Hearing Xiaobai's obvious disdainful words, Avtena said to the Wind Gentleman: "Did Mr. Feng sell the white charcoal from Xiaobai Village too cheaply?"

Feng Junzi: "There are both, but the most fundamental reason is not this, the mountain people do not control their own destiny, they do not realize what they should do, and they listen to others tell them how to make money, and they forget the ancestral teachings of not cutting down plants." But it doesn't matter, don't repeat this lesson from now on, your head will be clear!"

At this time, Luo Shuihan said in a deep voice: "Lao He, come here!"

Outside, a man who was watching the cook's barbecue butler ran in and asked, "What does Mr. Luo command?"

Luo Shuihan: "Where did you buy this snowflake charcoal from?"

Lao He: "There is no such thing to sell in Zhixu Country, these charcoal are specially imported from the Luoba Alliance, and I am afraid that only Mr. Luo's family can afford to use the entire Wuyou City." ”

Luo Shuihan: "It's all withdrawn! Change it to other charcoal, and you are not allowed to use it again in the future!" Lao He was shocked and didn't know what Luo Shuihan's temper was, but he didn't ask and quickly ordered someone to remove the stove and change the charcoal again. At this time, Bai Shaoliu said with a smile: "Mr. Luo wants to buy the shares of the International Breeze Bank, in fact, he wants to keep the snowflake dragon wood in Wuyou City, Miss Wiener, Marquis Linton, what do you two think?"

Luo Shuihan looked at Bai Shao with a look of approval, and the Feng Junzi laughed out loud, and said to the Marquis of Lington in a joking tone: "Mr. Marquis, everyone is talking about you!

The Wind Gentleman looked like he was joking. This made the Marquis of Linton unhappy even if he wanted to. Marquis Lington raised his head and looked at the Feng Junzi and then at Bai Shaoliu, his expression was very solemn, but there was a subtle sneer at the corner of his mouth, he put down the things in his hand and said: "Mr. Bai told a story just now, and I also told a story, this story is very famous, almost a household name in the West, I don't know if you have heard of it?"

Bai Shaoliu: "How do we know if you don't tell me?"

Luo Xi smiled and said, "Are you going to have a story meeting today?" Mr. Marquis, let's all listen!"

The story told by the Marquis of Linton is "God's vineyard". From the Bible and the New Testament. Everyone here has heard this story, including Xiaobai, because the Wind Gentleman gave him a Bible, and there is this story in the specially folded pages. Although everyone knows it, no one interrupts and interjects, which is a kind of etiquette in social situations.

On such occasions, if someone wants to tell a story, before he has said a few words, don't interject and say, "I know how the story ......," not only does not appear to be knowledgeable, but only rude. If there is anything to say, you will have to wait for the Marquis of Linton to finish telling the story. The story of the Marquis de Linton is also very simple.

If the kingdom of heaven is likened to a vineyard, God is the owner of the vineyard. One morning, just after dawn, the owner of the vineyard stood at the door and hired people to work in the vineyard, and the price he promised was a silver coin. There are many people who feel that the conditions are good and go in, and start to work, carry water and fertilize the grapes, and pull out the weeds under the grape trellises. At noon, the owner of the garden was still standing at the door and hiring pedestrians, and the price was still a silver coin, and some people went in when they thought the conditions were suitable. And so on until the afternoon the owner of the vineyard stood at the door, and there were constant passers-by accepting his offer to work in the vineyard for a silver coin.

When the sun went down, the people of the vineyard came out one after another, and the owner stood at the door and paid them a penny. At this time, the people who had been working since the morning were not convinced, and said to the owner: "We have worked all day. But the people who come to the park in the afternoon only work for a while, why do you pay the same?"

The owner replied, "Do you think it is unfair? But this is the condition that you agreed with me before you came to work in the garden, and that it is right to pay you a silver coin, and I have neither deceived nor lost my word, and we must abide by the agreement between us." Your accusations against me are unfounded. What did you lose? You just got what you deserved!"

The story was so short that everyone was silent for a moment after it was finished, and there was a look of pride on the face of the Marquis de Linton. This table is full of smart people, of course, you can hear that he is using this story to answer the story that Xiaobai just had.

Although the conversation just now seemed peaceful, the meaning of conflict was obvious. Bai Shaoliu was so calm that he admitted on this occasion that he wore pants with holes in his buttocks when he was a child, and at the same time, the Marquis of Linton also claimed that he used precious and hard-to-find snow charcoal for barbecue since he was a child. What's even more interesting is that the snow charcoal enjoyed by the Marquis of Lington was made by Xiaobai's villagers who cut down the nearby mountain god snowflake dragon wood and burned it, but Xiaobai Village did not get the real reward at all.

