Chapter 387: Son-in-law?
I thought it was just an insignificant vacation, but the next morning, Zhao Changming returned to the laboratory and asked to see Lu Weiyi.
As soon as Lu Weiyi arrived, he was stunned by the request he made.
He wants Gu Qingji to marry Zhao Qianqian.
"My ability should have been verified. If my daughter marries someone from the only team, then I will be one with the entire base. Even if it's just for my daughter to have a better life, I am willing to devote all my energy to developing more projects and weapons for the entire base."
"Although my daughter is spoiled, she is not a bad girl. She is young and beautiful, and there are probably few people in the base who can compare with her. Especially with the help of a father like me, it is an honor for Gu Qingji, who has no real power in the team, to marry such a wife."
Zhao Changming sat opposite the desk with his hands crossed on the table, weighing the interests in a negotiating posture.
If the protagonist was not Gu Qingji, Lu Weiyi would have suspected that he wanted him to be his son-in-law.
After listening to him till the end, Lu Weiyi asked inexplicably, "Did you find the wrong person? Shouldn't you go directly to Gu Qingji to talk to him?"
Zhao Changming was not stumped by the question. He said confidently, "Aren't you his captain?"
"I am also the base commander of the entire base, so do I have to take care of everyone's food, drink, defecation and urination in the base and be responsible for finding wives for them?" If someone who didn't know the situation saw this scene, they would definitely think that he was arranging a marriage for his son.
Lu Weiyi stood up and looked at the person who was blatantly wasting his time, "Mr. Zhao, I hope this conversation will be the last. Adults need to know what they should and should not do."
Lu Weiyi walked out of the office while Zhao Changming was in a daze. After opening the door, he turned around and looked at him again. "I admit that you are a talent, but you may not be the only talent. In this world, talents with irreplaceable value are the rarest. Are you?"
The office door was slammed shut. Zhao Changming sat alone for a long time, slowly lowering his head. His back gradually became hunched due to his age.
Although Lu Weiyi felt unhappy, he didn't mention it to anyone.
The temperature began to drop sharply. Zhuang Mingxu hoped to store more food before winter. In addition to the food produced by the base itself, he negotiated with the Pingjin City to exchange a large amount of seafood for a batch of seeds.
The variety covers all they know. In order to increase the success rate and ensure safety, he asked Ning Yuan Wu Yue to bring a lot of psychics and people who are good at business negotiations to go on a trip, hoping to negotiate the biggest deal before the heavy snow comes.
Unexpectedly, Ning Yuan brought people back within a few days and handed over the supplies they had negotiated for.
"Why are there two prices?" Zhuang Mingxu saw that there were two different prices written behind different varieties of grain on the paper, and the difference was quite big.
"The lower one is the grain that has been artificially grown, and the one behind it is the grain that has not been artificially grown," Ning Yuan explained. The price they were considering at the time was directly the price for all the artificially grown grain, but if they were in a hurry, the other party might not give them all, and they might need to make up for it with un-artificially grown grain. Every extra point they made was a profit, but they didn't expect the other party to point it out directly.
"Hasn't the labor been induced at all?" Zhuang Mingxu doubted.
"Yes," Ning Yuan said, "They said they can accept inspections by wood-type mutants."
Zhuang Mingxu looked at the price and pondered for a moment, "Do you believe it?"
"I don't want to believe it," Ning Yuan himself found it unbelievable, "but all the frozen seafood we brought over have been exchanged. I asked the wood-type mutant who went with them to check it several times, and all of them were original seeds that had not been induced to germinate."
"All the way, I was wondering if they were going to ambush us and have everyone on guard day and night, but nothing happened." He spread his hands to indicate that he couldn't figure it out.
"Have you asked the wood-type psychics at the base to check it?"
"Before putting them into storage, I asked Li Dongsheng to check them. He confirmed that there were no problems and that the seeds were even preserved very well." Li Dongsheng has been in charge of promoting plant growth and is most sensitive to plant seeds that have been promoted several times. If others may make mistakes, he is 90% sure there will be no problems.
But this price...
"Could it be that they have a lot of food stored in their base and don't care about this?" Ning Yuan guessed, "After all, it's a base full of people with superpowers, so it's not difficult to loot some food."
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head in denial. "The person who can directly point out the original seeds proves that he knows the importance of seeds. It is impossible for him not to have such foresight. There must be something we don't know. When is the next time you agreed to go?"
"Within ten days, almost all of which will be in these two days." It would take several days just to travel overnight on the road, but Ning Yuan felt that such a bargain should not be missed.
Zhuang Mingxu had the same idea, "Is there a limited quantity?"
"No, they said the more the better. The base is full of mutants and they have a great demand for meat. They don't have ships to go out to sea, so it's not cost-effective for them to hunt at the seaside. They hope we can provide as much as possible. It would be even better if we have salt."
