Chapter 228 Charity Reception
() Found the way home!
As the new favorite of Wall Street, Chen Fang, who just sold his shares in Whatsapp and held a large amount of funds, is a celebrity in the American social circle. He has invited him to various charity auctions and Vanity Fair cocktails, but he has been hiding in Kentucky and has not appeared.
But this charity dinner is different. It is a charity party held by Melinda Gates on December 14 at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown New York. It is a charity dinner for children's vaccines in the world. Among the people invited to attend this dinner, there are many world-class wealthy people like Warren Buffett, Allen Paul, and Larry Page.
On the evening of December 11, Chen Fang and Qin Mohan rushed to New York accompanied by Peter and settled in the Wangjiangtai Hotel next to Chinatown, Lower Town, the southern end of Manhattan. This was the first time that Qin Mohan accompanied Chen Fang to participate in such a high-standard charity dinner, and needed to try on the dresses booked in advance.
The next morning, Qin Mohan, who was sore all over, glared at Chen Fang with hatred, and then was pushed into the bathroom to wash.
"You know you're going to try on your dress today, but you didn't stop me a little yesterday. Don't you know if you've been riding a horse for a long time, your hips will be sore?" Qin Mohan stared at Chen Fang fiercely, and took a bite of the bread, as if he was going to spread the anger on the bread.
Chen Fang poured her a glass of milk and said with a smile: "Don't I want to give you a surprise? This is Bill Gates' dinner. How many world-class wealthy people appear at the cocktail party? I want to show your most beautiful posture to the outside world."
Qin Mohan curled his lips and said, "Hmph! The most beautiful? I think you want me to be a fool. Then I will walk in with you with my neck legs and see who is embarrassing."
Qin Mohan was very resentful of Chen Fang's behavior and ignored him. He continued until the moment he saw the dress in Wang Weiwei's studio in Manhattan District.
"Aunt Wang, please trouble you." Chen Fang hugged Wang Weiwei, who was welcomed, and then introduced Qin Mohan beside her to her: "This is Qin Mohan, my girlfriend."
"Wow, it's so beautiful. No wonder you can tie your heart." Wang Weiwei saw the photos and told her the size of the three dimensions. But when she saw the real person, she still admired her face.
Qin Mohan glared at Chen and greeted Wang Weiwei: "Hello, Ms. Wang."
"You don't have to be polite. Just call me Aunt Wang like him. I am very familiar with his mother Shen Qingyi. I often take skin care products from her. We Chinese people still know how to maintain our skin."
"Is that so? No wonder Aunt Wang, your skin color is so good." Qin Mohan knew Wang Weiwei's status in the Chinese clothing industry, but she didn't expect that she had such a strong relationship with the Shen family.
"There is old there." Wang Weiwei touched his face and said with a smile: "It's better than you young people, you are really tender. Come and see if you like the dress I designed for you?"
Qin Mohan went to change out with the staff. This was a burgundy one-shoulder taffeta evening dress. The one-shoulder design perfectly showed Qin Mohan's exquisite collarbone, paired with a set of noble and elegant Tiffany antique jewelry, perfectly combining the ostentatiousness of young people with the charm of stars.
"Wow, it's so beautiful. Mo Mo, your outfit is like a cup of mellow wine that makes me intoxicated in it and can't extricate myself."
Qin Mohan glared at him, but the corner of his mouth raised could not hide his inner complacency: "Aunt Wang, this dress is so beautiful, simple and elegant."
Wang Weiwei was also very happy to see that the two liked this evening dress. She ordered the staff to take a beige shawl to add to Qin Mohan, so that it could keep warm and elegant.
After trying on the dresses for attending the dinner, Chen Fang and Qin Mohan began their trip in New York, the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum, and Central Park. These scenes that were only seen in TV books before, and finally saw the real thing. Then Chen Fang accompanied Qin Mohan to start a shopping trip at various famous stores on Fifth Avenue. This time, many friends and best friends who did not follow him, so they should not buy some souvenirs for them to take them back.
