At exactly four in the evening, Ye Decai sent a location to Su Zhen.
Su Zhen looked at the location and knew that it was a hotel about a 20-minute drive from his place.
About 20 minutes later.
Su Zhen stopped in front of a five-star hotel and sent a text message to Ye Decai.
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It didn't take long for Su Zhen to spot two men walking out of the hotel and coming in the direction of his car.
Su Zhen got out of the car and was spotted by the two men at once.
The man in the front was in a rather casual but slightly fashionable outfit, he looked to be in his early 30s, his height about 178Cm, and his facial features were clean like a matured scholar.
The man at the back looked a few years younger than Su Zhen, and had a clean face like the man at the front as well.
The man at the front smiled at Su Zhen and stretched out his hand to greet Su Zhen from afar.
"Hello, you should be Mr. Su. I am Ye Decai."
Su Zhen shook hands with him and also greeted him politely, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Ye."
"Right, this little guy here is my apprentice."
The young man behind took a step forward and extended out his hand to greet Su Zhen too. "Hello Mr. Su, I'm surnamed Fang, Fang Xuan."
Su Zhen smiled slightly at the latter and said, "Nice to meet you." He then turned to Ye Decai and suggested, "Let's go."
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On the way, Su Zhen found out that this Ye Decai guy was quite talkative. He went from calling Su Zhen "Mr. Su" to "Little Su", and even asked Su Zhen to call him "Brother Ye" instead of "Mr. Ye". All of this was because of Cheng Jinhai.
It turned out that Ye Decai was Cheng Jinhai's best friend, the two got to know each other a dozen years ago when Cheng Jinhai was doing business abroad. Every time Cheng Jinhai got a new property, he would ask Ye Decai to help decorate all the time.
At the moment, Ye Decai didn't just work as a decoration specialist, he was also an art professor in college.
As for Fang Xuan, this young guy was still a college student, and he was exactly Ye Decai's class's top and favorite student. But this time, he worked as Ye Decai's assistant.
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Without knowing it, Su Zhen drove Ye Decai and Fang Xuan to the New Moon Villa Community in his BMW.
The security guard of the community already had Su Zhen's information. After seeing Su Zhen's license plate from afar, he opened the gate readily.
This was not the first time for Ye Decai to enter such a high-end place, but it was his first time coming to this particular place.
However, this was Fang Xuan's first time entering such a grand place. He sat in the car and began to look around with envy on his face. He didn't know when he would be able to afford a house here.
Su Zhen parked the car at the entrance of the villa he bought, and said to Ye Decai and Fang Xuan, "Here we are."
After getting out of the car, Su Zhen took out a bunch of keys but pressed a button on a particular remote control in the form of a key and led the two guys into the villa.
Ye Decai had worked in this industry for so many years, so he had seen a lot of luxurious things.
But it was not the same for Fang Xuan. He couldn't help exclaiming every time he saw something grand.
"This yard is so big, there's even a pond!"
"How come this living room is so big?"
"This bathroom alone is already bigger than my whole apartment!"
After looking here and there for a while, Fang Xuan, this curious kid, couldn't help but ask Su Zhen.
"Brother, how much did you pay for this villa?"
Fang Xuan heard from his teacher that this villa here cost about 50,000 yuan per square meter. From his point of view, the area of this villa should be at least 1,000 square meters, and after a calculation, this place should cost about 50 million yuan.
"Well, 59 million."
Although Fang Xuan was well prepared, he was still stunned by this figure. He expected his annual salary to be about 200,000 yuan in the future, which meant that even if he didn't eat or drink, he would have to work for 300 years to afford this villa.
Ye Decai was also slightly surprised by this price. Although he was not poor, his wealth was far from enabling him to afford this villa. His annual income was not fixed every year, but it was about a few million at average. He would need around 20 years of time to be able to afford this villa.
As expected, Cheng Jinhai's friends were never poor people. From what he was told by that guy, this Su Zhen was his best friend since the two were in their teens. Now, both were extremely rich, which complimented each other extremely well.
Nonetheless, Ye Decai determined that Su Zhen's character was definitely not bad, so making friends with such a person would naturally do no harm to him.
"So, Brother Ye, how much is the renovation budget for one square meter of this villa?" Su Zhen pondered for a while before asking Ye Decai.
"It actually depends on whether you want it to be ordinary or high-end. Well, it also depends on what style you want to decorate."
Speaking of this, Ye Decai added, "For the ordinary one, it costs 2,000 yuan per square meter, but if you want to decorate a more upscale one, it costs around 4,000 or 5,000 yuan per square meter."
After listening to Ye Decai's words, Su Zhen calculated it in his heart. If he chose the high-end one, that was, 5,000 yuan per square meter, it would be 5 million in total, which was only equivalent to his 5-day income.
As he thought of this, Su Zhen spoke directly to Ye Decai, "Just give me the decoration according to the best budget."
Ye Decai felt that this was just as he expected, and he nodded, "Good, let me design a plan for you to see and determine what style you like."
"Let's lean a little to the Chinese style. You can give me suggestions."
"Well, then let's just use the Chinese classical style, which is quite popular in the upper-class circle now."
Ye Decai smiled. The Chinese classical style was dignified and atmosphere, and now more and more people liked this style, especially rich people.
The feature of the Chinese classical style was that wood was used as the base material, giving full play to the physical properties of wood to create a unique wood structure. It would combine simplicity, contemporary, modernity, nature, and power to make an environment of harmony and serenity, using colorful fabrics of upholstery for home décor. Bright, vivid colors were used in style decorating, with red, gold, and black being dominant.
The components included color painting, sculpture, calligraphy, arts and crafts, furniture, and other artistic means to create additional artistic conception.
Therefore, the choice of wood material and production process was also the top priority.
"This budget will not be low, especially in terms of furniture, what kind of wood do you plan to use?" Ye Decai asked Su Zhen.
"I don't understand this either, so please help me buy the best materials, and I will give you the money when the time comes."
Su Zhen didn't understand wood materials. But he understood one thing, that was, with money, the professionals would help him with it.
Ye Decai nodded, "Okay, I'll quote you a price later."