Chapter 82 (1/2)
For those who wore Hermes in everyday life, had more than hundreds of millions as family property, and regarding them, five million was indeed not anything significant in comparison. However, not anything significant was one thing and spending that much amount on luxury goods was a different thing. And spending such a big amount in one-go was something on a different level even for them.
Even if a person was from a big financial background had more than few millions in his hand, even then, it would be extremely rare for him to spend that much in one go and if those five million was to be spent on purchasing luxury goods, that would be almost next to impossible.
Over many years, some people could spend that type of money at Hermes, maybe over three years or four years. Take the example of Zhao Yongliang, he might have already spent around three-four hundred million yuan since his first purchase at Hermes. And for spending such amount he shopped for himself and many of his sweethearts over time and then only he could become Hermes VIP customer and get a 9.5% discount. Actually, this discount was emphatically not important, important was the VIP status. The organization branches of Hermes was spread over the whole world and had an exclusive club for its customers. Such one club was called Rongyao Tianzun club (lit: esteemed customer club) and to enter such club one had to be a VIP customer of Hermes.
This club was founded by the hegemony of the Hermes organization. And every member of the club belonged to the upper echelon of the society. Moreover, the members.h.i.+p was invitations based. In China, this club had only tree branches. One was in the national capital, another was in Jiangyuan City and the last one was in Shanghai.
Although it wasn't some top of the world club, however, the status of this club was very high. To be able to receive an invitation to enter such club, the person must have a big ident.i.ty and acknowledgment among society. That's why many people gave a lot of weight to such an ident.i.ty. But even among such people, only few might have heard of something called SVIP.
SVIP was SUPER-VIP. Naturally, the requisite was much higher than the VIP. and since the VIP members were members of Rongyao Tianzun club, then one could only guess about the members.h.i.+p of an SVIP person.
Zhao Yongliang squinted his eyes and looked at Xu Taiping. His intuition always told him that Xu Taiping was not simple and after today he was even more sure of this. Zhao Yongliang could also pay five million in one-go, however, that would be to buy a car or a house. But spending five million to buy something like Hermes brand clothes, it would have bled his heart and he would only bite such bullet if he was to provoke some enemy of his.
As for Xia Jinxuan, the shock was much bigger. She didn't have much understanding of Xu Taiping's past. She only knew that Xu Taiping is good at fighting. However, she didn't know that Xu Taiping had such money. As per her understanding, Xu Taiping somehow got a job as a security guard due to some unfortunate situation and that's why he couldn't have such an amount of money. And also why she somehow managed to take some time off and drag Xu Taiping to such place to buy clothes to not let him spend his hard-earned money. She didn't even imagine that Xu Taiping would be SVIP member of Hermes. Moreover, since this ident.i.ty of his was higher than hers, she was stupefied.
”S, SVIp, so what? So should I be afraid of him?” Xia Jinxuan sternly asked.
”Regarding us workers at Hermes, an SVIP member is very important. Young lady Xia, if this guest has made an error, then I in his place want to apologize to you.” that manager said.
”This is out of the question!” Xia Jinxuan shook her head.
”If you don't take money, then I am going.” Xu Taiping said in irritation.
”Good, XiaoLi, settle the bill of Mr. Xu.” that manager ordered.
”You dare!!' Xia Jinxuan angrily said.
”Haven't we sufficiently lost our face?” Xu Taiping glanced at Xia Jinxuan and said, ”get out from here.”
'I!!” Xia Jinxuan angrily looked at Xu Taiping and looked like she was again going to scold. However unexpectedly she said, ” Good. I am going away.”
After saying, Xia Jinxuan walked to Xu Taiping's side and said, ”I can't be angry with you, so you should be angry with me!”
”Your are silly but loving.” Xu Taiping rolled his eyes and then pulled Xia Jinxuan and walked outside.
”Account that on my name. My person will come to pay latter.” while being pulled by Xu Taiping outside, Xia Jinxuan shouted.
”Young lady Xia, put down you hear. It's not urgent!” The manager sees them off at the gate with a smile.
After seeing Xu Taiping and Xia Jinxuan leaving that place like that, everyone inside the shop was again stunned.
'How do you know this Mister Xu?” Zhao Yongliang walked to the manager's side and asked.
”3years back, Mr. Xu came to our shop to buy merchandise. At that time he bought all of our items. Altogether he had spent more than tens of millions.” that manager replied.
”Almost ten millions?” Zhuang Yayuan standing beside Zhong Yongliang opened her eyes wide in surprise. For her, she would show off a hand-bag worth ten-thousand yuan for at least for one year. She couldn't even think, how long she would flaunt a bag worth more than ten million, maybe her whole life.
”This person indeed a sage inside the clothing of an ordinary man.” Zhong Yongliang in ridicule said, ”three years ago, where was Xu Taiping inside the Jiang Yuan City? And why did I never heard about such a person? This is interesting.
”Since he is such a wealthy person, then why does he work as a security guard at our university? It is possible that he suffered a reversal of fortune and become bankrupt? Zhuang Yayuan asked curiously.
”A reversal of fortune? Someone who could pay tens of millions in one-go, his property would be astonis.h.i.+ng. Even if we do not consider how can one squander such a large property in three years, and even if he had squandered much money, that it would have been impossible to conceal. There must have been some sort of rumor in society. However, Jiang Yuan never had any rumor about this person.” Zhong Yongliang said.