Speaking of which, although the position of Bureau Chief of the National Security Bureau isn’t a small one, he is just here for a visit, after all. Is there a need to be so surprised? It’s not like I did something bad…
Actually, it was Hong Dali who wasn’t thinking deep enough. For Hong Weiguo and Lan Ruoxi, it was a different matter.
The Bureau Chief of the National Security Bureau coming to their house for a visit, what did that signify?
That signified that they had gained the recognition of the nation’s army. It wasn’t an overstatement to say that as long as they didn’t commit something unforgivable, from now on, at least in the political circles, no one would dare to touch their family!
The Bureau Chief of the National Security Bureau had connections with their family, who would dare to disregard this fact?
Previously, Zhu Guangyuan sent the idiot, Captain Zhao, to take over their family’s underground cave. Even until now, Hong Weiguo hadn’t looked for his trouble because there would be repercussions if those from the business world tried to take revenge on those from politics.
But now that the Bureau Chief was coming to their home for a visit, things were simple. As long as the Bureau Chief slightly let out a word of their relationship, that Zhu Guangyuan would definitely be frightened to the point of peeing in his pants!
“No, this can’t do, I have to hurry up and make some preparations.” Hong Weiguo hurriedly stood up. “The current Hong Family can’t be compared to when the Nation was just built, we can’t be careless when facing this kind of big personage.”
He was right.
Being one of the two empires that built the Nation, to maintain the harmony of the people, the first clan leader of the Hong Family split his descendants into two branches—one in the business world and one in politics. Old Elder Hong Tu belonged to the business branch while the second elder Hong Wei belonged to the political branch.
But because of democracy, the Nation’s leader had already changed several times, at least ten plus times. As for the Hong Family, they couldn’t just keep controlling the government. So, after all these years, their influence in the government had been declining.
Actually, this was a good thing for the Hong Family. After all, following a king was akin to following a tiger—if they were not the true leader of the Nation themselves, no one could guarantee that they might sometimes choose the wrong side. Therefore, the current Hong Family decided to just be a wealthy family. “See, I’m just a rich guy who will definitely support the Nation. Tell me if you need me, but I’m not involved in politics anymore. You guys can do whatever you want, it isn’t related to me.”
“Don’t talk to me about politics, and also don’t try to pull us down into politics.”
Therefore, the Hong Family maintained a special position. Their wealth grew, and their influence wasn’t small within the political world, either. The most important thing was that they didn’t offend anyone. No matter who became the leader of the Nation, it wasn’t related to them!
Therefore, this was a big advantage for Hong Dali—if the Hong Family was still in politics, he would be big trouble for the family if he squandered like this every day!
Whatever the case, since the Bureau Chief said that he was coming over today, he was indeed showing respect for Hong Dali.
“Er…” Seeing his parents hurriedly preparing themselves, Hong Dali was a bit speechless. In the end, he hugged Quentin and just lay onto the sofa. “Forget it, Quentin, the two of us shall just take a break…”
After two or three minutes, when Hong Weiguo and Lan Ruoxi had just finished preparing themselves, the sound of a helicopter’s propeller outside the house could be heard. Without question, someone who could use a helicopter for going out, that must definitely be Uncle Chief.
Very quickly, the helicopter landed, and the Bureau Chief gradually walked down from the helicopter. Upon seeing Hong Weiguo and his wife walking up to welcome him, he stretched out his hand first, smiled and said, “This must be Mr. Hong, greetings to you.”
“Hehe, greetings to you too, Bureau Chief. Your presence brings light to my humble dwelling.” Hong Weiguo shook hands with the Bureau Chief, smiled and said, “Come, please enter.”
Being the leader of the National Security Bureau, the Bureau Chief’s identity was quite mysterious. Even Hong Weiguo didn’t know his name.
However, he had a vague impression of the Bureau Chief. He was definitely a very big shot, Hong Weiguo seemed to have seen him before somewhere.
“Oh my, if your home is a humble dwelling, then mine is just a thatched house.” The Bureau Chief laughed and said, “Hm, speaking of which, I really envy your Hong Family. Your family distanced yourselves from politics and became a wealthy family, your ancestors really had foresight.”
“Hehe, you must be joking, Bureau Chief.” Hong Weiguo invited the Bureau Chief to sit on the sofa, looked at Hong Dali for a while and said, “This little rascal just came home after going wild outside. His body condition isn’t very good, please don’t mind him, Bureau Chief.”
“Hahaha, how could I mind this little rascal?” The Bureau Chief sat on the sofa and laughed loudly. “If it wasn’t because of him, I wouldn’t have come here in the middle of the night. Dali, can you let me hug this tiger cub for a while?”
“Oh, sure.” Hong Dali placed Quentin in his hands. “Quentin, kiss him!”
“Ahwooo!” Quentin immediately licked the Bureau Chief’s face.
The Bureau Chief’s face was full of Quentin’s saliva. He gave a bitter laugh and said, “This little rascal, he always like to play around.” [1. Author’s footnote: The tiger’s tongue does indeed have barbs, but it can release and keep it at will.]
