"I'm not stupid!"

Dora's puffy retort didn't do anything in the slightest, and only brought more joy to Evan.

Arriving home first, Virginia, who had taken a shower and changed her clothes, came down from upstairs, and when she saw this situation, she smiled and said, "Dora, take it upon yourself, you deserve it." ”

Dora snorted and shouted, "Ignore you!"

With that, she took a short step and ran to the kitchen to complain to Nina.

After a while, Nina, who was peeling potatoes, was dragged by Dora to the living room, pointed to Evan, who was having a regular relationship with Dorothyla, and said, "Mom, this person is the one who bullied me and helped me teach him a lesson." ”

Nina glanced at Evan, who also happened to look at her, and the two looked at each other and nodded to each other.

"Hey, Nina, do you want to help?"

Evan's greeting was not at all like a son who had just arrived home after a few months of being away, but like a little naughty man who had secretly gone out for a day and came home trying to please his mother.

Nina waved her hand and said, "No." After a day in the car, let's take a shower and take a rest. ”

Then she looked at Dora, "Since you don't practice, come and help, Virginia, you too." ”

"Huh?" Instead of helping the rescuers, Dora was very sad when she folded herself in.

"Ahh ”

Nina couldn't help but say, and dragged Dora into the kitchen in turn. Virginia did not resist Nina's order, but said, "I'll dry my hair first, and I'll come right away." ”

Evan and Dorothy looked at each other, and Dorothy had a smile in her eyes that was about to overflow.

"Dora, stupid again, Dorothy, don't follow her example. Evan touched Dorothy's head and gloated, "Now, let's move on to your performance at the Open House on campus, I've heard you're in the limelight." ”

Dorothy said shyly, "No, brother, you're tired, go take a shower, I'll help Dora." ”

After saying that, Dorothy ran away with her little skirt.

Only Robert and Evan were left in the living room.

Evan looked at Robert, who was arranging the chessboard and storing the chess pieces, and frowned: "By the way, you don't seem to have called me since I entered the house." ”

Robert raised his head, glanced at him, and said, "Gui'an, Evan who bullied his sister as soon as he came back." ”

With that, Robert put the chessboard in the cabinet under the television and ran up the stairs.

He was indeed running away, because after Evan heard his greeting, he made a look of anger, "It's okay if you don't call my brother, it's actually ...... Huh, dare to run, stop!"

In the kitchen, Nina smiled softly when she heard the noise outside. When Dora saw it, she asked, "Mommy, what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing ......"

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The next day, not far from the official residence, the Lola Cafe.

Several executives of the Magic Seven Company were notified and gathered here.

Evan wanted to meet them and have a casual chat with them, but he didn't want to go to the company, so he looked for this place.

For the development of the Magic Seven Company this year, Evan knows everything clearly. To be honest, if you only look at the turnover, the executives of the Magic Seven Company can live happily at the end of the year, and they can get their bonuses with peace of mind.

The pillar business of the company is plastic toys with the Rubik's Cube as the main product, but now that the Rubik's Cube has entered its third year of listing, the market has entered a stable period. Even though the Rubik's Cube competition is still hot this summer, local sales have dropped to less than 1 million per month (data in December this year), plus 400,000 exported to Europe, the monthly sales of the Rubik's Cube are only about 4 million, and the net profit is more than 1 million.

In addition to the Rubik's Cube, the plastic toys that Magic Seven is promoting are MagicBlock blocks. Since the launch of MagicBlock, under the auspices of R&D director Ronna, it has continued to innovate, not only is the playability getting higher and higher, but even because of the material, it is lighter and safer than traditional wooden building blocks, and the only drawback is that the price is slightly higher. But it is precisely because of this that the promotion of MagicBlock has been difficult. Although the company has spent a lot of energy and financial resources, the sales volume of building blocks in the last month is only 2 million US dollars, and the net profit is less than 300,000 because of the promotion of channel providers. However, with this strong support, MagicBlock's sales growth curve is very good, and according to this trend, the management of MagicBlock is confident that after the popularity of the Rubik's Cube declines, MagicBlock will replace it as a new pillar product.

In addition to toys, the second largest product line of the Magic Seven Company is office supplies, Post-it notes. This child's palm-sized thing was launched at the beginning of this year, and for most of the first half of the year, post-it notes spread in the three major urban agglomerations of Boston-Washington, Chicago-Pittsburgh, and San Francisco-San Diego, and sales were tepid. Just when the magic seven company thought that post-it notes were out of play this year and were ready to increase promotion efforts in the coming year, in the second half of the year, almost at the end of the general election, the post-it note market suddenly ushered in a high growth, with monthly sales increasing from the original maximum of only 300,000 US dollars to the recent (December) 600,000 US dollars. According to the survey of the market department, this number will continue to grow rapidly in the future.

The third largest product line of the Magic Seven Company is entertainment products, including Plane Walker's House cards, and publishing houses. As for the chain retail store Magic House, due to its size, it is also temporarily classified in the sales department and is not listed separately.

After releasing the original set last July, the Plane Walker's Home cards went on sale in the second Rubik's Cube tournament in August, more than doubling the card pool and further improving gameplay. After the launch of the second series, the Magic Seven officially launched the official weekend tournament, which was held in the "Magic House" in various places. Soon after, the second part of the official background was launched.

In the year that is coming to an end, the Magic Seven Company has sold more than 16 million cards, the number of directly operated "Magic Houses" has reached seventy-eight, and there are nearly 100,000 active players. These players contributed about 3 million in revenue, 300,000 copies.

As for the publishing house, in addition to the publishing business, the main business is to operate the new semi-monthly magazine "Fantasy World" and the comic magazine "Fantasy Future", which are small in size and have negligible profits. However, because of the popularity of several emerging writers and the preparation of the Nebula Awards, the reputation of the publishing house in the industry has risen a lot.

To sum up, in the past year, the company has recorded a total turnover of $102 million and a profit of $14.52 million. The profit figure is not small, but Evan can not spend much, and most of the profit is spent on new production lines and new equipment.

But this turnover alone is enough for the Magic Seven Company to maintain the status of the son of the Evan family.

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