Cheng Yu didn't refuse and sat down directly opposite Lawrence without even looking at Cindy.
Lawrence noticed this small change. He smiled and poured some red wine into Cheng Yu's glass, and then said: "Mr. Cheng, try our Chilean red wine. It's a pity, I still have a lot of it in my manor."
Very good red wine, but once this incident came out, I don’t know if I will be able to drink that red wine again in the future. I hid it for many years, alas..."
Cheng Yu picked up the red wine glass, shook it, took a sip, nodded and said, "The red wine is good."
"When are you going to tell me the truth, Mr. Cheng?"
Cheng Yu looked at Cindy, who had also sat down next to Lawrence. He said nothing, but held the wine glass and shook it constantly, as if he was carefully tasting the quality of the bottle of red wine.
Lawrence's heart moved, and he thought: Do we need to get rid of Cindy in this matter? Could it be that the British are not interested in Cindy, but me?
Asking himself, Lawrence did not feel that he had much value for the British to care about. If he had to say that he did, it seemed that it could only be an experiment being conducted in the future territory.
After hesitating for a moment, Lawrence felt that he had fallen into this situation. When he asked those people for help today, those people only expressed indifference. They had already told him not to get involved in political matters and to conduct experiments in peace, as long as he
If the research and development is successful, his glory and wealth will definitely be indispensable.
In the end, he didn't say that he would help him solve the problem, but just gave him a sum of money.
Those people seemed to want him to cut ties with Chile. It would be best if he could stay on this island forever and focus on research and development.
Lawrence even felt that those people might think that what happened to him was a good thing.
After all, this basically cut off Lawrence's way of returning to China.
But now, Cheng Yu seems to have given him another choice.
Of course, this option may only allow him to surrender to the British, but after surrendering, the requirements for him will probably be the same, and it will not allow him to regain his legal status and return to Chile.
For someone like Lawrence, if it's just for money and he can't return to Chile, he doesn't think it makes much sense.
Chile isn't a very beautiful place, but at Lawrence's age, it's not something he can just give up on.
"Cindy, why don't you go bring some food to Peng. He has been running around with me all day and is very hungry."
Cindy said coquettishly: "Mr. Bill, you know that I even want to kill Peng now, and you don't know Peng's attitude towards me. Why do you still let me send him food?"
Lawrence smiled slightly, but his tone was undeniable.
He said: "I didn't ask you to meet him. I just asked you to send some things over and let the person at the door take them in. In addition, they didn't clean up my room very well. I think you should know me well."
I'm sure you can tidy up the room to my liking, and I'll be living here for a long time."
Cindy finally understood that Lawrence wanted to talk to Cheng Yu alone, so she had to stand up. When she walked behind Lawrence, she winked at Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu pretended not to see it, but deliberately waved his hand and said, "Please take this dish away, it tastes too sour."
Cindy saw that Cheng Yu also wanted her to leave, so she packed up some food, took away the dish designated by Cheng Yu, and gave it to Peng Bo.
After Cindy left, Cheng Yu took the initiative to reach out the wine glass to Lawrence, Lawrence touched it to him, and Cheng Yu drank it all in one gulp.
Immediately, Cheng Yu picked up the wine bottle, took the initiative to add new wine to Lawrence, and poured some himself, and then said, "Mr. Lawrence is here this time, do you plan to stay there permanently?"
"Haha, isn't this a gift from Mr. Cheng or the person behind you?"
"It seems that Mr. Lawrence believes that I am not doing something right?"
"Then it depends on what exactly Mr. Cheng wants to negotiate with me. If the result of the negotiation is something that both of us like to see, then naturally we cannot say that Mr. Cheng is coming from the wrong way."
Cheng Yu laughed and said: "It seems that I really have to choose my words carefully, and I must make Mr. Bill happy to hear and see it first."
Lawrence picked up the knife and fork, cut some meat and put it in his mouth.
"Let's start by introducing yourself. Since Mr. Cheng has worked so hard to come to this island, I think you should have enough understanding of me. However, I still know nothing about Mr. Cheng.
ah."
"Call me Allen." Cheng Yu said.
"Okay, Allen, then please Mr. Allen call me Lawrence directly."
"Lawrence, what do you think of Cindy?" Cheng Yu also ate something and continued to pick up the wine glass and shake it, as if he asked casually.
Lawrence smiled, pretended to think, and said: "You should be able to see that I really dote on her, otherwise, she would be a dead person now. Allen, why are you still unwilling to be honest?"
Cheng Yu waved his hand, meaning to ask Lawrence to calm down.
"If Cindy dies, that means you have to silence me, right?"
Lawrence did not respond to this question, but it is obvious that the answer is obvious.
Cheng Yu did not expect Lawrence to answer, and continued: "But I believe Lawrence that you are a very cautious and very smart person. You will not make decisions easily when you don't know whether a person is a friend or an opponent.
.”
"Is this why you dare to bring Cindy here to find me? As long as I won't attack you easily, even if I really want to kill Cindy, I will endure it first."
