"Oh oh oh oh, so cute!" An Qi said with bright eyes, "Ed Ed, can we raise one?"
"No." Ed said with a blank face, "This is to protect animals, and neither sale nor personal adoption is allowed."
"Your name exists for this moment, what kind of great Dr. Lingos can't even handle this trivial matter?" An Qi clenched her fist with one hand, looking full of confidence, "Ed, you It will be fine!"
"You can't, you can't, it's useless to say it in a royal way, don't cause anyone trouble." Ed touched the head of Minerva, who also had bright eyes but very restrained, and the little girl squinted in enjoyment. Eyes, "Look at people, you're no better than a primary school student."
"But I really like it, there are such cute creatures in the world!" An Qi held Ed's other arm and swayed back and forth, "Please, think of a way, okay? "
"Dr. Lingos, if you really need it, the eldest can try to clear up the relationship for you." The red dragon who had been following behind and had no sense of existence stepped forward and said in a low voice, "With the ability of the eldest and the With the energy of the Wang family, you don’t have to worry about any extra trouble.”
"She's joking, don't take it seriously." Ed shook off An Qi's hand and replied apologetically, "I appreciate the kindness of Mr. Wang and Sister Ling, but there are no normal people who keep pandas at home. "
An Qi unhappily "cut" and pouted, Taoxiang covered her mouth and wanted to laugh, but did not dare to laugh. CC glanced at the awkward An Qi and stared blankly at the sky, while Lux smiled from beginning to end.
Right now, the Lingos family is located in a giant panda nature reserve in Sichuan. The park has been occupied by Wang Liumei, there are no idlers, etc., and the Red Dragon has also been sent to the saddle for the whole process. It is also a service, and Ed bought the most reliable one. . It doesn't matter if the price is high. The key is to brush up on Wang Liumei's goodwill through this kind of communication. Presumably the other party also cherishes the friendship from the moon.
Minerva was taken by Haman since he was a child, and after being adopted by the Lingos family, he stayed on the moon and never went far. Eddie felt distressed when he thought about such a boring childhood, so this time, he took the family out for a trip while the Anaheim Elementary School had a summer vacation on the pretext of rewarding Minerva for winning the first place in the class in the final exam.
The reason why I chose China was that in addition to wanting Minerva to see pandas, I also had a little thought from Ed. It would not be too late to play around with the places of interest in Europe and Britannia in the future. In fact, he still wanted to take the little girl to climb the Great Wall, but unfortunately the political nature of the capital is more sensitive, and it is not convenient for him to go privately.
"Ah, I really want to raise a panda." An Qi was still shouting, "It's really cute and cute."
"Take a ten thousand steps back, even if we do carry a panda home." Hearing Ed's words, An Qi was refreshed, "You can be fresh for a month at most, no, at most half a month, and then throw it away. To Taoxiang as a hand-slinger, when I think of it and when to look at it."
An Qi thought about it carefully and found that she probably couldn't refute it. She turned her face and quickly stuck out her tongue while Eddie couldn't see it.
"Uncle Ed." Minerva stretched out a soft little hand and pulled La Ed's sturdy hand, pointing to a giant panda more than one meter tall in front of him who was lazily basking in the sun and asked, "Can I work with that one? Do you have a group photo with Mr. Panda?"
"That one is too big. Don't look at it cute. Pandas are actually omnivores. They have claws and fangs. Halfway through his words, he was defeated by Minerva's big watery eyes, "Forget it, wait, I'll ask you."
"It's also a daughter, why is there such a big difference in treatment?" An Qi muttered in a voice that only she could hear, "It's better to be a daughter than to be a daughter, it's totally unreasonable."
Next to the red dragon, a man who claimed to be a breeder has been accompanying him, and he looks like he is in his sixties. Ed seriously suspected that Wang Liumei had lost the breeder and brought over the retired senior, who didn't even know the former superstar Lux. He took Minerva to the breeder's side and spoke directly in Chinese: "Master, may I ask my girl to take a photo with that panda over there?"
The old master glanced at the red dragon, and after receiving the signal, he said calmly: "No problem, our pandas are very docile, and they are taking a nap again. As long as you follow my arrangement, it will not hurt your family. baby."
"People say yes, but you have to listen to the old man." Ed squeezed Minerva's little hand, "Say 'XieXie'."
"XieXie!" Minerva said cutely.
"No need to thank you, your daughter is really good-looking." The old master was also amused by Minerva's Chinese, "You really want this Chinese, young man."
