The phone rang only twice and was immediately connected.
Lord Wade asked happily, “Charlie, why are you calling grandpa today?”
Charlie went straight to the topic and said, “I have something I want to ask you for help with.”
Lord Wade said without hesitation: “Oh, what is there to be polite about with you and grandpa? Just say about anything, as long as grandpa can do it, it’s already good as done!”
Charlie said: “I’m in a hurry. I have to go to Lebanon immediately. I heard that you have a Concorde airliner. I want to borrow it.”
“My Concorde?” Lord Wade hesitated for a while. After a while, he smiled and said, “Charlie, in fact, if you want to borrow a private jet, grandpa has a very, very luxurious Boeing business jet. The internal modifications alone have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a palace in the sky, should I lend you that plane instead?”
Charlie said firmly: “No, I only need to borrow the Concorde.”
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