The Marquis of Linton used a story to answer the ridicule of the Wind Gentleman, because at that time there was an agreement that the villagers of Xiaobai Village were willing to cut down the dragon wood to burn snow charcoal, and his family used snow charcoal to buy it with money since childhood, and at the same time, this story has another extended meaning, that is, everyone should only get what they deserve, as long as this is the condition you accept, there should be no complaints, and you cannot blame others for getting more.

Thinking of the beginning of the topic of the dinner party, Luo Shuihan wanted to acquire the shares of Morgan Bank of Nations through the financial group where Avtena was located, and he had to pay a greater price depending on Avtena's attitude. Marquis Linton's meaning is inevitable, because in reality, Roba Alliance Financial Group is more qualified and advantageous as a strategic investor of Morgan Bank, so Bai Shaoliu does not have to complain for Luo Shuihan.

It cannot be said that the Marquis de Linton's words are unreasonable, and certainly not that his words are correct in the case just now. But it's not easy to refute, because he quotes the Bible, and criticizing the Bible to a believer's face can easily lead to unpleasant conflicts. The Wind Gentleman ignored him, sneered and looked proud. Turn around and go to the charcoal stove in the back to roast the meat. It's like I didn't hear the story at all.

At this time, Gu Ying, who had not spoken, spoke: "A person should only get what he deserves, and he can't complain that others get more, this is indeed the truth of life, I very much agree with the words of the Marquis of Linton." ”

A smile appeared on the face of the Marquis of Linton, and he nodded to Gu Ying and said, "It seems that Miss Gu is very interested in contract theory, which is the end of modern Western civilization. ”

Gu Ying: "But I haven't finished my words yet." What does a man deserve? It depends on what he does, not on God's covenant. I don't mean to disrespect God in the slightest, and I don't think the Almighty God you believe in will deceive you, but the covenants in this world are made between men. What we need to think about is what is behind the contract. Xiaobai, what do you say?"

Bai Shaoliu was listening, and suddenly heard Gu Ying ask his opinion, thought for a while and replied: "Actually, my idea is very simple, if there is such a vineyard in front of my house, and the owner of the vineyard invites workers like the Marquis of Linton, it will be okay on the first day, I estimate that no one will go the next day, and if you want to go, you will have to wait until the afternoon, and there will definitely be no one in the morning...... Suppose I opened this vineyard. Of course not. ”

Marquis de Linton: "Mr. Bai misunderstood, this story is not about the vineyard hiring workers, if you must say so, it can also be understood that the owner of this vineyard does not care what you think." You can go if you want to, and you can't blame him if you don't go. ”

Bai Shaoliu: "I didn't blame anyone, it's not up to me how your family opens the vineyard, I just said that if I open the vineyard and don't do it, it doesn't matter if you don't care." ...... Besides, I don't like the tone of your voice, if you must be the owner of the garden, I must be a worker? But your assumptions don't make sense. ”

Bai Shaoliu's words are very straightforward, which means that the Marquis of Lington can't think he is noble congenitally, it should be the owner of the garden, and the rules must be set by him. At this time, the gentleman who was listening to the barbecue behind him laughed, and said to himself: "This is Luo Yuan in Wuyou City, Zhixu Country." Not God's vineyard. ”

Luo Shuihan hurriedly smiled and said, "In the same way, God's guests are also my guests in Luo Garden." "I finally got the smell of gunpowder out of the conversation just now.

At this time, Gu Ying said again: "Mr. Bai's words are what I want to say, God can't just talk about conditions and be unreasonable, I don't think God will do this." It is true that things in the world seem to be just talking about conditions, but we should all know in our hearts why. ”

Bai Shaoliu smiled at Gu Ying and said, "Aren't we just going to talk about our reasoning?"

At this point, the atmosphere at the dinner was a little cold, Luo Xi blinked and said, "Do you want to have a debate?

Avtena had been watching the Wind Gentleman, and she had long wanted to see the Wind Gentleman's reaction when everyone was debating just now, but unfortunately the Wind Gentleman turned around at that time. The wind gentleman was roasting meat, and there was a sizzling sound and green smoke coming out of the silver stove in front of him, and he was busy sprinkling salt and seasonings. Avtena finally couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Wind, is your meat roasted?"

