British 1986

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Looking at the gouache painting on the drawing board, Allen really couldn't complain.

Alan felt it was a loss to give him a pound to buy this thing.

But when he saw a line written in the lower left corner of the drawing paper, Allen's mood improved a lot.

"To my beloved Alan, written in the winter of 1993, Wales. C"

The last C is the artistic signature of the boss on the painting. Sometimes there are some small letters at the end, which can be ignored.

"Your Highness, your painting skills have improved a lot. I remember the last time I saw you painting, I was shocked. How long has it been since then? I actually feel that I have improved again. Your Highness, you are busy in your daily life. During the time of national affairs, I am actually able to achieve such an achievement, which really impresses me."

"Okay, okay."

Boss Cha seemed a little impatient with his words, but the grin on his face had given him away. Now there were no outsiders here. Boss Cha was very impressed by Allen's compliments. He smiled and pointed at Allen with the paintbrush in his hand and said: "Look at your new castle. It's deserted inside. The design is so unreasonable."

"What His Highness is saying is that I can't find any famous designers in the countryside here."

"I'm not talking about architectural design, but green layout design. Look at the middle of this place. There is only lawn. What does it look like? Is this a playground?!"

Allen turned his head and looked at the castle. He felt that this was good. In the future, when Rhubarb grows up, he can play hard on the grass. Even if he usually rides a horse or something, he can gallop on the lawn of his castle. , how good.

"If you do this, when I'm not busy for a while, I'll design it for you myself."

Boss Cha put his hands together and gestured towards the castle in the distance.

"When you enter here, you can ask the flower slave to build an arched corridor. Every summer, when you get home, you can pass by a green corridor formed by plants, and your whole mood will be much better."

"The two sides and the left side are made into French-style small gardens. When you have children in the future, you can do some parent-child activities in it."

"On the right, it is made into a Mediterranean-style garden, and a swimming pool can be added, where you can relax in the summer."

"Behind your castle, you can open up a few vegetable plots, plant organic vegetables, and build a chicken coop next to it. The chicken manure produced by the chicken coop can be used as fertilizer. You can also ask the servants to release the chickens and find them in the vegetable plot. Eat the bugs, and from now on, you can be self-sufficient in chickens here.”

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Seeing Boss Cha getting more and more excited as he talked, Allen's heart went cold. He had already imagined the picture that Boss Cha had painted for him, with the front yard turned into a garden and the backyard turned into a vegetable patch and chicken farm.

Do it like this.

The atmosphere he had worked so hard to create would be gone, and the previously mighty and domineering new castle would look like a newly built villa for a nouveau riche in the countryside.

This thing can no longer be called a castle, but an urban-rural fringe? Bath center?

Anyway, the more he thought about it, the more Alan felt that he didn't need to ask his boss to design it for him. He couldn't stand that style.

"Your Highness, forget about raising chickens. I think those things have a smell and they also like to crow. I don't like the noise."

"Um?!"

Boss Cha, who was talking excitedly, heard Allen's retort, the smile on his face froze, and he said sullenly: "You don't raise chickens yourself, do you just want to catch chickens at my place?"

"No, no. Your Highness, I am."

"It's settled. After I finish designing the layout, I will send you the people and equipment. When your chicken coop is built, I will make you the honorary president of the Welsh Chicken Association, and you will host it every year. At the awards ceremony for the entire Welsh breeding industry, I want to award medals to farmers who are good at raising each species! Give them to chickens too!"

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When he thought about wearing a suit, judging awards for a group of farmers holding chickens, and giving them medals and medals, and maybe taking a group photo together, the hairs on Allen's back stood up. He asked if the boss was crazy. ?

Your Highness, please don't be like this. I'm a little scared. How about we really rebel? We are so suppressed. We are already preparing to give medals to chickens.

"What's wrong? Are you excited just thinking about it?" Boss Cha looked at Allen who was in a daze and asked again with some complacency.

"Uh, Your Highness, I have to go to the airport to pick someone up later. How about we go back?"

"Well, if you need to go pick someone up, just go and don't worry about me. I'll take care of myself."

