The Lancaster family, probably not many people know about it now.

But those who are familiar with foreign history must have heard of the Lancastrian dynasty.

In 1399, Henry IV put an end to the Plantagenet dynasty and established the Red Rose dynasty.

Although it was passed to Henry VI and then killed, the Duchy of Lancaster was passed down, and then it was fought back, and Henry VII and his second son Henry VIII appeared.

Henry VIII was a great king to the English, and the greatest thing he did was to take control of the Church of England and declare that the Church of England would no longer be loyal to the Pope, and the King of England became the true king of England, both religious and secular in life.

And the daughter of Henry VIII is Elizabeth I, the golden age of England......

But it was also because Elizabeth I never married, which finally made the royal power fall and passed the throne to King James VI of Scotland, and the Lancaster family terminated the royal power.

By the way, Elizabeth I was just the cousin of James VI......

Although the Lancasters lost their royal power, they remained the principality and the royal title always existed.

It was only in 1968, the year before that, after the death of Duke VIII of Lancaster, that the duke title was never inherited......

And Catherine told Li Yuan that the little girl in front of her with white hair and violet eyes was the duke's first heir.

She was the granddaughter of the Duke of Lancaster VIII, but her parents died tragically, and the Duke of Lancaster was devastated by this, and died after a year.

On his deathbed, the Duke of Lancaster requested that the title be given to Queen Elizabeth until Atlanta came of age, and no one else in the family had the right to inherit the title.

In the unfortunate event of Atlanta's death, the duke will be held by Queen Elizabeth until the Lancastrian family has produced enough good offspring to pass it on......

Li Yuan is not interested in knowing what kind of conspiracy is going on, he only knows that his own rebel son invited a "small prince", or the real descendant of Elizabeth I, to Hong Kong Island to play and be a guest at home.

The current Elizabeth II is only the same name as the great Elizabeth I, and is not related by any blood.

Orthodoxy is going to our house?

Lady Maria smiled kindly and said, "I am not Atlanta's grandmother, I am just the housekeeper of the Lancaster family, but I have been serving this family since I was five years old, and I am seventy-five years old this year. Dr. Lee, Miss Atlanta had not been very happy until she became good friends with Mr. Davie. Mr. David was a very kind gentleman and invited us to go to the Far East for a break. Catherine said to me that Mr. David's kindness comes from you, a great doctor with great love. ”

Li Yuan said modestly: "Compared with Catherine, I am just an ordinary man. For I only care for my fellow man, but she loves all the sufferings of the world. Ms. Maria, of course I welcome you to visit Hong Kong Island, I believe that if you go there in your capacity, the Hong Kong government will receive you ceremoniously, what can I do? ”

"No, no, no!"

Ms. Maria smiled: "We don't go in any official capacity, just the most ordinary tourists. I know old Roland and can live on his estate. However, I hope to visit your home often. ”

It's all said and done, and he doesn't live in his house, what else can Li Yuan say?

Glancing at the girl with violet eyes again, she was already sitting beside Li Si very well-behaved, and the two talked in a low voice, and the old father couldn't help but have a headache.

The bloodline of the old Li family can't be messed up, this family business, can't be helped, can't be helped......

……

After the old lady of Lancaster left, Margaret watched Li Si and snort non-stop, until Li Si shyly threw herself into her arms and buried her head in reluctance to get up......

Luo Lina also looked at it, but unfortunately it may be that she is a little old, Li Si looked up, and then hid again......

Luo Lina said to Li Yuan with certainty: "The Lancaster family has taken a fancy to your son's cunning and your superb Chinese medical skills. Of course, your very strong skills may also be considered. Atalana has no immediate family anymore, and the side tribes probably don't want her to live longer than anyone else. Because even if the duke title will be temporarily returned to the royal family, the huge property can still be distributed. But the wastes don't have to care, otherwise Duke VIII of Lancaster wouldn't have made such a decision. As long as one of those people's abilities can meet the standards of normal people, the old duke will not make such a decision......

Of course, the most important reason is what Maria just said, little Atlanta has lost her parents and her grandfather who loves her the most in just a few years, she is very sad, she is a girl who can hardly laugh, your son coaxes people to giggle, just like you coax my daughter, Catherine and me, Lee, you father and son both have some strengths! ”

"Mom?!"

"Aunt Lorena?!"

Li Yuan thought about it seriously and said, "Ms. Lorina, if you really want to remarry, I have a friend I know, named He Yuzhu, nicknamed Silly Zhu, he likes a lady like you very much, I can introduce you to ......"

"Poof!"

Margaret and Catherine burst out laughing.