The Wind Gentleman turned around and said, "It's done, wife, you can taste my craftsmanship...... Miss Wiener, would you like me to bake you a piece too?" he put the meat on the silver fork on Xiao Yunyi's plate and looked up to Avtena to speak.

Avtena: "Thank you, but I'd like to tell you a story and ask Mr. Wind a question." ”

Luo Xi clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, Sister Ana, talk quickly." ”

Avtena: "This story is really a legend I heard in Zhixu Da 6, there are some things about this legend that I don't understand very well, I hope to ask for advice......"

Avthena's story is very interesting, after listening to it, Xiaobai feels that she is the wind gentleman, and the content is like this.

On the Oriental Big 6, there is a group of special people, who have the power of the more ordinary people, but they are mixed in with ordinary people. Among these people is such a pair of masters and apprentices, this apprentice follows the master's practice, and his strength becomes stronger and stronger, and he has become the leader of this group of special people. However, it is incomprehensible that the apprentice, despite such achievements, has no corresponding status in the world, and at one time worked under the head of a small official organization. Even now, he was just an ordinary hotel owner.

What's even more special is that master, his strength is almost invincible in the world. However, in the end, they chose to give up and forget. In the market, he is still an ordinary person, living a life that is not commensurate with his local identity. Avtena could understand that those who possessed power did not use it easily, but she could not understand that the powerful would willingly join the weak. As the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility, so they should do more to lead the tide of history, and their achievements and status should be higher, and they should be respected and followed by all.

In fact, what she said was the master and apprentice of Feng Junzi and Mei Yeshi, especially Feng Junzi, who almost said their names directly. She kept staring at the Wind Gentleman as she told the story, hoping to learn something from his reaction. Does Feng Junzi know who she is talking about? Feng Junzi has been listening very carefully, and the expression on his face is also very concerned, but his expression has not changed in a trace from beginning to end.

When Avtena's story was finished, she raised the cup on the table and said to the Wind Gentleman, "Mr. Wind, I toast you with a glass of wine, and I hope you can answer my question." After saying that, she took a cup and drank it all.

"What do you want to ask?" asked the Wind Gentleman with his glass, but he was in no hurry to drink.

Avtena: "I just want to know, what does the man who forgot his power think?"

Wind Gentleman: "Maybe he never forgot, he just thought it wasn't necessary, it wasn't what he really wanted." ”

The Marquis de Linton also raised his glass and took a sip of wine. He said with a faint smile: "A person should do things commensurate with his strength and identity, this is his rightful position, and it makes no sense for the strong to give in to the weak." ”

Feng Junzi also smiled: "That's because the Marquis of Lington thinks that he is a powerful person, for example, it is impossible for you to serve Bai Shaoliu, right?"

Gu Ying: "Mr. Feng, why do you always pull things on Xiaobai? ”

Wind Gentleman: "Okay then, let's talk about the matter." Mr. Linton, if it were not you and Mr. Lowe sitting across from me, but King Spia and the President of the Nation of Chi, I think I would still be as indistinguishable as I am now. But what about you? There is no question of who gives in to whom at all, there is only a state that you don't understand. ”

Avtena's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked, "Why did Mr. Wind use himself as an example?"

Xiao Yunyi explained: "He's like this, he really didn't lie. That's what I admire the most!"

Avtena: "But I'm asking the man in the story. ”

Xiao Yunyi: "No one else can say this, you should ask the person in the story." But I can tell you one more story to explain your story, and your doubts about the Marquis of Linton in particular. ”

Luo Xi smiled and said, "Okay, today's story is getting better and better!"

The story told by Xiao Yunyi is a fable in the ancient Taoist classics of Zhixu Kingdom, and the content is about a dead mouse.

There is a kind of sacred bird between heaven and earth, and its name is greenhouse. The wings can roll up 8,000 miles of clouds, and the 90,000-mile divine wind can be rushed up. One day, the Roc bird flew by from a high altitude, and an owl happened to catch a mouse in the woods below, and just killed the mouse and was about to eat it, when he looked up and saw the Roc bird. The owl was startled, grabbed the dead mouse and shouted into the sky: "This mouse is my grip, you are not allowed to rob it!"

Xiao Yunyi's voice was crisp, and she had an expression on her face when she told the story, and when she looked up and shouted like an owl, everyone else laughed, Luo Xi smiled and said, "That owl is really interesting!"

Avthena: "And then?"

