He did not answer the question asked by the man in the shadows, but opened his eyes, looked over with a pair of amber eyes, and said in a calm voice with a sense of authority: "Is there any news from the Independent Continent?"
Jacob was about to answer when his phone vibrated in his pocket.
He quickly took out his cell phone, looked down at the caller ID, straightened his expression, and handed the phone to the man: "Quentin, this is the old butler's call."
The man took the phone slowly, his voice sounding very cold: "Hello."
Jacob consciously retreated back into the shadows and waited patiently for the man to finish the call.
The man raised his voice slightly and said irritably, "You said he returned the birthday present I gave him?"
Jacob raised his head and was obviously stunned for a moment. He knew that the archbishop had an illegitimate son in his twenties in the Independent State.
The other party didn’t want the gift from the archbishop
"Oh, he's quite a man." The man was not very angry, and it was obvious that he was tolerant of his son: "When does he plan to come back? Does he want to continue staying in that institute?"
The old butler on the other end of the phone lowered his voice and answered very carefully: "The young master seems to like the work at the First Research Institute very much. Recently, he has to stay in the institute until eight or nine in the evening before going home. It seems that he is busy with an experiment with a friend..."
"Friends?" Quentin asked with some interest.
Before he found Xu Yi, he had already investigated Xu Yi's background.
Xu Yi has a withdrawn and eccentric personality. He has few friends since childhood and is very independent!
The old housekeeper replied softly, "The young master has a friend whom he values very much. I heard his mother mention that friend as well, saying that he helped them a lot and took good care of them on weekdays..."
Quentin's amber eyes flashed, and his thin lips touched up and down: "Which friend?"
"The young master's friend is a girl, quite young." The old housekeeper said very naturally: "I think her name is Qiao Nian."
“…” He didn’t say anything.
First Research Institute, Qiao Nian.
He didn't expect that there could be such a coincidence in the world...
**
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Qiao Nian looked at the time on the clock on the wall and packed up to go home.
Xu Yi was still studying the calculation formula she gave him. He had a frown on his face and kept writing and drawing on the draft paper.
He almost filled up the entire sheet of paper with his calculations. Even so, Xu Yi continued to verify the results in the few remaining blank spaces.
Qiao Nian put on his coat, picked up his bag, walked over and saw that he was still thinking hard, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you can't figure it out, forget it, I'll figure it out later. I'm leaving now."
"Let me try again." Xu Yi didn't even raise his head, as if he was struggling with the numbers on the draft.
Qiao Nian knew his character, so she didn't bother him anymore and left quietly.
…
Outside the research institute, Ye Wangchuan had already come out waiting for her.
Seeing the girl coming out of the institute, he went to meet her, took the bag from her shoulder, held it in his hand, and walked towards the car...
"Why are you so early today?"
Qiao Nian was still thinking about the model pattern on his computer. Hearing this, he said nonchalantly, "Aren't you waiting for me outside? I came out early."
Ye Wangchuan opened the car door and put her bag on the passenger seat. He turned around and saw that she looked absent-minded, so he took out a bottle of water from the car and handed it to her: "I heard that you rejected the people from the Privy Council?"
(End of this chapter)