royal family

On a sunny day and in the afternoon, Shao Yan had just been to the library and walked towards the small classroom with two English dictionaries in his arms.

He was still repeating the morning, hello, and bay that he was reciting just now in his mind. In his opinion, the 26 letters look exactly the same. He couldn't understand why people in this era are so enthusiastic about learning this kind of earthworm calligraphy, but do as the Romans do, no matter what There is still a test to resist Shao Yan.

The fact that he got five points in the first monthly English test made Mr. Shao, who never knew how to type and write, feel very ashamed—only the five points were given by the professor for looking at the clean and tidy paper, at least Shao Yan’s Chinese name on the top of the test paper The writing is quite neat and beautiful.

Kong Yue followed him with a dejected face, and Li Liwen and the others also looked very tired. After half an hour of reviewing in the library, Shao Yan would still write hello as holle. This kind of thing is for a young man who entered college The body is really incredible!

"Why can't you memorize it? Hello, the difference between o and e is too far, and you won't always make mistakes when you read pinyin!" Li Liwen looked at Shaoyang, as if he was looking at the ancestors placed in the ancestral hall. Zong.

I can't even pinyin myself.Shao Yan was expressionless: "What's the big difference? They're obviously the same."

Kong Yue raised her hand to stop him from speaking, and if she continued to listen, she would be pissed off: "Don't make excuses, today you have to copy each of the 26 letters twenty times, and the three words I taught you just now have to be copied twenty times, tomorrow We will check and dictate more than three times, and we can definitely figure out whether you got it right by luck. Understand?"

Shao Yan didn't understand, with a confused face: "What?"

"..." Kong Yue pulled the corner of her mouth reluctantly, "meaning: Do you understand?"

"Oh." Shao Yan nodded, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help bargaining, "I don't have time to write so much. I want to take apprentices, exercise, practice calligraphy and read books."

"Aha~" Kong Yue approached him with a smile, nodded appreciatively, and then suddenly recovered his cold face, "Are you kidding me? It's the end of the semester, and you only scored five points in the monthly exam last week. As the deputy squad leader, can I continue to watch your next five points in the exam?"

Shao Yan has always been tolerant towards girls, but upon hearing this, he just asked in a good-tempered manner: "Can you stop mentioning five points?"

Kong Yue smiled coquettishly: "Maybe it's okay. Wait until you don't take this score next time."

Shao Yan watched the proud back of her gradually leaving with her ponytail swaying, and patted the spine of the book, feeling a little frustrated.After coming here, he always encounters all kinds of difficulties - technology, social system, currency, writing, etiquette, etc., but there is no difficulty that can compare with learning. In his opinion, the compulsory course of foreign languages It is a professor standing on the podium and singing hymns.Here he seems to have become that illiterate again. The knowledge he has accumulated in the past few decades is useless. He even finds that the dynasty he is familiar with has never appeared in modern history. In his memory, he is the only one who understands the preciousness of it.

Li Liwen was a little apprehensive about Kong Yue. In fact, the boys in the class couldn't hold their heads up in front of the aggressive Kong Yue. They waited until they were far away before approaching Shao Yan and complaining: "I really can't stand her. I have to take care of that all day long." Take care of it, just like my mother."

Shao Yan's strange eyes swept over him twice, and Li Liwen took two steps back, feeling uncomfortable.

"...What's wrong?" He couldn't help asking, "Why do you look at me like this?"

Shao Yan just thought of the dog-legged behavior of this kid when he usually stuck to Kong Yue's side and begged to copy his homework. Combined with the current complaints, he didn't even bother to expose the other party's duplicity.

"Yanyan!" A familiar voice suddenly came from behind, Shao Yan turned his head, and saw Shao Wenqing standing not far away with a shoulder bag looking at him.After realizing that Shao Yan had noticed him, Shao Wenqing looked expectant and embarrassed, and took a few steps forward tentatively, he raised his hand and waved: "Hi."

hi how do you spell it? hi or hl?This huge problem flashed through Shao Yan's mind instantly, and the gesture of nodding in response seemed extraordinarily absent-minded.

Shao Wenqing thought that the other party was still angry with him, so he stopped slowly.He looked apologetically at Shao Yan, sizing him up from head to toe.

The other party was wearing a very ordinary casual outfit, a straight shirt, a loose gray V-neck vest and the same light gray slacks. The common student style gave Shao Yan a distinctive temperament. Even a subtle advantage makes him stand out from the crowd.He rolled up his sleeves, and a watch was exposed on his wrist. It was a black sports electronic watch, a mid-end brand that Shao Wenqing would never patronize.This watch only cost a few thousand yuan at most, but in Shao Yan's body, it has the quality of a famous product.