Xiao Yunyi: "Then there is no more, I saw it in a book, and there is so much written in the book." ”

Feng Junzi interjected: "No, no, in fact, this story is not over. ”

Xiao Yunyi: "What's more? That's your fabrication, you can add it yourself." ”

The Wind Gentleman followed up another paragraph in this story.

The Roc bird ignored the owl and flew over, and the owl finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then another owl came, and the first owl said to the second, "Do you see? A bird flew over just now, and it didn't catch a mouse." The other owl looked at the dead mouse under its talons and said, "Catch any mouse, if I were so good, I will snatch this dead mouse under your feet." The first owl said, "Then why doesn't it rob?" and the first owl said, "Yes, I don't understand either!"

Fengjun's eyebrows are flying, and the dance is like a person singing a double reed. Imitate two owls talking at the same time. The amused Luo Xi giggled. After he finished speaking, he finally drank the glass of wine in his hand, and then stared at the Marquis of Lington without looking at others and said, "Marquis show, do you understand?"

The Marquis of Linton's face changed, and he was a little gloomy, and the Wind Gentleman explained: "When I tell this story, I definitely don't mean to disrespect owls and dead rats, but it has nothing to do with what these Dapeng birds think. ”

Bai Shaoliu nodded and said, "As the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, let alone this big world?"

Avtena asked Xiao Yunyi, "Mrs. Feng, this story is your beginning." In which book did you see it?"

Xiao Yunyi: "Actually, it's a book that my husband often reads, and I won't read it at all before I get married." ”

Avtena: "And what about when you get married?"

Xiao Yunyi: "Then I have to watch, I also want to know what he is watching every day, and grasp the ideological dynamics in time." ”

There were five people telling four stories in succession, and the focus of the conflict was mainly between the Wind Gentleman and the Marquis of Lington, although everyone spoke very politely and elegantly, but there was no ambiguity in the words. The topic was provoked by the Marquis of Linton, and the gentleman did not give face at all, instigating everyone to tell a story and telling the Marquis of Linton a disgraced face.

Of course, the biggest gain is an observer, and Bai Shaoliu also understands a lot of things. The truth was originally known in the night, but it was difficult to say it directly, and it was so clear. Gu Ying has been watching Xiaobai most of the time, and the more he looks, the more he feels that he has a lot of things, it is really rare to be frank and hearty, it is just enough to be able to talk and deal with it freely on this occasion, and he is very calm in the face of poverty and no matter what kind of dignity and arrogance.

Avtena had been watching the Wind Gentleman all the time, and when the Wind Gentleman smiled and told the story of the two owls, although he laughed at the Marquis of Linton, he also said to her through his smile. Looking at his face, and then thinking of the legend of the Dapeng bird, Avtena also felt an aura of nature through his smile. It seems that I vaguely saw the boy who met in my dream back then. At the same time, she was also sighing, the person in front of her was so close and so far away, as if there was an insurmountable gap in between.

Avtena felt distraught if she wanted to unravel it all. To give all her glory to God in order to preserve the holy and steadfast, it seems that the only way to kill Him is the wonderful dream of her life, but also the terrible devil that haunts her soul.

The Marquis of Linton had begun to pay attention to Avtena, and he was very proud of telling the story of the vineyard, and he wanted to show off how wise Avtena was. But as soon as the conversation changed, the Wind Gentleman compared him to an owl that caught a dead mouse, and the Marquis of Linton's anger was transferred to the Wind Gentleman, and now even if it wasn't for Avthena's favor, he really wanted to kill this person!

Luo Shuihan didn't know that the Marquis of Linton and Avtena had a killing intent against the Wind Gentleman, one of them was struggling in pain in his heart, while the other was already killing intent. Luo Shuihan only paid attention to Luo Xi alone, today's dinner is too worthwhile, Luo Xi can also learn a lot, the story he heard today can be slowly understood in the future, this experience is rare. And listening to the tone of the gentleman, he is very oriented to himself, which means that he will also be willing to help Luo Xi in the future, which is what makes Luo Shuihan the happiest.

As the sky darkened, two soft white lights lit up around the pergola, illuminating the pergola like a delicate crystal flower room. Luo Garden is very large, it is a private seaside estate, and the villa is just the main building. There is not only a beach, a garden, a fitness facility, but even a dedicated fencing room and a miniature golf driving range with night lighting.

After the dinner, Luo Shuihan stayed and invited the guests to play around in the garden, so the staff can serve them, everyone can have a private chat with each other, and when to leave, please feel free to leave without special farewell.