Chapter 341: Mid-Autumn (Part 1)

"Saying such things on Huaxia soil is outrageous." Luo Quan's smile was also very confident.

Perhaps the gap between rich and poor here is large, the per capita consumption level is far inferior to those developed countries abroad, there are many rules and regulations, the internet has walls, and the GD Bureau often bans this and that.

However, in terms of public security, Huaxia is far more peaceful than the so-called safest cities in the world!

There is a joke that says: In Huaxia, what people fear most when walking at night is not meeting people, but meeting ghosts.

In many cities, the streets at two or three in the morning are still brightly lit, and you can still meet many pedestrians. Even girls can go out boldly.

If you put it in New York or London, go out after twelve o'clock at night and see what kind of people you can meet.

Although this is only public security, it also reflects that Huaxia maintains social order quite well. Mercenaries, mysterious organizations, and associations have no room for survival in Huaxia.

Therefore, for this "Count's" arrogant words, Luo Quan was dismissive from the bottom of her heart.

The Count continued to laugh and said: "In fact, we are a legitimate organization. We can recruit members in any region of the world and do not engage in any illegal activities."

"In addition, many celebrities in Huaxia are members of our organization. For example, Boss Ma of Taobao, and film and television diva Xiao Yan in the entertainment industry, these are relatively well-known."

"They are indeed very famous. These two can be said to be the leaders in their respective industries in Huaxia. If they are really members of your organization, it means your influence is indeed very large." Luo Quan understood the confidence of the Count, but soon changed the subject: "However, what does this have to do with me?"

The Count laughed: "Of course it has something to do with it, because I am here on behalf of the organization to invite you to join the organization with sincerity."

"Saying this is just to dispel your concerns."

Luo Quan's expression was serious: "There is one more question. What do you mean by the test? Are you still my examiner?"

The Count explained seriously: "To join our organization, you need to take a test."

"The answer is also simple: make a big move to prove your influence."

"For example, the hacker who sold the information of female stars all over the world before is actually a member of our organization's North American headquarters. At that time, he was undergoing a member promotion assessment. Obviously, the answer he handed in was quite good."

Luo Quan sneered repeatedly: "And you say it's not illegal..."

The Count shook his head to clarify: "This is just his personal behavior, not the organization telling him to do these things. And the female stars whose information was leaked are also members, so he was punished after the incident..."

"Having said so much, I still say the same thing: do you want to join our organization?"

Luo Quan shook her head without hesitation: "If your organization sent me an email or a letter directly, explained the purpose, and then listed these well-known members of the organization, maybe I would be quite interested."

"But now, there is no such possibility."

"I don't know if the behavior of sending flowers and leaving messages before was your own idea or your organization's style of doing things."

"I really can't like this way. As for your organization's invitation, I think let's forget it."

The Count's expression was stunned, obviously not expecting Luo Quan's reason for refusal to be this: "I thought this way of greeting was quite romantic."

"However, the organization did want to invite you in the way you said, but it was changed by me as the examiner. I think for a woman like you, this kind of procedural program is too boring."

Luo Quan didn't know what to say: "It's 2017, let's stop with the riddle-man act."

"Then I will send you an email later. Will you consider joining?"

"No." Luo Quan answered quickly.

The Count didn't ask why, just said: "There are many benefits to joining the organization. You are equivalent to joining a big family, and you can seek help from other members when you encounter any trouble."

Luo Quan hugged her arms: "What trouble can I have?"

"I remember you offended the Huayi Company before. The boss there has said privately that he wants to blacklist you."

"My total album sales have exceeded 70 million."

"..."

Having chatted with Luo Quan for so long, this was the first time the Count appeared speechless.

Luo Quan's smile gradually became brighter: "It's the new media era. No one cares about the one-acre-three-centimeter land that the old people in the entertainment industry guard."

"Now, for a person to go from unknown to famous all over the country, sometimes it only takes a smile on the internet. With topics, countless people are willing to support them."

