Chapter 366: Give a little sunshine and it will be brilliant, give a little flood and it will overflow

"Hm? What good things can you pick up?" 【366-

Old Master Lu pursed his lips and curled his mouth, thinking his grandson had picked up some broken rock again to tease him.

"Ta-da! I picked up an amber stone, and there's a dragonfly inside!"

Lu Xiu Bai presented a palm-sized stone to his grandfather like a treasure; inside the yellowish-brown stone, a dragonfly with wide eyes lay horizontally in a strange shape.

Old Master Lu rubbed his eyes; it really was an amber stone.

He reached out to take it and weighed it in his hand; it was surprisingly heavy.

"Where did you pick this up?"

Generally speaking, the geology that forms amber stones is often associated with quartz or pyrite!

If there really were minerals, then wherever his grandson discovered it, if it were reported and verified, that would be a great achievement!

"Looked in the mountains where we were training; I thought it looked good and interesting, so I stuffed it in my pocket and brought it back..."

Old Master Lu slapped his thigh and said excitedly:

"Alright, skip dinner, hurry and take the stone to report to your superior. If there are large patches of amber stones nearby, there must be quartz or pyrite in the surrounding area!

You, you've had dumb luck again!"

"Ah? Grandfather, can't I go after I finish eating?"

Lu Xiu Bai sniffed; he could already smell the fragrance of the food. At a time like this, his grandfather was asking him to do serious work—wasn't him eating also serious work?

"Go when I tell you to, don't dawdle!"

Old Master Lu returned the amber stone to his grandson, unable to put it down, and comforted him:

"When you come back, I'll cook for you myself."

Give a slap, then give a sweet date.

Yeah, no problem.

"Grandfather, if you cook for me yourself, what kind of good food can you burn?"

Although Lu Xiu Bai said that, it was just a slight complaint about his inner dissatisfaction.

He still obediently returned to the troop to find his superior and report the matter.

Thanks to Tangyuan having previously won a third-class merit, the troop later had a new regulation: any individual or their pet that discovered substances beneficial to the country would receive corresponding commendations.

This time he discovered it himself, so after the verification was implemented, if there really were corresponding substances, wouldn't he have performed a meritorious service again?

Now Lu Xiu Bai was just a little bit away—just a tiny bit away—from being promoted to a regiment-level cadre; then he would be on equal footing with his brother-in-law, hahaha!

"Alright, Grandfather, let's eat first."

Jiang Ye saw that his brother-in-law's legs were almost too happy to walk, so he smiled and shook his head, thinking he would put some food aside for the other man to eat directly when he returned.

"Good, good, good, let's eat first, don't wait for him."

Old Master Lu nodded; with so many people eating, they should eat first—why wait for his grandson?

Don't say he didn't love his grandson; at worst, when his grandson returned later, he would cook him noodles and fry an egg—that would be fine, right?

Everything puts national interests first, personal interests second.

Old Master Lu's words were rough but the logic was sound; no one had any objections, so everyone prepared to set the bowls and chopsticks and began serving the food to eat.

It wasn't until eight or nine in the evening that his grandson returned, covered in gray dust...

Pei Yan Ting didn't wait for her husband to pick her up that evening, thinking he was busy and hadn't come home, so she went home by herself.

Only after returning home did she know that her husband had discovered an amber stone and turned it in, and had been gone for several hours without returning.

She hid her inner worry, thinking this wasn't going out on a mission, but searching for corresponding materials in a familiar place, so he should be back soon.

Sure enough, when she was cuddling the child and watching TV with the grandfathers in the main room, her husband finally returned—

"Grandfather!"

"I'm hungry, I could eat a whole cow!"

"Wuwuwu, wifey, it's not that I didn't want to pick you up on purpose, something came up..."

Lu Xiu Bai appeared in the family's sight, looking disheveled; his clothes, which had been neat when he left, were now covered in streaks of unknown liquid.

"Oh, I know, I'll go heat up some food for you."

Pei Yan Ting's heart softened when she saw her husband in such a miserable state.

She was about to stand up, holding her belly, to go to the kitchen to heat up food for her husband.

How could Old Master Lu let his pregnant granddaughter-in-law overwork herself? He quickly pressed her down and said:

"Alright, alright, you two talk, I'll go to the kitchen to heat the food."

His granddaughter and her husband hadn't returned from taking the child out for a stroll, but they had already left food, which could be eaten after a simple heating.

"Wuwuwu, you really are my own grandfather, you're so good."

Lu Xiu Bai thought his grandfather had regained his conscience and was really going to cook for him, and was moved to tears.

Old Master Pei sat on the side, silent, holding Lian Lian and patting the little one's back, thinking: is the little one's dramatic side learned from her father?

Oh no, it's learned from her great-grandfather!

Old Master Lu heard this and, instead of getting angry, let out a sinister laugh, hmph!

Give him a little sunshine and he gets bright, give him a little flood and he overflows—that's exactly this turtle-grandson!

Out of sight, out of mind; fine, fine, fine, he'll go to the kitchen to heat the food!

After Old Master Lu left, Old Master Pei looked at his grandson-in-law, who had returned to his serious look in a second, and asked:

"Xiu Bai, how did things go? Does that place have corresponding minerals?"

"Yes! Otherwise, how could I have been gone for so long?"

Lu Xiu Bai sat down next to his wife, restraining himself from rubbing against her; he still had some self-awareness and knew he was a bit dirty right now.

Even his daughter shrank back a bit in disgust, no longer enthusiastic.

"Then what kind of substance was discovered?"

Pei Yan Ting had also heard the grandfathers mention when she returned that her husband had come home excitedly showing off an amber stone.

They had also explained to her: what is an amber stone?

Places where amber stones appear are often accompanied by other minerals; if the quantity is sufficient for mining, then it is undoubtedly helpful to the current national resources.

Likewise, as the discoverer, her husband might have some benefits.

"Hehe, who am I?

Once I take action, the things I discover are definitely substances useful to the country.

It's just that I can't say exactly what it is; it has to be kept secret.

Once the higher-ups communicate and the commendation comes down, we'll know the specific situation."

Xiu Bai's words were flawless and also gave his family peace of mind.

They understood the strict military discipline of the troop, and after knowing the general idea, they were already at ease.

Pei Yan Ting was also happy for her husband; her husband's ability was beyond doubt, he was a very excellent soldier.

Although her husband was often playful and unreliable in their daily life over the past two years, he actually valued promotion very much; sometimes her husband envied his brother-in-law's rank and dreamed of surpassing him.

It's just that due to military merits and some considerations, her husband's promotion in rank had been stuck at the deputy regiment level for the past two years, still a little bit away from the full regiment level.

She hoped her husband could get his wish this time and get the promotion he wanted.