January 1, 2206

In the dark night, just after 0 o'clock, the bell was still echoing in the city, and a take-off and landing plane quietly landed on the rooftop of the fourth floor of a family in District 58, and Luo Jiahui looked at Li Xin with a suspicious face.

"Don't lie to me, you kid."

"Can I joke with you, fat man."

Locke Jiahui yawned, looking at Li Xin, who was already taller than himself in front of him, he used to be very thin when he first entered school, like a little monkey, but now he has grown into a handsome young man with a head of 1.85 meters, with short and capable hair, and a sense of fortitude on his beautiful face.

"Grandma Li is on the third floor, I have already told her in advance, let's go."

Li Xin was also a little surprised, because Locke would believe this, which made Li Xin a little surprised.

"Fat brother, even if you are useless, in the future, you will be the head of 12 sections, the head of the general affairs department, everyone recognizes this position, and they are willing to listen to your scheduling, after all, you have taken care of us since you were a child, I think this position fat brother, if you come, it is the most suitable."

Locke slapped Li Xin on the back.

"You've been getting too close to the local magistrate lately, and you're ......."

Li Xin smiled awkwardly.

"I grew up here, and everyone in the neighborhood was very nice to me, and I'm not ........"

"Okay, I didn't say anything superfluous, you stinky boy, as the secretary of Section 8, just don't do anything against the law, you know!"

Li Xin nodded with a smile.

"Don't worry, fat brother."

After coming to a room on the third floor with the door ajar, Li Xin walked in respectfully, and after a while he let Locke in.

In the room sat a gray-haired old woman, who looked to be at least eighty or ninety years old, and she looked at Locke with kind eyes.

"Little fat man, this is the second time you've come to me."

For a while, Locke remembered that this old woman looked a little familiar, as if she was the person who told him fortune when she was a child, although she couldn't remember it clearly, but the colorful clothes she was wearing were particularly memorable, especially the pigtails tied up with broken flower ropes on both sides of her forehead, which made Locke remember very clearly.

"Reach over your hand, little fat man."

Locke Jiahui said, stretched out his hand, and the moment the old woman held his hand, Locke Jiahui felt a trace of strangeness, but he couldn't say it.

"A very wide hand, this hand can grasp everything, lift everything, what do you want to ask this time."

Locke also explained the situation directly, wanting to be free and not wanting to continue working for the city.

At this time, the old woman turned around and took out some incense with a very unique taste, and after a while, accompanied by the rising green smoke, the old woman's mouth read many words that were extremely jerky and could not be understood at all.

"Pay attention to food, little fat man, if you want to get out of this predicament, you must pay attention to food, I can't see what the future of a person will be, but I can see some points, and what I see in your point is food, if you want to get out of the current predicament, you must pay attention to food, food may be the only key to you to get out of this predicament, and it may also become the key to hindering you, but no matter what, you will become a human being."

Locke looked at the old woman with a puzzled expression, and then said thank you.

The two of them left the house respectfully, intending to return to their respective schools, and now that the enrollment has ended, there are 1,000 students in the General Affairs Department and 100,000 people in 12 departments in the other 32 schools, and the trial education will be held on the morning of January 8 after the end of the festival.

"Fat brother, I think it's better for you to eat less."

As soon as he went out, Li Xin spoke, and Locke Jiahui directly raised his fist and pounded it on Li Xin's chest, and he covered his chest and coughed a few times.

"Shut up, let's go, there's still a lot of work to do, are you scheduled for the course?"

Li Xin nodded.

"It's already arranged."

"What do you mean, let me tell you, you kid don't go out with the students of 5 subjects, if the student president knows......."

Li Xin's eyes widened, and he begged for mercy.

"Fat brother, don't tell the president, otherwise we'll be in trouble, it's Jill who takes the lead, it's none of my business."

Locke squinted at Li Xin, who was sitting in the passenger cab.

"Then you have to tell me which of your students went out together? If the other girls at school knew about it, I guess you'd be disgusted by them for the rest of your life. ”

Li Xin smiled awkwardly, then leaned his head over and whispered.

