Chapter 287: Fellowship Party?
It had been raining for almost a whole day, and it finally stopped in the evening.
Ling Pingan yawned lazily and looked at the pedestrians coming and going outside the door. He looked at his cat and said, âLittle oneâŠâ
âHow many days have we not opened for business?â
âItâs been three days, am I right?
Meow!
The kitten purred softly.
Ling Pingan also sighed.
He had earned enough money for utilities last month!
He scratched his head and began to hesitate whether he should continue to apply for the âUniversity Student Entrepreneurship Subsidyâ next month.
He had no choice. The bookstore had too little business.
It might seem a little shameless if he applied again.
It was equivalent to blatantly asking the country for money!
âHow aboutâŠâ Ling Pingan looked at his pet. âLetâs not applyâŠâ
His monthly allowance was more than seven thousand when he thought about it carefully.
They were enough for his living expenses.
There was no pressure at all as long as he didnât go out and pay for the IQ tax.
Meow!
The kitten purred softly.
âFace the gale!â The phone rang.
Ling Pingan picked it up and looked at it.
400100, the number of the Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors.
His expression was a little gloomy.
âAgain?â He frowned.
However, he was gaining benefit from them and couldnât do anything about it. He could only laugh bitterly and pick up the phone.
âHelloâŠâ
âHelloâŠâ a sweet female voice came from the other end of the phone. âYoung Master Ling, Iâm Qin Keqing, the personal secretary of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess RouanâŠâ
âI spoke to you the last timeâŠâ
âOhâŠâ Ling Pingan recalled that there was indeed something like that? Thus, he asked, âIs there anything, Secretary Qin?â
âItâs like thisâŠâ she smiled and said, âHer Royal Highness, the Crown Princess Rouan, and his majesty, the Emperor, are concerned about the descendants of the empireâs meritorious deedsâŠâ
âThey plan to hold a meritorious deed descendantsâ fellowship party in the capital in the middle of next monthâŠâ
âAt that time, her Imperial Highness, the Crown Princess, and His Majesty will personally comeâŠâ
âI wonder if you have the time?â
Ling Pingan instantly felt a headache coming on as he listened.
Fellowship party?
The terrifying memories surfaced in his mind one after another.
A boring cocktail partyâŠ
Beautiful womenâŠ
The noble descendants who spoke of âsmall goalsâ and âtrivial mattersââŠ
Also, there were many dazzling luxury cars at the entrance.
Of course, the most important thing was the superficial looks in their eyes.
In any case, Ling Pingan had an awfully bad impression of the fellowship party!
Comparisons and covetousness were everywhere.
Everyone was like a peacock with its tail open, surrounding those few focal figures.
More importantly, the food at the fellowship party was terrible!
The cold food that tasted like plasticâŠ
Glasses of old wine that would make one drunk if they smelled itâŠ
And the smell of cosmetics in the airâŠ
And that was only the fellowship party in the Guangnan Governor District!
Who knew what the fellowship party in the capital would be like?
Anyway, Ling Pingan would avoid this kind of thing as much as possible.
So, he immediately refused. âPlease thank His Majesty and the Crown Princess for their kind intentionsâŠâ
âIâm flatteredâŠâ
âItâs just thatâŠâ he thought for a moment and said, âI have some things to deal with hereâŠâ
âPlease forgive me, Secretary QinâŠâ
He hung up the phone as if he were running for his life after saying that.
Then, he patted his chest.
âItâs so scaryâŠâ he looked at his pet with lingering fear, âItâs too scary!â
A fellowship party?
Give him a break!
It was purely a waste of time and energy.
In the end, he even had to come back hungryâŠ
It was too tragic!
It was too horrible to look at!
Anyway, Ling Pingan was determined not to go there a second time after going there once, when he was sixteen!
Was it interesting?
Listening to other people bragging!
Then, looking at the group of people and examining him with the same look as when they shop in the supermarket.
He wasnât an item for sale!
He also refused to become an item for sale!
Meow!
The little one jumped into her masterâs arms and rubbed against him intimately.
He seemed to agree with that much!
YesâŠ
How could a lowly mortal be worthy of his master?
⊠..
Qin Keqing listened to the sound of hanging up the phoneâŠ
Her pretty face gradually turned cold.
It was the second time!
That was the second time he had rejected her!
Moreover, he had rejected her with incomparable decisiveness!
Even His Majesty the Emperor and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess couldnât let him come to the capital?
That man was way too arrogant!
At this moment, the red phone on the office desk rang.
Qin Keqing immediately grabbed it and said in an extremely respectful tone, âThis humble subject is Qin KeqingâŠâ
âYesâŠâ
âYoung Master Ling refusedâŠâ Qin Keqing lowered her head with incomparable respect. âYes⊠he said that he had something to deal withâŠâ
âThis humble subject is guiltyâŠâ
âYour Highness⊠Do you want this humble subject to go personally?â
âOkay⊠this humble subject understandsâŠâ
Qin Keqing wiped the sweat from her forehead after hanging up the phone.
Then, she looked at the computer screen, which was covered by the two big words âtop secretâ.
âWhat the hell is going on?â She thought.
Last month, everything about this descendant with an A-Class Meritorious Contributors was still accessible.
But nowâŠ
Everything about him was already top secret.
And it was the highest level of top-secret!
The Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors of Jiangcheng City had once wanted to visit him personally.
In the end, a ban notice was thrown on their face.
The Blackguard announced that any unauthorized interference would be a âthreat to national security!
Even the Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors.
They could not meet him without approval and permission.
And the authority to approve that was in the hands of the Blackguardâs Commander-In-Chief.
That was too abnormal!
What was even more abnormal was the Crown Princessâs attitude.
The fellowship party wasnât part of the plan as far as Qin Keqing knew.
The Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors hadnât held such a national fellowship party for a long time.
Similar fellowship parties had been organized and held by local organizations in the past thirty years.
The Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors was only responsible for one thing, coordinating and arranging the employment, marriage, and childbirth of the children of meritorious service throughout the country and providing financial subsidies.
The Crown Princess suddenly took the lead and wanted to hold a national association for the Children of Meritorious Contributors.
That was surprising.
What was even more surprising wasâŠ
It seemed that he was the only person who the Crown Princess had personally invited after the file was classified as top-secret A-Class Meritorious Contributors.
The others had received the invitations sent by the Federal Committee for the Children of Meritorious Contributors in the form of an email notification.
He was the only one. She had personally called to invite him, and he had even cleanly rejected them!
The reason for his rejection was âI still have things to deal withâ.
That was too unexpected.
Things to deal with?
What matter was more important than coming to the capital?
That was an honor that many people dreamed of!
Qin Keqing couldnât help but sigh.
âHer Highness the Crown Princess probably wonât give upâŠâ she thought.
She was clear about her monarchâs personality as the personal secretary of the Crown Princess Rouan.
She had to do whatever she wanted to do!
A person with a resolute personality was not like a woman. Even many men might not be as resolute and decisive as her royal highness the Crown Princess.
Otherwise, she would not be the regent after the late Emperor passed away.
Although the current royal family ruled from the bottom and never interfered with the affairs of the commoners.
However, there were still a lot of matters concerning the royal family.
Just the normal foreign affairs activities every year were already challenging.
Not to mention that the committees directly led by the royal family were the hubs that directly connected the metropolitan territory with the independent kingdoms.
The enormous Federal Empire could be maintained for three hundred years without being divided.
The most important link was the royal family other than the great unified cultural tradition and realistic interests that had existed since ancient times.
The motto of being loyal to the emperor was still the mainstream motto in the empire.
After all, Emperor Taizu was a good example. He officially announced that âthe heavens listen to us, we listen to the peopleâ and linked the source of the legitimacy of the monarchy to the people.
Thus, the emperor became the son of the people.
He was ordered by the heavens and became ordered by the people.
But it provided extremely strict requirements for the royal family in return.
The royal family had to act by the expectations of the people since they were taking orders from the people.
And the committees directly led by the royal family were windows to show their image to the outside world.
And all the committees had undergone drastic reforms under her leadership since the Crown Princess was a regent.
It had completely changed the image of the royal family.
She wouldnât have wanted to break the tradition and cause a constitutional crisis if it werenât for the fact that she was a woman.
Perhaps, she could rule the world as the Empress!
Qin Keqing stood up as she thought of that. She walked to the window, pulled open the curtains, and looked downstairs.
The Crown Princessâs car was slowly driving out of the courtyard.
âAs expectedâŠâ Qin Keqing thought, âHis Highness will not compromise easilyâŠâ
The direction of that car was heading to the residence of the Commander-In-Chief of the Blackguard!
⊠⊠⊠⊠⊠..
Ling Pingan took his phone and ordered a takeaway.
He was still a little shaken up.
So he just placed the phone in the drawer.
He refreshed the author backstage on his computer with a deep sigh.
Twenty-fiveâŠ
The speed of the increase was gratifying!
That speed made him feel at ease for a new account.
So, he crossed his legs in satisfaction and turned on the television.
It was already seven oâclock.
It was the time for the news, and he was used to watching the news.
A place that looked like a trench appeared on the television screen.
A few large howitzers appeared in front of the camera.
Some soldiers in military uniforms were nervously preparing in the trench.
One shell after another was pushed into the barrel of the cannon.
The camera zoomed forward. One armored group after another was rolling forward on the vast field. There were at least hundreds of tanks.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The cannon started to roar. One shell after another was fired, and steel shells flew everywhere.
Ling Pingan watched with his mouth wide open.
The voice-over began to appear at that time. âEveryone, what you see on the screen is the border between the Northern Tianzhu Gonghe and the Southern Tianzhu KingdomâŠâ
âIt is reported that the Northern Tianzhu Gonghe has accused the Southern Tianzhu Kingdom of being responsible for the many tragedies that happened at its border a month agoâŠâ
âAnd the Southern Tianzhu Kingdom has refuted the accusations of the Northern Tianzhu Gonghe, claiming that this was caused by terrorists in the Northern Tianzhu territoryâŠâ
Ling Pingan looked at it and sighed. âTheyâre fighting againâŠâ
The Tianzhu subcontinent was similar to the Kunlun States from what he remembered.
A large number of countries were fighting each other.
There would be a piece of news almost every year.
âWhy canât they put on a war?â Ling Pingan shook his head.
What was so good about war?
He couldnât figure it out!
Couldnât they sit down and discuss it if anything happened?
UnfortunatelyâŠ
He could only sigh in the bookstore.
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