"Wow, I'm so excited. What should I do if I'm rude then?" Qin Mohan, wearing a evening dress and a coat on the outside, said to Chen Fang who was sitting next to him. The vehicle was about to arrive at the hotel where the dinner was held. Qin Mohan felt that his heart was accelerating a little.
"Take a deep breath, don't worry. Aren't you just a few rich people? Keep a calm mind. Think about me who is with you every day, and I am worth tens of billions, which is higher than half of them." Chen Fang's mentality is very stable, and it can be said that he has no desires and no desires. This time I am here to donate, and there is nothing they need to help, so why should I look up to them.
At the entrance of the Four Seasons Hotel, Shen put the doorman under the doorman's door to get off the bus first, then looked back and blocked the eaves of the car door, helped Qin Mohan down, and ordered the driver Cheng Yue to find a place to park, so that Qin Mohan would walk into the hotel with his arms.
Entering the hall, a red carpet extends from the revolving door to the banquet hall. There are several media reporters on both sides of the red carpet to shoot, but more will be concentrated in the venue.
"Dear, look, there is no difference between the American media and domestic paparazzi? They are all hiding besides and peeping." Chen Fang felt that Qin Mohan's body was a little stiff, and he started to tease, which made Qin Mohan smile brightly.
Chen Fang saw the staff who were greeting him and handed her the invitation letter, and then walked along the red carpet to the venue under the leadership of the staff. After entering the venue, the staff first took them to the registration office. First, they had to verify the invitation letter here, and then the attendees signed in, and finally assigned dinner table cards.
"Mr. Chen, this is your table card, please take it." The staff handed him the table card. Table No. 8 is quite auspicious, but I don't know who is at the same table. Chen Fang and Qin Mohan handed the coat to the staff and began to officially enter the venue.
In the United States, charity banquets are a very formal gathering and socializing place for the rich. There are already many early guests. When they see Chen Fang, some of them will raise their glasses in their hands to show their wishes. Those who don’t know will nod to show their politeness.
Chen Fang took two glasses of champagne from the waiter tray that passed by, handed Qin Mohan a glass, and then took her to meet a friend of his own.
"Hi, Larry." Seeing the other party look over, Chen Fang greeted him first.
"Oh, Charles, long time no see." Larry Page, founder and CEO of Google, handed the wine glass to his female companion next to him and gave Chen Fang a big hug: "Charles, thank you for your wine. The taste is amazing, but the quantity is too small." In 2009, after drinking the whiskey used for Chen Fang for celebration when Shen Fang was in the stock market, he became his drinker.
"If Sergey had not divided your share, you would have twenty boxes." Chen Fang said bluntly as he looked at him, and shook hands with Larry Page's wife.
Larry Page smiled embarrassedly and changed the subject: "Charles, don't you introduce this beautiful angel around you?"
Chen Fang proudly introduced: "Monica? Qin, my girlfriend, my angel, my goddess." A few unconcealed rhetoric made Qin Mohan a little shy. He secretly pinched him, and then stretched out his hand generously: "Hello, I am Monica? Qin, I'm very happy to know you."
"Hello, I'm glad to know you." Then Larry Page introduced his wife Lucy Southworth next to him to Qin Mohan.
Many guests at the venue looked at Chen Fang, who was chatting with Larry Page, and were speculating on his identity. At this time, the staff who led Chen Fang came over with the organizer of the banquet, Gates and his wife.
"Hi, Larry, welcome you." Bill Gates first greeted Larry Page, then looked at Chen Fang and said, "You must be the 'magic Oriental boy' Mr. Chen Fang."
"Hello, Mr. Gates. It's a privilege to receive your invitation." Chen Fang expressed his due respect for this man who dominated the world's richest man for more than ten years.
"You are more powerful than when I was young when you were young. Thank you for your contribution to charity. Your generosity saves countless lives."
Chen Fang said sincerely: "Please rest assured about this, Mr. Gates. I must think you will learn more about this and hope it can help more people."
As the host of the banquet, Gates and his wife exchanged a few greetings with Larry, Shen Fang and others and then went to negotiate with other guests. They were invited by them, and it was not good to be favored by one or the other. Larry also greeted Chen Fang and took his wife to find other friends. After all, this is a social place, and many friends met in this place.