“This little prodigal’s only flaw is that he enjoys playing around, hehe.” Upon mentioning Hong Dali, Hong Weiguo instantly felt like laughing. “This kid likes to randomly play about with things normally, but his luck is quite good. Thus, the things he did all seemed to earn quite a bit now.”
“Haha, that’s indeed the case.” The Bureau Chief placed Quentin back in Hong Dali’s arm, smiled and said, “This kid has a nickname at my side there too—the Mascot of Tianjing City. This isn’t a joke, haha.”
Pfft. Upon hearing this interesting nickname, Lan Ruoxi couldn’t resist bursting out laughing.
“Uncle Chief, I still have such a nickname?” Hong Dali immediately felt invigorated. “Then, shouldn’t you build a statue for me. Then, my statute will become the landmark of our Tianjing City!”
“Little rascal, you are dreaming again.” Hong Weiguo didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. “Bureau Chief, don’t listen to this little rascal’s nonsense.”
Unexpectedly, the Bureau Chief actually carefully thought of it, touched his chin, then actually nodded and said, “Speaking of which, this is really probable, but just not within the city.”
“Huh?” This time, it was Hong Weiguo’s turn to be surprised. “Bureau Chief, you are not joking, are you?”
“Hehe, I’m not joking this time.” Now, the topic was going back to the serious stuff. The Bureau Chief’s face turned solemn and said, “We are going to expand on the school that Dali is going to build. I will not mention the specifics, I came today to listen to his new idea.”
The Nation was going to expand on the school, Hong Weiguo got a lot of information just from these few words alone.
First was that their family really had the National Security Bureau as their backup now. This National Security Bureau was an independent department and was very powerful. They also had lots of connections both within and outside the political circle. Many things that Hong Weiguo had to spend tens of millions to settle, they could settle it with just a few words—after all, no one dared not to show them respect.
The second was that the National Security Bureau thought very highly of Hong Dali now. He could be at least certain that, from now on, Hong Dali’s safety within the Nation wasn’t an issue anymore.
The third was that after the school was built, its use would definitely not just be as simple as taking in the children from poor families. Also, being the founder of the school, Hong Dali would be able to enjoy a lot of advantages regarding manpower in the future.
Any point out of these three was enough to cause someone to laugh even in their dreams if this occurred to them. However, seeing Hong Dali continuing to play with Quentin very calmly… Hong Weiguo could only helplessly shake his head. This prodigal son of his really had a big heart…
At this moment, the Bureau Chief poked Hong Dali, smiled and asked, “Dali, you called me today and said that you wanted to do something related to language and sound, can you tell me your plans in detail?”
“Huh?” Hong Dali strangely said, “I was just planning to create something new to play with. Actually, I wanted to say this long ago. Actually, Uncle Chief, you really didn’t have to come here personally…”
Hong Weiguo and Lan Ruoxi were stunned.
This little prodigal just wanted to make something to play with and alarmed the Bureau Chief of the National Security Bureau to come here to ask him in person?”
“You little rascal.” The Bureau Chief laughed and scoldingly said, “To you, it may be just for fun, but to me, it’s different. Tell me what is it that you are going to do this first. Then, I shall give you some advice on it.”
“Oh, OK.” Last time, this Bureau Chief adviced his New Lanxiang into a super awesome underground research factory. Those eight professions were each more awesome than the other. Now that he wanted to advise him again, Hong Dali naturally wouldn’t reject such a good offer. “It’s like this. Previously, I bought that Virtual Reality Projection, right? Today, that team came looking for me and I gave them 20 million to use for research. Then, I suddenly thought, didn’t Chuyin have a Holographic Projection Technology also? I can combine the two of them together and let the anime characters from the second dimension become third dimension characters. As long as you don’t touch them, they will be like real humans. But now, we have the character in mind, just that we don’t have the voice yet. So, I was planning to make a voice for it. Then, it will be perfect, right?”
“Hahaha! I knew it!” After hearing Hong Dali’s words, the Bureau Chief laughed loudly and said, “I always said that the Mascot of Tianjing City will always give us surprises! When you called me just now, I was already thinking that it must be related to films and entertainment. However, I didn’t expect you to give me such a huge surprise!”
“Then, Uncle Chief, you came personally just for this?” Hong Dali curiously asked, “I’m just doing this for fun.”
“If this was the only reason, why would I be so happy?” The Bureau Chief laughed and patted Hong Dali on the shoulder. “Little rascal, do you know that you have unknowingly broken through Merika’s films and entertainment technological barrier?”
What the heck, breaking through Merika’s films and entertainment technological barrier? Because of me? Do you have to say it so shockingly?
Hong Dali’s face was full of fright and pointed at his own nose in disbelief. “Uncle Chief, you are saying that it’s because of me? I didn’t do anything, the technology I mentioned maybe… Isn’t as incredible as you think?”
