After the carriage stopped, Pence jumped down from under the pedals and respectfully opened the door for his young master.

Rand stepped out of the carriage and walked straight to the Four Seasons Hotel, where he was greeted by a doorman who had already had a spirit.

Rand casually gave the doorman a tip, and told him that he had come to dinner, and that a Mr. Hocho had booked a room in it.

The doorman who got the tip took Rand to the service desk attentively, and after mentioning Huo Qiu's name, the waiter immediately inquired about today's order, and when he turned to the relevant records, and when he raised his head, the waiter's face was already full of smiles.

The waiter led Rand to the reserved box, and when he was about to arrive, Rand had already heard the familiar voice of Otero's fat man, and the coquettish laughter of a woman.

He couldn't help but roll his eyes, gave another silver coin as a tip, and the waiter left in amusement.

Rand stood in front of the door with bated breath for a moment, and when he heard the laughter growing louder inside, he slammed the door in.

There was a large round dining table inside, and on one side of the wall sat a fat man, and on his lap sat a bewitching lady in red, who could be called convex and backward.

The Lady in Red sat almost entirely on the fat man's lap and put her arms around his neck.

The two got closer and closer, only to be interrupted by Rand's sudden entry.

The Lady in Red was taken aback, especially when she saw Rand pushing open the door as if there was no one around.

"Mr. Huo Qiu, he, he trespassed into your room?" The woman in red's chest rose and fell violently, and the fat man Huo Qiu couldn't help but squint his eyes.

Landley ignored the woman, sat down directly and said, "I said." Fatso. Can you please not change a woman every time you meet me?"

A flash of anger flashed across the woman in red's face. However, Mr. Huo Qiu hurriedly pushed her and whispered, "Go down, he is the one I want to invite to dinner today." ”

The girl was taken aback, because she knew that Huo Qiu was going to invite someone to dinner today, but she didn't think that it was the handsome man in front of her, but the other party's face was not very good, as if Huo Qiu owed him money and didn't pay it back.

"Can we both eat this meal in peace?" Rand said.

"Of course. Huo Qiu motioned for the woman in red to go out.

"I, get out?" the woman in red couldn't believe it. This fat man, who was still galloping on himself last night, now refuses to even let himself sit down to eat.

"Okay, I've got something to do, I also have a dining room next to me, you go there to eat, I have a good show in the evening." Huo Qiu said impatiently.

The woman in red obediently walked out, and when she was about to go out, she couldn't help but glance at Rand fiercely before closing the door.

"Okay, are you satisfied? It took me a whole month to soak her. Huo Qiu complained.

"How many gems do you use, or does she just use the money?" or does she prefer a house?" Rand replied lazily, casting a one-way mute enchantment. Shroud this room under an enchantment.

Huo Qiu couldn't help but be surprised when he saw his movements: "The third-level arcanist qualification has passed?"

After getting Rand's affirmative answer. Huo Qiu couldn't help rubbing his hands, and said with a hint of envy in his eyes: "I knew you could do it, so I had already prepared a celebration banquet for you." ”

Rand glanced at him, "Who told you to cheat in the first place, otherwise you can too." ”

Huoqiu's face was slightly red, and what Rand said was his biggest trouble.

His family and the Rand family are world friends, although the wealth of the Bernadotte family is slightly inferior to that of the Jimenez family, but in terms of friendship, the old Bernadotte and the old Jimenez are close friends, and the two took risks together to save the current foundation.

Huo Qiu and Rand are friends who grew up, and even the personal teacher before entering the University of Magic was the same, a classmate of Rand's mother, and a student of Rand's maternal grandfather.

However, Hocho failed to enter the Hyde branch, his magical qualifications were worse than Rand's, Rand's qualifications and pre-admission tests plus his grandfather's and grandfather's connections allowed him to enter the Hyde branch, and although the connections of the Bernadotte family were enough, but Hocho did not pass the entrance test, and could only go to another second-rate magic university to study.

