Real men don't engage in fake gays [Interstellar]

There is a lot of money in Andre's crystal card, which is enough to squander after buying grain. After Lu Mingze got in touch with the former grain merchant, he happily made a deal.

...Of course, Lu Mingze was very upset that the other party raised the price by [-]%, but there was nothing he could do about it, and he had money now, not his own, so he could spend whatever he wanted, so he just bought it down.

Lu Mingze was in a good mood. He wandered the street for a long time, brushing away a bunch of delicious food.When passing the glass door in front of a store, Lu Mingze suddenly saw a black earring, which looked very beautiful in the middle of the red flannel.

—Shouldn't he buy Auston something to say thank you?After all, it was people who helped to get the money back.

After thinking about it, he went in, and the shopping guide lady came up to him and asked him what he needed.Lu Mingze pointed to the black earrings: "I want to see it."

The shopping guide smiled and said, "You really have a good eye. It's a new product just released this year. LOTA's new earrings are not only simple and elegant in design, but also have an intercom function. Even if you are separated by several galaxies, you can communicate I hear your whisper."

Lu Mingze was stunned: "Huh? Is this a couple's model?"

The shopping guide smiled and said, "Didn't you buy it for your lover? That set is more suitable for females, and there is also a suit for males. If your lover is female, you can choose the third set."

Lu Mingze scratched his face and thought for a while: "So it's a couple's model... Forget it, I didn't buy it for my lover, I wanted to buy it for a friend as a thank you gift."

What's more, he just imagined it, and he really couldn't think of Alston wearing earrings. Would he be too flattered?It should be a watch that matches this temperament...

Then buy a watch, hehehe, I bought a watch last year.

Lu Mingze thought wildly, with a smile on his face: "Do you have any watches?"

The shopping guide smiled and took out a watch from under the counter: "Yes, I recommend buying this one. The dial of this watch is inlaid with [-] titanium steel crystals, and the case is made of black gold crystals. It is elegant and elegant. It is not easy to break, even if it is smashed with a hammer, it will not break."

The so-called titanium steel in her mouth is a kind of black metal, but the natural crystallization of this metal is a hexagonal shape of small particles, which is shiny and can be used as decoration without cutting, while the black gold is translucent smoky gray, the whole watch Like a craft.

Lu Mingze suddenly felt that he wanted to buy one too...

The shopping guide lady can read the minds of customers, especially a man like Lu Mingze who can't bargain. She continued: "This watch is not only beautiful in appearance, but also very practical. It can make video calls."

She lightly touched the side of the watch, and a thin transparent frame popped up on the dial, just like the video he saw before, Lu Mingze's eyes widened suddenly, and the whole person was so excited that he couldn't control it—high technology ah! !Really want! !

He carefully poked the frame that popped up, and found that his fingers could penetrate the membrane, but the picture on the membrane did not change at all.

The shopping guide said with a smile: "The principle of using this technology on the watch is the same as that on the TV screen. Unless you press the switch, it will not affect the call. You can rest assured."

Lu Mingze nodded: "Then I will buy this, how much is this watch?"

"Ah, because it's a new product, it's a little more expensive, 12..."

Lu Mingze slapped the table hard: "Give me two!"

After coming out of the store, Lu Mingze felt a little light-hearted—it feels so good to be a local tyrant, and it feels so good to spend a lot of money.

When Lu Mingze and Auston boarded the returning aircraft, they returned with a full load, but the two of them had nothing to say along the way, or they might have talked too much on the main planet.

Lu Mingze asked Oston why he didn't go to his family members. He is being persecuted now, so their family members should still be there, and from what was said on TV, he felt that his family is also very powerful. His father is a Duke, how could you allow your son to be bullied?

"It seems that you are very curious about my affairs."

Lu Mingze rubbed his chin in thought: "I have doubts about many things about you, such as how you have fallen to the present situation in your capacity, even though your opponent is the eldest prince, judging from the reaction of the citizens, he Relying on your prestige...it's so strange, are you a king or a minister?"

Auston thought for a while, and asked first: "The more you know, the more dangerous you are. Are you sure you want to come to the center of the power vortex?"

Lu Mingze dismissed it with disdain: "You said that before I got power, I am now a grasshopper on the same rope with you. The more I know, the safer I am."

Auston shook his head helplessly: "Okay, then I'll tell you, I hope you can keep it a secret for me."

"nonsense……"

"Let me answer the question of whether you are a king or a minister first. This starts with the history of the Nicholas family. The Nicholas family appears to be an 'assistant' in the federal government, but it can actually separate power from the current president. A long time ago, oh , Around the beginning of the establishment of the Star Federation, the ancestor of the Nicholas family—that is, my grandfather’s grandfather—actually had a chance to become the president, but he didn’t want to see a country whose rights were torn apart and insisted on supporting I am a minister. But the previous president was very polite, and in order not to concentrate power too much, in addition to assisting, he also gave the Nicholas family the right to 'supervise'."

