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In the middle of summer, in August, it was close to noon.

Towering greenery shrouds the Ren family estate in the south of Manchester City, and on the turquoise lawn, a few servants are carefully drenching the grass with showers, over and over again, to protect the carefully planted lawn. When the flowers blooming in the sun were almost overflowing beyond the manor's fences, the maids excitedly cut the branches and tied them into bunches to decorate the baskets or vases inside and outside the manor.

Outside the elaborate metal fence, two policemen had just walked past the side of the avenue when a horse-drawn carriage slowly drove up and stopped at the gate of the manor. A middle-aged man dressed as a butler guarding the door hurriedly stepped forward with two servants and opened the door for the people in the carriage.

Before the butler beckoned the servant to put down the door pedal, a young man rubbing his wrists jumped down first, and looked at the home he had known for a long time with a peculiar smile. Then a skirt appeared next to the carriage door, and a young girl wearing a whitewashed Western-style dress also appeared in the carriage.

The girl's long black hair was tied with a beautiful ribbon, and she wore a chic silver brooch on her chest, which was the symbol of an Ivy League university.

"Hehe, the young lady has come back with the eldest young master...... What are you two still doing in a daze, quickly unload the eldest young master's salute! The middle-aged Chinese housekeeper watched the children of the Ren family, who had been away from home for many years and studied in Haizhou, finally come home after graduation, and happily beckoned the servants to move things.

"Uncle Chen, I'll do it myself." It seems that he has developed the habit of doing everything by himself after many years of boarding in a foreign middle school, Ren Xingzhong actually took the initiative to take his suitcase like an old adult, and looked at his sister Ren Xingai who picked him up from the dock in person with a smile, "Uncle and aunt, they are all at home, right?" ”

"Brother...... Dad was running errands in the study, and Mom didn't go to work today, and was cooking in the kitchen. Ren Xingai seemed to disagree with the eldest brother's "verbal vices" for so many years, and his brows furrowed slightly. "My brothers and sisters are waiting for you at home...... Anne also came. In the past few years, you have only been home twice......"

"Hmm......" Ren Xingzhong understood what this sister meant, just smiled, and walked to the front with his luggage. Ahead, at the end of the manor avenue, in front of the main hall of the wide manor villa, there were already young men and women standing for a while, and one of them, a blonde girl, stood out.

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In the mahogany upholstery study, 38-year-old Ren Changle is comfortably leaning on the sofa. Looking at the business report in his hand, the pencil in his hand was still circled in a number of important places.

In the early years, several rubber plantations invested in Brazil in cooperation with the Portuguese, this year due to abnormal weather and other reasons, the output of raw rubber has decreased by 16% compared with previous years, and the yield per mu is only less than 90 kilograms. In the own rubber plantation on Butterfly Island, the rubber trees that have been planted for many years have only grown up this year, and the first batch of raw rubber has just been harvested, but the yield per mu is lower if the rubber tapping technology is not proficient.

With the further development of natural rubber technology and application scope, the current domestic rubber demand is increasing year by year. This year's lack of rubber production and supply also seems to indicate that the rubber market is about to usher in a considerable price jump. Bad news for this kind. As the helmsman of COSCO International Trading Company, which controls 60% of the domestic rubber supply, Ren Changle smiled lightly.

Relying on some unsightly means of "foreign labor import", COSCO International Import and Export Group has invested in sugarcane planting in Butterfly Island and Dominica Island for many years, with a planting area of 12,000 acres. In a few months, it will be the ripe harvest again, and it is estimated that this year's raw sugar production will exceed 2,500 tons. Even if the state tax rate on sugar, a 17th-century profiteering commodity, is as high as 50 percent, COSCO International Trading Group's net profit from refined sugar exports this year will exceed US$300,000. The sugar industry in China and the United States has become the second largest industry in terms of national tax contribution. The first is the thunderous cigarette.

The size of the cotton plantation on Butterfly Island is only 7,500 acres, but this year's lint production will also reach 800 tons. It seems like a lot, but in fact, it can only solve 20% of the cotton demand of the textile company under his wife's group. However, even so, the cost of cotton blended fabrics has dropped significantly, coupled with the country's low tax policy to encourage the export of textile commodities, now just cotton and linen blended fabrics this kind of textile, the total annual export profit of textile enterprises in the country has climbed to 500,000 US dollars.

