1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 312 Gifts
"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 report your safety." Elizabeth blamed.

"This old-fashioned hat on your head is too New York-style, you should take it off and put on a Paris-style hat to match 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 exclaiming; "Oh, my God, where did you buy it? I've only seen this latest Parisian hat in fashion magazines, and I haven't seen anyone in New York own it yet." Such a hat."

Elizabeth couldn't help reaching out and touching the lovely hat.

It is a hat of grey-blue taffeta with carefully selected Indian peacock neck feathers around the brim.Elizabeth couldn't put it down.

"Friendship is priceless." Liang Yao said with a smile, "This hat is the same as your eyes, I think it must be very suitable for you, I will help you put it on."

As he spoke, Liang Yao took off the hat on Elizabeth's head, and put the lovely hat in the box on for Elizabeth.

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

After Liang Yao gently fastened the lace of 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 lost its shape over the past year and you can still wear it."

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

The clothes fit well. It seems that he has managed his body well over the past year.

Sophia made a dessert for Liang Yao to entertain Liang Yao. After finishing the dessert, Sophia looked at the time on the pendulum clock, hurriedly ate a few pieces of fried bread dough mixed with sucrose, and told Connie and Elizabeth to treat him Liang Yao, she was going to take care of the hotel business.

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

It was the same when I was in the shipping business, and it was the same when I was in the railroad business.

Sophia basically paid for the Vanderbilt children's food, clothing and education expenses with the income from running the hotel.

Fortunately, the land of dykes and tulips gave Vanderbilt another legacy: independent Dutch women.His family did not have any major problems, and several children have received normal education.

At this time, even earlier Dutch women were a model of Western feminism. Since Dutch law gave Dutch women full autonomy: Dutch women can do business in their own name instead of their husband’s, so Dutch women’s sense of autonomy is higher than that of their husbands. At the same time, women in other countries were stronger.

Even after immigrating to New York, this tradition was brought to New York by Dutch women, and there are many confident Dutch women who run businesses and support their families like Sophia.

Strong, confident Dutch women are everywhere in New York.

After eating dessert, Liang Yao drank several cups of tea to relieve his boredom.

He had lived in Vanderbilt's house for a while before, and he was used to the sweet and sweet food of Vanderbilt's house.Sweet is sweet, but sweet food is really easy to fill.

After drinking tea, it was afternoon. Vanderbilt’s two little grandsons were playing in the garden. Kisa, a four-year-old grandson, saw his brother Connie playing on the swing and wanted to play too, but his swing was too high. Sa couldn't climb up, so she ran to Liang Yao, and begged Liang Yao in a childlike voice, "Uncle, I want to play on the swing, can you hug me up?"

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

"Be taller, uncle, be taller!" Kisa clapped her little hands excitedly and giggled.

"Okay, sit still."

Liang Yao stepped up his efforts, playing with innocent children, he felt a long-lost sense of relief.

"Elizabeth, you will be 20 years old next year. You will be an old girl. When I was your age, little Coney was three years old. Is there no one you can admire when you are as old as New York?"

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

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

"What nonsense are you talking about, sister-in-law, why do you always like to talk about this topic like your father?" Elizabeth turned her head away, trying to change the topic.

"Vanderbilt daughters tend to marry money and not love, but now you have the opportunity to marry both money and love, what an enviable thing, If you are embarrassed to speak, you can find your father." Maria encouraged Elizabeth.

The so-called New York aristocrats, whether they are old nobles or upstarts, in order to maximize the interests of the family and achieve a strong alliance, basically use the method of marriage to decide the marriage of their children.

Maria was no exception, and his 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 such a rigid person." Maria said, "How will you know if you don't try."

"Sister-in-law, I know my father better than you. My father is not so much recruiting a son-in-law as he is recruiting a free right-hand man. Do you think Clark and Cross are like Vanderbilt's son-in-law or helper?" Elizabeth asked back .

This was what Elizabeth was most worried about. Based on what she knew about Liang Yao, Liang Yao would definitely not be able to help Vanderbilt like Clark and Cross did.

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

Thinking of this, Elizabeth became more and more upset.

In the evening, Vanderbilt returned with his eldest son, William, together with Vanderbilt and his son, and Vanderbilt.

William is now helping Vanderbilt manage the railroad company's business and has become Vanderbilt's right-hand man, while Vanderbilt is busy with the renovation of the New York commercial building.

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

"Look who's here, our Brigadier General of the United States."

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

"At the beginning, my Commodore was just a nickname. Your Commodore is a veritable Commodore. It is said that young people are awesome, but you are really scary."

(End of this chapter)