Compared with Yamamoto Akihiko's friendly response, the attitude of the bearded white man next to him was very straightforward and revealed obvious relentlessness and contempt.
He squinted at the two sitting opposite each other, no matter what appearance or figure, his eyes were full of comparison.
After a few seconds, he didn't know whether he felt that he had won or lost, so he snorted coldly.
"I'm Daniel."
The bearded man reported his name, then picked up the coffee mug from the table, and drank the brown liquid in the mug with the gesture of drinking beer.
"Hey, Mary, pour me another coffee."
Daniel said, raising his empty glass in the direction of the kitchen.
A girl walked out after hearing the sound, holding a coffee pot in her left hand and a tray in her right hand with two cups on it.
The girl named Mary is a Westerner, in her twenties, with pale blond curly hair tied into a bun at the back of her head, and a black apron on her body. She should be the only two maids in the family. one of them.
Mary put the two empty cups in front of Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan, smiled at them, and looked a little apprehensive, and when she met the eyes of the two, she looked away as if embarrassed.
Beiquan: "..."
"Hey, Mary, where's the coffee!"
Daniel tapped the table impatiently.
Mary quickly left Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan behind, quickly turned to the long dining table, and refilled Daniel's glass first.
This time, Daniel seemed satisfied.
He raised his hand and patted Mary on the waist deliberately before raising his chin towards the opposite side, and said yin and yang, "Pour a cup of coffee for my brothers too."
At this time, the butler came out of the kitchen with another maid.
The other maid was an African-American woman in her late fifties, with a slightly chubby figure, and her name was Alanka.
In this way, except for Chen Dafa, the owner, who slept in the master bedroom upstairs, and the nurse who took care of him full-time, everyone in the mansion gathered in this living room with poor lighting and ventilation.
The butler and the two maids brought the food for this brunch to the table, and then the butler politely told them that the lawyer would come later, so please have something to eat first.
American-style brunch, as the name suggests, is because the time to eat is stuck at neither early nor late, so breakfast and lunch are simply combined.
Although the manpower is not enough, the butler obviously attaches great importance to this brunch and arranges it quite well.
There were many plates on the table.
Bread, cherry pie, fried eggs, bacon, sausages, cereal, muffins, mashed potatoes, juices and soups.
Beiquan took a slice of bread and spread jam on it.
"Jason?"
Daniel, who was sitting across from him, suddenly spoke up:
"I haven't seen you in this house before."
Beiquan lifted his eyelids and glanced at Daniel:
"I went to China twenty years ago."
"Oh?"
Daniel dragged his voice, "Then you and your boyfriend met in China?"
He sneered:
"Should China not recognize same-sex marriage?"
Saying that, Daniel gestured towards Wei Fuyuan with a fork:
"Then he is an unrelated outsider, what qualifications does he have to stay here?"
Daniel's words were completely provocative, and even Hu An, who was sitting next to Beiquan, changed his face slightly, and his eyes wandered over and over the three parties, as if he was a little worried.
Beiquan seemed calm and relaxed.
He took another slice of bread, spread peanut butter on it, placed the two slices on top of each other, and cut two diagonally with a knife.
"Just because he's my boyfriend."
Beiquan handed half of the bread to Wei Fuyuan, who was sitting next to him, and then smiled at Daniel:
"When the lawyer contacted us, it should have said that you can bring people close to you, right?"
"Jason is right."
Juan seemed to be afraid that the two of them would quarrel, and hurriedly helped:
"Since the lawyer and the housekeeper say it's fine, then..."
"Huan, shut up!"
Daniel interrupted him impatiently:
"You were a sissy when you were young, so I'm afraid you're gay too?"
Hearing Daniel's words, the expression on Juan's face was obviously stunned, and then he swallowed his saliva, and really closed his mouth and didn't dare to speak.
But Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan understood the source of Daniel's inexplicable hostility.
This person is presumed to be a conservative, or some kind of homophobic person. Just seeing the two of them go out and enter together is not pleasing to the eye, and inexplicably wants to find fault.
The atmosphere at the table became a little tense for a while.
At this time, the young maid, Mary, came over with a pinch of orange juice, and asked in a somewhat bewildered way:
"Excuse me... does anyone need freshly squeezed orange juice?"
Daniel turned his attention to Mary.
"cough."
He cleared his throat and knocked on the table again: "Pour me a glass of orange juice."
It was a silent revelation of the confrontation.
However, Daniel no longer took the initiative to provoke, but Beiquan did not intend to let him go.
"Come on, try this."
Beiquan forked a piece of grilled sausage, put it to Wei Fuyuan's mouth, and smiled softly, "I think it's delicious."
