Shadow Empire

Chapter 112 Complex Family Relationships and Pause Button [Monthly Ticket 666+2]

Many people are like this, especially girls, who are always looking for what they lack in contradictions.

Young girls want to look more mature, but mature women want to feel more youthful.

For Patricia, she was already young and energetic enough, so she envied her cousin's maturity and charm.

After all... men always have a soft spot for charm.

Lance glanced at Barbara and said affirmatively, "Of course, Barbara is very beautiful and mature, with a beauty that is unique to mature women."

Patricia's expression suddenly became a little sad, but Lance would not let this expression last too long, "But there are many beautiful people, Barbara, or others, those big stars too."

"I just took a quick look here and saw a lot of beautiful girls."

"But there is only one of you!"

He held the girl's face in his hands. "I said, there can be many beautiful, sexy, any women in the world, but there is only one Patricia, the only one!"

Patricia, who was a little depressed, suddenly couldn't control her smile. She actually didn't want to laugh because it was too unreserved.

But I really couldn't help it, Lance was such a good talker!
"Your words make me shy!" She whispered to Lance, and it could be heard that she was in a very good mood.

The topics that young people talk about are always about fashion, always revolving around movies, trends and other things, without any depth.

To be honest, Lance was not able to join in their conversation because he hadn't watched movies or anything like that for a long time, but he still tried his best to chat with them.

Perhaps because of the luxury car worth two villas, everyone showed their closeness to Lance.

Money is a universal thing among all classes and age groups in the federation!
But surprisingly, one of Patricia's cousins ​​actually knew Lance.

"You have a labor agency, don't you?"

This cousin is called Jack, a very common name.

"Yes, but I don't know how you knew that."

Patricia explained, "Jack works at the docks." She looked at Jack and said, "What is your job?"

Jack said easily, "My job is to spot check some of the goods coming into the port. You know, I take a form, randomly open a container, and then see if there is anything inside that has not been declared."

"It's a boring job, but I know you because I come into contact with some of the workers on the docks."

"They all say you want to monopolize the illegal immigrant jobs on the docks. Is that true?"

Because Jack worked in customs and had some connections with various people at the dock, he had heard the name Lance from others more than once.

In the beginning, it was because of those illegal immigrant workers. They are completely different now than before. They can be said to be organized, disciplined and large-scale workers.

There are also people assisting the dock office in managing these illegal immigrants. The dock is very supportive of Lance and what he is doing.

In the past, some of these illegal immigrants would do bad things, such as stealing things, and then run away, and no one could find them.

Or do some other bad things, and sometimes be lazy at work, after all, you only earn a dozen dollars a month after working so hard, but now this situation has changed.

Their discipline has improved, which has reduced a lot of work in the dock office, but it also means that these illegal immigrants are more difficult to deal with and cannot be bullied at will because they have started to stick together.

The news of what happened in the past two days has spread like wildfire. Jack even approached Lance and asked softly, "Did Hammer really run away?"

Lance shrugged, "Who knows?"

"Anyway, I couldn't find him. He made me lose a lot of money."

It was a flawless answer, but it seemed to explain something.

Jack knew this was a sensitive topic and quickly skipped over it. "Maybe I'll need your help in the future. I can go straight to you without her then."

Lance pulled out his business card and handed it over, "Of course, you're always welcome."

The two separated quickly, and Patricia was a little curious, "Who is Hammer he is talking about?"

Lance told Patricia what happened. Patricia didn't show much shock, but just felt... surprised. "There are always some people who are hopelessly stupid!"

"you are right!"

Except for Jack, almost no one else has any overlap with Lance's field, but basically this family either works in government departments or in companies, and there is no working class at all.

When we were in the Empire, people always said that the Federation was a fair and just country, without corruption, fraud, or...those unpleasant things.

But if you really go deep into the core of this country, as a federal citizen, you will find that here, more emphasis is placed on "bloodline theory" than in other countries.

When most of the guests arrived, the banquet officially began. Barbara took her father's arm and appeared in front of the cake. First there was a touching dialogue between the father and daughter, and then the cake cutting and gift giving began.

