Chapter 248: Friends and Family (Part 6)

Luo Quan was not interested in understanding the grievances between the two. She ate breakfast very early and was a little hungry now.

Taking advantage of Seifert and Darian still confronting each other, she quietly left and walked towards the dining table.

The main course had been served one after another. There were many tables in the courtyard, and the guests were basically sitting together according to the closeness of their relationship.

Luo Quan looked around and found the seats of her parents, but seeing him chatting happily with a group of old friends, she didn't go over to join in the fun.

The younger siblings were not seen again. Luo Quan just found an empty seat and sat down, and Gao Liang also followed.

"Where are Karena and Mia?" Luo Quan asked while drinking juice.

"Don't know, mostly with their own parents." Gao Liang gnawed on an apple.

"Where did you get the apple?"

Gao Liang said seriously: "There was a roast suckling pig just now, and I picked it off."

As soon as the voice fell, the waiter brought a plate of roast suckling pig and placed it in front of the two. A bright red apple was stuffed in the pig's mouth.

Luo Quan looked around, took off the apple, and gnawed on it.

At this time, Seifert and the two brothers also walked over. Seifert sat beside Gao Liang, while Darian and Fred sat opposite Seifert.

The five chatted for a while, and they were considered to know each other.

Darian and Seifert actually knew each other long ago. They were classmates in the same department in a university before. From various competitions to the pursuit of female classmates, the two had competed.

At first, they were a bit incompatible, but after a long time, the relationship eased a bit, and there was a meaning of not knowing each other without fighting.

Of course, after meeting, they still mostly bickered. They couldn't talk about friends, and they weren't enemies. It was a very strange state.

Darian and Fred's families were both huge wealth, which can be seen from their dress, but Luo Quan didn't ask specifically.

While talking, the table in front of everyone was already full of sumptuous dishes, most of which were meat, and there were also some exquisite side dishes in plates, such as foie gras, caviar, baked snails, etc., which were also famous dishes on Western recipes.

Just now, there was nothing next to Luo Quan's table. I don't know when it started, the table next to it was already full, estimated to be twenty or thirty people, and all of them were young people in their teens and twenties.

The boys who came to the party with adults this time basically gathered here.

Most of them didn't know each other. Some would chat a few words occasionally, and more people's attention was on Luo Quan's table.

"The juice is finished." Luo Quan drank the last bit of orange juice and looked at the empty glass.

"I'll help you get another glass." Gao Liang said and was about to get up. The surrounding tables were already clanging, and in the blink of an eye, colorful juice was raised in front of Luo Quan. The boys each held a glass of juice, with expectation and admiration on their faces, without speaking, just waiting for Luo Quan to make a choice.

In Luo Quan's impression, this is a scene that can be called a world-famous painting, a scene in a movie.

However, the situation is slightly different. The heroine of that movie didn't have a lighter when smoking, and the men around raised their lighters to light her, while here, she just finished drinking juice.

"Thank you for your juice, two glasses are enough." Fred took the juice from the two closest people, drank one, and put one in front of Luo Quan.

The boy whose juice was taken by Fred frowned and was about to say something, but was pulled by his companion behind him.

The companion shook his head gently at him. Although the boy was puzzled, he still endured it.

The other boys felt bored and turned and left.

"Thank you." Luo Quan said to Fred.

Although she didn't know what his background was, he helped her solve the siege this time.

"A small matter." Fred took a sip of the iced watermelon juice in his glass.

"You recognized me before, so which songs in my album have you heard?" Luo Quan asked curiously.

Fred looked embarrassed: "Actually, I haven't heard much, just listened to "Time to Say Goodbye" and "Scarborough Fair."

Mainly because I prefer listening to classical music, and these two are the only ones in your album that I am interested in."

Are the preferences of young people now so old-fashioned? Luo Quan was really surprised. The theater security guard she met last time also answered her like this.

"By the way, do you like classical music?" Fred asked.

"I really like it." This is Luo Quan's truth, but this habit is limited to a few pieces of music, that is, the most famous and best-sounding pieces. Apart from that, she doesn't have much research on classical music.

Suddenly meeting a fellow traveler, Fred seemed to open the chatterbox and chatted with Luo Quan endlessly, from Bach to Tchaikovsky. So many music giants were all familiar to him. This knowledge was enough to make her, a "music professional," feel ashamed.

Luo Quan regretted saying that she liked listening to classical music. She was a half-way monk herself, and she didn't have much in-depth understanding of classical music. Fred said so much, and she could only echo on the side.

"Back to Bach, in fact, what I like most is the few canons he composed. These pieces are the best-sounding canon pieces in the world, none of them!

Really strongly recommend you to listen to it!"

Mentioning this, Luo Quan was stunned. Is the most famous canon composed by Bach? This knowledge is estimated that even in China, which is a desert of classical music, many people can answer it, right? After all, that canon is so famous!

However, Luo Quan did not question it. She is not an expert in this regard. If she said it wrong, wouldn't it be a laughing stock.

"I will listen to it." Luo Quan replied politely, and then opened her phone to search for Canon in the music software.

No George Winston, no Pachelbel, no Canon in D major!

All the ones in front are Canon signed by Bach. Luo Quan played a few, basically minor keys.

"How about it, is it good to listen to?" Fred asked.

"It's good to listen to." Luo Quan put down her phone and said seriously.

Then added in her heart: But I have a better version!

"Look at my treasure, how beautiful it is today." Eric walked over at some point, his smile full of pride, "Gao Liang, you accompany your sister to eat here. Your grandfather and I have a lot of social engagements over there, so I won't take care of you here."

"Hello, uncle." Darian stood up and said hello to Eric.

"Darian? When did you come?" Eric obviously didn't expect his friend's son to come.

