After listening to his mother's story, Mu Liang remembered the conversation he had with Zishu Yinyue in the afternoon when discussing the article, and quickly repeated what the other party said exactly.
Melanin listened carefully to every word, and then pondered thoughtfully for a long time, showing an expression of sudden realization.
"The Grand Elder is right, there is no free lunch in the world."
She sighed and spoke slowly.
"What do you mean, mom, please explain clearly."
Mu Liang asked unclearly.
"From Xiao Yue'er's tone, her parents seem to have known about this for a long time. Don't you find it strange?"
Melanin looked at his son with a smile and asked back.
"Her father is a high-ranking official in the Earth and Star Administration. It's not surprising to find out about this."
Mu Liang was a little confused and couldn't understand what his mother meant.
"The reason is very simple. I'll explain it to you and you'll understand."
Melanin straightened out his thoughts and said seriously:
“If you think about it, the Strauer family was the first local force to respond to the call to participate in space exploration.
Personnel training, equipment procurement, rough information, and even detection suggestions are all handled by the Earth and Star Administration, which provides a lot of convenience.
On the one hand, we want to allow Earth people to participate in the development of the solar system as soon as possible and understand the overall situation of this galaxy.
Continuously improve starry sky detection capabilities, adapt to the future tide of interstellar trade, shorten the overall gap with imperial immigrants, and keep up with the pace of the interstellar era.
On the other hand, we want to use existing human resources to help them mine small-scale decentralized energy or minerals.
Through low-price acquisitions, a large number of semi-finished mineral products are concentrated to accumulate various resources for the development of the Hijin Empire in 10 years.
The deeper intention is that they can quickly exchange for the limited wealth such as precious metals and rare elements accumulated by Earth Star over hundreds of years through technology transfer and product sales.
While promoting the Earth Star to become relatively powerful, it is also equivalent to looting the Earth Star's resources.
When earth-satellite technology reaches a certain level, you will find that local resources are no longer enough to support development.
We can only look to space and are forced to engage in space exploration activities to supply increasing demand. "
At this point, Melaine realized that he was going off topic, so he quickly returned to the beginning.
"It is understandable that the Earth and Star Administration is doing this. Generally speaking, it is beneficial to Earth and Star. It can be regarded as everyone getting what they need.
Here's the trick. The seemingly fair and reasonable publicity action not only contains the above motives, but also has good timing, just before the Stroll family is about to complete the training and ordering tasks.
The Strauer family and the Mu family each own a high-speed flying saucer, and the shuttle time is very short. This is an advantage that other organizations or forces cannot match at the moment.
Under the premise that economic costs outweigh everything else, all consortiums that aim to pursue great profits will consider the best plan, and the final choices are surprisingly consistent.
It shows that our two families are definitely far ahead of them in terms of time advantage, and traveling back and forth to Mars is much easier. "
Mei Lanyin rambled for a long time, but before he could explain clearly, he had to continue:
“Looking at Mars, Mariner Canyon is clearly a rich vein of mineral deposits.
It was washed away by ancient floods and accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. It is tantamount to nature completing a sand washing work for people, eliminating the biggest problem of water washing.
With such abundant reserves and easy-to-exploit surface minerals, the Earth and Star Administration is willing to generously give up part of its vested interests. The profound meaning of this is that it means reciprocating a favor.
Otherwise, can I easily apply for the second largest target mineral deposit with my mom and me?
It's a very simple truth. After listening to Xiao Yue'er's words, I immediately thought of it.
The other party is repaying you in disguise. It is a thank you for helping their family bid for the 'Purple Marrow Chalcedony'.
Now, you understand. "
After explaining, Mei Lanyin looked like he was working hard, leaving Mu Liang speechless.
"Mom, why do you have so much trouble explaining something? You can do it in just one sentence. Are you afraid that my son won't understand the mystery clearly?"
Mu Liang even teased his mother.
"You brat, even my mother dares to laugh at me. I'm just trying to explain the ways of the world to you. More analysis will help you understand more thoroughly and comprehensively."
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Mei Lan was angry and funny, so she imitated her husband's tone and taught her son a lesson.
"I know you have good intentions, but your work is too complicated. Are you over-analyzing it? Maybe they haven't thought about it at all. It's just a coincidence."
After all, Mu Liang was young and somewhat indifferent.
"Oh, you are still young and ignorant. The tacit understanding between adults requires understanding, not words.
Remember, groundless rumors may not have no sound, but they must have sound.
From now on, be more cautious in everything you do, lest you suffer a big loss and help others count their money, that would be too uneconomical. "
Mei Lanyin began to teach his son how to behave in the world.
"It's the same old thing again. If you have anything to say, tell me quickly. We'll be at the airport soon."
Mu Liang blinked his eyes and urged his mother.
"Well, forget it, I can't understand it at once, let's talk about it when we go home." Meilan stopped talking.
Half an hour later, the flying saucer arrived at Nangang Airport and returned to Yindu Villa Community. It was already after 2 o'clock in the morning.