Lu Mingze stammered a bit: "Supervise, supervise...supervise the president?!"

Auston smiled and nodded: "The previous presidents can only become president if they are approved by Nicholas' current supervisor. My father just stepped down, and the current supervisor is me."

Lu Mingze frowned and thought for a while: "It's not right. Although this is to decentralize power, who will supervise your family?"

"That's right, the inspectors can be said to have great power, so the inspection of the supervisors needs to be more intensive and strict. According to the president, the incumbent supervisors must be people with outstanding ability, high moral character, and noble sentiments. The citizens of the Commonwealth conduct oversight. When the voices of the people against it outweigh their voices of support, the overseer must step down."

Lu Mingze was dumbfounded when he heard this, it was decided as a joke... Who can make everyone like it?Unless he is RMB.He looked at Auston and didn't speak for a long time, because he suddenly remembered that the person in front of him... seemed to have done it.

Auston smiled and said: "The theory that the earliest president said is not problematic, but he never thought that maybe the person who everyone likes is not a person with high moral character and high sentiment, but a real person. People with high moral character and noble sentiments may be kicked out of power because they are not good at maneuvering and do not know how to manipulate people's hearts."

Lu Mingze pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "Although on the surface, it seems that this is true...but don't forget that there is another point, he requires the supervisor to be 'excellent', and a person with truly outstanding ability should be able to play tricks. People's hearts. Although in a sense, you are indeed not a "pure white" noble person, and even a bit despicable... But I think that in political occasions, it is precisely the existence of "non-pure white" like you that is needed to control Big picture."

There is no complete "pure white" in the world. As long as the bottom line is not crossed, it is not a bad thing for a truly sentimental person to be able to protect himself.

"Oh?"

Alston said happily: "Are you complimenting me? It's the first time you've praised me."

Lu Mingze put his hands behind his head and lay down on the back of the sofa, sighing slowly: "How should I put it... I have seen too many 'clean officials' who don't understand politics, and in the end they couldn't fight the ones who were killed .If they are clean and capable like you, that's what we ordinary people hope for."

Auston glanced at Lu Mingze inexplicably: "You understand this truth, but I don't need to speak more."

Lu Mingze rolled his eyes: "Of course, I'm not a fool."

Alston continued: "The president must be approved by the supervisor in office, so almost all candidates will deliberately close the relationship with the supervisor. But because of this, we are not allowed to meet secretly in private. The prince has a bad character and has a lot of bad deeds on weekdays. He knows that I will not support him to take office, so he wants to threaten me."

Lu Mingze twitched the corner of his mouth: "...how did he threaten you?"

Auston smiled and said: "His bodyguards have arrested me."

"He did the injury on your body?! The attack was too ruthless."

Auston sighed: "That's true. After this experience, I realized again that the eldest prince is really a stupid and vicious person. How could I let such a person resort to violence without even fighting for it? He's on stage."

Lu Mingze also sighed: "That's right, he offended you, how could you support him...are you stupid?"

Auston shook his head again: "You're wrong, I don't support him because he is stupid, not because of how he treats me. I believe that all the presidential candidates want me to die quickly—or in other words, they want the Nicholas family Everyone die quickly. So I don't care about his malice. But the eldest prince is too stupid, a too stupid person, not suitable to be a leader."

"You understand your situation very well..."

Alston nodded: "The eldest prince has actually attacked me. I have military power in my hands and have made military exploits. I earned the title of Marquis by myself, and my father's title is destined to be passed on to me. Brother."

Lu Mingze was in awe of him: "Then how much military merits do you have to make! Wait, isn't military meritorious service the rank of admiral?"

"That's the title of a soldier, but as a nobleman, the president also has a title. He has to buy people's hearts by being nice to me."

Lu Mingze felt weird in his heart. In his previous life, he only heard that a king or a queen could confer such a title, and so could the president?Then the president here is actually no different from the emperor...

Auston seemed a little tired, he leaned back on the sofa: "The prince knows that if you want to eradicate me, you must cut off the weapons in my hands. In the last battle, thousands of elite soldiers under me fought Their mechas all disappeared into the universe, and then I fell into a coma for no reason and was captured by the prince's people. Well... To be honest, as a teacher, I feel very relieved that he can do this. At least let me see that he There's some talent in politics."

"Wait, you're still his teacher?!"

Alston smiled: "I taught them for a while."

"He, they..."

"All princes."

Lu Mingze asked suspiciously: "But since you know that the candidates hate you so much, why do you teach them and cultivate a strong enemy for yourself?"

