NOVPUBChapter 492: Chapter 381 Xu Shanshan鈥檚 Gratitude Chapter 492 -381 Xu Shanshan鈥檚 Gratitude In the center of the auction hall, the Family Head of the Jiangnan Long family, Long Zhentian, suddenly curled his lips upward.
He turned to Li Xiaoyao, the Family Head of the Jiangnan Li family, beside him and said:
鈥淚f I鈥檓 not mistaken, this should be the lowest level of the Centurion Black Gold Card, not the one issued by the American Express Company.
This card can only enjoy certain privileges within our Hua Country and is not valid for worldwide use.
In Hua Country, anyone with a bit of influence can get one with just a bit of money; it鈥檚 simply not on the same level as American Express鈥檚 Centurion!鈥
Li Xiaoyao, with a row of clean white teeth, slightly narrowed his eyes.
Li Xiaoyao had met Chu Mo because of the Saudi Prince, and remembered him as a young and accomplished gentleman from Zhongzhou who was steady and elegant, not a flamboyant playboy.
Similarly, enticing the Lin family of Zhongzhou to get involved and to test Chu Mo had been Li Xiaoyao鈥檚 idea!
The Family Head of the Jiangnan Li family stared straight at the young man on the stage.
...
After a slight shake of his head, his voice sounded a bit odd:
鈥淚t can鈥檛 be that simple.
Mister Chu of Zhongzhou is someone who casually wagers billions and tens of billions.
Since he鈥檚 put the Centurion at a hundred billion asking price, there must be a hidden catch!鈥
As Li Xiaoyao finished speaking, Liu Peng, the Family Head of the Zhongzhou Liu family beside him, suddenly laughed and said:
潡堭潣凁潣潟?co
鈥淥ld Li, I think you鈥檙e getting more timid with age.
In my view, we could easily drown this unsupported kid with a mere spit.
You insist on being overly cautious and complicating matters.
All eight major families are gathered here to deal with a junior.
If that gets out, where would we put our faces as the eight major families?鈥
Liu Peng enjoyed all kinds of horse racing.
During a recent charity event hosted by the Long family, a finely picked Arabian horse from the Saudi King was meant to be his, but it was intercepted by Chu Mo.
This made the Family Head of the Zhongzhou Liu family extremely upset, so he had always advocated for direct action against Chu Mo.
As the bigwigs quietly discussed, Lin Youzhi, the Family Head of the Lin family whose jewelry store was at stake, became restless.
He leaned forward slightly and then, with a solemn face, spoke to the moguls:
鈥淵ou might not be aware, but there鈥檚 a story behind the Centurion bank card in Chu Mo鈥檚 hands!鈥
At these words, all the Family Heads of the eight major families turned their attention to Lin Youzhi.
Then, speaking seriously, Lin Youzhi said:
鈥淭his happened in Zhongzhou, so it鈥檚 widely known there, but you might not have heard.
Six months ago, at an auction, there was some friction between Chu Mo and the Wu family of Zhongzhou.
The young master Wu Yaowen from the Wu family had bid several times against Chu Mo, driving the auction prices of a few pieces of jewelry very high.
In the end, Mister Chu retaliated by successfully bidding twenty-two billion for a plot of land the Wu family was eyeing!鈥
Long Zhentian, the Family Head of the Long family, rarely sat up straight.
He chuckled and said:
鈥淪uch a childish temperament indeed.
A piece of land worth over two hundred billion, with no prior planning or arrangement, directly taken芒鈧€ it must have been difficult to handle afterward!鈥
All the Family Heads of the eight major families showed mocking smiles, but Lin Youzhi earnestly continued:
鈥淣o, that wasn鈥檛 the case.
Right at that auction, Mister Chu resold the land for two hundred billion to the Wu family鈥檚 sworn enemy!
In merely ten minutes, he made a deal in and out, losing twenty billion just like that.
Moreover, he declared that he would invest a hundred billion specifically to thwart the Wu family!
The Wu family, having no choice, was forced to sever ties with the young master Wu to settle the matter!
The crux of the story is that the bank card once held a complete hundred billion in funds.
So, Mister Chu鈥檚 wager is not just a Centurion bank card芒鈧€ a card on its own could not possibly be worth a hundred billion.
However, if you include the funds in the bank card, then it鈥檚 worth far more than a hundred billion!
If the bet was correct, the return could be tenfold the investment!
That is the real intention of Mister Chu.鈥
The several magnates who were mocking earlier immediately changed their expressions.
Now, as they refocused on that Centurion bank card, a different kind of gleam shone in their eyes.
A bank card with a hundred billion in funds芒鈧€ such an event, even for them as the heads of the eight major families, represented a boldness they lacked.
Each of the eight families had nearly a trillion in assets, but most of that was tied up in fixed assets and various stocks and shares.
The actual cash they had wasn鈥檛 as much as one might imagine.
They could easily muster a few tens of billions, and even a hundred billion if they tried, but as for a thousand billion in liquid funds, unless they sold off shares and companies, even with their net worth, they couldn鈥檛 produce that much cash at a moment鈥檚 notice!
Yet now, an opportunity had presented itself: the chance to obtain a full hundred billion by investing just ten billion.
With a tenfold leverage, it was enough to drive anyone mad!
However, the same investment carried immense risks.
The amount in that Centurion bank card might indeed be a hundred billion, but it could also be only fifty billion, or even just ten billion, and just as likely, it might be completely empty.
If that were the case, the hundred billion would just vanish into thin air!
