The next morning, Wickham and William Edward hurried to the Chelsea Shipping Company's office building, where he and the old Chelsea had agreed to make a deal. After reading the assignment agreement drawn up by his lawyer, Wickham happily signed his name.

The elder Chelsea then handed a flannel box to Wickham and joked: "Mr. Wickham, here are £280,000 Bank of England cashier's checks, and Taylor Lloyd's Bank share certificates." ”

Wickham took the flannel box and opened it to check it, and it did contain a cashier's note of the Bank of England of 280,000 pounds, as well as a share document notarized by a lawyer.

As for Barnett's share, Mr. John Chelsea will settle it separately. And Bert's share, which is said to have been withheld by his father, is now sulking. Wickham's heart was stirring when he took over these things, and his fortune now included nearly half of the shares of Taylor Lloyd's Bank, a property with an annual rent of £2,000, diamond ore worth nearly £200,000, and £320,000 in cash. Among the wealthy businessmen in London, Wickham can barely be counted as a small shrimp.

"Congratulations, Mr. Wickham, you may now be the youngest upstart in all of London!" After the business was done, Mr. John Chelsea's tone was no longer as aggressive as in the mall, but full of encouragement from the elderly.

Feeling the kindness of the other party, Wickham also smiled and said: "Mr. Chelsea, I still have a lot to learn from you, and I hope we can have the opportunity to work together in the future." ”

Mr. John Chelsea nodded and said, "There's going to be a chance, lad." "Old Chelsea felt that this young man in front of him was not simple, he made a fortune in his early twenties that others could not imagine, and his future achievements are absolutely limitless! He believes the next collaboration between the Chelsea family and Wickham is not too far away.

Having said goodbye to old Mr. Chelsea, Wickham hurried back to the inn to allow plenty of time to prepare, and to-night he had to accompany Miss Margaret Bernard to the literary salon of the noblewoman.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the door of the inn, Wickham spotted Barnett, dressed in a lieutenant's uniform, pacing back and forth in the doorway, apparently waiting for someone.

As soon as Wickham got out of the car, Barnett greeted him and said happily, "Sir, you are back." I've found a couple of houses in the Synkenton borough, when are you going to check them out? ”

Did Barnett say that, Wickham remembered that on the day he first arrived in London, he asked Barnett to help him find a house, but he didn't expect this guy to find it so quickly.

"Of course, if it's convenient, let's go now!" Perhaps the Chinese have always had an obsession with real estate, and Wickham is also very eager to have a property of his own, otherwise this heart is always fluttering and unsteady. Barnett had come to ask Wickham to look at the house, and he didn't have a problem with early or late, so he agreed: "Okay, let's go now." ”

Suddenly, Wickham thought that Ye Shihan was going to stay in England for a long time, so he changed his mind and said to Barnett: "Barnett, you wait a while. The Chinese girl who came with me to England also needed a house, so I went up and invited her to come with us. ”

Standing outside the door of Ye Shihan's room, Wickham found that he was a little apprehensive in his heart, and began to look forward to seeing that familiar pretty face after opening the door.

After knocking on the door a few times, there was no sound in the room, and Wickham was a little disappointed, not knowing what to do so that Ye Shihan would not be angry. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, the door opened with a "squeak", and the lovely person inside the door was Ye Shihan, who had been closed for a few days.

After not seeing her for a few days, Ye Shihan's originally delicate face was a little haggard, and her talking-like eyes lost their former brilliance, which were full of shocking bloodshots.

"Miss Ye, ...... you" Wickham didn't finish speaking, he felt Ye Shihan's soft and boneless delicate body fall into his arms, and he could even smell the virgin fragrance between the tips of Ye Shihan's hair.

Ye Shihan's white and tender little hands weakly beat Wickham's shoulder, and sobbed in a low voice: "What did I do badly, why did you treat me like this, why did you ......"

Wickham let Ye Shihan's pink fist smash on his body, and sighed for a while: "Shihan, you are a good girl, but I had a girl I liked before the Qing Kingdom, I can't let her down, otherwise I will look down on myself."

Wickham would love to be like the male protagonists in some novels, who can hug everyone left and right, but he is a man who knows what responsibility is, and he can't selfishly pin the happiness of many girls to him alone. So in front of a beautiful, smart and intellectual girl like Ye Shihan, he could only forcibly suppress the throbbing in his heart.