It's really completely different from before, both in appearance and in essence.In the past, Shao Yan would never let these cheap people get on his body. Shao Wenqing even remembered the scene at the last Shao family party when the other party was wearing a Van Cleef & Arpels Winston. It's hard to tell which one is more in the limelight, but there is no doubt that the feeling of looking is definitely not comfortable.On the other hand, the person in front of him now, dressed in the simplest way, even standing there without saying a word, will bring people a refreshing visual enjoyment.

He spread his hands, apologizing to Shao Yan for bringing Liao Xiaolong to the party: "I'm sorry about the previous incident."

That incident finally ended in a very ugly way. Liao Xiaolong was seriously injured. Although his life was not in danger, the doctor said that he was covered in dense bruises all over his body. It was obvious that he was beaten intensively by the terrible perpetrators. Pass.When he was sent to the hospital, his jaw was dislocated, his facial features were out of shape, his head had a slight concussion, and his mouth was stuffed with heroin.Fortunately, the heroin in his mouth was not swallowed because of the dislocation of his jaw, but the doctors still washed his stomach just to be on the safe side. Tianyang, whenever Shao Wenqing and Shao's parents tried to ask what happened in the box that day, he showed abnormal fear.

Shao Wenqing thought that the last man who went to the box to find Shao Yan beat him severely. The other man was tall and powerful, full of hostility, and he was not easy to provoke at first glance.After he revealed the existence of the other party, Shao Yubo began to investigate, and then slowly lost the story, until Liao Xiaolong's parents, who knew about it, started to attack the Shao family.

After that there was a long family war.Liao Xiaolong and Liao Heying cooperated in private, and Liao Heying promised that as long as Liao Xiaolong could make Shao Yan become addicted to drugs, he would continue to provide Liao Xiaolong with money for spending money.But the signing of this cooperation was signed on the premise of concealing the Liao family. The old man of the Liao family and Liao Xiaolong's parents only wished that he would stay away from these right and wrong. How could they agree to let Liao Xiaolong use drugs to harm other people.After Liao Xiaolong was hospitalized, of course we couldn't hide this matter. His parents quarreled with Shao Wenqing's parents in the hospital. Liao Heying and Shao Yubo were obviously at a disadvantage.

The final result was that the old man of the Liao family personally called the Shao family and scolded Liao Heying severely. No matter how much Liao Heying apologized, it was useless.After the quarrel with the Liao family, the couple started an internal quarrel again, blaming each other for the lack of careful planning of the other party that led to such consequences.The flames of war did not affect Shao Wenqing, but the husband and wife separated because of this.

The conflict between his parents put Shao Wenqing in a dilemma, but he never had the right to speak on such issues.These days he stayed in the hospital to treat the fall injury that was pushed down by Liao Xiaolong's men. Ironically, the hospital where he treated the fall injury happened to be the one where Shao Yanjin belonged, even the wards were on the same floor.

He inevitably began to recall the scene of visiting Shao Yan at the beginning, and the more he thought about it, the heavier he became, and he finally realized that there was an irreparable gap in the relationship between himself and Shao Yan.

Shao Wenqing, who was standing there silently, looked very pitiful. He met Shao Yan's "brother" in the hospital before, and later often went to school to find Shao Yan's "brother". Shao Yan's classmates were still very familiar with him. See Shao Yan Still in a daze, Li Liwen couldn't help bumping into him, winking his eyes and asking, "What's going on between you and him? Why are you ignoring him?"

Only then did Shao Yan come to his senses, and then looked at Shao Wenqing inexplicably. He didn't know why the other party apologized to him, so he turned and left.

Shao Wenqing became anxious for a moment, and wanted to chase after him, but a female voice suddenly appeared and stopped him.

"Wen Qing!" Wei Shi waved to him on tiptoe not far away, and ran over with a look of surprise.She was wearing a light brown double-breasted windbreaker, her high-heeled shoes were very long, and the arc of her legs was directly hidden in the hem of the windbreaker. Her long hair was permed at the end of her hair, and the arc was not obvious. The curly, delicate features are very good-looking.The girl who has the money to groom herself looks more attractive than ever, whether it's a designer scarf with her logo hidden in the fabric or a limited-edition designer coat, she's clearly living the life she's been striving for.

Wei Shi's voice was sweet and coquettish. After running close, she threw herself into Shao Wenqing's arms and twisted her body coquettishly: "You are so disgusting, you clearly agreed to have lunch with him, why did you go to the library again? I don’t know how long they’ve been looking for you? Your feet hurt from running.”

