Chapter 20: Lakeside Meeting**
An Chen walked out of the grape forest with Luo Qingye, his vision gradually widened, and a lake appeared in front of him.
The lake is surrounded by lush vineyards, but there is a fresh, flat meadow on the shore, and the ground is mixed with mossy small curly cypresses, fluffy, and occasionally a few bushes of hairy ferns, which are sticking out their fist-like lovely buds. Not far away on the shore of the lake is a wooden hut connected to a wooden pier leading to the middle of the lake, on which a wooden boat is tethered almost exclusively for entertainment. There are two tall alders growing next to the hut, and next to it is a special honey-producing lily that blooms with three pale yellow flowers, and I don't know who brought the bulbs from the farmland here.
This wooden house is a place for the core members of the Emperor's Sky Shield to "recuperate". In fact, it has no medical effect, but when you are tired from work, you can come here to blow the wind and bask in the sun in your spare time.
Now outside the wooden house, there were barbecue grills and shelves, and a young man in a light gray suit with silver filigree lace was standing in front of the grill, poking the contents of the grill with a knife and sprinkling a fuchsia liquid on it, and the smell of red wine diffused from it.
"Hey, Jace!" An Chen greeted him.
Lopez Jace, the young public relations genius of Emperor Sky Shield, saw her, and just wanted to be called "Boss", and then caught a glimpse of Luo Qingye who was following her, and thought that the fact that An Chen was the actual leader should be appropriately weakened, so he greeted with a smile: "An Chen, here!" β
"What, it smells so good?" An Chen walked over first to see what was on the grill.
Jace was roasting the freshly picked Red Night grapes. Whole grapes are cut in half, the seeds are removed, and placed on the grill like two reddish-purple bowls with translucent pulp. The fiber-rich and resilient peel is roasted over the fire, gradually softening a little, and the flesh inside becomes more and more transparent. Jace picks out the seeds and large fibers and throws them away, then uses a knife to stir the clear flesh contained in the peel and add a small amount of red wine to taste, which makes one of the classic fruit barbecue grape purees.
Jace's hands are so skillful that his comrades always joke that even if he is not the head of public relations, he will be enough to support his family even if he goes out and opens a grocery store. And Jace was willing to do these things, he completed twelve years of voluntary trading, graduated from high school, and went to work in the palace, learning from the practice of propaganda work, and also seeing a lot of palace food. It can be said that Jace's knowledge of royal cooking is incomparable to that of Anchen, but after he tasted the exquisite food in the palace, he found more beauty in ordinary cooking.
"Red Night Grape Roasted Puree - Extra Hot, Blow First." Jace scooped a spoonful from half a roasted grape and blew it before handing it to Anchen, "Taste if you can put enough of this wine." β
Anchen habitually took a bite of the spoon handed by Jaceβshe was the real Pope anyway, and the traditional concept of the Holy Mother of the Pope was the "god" who represented divine purity. Even if the core team members of the Sky Shield are not ignorantly obedient, they will still be influenced by social attitudes, and feel that An Chen is very clean from head to toe. They don't mind letting An Chen use their things casually (although in fact, An Chen doesn't like to use other people's things), and even after being used by An Chen, they subconsciously feel that Our Lady has "opened" the "light" for them.
There is no way, the ideology formed by the thousands of years of history of the integration of politics and religion is difficult to change overnight.
However, Luo Qingye didn't know that An Chen was the real Pope, he just felt that this colleague was a little too intimate with An Chen, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy. Then he realized that he and An Chen had only known each other for two days, and the other party seemed to be quite familiar with An Chen.
"How?" Jace asked with a smile.
"Yes, I didn't expect 'Red Night' to be sour at all after it was baked." An Chen praised, and introduced Luo Qingye to Jace, "This is the candidate to participate in our energy plan, his name is Luo Qingye." "Introduce Jace to Luo Qingye again," This is the head of public relations of the Emperor Sky Shield Group, Lopez Jace. β
"I'm glad I will." Jace stretched out his hand to shake Luo Qingye's hand, and said, "Uh, so Sister An Chen should have told you what we were going to do, right?" Although it is said to replace Chino, the purpose is not exactly the same as Chino...... The main thing is to increase the probability of selection, so I personally don't think it's necessary to follow Chino's criteria. β
"Chino isn't coming today?" An Chen asked with some surprise.
"He's been called home by His Excellency Greco Eliza." Jace picked up the roasted grapes from the rack and put them in a cold bath to cool down, "Haven't you heard?" Something happened to Zhenhui Province, and the procuratorate transferred a lot of manpower. β
True Wisdom Province? An Chen frowned slightly, Zhenhui Province belongs to the direct jurisdiction of the Pope, which means that the birth population of Zhenhui Province must be the direct descendants of the Pope, and the connection between them and the Pope will be more stable than that of commoners born in the noble jurisdiction, so the probability of accidents in the direct jurisdiction of the Pope is relatively low.
An Chen took out a display screen from the table next to him and connected his smart bracelet to take a look. There is a related report on the front page of the news channel, which is that there is a mass incident in the fertility field of Qiaocheng, the capital of Zhenhui Province. The reason for this was that Hashiro Fertility had booked a baby to two couples, and there was a dispute between the two couples when they came to receive the child. Then the parents of the children's hospital next to the fertility field somehow joined the scolding war, which made the scene even more chaotic and eventually alarmed the bridge city police.
In fact, incidents caused by problems in the distribution of babies have been common since ancient times.
In the feudal era, the fertility field was under the jurisdiction of the temple, and commoner couples had to try their luck when they went to the temple to ask for children. If a baby is born on the same day, if there is none, you can only come back next time. Because there is uncertainty about the fertility field and the temple does not announce the predicted time, it is not uncommon for a couple to go every time they either don't have it or are preempted by someone else.
And now it's a modern society, and we can't do these tricks of mysterious. According to the law, couples who want to have children register in the birth field, and the birth field directly assigns the unborn baby to them, and will notify them to pick up the child when the child is about to be born. This reduces the psychological burden of the people, but also increases the cost of managing the fertility field, and in some places where the management system is not complete, it is not uncommon for a child to be assigned to two families, or to miss a child without assigning parents.
But it is also said that it is "a place where the management system is not complete", and it is reasonable not to say that it should not happen in a big city like Bridgetown. What's more, Bridge City is the capital of the province directly under the Pope, and the occurrence of this kind of thing has also caused a mass incident, which can be said to be quite serious.
"Can Paanka still come?" An Chen asked.
"Lord Eliza has also told Paanka to go back, but Paanka must come." Jace handed each of them a stainless steel spoon, "It's okay, it's just that I guess I have to have an online meeting with the procuratorate, maybe later." β