Miss Star, spoiled by her father and brother

Chapter 156 Tax Sharing

Several media outlets wanted to interview Xu Weiwei, but they were all collected by the housekeeper and reported to the hostess of the villa.

"We have roughly screened the letters from the media and kept a few mainstream and authoritative ones. Among them, the national accounts include Capital News Agency and Interstellar Events, and the more mainstream accounts include Nebula Network and Storm Network. There are also two interviews with people in scientific research magazines. Please take a look."

Mrs. Sivers took the letter, and Xu Weiwei curiously leaned over to her, hugged Mrs. Sivers' arm, and leaned on her.

"Weier, what do you think? Do you want to be interviewed? It means that others ask questions and you answer them."

"Will I appear on TV and be seen by many people? I don't want that."

The Seaforth family has always been careful about her privacy since she was a child and has never posted a full-face photo of her on social media.

There are sometimes photos of Xu Weiwei's three brothers attending events with their parents, as well as photos taken secretly by other people, but Xu Weiwei has never appeared on the Internet. The Sifos family protects her very well.

"Sure," Mrs. Seaforth smiled. "There are video interviews and written interviews. We can confiscate their cameras and stop them from filming."

"Well—all right then."

The daughter nodded, and Mrs. Seaforth took out the media she liked and gave it to the housekeeper to reply: "This is it. The Capital News Agency is more authoritative. Compared with other media, you don't have to worry about random writing."

The housekeeper put the letter away and said, "There is one more thing. Dr. Zhang Peter called at 8 o'clock today and said he wanted to discuss something with Miss Wei'er."

"Looking for me?" Xu tilted his head slightly and pointed at himself with his index finger.

"Yes."

Mrs. Seaforth checked the time. "Then ask him to come over now. Wei'er's ballet class starts at nine o'clock, and there is still half an hour left."

Zhang Peter's yard was not far from the villa, and it only took five minutes to get there by bike. After saying hello, he sat opposite the sofa, and the maid poured him a cup of tea.

"It's like this. According to Imperial Law, pharmaceutical products are not allowed to apply for patents, but they can receive a maximum of 0.01% of the production and transaction tax share. I wanted to discuss this with you."

Xu Weiwei was shocked. This was the first time she had heard of this law. She was immediately excited and her favorable impression of this country increased rapidly. Her patriotic feelings were aroused for the first time in a long time.

In the past, her country had drug patents. She could understand the patent holders’ desire to make money. The drug itself was not valuable, but it took a lot of effort and cost to bring a new ingredient or drug to market, especially for special drugs for difficult and complicated diseases.

But some people are too greedy and raise the price to a level that ordinary people cannot accept. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a blood-soaked bun. One director even made a movie to reflect the social consequences of this situation and the helplessness and sadness of ordinary people.

But in the future society thousands of years later, drug patents have been abolished. Instead, material rewards are given to inventors in the form of profits collected from taxes.

Although the proportion seems insignificant, the base is a country's trade tax, which is definitely a considerable income.

Xu Weiwei: I kind of want to chase stars.

Without waiting for Xu Weiwei and Mrs. Sivers to reply, Zhang Peter directly expressed his thoughts: "The head of the tax department has contacted me and hopes to complete the paperwork as soon as possible and then put it into production."

"I have already told them that I am willing to transfer my share of the rights to Miss Wei'er, but she is not yet 16 years old, so the guardian needs to provide information and accounts."

"That's impossible!" Mrs. Seaforth exclaimed.

"No, no, no!" Xu Weiwei also waved her hands repeatedly.

"The Sifos family has given me enough. This honor is a great reward for me. The research process itself is not difficult. Anyone can achieve the same result. I feel guilty for standing on the shoulders of giants and receiving this money."

Zhang Pete smiled gently and contentedly, and his whole body was filled with the holy light of a pure scientific researcher.

Xu Weiwei was full of admiration, but still firmly refused: "No."

“How was it originally divided?”

"Well, if there is no particular order of ranking, we'll divide it equally. Otherwise, we'll divide it according to the order of the authors, with the one ranked first getting the biggest share. But we can also negotiate, it's very flexible."

"Then let's split it in half! Okay, mom?"

"Of course, it's up to you." Mrs. Sivers was very proud and held Xu Weiwei's face and rubbed her little cheeks.

"No! If we have to split it, I'll only accept 19!"

"half!"

"Twenty-eight!"

"half!"

"Sanqi!"

"..."

"What are they doing?"

"I don't know. Did they have a quarrel? Doctor Zhang is such a jerk. Why was he yelling at our lady? I won't pour him tea next time."

"What?! Doctor Zhang and the young lady had a quarrel?! Why are you arguing with a child when you are so old? I'll go over and take a look!"

"Hey! Don't go. Who said they had a fight? My wife is still here. It shouldn't be a big deal. Go and clean the railing."

"Hey? Didn't you say..."

"Let's go, let's go, let's go."

In the sofa area, after a heated debate, the deal was finally concluded at 4:6.

Zhang Pete is four, Xu Weiwei is six.

Watching Zhang Peter sign the profit-sharing agreement, the mother and daughter high-fived to celebrate.

"My daughter is awesome! She cut off 40% of it!"

"hey-hey."

Zhang Peter was very helpless. It was the first time he saw someone bargaining in reverse. He was so happy to give money to others. The eldest daughter was simple, kind and ignorant, and the wife followed suit.

Although he really didn't care about the money, he still felt warm inside when someone stuffed it into his hands.

He had worked in the mansion for so long, but he had not had much contact with the eldest daughter. His impression was that she was a child who didn't like to talk much. Today, he really got to know a little bit of her character. It might be a bit too much to say about her character now, but one can tell a lot from her childhood.

Xu Weiwei didn't know that her family doctor had given her a high score in his mind, and was discussing with her mother which card to use.

She had too many cards, all given by her family, grandparents, uncles and aunts. Mrs. Seaforth put them all in a card album, and now she asked Meilin to take it down.

"This black one seems to be given by my uncle, the one with the cartoon bunny is given by my grandmother, and this one, um... is it from my grandfather or my father..."

"Ah!" Xu Weiwei picked up a card. "This Forest Princess card was given to me by my mother! Let's use this one!"

It was a limited co-branded savings card of the Imperial Bank with no upper limit on the deposit. Mrs. Seaforth gave it to Xu Weiwei on her last birthday. The princess image on the card seemed to be a cartoon version of a large and a small one.

As the two were filling out the information, a call request rang through Zhang Pete's computer. Zhang Pete smiled apologetically and walked to a farther place to answer the call.

"I'm busy... I know, don't rush me... I didn't say I wouldn't help you, it's just that the work here is not finished yet..."

"Is Dr. Zhang in any trouble?" Mrs. Sivers asked casually out of concern.

Zhang Pete smiled helplessly, "Yes, there is a troublesome guy, but he is not a bad guy. He is my friend. He has a connection with the young lady. His last name is Wang, and he once went to the planet Goodall with General Seaforth."

"It's pretty unlucky. I brought back a few plants from the local area for research, but the test subjects kept dying. Every day I was either rescuing them or on the way to rescue them. There was no progress."

"He heard about my situation and wanted me to come over to help. I'm good at research, but I don't know anything about growing flowers. When I didn't agree, he said I was not nice enough. This matter caused a lot of trouble, ah..."