Chapter 1171: Contradiction and Finishing the Festival

Director Luo Lan's response cannot be said to be perfect, but at least it can let the reporters get some things they want.

Explaining, and not explaining, are two different things.

Watching the expressions on the reporters' faces mostly showing satisfaction, Director Luo Lan breathed a sigh of relief. This hurdle seems to have been mixed through.

He knows that many of these reporters will go to his hometown to investigate those things, but he also believes that his cousin director has already handled everything.

As long as these reporters can't investigate any unfavorable things about him, then he can accuse "Federal Post" of fabricating some sensational fake news to frame him, this senior federal employee.

By then, he will severely handle the reporter who wrote this report, letting him understand that some people cannot be written in the newspaper casually.

After handling these things, he let the reporters leave, and then threw himself into his work again.

After about an hour or so, his secretary knocked on the door.

"Do you have time?"

Director Luo Lan put down the work in his hand. He looked at the direction of the door. "If it's a short time, you can push the door in, the door is not locked."

The secretary pushed the door open, but didn't come in, just poked a head in. "I heard those reporters went to your residence, your wife... she seems to be talking to those reporters."

Director Luo Lan immediately frowned. He said "thank you" and planned to throw himself into work again, but no matter what, he couldn't concentrate.

There are always some things that make him unable to concentrate on work.

He smoked a cigarette, and finally decided to go back and see. He was worried that the woman would talk nonsense, which would trigger some news dissemination unfavorable to him.

He knew the woman's idea, she wanted to turn this "transaction" into a real marriage, but this is not what he wanted.

As a director, he wanted to leave here and no one would stop him. Soon he drove away from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and returned to the place where he lived.

Just entering the community, he saw many people discussing on the roadside. Clearly, some residents here thought he and his family disturbed the environment of their lives.

The middle class in the Federation is very picky about these things. They will choose neighbors. If the neighbor doesn't meet their needs, they will find ways to let the community service company let this neighbor move away.

Even will sue this neighbor together, letting this family stay away from their environment.

In the federal society, there are many such things. For example, some communities don't welcome immigrants, some communities don't welcome dark-skinned people. If someone thinks they can challenge this conventional social order, then they will definitely regret their stupidity and impulsiveness

A case like this once happened in the Federation: a dark-skinned man who had luckily made it into the middle class moved into an emerging middle-class community relatively close to his workplace.

It is said that the residents in this community had some overlap in their careers with this dark-skinned man, and he thought this was a good opportunity for mutual complementation.

Through the community social interaction characteristic of the Federation, he could become friends with these people and then share their resources and opportunities.

But soon he discovered that this matter was not that simple. Less than a week after his family moved in, the manager of the community service company came to them.

Almost all the neighbors did not want dark-skinned people to exist in their community. The community service company, under pressure, hoped that their family could move away and promised to help them sell the house as soon as possible, and additionally compensate them with about one thousand dollars in expenses.

For example, expenses like moving, and this money would compensate them and still leave a surplus.

But this family obviously didn't want to do that. The badge of the middle class made them think they had the ability to confront other middle-class people. They refused the peace talks and stayed with a tough attitude, even actively provoking the entire community.

After making a scene for a period of time, about two or three months later, several burglars chose them, and in the process of the burglary turning into a home invasion robbery, they alerted the family.

Naturally, the burglary turned into a terrifying home invasion robbery, and in the process of the robbery, they killed the dark-skinned man and the dark-skinned woman.

The case was solved very quickly, and several criminals were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from a few years to ten years. As for the dead people?

It can only be said that they died in vain. In the end, the house was sold by their relatives at a very low price, for which the people of the entire community held a grand party together to celebrate that they had successfully purified the community.

It is said that those few criminals who committed the burglary and killed the two people were found by the community service company through some connections.

The residents here raised about one hundred thousand dollars to hire killers.

The police did not investigate deeply either, and everything was closed so smoothly. Except for the deceased, it seemed that no one was injured.

This is the unique community culture of the Federation. When a person or a family starts to be disliked or even targeted by the community, they had better move away as soon as possible or solve the problem.

The unfriendly gazes of the neighbors on the roadside made Director Luo Lan very irritable. He honked the horn, some people left the roadside and returned home, while others continued to look at his car and the person sitting in the car with that kind of unfriendly gaze.

Soon he returned to his residence. There were people all over the lawn outside the house, and his wife was standing on the steps, saying something.

Someone saw Director Luo Lan, and immediately their attention and focus shifted to him. There were also people constantly saying things like "congratulations" to him, which made him feel a bit baffled.

He walked to the front of the crowd and stood under the steps, "I thought all our problems had been solved in the conference room of the Bureau of Investigation. You shouldn't come to harass my family!"

