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The changes within the institute did not have a significant impact on Tu Yuan.

Because no matter which deputy director is in charge of the security team, he is always a marginal figure among the team's officers.

It will not change because of a change in leadership.

His only thought right now is to improve his strength.

Zhang Tao's recent job reassignment to Sun Guangrong made him realize that the federal government wanted to maximize the use of the power it granted to individuals.

You still need to have the strength to back it up!

Only with strength can one have confidence.

If Zhang Tao doesn't make a breakthrough, Tu Yuan believes that Zhang Tao wants to take over the work under Sun Guangrong's supervision.

It is absolutely impossible to finalize something based on just one last-minute meeting.

Finally, Tu Yuan discovered that during this power shift within the institute, Yang Yunwei had been reassigned to a border outpost, and Sun Guangrong had been stripped of his authority and left without any troops.

Ironically, it was Zheng Hai, the deputy director who had always been relatively low-profile, who became the ultimate winner.

He wasn't involved in the fight at all from beginning to end.

He quietly coasted along, only to snag a huge bargain at the end.

"This truly proves the old saying, 'When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits!'"

Tu Yuan sighed silently in his heart.

But all of this can only be attributed to Zheng Hai's good fortune.

After all, Zheng Hai was nearly forty years old when he broke through to the Martial Arts Master level, and it is said that his current level is still in the early stage of the first-order Martial Arts Master.

Even if someone with no chance of advancement manages to get a great stroke of luck, they won't incur the hostility of their colleagues.

It's four o'clock.

Tu Yuan then changed into civilian clothes and left the police station directly.

He was lucky; he had been working normally for the past few months without having to take any unexpected leave.

So I didn't encounter any obstacles when I asked for leave this time.

This is thanks to his clean family relationships and social circle.

Besides Ruan Xueqing, Tu Yuan's other normal friend is Guo Xin, his good buddy who has been playing with him since junior high school.

Because Guo Xin failed to get into university after graduating from high school, he entered the workforce and started earning money at a young age.

Ruan Xueqing helped him find a job at a chemical factory.

Being a warehouse supervisor there has decent pay and isn't too tiring.

I often have to work overtime, and occasionally night shifts.

Tu Yuan had dinner with Guo Xin last week.

As for other social relationships, they are the three roommates I met at Dongzhou University.

Only one of them is from Shengyun City, while the other is a native of Donghua Prefecture.

Another hometown is Jingxing City, a third-level city in Donghua Prefecture. Jingxing City is mainly an agricultural city with a population of less than two million.

However, 30 percent of Donghua Prefecture's annual grain production comes from Jingxing City.

Lu Guoqing, Tu Yuan's college roommate who was from the same city as Tu Yuan, now has almost no contact with him.

Tu Yuan only knew that the other party seemed to have also entered the Shengyun City Federal Government.

However, it's unclear which department the other party works in or what their position is.

Tu Yuan didn't ask him directly.

Lu Guoqing's father appears to be an official of the federal government in Shengyun City.

Therefore, he never intended to develop a close relationship with Tu Yuan, an ordinary person with no background.

In college, we only maintained a superficial roommate relationship, chatting and greeting each other occasionally.

Tu Yuan could also sense the sense of superiority that Lu Guoqing showed when facing him.

Therefore, he deliberately kept a certain distance from Lu Guoqing.

In their dormitory, he became closer to Wei Chengbin, who came from Jingxing City.

Lu Guoqing, on the other hand, was closer to Lin Chaozhang, who came from the prefecture.

At 4:35, Tu Yuan took a bus to the Shengyun City Citizen Lottery Center.

At this time, there were very few people coming in and out of the lottery center.

Tu Yuan stepped onto the steps at the entrance and entered the gate.

Facing the main entrance is a reception window, like a bank's, separated by glass.

A large screen hangs on the right side of both sides of the entrance.

The screen displays a scrolling news article featuring interviews with lottery winners who have won big prizes.

On the left wall are two lines of large red characters.

