Chapter 664 Top Protection
When Xia Rufei came outside the yard with a large insulated box, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan just drove to the door of the villa.
A middle-aged man wearing a navy blue suit and tie quickly got off the car from the side of the passenger seat and trotted to Xia Rufei.
"Hello Mr. Xia, I am Xue Ming who just contacted you!" the middle-aged man said respectfully, "The private plane sent by Chairman Ma has landed at Sanshan International Airport. The crew sent a message that the route they took off and returned to Hong Kong Island in one hour after they applied for has been approved."
Xue Ming is the newly appointed manager of the Sanshan Office of Hengfeng Group. Although the office is only a liaison agency and is responsible for coordination and guarantee work, he is still very powerful and has a small influence within the entire group.
Because Sanshan is a bit special, Xue Ming knew very well that General Manager Ma Zhiming's father-in-law was in Sanshan, and General Ma's father-in-law's family was very influential in the mainland politics. General Ma's sister-in-law Ms. Tian Huilan even reached a high position at the ministerial level.
Coupled with Ma Xiong's age, Ma Zhiming is now increasingly in charge of the company's business, so it's only a matter of time before he takes over.
Therefore, the managers of the Sanshan Office must be held by people who the Ma family trusted very much. After the two previous office managers were transferred back to the company headquarters, they were all reused without exception.
Even so, Xue Ming still did not dare to neglect the slightest when facing this young Mr. Xia.
Because the previous office manager told him during the handover that in Sanshan, in addition to handling the company's daily business, one should pay attention to making good friends with two people. One is naturally Mr. Ma's father-in-law Professor Tian, and the other is Mr. Xia from Taoyuan Company.
Moreover, this time Chairman Ma Xiong sent a special plane to Sanshan to pick up Mr. Xia, which shows how deep Mr. Xia’s relationship with the Ma family is.
Facing such a person, how dare Xue Ming be disrespectful at all?
After he finished speaking, he immediately reached out to take the large insulated box from Xia Rufei's hand, and his movements were very natural.
Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Manager Xue!"
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Xue Ming said quickly.
When I opened the trunk, the spacious trunk space had been renovated in advance. There was a small refrigerator inside. Because the car refrigerator that the Mercedes-Benz car was not big enough, it could not contain more than 20 large abalones, Ma Xiong personally said hello and asked Sanshan Office to modify the trunk of the car overnight.
This small refrigerator is not standard on-board, so it is specially equipped with a transformer to supply power from the car.
It took only about half an hour to drive from Taoyuan Farm to the airport, so it took such a lot of effort to see how much Ma Xiong attaches great importance to these abalones.
After Xia Rufei followed Xue Ming to the car, he entered the password and opened the insulated box. Then, with Xue Ming, he put abalone into the refrigerator one by one.
Xia Rufei also put these abalones in the refrigerator at home for a while in the morning, so they were still a little cold in their hands.
Soon after the abalone was loaded, Xue Ming hurriedly opened the back seat door for Xia Rufei and respectfully invited Xia Rufei to get in the car before he got into the passenger seat.
The Mercedes-Benz started steadily, left Taoyuan Farm, and drove towards Sanshan Airport, not far from the farm.
A small building next to the airport terminal is a private jet and a dedicated entry and exit passage for business jets.
After the Mercedes-Benz was in good condition, Xue Ming quickly took out the abalone from the refrigerator, carefully put it into the insulated box, and then personally carried the insulated box and walked into the small building with Xia Rufei.
One advantage of taking a private jet is that security checks are relatively relaxed.
At the entrance of the passage, a security inspector checked Xia Rufei's Hong Kong and Macao pass and Xue Ming's temporary pass to enter and exit the airport restricted area in advance, and then briefly checked the abalone in the insulated box and then released it.
Xue Ming carried the insulated box and took Xia Ruofei through the passage, and soon arrived at the apron.
It is several hundred meters away from the terminal, and it is specially designed for small aircraft and business jets.
A Gulfstream 650 aircraft was already docking there quietly, and the captain, with the co-pilot and two air waiters, was waiting by the plane.
Xia Rufei has been riding Ma Xiong's luxury business jet more than once.
The first time, Ma Xiong suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Hong Kong Island. Xia Ruofei and Ma Zhiming's family flew to Hong Kong Island urgently and successfully pulled Ma Xiong back from the brink of death.
