Whether he is a star, a great writer, or a new tech tycoon or a wealthy person, it means that there will be a lot of high-quality girls coming to him, and he doesn't need to worry about the issue of a girlfriend.
Winners in life don’t need girlfriends at all. A large number of women who are willing to be close female friends will do most of the work of a girlfriend.
But... the detective system? The first task is to become a formal police officer
This simply made him collapse.
Because Robert is the local policeman in a small town in the United States, and he is also the Sherf of the town of Shackelford.
Well, it's not like Robert's last name was Sherf.
A sheriff is the sheriff of a small town.
This type of small town police is actually slightly different from the PD in big cities. It is also called a security guard and is a private policeman hired by the townspeople themselves.
As a relative who has lived with Robert for more than ten years, Lu Ke is very clear about the income of small town police.
Robert's annual salary is only 54,000 US dollars, and that's before tax. He is also the sheriff. The lowest annual salary for ordinary police officers in the small town is only 32,000.
Even with Robert's salary, it was still a bit tight to support the family.
Fortunately, Texas' tax burden is among the lowest in the United States, the cost of living is relatively low, and Catherine has a teacher's salary, so Robert and his family do not have to live in difficulty.
Now, this broken system actually wants Lu Ke to be a policeman. Isn't this a scam
Since it's a detective system, why can't he be a private detective
If you do that well, it is possible to earn tens or even millions a year. With the help of a system, you may be able to become a rich man.
But what is the money-making prospect of being a policeman? The top officer of the New York Police Department only makes more than 100,000 dollars a year.
Of course, the real way for senior executives to make money is not salary. After retirement, they will engage in speaking engagements, writing books and lobbying, and can easily earn tens or even hundreds of millions a year. This is allowed by law.
But Lu Ke is only eighteen years old this year, and he will retire in a long time.
Moreover, you are already in your seventies or eighties and are only starting to become rich. What hope is there for you in this life
What’s even more annoying is that Lu Ke almost had a quarrel with Robert over work three days ago.
Because... Robert wanted him to work as a policeman in the small town police station after graduating from high school, but Lu Ke decisively refused.
His goal is to be a rich man.
The system is there, even if it needs to be activated after reaching adulthood, then according to US law, twenty-one years old is absolutely an adult, and can buy alcohol at will, so how can one not be considered an adult!
The best Lu Ke could do is wait another three years.
But he didn't expect that after only three days of waiting, the system was activated and he was required to be a policeman.
This is... what a sin!
Lu Ke shed tears silently in his heart.
He was not in a hurry.
Although Robert is not his father, his relationship with his biological father is not much different.
If he changed his mind and agreed to become a policeman, Robert would at most mock him, but would still help him in the end.
Robert is a traditional Texan who has been a soldier, a rancher, and finally a policeman. He is such a straightforward and rough guy.
With extremely complicated feelings, Lu Ke lay on the hospital bed, thinking about all sorts of things, and fell asleep again unknowingly.
After a long time, I heard a voice calling in my ear: "Luke, get up."
Lu Ke mumbled in a daze: "No, Claire, let me sleep a little longer, the school is closed for the holidays."
The shouting really stopped.
After a moment, a slightly hoarse voice sounded: "Robert, Luke should be fine, but he stayed in bed and I couldn't wake him up. Oh, will you come over later? Well, okay, I still have to go camping with Sally and the others. I will leave in an hour whether you come or not."
Then, there was a constant noise in the room, as if someone was busy with something.
An hour later, a fragrant breeze came, and two warm lips kissed Lu Ke on the cheek: "Luke, wish you a good dream, Robert is coming, I will leave first."
Lu Ke grumbled twice in dissatisfaction, turned over and continued to sleep.
The female voice chuckled a few times and walked out of the ward.
Lu Ke fell into sleep again.
In his dream, he held an RPG in one hand and a Gatling gun with blue flames in the other. He shot arrows with both hands, making countless aliens flee in panic. He laughed triumphantly: "I am a super policeman! Who else~"
Then, he suddenly felt that the whole world was shaking, like a magnitude 10 earthquake, and the houses around him began to tilt and collapse, crashing towards him.
Lu Ke screamed and sat up suddenly.
Bang!