"Ah... I'm sorry." Shao Wenqing looked around her, and suddenly thought of the entanglement between Wei Shi and Shao Yan before, and he froze all of a sudden. Don't rely on me."

"What's wrong!?" Wei Shi frowned a little unhappy.

Shao Wenqing passed her and looked at Shao Yan from a distance. When Wei Shi interrupted him for a while, the other party had already walked away a long way. He turned his head away from time to time when talking to his friends, and his fair and perfect profile seemed to be shining brightly against the sunlight above his head. .

Seeing him lost in thought, Wei Shi didn't dare to make trouble for no reason, and asked cautiously: "What are you looking at?"

Shao Wenqing replied: "Shao Yan."

"Shao Yan?" I haven't heard this name for a long time, and the memory that I deliberately buried deep in my heart instantly became clear. Wei Shi smiled unnaturally, "Why is he here? I didn't see it?" After looking at it for a long time, she couldn't find that familiar chubby figure, so she felt relieved and asked, "Did he come to trouble you because of me?"

Shao Wenqing rolled his eyes. In fact, since Wei Shi agreed to his pursuit, his patience with the other party began to be far less than before.There is a big difference in character between Wei Shi during the ambiguous period and when she was in love. She would lose her temper, have cold wars for no reason, and would take the initiative to ask Shao Wenqing to buy something.Shao Wenqing didn't like being dragged around, so he directly issued a secondary card to Wei Shi, who knew that he received news the next day that Wei Shi had spent 30 yuan.Shao Wenqing was taken aback. When he checked the bill, he realized that it was all in the jewelry store. Wei Shi bought a three-carat diamond pendant and came to ask him if the style he chose was good.Shao Wenqing originally thought it was just an accident, but in the next few days she spent tens of thousands of dollars a day, and Shao Wenqing was just a pocket money earner, how could this kind of buying be acceptable?It didn't take long for the secondary card to be suspended, and Wei Shi dealt with him coldly.After several times, Wei Shi, who was worried that Shao Wenqing would really break up with him, finally calmed down.

The common problem of men is that the more they can't get, the better. With Wei Shi's personality, Shao Wenqing looks down on her after staying for a long time, and his relationship with her is getting colder and colder day by day.At this moment, when she heard the question she asked, she just sneered in her heart, didn't even bother to answer it, thinking about the matter of apologizing to Shao Yan, and left.

Wei Shi bit her lips on the spot, her eyes were full of unwillingness.She is beautiful, and there are always a large number of suitors gathered around her, but none of them can afford her to squander like Shao Wenqing.After being in love for a period of time, the boyfriend who eats her mouth is getting more and more indifferent to her, which has never happened before in Wei Shi's relationship experience.If it were someone else, she would have proposed breaking up long ago, and the indistinct relationship is also very attractive to men.But when the partner was changed to Shao Wenqing, she did not dare to do so. Shao Wenqing's patience with her seemed to be gradually disappearing because of her previous quarrel. Wei Shi was worried that one day he would break up with him and the other party would really end the relationship , so the recent style of work has begun to be particularly obedient.But even so, Shao Wenqing's kindness to her was not as good as before.

She couldn't help thinking about what was going on, but today Shao Wenqing's absence suddenly gave her a guess that she had never had before.

Could it be... Shao Yan said something in front of him, right?

The more I think about Wei Shi, the more I think it is possible. Shao Yan chased him so madly before, but after he was hospitalized, he suddenly cut off all contact with him. It is very possible that love turns hate.No matter how bad the relationship between Shao Yan and Shao Wenqing is, they are brothers from the same family. If he always speaks ill of himself in front of Shao Wenqing, the situation will undoubtedly be very unfavorable to him.

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There was a rumbling sound in the kitchen, and a group of apprentices were learning new dishes. Shao Yan flipped through the shareholder invitation letter for the opening of Shao’s Hotel with his fingertips, and his lips moved—he was reciting words.

This scene seemed particularly inscrutable to many people. The apprentices were afraid to speak, but the unnecessary noises were more muted.Although they are all much older than Shao Yan in terms of age, the disciples are still in awe of the master who is younger than him.The teacher-student relationship in the chef world is far stronger than those outside the circle, which may be the reason why the civilization of this land has been carefully inherited along with the ancient cooking skills.A master is a master, you have to kowtow and offer tea before appreciating a master, and you have to treat yourself as a father after appreciating a master. If you are ungrateful, you will be stabbed in the back by your peers in the industry.Even for someone as ambitious as Zhao Weibo, Mr. Shao would not dare to do anything out of line against his master when he was alive, not to mention that the group of chefs left behind by Shao's old shop were all more down-to-earth than him.Shao Yan's control methods are first-rate, and he is covered with inexhaustible real materials. Although I don't know how he has all these, it is enough to make people admire him. .

