Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 304 Hometown
Lu Mingfei led Huiliyi on the path along the river.

The rising sun shines on the river, casting a layer of warm brilliance.

The exposed river bed was covered with large and small pebbles, Eliyi squatted down, picked up a piece of white pebble, held it in both hands and blew gently.

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

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

In the evening of summer, there will be a cool breeze blowing from the river, and there are many dandelion grasses growing on the ground here. When the dandelion flowers are in full bloom, the dandelion seeds like small umbrellas will float back and forth along the direction of the wind.

Sometimes it floats to the tip of your nose, making you itchy and sneezing.

Lu Mingfei looked at the backs of those running towards the school, and recalled his youth.

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

He shook his head, picked a dandelion on the side of the road, and brought it in front of Erika.

They came here because Erika said that she wanted to know what Sakura's life was like before, so Lu Mingfei accompanied her to walk the road she had traveled, and visited her hometown by the way.

"Over there is my high school." Lu Mingfei pointed to the teaching building with red bricks and white walls.

The bell for the first period of the morning rang and could be heard outside the school.

Erika put the pebble in her pocket and took the dandelion.

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

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

What she lacked the most in the first half of her life was freedom, so she likes a free bird very much.

At this time, a gust of wind blew away the dandelion seeds in her hand.

She stood still and watched the dandelion seeds drift away without reaching out to grab them. After the wind stopped, there was only a bare straw left in her hand, but she still put it away preciously and used paper Folded and put in the purse.

Lu Mingfei thinks that Erika is sometimes very artistic, maybe this is the nature of girls. Compared with boys, their emotions are much richer.

The two strolled along the path by the river, walking slowly.

Eriyi held Lu Mingfei's hand, she couldn't speak, so Lu Mingfei was always talking.

Lu Mingfei told her what happened here before as he walked.

He said that he once saw a buddy riding a bicycle and accidentally rode into the river and became a drowned chicken. He also said that he would come to play alone in summer. A crab that walks sideways.

Erika listened quietly, and the two walked across the street and sat on a bench by the side of the road.

Erika draws on a small notebook with a pen, simple lines, outlining squares, which are houses, and curved waves representing small rivers, pigeons, cars, and dandelions
Her drawings look like children's scribbles, greedy to fit everything in.

"Does Eliyi like to draw?" Lu Mingfei leaned over to have a look.

"I like it." Erika wrote, "Drawing is very fun."

Her drawing skills are not good. If she shows it to others, she will probably be laughed at, but what does it matter?She didn't draw it for others.

They were like this, walking for a while, stopping for a while, and Erika drew three or four pictures in the notebook.

Gradually, the sun rose overhead.

Lu Mingfei brought Erika to the community where his uncle and aunt lived.

This morning, he called his uncle and said that he would bring Erika over for a visit at noon.

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

Under the shade of the trees, fine sunlight shone in from the cracks in the stairwell, falling on the ground like flakes of gold.

At the end of the aisle there are white sheets to dry, the smell of oil wafts into the nose, every household is cooking on fire, and the smell of fireworks of ordinary people is everywhere.

Back here, it's like nothing has changed.

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

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

In this family, she is the chef in charge, and she arranges three meals a day.

Lu Mingfei could only help his aunt, doing things like peeling garlic and green beans.

Of course, he was also doing the dishes, so the apron had to be worn on him at least half of the time.

Uncle was sitting on the sofa watching TV, a blind date show was playing on the screen, and there were a large number of female guests sitting on the stage. Now it was the time to turn off the lights, and there were several beeps, and dozens of lights on the stage suddenly turned on. Only seven or eight lamps were destroyed.

My uncle likes to watch this kind of blind date show. It seems that uncles in their 40s and [-]s like it.

The little fat boy sat next to his uncle, and when he heard the sound of the door opening, his whole body trembled.

"Mingfei, you're here." Seeing Lu Mingfei's face, the uncle patted the cushion beside him, "Come on, sit down quickly, your aunt has cooked several hard dishes, it's braised pork, and old duck Tang, she's been busy all morning."

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

It was the first time for Lu Mingfei to be treated like this. In the past, when he came back, his aunt would yell: "Lu Mingfei, hurry up and get the pork hanging from the refrigerator, and also, go and peel the garlic. Buy two packs of soy sauce at the supermarket, and help out when you come back! You don’t have to work, and you really want to eat out every day!"

In short, she sent him to do this and that, and my aunt was never polite about ordering Lu Mingfei.

"Brother, sister-in-law." The little fat boy also called out politely, then retracted his head and kept his eyes on the TV.

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

"I 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, and you thought you had a lot of things, but in the end you only found some old clothes in the closet , and the textbooks you used to read when you were studying. The clothes are all packed inside, and the textbooks, I didn’t pack them when you said you didn’t want them, and I’m going to wait for Narusawa to get the books from the school and sell them together.”

