Chapter 221 - How Can I Stand It

Chapter 221: How Can I Stand It

Speaking of which, talking to smart people made it easier, as many things need not be explained with too much detail, and just a reminder would make that person understand.

That was, after all, the first E-Sports competition. Thus, naturally, auditions should be held in various prefectures to pick out the various type of outstanding contestants. After rewarding them, they would be sent for free to Tianjing to participate in the finals.

How could such a good promotion opportunity be missed… Fortunately, Liu Mingxin came round to the idea just with a slight reminder, that was still not bad!

“Ah, alright, let’s not play anymore! Everyone, rest early, we’ve still got to save big turtle tomorrow!” After playing for a while more, it was already midnight. Though Hong Dali had already slept previously, he was still feeling a little sleepy. Speaking of which, it wasn’t good to stay up at night, so he decisively went to sleep.

Once Hong Dali had left, Lin Chuyin didn’t have much to do either. Thus, the strongest technological geek in history who had absolutely no concept of daily life directly lay down on the sofa. It was still Ling Xiaoyi who covered her with a blanket…

After the two had fallen asleep, Tang Muxin, Ling Xiaoyi, Wang Mingyu, and the other lackeys looked at each other and suddenly all sat together. Tang Muxin said in a low voice, “They’ve fallen asleep. Everyone, come, we’re having a meeting!”

Ling Xiaoyi lowered her voice and said, “That person who previously came to inform us about the removal of our confinement ban had said that in order to release us, Young Master had even forgone the reward for the family’s Rookie of the Year. I heard that the reward was 100 million yuan, and there were many other benefits and privileges. If we calculate all of them in total, the value is unimaginable.”

Li Nianwei nodded and said softly, “Yes, Young Master is good to us, but we cannot take this for granted. Though he didn’t say anything, we still have to do something for him, or else we’ll feel bad about it.”

Tang Muxin learned from Hong Dali and touched her chin, saying in a low voice, “What does everyone think?”

“I feel,” Ling Xiaoyi thought for a while. “that Young Master usually squanders on impulse, but those things that he’d set up also looks like they have a lot of potential. What I mean is, in the future, if Young Master has any new things, we can develop in private the economic benefits that may be produced from those things, and then, we wouldn’t need to trouble Young Master to think about such things personally. Even if we don’t execute these plans, at least we would have had an idea about it.”

Lackey Li Yang by the side completely agreed. “I agree with Sister Xiaoyi! Though Young Master doesn’t treat us as outsiders, the amount of money is still not small, after all. Though he didn’t mention about it, we still need to think of a way to earn it back. In that way, it would be more convenient should Young Master want to spend some more money, wouldn’t it?”

“That’s exactly what I meant.” Ling Xiaoyi smiled. “Does everyone have any opinions?”

“That can be done, it isn’t wrong if we do it that way.” However, Tang Muxin said, “But the problem is, will Dali be willing to? He is a prodigal, if we help him to earn money in private, what if he’s not happy about it? We’d better not get criticized for doing things out of goodwill.”

“I don’t think things will go that far though.” Li Nianwei thought for a while, then lowered her voice and said, “There isn’t an exact amount of money that Young Master usually spends, this aspect has all along been handled by Xiaoyi. We definitely can’t interfere in the main part of those things that he starts up, but we can let Xiaoyi make some arrangements and put our efforts in those surrounding aspects. Won’t that solve the problem?”

“Surrounding?” Tang Muxin thought for a while and asked, “Sister Nianwei, please give us an example.”

“En, for example.” Li Nianwei thought for a while, then smiled and said, “Ye Lai Xiang, that’s a more lucrative one for now. In that case, can we open up chain stores in places among Young Master’s other estates that don’t have much use? Another example would be the E-Sports mentioned by Young Master this time. Didn’t he say to do a cosplay or something? We can also consider making more character outfits for sale.”

“Oh—” Once Li Nianwei had said that everyone completely understood.

What she meant was that was they would not touch those things started up by Hong Dali and leave them all up to his wishes. As for the expansion of the surrounding business services, they would be in charge. With that, it would earn money while not letting Hong Dali know about it. As for the money earned, of course, they would belong to Hong Dali. Anyway, he didn’t have any concept of how much money he had.

That would work!

Tang Muxin grinned from ear to ear as she decided. “We’ll do it this way, then!”

Once the matter was settled, everyone went back to their respective rooms to sleep. Soon after, a door knock sounded, and an assistant of Hong Tu’s underling stood outside the door and respectfully said, “May I know if Miss Xiaoyi is asleep? Old Elder invites her over.”

“Old Elder is looking for me?” Upon hearing that Old Elder was looking for her, Ling Xiaoyi felt strange.

There was a stark difference in the status between the Old Elder of the Hong Family, Hong Tu and herself. What matter would he send someone to find her for?

“Yes, Old Elder didn’t say the exact reason why.” That assistant said, “However, Old Elder has reminded me to say that it’s not a big matter, and he’d only like to ask a few casual questions regarding Young Master Dali’s matters.”

“Oh…” Towards Hong Dali, there was naturally not a problem with Ling Xiaoyi’s loyalty. Thus, upon hearing that, Ling Xiaoyi had already made a determination to properly answer anything regarding the good aspects, and as for the bad aspects, she’d rather offend others than say it no matter what.

