Chapter 106 Brother's House "Come in and accept my stormy training. ...
Du Henbie had just transferred ownership of a top-floor duplex in Suzhou, which was also in the city center where every inch of land was valuable. It was called "Yuejin Capital" and from the name one could tell that it was an upscale residential area where wealthy people gathered.
This is indeed the case. Various brand-name sports cars flow in and out like water. In front of the building is a huge archway with the name of the community engraved on the plaque. The two sturdy pillars are about 20 meters high and as thick as six people can hug.
Just like the South Gate of Heaven, it is carved with dragons and phoenixes and surrounded by auspicious clouds.
In the night scene, the electronic screen on the dome flashes the magnificent background of the universe, dotted with colorful nebulae.
Tian Ruan exclaimed: "This is too grand."
Yu Jingmo's Rolls-Royce can drive into any community without any hindrance. "If you like, I'll buy you a house and make it our secret nest."
Tian Ruan thought, this might not be a secret den, but a secret whorehouse...
"No need." Tian Ruan said frugally, "The manor is big enough for us to live in."
Yu Jingmo smiled and didn't say that he had properties in many places, which would be his and Tian Ruan's homes in the future.
High-end residential communities are different. Each floor has one household, and each household has one elevator, which goes directly to your doorstep. When guests arrive, they only need to use the telephone next to the elevator to press the floor number to call the owner. After the owner opens the door, they can get in the elevator and go up.
"It's even more upscale than the neighborhood where my wealthy cousin lives." Tian Ruan entered the elevator and looked around.
Because each household has one elevator, the elevator is private property and the owner can arrange it however he wants. After Helans moved in, the first thing he did was to "change clothes" for the cold elevator. The walls were covered with brightly colored abstract oil paintings, filling the room with an artistic atmosphere.
"A small flat here is worth 50 million. A duplex is worth over 100 million." Yu Jingmo knew the market price of real estate very well.
Tian Ruan: "...My cheap elder brother really has a beautiful mistress in his golden house."
He took a few photos and said, "This abstract painting seems to be scribbled randomly. If it doesn't work, I will also paint an abstract painting tomorrow."
Even if Yu Jingmo had no artistic talent, he knew that this abstract art was not just a casual painting. He curled the corners of his lips and said nothing.
When they reached the top floor, they walked on the soft carpet and strode to a black door. Tian Ruan was still looking for the doorbell in a daze, but Yu Jingmo had already reached out and pressed it.
Soon the door opened, and Du Henbie turned sideways, "Welcome, please come in."
"Brother, good evening." Tian Ruan brought a gift, a box of beautifully packaged big apples and a box of dried sea cucumbers for kidney nourishment.
"Thank you." Du Henbie took the box and said, "I'm cooking right now. You two can stay for dinner tonight."
Tian Ruan was surprised: "You can also cook?"
Du Henbie placed the gift next to the sofa and said, "Not much, but Lance likes the vegetable and pork rib noodles I made. He has already ordered it tonight."
Tian Ruan shuddered, "What about your Lance?"
“…sleeping.”
"Sleeping until the evening? Brother, you are too aggressive. Doing it day and night will damage your kidneys."
Du Henbie kept smiling: "I worked overtime last night, and Helans stayed up late to paint, so he is particularly sleepy today."
Tian Ruan sympathized: "Thank you for your hard work, brother."
Du Henbie said to Yu Jingmo, "Brother-in-law, take care of him."
Yu Jingmo hummed, pulled Tian Ruan's hand, and gently slapped his palm, "Don't talk nonsense."
Tian Ruan: “Oh.”
Yu Jingmo took his hand and put it to his lips and blew on it, "Does it hurt?"
Tian Ruan smiled brightly: "It doesn't hurt."
Du Henbie: “…” Forget it, go cook.
The ribs have been chopped, and the next step is to boil a pot of hot water to blanch them. During this time, pick and wash the vegetables, wash a handful of green onions, and cut ginger slices.
The open kitchen was busy with the person who was originally the best at performing "domineering CEO forced love", saying: "You can look around first, except for He Lans's paintings, you can do whatever you want with the rest."
Tian Ruan immediately slipped into the master bedroom, quietly opened the door, and glared at He Lans, who was leaning against the head of the bed playing with his cell phone.
