The relationship between Lu Wu and his family greatly improved after the day Lu Haikong got drunk.
From that day on, Lu Wu formally and genuinely began trying to accept this family, truly seeing himself as a part of it.
However, despite this, Lu Wu did not accept the two cards that Lu Haikong took out that day.
Uh, or rather, he didn't take both of them.
The one worth 500,000 yuan, Lu Wu handed back to Li Ruyu in person.
Even though Lu Wu really wanted that 500,000, he still couldn't get past his inner hurdle.
Besides, Lu Wu also knew it hadn't been easy for his dad. Lu Wu couldn't touch the money that his dad had worked so hard to save up, which was meant for buying a house.
But Lu Wu did accept the more than ten thousand yuan of private money.
There was no choice, after all, Lu Haikong ate more than 500 yuan worth of barbecue at his place. If Lu Wu didn't take this money, Little Skeleton's advanced training rhythm would be disrupted, so he reluctantly took the private money.
Of course, Lu Wu was not the type to take that money without saying anything.
When he returned the 500,000 yuan, he very solemnly explained the situation to Li Ruyu.
When Li Ruyu heard that Lu Wu had taken more than ten thousand yuan of Lu Haikong's private money, her expression was a bit unnatural. Of course, compared to the expression of Lu Haikong, who happened to pass by and hear the matter, Li Ruyu's face seemed quite natural.
At the time, Lu Wu was in a hurry to go to work and didn't notice these things. After explaining and getting Li Ruyu's consent, he went to work.
That night, when he got home from work, he found his keyboard had been replaced with a new one.
He told Li Ruyu then that there was no need to replace it, his old one was still quite good.
For some reason, when Lu Wu said this, his dad's gaze became fiercer, like a hungry wolf.
But after being stepped on by Li Ruyu, he immediately turned into an Er Ha.
Lu Wu especially loved this kind of interaction between his parents; it felt particularly full of love.
It must be said that although Lu Haikong was not very reliable, he seemed to have a special charm.
Since he returned home, the whole house was filled with a warm atmosphere that Lu Wu particularly liked.
Of course, what Lu Wu liked even more, what made him happiest, was his dad's more than ten thousand yuan of private money.
With this private money, Lu Wu's financial situation suddenly improved significantly.
At least, he no longer needed to worry about the materials for "Little Skeleton's Training Manual 2.0," and he didn't need to find part-time jobs anymore.
This way, Lu Wu could use his evening time better.
Coming from an ordinary family, Lu Wu wanted to use the summer to help Little Skeleton catch up with others' paces. He could only rely on his own efforts.
Now, there were not many directions Lu Wu could focus his efforts on.
Although his senior already brought him the key textbooks from the special class.
Lu Wu now had some methods to train Little Skeleton's mastered skills, but due to Little Skeleton's quality, these methods were temporarily unusable for Lu Wu.
No choice, this little guy was too fragile. If Lu Wu trained it according to those methods, it would fall apart in no time.
So, as long as Little Skeleton's quality improved, Lu Wu had two directions to work on.
One was accumulating knowledge about Summoned Beast Cultivation, and the other was enhancing the intimacy with Little Skeleton.
For the former, Lu Wu focused on two aspects, one was doing practice questions in the shop, and the other was reading books at the library.
Yes, going to the library to read!
Although Lu Wu couldn't go to the school library, there was no way Quan City only had one library.
Without having to worry about money, Lu Wu could go to Quan City Library to read books in the evening.
Speaking of which, Lu Wu went with Pang Duddu.
But Lu Wu seriously doubted that after spending half a month going to the library with him, this girl hadn't really read even one book.
She spent her time either secretly watching him or playing with the pigs and sleeping.
Seeing the carefree and unmotivated Pang Duddu, Lu Wu could only shake his head.
Of course, shaking his head was just shaking his head.
Sometimes Lu Wu was especially envious of Pang Duddu's good luck.
Pang Duddu had someone like him as a childhood friend, so even if she was carefree and unmotivated, he could still pull her up.
Lu Wu did not have such good fortune.
Without a miraculous childhood friend and unwilling to rely on his plain looks to get by, he could only work hard to make a breakthrough and then bring that girl along to fly together.
What made Lu Wu most jealous was not Pang Duddu having him as a childhood friend.
What made Lu Wu most envious was how easily Pang Duddu nurtured the intimacy with her pig daughter.
Look at how effortlessly their intimacy grew.
Eating, drinking, and sleeping, their intimacy naturally increased. In almost a month, the skill awakening of Pang Duddu's pig was close to one hundred percent.
In contrast, on Lu Wu's side.
He spent the entire summer month trying every method to nurture intimacy with Little Skeleton.
But it seemed to have no effect.
In desperation, he even tried a method he had been unwilling to try before.
After a whole night, Lu Wu successfully ended up with dark circles under his eyes, while Little Skeleton? It remained its dull and emotionless self.
Lu Wu was so angry!
He nearly dismantled the skeleton on the spot.
However, although Lu Wu hadn't made any progress in nurturing intimacy, his summer month hadn't been wasted.
The current Little Skeleton had successfully undergone four rounds of Bone Boiling.
After four rounds, costing Lu Wu 5200 yuan, Little Skeleton had indeed changed compared to a month ago.
It grew ten centimeters taller, now nearly one meter fifty.
Its overall quality also saw significant improvements. In terms of speed and strength, it was almost catching up to Lu Wu. Now, only one more Bone Boiling was needed for Little Skeleton's quality to make a significant leap.
But for Little Skeleton's fifth Bone Boiling, Lu Wu did not plan to use the "Little Skeleton's Training Manual 2.0" version.
Over the past month, thanks to all the reading and practice questions, Lu Wu's knowledge had greatly increased.
And this improvement directly reflected in the enhancement plan for Little Skeleton.
Now Lu Wu had upgraded the "Little Skeleton's Training Manual 2.0" to a new version, 3.0.
This version was more effective than 2.0 and more suitable for Little Skeleton, which had undergone four rounds of Bone Boiling.
Lu Wu was very confident that as long as he used the 3.0 version for the fifth Bone Boiling, Little Skeleton's quality would definitely reach a new level, perhaps even reaching the Black Iron level.
The only issue was that the 3.0 version was more costly than the 2.0 version, and initial estimates showed Lu Wu would need at least 50,000 yuan for this Bone Boiling.
But no problem, Lu Wu had already found a fool to cover this expense for him.