Upon thinking up to this point, Ling Xiaoyi nodded. “Please lead the way, then.”

“I’ll go too.” Driver Wang Mingyu at the side stood up. “I’ll treat it as relieving my boredom at night and will come back after I see Old Elder.” The meaning of his words was very obvious. Dali would definitely incur the jealousy of others here. Thus, he was afraid that it was a trap set up by someone. After all, they couldn’t let their guards down. Should Ling Xiaoyi encounter any danger, that would be a big issue.

Towards what Wang Mingyu meant, the assistant naturally did not object. Instead, he nodded, smiled and said, “Sometimes I really envy Young Master Dali. His men are all very united.”

“Heh heh, that should be the way.”

“Let’s go, then.”

The three of them instantly went out. There weren’t any accidents along the way, and very quickly, they arrived in front of a small building that came with a garden within the estate. Then, the assistant said, “This is where Old Elder usually stays at. Please enter. If there aren’t any problems then, I’ll return first.”

There weren’t any problems along the way, nobody would dare to sabotage them in this building. Wang Mingyu didn’t believe that anyone would dare to arrange for an ambush here—actually, it was mainly because he saw that board on the building: Hong Tu Villa…

The two of them opened the door and went in. Once they entered the living room, they saw Hong Tu smiling as he sat on the sofa. Meanwhile, the other person beside him appeared as a shock to them. “Miss Mu Yuxi?”

That person wore a red evening gown, a pair of long and slim beautiful legs joined together towards the side. Her face was cold and aloof, yet it contained some charm and attractiveness as well. It was precisely the present-day most outstanding genius of the Hong Family, Miss Mu Yuxi.

Upon seeing the two of them enter, Mu Yuxi only slightly nodded—her way of greeting.

“Heh heh, you’ve come. Here, have a seat first.” Hong Tu gestured for the two of them to come over and sit down. Soon after, he suddenly asked, “En, has Dali gone to sleep?”

“He’s asleep.” Wang Mingyu curiously asked, “Old Elder, what you mean is…”

“Heh heh, it’s good that he’s asleep.” Hong Tu smiled and said, “Actually, there’s nothing special, I just didn’t want to make Dali worry.”

“Oh…” However, Ling Xiaoyi and Wang Mingyu still did not understand his intentions of asking them over. However, due to the disparity in terms of status, they dared not ask him directly and could only wait for Hong Tu to explain his intentions.

Fortunately, Hong Tu was not someone who liked to keep others in suspense. Very quickly, he started to explain why he had called them over. “It’s like this. Those few things that Dali had started up during this period of time are all very interesting and lucrative. I just want to ask the two of you if you can notify me if Dali starts up something else in the future. You just need to notify me, you don’t need to do that through Dali. How’s that?”

What was he up to?

Ling Xiaoyi and Wang Mingyu glanced at each other. Ling Xiaoyi felt strange as she said, “Old Elder, forgive me for not being able to agree to that. After all, it’s something related to Young Master. I can’t decide it on my own.”

Upon hearing Ling Xiaoyi’s words, Hong Tu roared with laughter. After laughing for a while, he continued, “Xiaoyi, I admire your loyalty. En, I understand what you mean. To put things this way, actually, I don’t have any intentions towards Dali. I only want to know what’s going on with those lucrative things that he had started up. En, maybe I haven’t made myself clear enough.

“To put it simply, I just want to get a little information about the money that Dali had spent, and then get my team of professionals to analyze the possible outcome of that sum of money in future. It’s only analyzing, there won’t be any actual actions taken.”

To put it bluntly, that was a very common business case analysis.

For example, two enterprises were competitors, and one of them achieved very good sales results. However, the other enterprise achieved mediocre results. In that case, the other enterprise would need to carry out an analysis of the business activity of the other enterprise that achieved good sales results, to analyze why it got such good results as well as the various possible outcomes of it doing that.

Every amount of money spent, why was it spent, what significance might there be after spending the money…

Upon hearing that, Xiaoyi and Wang Mingyu instantly understood. Ling Xiaoyi helplessly said, “Old Elder, I understand what you mean. However, the problem is that our Young Master never has any motives for spending money. In his words, it’s just for the sake of squandering…”

That made Old Elder very despondent.

He’d seen many prodigals, and it wasn’t as if he hadn’t seen those that spent large amounts of money without ever thinking. However, the problem was that he’d really never seen someone like Hong Dali who earned more money the more he spent.

Despite him being a squanderer, it was a concrete fact that he’d gotten the Rookie King of the Year in the family.

However, if he was said to have done transactions well to earn money, he instead didn’t have that intention at all. He couldn’t even be bothered with the reward for the Rookie King…

How would Mu Yuxi, the Number One genius of the family, be able to stand it?!

As expected, upon hearing Ling Xiaoyi’s words, Mu Yuxi’s face became red. To think of it now, her title of Number One genius of the family sounded more ironical than the positive image that it entailed. Mu Yuxi suddenly felt very hurt…

The problem was that it would still be fine if she was only hurt, but she couldn’t even articulate that, and could only conceal those feelings of injustice in her heart.

It felt terrible!