Chapter 994: Night Talk and Suggestions

The day after the Saint Agriculture Festival, Governor Terry left by car early in the morning. He still had a pile of things to do and couldn't stay here for too long.

However, he and the three old men had already negotiated one thing—

He would adopt a beautiful little filly and raise it here.

The reason it was a beautiful "little filly" was that if it were a little colt, he couldn't raise it from a foal, and trying to ride it after intervening halfway could potentially cause some danger.

Horses are very intelligent animals, and scientists say these horses have the IQ of a small child.

Of course, their IQ isn't like a child's in terms of understanding society or even learning how to read and write; their IQ just gives them a mischievous way of thinking similar to a child's.

Perhaps you are riding well, and it suddenly feels you look a bit annoying and directly bucks you off.

If the person riding the horse is just an ordinary person, falling off is just falling off; perhaps he isn't even as expensive as the little colt under his crotch.

But Terry is a governor. If a governor falls off a horse and is seriously injured, this is a political event!

A little filly doesn't have so many concerns. Gentleness is always the characteristic of a little filly. Lans's is also a little filly. He can't ride a little colt, nor can he be a true knight.

In short, the Lawrence farm's festival celebration left a very deep impression on Governor Terry. The simple folk customs here made him like this place a bit.

Perhaps the more complex a person is, the more they like simple things. He said that if he had time, he would come here to be a guest, ride horses, hunt, and kill some time.

Mayor Williams and James left after a day. During this time, Mayor Williams actually took James to do farm work!

This is simply unimaginable, and it tired Mayor Williams out!

However, his spirit was very good. Doing farm work seemed to make his spirit full, as if he were stuffed to the point of hiccuping.

His face was full of smiles, and he wasn't hypocritical; it was just that kind of smile from the heart.

While doing farm work, he told James about his life on the few farms left by the family when he was a child, such as snatching milk from a calf—God still favored him; many people got sick after drinking raw milk and went to see God.

James didn't have any smiles. When he was born, the Williams family had thoroughly urbanized. He was born in the rich area, in the estate. He had never gone to the countryside to do farm work.

So letting him wear cowboy overalls, big rubber boots, and work in a pasture full of cow dung was indeed a bit difficult for him.

What made him feel even more desperate was that he also fell down, and he didn't know whether what was on his body and hair was broken forage or cow dung. In short, he had had enough of these.

Fortunately, Mayor Williams didn't really want to stay and do farm work. He just used this opportunity to miss his younger self and reminisce about the years in farm work.

That younger self who was full of vitality and energy.

Once people get old, they like to miss the past, not because there is anything in the past worth them remembering for a lifetime. What they miss is actually only their past self, their young self, their self that wasn't injured or still had drive and was beautiful!

William also left soon. Although Hucheng is very small and there is nothing for him to deal with every day, he is ultimately a mayor.

If he couldn't appear in front of people often, the citizens and voters would start to doubt what kind of thing their votes had chosen.

This is perhaps a tricky situation that even the most grassroots politicians have to face. They are always the group of people facing voters directly. When they, or the government's behavior, cannot satisfy the voters, they are often the only guys who will be cursed by the voters pointing at their noses.

The Saint Agriculture Festival celebration lasted until the 31st. Lans would leave here on November 1st.

At night, he lay on the bed, and Patricia lay in his arms. The two had just completed the most primitive desire through some exchange of body fluids.

Lans didn't know if Patricia had entered the sage time, but Lans had already entered the idle time.

His head was full of all kinds of things and problems, and he couldn't care about physical desires or anything like that at all.

At this time, Patricia was no longer his wife, but his good brother!

"Did you notice Barbara?" she suddenly asked a sentence. Lans didn't react at first.

After about five or six seconds, he reacted. "What's wrong?"

He didn't pay attention to Barbara's situation; there were too many people on the farm.

With the rise of the Lawrence family, some branch family members also returned to the family, such as Herbert's father, which is the son of William's grandfather's brother's daughter, and their descendants.

If you calculate by "how much Lawrence family bloodline," this is more common and easier to understand, then these people might only have one-eighth or one-sixteenth, or even one-thirty-second Lawrence family bloodline.

In the past, these people wouldn't come here at all. Mainly because although this place isn't poor, it has nothing to do with being rich. Coming here, they get nothing.

But now, almost everyone has come, and they are also looking for opportunities here. Maybe there is a project they can cooperate with.

There were too many people, and Lans's attention was on Governor Terry and Mayor Williams, as well as the topics they were discussing, so he didn't notice Barbara.

"What's wrong with her?" he asked again.

