Chen Xiaomin’s wife looked at the assistant standing in front of her and glanced at Chen Xiaomin sitting on the sofa.

"Old man, do you want your assistant to compete with me for patience?"

Chen Xiaomin frowned, put down his crossed legs, patted his pants, "Dennis, let your wife come in."

Assistant Chen Xiaomin immediately stepped aside to let Mrs. Chen Out of the entry position.

Mrs. Chen walked to the sofa and looked at the little girl who was looking at her. She looked at it carefully for a while and shook her head regretfully.

"You are the unlucky designer who was tricked by this old man, right? Miss Lin."

Before Lin Yilan withdrew her gaze, she saw the cross necklace hanging around Mrs. Chen's neck, and she held Mrs. Chen's outstretched right hand.

"Hello Mrs. Chen, I'm Lin Yilan, nice to meet you."

After letting go of her hand, Mrs. Chen sat down next to Chen Xiaomin with her bag in hand.

After she sat down, Chen Xiaomin frowned subconsciously, and then leaned closer to the side.

This scene was caught by Lin Yilan, who was sitting opposite.

She picked up the juice on the table, unscrewed the bottle cap, and said with pretense of admiration: "Chairman Chen, Madam Chairman, I really envy you two. We still have such a good relationship after so many years together."

Mrs. Chen exaggerated Chen Xiaomin laughed and glanced at her.

Mrs. Chen raised her eyebrows disdainfully and then put away the smile on her face.

She looked curiously at Lin Yilan who was sitting opposite, "Can I ask why you said that?"

Lin Yilan stared, pretending to be confused and confused and said, "Hasn't Chairman Chen always believed in Buddhism? He Now he plans to build a church for you in the resort. For this project, he has contacted me countless times. "

Mrs. Chen, your husband really loves you."

She seemed to be in a jewelry store now. The salesman who sells diamond rings to couples here uses the same words as them.

As a salesperson, I see so many couples who seem to be in love with each other every day, and I have long seen through whether the "customers" love is fake or true under the skin. But when facing them, she, the salesperson, still had to praise their feelings.

To her, this is the best way to understand couples clients.

Moreover, it was Chairman Chen who first said that he and his wife have a good relationship. She uses this method to understand customers. I can't blame her.

Mrs. Chen looked at Lin Yilan's eyes and was stunned for a moment. She lowered her head and laughed softly.

"Chen Xiaomin, you actually used this statement to deceive other designers outside. You are really wicked."

She wiped the overflowing tears from the corners of her eyes and glanced at him with disdain.

The blood vessels on Chen Xiaomin's forehead twitched. He looked at Lin Yilan and saw the serious look on her face, and he gradually put away his suspicion.

Lin Yilan probably didn't do this on purpose, so it seemed that he had really deceived Lin Yilan.

"Chen Xiaomin, why do you have to hand over the decision-making power of the person in charge of the large-scale cooperation project between the two groups to a young girl?!"

The voice outside the office door was like thunder. The three people heard it very clearly.

Mrs. Chen took out the sunglasses from her bag and put them on her face.

"This old man surnamed Pei is also careless. You and him are just the same."

Lin Yilan glanced at Mrs. Chen and felt that she was much more interesting than she thought.

"Chen Xiaomin, please tell me clearly, what exactly do you think?"

Mr. Pei opened the door and walked in without knocking.

Chen Xiaomin's assistant didn't dare to stop him.

Mrs. Chen sneered when she saw this scene.

She looked at Lin Yilan, whose eyes were shining, and rested her elbows on the armrests of the sofa.

"Designer Lin, do you think this juice tastes good? I've tasted it before and thought it was so delicious. Only an old man like Chen Xiaomin who can't keep up with the times would like it."

Lin Yilan lowered her head and looked at the cup in her hand. The glass bottle also tasted bad to her.

But her habits do not support her disliking the food provided by her master in front of her.

She smiled coquettishly at Mrs. Chen.

This look made Mrs. Chen laugh with joy, "It really tastes bad."

On the other side, Mr. Pei and Chen Xiaomin were already quarreling, and their voices became louder and louder, almost slamming the table.

