Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

They drove the Ferrari across Tokyo.

Lu Mingfei drove cautiously at first, but later he put a cigarette in his mouth and looked like a gangster.

Nuo Nuo chattered about her past like a little sparrow in his ear, and Lu Mingfei felt relieved. The luxury car gradually became like a flexible fish in his control, running westward in the endless flow of cars, leaving only a red shadow in the sun, like a ball of fire.

After running for more than two hours, they got off the highway along a narrow ramp, and the view in front of them suddenly became clear.

It was an asphalt-paved road, wide and flat, with tall ginkgo and red maple trees on both sides of the road, but the beautiful leaves had fallen off in this season, leaving only bare black trunks standing there, with messy and sharp branches twisted together in a mess, like dry hands reaching to the sky.

The lower part of the trunk was painted white, and there were hanging bottles next to it to deliver nutrient solution to these big trees in winter. Three or four half-grown yellow dogs were chasing and running around the root of a huge ginkgo tree.

When he got here, Lu Mingfei had to slow down the car because pedestrians had begun to appear around, mostly groups of elderly people, and there were also girls in sailor suits riding bicycles flashing in the shadow of the ginkgo tree trunks, like unicorns jumping and running in the woods.

Their skirts and hair tips were the soft manes of unicorns, and the sunlight seemed to have plated a thin layer of gold on their winter skirts.

"If it was spring or summer, this should be a very cool green path, right?" Nono put both hands on the car window, then put his chin in his arms, and looked up at the blue sky that was so high that it seemed like you could see heaven, which was rarely seen in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

A flock of black crows flew through the crisscrossing network of electric wires, their feathers trembling in the wind, and some fine fluff fell and landed anywhere.

Lu Mingfei didn't say anything. He drove in silence until he saw the first ramen shop at the end of the asphalt road.

"Matsuyama Ramen Restaurant".

It's more like a street vendor who drives a cart and sells ramen on the roadside.

It's a wooden van that can be seen everywhere in Japan. It's called "Ramen trolley" in Japan.

Eri's father, Mr. Uesugi Koshi, lived most of his life selling ramen in the streets and alleys of Tokyo in such a wooden van. The wooden windows were opened to form a awning. The boss could put tables and chairs under the awning, and the ramen chef would operate in the car.

However, Lu Mingfei knew that the old man who had broken with his family because of the war actually owned a whole street of property, and it was in a prosperous place like downtown Tokyo.

To be honest, 99% of the people in this world are not qualified to sympathize with him, because Mr. Uesugi Yue is the real rich man...

Lu Mingfei parked the car in the parking area temporarily drawn with crayons, took Nuo Nuo's hand and walked towards the van on the moss on the roadside. Several young people wearing nearby middle school uniforms curiously poked their heads out of the game hall on the side to look at these two men and women with cool looks and cool mounts, but they didn't know why they chose to eat a bowl of civilian ramen in such a place.

Besides, it was only eleven o'clock at this time, far from lunch time.

But Lu Mingfei just wanted to stop here for a while and calm his heart.

"What would you like to eat?" The ramen chef with a white scarf on his head stretched his neck from behind the counter. It was actually a very young child, probably only about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a smile on his face.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, stepped out of the shed and looked up at the sign.

It is indeed a very old thing. This van looks like it has not been moved for a long time. The moss on the roadside extends along the water stains from the drainage pipes to the side of the van, and the entire lower part is rendered green.

"This shop belongs to my grandfather. He has been in the hospital these days, so I will come here for two days." The child grinned and raised the dough in his hand, "But the taste is no different from my grandfather's craftsmanship. Big chicken cutlet ramen is the signature of our shop!"

"Then let's have two bowls of big chicken cutlet ramen." Nono said in not so fluent Japanese.

She didn't learn the language of this country much, and she was able to communicate with people by talent.

The so-called talent means watching Lu Mingfei talk to others, and then she only needs one time to remember the pronunciation of many Japanese words.

Soon the ramen was served, steaming hot and fragrant, garnished with chopped green onions and a little green vegetables.

