Chapter 684: Sorry!
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
They didn’t speak again that night.
The next morning, which was also the last day of the field trip…
According to the itinerary, the squad was originally going to go sightseeing, pay a visit to the paG.o.da, and visit the Tibetian Pavilion.
However, some of the Jinling local teachers weren’t interested. Lu Zhou had already been here twice before, so he wasn’t interested either. Hence, some of the newly-recruited staff members and other a.s.sistants packed their bags early in the morning and went about their way.
As for the old professors who didn’t plan on going, they set up some card games in the hotel lounge.
The female counselor, who kept chatting with Lu Zhou yesterday, knocked on Lu Zhou’s door early in the morning. She invited him to visit the paG.o.da together, but Lu Zhou wasn’t interested at all. She ended up having to go with her female friends.
Lu Zhou ate some breakfast and walked to the hotel’s activity room. Since Luo Wenxuan and Dean Qin were also here, they started to play cards.
“A pair of aces.”
“Pa.s.s pa.s.s!” Luo Wenxuan waved his hand and smiled. He clearly couldn’t beat Dean Qin’s aces.
Dean Qin smiled and looked at Lu Zhou.
“Then it’s still my turn…”
“Bomb.”
The four-of-a-kind “bomb” was thrown on the table. Luo Wenxuan nearly slid off the sofa.
“F*ck me! You still have some cards up your sleeves.”
Lu Zhou smiled and didn’t say anything. He dropped the pair of Jacks on the table and threw down the remaining 10.
Dean Qin looked at his cards and frowned. He sighed and said, “I shouldn’t have thrown the pair of queens.”
“Maybe if you didn’t play your pair of queens, I would have played differently.”
“You know what cards I have?”
“Looking at it from a probability perspective, I can calculate the chances of every card in your hand.” Lu Zhou smiled while shuffling. “Actually, this is just a number game, I prefer to play blackjack.”
“I’m not playing anymore,” Luo Wenxuan said while leaning back on the sofa. “This guy is ridiculous. No one could beat him in Princeton, much less here.”
He lost twelve times in a row, and his mentality had completely exploded.
He finally decided not to play cards with the Fields medalist anymore.
Lu Zhou looked at Luo Wenxuan and smiled.
“Last round, I’ll show you my cards.”
Luo Wenxuan bounced up from the sofa and immediately threw two hundred-dollar-bill on the table. He rubbed his hands and smiled.
“Okay, let’s bet big this time.”
Lu Zhou: “…”
Dean Qin: “…”
They were playing for a few yuan earlier, but now, there was suddenly two hundred yuan on the table…
…
In the end, Lu Zhou still won.
Even though the technique was one aspect, luck still played a huge part.
And Lu Zhou was obviously a lucky guy.
He had both of the jokers and three of the aces. His luck was through the roof. Forget about showing his cards, he could have won with his eyes closed.
Lu Zhou wanted to lose and send his winnings back, but Luo Wenxuan wasn’t having a good day.
Lu Zhou waved the cash in his hand and stood up. He let Old Tang, who just got out of the spa, take his spot.
Lu Zhou left the activity room and went out of the hotel. He was about to go shopping nearby when someone called his name.
“Wait a second, Professor Lu.”
Lu Zhou looked back and saw the little teenage girl he met yesterday. She half-ran toward him while holding a book.
“Um, about yesterday, I’m sorry…” the little girl said while looking down at the floor.
Lu Zhou looked at the girl and smiled.
“It’s fine, I understand.”
After all, he had a lot of fans on Weibo. There was bound to be some that were jealous of his looks.
Once the haters started to form an opinion, more and more people would jump on the bandwagon even though it didn’t represent their real thoughts. Therefore, Lu Zhou never took the haters’ comments seriously.
The little girl sighed in relief and took out her math textbook and a pen. She pa.s.sed it to him and asked, “Um, I want to apply to the city’s top high school… Can you sign this for me?”
“No problem.”
Lu Zhou took the pen and signed his name.
After thinking about it, it felt too shallow. In the end, he neatly wrote down a line of words and gave the book back to the girl.
“Education is our pa.s.sport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
The girl quietly read out the line. Suddenly, she looked up at Lu Zhou happily and said, “Thank you! Your handwriting is so nice.”
Lu Zhou smiled and said, “Make sure to study hard.”
“Yeah! I will.”
When the little girl went back into the hotel, Lu Zhou turned around and started to walk down the mountain. However, he happened to meet an acquaintance.
“Professor Lu! Haha, what a coincidence seeing you here.”
Liu Wanshan’s face was bright red. Lu Zhou was surprised to see him.
“Manager Liu? What a coincidence, you’re here as well?”
Liu Wanshan smiled and shook Lu Zhou’s hand.