Tian Ruan: "Why don't you come out now that you're awake?"
He Lan Si listened to the noise outside, "He cooks and I mop the floor. If I stay for a while, I won't have to mop the floor."
Tian Ruan was also convinced, "If you are so lazy, why don't you hire a nanny?"
He Lan Si groaned: "Because I want to create the illusion that I am very hardworking."
Tian Ruan: "Your illusion will be shattered with just one poke."
He Lans lifted the quilt, revealing his long legs, flashy yellow briefs, and a lazy, sweet scent.
Tian Ruan: "You hooligan!" He slammed the door and ran away.
He ran to Du Henbie to complain: "He Lan Si woke up and showed me his thighs and briefs. They were yellow! There were many kiss marks on his legs and legs!"
Du Henbie: "..."
Yu Jingmo: "Don't run around, come here and sit still."
Tian Ruan stayed obediently beside Yu Jingmo, and Yu Jingmo peeled a sweet orange and put it into his mouth. Tian Ruan was eating an orange and slowly came to his senses. He Lans should be getting up, right? ?
Five minutes later, He Lan Si came out dressed, with all the marks on his body covered tightly. He looked at Tian Ruan with a fake smile, "You have a good chatterbox."
Tian Ruan said sweetly: "Teacher He has fair skin, beautiful face and long legs. It is really a feast for my eyes."
He Lan Si has always been beautiful and self-aware, he laughed and said: "So what do you think after watching it?"
"Shall I help you mop the floor?"
"..." He Lan Si pretended to be diligent and said, "No, please sit down, my guest."
Then he squatted down and fiddled with the charged sweeping robot, and followed behind to "mop the floor" - when the clumsy turtle-like robot encountered difficulties and got stuck in the corner, he helped to turn it over and re-navigate the route.
Tian Ruan: "...Is this what you mean by mopping the floor?"
He Lansi's face was full of the most glorious light of hard work, and he wiped the sweat off his face: "Yes, although it's a bit tiring, but seeing the house become so clean, my heart is also clean."
Tian Ruan could see that apart from holding a paintbrush and beating people, Helan Si was really a complete stranger.
If Tian Ruan was asked to clean, he would definitely be like a hardworking little bee, first mopping and washing, then sweeping and wiping again - this is how the servants in the house work.
The aroma of spareribs wafted out from behind the island counter, so strong that Tian Ruan and He Lans took a deep breath at the same time, "It smells so good..."
He Lan Si dropped the robot vacuum cleaner and ran away. "Help me watch the robot, and I will forgive you."
Tian Ruan: “Oh.”
He stared at the round robot sweeping the floor with its small brush spinning around. He thought it was interesting so he squatted down to watch.
The little robot hit the wall and retreated, then bumped into Tian Ruan. The soft robot girl screamed, "Help, help, I can't get through."
Tian Ruan was touched by the cuteness and put it on another open space.
Suddenly Du Henbie's voice came: "It's time to eat."
Tian Ruan went to the restaurant area to eat. After being used to eating big fish and meat, this simple pork ribs noodle was really plain and delicious. The meat was tender and the noodles were soft. One bite warmed the whole stomach.
"It's delicious." Tian Ruan praised.
Du Henbie picked up another bowl of noodles for him, "Also, I cooked a big pot of noodles."
Yu Jingmo still ate without saying a word when he arrived at someone else's house. He wiped his lips with the napkin he had used for dinner and said politely, "Thank you for the treat. It's delicious."
Du Henbie smiled and said, "Since we are all family, let's not be so pretentious."
Yu Jingmo said, "It is precisely because we are family that we need to be more polite and respectful. I apologize for my wife's disrespect before."
Du Henbie waved his hand: "It's okay, he is my brother after all."
Tian Ruan lowered his head and said, "Actually, I have a request for you today."
"Go ahead."
Although He Lan Si was not very serious, he was quite smart: "You have an art exam tomorrow, right? I'm one of the invigilators, I'll let you off."
Tian Ruan: "...No. I just want to ask you to cook a little something for me."
He Lans paused with his chopsticks, picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth, "It seems that you are aware of your own painting skills."