He was clear about some of Barbara's thoughts in his heart, but he hadn't noticed these things yet.

Patricia raised her head to look at Lans. "She came to chat with me."

Lans frowned slightly. "Chat about what?"

"Chatted about a lot."

Afterward, Patricia added a sentence, "She drank too much."

Lans didn't speak, just kept looking at her. She smiled. "Alright."

"She said some things that I hadn't thought of. She said she likes you very much, and she doesn't intend to destroy our marriage. Although she and I often fought over some things when we were young, this time, she doesn't intend to fight with me, and she knows she isn't my opponent."

Barbara is a bit older than Patricia, and Patricia became the little princess on the farm.

People and animals have many similarities. For example, when animals are cubs, they often look very cute, and humans are the same.

Patricia, who is younger than Barbara, is very good-looking. Of course, Barbara is also very beautiful, but her being younger gave her some special effects, and people liked Patricia more.

This made Barbara feel that Patricia stole her limelight and people's love. Although it couldn't be called hatred or hostility, they did often fight over various things when they were young, until they became adults and weren't together often, and this relationship was considered over.

Listening to Patricia's words, Lans didn't have any other thoughts. He said very straightforwardly, "I have only slept with you."

Patricia was stunned for a moment, then laughed. "Me too!"

However, she soon said again, "Actually, what I want to say isn't this. I just feel she is a bit pitiful."

Lans didn't quite understand, but he didn't mind making these complex things simple. "So do you want me to sleep with her?"

Patricia didn't expect Lans to be so direct. She didn't know how to answer for a while. "I just feel she is very pitiful."

Lans shook his head slightly. "As a man, your husband, I won't have any resistant emotions about sleeping with a woman who isn't you, as long as you are willing."

"So the content you want to express now shouldn't be persuading me, but persuading yourself, or confirming your own heart."

Saying this, he changed his posture to hold Patricia. She had been resting on his arm for a while, which made Lans feel his arm wasn't his own.

"Alright, sleep."

After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes, just as he said. Sleeping with other women wouldn't increase his sense of guilt.

In another world, he had played all kinds of messy tricks. When a person has tasted the strongest wine, that kind of ten-degree wine is like plain water to him.

So his craving for carnal desire isn't strong, and sometimes he would rather masturbate himself to save time.

Lans soon entered dreamland. He is a person who is very good at sleeping. As long as his head rests on the pillow, and then counts to ten, he can enter the dream.

But Patricia didn't sleep; she couldn't sleep a bit.

After Barbara drank too much, she kept crying. First, she cried about the money she was cheated of, then she cried about how, although she often "won" on the surface when she was young, she knew the grandfathers and uncles on the farm liked Patricia the most, not the competitive her.

Whether it's career, love, or anything else, she feels she is a loser, which makes her very sad.

Patricia is a kind girl, and her relationship with Barbara is actually very good, so this gave her some messy thoughts.

Although the federal government does have a bigamy crime, its weight is under religious freedom.

According to the federal judicial interpretation, when the law and the constitution conflict, the constitution is the criterion, not the federal law.

Religious freedom and respect for faith are written into the constitution. In the Federation, there are quite a few religions that support polygamy or polyandry. As long as you casually pay some money to mix a "believer" title, then the law allows you to have multiple wives or multiple husbands. This is the right granted to the people by the constitution!

Moreover, in the countryside, some things will become simpler, and also chaotic.

Things like uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews often happen in the countryside. Leaving the city, it belongs to God. This is the Federation!

She didn't sleep well all night. She thought about a lot of things, but ultimately didn't decide. She still finds it very difficult to share Lans with others.

On the morning of the 1st, Lans had breakfast with everyone. The three old men expressed a slight reluctance for his imminent departure, just slightly.

They also knew Lans had many important things to do, so they didn't ask him to stay.

The carriage sending Governor Terry back had already returned here. Lans directly took this very short train, entered the federal railway line, and he didn't return directly to Jincheng, but went to Red Rock City (capital) of Denuozhou.

He wanted to see Governor Wei De, and by the way, talk to Elvin about the subsequent development plan.

At this time, Red Rock City had already fallen into a kind of "chaos." From time to time, you could see some panicked gangsters driving away from the city on the street. Of course, there were also some gangsters who stayed in place or actively contacted the Lans family.

The pattern of the entire Denuozhou had undergone huge changes because of the results of this gubernatorial election!

After Governor Wei De took office, people immediately realized that the gangsters who had previously confronted the Lans family had lost the soil for survival here.

The politicians and police who would have stood on their side before now all stood on the side of Mayor Wei De and the Lans family.

