Chapter 516 This Wasteful Thing

After Walter and Khedira arrived in Dunkirk, they thought they would be able to meet up with Xiao Peng soon, but Xiao Peng asked them to wait there. More than two weeks later, Xiao Peng and Kassin finally arrived, and Felix was with them.

"Boss." Walter saw Xiao Peng jump off the boat and greeted him: "Felix is here too?"

Xiao Peng hummed, "Are the supplies ready?"

"It's done!" Khedira replied, "The supplies are as you requested."

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers and said, "Walter, contact the dock and ask them to cancel their hotel rooms. We'll set sail now!"

"So anxious?" Walter looked around: "Boss, is someone chasing you?"

Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "I've been on the shore for too long and want to go back to the sea."

"Oh, I thought a girl was chasing you. Why isn't Marlene here?" Walter helped Felix carry the luggage onto the boat. "Khedira, go take care of the hotel and the dock. We'll leave now."

Xiao Peng boarded the boat, took off his T-shirt, found a sun lounger, put on his sunglasses, and lay down comfortably: "Finally, I can have a good rest."

Walter smiled and said, “Boss, did you have a good time at Fashion Week?”

Xiao Peng was stunned: "How did you know?"

"Look at the news!" Walter said, "A Chinese guy rented the Tuileries Gardens to hold an electronic music party, and it caused a huge uproar online. This is the first time in history, and there are too many people online saying it's sarcastic. Do you want to see it?"

The Tuileries Gardens were once the site of the Tuileries Palace, serving as the residence of the empress and emperor. After the construction of the Palace of Versailles, the garden fell into disuse. However, after the French Revolution, the Parisians occupied Versailles and exiled Louis XVI to the Tuileries Palace, where it once again became the French imperial palace. Later, during the war to overthrow the monarchy, the Parisians bombarded the Tuileries Palace, leading to its demolition, but leaving behind its beautiful flower gardens.

Many of the statues from the past are still preserved in the present Tuileries Garden, which is why it is called an "open-air museum". It is located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde, next to the Seine River.

However, this place is a free park, and is only closed during Fashion Week in spring and autumn. Yet, Xiao Peng simply booked the park for an electronic music party. The approval process involved is incredibly long, and it's not something you can just afford.

Xiao Peng was able to hold a party here because of Ai Moer's help. To be more precise, it should be said that it was "mutual help":

When he auctioned Mata Hari's jewelry, he actually had connections with many luxury brands, but this matter was handled by Fabian and Pascal, so those luxury goods dealers knew that there was a Chinese person behind them but they had no way to establish a relationship with Xiao Peng.

Look at Aimore, who used to be a small agent in Lyon, but now has become a rising new jewelry brand. I heard that his high-quality obsidian materials are all obtained from Xiao Peng!

It stands to reason that if a Lyon jewelry brand wants to enter Paris, it will definitely be jointly sanctioned by local jewelry brands, but because Aimore and Xiao Peng may have a relationship, they still chose to make friends with Aimore.

Why do they attach so much importance to their relationship with Xiao Peng?

God knows what this shipwreck salvage man, Xiao Peng, will pull up next! Didn't you see that even the Bank of France is trying to "steal" gold from Xiao Peng? For jewelers, raw materials and publicity are what they need most.

Jewelers were the biggest buyers of Mata Hari's jewelry at auctions. Even if the jewelry wasn't theirs, they would bid high, claiming it was "designed and custom-made for Mata Hari on X-month-X-year." After displaying the jewelry for a while, they'd then grandly release it as "the same jewelry as the legendary female spy Mata Hari" to the public, and then just wait and see how they profited.

The reason why Mata Hari's jewelry was sold at such a high price last time was also due to the jewelers' deliberate actions: the higher they drive up the price, the easier it will be for them to create gimmicks to inflate the price and sales of the same products that they will launch next - those who sell luxury goods are masters at playing with people's hearts!

Upon hearing that Xiao Peng was planning to rent the Tuileries Garden for a techno party, those luxury goods merchants collectively took action: Although the Tuileries Garden is a free public garden, Paris also has four "Fashion Weeks" every year, in June, July, September, and October, two of which are held in the Tuileries Garden. Therefore, Xiao Peng's techno party was seamlessly connected with the July Fashion Week. Xiao Peng held a grand music party here that lasted for 72 hours without interruption.

Xiao Peng fully demonstrated to the Parisians what it meant to be "rich"! World-class DJs including "Xiao Ma Ge," "Alan Walker," "Belgian iPad Brothers," "Tiesto," "Skrillex," "Rezz," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Nina Karaviz" gathered together, a lineup comparable to the world's most famous electronic music festival, "Tomorrowland."

While Tomorrowland attracts hundreds of thousands of fans daily, with a peak of 400,000 at one event, this music party is limited to 10,000 attendees per day. Aside from 3,000 tickets reserved for celebrity models attending Fashion Week, the remaining 7,000 tickets are awarded through a free online lottery.

Xiao Peng originally disliked electronic music, but it's a popular genre in Europe. People here have good benefits, plenty of free time, and few people, so dancing is the way to go, so the electronic music scene is booming. Life at sea was often extremely boring, so Xiao Peng gradually developed a love for it and decided to organize a party.

The electronic music party turned out to be so huge that the entire Tuileries Garden was packed with people. They were either there to queue up—after all, it was a 72-hour non-stop party, so if someone left, someone else would get in—they were waiting for their chance to get in; or they were just partying outside.

Even Xiao Peng couldn't control himself in such an environment. When the female DJ 'REZZ' showed off her signature dark, psychedelic electronic music, Xiao Peng couldn't resist the urge to show off his skills. He found a suona and played an impromptu piece with her, turning the electronic music party into a 'funeral scene'. The DJs even regarded this performance as a 'masterstroke', and they all shouted slogans to find Chinese suona players to collaborate with...

Many people are now suggesting that this music party become a permanent annual event in Paris. However, the Parisian government, upon hearing this, is ready to lash out: "That's so easy! Do you know how much Xiao Peng spent on this music party?"

This wasteful thing!

PS: I took a day off yesterday and didn’t update because I was sick.

Lao Yang couldn't withstand the sudden drop in temperature. He slept for seventeen hours at home, but he didn't sleep well. He had all kinds of dreams, which might be related to the fever he had while sleeping.

Some people may be curious, Lao Yang, don’t you have heating at home?

Lao Yang's house really has that thing, but everyone in the WeChat group knows that Lao Yang lives in the first building next to the overpass, and it's also on the rooftop. Although it's very pleasant to sit on the rooftop in the summer to eat barbecue and drink beer and cool off, in the winter the wind can blow right through! So the heating temperature in my house is basically not up to standard!

What's more, there's another amazing thing: there's a mentally ill person living right under Lao Yang's feet, and his house has no heating, which further lowers the temperature in my house.

That's a real mental illness! In the medical sense, have you ever seen someone burn wood on the floor with two bricks to keep warm? Old Yang nearly beat him up when he found out. Only when a neighbor stopped him did the whole thing end.

What happened next was even more bizarre: How did this psychopath take revenge on me? He found a stone weighing dozens of kilograms from somewhere, brought it up to the roof of my house on the seventh floor, squatted on it, and took a shit!

When I saw it, I couldn't even muster the energy to get angry. I would go crazy if I got angry with someone like that!

Mentally ill people are much happier! Life is always more exciting than fiction!

Anyway, I'm unlucky to have such a neighbor. It's really cold at home. I have to turn on the heating and the air conditioner. I couldn't bear it and got hit. I fell ill. I will make up for the chapters I owe in the future. I hope you understand!