After washing her hands, Diao Ranran took the tea tray in Sister Zhang's hand and motioned for her to send it herself.

"I'll come, I'll have to trouble you to make a few more specialty dishes in the evening. It's a guest from afar, and I want to entertain him well, but it's not going to be a few days before the New Year, and I really don't want to go out to join in the fun, so I just won't go out to eat today, just invite him to taste your craft. ”

She took the tea set, smiled and finished talking to Sister Zhang, and then went upstairs.

After Zhan Xingchuan entered the door, he went to the study with Locke, and the two of them should be talking about business. Diao Ranran was not interested, and it was inconvenient to bother, so he kept chatting with Sister Zhang in the kitchen.

After boiling the water, soaking a pot of top-quality oolong, and cutting a little fresh fruit, she planned to serve it so that they could drink and talk while they wouldn't have a dry mouth.

Carefully holding the tea tray, Diao Ranran went upstairs.

The imported carpet beneath his feet was thick and shaggy, sucking up almost all the footsteps. The villa was very quiet, only the sound of conversation faintly came from the direction of the study, Diao Ranran immediately reacted, the door of the study should not be tight, otherwise, there would be no sound at all, and the sound insulation at home has been very good.

She walked over, and sure enough, there was a crack in the door, and the sound came from this gap.

Zhan Xingchuan and Locke conversed in Italian, although Zhan Xingchuan's Italian was not as fluent as English, but there was still no problem communicating with people, and Locke's English had a distinct accent, so the two of them spoke Italian when they first met many years ago.

I don't know if there was a disagreement on the things discussed, Locke's tone didn't seem to be very good, and his tone unconsciously increased a lot, and the speed of his speech was very fast, and he seemed to be arguing with Zhan Xingchuan about something.

Diao Ranran stood at the door for a few seconds, not understanding a word, and then she knocked on the door and poked her head in.

"Hey, handsome guys," she said with a big smile on her face, holding something in her hands, and greeting the two men in front of her in English, "I knocked on the door." Would you like to pause, have a drink, and then continue?"

Unlike Diao Ranran's bright smile, Locke had a ghostly expression on his face, staring blankly at her, as if he didn't expect her to be here.

Immediately afterward, he immediately looked at Zhan Xingchuan and said another sentence in Italian.

Zhan Xingchuan also replied, and after listening to him, Locke's expression improved slightly, but he was still a little embarrassed, and his eyes looked at Diao Ranran with a hint of dodge.

Diao Ranran didn't notice anything unusual, put the tea set and fruit on the table next to him, and helped them fill the tea.

"I don't know if you're used to it. ”

She gently pushed the teacup over and smiled and made a "please" gesture to Locke.

"Don't worry, I've known him for so long, and I haven't seen anything he can't eat. The last time he was at the beach, he ate almost all the seafood he could eat raw, and he didn't dip it in the ingredients. ”

Zhan Xingchuan smiled and teased Locke, took a cup of tea himself, and tasted it slowly.

Diao Ran opened his mouth, and then peeked at Locke, whose arms and legs were all hairy, and really felt that he had not fully evolved. Although he is an out-and-out handsome guy, more masculine and handsome than many Hollywood movie stars, she still can't appreciate this kind of Western beauty.

"I won't bother you, I'll call you when dinner is ready. ”

With that, she withdrew, leaving the private space back to the two of them.

Seeing Diao Ranran close the door and his figure disappearing behind the door, Locke made an exaggerated expression, looked straight at Zhan Xingchuan with a calm face, and shouted in a low voice: "Why didn't you close the door tightly... What if she hears it? And, Zhan, you do this, I don't think it's good, it's bad, really. ”

Zhan Xingchuan turned the empty teacup with his fingers, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "What's wrong?" Don't be afraid, she can't understand what we are saying, she doesn't understand Italian at all, and it doesn't matter if she hears it. ”

Locke shook his head, his eyebrows were still wrinkled into a mound, and he said disapprovingly: "Aren't you Chinese very traditional? Since you have already married her, why do you still do this? I found a very interesting phenomenon, many Chinese are anxious to get married, anxious to have children, and anxious to divorce, but feel that those of us who do not want to marry are all aliens. In my opinion, impulsive marriage and impulsive divorce are even more unreasonable than not getting married..."

He voiced the doubts in his heart in one breath.

Zhan Xingchuan couldn't help but laugh and said, "You only know a few Chinese, and you actually summed it up here... I trusted you to tell you the truth, but you educated me, and I didn't say a word to you if I knew it..."

