royal family

Shao Yan probably couldn't describe clearly what it was like to have a group of colleagues who were older than his father.He is not familiar with other members of the association including Professor Li, and his feelings are indifferent. Even if he knows that he will work together in the future, he can't communicate any feelings immediately.He joined this association for the purpose of gaining points. The daily life in the association was very boring. At best, he would inform Shao Yan to hold a seminar with them.Shao Yan is very busy this month, so naturally he won't be there. Fortunately, no one will care about him even if he is empty-paid. Shao Yan's allowance will be issued after the third day after officially joining the association—one month eight hundred.

Shao Yan who received the money was a little happy. After all, this was the first time he really made money by himself. The stack of eight stiff bills was not very eye-catching, but it brought him an infinite good mood.Shao's father and the others usually give him cash to spend from time to time. He eats and lives at home and doesn't buy expensive things. The expenses are some snacks, drinks, etc. The money is very slow. 800 yuan is enough for him for more than a month. .

Sure enough, the school didn't inform him that he was going to take the make-up exam. Shao Yan, who had been through the holidays smoothly, felt relaxed when he came out of the school gate.A group of students in the class were both happy and sad, and Li Liwen asked whimsically, "Shao Yan, why don't you just stay at my house, and you won't be charged rent, just let your driver bring lunch to my house every day."

Shao Yan rejected him without hesitation.A group of classmates were arguing about whether to go to a bar or a restaurant to get together again, but in the end they gave up the idea because of too many differences.

Shao Yan counted the days, and went to the cold storage where the wine was kept first.

A few days ago, Yan Daichuan brought back two cars of Xueshui for him.Now the weather is cold, the quality of the snow water is very good, and the plum blossoms in the south are also in bloom. It is very easy for him to brew after all the raw materials are available.Nuoda's cold storage is now full of wine jars, and some places are not enough, so they continue to be stored on the second floor.The temperature in the cold storage is actually similar to that outside, and the low temperature is mainly used for keeping fresh in summer.Shao Yan frowned when he came in. In order to save electricity, he remembered to remind Father Shao to turn off the refrigeration system of the cold storage for a period of time as soon as possible.After all, such a large warehouse, according to Tian Xiaotian, consumes a lot of electricity bills every day, but Shao's father has not sent anyone to close it until now.

Shao Yan sighed inwardly, and decided to mention it to his father when he went back.Shao's father is good in everything else, he is a hundred times better than those so-called "loving fathers" that Shao Yan met before, but maybe the environment he lived in since he was a child was too good, and he didn't know how to save money after he fell down, and he was still so lavish in spending money.

He moved a jar casually and shook it, and heard the slight buzzing sound when it was stirred back and forth due to the seal, nodded, and said to Tian Xiaotian who followed behind: "Remember to tell Mr. Shao tomorrow that the wine here is almost Now, it can be transported to City S."

"Okay." Tian Xiaotian carefully looked at his master, "Master, when shall we leave?"

Shao Yan recalled the days that Shao's father mentioned before, and counted: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

Tian Xiaotian had a bitter face, but he didn't speak.He has never left Province A since he grew up, and he has never set foot in a place like City S.He was inevitably a little scared when he left home for the first time to go to a distant province. Although he always felt that his father was too strict and long-winded, but if he really wanted to part, he would still feel reluctance.But he is already in his 20s, and he has not learned to be independent under the protection of his father, so it is impossible for him to live like this without worrying all his life.

He was very grateful to Shao Yan for being willing to include him in the list of taking him to S City, and his juniors envied him for trying to be independent so early on.If he does well enough in S City, Tian Xiaotian believes that his future will be smoother than his father's.

It was a sunny day when we left, and the winter sun was very warm. When Shao Yan went for a morning run in the morning, he found that there was thin ice in a lotus pond not far from the community.

The weather is already very cold, and there are only pines and cypresses on the bank of the river that have not fallen leaves.Shao's mother packed a lot of clothes and asked the driver to check them in in advance, and she wrapped Shao Yan three layers inside and three layers outside, and then mercifully allowed her son to go out and take the car.

