NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Chapter 193 Zi Chusheng, Who Vowed to Suppress Zi Chunlin's Head at the Auction

Zi Chunlin's expression immediately became unnatural, and he said, "Cousin, are you here too?"

cousin?

Zhang Jinshui's heart skipped a beat, and he followed Zi Chunlin's gaze, and saw a Huaguo youth in a black tuxedo standing not far away.

His posture is tall and straight, his hair is shiny, and his appearance is 5% similar to Zi Qiuli, but his age seems to be a few years older than Zi Qiuli, and he wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. His temperament is at least calmer than Zi Qiuli 100 times.

The Huaguo youth frowned slightly, and said in a somewhat blunt tone: "Chunlin, Grandpa has always had rules. In our Zi family, only I can represent the family to attend such public social occasions."

Just this sentence alone, Zhang Jinshui has already heard a lot of implication.

First of all, the relationship between this so-called cousin and Zi Chunlin should not be close, and secondly, it may be related to the issue of family inheritance, this cousin seems to be very defensive towards Zi Chunlin.

Before Zi Chunlin could reply, Zhang Jinshui couldn't hold back any longer, and said with a sneer, "What? I need your permission to bring my manager to the event?"

The eyes of the Hua Guo youth finally came to Zhang Jinshui, his brows were slightly frowned, and he asked, "May I ask who you are?"

"Zhang Jinshui." Zhang Jinshui looked at the other party indifferently. He didn't think that his name could be so loud that it could be known by just saying it casually.

"Oh, I seem to have heard your name, that Chinese boy who just came to the NBA to play basketball, right? It seems that your name is occasionally mentioned in news reports."

The young man in Huaguo showed an expression of sudden realization, but he didn't pay much attention to it in his eyes.

He stopped talking to Zhang Jinshui, looked at Zi Chunlin, and said: "The family is busy with so many businesses every day, and grandpa dare not retire until now. You are lucky, and your brother Qiuli, who stays away all day and does business outside Some of these are not.

When I return to the old garden the day after tomorrow, I must talk to my grandpa and ask you to come back and help me. "

A nameless fire rushed from Zhang Jinshui's forehead.

He doesn't mind that this person doesn't take him seriously, but knowing that he and Zi Chunlin came together, and ignoring him in front of Zi Chunlin, it means that he didn't leave Zi Chunlin anything. It's sympathetic.

Let alone a cousin, even if it is an ordinary friend, such an approach is too much.

Just as Zhang Jinshui wanted to speak, Zi Chunlin held her back. She obviously didn't like this cousin. She was nervous because she was afraid that the other party would become a demon after seeing her relationship with Zhang Jinshui. , since she didn't see it, she naturally didn't need to show any good looks to the other party, and said coldly: "Grandpa knows what I'm doing, you go and tell him."

After finishing speaking, Zi Chunlin stopped talking to the other party, and directly pulled Zhang Jinshui and walked past the other party.

After Zi Chunlin's cousin also walked away in the opposite direction, Zi Chunlin leaned into Zhang Jinshui's ear and whispered: "My father's generation, there are also aunts, second uncles, and third uncles. His name is Zi Chunlin. Chu Sheng is my second uncle's son and grandpa's eldest grandson. He has always regarded himself as the first heir of our Zi family. He guards our other brothers and sisters like thieves all day long, as if he is afraid that we will rob him. like a family business."

"It's really annoying." Zhang Jinshui couldn't help turning his head to look at Zi Chusheng's back as he walked to the bathroom, and said.

"Yes, their family is annoying. But don't take it to heart. When I go to see my parents and grandpa the day after tomorrow, if their family dares to do something wrong, I will definitely throw the table with them on the spot." , Zi Chunlin also raised her fair-skinned fist mischievously.

As the day to bring Zhang Jinshui to meet his parents is getting closer, Zi Chunlin is no longer as secretive as before when talking about the relationship between the two.

It is rare for Zhang Jinshui to see such a young daughter as Zi Chunlin, and he loves her very much.