0:31

Many middle and lower class streets, there are many fewer pedestrians, this year's New Year is completely different from the lively scene of the past few years, many of the past lively streets, now only some shops are still open, it looks very deserted, and there are only some drunks on the street invited to meet together.

Many shops have closed their doors, and since January 1 last year, all the life expectancy vaccinations ended in mid-February, and in the intervening years, the problem of infertility in the urban population has been completely solved.

In the past 10 months, nearly 1 million women have conceived children, the highest rate ever, and with the maternity subsidies accumulated over the years, Congress has been encouraging families to have children for some time.

Many industries in the city began to decline from stability three months ago, and now there are nearly 5 million people in the city, excluding the elderly who have barely much labor, and the young urban population is less than 12 million.

Subtracting the students who are still in school, nearly 1 million, in fact, the working population is only more than 10 million, and among the more than 10 million people, there are still many people who rely on unearned income, and the number of the bottom is the majority, plus some unregistered black households.

In fact, the working population is only 9 million at most, and with the likely number of newborns to continue to be born in the future, the city's resources will begin to tilt towards the next generation of young people, Congress has introduced a number of affordable policies that are conducive to population growth, and the marriage rate has risen significantly throughout the last year.

Now that consumption has begun to decline, most merchants have even chosen to close their stores and lay off their employees, and the cold winter of the consumer market is coming, because more resources are used for childbearing.

In the past, those who had families, but both sides of the family had jobs, and under today's cheap housing prices, they could basically afford to buy a house, but now that they have children, many of the entertainment spending in the past has begun to shrink.

However, the unemployment rate has not risen significantly, because at the end of last year, Congress had opened bids for large buildings in 12 parts of the city, and most companies were enthusiastically and actively involved.

Bidding will last a year, with construction starting in July next year, and most of the companies that participated in the first round of bidding are rumored to be a very difficult construction project, but Congress will open up new technology to these construction companies.

Nowadays, only the basic food industry, as well as the water and electricity industry and the medical industry are still stable in the city, and these industries are even growing slowly, and the clothing industry as a whole has begun to decline, with a large number of clothing stores closing and some factories directly shutting down.

The consumption level of most industries is declining, but the industry has a little sign of recovery, the eastern grain base in May last year signed an order with many industrial manufacturing companies, machinery to begin to replace manpower, large-scale land reclamation.

Grain production will usher in a new round of huge growth next year.

1 p.m

Jean sat quietly on the edge of Violet's bed, a glass of wine in his hand, and Avano next to him was a little drunk.

"Alpha kid, there's no need to blame yourself so much."

Violli nodded, the baby was about to give birth, maybe it would be a day or two, and the child named Nia in the womb would be born.

Over the past few months, Viollet's verbal agreement to Wilcy's request has led to several frictions between the mother and daughter.

Jean smiled and nodded.

"I'll go over and talk about her later, don't worry."

Violet shook her head.

"That child has a lot of self-esteem and a stubborn temper, and she always thinks that the decision I made a few months ago will affect Nia's life, and she has mentioned it to me many times."

"There are pros and cons!"

Jean sighed, it is true that Wilsie's situation in the Chen family is much better now, and her husband Chen Liang has finally walked out of the house and started to help the family take care of some things, and his life has changed.

The Chen family also frequently came and went to the Angus house during this time, and some smiles appeared on Wilcy's face.

Avano nodded.

"Mr. Jean, actually, I think you should have paid a little attention to this matter from the beginning, but it seems that you can't do anything about it."

Jean smiled and drank the wine from the glass, Alpha returned to school after a big fight with his mother a month ago, Jean talked to her, and Alpha knew that he was wrong and should not have quarreled with his mother like this.

The reason is that some of the power plants and water plants under the Angus family have begun to have people from the Chen family enter, and the two families have indeed reached some cooperation agreements on seemingly inconsequential small industries.

"This matter has now spread wildly in the circle of the entire family, and you have agreed to the marriage of our daughter Niya and Chen Jie, the son of Chen Liang, the fifth elder of the Chen family."

Violet nodded silently.

"Don't worry, when the bureau is established, the family's immunity will be gradually reduced."

