"Over a billion!"

Secretary Zhu and his entourage of officials were also deeply impressed.

Soon, Secretary Zhu turned his head and looked at the official who had taken the initiative to check the balances of those bank cards.

Seeing this, the official had no choice but to bite the bullet and pick up the bank card that Lin Yun had thrown out again to check its balance.

"1.57 billion..."

Soon, the results came out, and the official's expression changed drastically; his voice trembled slightly as he spoke.

This young man had 1.57 billion in his bank account!

What does this mean?!

Could this young man really be the owner of a top-tier restaurant in Shenzhen?

However, this is too amazing. How can a restaurant owner have so much money!

No!

This young man can produce 1.57 billion in cash, and even has that much cash in a single bank account. This young man's assets must be much more, at least two or three times that amount!

At this moment, they seemed to understand just how amazing a top restaurant in Shenzhen really was!

So what Mr. Wang said earlier was all true!

This young man is not only the owner of a top-tier restaurant in Shenzhen, but that wine... really costs 11.88 million yuan a bottle!

Given how wealthy the other party is, they wouldn't stoop to lying to them about this.

He had never tasted anything quite like that wine before.

Even those wines that cost tens of thousands of dollars, which he had tasted, were nowhere near as good as this.

Therefore, it's not impossible for this bottle of wine to cost 11.88 million.

Thinking this, his expression kept changing.

A bottle of wine costing 11.88 million! And those people actually had the brains to touch it...

They even said they'd buy double the amount.

Although these people have some money, 20 million is too much. Many of them don't have that much money. If they pooled their money together, it wouldn't be a big problem. The biggest problem is that many of them can't have their money exposed!

Now that so many people are watching this, it would be very difficult for them to back out.

Everyone was shocked to hear that the bank card Lin Yun threw out contained 1.57 billion yuan.

It's one thing for Lin Yun to say it.

When this is confirmed, that's another story.

The effects are completely different.

Among these shocked people was Mr. Wang, who has a net worth of seven or eight hundred million.

He thought Lin Yun might have a lot of influence, but he didn't expect Lin Yun to casually toss out a bank card with more than 1.5 billion in it. This means that Lin Yun's net worth is likely two or three times that amount.

He became even more certain that Lin Yun might have a powerful backer.

Qingyun Restaurant has only been open for a short time, yet Lin Yun has already amassed such a fortune; this could not have been achieved in a short period of time.

"How is this possible... How is this possible... How could he be so rich..." The foreman, Zhao, was completely dumbfounded. His body trembled slightly as he murmured repeatedly, terrified by the amount of money he had.

“This… Mr. Lin, there might have been some misunderstanding about what happened just now…” Secretary Zhu took a deep breath and began to speak.

"What misunderstanding?" Lin Yun asked calmly.

“We didn’t know that bottle of wine was so valuable…” Secretary Zhu said thoughtfully.

Although he was the highest-ranking official in Xianyuan County, he still had to bow his head slightly in the face of so much money.

Most importantly, they were in the wrong first in this matter.

"In other words, the mistake wasn't that you touched someone else's wine, but that you didn't know it was so valuable?" Lin Yun said calmly.

Upon hearing Lin Yun's words, Secretary Zhu couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.

Even he, a county magistrate, bowed his head, yet the other party is still so relentless.

Since he reached a certain level of official rank, when has he ever suffered such humiliation?

It was a young man who treated him like that...

Although 20 million is a lot, he doesn't really care about it.

As the county's top official, he could command all the county's resources. Xianyuan County was not large, but its real estate development had been rapid in recent years, generating over a billion yuan in fiscal revenue annually. With so many projects, the profits he obtained from them far exceeded twenty million yuan.

However, he couldn't easily use those benefits.

However, any policy he issues can affect interests worth more than 20 million, and may even reach hundreds of millions.

This young man actually...

However, considering the young man's wealth, he suppressed his anger and said, "Twenty million is far too much. We are officials, not tycoons. We don't have that much money. Although we were in the wrong first, please understand that we retract our earlier offer to buy double the price of this bottle of wine..."

"And then?" Lin Yun asked calmly.

In modern China, official corruption is rampant. These people are the highest-ranking officials in Xianyuan County. Who would believe they don't have that much money?