"I'm sorry for the trouble, uncle." Lu Mingfei sat on the sofa holding Eri Yi.

"It's all one family." The uncle patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder.

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

"Actually, your aunt originally planned to invite you to an Italian restaurant, that is, that restaurant a or something. She was afraid that the food she cooked would not suit our daughter-in-law's appetite."

"When I come back, I must eat my hometown food." Lu Mingfei smiled: "I have eaten it for seven or eight years, but I still don't know if my aunt's cooking is good? I brought back Eliyi just to taste my hometown food."

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

"I think so too." Uncle agreed: "When I was studying in Nanjing in the past, what I looked forward to the most was the holiday. Once the holiday was over, I came back by train without saluting, so I had to go straight to the snack street."

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

"Call anytime you want to eat, and I'll ask your aunt to prepare it right away."

The two chatted a few words and chatted about homework.

Lu Mingfei glanced at the balcony.

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

It's still the same as before, nothing has changed.

Only after returning here can he experience the breath of life.

He has lived in villas, mansions, and high-end hotels. He has experienced a lot of high-end services. The quilts are folded squarely for you, and the sheets are changed for you every day. The floors are spotless and clean. Shake it when you are hungry Bell, there is a waiter pushing a small trolley to deliver steak and red wine, and a fruit plate that has been put together after eating. Even in the bathroom, there is ready-made hot water in the bathtub, and fresh rose petals are sprinkled.

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

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

There are more than a dozen dishes on the table, such as steamed pork, braised pork, old duck and sour radish soup, stir-fried pork with garlic, dry-stir-fried green beans, tomato and egg soup, cold pork head meat
Most of them are made by my aunt herself, and some cold dishes are bought on the street, and they all taste like they have been eaten for more than ten years.

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

There are serving chopsticks on the table, and they all use serving chopsticks to pick up vegetables.

"There are no relatives in our house. After your grandfather died, only your father and I are brothers." While drinking, the uncle said, "There are not many people on your aunt's side. We have notified them all. I didn’t say anything about the people in the neighborhood. The neighbors in the neighborhood only notified those who have a better relationship. If you want to invite friends with a better relationship, you should call in advance so that we can count the number of people."

"After two days, I'll tell my father-in-law myself." Lu Mingfei figured it out, he really has a lot of people who want to send invitations.

Finger, Chu Zihang, Caesar, Susie, Nuonuo, Professor Mance and Professor Guderian, Old Tang and Constantine, Ye Sheng and Jiu Deyaji
Calculated scatteredly, there are two tables of people, and I have to ask who can't come.

In two days, I have to try on the wedding dress with Eriyi and rehearse the process.

I don't know how old Tang and Constantine are doing, 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 Fengshui array, wait for the time of day, and watch the stars at night.

It sounds mysterious, like a fortune teller.

Lu Mingfei didn't understand the principle behind it either, but thinking about it, as the Dragon King, Old Tang was also known as the king of alchemy, so it should be reliable.

Old Tang didn't have a body before, and the outside looked like a thermal image, and 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 be idle and let Old Tang do it alone.

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

Chu Zihang drove the Panamera on the highway.

The sunlight shone on the reflector, which was a little dazzling.

He 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 Annie actually showed Chu Zihang a photo of her eldest daughter.

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

Be too obvious, definitely not, because mother will go with him, they go to Aunt Anne's house for dinner, if he behaves too indifferent, mother will definitely be unhappy, at least the proper manners must be done, not like before, He refused with a straight face.

Chu Zihang was very troubled by this matter.

Mom gave him an ultimatum.

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

Chu Zihang couldn't resist his mother's decision, so he could only bite the bullet and agree.

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

He felt like he was wearing a golden hoop on his head. As soon as his mother spoke, the golden hoop began to tighten, holding his forehead hard.

He talked badly, and his mother let him go out.

However, although he was a little depressed, he didn't drive a Ferrari to the highway just to vent his emotions by drag racing.

This is the address where he first and only met Odin.

On that dark rainy night, he, his father, and the man who loves to eat marinated intestines sat in the Maybach carriage, passed through the rain curtain, and entered Odin's Nibelungen.

Dad disappeared, along with the Maybach, it was reported in the news, no remains of the car and no body of Dad was 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 like he is racing on this high-speed road that has traveled back and forth thousands of times, only hoping to break into Odin's Nibelungen again.

But the fact is that for so many years, he has visited this road countless times, but he has never seen Odin again. He spent three years walking every piece of land in this city, but even the smell on Odin's horse was not enough. Never smelled it.

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

Only I remember that the man has disappeared. For this world, whether the man exists or not is still the same.

Chu Zihang looked at the scorching sun wearing sunglasses, and stepped on the gas pedal to death.

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

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

After all, there is no loss.

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