The cake is delicious and definitely not cheap because it is very tall and big, and everyone who comes has one portion and still can’t finish it.

The atmosphere gradually relaxed and people began to give gifts.

The gentlemen and ladies stood aside, and the gifts were presented by their children, and the first to give Barbara a present was the elder brother of all, now thirty-seven years old, a Socialist, and a government employee.

What he gave Barbara was a pair of beautiful and exquisite jewelry earrings, which were shining and attracted people's attention.

Barbara put it on on the spot and expressed her love for the gift.

Then start giving gifts according to age.

Originally, Patricia took out a necklace that she liked very much, but Lance stopped her. This was his first time attending a social gathering at Patricia's house, and he definitely couldn't let Patricia give this gift.

On the way here, they picked out a gemstone brooch worth about one hundred and fifty dollars from a roadside jewelry store. The lark shape combined with the blue-green gemstone was very beautiful.

When Patricia handed the gift to Barbara, she also showed considerable surprise and love.

The two girls hugged each other and kissed each other on the cheek. She kept saying thank you and said that she really liked the brooch. She also hugged Lance - just out of courtesy.

Because the siblings and visitors range in age from young to old, there is a wide variety of gifts.

The more expensive ones are Lance's brooch, necklaces and earrings given by others, while the cheaper ones are some homemade handicrafts.

However, although this kind of thing is cheap, you cannot say it, because the cheapness of the material does not mean that the thought behind it is cheap. In short, everyone is very happy.

About half an hour later, where the "adults" were, people finally started arguing because of different political views.

Patricia snickered on the side, "William doesn't want to come because of this. They argue every year, and no one can convince the other."

This phenomenon is also very common. Sometimes a family of three will have three different political positions: some support the Socialist Party, some support the Liberal Party, and some support the Federal Party.

Fortunately, due to some behind-the-scenes deals, the election atmosphere this year is not so intense, otherwise some people might have already walked out of the meeting cursing and swearing.

But then again, although the President was re-elected through a series of means, such despicable means did indeed make him lose a lot of public support.

Even Lance realizes that the general election four years from now may be unexpected!

As dumb as they are, and as often taken advantage of, the Federals don’t like to look in the mirror.

Now the President has put a mirror in front of the voters, revealing their ugly sides. You can imagine the voters’ anger!

You can take advantage of my stupidity, but you can't tell me I'm a stupid person!

This is the Federalist!

The young people on Lance's side seemed to be accustomed to such scenes. Some of them even began to eat more on their own initiative. Luca told Lance that their father was at a disadvantage in the quarrel over there, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would leave soon.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, there were roars of shouting their names, and then these young people said goodbye to their other brothers and sisters or friends, and hurried away with slightly awkward smiles.

And the parents of the remaining people, like proud roosters who have defeated their opponents, began to select their next opponent!
"It's a waste of federal political resources for them to be here. They should all go to Congress, which is the most suitable stage for them!" Lance joked and received support from many people.

After declining the invitation to have dinner here, Lance and Patricia left together in a car.

On the way back, Patricia was a little embarrassed, "I hope what happened today didn't scare you. You know, having a big family is always like this..."

Lance became more interested. "What did your grandfather or great-grandfather do?"

Patricia answered without thinking, "Farmer."

Lance blew a whistle, the backbone of the Liberal Party!
Almost all large farmers are staunch supporters of the Liberal Party, and only large farmers can have so many children and have such large family branches.

After all, in the past, having more children meant more children working for the farm for free, and almost all of the older generation of farmers had at least three or four children.

Some even have a dozen kids!

After two or three generations of reproduction, this can become a huge family system.

When Patricia returned home, William was still on a business trip and had not returned.

Mrs. Lawrence didn't come back either, and there were only two young people at home.

Although he did not taste the forbidden fruit, he did many things that broke Patricia's cognition.

Just when something was about to fall into place, the sound of a car engine was heard downstairs and Mrs. Lawrence came back.

(End of this chapter)