Dragon Clan: No one wants me, Lu Mingfei.

Chapter 475 A future without Old Xiatou is not the future I want
"Lu Mingfei, what time is it and you're still sleeping in?!"

"A box of discounted bagged milk, half a pound of Guangdong sausage, and the latest issue of YiLin. Come back quickly after you buy them and pick the celery on the table for me."

"Go to the mail room and see if there are any letters from abroad! It's been a long time since your parents called home. Every time I write to them, they say they are busy and don't have time. How can they have the time to call even if they are busy? Can international long-distance calls be more expensive than sending letters?"

A shout like thunder came from next door, and Lu Mingfei, who was lying in bed, jumped up from the bed with a somersault.

With a "bang", his head hit the bed board of the upper bed. Lu Mingfei, who was trying to be cool, fell back on the bed instantly, covering his forehead and rolling over and over on the bed.

The severe pain made his still drowsy consciousness fully awake. After the pain eased a little, he raised his head and looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar room.

The bedroom is only ten square meters, with two student desks, a bunk bed, several celebrity posters on the wall, a bookcase filled with textbooks and extracurricular reading materials, and a packed wardrobe.

Scratching his head, Lu Mingfei felt that he might be too excited. He had lived in this room for a year, so how could he feel unfamiliar?

Could it be that the dream I just had was so beautiful that I took it as reality?
Lu Mingfei was thinking about the dream he had just had.

In his dream, during the summer vacation when his parents went abroad to work, he met a mysterious uncle.

The uncle's name was Xia Di. Although he called him uncle, he was actually only a dozen years older than him and was still a young man.

Because of his appearance, Lu Mingfei's life, which was shrouded in gloom, began to brighten up, and as expected, he eventually turned into a sunny and cheerful boy like that uncle.

Whenever he thought of everything he had experienced in his dream, Lu Mingfei felt that even if he was a cold corpse, he would still feel the long-lost warmth.

After all, that person would really expose the corpse to the sun...

Shaking his head, Lu Mingfei turned over and got out of bed. Just as he was about to stretch, he found something wrong. How come he could see the messy bed of the fat boy Lu Mingze as soon as he stood up?

Lu Mingfei clenched his fist and looked at the date marked on the calendar: "September 2004, 9". He quickly realized something and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

Glancing at his clothes that were wrinkled from his bad sleeping posture, he went to his closet and rummaged through it, finally finding an ordinary black cartoon T-shirt to put on.

"Lu Mingfei, you didn't hear me, did you?"

Aunt's voice sounded from next door again. Lu Mingfei slowly smoothed the hair that covered his eyebrows, walked out of the room and stared at his aunt who was busy in the kitchen, then patrolled the living room and balcony, nodded thoughtfully, picked up the fifty-dollar bill on the table and went out.

On the door of the house next door, which had the words "A loving family" pasted on it in the dream, there were only countless psoriasis advertisements.

Lu Mingfei glanced at it twice and then looked away, too lazy to pay any more attention.

With his hands in his empty pockets, he staggered downstairs and bought the bagged milk and Cantonese sausages that his aunt had requested at the convenience store. He also bought a small pudding and ate it while walking towards the bookstall.

"The latest issue will be available the day after tomorrow. I don't have a time machine to get goods from the future." The old man at the bookstall waved his hand, indicating that "you kid, don't make fun of me."

"I didn't realize you were watching Doraemon, sir."

"Ah, my grandson likes it, and I often read it with him." The old man pointed to a pile of comics next to the bookstall and promoted it:
"I've got a few new books, long novels, really exciting. Would you like some?"

"No need, I have to go back and report." Lu Mingfei picked up the things in his hand and walked to the message room. As expected, there were no letters from abroad.

After returning to his uncle's house and putting the things he bought on the table, Lu Mingfei went to the living room and took out the newspapers piled in the corner waiting to be sold as waste. He wanted to learn from his uncle to pay attention to current affairs and cultivate his political sense.

There is no nationwide crackdown on organized crime or global terrorist attacks.

The biggest news in the city was the passage of Typhoon Dandelion. A vehicle illegally entered the overpass under construction, causing an accident and the driver was unfortunately killed.

Looking at the tattered black beast in the news picture, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

That's really scary.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and pick the vegetables!" Noticing his laziness, his aunt yelled again.

Lu Mingfei raised his eyes when he heard that, took the celery that was neither too old nor too tender and broke it apart one by one, pinching the head and tearing off the tendons of the celery bit by bit, feeling as comfortable as pinching bubble wrap.

The culprits that made the celery taste bad were all removed, and the doubts lingering in Lu Mingfei's mind dissipated like peeling off silk threads, and a look of interest appeared in his eyes.

When he brought the picked celery in, his aunt let out a light exclamation, as if surprised at how he could pick the vegetables so quickly and well this time.

