Chapter 1217: Looking for a Receiver
"Hi, I'm sorry, I'm late." The elevator door opened, and Li Zitao went straight to the restaurant, saying hello to the family members who were talking and laughing in the kitchen.
"Hi..." Mary poured him a cup of iced black tea and asked with a smile, "What happened?"
"No, we'll talk about it tonight, it's family time now." Li Zitao kissed her forehead lightly, grabbed the iced black tea and drank it down.
"Hmm! It tastes good, who made it?" Li Zitao asked while holding up his cup.
"It depends on whether you want to say thank you, or want the secret recipe." Little Mary was bartending, but she didn't expect that she had the potential to be a bartender. It seems that she learned a lot in college.
"Is that the $9,000 annual tuition fee that allows you to learn this?" Mary joked.
"I don't think it has anything to do with the tuition, it's due to the annual pary expenses of $20,000." Li Zitao said with a smile.
"Wow!" Li Xiaobin exclaimed with a smile, this number surprised him.
"Don't be surprised, you will have a headache about this bill soon." Little Mary said gloatingly, but he has two sons!
"Li Cha, come here, let me see how much taller you have grown?" Li Zitao waved to the nephew who ran over, knelt down and hugged him with both hands.
"H, you are really heavy, you look a lot bigger." This is true, and now he is a 10-year-old boy.
Although they are not as tall as the twins, of course, there are very few people who are like the two of them.
But his horizontal development trend seems to be a little bit worrying. This kid already weighs 160 catties...
"Uncle Charlie, and me." Good boy Frank rushed straight at him.
"Don't, don't do this, oh my god..." Li Zitao, whose legs were hugged by Frank, fell to the ground, being held down by two laughing boys.
"That's great, Mason and I don't want him to move." Aiden said, standing next to his mother with a cup of coffee.
"Like Bentley's always going to give you money, right?" Mary said with a smile in her eyes.
"Ahem..." Aiden choked on his mother's words, he thought no one knew about it.
"Dude,
Don't blame me, your mother is too powerful for me to deal with. "Li Xiaobin shrugged and made a helpless expression.
In fact, he himself accidentally slipped the tongue, but he won't admit it.
"I'm going to see if the pie is ready." Bullock said happily, and she was happy to see the children and their uncle mingling.
"I put the wine on the table, is there anything else I can do?" Eric will be in charge of choosing the wine for today's dinner.
"Is there any secret recipe that I can contribute?" During this period of time as partners, the relationship between Little Mary and Eric has become a lot closer.
"If I can find my grandmother someday, I'll remember to ask." The atmosphere at the dinner was cheerful, and everyone prepared a special dish or two.
Except for Li Zitao, because he came back too late. However, Marido prepared a fresh oyster with green lemon, which is considered to be his dish.
"It's delicious, Brock, your pine cone shrimp is amazing." The garlic pine cone shrimp prepared by Brock received unanimous praise from everyone.
Cheese pasta, caviar golden dessert, main course and dessert are also popular. Of course it is not real gold, but a dessert with coffee, coconut milk, spices and other ingredients, topped with sturgeon caviar.
After dinner, Aiden and Eric offered to do the dishes while the others sat in the living room, drinking and chatting.
"Can we talk now?" Mary asked, leaning against him.
"It's Ben." Li Zitao knew, his wife saw that he was absent-minded.
After the previous conversation with Ben, he made a very embarrassing request for Li Zitao, which is unavoidable for anyone...retirement.
"Have you been troubled? Maybe you should have prepared earlier." Judging from his performance, Mary was sure that he had ignored this matter.
"No, I'm prepared." Li Zitao shook his head in thought, the matter was not as simple as his wife said.
He even considered his own retirement, how could he not consider the think tank, but it didn't match the timing of his plan.
In fact, Li Zitao wants to hand over the future core candidates of the think tank to Aiden. Of course not now, but after he graduated from university and started to really get in touch with the family business.
In the beginning, the person he selected would not directly become the leader, but would gain experience as a member of the think tank. The two would gradually grow and help each other, which would also allow them to form a deep friendship.
It all takes time. Li Zitao originally thought that he could last another 10 years. He is only in his 50s now, and for a professional like him, he should be in the golden stage.
"Actually, the divorce hit him hard, and the children have grown up too. Andini is 16 years old and Rudida is 14 years old. They are just the age that needs to be worried and accompanied.
He wants to spend more time and energy on his family... Also, he wants to live longer, to be able to accompany them on the red carpet, and to hand over their hands to the groom... These are his exact words, see It was hard for him to come to this job. "
This is a brain-burning job, which requires responsibility, worry, and too much consideration.
"No matter who is in his position, it will be like this." Mary's words are correct, no matter who is in Ben's life.
A think tank is not an easy job. If anyone thinks that he can come here to mix his seniority and finish his normal clock-in from 9 to 5 every day, then he must have found the wrong place.
There is no shortage of golden bachelors in think tanks, because for them, work almost occupies their entire life.
Therefore, in the limited short vacation, most of them will choose to go on vacation. Or stay at home, go to the bar to drink some wine, find some romance, and have a good time for a few days. Or go for a walk on the beach, find buddies to play ball, do some sports and so on.
When the words "golden bachelor" were mentioned, Mary's eyes lit up, and she involuntarily turned to her younger sister, Little Mary.
During this time, the sisters stayed in New York and saw each other often, so they talked a lot, and Mary could clearly feel the changes in her heart every day.
Her marriage will come to an end sooner or later, because the disappointment accumulated in little Mary's heart has reached an irreversible point.
The change of life from heaven to hell also made her at a loss.
She can endure poverty, and she can not care about clothing, food, house, car, and whether she will be ridiculed for it.
But it all had to make her feel worthwhile, worth the effort.
She used to think that Ethan Brasen was worth it, but now, little Mary was not sure.
As the older sister, Mary is already looking for suitable candidates for her, to see if someone is worthy of her younger sister and can bring her a new happy life.
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