Chapter 39 My original intention, never forget
"Didn't I say don't bother me at this time??!"
Eugene yelled out the door.
The knocking on the door stopped, and after a while, there was another heavy knock.
"Fack!"
The irascible Eugene walked to the door and slammed the door open: "Do you not understand people...... People are me, I am for everyone, good director! ”
A grim-faced Brown stood in the doorway, staring at Eugene.
Eugene's originally angry face changed to a smile at the speed of light.
"You're arrogant...... Minister Eugene? Brown spoke.
Although everything is a big fuss, Brown can't just go back without doing anything.
So, Brown planned to make a round and talk to the relevant personnel about the "friendly exchange" with the IRS in the future.
Among them, the CIA's ace secret service department, the IMF, naturally cannot be left behind.
So, after walking around, Brown came to Eugene's office.
And then, it's the scene just now.
"Director...... I'm ...... I had a little problem...... "Eugene used what little brain power he had left, and began to wonder how he was going to explain what he had just done.
It's really a small question.
……
"Thank you."
London, United Kingdom.
Ethan thanked Zhou Yi again.
"No thanks, I said, it's just the basis for cooperation." Zhou Yi smiled.
"We don't know each other well, so of course we need some small guarantees, and if this cooperation is successful, then we won't need to do it when we work together again."
"Ten million dollars, isn't that enough for you?" Ethan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised by Zhou Yi's big appetite.
"No one can have too much money, right?" Zhou Yi said.
"What's more, when I get this money, I will give part of it to my director, I will take part of it myself, and I will give you some of it."
"Give it to me?" Ethan shook his head, "I don't need to. ”
"This can't be done," Zhou Yi looked at the rain curtain outside the window, "You have to ask for this money......"
“…… I understand. Ethan understood what Zhou Yi meant, and said with a wry smile, "It seems that the money laundering operation I mentioned before will soon be usable?" ”
"So, sometimes, it's always better to be prepared with a little more skills."
Zhou Yi laughed: "I think you can show your minister what real money laundering is." ”
"Real money laundering, doesn't that just make him not know at all?" Ethan smiled, and the next second, as if he remembered something, asked, "By the way, if that's the case, I have a question for you." ”
"What?" Zhou Yi listened.
"Is this money ......," Ethan asked, "to pay taxes?" ”
"Hahaha......" ×2
The two looked at each other at the same time and laughed.
"Serious people, who pays taxes?" Zhou Yi said, "As an IRS employee, do you need me to tell you about the 100 crimes of legal tax avoidance? ”
"Interesting," said Ethan, "I thought you were going to take advantage of your power." ”
"No, no, that's just the lowest means," Zhou Yi shook his head.
"As a competent IRS officer, I naturally have all the tax laws in order to find all the tax evaders, and in the same way, in the process, naturally, I understand how to legally exploit these loopholes."
"What's it called?" Ethan had a smile on his face, but his words began to become sharper, and he spread his hands and asked, "The warrior who slays the dragon will eventually become an evil dragon?" ”
He is still a little uncomfortable with such a gray transaction, so as to vent his dissatisfaction with the coercion from Zhou Yi.
“…… No. Zhou Yi looked at Ethan, put away his smile, and said seriously, slowly.
"The people you're talking about, they've really changed."
"Their hearts are corrupted by interests, their eyes are blinded by desires, they forget their bottom line, they begin to become inflammatory, and they begin to bully the soft and fear the hard...... Therefore, they will be assimilated, and they will change from brave men to evil dragons. ”
"And I, I'm different from them."
"Although I have always taken advantage of my position to obtain gray income, I can say that the gray income I have obtained is from drug dealers, gamblers, smugglers, and other people who should have been punished."
"For the others, I have never touched any of them if they have done anything that is not unconscionable and lawful, and who have not deliberately sinned against me first."
"I'll admit I'm not a good person, but I'm definitely not a bad person, I'm just an ordinary person, sympathetic, angry, greedy, lustful...... I also have all these emotions, and I also have my own set of rules for life. ”
"Ethan, some money can be taken, and some money, put in front of me, I will never touch it, the same, there are some things I will do, but some things, I can't mention in front of me."
"Because, that's my principle, my bottom line, my original intention."
"I'll never be a dragon."
"Because, my original intention, I will never forget."
……
After Ethan left thoughtfully, Zhou Yi stared at the night scene of London outside the window and did not move for a long time.
The heartfelt words for a moment made him fall into an emotion that he had tried to avoid in the past few years, but would always fall into it sometimes.
That emotion is called nostalgia.
Zhou Yi knows very well that he is an ordinary person, and his moral character is not noble, but it is definitely not bad.
Mean, this word is actually very appropriate to describe his character.
And with such a character, all of a sudden, he gained great power and crossed over to another world.
No more limits, no more constraints.
Zhou Yi was really worried that he would become the "evil dragon" in Ethan's mouth.
He also thinks that one day he will be able to return to his hometown and see his parents, his sister, and all his relatives and friends again.
Therefore, he could not allow himself to become a so-called "evil dragon", because, once the fall began, it would not stop.
He couldn't imagine what he would become of himself at that time.
He doesn't want to be the most hated version of himself.
That's why he chose - to do whatever he wanted.
It's easy to be extreme, but it's the balance that's the hardest.
The more you worry about the fall, the less you can escape.
Because, if you choose to go to the extreme of sainthood, then, if one day, a mentality collapses, Zhou Yi is very likely to become a demon.
The two seemingly opposite words of becoming a demon and becoming a Buddha are actually from one extreme to the other.
It's just as easy to get them done.
Therefore, Zhou Yi never puts too many shackles on himself.
He will help the good and punish the wicked. He will be angry and he will be happy; He will be lustful, and he will choose his target and not hurt the feelings of others; He will earn gray income, and he will only go after evil people like drug dealers......
He seems to do what he wants, but he never goes beyond the norm.
That's the rule he set for himself.
He is who he is, and he has never changed.
After all, he still wants to return to his hometown with his original self......