On Sunday afternoon, James brought an antique vase, which had been given to him by a client as a bribe for a loan. I changed into a formal suit, a fine plaid suit, a white shirt, and a silver-gray tie, and on the way to Wilton's house, I thought about buying a bouquet of flowers and putting it in the back of the car.

According to the address on the invitation, I found the Wilton villa, and two Annan soldiers stood in front of the iron gate with loaded guns and ammunition in front of the villa to check the invitation of people entering and leaving. He stopped the car in front of the door and beckoned an Annan soldier to come and ask him to help move the wooden box containing the vase in the trunk inside, and walked into the Wilton villa with the flowers in his hand.

This is on the same road as the marshal's villa, and the villa and the marshal's villa are like twin brothers. The large iron gate enters into a swimming pool, Mediterranean style villa style. Under the porch, Wilton and a young French woman in her twenties stood there to greet the guests, and when he saw Hu Wenkai walking in, Wilton stood in place and stretched out his hand, he quickly stepped forward and held the consul's hand with both hands and said, "Wenkai is honored to be invited by Mr. Consul." ”

Wilton slid his hand to the young woman next to him and said, "Mr. Hu, let me introduce you, this is my daughter Adele who has just returned from a trip to Japan." ”

The long golden hair is scattered on both sides of the face at random, and the beautiful green and deep eyes are looking forward to the flowing waves, rippling with a magical power that can melt everything. Nearly chapped lips with bright lipstick, small chin, and seemingly casually wearing a wide beige gray knitted sweater. The body exudes a casual, laid-back French style.

Stretching out her right hand very naturally, Hu Wenkai held her right hand with both hands, leaned down and kissed her slightly closed lips symbolically in the air.

"Miss Adele, your beauty is as bright as spring blossoms, and as bright as the autumn moon."

"Mr. Hu, it will really make people happy, but the name is wrong, I should be called Ms. Adele." As she spoke, she raised her finger and wore a diamond ring on her ring finger.

"I'll call you Miss Adele, today is at your father's house, you are your father's daughter, a butterfly that can't fly away." Hu Wenkai gave the bouquet of flowers in his hand to Adele.

"Mr. Hu is really good at talking, and your words always make people so happy," Adele said with a smile.

When Hu Wenkai was ushered into the living room, he was still thinking about when he would meet her, otherwise where would the phrase 'you always make people so happy' come from.

In the living room, Dewey, Paesa and others were chatting around the sofa, and Hu Wenkai humbly stepped forward to say hello one by one. There are not many people, a dozen or so people should be a small banquet, his French is very general, it is better to listen than to speak, these people are chatting in French, he can't interject and ask for a glass of sherry, standing in front of the window and looking at the garden full of flowers outside the window. Pa Aisa walked over and stood beside him: "Hu, you were frightened last time when Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng happened. ”

"Mr. Paesa, thank you for your concern, but fortunately, the page will be opened when everything is over." Hu Wenkai knew in his heart that Paesa was the backer of the two.

"Hu, he is worthy of being a business wizard, and it is not advisable to settle the dispute, I admire it."

"Mr. Paesa, that's not worth mentioning, not to mention that they have also apologized, and as long as the well water does not interfere with the river water, it will be safe in the future."

"Hu, you are very broad-minded, they are not the same kind of people as you, I believe they will not offend you again." Paesa patted Hu Wenkai on the shoulder and said.

"Mr. Paesa, can you please come to our company for inspection and guidance if you have time?"

"By all means, I will ask Mr. Dewey to come with me to your company."

Dewey came with a cigarette in his hand: "What are you talking about me, Paesa." ”

"Mr. Paesa said that he would come to our company with you to inspect and guide." Hu Wenkai hurriedly replied.

"Paesa, I'll wait for your call, don't miss the appointment," Dewey put the matter on the ground. Paessa nodded in agreement, raising her glass to say hello to the other side.

After Paesa left, Dewey sighed and said that he couldn't understand how Paesa could get together with China's subordinates, and Hu Wenkai couldn't answer the conversation, so he could only smile.

"Wen Kai, have you seen your admirer?" Dewey said with a smile.

"Where did I come from? Mr. Dewey"

"Adele, you don't know?"

"I just met Miss Adele today, how can I say that she is my admirer?"

"You know her husband, Edmund, the French military attache in Japan who had been with you a lot in the past few months."