The second time was to go to Shanghai with Ma Xiong to attend the truffle auction.
Therefore, Xia Rufei is even familiar with the captain.
He greeted the crew with a smile, and after Xue Ming handed the insulated box to a slim and beautiful flight attendant, he said goodbye to Xia Ruofei very politely and left the apron.
Xia Rufei got off the plane surrounded by everyone, and the flight attendant had already received instructions to put the precious big abalone into the refrigerator on the plane as soon as possible.
The crew had already turned on the apu, so although the plane was docked on the ground, the power supply in the cabin was not affected.
Xia Ruofei got on the plane and the cabin door quickly closed.
There were about twenty minutes left before the scheduled takeoff time. The captain and the co-pilot went to the cockpit to prepare before the flight, while Xia Rufei leaned on the soft and wide leather seat and used the iPad to browse the news.
What he was concerned about was naturally the news about this auction.
After so many days of warm-up, the abalone auction has been well known to everyone, and many media have reported it for many consecutive days.
The press officer of Hengfeng Auction House said that the auction has received interview applications from more than 80 media outlets, including more than 50 media outlets from mainland China and overseas.
The forum's reaction to this auction was mixed, because many people still refuse to believe that someone could produce so many top-quality abalone at one time, and almost all of them were abalone.
Most of these skeptical people think this is a malicious hype. As for promotional videos and pictures, the current photo editing software is so developed that Sister Feng can become Fan Bingbing. What is the purpose of modifying the pictures and videos of abalone?
Those who support it think that Hengfeng Auction House cannot smash its own signature, it is a well-known old auction house!
There are also a few netizens from Southeast Province who expressed their trust in the Taoyuan brand. After all, the Taoyuan brand has become synonymous with high-end in Southeast Province, especially Sanshan City, the capital of Southeast Province.
But after all, Taoyuan Company's influence and radiation range is not large enough, so there is not much content about the "both and negative parties" mentioning Taoyuan Company, and some criticize Taoyuan Company for malicious hype.
Xia Ruofei smiled and looked at the various remarks on the Internet, and was in a very good mood.
After a while, a beautiful flight attendant walked to Xia Rufei, squatted down and kept at the same height as Xia Rufei, and then whispered: "Mr. Xia, the plane is about to take off soon. Please fasten your seat belt."
Upon hearing this, Xia Ruofei put down his iPad and said with a smile: "Okay!"
While Xia Rufei was wearing his seat belt, the flight attendant also walked back to his seat in the front cabin with elegant steps and tied the seat belt.
Not long after, the plane trembled gently and began to push backwards.
During the pushback process, the plane's engine began to rotate. When the cart was on the taxiway, the luxury Gulfstream g650 business jet began to steadily.
The plane taxied to the entrance of the runway head, stopped steadily behind the yellow line, waiting for the takeoff order.
Xia Rufei also looked out through the porthole. An Airbus giant was slowly descending in the distance. In a short while, the Airbus A380 passed by their Gulfstream and landed smoothly on the runway.
The Gulfstream business jet is obviously waiting for Airbus to land.
After the a380 landed, the baystream where Xia Rufei was riding was immediately allowed to enter the runway.
The plane slowly glided again, made a big turn at the head of the runway, and steadily aimed at the center of the runway.
At this time, the Airbus giant passenger plane at the far end had already left the runway through the taxiway on the right. After receiving the takeoff order, the Gulfstream business plane immediately recharged the throttle to take off thrust.
Xia Rufei felt the plane tremble slightly, and then began to accelerate on the runway, and he also felt a clear sense of pushing back.
This standard runway is too long for Gulfstream G650, and it doesn't take such a long distance for taking off or landing.
After scoring at high speed for hundreds of meters, the plane had reached the speed of lifting the wheel. The nose of the plane was gently lifted up, and the entire streamlined luxury business jet lightly flew into the air and penetrated straight into the sky.
The flight altitude of Gulfstream business jets is higher than that of ordinary passenger aircraft, so there are very few bumps during the entire flight, and the comfort itself is extremely high. It is completely different from riding on a civil aviation passenger aircraft.
The maximum cruising speed of Gulfstream g650 reaches Mach 0.925, which is close to the speed of sound, far exceeding that of ordinary civil aviation passenger planes. Therefore, the entire journey from Sanshan to Hong Kong Island only takes a little more than an hour.
