"Old Jack, arrange for me to enter the Underground Boxing Ring as soon as possible. Oh, and I don't like crowds, so help me buy a villa around here." Li Yang spoke with a faint smile in his eyes. It sounded as if he were asking Old Jack to pay for it, and of course, Li Yang had said it deliberately.
The moment Old Jack heard this, he fell silent. His eyes flickered uncertainly, clearly locked in a fierce internal struggle. Li Yang's single kick had knocked Tian Gang down, and in Old Jack's mind, Li Yang had instantly risen to the level of a Demon King.
If he became a Demon King's agent, he should be able to earn tens of millions of dollars. But even an ordinary villa in Manhattan cost several million dollars. Wouldn't that mean spending a great deal of his own money? Then Old Jack remembered that Li Yang had not signed with him yet, and panic immediately seized him. Ah, what if Mu Yi signs a contract with someone else? Then I won't earn even a single dollar! With that thought, Old Jack forced himself to suppress the pain in his heart and said, "My dear Mu Yi, if you need a villa, then as your agent, of course I must meet your request."
Although Old Jack tried hard to force a smile onto his face, that stiff expression and his slightly trembling hands revealed just how much his heart ached. Several million dollars! Even for the number one agent of underground boxers, that was an enormous sum.
"Haha... Old Jack, you're far too generous. I only asked you to help me buy one—I'll pay for it myself. Why are you so eager? Of course, if you insist on paying for me, I wouldn't mind!" Li Yang looked rather surprised.
Old Jack was momentarily dumbfounded. But money was naturally more important than face, so he immediately said, "Oh, Mu Yi, my dear Mu Yi, you truly are generous. Just now? Just now I misspoke. I'm getting old, and my brain isn't working anymore, haha..." Old Jack spoke with a laugh, without the slightest embarrassment.
Li Yang did not like accepting favors from others, so naturally he would not shamelessly let someone else buy him a villa. He had only been teasing Old Jack just now. The facts proved that, in the other man's eyes, Li Yang was worth at least several million dollars.
Three days later, on the rooftop of Old Jack's villa.
Li Yang sat in a reclining chair, comfortably basking in the sunlight. A small round table stood beside him, with a bottle of vodka on it.
"Hmph, this Absolut vodka may be strong and count as hard liquor, but it still isn't as satisfying to drink as Erguotou!" Li Yang held a wineglass in his hand and looked out over the beautiful scenery of the villa district, muttering under his breath. He was clearly very dissatisfied.
If Old Jack had heard him say that, he would surely have been pained to death. This Absolut vodka had been specially ordered from Sweden. Ordinary people could not buy it even if they had money. Old Jack had only managed to order it by relying on the status he had built over decades as the number one underground boxing agent.
Erguotou was something old Beijing locals drank; it was dirt cheap, only a few yuan per bottle. In New York, Erguotou was still rather expensive, costing over ten dollars a bottle. But compared with this specially ordered Absolut vodka worth one hundred thousand dollars, the difference was more than just a little.
"Hi, Mu Yi!" A voice called out. Li Yang did not need to turn around to know that Old Jack had arrived.
Old Jack walked up to the rooftop and could not help feeling a stab of pain when he saw that bottle of vodka. Still, he consoled himself. It's only one hundred thousand dollars. A villa costs several million dollars! Clearly, he still remembered what had happened three days ago. If Li Yang had not added that one sentence back then, Old Jack really would have had to spend several million dollars.
"Old Jack, didn't I tell you not to disturb me normally?" Li Yang frowned slightly.
"Ha, Mu Yi, it's something very important. I found the villa you wanted. Haha, we really are lucky this time. Some unlucky boss from California had his company go bankrupt and is anxiously trying to sell his villa. But where could he find a buyer willing to pay his price so quickly? The moment he heard I wanted to buy it, he immediately sent someone to find me. I merely used a few of my methods as an agent, and I can buy a villa worth six million dollars for four million. We'll officially sign the contract tomorrow morning." Old Jack spoke to Li Yang with great excitement.
Li Yang's eyes lit up slightly. He immediately stood, turned around, and called to Old Jack, "Old Jack, that truly is exciting news. Come, let's drink to it!"
The moment Old Jack heard that, a smile blossomed across his face. He hurried forward a few steps and said, "Oh, Mu Yi, let Old Jack pour the drinks!" As he spoke, Old Jack deliberately took out an oversized wineglass and poured the remaining half-bottle into it all at once.
"Come, come, come, let's drink! A toast to the new villa!" Old Jack clinked his enormous wineglass against Li Yang's ordinary one. He did not care in the slightest about the vast difference in size between the two glasses, and simply tipped his head back and drank.
"Gulp, gulp..."
Li Yang stared wide-eyed as Old Jack cleanly drained the entire glass in one go, utterly dumbfounded. This was genuine Absolut vodka—real hard liquor!
"Haha, I drank fifty thousand dollars' worth in one shot. I made a profit, I made a profit!" Old Jack was immensely pleased with himself. Giving a bottle of top-grade vodka to Li Yang had pained him the entire time. Now that he had downed half of it in one gulp, he immediately felt much better.
"Old Jack, are you all right?" Li Yang asked worriedly as he looked at Old Jack's flushed face. Drinking hard liquor so fiercely could be fatal. Fortunately, Old Jack had been drinking hard liquor for decades, so his life was not in danger. But after drinking so much at once, that intense alcohol rush would...
Bang! Just as Old Jack was about to say he was fine, his feet swayed. Heaven and earth seemed to spin, and he toppled over in an instant. Before long, snores began to sound.
Li Yang could not help feeling troubled. This... do I have to carry him downstairs? Looking at Old Jack lying on the ground, seemingly unlikely to react even if the world came to an end, Li Yang sighed. He grabbed Old Jack by the suit with one hand and simply lifted him down one-handed. Fortunately, Old Jack's suit was a famous brand and did not tear along the way. Otherwise, Old Jack would have been miserable.
The next day,
"Mu Yi, that villa in the distance will soon be yours. What do you think? Not bad, right? And it's only a few hundred meters from my own villa." Old Jack pointed at an extremely luxurious villa not far away. At that moment, Old Jack was astonishingly full of energy, as if the hard liquor he had drunk yesterday had never affected him at all.
Yet after he spoke for quite a while, Li Yang gave no response whatsoever. Finding this strange, Old Jack turned to look at him.
Li Yang's gaze was fixed on a restaurant in front of the villa district—Taibai Restaurant. A faint smile appeared on his face as he started toward it, paying no attention at all to the matter of buying the villa. At the same time, someone was entering Taibai Restaurant, and that person was Tian Gang.
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