Chapter 56: Your car slipped.

If London and New York are the most important financial centres in the Western hemisphere, then Hong Kong must be the most important financial centre in the East. As a free port, it is even more significant than any other financial city, and it is also a city built up by money.

All the world's leading financial institutions have branches here, and there are also many unimaginably huge enterprises. In order to control the direction of the city's capital, these enterprises jointly funded the establishment of the Hong Kong City United Investment Fund. Lin Muqing is the controller of this fund and has helped the Hong Kong City United Investment Fund achieve an annual growth rate of 15%.

Lin Muqing is smart and wise, and she has convinced the two tycoons of the city, Wang Yunlong and Cao Haiyang, to submit to her. For business reasons, she also has contact with all the tycoons in the city, but there has never been any gossip about her. We can't help but ask, what kind of man would be lucky enough to win the favour of a goddess like Lin Muqing? I'm afraid only God can answer that question.

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This is the newspaper's introduction to Lin Muqing. On the whole, there is nothing wrong with it, and even some gossip is added at the end to cater to the public's tastes. However, it can also be seen that the name Lin Muqing still has a certain influence, even in the United States.

Zhou Ming was sitting in the car thinking about this. He was now driving towards Brighton Air Force Airport, because according to the itinerary given in the newspaper, Lin Muqing's private jet would land at this airport.

Brighton Air Force Airport is a semi-public military airport. Usually, apart from the military, only the private jets of some important guests land here.

Chen Ye Neng and Li Yang were both sitting in the car together. Ye Neng said excitedly in a low voice, 'No wonder Lin Muqing can get the authorization of the military to land at a military airport. This is already very impressive. I remember that the last person to land at this military airport was the prime minister of a certain African country. This shows that the status of my idol has risen to the ranks of national leaders!'

Ye Ning's words left Zhou Ming a little speechless, because as far as he understood it, although this airport was indeed a military airport, it was not as tightly guarded as one might think. However, whenever the private jet of someone with some fame lands here, it basically avoids taking the same route as other commercial aircraft. The last person to land at this airport was not some prime minister either, but Zhou Ming didn't need to deliberately correct her.

'Yes, Lin Muqing is a very capable woman, and definitely a role model for you to strive to be like,' Zhou Ming said in agreement with Ye Ning, while also genuinely happy for Lin Muqing's achievements today.

At this time, Chen Shu, who was sitting in front, suddenly turned back and told Zhou Ming, "Teacher, we will soon arrive at the Brighton Military Airport.'

Faced with this news, Ye Ning suddenly became nervous: "Teacher, we will be there soon. Do you think we can really meet Lin Muqing and even speak with her?'

'Of course we can. We came here especially to find her today. I also have some very important things to discuss with her and other businessmen from Hongcheng.' Zhou Ming said. Although his words were very simple, they gave Chen Yushu and Ye Ning great confidence. In their opinion, if Zhou Ming could get the governor to do something in a short period of time, he would definitely be able to do it now that he was going to meet Lin Muqing.

While they were talking, Zhou Ming's car had already passed through security and entered Brighton Airport, but when Zhang Lin drove into the parking lot, he was immediately stunned because the place was already full of cars.

At this situation, Li Yang immediately exclaimed, 'My God, why are there so many cars here? Are they all here to greet Lin Muqing? This is too exaggerated, isn't it?'

Chen Shu corrected Li Yang, 'It's not necessarily entirely Lin Muqing's doing, because she came with Tong Gang, the chairman of the board of directors of Gangcheng Shipping Group, his son Tong Hua, the chairman of Changhe Industrial Li Cheng, the vice chairman of the Gangcheng Stock Exchange Deng Weidong, and others. These people are all famous business tycoons worldwide. Tong Gang and Li Cheng themselves have investments in Brighton, including the first policy of our insurance company, which is Tong Gang Shipping Group.'

Chen Shu paused for a moment before continuing, 'So I think it is likely that their company staff will also be here to greet us.'

Chen Shu's explanation was well-reasoned, but Ye Ning was unconvinced. 'I disagree. Today's event is so successful, and it is definitely mainly due to Lin Muqing's efforts!'

'Lin Muqing is not only an outstanding entrepreneur, she also has great charisma and influence. You probably haven't noticed it before, but at school, whenever we asked about Chinese entrepreneurs, or the most outstanding Chinese experts in the financial field, the first name that came to everyone's mind was definitely Lin Muqing. Even here in the United States, she has many fans. So today's situation is definitely because Lin Muqing is here!' Ye Ning said decisively.

'Regardless of whose fault it is, let's find a parking space first.' In the end, Zhou Ming put an end to Chen Shu and Ye Ning's argument.

In fact, listening to the conversation between the three of them made Zhou Ming feel a bit helpless, because for him, today's situation was both unexpected and expected. After all, Brighton Airport was not a commercial airport. Apart from the military, it only accepted private aircraft at most, and it would not accept too many people. How could it prepare a large parking lot? However, being able to fill the parking lot to capacity was enough proof of Lin Muqing's popularity.

Zhang Lin drove around in the parking lot, and Chen Shu suddenly pointed in a direction and said, 'Teacher, can we park in that corner?'

