Chapter 574: Southampton, Tiger, Riding
Southampton is the southern port city of the Kingdom of Britain. It faces the English Channel and is an important passenger ship and container port city. It covers an area of 52 square kilometers, has a population of 220,000, and has 15 districts under its jurisdiction.
It is an important ocean seaport and naval base in the Kingdom of Britain, one of the top ten ports in the Kingdom of Britain, and is also the largest passenger station in the Kingdom of Britain and the headquarters of the International Sailing Federation.
Southampton is the starting point for the Titanic.
However, the above city of Southampton belongs to the Kingdom of Britain and is a city.
It wasn't the Southampton that Abel was going to.
As a colony of the Kingdom of Britain, there are several Southamptons in the United States. The most famous and hidden town of Southampton, New York...
This is an exclusive town for rich people. It is also the favorite area of the families on the historical East Coast, except Long Island. It is not large in area, but it is lush with trees, beautiful scenery and excellent security. The FBI and CIA have also set up a branch here directly.
Among the residents here, white people account for more than 98%. The remaining 2% are from other ethnic groups.
In other words, Southampton is one of the most traditional gathering places for the Puritan and American elites. Every Tianlong family with a history of more than 50 years has their own manor villas here. It is also one of the places where many newly emerging new money really want to live. Especially those families who envy the past history of the Tianlong family and the glorious newly emerging family, they are often willing to spend huge sums of money to buy very ordinary houses here.
The style of the manor villas here is very traditional. If you walk here, it is easy to think that you are coming to a small town in the countryside of the British Kingdom, because most of the buildings here are the favorite styles of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Not as exaggerated as the Beverly Hills and Malibu beaches on the west coast.
This place is managed by New York City, New York. It is historically one of the top Manhattan rich people in New York, favorite weekend vacations, and family residences.
Such areas are in New York, and there is more than one Southampton. Similar Hamptons, Long Island, etc. are all of this type.
Abel boarded a helicopter in Manhattan and enjoyed the quiet transportation of the unique rich man in a specially modified wide helicopter.
It was originally a two-hour drive on land, but it took less than 40 minutes to get on a private helicopter.
Target – New York MG family residence in the small town of Southampton, New York.
Private helicopters cannot directly enter the town of Southampton, and it is not known which rich man initiated it first. After the September 11 incident, he launched a signature campaign to residents of the entire Southampton area, which was to prohibit any aircraft from entering the Southampton area at low altitudes.
The signature activity was easily passed. After all, after that incident, the entire United States, both ordinary people and rich people, fell into a certain fear. It is a good suggestion for them to eliminate possible air strikes at the root.
The signature activity was successful, and the Southampton administrators could only adopt it. The local council directly enacted legislation to prohibit any aircraft from operating in areas below 2,000 feet in Southampton. Those who violated the case will be punished with criminal law, and aircraft entering from outside will be directly killed by local police specially equipped with air defense weapons...
From that year on.
If you want to enter Southampton, you can only choose to enter from land. However, for the rich, this is not a problem. Just land on the border of the small town of Southampton.
Just take a luxury car instead.
Abel was riding a helicopter of the mg family, landing on the apron of an ordinary villa in the town next to Southampton.
After the plane landed smoothly, the cabin door opened. After getting off the plane, three Land Rover SUVs parked aside. The men in black were waiting for the arrival of the guests.
I didn't even have to leave the villa, so I just took a Range Rover back and drove to the MG family's station.
As soon as I left the villa and drove a few hundred meters, even if I officially entered the town of Southampton, the surrounding environment suddenly changed. In addition to the straight road, there were lush forests on both sides. Occasionally, several manor villas appeared, but each place was very far away, leaving enough private space and security space.
This is completely different from the newly-risen wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu Beach, and Palm Beach. The various luxury villas and buildings in these newly-risen wealthy areas are almost one by one, one by one.
Both sides often use a wall and some trees as isolation. Unlike here, except for the ordinary small houses on the periphery, the distance between the large villas is at least one or two miles.