Cheng Yu smiled and said, "So, Lawrence, do you want to kill Cindy?"
Lawrence took another bite and said, "Can we not always dwell on these meaningless topics? I know Alan, you have your mission, but I also have my attitude. As a person, I prefer to get straight to the point."
Cheng Yu nodded and said: "Okay, since Lawrence, you have said this, I can tell you that you are right, I am indeed British. However, decide whether I can continue to talk to you in depth.
It depends on you."
"Oh? My attitude should be very clear, otherwise I would not invite you to have this dinner together, nor would I send Cindy away according to your wishes."
"But we need you to do something for us."
Lawrence fell into thought.
He actually also knew what Cheng Yu's first condition was.
What Cindy said to him was obviously not without purpose. Regardless of whether she really knew nothing about Cheng Yu's true identity, at least her thoughts should have come from Cheng Yu's intentional or unintentional indoctrination.
After getting along with Cindy for many years, Lawrence actually knows Cindy very well, even better than Cindy imagined.
Under the premise of this understanding, Lawrence could easily judge that what Cindy said to him on the way up the mountain just now was definitely not what Cindy could have imagined.
Maybe Cindy really wanted to kill Peng Bo, but it was impossible for her to make that judgment. This woman's scheming was not as deep as she imagined.
Ever since, the next step will be easy to judge.
It was Cheng Yu who asked her to do this, to test Lawrence first so that she could know what Lawrence's attitude was.
If Lawrence didn't want to compromise at all, or was absolutely unwilling to cooperate with the British, then even if Lawrence had invited Cheng Yu for a drink on the beach, he might have given up.
But Lawrence still let Cheng Yu come, which showed that it was possible for him to accept it.
After weighing it up, Lawrence said: "About Peng?"
Cheng Yu nodded, shook his head and said, "You can say it is about him, but you can also say it has nothing to do with it. Because he is always just a chess piece, and the important thing is Cindy."
"Cindy is actually not a very suitable person to be a politician. You should have other candidates."
"But now, among the candidates placed in front of us, Cindy is relatively more suitable. Moreover, I am just an executor. I don't need to be responsible for the whole thing. I will do whatever the superiors tell me.
Implement.”
Lawrence nodded, he felt that Cheng Yu was telling the truth.
"Alan, you are really confident. Aren't you afraid that I will keep you here forever?"
"Do you think, now that I have arrived on this island, your future territory will still be a secret?"
"But you should also know that there is an American behind me."
"Then it depends on how you choose Lawrence. I think what the Americans did to you today may have made you a little worried. After all, they have no intention or simply are not capable of keeping you according to your ideas.
Right?"
This sentence is also Cheng Yu's test of Lawrence.
Before this, Cheng Yu didn't know who the financial backers behind Lawrence were.
This was revealed by Lawrence himself.
American!
Of course, Cheng Yu didn't know it through Lawrence's straightforward expression now, but Cheng Yu had already roughly understood it on the beach.
At that time, Lawrence said that Cheng Yu's accent was pure American English, and Cheng Yu knew that Lawrence must have a lot to do with Americans.
Otherwise, for a native speaker of Spanish who can only have normal conversations in English but is not very proficient in it, the difference between American English and orthodox London accent is not as big as imagined.
At least, American pronunciation or American grammar, or even American vocabulary, cannot fully explain the problem.
For a person who looks obviously not American, normal people would never dare to judge that the other person speaks pure American English.
Lawrence did it.
This shows that he knows a lot about American English, at least, he often comes into contact with people who speak American English.
Therefore, Cheng Yu judged at that time that the financial backer behind Lawrence must be an American.
But even if he knew he was an American, Cheng Yu didn't know whether this matter had anything to do with the U.S. government or just some boring rich lunatics.
But Cheng Yu had a simple reasoning.
If the financial sponsor behind Lawrence is related to the U.S. government or the U.S. military, then even if those people cannot allow Lawrence to continue to maintain his legal status in Chile as he wants, they can at least arrange for him to go to the United States.
After a period of time, which doesn't even need to be long, just one or two months, you can arrange for him to have an American identity and allow him to return to Chile as an American.
Lawrence can completely disappear from this world and be replaced by an American also named Lawrence.
But from the various attitudes displayed by Lawrence, Cheng Yu could see that those Americans did not do this.
So, just like what Cheng Yu asked just now, is it because he doesn't want to do it, or because he doesn't have the ability?
Cheng Yu also wanted to test more.
Lawrence thought for a while and said: "Such things as ability, if you are more active, you can still have it."
Cheng Yu understood.
This has fully demonstrated that the financial backers behind Lawrence are really just a group of wealthy Americans.
These crazy people!
This matter should not have much to do with the U.S. government or the military. If it were really the U.S. government and the military, what Lawrence said would not be that people with more active abilities would always have it, but would show a little anger and express those
People are simply unwilling to do these things for him.
"What Americans can't do, we can do it for you." Cheng Yu made the first "promise" appropriately.
Lawrence's heart beat slightly, and Cheng Yu could see it from the beating of his eyelids.
"So, those suggestions that Cindy told me were actually given by you, right?"
