Empire of Shadows

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

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

Young girls hope they look a bit more mature, but mature women hope they have a bit more youthful feeling.

For Patricia, she is already youthful and full of vitality, so she somewhat envies her cousin's maturity and charm.

After all... men always have a special fondness for charm.

Lance glanced at Barbara and said affirmatively, "Of course, Barbara is very beautiful and also very mature, with a unique beauty of a mature woman."

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

"I just took a simple look here and saw many beautiful girls."

"But you, there is only one!"

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

Patricia, who was originally a little frustrated, suddenly showed an uncontrollable smile. She actually didn't want to smile, because it was too unreserved.

But she really couldn't help it, Lance was too good at talking!

"Your words make me shy!" she whispered to Lance, and it could be heard that she was in a very good mood now.

The topics that young people talk about will always revolve around fashion, always around movies, trends and some other things, without depth.

Honestly, Lance wasn't too able to join their topics, because he hadn't watched movies or anything like that for a long time, but he was still trying his best to chat with them.

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

Money, this thing, is universally effective in all classes and age groups in the Federation!

But what was surprising was that one of Patricia's cousins actually knew Lance.

"You have a labor agency, right?"

This cousin is called Jack, a very common name.

"Yes, but I don't know how you know about it."

Patricia explained from the side, "Jack works at the dock.", she said, looking at Jack, "What is your job again?"

Jack said easily, "My job is to conduct random checks on some goods entering the port. You know, take a form, randomly open a container, and then see if there is anything undeclared inside."

"It's a very boring job, but because I often come into contact with some workers at the dock, I know you."

"They all say you want to monopolize the illegal immigration work at the dock, is it true?"

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

At the beginning, it was because of the illegal immigrant workers. They are completely different from what they used to be. It can be said that they are three-good workers with organization, discipline and scale.

Moreover, someone is assisting the dock office in managing this part of 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 they would run away after stealing, and no one could find them.

Or do some other bad things, and sometimes they would be lazy at work. After all, they only got a dozen dollars a month for working themselves to death, but now this situation has changed.

Their discipline has become better, which has reduced a lot of things for the dock office, but it also means that these illegal immigrants are not easy to deal with, and they cannot be bullied casually, because they have begun to band together.

The events that happened in the past two days have spread like wildfire. Jack even leaned close to Lance and asked softly, "Did Hammer really run away?"

Lance shrugged, "Who knows?"

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

An airtight answer, but it seemed to explain something.

Jack knew this was a sensitive topic and quickly skipped it, "Maybe I will need your help a lot in the future, then I can directly bypass her to find you."

Lance took out a business card and handed it over, "Of course, you are welcome at any time."

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

Lance told her what happened, Patricia didn't show much shock, just felt... very surprised, "Some people are just hopelessly stupid!"

"You're right!"

Except for Jack, almost no one else's field overlapped with Lance's, but basically this family either worked in government departments or in companies, and there was no working class at all.

During the Empire, people always said that the Federation was a fair and just country, with no corruption, no fraud, no... those unpleasant things.

But if you really delve into the core of this country, as a federal person, you will find that it pays more attention to "bloodline theory" than other countries.

When the guests were almost all there, the banquet officially began. Barbara挽着her father's arm and appeared in front of the cake.

First, there was a moving father-daughter speech, and then it entered the cake-cutting and gift-giving session.

The cake was delicious, and definitely not cheap, because it was very tall and big, and everyone who came had a portion that they couldn't finish.

The atmosphere gradually eased, and people began to give gifts.

The gentlemen and ladies stood aside, and the gifts were given by their children. The first person to give Barbara a gift was everyone's older brother, who is now thirty-seven years old, a socialist, and works in a government unit.

He gave Barbara a pair of beautiful and exquisite jewel earrings, sparkling and attracting people's attention.

Barbara wore them on the spot and expressed her love for the gift.

Then they started giving gifts in order of age.

Patricia originally took out a necklace that she liked very much, but Lance stopped her. This was his first time attending Patricia's family social event, and he certainly couldn't let Patricia pay for 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 shape of a lark matched with blue-green gemstones was very beautiful.

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

The two girls hugged and kissed each other on the cheek. She said thank you repeatedly, saying that she liked such brooches very much, and also hugged Lance by the way - just out of etiquette.

Because these siblings and visitors were of different ages, there were many kinds of gifts.

The more expensive ones were Lance's brooches, necklaces, earrings, etc. given by others, and the cheaper ones were some homemade handicrafts.

But although these things are cheap, you can't say it, because the cheapness of the material does not mean that the intention is also cheap. In short, everyone is very happy.

About half an hour later, people in the area where the "adults" were finally began to argue because of different political views.

Patricia was secretly laughing, "William didn't want to come because of this. They argue every year, and no one can convince anyone."

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, this year's general election was not so intense due to some behind-the-scenes deals, otherwise someone might have already left in anger.

But then again, although Mr. President won re-election through a series of methods, this despicable method did lose a lot of popular support.

Even Lance realized that the general election four years later might be unexpected!

Although the Federal people are very stupid and are often used, they don't like to look in the mirror.

Now Mr. President has put a mirror in front of the voters, reflecting their ugliness, and the voters' anger can be imagined!

You can use my stupidity, but you can't tell me that I'm a fool!

This is the Federal people!

The young people on Lance's side seemed to be used to such scenes. Several young people even began to take the initiative to eat more things. Luca told Lance that their fathers had fallen into a disadvantage in the quarrel over there, and if there were no accidents, they would leave soon.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, there was a roar calling their names, and then these young people said goodbye to their other siblings or friends, and left in a hurry with slightly embarrassed smiles.

And the parents of the remaining people began to pick the next opponent like proud roosters who had defeated their opponents!

"They are simply a waste of federal political resources here. They should all go to Congress, that is the most suitable stage for them!" Lance joked, and received a lot of support.

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

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

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

Patricia replied without thinking, "Farmer."

Lance whistled, a strong force in the Liberal Party!

Almost all large farm owners are staunch supporters of the Liberal Party, and only large farm owners can have so many children and such large family branches.

After all, in the past, having more children meant having more free labor to work on the farm. Almost all of the older generation of farm owners had at least three or four children.

Some even had more than a dozen children!

After two or three generations of procreation, this could become a huge family system.

When they returned to Patricia's house, William was still away on business and had not returned.

Mrs. Lawrence was also not back; only the two young people were at home.

Although they didn't taste the forbidden fruit, they did many things that broke through Patricia's understanding.

Just as some things were about to come to fruition, the sound of a car engine came from downstairs. Mrs. Lawrence was back.