Luo Zhan came out of the bathroom, walked to the single sofa by the floor-to-ceiling window, and picked up the vibrating mobile phone on the coffee table.
Caller ID "Tan Yunchang".
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes and sat on the sofa wiping his half-wet hair. With a swipe of the finger, the call was dialed to the green side.
He said lazily: "What's the matter?"
Tan Yunchang: "What else can you do? Ancestor—of course it's your plan. Has your brother agreed to cooperate?"
"Yeah." Luo Zhan responded lazily.
"He really agreed? I thought he definitely wanted to see you in a difficult situation." After Tan Yunchang finished speaking, he asked suspiciously, "Luo Xiu will not offer you any conditions, such as wanting him to cooperate with you to hide the Tang family and the Luo family. , you have to go back to inherit the family business or something?"
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly at the night outside the floor-to-ceiling window. After two seconds of silence, he said, "No."
"That's good, that's good, it's rare for your brother to do well—"
"But it's about the same."
"...?" Tan Yunchang's voice choked, and after a while, he regained his senses and said eagerly: "What is the same? There are old and young in our int team, don't you really plan to abandon us and go back to inherit the family business and become the boss. "
There was a long silence on the phone.
When Tan Yunchang was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, he almost wanted to fly to Luo Zhan with a large army of int immediately to make him change his mind, he heard a light snort from the other side.
"No." Luo Zhan's stopped hand moved again, and between the half-wet and half-dry hair, the dark eyes smiled lazily and coldly. "I've been pressed by the Luo family's hat for so many years, and I finally have a little chance to climb out. How could I give up at this time?"
Tan Yunchang breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he asked, "Then what did you mean by that?"
"That's... Luo Xiu's ultimate goal is naturally this. But not as a condition, but as the result of a bet."
Tan Yunchang was at a loss: "Betting?"
"Well," Luo Zhan lowered his hand, "we made a bet. Mine is going to be a robot for Tang Ran for two months, and I can't expose it."
Tan Yunchang hurriedly asked, "What about his?"
Luo Zhan twitched the corner of his mouth and said a word.
There was silence on the other side of the phone, and Tan Yunchang sighed with emotion: "It's awesome. Do you guys from rich families like to do these 'leisure and elegant'?"
Luo Zhan smiled coldly: "He wants to cheat me, will I make him feel better?"
Tan Yunchang: "But your time is not proportional at all. Obviously he suffers, right? Luo Xiu agreed?"
Luo Zhan's smile faded.
After a few seconds, he leaned back on the sofa lazily, "Can this difficulty for me be the same as his difficulty?"
"Yes." Tan Yunchang sighed, "It will take two months to install... By then, it is estimated that the new robot in our new order will almost be delivered?"
"Um."
Luo Zhan was ready to hang up after listening to Tan Yunchang's report on the progress of the lab's cooperating with him in his camouflage work.
But Tan Yunchang refused to let him go, and called out sincerely, "Brother Zhan."
Luo Zhan: "… "
Luo Zhan was indifferent and disgusted: "I can't afford it, have you forgotten five years older than me?"
"Then you came from the juvenile class, and everyone else in the laboratory is older than you." Tan Yunchang asked others, and did not dare to complain, "I want to ask you for help with something."
Luo Zhan guessed the phrase "Brother Zhan" when he heard the sentence, and leaned lazily on the sofa with drooping eyes, "Tell me."
Tan Yunchang: "I heard Qianhua say that you and Lan Jingqian know each other?"
Luo Zhan frowned, "Who?"
Tan Yunchang: "Lan Jingqian, Lin Qianhua, the newly promoted diamond king and the founder of auto in the control field in the past two years, told me that you met him when you went to the ai international exchange last year. He also said You two have a great time talking."
Luo Zhan heard the reaction in the middle, "You mean matthew?"
"Ah?" Tan Yunchang was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, "Oh, that's his English name, right? I'll check it... Yes, it's just him."
Luo Zhan got up from the sofa, thought about the bedroom, and asked casually, "What's wrong with him?"
"He's back home!"
"..." Luo Zhan's figure froze when he suddenly shouted in an astonishingly loud voice, he frowned and glanced at his phone ill-naturedly, "Is he your father, are you so happy?"
Tan Yunchang was so excited that he didn't care what Luo Zhan said at all, "I think he's my dad, but unfortunately he's only 36 or 7 this year, unless he made a mistake at the age of 11 or 2, I guess we have no father-son relationship. ."
"Then what do you want to do?" Luo Zhan lowered his eyes lazily and asked after settling on the mind that was startled by Tan Yunchang.
Tan Yunchang said excitedly, "Since you both know each other, Lin Qianhua said it was quite a good conversation. Why don't you arrange a time and invite him to meet in our laboratory?"
"I got to know you."
"Hey, hey, by the way, let's get to know each other."
Luo Zhan lowered his eyelids lazily, and hooked the corners of his mouth coldly: "His sexual orientation should not be homosexual."
"?" Tan Yunchang reacted for a long time, and then came back to his senses, "I'm not either!"
Luo Zhan smiled coldly: "Then you are so eager to meet him?"
"That's different! Lan Jingqian is my No. 1 male god. I heard about his deeds a few years ago. He has a complete history of inspirational growth of contemporary young people. He started from scratch as a poor college student with nothing, and now he is now in control. In the position of the upstart in the field - his entire life is a five million-word cool essay!"
Luo Zhan was irritated by Tan Yunchang's arguing, and said "um" lazily: "Another day, please come out for dinner."
"Okay! Thank you Brother Zhan! You will be my brother from now on! Good night, dear brother!"
"… "
Luo Zhan hung up the phone expressionlessly.
He threw the phone aside, but stopped when he took it back. After a long while, he slowly lowered his body and picked up the coin on the table.
