Chapter 241: Family

"I will be pissed off by you two brothers and sisters sooner or later!" The old man put down the cane, his old face flushed with anger.

Originally, the whole family should be happy to reunite for his birthday tomorrow, but I don't know why he was full of anger when he saw Erwin and Sonia.

"By the way, didn't I ask you to bring Christine and... together? Where are they?" The old man relaxed his mood a little and asked Erwin.

Erwin was also not dare to talk in a dangling manner at this time, and said properly: "They set off later, it is estimated that they will arrive soon."

"Who is Christine?" Luo Quan asked her father in a low voice.

"Your fourth uncle's ex-wife. Your fourth uncle also has an eight-year-old daughter named Kalena."

"This must be my niece who is the most beautiful in the world." Erwin leaned over and looked at Luo Quan with a smile.

"Hello, Uncle Erwin." Luo Quan nodded and greeted obediently.

Erwin touched his body, looking embarrassed: "Look, I came in a hurry this time and didn't prepare any gifts for you, niece. I will definitely make it up to you next time!"

Sonia disdainfully: "It seems like you have something you can take out."

Erwin retorted: "Then what gift did you prepare for your niece that you can take out?"

Sonia couldn't answer. This time she came back, she prepared a gift for her old father. She didn't consider any of the nephews and nieces at all.

Erwin is the same, but he can mention this, at least he has a heart.

While chatting, the remaining two children of the old man finally arrived with their families.

The second son Andrei and his wife and son, and the third daughter Aifu and her daughter.

Six people walked in together.

"Everyone is here." The second son Andrei is very tall, estimated to be 1.8 meters, with a loud voice and a calm temperament.

The third daughter Aifu is silent. After entering, she pulled her daughter to the fifth sister's side and just looked at everyone quietly.

At this moment, Luo Quan clearly understood the personality and relationship of the whole family.

"All here." The old man's tone also changed at this time, full of the majesty of the head of the family.

"Is the company's business handled?" The old man asked Andrei.

"Temporarily handed over to the secretary to handle. There is actually not much to be busy with recently. It is mainly helping the government do the distribution of refugee resettlement housing. All parties want to reach in and fish for oil and water, which is not very easy to handle."

Luo Quan's eyes jumped, thinking, is it really okay to say such secrets directly?

"This is the eldest brother's daughter, Luo Quan, right?" Andrei suddenly looked at Luo Quan. Luo Quan trembled when she met him in a hurry.

"You restrain your eyes, don't scare people!" Luo Quan's second aunt patted her husband's shoulder and blamed.

Andrei hurriedly scratched his head and apologized: "Sorry, sorry, I have been with those employees in the company for too long, and I have brought my habits home. Big niece, don't blame me."

"It's okay, it's okay." Luo Quan waved her hand hurriedly, thinking that her second uncle is so imposing, one look made her almost unable to speak.

At the same time, Luo Ni pinched her husband's arm at an angle that no one could see.

The latter understood and walked to Andrei and smiled: "Second brother, we haven't seen each other for a long time. We must drink more later."

Andrei smiled: "Of course, no problem. I have been missing you, big brother, all these years."

The old man frowned slightly, but didn't speak in the end.

In the lobby, the atmosphere seemed to become a bit solidified. Even Luo Quan, who had always been careless, saw that her father and second uncle probably had some things.

"Dad, this is the latest product developed by our company. It can't be bought on the market. I specially took a box as your birthday gift." Aifu suddenly spoke to break the slightly heavy atmosphere. She took a tablet-sized medicine box from her handbag and handed it to her father.

The medicine box packaging is exquisite, and "EDEN", which means Garden of Eden, is printed on the surface.

"What is the effect?" The old man took it and flipped through it. Except for "EDEN", he didn't see any description of the efficacy.

"Mainly to enhance immunity, anti-aging, the effect is better than any similar product on the market, and the side effects are very small." Aifu's tone was very confident.

"Can it fight cancer?" The old man mentioned it casually, and sighed again after speaking.

His beloved died of cancer, so he has a deep obsession with this aspect.

