Tang's house, restaurant.
"What? Tang Ran wants to go to Luo's house with us?"
Tang Luoqian, who was sitting at the long table, was smearing jam on the chef's freshly baked bread. After hearing the voices of her parents across the long table, her expression changed and her movements stopped.
The long table was silent for a few seconds.
Seeing that her father Tang Shixin didn't speak, Tang Luoqian turned to her mother Lin Manmei with annoyance: "Mom, is what Dad said true?"
Lin Manmei remained unmoved, "Just listen to the arrangements of the elders, why are there so many problems?"
"But it's me who wants to get engaged to the Luo family, not her. Why should she go to celebrate Grandpa Luo's birthday? Why should she appear with me?"
"... As you are now domineering, let alone getting engaged to the young master of the Luo family, who dares to marry you?" Tang Shixin finally couldn't help it, raised his head and said a little rebuke to Tang Luo.
Tang Luoqian felt aggrieved, "Mom, look at Dad, he is protecting that little daughter he picked up from nowhere!"
Tang Shixin's face changed suddenly, he pressed the knife and fork on the table, "Tang Luoqian, you must have a limit for your nonsense!"
Seeing that his father was really angry, Tang Luo's eyes narrowed. After a few seconds, she rolled her eyes and turned her head unwillingly to look at the old lady of the Tang family who was sitting at the head of the long table.
Tang Luoqian said in a wronged voice, "Grandma, you love me the most, so please judge me."
"… "
The old lady raised her eyes unhurriedly.
The old lady of the Tang family's surname was Hang, and her husband died early. She raised a son and a daughter with one hand, and also kept the foundation of the Tang family among a group of wolves, tigers and leopards, and passed it on to her son Tang Shixin.
With the experience of being decisive and decisive when she was young, the old lady is naturally not an easy-going character.
However, the family also knew that her daughter was married abroad, and she had only one son, Tang Shixin, and the only daughter, Tang Luoqian, was on the face of her son.
At the beginning, Tang Ran was just discovered to be the blood of the Tang family and was brought back, Tang Luoqian hated and rejected Tang Ran. The decision to send Tang Ran out of the house to live alone was the old lady's decision.
At that time, the servants in the family sighed with emotion, obviously they are also in the blood of their own sons. I don't know how the old lady's treatment of the two granddaughters is so different.
Tang Luoqian didn't understand the reason, but it didn't prevent her from knowing that the old lady was partial to herself: "Grandma, please be fair to me. This is my first official visit to Luo's house to visit Grandpa Luo. Bastard - what's the matter with that Tang Ran."
To Tang Luoqian's surprise, Mrs. Hang didn't stand by her side this time: "after all, it's Mr. Luo's birthday, and he knows Tang Ran, so he doesn't want to go with the younger generation, right?"
Tang Luoqian: "But..."
"And Tang Ran is just an invisible little girl, are you still afraid that she will steal your limelight?"
"Me? How could I be afraid of her?"
Tang Luoqian was used to being praised from childhood to adulthood, so naturally she couldn't be stimulated, and she was trapped by Mrs. Hang in a few words.
After she found out, she pouted, lowered her head angrily and continued to eat.
after breakfast.
In the restaurant, Tang Luoqian and Lin Manmei left first, while the old lady Hang and Tang Shixin and their mother and son were sitting at the table.
"Mom," after thinking for a long time, Tang Shixin raised his head, "I think Luo Qian and Tang Ran are not too young, so I can tell them about Tang Ran's life experience—"
"How dare you!" The old lady turned her face to be kind and raised her eyebrows slightly, interrupting her son's words. "As long as I'm still alive, this matter is not negotiable!"
Tang Shixin frowned and said nothing.
After a while, Mrs. Hang calmed down, "How's the talk with the Luo family? Should the engagement of the two juniors be settled?"
Tang Shixin said, "I went to see Mr. Luo this time. He only said that he wanted me to bring Luo Qian and Tang Ran to the banquet, and he didn't mention anything else."
"He's really stubborn towards Tang Ran." The old lady said displeased. "If it hadn't been discovered by him back then, I wouldn't have asked you to bring that little girl back and buried a time bomb at home."
Tang Shixin sighed, "How can I say that Tang Ran also saved the young master of the Luo family. The old master Luo is a man of love. The Luo family has taken care of us all these years, and it is based on this."
The old lady snorted and said nothing.
After hesitating between Tang Shixin's brows, he tried to speak again: "Mom, even if you don't tell the younger generation about your life experience, shouldn't it be time to take Tang Ran home? The child is innocent, and what happened back then was not her fault..."
"Let's talk about this later."
The old lady interrupted Tang Shixin forcefully.
"The most important thing now is that you have to negotiate the engagement of Luo Qian and the young master of the Luo family."
Speaking of this marriage, Tang Shixin frowned again, "I want to talk about it, but you should have heard of the temperament of the young master of the Luo family - no matter how good Luo Qian is, he may not be able to see it."
Old lady Hang disagreed: "you, a father, have no confidence in your daughter? Who is better than our Luoqian among the girls of the right age in the aristocratic family? If he doesn't marry Luoqian, who else does he want to marry? "
"You don't care who I marry."
In the large study room of the main building of the Luo family, Luo Zhan, with his long legs up on the sofa, leaned back against the soft leather backrest, twitching the corner of his mouth coldly, his eyes mocking.
The old man sitting in front of him frowned, wishing he could squeeze the folds between his foreheads to kill this unworthy grandson, "I'm your grandfather, do you think I can take care of you?"