Boss Cha moved the scarf around his neck and greeted the two servants with some unfinished thoughts, preparing to ask them to continue walking with him.

More than a dozen silver Bentley stretch models formed an extremely luxurious fleet and drove into Cardiff International Airport arrogantly.

This is the first model made by Bentley since it was acquired by Allen. It is somewhat similar to the later Bentley Flying Spur, but the Bentley model now used by this team is one size larger than the Flying Spur, with a body length of 5.6 meters. The interior of the car provides an extremely large and comfortable rear seat space.

The King of Sweden, Gustav, took his son and young daughter. As soon as they got off the plane, they saw this motorcade driving on the runway, heading this way.

The Wales International Airport has been extremely busy these two days, not because there are more tourists coming, but because there are more nobles invited to watch the party.

In previous years, passenger flow was at its lowest during this period, but this year is different.

Many foreign nobles who came to attend the appointment, even if their families were not very wealthy, but since they accepted Allen's invitation to come to Wales, they had to maintain their face even if they were selling the pot!

Therefore, the most frequent arrivals at Wales International Airport these days are private planes and special planes.

Outside the slightly shabby one-story terminal building next to it, there were dozens of media who came to join in the fun and take photos. Every aristocratic gentleman could feel the feeling of a star walking on the red carpet when he got off the plane.

But today, as this extremely arrogant motorcade entered the airport runway, needless to say, some media outlets took the initiative to cover their filming equipment with something.

Nothing else, they were notified that some people can be photographed and some people cannot be photographed!

As for the person coming now, you can tell by just looking at the license plate number that he is the one who cannot be photographed. Don’t be too clever. If anyone dares to secretly photograph you, the consequences will be serious!

"Haha, Lao Gu! Your plane has actually been advanced."

After Allen waited for the car to stop, he opened his arms and gave Gustav a big hug when he got out of the car.

"Your convoy"

Gustav still hasn't come back to his senses. He knows that Allen is very rich and arrogant in Wales. He was given the bandit number of the Welsh bully. He knew all this information, but when he really got here, I discovered it only after observing on site.

The arrogance in his understanding does not seem to be the same thing as Allen's arrogance!

If he goes to the airport to pick someone up, he can let the car drive into the airport, but if he is like Allen, driving on the runway in such a swagger, even the media next to him will not dare to take pictures when he arrives.

A poor guy like him couldn't even imagine this kind of power.

"Haha, it's not even worth mentioning. Don't you know? I bought Bentley a few years ago. In the past few years, they have been handling internal affairs and doing research and development at the same time. The efficiency of small factories is slow. It took them several years to develop How about a model that satisfies me? Do you like it? When you go back, I will have someone give you one!"

"Brother, I like it, give me one too!"

Before Gustav could speak, Prince Bertil next to him actually took the initiative to speak, and flattered Allen first with a sweet mouth.

"Brother Allen, I'm very happy that my father brought me to the party this time. Brother, I haven't seen you for a long time. Can you take me to visit your castle?!"

"Haha, Bertil, you've grown taller again, okay, okay, give it away! I'll give it to you when you leave! You can go back with me today and stay at my place at night. When you come to Wales, treat this place as your own home, and you can play whatever you want. , if anything happens, tell me your name!"

Allen stretched out his hand and rubbed Prince Bertil's head a few times. He glanced sideways and saw the little girl standing next to Bertil. He had the impression that this girl was Gustav's youngest daughter, the elder of his family. three.

Madeleine wore an extremely luxurious white gauze dress, a white fur coat, and a cute little hat on her head. Her little face turned red from the cold.

Maybe it's because little girls develop earlier than boys. Madeleine, who is only 11 years old this year, is already over 1.4 meters tall. At first glance, she looks a bit like a big girl.

Seeing that Allen's eyes were finally on her, Madeleine bowed and made a ladylike gesture and said with a smile: "Brother Allen, I'm glad to see you. It's my first time in Wales, so I'm bothering you!"

"Hahaha! Okay, okay, Madeleine must be freezing. Get in the car quickly and let's talk about it when we get back!"