Aifu's expression stagnated when she heard this, and then she immediately understood and said: "Cancer is the most difficult problem to overcome in the entire history of human medicine. Currently, only a very small number of cancers can be prevented in advance. Others can only suggest regular check-ups and targeted prevention through genetic screening."

"However, our company is also vigorously developing in this field. Maybe we can produce drugs to prevent cancer in a few years."

"Is there any to prevent AIDS?"

Originally a quite serious occasion, Erwin's sentence broke everyone.

Several juniors all snorted and laughed.

"I... I..." Swearing to God, if the old man had a knife in his hand, he would have to exchange one for one with this unfilial descendant even if he risked his life.

Fortunately, they are all family members here, and such absurd things won't spread.

If he waited until tomorrow when his friends and relatives all came, and then made these jokes, his reputation would be completely destroyed!

"Fourth, can't you be serious!" Eric has always had a good temper in front of his brothers and sisters. This time he couldn't bear it and scolded loudly.

After being roared by his eldest brother, Erwin could only lower his head obediently no matter how naughty he was.

Unexpectedly, his father's words were quite useful. Luo Quan thought thoughtfully, and looked at her second uncle with the corner of her eyes. The latter seemed to be thinking about something after seeing this scene.

In a short while, the last two people in the family finally arrived, led by Butler Barry, the fourth uncle's ex-wife and daughter.

The fourth uncle, who was "talking and laughing" before, immediately restrained his smile, and his hand was pulled out of his pocket.

Christine led her daughter to Erwin's side, and her daughter looked at her father and shouted: "Dad."

"Daughter." Erwin touched his daughter's head, full of doting.

In fact, Kalena is already fourteen years old, but Erwin still treats her like a child.

"Go to the back garden. Our family is finally gathered together. Let's have a good chat today."

As he spoke, he leaned on his cane and walked towards the back garden.

Adults have something to say to adults, and juniors play not far away.

After chatting with her brothers and sisters, Luo Quan found that she was the oldest one.

Second uncle's son, Stukart, is the same age as Gao Liang, just turned eighteen.

Third aunt's daughter, Mia, fifteen.

Fourth uncle's daughter, Kalena, fourteen.

Kalena's personality is very similar to the third aunt, silent, and I don't know if it's because she doesn't often get along with these cousins, so she is a bit shy.

Mia is very similar to the fifth aunt, very self-familiar, and very sticky to her two brothers Gao Liang and Stukart. As soon as she came up, she pulled them to sit together and talk.

Luo Quan listened for a while on the side. It was nothing more than the things and gossip she encountered at school, and then she would ask Gao Liang about many things in the American entertainment industry.

Luo Quan listened for a long time and felt that she couldn't talk, so she sat on the side and played with her phone with her head buried.

"Sister Luo Quan, why don't you go over and play with Brother Stukart and Sister Mia?" Kalena sat over at some point.

This little girl is only fourteen years old, but her eyebrows are shockingly beautiful, a proper big beauty embryo.

Luo Quan smiled and said: "Sister doesn't know much about the entertainment industry, and can't say anything."

Kalena wondered: "I remember Sister Luo Quan is also a big star like Brother Gao Liang, right? I often see you two on newspapers and magazines before."

"A star is a star, but I usually just release songs and don't mix with the gossip news in the entertainment industry. Moreover, I spend most of my time in China, and the place where Gao Liang develops is also different."

"Sister Luo Quan's songs are very good, I like every one of them. In order to listen to your Chinese songs, I specially learned Chinese. But Chinese is too difficult, and it took me a long time to get started."

Luo Quan became interested: "Then can you say two sentences to me?"

"Is it not a joy to have friends coming from afar?"

Kalena's Chinese is standard, and the word "le" in "is it not a joy" is read as "Kong Yue". This point is even better than many Chinese people.

Many people who have not specifically studied the Analects read "is it not a joy" as "le".

Even Luo Quan, before going to elementary school, read it as "le" when she saw this paragraph.

Luo Quan praised: "You read this very standard, much better than Gao Liang! How long have you learned?"

"Should be almost half a year?" Kalena said seriously.

"Half a year?" Luo Quan's mouth opened wide, "Can you reach this level in just half a year?"

For foreigners, especially Westerners, Chinese is definitely one of the most difficult languages to learn.