After watching for a few seconds, Luo Zhan laughed dumbly.
"I wouldn't accept it if I knew it earlier. Do you know how much I bet on this coin for you?"
"… "
Quietly at night.
In the nest on the branch outside the window, the sleeping chick rubbed his head lightly and let out a low groan.
After noon the next day, the Tang family arranged for two cars to pick up Tang Ran.
The first car took all the luggage of the little girl, and the second car was the convertible car driven by the driver who had come to pick her up.
Yang Yilan finally took her to the car downstairs. Until Tang Ran slowly got into the car, Yang Yilan was still reluctant to let go of the girl's hand.
Her eyes were flushed, and tears were rolling in her eyes, but she still suppressed her laughter.
"Xiao Ran, do you need to take good care of yourself when you arrive at Tang's house? You can't let yourself be wronged. If you have something to do, just call grandma. It's a big deal... grandma will take you back to live with me, okay?"
Tang Ran was sitting in the car, with the hot summer above her head, the noisy cicadas and the dazzling sunlight she couldn't see. The air was humid and sultry, she clenched her fingers, but only felt that her palms were cold.
Tang Ran took a slow breath and lowered his eyes.
"Grandma, I will live well in the Tang family. Don't worry... I will also call you. I also want to hear the voice of the little baby in the uncle and aunt's house."
"Okay, okay," Yang Yilan held back her tears and forced a smile, "When he's gone, grandma will take him to see you, okay?"
"Yeah." Tang Ran said softly, "We agreed, grandma."
"… "
The hand who doesn't want to let go will always be released, and the person who doesn't want to watch off will always leave.
The car did not enter the traffic flow along the long street, and the distance unknown to the eyes became farther and farther. When the car body turned a corner at an intersection, Tang Ran knew that Yang Yilan would no longer be able to see her, and the curvature of the corners of her mouth was flattened a little bit.
It wanted to hold back, but couldn't hold back, it was bent down by the pressure of invisible emotions.
The girl lowered her head a little, her eyes red.
From today onwards, I am alone.
One has to live well.
The Tang family, the main residence.
The old lady Hang was sitting on the sofa with a bad expression, holding the crutches in both hands, and rubbing the pads of her fingers together unconsciously. This was her habit of thinking about things.
Tang Shixin sat next to the old lady's right hand, his expression also darkened, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Is he really back?" After a long while, the old lady suddenly asked.
Tang Shixin returned to his senses and raised his head, "I have already found someone to check his resume, and it is indeed the Lan Jingqian we know."
Mrs. Hang frowned and said nothing.
Tang Shixin said worriedly: "I haven't paid attention to his news all these years. Although I heard that the founder of auto, matthew, is a young self-made upstart who came from China, I didn't think about him. When I suddenly returned to China, and domestic financial magazines reported and promoted it, I found out that it was his."
The old lady Hang asked, "do you know why he came back?"
"The official claim is to come back to help the development of the domestic control field. Privately, many people say that they are ready to take a share of the pie. As for whether he has any personal goals..."
Tang Shixin frowned and stopped talking.
Of course, old lady Hang knew what her son was worried about. In fact, the cup she accidentally broke after hearing the news just now came from the same worry.
After a moment of silence, she tapped the cane: "Has Tang Ran picked it up?"
"On the way." After Tang Shixin answered, he hesitated for a while before speaking, "Mom, should we simply tell Lan Jingqian of Tang Ran's existence, so as to dissolve the grievances of the past?"
The old lady Hang didn't even think about it, but categorically rejected: "no way."
"But… "
The old lady hang said sharply: "there is nothing wrong with this matter! I told you back then that this kid seems to be cold and self-contained, but in fact he is very shrewd and not easy to handle! When he came back this time, he didn't know about Tang Ran. Maybe that thing will be over, but if you really let him know - do you think he can take this breath?"
Tang Shixin: "I'm afraid that the paper won't cover the fire,"
"If you can't cover it, you have to cover it!" Mrs. Hang's face was ugly. "Do you think I made a mistake in forcing him to go abroad, and now you are going to blame me?"
Tang Shixin had a calm face and did not speak.
Mrs. Hang didn't have the heart to care about her son's face. She rolled her eyes and finally sighed: "it's better to take her back. If she was left outside at this time, it would become a ticking time bomb. Peace of mind."
She looked back at her son and got up.
"I'll be gone, please appease her, and then send her to a side house."
Tang Shixin said: "Tang Ran can't see after all, and even the servants in the side house rarely go there. It is inevitable that there are places that cannot be taken care of. It is better to let her live here together..."
"Is there no landline in the side house? Is there anything she can't call?"
The old lady interrupted in displeasure, then stopped in front of the sofa with a cane, and lowered her voice:
"Forget it before. Since Lan Jingqian has returned to China, from today onwards, Tang Ran's affairs must be kept out of the public eye, and the less servants who come into contact with her, the better! - Lan Jingqian must not be allowed to know about Tang Ran's affairs. exist, remember?"
Tang Shixin endured it, thinking of the little girl who was sent out of the house by himself at a young age, he finally couldn't hold back: "Mom, Tang Ran is your own granddaughter anyway, you—"
"Shut up for me!"
The old lady Hang was suddenly furious, and her crutches hit the ground heavily.
Tang Shixin was silent, knowing that his words had hit the point where his mother would never tolerate anyone mentioning it, so he swallowed his words with a gloomy expression.
The old lady Hang was still standing in the same place, gasping for breath.
"Your sister has been married out of the country innocently, and has nothing to do with that man, and I don't have this granddaughter! If you dare to mention this kind of scandal, don't blame me for turning your back on you!"
After that, the old lady Hang walked out without looking back.