Chapter 297 It's Difficult to Keep a Low Profile

Xiaotong, who successfully shut up his brother, happily continued to use the king pesticide.

However, the battle situation didn't get better because of her better mood, on the contrary, the smile on her face gradually lost.

Five kills in five minutes, although all of them were negative.

The equipment on the opposite side took shape, and the teammates even stopped spraying her and started hanging up.

Xiaotong, who was in an explosive mood, threw away his mobile phone, muttering incomprehensible words such as "a group of elementary school students", "this mushroom is playing and masturbating", leaning on the sofa with a loveless expression on his face.

Lu Zhou gloated and smiled beside him.

The wicked have their own harvest, and the ancients never deceived me.

Looking at Xiaotong with a gloomy face, Lu Zhou couldn't bully her anymore, so he picked up a topic and started talking.

"Stop playing games, tell me about your college life in the past six months."

Upon hearing this topic, Xiaotong's eyes lit up, and she dragged him to chatter.

To Lu Zhou's surprise, although he lives like a salted fish at home, this little guy is a standard "other people's child" at school.

She ranks first in the class in terms of grade points in all subjects, and ranks in the top three in her grade, not only in her studies, but as the class monitor of the finance department in 2017, she was also rated as an outstanding class leader and a national scholarship.

The halo all over her body was shining brightly, and Xiaotong had indeed, as she said, not humiliated the "lintel" of the Lu family. Even, she didn't need to worry about living expenses like Lu Zhou did at the beginning, and she performed better than her brother in her freshman year.

Generally speaking, the national scholarships are issued in the sophomore year, and you can be evaluated for this thing in the freshman year, either because you are particularly awesome, or you have a particularly awesome background...

In Xiaotong's view, he certainly belongs to the former, and through unremitting efforts, he finally got the teacher's approval. After all, in order to prepare the defense materials and PPT, she had prepared for half a month.

Lu Zhou was also sincerely happy for her.

In any case, she is really trying to do one thing.

As for the real reason for winning the National Award, although he can probably guess a little bit, it's better not to expose such insignificant details.

Anyway, she's happy on her own...

...

Back home this time, the family has changed a lot.

Although it is still in that neighborhood, the inside of the house has been redecorated, and it looks much more beautiful than before.

At first, Lao Lu refused to touch the money in the bank card that Lu Zhou left him, no matter what he said, he couldn't persuade him.

It wasn't until about the middle of last year that Lu Zhou told his father that his annual salary after tax was 400,000 U.S. dollars, that the old man finally changed his previous concept and silently accepted his son's filial piety to him.

Just in time for Xiaotong to go to university, the two old people planned to use the money to renovate their home.

In fact, Lu Zhou's original suggestion was to simply sell the old house and buy a new one in a better environment, but he was unanimously opposed by his parents.

According to his father, he has lived in this house for more than 20 years, and he has feelings for him, so he is reluctant to move out.

In his eyes, this is the best community, with a quiet environment, and the neighbors are familiar with it, and occasionally they can go fishing together.

Changed to the elevator building with more than 20 floors, there are many neighbors, but it is deserted instead. Coupled with the fact that the children are not around, sooner or later there will be something wrong with being idle.

For the old man's statement, Lu Zhou thought about it carefully and found it reasonable.

Although if he was asked to choose, he would definitely choose the latter, and he believed that Xiaotong had the same idea as himself.

Perhaps, this is the generation gap.

"One day you are tired from living in the big city, I will keep this house, so you can come back and rest. Don't stare at your phone all day long, your father and I just don't use that thing, and live a good life like your old mother of."

The family was having dinner, and when he heard this sentence, Lu Zhou's expression suddenly became a little weird.

Conscience in heaven and earth, he definitely doesn't spend much time staring at his phone. Apart from calling and chatting on WeChat, at most he occasionally wears a scarf to share his joy with his fans.

It is definitely more appropriate to criticize Xiaotong than to criticize him.

Lao Lu continued to ask: "Are you cold over there?"

Lu Zhou: "It's very cold. After getting off the plane from Shanghai, I lost one piece of clothing. It's better to stay at home. Jiangling is much warmer than Princeton."