Wei Fuyuan had never enjoyed the treatment of being fed by his own boss before, and his heart thumped twice.
But he knew that at such a time, he should cooperate with Beiquan's performance.
In order to keep the two of them as "lovers", Wei Fuyuan was embarrassed, turned his head, took the sausage from Beiquan's fork, and chewed it a few times.
"good to eat."
He smiled and said:
"very delicious."
Beiquan gave him a sweet and tender smile in return, and raised his hand to wipe off a little oil stain on the corner of his lips.
- As expected of my boss!
Wei Fuyuan licked his lips nervously, and there was still the soft and slightly cold touch of Beiquan's fingertips.
- The acting is so good that Oscar owes him a statuette!
He complained in his heart, then turned his head and forked a piece of soft-hearted egg on his plate, and fed it back like Beiquan did:
"You've eaten too little today, come and eat a little more."
Beiquan seems to be very satisfied with Wei Fuyuan's cooperation.
He ate the soft-hearted egg fed to him by his assistant, and gently touched the other's face, as if he could not extricate himself from the gentle village of the young wolf dog lovers.
This can make the opposite homophobic straight man disgusting.
Daniel's knife slammed into the white china plate, and then dropped to the ground.
The housekeeper and the maid went back to the kitchen, and he could only pick it up himself.
However, as soon as Daniel bent down, he saw through the tablecloth something that made him even more angry.
Across the table, Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan's thighs were tightly pressed together, and they seemed to be rubbing against each other intentionally or unintentionally, and their movements were extremely ambiguous.
"F*ck!"
Daniel threw down his knife and stood up with a "fly":
"I am full!"
He glared fiercely at Beiquan and Wei Fuyuan, pursed his lips, and said a word in a very low voice, but no one could hear it clearly.
"I'm going to see when the lawyer will come!"
After speaking, Daniel turned his head and left the restaurant.
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The lawyer had said he would be there when brunch was ready, but he seemed to be delayed by something and didn't arrive until four o'clock in the afternoon.
Today he did not bring an intern, but drove over alone.
After the lawyer arrived, he called the four heirs to the living room. After a brief self-introduction, he took out a copy of Chen Dafa's will and read it to them one by one.
According to Chen Dafa's will, Dai Boqian, Daniel, Hu An and Yamamoto Qiuyan will share the property in his name equally after his death.
The legal team has asked the finance department to do a preliminary valuation, and it is expected that each person will receive $102.2 million after deducting taxes.
When the lawyer said this number, Beiquan paid special attention to the expressions of the other three.
Juan was obviously very nervous, he kept swallowing saliva, his fingers grabbed the hem of his T-shirt unconsciously, and seemed a little overwhelmed.
Yamamoto Akihiko's face was tense and expressionless, and he couldn't tell what emotion it was.
Daniel was holding back his excitement and excitement, but the blue veins on his neck obviously exposed his true thoughts. His gaze moved in a certain direction involuntarily, then immediately retracted, put his hands on his knees, straightened his back, and seemed to listen intently.
Beiquan followed Daniel's wandering gaze and looked over...
-interesting.
The corners of his lips twitched slightly.
- It seems that something will happen soon.
And the lawyer's voice continued.
He told everyone that Mr. Chen Dafa has longed for family affection all his life, and regarded every child who had lived with him as his own son, so he was willing to leave all his property to them, hoping that the money would help four People get a splendid future.
But Chen Dafa also hoped to get the warmth from his relatives at the last moment of his life. Therefore, he asked the four heirs to stay by his side.
"Starting today, that is, July 20, at least a week, that is, until July 26."
Attorney said:
"Mr. Chen hopes you can live here and visit him in his room at least once a day."
"It's a condition that you have to fulfill when you get your inheritance."
He closed the copy of the will.
"If any of the four of you voluntarily relinquishes the right to inherit, or loses the inheritance qualification because he cannot fulfill the conditions, then the property he should have received will be equally distributed to the remaining three, and so on."
After speaking, the lawyer looked around the four young people in front of him:
"Do you have any questions?"
The living room was silent.
After about a minute, Daniel coughed softly.
"Cough, I heard that Mr. Chen's condition is very serious..."
He paused:
"I mean, if—just in case, in case!"
Daniel said:
"What if Mr. Chen passed away without persisting for seven days?"
"On this point, there are supplementary clauses in Mr. Chen's will."
The lawyer nodded:
"If Mr. Chen dies before the 26th of this month, the distribution of his estate will still be carried out in accordance with the original will. You can rest assured."
The author has something to say: Well, all the important characters of this case have appeared, and it's time to guess who is the villain, which everyone likes a lot|?ω?｀)