Forced by his mother to wear three pairs of trousers, Shao Yan saw a little bit of his body shape some time ago in the mirror. In fact, he is not very afraid of the cold. After all, he has internal strength to protect himself, and the cold air is not harmful to him.But Shao's mother always insisted that Shao Yan's body would be very fragile after the fall, especially his head, and he must not be exposed to the wind again.Being put on a woolen cap before going out, Shao Yan felt very complicated, but he didn't refuse. He could see the deep concern for him from Shao's mother's every urgent and even neurotic actions.

It was the first time for Shao Yan to take a plane, and when he was on the way to the suburbs, he stared at the roaring big guy passing by, and the magical vehicle appeared in front of him on TV, which made him feel a little excited.It wasn't until he actually boarded the plane that he realized that the thing looked much bigger than he had imagined. Shao Yan couldn't stop jumping for joy when he was placed on the seat and looked at the empty tarmac outside through the small window.Man can ascend to the sky, which even brought some magical and fantastic colors to him, a thoroughly ancient person.

But he certainly didn't feel so well when the plane took off.

The roaring sound accompanied by a slight sense of ascent made Shao Yan, who had just gotten used to the elevator, suddenly tense up. Maybe the fall really left a little sequelae. There was a slight pain of acupuncture on the top of his head. When the plane stabilized His face was also pale, and the water brought from behind was only touched by a sip before he put it down.

He looked out of the window, and white clouds floated under his feet, thick and soft, looking like cotton that was piled together and just sprung.There is no fairy palace in the sky, but only blue sky.

After the excitement, Shao Yan couldn't help feeling melancholy again.

He didn't remember where his hometown was, and later he went back to check after he became the head of the Imperial Food Supervision, because there were so few hints available, and those who came back could only find out that he was born in a disaster-stricken village along the Yellow River. .Exactly where it is is nowhere to be found.

He walked so far, from the Yellow River to the capital.When it grows to be full of branches and leaves, there is nowhere to find roots.

But now, the sense of belonging left by him when he woke up for the first time made City A extraordinary in his heart. Once again, he left his hometown and went out to work hard. Life is really absurd.

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Before landing, Shao Yan still vomited, which made him feel very ashamed, and almost wished he could immediately destroy his vomit bag to wipe out all traces.Before landing, he saw from the window that the land in the distance was full of high-rise buildings. Shao Yan had a premonition that this city might be far more prosperous than he imagined, but when he got out of the station, he still couldn't help being shocked.

Technology has to be said to be the greatest invention of mankind.

Shao Yan was wrapped in a thick scarf by his mother.He is small and beautiful, and he is surrounded so tightly. From the exposed eyebrows and eyes, he can still see his outstanding facial features. The surrounding passengers thought that it might be a certain star, and the whole journey was full of excitement. Looking at him vaguely.

Manager Shao has never been so embarrassed before, he vomited in public and showed his sick appearance, whoever dared to look at him immediately stared back unkindly, making all the peeping passengers startled and hurried away, as if they were rushing to go Hurry up like a meeting.

Yan Daichuan was waiting outside with his parents, and when he saw the Shao family coming from a distance, he immediately waved his hand. The two young people standing beside Yan Daichuan stared at Shao Yan who was wrapped into an Egyptian statue for a while, and his heart was full of disbelief: " Is this the cousin you were talking about?"

Yan Daichuan agreed, and looked worriedly at the part of Shao Yan's face that was not covered by the scarf.His skin is even paler than when he saw it in City A, and he has no blood at all. Is he sick? "

Yan Changle looked puzzled: "With his small body, why did you warn me so many times? Why don't you tell me not to tease him casually, you have to tell him not to tease me casually, right?"

"Yes." Yan Xi also agreed with his brother's words, "How old is our cousin? Why does he look like a little girl? He wears a hat and scarf and is dressed so thickly. He is in poor health? "

Ha ha.

