Bai Fumei, Anna must not understand the word, but she is also smart, from Huo Yaowen's surprised expression, it is not difficult to guess what the other party just said means, covered her mouth and smiled: "Honey, you have never asked me!"

"Well, my bad!"

Huo Yaowen shrugged with a wry smile, looking at the tall castle not far away, the vicissitudes of life were traces that could only be possessed after the baptism of the years, and when he thought that Anna's father might be an English nobleman, he couldn't help but ask: "So, I can ask my dear Anna now, do I have to follow what aristocratic etiquette I say in the book next?"

"It doesn't need to. Anna smiled and shook her head and said, "My parents are very open-minded. ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen didn't believe it very much, but seeing that Anna was so serious, he didn't ask much, relaxed his nervousness slightly, and said, "Then let's go." ”

Although Anna said that her parents were very open-minded and didn't care much about aristocratic etiquette, on the way to the castle, she still tried to say as much as possible the necessary etiquette for meeting, such as calling her father "Mr. Viscount West".

It turns out that Anna's real name is "Anna Isabel West"

When the two approached the castle step by step, Huo Yaowen noticed that the castle was very large, the highest point was more than 30 meters, and the overall area was at least two acres, and the castle was surrounded by many thorns and roses, and the castle seemed to be a long time ago. The high gray city walls are covered with dark green vines, so many of them almost enclose the windows, and some even get into the windows, this scene with the nearby green and yellow grass is like a beautiful picture, but it has a unique flavor.

Anna said as she walked: "This castle was built by my great-great-great-grandfather, when he was the hereditary earl of England, and the fiefdom was here, but in my great-grandfather's generation, from earl to viscount, to my father's generation, the family gradually fell into loneliness......"

Speaking of the family's loneliness, Anna seems to be talking about something that has nothing to do with her, like a tour guide, calmly explaining the history of the castle to Huo Yaowen.

Listening to Anna tell her family history, Huo Yaowen squinted slightly, and kept recalling another thing, that is, the British drama "Downton Abbey" that he had watched on the Internet.

Huo Yaowen watched that TV series many times every season, and at that time, out of curiosity about the British aristocracy, he also consulted some information.

Recalling these things now, I was thinking about how he would greet Anna when he met his father.

...

Ten minutes later.

The two walked to the gate of the castle.

Anna knocked on the doorbell at the door, and it was a very quaint old-fashioned bell.

"Jingle Bell ......"

As the bell rang, soon the door was opened, and a woman in her forties appeared in front of Huo Yaowen's eyes.

"Anna!"

The woman was very surprised to see Anna, and immediately stepped forward to hug her face to the face.

"Mary, long time no see!" Anna was equally pleased to see her familiar friend.

"yes, you haven't been back in a long time. ”

Mary was a little overwhelmed with excitement, but when her eyes noticed Huo Yaowen behind Anna, she was slightly surprised, and then said politely: "Anna, who is this gentleman?"

Huo Yaowen stepped forward and said, "Hello, I'm Anna's boyfriend Evan. ”

Boyfriend!

Mary looked at Anna in surprise and saw that she nodded slightly, then smiled and said, "Hello Mr. Evan, I'm Mary." ”

After a brief introduction.

Mary led Anna and Huo Yaowen into the castle.

After entering the interior, Anna whispered a few words to Huo Yaowen, and asked Mary where her father and mother were, and then went upstairs alone, leaving Huo Yaowen to sit alone in the living room of the castle.

...

In a study on the second floor of the castle.

"She really brought it back!"

Robert West looked at his wife Michelle angrily, completely unable to believe that his only daughter had really brought back an Asian-Chinese boyfriend!

Mrs. Michelle stepped forward, put her body on her husband's shoulder, and said, "Anna has someone she likes, and you should be glad that she has arrived." ”

"You can't be Asian!"

Robert West said viciously: "There are so many young talents in Britain, who does Anna like is not good, but she likes an Asian-Chinese!"

Mrs. Michelle did not agree with her husband's narrow-mindedness, and said noncommittally: "I think Evan is very good, although he is Asian, he is a philosopher, and he is also a promising writer, and he wrote the number one selling book on the British science fiction book list recently, and I read the newspaper before that Evan's book is very popular in the United States." ”

"No is no way!"

Robert West shook his head and refused, although the West family began to decline since World War I, and even the daily maintenance of the family castle is almost unaffordable today, but the old nobleman with a history of almost three hundred years, once the ancestor was still a hereditary earl, this kind of pride inherited into the bones is the root cause of Robert West's absolute intolerance of his daughter being good with an Asian Chinese.

"If you can't tolerate it, you have to tolerate it!"

Mrs. Michelle is a strong woman, and she has always been a good woman at home, and when she heard her husband so messy and disapproving of the boyfriend brought back by her daughter, she angrily pushed Robert West's shoulder away, and said angrily: "You will die in this castle with your noble pride! I am fed up with living in this dark and damp old castle every day!"

"You ......"

Robert West was about to say something, but when the door was opened, Anna walked in with a smile on her face, and said obediently, "Father, mother." ”

When Mrs. Michelle saw her baby daughter coming back, she quickly stepped forward and hugged her deeply, saying, "Oh, my Anna, you're finally back!"

"Mother, it seems that I have only been away for a long time since I last came home!" Anna was hugged by her mother, and she was very happy, lying in her arms and laughing.

Mrs. Michelle said dotingly, "But I miss you dear." ”

When the mother and daughter were explaining what a mother-daughter relationship is, Robert West also got up from the chair, opened his arms and smiled: "Anna, why didn't you hug your father?"

Hearing this, Anna left her mother's arms and hugged her father: "Father!"

Robert West was overjoyed with his daughter: "It's good, it's good......"

The couple only has one daughter, Anna, who was naturally spoiled since childhood, and when they went to Hong Kong to be a teacher, the two were extremely unhappy to disagree, but in the end they let her go to Hong Kong, which accounted for the vast majority of the pampered ingredients.

After the West family of three was warm for a few minutes, Anna smiled and said, "Father and mother, my boyfriend Evan is also here, and he is waiting for you downstairs." ”

Robert West frowned for a moment, and just as he wanted to say something, he felt someone pinch his waist, and when he looked sideways, Mrs. Michelle was glaring at him viciously, as if to say that if you dare to say a word, don't think about going to bed at night!

Gollum ......

Robert West's throat trembled slightly, he shrank his head, and even if he was dissatisfied in his heart, he didn't dare to show it in his face, let alone open his mouth to say it.

Seeing this, Mrs. Michelle nodded with satisfaction and said, "Evan, is it? I have long wanted to meet him, and when I chatted with Professor Luke not long ago, he said that Evan is a rare young talent, and Evan's name has been mentioned often in British newspapers recently, and I have been curious for a long time." ”

Listening to her mother's tone, she seemed to be very optimistic about Evan, and at the same time, Anna breathed a sigh of relief, not to mention how sweet it was in her heart, as if Professor Luke's praise of Evan was praising her, which was a kind of love and adoration for her boyfriend.

...