However, when the voices of these two 70- and 80-year-old men shook the sky, someone impatiently tapped the coffee table.

"Pa!"

"Can you two old men be more respectful? You are so shameless when you discuss and criticize others in front of others. Are you relying on your old age to show off your old age?"

Mrs. Chen blew the palm of her hand.

Only then did Mr. Pei realize that Lin Yilan and Mrs. Chen were also in the office.

After being embarrassed for a second, he became serious again.

He put his hands behind his back and walked up to Lin Yilan. "Are you Lin Yilan?"

Lin Yilan nodded calmly, stood up and said hello to Mr. Pei, "Hello, Mr. Pei."

After so long, he I finally met my grandson’s rumored girlfriend.

He didn't know how to describe this feeling.

If it were other grandsons, he would not be so excited, but the Pei Yan family was different. This was the grandson he raised and raised by himself who finally had someone of the opposite sex around him! !

When his other grandchildren were having girlfriends, the Pei Yan family was studying. When his other grandchildren were having girlfriends one after another, the Pei Yan family was starting a business. When his grandson got married, the Pei Yan family joined the group and started working. .

When he was about to embrace his third great-grandson, the boy from the Pei Yan family finally got a girlfriend.

Although he currently has a bad relationship with the brat from the Pei Yan family, he is still somewhat relieved that the Pei Yan family can have a girlfriend.

After glancing at Lin Yilan a few times, he glanced at an old woman wearing sunglasses indoors.

"Hey, I asked why Chen Xiaomin's office smells like foreigners today. It turns out it's you, an old woman who believes in foreign religions."

"Why did you finally find out that you are blind, so did you put on your sunglasses?"

Lin Yilan was stunned. Suddenly, the grandfather of Pei Yan's family has a very vicious mouth.

Mrs. Chen couldn't bear it, slammed the table, stood up, and took off her sunglasses, "You old man named Pei, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"You don't protect your own grandson's girlfriend, no wonder your grandson and you Centrifugal."

Mr. Pei's anger suddenly emerged, "That's better than you, a person without grandchildren!" The

Sichuan pattern on Chen Xiaomin's eyebrows was squeezed out, and he stood up expressionlessly, "How about that? Can I make room for you to argue?"

Mr. Pei stamped the crutch in his hand, "Old man Chen, don't change the subject for me. Tell me why you insist on letting this little girl Lin Yilan sign. When it comes to design contracts, who is the person in charge of the project?

Where do you put us at Hengxin?”

Chen Xiaomin walked back behind the desk and avoided the crutch in Mr. Pei's hand.

"My proposal, doesn't it mean that your Pei family has an inherent advantage? Do you want to catch the thief here?"

Mr. Pei calmed down, "No, I can't accept this kind of cooperation."

When he wanted to turn around and leave the office, Chen Xiaomin looked at his back, "Mr. Pei, are you sure you want to leave now? Without your Hengxin, I can barely build the Kowloon project. But without me, your Hengxin, how will you enter Kowloon?"

Mr. Pei's footsteps After a pause, his eyes narrowed slightly, "Chen Xiaomin, are you threatening me?"

The temperature in the air cooled down instantly.

The atmosphere went from being hot at the beginning to freezing.

After Lin Yilan felt the unkind aura of Mr. Pei, she silently moved her buttocks and tried to distance herself from him.

Seeing this, Mrs. Chen stood up with her sunglasses and said, "Are you leaving? Designer Lin, didn't you say that the church in the resort was designed for me? As a designer, don't you need to know what my client's thoughts are? "

Lin Yilan saw that she was helping to relieve the siege, and immediately picked up her bag and stood up.

"Okay, Mrs. Chen, that would be disrespectful."

"Wait a moment."

Chen Xiaomin looked away from Mr. Pei and looked at the two people who stood up to leave.

He walked to his wife and adjusted the silk scarf around her neck.

"Madam, I believe you will give some appropriate advice to Miss Lin, right?"

This action made Mrs. Chen feel dazed for a moment, but she quickly came back to her senses, with a sarcastic smile on her lips.

"Don't worry, Chen! Xiao! Min!"

The two spoke in very low voices. Lin Yilan, who was standing at the door, could only hear a few words.