Mu Liang rested until dawn, took care of his personal hygiene, had breakfast, and drove his own bulletproof car to send his father to work at Kanger Evolution Hospital.
By the way, I visited my two aunts A Tao and A Rong who were about to complete the evolution process, as well as my cousin Mu Wenxiu and my cousin Fei Junlin. I saw that they were in good condition and there was no serious chemical reaction. I was very happy to talk about it and brag about my big test. Homework, game engineering, investment competition.
The cousins who were not familiar with his character were full of admiration and praised him greatly.
Aunt Tao on the side stroked his hair lovingly and encouraged him with a smile.
Because Aunt Rong was injecting the evolution agent, Mu Liang drove the three of them straight to the island's largest international market.
Treating them as porters, he bought a lot of high-end gifts. Except for the four people who were hospitalized, the rest were all taken to Shishi Tulou to visit the Mu family relatives.
Near noon, we went to a specialty snack restaurant and the four of us had a hearty meal of delicious food.
After driving to the airport, Mu Liang loaded the gift onto the golden leopard-print flying saucer, took his cousin and flew straight to the rock, while Aunt Tao drove back to the hospital.
Mu Liang drove a rented airport minivan and drove the two people around for 2 hours before arriving at the earthen building in the mountains at 2:30 pm.
Seeing the long-lost grandparents, uncle, and other people, they naturally exchanged friendly greetings, gave a lot of practical gifts, and introduced their usage and functions one by one, making everyone happy.
Grandpa’s favorite thing is, of course, tobacco and alcohol.
This time, Mu Liang bought a lot of new cigars produced by alien joint ventures, as well as two boxes of various high-end liquors and red wines, which made the old man smile.
What I gave to my grandma was an Earth-Star version of the multi-function robot.
In addition to video communication, singing and dancing, body massage, mobility assistance and other applications, it can also perform body scans on the elderly. If hidden diseases are discovered, the program can be set and sent to the father thousands of miles away, so that remote diagnosis can be made at any time and further treatment decisions can be made.
Although this thing is expensive, it is not a big deal for Mu Liang, who has a lot of money. It saves his parents from worrying about the old man's health.
Mu Liang was afraid that they would not know how to operate, so he patiently entered the voice commands of a large family one by one for proofreading.
After all the tests were passed, they were taught how to use it, and they were busy until dinner time.
"Xiao Wenwen, phone." Grandma yelled the command in a loud voice.
"Please wait a moment, we are dialing Mu Liang's number." The robot began to dial.
Beep beep beep!
Mu Liang's body-stamped mobile phone rang. After turning it on, the image on the opposite side of the camera was immediately displayed on the robot's screen.
From Mu Liang's cell phone, she could see her smiling grandma's wrinkled face.
Grandma can clearly see Mu Liang’s avatar through the screen on the robot’s chest or the wirelessly connected TV interface.
"Great, Xiao Wenwen is on TV."
Grandma happily stroked his hair and praised the little guy for being filial and cute.
Mu Liang was very speechless. These adults liked to touch his hair the most.
Because his hair is black with gold in it and looks shiny, smooth and feels good, he is the best place to start.
When buying gifts for other people, they are all introduced by cousins and choose corresponding matching items to basically meet their respective needs.
Everyone was deeply impressed by Mu Liang's meticulousness.
From childhood to adulthood, Mu Liang has lived under the military management of his mother. He is strict and careful, prudent and courageous, and has developed good work habits.
Dealing with others in a polite manner shows the unique temperament and demeanor of our children.
In front of his relatives, when he is free and happy, he will show his true self of boasting, which is a relatively obvious character trait.
That night, the whole family had dinner happily and lively, looking very harmonious.
During the New Year this year, Mu Liang did not go home in time for the New Year, nor did he pay New Year greetings to his elder relatives in person, so this time everyone focused on him and asked a series of questions to understand his current situation.
"Xiao Wenwen, whatever your academic performance is, don't let the Mu family lose face." Grandpa warned seriously.
"Don't worry, grandparents. I won seven championships in the class's physical fitness competition."
Mu Liang patted his chest and started bragging about how powerful he was again, making the two elders couldn't help nodding.
"My grandson will bring glory to the country and win more Olympic championships in the future."
Grandma’s ears didn’t work very well and she thought Mu Liang was participating in the world competition.
"That's no problem. I won the championship and gave the trophy to grandma."
Mu Liang walked down the slope and promised without blushing, and all his relatives had no choice but to agree.
"I heard from your mother that there is an alien female student in your college. She is very beautiful. Do you like her?"
My sister-in-law lost no time in asking, which made Mu Liang blush. This time she was really a little embarrassed.
"Oh, sister-in-law, tell me about that alien female classmate. She has a very powerful robot that no one dares to approach."
Mu Liang unconsciously scratched the itch with his hands and hesitated for a long time, holding back a meaningless sentence.
"Don't be afraid, Xiao Wenwen. If you bring grandma, the robot, she won't dare to bully you."
Fortunately, grandma accidentally helped and saved him.
"Haha, hehe, hehe."
Everyone burst into laughter, and Mu Liang took the opportunity to slip away and go to the bathroom.
