you for your recognition. Mr. Agnelli told me about your situation. He believes that you can bring more good changes to Margaux. With your wealth, background and Sigram winery, in fact, for our winery, we will be the best partners. We also hope that Margaux can go more to America and Asia. Our family has been managing Margaux for more than 20 years, and we have always been relatively calm here, so I don't want to lose this peace, nor do I want the winery to be too commercialized."
"Well, I fully understand your mood and demands. This is exactly what I want to say. Everything in Margaux remains the same. Sigram will provide some help in sales. In addition, I will transfer 10% of the shares to Sophie's name. You should be familiar with her. I believe we will get along very happily."
"I heard that Ginie Elkan, the granddaughter of Old Agnelli, would also own a 5% stake in the winery?"
"Well, yes, so many of the shares of the winery are held in your women's hands. There is a saying in China that women can hold half of the sky. I am very optimistic about you and hope you can have fun."
Sophie's appearance still dispelled many concerns between Menzepros and their daughters. Moreover, the Menzepros family now has five women of three generations, and they do need some external help to resist some calculations.
After Cang Yaozu promised that she would not increase her stake in the winery again and that everything would remain the same, Ms. Menzeprous agreed that Cang Yaozu took over most of the stake in the winery, and everything was very happy.
Miss Petty also had a good look at Cang Yaozu. When talking about some movies and music topics, everyone felt relieved. Sophie wanted Cang Yaozu to sing a song for everyone. Petty also found a guitar, a handmade guitar. She had never played it before, Cang Yaozu took it and started fiddling with it. Well, it probably wasn't cheap.
"I sing in female voice, a song by Elaine Holes "My Name is Elaine""
Cang Yaozu just sang this song a few days ago, and there was no pressure to sing it again. Although this song is not so elegant, it is better than pop. The tune is simple and brainwashed. Sophie and Petty probably have heard of this song. After all, this song once dominated the French charts for half a year.
The two of them were just surprised by the changes in Cang Yaozu's voice, and the female voice was very clear.
After listening to it, Sophie shouted again, "Ayao, you sing a new song. We have never heard of it before, and we have to use female French."
This requirement is too high. Cang Yaozu plucked the guitar strings meaninglessly. He hadn't heard many French songs. He began to search for those French songs he had heard. Fortunately, Cang Yaozu had been together in the bar for a long time, and his memory now was very good, so he had it.
"The song's name is "LeLongDeL'Eau", flowing along the river."
Cang Yaozu sang softly in a female voice that was clearer than before. This song is the kind of singing softly, not as catchy as the song "My Name is Elaine".
Time is like a poem, it is a few notes on the pages of the book. It flows along the river, leaving only my out-of-control feelings... The melody is like a poem, I lost my own song. I found it back along the stream. Our promise is mixed in the melody of the violin. It goes with the wind and flows along the river. Those free birds, like light, sing a poem-like melody to us, conveying your love and changing life... In this beautiful world, my heart is about to set sail. The moon guides the dance steps and is the flow to the long river...
This song is fresh and beautiful, and is very appropriate to the environment here in Medoc. The melody is like a poem and flows along the river. Just so happens that the Gironde River flows quietly not far away.
Not only Corinna and her daughter, Sophie also liked this song very much. This French song is indeed very charming, otherwise Cang Yaozu would not remember it. Dude said in "The Last Lesson" that French is the most beautiful language in the world. Well, it makes sense. At least in English, German, French, Italian, and Western, French, and Portuguese languages, French is still very noble and beautiful. Dude said this sentence just a complex emotion when it was lost and not objective enough. After all, Dude definitely does not understand Chinese.
At least, Cang Yaozu, who was proficient in several languages, did not agree with this. You should know that their Cang family was a descendant of Cangjie, and the legend of Cangjie creating characters has been circulated for a long time. Cang Yaozu very much agreed with the passage said by Mr. Lu Xun. He said that Chinese characters have three beauties: beautiful meaning to touch the heart, one; beautiful sound to touch the ears, two; beautiful shape to touch the eyes, three. Not bad, beautiful meaning, beautiful sound, beautiful shape, and beautiful place, and it is so domineering.
Petty finally had a worship of Cang Yaozu. Cang Yaozu's voice was really outrageous. Although it was a bit too feminine in Corina's eyes, it had to be said that this was really a beautiful French song.
Cang Yaozu and Corinna told her that Sophie had recently broken up with her ex-boyfriend and was now with him. She would go to Italy to shoot a summer love-breaking film, and she would become a director. Sophie has a good image, it is French Kiss and French Rose, so Cang Yaozu intends to make her the image ambassador of Margot wine. Well, of course, Sophie has no money to get it. She also has Margot Zhuang shares and always has to contribute her own strength.
In the afternoon it was time to taste the red wine. Petty brought Cang Yaozu and Sophie to the wine cellar to check out the precious wines stored in the Margot Village cellar. Well, there are a lot of wines to taste. The red wine is not high, but it can't resist Sophie and Cang Yaozu drank a lot. When they came out, Sophie's face was already red and very attractive, and it was obviously beautiful to drink.
The marga wine has a rich fruit aroma, full body, clear layers, smooth tannins, and a good taste when you drink it. After a long period of storage in oak barrels, it also brings a clear nutty flavor to the wine. The ripe wine aroma and the fresh fruit aroma complement each other, making people feel happy and full of surprises.
Sophie and Cang Yaozu lived in Margao Manor for a few days. Their lives were very leisurely and their relationship with Corinna and his daughter became more harmonious. Sophie and Cang Yaozu were handsome and beautiful, and they were not to mention their affinity. The winemakers and managers of the winery became familiar with them. Corinna and her daughter invited them to stay in every summer and autumn. The peaceful life here makes people less impetuous.
Yes, Cang Yaozu also likes the slow life here very much. He told Corinna that he has many girlfriends, so there will definitely be no fewer girls who come here to live in the future, and they will not treat them as outsiders. This shocked Corinna and her daughter. They confirmed it several times before they realized that Cang Yaozu was not joking.
Petty also paid special attention to Sophie's face change, but did not notice anything. Sophie knew about this, so naturally she didn't have much reaction. She mainly didn't have much concept. Otherwise, with her more exposed and more realistic style of doing things, maybe Petty could really see a Sophie Marceau that was different from her imagination.
Chapter completed!