But after she took in the interaction between the two people, she felt a little strange.

She knew from the beginning that the relationship between Chen Xiaomin and his wife was not good, although the only one in the Chen family who could be called Mrs. Chen was the one in front of her.

But the Chen family also has a second wife, a third wife and a fourth wife.

Mrs. Chen was actually the eldest wife of the Chen family. She originally had two children, a son and a daughter.

His son died in a car accident shortly after getting married, and his daughter-in-law died together while she was pregnant.

From then on, Mrs. Chen seemed to have started to believe in Christianity.

Logically speaking, Mrs. Chen’s family background and living environment make it easier for her to believe in Buddhism. But according to interviews at the time, she felt sick at the thought of becoming a person of faith with her husband.

The death of Mrs. Chen's son was a great blow and hurt to Mrs. Chen. She was directly hospitalized at that time.

The fourth wife was with Chen Xiaomin in the name of taking care of her.

It is said that Mrs. Chen broke up with Chen Xiaomin because of this incident. Even after her daughter got married, she moved out of the Chen family and lived alone. In addition to going to church to pray, she also volunteered at the orphanage.

All these things were read by Lin Yilan from a suspected pirated book she bought at a newsstand near the Hong Kong Airport.

Originally, she was just using it to kill time, but later because of the drama created by Chairman Chen, she became interested in the Chen family.

When she went to collect information about the Chen family, she found that there was no news about the eldest wife in the Chen family. That's when she began to wonder whether the content in this book was true.

Looking at it now, she felt more and more that there should be a lot of real information in that book.

Looking at Mrs. Chen walking towards her, her face immediately showed the same smile as when facing customers.

"Mrs. Chen, please!"

Mrs. Chen smiled and glanced at Lin Yilan, then walked to her, "Let's go, I invite you to taste the delicious juice."

"Don't wait to go somewhere else later . "Where, when people ask you what good drinks are there in Hong Kong City, the orange juice in Chairman Chen's office comes to mind."

Lin Yilan smiled and continued her words cooperatively, "Well, luckily I only took a sip, and now my mouth is full." There's no smell in it anymore."

The two entered the elevator.

Lin Yilan glanced at Mrs. Chen secretly and found that the smile on her face had disappeared.

After she lost her smile, the nasolabial folds on her face became particularly obvious.

She didn't know whether it was because of the influence of the elevator lights, but Lin Yilan always felt that the wrinkles and ravines on Mrs. Chen's face were much deeper than in the office.

He looked tired and miserable.

"Designer Lin, I have seen all your projects. I have seen photos of the built ones, and I have seen the design drawings of the unfinished ones. You are indeed a very thoughtful designer."

"Although there are not many buildings, you have them all. " Very good. I don't know if you have ever accepted a project that you were so reluctant to accept, but since you have accepted it, please be prepared carefully and don't let rubbish affect your reputation and future."

Mrs. Chen said expressionlessly . She sighed and said, "Girls' career development is inherently more difficult. Don't add another stone to your difficult road."

Mrs. Chen's words were forceful, and she was not at all as graceful as she showed in the office.

But compared to the words in the office, the words in the elevator were more sincere.

Lin Yilan nodded and tightened the strap of her bag, "Don't worry, Mrs. Chen, no one can affect my future. Now that I have accepted the project, I will do it well."

Architecture is just an objective material, it has no thoughts. There is no good or bad. Its existence should not be treated unfairly because of its owner.

This church design was a very big challenge for her.

No matter in her previous life or in this life, she had never had the opportunity to design a church.

She will cherish this opportunity.

The hand holding the bag gradually tightened, as if to cheer himself up.

When I stepped out of the elevator, it was noon outside, and the October sun was still very dazzling.

October in Hong Kong City is just not as hot as September.

The cars on the road were jammed together for unknown reasons, and car horns sounded from time to time, making the impatient people even more anxious.

Lin Yilan sighed, took out a baseball cap from her bag and put it on her head.

The sigh was like a switch, opening Mrs. Chen's chat box.

"I have seen the Aizhen Memorial Hall you designed. The entrance passage is very imaginative, and it is my favorite of all your designs."