Zhou Ming looked in the direction Chen Shu was pointing, and sure enough, there was an empty space in an inconspicuous corner. However, the opening there was very small. Zhou Ming glanced at Zhang Lin, who nodded at Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming then got Chen Shu and the others out of the car. When Zhang Lin was about to start the car and pull over, there was suddenly a loud engine roar, and a sports car quickly drove past them and pulled directly into the empty space, which made Li Yang and Ye Ning very angry.

'Hey! Do you have any manners? We saw this parking space first, so why did you just pull in?' Li Yang shouted at the sports car.

'Is that so? But I'm sorry, I didn't see you trying to park, and I also had something very important to do. If I happened to take the parking space you were eyeing, then I can apologise to you. Because parking is very tight here, I must have this parking space. If you can, you can park anywhere in the open space outside the airport. For this, I can pay you $100 for gas.'

A blonde American got out of the car and said to Li Yang, while opening his wallet and taking out a hundred dollars.

Li Yang immediately knocked the money out of the other person's hand and said, 'Take your lousy money, I'll give you a thousand dollars, just get out of here, okay!'

The blonde American frowned and said, 'Sir, I didn't mean to insult you in any way, I just want this parking space, and I just want to give you some compensation within my ability, but since you don't accept it, that's fine.'

'Then, sir, I would like to return your words to you. We also did not mean to insult you. We are just negotiating with you. We need this parking space. If possible, we hope you will park your car outside. We are willing to give you a certain amount of financial compensation for this. What do you say?' This time it was Ye Ning who spoke, looking at the blonde American without showing any weakness.

The blonde American laughed, and after sizing Ye Ning and Li Yang up, he said, 'Chinese, I advise you not to mess around here. Do you know my surname is Adams? My name is Robert Adams.'

Hearing this surname, Ye Ning and Li Yang both subconsciously froze for a moment. Robert Adams then continued, 'It seems you have heard of it, so I won't waste any more words. I am from that family, and I am a core member.'

Robert then looked back at the airport and said, 'You should also be here to welcome Lin Muqing, right? She is indeed the pride of the Chinese people, but do you know that she can land at this Brighton Airport thanks to our Adams family? Without our nod, she is not eligible to enter Massachusetts airspace, and of course the same goes for you. You have to understand who is the lord here.'

'I don't want your pilgrimage, but at least you should show me some respect, otherwise I have ways to deal with you.' Robert finally repeated, "Remember, my surname is Adams.'

After saying that, Robert left, Ye Ning and Li Yang returned to Zhou Ming and asked him what to do.

Zhou Ming did not answer right away, but instead asked them in return, "Are you just going to admit defeat?'

'Of course not, if I can, I will definitely break his nose!' Li Yang said.

'Then what are you doing standing here, have you got brain freeze? Hurry up and get the rope out of the boot, let's tow his broken-down car out,' Zhou Ming scolded with a smile.

Li Yang's eyes lit up, and he gave Zhou Ming a very crappy salute, then ran over to open the trunk of the car and took out a piece of rope from inside, which he tied to Robert's sports car. When everything was ready, Zhang Lin heavily stepped on the accelerator, and even though Robert's sports car had the handbrake on, it was still pulled out of his parking space.

Robert saw it all. He had only heard the roar of the engine behind him and subconsciously wanted to turn around to take a look, but he was shocked to discover that they were actually towing his car.

Are these guys crazy? How dare they be so brazen? He is an Adams, the core family of the Brighton Consortium, one of the ten major consortia ruling the United States! Are these Chinese people all stupid?

Robert's mind went blank, and it wasn't until his car was being towed out of the parking space and Li Yang was untying the rope that he snapped out of it. He then walked over and said, 'What are you doing? You despicable bastards, filthy scoundrels, put my car back in the parking space!'

But Zhang Lin ignored him and performed a beautiful skid to park the car in the parking space.

At the same time, Zhou Ming also walked over to Robert and said to him, 'Hello, esteemed Mr. Robert Adams. I'm sorry, I didn't know what was going on just now. Your car just slid out of the parking space. Since you had already left, I took the liberty of parking it in. If I caused you any inconvenience, I can apologise to you. Also, I can tell you that you can park anywhere in the open space outside the airport. For this, I can pay you $100 for gas.'

These were the words Robert had just said to Li Yang, and Zhou Ming repeated them back to him, infuriating him.

'Shameless, absolutely shameless!' Robert said with clenched teeth, his voice shaking a little.

Robert couldn't help but be angry. He clearly saw that they were the ones who towed their car out and parked it in, but they still said that it was their car that slid out. Couldn't they have found a better excuse? I'm afraid that even a three-year-old wouldn't believe it, right? Isn't this insulting his intelligence?

However, Zhou Ming's words did not end here. Zhou Ming then said to him, 'In addition, I would like to correct Mr. Robert on one point. Lin Muqing and I are good friends. She would come to Brighton and have nothing to do with you. Got it?'

Then he looked at his watch: 'The plane will be arriving soon, Mr. Robert, so you'd better go park the car. Goodbye.'

Zhou Ming then led Chen Shu and the others away, leaving Robert shaking with anger. He shouted at Zhou Ming's back, 'Bullshit! You damned Chinese are full of it!'