"If our old man knew, he wouldn't have been able to enter the door so easily today." Lin Ran asked herself if she still knew anything about her grandfather, "But Yan Qingping ...... None of the people who still have dealings with him are good stubble. ”

Su Mingyi's voice dispersed in the night, and Lin Ran listened carefully before he heard a trace of hesitation from his words: "Let's touch his bottom again." Don't see him yet, I guess that's what you mean at home, this person, hey, hey, it's too evil. ”

However, it is a blessing and not a curse, and it is a disaster that cannot be avoided.

When Lin Ran saw the silver-gray Mercedes-Benz at the gate of the compound the next day, he even wondered if Zhou Huai'an had arranged for someone to keep an eye on the door of the Lin family's old mansion twenty-four hours a day.

She came out this morning was a temporary idea, the old lady two days ago muttered a sentence to eat Longjing shrimp, it happened that this dish Lin Ran followed the nanny at home to learn seriously, so she thought about cooking at noon to relieve the old lady's cravings.

As a result, when I went to the kitchen to ask during the reading break, there were no extra shrimp at home, and Lin Ran, who was meant to surprise Mrs. Lin, was naturally reluctant to send people out to buy shrimp. There is a small vegetable market next to the compound, what is done is the voice of the residents in the compound, the ingredients are fresh, the quality is high, she said hello to the second elder, said to go outside to rest her eyes and buy a cup of milk tea by the way, so she put on a coat and went out.

As a result, before she had taken two steps out of the compound, a silver-gray Mercedes-Benz stopped in front of her, still with a foreign license plate, for fear that Lin Ran would not be able to guess who was sitting in the car.

Sure enough, the window glass of the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz was lowered, revealing a face that was no different from the one he had seen in his dream before, and the man looked at her: "Lin Ran, do you have time to talk?" ”

Pretending not to recognize it is something that only a fool can do, Lin Ran put his hand in his pocket, and his face had the usual calm and breezy expression: "Even if I say that I don't have time, you don't plan to drive the car away to make way for me, do you." ”

Zhou Huai'an didn't seem to expect her to be so sharp-toothed, her eyebrows were slightly raised, and her tone didn't change much: "I know the times." ”

A man in a black suit got down from the co-pilot, went around to the other side of the car, opened the back seat door, and said coldly: "Miss Lin, please." ”

Lin Ran suspected that her uncle's men were all a bunch of machines.

What research institute should be donated to contribute to China's artificial intelligence industry.

It is better to be respectful than to obey fate, Lin Ran didn't want to make something happen on the road for others to see the joke, so she took a step and got into the car without being polite.

After Lin Ran got into the car and sat down, Zhou Huai'an instructed the driver: "Drive around this street twice, drive slowly." ”

Then he leaned back in his chair and looked at his niece unabashedly.

There are many times that he has been looked at by others, but this is the first time that Lin Ran hates a person looking at him like this.

No matter how much others look at her, they also evaluate her with a kind of human eye.

But Zhou Huai'an's vision is not to look at people.

The gaze that fell on her was to look at the object, and Lin Ran only felt that he was an antique vase in his eyes, and it was more cost-effective to evaluate it with this kind of look, whether it was a decoration at home or a high price at the auction for money.

"You don't look like your mother, you look more like your father."

Enough of the assessment, he spat out such a sentence.

In a word, just the title is intimate.

As if realizing that what he said was incomplete, he chuckled and shook his head: "Especially your eyes, which are carved out of the same mold as your father." ”

"Daughter Xiao's father, if I were a boy, I guess it would be like my mother." Lin Ran replied dryly, and was not in the mood to play Tai Chi with Zhou Huai'an in a circle here, "You came to block me, and you didn't just come to greet me, right?" ”

Her attitude couldn't be said to be good, but Zhou Huai'an didn't take it to heart, he still looked at her, and his tone was gentle: "It seems that you guessed." ”

