Due to the time difference, Shen Huai boarded the plane from Yanjing International Airport at noon, and when he arrived in London and landed, the sun was only slightly slanting here, as if he had only sat on the plane for less than two hours.

In Shen Huai's impression, the winter in London was humid and rainy, but when he got off the plane, the sky was covered with clouds of various shapes, so that the sun shone brightly with gold and jade.

London's international airport was very busy, and Shen Huai and the passengers on the same plane rushed to the customs checkpoint and lined up in front of the customs checkpoint.

In front of Shen Huai, there was a middle-aged couple who departed from Yanjing on the same flight to visit relatives in the UK. They could only speak a few simple words of English, and when they were questioned by the customs officers, they could neither understand nor speak, and their faces were flushed with anxiety.

Shen Huai first greeted the customs officers in English, and then asked the middle-aged couple to take out their return tickets, telling them that in order to prevent illegal immigration, the customs inspection of people who came to the UK for the first time was particularly strict.

After seeing the middle-aged couple showing their return tickets, the customs officers relaxed the inspection and let the middle-aged couple pass quickly.

Shen Huai didn't delay for any time at the checkpoint, and when he got his luggage, he rushed to the baggage check.

At the baggage check, the middle-aged couple was so anxious that they were at a loss because of the language barrier and the food they were carrying in their luggage, such as sausages and sausages. When they saw Shen Huai coming, they beckoned him with great anticipation to come over as a translator.

Shen Huai acted as a translator again, patiently helping them communicate with the customs officers first, and then starting his baggage inspection after watching their passage in and out of the airport.

Shen Huai came out of the aisle with his luggage and saw Cheng Yi wearing a camel-colored tweed coat, standing in the crowd of people who picked up the airport.

Cheng Yi saw Shen Huai simply carrying a big backpack on his shoulder, walking out of the passage in simple clothes, and waved at him with a smile, afraid that he would not see him.

Yu Wenli, the girl who returned to Yanjing from London on the same plane last time, accompanied Cheng Yi to pick up the plane.

There was so much unpleasantness when he took the plane last time, Cheng Yi believed that Shen Huai would not be willing to see Liu Fulong again, but he was afraid that he would also have any prejudices against Yu Wenli, so when Shen Huai came over, he explained first: "I don't have a car in London, so I have to pull Wen Li out as a driver......

It is not easy to have one or two friends in London who know each other well and can trust each other, and Shen Huai can also understand the relationship between Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli, and he did not become cold because of Liu Fulong's factors.

Yu Wenli gives people the impression that she is a beautiful girl who grew up in a greenhouse and has a well-behaved temperament, and her relationship with Liu Fulong is, in the final analysis, also a victim of the relationship between the Yu family and the Liu family.

Shen Huai thought to himself that Cheng Yi probably felt sympathy at this point.

On the other hand, Shen Huai and Cheng Yi are only maintaining a superficial relationship at the moment to deal with the pressure from both families, Cheng Yi will not interfere in his life, and he will naturally not interfere in Cheng Yi's private life.

Seeing that Yu Wenli took the initiative to reach over, Shen Huai shook hands with her and said with a smile: "I can let Miss Yu be the driver, I can blow the ...... to others when I return to China" and said to Cheng Yi, "Sun Yalin's flight is about half an hour away, should we find a place to live first?"

It was very convenient for Sun Yalin to come to London from Paris, and Shen Huai still talked to Sun Yalin on the phone before boarding the plane, only to know that she had decided to rush to London temporarily, and she had not been able to tell Cheng Yi in advance.

Cheng Yi also knew that Shen Huai's coming to London to meet her was just an excuse to divert other people's attention, and in fact, there were other matters to deal with.

Shen Huai made an appointment to meet Sun Yalin in London, thinking that this is also the main purpose of Shen Huai's visit to London, Cheng Yi naturally will not feel any surprise; after checking the specific arrival time of Sun Yalin's flight, Shen Huai and Cheng and Yu went to the café in the airport to sit down.

Probably also wanted to make up for the unpleasantness of the last trip back to China, in the café, Yu Wenli also greeted Shen Huai quite eagerly: "It's also fortunate that you came over this time, otherwise we would have to spend this Spring Festival in the suburban dormitory by writing papers, it's really unspeakably miserable......"

"Aren't there any activities organized by the Chinese students in Chinatown and in London during the Spring Festival?" asked Shen Huai strangely.

There are as many as 40 or 50 million overseas Chinese in the world, but 80% are concentrated in Southeast Asia, followed by the United States. The number of Chinese who settled in Europe only increased sharply in the sixties and seventies when they accepted the Indochinese refugees, and now they are mainly concentrated in Britain and France, and there are about one million at present.

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Although it is not comparable to Paris, the Chinese community in London is also quite large, gathering about one-third, about 780,000 Chinese living in the UK, and there are not a few Chinese students in the group.

Cheng Yi said: "The Chinese students in London, mainly Hong Kong students, have a weird and sensitive atmosphere now, so it is better to stay in the dormitory and write papers than to make trouble at the party......

Without Cheng Yi's explanation, Shen Huai could understand what Cheng Yi meant by being weird and sensitive, but he just smiled and didn't talk about those unpleasant topics.