"Originally my father planned to come, but the company had something to do temporarily and couldn't get away. I can only ask him to say hello to you and your father on his behalf, and ask you not to be angry with him."

Eric laughed indifferently: "It's okay, anyway, I'm going back to the United States in a few days, and then I'll get together with him."

"Hello, Uncle Eric." Fred also stood up and said.

"You are..." Eric really didn't recognize it for a while.

Darian introduced: "This is my friend Fred, from the Abigail family."

Hearing that this is the child of the Abigail family, Eric understood: "Oh———— so Moriel is yours?"

"Father."

Eric laughed: "Then you didn't call this uncle in vain. Your father was the first friend I made in the United States."

Luo Quan was quite surprised in her heart. Her father really had friends all over the world. How come everyone's father was his good brother?

"Then you guys eat slowly, I won't chat with you much." After Eric finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the wine table where the old man was.

Luo Quan glanced over there and found that the second uncle was also there, but didn't see her mother.

"Your father is okay, he has so many friends in the United States." Seifert whispered to Gao Liang.

Darian laughed: "Uncle Eric is quite famous in the upper class in the United States."

Luo Quan and Gao Liang didn't speak, just focused on eating the food in front of them.

After eating and drinking enough, Luo Quan went back to the room. There were many people and eyes, and she was afraid of causing any trouble if she stayed outside for too long.

However, she didn't want to cause trouble, but the matter came to her.

"Miss Luo Quan, the old man asked me to call you down." The maid's voice sounded outside Luo Quan's door.

Luo Quan, who was dizzy and about to take a nap, stood up and rubbed her face: "Don't arrange any blind date for me again?"

Putting on her shoes, Luo Quan tidied up the wrinkles on her evening dress and came downstairs.

Fortunately, the whole family is there, it is estimated that it is not a blind date for her.

"Daughter, come here." Luo Ni waved to Luo Quan.

In the courtyard, the old man, as the host, sat with his back to the entrance of the castle hall, while the other seats were lined up towards the manor, divided into two sides, each with a dozen chairs.

The women sat on the right, and the men were on the left.

Luo Quan sat down and thought the old man was going to have any meeting for them, but it was just to let them, a group of grandchildren, come out to listen.

As the protagonist of today's birthday banquet, the old man naturally hopes that his children and grandchildren will also be by his side when chatting with friends, creating a scene of children and grandchildren full of family and family prosperity.

Not to mention face, it will also show that he is good at governing the family. For people like the old man, this is probably one of the few pursuits.

However, this old man appeared here, and other guests did not show any special meaning. They must have accepted them. As for the reason, it is unknown, nothing more than fame, wealth, or power.

The old man, who was praised by the flattery, gradually became a little floating.

"How old is your granddaughter this year, does she have a partner?" An old man suddenly asked. Luo Quan felt numb when she heard this voice.

"Not yet, why, your grandson..."

Fortunately, pride belongs to pride, the old man has not reached the point of forgetting.

This old problem of being a matchmaker has been criticized by his own grandchildren for a long time. He has also told him more than once not to mess with mandarin ducks.

"Hey, what era is it now, don't do that blind date set anymore. Besides, my granddaughter is only nineteen, not in a hurry to find a partner." The old man waved his hand and repeated what Brighton said to him in the morning.

"I remember you liked this set very much before, why don't you do it now, have you figured it out?"

"Before is before, now is now." The old man took a sip of clear tea, diluting the greasiness in his throat.

This afternoon, Luo Quan accompanied her parents to listen to a few old men bragging and exposing each other's shortcomings here.

Those who can sit here are basically old partners who have known each other for decades. They have deep feelings and can afford to joke with each other, and there is nothing to worry about whose birthday banquet it is today.

According to Brighton, I might give you some face when you have your 70th birthday. What do you want at 67? Let me send you a cake?

Several old guys also laughed, and the courtyard was suddenly full of happy atmosphere.

Several sons and daughters saw their father being so embarrassed, and they actually wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare.

If they dared to laugh, it would be family law disposal after the guests left at night.

The adults held back for an afternoon, but the children didn't suffer these crimes.

Because the seats they sat in were relatively outside, they moved the chairs to the side after a while, listening to songs, playing games, and brushing YouTube.

In the era when mobile phones are so popular, family gatherings are rarely able to sit together and chat happily like before.

Young people basically have a mobile phone in their hands, playing their own games, and will only look up and answer two sentences when adults call them, and then lower their heads to play.

Not only in China, but actually it is the same everywhere.

Luo Quan didn't play with her phone, mainly because she was a little sleepy.

She got up too early today, and she usually has the habit of taking a nap, so she will feel sleepy after two o'clock.

When she went downstairs just now, her four eyelids had already started to fight, but she still tried to go downstairs.

It is so difficult to leave once you sit down.

Because of drunkenness, she had already retired early once.

The family is chatting with the old man here. If she gets up again and says: I'm sleepy, I want to sleep.

What is that? How do uncles and aunts look at her? What will the old man's friends say? What is the situation of the mother who continues to stay here?

Therefore, no matter how sleepy Luo Quan is, she can only stay here.

Fortunately, sleepiness is somewhat different from the drunkenness of doing it. Once the effect of alcohol comes up, she can't resist at all. There are many ways to solve sleepiness.

The simplest one is pain stimulation.

Luo Quan twisted her arm twice. Soon, two eye-catching red marks appeared on her snow-white arm.

This reminded her of the emergency measures taken by the head teacher after the classmates in the class had heatstroke in elementary school.

The more common ones are pinching the philtrum, and then twisting a handful on the neck or the inside of the wrist.

Of course, these are all local methods, but the effect is quite obvious.

Luo Quan was twisted by herself, and her sleepiness disappeared a lot.

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