"I'm not stupid. You haven't been in contact with our family all these years, and you just made a big mess in Sucheng last week because of me, so you came to Yancheng with me. Lin Ran has never been a person who has wronged herself, since she wants to talk, she found a comfortable position to sit and looked directly into Zhou Huai'an's eyes, "You make me believe that you are coming to the Lin family to give a New Year's gift, it is better to make me believe that Qiao Anan has lost his way and sincerely wants to apologize to me." ”

Zhou Huai'an didn't play tricks with her, and spread the matter straight to the point and said, "I'm here for your mother." ”

Lin Ran lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers, guessing the answer to the riddle in advance, but he didn't feel satisfied at all: "I guessed, you want the Mo family and the Lin family to be angry with Qin Wenlin, their family of three and Qiao Jingyi's father and daughter, don't be angry with my mother, right." ”

"Yes and no." Speaking of which, Zhou Huai'an was very frank, "If I go over to talk to the Lin and Mo families about this now, I'm afraid they will be even more angry, after all, Qiao Jingyi's father and daughter are outsiders with you, and my sister Zhou Xixue, as your biological mother, is related to you by blood, and she still doesn't protect you if something so big happens, wouldn't it be like adding fuel to the fire if I went to intercede?" ”

After a while, Lin Ran continued: "If it wasn't for the purpose of removing my mother from this matter, then why did you come to Yancheng in such a hurry?" ”

"Young people, you still have to think more before you do things." Zhou Huai'an slowly showed a smile, making people shudder in the somewhat dimly lit car, "Getting your mother out of this matter is not the only way to put down and plead for mercy." ”

Half of the man's face was hidden in the shadows, even with a smile, his tone was very calm: "What do you think of Qiao Jingyi?" ”

"You...... Do you want to hear the truth or do you want to hear a lie? ”

As soon as the words came out, Lin Ran smiled herself: "Yes, you have come to me like this, so naturally you want to listen to what I have to say." ”

"Qiao Jingyi is a person who has little ability, but he is not suspicious, he is actually Cao Cao. But without Meng De's strategy and determination, thanks to the people around him who have not broken off their help over the years, they have been able to gain a foothold in the mall and make the business to the current scale. ”

"I have the dream of killing and deciding, but I am soft-hearted and soft-hearted, I can only see the immediate benefits, I never know how to put a long line to catch a big fish, I just want to put things in my pocket immediately, and it is best to realize it immediately. And emotionally, even more so, who you associate with is for a purpose, even if it is to love your own daughter so much since she was a child, it is also to let her bring greater benefits to herself when she grows up, and repay her financial and emotional efforts over the years. ”

Zhou Huai'an nodded: "You can see it thoroughly." ”

"If you have lived with him for so many years, you can see it more thoroughly than me." Lin Ran's face was indifferent, "As for how to deal with it, it depends on the individual's ability to bear the sunk cost." ”

At this moment, the car had already circled around the neighborhood, Zhou Huai'an was a little distracted, and went to look at the compound where the Lin family's old mansion was located outside, and his tone showed a little bit of memory: "After your mother gave birth to Qiao An'an, I talked to her once. ”

Lin Ran knew that this was talking about the incident that happened in her childhood in her dream.

"At that time, I told your mother, let her hand you over to me, and let you grow up in Zhou's house." Zhou Huai'an retracted his gaze, but didn't look at Lin Ran again, just stared at the back of the seat in front of him, "I never promise easily, I swore to your mother that time, as long as you are in the Zhou family, you are the rightful eldest lady of the Zhou family, and you will never let you be subject to any rumors from the outside world." ”

She tasted Zhou Huai'an's meaning for a while, and nodded: "You are reluctant, not afraid that your wife will quarrel with you for your own daughter." ”

"I dare to make this promise, and naturally everything is arranged."

Regarding the turmoil in the past, Zhou Huai'an just said a word, and continued to say at his own pace: "You probably know that your mother had a big quarrel with me because of this matter, and since then she has cut off relations with the Zhou family, and no matter how hard and tired she has been over the years, she has never asked the Zhou family for help." I also followed her wishes, I haven't contacted her all these years, but I just turned around and had a few businesses with her and Qiao Jingyi's company, which can be regarded as helping them gain a firm foothold and have a long-term and stable income. ”