Yan Daichuan didn't bother to explain to the two cousins ​​who didn't cry when they saw the coffin.The psychological shadow that Chang Junjun fell after returning was terrible. The last time Yan Daichuan had no time to send someone to Province J, he called him directly and told him that Shao Yan was going to pick snow. I didn't dare to wait any longer, so I sent the cold storage truck back the next day.These two... probably have to learn some lessons to understand what is beyond the sky. With their current mentality, this day is probably not too far away. Yan Daichuan didn't feel guilty at all, children, they will stumble one day Learn to grow.

After Shao's father and Shao's mother approached, he stepped forward to help Shao Yan, but was rejected by the other party.Yan Daichuan cast his eyes on Shao's mother, and saw Shao's mother replied with a sad expression: "Airsickness. This child has airsickness before. I thought he could forget it if he lost his memory, but he still fainted."

A group of people were concerned about Shao Yan's body, so they stopped talking.Li Yuke introduced the two strange youths to the Shao family while walking out: "This is Yan Changle, the eldest son of Lao Yan's younger brother, and that is Yan Xi, the youngest son. The two brothers have stayed in S City for many years. Changle opened a trading company by himself, Yan Xi likes art, and now he is studying here with a teacher."

Yan Changle nodded and said hello to the elders in a poised manner. He was dressed more maturely, with short, clean-shaven hair and sharp facial features. He looked older than Yan Daichuan.Relatively speaking, his younger brother looks much less reliable, with fluffy yellow hair curled up, wearing clothes with small totems printed on it, wearing sneakers with wings on the back, and pierced ears , wearing a large earring with cones at the front and back, the earlobes look a little overwhelmed.His personality is not as calm as his elder brother's, and he jumps up and down to talk to Shao's mother. Shao's mother obviously has seen a lot of the world, and she doesn't think his dress is strange. Seeing Yan Xi's lively and cheerful personality, he speaks nicely, and he loves him immediately. , he couldn't close his mouth because of the flattery, and asked Yan Xi and Yan Changle to take care of Shao Yan more in the future.

Shao Yan, who was wearing a scarf and walked his own way with his head bowed, couldn't help but look at Yan Xi's pierced ears in a strange way.The other party's dressing taste and his backward aesthetics can't be badly evaluated or accepted. He has only seen men from Persia wearing earrings before, and it is unprecedented for Yan Xi to be so gaudy.

Yan Xi hadn't passed the second term of middle school, and found that Shao Yan stared at him even more complacently, wandering around the other side like a peacock, but he didn't know that Shao Yan was complaining secretly in his heart that he was dressed strangely.

Shao's mother originally said that it would be good for the family to stay in a hotel, but Li Yuke disagreed with everything, and directly directed the car to drive to her home.Shao's mother thought that Shao Yan was airsick just now, and was worried that he was not feeling well, so she didn't push back.Except for the traffic jams, everything else went smoothly along the way.Looking at the endless red taillight, Shao Yan really had a new understanding of the prosperity of the people in this era.

The dazzling elevated roads along the road and those towering high-rise buildings shocked Shao Yan enough. When passing by a river, Li Yuke pointed out the window, pointing to the tallest corridor that Shao Yan could see all the way. : "Here, the new store is right there. The top three floors have a particularly good viewing angle, so it's sure to be popular."

Shao Yan secretly took note of this location. Although he regretted that he couldn't buy the whole building, he also knew that with his own financial strength, it would be a long way to want to eat so big all at once.From what they said so proudly, it seemed that the price of the three-story building was not low. The Yan family was willing to take the initiative to lend such a large sum of money, which was undoubtedly a rare good relative.

Yan's house is not close to the new store, Shao Yan guessed that the car drove for a while before turning into the dense forest.He didn't know if this place could be considered a suburb, anyway, the surrounding noise had all gone away, and the frequent birdsong could be heard around.Behind the bushes there are small single-family villas, which are not steeple-roofed, and look much more trendy than Shao's in City A.You can't see it all along the road, at most the roof of the building is exposed, and many trees here are still lush and green in winter, and the variety Shao Guanguan can't understand.