"I told Qiu Xiuzhen before that I would let you go to the construction site in advance to see the memorial hall. Regarding the construction situation, Qiu Xiuzhen also agreed, but this person disappeared for me."

She pushed the sunglasses on her nose depressedly, "I don't know where she went."

Lin Yilan was stunned for a moment, thinking of Kang. Wei, she felt that Qiu Xiuzhen might have hid in Conway's house.

"By the way, did Qiu Xiuzhen tell you what the Liu family did to her?" Mrs. Chen suddenly said this.

Lin Yilan stopped, her eyes blank, "What happened? What did the Liu family do?"

Mrs. Chen rolled her eyes, "Okay, just pretend it for me. How could you not know? That corridor is so obviously designed that the Liu family will gain benefits by eating Qiu Xiuzhen."

Lin Yilan scratched stupidly On the back of her head, she neither admitted nor said otherwise. Ambiguity was the best thing to do in this kind of thing.

At this time, a drinking bar on the roadside caught Mrs. Chen's attention.

She took Lin Yilan's arm, pointed to the drinking bar not far away, and said: "I used to bring my daughter to this place. But since she gave birth to the baby, she hasn't had much time to come out and play with me, and now she has I sent you from heaven."

"I heard that you have been working since you came to Hong Kong City. Do you want to consider letting me play with you? I am an old Hong Kong person, and there are many people in Hong Kong City. A young master from a rich family like Pei Yan’s family wouldn’t know about interesting places.”

These words really sounded like a strange aunt who abducted girls. Lin Yilan thought for a while and nodded

, "Okay, then I'll take care of Mrs. Chen during the next period of time."

Mrs. Chen wrinkled her nose, "Don't call me Mrs. Chen, call me Sister Xiaoyi."

After that, she looked at the person in front of her and said, "No, let's call her Grandma Yi."

"Your face is too tender. I can't bear to hear you call me sister."

Lin Yilan was stunned for a moment and smiled crookedly. She stood up and said, "I'd better call you sister Yi."

Mrs. Chen rubbed her arms, "Hey, I'm getting goosebumps. Stop shouting. Just call me grandma."

"Well, I'll call you Yi . Madam, how are you?" Lin Yilan snapped her fingers.

The person in front of her obviously didn't like being called such a title that showed her age, but Mrs. Chen couldn't accept the word "sister", so she would just call her "ma'am".

It is an internationally accepted title and will never offend anyone.

Mrs. Chen, oh no, Ms. Yi is happy with this title.

She took Lin Yilan's wrist and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to drink juice."

The bar where Ms. Yi brought Lin Yilan was the most popular bar in Hong Kong City. What they are most famous for is their freshly squeezed juices.

Many people come here to queue up to buy juice every day.

There are even services for purchasing and queuing on behalf of others.

As one of the many impatient people waiting in line, Ms. Yi skillfully found a person waiting in line and paid for his seat.

As a result, the two were directly promoted from the bottom of the team to the top.

The person who received the money took care of himself and stood at the back of the line.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yilan lowered her voice and asked curiously: "What if the person waiting in line is almost there but hasn't asked him to buy a seat yet?"

Ms. Yi looked towards the back of the queue. At a glance, "I don't know, maybe it's all in vain."

"Business is full of risks, and there is no chance of making money all the time."

Lin Yilan was a little strange, why did she suddenly sigh like this? When she was about to ask a question, Ms. Yi opened her mouth to speak again.

"Where do you want to go? What are you curious about? Tell me, and I will arrange an itinerary for you."

Lin Yilan pondered for a moment, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "Ms. Yi, if you believe in Christianity, does it represent you and Hong Kong City? Are the churches well connected?"

Ms. Yi nodded, "Of course, I don't know how much money I have to donate to them every year. What's wrong? Can you mainlanders also believe in religion?"

Lin Yilan asked, "Why not? Believe in religion? There is freedom of religion in the mainland, but I am not interested in practicing religion. "

"I just asked you to take me to visit all the churches in Hong Kong City. After all, I want to design a church building this time, so I can't even do an on-site inspection. If not, why don’t we just start designing? That might be a bit inappropriate. "

In her opinion, the church is also one of the practical buildings.

