"Mengqi?"
Chen Yushan noticed that her cousin was also here. Her eyes lit up, and she immediately walked over. "What a coincidence, you're here too?"
Han Mengqi nodded shyly and said, "Yeah … I'm studying at Lu Zhou's Master's, where else would I be?"
Chen Yushan held her cousin's hand and carefully looked at her. She said emotionally, "Time really flies by. You were still in high school, and now you've graduated. Speaking of which, didn't you like to tie your hair in a ponytail? Why did you change to a ponytail? "
Touching the ends of her hair, Han Mengqi said with some embarrassment, "This makes me look more mature …"
Lu Zhou looked at the sisters and coughed. He asked, "Why did you suddenly come? You didn't even tell me. "
"You're so busy, how am I supposed to find you?" Chen Yushan rolled her eyes and continued, "I've been doing business in Su Province for the past few days, so I came to see you. I also wanted to report to you on my work."
Lu Zhou: "Report on my work?"
Chen Yushan blinked and said, "Did you forget?"
Lu Zhou hesitated for a second and said, "Forget about what?"
"It's not convenient to talk about it here, but it's a rare opportunity. Let me buy you something to drink?" Chen Yushan looked at her cousin and asked with a smile, "Mengqi, do you want to come with us?"
Han Mengqi immediately nodded and whispered, "You guys are going to talk business, right? Would I disturb you guys?"
Chen Yushan smiled and said, "It's not a secret, it's just not convenient to talk about it in public … Of course, Professor Lu doesn't mind."
"Why would I mind?" Lu Zhou smiled and said nonchalantly, "You guys haven't seen each other in a long time, right? Let's go together."
…
On the commercial street near the school, there was a cafe on the side of the street.
It was still early. Since it was a working day and the store had just opened for business, there were not many people around.
After finding a seat by the window, Lu Zhou ordered a cup of hot mocha, then leaned on the chair and looked at the decoration here.
Speaking of which, it was really nostalgic. The first time he took on the job of tutoring, it was here. In the blink of an eye, six years had passed. He had changed from a student to a scholar, but the setting here had not changed at all.
"An iced cappuccino and an iced americano."
Chen Yushan ordered for herself and her cousin and politely returned the menu to the waiter.
Lu Zhou looked at the three drinks brought by the waiter. He took a sip of the mocha with extra strong cocoa and looked at Chen Yushan, who was sitting across from him.
"Can you tell me now?"
"Shares of East Asia Power Company."
Hearing the name East Asia Power Company, Lu Zhou immediately remembered what it was.
"Oh, you've already bought it?"
"Yeah ~ I've been busy with this for the past few days."
Lu Zhou nodded and asked casually.
"How much did you buy?"
Chen Yushan said matter-of-factly, "Like you said, a billion USD."
"Pfft —"
When Lu Zhou heard the USD, he nearly spat out his coffee.
Chen Yushan looked at him coughing violently. She smirked and continued to speak.
"I carefully studied the prospectus of East Asia Power Company. The main purpose of this fundraising is for the construction of cross-regional power grids in the southwest and the new Xihe fusion reactor project in Daya Bay. The expected installed capacity of the project will reach 100,000 megawatts. The old fission reactor and related generators will be gradually replaced within a year to supply power to Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, and Guangdong.
"Based on my experience, this investment will definitely be profitable. Don't worry! If it weren't for that Feng guy, I would have borrowed a few hundred million from the bank to buy more. "
No sh * t, who doesn't know that this investment is profitable!
Lu Zhou wiped the coffee from the corner of his mouth and coughed. He said, "A billion USD … That's 7 billion RMB, aren't we buying too much?"
That's 7 billion …
The total amount of shares sold to the public is only 20 billion!
He ate a third of this cake, so he was a little worried that there would be a problem.
Chen Yushan blinked and said, "Is that a lot?"
Lu Zhou: "…"
Chen Yushan looked at Lu Zhou's speechless face and smiled.
"Relax, I know what you're worried about. Before contacting East Asia Power Company, I already asked my dad. As long as the funds are clean, there is no problem with a normal investment. Think about it, if there is a problem, even if we pay for it, would Feng Shuqing dare to approve it? "
Lu Zhou couldn't help but say, "How do I know if he dares to or not?"
