After all, his men hadn’t been fully dealt with yet, so having his wife and baby on this wasteland planet was actually safer.
Su Yue paused for a moment.
“All right,” she replied.
With a foundation of cooperation (or so Su Yue thought), the atmosphere between them lightened considerably.
Su Yue began tentatively asking about Di Kun’s family.
She guessed that the reason Di Kun valued her and the child so much—well, mainly the child—was probably connected to his family.
Perhaps he suffered from infertility? Or maybe he urgently needed an heir for the family.
Di Kun gave Su Yue a faint smile.
“My father and mother are well, along with my older brother and younger sister. But my older brother is from my father’s previous marriage.”
Su Yue thought to herself: So now he wants to compete with his brother for the family inheritance, and urgently needs a child to strengthen his position?
“They’re all easy to get along with. When you meet them, you’ll like them,” Di Kun added.
Su Yue glanced at him and said, “Mm.”
“Oh, earlier you said you’d stay here with me until the confinement period is over?” Su Yue asked again.
Di Kun smiled gently and nodded.
This time, he had taken all his accumulated leave from the past ten years at once, just to take care of his wife and child.
“So… how much money did you bring?” Su Yue asked.
Di Kun’s smile froze instantly.
Money?
Su Yue’s smile disappeared.
“No way… you didn’t bring any?!”
Di Kun looked embarrassed.
“My light-brain is temporarily unavailable.”
It wasn’t that it couldn’t be used; many functions inside the light-brain were restricted, including access to his account.
After all, he had just been ambushed and had detoured to hide on DQ008.
If her brother’s men found out he was alive and hiding on DQ008, all his efforts would have been wasted.
Su Yue’s expression darkened immediately.
“So you expect free room and board?” she asked displeased.
Di Kun felt embarrassed—he hadn’t expected his wife to complain about him being too poor.
“I… can help you sell juice,” he offered.
Su Yue’s expression changed.
Sure enough, this guy had been watching her all along.
“You can also help with picking oranges and such. You haven’t finished harvesting that tree yet, right?” Di Kun continued.
Although he didn’t understand how his wife turned poisonous fruit into safe fruit, it didn’t stop him from wanting to help.
She was pregnant—she shouldn’t overexert herself.
Su Yue: —
Indeed, her secret had already been discovered.
At this point, Su Yue had no choice but to keep Di Kun around.
After talking, the two left the room, and Su Yue began assigning tasks.
She had Di Kun help Su Yi process sugarcane.
Su Yue went to the kitchen to cook.
Seeing this, Di Kun requested deer meat.
Su Yue told him he wasn’t getting any.
“Big brother, why does Yueyue swear?” Di Kun asked Su Yi after a while.
Before coming to DQ008, he would watch videos of his wife from the drone whenever he had free time.
In the videos, she looked sunny and pretty—he couldn’t look away.
Each time, he watched for a while, and even after finishing, he felt reluctant to stop.
Before, he had never seen her swear.
Still, even swearing, she looked cute.
Su Yi glanced at Di Kun.
“Our place is too small. We can’t fit that elk in here,” he said.
Hadn’t they seen how cramped it was where they processed sugarcane?
Di Kun immediately understood.
“Big brother’s right. Next time we kill a star beast, I’ll cut it into pieces before giving it to Yueyue.”
“Mm,” Su Yi replied, thinking how impressive his brother-in-law was and feeling a little envious—maybe they’d have meat to eat more often.
In the living room, the two men worked and chatted, quickly becoming familiar with each other.
In the kitchen, Su Yue cooked while listening to their conversation.
As her brother had said, she couldn’t make deer meat today, so she made a meat dish with eggs.
The vegetable dishes were wild greens and potatoes.
The rice was simple—just cook a full pot in the rice cooker.
Di Kun’s mental power was higher than her brother’s, and he had just piloted a mech, so he would eat a lot.
Sure enough, at mealtime, Di Kun turned into a big eater, eating even more than Su Yi.
Su Yue frowned and decided that when they went to sell juice later, Di Kun would have to work harder.
After eating, Su Yue cleaned the kitchen and took the two men out to earn money.
At the commercial street, Su Yue assigned Di Kun a total of one hundred cups of orange juice and sugarcane juice.
With his mech necklace, Di Kun could store some extra juice without issue.
Besides giving juice, Su Yue also gave him the payment QR code she had used on Su Yi before.
Since Di Kun’s light-brain couldn’t be used, he could use her code to collect money.
And Su Yue, as before, worked alongside her brother.
With her brother there, and the intimidating fake mech necklace around his neck, ordinary people wouldn’t dare cause trouble.
They split tasks, and Su Yue led Su Yi to move out.
Su Yue thought that although Di Kun had no money, he was a useful worker.
If she could make good use of him, having another person in the household wouldn’t be a loss.
In fact… it might even make a profit.
With that in mind, Su Yue quickly completed the first order.
Soon after, the second order.
Half an hour later, Su Yue noticed that besides her own earnings, none of the extra money had been received.
This meant Di Kun hadn’t sold a single cup of juice.
Realizing this, Su Yue was furious.
“Let’s go! Let’s see what that guy is up to!” she shouted, heading toward where she had separated from Di Kun.
Su Yi hurried to follow.
After a few steps, Su Yue’s wrist emitted a sound.
“Your StarCoin account has received 2,500 StarCoins.”
Su Yue was startled.
She stopped, opened her light-brain, and checked her account—sure enough, 2,500 StarCoins had been deposited.
She immediately grinned widely.
2,500 StarCoins—a huge sum!
Di Kun that kid! Not bad!
Did he just land a big client?!
“Yueyue—” Su Yi, seeing his sister go from angry to overjoyed, was bewildered.
Su Yue put away the light-brain.
“It’s fine, big brother. Let’s keep selling juice.” She resumed calling out to customers.
Su Yi patted his head and followed his sister.
Elsewhere, Di Kun left a small amusement park, satisfied.
He had just delivered fifty-four cups of juice to the owner—fifty sold, four given as gifts.
With this one order, he had already completed half of his wife’s assigned task.
He sat on an outdoor bench, pulled out his light-brain, and called his quartermaster, Tao Fu.
The amusement park had been introduced by Tao Fu, a distant relative of his.