First of all, Chinese is an ideographic character, while English is a phonetic character, completely two different systems.

Moreover, the pronunciation

For foreigners, especially Westerners, Chinese is definitely one of the most difficult languages to learn.

First of all, Chinese is an ideographic language, while English is a phonetic language; they are two completely different systems.

Moreover, the pronunciation of Chinese is far more complex than English, so for foreigners teaching themselves Chinese, being able to reach an introductory level within half a year is already quite good.

But someone like Karina isn't just at an introductory level; her pronunciation is even more standard than many foreigners who have lived in China for many years, and even better than Bai Bai's!

"You have a very high talent for language learning. Let me ask you a question: how many foreign languages do you know?"

Karina thought for a moment: "I haven't counted carefully, quite a few, I guess."

"How many is 'quite a few'?"

Karina took out her phone, pulled up a world map, first drew a circle around Europe, then moved west to draw a large circle around the Arab region, continued west to draw circles around East Asia and North Asia, and finally, North America.

"I can basically speak a little of the mainstream languages in the regions within these circles," Karina said very modestly.

"My goodness." Luo Quan felt her scalp tingle just looking at it.

For a fourteen-year-old girl to be able to learn the languages of so many regions and countries, what kind of concept is that?

Relying on the system to instill knowledge, she herself has currently mastered fewer than ten foreign languages.

Just in Europe alone, the areas Karina circled cover nearly twenty countries.

Although the languages here almost all come from the same root and have commonalities, no matter what, that is still twenty-plus solid languages!

This can no longer be described as genius; it can only be called a monster!

"Karina, besides languages, are there any other areas where you are particularly outstanding?"

"None." Karina shook her head.

"What a pity." Luo Quan sighed; it seemed Karina's monstrous qualities were limited to her talent for linguistics.

Although this was already quite good, it was actually somewhat of a chicken rib.

However, Luo Quan, with her head bowed in a sigh, did not see the sharp glint in Karina's eyes.

This monstrous cousin of hers was not as innocent and kind as she appeared.

Among these five juniors, she guessed that only she and Gao Liang were this naive and sweet.

Over there, Gao Liang was chatting with his younger siblings, and without realizing it, he had spilled out his experiences over these years, including his living situation with his father.

And it was much the same on Luo Quan's side; perhaps it was sympathy for Karina having similar experiences that made her chat so enthusiastically.

Before long, the details of the sister and brother had been separately coaxed out.

Fortunately, Luo Quan was not a fool after all, and after chatting for a long time, she discovered something was off.

But she didn't know exactly what was off for the time being; mainly, she had absolutely no guard up against Karina.

What was there to guard against with a fourteen-year-old girl?

Furthermore, aside from that system, she had no secrets to speak of; in fact, the vast majority of her personal privacy was either dug up by the media and fans or exposed by herself. If you want to know her life story, just Baidu "Luo Quan," and you can even see her measurements on the encyclopedia.

Luo Quan had discovered this at the time and had been in contact with Baidu to have it modified, but every time they finished changing it, it would be changed back not long after.

There was no help for it; Baidu entries are written by the public, and unless her entry was completely banned, someone would always fill that stuff in.

In short, although Luo Quan discovered something was wrong, she didn't go out of her way to hide anything.

Anyway, whatever Karina wanted to know, she would just say it; it wasn't anything valuable anyway.

While the sister and brother were being coaxed for information, the adults were also clashing.

The old master sat in a recliner, with his five children and a group of daughters-in-law and sons-in-law sitting around him.

Before everyone had even warmed their seats, Andre asked: "Big brother, how long do you plan to stay now that you're back in England?"

"Just a few days. For the past six months, I've been traveling the world with your sister-in-law; it counts as a honeymoon." Eric said this while holding Luo Ni's hand, and the latter gave a sweet smile.

"After celebrating Father's birthday and visiting Mother, I'll pay a visit to a few good friends of mine in London, and then I'll probably head back to the United States."

Andre smiled: "The branch in the United States was originally something you were just nominally in charge of, but I have found a more suitable person for the vice president position. If we make a change, you don't mind, do you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the brothers and sisters changed.

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