Tian Ruan was humble and eager to learn: "Teacher He, can you teach me?"
"Sure, but only if you're willing to study hard."
"I will definitely study hard."
He Lan Si smiled slightly: "Kakaka, this is what you said, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Tian Ruan said with a determined look: "Let the storm come even harder!"
How can you get good grades if you don’t work hard in studying?
Yu Jingmo gave them three hours. If they still couldn't succeed, Tian Ruan would have to go home and sleep well to prepare for other exams tomorrow. He couldn't lose the big picture while ignoring the big picture.
Tian Ruan nodded, "I know."
Then he was taken by Helans to the studio on the second floor. It should be said that the entire second floor had almost become a small gallery, filled with art paintings by famous artists or Helans' graffiti.
Tian Ruan looked at them one by one, feeling somewhat envious, "It's great to be able to paint."
He Lan Si sneered: "Painting won't make you enough to eat. There are pyramids in every industry, and only those at the top can eat well. The middle and lower classes can only have soup at best."
Tian Ruan was curious: "With your level, you can only drink soup?"
Hollands: "No matter how good my paintings are, it can't change the fact that I am a businessman. Would you buy a painting by a businessman?"
"Why not?"
"It smells like money, it's tasteless, it's vulgar. Everything that has to do with money seems low-class, especially in the painting and literary circles."
Tian Ruan looked carefully at a watercolor painting of daffodils on the wall and signed his name with "lance".
He Lan Si glanced at him and said, "I can only admire myself."
Tian Ruan said: "As long as you sink into this field, you will be seen one day."
Hollands: "Yes, the day he died. Van Gogh became a great painter only after his death."
“…”
"I don't want glory after death, I want to live a wonderful life." Helan Si walked into the studio leisurely in slippers, his champagne-colored hair was disheveled, his eyebrows and eyes were as beautiful as a beauty in a painting, fresh and aggressive, "Come in and accept my stormy training."
Tian Ruan: “…Oh.”
Only those who endure losses in the present can become the best.
He Lans' paintings range from sketches to gouache, watercolor and oil paintings, and he can also use PS to paint. However, what he likes most is to take a paintbrush and paint the pictures in his mind on either fine or rough paper or canvas.
"Tomorrow's exam is about gouache. Gouache painting is difficult because it requires a good grasp of shape and light and shadow. You need to have a solid foundation in sketching," said Hollands. "If you are not good at any of them, you can only do it casually."
Tian Ruan nodded and listened carefully.
He Lans drew as he spoke. His speaking was very rough and his drawings were also very rough, but it was enough for the exam.
Three hours later, Tian Ruan benefited a lot and began to sincerely admire He Lans, "You are a very good teacher."
He Lan Si smiled: "It's a pity that I won't be your teacher next semester."
Tian Ruan felt a little regretful, but there was nothing he could do. Helans had always been free and could do whatever he wanted. He was trapped by his parents and family in the first half of his life, but he let himself go in the second half.
But Tian Ruan hopes that he will not let himself go so much to avoid going to jail like in the original book.
"Do you still want to do business?" Tian Ruan asked.
He Lans smiled and said, "I don't have that plan for now, but I will consider it."
"If you have that plan, don't do it alone. You can ask Mr. Yu and my eldest brother for help."
“I don’t like asking for help.”
"Then you treat them as ATMs."
Helans raised his eyebrows and gave a thumbs up: "Awesome."
Then he walked out of the studio and went downstairs. He Lansi played with his paintbrush and turned to Du Henbie and Yu Jingmo: "Tian Ruan said that he treats you as ATMs."
Tian Ruan: “…”
Du Henbie: "It shouldn't be that easy to withdraw my money."
Yu Jingmo looked at Tian Ruan, "Really?"
Tian Ruan was about to open his mouth to deny it, but He Lans stuffed the paintbrush into his hand and said, "This is for you. Remember to play with it."
Tian Ruan: "Play?"
Yu Jingmo held his hand and the paintbrush, "Thank you very much, goodbye."
Tian Ruan followed Yu Jingmo down the elevator in a daze, "I didn't treat you as an ATM."
Yu Jingmo took the paintbrush and asked, "Is this the one you used?"
"Um."
"Just to play with you."
"???"
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