And two-thirds of this time are still spent on climbing and approaching.
When this luxurious private plane landed smoothly at the Hong Kong Island Airport, Xia Ruofei couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
"If you have the chance, you must buy such an airplane! This is the real high-end enjoyment!" Xia Rufei said in his heart.
Every time she took a private plane, Xia Rufei couldn't help but feel a little envious.
Now, he is actually not far from owning a private jet, especially after the Taoyuan vegetables in Australia begin to be produced in large quantities, the monthly profits are tens of millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and buying private jets is nothing.
Of course, high-end business jets like the Gulfstream g650 cannot be owned immediately with money. Each Gulfstream series business jet is customized according to customer requirements. Only after orders are placed can you queue up to produce.
Yes, it's queueing.
There are more wealthy people in the world. If someone else's order is ahead of you, you may have to wait for a longer time.
If you are not lucky, it is possible to wait for two or three years.
The Hong Kong Island Airport is very busy, and Gulfstream G650 was arranged to be docked at a remote airport. However, Ma Zhiming of Hengfeng Group, Dong Jiajun, managers of Hengfeng Auction House, and Feng Jing, etc. have all arrived at this airport by car.
Xia Rufei got off the plane and saw these people coming to pick them up.
A man in black suit took the insulated box from the flight attendant and immediately sent it to the car and kept it in the car refrigerator.
"Xia Sheng, it's been a long time since I saw you, you are still in style!" Ma Zhiming greeted with a smile in Mandarin with a strong Cantonese accent.
"Haha! Mr. Ma, Aunt Huixin and Huanhuan are all okay, right?" Xia Ruofei asked with a smile.
"For your blessing, Huixin and Huanhuan are both very good!" Ma Zhiming said with a smile, "Huanhuan heard that Xia Sheng was coming, and she was clamoring to pick her up at the airport! But she happened to be taking calligraphy classes today, so she could only let Huixin coax her at home!"
Huanhuan had severe autism before. At that time, Xia Rufei did not have the prescription for Yangxin Decoction. He used Lingxinhuan's petal solution to cure Huanhuan. Later, Xia Rufei happened to be the case and rescued Ma Xiong, who had suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage, from the brink of death. Therefore, the Ma family's gratitude to Xia Rufei was really from the bottom of their hearts.
After a few greetings from Xia Ruofei and Ma Zhiming, he turned to Feng Jing and said with a smile: "Mr. Feng, thank you for your hard work these days!"
He could see Feng Jing's face with a hint of unconcealed fatigue. It can be imagined that Feng Jing's work intensity must be very high these days in Hong Kong Island.
Feng Jing smiled slightly and said, "Chairman, don't work hard! When I think of this auction, I feel full of energy!"
"Haha! I can only feel so at ease with you in Hong Kong Island. I will come after the auction begins soon!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "Mr. Feng, when the auction is over, I will give you a big red envelope!"
"Okay! I won't be polite to you..." Feng Jing said with a smile, "The housing prices in Sanshan are getting more and more expensive, and I want to buy a big house as soon as possible!"
"Then you have to work harder!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "The better the company's performance, the more dividends you will get at the end of the year! If we can enter the Fortune 500 overnight, you will be like playing if you buy ten villas!"
The group walked towards the car with a chat and laughter.
Ma Zhiming brought an extended version of the Bentley, and the dried abalones were placed in the ice bar of the Bentley car.
Xia Rufei, Ma Zhiming and Feng Jing took Bentley, the bodyguards and staff took two other cars respectively, and the group quickly left the airport.
The location Ma Xiong arranged for Xia Ruofei to stay is the Hengfeng Jiahua Hotel in Hong Kong Island, where the auction will be held tomorrow.
This is also a high-end brand under Hengfeng Hotel Group. The last time Xia Ruofei went to Shencheng to attend the truffle auction was also held at Hengfeng Jiahua Hotel.
After leaving Hong Kong Island Airport, the car passed through the North Lantau Highway and the Qing Kui Highway, and finally arrived at the Hengfeng Jiahua Hotel located on the beach overlooking Victoria Harbour.
When the car slowly drove into the hotel hall, Xia Rufei had already seen the founder of Hengfeng Group and the chairman Ma Xiong, who was standing at the door of the hotel, was waiting. He could not sit still.
Chapter completed!