No need to ask, looking at the extremely intimate posture of Katie and Lin Yilong, Lin's father and Lin mother knew that there was a problem with their child and the beautiful woman next to them, but as if they didn't recognize it, they glared at Lin Yilong, and then pretended to be a living person they didn't know, and passed by him.

Seeing that his parents gave him the stairs, Lin Yilong was very relieved to hold Katie's hand and enter the Savoy Hotel to meet with "friends".

Although Lin Yilong has already met these wives at the table in Namibia at Christmas and January, I still have to say here that the views of these friends on mate selection are also very similar- In addition to Mrs. Fiske, who was already acquainted, Mr. Merck's female companion, Francesca, was a wedding planner who used Mr. Merck's old castle, and Mrs. Hovey, the daughter of a farmer who had no inheritance rights, studied garden design and now had her own office; in other words, all the ladies, including Katie and Mrs. Fiscoe, although the ladies present were very pleasing in appearance, were not exactly vase types, and they could be regarded as the "virtuous helpers" of men's careers.

Most of the topics at the banquet were about unnutritious parents, such as children's education and parents' medical care. These topics are so-called "common topics" of concern, and then the gentlemen and ladies will be separated, and the gentlemen will go on to talk about a few people's earnings in the first half of the year, and other slightly more intimate topics, although no one will be honest about such topics, but it is a good start, and the substantive discussion involved will only revolve around the price prediction of wool and potatoes, and whether extreme weather will affect the harvest in the autumn. As for the news from the Palace of Westminster, it is the final topic, even if there is no legislation planned for agriculture this year.

Rather, they are the "handful" of the Farmers' Clubs—the run-down manor life of a large number of Farmers' Clubs does not apply to these gentlemen: Mr. Hovey's family wealth is mostly invested in precision manufacturing, Mr. Merck derives his wealth from household appliances, Mr. Fisker accumulates his wealth mainly through North Sea oil from outside Aberdeen, and only Mr. Lin Yilong's wealth comes from the financial markets (at least as Lin Yilong claims to be). Except for agricultural subsidies and taxes, no one is willing to tell other partners about the work of "digging in the soil", and they are not very interested.

Most members of the Farmers' Club earn a lot of money a year, but they can spend a lot of money on the maintenance of the estate, buildings, and other expenses. Most of the manor owners' residences are in Category I IIA, which is a "listed building", and it is very difficult to repair. For example, the windows of the mansion are large glass windows in the Victorian style, so if the windows are damaged, they must also be kept as they are in the same protected buildings according to the requirements, and replaced with the same large glass windows, rather than just looking for a plastic steel window or aluminum alloy. Even if you maintain the water pipes or electrical appliances inside the mansion, you must be very careful, because these "fresh products" of the Edwardian era will deteriorate due to disrepair, causing unnecessary property damage. In this way, once these old mansions or mansions have problems due to strong winds and heavy rains or other "geological disasters", they need a lot of money to maintain, so that these "classical" manor owners have a surplus of finances, but they will not really "spend money" like these four people.

In a way, Lin Yilong and his "friends" belong to the "pastoral resort-style industrial capital economy" that uses estates as a means of diversifying their investments, while the members of other farmers' clubs belong to the traditional "capital economy of rural landlords' estates". Although the requirements of these two economic models are the same in many respects, if Lin Yilong and others were asked to choose between the "liberal tariff" that is popular in the financial market and the "protective tariff" that the lord of the manor has always insisted on, Lin Yilong and others will not have the slightest hesitation to choose the former over the latter.

"I beg your pardon, I'm going to miss me for a while and go to the toilet. After drinking too much apple juice, Lin Yilong was a little anxious, so he left the table.

By the time he came out of the toilet, Mr. Merck was already waiting outside the door.

"Yilong, let's make an appointment to chat. Mr. Merck said.

"No problem, when?" Lin Yilong asked.

"The sooner the better. Mr. Merck replied.

"How about breakfast tomorrow morning, I'm going to take the famous Orient Express to Venice at ten o'clock!" Lin Yilong said.

"Where do you go from?" Obviously, Mr. Merck was not a lover of train travel and did not know where the famous train departed.

"Victoria Station. Lin Yilong replied, "So, we'd better be around 7 o'clock." ”

"Okay, so how about being at the Farmers' Club?" Mr. Merck thought about it for a moment and confirmed it with Lin Yilong.

"Good. ”

Soon after the two returned to the table, their female companions had finished their last round of gin and tonic and returned to the dining room, and a few friends ended their summer meeting and left separately.

"I'm going to Florence tomorrow to set up a stall. Sitting in Katie's car, Lin Yilong talked about his arrangement, "By the way, try Alstom's high-speed rail travel." ”

"I really want to go with you. Katie said, "If only the county committee didn't have so much to do." ”

"If you want me to accompany you to Italy. Lin Yilong stroked Katie's hand, "Let's go and have a look at the Italian carnival days." ”

Just as the music on the radio was over and a new track was playing, Katie suddenly wanted to give some of her personal opinion, but swallowed what she wanted to say.

"When Katie is done with the work at hand, let's go to Northern Ireland, I haven't seen your parents yet. Before driving to Newport and about to enter Cardiff, Lin Yilong suddenly made such a suggestion.

"Okay, then I'll be your tour guide. Katie replied with a smile, but thinking about her preaching about "marriage and family" when she and Mrs. Fisk were drinking—she didn't know if her relationship with Lin Yilong was not just a personal relationship between the two of them, or if it already included the family relationship between Whitehouse and Lin.

When they arrived at Bonas, Katie and Lin Yilong kept warm for an hour, and Katie, who was kissed on the forehead, slowly lay down and fell asleep.

He returned to his main house on the forest farm, took a bath, and fed the Yeng sisters, who were already waiting for him to return in the bedroom. Lin Yilong finally got his passport, met up with Amy, who had been wandering around for a night because of an early check-out, at the bus station, and took the car to London.