Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei returns from Sekiro

Lu Mingfei led Huiliyi on the path along the river.

The sunrise sunshine shines on the river, casting a warm glow.

The exposed river bed was covered with large and small pebbles. Eriyi squatted down, picked up an opal-colored pebble, held it in both hands and blew gently.

On the road next to me, there were students from Shilan High School passing by with schoolbags on their backs.

When Lu Mingfei was in high school, he took this road to and from school.

In summer evenings, a cool breeze will blow from the river. There are a lot of dandelion grass growing on the ground here. When the dandelion flowers are in bloom, the small umbrella-like dandelion seeds will float back and forth in the direction of the wind.

Sometimes it will float to the tip of your nose, making you itchy and making you sneeze uncontrollably.

Lu Mingfei looked at the figures running toward school and recalled his youth.

People just like to look back on the past,

But after a while, he felt like there was nothing to remember. When he thought of high school, he could only think of Internet cafes and Chen Wenwen. Those were all in the past tense.

He shook his head, picked a dandelion on the roadside, and brought it to Eri Yi.

They came here because Eriki said she wanted to know what Sakura's life was like before, so Lu Mingfei walked with her on the road she had walked before and visited her hometown.

"That's my high school over there." Lu Mingfei pointed to the red-brick and white-walled teaching building.

The bell rings for the first period in the morning and can be heard outside the school.

Eriki put the pebbles in her pocket and took the dandelion.

She looked at the tallest teaching building of Shilan High School from a distance. There were several homing pigeons standing on the roof, preening their feathers with their beaks.

Birds have wings and are free to fly wherever they want.

The thing she lacked most in the first half of her life was freedom, so she liked birds with freedom very much.

At this time, a breeze blew by and scattered the dandelion seeds in her hand.

She stood there and watched the dandelion seeds float away without reaching out to catch them. After the wind stopped, there was only a bare straw in her hand, but she still preciously put it away and covered it with paper. Fold it and put it in the purse.

Lu Mingfei thinks that Hui Liyi can be quite artistic sometimes. This may be the nature of girls. Compared with boys, they have much richer emotions.

Two people strolled along the path by the river, walking slowly.

Eliyi held Lu Mingfei's hand. She couldn't speak, so Lu Mingfei always did the talking.

As Lu Mingfei walked, he told her what had happened before.

He said that he once saw a buddy riding a bicycle and accidentally rode it into the river and turned into a drowned rat. He also said that he would come here to play alone in the summer. When the river dries up, he can find the big rocks by moving them away. A crab walking sideways.

Eriki listened quietly, and the two walked across the street and sat on a bench by the roadside.

Eriyi took a pen and drew on a small book. Simple lines outlined squares, which were houses. The curved waves represented the river, as well as pigeons, cars, and dandelions.

Her paintings look like a child's doodles, greedy to fit everything in.

"Wiliyi likes to draw?" Lu Mingfei came over to take a look.

"I like it," Huiliyi wrote, "It's fun to draw."

Her painting skills are not good. If she showed it to others, she would probably be laughed at, but what does it matter? It's not like she painted it for anyone else.

They walked like this for a while, stopped for a while, and Hui Liyi drew three or four pictures in the notebook.

Gradually, the sun rose above the head.

Lu Mingfei took Hui Liyi to the community where his uncle and aunt lived.

This morning, he called his uncle and said that he would bring Eri as a guest at noon.

Lu Mingfei took out the scratched old key from his pocket and went upstairs with ease.

Under the shade of the trees, tiny bits of sunlight shone in through the gaps in the stairwell, falling on the ground like tiny bits of gold.

White sheets were hung out to dry at the end of the corridor, and the aroma of oil wafted into the nose. Every household was cooking, and the smell of fireworks from ordinary people's homes was everywhere.

Coming back here, it's like nothing has changed.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, inserted the key into the keyhole, and opened the door.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard the sound of oil exploding. In the kitchen, my aunt was wearing an apron and was busy cooking.

In this family, she is the head chef and takes care of all three meals a day.

Lu Mingfei could only help his aunt, doing tasks such as peeling garlic and green beans.

Of course, he also does the dishes, and the apron must be worn on him at least half the time.

The uncle was sitting on the sofa watching TV. A blind date show was playing on the screen. There were a large number of female guests sitting on the stage. It was the time to turn off the lights. There were several beeps in a row, and the dozens of lights on the stage suddenly became brighter. Only seven or eight lamps were destroyed.