After a muffled sound, Lu Ke fell down again in the ward, dizzy and dazed. Robert withdrew his hands from shaking Lu Ke's shoulders expressionlessly, and touched his forehead which was hurt by the collision: "Very good, it seems that you are very energetic, and you dare to attack the police so early in the morning."
Lu Ke slowly recovered, but he still rubbed his forehead with a grimace, and subconsciously taunted: "Robert, I'm not a criminal, nor am I your subordinate, okay!"
After he finished speaking, he suddenly froze.
It's over. I'm used to arguing with Robert. What should I do now
The first task of the system is to become a formal police officer, and the time limit is one month.
Only Robert could make him a formal policeman in a month, because Robert is the sheriff of the town and also the only sheriff.
If Lu Ke really became a policeman, then Robert would really be his boss.
However, it seemed that because he was now lying in a hospital bed, Robert did not argue with him as he did in the past, but instead asked: "How do you feel?"
Lu Ke: "If you don't count what happened just now, I think I'm fine, just a little hungry."
Robert: "Then I'll go buy you something to eat." Then he turned and was about to go out.
Lu Ke quickly stopped him: "No, I'm fine. Robert, take me home, I want to eat the breakfast made by Catherine."
Robert turned his head: "Are you sure it's okay?"
Lu Ke: "We are not professionals. If I want to leave, I must get the doctor's consent."
Robert thought so too and went out to find a doctor.
The doctor came over and just asked a few questions, then said that Lu Ke didn't have any serious problems and could be discharged from the hospital.
But before leaving, the doctor couldn't help but remind him, "Although there's nothing wrong with your body, you didn't show any signs of concussion when you came in last night."
Lu Ke helplessly held his forehead with his hand. It was indeed a bit painful because it had just collided hard with Robert's big head.
He could only nod helplessly: "I see, doctor. Thank you for your reminder."
A moment later, Lu Ke and Robert got on the F150 and headed towards Shackelford.
After driving for a while, Lu Ke finally couldn't help but speak: "Robert, I want to tell you something."
Robert looked at the road and said casually, "Oh, what's the matter?"
Lu Ke: "Well, after thinking about it for a few days, I think what you said is right."
Robert: "Ah?" He glanced at him sideways with a confused look on his face.
Lu Ke: "So, I decided to stay in town and be a policeman."
Crash!
There was a sound of sand and gravel rolling and rubbing, and the F150 on the road suddenly tilted, rushed off the road and drove into the wasteland on the side of the road.
After a few seconds, the car finally stopped completely.
Fortunately, the roadside here is flat, and the F150 is not afraid of this slightly bumpy wasteland, so there is no danger of the car overturning.
Robert released the brake and looked at Lu Ke in shock: "You... still have a fever?"
Lu Ke rolled his eyes. He had a fever because the system was synchronizing with his brain last night. He didn't have a fever that made him mentally retarded. "No, didn't you hear the doctor reading out the temperature just now?"
Robert: "Then why did you change your mind? Didn't you say that you would rather die than stay here as a policeman? And you also said that being a policeman would only make you poor and eat dirt?"
Lu Ke: "Haha, tell me, who told you to describe the police as if they were paid for nothing."
Robert glared and said, "If you want to be a policeman in Knox City, you will be very busy. Policemen in big cities are even busier. But in our small town, you are a policeman under me. How tiring do you think it is?"
Lu Ke nodded helplessly and admitted defeat: "Okay, I admit that I was wrong on this point, Robert, you are the boss. So I am ready to listen to your advice, right?"
Robert stared at him for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter and slapped him on the shoulder: "Haha, you finally admitted defeat! Luke, remember, you admitted defeat this time."
Lu Ke: "Haha, as long as you are happy, please feel free to do as you please."
Then, the F150 drove back onto the road and sped all the way home, with only Robert's occasional laughter as the only sound on the road.
After arriving home, Lu Ke was too lazy to wait for Robert and walked straight into the house: "Catherine, I'm back."
A little head popped out from the living room: "Hey, Luke, are you well?"
Lu Ke walked over and patted the little head: "Okay. Joseph, what are you doing? Oh, you are in trouble, playing games secretly."
The owner of the little head curled his lips: "Catherine agreed to let me play for an hour. Besides, you are not Claire, you won't complain."