If nothing else, the net profit of COSCO International Trade Group and Life Art Group will add up to 2.5 million US dollars this year, and Ren Changle is basically very satisfied. As for some investors who once instigated the listing, Ren Changle was still unmoved, because the group was not short of money at all. In the 17th century, the Huamei Stock Exchange, which was heavily targeted by the state-owned faction and the "Securities Regulatory Commission," had very little room for capital speculation, and the real big capitalists and big enterprises were not much interested in being listed, but instead a bunch of small and medium-sized enterprises were having a lot of fun in it.

In line with his ambitions, he intends to continue to cooperate with the Portuguese next year, expand mining investment in Brazil, and strive to regain its position as the largest supplier of imported chromite raw materials, which COSCO International Trade Group has lost its sales and pricing advantage in the field of imported chromite due to the state-owned energy and mining group's large-scale investment in Cuba.

Ren Changle picked up another business report about the business situation of OUCC in the Far East in the first half of the year. As one of the core investors behind the OUCC Group, Ren Changle basically has to inquire about the group's operation every quarter.

After more than two years of "labor pains", the Oriental Union Group finally turned losses into profits in the first half of 1633, and then there were shocking results that made every group director tremble. In the financial statements of the first half of this year, the net profit of OUCC Group has exceeded 1.6 million US dollars, and it should be easy for the annual net profit to exceed 3 million US dollars. Combined with the previous cumulative profit, the cumulative earnings per share will exceed $1 by the end of the year, and the promise of dividend distribution to all shareholders can finally be fulfilled with pride.

However, the board of directors of OUCC has also received a lot of small reports, about Zhao Mingchuan, deputy general manager of Oriental Industrial Company based in the Far East, always "unprofessionally" creating many "unnecessary costs", which makes the group's management slightly dissatisfied. Although everyone can see the performance of the Far East with Dongfang Industrial Company as the core, as a senior manager of the group, Zhao Mingchuan obviously does not understand the fundamental principle of how to always put the interests of the group first.

"It is necessary to add new merchant ships every year, especially in the Far East. It is necessary to speed up the turnover of raw materials and products...... Isaac, the general manager of the Oriental Industrial Company, will personally go to Pearl Island next year to inspect the specific business conditions of the Far East, and if necessary, Zhao Mingchuan can be considered for recall. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Ren Changle still wrote down his opinion in a memo diary, planning to meet with several big directors and presidents of the Oriental Union Group Andrian tomorrow, and send the well-known "mean ghost" in the group to the Far East to "rectify the enterprise".

"What bad habit is it that gets into the eyes of money all day long? Today is the day when Xingzhong goes home, will you die if you don't read the report for one less day? Yang Wenwen appeared at the door of the study. He was wearing a kitchen apron around his body, his hands were on his waist, and his willow eyebrows were upside down.

Although she is almost two years older than her husband Ren Changle, Yang Wenwen, who is a benchmark for gorgeous fashion, has still been well maintained over the years. She looks to be in her early 30s at most, and it is said that a variety of gorgeous cosmetics have been restored under her attempts, and even some local cosmetics that were originally only private remedies in later generations have now become Huamei's mass-produced products.

"That kid has always been out of step with us." Ren Changle laughed and took off his kitchen apron for his wife personally, whispering while the expression on his face was a little embarrassed. "You see, I've raised him for so many years, and I'm still a little embarrassed to look at him."

"What are you embarrassed to do? He just has a more introverted personality, and his grades in Haizhou Middle School are not bad. I think he's going to make a difference. Let's get ready and eat. Yang Wenwen glanced at her husband, and walked towards the living room with her slippers.

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In front of the exquisite dining table, the atmosphere of the family banquet was as strict as ever. However, looking at the children of all sizes on both sides, the love on Yang Wenwen's face was much happier than usual. And Ren Changle still looks like a majestic parent, with a straight face.

The 16-year-old eldest daughter Ren Xingai was successfully admitted to an Ivy League university this year and became a college student majoring in art, studying under Tong Yue, a "famous dancer in Huamei"; The 15-year-old second son, Ren Xingyi, is studying at the school affiliated to the Capital National Hospital and is expected to be admitted to Manchester Medical College next year; The 14-year-old second daughter, Ren Xingci, is now among the best in Manchester City Girls' High School, and the Ivy League colleges have long accepted her as a guaranteed student for admission without entrance examinations in the future; Ren Xingcheng, the third son of 13 years old, although he is still in the second year of middle school, his grades are not bad, especially his height is obviously much taller than his peers, and he has become a member of the school's football team. As the youngest adopted son, Ren Xingcheng's body developed the best the day after tomorrow.