My uncle loves to watch this kind of dating show. It seems that all uncles in their thirties and forties like this.

The little fat boy was sitting next to his uncle. Hearing the sound of the door opening, his whole body trembled.

"Mingfei, you are here." The uncle saw Lu Mingfei's face and patted the cushion beside him, "Come, sit down quickly, your aunt has cooked several hard dishes, including braised pork and old duck. Soup, she has been busy all morning."

"Sit down, the meal will be ready soon." Aunt also wiped the sweat on her forehead and politely called Lu Mingfei and the others to sit down.

This was the first time Lu Mingfei had been treated like this. In the past, when he came back, his aunt would always shout: "Lu Mingfei, hurry up and get the pork hanging in the refrigerator. Also, peel the garlic, and then go I bought two packs of soy sauce from the supermarket and helped out when I got home! I don’t even have to do any work, but I really want to go out to restaurants every day!”

In short, she sent him to do this and that. Auntie was never polite in ordering Lu Mingfei.

"Brother, sister-in-law." The little chubby brother called out politely, then retracted his head and kept looking at the TV.

"Yes." Lu Mingfei agreed, feeling deeply that he had become a guest.

"I have packed all your things for you." Uncle pointed to the suitcase in the corner, "You have lived in our house for seven or eight years. You thought you had a lot of stuff, but in the end you only found some old clothes in the closet. , and the textbooks you used to have when you were studying. The clothes are all packed in it, and the textbooks are packed in them. You said you didn’t want them, so I didn’t pack them. I’m going to wait for Narusawa to free up the books from the school and sell them together.”

"Sorry to trouble you, uncle." Lu Mingfei pulled Eli Yi to sit on the sofa.

"We are all one family." Uncle patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder.

In this family, it seems that the only person whose attitude has not changed is my uncle.

"Actually, your aunt originally planned to invite you to an Italian restaurant for dinner. She was afraid that the food she cooked would not suit our wife's taste."

"When I come back, I must eat hometown food." Lu Mingfei smiled: "I've been eating for seven or eight years and still don't know if my aunt's cooking is good? I brought Eli Yi back just to taste hometown food."

Going to a restaurant to eat, no matter how exquisite the food is, doesn't feel like home, let alone an Italian restaurant. Lu Mingfei really didn't want to eat Western food, he just wanted to eat Chinese food.

"I think so too." My uncle also agreed: "When I was studying in Nanjing, what I looked forward to most was the holidays. When I came back during the holidays, I would take the train back and go straight to the snack street without even saluting."

"Who doesn't? When I'm in the United States, I miss my aunt's cooking every day."

"If you want to eat it, just call anytime and I'll ask your aunt to prepare it immediately."

The two chatted for a while and talked about home affairs.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the balcony.

Green bean seedlings were drying in the sun on the balcony, orange peels were spread on the wooden sieve, garlic seedlings and onion seedlings were planted in small flower pots, and undried clothes were hung on the hanging bamboo poles.

It's still the same as before, not much has changed.

Only when he returns here can he feel the breath of life.

He has stayed in villas, mansions, and high-end hotels. He has experienced a lot of high-end services. The quilts are folded squarely for you, the sheets are changed for you every day, the floors are spotless, and they are swept clean. Shake when you are hungry. When you ring the bell, there will be a waiter pushing a trolley to bring you steak and red wine, and after finishing the meal, you will be presented with a put together fruit plate. Even when you go to the bathroom, there is ready hot water in the bathtub, and fresh rose petals are sprinkled on it.

It's really nice to live in that kind of place, there are people serving you, but it always feels a little less human.

After a while, aunt brought the dishes to the table.

There are more than a dozen dishes on the table, including steamed pork vermicelli, braised pork, old duck and sour radish soup, stir-fried pork with garlic, stir-fried green beans, tomato and egg soup, and cold pork head.

Most of them are made by my aunt, and some cold dishes are bought on the street. They all have the same taste as they have been eating for more than ten years.

"Eat, eat." Uncle came to the table.

There were serving chopsticks on the table, and they all used them to pick up food.