On the road, occasionally a few bold wild deer crossed the road, not caring about the passing vehicles.
Abel has become accustomed to the bold wild animals in the United States. Even if a tiger pops up next to it, Abel doesn't feel anything. You know, America is the country with the most tigers in the world... Of course, it's not a wild tiger, there are not many wild tigers in the world. However, tigers themselves are big cats, and as long as they are cats, they can be raised by humans.
The United States owns the largest number of tigers in the world.
Currently, there are about 3,500+ wild tigers around the world, while there are 7,000+ pet tigers raised by Americans in the living room.
In some states, buying a tiger is even easier than adopting a stray dog.
Among so many domestic tigers, there are always a few that escaped or were abandoned, which is not uncommon. In the news here, domestic tigers often turn into wild tigers to hurt people. Over the past 30 years, 22 people have died under the claws of these domestic tigers, and at least 500 people have been injured because of domestic tigers.
Fortunately, no tiger suddenly appeared along the way. At most, there were some huge wild deer and some wild boars that occasionally appeared among the trees.
In fact, even if the tiger appears, the convoy is not afraid. There are so many bodyguards in the car, and everyone is carrying a gun. With more than a dozen guns, as long as it is a normal tiger on the earth, it is impossible for it to live for more than 10 seconds.
To be honest, even if there are no wild animals, the scenery here is actually very good, with green mountains and clear waters, and the transportation is also developed, so it is close to big cities.
So these houses that look very ordinary and very countryside. Many of their owners are of great origin. Perhaps it may be a farm-type villa that looks like a small country villa with crops in front of them. This is not necessarily the residence of a certain Tianlong family.
This is very common in Southampton.
Of course, the MG family's residence is not so desolate. After the driver in front of him reminded that he had entered the MG family's manor.
Abel felt that the air here was fresh and the fields were vast. There were rows of trees planted around the river, creating a beautiful pastoral scenery.
The vehicle drove into the cement road paved by the manor and drove for five minutes before seeing the house. Abel looked out the window. In such a place where wealthy people are dense or traditional wealthy people are dense. The MG family can occupy such a land, which is enough to imagine how glorious the MG family, which dominated with Rockefeller, was.
After passing through the dense forests and stone bridges, the eyes suddenly became clear. The flat and open green space, a large area of lakes dug by hand, a few swans wandered leisurely on the calm lake surface, and the wide corridor led to a magnificent Baroque building.
Well...there are very Anglo-Saxon-style buildings everywhere, and unlike this kind of brilliant Baroque architecture, it is also rare.
See someone’s ancestral land.
Abel sighed a little. His mansion in the Beverly Park community, the small island between Long Island and New York, and two apartments. Compared with this traditional family that owns such a large area of land in such a core area, it is really incomparable.
Look at the scenery, what is the manor? It is more appropriate to call it a small town. There is only one family in this large area. As far as Abel knows, there are only three people in the family who are directly connected...
When we arrived here, the cars that Abel's bodyguards and the MG family's bodyguards all stopped.
Only the Range Rover that Abel rode on, bypassed the fountain and kept moving forward.
Finally, he stopped in front of the ancient Baroque castle, and the uniformly dressed servants stood in a row. One of the butlers in his sixties and in a decent tuxedo stood facing the car door. When the car stopped, he stepped forward and opened the car door and asked Abel to get out.
The butler in a tuxedo had no expression on his face, his movements were standard and elegant. He was in an authentic Oxford accent, and his command was skillfully and organized. Not to mention the noble origins of Anna mg and her parents, even an ordinary rich man would be influenced by the illusion of "three generations of nobles".
Abel vaguely remembers that the old man was named Arnold. He was the inner and outer steward of the MG family in New York with Kate, who met the female housekeeper that day at Sacred Heart Women's Monastery Middle School.
Kate is mainly responsible for the inside of the castle and the female servants. Arnold is mainly responsible for the greeting, as well as the etiquette, as well as the management of the outside of the castle and the surrounding estate land.