Allen nodded to Madeleine without thinking much. He had no interest in this kind of half-grown girl who had not yet grown up. His only feeling was that this little girl was much more polite than her sister, the crown prince. She is much more beautiful, as if she was born from a different mother.

"Bertil, you and Madeleine sit in the back car, and your father and I take the other car. We'll chat on the way."

"OK!"

As soon as Gustav got in the car, he was overwhelmed by the interior of the car. Let's say luxury. It can be considered luxurious. This is the main selling point of Bentley and Rolls-Royce, but Allen's car has The interior feels a bit weird to Gustav.

After the team left the airport, Allen touched the armrest between the two seats and smiled: "This is a special request by me. My Bentley only produces four-seater models, just to make it more comfortable when sitting in the back."

Gustave looked at Allen's hand, specifically the armrest that Allen was touching.

This thing was so inconsistent. This car looked like a new car at first glance. He couldn't figure out why the decoration on the armrest in the middle was a darkened and old gold-inlaid ornament, and it looked very old. feel.

Moreover, he could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the shape of this ornament. Should he say that it was the traditional red dragon shape from Wales?

Its neck is much longer than the traditional red dragon shape, and it looks very fierce.

Seeing Gustav's confused look, Allen felt happy.

His personality has completely changed now. If he has a good thing, he doesn't want to hide it, but find someone to show it off and show off his face.

The jewelry on the armrest has a lot of history. It is the most expensive thing in the car and is also Allen's favorite thing.

"What? Do you see something wrong?"

"Well, this ornament of yours looks like an antique. It looks familiar to me. I think I've seen it in the Royal Museum of Ontario, Canada, and elsewhere. I..."

As Gustav spoke, he reached out and touched the armrest. The surface was extremely smooth and the shape was like a faucet. The more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

The dragon's horns extend back along the neck, and the dragon's mouth opens wide, as if it is about to spit out fire.

"Haha, your grandfather used to love Chinese history, so you should know this thing. This is what they stole back from Luoyang, China, seventy years ago and collected it in the British Museum. It includes the Emperor Zhou's carriages and horses, and the dragon's head. .”

Allen raised his chin, patted the dragon jewelry on the armrest, and gave Gustav some science knowledge about the origin of this thing.

"Oh, I remembered. Why does it look so familiar? I saw this thing before when I went to the British Museum. Is this a replica of yours?"

"snort!"

Just a copy of chicken feathers, just this thing. Is the copy worthy of his identity as Mr. Allen? !

Allen snorted with great disdain, said nothing, and only smiled at Gustav.

He had been sponsoring goldsmiths in China in the past few years. Li Zhi opened a jewelry company to earn some pocket money from the jewelry made by these goldsmiths, but Allen did not use them that way anymore.

With his acquaintances in the British Museum, he was able to get all the dimensions of this thing, and asked the goldsmiths to copy it one to one according to its appearance. It took him more than a year, and he had just completed the distressing some time ago. When he was working, he couldn't wait to have someone replace the real thing from the British Museum with a replica.

As for the British Museum, a bunch of stupid foreigners know nothing about it, and these things will be ruined in their hands. It is better to let them stay in the hands of Master Allen, so that the treasures are not covered with dust.

Although Allen didn't speak, his smile said everything, and Gustave suddenly understood.

Allen is so shady, even the British Museum doesn’t let him go! It’s really hard to guard against domestic thieves day and night. If this guy dares to get a foreign cultural relic out of it today, will he be able to return it in the future?

"Don't worry, Lao Gu. If you have any requirements for the interior of the car I will give you, feel free to mention it. If you like something, just tell me and I will think of a way to help you get it."

"No, no. I don't use these old things, I just use normal things. Hey, is there something wrong with the leather of your seat?"

Gustav didn't like these things that Allen liked, otherwise he wouldn't have given his antiques to Allen without taking them seriously. Just when he was about to make some other requests, he suddenly realized that he touched As for the seats, the leather feel of this seat is very different from the usual leather seats in the car.

"Oh, tell me this. This is a lion I shot when I was hunting in The Gambia. These seats are all wrapped in lion skin. The golden color is so festive."

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Gustave was speechless when he heard that the lion skin was used. This was too wasteful.