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I received an impromptu call from my parents.

Suri took a helicopter and rushed to Honolulu, the state capital.

Since his parents went to the city to discuss the acquisition two days ago, they have been staying there and have not returned to Lanai.

After the helicopter landed, Suri took secretary Amanda and took a taxi to the address shown on the text message, which seemed to be a villa in some Diamond Head community.

Yesterday, I just spent US$1.07 million to successfully acquire the Green Turtle Shopping Network.

He only invited himself to visit the new company as a parent and didn't talk much on the phone before.

However, when the taxi approached the destination, Suri realized something was wrong and curiously asked the taxi driver: "The villa on the roadside looks very luxurious. Is this a wealthy area?"

The aboriginal driver who drove the taxi was stunned and told him enthusiastically:

"Of course, the Diamond Head extinct volcano is a few miles away from Waikiki Beach, and the surrounding scenery is so beautiful. The cheapest house here is a million dollars. It is one of the top wealthy areas in Honolulu. You guys You're a tourist, right? Have I seen you somewhere before? You look familiar."

Suri went out without a bodyguard and put on a pair of wide sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. He said vaguely: "Maybe you have seen it before. The scenery is really beautiful, with the mountains behind and the sea facing the sea."

Secretary Amanda said:

"The boss of that Green Turtle company really knows how to enjoy it. The entrepreneurial team is not big, but he actually puts his office in a wealthy area? It seems that he must have some money. No wonder he dares to start a money-burning online shopping business."

Online shopping companies involve physical industries such as warehousing and transportation, and they need to burn money like crazy in order to attract customers.

Look at Amazon in Silicon Valley. It has suffered huge losses for many years, making a bunch of investors green-faced. It has just barely managed to break even. Even among a bunch of Internet companies that are burning money like crazy, it is a particularly powerful "guzzler." beast".

The taxi arrived at the destination quickly.

Parking at the door of a villa on the slopes of Diamond Head Mountain, Suri got off the car and looked at the sea view below the mountain. She could also see a real estate agent's billboard on the lawn of the villa.

After contacting her mother and finding that she had found the right place, Suri walked in with secretary Amanda.

Two cleaning company trucks were parked next to each other in the villa yard. Gardeners were pruning shrubs, and aunts in uniform were wiping doors and windows. Everything looked very busy.

I walked into the living room and sat face to face with my parents.

The surrounding environment was different from Su Rui's imagination. There were no servers or desks.

The couple finished looking at each other.

Father Su was glared at by his wife, and he felt a little helpless. He tentatively asked Su Rui, "What do you think of this house?"

"Um?"

"...Okay, actually, my mother and I have bought this place, which covers an area of ​​2,550 square meters. The house price has plummeted this year. It was listed in June for 3.99 million US dollars, and now the price is only 3.33 million US dollars. Wan. Although Lanai is comfortable, it is a bit unsuitable for your mother and me. We like to attend parties and enjoy walking in lively places at night. Because we are the boss, the employees are used to excluding us. They form a small group with each other. Circle, it feels very uncomfortable.”

"..."

Su Rui was speechless, rolled her eyes and said:

"I told you earlier that there is no need to stay in Lanai for me. Just go back to Los Angeles when you miss the bustling life. Why did you buy a house here? No wonder everyone is busy cleaning. I thought the Green Turtle Online Shopping Company , and arranged the office location in such a wealthy area."

His mother shook her head and said:

“Beverly Hills is too noisy, and Lanai is too peaceful.”

"After discussing with your father, I feel that living in Honolulu is more suitable. I can take care of the new business, and I can often visit you by boat to help continue to manage the fruit and vegetable farm. I will reserve a room for you then. , you can come here to rest occasionally. When you take a walk on Lanai Island at night, you may not meet anyone for two kilometers. People mainly live in Lanai Town, and you know the situation in the town... There is not even a movie theater."

Dad Su also said: "Yes, you happen to be busy with other things. After planting vegetables on the farm, your mother and I were in a daze all day. That kind of life is not suitable for us for the time being."

After hearing this, I couldn’t laugh or cry.

Speaking more carefully, except for the time when he was in college, he and his parents had never lived apart.

It was the first time they decided to officially separate, so his parents were so cautious, worried about hurting their son's emotions.

How could Su Rui be so fragile? He raised his hand decisively and said:

"Stop! There's no need to try to convince me. I didn't say I couldn't live here. It's like I'm abusing you. It only takes more than 20 minutes to come here by helicopter. I was afraid that you would be bored and chose to wrong yourself for me, so you I advise you to go back to Los Angeles or try to start an online shopping business, but now I feel relieved."

Even Suri himself, in order to find something to do, specially arranged the screenwriting department on Lanai Island, and planned to expand the scale of the hotel and invest in the development of tourism.

Because most of my friends and acquaintances are in California.

If you change your environment and settle down, you will feel uncomfortable to some extent. You need to enrich your life to avoid being too idle and feeling panicked.

This is like many people who are too tired from work and want to retire.

After retirement, I broke my daily routine. Not only did I not feel much enjoyment, but my mentality was prone to problems, and I felt empty, confused, and at a loss.

In the past two years, my parents have been worried all day long.

Suri found at this moment that they finally tried to return to the normal track and continued to pursue social interaction and a lively life. I was really happy for them...

I have another house in my family.

Su Rui checked upstairs and downstairs and found that the scenery on the second floor was even more beautiful. It could not only see a corner of the city landscape, but also the sea and green mountains.

It has a study room, a private cinema, a gym, a sauna, a wine cellar, etc., except for a slightly different layout and style. It is similar to the mansion in Beverly Hills, but the value is much cheaper, making it very economical.

Compared to admiring the scenery.

When Suri went to the back garden to see how the cleaning workers cleaned the outdoor swimming pool, she watched with great interest.

The dust at the bottom of the swimming pool is cleaned by the machine, which makes people feel relieved inexplicably. It is only a little worse than washing old carpets with a high-pressure water gun.

In order to save water bills, some families only hire someone to purify the swimming pool water instead of completely changing the water.

Su Rui's parents were not short of money, so they emptied the swimming pool overnight. It was considered a second-hand house. In fact, after the decoration was completed at the beginning of this year, it was put up for sale soon. All the furniture was brand new.

After cleaning and buying some household appliances, you can just pack your bags and move in.

There were no mobility scooters in Honolulu, and it was inconvenient to take a taxi here in Diamond Head. So Su Rui contacted the owner of a car dealership he knew and asked him to arrange a car to pick them up, saying that he would go to their store to make purchases.

For a large and generous customer like Suri, the owner of the car dealership didn't say anything and personally drove a Range Rover to pick him up.

…

The car dealership remains the same.

It has been just over a month since I last came here to buy a car. The Ferrari Enzo parked in the store was too expensive and has not been sold yet.

The booth where a Rolls-Royce convertible Phantom was originally parked was now parked with a milky white Bugatti Veyron, and Suri was instantly moved.

His father, on the other hand, was interested in a convertible version of the silver-gray Aston Martin DB9, and was about to take Suri's mother out for a test drive on the spot...