Shao's father went into the kitchen and inspected it, and found that his son was babbling and didn't know what to say, so he walked closer to try to bring him back to his senses, and when he stretched out his hand, he saw what Shao Yan was holding.

He snatched it off, glanced at the date of arrival at the end, and sneered coldly: "The invitation has been sent?"

Shao Yan was interrupted from reciting and forgot whether the second letter of hello was suitable for e or o, so he felt a little irritable, rubbed his hair and gave a low hum.

Shao's father only thought that he remembered being bullied by Shao Wenqing again, and patted his son on the shoulder angrily: "Don't worry, Dad will definitely give you a bad breath this time. If the tiger doesn't show off its power, it really treats us as a disease." How dare you plot against you. How about your brewery?"

Yan Daichuan brought back a lot of altars of snow water, and Father Shao put the final wine into the low-temperature freezer. Shao Yan calculated the time and found that the wine would be ready in the next day or so, so he nodded: "We can make it to the Yumen Banquet."

Shao's father has been busy with the imperial banquet these days, originally they planned to slow down, but Shao Wenqing tricked Shao Yan to bully in the entertainment city, which really annoyed Shao's parents.The couple, who were originally not good at fighting with others, were so angry that they couldn't sleep well all night.Shao Yan recounted everything that happened in the entertainment city to his parents. Of course, he skipped the part where he hit someone. What he said about Liao Xiaolong trying to force him to suck up fans made Shao's father almost want to take a knife. The Shao family stabbed their younger brother hard.After so many years of ups and downs in the mall, Shao's father naturally quickly understood what the other party's deliberate framing was for - isn't it just shares?For the 5.00% shares, Shao Yubo actually wanted to push his nephew into the fire pit!

Father Shao, who didn't dare to think too viciously of his younger brother even when Shao Yan was injured, was in despair. He was not an idiot who was provoked and didn't know how to fight back. The opponent threw a bigger one!

The news that Shao's Hotel is about to open has spread throughout Province A, and the hotel, which combines gourmet food and luxurious accommodation, has inevitably taken the lead in playing the gourmet sign.As the "image ambassador" of the new hotel, Zhao Weibo, who was dug into his hand, ran among the major media.He was originally another living signboard of the Shao family besides Mr. Shao, so the hotel's promotion would be even more powerful with his help.The relationship between Shao's restaurant and the "Yumenxi" held by Shao's father has been severed, and the popularity of Yumenxi is only reflected in City A in the short term.

In a large area of ​​province A, the signboard of Shaw’s cuisine is still very good. The news of the completion of the first luxury five-star resort hotel of Shao’s, which was repeatedly pushed by various advertising media clients, has changed in just a few weeks. be widely known.Many people have expressed their desire to come to City A to taste the authentic Shao family food, not to mention the official news that the chef who cooks in the back kitchen on the opening day of the hotel will be Mr. Shao's most important and proud disciple, and Zhao Weibo is now cooking by himself. Opportunities have also begun to dwindle. Such good opportunities are really hard to come by.

Purchasing ingredients, contacting the media, checking invitations, preparing venues, etc., Shao Yubo and Zhao Weibo were so busy preparing for the banquet on the opening day.Shao’s hotel charges are high, and those who will come to join in on the opening day are naturally either rich or expensive. These people are not to be neglected at all. The hotel’s reputation can go up after the reception. City A is economically developed, and the five-star hotels even have super equipment There are several five-star hotels. If there is no delicious food as a gimmick, Shao's hotel will definitely be buried in the vast market tide in the future.

Because of the recent conflicts in the family, Shao Yubo has a gloomy face all day long, and finally managed to get the maximum control of the hotel by all means, and then looked at the voices of expectations for the Shaw Hotel, and was very busy. Shao Yubo, who was about the same, finally felt relieved, and even the censure from the Liao family became insignificant.This was the first battle Shao Yubo led the crowd to fight after he came to power. As long as he could end well, his prestige in the group would increase greatly in the future.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction, until a few days before the opening of the hotel, the assistant knocked on the door tremblingly and entered the office.

"Mr. Shao..." The assistant carefully put a list on the table, "Here... there are a few guests... who say they won't be able to come the day after tomorrow."

Shao Yubo was still browsing the files, but he was stunned when he heard this. He looked up at the assistant who didn't dare to breathe, and swiped the file over. When he saw the name on it, his eyes went dark : "What's going on?! These are important customers, have you contacted them by phone?!"