"You're too polite." Ed and Minerva followed the breeder's master to the panda, and received it casually, "Is the master a native of Sichuan? I'm so old, I'm afraid I didn't come back from re-employment?"
"It is indeed a reemployment, but you can also hear the accent?" The other party looked very surprised, "This is the first time in my life that I have seen a foreigner's Chinese so well. I thought it was a wealthy family Guwazi who came to book the venue. It is learned to do it for a long time.”
Ed smiled and didn't speak, the smile was a bit complicated.
After a while, the old master greeted Minerva to come forward for a group photo, and the little girl jumped up and down to the panda's side, happy to close her mouth. Usually Minerva would subconsciously imitate the appearance of an adult, only this time he went out on a trip to behave like a real elementary school student. Ed suddenly felt that even just to see the little girl's smile at the moment, it was worth the trouble to go out this time.
Said to be a group photo, the panda still lay still and took a nap, and Minerva just stood in front of it. Ed and her let Taoxiang take a few pictures together, and took a few pictures for her alone, and then leaned into An Qi's ear and whispered: "I'll take a few pictures for my eldest daughter, you hurry up. Look, I'm not discriminated against."
"Did you hear that?" An Qi blushed with shame, "I hate it!"
Saying that, he walked quickly to the panda and exchanged for Minerva, who was enjoying himself. Just when he was about to take a photo, the panda seemed to wake up and suddenly stood up. When he found An Qi in front of him, he was surprised and raised his paws to take a picture. An Qi glared back fiercely, murderous all over her body, Comrade Panda shivered and shrank into a ball quickly and meekly.
After taking the photo, Ed patted his heart and said fearfully, "For a moment just now, I thought we were going to be the first group of tourists to kill pandas, Friday."
"Angie, it's not Friday!" Friday protested dissatisfiedly. "Also, you're going too far! The panda is so cute, how could I kill it?"
Ed ignored her protest and turned to look at the other: "CC, take a picture for you too?"
"I'm not a child." CC gave him a roll of eyes, "I'm more interested in shopping than animals. It's not as interesting to buy clothes as watching pandas."
"What kind of magic logic do you have? It's rare to come to a foreign country, so you should see the scenic spots, right?" An Qi raised her voice involuntarily, "Shopping isn't just buying, buying, buying, what's the point?"
Red Dragon immediately realized that the atmosphere was wrong, and quickly pulled a few staff to hide away, pretending to have a good time with the panda, without even looking at Ed and the others.
"Although pandas are very cute, I also like shopping." Lux smiled softly, "It's rare to come abroad, Ed, can you trouble Miss Wang to arrange it? Women's nature is still shopping malls. , buy, buy, buy."
"Are you saying that I'm not a woman?" An Qi patted the most spectacular Opie among them, and CC and Lux raised their brows, "Anyway, I want to see the attractions, shopping is boring. Ed, you said What will you do later? Should you continue to see the sights or buy things?"
"It's only been quiet for less than 24 hours, and they're here again. It's definitely a wrong decision to go out with the whole family." Ed sighed tiredly in his heart and cheered up, "There must be time to buy things later. Yes, but the main purpose of going out this time is to reward Minerva, Minerva, what do you want to do?"
"I want to see the scenic spots!" The little girl answered in a coherent voice, "Uncle Ed, hug!"
"Then see the sights." Ed picked up Minerva and kissed her red cheek, "We will go to Jiuzhaigou the day after tomorrow."
"Mmmm!" The little girl glanced at the two aunts with a smile, and kissed Ed on the face, "Uncle Ed is the best!"
"Alice, can you hear it?" Ed said in his head, "put on some music, the kind that relieves stress and soothes the mind."
"Okay, Ed." Alice played the soft violin concerto in his head, "Are you doing it yourself? Do you want to add more people to the family? Alice thinks it's enough to delete only stupid Angel. "
"I'm just self-inflicted." He listened to the music with a sigh of relief, "I'd better spare me if I don't have CC, I'll kill myself. When I go to see Lao Yang, I can still mock him, isn't it beautiful?"
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Back at the hotel where they were staying in the evening, the three of Lux were looking for something to do, Ed took Alice out to have something to do. He slept with Minerva every night these days, perfectly solving the most complicated problems. The little girl is also very cooperative. As long as someone wants to break the balance, they will become emotional and clamor for sleeping with Uncle Ed. Minerva's performance was so considerate, Eddard couldn't help but secretly added pocket money to her.
