Expansion

Since the second round of promotion for the tournament began, more and more visitors from other places had come to Baisha City.

Baisha County was even more packed to the brim, and Baishi Mountain was surrounded so tightly that not even water could pass through.

"No entry! Sorry, no visitors allowed!"

Dedicated guards watched the entrance. People could look from outside, but they could not go in.

Liang Xing had issued a strict order: before the tournament officially began, no outsiders were allowed inside!

Even his little nephew Qi Tian had to choose between two options: either go in early to experience it and give up the upcoming competition, or endure it and compete fairly.

The little guy was brimming with confidence about bringing home a championship, so naturally he would not sacrifice the greater for the lesser.

Qi Tian had actually been especially mischievous before, but ever since he began studying GD Racers, he had corrected many of his bad habits.

Children were mischievous simply because they were bored and had too much idle time!

Other than studying, Qi Tian spent every spare moment figuring out how to modify his racer. Where would he find the time to fool around?

Besides, his parents controlled the purse strings. Qi Tian had even begun voluntarily doing household chores just to ask for a little more allowance.

Liang Xing had seen his new racer. It truly ranked among the favorites to win.

"Boss Liang! When will the competition start?"

That day, Liang Xing led people up the mountain to prepare for the construction of the Signal Tower. Some of the onlookers recognized him and immediately shouted their questions.

"You're that impatient? Have you mastered the Electric Roller Skates yet?" Liang Xing had the workers carry the materials up the mountain first while he interacted with the racers at the entrance.

"Of course we have!"

"Hurry up and start it! Haven't you already finished preparing?"

"Let us go in and take a look!"

"I run fast! I don't need Electric Roller Skates."

The crowd chattered all at once, each of them eager to try the course.

But Liang Xing would not even let his little nephew inside, so there was no way he would open it to outsiders.

"For the sake of fairness, trial runs will absolutely not be allowed before the competition officially begins." He first crushed everyone's hopes, then offered them a sweetener. "However, the competition date has been set: October 1. Everyone should be free then, right?"

"Isn't that still more than a month away?"

"That's way too long! Aren't you just keeping us in suspense?"

Another uproar broke out, but the date had been set, and Liang Xing would never change it.

After all, October 1 was also Huaxia's National Day, with a seven-day statutory holiday and triple pay for overtime work.

Mid-Autumn Festival would actually have been a good choice too, but Liang Xing's family would definitely have a reunion dinner for Mid-Autumn Festival.

The relatives belonging to this body were all normal people, and every gathering was warm and harmonious. There was no need to delay it because of work.

Besides, GD Racers were still a new thing, and physical stores in various places were gradually opening. Friends from other regions had to be given time to experience the tracks at physical stores too. Only then could it be considered fair, right?

Don't forget that GD Racers had a terrain-adaptive memory function.

The tracks in physical stores themselves had terrain that was best suited to certain sections of the course!

Liang Xing's preliminary plan was to open at least one physical store in every prefecture-level city in Huaxia, so racers across the country would have somewhere relatively nearby to test their vehicles.

In fact, Liang's Father and Liang's Mother had returned from the countryside some time ago.

It was mainly because of this matter.

Many parents believed their children were immature and insufficiently thoughtful, and they were always accustomed to using their own life experience to tell them how to live.

Liang's Mother's father had once had that bad habit, and it had caused no small number of conflicts in the family.

There were four siblings, and Liang's Mother was the youngest.

Her two older brothers had both chosen to work in other provinces and could only possibly return home during holidays.

Her older sister had remained in the countryside, but Liang's Mother's parents lived in Baisha City.

Liang's Mother marrying Liang's Father was, to a large extent, because of her father.

As the youngest daughter, Liang's Mother had naturally been the most beloved. Otherwise, Liang's Father could never have taken over Liang Xing Toys Factory.

Both older brothers had refused to take over as director of the Toy Factory on the grounds that their jobs were stable. Her brother-in-law was an honest farmer, and he was not favored by Liang's Mother's father to begin with, so he was even less of a possibility.

