Chapter 93

Chapter 49: Come with Me

"Fang Bin!" Fang Mingyuan looked at Fang Bin helplessly. Over the years, countless modern sayings had been spread by Fang Bin's mouth.

Madam Guo couldn't help but laugh, her radiant smile dispelling the sorrow of a moment ago. Her beauty left the men in the room dazzled and enchanted.

"Father is a hero, son is a good man, daughter is a beauty, and mother is charming!" Fang Mingyuan thought to himself. The charm of mature women was actually more attractive to young men than that of young girls. Even the well-traveled Deputy Director Ning felt a sudden brightness in his eyes.

"Oh, he actually said that?" Madam Guo looked at Fang Mingyuan with amusement. In this ancient country that had only recently opened its doors, a teenager saying such things was indeed surprising.

"Not just that, for example, I once asked him what his highest ideal was. Can you guess what he answered?" Fang Bin continued to show off. This was the first time he had encountered a woman with such noble demeanor and a distinctly different charm from the women in the country. Although he didn't have any lustful thoughts, the desire to get closer was a natural human feeling.

"Struggle for socialism all your life?" Madam Guo asked tentatively. This seemed to be a common answer in the country.

"No, no, no, he said, 'Sleep until you naturally wake up, and count money until your hands cramp!'" Fang Bin was as delighted as a weasel who had just eaten a chicken. He had asked many people this question, and no one had ever answered correctly. It seemed that this wise lady was no exception!

"Sleep until you naturally wake up, and count money until your hands cramp?" Madam Guo's eyes widened in surprise. This answer was too... unconventional. It didn't seem like something a child from the mainland would say. But upon closer reflection, though just two simple sentences, they were full of profound meaning, the more you thought about them, the more they made sense.

"Did you say that? Mingyuan?" Madam Guo asked curiously, "Did you come up with it yourself?"

Fang Mingyuan glanced at his uncle, who was secretly winking at him, and said helplessly, "Sister Qiuxia, these are a few lines I once read in a book..."

"What book? Are there other lines?" Madam Guo asked.

"Book..."

Fang Mingyuan thought, "I can't tell her I read it in 'Desecration,' which only appeared over a decade later. She'd think I was crazy!"

"I can't remember the book, but the original lines are: 'Lots of money, little work, close to home; sleep until you naturally wake up, high position with light responsibility; no need to listen to the boss, retire in five years, and count money until your hands cramp!'" Fang Mingyuan answered. The few people in the room repeated the lines several times, all with knowing smiles on their faces.

"If there were such good days, it would be too beautiful!" Deputy Director Ning laughed heartily.

"Just daydreaming, pure daydreaming!" Guo Tianyu shook his head repeatedly. Having grown up watching his father work hard to develop a small company with only a dozen ships into a shipping group, he naturally had no good feelings about the idea of getting something for nothing. In his view, hard work was the right path.

"When the Christian believers came to preach, this boy suddenly whispered to me, 'So gods are also greedy and cruel.' I asked him why?" Fang Bin paused, looking proudly at the others who were deep in thought, and then said, "He said, 'If the gods are not greedy, why can't they tolerate any disrespect? If the gods are not cruel, why do they insist on controlling the fate of millions of people on earth?'"

"Fang Bin!" Fang Mingyuan raised his voice, and Fang Bin reluctantly stopped.

Seeing the surprised looks of the others, Fang Mingyuan said awkwardly, "I was just a child, speaking nonsense. Please don't take it seriously." At the time, he was just recalling "Journey to the West: A Novel," and had spoken a few lines off the top of his head, never imagining that his uncle would remember them. This time, even Guo Tianyu couldn't help but look at Fang Mingyuan with a different eye.

Madam Guo, smiling, reached out to touch Fang Mingyuan's head, but he instinctively turned his head away.

Madam Guo was slightly taken aback, but before she could speak, Fang Bin called out, "A woman's waist and a man's head should not be touched casually."

"Did he say that?" Madam Guo asked, surprised.

"Uh, I can't remember if it was when he was six or seven!" Fang Bin said proudly, "It made our whole family laugh. After that, no one in our family ever touched his head again."

Madam Guo and Guo Tianyu were even more impressed by this young boy. It was hard to imagine how a child so young could have such awareness.

Deputy Director Ning and the others couldn't help but praise him repeatedly. You Kai whispered, "No wonder this kid could figure out that the child wasn't the middle-aged woman's in such a short time. If it were me, I wouldn't have been sure."

Sister Luo, without looking up, whispered, "Don't get too cocky. You're just a rookie who's been in the police force for half a year. If Director Ning were there, he might have noticed."

Deputy Director Ning smiled but said nothing. If he were deliberately looking for suspects, he was confident he could spot the human trafficker. But if he had just passed by, he... wasn't sure. But it was better to keep that thought to himself; saying it out loud would be embarrassing. After all, he was a veteran police officer with nearly twenty years of experience.

Madam Guo became increasingly amazed as she listened. If she had seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed that a child from the mainland could say so many unconventional things. Even children raised in Hong Kong might not have such insight.

"Mingyuan, where did you learn all this?" Madam Guo asked, pulling Fang Mingyuan aside. This child was too intriguing.

"From books, and from thinking on my own," Fang Mingyuan said, turning his face away. Although Madam Guo treated him like a young teenager, Fang Mingyuan knew that he was already in his thirties under his young appearance. Having experienced the prosperity of the future, he found it hard to resist the charm of a woman like Madam Guo, who was more like a woman from the future.

Madam Guo couldn't help but marvel again. She keenly sensed that she might have discovered an unpolished gem. If she could take this child to Hong Kong, let him grow up in a free and open environment, and with Hong Kong's well-developed education system, what kind of talent would he become? The thought made her heart race!

"Mingyuan, come to Hong Kong with me!"