After listening to Wickham's words, Ye Shihan's delicate body couldn't stop trembling and muttered, "I knew it would be like this...... I've tried to distance myself from you, I've tried to get used to life without you, but I find I can't! No matter if you have a woman you like or not, I don't want to leave you again, even if I am a concubine. ”

Wickham was shocked, Ye Shihan was a delicate lady from a big family, a strange woman who would rather run away from marriage than marry someone she didn't like, and she was willing to be a concubine in order to be with him! If you want to say that you are not moved, it is fake, other girls don't care, what else can a big man say?

Wickham hugged the lovely man in his arms tightly, and at this time he no longer looked forward and backward, but only wanted to cherish the person in front of him. The two hugged each other quietly, feeling each other's heartbeats and hot breathing.

After a long time, Wickham remembered Barnett who was still waiting downstairs, and hurriedly said his original purpose: "Shihan, you should stay in England for a long time, and staying in a hotel for a long time is not a solution." I have a friend who has found a property for sale, would you like to take a look at it with me? ”

"Buying a house?" There was a hint of excitement in Ye Shihan's tone, she didn't want to live in a hotel for a long time, although it was luxuriously decorated, with convenient bathrooms and flush toilets, she had long been fed up with the poor cooking skills and hard-to-swallow food of British cooks. With her own house, the chefs she brought from China have a place to shine, and she can treat her stomach and intestines that have been ravaged by British dark cuisine these days.

"Well, the Sinkenton neighborhood not far from here has a quiet environment, and the residents are all decent people with status, so I will feel more at ease if you live there." In this era, London is mixed, the security situation is very poor, only the neighborhood where decent people live is better, and if Ye Shihan lives there, at least the safety will be guaranteed.

"You're going to buy a house there, too, right?" Ye Shihan showed a sly smile and restored the girl's nature. If the two of her houses were relatively close, would she and him have more opportunities to meet?

Wickham asked, somewhat puzzled, "Huh?" I don't have a place to stay in London yet, so I'll buy one if those villas are good. Why do you ask this? ”

"That means you're going to have a lot of power there, right? In that case, I'll go with you. "Maybe because he came to China, Ye Shihan had fewer worries and taboos, and behaved very boldly. It may also be that she came to a mental environment where no one knew her, revealing her true self. Today's Ye Shihan is not like a lady in the feudal era, but like a girl next door in the 21st century, a little willful and a little smart.

No matter how sluggish Wickham was, he understood what Ye Shihan meant, but he didn't break anything: "Beautiful Miss Ye, I don't know if I have the honor to invite you to choose a house with me?" After speaking, he stretched out his arm and motioned for Ye Shihan to take his arm.

Ye Shihan didn't know much about Western etiquette, and was suddenly blushed by Wickham's straightforward invitation, and after hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and took Wickham's arm. Wickham smiled knowingly and walked downstairs with Ye Shihan.

Barnett looked at his pocket watch and found that Wickham had been going upstairs for half an hour, but there was no sign of going downstairs, and his heart was also anxious. Just as he was about to go upstairs to find out, he saw that beautiful girl full of oriental style was holding her chief's left arm and walking towards this side with a graceful gait.

Barnett showed an expression that all men understand, and joked: "No wonder George, you didn't come down for half an hour, it turned out that you were accompanied by a beautiful woman, and if you were me, I'm afraid you won't be able to get down for two hours." "After seven or eight months of sailing together at sea, Barnett knew that his chief had brought back a beautiful girl from the Qing Kingdom, but he had only seen it from afar a few times, and now he had finally seen the real person.

Wickham glared at Barnett angrily, his previous impression of Barnett was a stereotypical English gentleman, who was rigid and serious in everything he did and lacked humor, but now he is a black-bellied guy, and a sullen man can't afford to mess with him. "You guy, don't say something useless, let's go quickly."

Barnett opened the door with a smile and stretched out his arm to signal that Ye Shihan could hold his arm to board the carriage, because the carriage of the carriage was a bit high compared to the lady, and it was more difficult to board the carriage without borrowing. Ye Shihan hesitated, but after all, he didn't stretch out his hand, but quietly glanced at Wickham, for fear that Wickham would be unhappy.

Although Ye Shihan is a warm, cheerful and generous girl in her heart, this is only limited to when facing Wickham alone, after all, after more than ten years of women's morality and female precept education, she can't make "intimate" actions in front of other men.

Wickham saw Ye Shihan's small movements in his eyes, and was very happy in his heart, and said with relief: "Shihan, this is normal etiquette in the UK, you don't have to take it to heart." ”

Ye Shihan thought to herself that she had made up her mind to follow Wickham anyway, and she would definitely settle down in Xiyangyi in this life, and it would not be a bad thing to integrate into the new environment here as soon as possible. Thinking like this, Ye Shihan generously stretched out his green jade hand and took Barnett's arm to board the carriage.