1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 312 Gift

"For more than a year, you have never sent a letter to New York. I know you went to Japan, but at least you sent a letter to say you are safe." Elizabeth scolded.

"This old-fashioned hat on your head is too New York-style. You should take it off and replace it with a Paris-style hat that suits you." Liang Yao opened the exquisite hat box in his hand.

I saw a very delicate hat carefully wrapped in layers of tulle.

Elizabeth couldn't help but exclaimed; "Oh, my God, where did you buy it? I have only seen this latest Parisian hat in fashion magazines, and I have never seen anyone own it in New York."

Such a hat."

Elizabeth couldn't help but reach out and touch this lovely hat.

This is a hat made of gray-blue taffeta, with carefully selected Indian peacock neck hairs around the brim. Elizabeth couldn't put it down.

"Friendship is priceless." Liang Yao said with a smile, "This hat has the same color as your eyes. I think it will suit you very well. I will help you put it on."

With that said, Liang Yao took off the hat on Elizabeth's head and put the cute hat in the box on Elizabeth's head.

Elizabeth stood there, motionless, waiting for Liang Yao to help her put on her hat, and murmured in a low voice: "Friendship, is there only friendship between us?"

After Liang Yao gently tied the hat, Elizabeth quickly ran to the boudoir, stood in front of the mirror and admired it, happily making faces at herself in the mirror.

Not long after, Elizabeth took out a suit from the room: "I sewed this suit for you. I hope your figure has not been out of shape over the past year and you can still wear it."

Liang Yao nodded, accepted Elizabeth's gift, went to Kony's room, took off his somewhat dirty colonel uniform, and put on the clothes Elizabeth had sewn for him.

The clothes fit him very well. It seems that he has done a good job in managing his figure over the past year.

Sophia made a dessert for Liang Yao to entertain Liang Yao. After making the dessert, Sophia looked at the time on the pendulum clock, hurriedly ate a few pieces of fried bread mixed with sucrose, and asked Kony and Elizabeth to entertain him.

Liang Yao, she is going to take care of the hotel business.

Although Vanderbilt is not short of money, he is not very concerned about his family. He is always thinking about how to make more money in his hands. He rarely sends money home and rarely cares about the growth of his children.

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This was true when I was running the shipping business, and it was still the case after I switched to running a railway company.

A series of expenses such as food, clothing and education expenses for the Vanderbilt children were basically paid for by Sophia's income from running the hotel.

Fortunately, the country full of dykes and tulips gave Vanderbilt another legacy: independent Dutch women. There were no major problems in his family, and his children all received a normal education.

At this time, and even earlier, Dutch women were models of Western feminism. Because Dutch law gave Dutch women full autonomy: Dutch women could do business in their own names rather than in the names of their husbands, so Dutch women’s sense of autonomy was greater than

Women in other countries at the same time were stronger.

Even after immigrating to New York, this tradition was brought to New York by Dutch women. There are many confident Dutch women like Sophia who go into business and support their families.

Strong and confident Dutch women are everywhere in New York.

After finishing the dessert, Liang Yao drank several cups of tea to relieve his tiredness.

He had lived at the Vanderbilt's house for a while before, and was already used to the Vanderbilt's sweet food. Sweet is sweet, but sweet food is indeed very filling.

It was afternoon after tea. Vanderbilt's two grandsons were playing in the garden. The four-year-old grandson, Kisa, saw his brother Kony playing on the swing. He wanted to play too, but his swing was too high.

Sa couldn't climb up, so he ran to Liang Yao and begged Liang Yao in a sweet voice: "Uncle, I want to swing on the swing, can you carry me up?"

Liang Yao smiled and picked up Kisa and put him on the swing. Seeing that Kisa's feet couldn't reach the ground, he helped him push the swing.

"Higher, uncle, higher!" Kisa clapped her little hands excitedly and giggled.

"Okay, sit tight."

Liang Yao increased his efforts and played with the innocent children. He felt a sense of relaxation that he had not seen for a long time.

"Elizabeth, you will be 20 years old next year, and you will be an old girl. When I was your age, little Corny was already three years old. Now that you are older than New York, is there no one you like?"

Elizabeth's sister-in-law Maria looked at Liang Yaoming who was playing with Kisa and said knowingly.

"Or is it that the person you like is right in front of you?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Sister-in-law, why are you like your father, always like to bring the topic to this aspect?" Elizabeth turned her head and tried to change the topic.

"The daughters of the Vanderbilt family can often only marry money instead of love, but now you have the opportunity to marry both money and love. What an enviable thing it is.

If you are embarrassed to speak, you can ask your father." Maria encouraged Elizabeth.

The so-called New York aristocrats, whether they are old aristocrats or new aristocrats, basically use marriage to determine the marriage of their children in order to maximize the interests of the family and achieve strong alliances.

Maria was no exception; her father was Vanderbilt's business partner.

"But my father doesn't want me to leave New York." Elizabeth's gray-blue eyes looked into the distance.

"Maybe my father is not that old-fashioned." Maria said, "How will you know if you don't open your mouth and try."

"Sister-in-law, I know my father better than you do. My father is not looking for a son-in-law so much as a free right-hand man. Do you think Clark and Cross are like the Vanderbilts' sons-in-law or servants?" Elizabeth asked rhetorically.

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This is the issue that Elizabeth is most worried about. Based on her understanding of Liang Yao, it is definitely impossible for Liang Yao to be Vanderbilt's helper like Clark and Cross.

What's more, Liang Yao is still an army brigadier general, a veritable army brigadier general.

Thinking of this, Elizabeth became even more upset.

In the evening, Vanderbilt came back with his eldest son William, and with him came Vandaze.

William now helped Vanderbilt manage the railroad company's business and became Vanderbilt's right-hand man, while Vanderbilt was busy renovating commercial buildings in New York.

Whether Fan Daze can make further progress in the retail industry depends on whether he and Liang Yao can succeed in the commercial building project this time. He has put all his worth on commercial buildings in New York.

"Look who is here, our American Army Brigadier General."

After meeting Liang Yao, Vanderbilt couldn't help but patted Liang Yao on the shoulder and joked.

"Back then, my Commodore was just a nickname. Your Commodore is a real Brigadier. They say young people are scary, but you, the young people, are really scary."

(End of chapter)