Chapter 58, Laurel

At seven o'clock in the evening, a grand welcome party was held on time in the private estate of the Dupont family in the city of angels. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is said to be a private estate, but in fact, this estate is also quite famous in the Federation of Rand, because this estate is the famous Annenberg Manor - which is now managed by the Annenberg Public Welfare Foundation "Sunshine Country Manor". ”

The Annenberg Estate covers an area of 200 acres, which is commonly known as 0.81 square kilometers. Designed by USC's most famous landscape architect, Lewis Durant, it was completed in 1953. The estate consists of the main building, living room, three guest villas, a private nine-hole golf course and an artificial lake.

Inside the main building, there are thousands of works of art collected by the Annenberg family (actually the DuPont family), including works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Andrew, Wise and Monet, as well as ancient porcelain from China, cloisonné, Tang Dynasty tombstone sculptures and other works.

However, the average father-in-law can only see the perimeter of the manor, which is surrounded by pink brick walls and dense eucalyptus, olive trees and willows.

To be honest, in the vast and sparsely populated Federation of Ranth, a manor like this covering only 200 acres is not worth anything, but the Annenberg estate is different, because the Annenberg estate is a vacation destination for politicians and celebrities.

Eisenhower, the 34th president of the Rand Federation, and his wife, Mamie, often came here to fish and play golf. Nixon, the 37th president of the Rand, completed his State of the Union address here, and although he resigned as president due to the Watergate scandal, he was pardoned and reactivated by the 38th president, Gerald Ford, who was living at the Annenberg estate at the time. Ford and his wife, Betty, were also frequent guests at the Annenberg estate, as were the 40th president, Ronald Reagan, and his wife, Nancy.

It can be said that the major events that have happened in the modern Rand Federation are all related to this manor.

Of course, as the actual owner of this estate, the participation of the DuPont family is indispensable, and as one of the four heirs of the DuPont family, Bruce Dupont, knows this.

Among the four brothers, he graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in chemistry and biomedicine, and no one can be smarter than him when it comes to IQ.

And at the age of 31, he is a scientist with the most energy and the most pioneering thinking. Now he doesn't dare to say that he is a writer, but he has at least fifty or sixty invention patents, and he is also an expert in weapons manufacturing at home and abroad, and the core industry of the Dupont family, the first weapons research room, has been spent in his hands.

It stands to reason that the DuPont family mess doesn't seem to have anything to do with him, but there are some things that he doesn't want to do. After all, in life, reincarnation is a technical job, and God will not give you a chance to reincarnate just because you are beautiful and talented.

It's unlikely!

The elite education he received since he was a child told him that people are born unfair, and how much blessing you enjoy, how much responsibility you have to bear.

In the whole world, there is no such thing as only getting and not giving.

As a member of the DuPont family, Bruce DuPont, although he is not interested in such a boring thing as entertainment, he still greets the guests politely.

Because this is a banquet specially held for the next patriarch of the Dupont family.

He couldn't help but think of the third brother who was unpredictable and the eldest brother who seemed to be full of sunshine and intimacy at all times.

Boiled frog in warm water, he is not blind for the eldest brother's plan, how could he not see it, but what he didn't expect was that the third brother, who had been soft and weak since he was a child, and had a sissy personality, would actually be the final winner of this wealthy family's grievance.

To be honest, he didn't have the heart to judge anything about the cause of his father's death, the cause of his eldest brother's slightly doubtful death, and what happened to his third brother, because he had seen a lot of things from a wealthy family. He'd seen anything even bloodier than that, and of course it was nothing compared to the experiments he had done in the lab, and it wasn't challenging at all.

However, at this moment, he was full of curiosity about the third brother who had not met many times.

Is this a coincidence, or is it a disguise that has been there since childhood.

If it is a coincidence, it means that Quentin Dupont, that is, there is a dear third brother next to him, and the purpose is unclear but the powerful guy controls his third brother.

If this is not a coincidence, but a disguise of the third brother, then it is interesting!

Due to the large number of people present, and the fact that the people present were all the leading figures of the Rand Federation, the banquet was finally decided to be held in the form of an open-air buffet after many modifications.

At this time, Bruce Dupont, who was half the owner of the Annenberg estate, was standing in front of the door, welcoming guests to come and go.

"Uncle Morgan, you're here, but I haven't seen you for a while!" Seeing an old man who was old but still in good health, Bruce Dupont hurriedly greeted him and said respectfully.

The current head of the Morgan consortium, who is old and has some not very good eyes, was stunned, looked at the spiritual young man in front of him, frowned, and said with some uncertainty: "Are you Bruce?"