Abel got off the car and exchanged greetings with Arnold. He often came here when he was a child. At that time, if his aunt and uncle were not there, the main person in charge of entertaining him was Arnold and Kate. He accompanied him and Anna to play in this manor villa.
But after greetings.
But Abel discovered that his imagined aunt, uncle and cute little cousin did not come to greet him.
He was arranged by Arnold to enter the house and brought back to the guest room by the servant. It seemed that a man and a woman had to change their clothes for them.
Abel refused: "Thank you, but you'll still go outside and wait..."
He asked Arnold who followed him in, "Where are my Aunt Catherine, my uncle, and Anna? They asked me to be a guest, but why did they hide themselves?"
He was a little unhappy.
There is no reason why the host hides when there is no guest.
Arnold smiled slightly and waved his hand. The two servants retreated, and then he said quietly: "Master Abel, you still don't like servants to serve you as before."
"It always feels weird to let others touch me," said Abel. "But Arnold. Please answer the question I just now."
"Well... the hosts and ladies are going to welcome the other two guests. They asked me to greet you first..." Arnold replied.
Abel was really upset.
Who is so generous? Even though he is here to visit, the MG family in New York has even gone to greet him, but not to welcome him. If it weren't for his promise to Anna this time, he would have come here to visit. Abel wants to leave now, and he will not be so rude to entertain people.
Arnold probably saw Abel's dissatisfaction. Before Abel was angry, he whispered: "Master Abel. Please wait a moment, and the masters and the lady will come back soon. By the way, before leaving, the lady said that she liked the foals you gave her very much. I hope that after you come, you can go and see them. By the way, the purebred horses collected by the lady."
Abel said in the equestrian department of Sacred Heart Women's Monastery Middle School that he wanted to send Anna a few foals. Later, after he separated, he asked someone to transport the descendants of the famous horses he bought at the Santa Ana Racecourse to New York and give them to his little cousin Anna.
Arnold is probably talking about these horses.
"Okay." Abel resisted his unhappiness and asked Arnold to take him to the horse farm.
The MG family's horse farm has many good horses, one of which was once the champion horse, was pure blood in the Kingdom of Britain and was tall and mighty.
Abel rode a ride. The pure-blooded hot-blooded horse was irritable and resisted strangers. In addition, Abel's riding skills were not very good, and he was not familiar with the temperament and personality of the pure-blooded horse. He could not respond and respond differently to the horse's temper and physical fitness conditions like those professional horse trainers and horse breeders.
Normally, it should be very difficult.
But Abel is no longer abnormal physique from ordinary humans, and his strength and reaction have played a role. No matter how this irritable horse resists or struggles, it is almost useless. Even in terms of strength, this purebred horse and him are only half a pound.
It took him a little time to tame the purebred horse with temperament. He wore a full set of English equestrian equipment and rode it on the horse field with a thriving figure, which received a lot of praise from Arnold and several servants who accompanied him.
Like Arnold, these servants knew Abel Sephrosa since childhood.
Afterwards, I learned that this pureblood horse was Anna's favorite, and she bought it from her original owner for millions of dollars. After buying it, the hotblood horse had a bad temper, and there were almost no one here who could tame it.
Abel was the first person to ride on it after it arrived and not be thrown off.
But this time.
This made Abel interested in riding horses. Although he had bought horse racing and purebred horses before, it was just to show off and give it to others.
Riding your own horse.
This is the first time.
How many purebred horses should I buy?
This kind of thought arose in his mind.
At this time, Arnold stepped forward and whispered to him: "Master Abel, the masters and the lady are back. They invite you to the living room, where they are waiting for you."
"Hmm." When I heard that I was invited to visit me, I ran to greet other people's aunts, uncles, and little cousin Anna were finally willing to see me.
Just now, because of the excitement that had risen at least for the first time, I became a little angry again.
Abel didn't dismount.
He rode the passionate horse that he tamed and ran towards the living room.
Chapter completed!