The fields are like a dark sea under the night sky, and the raised ridges are like solidified waves. After the gorgeous fireworks gradually fade away, the eternal light of billions of stars is revealed in the sky.
Chen Ya and Lu Qingxuan walked on the undulating fields, their legs spreading out among the withered straw. The neon lights of the capital city in the distance looked like an isolated island.
"He sent me the video." Lu Qingxuan closed her phone. "It's pretty good."
"That's good." Chen Ya replied.
Lu Xiaojie filmed a video in their direction from the top floor of Mingyue Building. The fireworks they lit seemed very small at this distance, but after the special fireworks exploded, the large area of congratulations formed in the air could be seen clearly from their distance.
That's enough.
Lu Qingxuan marked her current location on the map on her mobile phone and drew a guide line on the side of the road with lime powder.
On her birthday, someone will naturally come here based on her location.
Throwing away the wooden pole he used to draw the lines, Lu Qingxuan clapped his hands and said, "Are you going back directly, or do you want to have a meal together before going back?"
"If you treat me to a meal, I will eat it and then go back."
Lu Qingxuan rolled her eyes at him: "You are too realistic. Let's go, let's go eat. You don't have to spend money."
"Are you driving or am I driving?"
"You drive. I'll use Mattel to find a restaurant with high ratings."
Mattel is a food and group buying app that also allows you to order takeout.
Chen Ya got in the car, glanced at Lu Qingxuan's phone screen next to him, and said, "Wow, 800 per person? You're really willing to spend that."
"Are you mocking me? This is the place I usually eat takeout from," Lu Qingxuan said, "If I take you out, I'll definitely find a place that costs at least 2,000 yuan per person, so that we can eat something we don't usually eat."
Chen Ya felt that he and she had different concepts about daily diet.
"No need to be too formal. It's just the two of us, and it's not a business dinner. We can eat at a food stall. I'm never picky about food, so there's no need to spend too much."
Lu Qingxuan shook her head and said, "What's the big deal? You made so much money last time I helped me, I should have treated you to a meal a long time ago. Besides, it's not my expense this time."
Seeing Chen Ya's puzzled expression, Lu Qingxuan lowered her eyebrows and smiled slyly:
"I'm sorry, I just ordered you to do something and didn't tell you that our family actually allocated a lot of funds for this activity, so we barely spent any money."
"There's funding?" Chen Ya was amazed.
All they did was drive outside and light the fireworks. That was it. Even the fireworks were bought in advance. Apart from the cost of gas, they didn't spend any money at all.
"Of course there is funding. There are so many things to do in the family that we can't finish them all. Selfless dedication is not that selfless at all," said Lu Qingxuan.
“How much funding was given?”
Lu Qingxuan's eyes sparkled: "50,000 yuan."
“???”
This number is a bit beyond Chen Ya's understanding.
"It's okay. Even if we spend 10,000 per person, we still can't spend it all. After we finish eating, we'll see how much is left. We can split the funds between the two of us... Oh, by the way, we have to keep 3,000 to hand it back. But we have to make sure our testimony is correct and say that we only have 3,000 left."
After Lu Qingxuan finished speaking, she winked at Chen Ya.
Chen Ya had always thought that Lu Qingxuan was the kind of "loyal minister of the Lu family", but today he discovered that she was actually quite cunning.
"It's clearly just a small matter, how did you get 50,000 yuan in funding?"
Lu Qingxuan was stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbly and said, "Do you think I asked to come here? No, it was my great-grandmother and the others who offered it to me. I didn't even ask for it."
"Are they so nice to you?"
"They're not just good to me, it's just the way it is in our family," Lu Qingxuan explained, scrolling through her phone. "Whenever we need to do something, our family is very generous with the funding. They always arrange it leniently. Forty or fifty thousand is just the cheapest money."
"I seem to know why the Lu family is declining so quickly now." Chen Ya said.
Hearing this, the light in Lu Qingxuan's eyes dimmed, but then he said:
"We're relatively lucky. We only received funding because we have something important to do. There are many people in the tribe who need a lot of money to support them. Just to prevent them from causing trouble, we spend millions every year."
"Parasite?"
"I don't want to say that to those people. After all, they are all my relatives, and some are even elders." Lu Qingxuan said, and it can be seen from her eyes that she is quite disapproving of these people.
She stared out the window, seemingly worried about the family's future, while Chen Ya looked at her coldly from the side.
"You can remind your great-grandmother and let her know about the prices. Inflation isn't that serious right now, and money isn't that worthless yet."
Lu Qingxuan shook her head and said, "Of course I can't say that. My dad would scold me to death, and I would also offend everyone in the family. Besides, do you think that grandma is so generous with the money because she is old and confused?"
After a pause, Lu Qingxuan said, "She's not confused at all. The Lu family is now relying on this money to survive. If she isn't generous with the money, the Lu family will be in a worse situation than it is now."
Chen Ya thought of something, frowned, and then asked:
"Actually, I have a question. Aihua Company no longer belongs to the Lu family, and your father and your second uncle's company isn't profitable enough to support this kind of expenses. Where does the Lu family get the money?"
Lu Qingxuan turned her head and glanced at Chen Ya. "The Aihua Company incident... was indeed a heavy blow to our family. We lost a large source of income, but do you think that our family only relies on Aihua?"
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