Chapter 259

Lu Shu sat quietly to the side, listening while eating melon seeds and candy.

Earning money for the household was naturally his responsibility, while Lu Xiaomian was in charge of managing the funds.

Finally, Lu Xiaomian slapped her small hand heavily on the table, looking at Lu Shu and smiling happily.

"A billionaire! Classmate Lu Shu!"

"Impressive, impressive!"

Lu Shu also smiled cheerfully.

"Hehe! Tonight we eat braised pork!"

Lu Shu got up and walked toward the kitchen, rolling up his sleeves and starting to tidy up.

Lu Xiaomian pushed her wheelchair outside the kitchen, cracking melon seeds while watching Lu Shu.

She asked thoughtfully.

"Brother, those two people today must have been from some special department, right?"

Lu Shu skillfully cut a piece of the best pork belly into chunks and blanched them.

While casually nodding.

"Mm, one from the military, one from the National Security Bureau."

"Do they both want you to join their factions? Brother, what do you think?"

Lu Xiaomian was very smart.

She could guess a lot from tiny details.

And Lu Shu never intentionally hid anything regarding these matters.

It was just that when he heard Lu Xiaomian's question,

Lu Shu's hand paused for a moment, his gaze quietly fixed on Lu Xiaomian as he explained slightly.

"That Lin Fan wants me to join the National Security Bureau, and it would likely be a special department within it, possibly requiring me to go to Jingcheng."

"That Song Jun is not an ordinary military soldier either; if I agree to him, I would similarly enter a special military establishment of Dragon Country."

"Regardless of which one, as long as I agree, it means having an official position from now on, an iron rice bowl."

"So, what do you think?"

This question concerned the retirement of the two of them in the future.

So Lu Shu spoke quite seriously, even asking Lu Xiaomian's opinion in return.

Lu Xiaomian just smiled.

"Brother, I'll follow your lead."

Looking at Lu Xiaomian's smiling face, Lu Shu paused for a moment.

Then he smiled gently and asked.

"Have you ever thought..."

"... about us building a power of our own?"

"Anyway, we'll have to buy an island somewhere outside for retirement eventually."

The expression in Lu Xiaomian's eyes brightened.

"Oh ho! Brother, are you going to become a warlord?"

Lu Shu shook his head with a smile.

"Not that exaggerated."

"But it's basically the same idea, right?"

Lu Xiaomian asked with a beaming smile.

"Then aren't you afraid that the whole world will come to hammer us..."

Lu Shu bared his teeth.

"Then I'll kill my way through every country one by one, making them dare not come trouble us!"

Hearing Lu Shu's calm yet domineering answer,

Lu Xiaomian pretended to think seriously for a moment, then tilted her face up to look at Lu Shu.

"In that case."

"I, this young lady, think it's not impossible."

"Still, I'll follow your lead."

After Lu Shu finished speaking, he turned his head back and continued to focus on the braised pork in the pot.

A sentence drifted lightly over.

"No rush; let's cure your legs first."

"Mm, mm. Brother, you're so good."

Because a large sum of money had been deposited into their account,

that night, Lu Shu and Lu Xiaomian enjoyed a sumptuous meal of braised pork in their warm little house.

Taking advantage of the time before school started,

Lu Shu took Lu Xiaomian out to walk around and explore.

On the other side,

the day Lin Fan and Song Jun had agreed to visit Lu Shu was approaching second by second.

Both racked their brains to increase even a sliver of the possibility of successfully recruiting Lu Shu to their side.

For nearly a full day and night,

Lin Fan had almost run through the entire Yun Province and made a round trip to Jingcheng.

After a long, detailed discussion with a certain big shot from Jingcheng's National Security.

When he finally returned to Yong'an,

he had one more thing in hand — the most weighty red-headed document from National Security,

and a data notebook!

Looking at the two things in his hands,

Lin Fan, weary as he was, finally felt the great boulder in his heart drop heavily to the ground!

"Heh, snatch people from National Security? Not a chance!"

"Song Jun, oh Song Jun, Lu Shu must belong to National Security!"

With these two things in hand,

Lin Fan believed he could absolutely come up with terms that would make Lu Shu's heart stir!

And meanwhile,

things were tougher on Song Jun's side.

Because the military force he represented, in a certain sense, could never obtain as many resources as National Security could.

What the army could offer was nothing more than iron-blood valor and honor.

But these two things — Lu Shu happened to lack neither!

Song Jun went back to the province, discussed for a long time with the military big shots, and then, led by them, personally flew to the capital.

In the end, he too brought back conditions of no small weight.

But somewhere deep down, Song Jun always felt something was still missing.

"Conditions are conditions, favors are favors."

"Favors?"

"Right... isn't Lu Shu a student at Beihai University?"

"What a coincidence — isn't Weiwei at that school too?"

Suddenly,

on the flight back to Yong'an from the capital, Song Jun thought of an idea,

and after getting off the plane, he headed straight for a certain place.

In a certain quiet villa district,

Ling Weiwei had been watching, over and over, those edited videos of Lu Shu's overseas part-time work,

when she heard her mother call out from downstairs.

"Weiwei, your uncle is here — he says he has something to talk to you about. Can you come down for a moment?"