Chapter 79: Absurd Reality

So Shen Mo used stimulation as his representative excuse, demanding a few more days off.

Liu Yue rolled her eyes hard at this.

Vacation, vacation, vacation — is vacation the only thing in your head?

Then this anger was doused by Shen Mo that night.

Uncle Qin Meng returned on the fifteenth of the first month to organize the Qin Family for a real reunion dinner.

Both the main line and the branch families of the Qin Family all came back this time.

At the banquet, Shen Mo met Uncle Qin Meng's entire family.

The men were handsome, the women were beautiful — all exceptionally outstanding.

Uncle Qin Meng went from household to household to offer a toast.

The elders all returned the toast.

Drinking this cup of wine meant everyone acknowledged Uncle Qin Meng as the family head.

After this matter was acknowledged, Uncle Qin Meng spoke his thoughts.

"Rebuild the ancestral hall."

This was a major event — an especially, especially major event.

But it passed quickly.

It even passed through official channels.

However, the officials raised one condition.

The site had to be built to tourist-area standards, and for this, the officials were willing to allocate a sum of money.

Not only that, they also wanted to erect monuments for General Qin Li and the old lady, inscribing their deeds.

This condition left the entire Qin Family dumbfounded.

Shen Mo was stunned when he heard it.

【Holy crap, this can't possibly go wrong, right?】

【Benefits this good?】

Liu Yue thought the same.

Uncle Qin Meng went up and investigated thoroughly, and only then did the bigwigs above agree to reveal their intentions.

One was that the locality wanted to boost tourism revenue; another was that those above wanted to promote patriotic education, and along the way tell everyone that those who shed blood and tears for the country will not be forgotten.

Only then did the Qin Family breathe a sigh of relief.

But the Qin Family also declared outright: we don't need the officials to spend a single cent — the Qin Family has plenty of money.

Apart from the ancestral hall used for worship, the rest we are willing to open up for tourism.

Every policy passed smoothly all the way through.

Someone in the Qin Family already had a real estate company locally, so they got straight to work.

The other households contributed money, manpower, and effort.

The matter was finalized in the first month.

The design blueprints came out in early February.

By April, it was already built.

The problem of working in freezing snow was also completely solved under the Qin Family's massive financial offensive.

The Qin Family fully demonstrated one point: in this world, there is no problem that cannot be solved with money.

Also because of building this ancestral hall, Shen Mo and Liu Yue simply didn't leave, staying behind to help out.

Shen Mo's help mainly consisted of working at the construction site.

Liu Yue's help consisted of giving orders.

Also during this period, Shen Mo and Liu Yue became well acquainted with the descendants of every branch family of the Qin Family.

This becoming acquainted was no small matter — it directly produced a great deal of connections.

Those running real estate, those running law firms, those with hospitals under their names, four generations in education, three generations in medicine — all kinds of connections suddenly erupted at once.

In an instant, Shen Mo understood why Uncle Qin Meng wanted to reorganize the Qin Family.

These connections might not seem big, but they could practically let the Qin Family enter every industry.

For example, the simplest case — the family with three generations in medicine: their oldest patriarch is now a top domestic medical expert, with disciples and grand-disciples spread across the three northeastern provinces.

Liu Yue had a medical project investment; she showed it to the old man, and he said outright: can't invest, it's a scam.

One glance to discern truth from falsehood. Similarly, Uncle Qin Meng's family had a great-granddaughter who now wanted to learn dance.

It happened that a branch-family aunt was a domestic dancer — learn at home, and she could also introduce all kinds of connections, absolutely no risk of being scammed.

Of course, the branch families also benefited.

The branch family with a dance troupe secured many theaters they previously couldn't access through the Qin Family in one go.

The branch family engaged in medical research secured funding for the next ten years in one go.

The branch family in education could now say with confidence: as long as you have the ability, the path upward is open.

Some branch families who couldn't do business and whose household conditions could only be called decent received large annual dividends from the family group.

Some children who wanted to enter politics didn't need to worry about investment issues at all, let alone worry about what came after.

Of course, the Qin Family also set up an internal control team.

At the meeting during the first worship after the ancestral hall was built, Uncle Qin Meng addressed this issue right in front of the ancestors.

The Qin Family can be unremarkable, can lack talent, but absolutely must not allow corruption, internal strife, or lawbreaking.

Whoever does it, just wait to be kicked out of the family.

Not asking everyone to be a true dragon, but at the very least they must not hold others back.

They need to have a clear head like Shen Mo.

For this, Shen Mo even went on stage to give a speech, talking about his own mental journey.

At first Shen Mo was dumbfounded, then he began to talk about "a contented person is always happy," and as he spoke it drifted into how to be a kept man, the correct posture for being a kept man, and what kind of mindset one should have when being a kept man.

In the end, Shen Mo summed it up in one sentence.

"We must understand our own abilities and acknowledge our own shortcomings."

"Never attempt, never try, to do things you absolutely cannot do."

Shen Mo's speech received unanimous praise from the Qin Family.

The older generation of the Qin Family, who had been ruthlessly educated by the old matriarch in the cold storage, were all very reasonable people.

Or rather, they had all been forced to open their Ren Du Meridian, gaining a set of decent abilities, and combined with years of experience, they had long since seen through worldly affairs.

The children they raised were also mostly sensible people.

At the very least, they weren't the kind who knew nothing, could do nothing, yet caused trouble all day long, looking down on this and looking down on that.

Of course, afterwards Liu Yue told Shen Mo that those people were willing to listen to him speak because of his abilities.

Shen Mo didn't understand at first, and after going home, his grandfather told him.

"My mother's educational philosophy, in modern terms, was success-worship."

"If you've succeeded, everything you say makes sense."

"If you haven't succeeded, nothing you say makes sense."

"If you want me to listen to you, either you're a success, or you convince me."

【How brutally direct.】

Shen Mo was stunned.

Grandfather continued: "This theory has also taken deep root in the Qin Family tradition."

"From what I've recently seen in contact with the various branch families, and my eldest brother's household, their educational thinking is also deeply influenced by this theory."

"So you, Shen Mo, who successfully became a kept man, are a success in their eyes, and your theories will naturally be accepted by them."

"Even if they don't accept it, they'll adopt it, think about it, reflect on it, rather than refute it."

【Holy crap, that's just ridiculous.】

Shen Mo was truly stunned, so he wanted to ask: "Grandfather, can I know how Great-Great-Grandmother came up with this set of theories?"

Grandfather was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "I heard from Qin Meng that my mother was educated into it."

"My mother in her youth also read military texts; after all, the Qin Family is a great clan with a long heritage, and combined with my father's open-mindedness, my mother read quite a few military texts."

"So my mother understood military strategy."

Shen Mo and Liu Yue had a bad premonition."

"So Qin Meng said that after my mother's theories were shattered by reality, she became a realist, a pragmatist, a success-worshipper."

Shen Mo was speechless.

【She just got driven crazy into becoming a pragmatist, basically.】

(End of chapter)