“Yeah, what a small world. I’m on vacation at the nursing home next door. I know a good teahouse near here, do you want to go?”
Since Lu Zhou didn’t have anything else to do, he nodded and replied, “Sure, you know the way?”
Liu Wanshan smiled and said, “Haha, of course I do. It’s not easy to find that place, come with me.”
It wasn’t as difficult as CEO Liu had said. The tea house was halfway up the hiking trail. It was a place for the visitors to rest and look at the beautiful Purple Mountain scenery. It was also a good place to take photos.
The pair found a quiet place with a good view to sit down and ordered some tea.
“How’s your business?”
“It’s all going great, thanks to you!”
Liu Wanshan took a sip of the Longjing tea and moistened his throat. He smiled and began to talk with Lu Zhou about how Zhongshan New Materials was doing.
Ever since Star Sky Technology bought their shares, Zhongshan New Materials had also received technical support from Star Sky Technology, which reduced their patent licensing fees. Zhongshan New Materials had been rapidly growing in the Chinese market.
Particularly, after they recently acquired two local battery factories and updated the production line, Zhongshan New Materials now had control over a full lithium-sulfur battery production line. They had been receiving orders from many electric vehicle and phone companies.
Due to the impact of the controllable fusion technology, the entire Chinese battery market was expanding. Zhongshan New Materials was CEO Liu’s most profitable venture, turning over billions of yuan per month.
There was also the SG-1 superconducting material. Even though the chance of it being regulated by the government was high, the Americans and the Europeans were desperate to get a piece of this thing, which would make them a hefty profit.
“What about you? You’re still researching aeros.p.a.ce?”
Lu Zhou took a sip of the tea and said, “I guess so.”
Liu Wanshan nodded and didn’t ask anymore.
After so many years in business, he knew exactly what he could ask and what he couldn’t.
It was obvious that Lu Zhou was reluctant to speak about this, so he changed the topic.
“Oh yeah, speaking of batteries, there’s a new electric vehicle industry summit in a few days. Apparently, they will discuss the new unified battery standard. A high-level official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is going to be there.”
Electric vehicle summit?
A light bulb suddenly flashed in Lu Zhou’s mind, so he asked, “Where is this summit?”
“It’s right here in Jinling, what, are you interested?” Liu Wanshan smiled and said, “Well, if you’re interested, I have some invitations that I can send you.”
Lu Zhou smiled and replied, “Thanks so much.”
“No worries! This is nothing.”
The two sat there and kept drinking tea until noon.
Lu Zhou looked at his watch and saw the hotel lunch buffet was about to open, so he said goodbye to Liu Wanshan and left the tea house.
While walking back to the hotel, he felt like someone was following him. He frowned and glanced back, but he didn’t see anything.
“Is it just an illusion?”
Lu Zhou looked ahead and continued to walk toward the hotel.
Once he arrived at the hotel, the buffet had already begun.
Lu Zhou happened to b.u.mp into w.a.n.g Peng, so he sat across from w.a.n.g Peng.
Lu Zhou suddenly remembered his weird feeling on his way here, so he told w.a.n.g Peng.
“You feel like someone is following you?” w.a.n.g Peng frowned and said, “Maybe they’re from the Army General Staff Department?”
“General staff?”
“Yeah, there are two security departments in charge of your safety. I’m from the state security side, but I’m not sure about the general staff side. However, you don’t have to worry about your safety. Security has been patrolling this area ever since you’ve been on this mountain. If you’re still worried, I can call the general staff side.”
Lu Zhou said, “I don’t think it’s necessary. If I knew it would be this troublesome, I wouldn’t have come on this field trip in the beginning.”
w.a.n.g Peng smiled and said, “No, please, we don’t want your normal daily life to be affected. Do as you wish.”
Not to mention…
Lu Zhou never goes out, he stays in the laboratory with a bunch of older men all day. If he never goes out, he’ll spend the rest of his life as a single man.
If this were anyone else, the government wouldn’t care.
But Lu Zhou’s love life…
This was something the government officials are concerned about.
Lu Zhou shook his head and didn’t say anything.
He didn’t like to trouble others. He rarely delegated work to others.
However, even if he didn’t want his security to be so extensive, the Ministry of State Security wouldn’t agree. After all, his personal safety wasn’t just his own business, it was also the country’s business.
Suddenly, Lu Zhou had a weird idea.
Why not get a “terminator” bodyguard?
With Xiao Ai’s current intelligence and the manufacturing abilities of the s.p.a.ce shuttle a.s.sembly center, it might be possible.
However, he quickly gave up on this idea.
Xiao Ai was like his child; what kind of person would let their child be their bodyguard?
Besides, Xiao Ai’s mind was like a blank piece of paper. Lu Zhou didn’t want to fill it with violent things.
Otherwise, Xiao Ai could become really scary, really fast…