After the joke, Margaret suggested: "Lee, although the Lancaster family is very in decline, their family is still the oldest aristocratic family in the entire British Empire, and they have an unimaginable background in Parliament. If you can maintain a good relationship with their family, it will be very convenient. For example, there will be a way for your pharmaceutical company's medicine to be included in the British Royal Medical Codex. Your relationship with the Hong Kong government will also be greatly strengthened......"

Li Yuan shook his head and interrupted her: "If I am willing to maintain a certain friendship with this family, then the only reason is just because that little girl and my son are friends, that's all." ”

"Wow~oh!"

Lorina applauded and exclaimed, "Li, if you were ten years older, I would definitely pursue you at all costs." You're really, so unexpected! ”

Catherine and Margaret's eyes also sparkled.

Li Yuan said humbly: "It's nothing, I was born in a socialist country, where favors are greater than interests...... Then again, Lorina, don't you really think about my friend Silly Pillar? ”

……

After returning to Kadoorie Manor, Li Yuan looked at his second son, who had grown a lot taller in three months, and said with a smile: "Son, do you know that our children cannot marry foreigners, especially European nobles, oh?"

Although you are still young, it is a bit early to say this, but I feel it is necessary to make it clear to you in advance, it is better to say it early than late. It's not that dad is pedantic, it's just that the history of the nobility in the West is a mess, so almost every one of their descendants is a natural carrier of genetic diseases......"

Kadoorie Manor, Li Yuan talked to his son very seriously.

Li Si shook his head and looked at his father innocently, indicating that he didn't understand at all......

Li Yuan smiled: "Okay, then let's be friends first." Daddy's only request to you is not to make promises lightly. Don't speak up until you can't do it yourself. Such a person is both frivolous and prone to becoming a dishonest liar. Xiao Si, you are very smart, and Dad believes that you can understand. ”

Li Si smiled, "I know, Dad." Dad, today everyone is talking about the museum robbery, but Aunt Catherine says that those people are not smart, because even if they take those things, they cannot be sold in the market, and no collector dares to circulate such treasures, and they will be recovered. Dad, you said those people are so good, why don't you go and rob the bank? What do you do with grabbing those useless things? ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "They want to rob the bank, but they have to dare!" Museums are much weaker guarded than banks, and most British banks are built near police stations, so how can it be so easy? As for why looting those artifacts...... Who knows, but no matter what, he is a hero of the Chinese! ”

Li Sidao: "Margaret said that in fact, only a small part of the stolen ones were taken, and most of them were still kept in the warehouse. Will those people steal again? ”

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "Basically, there is no chance......

Small-scale ones are still possible, but large-scale ones don't even think.

Especially in the future, those display cabinets will definitely be replaced with tempered glass, and the exhibits will even become imitations......

However, who can say for sure what will happen in the future?

"Wash up and sleep, it's time to go home in two days! Xiao Si, are you happy on this trip? ”

"Happy! Thank you Dad, you are the best dad in the world! ”

Li Yuan smiled and touched his son's head, the eldest said these words to give people a particularly sincere feeling, the second child, at first glance, he is a little treacherous and treacherous......

I'm only six years old, and I can't talk about it anymore......

But Li Yuan will not force anything, the path of life is chosen by the individual himself, even if he is a father, he will not force anything.

At most, it is not within the scope of family property inheritance......

……

For the next three days, Li Yuan stayed at Kadoorie Manor and did not go out.

During this time, the MI6 people came again, asked some questions, and left.

In the past few days, the impact of the robbery of the British Museum has not subsided, but has intensified.

The loss of the British Museum's Rosetta Stone and the mysterious Book of the Dead is as distressing and painful as the loss of all Britons of their parents.

As for treasures such as the Egyptian bronze cat, the statue of Ramses II, and the pyramid spire, by the way, there is also the loss of the Molde gold shawl unearthed in the United Kingdom, which has made countless people cry.

Even Catherine was grieved, and she feared that the person who took them would not be able to take good care of them......

However, there are not too many people who care about Chinese porcelain, and the vast majority of them don't care about China at all.

In fact, apart from the fact that when the newspapers report some absurd things in the Chinese mainland, they will laugh and watch them for fun, and this country and nation do not exist in their eyes at all......

But it is absolutely impossible to get them to return those cultural relics......

Li Yuan didn't say anything, but asked Ms. Lorina, who had become more and more enthusiastic about him in the past few days, to buy some very obscure, but not too taboo medicinal raw materials, which were difficult to buy on Hong Kong Island, and even in London, they could only be found in some laboratories.

