Zhao Mei picked up her phone to confirm her current location before she had time to reply to Qiu Jiahe.
"It's pretty much the same as what we hear back home, all about family matters. I heard the boss lady on the phone the moment I walked in, and I heard most of what she said."
"The main thing is that the boss lady's son is a good student and can go to a medical university abroad. The family can afford it, but her son doesn't want to study medicine and insists on studying pure science. No matter how much we try to persuade him, he won't listen."
"It's easy to imagine that being admitted to medicine abroad is truly the pinnacle of the social ladder. And her son is so stubbornly determined to study pure science, a field with no real future. How could she not be worried?"
Qiu Jiahe thought about it carefully and it seemed to be true. Giving up a bright future and choosing to pursue pure reasoning instead, no parent would be able to tolerate this.
"Then what did you tell her? Did you explain to her what pure science can do and persuade her to relax?"
Zhao Mei shook her head. "Of course not. I completely agree with the boss lady's opinion, and I expressed my regret that I loved medicine the most but unfortunately I wasn't good enough in science to study."
"?" Qiu Jiahe opened his mouth speechlessly, but in the end he couldn't refute anything.
Zhao Mei, who was standing by, could see she was about to complain and explained, "It's their own family affairs, outsiders should keep their opinions to themselves. She's just frustrated because she can't convince her son at home. Why bother to make things difficult for others when they have some free time to talk about it?"
Qiu Jiahe nodded: "That seems to be the case."
After she finished speaking, Zhao Mei added, "And you can rest assured that the boss lady's son will definitely get what he wants."
Now Qiu Jiahe was even more curious: "How can you be so sure?"
Zhao Mei glanced at Qiu Jiahe and said, "The boss lady has more than one bakery in Florence. I asked around and she also owns five or six small shops. She has no worries about food and clothing. What's more, she complains all the time, but she's actually very proud."
Qiu Jiahe finally understood and agreed, "So if you don't study hard, you will have to go home and inherit the family property."
The two stood by the narrow and old streets of Florence, waiting for the online taxi that Zhao Mei had just called.
Even though Florence has a mild maritime climate, the nights are still extremely cold. Compared with the response speed in China, Florence is very slow. Just when the two were about to freeze to death in the biting cold wind, they saw a car approaching in the distance.
After seeing the license plate number clearly and getting in the car, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
After the two of them were seated, the driver in front asked a question.
"I don't know where to park at the address you located. Please mark it for me."
Zhao Mei nodded, took the phone, searched for the main entrance location that Zhao Jing told her, and returned it to the driver.
After the driver confirmed it, the car finally started heading towards its destination.
There was a slight moist and salty smell in the air of Florence at night, and the farther the car went, the stronger the feeling became.
Qiu Jiahe sniffed hard, then turned and asked Zhao Mei, "Your house looks like it has a good location, isn't it? Is it a sea view room?"
Zhao Mei smiled and said, "Almost. You can indeed see the sea." She added in her heart, how can having a private beach not count as being able to see the sea?
Finally, after the car worked hard for an hour, through the woods, the two were dropped off in front of a huge gate.
At this moment, Qiu Jiahe had no idea what was going to happen. He was still shaking his legs and asked Zhao Mei, "Why is the gate of the residential complex so big? But the scenery looks nice. How do we get in?"
Zhao Mei didn't say anything, but just walked to the side of the giant gate and found a modern electronic screen that looked quite out of place next to the ancient and simple carved gate. She swiped her fingerprint and pressed the bell.
Not long after the bell was pressed, the huge door in front of him slowly opened. Qiu Jiahe was about to walk in but was stopped by Zhao Mei.
"Don't worry, it's quite a large area. Are you sure you want to push two large suitcases forward?"
Qiu Jiahe looked at Zhao Mei in confusion, but was not surprised. After all, many seaside resort hotels she had stayed in before had sightseeing buses, so it was normal to have a pick-up and drop-off service.
But just as she was waiting for the familiar sightseeing bus as a matter of course, an extremely luxurious carriage pulled by two horses stopped in front of her.
A man in butler's clothes, with blond hair, blue eyes and a deep-set face, jumped down.
It was obvious from the man's face that he was a native of Florence. After he landed firmly on the ground, he bowed to Zhao Mei.
"Welcome home, I am your butler Joseph."
After saying that, he also turned sideways and bowed to Qiu Jiahe.
Qiu Jiahe didn't even have time to be surprised. He was pulled into the carriage by Zhao Mei in confusion, and he didn't even know how to react when he sat down on the soft cushion.
He even looked outside to see if his luggage had been left behind.
After reading it, he retracted his head, nudged Zhao Mei and asked, "Hey, Meili, why did you come to this kind of role-playing hotel? It's so fancy and so remote."
Zhao Mei didn't expect that this person still hadn't realized the situation at this time, but after thinking about it, she seemed to not understand the Florentine language, which was indeed normal.
"You'll know soon. You can look out the window when you have nothing to do."
Qiu Jiahe didn't know until he saw it, and he was even more shocked. It was clearly dark outside the window, but he could see every detail of the garden through the dim but well-arranged lights.
The clean garden is exquisitely trimmed, and the neat garden walls are neither too high nor too low, covered with all kinds of indescribable flowers.
In front of the garden wall is a huge and magnificent European-style pavilion. In front of the pavilion is a combination of a giant sculpture and a fountain. You can tell from the scattered parts that it must be of great historical value without getting close.
The sculpture itself emits milky white and yellow light, and the scattered light hits the spraying water droplets, making it appear sparkling and extremely dazzling.
Of course, all these gardens are based on a huge lawn. It can even be said that this huge lawn is more expensive than all the additional items above combined.
Although the most stunning buildings could not be seen from the carriage's angle, Zhao Mei was very satisfied when she saw Qiu Jiahe staring at the garden without blinking.
Qiu Jiahe didn't come back to her senses from the huge size of the garden until Zhao Mei patted her. It was not so much the garden that shocked her as the size of the garden.
However, she thought she was shocked enough, but when she got out of the car she saw an even more shocking scene.
As the main building of the spacious manor, the central castle is extremely luxurious and magnificent, and the overall appearance can be said to be a castle.
The ancient European-style building is four or five stories high, and each floor is illuminated by carefully designed lights. The light reflected by the carvings and gilded decorations on it is like stars in the night sky.
At the main entrance where they got off the car, they had to look up to see the entire castle.
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