Locke snorted, pondered for a moment, and then continued, "Are you really decided......? You're going to give her a share, and once it's developed and put into operation, it's quite a big gold mine..."

Before he came here, he never thought that his friend actually had such a plan in mind.

In Locke's mind, he personally came to Zhonghai and Zhanxingchuan to discuss cooperation, as long as the negotiation is completed and the funds are injected in time, his first large-scale project will begin to enter the countdown.

The Agnère family has been in the limelight for more than two hundred years, spanning the entire Italian and even European empires, but after entering the first decade of this century, there is something that has lost its glory. Ten years ago, the heir to the family was assassinated, and Locke's father, Alex, became the new heir, supporting this century-old family in the midst of storms. He had three sons, each of whom was born of three women, and countless daughters. Among them, Locke was his eldest son and the woman he loved most in his life, so Locke became the first choice for the next heir.

In other words, once Alex dies, or intends to abdicate, then Locke will take over the Agnel family.

"Once divorced, I guess she doesn't want to stay in Zhonghai. I also don't want to meet her again on some occasions, everyone is embarrassed by each other. If she is willing to go abroad, it will be the best. ”

Zhan Xingchuan pinched his eyebrows, obviously not very concerned about money.

As long as you can divorce Diao Ranran smoothly after the child is born, even if it costs some more money, it is acceptable.

"I really want to meet that beloved of yours, to see if she has three heads and six arms, otherwise how could she have occupied your heart all the time?"

Locke's eyes widened, and he thought for a long time, and scoured out of his mind a Chinese idiom he had heard before.

He had heard about Yu Youwei, but he had never met her, and he had always been a little curious about her.

Zhan Xingchuan slapped him with a smile: "What three heads, six arms, don't say don't talk nonsense, go out and be laughed at..."

Locke suddenly showed a super embarrassed expression, very cute, and did not look like a twenty-seven-year-old man at all, but like a seventeen-year-old boy.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhan Xingchuan is willing to be friends with him, he has the shrewdness and cunning of a businessman, but he is simple and kind-hearted, two completely different, even opposing personalities can actually blend and coexist in him, it is really strange.

"To be serious, I only have one request for cooperation between the two sides, and as for the rest, I haven't thought of it for the time being. ”

Putting away the smile on his face, Zhan Xingchuan changed to a stern expression and said to Locke.

"Okay, I got it. By the way, does Zhonghai have a family surnamed Qiao?"

Locke suddenly remembered something, his tongue curled very hard, and he squeezed out three words from between his teeth, Qiao Sijie.

"He sent someone to contact my father, with the obvious intention of cooperating with our family. But now the whole of Europe is not in a good economic downturn, and next door Greece is about to collapse, so my father is not interested in investing in real estate at all, and he has no success. I heard that he found Raymond as an introducer, my second brother. ”

Locke shrugged and said with a look of distraction.

Raymond, Alex's second son and the son of his current wife, is said to have been jealous of Locke and secretly wants to replace him with his mother's help. Even within the Agnère family, there are two factions silently, one faction supports Locke and the other faction supports Raymond, which is harmonious on the surface, but there is a constant undercurrent in private.

"Heh, I thought the two of them were brothers, and they weren't one calculating the other. ”

Thinking that Wen Yitong came to beg for Qiao Yanne's sake at the beginning, and also wanted to get on the line with the Agnel family and overpower Qiao Sijie, Zhan Xingchuan couldn't help but sneer, sure enough, there is no brother in front of interests, and money kills father-son love in seconds, this is the truth that cannot be broken.

"Let's celebrate our first collaboration with tea instead of wine. ”

He poured Locke tea with his own hands, filled it for himself, picked up the teaglass, and gently clinked glasses with him.

At dinner, Sister Zhang really made a table of good dishes to entertain guests from afar, and she couldn't close her mouth until she ate it, and finally she couldn't even stand up.

Zhan Xingchuan arranged for him to stay in the guest room at home, and Locke was not polite and stayed for one night.

The next morning, he had breakfast and left, taking the morning flight back to Rome.

Diao Ranran was a little confused, and secretly asked Zhan Xingchuan: "He is so tossed, flying back and forth for dozens of hours, just to meet you?"

He teased her triumphantly: "This is my charm, both men and women..."

She immediately made a vomiting motion.

The first Spring Festival after the two got married is approaching.

Because Zhan Liyang had just died, Wang Jingshu was in the hospital again, so the taste of the Zhan family's New Year was not strong, Zhan Xingchuan wrapped a big red envelope for the servants at home and let them go home for the New Year, while he and Diao Ranran spent the Chinese New Year's Eve peacefully at home.

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