"It seems that Xiaoyi has blocked their way." Zhuang Mingxu originally asked Lu Weiyi to bring back all the ships near the coastline, but he didn't expect to take advantage of him at this time. "Then let Xiaoyi go with you this time, take Li Dongsheng with you, and take away everything stored in our cold cellar."
"When Li Zhuang and his men were out some time ago, they planted a spy in the Pingjin base. I asked someone to contact her later. She is in a pretty good position in her own forces now. Maybe she can find out some information. I will contact her as soon as possible."
Lin Ya was lucky. She was the deputy captain of the sixth team of the Menghu Squad before. Unexpectedly, among the people dealt with by Li Zhuang, there happened to be the captain. After she returned, she happened to catch the Menghu Team being attacked by other forces and they were short of people. Without much effort, she became the captain of the sixth team.
The people at the Pingjin base are all psychics with strong abilities, which makes it difficult to bribe them. The positions they have been placed in so far are not high, and the information they can obtain is limited.
Lin Ya had not been contacted before for fear of alerting the enemy, but now Zhuang Mingxu felt that the time had come to take action.
Imagination is beautiful, but the real world is a bit cruel.
After the temperature began to drop, the communications that had been restored with great difficulty became increasingly difficult. Zhuang Mingxu had been sending messages for a long time but was unable to contact anyone.
Time is fleeting, and with huge benefits at stake, Zhuang Mingxu is reluctant to give up. He can only try his best to let Lu Weiyi pick a few people from Team One and Team Two to go together, to reduce the possibility of being successfully plotted.
In the end, Lu Weiyi took away fourteen psychics. The S-type team one took away Ning Yuan, Liu Rui, Li Zhuang, Li Dongsheng, Wu Yue and Xu Sa. The second team took one according to the five elements. Finally, there was Lei Jun from the thunder type, Qilin from the speed type, Xu Yi from the healing type, and Xing Zhou who wanted to ask for advice on the mental type upgrade.
I have been busy at the base for more than half a month. I didn’t feel anything when I stayed at home all day, but once I came out, I clearly noticed the change in temperature.
Lu Weiyi put on a coat and sat on the roof of a moving car to keep watch, looking at the stars in the dark sky. Next to him was Li Qing, who was wearing a military coat and was wrapped up like a ball, which made Lu Weiyi unable to help but look at him frequently.
"Are you cold? I have a military coat, made of new cotton, very warm," Li Qing asked attentively.
Lu Weiyi shook his head and said tactfully, "I'm still young."
"..." Li Qing, "Young people need to take better care of themselves, otherwise how can they bear it when they are old?"
Lu Weiyi thought this guy might be a fool. After all, the temperature he just saw was at least 10 degrees. In the base, Antonio would still lift weights in a vest. Wearing a coat was already very respectful, but wearing a cotton coat...
"Are you Xu?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"Puff"
"Ha ha"
There were a few uncontrollable laughs coming from the darkness nearby, and Lei Jun's laugh was not concealed at all.
"Did everyone see that? This is a classic example of flattery that backfired. You must learn from it." Lei Jun lowered his voice to make sure everyone could hear him.
"Lei Zi, do you feel that your life is not so good?" Li Qing asked.
"I'll shut up, captain, you continue," Lei Jun said.
Li Qing coughed lightly, unbuttoned his coat and put it aside. After a while, he spoke again, "Well, Weiyi, do you need anything? Is there anything you want?"
"Captain, calm down. You even dare to hook up with the deputy base commander. Are you living too well?" Zhou Nan had gone to Kyoto with Lu Weiyi for several months and now he joked with familiarity.
"Get the hell out of here!" Li Qing picked up something at hand and threw it in front of the people. As soon as he realized it was his precious coat, he immediately pulled it back in panic.
Even in the dark, Lu Weiyi could see how miserable he was.
He turned his head away without looking at it, and continued to look at the stars in the sky. When Li Qing coughed again, he finally couldn't help asking, "What do you want to tell me?"
"Well, do you need a dad? A younger one?"
"WTF"
"audacious in the extreme"
"I don't know him well, so don't drag me along when you want to die."
Several different voices rang out, and Li Qing seemed to realize that what he said was wrong, "Oh, that's not what I meant, it's just...tsk...I..."
"He wants to ask you, what do you think about Lone Wolf having a young boyfriend?" In the end, Lei Jun, the considerate deputy captain, couldn't stand his captain's stupidity anymore and spoke for him.
"Yes, yes, that's what I mean," Li Qing said with a frown. He and Lin Yimu have been together for more than ten years, and neither of them has had anyone else for such a long time. It's natural that their feelings have warmed up after they got back together.
Lin Yimu has not started a family, and as Lu Weiyi has taken care of him as his half-son for many years, he naturally cares about his opinion. After hesitating for so long, he still doesn't know how to bring it up. This time, Li Qing specially applied for the opportunity to go with him, intending to bring it up himself, but when the time came, he felt a little embarrassed.
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