Huo Qiu still graduated successfully, and like Rand, he went to take the Arcanist qualification test, because the zero-level Arcanist qualification only needs to be able to sense the Arcane Skynet, and even the theoretical knowledge does not need to be examined, so Huo Qiu is very easy to get the zero-level Arcanist qualification, in fact, the qualification of the zero-level Arcanist is basically equivalent to as long as you have magic qualifications and can mobilize your spiritual power.

However, the zero-level arcanist can only have two basic spell slots under the feedback of the arcane skynet, and the spell models to choose from are also pitiful, as for the effect, others describe it as the degree of conjure, the zero-level arcanist is inferior to the magic apprentice, at least the magic apprentice can also cast magic missiles, and the arcane skynet castrated this.

Of course Huo Qiu is unwilling, he is also a graduate of a magic school, even if he wants to pick up a girl with the money in his hand, he can't learn some tricks to please women.

So of course, he will also go to the later arcanist qualification, and the first-level arcanist qualification was quickly obtained by him, but the second-level arcanist qualification failed one after another.

So Huo Qiu cheated, and he spent a lot of money to ask a constructor to make a construct for him to increase his mental perception, and then quietly used it during the exam.

As a result, he was discovered by the white-robed mage who was invigilated, and then he was deprived of his existing first-level arcanist qualifications, and was ruled to be on the undesirable list by the arcanist review body of Skynet Management Company.

This incident made Huo Qiu very embarrassed, not only did he lose his first-class arcanist qualification, but after the family found out, the old Bernadotte was furious, thinking that this grandson had lost his face, and let him be grounded for half a year before he was allowed to come out.

Huo Qiu said angrily: "I just took a little trick, and even banned my qualifications, and even caused my family to ban me. Hmph, now I've decided not to be a magician. ”

Rand glanced at Huo Qiu with a slight surprise, he knew very well that he was a little girl, and there was no way to become a Skynet Arcanist, if he had to continue to take the path of magic. It's just honest daily meditation and building spell models. However, if you want to build a spell model. He also had to learn more about magic, which meant he had to spend a lot of time, just as hard as the magicians did fifty or sixty years ago.

Rand himself didn't mind doing this, which can be seen from the fact that he has passed the qualification of a Skynet Arcanist, but at the same time he is also a magician, although the Hyde branch is only a branch of a National Magic Academy, but it is also very strict in this regard, and it is impossible to complete the job without having the ability to cast spells out of Skynet. It's not like Fat Guy Hoqiu's school.

But Rand would approve of such a request, not just for the reasons told by the school teachers, but in large part because he had a genuine interest in magic.

He does not deny that the Arcane Skynet has lowered the threshold for spell casting, which has brought great benefits to the development of society, but he also believes that the current model of the Arcane Skynet has obvious utilitarianism, and objectively it has also had a side effect, that is, it makes people lazy.

For example, the Huo Qiu in front of him, after losing his Arcanist qualification, he can't cast spells completely, as long as he is willing to meditate and study honestly. You can still be a magician.

But with what Rand knew about Hoqiu, he knew that his friend would never spend a lot of time meditating and studying. This is a waste of time for Bernadotte's grandson.

He is more interested in pickling girls than in magic, he only falls asleep when he meditates, but he can be refreshed by watching striptease performances.

Looking at Rand's suspicious eyes, Huo Qiu was rarely proud.

Because of the relationship between the two families, and perhaps even Bernadotte's own psychological shadow, starting with the three brothers of Hocho's father's generation, the elder Bernadotte would compare his descendants with the Jimenez family.

And in every comparison, the elder Bernadotte thinks that his children have lost to other people's children.

He laughed, "You can't think of it, Build." I'm obsessed with constructs now, and I'm going to use them in the future. ”

"You're going to be a samurai?" Rand said with a smirk.