"Edmund is Adele's husband?" Hu Wenkai knew Edmund, and he chatted at No. 3, Lane 181, almost every night in June, and six or seven of them often chatted until two or three o'clock in the evening.

"Adele admires your saying that everyone is an individual, and people live to create wonderful journeys for themselves. In particular, I appreciate that life is a grain of sand in my hand, and I carefully perceive its passage. Dewey paused and continued.

"Adele came back from Japan and heard from the consul that your company had multiplied in a few months. He said: 'A person who can have that kind of thinking, there is nothing in the world that cannot be done, he is not working, he is understanding life'. ”

"I don't know the true face of Lushan, in fact, I am a businessman." Hu Wenkai smiled embarrassedly.

The guests took their seats according to the preset position, and Hu Wenkai found that his seat was actually arranged next to Adele. The French dinner is also too particular, although he knew some in the previous life, but the regular dinner still stunned him, the first course of seafood soup and onion soup, the second course of stuffed snails, foie gras, salad, Vietnamese fried spring rolls, the third course of Marseille fish soup, finch meat huili, Paris lobster, fire bureau snails, red wine pheasant, shafoulo chicken, chicken liver steak, oyster cup, Malinggu chicken, he glanced at how Adele did not become a cow according to this way of eating.

From time to time, Adele talked to him about the differences between Chinese and French cultures, and the two chatted from Alexandre Dumas and Sconda to Cao Xueqin in French, Chinese, and English, and Hu Wenkai said that people living in different cultural backgrounds will have different ways of dealing with the world, so the novel structure of writers in different countries will adapt to their own living environment. Adele nodded and said that the British Shakespeare novels and Balzac novels are not as romantic as the French, which has to do with the environment, the British are rigid and the French are naturally enthusiastic and unrestrained.

Hu Wenkai smiled slightly and said that in fact, the French and the British are a couple who love each other and hate each other, and the crazier they love, the deeper the hatred. The British love the romantic and unrestrained of France, the French love the English, the gentleman is conservative with reason, and the two sides spray each other is just an expression of love.

Adele felt a novelty at the statement, the piece of meat on the fork was in her mouth, paused for a few seconds, and said vaguely, and after careful consideration, it is really as you said.

The violinist played a cheerful tune at the dining table, and the table began to tell jokes in turns, and the French jokes were almost all yellow regardless of the occasion, and Hu Wenkai still couldn't understand the meaning of some jokes, so he could only laugh and laugh.

Adele asked Hu Wenkai what jokes he was preparing, and he was surprised to ask everyone what they had to say, and the answer was that it was necessary not to say it was rude.

Adele said a story about the general going out to lock his wife with Joan of Arc pants and handing over the key to an adjutant, and the general walked out of the city gate and the adjutant caught up with the general to report that the key was wrong. Listening to Adele's lazy tone to tell this story, even Hu Wenkai laughed and lay on the table.

It was Hu Wenkai's turn to tell a joke, Hu Wenkai said that I am not a joke This is a story, he slowed down and said:

An American, a Frenchman, and an Englishman walked in the desert, and as they walked, they saw a bottle, and when they uncorked it, a person floated out, and the man said, "I am a god, and I can fulfill the three wishes of each of you!" The British were the first to rush and say, "My first wish is for 1 million." The fairy said: "This is simple, satisfy you!" Let's talk about the second wish." The British said: I want another million!" After the gods had granted his wish, the Englishman said his third wish: "Get me home." The fairy said, "No problem." So the British returned to England with a lot of money.

When the Americans saw that the Americans were happily gone, they said, "I want beautiful women!" The gods gave him a beautiful woman. The Americans said, "I still want beautiful women!" The gods also satisfied him and gave him beautiful women.. The American finally said, "Send me back to America."

The gods sent the Americans home and asked the French what they wanted. The Frenchman said, "Let's go to the bottle Latour first."

The gods gave it to him. Ask him what his second wish is. The Frenchman said, "Another bottle of Latour!"

The fairy asked him what his third wish was. The French thought for a moment and said, "There's no point in drinking alone, you can get both of them back."

Adele held a wine glass and faced Hu Wenkai to listen to his story, and finally couldn't help but squirt out the wine in her mouth directly, Hu Wenkai was full of wine, wiped his face with a napkin and asked: "Miss Adele, are you drinking Latour?" But I'm Chinese. ”

Wilton laughed and said: "There are no British and Americans on the table, Adele can only pull back the Chinese, and today's wine is definitely Latour." ”