This was just an excuse heâs been using.
What is it?
He himself didnât know what it was.
So naturally, it was quite difficult to say out loud.
âUhâ¦â
âThisâ¦â
Luo Yao stammered, struggling to utter a complete sentence.
âWhatâs wrong?â
Luo Ping glanced at Luo Yao beside him and then asked in a low voice, full of interest, âCould it be that the matter, with its massive amount of information, is so complicated that it has left you momentarily at a loss for where to begin?â
Upon hearing this, Luo Yao nodded repeatedly.
Good person, what a good person.
Just moments ago, he had been pondering what exactly to say.
Yet, the Family Head had directly helped him out of the predicament.
This allowed Luo Yaoâs anxious heart to gradually relax.
âIndeed, as the Family Head has said,â
After nodding, Luo Yao continued, âThe matter has an overwhelming amount of information, and itâs terribly complicated, leaving me momentarily at a loss for where to begin.â
âSo, I need to carefully consider it.â
âI must think about how to present the full picture of this issue.â
Luo Ping silently picked up the cup of Spiritual Energy tea from the table.
He sipped and said softly.
âNo rush, no rush, take your time.â
âIâll wait for youâ¦â
â¦
As Luo Ping and Luo Yao stopped talking,
the atmosphere inside the room
gradually became even more silent.
Luo Ping, the current Family Head of the Luo Family, was leisurely drinking the cup of Spiritual Energy tea in his hand, now cooled.
The taste was indescribably exquisite.
And Luo Yao, seated next to Luo Ping,
was at that moment bowing his head,
seemingly contemplating how to properly convey his earlier words.
âThisâ¦â
âThisâ¦â
âThe matter, roughly, started about half a month agoâ¦â
Luo Yao spoke haltingly,
his words filled mostly with redundant and unenlightening phrases and quite a few repetitive thoughts.
And the issue he spoke of roughly concerned,
the various developments within Qingshi City,
and the areas he felt were wrong.
âFamily Head, thatâs roughly the situation,â
After finishing, Luo Yao bowed his head and took a deep breath in relief.
My goodness, at last Iâve finished.
Even though he didnât really understand what he had just said,
as long as he could muddle through,
that was enough, wasnât it?
Why think so much?
âOh?â
âDo you really think so?â
After finishing his tea, Luo Ping silently placed his cup down,
turned his head, and asked Luo Yao in a low voice.
âYes, yes,â
Luo Yao nodded somewhat reluctantly.
At this point, what else could he do but nod in agreement?
â¦
The atmosphere in the room
became even more silent.
With his head down, Luo Yaoâs emotions grew increasingly tense as time went on.
Meanwhile, Luo Ping, seated at the main seat,
was slightly squinting his eyes,
giving the impression that no one other than himself knew exactly what he was thinking.
âThe points youâve just made do make some sense,â@@novelbin@@
âIn a while, Iâll have someone carry them out,â he said to Luo Yao in a low voice.
Hearing this, Luo Yao looked up, somewhat puzzled, at Luo Ping beside him.
The points he had just made were purely blurted out on a whim.
Based solely on his own feelings.
Whether they were right or even clear to him,
was uncertain.
Yet, the Family Head had readily accepted his suggestions?
This, this, thisâ¦
Thatâs not a problem, right?
âNever mind, it doesnât matter now,â
âAs long as Iâve bluffed my way through, thatâs all that counts,â
âEverything else is no concern of mine.â
Thinking this to himself, Luo Yaoâs mood gradually returned from initial tension to its original calm.
Onlyâ¦
What puzzled Luo Yao was,
why, after the issue had been fully discussed,
Why, the Family Head Luo Ping, who had already sat down,
suddenly stood up again?
And moreover, he fucking walked towards his direction.
What? What do you want to do?
What are you trying to do?
Donât, donât, donâtâ¦
Donât you fucking come overâ¦
Donât move, donâtâ¦
Luo Yao watched as the man gradually walked towards him, apparently intending to take away the only unprocessed political task from the top of the stack next to him.
Is that something you can take?
Clearly, that was something absolutely not to be given to Family Head Luo Ping.
If it were taken,
and he saw all the political tasks below that had already been processed,
then all the effort he had previously spent,
the facade he had previously put up,
wouldnât it all be exposed?
âFamily, Family Headâ¦â
Out of desperation, Luo Yao called out in a low voice to Luo Ping in front of him again.
âWhat else is there?â
Luo Yao did not pause his movements this time,
but directly picked up that political task from the very top of the stack.
âItâs overâ¦â
âThis time, itâs completely screwedâ¦â
Luo Yao sighed somewhat helplessly, then felt somewhat resigned.
All the effort, all the pretense,
now, all exposed.
His good days in the future, he estimated, were probably coming to an endâ¦
âOh?â
âWhat is this, whatâs the matter?â
Luo Ping picked up that one and only unprocessed political task.
After that, he looked at all the tasks that had been processed.
He couldnât help but slightly frown, then he asked Luo Yao in a low voice.
âUh, thatâ¦â
âThat whatâ¦â
âAn accident, itâs all just an accident.â
Luo Yao laughed somewhat awkwardly.
Luo Ping then put down that political task in his hand.
Afterward, he returned to his seat.
After thinking for a moment with a frown, he said softly to Luo Yao beside him, âFrom now on, the amount of political tasks you need to handle will be directly tripled, any problem with that?â
Luo Yao nodded with a near-tearful look, answering, âNo, noâ¦â
Now, what else could he respond with besides ânoâ?
Could it be something like, âScrew this, Iâm not doing it, do it yourself, Iâm not playing along anymoreâ?
To say that would indeed be quite satisfying,
but if he really said that,
itâs estimated that by the time he got back,
his own father would be waiting to break his legs with an iron rod.
The successor to the Luo Family headship, what a prestigious title.
Back when Luo Yao was being groomed as the next Family Head of the Luo Family,
the smile on his fatherâs face
seemed to stretch all the way back to his nape.
The smile lasted for several days without fading.
Now, if because of his own words,
he were to lose the title of the next Family Head of the Luo Family,
his future days were estimated to be ten, a hundred times more painful than now.
â¦
âRight.â
Inside the room, Luo Ping, the current Family Head of the Luo Family, seemed to have thought of something again.
He turned his head and said in a low voice to Luo Yao beside him, âYouâll be handling those matters you told me about just now.â
âIs that a problem?â
Luo Yao nodded again and said, âNo problem, no problemâ¦â
However, with so many things happening all of a sudden,
Luo Yao could hardly remember what exactly he had mentioned?
Was it about the planning within Qingshi City?
Was it about optimizing taxation?
Was it about increasing revenue?
Damn it, his head hurt.
He couldnât quite recallâ¦
âGood, since you have no problem with these matters,
letâs just leave it at that.â
âI naturally wonât say anything to your father about this,
you donât need to worry too muchâ¦â
Luo Ping smiled faintly, then just said this.
Luo Yao gave no response to these words,
but there was a trace of silent resentment in his heart.
âWhat? You think Iâll be grateful to you for this?â
âDream on!!!â