"What kind of samurai, we don't need to fight at all, we just have money, learn magic, and my family just wants me to master some abilities, and it's the same with my construction. Huo Qiu said disapprovingly.

Rand didn't want to argue with him on this issue, he nodded, but it didn't mean that he agreed, about the people in the family learning magic or martial arts, old Jimenez thinks so, in the new era, magic is not just used to protect themselves, like the industry that the Jimenez family is preparing to put into production recently, it is more reassuring to have their own people who understand magic technology, at least the hired magic researchers can also avoid parallel imports, and it is not easy to be fooled when making a budget.

"But my shrewd grandfather said that building that thing was not mass-produced until now, and it was still in the manual stage. Rand said casually.

"Is it?, did Mr. Jimenez say so?" said Hocho, blinking, and made a secret note of the words.

Although the old Bernadotte sometimes says bad things about his old friends at home, complaining that he has suffered a loss by cooperating with the Jimenez family, of course, this loss refers to the less money earned than the Jimenez family, but that must be out of jealousy, and for Jimenez's judgment, the old Bernadotte always complains and trusts at the same time, and every time he does business, he will try to pull his old friend, if it really can't work, he will find a way to hear the evaluation from Jimenez and then decide whether to invest vigorously.

Whether the structure can be quantified like the current industrial assembly line has little to do with Huo Qiu, because he is only for personal use, even if he can still only produce manually, resulting in no way to quantify production, but it has no effect on him. But if Mr. Jimenez writes down his words and translates them into his own language on appropriate occasions at home, he may be praised by his grandfather.

"I said, okay, you said you invited me to dinner today, can you start?" Rand said a little impatiently.

Huo Qiu snapped his fingers, but no one responded due to the mute barrier, so he had to go to the door of the room and order the food to be served.

Sitting down again, Huo Qiu looked at Rand and couldn't help but say, "You have passed the third-level arcanist qualification today, and I have to pay for you to dinner, why do you still look unhappy?"

"What's so happy, I'm having a headache, and I have no excuse to delay the arrangements at home in the future. Rand said weakly, he had been suffering from this headache all the way.

After obtaining the third-level arcanist qualification, the Jimenez family will definitely ask him to enter the family estate, the Jimenez family is no better than the Bernadotte family, Mr. Jimenez Jr. and Rand are only sons, and the old Jimenez's career can only be inherited by them, while Bernadotte has three sons, seven grandsons, Five granddaughters, so Huo Qiu is the opposite of Rand, Rand will be arranged to take over the family business with a headache, but Huo Qiu can't ask for it, and he lost his grandfather's favor because of the cheating incident in the Arcanist qualification exam, originally he should have entered the family industry after graduation, but now he can only continue to pick up girls.

Of course, Huo Qiu is not tired of picking up girls, but he knows more deeply that if his future is more and more marginalized in the family, then he will only have pickled girls in the future, and pickled girls also ask for money, if he is ridden by those cousins around his neck in the future, he may even be deducted from the money of pickled girls.

"It's really a drought of droughts, a death of waterlogging, the world is so unfair. The fat man complained.

"You know I'm not that interested in my family's business. Rand said.

"But you are more fortunate that, unlike me, the Bernadottes have several choices, and the Jimenez family has only you and your father. Huo Qiu pursed his lips.

The hotel waiter with the food began to enter the room to serve the food, and after the waiter stepped back, Rand picked up the blade, "In addition to inviting me to dinner, what are the arrangements for the evening, you just said to the woman that there is a good program?"

"Absolutely. Huo Qiu sent a steak stained with black pepper sauce to his mouth, and said in a slightly muffled voice.

"Perform, watch the show. ”

"Topless show again?" Rand said disappointedly.

"Of course not. Huo Qiu wiped his mouth with a napkin, his voice became clear, and he swallowed the meat in his mouth, "It's a concert by Guns and Roses." (To be continued.) )