Hong Kong will officially return to the embrace of the motherland in another year and a half, and it is wishful thinking to think that every Hong Kong person is happy to do so.

Precisely, in recent years, because of the factors of the recent return to the motherland, Hong Kong is setting off a high tide of immigration, and Britain is the main place of residence for Hong Kong immigrants - and because of the special historical relationship between Britain and Hong Kong, Chinese students in London have always been Hong Kong students as the main body, so that there are quite a few Chinese and international students living in Britain who do not have any sense of identity with the motherland.

When Cheng Yi came from China, she had a special background, and it was indeed difficult to integrate into the Chinese community in London.

"Listening to Sun Yalin, the Chinese Business Association will organize a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner tonight, anyway, it's a buffet, I don't think I will check the number of people, let's mix in and play together, how about it?" Shen Huai asked.

"Okay. However, if you get out, it's all up to you. Cheng Yi agreed with a smile, she didn't want to be really bored in the dormitory to write papers during the Spring Festival.

Although overseas Chinese have a great sense of identity with the motherland, most of the entrepreneurs, industrialists and businessmen in the Chinese community attach great importance to taking advantage of the political and economic advantages of their ancestral countries and using the special social capital created by kinship to expand their careers and improve their status.

Over the past 10 years of reform and opening up, the focus of China's efforts to attract investment from Chinese businessmen has been on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and the connection and excavation of Chinese businessmen in Western Europe is far from enough.

Although the power of Chinese businessmen in Western Europe is not as strong as that in Southeast Asia, there are a number of outstanding Chinese merchant families such as the Sun family in Paris, the Wu family in London, and the Liverpool Shan family, who are often local Chinese leaders, with huge influence and close ties with each other.

Sun Yalin temporarily decided to go to the UK to meet Shen Huai in advance, and mainly to attend the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner organized by the British Chinese Entrepreneurs Association tonight with Shen Huai.

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Sun Yalin and the others came from Paris, and the customs clearance procedure was much simpler than that of Shen Huai and them coming from China.

Shen Huai didn't wait much time in the pick-up area before they saw the tall Sun Yalin and her father Sun Qishan walking out conspicuously accompanied by the entourage.

"Why did the eldest cousin come over?" Shen Huai asked with a smile when Sun Qishan left Paris on Chinese New Year's Eve and came to London in person.

"You dropped the bomb in advance, and Paris was also affected," Sun Qishan said with a smile, "I originally made an appointment with Wu Wenxiong of the Wu family in London to meet after the New Year, but when I thought of you coming to London, I simply came over first and introduced you to Wu Wenxiong, and I had to rush back to Paris in the evening." ”

London and Paris are not far away, and it only takes three or four hours by train, and Sun Qishan is now going to London with Sun Yalin, and it is not too inconvenient to go back to Paris in the evening.

I don't know how much effort Sun Yalin has put in, but Shen Huai is still deeply grateful to Sun Qishan for being able to come in person.

Although at tonight's dinner, Shen Huai also planned to contact the people of the Wu family, but it was obvious that the effect of being introduced by Sun Yalin and Sun Qishan himself was completely different.

Although Sun Yalin is a rising star of the Sun family, her influence in the Chinese businessmen community in Western Europe is far from being comparable to her father.

Shen Huai introduced Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli to Sun Qishan.

Yu Wenli's background is good, but Jingrui Group is a mainland enterprise that has just risen after all, and it is far from being comparable with a Chinese businessman consortium like the Sun family that has taken root in Western Europe for more than half a century, and more importantly, the horizon has not yet been opened, and there is still some restraint in front of the old-school Chinese businessmen like Sun Qishan and Sun Yalin.

Cheng Yi is okay, there is a father of Zhongyāng alternate members, no matter where it is put it will not make people feel light, she has also met Sun Yalin a few times before, but there is no discomfort, but it is a little strange What kind of bomb Shen Huai throws, which made the big Chinese business group in Paris also shake.

However, Cheng Yi wants to maintain her relationship with Shen Huai at the level of ordinary friends and coping with family pressure together, although she is curious, she will not ask anything.

Through the family foundation, the Sun family directly controls about 25% of the shares of the Evergreen Group, which has equity assets of up to 2 billion US dollars.

Meixi Power Plant and Meixi Port Wharf will not cause a particularly big shock when they open up capital injection into the Evergreen Group, after all, the scale of investment is still a little small compared to the huge power of the Evergreen Group.

The key is that Sun Qiyi, who was in charge of Asia-Pacific affairs before, overly despised Meigang, which led to some confusion in the Asia-Pacific affairs of Evergreen Group, and later had to overcorrect and pay more attention to Meixi's investment opportunities.

Coupled with the promotion of Sun Yalin, Sun Qishan and Yexin Bank, Meixi's investment opportunities are highlighted in the overall Asia-Pacific investment layout of Evergreen Group.

This is also what Shen Huai's previous series of actions need to achieve the effect.

Even if Sun Qiyi still dislikes Shen Huai in his heart, in order to maintain his position as president of the Asia-Pacific region and avoid any further mistakes and tricks for others to grasp, he has to pay more attention to the investment opportunities given by Shen Huai this time.