When they came to the conference room on the top floor of the hotel, Wang Liumei was already waiting inside alone. Although she received money to organize the arrangement, she did not meet Ed's family very interestingly, and successfully saved some people from being bombarded. Seeing Ed come in, Wang Liumei took the initiative to stand up and stretch out her hand, and her two ponytails swayed: "Good evening, Dr. Lingos, did my incompetent brother cause you any trouble?"
"Speak in Chinese, Mr. Wang greets you very well. You have been working hard these days." Ed touched her slightly, made a gesture of invitation, and took the initiative to sit down, "Time waits for no one. Shall we start right away?"
"I thought scholars were all patient people, but I didn't expect Dr. Lingos to be so impatient?" Wang Liumei sat down and crossed her long legs, the skin and stockings at the slits of the cheongsam looming, "but with Dr. Lingos alone, If you dare to sneak into this by yourself, you can't be compared with ordinary scholars."
At this point in time, the intention to mention this matter could not be more obvious. Ed snorted slightly without looking sideways: "There is no need to give benefits, Miss Wang, I will keep my promise. Tell me, how do you plan to use favors?"
"It's easy to talk to a smart person." Wang Liumei coughed twice and resumed sitting up, her face blushed slightly, "I was forced to marry by the old people in my family, I hope you can help me find a way to push it away. I I know it's hard to be strong, but I'm the same year as you, already twenty-two, and the pressure from the family is too great, I'm really desperate to-"
"No problem." Ed nodded happily, "Leave it to me."
"Huh?" Wang Liumei was stunned for a while, but he didn't expect him to promise so simply, "You didn't even ask who the object of the marriage was?"
"Is it bad for me?" Ed said indifferently, "Then let me ask, who is it?"
"Albert Bist, the eldest son of Kadias Bist, president of the Bist consortium, is twenty-five years old, and he is a member of the Federal Parliament like me." Wang Liumei showed a disgusted expression, "again Fat, ugly and useless, as the eldest son without the favor of the second son Banerjee, there is no advantage other than a good reincarnation. I think he will be disinherited sooner or later, the eyes of the old people are really bad.”
Ed looked at Wang Liumei, who was white, beautiful and well-mannered in front of him, and then thought about the belly and fat-headed Albert of the Bist family, and suddenly felt a chill: "Don't worry, I will definitely help you. You broke up this marriage."
"Although I don't know what you will do, the words that come out of your mouth are inexplicably convincing." A big stone fell from Wang Liumei's heart, and the whole person relaxed a lot. With a smile, "I believe in the character of Dr. Lingos."
"Look at me, a married person who goes out with a bunch of Yingyingyanyan, what kind of character is there?" Ed shook his head mockingly, controlling his eyes and resolutely not cruising down, "It's getting late, let's begin?"
"You have the final say." Wang Liumei turned on the device with a smile, "Do you need to keep the fact that we are together?"
"No need, my schedule is semi-public." Ed also turned on his device to join the remote meeting, directly interrupting Xiaya, who didn't know what he was forcing, "I'm sorry for being late, the meeting hasn't started yet. Are you done?"
There was an uproar in the Federal Assembly.
Since Covatello first summoned Ed for the hearing on behalf of Prime Minister Massenas, there have been several Lingos denunciations, and Ed has not attended once. Similar Criticisms of Siroc were often held in the Federal Parliament before. Siroc never ignored them and turned a deaf ear to all the decisions of the parliament.
Today, there is another denunciation meeting over there. Ed happened to have something to announce to the dignitaries and leaders of various groups. He just took this opportunity to inform him in place. Like this kind of sparring meeting, the people who will participate are all from the Prime Minister-Covatro faction, and pro-moon forces like the Wang family, the Halevi consortium, or Britannia are generally absent to express their positions, and the minutes of the meeting will be reviewed later.
"I have something important to announce, please let the staff tell you to open remote." Ed continued, "I'll start in three minutes, Mr. Covatello, why don't you continue?"
"Lingus, what do you think of the sacred Federal Parliament?" one of the chubby MPs shouted at Ed on the screen. "It's presumptuous!"
"Albert Bist? Kadias taught you to talk to me like that?" Eddard said to these rubbish MPs who don't do serious business, know wasting taxpayers' money, and get together all day for his denunciation meetings. They didn't like it at all, but he and Siroc agreed on this point, "My time is precious, and I don't have the energy to waste it on garbage."
"Lingus, don't deceive people too much!" Albert slammed the table, "Who do you call trash?"
"No, don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting you. I mean everyone here..." Ed paused, looking around the audience, "It's all rubbish."