Merit Book·Xinghai

"You like drinking very much?"

A middle-aged man sat directly in front of Rong Yuan, sniffed and sniffed, showing an unbearable expression.

"Oh my god, the quality of the wine here is really bad. There is a cheap smell in the air. Gary, bring the bottle of wine I brought here."

"Yes, my lord."

A man in a dark blue uniform with the appearance of a housekeeper turned and went out, and came back shortly afterwards, with a white handkerchief in his hand, holding a bottle of expensive wine that could be felt just by looking at the packaging.

"Hello, sir. Do you need any service?" Ahiruo came over and asked respectfully.

"No, I don't want you." The middle-aged man waved his hand, glanced around the restaurant, pointed to a waitress and said, "I want her to come."

Nowadays, the service work of most restaurants is done by robots, and there are generally only two kinds of restaurants where intelligent creatures serve as waiters——

One is that the business is so poor that they can’t even afford service robots, and the shopkeeper can only go to battle with his family;

The other is a relatively high-end restaurant like this one, which will spend a lot of money to hire good-looking humans or other intelligent creatures to act as waiters to improve the restaurant's quality.Many people think that the service of robots is soulless, and being served by the same kind makes them feel more dignified.

Therefore, Aheiruo was not surprised by such a request, it showed a smiling face and said: "Okay, please wait a moment, Qianmei will be here to serve you soon."

Not long after Ah Heiruo left, the waitress named Qianmei trotted over.She looks ordinary, but has a proud figure, especially a soft and fluffy tail that swings involuntarily behind her. There are some natural red lines around her big watery eyes, which make her ordinary appearance attractive.

Qianmei bowed, with a thin layer of sweat on the tip of her nose.She said in a gentle voice, "Hello, I am Qianmei, the waiter. What service do you need?"

The middle-aged man's gaze wandered around Qianmei's body, and his smile deepened. He took the wine bottle from the butler without looking at it, handed it over and said, "Open this bottle for me."

"Oh well."

Qianmei hastily stretched out both hands to pick it up, and the middle-aged man's fingers rubbed over her fingers, whether intentionally or not.The girl trembled, and hastily withdrew her hand, took out the tools she carried with her, opened the wine bottle, and handed it over respectfully.

A rich and mellow wine fragrance immediately spread out.

"Tut tsk tsk." The middle-aged man shook his head, did not reach out to pick it up, but sighed in dissatisfaction: "You know? Graman wine made from seven kinds of fruits has a history of 350 and five years and is worth 15 stellar coins. Such wine must be refrigerated at minus [-] degrees Celsius for [-] minutes, and then placed on a towel soaked in ice water Open it again on the bottle, so as not to lose the original taste. You held it with your hand just now, and opened it with a click! It's over, it's over, this bottle of wine has been ruined by you."

"This... this... what should I do?" Qianmei didn't know the truth, she panicked suddenly, her hands holding the wine bottle trembled as if she was holding a bunch of bombs in her hands.She didn't dare to say that the other party hadn't told her the procedure of drinking, so she could only keep apologizing: "I'm sorry, I don't know...I...I..."

The middle-aged man asked seriously: "Although I don't have any hope, I still want to ask - can you pay me one hundred thousand star coins?"

Qianmei shook her head with tears in her eyes, and murmured, "I'm sorry...I...I don't have any money..."

"Oh, then we can only do it in another way..." The middle-aged man reached for the wine bottle, held the girl's hand by the way, leaned closer, with a smile on his face, and said in a low voice, "Maybe would you like……"

"Cough, cough!"

At this moment, the housekeeper Galiai who was standing behind the man coughed twice.The interrupted middle-aged man looked at him with displeasure on his face, but saw him staring straight ahead with a serious face, without looking at him, and quietly pointed a finger forward.

Following the direction of that finger, the middle-aged man saw Rong Yuan sitting opposite him.He had already looked away from the window at this time, frowning slightly, watching his every move, although he hadn't spoken yet, it was obvious that he was very dissatisfied.

