Dream Guide

Since the weather was cool in the evening, the Xia family's dinner was held on the garden terrace on the hillside of the manor. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing a lake on one side, the sunset reflects the sky, the lake is like a mirror, and the mountains and waters are unobstructed.

Dr. Peter was not qualified to attend the Xia family's family dinner, while Li Wei always stood by as a bodyguard. There were only Xia Wenyuan, Wu Lixia, Hu Xing, Xia Tian and Qingmu on the terrace table.

During the dinner, Xia Wenyuan asked for Aoki's bank card number, saying that he wanted to pay him, and expressed his feelings. Aoki was not too polite and wrote down the card number and gave it to the housekeeper of Xia Mansion.

After the dinner, because Hu Xing also wanted to go home, he took Aoki back with him and did not let Li Wei drive again.

Not long after the car left the manor, Aoki's cell phone rang. He opened his phone and took a look, then started counting to the screen: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6..."

"What are you doing? You're not going to play hypnosis again, are you? I'm driving!" Hu Xing said.

Aoki counted again, touched his head and said, "Your grandpa gave me a sum of money. There are six zeros after the number 3. Hey, how much are six zeros?"

"You can't find Bei with such a small amount of money? Look how happy you are!" Hu Xing snorted, thinking that Aoki was deliberately showing off.

Aoki started counting with his fingers: "One, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand..." He counted six fingers, and then said "Wow", "Three hundred thousand!"

Hu Xing said: "Can you count? There are six zeros after 3, so that's three million, okay?"

"Uh..." Aoki looked at his fingers and pinched them again, as if Hu Xing was lying to him, then turned on his phone and looked at it, "It seems like it's really three million!"

Hu Xing shook her head and sighed, "Do you know how the pig died?"

Aoki chuckled and shook his head, while Wu Xing held the steering wheel and giggled.

An unknown old English song was playing on the car stereo, and the soothing melody echoed in the car.

…

"What are you thinking about?" Wu Xing asked when she saw Qingmu suddenly stopped talking.

"Oh, I was wondering how to spend the money." Aoki said.

"Money addict!" Hu Xing scolded with a smile, but she was also very curious, "How do you plan to spend it?"

"First pay the rent and food, buy some delicious food for the coal boss, buy two clothes for Ruhua that look more like women, and then invite everyone to have a meal at Zhuangyuan Building... Hey, do the math for me. How much will this cost? How much is left?"

Hu Xing was really helpless with him. She didn't understand how this guy's brain grew. She simply stopped talking to Aoki about money, and instead asked about the dream: "I still can't figure out how I entered my grandpa's dream. Please tell me."

Aoki said: "You won't understand even if I tell you."

Hu Xing said unwillingly: "You're a stingy guy, don't talk about it."

Aoki said: "Wait until you can enter a lucid dreaming state stably before you think about this issue."

Hu Xing asked: "Then how do I enter a lucid dream?"

Aoki said: "It's the same process as today, except I'm not next to you, so it's easy for you to quit. Just try a few more times, but..."

"But what?"

"Lucid dreaming is not a pleasant thing!" Aoki said, "If you can't control your subconscious well, you can't control the dream. You can only be a sober bystander, watching yourself. Everything I experienced in my dream.”

"For example, you are standing there and the ground suddenly sinks in, or you are enjoying a delicious lunch and suddenly a tiger pounces from behind. These are nothing. The most annoying thing is that in the lucid dream, The sense of reality is very strong, and it is not as confusing as ordinary dreams. After you wake up, you can still clearly recall the experience in the dream, as if it really happened. If you have this kind of dream too often, you It's possible to become a schizophrenic who can't tell the difference between reality and dreams."

This time it was Hu Xing's turn to nod and ask, "Then what should I do?"

"I now know how the pig died," Aoki said.

…

"Okay, let me ask you something serious." Aoki changed the subject, "What happened to your grandpa's daughter?"

"Oh, you're talking about my aunt!" Hu Xing sighed, "She is the only child born to my grandpa and Aunt Xia. She is actually a few years older than me. When I was a child, I was called 'sister' by mistake." My mother is scolding me!"

"Although we are about the same age, we don't play together much. She went to the University of California, Berkeley, by herself when she was a teenager. She is much better than my niece, who aspires to be a police officer. As for her, I’m not particularly sure, I just know that five years ago, she suddenly came back from the United States, had a big fight with her family for some unknown reason, and ran back to the United States.”

"What happened next?" Aoki asked.

"Later, her family couldn't contact her. At first, they just thought she was angry and didn't care. It wasn't until they discovered that the bodyguard secretly arranged for her by her grandfather was also missing, that they realized the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly called the police. But neither the police nor the FBI , as well as the overseas Chinese gangs that my grandfather used to mobilize connections, none of them found anyone. She just seemed to have disappeared from the world."

"Then how do you say he died?"

"That's what the FBI said. About half a year after she disappeared, they found my aunt's belongings while solving a case, and later said they had caught the murderer of my aunt. During the trial, my mother and Aunt Xia both Went there, according to the murderer, he initially just wanted to kidnap my aunt to extort a sum of money, but he accidentally killed her."

"What a coincidence? Was the body found later?" Aoki asked.

"No." Hu Xing said, "The efficiency of the American police is too low, and they did not find much evidence. They were disturbed by lawyers, and the murderer later retracted his confession."

"The court found not guilty?"

"That's not true. There are other cases against the suspect." Hu Xing said, "But my aunt's death was in vain. Thinking about it makes me angry!"

Aoki pieced together these fragmentary information and gained a little more confidence in his inner conjecture.

"Maybe your aunt has been living in Wuzhong since she died!" he said.

"How is that possible?" Hu Xing looked at Qingmu like an idiot, "Wuzhong is the base of the Xia family, and my aunt is so outstanding. How could she not be discovered by the Xia family if she lived in Wuzhong? This is like your coal mine. It’s just as funny that the boss is among a flock of white pigeons, but you can’t see him!”

Aoki thought it was right, so he smiled and stopped mentioning the topic.

It was already very late when I returned to Liuying Lane. Looking at the renovation announcement posted outside the bar door, Aoki remembered that the bar was closed these days.

He never bothered to bring his keys with him when he went out. Today, the bar door was closed, so he took out his mobile phone and called Ruhua, preparing himself for a scolding.

But no one answered the phone.

He had no choice but to go up and bang on the door. Fortunately, the nightlife on this street was relatively rich, so he was not afraid of disturbing the neighbors. But he knocked for a long time and no one came to open the door.

Wu Xing looked at his helpless look and said, "How about...stay at my place for one night?"

"This is not good!" Aoki said.

Hu Xing felt that this guy was quite serious. Just when she was about to say that she believed in his character, she saw Aoki lighting a cigarette, leaning against the porch pillar, blowing out a big white smoke ring, and said with a sideways glance: "Wan I lost my virginity!"

"You're such a big-headed idiot!" Hu Xing stomped her feet angrily, got in the car and started the car, "Don't pull me down!"