Fang Mei worried: "Is it snowing there?"

Lu Zhou: "It's quite big, it started from Christmas."

Fang Mei: "That's cold, remember to put on a sweater and sweater pants, don't catch a cold."

Although I know that my parents care about me, I still feel a little helpless if I talk too much.

Prolonging the tone, Lu Zhou replied weakly: "Okay——, I see."

Old Lu asked, "Does your place have heating?"

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "My house doesn't have central heating, but there is a fireplace. With the doors and windows closed, it's not too cold inside the house."

Xiaotong, who had been silent all this time, asked enthusiastically, "Fireplace? Brother, have you moved? How big is the house?"

"It's quite big, but it's not expensive." Lu Zhou smiled and said, "If you are interested, you can come to play this summer vacation."

"Did you buy a house there?" Old Lu stared at Lu Zhou with wide eyes in surprise, "Then you won't come back, kid?"

Lu Zhou said without hesitation, "Of course I'm coming back. The math institute of my alma mater is still waiting for me to save it. As for the house, I can just sell it when I come back. It doesn't cost much anyway."

Old Lu snorted: "You kid has money, but it's extravagant and wasted."

"It's a pity that the house is sold. Let's keep it and collect the rent." Fang Mei's focus is on other places, and she persuades from the side. Going to study abroad, it happens to be useful.”

Seeing that his mother was so obsessed with the house, Lu Zhou also looked helpless.

He has to pay real estate tax if he keeps it all the time, and there is no room for appreciation in the house in Princeton. In addition, he is a "foreigner" and does not enjoy New Jersey's self-housing tax exemption policy.

It’s okay if you work there, and you can offset the real estate tax after paying personal income tax. But after he returns to work in China, it is naturally impossible for Princeton to help him pay taxes.

"Mom, how many times have I told you that my major is finance, not mathematics. Even if I want to study abroad, I will go to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, okay?" He rolled his eyes and complained to the side.

"What kind of university is Pennsylvania? Isn't it good in Princeton?" Ever since I heard that Princeton's mathematics department is better than Harvard, the status of Harvard University in Lao Lu's mind has been compared by Princeton, as if all majors are Princeton The most awesome.

Xiaotong looked helpless, as if he regretted intervening in his parents' nagging.

In fact, this is not the fault of Lao Lu. It is indeed a headache to explain the difference between the comprehensive strength ranking and the professional ranking of colleges to laymen.

Fortunately, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and ended the topic with one sentence.

"Because Princeton doesn't have a business school..."

...

After returning home, Lu Zhou enjoyed a rare two days of leisure, and didn't have to worry about work for the time being.

However, it is impossible to avoid attention if he has reached his level of knowledge.

Jinling University seemed to be sure that he would come back for the New Year this year. Lu Zhou had not stayed at home for two days before the school called.

Without any surprises, it was naturally Professor Tang who called.

On the phone, Old Tang asked with a smile, "Principal Xu asked me to find out if you will come back this year for the Chinese New Year. If you do, when do you plan to come back?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I'm already at home."

Old Tang asked in surprise, "What? You're already home?"

Lu Zhou: "Well, I came back after the academic conference at Berkeley. Because of the tight schedule, I didn't tell anyone."

Of course, these reasons are secondary, Lu Zhou is mainly out of trouble.

He just wanted to spend the year in peace, and didn't want to cause too many troubles.

Old Tang sighed, regretfully said: "At first I wanted to invite you to dinner a few years ago, but now it seems that I can't invite you."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Is it you who always invite me or the school? If you are older, after the third year of junior high, I will make a special trip to visit you for New Year greetings."

"Come on! Can you buy a train ticket now? You'd better stay at home and have a good rest. I don't need you to come to pay me New Year's greetings." After a pause, Old Tang continued, "Principal Xu asked me to find out when you will return to China , I mainly want to discuss something with you."

Lu Zhou stopped joking, but asked in a serious tone: "Is it a big thing or a small thing?"

Old Tang said seriously: "I don't know about big and small things, but it must be a good thing for you."

Lu Zhou thought for a while, and said generously, "That's okay, I'll go back to Jinda University after the fifteenth day, before returning to Princeton!"