Liang's Father had simply been forced into the role.

Fortunately, everyone loved what she loved and held the greatest goodwill toward the man their younger sister had chosen.

The four households—her brothers, sister, and parents—had originally each held a 10% profit-sharing stake in Liang Xing Toys Factory, yet they had never made things difficult for the Liang Family over declining profits.

Of course, that was also related to the fact that profits had already been declining year by year while Liang's Mother's father was still in charge.

Everyone knew the Toy Factory was going downhill, and no one expected Liang's Father to turn things around.

They had even reminded Liang's Mother several times that if things truly did not work out, they should close the factory, sell it for whatever they could get, and perhaps switch to a familiar industry with more room for growth.

Her eldest brother had even bluntly said there was no need to stubbornly cling to their father's legacy and drag their own family down with it.

Liang's Father only smiled every time. He still hoped to preserve the business.

No matter how strict Liang's Mother's father had been with her eldest brother and the others, he had at least showered Liang's Mother with affection.

He had treated Liang's Mother well on one hand and acted for her sake on the other, so Liang's Father naturally did not want to disappoint either side.

Fortunately, his son had proven himself capable!

During this trip back to the countryside, Liang's Father had kept a close eye on Liang Xing Toys Factory's development.

He had watched Liang Xing's follower count rise from zero to over a hundred thousand, and he knew the physical stores were now packed every day.

Moreover, Liang Xing had specifically called Liang's Father to inform him about the cooperation led by Huaxia.

When Liang's Father heard Liang Xing say they were short-handed and that much of the 100 million yuan in information fees provided through Huaxia's official backing remained unused—including abandoned factories accepted as payment—he had no time to deal with them.

After all, Liang Xing had to personally handle the equipment. He had recently been busy with the tournament and truly could not spare the time.

Liang's Father's father-in-law happened to be there at the time. When he heard that his precious grandson lacked manpower, he drove Liang's Father back that very day.

In the Old Master's words: "How could a son be struggling outside while his father, who could clearly help, sat by and did nothing?"

If the Old Master had not been willing but physically unable, he would have wanted to come back and help himself!

He actually knew that the eldest and the others had repeatedly urged Liang's Father to sell the factory. His failure to stop them had itself been tacit approval.

As he grew older, he had become less stubborn about the past.

But he could not swallow his pride, so he simply let things take their course.

As long as he could see his precious grandson and granddaughter during the holidays, he was quite satisfied.

In truth, he had originally assumed Liang's Father and Liang's Mother had only found time to return because they had sold the Toy Factory. He had even specifically asked why his precious grandson Liang Xing had not come with them.

When Liang's Mother told him that Liang Xing had taken over Liang's Father's position, the Old Master was filled with complicated emotions.

Back when Liang's Father took over, the situation had actually been much the same.

—The Toy Factory had been going downhill.

The Old Master did not ask further. It was not until Liang Xing called because of the information fees that he suddenly realized his precious grandson was extraordinary!

Seeing the labor of his life declining day by day, then suddenly hearing that his precious grandson had turned the tide, the exhilaration was something ordinary people could hardly understand.

The Old Master had once always used the Toy Factory as an excuse to refuse investing in his two sons' ventures. He believed they should return to help the Toy Factory, but they had no interest in it at all.

After so many years, how could there be overnight grudges between father and sons? They simply could not swallow their pride, nor did they have time to keep each other company.

The profit-sharing stakes in the Toy Factory were actually the Old Master's way of making up for what he owed his children.

Now that his precious grandson Liang Xing had the ability to expand the Toy Factory, the Old Master would no longer hold his children back as he had in the past. Giving his full support was the only thing he could do.

After Liang's Father and Liang's Mother returned to Baisha City, they did some calculations and found that Huaxia's 334 prefecture-level cities seemed to require more money than they had.

How about... recruiting agents?