The man blinked his eyes, and the memory slowly came back to him. It took a few seconds before he seemed to remember what he was here for.He laughed twice, let go of the girl's hand, took the wine bottle back, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, I'm just kidding you! This is just a bottle of ordinary wine that only costs [-] star coins. Although the bottle was opened The method is a bit wrong, but the impact on the taste is very small, it doesn't matter at all!"

"Five...five thousand star coins..."

The waiter Qianmei, who was relieved just now, repeated it dully.Five thousand star coins, she can't make so much money in a year.

"Okay, okay, it's okay, you can go to work."

The middle-aged man waved his hand and didn't look at the girl again. He held the wine bottle and said to Rong Yuan: "Just now I saw that you like to drink? But that kind of wine has no taste at all, it's like that...washing pot water. My hand Although the one here is not the best one, it is not bad."

As he spoke, he reached out for Rong Yuan's wine glass, and said in a charity tone: "Come, let me have a taste of what real good wine tastes like."

Rong Yuan is in a bad mood right now.He glanced coldly at the man talking to himself, and said, "Get lost!"

The middle-aged man had obviously been in a high position for a long time and could not tolerate any disobedience. Hearing this, his face instantly became very ugly, and he was about to get angry, but he suddenly thought of something, and he forcibly held back his anger, and put down the wine bottle heavily , but still squeezed out an ugly smile on his face, and said:

"You child, why do you speak so impolitely? How did your mother teach you? But it doesn't matter. I know you used to live in a slum area. It is understandable to be rude. This time I can forgive you. But you will enter the upper class later. Society can no longer be like this, we must pay attention to etiquette..."

Rong Yuan looked at the hypocritical enthusiasm and concern on the rather handsome face of the opposite person, and stopped uttering bad words, interrupting his words: "So? You came to me for no reason, what exactly are you trying to say?" ?”

The man was stunned, and blinked his eyes: "Huh? Didn't I say it?"

He looked at Rong Yuan in confusion, and then looked at Jia Liai behind him as if asking questions.

The butler shook his head with a stern face, not letting himself look like a fool.

"Oh, so that's the case, all right."

The middle-aged man raised his collar, raised his eyebrows, looked at Rong Yuan, and asked suggestively, "Do you know who I am?"

"Who are you?" Rong Yuan asked back.

The middle-aged man smiled confidently, raised his chin slightly, and said in a low voice, "I am the chief of the maintenance department, Bailiyun."

He was a little disappointed that he didn't see expressions such as shock, excitement, and flattery on the young man's face.After brewing his feelings for a while, he said affectionately, "At the same time, I am still your biological father, Ah Zhe."

Unfortunately, he is not good at acting.His so-called "affectionate" is hypocritical to the extreme in the eyes of others, but a bit absurd.

Jia Liai closed his eyes silently, feeling horrible.

"Heh." Rong Yuan chuckled lightly, with a sense of absurd déjà vu.

Once on Earth, something similar happened.The man who was born but not raised stood in front of him and said something like "I am your father blablabla" to him, how similar it is today.

The difference is that that one is real and this one is fake.

But irresponsibility, arrogance, arrogance, self-righteousness, etc., seem to be carved out of the same mold.

"roll."

he said lazily.

"You!" Bailiyun stood up angrily, endured it, and said with suppressed anger: "Do you think I'm lying to you? Just search on the star network, and my identity is officially certified on it , and my photo, you should know that I am indeed the head of the maintenance department after seeing it. You can contact your mother and ask her if she followed me back then. For someone like me, if you are not sure that you are My son, how could I come to you and say such a thing? Do you think I will lack children? It's just that you and your mother have lived too hard these years and want to make up for you. "

Rong Yuan did not verify his identity as he thought, but sat motionless on the seat, raised his eyes and said indifferently: "I am not your son, and the compensation for being late for 27 years is meaningless, please Come back!"

Looking into his eyes, Bailiyun's anger suddenly suppressed. He took a deep breath and said calmly: "I know what you want, but it is impossible to recognize your ancestors. With my identity and status , if I publicly admit the identity of an illegitimate child and take it home, the damage to my reputation will be very serious, and my status may even be endangered. What's more, my wife has a prominent family background... Frankly speaking, she is also quite jealous. She absolutely I will not tolerate you and your mother appearing in our lives. I will really harm you by bringing you back. But I can guarantee that I can give you everything my other sons have, and I guarantee that it will not be more expensive than any other son. One point less people. I can also use my contacts to pave the way for you and help you reach a higher position, how about it?"