Jean said, and Avano nodded.

"But Mr. Jean, there is one thing I want you to pay attention to, giving all the power to those children, Alpha is less than 19 years old, both in terms of mind and strength in our opinion, very good, but she is still a 19-year-old girl."

Jean snorted.

"There will not be only one voice in the city, and if there is no check and balance, it will be out of control at some point, please rest assured that after the establishment of the Acting Section, there will be a power group born to complete the work of checks and balances in the city."

Avano looked at Jean in some surprise, judging from the gods' step-by-step actions, all of this had already been set, and the gods decided at each specific point in time that something important enough to affect the city.

"Okay, it's time for me to leave, Violet, rest well, Avano will watch over her, and call the students next to her if you have any questions!"

Avano nodded, got up and bowed, Jean put down his glass, turned around and jumped out of the window, the due date was January 5th, and there were still a few days to go, and yesterday afternoon Jean came over with 5 girls from 4 subjects, and asked them to stay here.

"Would you like to give Alpha a call?"

Avano said, and Violet shook her head.

"If you don't fight, is the rebellious period coming? She dared to talk to me like that, and she didn't want to think about who gave birth to her with all her hard work. ”

Avano smiled helplessly, still planning to call his daughter later, at this time Jean who was strolling on the lawn sighed helplessly, many students seem to have ushered in a certain degree of rebellion recently, often disobeying some orders originally issued by the gods authorized by the section chief, although in the end they will still do things honestly, but always reluctantly.

"You can only take one step at a time!"

Jean looked around left and right, planning to go to Mo Xiaolazi's house, now everyone calls her Mo Xiaolazy, no one calls her by her original name, the most rebellious one is Mo Xiaolazy, she often says that she doesn't do it, and the students of the 2nd subject can't do anything about her.

Jean planned to let her stay at home with her parents for a few days before the trial education, and when she was flipping through the guardrail of Angus's house, Jean stood at the 5-meter-high guardrail and looked at the Chen family at the end of First Avenue, the brightly lit Chen family, which was still holding a regular dinner tonight, and the Angus couple did not come back until 11 o'clock.

In one bedroom, Wilsie was quietly breastfeeding her child, and she had just returned from the banquet, and she had received many blessings.

Knock knock

There was a knock on the room door.

"Come in."

Chen Qiao walked in with a drunken face, and seemed to be in a much better mood, and he also dragged the blessing of the marriage that Wei Qian talked about last year, and got the permission of his eldest brother and three sisters to return to the Chen family's company and work as a subsidiary purchasing manager.

In the front, relying on Wilsie's jewelry, he bought the servants and contacted Wu Qun, and finally Wu Qun gave them some suggestions, first open the breakthrough, that is, let Mr. Wilsie's children, whether boys or girls, become tools for the Chen family's marriage, and once the breakthrough is opened, they can move freely.

"Do things with care!"

Wilsie said with a solemn face, and Chen Qiao nodded and made an OK gesture.

"As long as we succeed, we don't need to follow the instructions of our brothers and sisters in the future, we can just break away from the Chen family, the ideas you provided me are very good, and I will start to do it when I stand a little firmer, and then our sisters and brothers will start a company together, you are the planner of the company, and I am the practitioner of action, as long as we get enough of the part that belongs to us, and then leave from the Chen family."

Wilsie smiled, but at this time she lowered her head in shame, thinking that she had proposed such a thing with Violet last year, and now the whole family circle knew that her son Chen Jie would join the Angus family in the future and marry the second daughter of the Angus family, Niya.

"It's not true, Xiaojie is your son, there is still a lot of time in the future, you can teach him well, in such a good family environment, let him receive the best education, as for my waste brother's words........"

"Don't mention him, he's long dead in my heart."

Chen Qiaoen sighed.

"Peace of mind, the two of us are allies with the same disease, the people of the Chen family really don't care anymore, they are all a pile of scum, one day I will let them know, although I don't have much ability, but I have Lao Wu to help me, this time I will listen to Lao Wu."