Cheng Yu shrugged his shoulders and said, "What did she say to you?"
"Let me hand over Peng, take over the mayor's shooting case, and frame the case as being directed and staged by the mayor, and then he wants to kill me to silence me."
Cheng Yu smiled and thought to himself, why is this 250-year-old Cindy in such a hurry? Why can't you go to bed with him first, and then pretend to be aggrieved and pitiful to gain his sympathy and trust? How did this woman become so attracted by the British?
People fancy her? She is actually praised as a political star. Are the parties that praise her also full of bad-minded people?
Seeing that Cheng Yu didn't speak, Lawrence said again: "But I don't see what benefits I can get from this proposal. Could it be that I did so much just to make sure that Cindy will not betray me again in the future?"
Cheng Yuxin said that you still want me to wipe your butt.
He said: "That mainly depends on what you need, Lawrence. For example, to return to the country legally, for example, to get more support, for example, the experiment that you can no longer stop now?"
"Both, but first, I must be able to return to the country legally."
“How about being a British citizen and an investor?”
"Acceptable."
Cheng Yu nodded and said, "This shouldn't be difficult."
It can be seen that Lawrence is really moved. He did such crazy things on this island, obviously not just to stay in this ghost place for the rest of his life.
The so-called future territory only has meaning if it can come and go freely.
Next, Cheng Yu threw him to Cindy's painting cake and painted Lawrence again.
Throughout the entire conversation, Lawrence remained cautiously silent, but it could be seen that he was quite moved, but not as obviously as Cindy showed.
This further proves that the financial backers behind him are completely disposable to him.
As for the bright prospects described by Cheng Yu, Lawrence didn't really care. After all, it would take several years or even more than ten years of operation. He would have no problem surviving until then, but whether all these operations could be implemented smoothly?
It's very problematic in itself.
After pondering, Lawrence asked his first question.
"If my guess is correct, Alan, you should be from the Labor Party, right?"
This is an obvious answer. There are only three main political parties in the UK. The Conservative Party has occupied the political stage for a long time, and the Labor Party is their opposite, or the most powerful competitor. Even if this competitor is still
Not so full-fledged.
The third one is the Liberal Democratic Party.
This party is very strange. In terms of philosophy, they are more similar to the Labor Party. As the third largest party in parliament, they made an unexpected move in 10 years. They actually reached an agreement with the Conservative Party and formed a coalition.
The government, thereby gaining five cabinet positions, became a coalition governing party for the first time.
Cheng Yu thought for a moment and felt that if he claimed to be a member of the Labor Party, it would be a little risky since he did not fully understand Chile's internal affairs.
He only knew that Chile had a good relationship with the British, but he did not know whether the Chilean government had a better relationship with the Labor Party or the Conservative Party.
On the surface, Chile should have a better relationship with the Conservative Party. After all, the Conservative Party is the largest party in the UK and has been the ruling party for 10 years.
However, the Labor Party was in power for the thirteen years before 10 years ago, so the relationship between the Chilean government and the Labor Party may not necessarily be bad.
There is even a possibility that both the Conservative Party and the Labor Party actually have good relations with the Chilean government. If Cheng Yu complies with Lawrence and says that he is from the Labor Party, he may fall into his trap.
In any case, Lawrence is not an easy person to get along with. He is a cunning old fox.
Therefore, Cheng Yu showed a hint of embarrassment and said: "I may disappoint you, Lawrence. I do not serve the Labor Party, but the Liberal Democratic Party. Our party leader is very distressed. Although his ideas are similar to those of the Labor Party,
We had to compromise and reach a superficial agreement with the Conservative Party. In order to become the ruling party, we were quite helpless."
Lawrence nodded slowly. It seemed that he recognized Cheng Yu's words.
"So, you, the Liberal Democratic Party, also want to cultivate forces that you can control in Chile?"
"It should be said that this is a tentative contact.
At least, after we sent out the signal, the leader of the National Reform Party to which Cindy belongs was quite moved. He has been trying to establish a more stable relationship with us, but we prefer conservative considerations.
After all, the relationship between Chile and our country has always been very good, and we dare not make any advances.
But if it is really possible to jointly promote something, I think it would be extremely beneficial to both parties.
And Lawrence, you will also gain more benefits by serving as a bridge between the two parties."
"But I still don't think Cindy is the right candidate!"
"I said, currently she is. I don't rule out the replacement of candidates in the future."
"But once Cindy is no longer your chosen candidate, I will..." Lawrence drawled a long note.
Cheng Yu secretly cursed the old fox, but on the surface he smiled lightly and said: "Even if Cindy is no longer the designated candidate, she must be in a relatively good position. Lawrence, when we work between parties, we always
It's a multi-pronged process, and we can't hang ourselves on your tree."
Lawrence's eyes flickered, almost completely agreeing with Cheng Yu's words.
Cheng Yu did not overemphasize the importance of Cindy, which actually won Lawrence's trust. If Cheng Yu had steadfastly vowed, Lawrence would probably have drawn his gun directly.
