Chapter 358: This Is Called Professional

Picking up a big windfall like this is something you can only happen upon, not chase.

So when he saw that Big Sister, Lu Cheng's first reaction was to pretend he hadn't seen her, turn his back, and quicken his steps to go home.

He didn't know whether that Big Sister had noticed him, but either way, keeping his head down and walking was the right thing.

Snatching this windfall feels like being a thief.

It wasn't until he entered Da Za Yuan that Lu Cheng finally let out a long sigh.

He guessed that Big Sister wasn't coming specifically to find him; most likely she had business that took her through here.

"Mom…" Lu Cheng shouted as he entered: "Mom, Mom… Dad, where's my mom?"

Lu Beitang was reading the Newspaper, not even lifting his eyelids: "Your mom went out; what business do you have looking for her?"

"Oh, nothing." Lu Cheng tossed the canvas bag onto the chair.

Lu Beitang closed the Newspaper: "Why are you shouting 'nothing'? As soon as you get home you start with 'mom, mom, damn it'; just tell Dad what's up."

"I can't talk to you about it." Lu Cheng took off his jacket; the weather was getting hotter each day.

Lu Beitang became displeased, sat up straight: "Why would you say that, 'can't talk to you'? I'm the head of the household; I have to decide on all big and small matters!"

Lu Beitang grew more animated: "Hey, I see you've recently become a constable, feeling proud, and now you don't see Dad, right?"

Lu Cheng laughed: "I'm just hungry; why don't you make me something to eat?"

Lu Beitang was startled for a moment, then reclined in the chair again: "Then we'll wait for your mom to come back."

"…"

I already said I can't talk to you; it's a redundant question.

At that moment, Big Aunt Wang in the front yard shouted: "Beitang, Beitang, there's a letter for your family."

"Dad, I'll go." Lu Cheng thought it was the regular mail carrier for this area, but when he entered the courtyard and peeked, it turned out to be that Big Sister.

He quickly stepped back: "Dad, maybe you should go instead."

Lu Beitang looked over suspiciously: "If you take the letter, you take it; why make me get up?"

"You said you're the head of the household; if you don't take it, how dare I?"

Lu Beitang was choked by that remark and had to get up to fetch the letter.

"Hello, Comrade, Lu Ying is from your family, right?"

Lu Beitang took the letter: "Ah, right, she's my daughter."

"Your daughter? Then what about this Lu Cheng?"

Lu Beitang took the letter again: "This is my son's."

"Your son?" Big Sister asked, puzzled: "What relationship do Lu Cheng and Lu Ying have?"

Lu Beitang was also confused; it was just delivering a letter, why probe family ties? The address is on it, that should be enough, but seeing her in a Postal and Telecommunications Bureau uniform, he didn't think further.

"Oh, Lu Ying is Lu Cheng's…"

"Sister!"

Lu Cheng hurried out, fearing that if he didn't appear his dad would say his cover was blown.

"Dad, Dad, let me sign for it; you stay inside and rest."

Lu Cheng took the letter, and Lu Beitang wore a puzzled look.

Big Sister, seeing Lu Cheng, was delighted: "Xiao Lu, you're back? Weren't you going…"

"Big Sister, let's go to Hu Tong and talk." Lu Cheng hurriedly ushered Big Sister into Hu Tong.

If this got exposed, sister would fall into an icy pit and be gone; not to mention whether Dad would beat him, when sister returns he'd definitely get a good beating.

"Big Sister, Lu Ying is my sister; I just returned from leave."

Lu Cheng had previously told people he was going to enlist, and this explanation cleared Big Sister's doubts.

"I was just saying there's nothing much; I saw your letter at work and thought I'd deliver it, and by the way… remember that stamp you asked me for last time?"

Lu Cheng thought, it's doomed; indeed she came to get that stamp back.

He couldn't hide; she knew the address and had come to the door.

Lu Cheng thought for a moment and decided to just buy it at a high price; after all, in these days, asking for it wouldn't cost more than a Great Unity.

"Big Sister, don't take the stamp back; just keep it as a memento. How much? Name your price!"

Lu Cheng had to go all in; he spent a hundred today to get it, which was well worth it, knowing that in later collecting it could sell for ten million.

Little did he know, he had misread her intention.

Big Sister smiled: "Look at you, big brother, why are you bringing up money again? I'm not here to ask you for money."

Lu Cheng was puzzled; if it's not about money, why come over just to deliver a letter? No reason.

Just as he was bewildered, Big Sister pulled something from her pocket, and Lu Cheng's eyes widened instantly.

"Hey, you wanted a memento, right? Big Sister asked around and found you two more; look, they're just like the original, a big piece of red."

Staring at the two bright red stamps, Lu Cheng was instantly stunned.

His heart raced, his hands trembled.

These aren't just two stamps; they're worth twenty million.

Considering only eight have appeared in later generations, he now possessed three at once.

What luck—truly defying fate.

"Big Sister, you… you're really… so kind to me; I don't even know how to repay you."

Big Sister smiled, slapped the two stamps onto his hand: "See, it's just two stamps, a simple favor; no need for you to repay anything. I'm just moved by your feelings for your sister."

Lu Cheng felt even more guilty: "Big Sister, you're so kind to me; I must treat you to a meal, let's go to a restaurant."

Big Sister waved her hand: "No need, I have something to do; this time it's just on the way. Another day I'll treat you to a meal."

Big Sister insisted on not staying for a meal, leaving Lu Cheng feeling deeply guilty.

After Big Sister left, Lu Cheng stared at the two stamps in his hand for a while.

He finally sat on the steps at the doorway, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then took out a match, struck it, and set the two stamps ablaze, inhaling the smoke.

"Sss…huh…"

Twenty million cigarettes!

Probably even the world's richest person has never been this extravagant.

Big Aunt Wang glanced out as she left, "Lu San'er, why did you burn the stamps?"

Lu Cheng exhaled a puff, "Big Aunt, you don't understand; not burning isn't professional."

It's said that rarity makes things precious; collectibles are even more so— the fewer stamps like these, the more their value soars.

Big Aunt Wang really didn't get it, just thought he was a spendthrift, shook her head and left.

Lu Cheng pinched the ash‑filled stamps in his hand, blew them away in one breath, and the twenty million vanished like that!

He then took out the letter addressed to him, not from his elder brother, but from Wu Zhekun, who is serving on the frontier.

Opening the letter, it read: "Old Lu, I've thought of a good plan. Since you won't quit the sect, why not have my father quit!"

"Cough, cough!" Lu Cheng's cigarette almost choked him.

This guy is really persistent!

Lu Cheng originally wanted to reply with a single "Get lost" as he did last time, but after thinking, he wrote a sentence instead.

"This matter, I think you should discuss it with your father."

Lu Cheng knew that Wu Zhekun dared to do this; the kid is absolutely single‑minded, reckless as a tiger.

He could already picture how dark‑faced Wu Zhekun's father would look upon hearing about quitting the sect.