Wilsie nodded, although she hadn't met Wu Qun, but that guy's knowledge and conversation had been heard on the phone, and a lot of ideas were given to them, which also benefited the two of them a lot, and completely reversed the situation from this predicament.

At first, Wilsie felt a little uncomfortable, but Wu Qun said that both of them were treated as waste and tools by the people of the Chen family, and what reason did they have to continue to endure it, because of the marriage between Wilsie and the Chen family, their own Huo Sen family was out of the predicament, why could they even ignore their sister who was a member of the family.

The two have had enough of cynicism over the years, and Wilsie was even more abused by her husband, with a blue nose and swollen face, and a hospital at worst.

Chen Qiao couldn't stand it many times, so he could only drag his brother, and as a result, he was also injured.

Family affection is already dispensable for Chen Qiao, and because he was labeled as a waste, everyone in the entire family circle knows it, although he may also be used as a tool for marriage before, but girls of his age have already married, girls younger than Chen Qiao, it is impossible for a small family, and the big family does not have it directly, resulting in Chen Qiao is still a lonely person now, he originally took a fancy to an ordinary girl, thinking that he was a waste anyway, and it should be possible to marry into the door, As a result, the brothers and sisters always disagreed, and even sent the woman to the shop on Qinglong Street in order to cut off their thoughts.

Love has long dried up in Chen Qiao's heart, and for his family, he is just a waste of idle food.

At this time, accompanied by a burst of footsteps, Chen Liang, who was full of alcohol, stood at the door with a woman in his arms, laughing with red eyes.

"You two garbage, even if you want to do something, don't ........ in front of so many people in the family."

"Chen Liang, if you are really crazy, it is better to treat it early, I don't want to say anything to you anymore."

Chen Liang was furious and wanted to step in, but the child in Wilsie's arms was awakened and cried.

"Please leave!"

Wilsie said indifferently, and Chen Liang laughed.

"Look at it, my wife and my brother have been together for a long time, hahaha!"

Chen Liang, who was holding the woman, left, Chen Qiao wanted to kick the door frame angrily, but he still held back, he sighed and looked at his nephew Chen Jie in his arms.

"You can't let this kid carry these things from the family."

Wilsie snorted.

.......

Eddie quietly looked at the investigation reports, and a group of clansmen of different ages in front of him were standing in front of him, their heads bowed.

"Little medicine workshop! There's a hand, Freya. ”

Looking at the orphanages everywhere, which have completely turned into drug plantations, there are now a large number of low-cost drug raw materials produced from these small workshops circulating in the market, which have entered the medical market at a very low price, and the cultivation method is not even inferior to most drug companies, which has made the price of drugs fall, and the suppliers who want to buy drugs in this kind of small drug workshops with the orphanage as a system must sign a contract to maintain a constant price for the sale of drugs.

Anyone who violates the rules will be immediately disqualified.

Nowadays, there are 137 orphanages in the city, large and small, in which most of the children are growing medicines, a total of 137 orphanages, including deformed children, and these small workshops have easily obtained business qualifications, as well as some planting soil in the eastern grain base.

This made Eddie immediately think that the guys behind Freya to do this could only be the students of the seminary.

Most of the middle and bottom drug prices are directly stabilized in a range, can no longer be greatly changed, some drug raw materials purchased from large enterprises, after manufacturing into drugs, if the price is higher than this range, it will be eliminated, but if it is maintained at this price, profits will be reduced.

Eddie had always felt that those eight classmates had become ordinary people, but now he felt surprised and surprised.

Eddie laughed as he looked at the other report, remembering that night at the reunion, where everyone except Freya had left as losers.

"Beckinsale, this guy, hehe!"

The movie "Queen" released last year was a great success, and the society now has a very high evaluation of this movie, and the driving force behind it turned out to be Beckinsale, and at the end of last year, a film called "Starry Night" began to sweep the city, and the driving force behind it was also Beckinsale.

Including the cutting-edge director Lenny, who has now become a hot sweetheart.

There are many girls who have no background in life who have been excavated and participated in TV series or entertainment programs, and the driving force behind it is Beckinsale.

"It's really amazing."

Eddie waved his hand, and the rest of the family left the room one after another, and Eddie continued to look at the next investigation report.