"With traffic, what resources can't be obtained? Even if he blacklists me, can he blacklist the entire internet? Can he make my name not appear on the entire internet?"

"If not, how can he talk about blacklisting?"

The Count pondered for a moment and said: "I don't understand what you said. Perhaps my method was indeed inappropriate, which made you have some bad thoughts about our organization."

"However, I still say the same thing: our organization is absolutely legitimate, and most members are law-abiding citizens. Through the fame and energy between each other, we can also achieve mutual benefit."

The Count said, stood up, took out a card from his coat pocket, and placed it on the table: "If you change your mind, you can contact me through this number. The organization has always maintained an open attitude toward absorbing the most outstanding music geniuses of the 21st century."

"In addition, I remind you as an individual: a girl who is so beautiful but doesn't protect herself well is equivalent to a bank putting its vault on the street without locking it."

"Even in places with good public security, there will be lawless people. You should hire a few bodyguards as soon as possible, even if they are female bodyguards."

After speaking, without waiting for Luo Quan to respond, the Count walked out of the gate and left.

Although she was scared by the Count's way of greeting yesterday, she didn't feel so perverted after contact.

As for this organization, it seemed to be just a gathering of celebrities. It's a pity that they accept anyone. If it is exposed in the future, it will be troublesome, so joining is forget it.

However, Luo Quan considered the business card on the table and didn't throw it into the trash can like she did with the bouquet of flowers before, but put it away.

Returning to the hotel, Luo Quan sent the pattern of this organization to her well-informed old man and asked him about the origin of this organization.

Soon, Eric called:

"This is one of the symbols of the Freemasons, but their most well-known symbol is still a compass and a ruler surrounding a G. This eye in the pyramid belongs to a symbol that only senior members can use... Where did you know it from?"

Luo Quan recalled: "Someone came to me today and wanted me to join this Freemasonry. I saw that he was a bit neurotic, so I didn't agree. By the way, he said his code name is Count."

"Joining or not is fine. This organization basically doesn't give tasks to members. Members are communicating with each other. To join, you either have fame or ability. Although it is mixed, they follow the rules, but it does not rule out encountering individual aliens."

"As for the Count, I haven't participated in this gathering for a while, so I don't know very well."

"You are also a member of the Freemasons?!" Luo Quan was shocked when she heard this.

"Yes, your dad's code name is Prince. Back then, William fought with me to grab this code name."

"You fought with Prince William? Who won?" Her mother's curious voice came from the other side of the phone.

"What do you think? If I didn't win, could the code name Prince be on my head?"

Luo Ni laughed: "I can't tell, Eric. Prince William is big and tall, can you beat him?"

"Don't look at me being so gentle now, I was also a bully in Downing Street back then!" As soon as he mentioned his past bravery, his dad was as excited as a hairy young man.

Suddenly he remembered that he was still talking to his daughter, and immediately restored his solemnity, maintaining the demeanor of a father: "Er, I mean, many people are members of the Freemasons. Take our family, for example: your grandfather, your second uncle, your third aunt's husband, and your fourth uncle are all members of the Freemasons, and they are all relatively senior members."

"However, the situation in each branch is a bit different. As far as I know, the Huaxia branch is usually not under the jurisdiction of the headquarters... In fact, most branches don't listen to the headquarters, but the Huaxia branch is the most independent one."

"So if you really want to understand and join the Freemasons, I can recommend you to join the British or American Freemasons."

"I heard that to become a formal member, you have to take an exam, which is to make a big move?"

"It is like this, but for you, daughter, it shouldn't be a difficult thing. Whatever you do now is big news. The Freemasons also like to absorb big stars like you the most."

Luo Quan still wanted to wait and see for a while, so she didn't agree: "Let's talk about joining later. I don't have any thoughts on this yet... By the way, Dad, what big move did you make back then?"