They couldn't be counted as having a very distant confrontation, but the subsequent revenge would definitely be very fierce, so before the storm arrived, these people packed their things and left early.

Although the city experienced short-term chaos, everyone could see that a stable public security situation was about to descend, just like Likai State.

Although there were still problems of gang fights in some cities, in larger cities, gang fights and that kind of vicious crime basically rarely happened.

Everything would be managed in an orderly way by the Lans family. This is perhaps one of the funniest things people feel.

Or rather, such a result confirms that the assumption of "gangsters assisting the federal government in managing public security" formulated by the federal government before is established.

Lans didn't stop in New Birmingham to meet Elvin. On one hand, the time was a bit tight; on the other hand, he would still pass through here when he left.

When he leaves, he can just chat with Elvin.

Sitting in the car driving toward the state government office building, there were still quite a few places on the road where posters of the gubernatorial election remained and hadn't been cleaned up.

They used relatively strong glue, making it very difficult to be completely peeled off, and you could still see quite a few of Mayor Wei De's somewhat creepy smiles with half a face missing.

There were no parade or demonstration teams on the street. It could be seen that the voters of Denuozhou were still very recognized and happy about the victory of Mayor Wei De they had chosen to become governor.

Just hope Governor Wei De can do as he promised, manage the economy of Denuozhou well, reduce the unemployment rate, and increase employment positions!

The vehicle soon stopped outside the state government. Mayor Wei De's staff was already waiting for Lans under the steps. He also took the initiative to open the car door for Lans. "The Governor is a bit busy and can't leave for the time being. He asked me to receive you, Mr. White."

"Please come with me..." He appeared very polite, courteous, and cautious.

They had met at Mayor Wei De's estate before, but the impression wasn't very deep. At that time, he didn't speak much and it was hard to attract people's attention.

It was the busiest time for the state government, and people were constantly going up and down. Their curious gazes also fell on Lans.

This wasn't Likai State, and not that many people knew him. People were just purely curious about who could make the Governor's staff welcome him like this.

The group soon entered the state government office building, and in the Governor's office, they met Governor Wei De.

His hair was rubbed with a lot of hair wax, and it was tilted backward as a whole, which would give people a feeling of having power.

When he saw Lans, he took the initiative to stand up, bypassed his wide desk, came to the entrance, and hugged Lans.

This time he could successfully run for election, Lans also contributed a lot of effort. Not to mention those campaign funds, just the fact that Lans helped him deal with some so-called "public opinion representatives" helped him a lot.

Those old stubborn people firmly opposed him becoming governor, so there was no way, they could only let them shut up first.

Elvin's handling was also very skillful. He didn't directly arrange for people to run in front of these people and then pull out weapons to shoot directly. He carefully manufactured three accidents.

A car accident, a drowning, and an electric shock, looking just like some accidents had really happened.

Even if his competitors had doubts about these three cases, there was no way to directly point out that he had made people do such things.

During the election, if there was no evidence and you directly slandered and framed, without a bottom line, the federal election would have been finished long ago.

He couldn't produce evidence and could only insinuate to the public that the deaths of these people were not normal.

However, Governor Wei De also actively faced these things at that time, and his attitude was more likely to win the favor of voters—they prefer those who have the courage to face life!

And there was indeed no evidence to prove that these three accidents must be man-made, and it ended up with nothing.

The Deputy Governor lost the election, which was equal to losing everything, and the rest depends on whether Governor Wei De has the heart to clean him up.

In short, this stage is perfect!

Governor Wei De pulled Lans's arm and came to the sofa to sit down, let his staff get some drinks and pastries, and then asked, "You are in such a hurry to come this time, there must be some things."

Now is not a good time for "meeting," because Governor Wei De still has a lot of work to deal with, and now is also the busiest time for state governments everywhere.

Visiting at this time, Governor Wei De could also not spare too much time to receive him, so he could see that Lans's visit was purposeful.

Lans didn't cover up and directly stated the reason. "We want to obtain greater development, so we need to concentrate on dealing with the resources and forces of Likai State."

After Governor Wei De finished listening, he looked at Lans with deep meaning. "Are you integrating the power in your hands?"

Lans nodded. "This is not just my own idea."

Governor Wei De took a deep breath. "Actually, I personally don't support you doing this. Congress has been 'de-localizing.' At this time, you are integrating resources and engaging in unification internally, which is very likely to be targeted by Congress!"

"Those old-fashioned gatekeeper families who control the state have no very good way to deal with them, but Likai State is still very young, and it is not completely unified in ideology internally. It is said that there may be some subsequent problems!" ===== CHAPTER 995 =====