Leaving aside others, just take this Secretary Zhu. When he said those words, the lie detector on his body alerted the other person that he was lying.

He was too lazy to expose these people.

Just now, he had given the supercomputer an order to search for various information about these people on the internet.

On the internet, there is some hidden information that ordinary people cannot find, but he can find some of it by using his super brain through the slightest clues.

However, this will take time.

He'll deal with this matter once he's gathered more information.

“Even if it were double the price, we couldn’t afford it, but we only had a few drinks from this bottle of wine…” Secretary Zhu paused, then continued.

Just then, Lin Yun noticed that Secretary Zhu subtly winked at someone in the crowd.

"Hehe, I'm quite envious of these fine wines that cost over ten million a bottle. I'd like to buy the rest for ten million. Is that possible?" The man was in his thirties. After seeing the wink from Secretary Zhu, he immediately stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Is this Qi Shengli, the boss of Hairui Real Estate?"

"Buying the remaining wine for ten million, that's quite a big spender..."

Many people were amazed.

Although they already knew that the bottle of wine was worth 11.88 million.

However, at this moment, they witnessed firsthand that someone was willing to spend ten million to buy half a bottle of wine, which was still quite shocking.

No matter how good the wine is, it's still just a bottle of wine...

Ten million—that's more money than many people could earn in several lifetimes.

"Tsk tsk, it's hard to say. Maybe they're trying to curry favor with Secretary Zhu and his group..."

There were also some people who, although they did not see Secretary Zhu wink at Qi Shengli, were perfectly aware of the situation.

Seeing this, Secretary Zhu looked at Lin Yun and said, "The original price of this bottle of wine is 11.88 million. When we drank it, it wasn't full. This person is willing to pay 10 million to buy the rest of the wine, and we are willing to add another 2 million for you. Is that alright?"

Twelve million is more than the original price of the whole bottle of wine.

"You may not know the value of this wine. Even at Qingyun Restaurant, it's not something an ordinary customer can buy. I'll give you two choices: if you want to take the rest of the wine, pay 15 million; if you don't want to take it, pay 5 million," Lin Yun said calmly, glancing at the group.

“This…” Secretary Zhu took a deep breath.

Take the remaining wine and you'll pay 15 million; don't take it and you'll pay 5 million. The difference between the two options is 10 million.

This is truly the wine that was left over after buying it for ten million.

If he had a choice, he really wouldn't want the rest of the wine.

Although this wine is delicious, he would be out of his mind to spend ten million to buy this little bit of wine.

However, if the remaining wine isn't taken, Qi Shengli will have no reason to pay for it.

This result left him speechless.

Regardless of the choice, if these officials were to scrape together five million... although that amount wouldn't be much to them, how could they possibly spend their money so openly?

Thinking of this, he glanced at Qi Shengli again, almost imperceptibly.

"Hehe, since that's the case, I'll cover the entire 15 million." Qi Shengli immediately understood Secretary Zhu's meaning and said with a smile.

He simply took out a contract to cover all the costs.

He hadn't expected that ten million wouldn't be enough to solve the problem.

He didn't understand what Secretary Zhu just said. He thought that if Secretary Zhu said that double purchases couldn't be fulfilled, he would think that single purchases, which amounted to ten million, would solve the problem.

Otherwise, he would have taken care of the two million that Secretary Zhu mentioned as well.

Now, even if he invests 15 million, he's not afraid of not getting his money back.

He's in the real estate business. If Zhu Shuxing and his group give him any preferential policies or incentives when he acquires land later, he'll reap much more benefits than he initially thought.

Now that someone has taken on the 15 million, things will be easier to handle from here on out.

After Qi Shengli transferred 15 million to Lin Yun, he left with the wine.

After such an incident, Secretary Zhu and his entourage were too ashamed to stay any longer, and they left with grim faces.

Before leaving, many officials looked at the absent-minded foreman Zhao with hatred; at that moment, they hated Zhao to death.

If it weren't for this foreman Zhao, they wouldn't have been so humiliated today.

After a few drinks, fifteen million was gone, and they were quite depressed.

Fortunately, someone eventually took over the business, preventing them from suffering too much loss; otherwise, they would have been heartbroken.