Just as I returned to my room to look for answers to my summer homework, I heard the door being pushed open, followed by the voice of the fat boy Lu Mingze:
"Ah, I'm so tired, Mom, I want to eat braised spareribs!"

"How can you be tired when you attend a purely fun interest class?" Uncle scolded with a smile, which caused Aunt to refute:
"Why is it just for fun? This is to let Mingze master a skill. Shilan Middle School is an aristocratic school. In addition to academic performance, there must be other things to show off."

The head of the family spoke, and the uncle stopped talking. The fat boy Lu Mingze took out an old popsicle from the refrigerator, slurped it, and walked into the bedroom.

The little fat boy who is already in the first grade of junior high school is still as chubby as ever, weighing at least 120 grams. The first thing he did after coming in was to look in the mirror and admire his own beautiful face.

It seems that after attending the interest class, he has become a talented and humble gentleman.

"Lu Mingfei, what are you looking for? You turned the table upside down."

After showing off, the fat boy noticed Lu Mingfei's actions and asked curiously.

Lu Mingfei, who had just found his own money box, said without raising his head: "Looking for unknown answers."

He said this purely to please the little fat boy, but when Lu Mingze saw the iron box, he showed a bit of disdain on his face:

"How much can you save with your pocket money, plus the 300 yuan for the New Year's gift?"

Obviously, he misunderstood that Lu Mingfei wanted to see how much money he had saved in the past year.

"How much?" Lu Mingfei's eyes moved slightly when he heard this pitiful number.

"Three hundred? My mom has already said that you spend money lavishly. You spend all your pocket money as soon as you get it. How can you save any money?"

The fat boy Lu Mingze snorted and laughed, picked up the golden piggy bank on his desk and shook it: "I'm different. I've almost saved a thousand this year."

“Oh, then you are really awesome.” After giving an insincere compliment, Lu Mingfei opened his piggy bank and found that the inside was filled with colorful loose bills of one or two yuan, without even a huge sum of five yuan.

After a quick glance, he knew that it was definitely not three hundred, and estimated it to be around two hundred and fifty.

Glancing at the clothes that Lu Mingze wore to his hobby class, Lu Mingfei pushed the iron box in his hand over to him and said, "I'll exchange ten ten-yuan notes and five twenty-yuan notes with you."

“No way.” Lu Mingze refused. His golden pig was very precious and eating loose bills would cause indigestion. “My piggy bank doesn’t need loose bills.”

"That's it." Lu Mingfei was not angry. He took out a stack of change from the iron box and put it into his pocket, then put the iron box away and put it back in its place.

The communication between the two brothers was very simple, but it revealed a lot of information.

After dinner, Lu Mingfei finished his meal first. He said hello and went to the library to read, thus successfully avoiding the risk of becoming a dishwasher.

Taking the bus all the way to the city center, Lu Mingfei was at the bustling Children's Palace with people coming and going. He went to the kendo class with a clear purpose, which cost 3600 yuan for a total of 36 hours of lessons.

Among the young people in training clothes, who were chattering and fighting, there was no figure with expressionless face. Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered that Sunday was the parent-child activity time for their family, and he came to wait for someone at the wrong time.

So he left the Children's Palace again and walked towards an old neighborhood hidden among high-rise buildings.

On the way there, he came to the river next to the gymnasium and took a look. He did not see the little girl fishing, only two fishermen hiding under the bridge and staring at the float intently.

Coming all the way to the old neighborhood, Lu Mingfei took out a plastic bottle filled with water that he had found at the scrap yard. He kicked the bottle like an athlete, slowly approaching the dilapidated villa hidden deep in the woods of the neighborhood.

As soon as he entered the woods, he had the illusion that he was being stared at by a wild beast.

Without making a sound, he kicked the bottle cap, causing it to loosen just in time and allowing the water inside to splash all over the floor.

"Oh my god."

Lu Mingfei cursed in a low voice, patted his clothes and walked away cursing. When he was a hundred meters away and could no longer see the forest path, the feeling of being watched by a wild beast disappeared.

"Haha, interesting."

The corners of Lu Mingfei's mouth curled up, as if he had found an interesting game.

Time passed quickly and soon it was the next day.

Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze went to school in the small-displacement BMW that their uncle had just bought not long ago. It was still the familiar class, the same familiar friends, and they were still discussing the plot of the animation that was played yesterday.

Except for the fact that the school leadership team remained unchanged, everything seemed to be the same.

But there was only one golden flower in the class, no little white lotus, no little swan, and sitting behind him was still Xiao Liu, who knew everything about film and television animation.

After the first class, Lu Mingfei declined his brothers' invitation to pee together and went straight to the third grade teaching building, hoping to have a chance encounter with the only top student on the list of Shilan Middle School to see if he could recognize him.