He looked like a competent husband, standing in front of his wife, facing so many reporters.

The reporters were not very intimidated; instead, some people kept saying things that made him feel surprised.

Perhaps sensing something, he turned his head to look at that woman. His wife in name walked down the stairs, hugged his arm, her face full of happy expressions, "Yes, I just told them, I am pregnant."

Her face seemed to be instantly covered with a layer of maternal radiance. Director Luo Lan's pupils gradually dilated, "What the hell..."

He glanced at the belly the woman was holding with her hands. He looked at her in disbelief, his mind a bit chaotic, "You... are pregnant?"

His wife nodded happily, "Yes, pregnant, our child, more than two months, the doctor said it will show soon."

"Why, aren't you happy?"

Director Luo Lan's expression was very stiff. He squeezed out a smile, "Happy, how could I not be happy?"

Those reporters were still blessing them. A reporter said loudly, "You won't have an abortion this time, right?"

The corners of Director Luo Lan's mouth twitched, "No... not anymore."

He took a deep breath, "Alright, my wife is already pregnant, you shouldn't come to disturb her, nor should you destroy the tranquility of the community. If you have any questions, you can go to the Bureau of Investigation to find me, instead of here."

"I hope this is the last time, otherwise I will not answer any of your questions again!"

"You should leave!"

Although the reporters still had questions they wanted to ask, seeing Director Luo Lan's stinking expression as if someone in his family had suddenly died of a serious illness, they all thought it was their disturbance that made him dissatisfied.

Although not very willing, the reporters still greeted him and left on their own.

After the people had almost left, Director Luo Lan used his hands to tightly clamp his wife and pushed her into the house.

"You're hurting me!", his wife screamed loudly, "Do you want everyone to know that this is how you treat a pregnant woman?"

The movement in Director Luo Lan's hands paused slightly, but also relaxed a bit. He stepped forward and looked at her almost face-to-face, "I haven't touched you for a long time, what kind of trick are you playing?!"

His wife broke free from Director Luo Lan's restraint. She returned to the sofa and sat down, "You were right before, we are just a transaction."

"You saved me, I want to repay the favor. You let me play your wife, I am still playing this role now. We are not husband and wife, we are just friends."

"You don't have the qualification to decide what I want to do. Don't you want to know what happened?"

"Very simple, I slept with another man, and then got pregnant, that's it!"

Director Luo Lan's eyes seemed capable of killing. Although he didn't like this woman and didn't want to have children with her, he considered all of this a "script."

But the moment he heard that this woman had slept with another man, he still couldn't control the anger rising from the bottom of his heart. He walked over, stood in front of her, and said viciously, "You're playing with fire!"

The woman didn't care about his fierce appearance at all; instead, she looked a bit... happy. It seemed that seeing him angry and helpless could make her feel comfortable.

"Isn't this what you said?"

"You are you, I am me."

Director Luo Lan stared at her viciously, his eyes looking like they could eat people, "You disgust me!"

The woman was no longer like before, "You too, you disgust me. Since we are so disgusted with each other, then let's announce our divorce to the outside world."

Director Luo Lan calmed down in an instant, "No!", he decisively rejected this idea.

They had just announced to the outside world that they had a child, and then immediately divorced?

What would people think of him?

And now he started to think about the gains and losses this matter could bring. If he could... treat this woman like his own wife, could he solve some problems from the root?

Perhaps it is possible. Using this woman's pregnancy to make the media shut up is a good way.

"From now on, you had better stay at home, you can't go anywhere!", he looked at his wife in name, "Don't force me to lose my temper."

His wife was still in that appearance of seemingly provoking him, wanting to constantly irritate him to do things he wouldn't usually do, "Will you hit me?"

"If I don't listen?"

Director Luo Lan grabbed her collar all of a sudden and pulled her up from the sofa, "What exactly do you want to do?"

There was no fearful expression on the woman's face; instead, there was a grotesque feeling of enjoyment. She just liked the feeling of this moment. The taste of revenge was so wonderful that every cell in her body was singing!

"I don't want to do anything, I just want to tell you that what I owed you has already been repaid to you through my first child."

"You saved me, but killed him!"

"Now, I don't owe you anything, you had better get this straight!"

She stood up with force in her legs, knocked away Director Luo Lan's hand, and then returned to her room.

Director Luo Lan stood there with his hands on his hips. He glanced at the vase on the table and kicked it flying!

He rarely had such moments of losing control of his emotions, but this woman successfully angered him, in the true sense.

Even in that moment just now, there was an impulse to kill this woman, an impulse of destruction!