I wanted to tease the other party by saying "the elbow is turned out now", but I was afraid to draw out the shyness in the other party's bones again, so in the end I chose not to say anything, just smirking blindly.

But this smirk still made Zi Chunlin blush, she pinched his arm gently, then lifted the curtain together and walked into the theater.

As soon as he entered the theater, Zhang Jinshui's eyes suddenly brightened. The space of this theater was at least as good as a small basketball arena.

However, the layout of the entire theater is not the traditional one imagined by Zhang Jinshui, with the stage in the center of the front and the stepped auditorium in front of the stage.

There is still a large stage directly in front, but in front of the stage is a large open space, with nearly a hundred small round tables that can seat three or five people around them. The distance between the round tables is loosely spread out, although many round tables There are already guests sitting, but the overall feeling is still very orderly and tidy.

The ground where the stage and the round table are located has a horizontal distance of at least 10 meters from the entrance of the theater where Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin are standing.

On the ground, within the fan-shaped range centered on the stage, there are at least 7 or 8 stairs scattered, and you can follow the stairs from the ground to the exit and entrance level.

In the middle of each staircase, you can turn to another floor.

This floor is all boxes. From the nine open-air viewing platforms evenly distributed on the wall protruding in the mid-air, it can be deduced that there should be exactly nine boxes on this floor, and each viewing platform corresponds to a box.

These boxes should be the VIP boxes mentioned by the staff who received Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin just now.

Compared with the tables placed on the ground, the privacy of these boxes is many times better.

Moreover, when the auction starts, the guests in the box can also sit directly on the open-air viewing platform to participate in the auction, and have a panoramic view of the entire stage and the bidding situation downstairs.

Of course, the biggest difference between sitting in the VIP box and sitting on the round table in front of the stage is neither the view nor the privacy, but the identity and status of the guests.

Just now the staff had told Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin that the organizer had arranged them and other members of the Rockets in the No. 6 VIP box.

But now there is no need to look for it deliberately. Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin have already seen the figures of Yao Ming and Uncle Mu on the open-air viewing platform facing the right of the stage, and several other Rockets players are leaning on the railing and looking down. stage, laughing and laughing.

Zhang Jinshui followed Zi Chunlin, walked down the stairs, then turned at the middle floor, and walked to the box where the other teammates stayed.

What the two of them didn't know was that behind them, Zi Chunlin's cousin Zi Chusheng, who had already walked in another direction to find the bathroom, actually didn't just ignore their existence.

When Zi Chusheng turned to the corner of the bathroom, he pretended to turn around inadvertently and looked towards the stairs. Just in time, he saw Zi Chunlin and Zhang Jinshui turning towards the VIP box on the middle floor. His expression immediately became complicated.

As Zi Chusheng, who grew up under the influence of the Zi family, the top old money family in the beautiful country, and is determined to be in charge of the huge property of the Zi family in the future, he knows how serious the class solidification in the upper class of the beautiful country is. At the same time, he also knows what it means to be arranged in the VIP box by the organizer.

It is not that Zi Chusheng himself has never been in the VIP box. Six years ago, he just walked out of the campus. He followed his parents to participate in a charity auction night, and was arranged in the VIP box on the far right side of the stage. , the vision there and the eager gazes cast from downstairs still left a deep impression on him.

However, since he came to participate in the charity auction night on behalf of the Zi family, he has never been assigned to a VIP box. In comparison, there is still a distance like cloud and mud.

However, Zi Chusheng was not discouraged because of this before. After all, as a leader of the Zi family, being able to participate in the charity auction night already represents a lot of things.

On the contrary, Zi Chusheng often used the gap in this seat to irritate himself. He wanted to make some achievements in the family business as soon as possible, so as to be recognized by the upper class, so that he could get the glory of being arranged in the VIP box like his parents as soon as possible. .

However, Zi Chusheng never imagined that the honor that seemed out of reach to him would be easily obtained by his cousin who was not even qualified to represent the family to participate in the charity night.

