That night, the two of them stayed at his parents' home.
Lu Zhou slept in his own room, while Chen Yushan temporarily took Xiao Tong's room. Though the siblings had spent most of their time away from home over the years, Fang Mei had always kept their rooms clean.
As she put it, if her children came home one day, she couldn't very well leave them without a place to stay.
The next morning.
After breakfast, Lu Zhou took Yushan around his hometown, showing her the places where he had grown up.
Although she had visited Jiangling before, she had only stayed for a few days and had never taken a proper look at this tranquil old city by the river.
From his old kindergarten to his high school, Lu Zhou took her to practically every place that held memories for him.
There was a little incident along the way.
When they returned to his high school, Lu Zhou spotted a bust of himself in the small plaza near the main gate. Apparently, the school administrators had insisted on putting it up when he donated money to renovate the school, back when he had just returned to China to lead the Controlled Fusion Project.
Lu Zhou distinctly remembered firmly rejecting the idea at the time.
Yet whether there had been money left over from the construction budget or some local officials had wanted to curry favor with him, the statue had somehow ended up being built anyway.
Seeing Yushan snickering beside him, Lu Zhou felt rather awkward about admiring his own statue. He turned to leave, only to be recognized by the security guard at the gate.
That recognition set everything in motion.
Not only was the entire school stirred up, but even the education bureau director and municipal Party