Luo Zhan: "Grandpa's rights shouldn't be used like this."
The old man frowned, "Then how do you use it?"
Luo Zhan twitched the corners of his mouth, smiling lazily and coldly, "You're really satisfied, you went and married that Tang Qian, I'll call her grandma—that's your right."
"… "
The old man was almost furious.
It was the old housekeeper of the Luo family who knocked on the door and came in, leaned over to the ear of the old man Luo and explained something, only to see the old man's expression softened slightly.
"I bought something from abroad." After the housekeeper left, the old man lifted his eyelids and confessed to this terrifying grandson, "I will send it to your laboratory after that, you can study how to use it, and then test if there is any There were no glitches or safety hazards.”
Luo Zhan had already stood up and was about to leave. Hearing this, he glanced lazily, "What?"
"An intelligent bionic humanoid robot."
This coincided with the next item in the laboratory, Luo Zhan came to be interested, "Didn't you always support me in AI?"
"Don't think too much, it's not for you." The old man glanced at him with a certain emotion in his eyes, "The Tang family... There is also a young daughter who is almost 16 years old this year. This is the birthday present I prepared for her. "
"… "
Hearing the Tang family, Luo Zhan's interest immediately cooled down.
The old man moved his eyes hesitantly, "In the future, when you and Tang Luoqian are engaged, you should also take care of this sister, she—"
"What, did you like her youngest daughter too?" Luo Zhan smiled coldly, "Buy one get one free? What's not enough to put in a Tang, you want to give me another little girl? I'm sorry, grandpa, I can't stand it. rise."
The old man frowned in anger, "Listen to what kind of bastard you said?"
"… "
Luo Zhan smiled, turned around and walked out.
"Anyway, I won't marry someone from the Tang family - you give up as soon as possible."
"!"
Ignoring the sound of grandfather knocking on a cane in the study behind him, Luo Zhan lazily walked downstairs with his trousers in his pocket.
Today is the birthday banquet of the old man of the Luo family. I don't know how many celebrities want to squeeze into the private manor of the Luo family. It's a pity that there are very few people who get the invitation letter. That thin piece of cardboard has become the latest measurement standard in the celebrity circle.
Among the guests, there were many juniors who came with their elders to congratulate the old man on his birthday, and a small number of them were also peers who had been in contact with Luo Zhan since childhood.
As soon as Luo Zhan got down to the terrace on the second floor, he was intercepted by someone watching the wind from the stairs.
"Young Master Luo doesn't act righteous. He didn't even go downstairs after he came back for a long time - why, he has contributed to the scientific research of the motherland for too long, and his status is different. You have left our group of friends behind?"
Luo Zhan was pulled over and simply sat down. Hearing the words, he twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly and lazily, "Well. You know yourself quite well."
The man himself was also amused, "Hey, I deserve to be a jerk, scolding myself."
He also laughed and scolded, "Just scolding yourself, why did you take us with you?"
"that is."
"But he has a good sentence - Young Master Luo's coming back this time, isn't it different from before?"
"… "
When everyone heard this, their attention was drawn away, and even Luo Zhan raised his eyelids lazily over there.
The man was complacent, "I heard that Young Master Luo is about to get engaged to the most beautiful eldest lady of the Tang family. Before I came, my parents also said that it is estimated that in a few days, I should come to the Luo family to participate in the two golden boys and girls. It's an engagement party."
"… "
Sitting down.
A few clever eyes have changed slightly at this time, and they secretly took their eyes to see Luo Zhan's reaction.
I saw the young master of the Luo family sitting there with his eyes lowered, the corners of his thin lips hooked, the corners of his peach blossom eyes were slightly raised as if he was not smiling, and his dark eyes revealed a cold and indifferent emotion.
The man froze at the sight of laughter.
Someone hurried to smooth things out, "You don't understand this, Young Master Luo has high eyes - he doesn't look down on those who don't have beautiful eyes. The eldest lady of the Tang family heard that she is very beautiful, but unfortunately I don't know how the eyes are made. what?"
"It is said that it is not bad, the facial features are good-looking, and she is considered a beauty in the circle."
"Really or not? Then I'll take a look."
"It's almost time," someone turned around. "Hey, Master Luo, are you leaving now? Why are you going?"
"sleep."
"Hey, what kind of sleep do you want to sleep at this time - you don't want to see what the eldest lady of the Tang family looks like?"
"… "
Luo Zhan stood up and lowered his eyes coldly when he heard the words, "I'm not interested."
He went straight out.
The rest of the people knew that they had already offended people, and they didn't dare to stop them, so they could only talk on their own.
"It seems that the youngest daughter of the Tang family is also coming today."
"Little daughter? Isn't the Tang family just the eldest young lady, Tang Luoqian? Why is there a little daughter?"
"I also overheard my parents talking, saying that she was Tang Shixin's illegitimate daughter, what is her name Tang... Tang Ran? She seems to be a little blind."
"—"
Luo Zhan stopped abruptly.
The excited words of Meng Xueyu in the laboratory flashed through his mind last night:
[Don't laugh, Tang Ran is very good-looking!]
Luo Zhan narrowed his eyes.
After a few seconds, he turned around and walked back, grabbed a rattan chair with one hand, and sat down.
Everyone was stunned.
After a long silence, someone asked carefully, "Young Master Luo, aren't you not interested?"
"… "
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes lazily, and played with a coin from nowhere.
Staring at the coin in his palm for a few seconds, the corner of his mouth tickled lightly.
"There is now."