As for the three biological children of the Ren family, Ren Xingde, Ren Xingjie and Ren Xingzhi, the first two are still in primary school and kindergarten respectively, and it is not yet known what the future will be. The youngest Ren Xingzhi was born in September last year, and now he is still a month away from turning one year old.

Sitting in the lower position of his adoptive parents, Ren Xingzhong's gaze swept over a girl diagonally opposite, and the expression on his face was a little uncomfortable.

The Dutch girl Anne and her sister Ren Xingai are the same year, the daughter of Andrian, the president of the Oriental Union Group, a girl who immigrated to Huamei and grew up in Huamei before the age of 4, and was also Ren Xingzhong's classmate in elementary school.

I don't know what kind of demon was doing the trick at the beginning, Ren Xingzhong hated this European female classmate very much at the time, and even often beat and scolded each other, the reason was that the other party was a "red-haired ghost", but Anne always endured it silently, and even stayed by Ren Xingzhong's side to play in a lot of spare time for study.

After Ren Xingzhong was sent to Haizhou Middle School by his adoptive mother Yang Wenwen, with the establishment of the Oriental Union Group, Anne and the Ren family became more and more contacted. Anne also took the opportunity to obtain Ren Xingzhong's school contact information, and actually wrote to the other party every month.

It is unknown how Ren Xingzhong treated those letters, but judging from Anne's visit today, it is obvious that Ren Xingzhong no longer has the same antipathy towards the other party after 5 years.

"Give Xingzhong a pick-up today, everyone is happy, you can talk while eating, let's start."

As soon as Yang Wenwen raised her hand, the nannies began to pick up the plate and share it with the family, the cost of any plate of exquisite food here is almost worth the meal cost of an ordinary national family for a whole day, it seems too extravagant and high-profile, but this is the family style that Yang Wenwen insists on.

"Sister Ci, I want to eat cake!" Ren Xingjie is only 5 years old. Obviously not within the parents' mandatory dining rules. After getting the statement that her parents were allowed to dine and speak, looking at the cake plate at the other end of the table, the little girl directly pulled the skirt of the second sister Ren Xingci next to her and shouted.

The cake was in front of Ren Xingzhong, the 17-year-old boy smiled slightly, personally served the cake plate, and handed it to Ren Xingjie from the table.

Although they are called brother and sister, Ren Xingjie has only met this eldest brother twice since she was born, so looking at this strange "adult", the little girl is still a little scared. I shrank back and didn't dare to take it.

"Say thank you, big brother......" Ren Xingci quickly lowered his voice and reminded his younger sister while apologizing to his eldest brother.

"Xiaojie is very well-behaved." Ren Xingzhong smiled indifferently, reached out and gently touched his young sister's hair, and returned to his seat. This moment. Anne, who was sitting in the corner, also smiled happily.

Seeing that the eldest son has finally matured a lot over the years, Yang Wenwen and Ren Changle couldn't help but nod slightly, and they were also relieved about some topics about the eldest son between the husband and wife before.

"Miss Anne, do you have any plans for next year?"

Except for Ren Xingzhong, who was as young as a young man and didn't say a word, the other children were chattering and eating at the table, especially the eldest daughter Ren Xingai and Anne kept whispering.

Eighteen changes in the female college, whether it is her daughter Ren Xingai or Anne. have all grown into slim flower girls. Yang Wenwen secretly glanced at her eldest son, put down her chopsticks at this time, and deliberately raised her volume.

"Ah, Aunt Yang......" Anne was startled. Quickly stood up, folded his hands in front of him embarrassedly, and lowered his head slightly, "Dad has already arranged it." Let me apply for the Ivy League and study finance ......"

"Mr. Andrian, I wish you were also in business...... It's a good choice. Xingzhong came back from graduation this time. I still have to take a year of tutoring, and tomorrow I will take the Ivy League finance major, maybe you can continue to be in the same class as my family Xingzhong. Yang Wenwen pinched the napkin with a smile, and was very optimistic about Anne's quiet personality.

"I don't plan to go to university, I want to join the army after the National Day." Suddenly, Ren Xingzhong reached out and took a glass of honey juice, and interrupted the conversation between his adoptive mother and Anne casually.

As soon as these words came out, not only Yang Wenwen and Anne turned their heads one after another, revealing an expression of disbelief, but even Ren Changle was stunned.

"Your dad has arranged for a year to enter the Ivy League prep class." Yang Wenwen frowned slightly, and said word by word.

Yang Wenwen's tone was a little cold, but as a result, the boys and girls present were all bored, and the atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly changed.

