Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

The weather was too cold. Lu Mingfei could only shiver and wrap himself up with fleece clothes and scarves, but he still felt cold.

When he walked out of the Regent Hotel, the cold wind rushed into his collar as if it had eyes. He shivered violently, and took the tall and slender girl beside him into his arms despite wearing thick clothes, and used his body to block the wind for Eri.

Men who wander outside are always the synonyms of strength and tenacity. They can endure high temperatures and severe cold. All the pain can't break a man's spine. But when you return home, the gray-bearded grandfather calls you to sit down by the bed and holds your wrist with his old and dry hands and says, "Child, you must be very tired outside." At that moment, it seems that all the strength is broken. You just want to hug this old man who needs help to get up now, just like many years ago. At that time, you felt that the world was not so tall, because someone helped you to support it. Now it's your turn to be this person, but when you return to the place where you once hid behind someone and cried, you still feel like you are still that cowardly child.

High temperatures and severe cold can easily break you down, and that's only because you still miss the days when you had someone to rely on.

"Sakura is very familiar with this place." Eri hid in front of Lu Mingfei obediently, covering herself with the side of her coat.

The interior of the hotel is actually quite complicated, and you may get lost if you come here for the first time.

"Well, I grew up near here." Lu Mingfei said.

After his uncle opened a foot bath city and became prosperous, Lu Mingfei often followed him to eat and drink with the local big bosses. The Regent Hotel is the restaurant he visits most often, and sea cucumbers, abalone, bird's nests, and shark fins are all indispensable staple foods.

Chu Zihang and his stepfather with four eyes and split hair are often on his uncle's invitation list. Obviously, the two of them don't like this kind of occasion, so they always slip out through the back door in the name of playing basketball.

At that time, the back street was a small alley with many food stalls. There were often students in school uniforms hanging around. There were also many billiard halls and game halls. Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang used to play billiards for an afternoon and then go to the game hall to play Dinosaur Fight. In the evening, they would go to eat grilled fish, and sometimes grilled chicken wings.

There was no one guarding the back door. This time, Lu Mingfei easily avoided the sight of the waiters, just like a long time ago.

After adapting to the blinding cold wind, Lu Mingfei sighed softly. The development of his hometown was really changing with each passing day. The alley that had not been seen for two or three years was flattened, and high-rise buildings that seemed to reach the sky were built. The glass walls that could reflect people were facing the glass walls that could reflect people. When looking up, even the gray-black sky did not seem to be majestic. The steel and glass cut out a jagged skyline. It felt cramped, like standing at the bottom of a steel rift valley. Looking up or looking around was a cage.

Eri was also very excited. She stood on tiptoe and looked around, hoping to see the whole picture of the city from the umbrellas on both sides of the street.

It was a novel experience for her to walk freely in such a densely populated city. When she was in Tokyo, Yuan Zhisheng usually did not let Eri appear in the downtown area.

"It should be the expansion of the CBD. The old houses in the old city may be demolished in the future." Lu Mingfei almost leaned over Eri's ear to speak. His breath was hot, and the girl's almost transparent white face was flushed. But it couldn't be seen with the huge mask.

This place has now become a place where all kinds of famous brands, luxury cars and beautiful women meet. Even on a freezing snowy day, you can smell the scent of high-end perfume from the oncoming wind.

After walking a few steps, there are office buildings everywhere. Everyone walks silently with umbrellas, and leather shoes and high heels are hurried. The road signs in front are clearly marked. Which way to go can see the Mingjiao Temple, which way to go can see the river bank and the left bank with lanterns on the river bank, and which way to go is a nail salon with a certain reputation in China. It seems that every stranger who comes here can easily find the place you want to go and the way you want to go, but Lu Mingfei holds Eri tightly in his arms, but feels like he is lost in the crowd.

"It's beautiful." Eri looked up and said softly. After standing on the street for a while, fireworks began to be set off in the direction of the Fei River in the distance. Various scattered beautiful lights bloomed in the gaps between glass buildings like a flowing river of light, illuminating the gray and black clouds into rainbow colors.

The most touching thing in this world is sound, light and shadow. Fireworks always make Eri stop. This girl is locked up in the upper floors of Genji Heavy Industries. She can't see the cherry blossoms blooming in spring or the snow falling in winter. Only the colorful sparks blooming in the cold night sky during the fireworks festival can make her lose her mind.

Lu Mingfei has no sadness or joy in his heart. He has been worried and has lived here for too long. He knows that people often set off fireworks by the river or Guangchao. When the fireworks are blooming, there will be young boys and girls kissing on the shore. The girl will tiptoe and lean her whole body on the boy's chest, while the boy will shyly look around and worry about being seen by the teacher or the unenlightened father at home. Their shadows are reflected on the rippling river surface. People are like peach blossoms and water is like a mirror. It is hard to say whether the real scenery at that time is the fireworks in the sky or the love quietly blooming by the river.