But most of these materials are auxiliary materials, and Glaxo scientists have confirmed that there is nothing special about them......

In addition, some experimental equipment was also purchased and transported back to Hong Kong Island first.

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and on the evening of June 30, Li Yuan cooked a sumptuous table of dishes at Kadoorie Manor, and invited Catherine, Margaret, Lorina, Maranda, and Moses, the housekeeper of Kadoorie Manor, to have a big meal.

After the meal, if it weren't for Margaret and Maranda forcibly taking away the drunken Rollina, I'm afraid that Margaret would see Li Yuan again and have to respect her stepfather.

The unprecedented delicacy brought Lorina to its peak......

In short, after a night of singing, dancing, and laughing, the song ended.

"Lee, I'm sorry, I can't take you to the airport tomorrow morning. I'm going to a conference and I'm going to South Africa in the afternoon for an event. ”

In the quiet of midnight, Li Yuan and Catherine took a walk on the cobblestone path in the manor, and sent Catherine back to Commolly Manor by the way.

The moonlight was clear and shining all over the manor, and there was a murmuring stream not far away, and the occasional nightingale cry seemed to be only a dream......

After listening to Catherine's words, Li Yuan smiled: "It's already very troublesome for you, what are you sorry about?" Catherine, you're always so hopeful. However, I also hope that you can take care of yourself and not get too busy. ”

Catherine smiled sweetly, she glanced at Li Yuan and said, "Li, I should give this to you." Even when I'm busy, I never lose sight of the joys in life. But what about you, tonight is the first party in three months, right? Actually, I thought about inviting you to some aristocratic gatherings, but after thinking about it, forget it, I don't want the hypocrisy and chaos in the aristocratic circle to tarnish your pure aura. ”

Li Yuan laughed and said, "Catherine, what are you talking about, my pure breath?" I have three wives! "Still a little proud?

Catherine shook her head slightly, what she said had nothing to do with love, but human nature, and said, "Whether a person's soul is clean or not is not here." Lee, in fact, it was not only Margaret and Lorena at the beginning, but even I had doubts about your ambitions. Margaret also said that you came to England for only one purpose, and there could only be one, that is, to contact me. I also said that the visions you mentioned are impossible. Lorena said, what you want to do is completely wishful thinking, and it makes people laugh......" She lowered her head a little ashamedly.

Li Yuan smiled generously and said, "Catherine, it's okay, even on Hong Kong Island, even in the Kadoorie family, the old Roland father and son, have never been optimistic about my ideals. There are also some upper-class families on Hong Kong Island, just because I am using these marginal reasons to cheat money. ”

Catherine wondered, "Aren't you sad...... But now we all know that you are the one who really wants to do real things, so for three months you have not wasted a single day, all of it has been used in the Glaxo database. The questions you sometimes ask the researchers at Glaxo are very in-depth and show that you are really learning. A person's words may deceive, but thoughts and knowledge do not. ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "A person who wants to succeed, how can he compare other people's discussions?" Reputation can only be put aside. I can't see the brightness of the future. I can't finish the twists and turns, how can I have the strength to pay attention to those gossips?

I can understand your skepticism, anyone will question it. Because what I have chosen is destined to be a long and arduous career, and I may not succeed until the end of my life. But in the history of China, there has never been a shortage of examples of dead wood in spring, so I am not discouraged.

And I'm not afraid to fail. I believe that a person should not only withstand victories, but also withstand setbacks. Let me give you the most straightforward example: everyone can't stand the test of time. Time flies quickly, often yesterday was still in its prime, but in a blink of an eye, life has come to an end.

The former pride and glory, the glorious status, the past clouds, the last years of heroes, and the twilight of beauties, aren't they all doomed failures?

So, failure is not terrible.

It's nothing more than planning things in people, and things are in heaven!

Victory is joyful, and defeat is not sad. ”

At this moment, Catherine's eyes bloomed with the brightest brilliance, she stood still, turned to look at Li Yuan, and said word by word: "Li, like an angel in the world." I now believe that you will succeed, definitely! ”

After that, he opened his arms and gave Li Yuan a big hug.

The corners of Li Yuan's mouth raised slightly, although he could feel the girl's fiery chest, he was not worried about what this girl who was full of love for life wanted to do to him, not only because he believed in this girl's loyal attitude towards love, but also because of ......

Under the silent moonlit night, only the heartbeat of two people could be heard, but the silence was broken by a "click" sound.

"Xiao Si? Is that you? ”

Catherine looked at the little figure hiding behind the flowers not far away, holding a camera, and asked with a smile.

……

(End of chapter)