However, as soon as he arrived at the bottom of the junior high school teaching building, he couldn't help but stand under the bulletin board. He seemed to be concentrating on staring at the notice of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday arrangements, but in fact he was observing the boy and girl leaning against the fence upstairs through the reflection on the glass of the bulletin board.

The boy was the one he was looking for, but the girl next to him was beyond his expectations.

The girl who was chatting with the target had long black hair and was extremely delicate and cute. The term "school belle" was simply created for her.

Why does it look so familiar?

Lu Mingfei was puzzled and bewildered. He stared at his reflection in the glass and fell into deep thought.

Isn't she the most beautiful girl on earth and an iceberg that is hard to approach? Why is it that when I talk to that girl, the frost on his face shows signs of melting?

Something is wrong. One hundred percent wrong!

Lu Mingfei felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary. His originally calm mood was slightly disturbed, so much so that snowflakes appeared on the glass of the billboard in front of him, which was the kind that would appear when a TV couldn't receive a signal.

Lu Mingfei took a few deep breaths and tried hard to suppress his inner excitement. The snowflakes in front of him finally dissipated, and the scene turned back into the two people talking two palms away from each other.

Such an interesting thing cannot end so soon.

He observed carefully and found that it was the girl who was talking all the time, and the senior brother with expressionless face just nodded and shook his head, and only spoke occasionally.

This senior brother is so lame. He doesn't even know how to chat with a girl. He should have taken out some snacks and drinks to shut her up.

Murmuring inwardly, his observation lasted only a minute. The interested girl suddenly shifted her gaze towards the bulletin board, her eyes fixed precisely on him.

Although she was famous throughout Shilan Middle School for her beauty and had countless admirers pursuing her, the girl always felt that the boy in front of the bulletin board was a little strange, as if he was thinking about something very damnable.

Realizing that he might have attracted Xiaolongnu's attention, Lu Mingfei left as if nothing had happened.

After returning to the classroom, I found out from my good friends that these two were the famous golden boy and jade girl in the school. I was even laughed at and asked if they were falling in love and wanted to find girlfriends.

Still wondering, Lu Mingfei waited until school was over at noon. The money on his meal card was not enough to buy any big fish or meat, so after eating a simple combination of meat and vegetables, he was the first to leave the cafeteria, wanting to get more information.

However, on the way, he met a few guys who had a lot of complaints about him. They deliberately blocked his way and said with a smile:
"Lu Mingfei, I heard that you have been living in your uncle's house. Could it be that your parents divorced and didn't want you anymore?"

"How pitiful! No one wants Lu Mingfei, so he can only live under someone else's roof."

"We at Shilan Middle School also have our own Harry Potter, hahaha."

"Hey, what's wrong? Are you angry?"

Looking at a few classmates whose faces said “Come and hit me if you dare”, Lu Mingfei chose to help them after making sure there were no witnesses around.

After a loud beating with crackling sounds and groaning noises, Lu Mingfei, feeling refreshed, was taken to the training office.

Although there were no visible injuries, his parents were still called in because he had hurt his classmates in a fight.

Faced with the consistent testimonies, all claiming that he was the one who suddenly hit the students for no reason, and their parents who unconditionally believed in their children without any reason, Lu Mingfei smiled and waited for his own parents to come on stage.

Since my uncle is not available, my aunt, the head of the family, comes on stage.

Apart from anything else, Lu Mingfei fully believed in the attacking power of this middle-aged gossipy woman. Even these few sarcastic rich ladies combined were not enough to defeat his aunt alone.

Sure enough, after my aunt arrived and got a preliminary understanding of the situation, she started scolding me without saying a word.

However, her target was not those rich ladies, but her helpless nephew who lived under the roof of others.

click-

There was a clear cracking sound coming from the space, but the aunt who was still spewing shit, the classmates and parents with smug and disdainful looks on their faces, and the faculty and staff who were just standing by and watching and didn't even bother to check the surveillance, didn't notice it.

Lu Mingfei sighed.

Although he felt that he had tried very hard to restrain himself, he couldn't help but feel disgusted when he saw the hypocritical faces of these annoying guys.

clack clack clack-

The space kept shattering. Lu Mingfei took out a large bundle of transparent tape from his pocket and stuffed it on his aunt's mouth. He then took out a pure black insulating tape and marked a big X on the faces of his classmates, parents and teachers one by one.

By the time the last person was manually blurred, this small teaching area was already covered with cracks.

Lu Mingfei stretched out his hands and spread them in front of him. The colorful space began to shatter like a broken mirror, revealing the deep darkness beneath the "reality".

"There is a quote by Helen Keller that I like very much - I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light."

"Originally, I wanted to see what my life would be like and what my friends would be like in this fantasy world without Old Xiatou."

In the dark and dark area, Lu Mingfei stared at the black dragon in front of him with a look of horror, and slowly raised his fist:
"Now it seems that a future without Old Xiatou is not the future I want at all."

(End of this chapter)