There are three freelance gourmets on the list and many regular customers who have been patronizing Shao’s for a long time. They are all very influential with countless resources in their hands. Shao Yubo originally secretly arranged for them the opportunity to appear in the media interview on the day of the opening, but how could these people Suddenly it doesn't come! ?

The assistant licked his lips, took out a bronzing envelope from his pocket and handed it over.

Shao Yubo took a look and saw that the envelope was beautifully made, and the seal was sealed with a plum blossom-shaped powder wax. The font on the outer shell was full of ancient meaning, and three small but eye-catching small characters were printed on the top - Yumenxi.

He had a bad premonition in his heart, and opened the envelope with trembling fingers. Inside was a card with a style similar to the envelope. It was long and thin, and the background color was covered with messy petals. It was written densely in lowercase letters There are two rows of poems, and on the right is an invitation, to the effect that Yumenxi has launched a new signature Yumen Banquet, and I sincerely invite you to come to Yunyun.

"...That's it?!" Shao Yubo couldn't help laughing, threw the card on the table, and asked in disbelief, "Just because of this, they all didn't come?"

"The opening time of the Yumen Banquet conflicts with the opening time of the hotel, so they said they couldn't come." The assistant answered the question tactfully, the phone in his pocket rang softly, and he took it out to look, the expression on his face became even more difficult : "Elder Wang and Mr. Lu can't talk anymore."

"Damn it!!" Shao Yubo slapped the table angrily, pointing at the assistant and yelling, "How do you communicate with the client! Will you handle things!"

The assistant also felt aggrieved. It was not something they could control subjectively whether the guests came or not. Shao Yubo scolded him for a while and felt that it was boring, and left in a huff, but did not expect that these twists and turns were just the beginning.

As if overnight, the news about Yumenxi's launch of the Yumen Banquet quickly spread across province A and even all over the country as if blown away by the spring breeze.

Magazines, TV, newspapers and other channels, seem to have sprung up countless news related to Yumenxi. A few days ago, they were still discussing the various gourmet websites of Shaojia Hotel and then turned around and started to praise Yumenxi.Shao Yubo's hands were not that long, at most they could be promoted for them, but they couldn't stop them from speaking for Yumenxi.I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but at the same time when Yumenxi launched the Yumen banquet, the grievances and hatred between the two brothers of the Shao family were also brought up again by the same old tune.If it was only used as a brand promotion, the news about Yumenxi would not be so hotly hyped, but with the battle between the wealthy families as the foreshadowing, all people in the market are naturally full of interest.Similar topics even appeared in many famous weekly gossip magazines outside the province.

Shao's father obviously planned to tear himself apart with his younger brother, and let alone talk about the extravagant idea of ​​seeing each other in the future. The development of the hype incident was even more unexpected to Shao Yubo-all kinds of old connections of the Shao family were unearthed, especially It was the fact that Zhao Weibo betrayed the big house and joined the Shaw Group, and it was even used as a spectacle. All kinds of inside stories that seemed true and false made many loyal supporters of Shao's gourmet gourmet dumbfounded.They didn't understand why Zhao Weibo, who used to work in the old store, became the spokesperson of the group hotel. The relationship between Zhao Weibo and Dafang's wife Zhao Qin was well known. It is reasonable to say that after the separation, he should go with Dafang together. That's right.Some time ago he was very active in major magazines, and now he has naturally become a more focused figure than Shao Yubo, and his reputation has changed overnight.

The hats of being ungrateful, disliking the poor and loving the rich were withdrawn as if he didn't want money, and the fact that he took away those apprentices who used to work in the old Shao's shop was even more widely criticized. Whether as a relative or a partner, his This approach is undoubtedly too heartless.If it weren't for the fact that the Shao family's big house still has backers, those old shops of the Shao's family would definitely not be able to wait for the day when they were renamed Yumenxi, and they might collapse in a short time.

At the same time, many old customers who received invitations to the banquet at Shao's Hotel also expressed that they could not be there. The dark clouds hang over the Shaw Group.

The urgently held general meeting of shareholders broke up unhappily, and a group of shareholders headed by Liao Hedong challenged Shao Yubo, and proposed to reconsider the candidates for the main person in charge of Shao's hotel industry in the future.

In the top-floor office of the unopened hotel, Zhao Weibo stared at the computer without moving. The daily noon gossip news of city B was playing on the screen. The hostess in a short skirt smiled, but the words she uttered became more and more aggressive.

His fingers holding the mouse were trembling slightly.If he had known that Shao Gange and the others could get through that, he would never have done such a terrible thing just to show his loyalty to Shao Yubo.

But it's too late to say anything now.