The message is about striving to be a role model of dedication and satisfying federal citizens.

There are three prize redemption windows, but only two of them have staff behind them at the moment, and both staff members are playing on their phones.

On the wall behind the two people, the words "Federal Citizens Lottery" were printed in large letters.

Tu Yuan quickly walked to a prize redemption window to redeem his prize.

The staff member at the window was a woman who looked to be in her late twenties.

Her expression and tone were somewhat impatient, as if it was because Tu Yuan had not chosen to go to the prize redemption window next door, which made her have more work than the other staff member.

However, she still followed the procedure to redeem the prize for Tu Yuan.

Federal lottery winnings exceeding one thousand dollars are subject to taxation, and the lottery tax rate is tiered.

The higher the prize amount, the higher the tax rate, which can be as high as 25% and as low as 5%.

Ten percent of the 20,000 federal dollars bonus amount will be deducted as tax.

So in the end, he only received a prize of 18,000 yuan, and it was only then that Tu Yuan remembered that lottery winnings were subject to tax.

He originally thought he could buy four doses of Azure Dragon No. 6 potion, but now it seems he'll have to add another two thousand himself.

The prize money won't be credited to your account immediately; it needs to go through a process at the lottery center.

The money will arrive in about three days.

However, Tu Yuan didn't want to wait and planned to buy the potion as soon as he got back.

Use the money his mother left behind.

You can deposit the money after the lottery winnings arrive in your account.

Just as Tu Yuan was about to leave, a rather familiar voice suddenly rang out.

"Tu Yuan! What are you doing here?!"

Tu Yuan turned around and looked in the direction of the sound.

He never expected to run into an acquaintance at the lottery center; the person he was talking to was none other than his roommate from Dongzhou University, Lu Guoqing.

Lu Guoqing was wearing a dark jacket, loose black casual pants, and shiny black leather shoes.

At the age of twenty-two or twenty-three, wearing this outfit makes him look much more mature.

Lu Guoqing has a square face with a very prominent jawline.

At this moment, Lu Guoqing was looking Tu Yuan up and down with his small eyes.

Tu Yuan could clearly feel the condescending gaze in Lu Guoqing's eyes.

His expression was calm, with a polite smile playing at the corners of his lips:

"I bought two scratch-off lottery tickets on a whim this morning and won!"

"Lu Guoqing, you've come to the lottery center to claim a prize too?!"

Tu Yuan asked a question in return.

Lu Guoqing waved his hand and smiled:

"What the hell?! I made plans to go out for dinner with a friend tonight, and I drove here to pick her up!"

Hearing Lu Guoqing specifically mention that he had driven, he was impressed.

Tu Yuan wasn't surprised, because he had always thought Lu Guoqing was a pretentious person.

However, Lu Guoqing certainly had the right to pretend.

Not long after graduating from university, I was able to own my own car, even if it was with my parents' help.

That already surpasses more than 95% of their peers.

"Tu Yuan, where are you working now?!"

As Lu Guoqing spoke, he took out a cigarette case from his pocket. The cigarette case had the two large characters "Black Lotus" printed on it and was bright silver in color.

It has a high-end feel just by looking at it.

Black Lotus Group also deals in cigarettes, offering low, medium, and high-end products. The one Lu Guoqing has is called Silver Black Lotus, and a box costs fifty federal dollars.

Moreover, the cigarettes in this world are different from those in Tu Yuan's previous life; they do not contain nicotine, a substance harmful to the human body.

Instead, cigarettes that use a certain stimulating drug as their main ingredient contain a higher concentration of this substance, especially those that are more expensive.

Most ordinary people who smoke cigarettes costing around ten yuan have extremely low levels of this substance, so it has virtually no stimulating effect.

However, this cannot stop people from pursuing the trend of smoking.

Lu Guoqing took out one and handed it to Tu Yuan.

Tu Yuan waved his hand and said:

"I don't smoke! I'm currently at the Zhenghe Police Station in Xingsheng District, and I'm a trainee police officer."