Chapter 2998: There Must Be Something Fishy

As soon as Howard's words came out, applause thundered throughout the scene!

Except for Steve and Royce, the members of the Rothschild family jumped up and applauded wildly at the same time!

Like David Rothschild, he even shed excited tears involuntarily!

Not one of them hoped that Howard would abdicate, and even less hoped that Steve would succeed.

Maintaining the status quo was their greatest luxury, because maintaining the status quo could ensure that their immediate interests would not be hit too hard. Maybe in the future, if they made a great contribution, there would be a chance to counterattack and replace Steve as the new successor.

Originally, they thought that maintaining the status quo was an impossible dream, but they didn't expect this dream to come true.

Steve was already hopeless at this time. He had long guessed that it would be such a situation, but he didn't expect that his father could say this so high-sounding, which made him very angry.

However, the misfortune in the fortune was that the old master had listed himself and his son as the first and second successors. In this way, the chance of his succession in the future would be much greater. As long as there were no moths in the middle, he would definitely be the next head of the Rothschild family.

Howard looked at the reaction of most of his children and grandchildren at this time and was also very satisfied.

Thinking that he could still give orders here for a few years, he couldn't help but sigh. The sixty billion was actually worth it. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Oh, people work hard to make money, isn't it just to live a few more good days? If there is a chance to live to two hundred years old, what does it matter if half of the family property is given away?"

Two hours later, Helena returned to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

Along the way, she was thinking about how she should report the progress she had made in New York to Ye Chen.

Report truthfully? That's impossible.

Because Ye Chen had agreed with her before that Helena could take half of the price of this pill.

This pill actually sold for sixty billion US dollars plus a set of AI models. The AI model was an additional condition of Ye Chen, so it was not within the scope of the split. This meant that if it was really according to what Ye Chen said, she should get thirty billion US dollars.

However, how could she take away so much of Ye Chen's money?

On this point, no matter what, Helena couldn't convince herself.

Therefore, after thinking about it, she decided to lie to Ye Chen, report the fifty billion US dollar deposit from the Rothschild family to Ye Chen as the sales amount, and tell Ye Chen that the pill sold for one hundred and ten billion US dollars. According to the agreement, she would take fifty-five billion, and give Ye Chen fifty-five billion.

In this way, the actual amount she took away was only five billion US dollars.

This was already the highest commission Helena could accept in her heart.

Having made up her mind, Helena took out her mobile phone and made a voice call to Ye Chen.

At this very moment, Ye Chen is still on the plane returning to Jin Ling, with about an hour of flight time left. He had originally planned to fly directly to Jingcheng, but since he is returning from overseas and needs to go through customs, he decided to enter through Jin Ling first, then immediately switch to another plane to fly from Jin Ling to Jingcheng.

Because Wu Feiyan was in the United States, Ye Chen did not take the more conspicuous Concorde airliner after returning to the United States from Canada, but took an inconspicuous ordinary business jet, so the journey back to the country was lengthened a lot.

The flight speed was slow, and there was a stopover for refueling, so he flew for more than ten hours and still hadn't reached his destination.

Receiving the voice call from Helena, Ye Chen guessed that she should be reporting good news to him, so after connecting, he smiled and asked, "Helena, have you left New York?"

"Yes." Helena said respectfully, "Mr. Ye, I have returned to Canada. I want to call to report the process in the Rothschild family to you."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Go ahead, I'm listening."

Helena then repeated the whole process of her meeting with Howard to Ye Chen in relative detail.

When mentioning the price, she lied, "Mr. Ye, the final price I reached with Howard is that he pays one hundred and ten billion US dollars in cash, plus building a complete AI model in the Nordic countries and maintaining at least twenty years of updates and upgrades."

"One hundred and ten billion?" Ye Chen couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said, "You really made Howard bleed heavily!"

Helena smiled, "Who told him he was only willing to pay one hundred million US dollars at first. If he had taken the initiative to offer ten billion, I might have raised it to twenty billion, which would have been about the same. As a result, he opened his mouth and offered one hundred million US dollars, and his tone was as if he had paid a sky-high price. I thought I might as well just go all out and knock him for a big sum."

Ye Chen smiled, "The Rothschild family is rich enough to rival a nation. Making them bleed a little won't hurt their bones. Howard should still feel it's worth it in his heart."

Helena smiled and said, "In a few years, I guess he will be willing to pay two hundred billion US dollars to buy a pill."

Ye Chen said, "That depends on his specific performance. If he doesn't perform well, no pills will be sold to him in the future."

Helena on the other end of the phone said, "By the way, Mr. Ye, when are you free? Give me a bank card, and I will remit your share of the money to you."

Ye Chen just wanted to agree, but suddenly felt that something seemed a bit wrong.

With Helena's personality, if this order really traded for one hundred and ten billion US dollars, she would definitely find various reasons to lower her own share. It would be difficult for him to persuade her to take half according to the agreement. But now Helena didn't have any hesitation and wanted to split the account with him five-to-five directly, which was completely different from her consistent performance. This also made Ye Chen sure that there must be something fishy.

Ye Chen speculated that Helena most likely lied to him. The actual transaction price should not be as high as one hundred and ten billion US dollars. She likely deliberately reported the price to lower the reward she deserved.

Thinking of this, he said to Helena, "You keep this money for me first. I don't have any place to use money, and what's more, I don't have a suitable account to place such a large amount of cash at the moment."

Ye Chen was worried that Helena would give him the vast majority of the sales proceeds, so he planned not to accept this money first, and wait until he figured it out.

Moreover, he was not short of money now, and had an endless stream of cash flow, so he didn't need this fifty-plus billion US dollars at all. It was better to keep the money in Helena's hands. On the one hand, it could prevent Helena from giving too much, and on the other hand, it would be more convenient to spend large sums of money in Europe and America in the future. If the money was in Helena's hands, it would be more convenient to consume in Europe and America.

Helena didn't know Ye Chen's intention and thought he really didn't have a suitable account to receive this money, so she asked, "If you need a secret account, I can help you contact the Swiss Bank and let them open a high-secrecy account for you."

"No need." Ye Chen smiled, "Just keep it there for now. I will contact you when I need to use it."

Helena hesitated for a moment, but still agreed, "Okay, Mr. Ye, I will keep these fifty-five billion US dollars for you first." ===== CHAPTER 2999 =====

Helena hesitated for a moment, but still agreed, saying, "Very well, Mr. Ye, I will keep these fifty-five billion US dollars safe for you for now."