Chapter: 3770

Hong Wu shook hands with him, inviting him to sit down opposite the tea table, smiling and saying, "Mr. Smith, please take a seat and try our Chinese tea!"

Smith quickly sat down, took the tea offered by Hong Wu, and didn't bother to appreciate it before hurriedly saying, "Mr. Hong, I'd like to ask you to help me arrange a meeting with Wei Liang, the CEO of Jiu Xuan Pharmaceuticals, but don't know if it's convenient for you."

Hong Wu chuckled and said, "Convenient! Of course, convenient! As long as you cover the public relations fee, I'll immediately set up an appointment for you. We'll meet at my Tianxiang Manor in the Diamond Parlor with face value!"

Smith's heart was filled with joy, but then he thought about Hong Wu definitely wanting to collect a fee and thus cautiously asked, "Mr. Hong, don't know what standard the public relations fee is?"

Hong Wu laughed and looked at Smith's eyes, like a butcher looking at a soon-to-be-slaughtered lamb, smiling and saying, "I'll arrange for Wei CEO to come out to eat, and the public relations fee is a one-time 5 million US dollars!"

"How much?" Smith was startled and almost fell back.

Five million US dollars?! This price is too outrageous! The PR company he worked with had previously quoted Wei Liang a price of only $50,000. How did it get increased by a hundredfold when they arrived in China?

He thought to himself, "What am I going to do? My savings were depleted after spending so much on my child's medical treatment. Where can I get five hundred thousand dollars?"

Thinking this, he cried and said with a sorrowful face: "Mr. Hong, don't hide it from me, my financial situation is far from as prosperous as you think, not to mention five hundred thousand dollars, even fifty thousand dollars might be difficult for me right now..."

Hong Wu shrugged his shoulders in dismay and said: "Well, Mr. Smith, five hundred thousand is the price, with no room for negotiation, and I'm not hiding it from you - starting from now, every day, this price will increase by one hundred thousand, which means that if you don't pay by 12pm tonight, the price will be six hundred thousand dollars by then."

Smith felt a chill run down his spine.

He thought to himself: "Wei Liang's revenge psychology is really too strong? Even if I did something wrong, there's no need to directly increase the public relations fee one hundredfold?"

Hong Wu saw that he wasn't saying anything and took out his business card, placing it in front of him with a calm tone: "Mr. Smith can think carefully about when to think, and call me whenever he decides."

Smith knew that Hong Wu was issuing an eviction notice, so he could only say unhappily: "Mr. Hong, I'll discuss this with my family and get back to you as soon as possible."

As he left the Tianxiangfu, Smith's mind was in a mix of emotions.

The more he ran into obstacles in China, the more regretful he became about his attitude towards Wei Liang at the beginning.

But even so, he was very clear that he couldn't just give up right now.

"So, the only way is to go through this Hong Wu first and meet Wei Liang."

"But the cost of this meeting is indeed astonishingly high, five million dollars, completely beyond my means."

"Just as he was at a loss for what to do, he suddenly thought of the Health Department's previous contact with him, so he immediately picked up his phone and called them back.

The phone rang, and they promptly asked, 'Smith, have you met with the responsible person from that pharmaceutical company yet?'

Smith let out a sigh: 'Not yet. They said it needs to go through an intermediary, and that intermediary wants a five-million-dollar brokerage fee...'

'Five million?!' The other end was left agog, spitting out: 'Have they gone crazy?! Do they really think dollars can fall from the sky?'

Smith helplessly said: 'That's their attitude over there right now. I don't have any other way to handle this, and that much money is beyond my means either. If you guys can help me settle this expense, I'll go see their responsible person again. But if you can't, then I'm out of options.'

The phone was silent for a moment, and Smith could even hear the sound of teeth grinding on the other end. Then, he heard the other side say in anger: 'Goddamn it! Five million is five million! This money will be taken from our Health Department's budget!' JrNovels.com