Chen Yushan said, "Nominally, he's your subordinate, don't you know anything about your subordinates?"
Lu Zhou: "Not interested."
Also, even though Feng Shuqing was nominally the second-in-command of the project team, he reported directly to the higher-ups, so he wasn't actually Lu Zhou's subordinate.
Lu Zhou didn't care about administrative work, nor did he care about it.
Compared to commanding others to work, he preferred the feeling of staying alone in the laboratory.
Chen Yushan saw that Lu Zhou wasn't interested, so she sighed and patiently explained, "Being able to sit in this position in his thirties and managing the restructuring of the demonstration reactor project isn't something that a Shuimu University student can do. To put it bluntly, this kind of person has a long career ahead of him. He wouldn't risk his life just to do a favor. If he agreed, then he must have the approval of the higher-ups. "
"… You know a lot."
"I don't really know a lot, mainly because my dad always talks about these things at home." Chen Yushan held her straw and gently stirred the ice cubes in her cup. She sighed and said, "That's why I don't want to work in the government. This kind of financing doesn't show my abilities."
Lu Zhou drank his coffee and pretended like he didn't hear the second half of Chen Yushan's sentence.
A billion-dollar case doesn't show my abilities …
I don't know how to support this kind of person.
At this moment, Chen Yushan suddenly remembered something.
"Oh yeah, there's something else you have to pay attention to."
Lu Zhou asked, "What?"
Chen Yushan: "Does Star Sky Technology have a laboratory in California?"
Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Yeah, they're mainly responsible for ordering some reagents that aren't easy to buy. They're also responsible for some outsourcing projects for the Institute of Computational Materials … Is there a problem?"
Chen Yushan: "If you can recruit him, try to recruit him. If you can't, find a way to get rid of him. When I was investigating the company's business a few days ago, I noticed that someone was investigating your assets in North America … I communicated with the CEO of your North America branch, and we agreed that someone might be collecting some evidence. "
Lu Zhou frowned and said, "Investigating me? What do I have to investigate? "
He had been very careful with many things.
When he returned to China, he even donated his mathematics notebooks. He didn't bring a single piece of paper back.
Even if they wanted to investigate him, he didn't think they would find anything valuable.
"Come on, you're Chief Designer Lu. Just because you bought an EGA stellarator from the Germans, our country was kicked out of the ITER project. Now that the Pangu fusion reactor is ahead of everyone else, why wouldn't they investigate you? "
"Then who do you think it is?"
Chen Yushan rolled her eyes and said, "There's no way they would leave any evidence for you to use against me. But you should know who it is."
Lu Zhou looked at the coffee in his hand and went silent for a while. He then suddenly smiled and shook his head.
"I didn't expect a mathematician like me to have a chance to be on the CIA's list."
Actually, it wasn't completely unexpected.
When he was doing the He-3 atom probe experiment in Princeton, he had a vague feeling that someone might have noticed him. If he continued to research, he would find out sooner or later.
However, at the time, controllable fusion was a futuristic science, and it didn't receive a lot of attention. Countries never really pinned their hopes on it to solve climate change and energy crises. It wasn't until the success of the STAR-1 machine completely changed everything …
Chen Yushan rested her slender chin on her fingers and bit her straw. She smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll protect you."
Lu Zhou glanced at her delicate shoulders and couldn't feel any sense of security from her words.
"Oh, thank you."
Chen Yushan pouted and said with a little dissatisfaction, "What? Is that all you've got? You're so boring. "
Lu Zhou thought for a bit.
"Then … I'll buy you dinner next time?"
Chen Yushan smiled and said, "You haven't changed at all."
Lu Zhou hesitated for a second.
"Have I?"
He thought that compared to when he was 20 years old, he had changed quite a bit over the years.
Han Mengqi looked at the two people talking. She lowered her head and played with the cream on the cappuccino with a spoon.
She didn't have a word to say from the beginning.
Even though this wasn't a big deal, she didn't have anything special to say.
It was just that she felt like …
Sitting beside the two of them, he felt like a child.
She sighed in her heart and felt a little depressed.
However, even she herself could not explain the reason why she was unhappy.
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