Then Chen Fang took Qin Mohan to meet many people. After a few days of media interviews with Fortune and Wall Street Journal, after knowing that Chen Fang was the protagonist, they all felt incredible and deeply admired the investment returns of this "magical Oriental Boy". Many people were asking the Wild Fox Investment Company if it needed to raise funds. If Chen Fang agreed, he could get at least hundreds of millions of funds tonight. Chen Fang declined with a smile. He basically bought the bottom-up investment, and the amount of funds needed was not large. If he absorbed social hot money, he would lose too much profit in the later period.
Then Chen Jie met another man he admired very much, Warren Buffett, an old man whom he was very optimistic about Chen Jie.
"Hello, Mr. Buffett!" Although the other party's evaluation of himself in the media was somewhat generous, he still expressed his kindness.
"Oh, the magical oriental boy." Buffett gave him a hug: "Others call me an investment master, but after looking at your investment operations in recent years, I found that this title is more suitable for you."
Chen Fang was a little excited by his enthusiasm: "Mr. Buffett, I can only be regarded as speculation. You once said: As long as you don't do too many wrong things, in your life, you only need to do a few right things. And I just chose a few right projects to invest and achieved success."
After Buffett arrived, the guests were basically all. Chen Fang and Qin Mohan came to Table 8 to take their seats. Chen Fang actually found another celebrity among the few people at the table.
"Hello, I am Trump, this is my daughter Ivanka." A middle-aged man with blonde hair and a hot blonde girl introduced herself to everyone present.
"Hello, Mr. Trump. I am Chen Fang. You can call me Charles. This is my girlfriend Monica." Chen Fang is still very interested in communicating with Mr. Trump, who has always claimed that he wants to run for president and enter the White House.
"Charles, you are all investing in the Internet industry. I wonder if you are interested in investing in the hotel industry?" Trump made a suggestion for this young man holding a huge amount of cash.
"Our family also has a hotel chain. If Mr. Trump is interested, we can work together in the future."
"Is that right? I don't know which hotel is?"
Trump is very talkative, especially after knowing that behind Chen Fang is the famous Hon Hai Group in China, he is even more enthusiastic.
Rare earth resources are called vitamins in modern industry, and China is a major exporter of rare earth resources. Hon Hai Group, which controls the large amount of rare earth quotas in China, has become the target that Western countries want to win over. My uncle Chen Haiyang also took this opportunity to globalize Hon Hai Group's industries and use rare earth transactions to help the country master the advanced technology blocked by many Western countries.
The two talked briefly for a while, and Chen Fang politely declined Trump's invitation, saying that he was about to return to China and that there was still matters to be handled in the country.
The charity dinner officially began, and as the host, Mr. Bill Gates, first came on stage to give a speech.
Bill Gates said that in the process of saving children's lives, the vaccine has the highest return on investment, which is also an important purpose of this charity fundraising. "Once we have a good vaccine, we will be able to save millions of lives every year. So our investment in global health is of great significance. This is more considerable than the 'reward' of investing in Microsoft or Google, because it can improve human living conditions."
When Gates talked about excitement, he would use gestures to assist him, and he could easily get the relevant data. "Every year, nearly 6 million children still die before the age of 5. Every year, 1 million children leave the world on the day of birth. Melinda and I hope that in our lifetime, these diseases that cause children to die, including malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, etc. This is the focus of our work."
The sincere speeches of Bill Gates and Melinda Gates were warmly held. After their speeches, Buffett gave a fundraising speech as a special guest. In the past few years, Buffett has donated 85% of his total assets for charity, donating them to five foundations, including 10 million shares of Berkshire's B shares to the Gates Foundation. The value of this batch of shares is approximately US$31 billion.
Buffett's generosity was also praised by the elites present. Everyone present raised their hands to signal the staff to sign and pledge them. Chen Fang considered it for a while and signed his name and amount on the pledge form: 80 million US dollars.
Chapter completed!