He took a deep breath to calm his emotions. Now the situation could not be changed. So many reporters knew she was pregnant, so whether it was abortion or divorce, it was not feasible.

His face was full of the expression of having eaten shit. Thinking that he still had to pretend to be very loving in front of people, he couldn't stand it.

He didn't know whose wild seed was in that bitch's belly. Clearly he didn't love this woman, but the moment he thought about this woman sleeping with another man and getting pregnant, his emotions, which had just calmed down a bit, began to fluctuate.

He had to figure everything out. No one could deceive him!

No one!

Listening to the heavy slamming of the door downstairs, a sweet smile appeared on the face of Luo Lan's wife. This was the most satisfying day since she decided to repay the favor, no one else!

After returning to the Bureau of Investigation, Director Luo Lan found his absolute confidant, "Help me do one thing, arrange a few people to investigate my wife's recent social situation."

"Figure out what she does every day."

Facing the gaze of his confidant, he hesitated for a moment, "I suspect she is having an affair."

The subordinate, who had been looking at him with suspicious eyes, immediately had his eyes become clear, "I understand, I guarantee to drag that bastard out!"

Director Luo Lan patted him on the shoulder, "Do it secretly, don't let her discover it. Even if you discover something, don't alert her or anyone else, just tell me the result."

"You know, such things are not suitable to be leaked out."

The speed of the fermentation of the matter exceeded people's imagination. The next day, the news reported this matter. It seemed that everything had calmed down, but no one could guarantee that this was true.

Lanse also saw this report in the morning, from the "Federal Daily," which mentioned some of the process of how Director Luo Lan clarified the rumors and how he answered some questions the public cared about.

But the public and public opinion could not really be resolved just because one person clarified the rumors. Public opinion had not yet subsided, and Lanse believed that as the "Post" brought out more evidence, this matter would still have some reversals.

The arrival of the Saint Agriculture Festival made the Lawrence Farm exceptionally lively, and this time the Lawrence Farm also decided to participate in the Saint Agriculture Festival parade in a nearby city.

They were going to transport the largest pumpkin on the farm, as well as some other crops and livestock from the farm.

For farmers living in the countryside, growing huge crops is a kind of honor and an intuitive way to prove that they are better than others in their work.

Besides these, the farm was also going to hold some activities, such as calf roping competitions, relay shooting competitions, etc. Now that the Lawrence Farm was giving money, naturally, the cowboys around who knew about this signed up.

Actually, the content of the activities held was far more than these. There were also vegetable leaf peeling competitions, potato peeling competitions, etc. In short, as long as someone suggested it and it wasn't too bad, the farm would adopt it.

This was also a good opportunity to increase the influence of the farm. The further it went, the more people would concentrate here.

On the day of the Saint Agriculture Festival, Lanse also took his family to the nearby city to participate in the parade. Hundreds of pounds of pumpkins were pulled on a flatbed trailer towed by a pickup truck.

The moment they entered the city, many citizens and people who had already started watching and participating in the activities couldn't help but exclaim!

The three old men smiled so much that their mouths couldn't close. They thought they were very likely to win the championship.

However, Lanse was skeptical, because this year's event was so grand, purely because the federal government acted on a whim. Although everyone was not fully prepared, there were always some farms that had been working hard on cultivating large pumpkins.

The city next to the Lawrence Farm was not very large either, with only over 500,000 people in the city, so when it welcomed a large number of farmers, it was crowded, which also made people feel a very lively atmosphere.

The event lasted until the second day of the Saint Agriculture Festival. It was a pity that the large pumpkin of the Lawrence Farm only ranked fourth, not even making it into the top three.

The three old men, who were originally smiling, kept their faces black after knowing this result, but when they left, they went to the first-place farmer to ask for the seeds of the large pumpkin and agreed to compete again next year.

Even if the federal government didn't do it like this, several farms could do it themselves, and the three old men also decided to take out one thousand dollars as a prize, which was very attractive.

One thousand dollars was still very strong in this era.

Next were various activities and competitions inside the farm. It can be said that this year's Saint Agriculture Festival was indeed held very well, stimulating people's enthusiasm for the festival.

Lanse also stayed on the farm until almost all the activities were over before leaving. Anyway, there was nothing else to do these days.

He also saw the excellent performance of those lazy cowboys on the farm on horseback, and for this, he additionally took out fifty thousand dollars to reward the champion and runner-up of each event.

In short, this year's Saint Agriculture Festival might be the liveliest year in the last ten or even twenty years, no one else.

The public across the Federation was also very satisfied with the grandeur of this Saint Agriculture Festival.

When they returned to their lives and work with satisfaction, they would soon welcome the general election voting stage...

(End of chapter)