If the grandfather and fathers of the family knew about this matter, would they think that this cousin was more promising than him?

Thinking of this, Zi Chusheng's eyes gradually became gloomy.

As the grandson of the Zi family, he is the new generation successor of the Zi family in name.

However, he knew that his grandfather was actually a very open-minded old man. He neither expressed the desire to concentrate the family business in one hand and pass it on from generation to generation, nor did he say that it is impossible for girls to take over the family business.

Therefore, Zi Chusheng's seat has never been as secure as the outside world has seen.

Over the years, he has been putting all the brothers and sisters of this generation under his feet all the time, making himself the only qualified successor in the eyes of his grandfather.

Tonight, he would absolutely not allow Zi Chunlin to become a more dazzling existence than him.

After Zi Chusheng's eyes flickered for a while, he took out his phone and dialed a number.

"Hello, Uncle Charlie. I just learned more about the charity project of your children's home, and I think this project is really great."

"Hahaha, you are right, I want to increase my support for your charity project.

I have a paper mallet bottle dedicated to the royal family during the Jiajing period of the Qing Dynasty. It was a birthday present from my elders. Why don't I auction it today.

As for the [-]th-century Chinese export porcelain, I won’t make a fool of myself. "

"No, no, Uncle Charlie, don't thank me. Instead, I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to get in touch with this project. In addition, on behalf of those homeless children, thank you!"

"Huh? Really? Let me go up on stage and say a few words during the auction? Okay, no problem, then I will tell you my real opinion on this project. Thank you, Uncle Charlie, then please Uncle Charlie arranged."

After hanging up the phone, Zi Chusheng immediately felt refreshed. Being able to speak a few words on stage on this night full of celebrities is definitely enough for him to show off and trample Zi Chunlin on the soles of his feet.

Of course, the price is indeed a bit high. Zi Chusheng had seen in Sotheby's auction catalog before that a Jiajing official kiln paper mallet bottle about his size was estimated at more than 10 US dollars.

However, when it comes to competition with his peers, Zi Chusheng absolutely cannot lose.

Thinking of this, Zi Chusheng's gaze became sharp again.

......

Zhang Jinshui and Zi Chunlin entered the VIP box and chatted with other players not long before the charity auction night officially started.

The opening guest invited by the organizer is Ellen DeGeneres, a well-known talk show star in this beautiful country.

She talked eloquently on the stage for nearly 10 minutes, adjusted the atmosphere of the scene very well, introduced the organizer to the stage and said a few words on the scene.

Then, the charity auction night officially began.

The process of the auction night is relatively simple. First, invite people to come to the stage to introduce a charity project, and then introduce the guests who are willing to raise funds for this charity project, as well as the items they donated, and then auction off their donated items one by one. go out.

First of all, the first charitable project to be invited to the stage was a project dedicated to raising funds for homeless people who were homeless due to tornadoes.

After the manager came to the stage to introduce the project, the relevant auction items were displayed one by one: jewelry of precious metals, bags and leather utensils of top luxury goods, as well as some works of art and various exhibitions spanning five continents and four oceans. historical artifacts of the period.

However, in general, the auction prices of these items are not very exaggerated, usually ranging from $5000 to $20000.

Zhang Jinshui and other Rockets players, who were sitting at the two round tables on the viewing platform, studied the auction items one by one with relish at first.

But gradually, when they found that the items in the auction were all of these types and there was nothing special, they began to feel a little boring.

Gradually, several players including Alston and Sprewell began to chirp quietly, and even began to joke about some auctioned items and guests with strange behaviors.

Zhang Jinshui was naturally not interested in joining them, after all, there was a beautiful Zi Chunlin sitting beside him.

He began to fight with Zi Chunlin without saying a word. At the beginning, Zi Chunlin felt that the position they were sitting in was too obtrusive, and he was afraid that Zi Chusheng, who didn't know where he was sitting downstairs, would see the clue.

But soon, she let out an exclamation of "Huh".