Luke and Foggy were both people who were trying to help Adrian out of his predicament.
Foggy, the lawyer, had just explained the legal terms without showing off, and tried to make it as easy as possible for Luke to understand.
Was Adrian going to go back to his old ways?
After a moment of hesitation, he could only nod. "Fine, it's actually a little related. Training electricians isn't a big problem. My brothers and I can do it."
If he couldn't do it alone, then everyone would do it together! He thought to himself, I'm not the only one in the company. I can't train electricians on my own.
The other people in the bar were still talking loudly, completely unaware that their brother was already dragging them down with him.
As he walked out of the bar, Luke mumbled to himself, Sorry, but an electronic engineer like you is too dangerous.
There were two traditional high-risk professions among supervillains. The first was a scientist, and most of them had a doctor as a suffix. The second was an electronic engineer, and most of them were like Adrian.
It was a classic scene for a scientist to become a supervillain when he became obsessed with his research.
It wasn't uncommon for an electronic engineer to turn into a supervillain when his life was in trouble.
That was why it was said that as long as a person was educated and knowledgeable, they could do outstanding and earth-shattering things.
Luke felt that it was better not to give Adrian and his brothers such a chance.
It was good enough to be a middle-class man and have a wife and daughter.
…
Things progressed much faster than Luke had imagined.
On the third day after meeting Adrian, Ben called and invited Luke and Selina to his house for dinner, saying that Peter had been talking about them for a long time.
Adrian's family of three and Foggy were also invited.
It was six in the evening, a little earlier than the usual dinner invitations.
Thus, this was actually a meeting for the executives of a home improvement and transportation company, and the extra time was for the men to talk.
On this day, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.
By the time everyone gathered at Ben's house in the evening, a lot of the trees were already covered in white.
The men gathered in the living room, and after May delivered the walnut and date cake, she and Adrian's wife, Doris, went to the kitchen.
Selina knew her place, and didn't cause trouble in the kitchen. She ate a plate of date cake on the side, and every now and then, she would secretly stuff a few bites into Gold Nugget, who was waiting to be fed at her feet.
Peter and Adrian's daughter, Liz, played together.
But after discovering Gold Nugget, the two kids couldn't take their eyes off it.
Apart from taking the cake that Selina gave it, Gold Nugget left its body to Dollar.
When it came to playing with children, especially with so many outsiders around, Dollar, the original owner of this body, was better at it.
Gold Nugget would rather take out its tablet and watch TV.
Fortunately, Selina was very considerate. She turned the tablet on a very low volume, and the screen faced her and Fina as she played a soap opera.
Although this was a little different from Gold Nugget's usual style of binge-watching, there were two kids next to it, and there was no chance of a show with ketchup flying and white meat swaying.
It could only accompany Selina in chasing after the show. Anyway, if it was viewed as a comedy, it would still pass muster — because it was silly enough.
The men were drinking beer, and Luke was the only one drinking coffee.
Mostly he wanted to eat May's walnut-and-date cake, which would go better with coffee than beer.
Your Uncle agrees with you.
Luke was a police officer, so it was good that he didn't drink.
Besides, if Luke and Selina didn't support him, he would have to eat all the cakes that May had specially made.
Little Peter? That guy was only four years old this year, and couldn't eat much at most.
Foggy's expression was the same. It was true that Luke rarely drank.
Adrian was the only one who found it strange. So, he had listened to a nineteen-year-old kid and moved to New York, and now he was going to be helped out by a twenty-year-old?
But the awkwardness only lasted for a moment.
The kind and steady Uncle Ben and the young and capable Foggy were very close to Luke, but they didn't treat him like a child. Instead, they treated him as their master.
In the blink of an eye, the financing agreement was officially finalized.
Adrian and his brothers held a total of 15% of the shares in the transportation company. Apart from Adrian, everyone else got back their initial investment.
Adrian took 10%, and the other seven split the remaining 5% equally.
From tonight onwards, the big boss of the transportation company would become an investment company called "Clinton Angel."
Adrian was a shareholder with some say in the matter, and his brothers' shares were better than nothing.
Thankfully, they had gotten rid of their loans and gotten their savings back, and the extra shares were a complete surprise.
Luke had his own reasons for giving such a lenient offer.
In the past two days, he had investigated Adrian and his team, and found that they were a group of skilled engineers.
At that time, he couldn't help but complain, "Why are you the boss of a transportation company instead of a good technical job?"
He had given them this treatment because he didn't want them to leave New York and return to Los Angeles without any regrets.
After the transportation company and the home improvement company finished working together, he could totally hire this team of young and energetic engineers to start other businesses.
For example, smart homes would be very good. They could also take over some of Ivan's part-time ordinary processing work.
Luke wanted to establish his own independent and relatively complete manufacturing system.
In addition, Uncle Ben would also receive 10% of Luke's shares in the transportation company and 20% of the home improvement company.
As a personal reward for Uncle Ben, these two shares would be "original share prices."
I can pay the money in installments to that Clinton Angel investment firm. It can be five, ten, or twenty years.
Of course, only Luke and Foggy knew about this reward, so he didn't say it out loud.
Otherwise, Adrian wouldn't feel good about it.
He was selling the company, and Luke was getting a promotion and a raise in salary and shares. This difference wouldn't be good for their future work together.
After settling this matter, everyone chatted about what had happened in New York recently.
Adrian also said that he was considering moving, and didn't want to live in Manhattan or a densely populated city anymore.
His reason was also very strong: because of the recent attacks, these places were the most dangerous.
There had been subway bombings in all three boroughs.
The Experimentals had attacked Manhattan again.
The location of the spatial portal after the battle in New York was still Manhattan.
This reason was irrefutable.
Lian Mei was glad that her home was relatively remote, and hadn't been affected in the past few times.
Luke agreed with that.
Work could be in the prosperous areas of the three boroughs, but it was best to live far away.
Adrian could choose a house in Nassau County.
The environment was beautiful and there weren't many people.
In any case, they would be traveling by car, and it would only take an extra ten to twenty minutes.
The home improvement company and the transportation company would also be headquartered in Nassau County in Queens.
Most of the employees of the two companies had to work outside the city. It wouldn't be a problem for their headquarters to be further away, and the rent would be more suitable.
It just so happened that Luke's technology headquarters were in Nassau County.
If Adrian lived nearby, it would be easier for him to work in the future.
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