"There are not many relatives in our family. After your grandfather died, your father and I were the only brothers." The uncle said while drinking: "There are not many people in your aunt's family. We have already informed the work unit. I didn’t tell the people there, and I only informed the neighbors who were close to me. The date is set for the end of the month. I heard from people there that the location was only decided in the past two days. It seems that they are planning to book a high-end restaurant. If you have classmates or If you want to invite friends with whom you are close, please call in advance so we can count the number of people."

"I'll tell my father-in-law in two days." Lu Mingfei did the math and found that he really had a lot of people to send invitations to.

Fingel, Chu Zihang, Caesar, Susie, Nono, Professor Manns and Professor Guderian, Old Tang and Constantine, Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji

Doing some calculations, there are two tables of people, and I have to ask who can't come.

In two days, I still have to go try on wedding dresses with Hui Liyi and rehearse the process.

I don’t know how busy Old Tang and Constantine are over there, or whether they have found the Dragon King.

Old Tang said that he could use alchemy to deduce the location of the Dragon King, but he had to set up a Feng Shui array, wait for the weather, and watch the stars at night.

It sounds mysterious, like a fortune teller.

Lu Mingfei didn't understand the principle, but thinking about it, Old Tang, as the Dragon King and also known as the King of Alchemy, should be reliable.

Old Tang didn't have a body before, and the outside looked like a thermal image. He could only see a general outline. Now that he has a body, he can do many things that he couldn't do before.

Lu Mingfei didn't intend to sit idle and let Old Tang be busy alone.

Didn't Chu Zihang meet Odin? He planned to go to the place where Odin once appeared with Chu Zihang.

Chu Zihang drove the Panamera and drove wildly on the highway.

The sun shines on the reflector, which is a bit dazzling.

He originally wanted to go out earlier, but his mother and Aunt Anne didn't get up until after 9 o'clock. After getting up, they pulled him and refused to let him go.

Aunt Anne actually brought over the photo of her eldest daughter and showed it to Chu Zihang.

According to my mother, this was a decision they made after discussing it until 12 midnight last night.

Yes, Su Xiaoyan arranged a face-to-face blind date for Chu Zihang.

The day was set for Saturday, because Aunt Anne's eldest daughter was still in high school and had a holiday on Saturday. Today was already Thursday, which meant that he had less than two days of buffer time left to figure out how to make this blind date a success. fail.

It will definitely not work if he acts too obviously, because his mother will go with him, and they will go to Aunt Anne's house for dinner. If he acts too indifferent, his mother will definitely be unhappy. At least he must have the proper etiquette, and he cannot be like before. Refuse with a straight face.

Chu Zihang had a headache about this matter.

His mother gave him an ultimatum.

"Either you bring one back, or you go with me to Aunt Anne's house on Saturday."

Chu Zihang couldn't resist his mother's decision, so he had no choice but to agree.

During lunch, his mother persuaded him earnestly in his ear.

He felt like there was a golden hoop on his head. As soon as his mother spoke, the golden hoop began to tighten and tighten around his forehead.

After he persuaded her, his mother let him go out.

However, although he felt a little depressed, he did not drive the Ferrari on the highway just to vent his emotions by racing.

This was the address where he met Odin for the first and only time.

On that dark rainy night, he, his father, and the man who loved braised intestines sat in the Maybach compartment, passed through the rain, and entered Odin's Nibelungen.

Dad disappeared, along with the Maybach. It was reported on the news that the remains of the car and Dad's body were not found.

Chu Zihang still had a ten thousandth hope in his heart, what if that man didn't die?

He knew that the possibility of this expectation coming true was less than one in a billion, but he still wanted to believe that he would not give up this unattainable expectation until he found Odin and found the truth.

Just as he was racing on this highway that he had walked back and forth a thousand times, just hoping to break into Odin's Nibelungen again.

But the fact is that he has visited this road countless times over the years and has never seen Odin again. He once spent three years walking through every piece of land in the city, but even the smell of Odin's horse was gone. Never smelled it.

It seemed to be just a dream, and the only thing that disappeared in the dream was that man.

Only I remember that the man disappeared. To this world, whether that man exists or not, it still remains the same.

Chu Zihang wore sunglasses and looked at the blazing sun in the sky, and stepped on the accelerator to death.

He agreed to meet Lu Mingfei here tonight, hoping to discover something more.

Even if he didn't find out, Chu Zihang could still ask Lu Mingfei for the secret of becoming stronger.

There is no loss after all.

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