"Because I want to go to West Point Military Academy in the future." Ren Xingzhong put down his chopsticks, sat up straight, and looked at his adoptive mother without squinting.

Unlike the Navy, the West Point Military Academy in the United States is not for ordinary nationals, but all cadets must come from outstanding soldiers on active duty who have served for at least one year, even from a family like Ren Xingzhong. This is a dead rule set by the Army West Point Military Academy since its establishment, and it is also one of the few places that does not accept the influence of unspoken rules.

"You just want to be a soldier so much? Is the military profession that good? Drilling in a ravine all day long and fighting the Indians to the death? Yang Wenwen endured an inexplicable anger and slowly stood up, "There are more people in this country who are more suitable to join the army than you." You are the eldest son, and it is your growing obligation to share the responsibilities for the family. ”

After speaking, Yang Wenwen dropped the napkin, turned around and walked in the direction of the bedroom, seemingly showing a trace of disappointment in this eldest son who had been raised for 8 years.

"......" Ren Xingzhong didn't argue, just looked down at the desktop slightly, as if thinking about something.

Ren Changle, who had not spoken during the lunch, was familiar with his wife's temper and did not plan to comfort his wife's current love immediately, so he returned to the study after the meal, preparing to continue to check the work matter.

As soon as I picked up the pen and opened a volume of texts, I heard a slight sound from the door of the study. When he turned around, he saw Ren Xingzhong standing in front of the door with a strange expression looking at him, followed by his eldest daughter Ren Xingai.

"You've just come back, have a good rest in the afternoon, and go and confess your mistake to her before dinner." Ren Changle's feelings for this adopted eldest son are actually far less invested than Yang Wenwen, but in line with the basic attitude of his adoptive father, he expressed his views on the eldest son's "disobedient" behavior at the dinner table today.

"Daddy...... I'd like to talk to you! Behind him was his sister secretly stabbing his waist, Ren Xingzhong blushed, and it took a long time to spit out a sentence.

Slowly turning his head, Ren Changle was dumbfounded.

When did this adopted son suddenly call himself dad? Ren Changle seemed to feel that there was something wrong with his ears, and he was stunned in front of his two children.

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At the beginning of the lanterns, on a certain avenue in the southern district of Manchester City, two young men and women walked in front of one after the other.

"Does Mr. Ren have to be a soldier?" In line with the national standard that both parties are already "adults", Anne used each other's honorifics behind the boy, and stopped while asking softly.

"Why not? That's going to be respectable, Dad...... And they have already agreed. Ren Xingzhong turned around and showed a bright smile, "I have been trying to learn to be independent in Haizhou Middle School, and I feel that I can not rely on my family." ”

"Mr. Ren is a brave gentleman, but if he were a soldier, he might have left Manchester City......" Anne was also quite concerned about the army's "rare and unstable life" style over the years, given the fact that the newspapers had been touting victories over the Iroquois for several years, and the increasingly obvious hostility towards England.

"That's also protecting this family, right?" Ren Xingzhong walked back to Annie's side, his face becoming more and more confident, "The teacher said that everyone should choose the way to dedicate themselves to the country and the family, and I did not go against their teachings. ”

"Then why not choose the path that will make your mom and dad happier?" Anne was about to cry at this time, and as she spoke, she suddenly grabbed Ren Xingzhong's arm.

"You're not happy, are you?" The corners of Ren Xingzhong's mouth curled slightly, and he easily opened the other party's hand and looked at the night sky, "I scolded you before and beat you...... You know why? ”

The blonde girl didn't say anything, just shook her head blankly.

"They are not my biological parents...... My own mother was killed by someone who looked like you......" Ren Xingzhong's face began to turn pale, and the kind of love that had accumulated in his heart for many years was inevitably revealed.

"After all these years, I almost can't remember what my biological mother was like, but I still remember what that person looked like...... If I can't be strong, I can't protect my current parents. Ren Xingzhong said lightly, his face gradually returned to normal, "I can't protect people like my sister and you." ”

"Mr. Ren really thinks...... Do you want to protect me too? When Anne heard this, she was immediately excited.

Perhaps thinking that he was too arrogant, Ren Xingzhong's face turned red, and he quickly lowered his head and walked to the front again.

No matter how much bloody there will be between young men and women, the youthful emotions between men and women are nothing more than this in ancient and modern China and abroad. At this moment, under the street lamp, Anne followed Ren Xingzhong's footsteps closely and escorted her home by the other party. (To be continued)