The next one is Chris's, there are a lot of rumors about him, very complicated, because of his alternative adjustment in basic education, which has begun to make the college admission rate of many schools skyrocket, and most people in the field of education have a very high evaluation of him, plus he is still running around, helping many schools to complete the adjustment and reform of the school itself.

"That guy from Muna, I really can't see that he is a person who can do such a thing."

At this time, Eddie saw a photo, Wang Ying smiled and laughed with a group of women on the street, she looked like an ordinary woman from a middle-class bourgeois family, and she no longer saw any sharpness on her body.

But what Wang Ying has done is what makes Eddie feel powerful, she has provided advice to more than 5,000 families on home purchase and renovation over the years, and the indirect impact has changed the real estate structure and economic consumption in some areas.

Now she is still doing this kind of thing, but according to the survey, in addition to traveling every day, she will stay in a small room for a while, and now there are still many people who want to get her advice waiting in line, Eddie casually flipped through the computer, Wang Ying's website, and the number of families in line exceeded 10,000.

"Old Wu, the most powerful ones may still be you and Freya."

In the middle of last year, Wu Qun closed the Taste of Food restaurant, and then began to walk around the city, basically except for eating and chatting with some food shop owners, it seems that he is enjoying life, but in fact it is not, he will give advice to some food related people, such as the price of restaurants in the local area, etc., and most of the owners have followed Wu Qun's advice.

Wu Qun has registered up to 1,000 recipes, and these 1,000 recipes are licensed to all the restaurants in the city at a very low price, as long as they want.

Eddie stood up and looked out the window at the noisy lawn, as if he understood a little, he would notice these things that did not matter to the upper class, all because his classmates were so famous these days, and their fame had even spread to many of the upper class businessmen, and Eddie had heard the names of these people at most of the banquets.

Even the fat man Baozhen, who used to look the most useless, has now become a legend in the clothing industry, and now under her leadership, many factories have been gradually transformed before the impact began, and she has helped a large number of clothing stores to carry out mixed and matched designs, and did not charge any high fees, even if the Su family suppressed her before, but found that it was useless, most of the businessmen who were not in the scope of the clothing association did not listen to the Su family at all.

Eddie continued to return to the table, looking at the investigation materials, the pullman who had been completely banished from the legal profession was back, but he only fought 10 lawsuits a year, and the winning rate was less than 20%.

It's just that as a large number of new lawyers have fallen to Pullman's side, there is now a wave of protests in the city, more than 1,000 lawyers have gone on strike, and now the bar association has suffered the worst resistance in history, with a large backlog of cases, and Congress is under pressure to negotiate with the bar association to carry out internal reforms.

A very powerful force, converging in all walks of life in the city, made Eddie feel a little afraid, he knew very well what the eight people could do.

Finally, Lin Xiao, who is rumored to have an improper relationship with many women in the industrial products industry, is another investigation report that amazes Eddie.

Because of an order signed by industry and Congress last year, the industry began to flourish again, and with the signing of the order, Congress opened up a resource recovery technology that can decompose resources to the particle level, and carry out resource selection and reorganization.

In the past few years, Lin Xiao also has a title, the prince of garbage, he will recycle a large number of old industrial products, and pile up the garbage that even the bottom people are unwilling to ask for in some no-man's land on the western edge for many years, and now Lin Xiao has become a merchant with a large number of raw materials in the city.

The most incredible thing is that Lin Xiao used how much money he used to recycle these garbage, and now he still sells it at a very large price, and only the buyer needs to bear the freight, which makes the people in the industrial circles of the city stunned, some people think he is a fool, or he is too good.

Eddie knows very well how terrible the power of people's hearts is, this kind of people's hearts that are not bought by power, nor by power, and not by money, is very terrible, and now eight people have begun to have their own atmosphere, and as long as the time is ripe in the future, they will have a very big move.

The eight people who started to give speeches on the streets and basically had only sporadic followers now have a large number of followers around each of them.

"It's just a pity that you don't have the right to do anything! If I want to, you're just cannon fodder! ”

Eddie said, sneering.