"Yes, Uncle Morgan, you don't remember me!" As soon as the words fell, a sad look quickly appeared on Bruce's face.

"That's it, that's it, I knew you were always thinking about my baby!" Morgan was happy when he saw the expression on Bruce's face, an old guy in his thirties, and he was still coquettish to himself. As the contemporary host of the Morgan consortium, which has taken a back seat, he hasn't seen such an interesting thing for a long time, so he said with a smile: "What you have always wanted, information about the original virus, I'll give you a set when I go back!"

You must know that the McHaven National Laboratory under the command of the Morgan consortium is the best laboratory in the Rand Federation! Among them, Dr. Douglas's research process on the original virus has always affected the heart of his colleague!

If possible, it's a rare opportunity to get his advice!

Bruce, who has been educated by the elite of the family, knows that if he gets cheap, he will sell well, and he knows the truth that he will accept it when he sees it.

Immediately, the expression on his face was closed, and he respectfully helped the old man into the Annenberg Manor.

After that, he was greeted by several heavyweights.

Rubbing his smiling cheeks, he looked at the time on the matrix, and knew that next, it was the main event.

The time pointed to 7:29, and almost all the guests on the protocol list attended the welcome dinner as scheduled.

A young man in his twenties, dressed in a black dress, walked slowly to the middle of the main parlor with his hands behind his back and pacing.

Lin Xi's very skilled crowd greeted each other, laughing loudly, and by the way, they talked about some topics that didn't hurt. In real life, he didn't attend such a party.

In a blink of an eye, he saw the extremely smart second brother, Bruce Dupont.

In his memory, there was not much intersection between the two from childhood to adulthood, because one was a legendary genius boy, and the other was a playboy who never grew up.

In Lin Xi's memory, his second brother never seemed to have seen himself with a straight eye, and this seemed to be the first time!

Bruce Dupont saw the third brother who he had always wanted to take a closer look, a pair of Danfeng eyes were bright, his body was slender, and his limbs were strong and powerful, "Interesting!"

The demeanor and grooming are impeccable.

Holding the champagne sent by the waiter in his hand, Lin Xi looked at Bruce Dupont, his nominal second brother, with a pair of red phoenix eyes, who was walking towards him.

"Bruce, DuPont!"

"Quentin, DuPont!"

Looking at the full moon overhead at Annenberg Manor, the two looked at each other and smiled as they walked into the banquet hall.

Due to the large number of guests present today, Annenberg Manor does not have such a large venue that can accommodate so many people, and the people who come to this party are all well-known figures in the Rand Federation, and they don't care where the party is held, as the people at the top of the food chain, they care more about interests. So the final venue for this banquet was determined to be the green and inviting meadow in front of Annenberg Manor.

Despite the restrictions, the level of luxury remains the same. The organizers of this banquet fully considered the climate and eating habits of the Rand Federation, and spent great efforts to purchase ingredients from all over the world and invite celebrity chefs to strive for the success of this banquet.

Looking at the osmanthus cake in his hand, Lin Xi smiled and said to Bruce, who had been with him throughout the whole process: "You really have a heart!"

Bruce, who was also holding a piece of osmanthus cake in his hand, replied with the same smile and modestly: "Where, where, it's over!"

"What I said is true!" Lin Xi, who took a bite of the osmanthus cake gently, said: "The shape, taste, color, such a thoughtful osmanthus cake, even if it is me, I rarely eat it!"

Bruce, who also tasted the taste of osmanthus cake, asked curiously: "Quentin, is there anything else to pay attention to making osmanthus cake?"

"Exquisite, there is a lot of exquisiteness here!"

"I want to hear about it!"

"If you want to understand osmanthus cake, you have to talk about its history. It has a history of more than 300 years, and according to legend, more than 300 years ago, there was a craftsman named Song Baojun in China, when he was making cooking cakes, he was a little tired, so he was equipped to lie on a chair for a while, and one was careless, he fell asleep. ”

While he was asleep, he had a dream in which he was flying, and flying higher and higher, until he finally flew to the moon. When he reached the moon, he saw a magnificent palace and a very large laurel tree. ”

"People are very curious, what are these things in front of them, so he became interested in this tall laurel tree that he had never seen before. So, he came to the bottom of the laurel tree and broke off a branch of the laurel tree, but at that moment, a change occurred."

Bruce, who was attracted by this story, couldn't help but ask, "What happened later?"

Lin Xi took a bite of the osmanthus cake lightly, and said helplessly: "No?"

"How could it be, isn't there a mutation?" asked Bruce.

"And then, he woke up!"

"Huh?" Bruce laughed as he realized it.