Now Selena's daily expenses are basically in cash, otherwise she and the "little coffers" of gold nuggets will be useless.
Luke specially asked Ginny to distribute a small year-end dividend to the shareholders of the mobile phone company not long ago. The amount was not large, but Selena also received hundreds of thousands of income.
Compared with last year, Selena has more money in her hands, so she naturally chooses to buy some good gifts for her family.
The things she bought last year were not cheap, but they were all normal household items, such as clothing, accessories, wine and home appliances.
This year, the gift she prepared for her father Marino is an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch, which costs just over $20,000, which is not too expensive—because her mother Sandra gave her a diamond necklace, priced at $50,000 about.
But as long as Marino is willing, the watch can be carried on hand at any time, and the diamond necklace is most suitable to be placed in the jewelry box most of the time.
Selena had also heard Sandra joke that she would be grateful to have a diamond necklace worth several thousand dollars in this life.
This year is a new beginning for Hayek's "family", and she decided to let Sandra have a happy Christmas.
Early on the morning of the 22nd, Luke drove Selena, the gold nuggets, and several large boxes of gifts to the plane.
Marino, who has been promoted to a rancher, no longer needs to stay on the ranch all the time as before, so he will pick him up at the Dallas airport, and Selena doesn't have to worry about carrying luggage.
After seeing off Selena, Luke became more relaxed.
Checking the time and it was still early, he called Elena.
This girl will not go back to France for Christmas this year. She said that it is because the air ticket is too expensive, so she decided to work and study in New York.
A smart person like Luke certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to secretly buy her a transoceanic ticket as a Christmas gift, that kind of straight guy deserves to never have a girlfriend for the rest of his life.
He parked the car in a small villa in New Jersey, and then called the car rental company to send a Ford Explorer, before he drove to Elena's school.
Coincidentally, Jelena's school is located in North Bergen.
A few kilometers further north of the school is the textile factory of the Mutual Aid Association.
While driving, Luke was also thinking about the Mutual Aid Club.
During this period, he occasionally went out in ordinary casual clothes at night to the textile factory.
However, he did not infiltrate directly. Instead, he used several micro-drones that stayed inside for fixed-point monitoring to obtain information. After a long period of continuous monitoring, he obtained a large number of activity details of the Mutual Aid Association, and the relevant information in his hands became more and more perfect.
In this world, it is very difficult to keep things completely secret.
If you want to persevere without leaking, it is even more difficult.
The Mutual Aid Association, an organization that has been prosperous for hundreds of years, inevitably has many loopholes.
Even if they are not real antiques, even if they have professionals inspecting the inside and outside of the textile factory almost every day, including the detection of various electronic equipment.
It's a pity that the technological level of their testing instruments is too far from the top products from Tony Stark, and the micro-drone left by Luke has not been found.
Sloan, an old fox, also has a little clue about the source of the raw materials for the medicinal bath.
Not long ago, the rodent exterminator notified Sloan when the finished medicine bath was running out.
After that, Sloan went out once, and when he came back, he handed over the raw materials for the new medicinal bath to the exterminator.
Fortunately, a miniature drone was always watching the medicine room, but if it wasn't for Luke's little snail to help analyze and investigate, it was really possible to miss this little clue.
During the investigation of Sloan's trip, Polyhedron found him.
Sloan, an outdated old guy, used a false identity and did a lot of cover-ups, but was inadvertently ingested by a girl who liked to take selfies, so he was still listed as a highly suspected target by the polyhedron system.
Xiaosnail repeatedly investigated his possible course of action, and more clues proved that this was Sloan himself.
The plane flight he took with a false identity also had a clear destination—Iquitos, Peru.
Luke himself didn't have time to go to Iquitos himself.
He just paid online and found two well-known private detective agencies to investigate Sloan's whereabouts, and by the way, check whether there were any "legends" similar to the medicinal bath's curative effect.
It's just a matter of a little money, and it's best to gain something, and it's not a waste if you don't gain anything.
Once the source of the medicinal bath raw materials is determined, the mutual aid association is basically useless.
At that time, Luke only needed to consider how to take the Mutual Aid Club away in one wave and get as many experience points as possible.
Taking a last look at the north of North Bergen, Luke parked the car outside the gate of Paland Art School, opened the door and got off.
On the side of the main road, a petite figure was stomping around, looking a little shivering.
She had just turned and walked towards the gate when the Ford Explorer was coming, so she didn't notice it.
Luke walked over, picked her up and turned her around: "Aha, look what I caught? A sweet little beauty."
Yi Lianna, who was picked up by him, heard his words before she had time to be surprised, and immediately laughed out loud: "No, I'm just a lost little rabbit."
Luke put her down, led her towards the car with one hand, and patted the snowflakes off her body with the other hand: "Unfortunately, I am not a big bad wolf, but a caring animal protector."
The girl let him clean the snowflakes for herself, and said, "Hey, shouldn't you call yourself a hunter?"
Luke pondered for a few breaths: "But hunters usually carry double-barreled shotguns."
Yi Lianna was stunned for a while, but did not understand the logic of the words, so the two arrived in front of the car.
Stuffing the petite Elena into the co-pilot, closing the door, Luke went back to the driver's seat, got in the car and started to leave.
The air conditioner in the car was very warm. Elena took off her beige linen hat and thick coat, put them in the back seat, and looked at him with a smile: "Are you on vacation?"
Luke shrugged: "Strictly speaking, I should be at work, but no one checked my attendance."
Yi Lianna was curious: "Didn't you just come to NYPD? The boss is so reassuring about you, um, wait, you won't be assigned to sit on the bench, right?"
Luke laughed: "I want to correct your misconceptions. The cold bench is just a cold place, but you have to sit there when you go to work, and you can't leave even if you are bored."
Elena: "Then how can you skip work? Or do you plan to have lunch with me and then go back to work?"
Luke smiled and said, "I won't go to work today, I have a lot of time, and I will take you to see the scenery of New York."
Yi Lianna was happy at first, then thought of something, poohed him, and her face turned a little red.
Well, she's not shy, it's just the heat from the air conditioner.
Not long after, the two drove to Times Square. After parking the car, the two started to play at the "crossroads of the world".