"What about the conditions?" Rong Yuan said, "You wouldn't say that it was because of the sudden love of your father after many years that you want to divide the family property to me, right?"

"Of course there are conditions." Bailiyun thought that Rong Yuan was about to agree, so he smiled confidently: "I just want you to do a little thing. Aren't you working in the Supervision Department now? Tell some people what you see and hear, and just pass on some news secretly."

"Don't you know that the Ministry of Supervision has always killed people without blinking an eye. If they find out that I do this kind of thing, what will happen?" Rong Yuan said.

"Then you should be more subtle, so you don't get caught." Bailiyun said impatiently, and then softened his tone and began to coax: "You should know that there is no free lunch in this world, but As long as you take a little risk, you can get wealth that you can't spend in a few lifetimes. Isn't this a good deal? How many people can sacrifice their lives for thousands of stars, and now gold and silver and a bright future are all at stake In front of you, as long as you reach out, you can reach it, why are you hesitating? What's more, didn't you have a life-saving grace for that Todd? Even if you were really exposed, he might not necessarily do anything to you!"

Looking at his mouth opening and closing, Rong Yuan couldn't help thinking, if the real Mu Zhe was sitting here and heard these words, how sad he would be!

The deal that Bailiyun mentioned is indeed a good deal for most people - as long as you sell some information, you can get an astronomical amount of property. Few people can insist on themselves under such temptation.

However, the premise is that it is an unrelated stranger who proposes the deal, not his biological father.

As a father, he neither raises nor teaches, and uses property as a temptation to push his son into the abyss with his own hands, asking him to betray his promise, asking him to repay kindness, asking him to risk life and death, and asking him to be an ordinary boy. A man is in the midst of a group of killers, and he doesn't care whether he will suffer terrible reprisals for it.

Rong Yuan smiled and said: "Get out, don't wait for me to say something worse. I have already recorded what you just said and sent it to Director Tao De."

He turned his light screen so that Bailiyun could clearly see the words "sent" on it.

"You, you, you are crazy!" Bailiyun was startled, and almost jumped up from the ground, his face turned pale with fright, "You...you do this...don't you be afraid that Todd will suspect you?"

Undoubtedly, if that vicious Todd knew that he had provoked his subordinates to betray the Supervision Department, he would definitely try his best to get revenge on him!

Rong Yuan said indifferently: "I trust him probably a little more than I trust you!"

"Unreasonable! Unreasonable!"

Baili Yun was so angry that he didn't even want to look at Rong Yuan anymore, so he turned around and walked away angrily.

Rong Yuan sighed softly.Of course he didn't send the video to Todd, it's just that this method can drive Bailiyun away as quickly as possible.After all, Todd knew that he was not the real Mu Zhe, and the alliance between the two of them was not one of superior and subordinate.

but……

Sometimes when Mutel talks about the past, it is obvious that he still has nostalgia for that man in his speech, and his admiration is implied.Although she herself was disfigured because of this and half her life was rough, she never felt much hatred towards Bailiyun, and she never even told others that her son is Bailiyun's biological son, so as not to damage his reputation .

If she had explained that Mu Zhe was the illegitimate son of the head of the maintenance department after giving birth to her son, even if his identity was not recognized, the life of the mother and son would be much easier.

Rong Yuan knew what Mutel was thinking a long time ago, so he never tried to seek justice for her.But he didn't expect that Bailiyun himself would be so unbearable.

It can be seen that women in love are probably blind.

Presumably, Bailiyun's meeting today was what Davalo said before—let him see her energy, right?

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives.Just as Rong Yuan thought about it, he sensed that a familiar person appeared again.

The woman who covered her face with a colorful mask and wrapped herself in a black cloak sat in the seat where Bailiyun had just sat, and smiled confidently: "That old guy Bailiyun was also bluffed by you. You didn't Didn't send the video to Todd, did you?"