Auston seemed to have never considered this question. He covered his lips and mused for a long time: "But I don't want to be president. If I don't cultivate a successor, who should I assist? One of them will always become the leader. We will no longer be enemies."

"..." I also don't understand the relationship between you nobles who love and kill each other.

"What's more, I quite enjoyed the process of fighting with these princes."

Alston smiled suddenly: "They want me to die, but they want to bow to me and call me a teacher. It's also very funny, haha."

"..." This person is actually a simple pervert.

Lu Mingze was confused for a long time, and asked: "After you were captured by the eldest prince, what happened?"

Alston sighed: "This is where I am dissatisfied with him. He put me in prison, and then used some extreme criminal laws on me, trying to force me to stand in line."

"Is the sensitizer used then?"

Auston nodded: "His methods have always been simple and rude, without any technical content. He clearly knew that it was useless to me. Later, his think tank suggested discrediting my image from the outside, and wanted to support their own supervisor to take office. , and made up a... anti-social crime."

Lu Mingze listened with relish: "It's not wrong for him to say such things from his own point of view, you are anti-social."

"It's a pity that federal law doesn't have this."

Auston looked at him with a smile, and Lu Mingze couldn't help rolling his eyes—he wanted to hurt him a few words, but he couldn't find a reason, because these heirs really couldn't do anything about him, and Auston was so thick-skinned...

"Later I was rescued, but at that time the eldest prince caught 'space pirates' everywhere and secretly handed over my photo to the police. The police and the army are not a system, they are selected from the local area, so I don’t even know what I look like, so in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I had no choice but to go to Snow Star.”

Lu Mingze felt very strange: "Why don't you show up on the news? If you show up...you will be more popular among ordinary citizens."

Auston was a little melancholy: "A politician can't let his appearance drag down his talent."

Lu Mingze was stunned, jumped up and pinched his neck: "Fuck you! Don't be ashamed!!!" Does this person's talent include being suddenly funny? !

Lu Mingze pinched Oston's neck and crushed him on the ground. The numbness on his body finally got rid of a lot, and he got up panting. Oston lay on the carpet in big characters, lamenting: "What I said It's true, the so-called extremes will reverse, and excessive praise of my appearance will make me fall from the altar of today."

Lu Mingze was also lying on the carpet without moving. He looked at the ceiling and suddenly laughed: "So you are a polished commander now, and this is your real purpose of approaching me?"

"For what purpose?"

"You need people, and I have people in my hands...you need me to help you lead them and reforge the weapons in your hands."

Auston graciously admitted: "In the beginning, it was true..."

Lu Mingze suddenly felt relieved. In fact, compared to the ambiguous relationship, he felt that this kind of mutual use is more sassy. If a person is good to him and he is still useful to that person, there is no need for affection. return.

Lu Mingze was in a daze, when Auston suddenly got up from the ground and lay on top of Lu Mingze: "I just said that at the beginning, it was true. I hope you...don't just think of me as a politician."

Lu Mingze looked into his eyes, the other party seemed to be incapable of answering, Oston was distressed, he was good at playing tricks and manipulating people's hearts, but he didn't know how to make others trust him after he told the complete truth .

— so for the past few decades, he has had to lie, and lie to anyone, and they are more willing to believe his lies.

Auston asked him softly: "Do you still believe it?"

What he said was very vague, but Lu Mingze felt like a blessing in his heart, and suddenly understood what he was talking about.He stared into Auston's eyes for a long time, and pointed directly: "What do you believe in, love?"

Auston didn't speak, and Lu Mingze tilted his head: "Well...isn't it good for us to do this? I need you, and you need me too." Very safe and stable relationship.

Auston was silent for a while, got up from the ground, sat there staring out of the window for a long time, and said to himself in some confusion: "Really, I don't know how to be better, but there is still something between us." There is a long way to go, and there is no need to make a decision so early."

"Hey."

Lu Mingze pointed to the packing bag beside Auston: "Give me the nutrient solution, I'm getting seasick."

Auston did not take the nutrient solution, but took another bag, took out a bottle of pills from it and handed it to him: "The nutrient solution is for you to regulate your body, not to prevent you from seasickness, take seasickness medicine."

"……I will not eat."

Auston smiled and said, "Are you afraid of suffering?"

"I'm not afraid!"

Lu Mingze snatched the medicine bottle from his hand, poured a few pills into his mouth, and swallowed them with difficulty.Then he threw the medicine bottle and a delicate box into Alston's arms.

"This is?"

"For you."

After Lu Mingze finished speaking, he turned his head and was turned to him, folded his hands in front of his chest, and closed his eyes: "Throw it away if you don't like it, I want to sleep, don't disturb me."

Alston opened the box and took out the watch inside, put it on, and said with a smile, "Thank you...I like it very much."