Yan's house doesn't look too big, and you have to go uphill to get in. There are two wide lawns beside the road in the front yard, with swings and seats, which is quite comfortable.The backyard is connected to the house with a hollowed-out promenade hall. Inside is a swimming pool full of water. The house is not much bigger than the Shao family’s own. It looks like there are three floors from the outside, but there are actually only two floors inside. , the third floor is a greenhouse full of flowers and plants covered with glass.Shao Yan originally thought that the Yan family was so rich that their own house would have to occupy tens of acres of land like those Jiangnan merchants he had seen before, and they would bring a garden and dig a lake or something. Just a little bit bigger than my own home.

Shao Yan felt a little pressure on the future development in his heart. It seems that although everyone is living a good life nowadays, the life of the rich businessmen is not as easy as he imagined.

Fortunately, although the house is small, there are seven or eight guest rooms, which are enough for Shao's family to live in.Shao Yan felt sorry for the current situation of Yan's family, and he didn't comment on anything bad after entering the house.The room was warm and cozy. He went back to the room and changed his clothes, then washed his face with water, and found that the bathtub in the guest bedroom was not very big.

Shao Yan was worried, the industry in this era is so difficult to buy, how can this be good?

He was just a little airsick and tired after throwing up.I had enough rest along the way, and my physique has become much stronger after practicing martial arts. After arriving at the place, the uncomfortable feeling faded away. After washing my face with hot water, my whole body was refreshed again.

When he was going downstairs, he happened to meet Yan Daichuan who came up, and Yan Daichuan brought him some stomach medicine. Although Shao Yan didn't have a stomachache, he still took it.Seeing that he was wearing a light-colored knitted sweater and jeans, Yan Daichuan couldn't help but frowned, and raised his hand to check the temperature of his forehead: "You will freeze to death if you wear so little."

Shao Yan originally wanted to hide, but when he reached out his hand, he stopped to dodge. He also stretched out his hand to cover the opponent's strong arm and squeezed it: "What do you think about my body?"

Yan Daichuan avoided Shao Yan, gave him a speechless look, took back the empty water cup from the other party's hand, and went downstairs to leave.

Shao's father and Shao's mother are discussing the opening of the new store with the Yan family's parents. With the Yan family supervising the workers, there is no need to worry too much about the restaurant's decoration and procedures.The main problem is that the Shao family has no foundation in City S. In such a big city, the power to divide the cake is much more complicated than that in a small place like City A.The Shao family's reputation can be used in the central region, but it is not enough to get it in S City.No matter whether it is a luxury French restaurant that specializes in the upper class or a Chinese restaurant that has lasted for several generations, no one is happy to see a powerful competitor develop rapidly under their noses.

Li Yuke was worried about the business of her younger sister's family. In just over a month, she sorted out a thick document and opened it. are the affinities of the individual competitors of the dendrogram.

Compared with the Shao family, which only had two brothers in the father's generation, the aristocratic family whose relationship between these characters can only be put down on several pages can truly be regarded as having a profound heritage.Wedborn, illegitimate, superborn, and six or seven brothers and sisters are almost the norm. The tree diagram that splits fiercely from the top to the end is simply dazzling.

Cantonese-style restaurants, Sichuan-style dishes, local dishes, and dishes of unknown origin, these people casually traced back a few generations and said that their ancestors worked as imperial cooks in the palace, and the story was more complicated than that of the Shao family To be real, even the surname has been studied.

Li Yuke said: "The farthest of these people have followed since the development of City S, and some of their base camps are even in City B. If it is not necessary, don't confront them easily. You will not give them a big reward at the beginning. Threats, don’t make your ambitions too obvious, and wait until the development is better before considering the next step of expansion. During this period, you must not let go of the relationship, make more friends, and have more ways. After all, our two companies have different business directions. Internal problems may not be solved for you.”

Shao's father thought it was true, and Shao's mother pondered for a moment, then said hesitantly: "This time, there is nowhere to start."

Li Yuke patted her on the shoulder: "As long as you have the heart, I will introduce it for you. The ladies here in S City don't have many hobbies, playing mahjong and shopping, and you can gradually integrate into it."

Shao Yan came down from upstairs and almost listened to it completely. Seeing that the plan in the back of her mother's eyes was a little uneasy about Li Yuke's plan, she called out to divert her attention and called Tian Xiaotian, "Did you forget to take the checked wine?" ? Where did it go?"