Lu Ke shrugged: "Okay, I won't complain, but you promised Catherine that you have to rest on time."
Joseph was a little dissatisfied, but still nodded: "I know, sir." Then he sat back on the floor and continued to play games in front of the TV.
At this time, Catherine came out of the kitchen and looked at Lu Ke with concern.
Lu Ke walked up to her and hugged her: "I'm fine, but I'm very hungry now. Is breakfast ready, Catherine?"
Catherine was still worried and looked at Robert who had just entered the room.
Robert and she were in sync: "It's okay, I asked the doctor."
Catherine then laughed: "That's good, come quickly, I have prepared breakfast."
Turning her head, she couldn't help but pointed at Lu Ke's face with a smile: "However, while we're having breakfast, I want to know which young nurse you hooked up with again."
Lu Ke was puzzled. Finally, after he walked into the restaurant, he saw from the shiny stainless steel tableware that there seemed to be a bright red spot on his cheek.
He looked at it carefully and found that it was a bright red lipstick mark, and was speechless.
When he came home from the hospital, he met quite a few people, and many of them smiled at him.
He hadn't cared about it before. In a small place like Shackelford, people were friendly to each other. At most, he was a little handsome, so others were willing to smile at him.
Now I understand what everyone would think when he showed up early in the morning with that bright lipstick mark on his cheek
Those eyes clearly mean "It's great to be young."
He did not rush to wipe off the lipstick mark. Instead, he looked at it carefully for a moment and replayed his memories from yesterday to today.
Robert looked at him with a teasing look on his face: "What? Do you remember which nurse it was?"
Lu Ke's expression was subtle: "I seem to remember that Claire and her classmates bought a lipstick a few days ago in order to attend the high school graduation dance."
Robert was a policeman and a sheriff, so he understood the meaning almost instantly.
He looked at the lip print again and immediately frowned: "This crazy girl!"
Lu Ke shrugged, pulled out a tissue, and wiped off the lip print in two or three strokes.
Catherine also brought his breakfast.
However, it only belongs to Lu Ke.
Robert had already eaten before work. He just took advantage of working hours to pick up Lu Ke and take him home. Since the place was small, he might as well just take the opportunity to go out on patrol.
Catherine ate with Joseph. Children have to eat on time and it is impossible for them to wait until now.
Lu Ke took out the heated milk from the microwave, poured it into the cereal, and then said, "Well, I'm going to start eating."
Catherine smiled and nodded: "Well, do you remember the nurse?"
Lu Ke remained calm and collected. Robert, who had already taken a can of Dr. Pepper from the refrigerator, spit out the carbonated drink in his mouth with a chuckle.
Fortunately, he was sitting diagonally opposite Lu Ke, and the drink he sprayed out did not affect breakfast.
Lu Ke picked up his breakfast slowly and started eating a plate of ham, lettuce and toast.
There’s a saying in Texas that everything is bigger in Texas.
For example, the two slices of toast in front of him were twice as thick as ordinary toast, and the cut surface was half as large. The one-centimeter-thick ham slices inside were also very solid. Add two leaves of lettuce and Catherine's own pickled cucumber slices, the aroma of bread, the aroma of meat, and the sweet and sour vegetables, which were very much to Lu Ke's liking.
Even in his previous life, Lu Ke liked to eat hamburgers and toast, and it was not for the sake of convenience, but because he really liked the taste.
Therefore, after living in Texas for eighteen years in his life, Lu Ke was not uncomfortable with it.
Besides, there are many Chinese people living in Texas, especially in Houston and Fort Worth, so it’s not a big deal to ask someone to bring back some Chinese condiments from there occasionally.
When it comes to eating, he and Texas get along very well.
A portion of toast with meat and vegetables weighed nearly a pound, and he finished it in a few bites. He also drank up the warm oatmeal with milk. He patted his stomach contentedly and said, "It feels so good. I was so hungry before I came back."
On the other side, Robert lowered his voice and explained to Catherine the origin of the lipstick mark, which made Catherine laugh.
Hearing Lu Ke's words, she was surprised: "Robert didn't buy you a burger or something first."
Lu Ke: "That thing is not as delicious as what you made, Catherine. I would rather let Robert bring it back for me to eat."