It meets the faith and worship needs of believers, so even if she wants to play tricks on this building, she must clearly understand the most basic functions of the church building.

The best way to understand something is to practice it.

So Lin Yilan came up with the idea of ​​following Ms. Yi to the church.

"If possible, wouldn't it be convenient for you to take me to a church service? I'm curious about what the church is like when it's in use." She asked cautiously, not knowing if it would be a taboo.

Ms. Yi glanced at Lin Yilan and suddenly understood why so many people liked her design.

"For normal worship, you can definitely go. I'm not sure about the other things. I need to ask the priest and nun in the church. If they agree, you can stay with me in the church for a few days."

Lin Yilan glanced at Guang, clasping her hands together with a grateful look on her face, said, "Excuse me. Thank you."

Ms. Yi couldn't stand her cute look, so she couldn't help but rub Lin Yilan's head, "You're so polite, aren't you helping me too?" Do you want to design?"

"The apple juice and orange juice are ready,"

the waiter pushed the two plastic cups to the window.

Lin Yilan picked up the straw and handed it to Ms. Yi, then picked up her own apple juice.

As soon as the two of them walked out of the drinking bar, they heard a "click" sound.

Lin Yilan, who was often followed and photographed during this period, had developed her eyesight. With a quick glance, she saw the paparazzi holding the camera.

"Ms. Yi, someone just took a photo of us, do you mind?"

Ms. Yi gave her a confused look, "Where are they?"

Lin Yilan pointed across the road.

In an instant, the eyes of the two parties met in the air.

The paparazzi picked up the camera, turned around and ran away immediately.

Lin Yilan thought for a while. She didn't seem to see Ms. Yi's news in the newspaper. She pushed the drink cup into Ms. Yi's hand.

Turning around and pointing at the paparazzi opposite, she shouted: "Stop, don't run!"

Ms. Yi stared blankly at Lin Yilan who was ejected like a bullet, and stretched out her hand in the air.

"...Don't be impulsive."

The two people across the road seemed to be in a life-or-death race.

The patrolman on the road, worried about what had happened, followed him.

So on this day, people of all sizes on the streets of Hong Kong City saw a series of people running on the road.

The paparazzi holding the camera gasped and looked back at Lin Yilan, "Miss Lin, please let me go."

"No, no, give me the photos of Ms. Yi and Mrs. Chen." Lin Yilan gasped Angry, he shouted at the paparazzi.

The patrolman behind was also panting and blowing the whistle on his chest from time to time.

"The two in front, stop, stop running!"

"I'm sorry, why is there still Sir? Miss Lin, have you committed a crime?" The paparazzi sped up their running speed in fright.

Lin Yilan looked back in confusion, and then shouted unjustly: "You must have made a mistake, otherwise why would the police chase us!"

"I am an innocent and good citizen!"

The paparazzi was also wronged. Apart from secretly taking photos, he did nothing illegal, not even running a red light.

When Lin Yilan saw the paparazzi in front of her slowing down, she immediately rushed over.

Grit your teeth and sprint!

Hey.

She grabbed the collar of the kid's neck and said, "Stop running, kid, I caught you."

The paparazzi's legs went weak, and he pulled out the film with abandon and gave it to Lin Yilan.

"Take it away."

Lin Yilan looked at the film in her hand stupidly, "Are you reporters so happy?"

The paparazzi glanced at her with resentment, "It's not that I'm happy, but that I was defeated by your physical strength. " I will never accept the task of following you again. It's too troublesome." "Ms. Lin

, I never heard that you didn't allow others to follow you. Why did you change your mind when you came to me?"

Looking at the film in his hand, he took the boy and found a clean place to sit down.

"Isn't it because the people with me today are different from before."

"Do you know Chairman Chen Xiaomin's wife?"

The paparazzi nodded, and she continued with satisfaction: "I don't think you seem to be breaking news about her. Photos, I guess she didn’t like being photographed, so she wanted to take the film away. “

A bolt from the blue!

"Damn it, I didn't recognize the person next to you was Mrs. Chen. Fortunately, you stopped me." The paparazzi grabbed her sleeve and said gratefully.