Shao's mother jumped up all of a sudden, and the tension in her heart was swept away. She looked around and said, "Yes, I completely forgot. I brought you some wine this time. The ingredients are all It was made by Xiao Chuan, but you didn’t taste it after it was brewed, and the family didn’t prepare it when you went to City A last time, so I just brought some for you this time.”

"Why are you so polite?" Li Yuke followed Shao's mother out to get it while giving way, and called Yan Daichuan's two cousins ​​out together. After a while, each of them came in with two exquisite wine bottles.This wine bottle was custom-made by Shao's father, and it came out a week ago. The body of the bottle is made of high-quality glass to make a crystal texture, and a few sprigs of wintersweet are only dotted with bright red. The neck of the bottle is very thin and long. Divide the taste.The transparent green wine is contained in it, and the color is refracted by the glass, which is extremely warm and moist. Coupled with the wintersweet flowers floating on the bottle, the antique is quite beautiful.Li Yuke looked at the bottle for a long time, and finally found the same three characters on the bottom of the bottle as the signboard of Yumenxi restaurant, and couldn't help but admire: "You guys really put a lot of effort into it."

is not that right?Shao's mother didn't speak, but she couldn't help but agree in her heart.For this bottle, they hired several design companies to design, and the final sample was revised several times. I don't know how much money they spent to come up with such a unique thing.After a period of time to apply for a patent, this wine bottle can be put into the restaurant for use.Since wine is to be promoted as one of Yumenshi's unique signature products, how can it be done without putting in some effort.

Li Yuke touched the bottle, and thought of something after a while: "It just so happens that the Mao family who run a restaurant at home I told you just now, Mr. Mao's eldest son and his wife like to drink a few sips. If your wine is good enough, after a few days I don’t need to worry about preparing other gifts when I visit in the next day, and it’s quite a deal to give two bottles of this kind of wine.”

While talking, she carefully searched for the place where the bottle was unsealed, but she couldn't find the seal after touching it, so she couldn't help but put down the bottle and began to study it carefully.

The two cousins ​​of Yan's family were also very interested and followed her to look for it.Shao Yan approached unknowingly, and took the wine bottle that Yan Xi was holding with a casual touch. Yan Xi was dazed when he realized that the bottle in his hand was gone, and Shao Yan over there With a light flick of Yan's finger on the mouth of the bottle, he unscrewed the hidden, well-shaped, sunken cap on the top of the bottle neck.

The small lid is made of soft glue burned in the glass, which is safe and airtight, but it is difficult to find traces on the outside, and it does not destroy the beauty of the bottle as a whole.Being taken from the bottle, Yan Xi felt uneasy for a moment, just as he was about to make a fuss, he smelled a long and lingering aroma of wine that slowly became stronger.

Shao Yan turned the bottle cap upside down, took out the soft glue inside, and slowly poured half a glass of wine into it.The soft rubber was plugged back to block the mouth of the bottle, and the bottle cap just now became an exquisite matching wine glass. The light green transparent wine looks thin and thin, but when it is shaken, the color can hang on the wall of the glass, which is not beautiful.

Shao Yan put the wine glass in front of Yan Xi, with a faint smile: "Try it."

Although Yan Xi was a little upset about the fact that the little man took the wine bottle just now, meeting his eyebrows, he subconsciously took it in his hand and drank it down.

"Well!"

The wine exudes a domineering fragrance from the moment it enters the mouth, and flows through the mouthpiece and falls into the stomach pouch. The taste is layered and lingering for a long time, and the warmth rushes into the limbs and bones all at once.

"How is it?" Shao Yan took the small wine cup brought up by the servant of the Yan family, poured a few glasses with his own hands, and pushed them towards the people at the table.

Yan Xi squinted his eyes and thought about it for a while, he didn't know much about wine, he just felt that the imported glass of wine tasted very special, obviously not as spicy as spirits, but the taste was so surging that people couldn't help but immerse themselves in it.

After several seconds, he nodded, turned the empty wine glass in his hand and sighed sincerely: "Good wine!"