Once he heard that his daughter wanted to understand his "glorious deeds" back then, Eric became proud: "Mentioning the ups and downs of your dad's first half of his life, I have to mention that adventure across the Atlantic more than ten years ago, which was like Homer's epic Odyssey."

Luo Quan was shocked: "You didn't swim directly from England to America, did you?"

"Of course... not that powerful. Your dad used a non-powered sailboat, sailed out to sea along the Thames, and sailed from England to America. Although there were companions following, I stayed on the sailboat no matter what weather I encountered."

"It's a pity that the bad weather encountered during that voyage was too much, and I didn't break the world record at the time, but it was still big news."

"That is indeed quite powerful." Luo Quan was sincerely moved this time.

If her dad really crossed the Atlantic by his own strength, even if there were companions following by boat, it was definitely a feat. In that era when information couldn't be called explosive, this was a big move.

"Okay, just know what the Freemasons are. At first, I thought it was some evil organization." After learning the specific situation of the Freemasons from her dad, Luo Quan's hanging heart finally let go.

In the following rehearsals, Luo Quan didn't receive any more flowers from the Count, and everything returned to normal.

After nearly a week of intense rehearsals, the programs of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala had been rehearsed to the best they could achieve at present. Even for the simplest positioning and movements, the stars had done them dozens of times in the past few days.

Finally, CCTV released the official program list for the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. Stars gathered, but unfortunately, many old faces had disappeared, and more were newcomers who had risen recently, such as the Four Returned Sons, the Three Young Masters of the Empire, and so on.

And as the hottest trending group of the first half of the year, "Girls' Generation" naturally would not be absent.

However, I don't know which genius made the decision to let them perform on the outdoor stage at the Bund in Shanghai, so as to reflect that the whole country is immersed in the joy of the festival.

Although this idea was correct, compared to going directly to Jingcheng to participate in the performance, it felt a bit lacking in terms of ranking.

It is estimated that in the eyes of those leaders, things like girl group idols are still difficult to enter the hall of elegance. 【341

But even so, the girls still practiced actively; during those few nights of official rehearsals, they performed on an outdoor stage with hardly anyone around, braving the cold outdoor wind.

It was a bit shabby, but no matter how you put it, it was still an important live broadcast of a CCTV gala, which was quite significant to them. Although it wasn't a particularly good start, they had only just debuted, after all.

Once we grow bigger and stronger in the future, I'm going to dance a girl group routine on the Spring Festival Gala stage and piss off those old fogies who look down on girl idols!

This was Seeing Wen Xia's original statement when she was on the phone with Luo Quan.

As the leader, she knew some of the inside story.

The live performance for this Mid-Autumn Festival Gala was originally planned to include Girls' Generation, but when the program schedule was being decided, a female leader at the station strongly opposed Girls' Generation performing at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.

The reason was also simple: it was nothing more than them being too revealing, showing arms and legs, which had a bad influence.

However, considering Girls' Generation's high popularity, it was somewhat unjustifiable not to let them perform at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. In the end, the station's top leader compromised and let Girls' Generation perform at an outdoor venue in Shanghai.

When Seeing Wen Xia learned of this, it was the first time in her life she had been slighted and didn't dare to lash out.

Even in South Korea, when she was being subjected to "hidden rules" by those high-ranking officials, she still dared to flip the table and splash soup on their faces.

But in this matter, she couldn't reveal a single whisper of it online.

This was the intention of the station's leadership; with her current achievements, she could not yet go up against such figures, and even if it were Luo Quan, who had already achieved quite a lot, it would likely be impossible.

Therefore, besides taking her sisters to the Shanghai Bund every day to blow in the wind and practice dancing, she could only vent her frustrations to Luo Quan.

However, Luo Quan felt that this bold declaration was not just wishful thinking, provided that Girls' Generation could make a big splash.

Ps. Thanks to book friend L224 for the book coin tip, thank you!