"It tastes really good." Lu Mingfei took a big sip of the soup and nodded in praise.

He wasn't actually that hungry, but the stomachs of mixed-bloods are much stronger than those of ordinary people, and their metabolism is much faster than that of ordinary people, so his stomach is almost empty.

"Grandpa will use pork bones and chicken to make soup. The guests are very lucky. This was made by Grandpa before he went to the hospital last night." The boy was cutting two braised eggs for Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo, and served them on a delicate small plate.

"Today is my first day at work. I thought I would have to wait until later to open."

"Please heat up a pot of sake for us." Lu Mingfei smiled and said, "By the way, is there a shop nearby that makes grilled Cape mackerel?"

"Yes, it's across the street." The boy stood up to warm up the wine for Lu Mingfei and Nuonuo, pointing to the narrow window opposite, "The store is not busy now. If the customers need anything, you can tell me and I will help you run errands."

"Thank you very much." Lu Mingfei accepted it calmly.

Nuonuo swallowed the noodles in big mouthfuls, staring out the window.

There was actually no good scenery outside the window. This was already Shikoku Matsuyama, and it had long left the prosperous Tokyo metropolitan area. It could not be compared with the glittering places like Ginza Roppongi, nor could it be compared with the gilded dens like Shinjuku Kabukicho that made people linger. In front was the wide and clean asphalt road, and behind was just a narrow street, which should be a small alley in the residential area. On both sides of the alley were small square box-like single-family houses and street lights that could only be seen at a distance. It was a bit like the cold, clean and isolated feeling of the Japanese.

When the sake was served, Lu Mingfei filled Nuonuo's glass, and then the two of them clinked their glasses together, and in a blink of an eye, a glass of warm wine went into their stomachs.

After taking the change from Lu Mingfei, the boy trotted across the street to buy grilled Cape mackerel for them. After hearing that the grilled chicken skewers and stuffed tofu in that store tasted great, Lu Mingfei also asked him to buy these two foods.

"Go a little further and you will reach Meijin Temple Town." Lu Mingfei suddenly said.

Nuonuo was picking up a whole piece of chicken steak from Lu Mingfei's bowl and putting it in her own bowl. She nodded: "Yeah."

The stove next to them was burning vigorously, and the girl's profile was illuminated by the firelight, which was rosy and pleasant.

"Sister, how did you think of going there?" Lu Mingfei asked in a low voice.

The tepid winter sunlight cut down from the edge of the shed, and the fracture was smooth and flat, like a peerless knife that separated light and darkness and cut off the sunlight.

Lu Mingfei was facing away from the outside, and the golden glow fell on his head and the scarf embroidered with gold edges. From Nuo Nuo's perspective, it was rendered into a light iron gray.

"You have taken the little mute there before. I think it must be a very good memory for you." Nuo Nuo raised her face and looked into Lu Mingfei's eyes seriously.

Her long hair was softly draped over her shoulders, and her four-leaf clover earrings were hanging without shaking. Her dark red pupils seemed bright and flickered.

"She is not the little mute."

Nuo Nuo was stunned for a moment and laughed out loud.

Lu Mingfei didn't know what she was laughing at, and tilted his head to look at her.

"Nothing, I just think Eri looks more like your daughter." Nuo Nuo narrowed his eyes.

Lu Mingfei blushed.

"It doesn't matter if you say that... Sometimes I feel that she trusts me too much, and she is still silly as if anyone can bully her." Lu Mingfei also ate ramen with big mouthfuls. Unexpectedly, the ramen here was unusually delicious, with some Hakata flavor and some Kanto characteristics, a little weird, but very novel.

"If you do this, she will never grow up. One day you will not be by her side, and then the world will be too cruel for her." Nono was chewing chicken steak and whispered vaguely.

"I think so too... In fact, the day before I took her to Meizu Temple Town, we conspired to send Eri to China and then to the United States via China." Lu Mingfei shook the sake cup. At this time, the boy had returned with a stove for grilling Cape mackerel and Cape mackerel, as well as grilled chicken skewers, grilled octopus feet, and Japanese tofu stuffed with beef and pork steamed tofu.

"Caesar gave me a Desert Eagle. If I fired it at that time, the recoil would crack my shoulder, because the Desert Eagle was actually a modified version of the equipment department... Anyway, Caesar filled it with a bullet made from the Philosopher's Stone. He told me that the thing was extracted from Norton's bones. If Eri doesn't cooperate, then execute her..."

Nono gulped down the soup and secretly looked at Lu Mingfei's face from the edge of the bowl.

"He told me about this incident, saying that he felt like a bastard at the time, and that it was a good thing that you, a bastard, did the right thing." Nono said.

Lu Mingfei smiled, "Yeah." He said.

"To kill Eri with Norton's bones is...too cruel for me. I really can't do it."

He said slowly, sipping the sake in his hand.

At this time, the grilled Cape mackerel was sizzling with oil dripping down, and the grilled octopus feet next to it were slowly bending up. The smell of the seasoning on it was burning like a Nordic flame. Nono's beautiful nose twitched and a happy expression appeared on her face.

"It smells so good..." she said.

The stuffed tofu is also delicious.

Like China, restaurants in small places like this may taste better than luxury restaurants in big cities.

Because the store owners are not doing a one-time business, but a business with repeat customers. You either have to be delicious or affordable, or both delicious and affordable, otherwise who will come to be your repeat customer?

After lunch, Lu Mingfei and Nono continued their journey. Neither of them mentioned Eriyi's matter. Nono seemed to be curious about everything around him, the blue batik signs at the door of the shops, the rusty rails built on the small slope with pine beech honeysuckle and mountain roses on both sides, and the reciprocating tide sounds that could be heard across the mountains or forests.

This means that they are very close to the seaside. This is the southwestern tip of Shikoku Island. If they go further, they will soon see the small sign of Umezuji Town.

"Junior brother, do you know why I brought you here?"

"Isn't it because of the good memories or something?" Lu Mingfei said casually. He had seen the open-air parking lot that he still felt familiar after all these years. There was no car in the parking lot. The street lights on all sides stood alone, like loyal guards standing at their posts.

"I feel like there is a storm approaching..." Nono whispered. She looked at her face reflected in the rearview mirror, not knowing whether she was panicked or calm.

"We may leave Japan soon and never come back. If we don't come out to see it, there will be no chance. I have always wanted to walk with you the road you and Eri walked together, because I think it should be really beautiful, so beautiful that people like Caesar and Chu Zihang would rather betray the school's doctrine than give you up."

She held her chin to look at Lu Mingfei's profile and reached out to touch the man's cheek.

Lu Mingfei had a calm expression and parked the car in the rearview mirror indifferently.

Nuonuo's profile allows her to see many things that Lu Mingfei cannot see, and also makes her intuition much stronger than ordinary people.

She can feel that the storm is approaching Lu Mingfei has no doubts.

He just thinks that maybe it is not a storm.

It may also be the end of the world.

The end of mankind, the end of this world.

After jumping out of the car, they heard the sound of the tide echoing between heaven and earth. Nuonuo stretched her waist and looked up at the clear sky. Lu Mingfei had locked the car door.

"Hold me." Nuonuo stretched out a slender white hand, with her fingers slightly drooping. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and reached out to hold Nuonuo's hand.

The girl's hand was actually a little cold, so Lu Mingfei put his hand in the pocket of his coat. The two walked out of the parking lot side by side. Nuonuo took Lu Mingfei's arm very smoothly and leaned her head on the man's shoulder.

She looked up at Lu Mingfei's profile, and she was unwilling to look away, as if she wanted to remember that face in her heart and never forget it.

"Sister, what are you looking at?" Lu Mingfei asked. He looked around to identify the direction. It has been too long since he came here and paid attention to the news of Meijin Temple Town. Even he has almost forgotten the layout of this town.

"You can't look at my husband." Nuonuo hummed and arched on Lu Mingfei's shoulder.

Lu Mingfei's face was a little red.

He had never been called this way by anyone, and he was a little shy when he heard it at first. (End of this chapter)