"Let's eat something nearby today and fill our stomachs first." Lu Mingfei rubbed Eiry's head. Eiry nodded. She raised her face to look into Lu Mingfei's eyes through the gap in her collar, hesitated for a moment, and put her hand in Lu Mingfei's.

Lu Mingfei scratched Eri's palm and smiled, "I'm fine, just too hungry." He said.

In fact, it's not just that.

He also felt that his future was uncertain and he didn't know where to go. This escape had just begun, and it brought him nothing but panic.

No matter how powerful a person is, how can he fight against the whole world? What's more, the academy may have been infiltrated by Odin and the forces behind him, and the people chasing them may not just be a group of mixed-bloods and ordinary people.

What's worse is that Lu Mingfei doesn't know if he still has a truly trustworthy ally in this world.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration. In fact, there is a guy who is absolutely trustworthy and not under the control of the academy...

"Spicy chicken cubes, I want to eat spicy chicken cubes." Eri showed some expectation on her face, "And Yangzhou fried rice."

Five-eye fried rice was Eri's favorite staple food when she was in Tokyo, and spicy chicken cubes were probably because it sounded similar to yakitori.

Lu Mingfei agreed.

There are usually restaurants or eateries in the shops under office buildings, but Lu Mingfei took Eri's hand and left the unfamiliar back street.

Because Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi are everywhere between the buildings, ladies wearing mink and suits get out of the cars, and men are bloated and strategizing, as if they are all masters of the world, but they don't know that everything they are proud of almost disappeared on a snowy night in Tokyo not long ago.

Lu Mingfei doesn't like this place, which makes him feel that he has come to the wrong place - twenty-year-old girls will not like old fat bears who are sixty years old and weigh 200 pounds. They just like the power that bears have in this forest, and the wives of old men will not be twenty-year-old girls who are ignorant of the world. They just like the beauty and slimness of these girls. Desire makes them not mind sharing their power a little bit.

This is a place where power is exchanged for time, like the world of mixed races, everything in the world can be bought, power is dazzling, even time has to serve him.

Walking through the bustling crowds to the back of the street, there is a row of old but neat buildings along the river. The cast iron street lamps and the flower beds paved with diamond-shaped tiles have a feeling of the 1980s.

This is a pedestrian street. You can feel the vitality before you enter. Maybe because it is not meal time, the small roadside restaurant actually has some of the feeling of the Japanese "Midnight Diner". When Lu Mingfei and Eri walked in, the boss and the clerk were very silent, and the temperature and taste of the food were acceptable.

I was very interested in the Chinese restaurant Eri, and I looked around after sitting down. Fortunately, in order to communicate well with Lu Mingfei's friends or relatives, this girl spent a long time learning Chinese and can accurately call out all the names of the dishes here.

She really ordered Yangzhou fried rice and a serving of spicy chicken cubes. Lu Mingfei asked the elderly boss to fry a few pieces of hairtail for me, squeeze half a lemon in it, and have a bowl of rice.

Amid the bustling crowd and the noise of snow, cheerful music could be vaguely heard from afar, as if all the shops on the pedestrian street were playing that music. Lu Mingfei was somewhat puzzled, but he still prepared two pairs of chopsticks for himself and Eriyi.

"Merry Christmas, big brother and big sister, today is Christmas, and all guests who come to dine will receive a steamed egg custard." The person in charge of serving the dishes in the kitchen turned out to be a very pretty girl, probably only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a thick ponytail on the back of her head, no bangs, revealing a smooth and warm forehead, and a shallow dimple when she smiled.

She should be a student from a nearby school, helping out at her family's restaurant during the holidays.

Lu Mingfei nodded and smiled and said thank you, while Eriyi looked forward to watching the girl put the steamed egg custard in front of her. After opening the lid, white steam rose up, and a thin spoonful of soy sauce was sprinkled on the tender egg custard, which had a jelly texture and was dotted with a few chopped green onions. Although it was simple, it made people feel very appetizing at first glance.

Eri used a spoon to eat. Egg custard is a very common food in Japan, but she still felt that today's egg custard was more delicious than the ones she had eaten before.

After tasting a few bites, Eri scooped out a small piece and handed the spoon to Lu Mingfei's mouth. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth to take it, and then reached out to touch Eri's head.

"Happy birthday." He said.

Eri was stunned. She blinked, and the surface of her clear eyes seemed to be immediately covered with a thin layer of mist.

"I remember Eri said before that your birthday is Christmas. After dinner, I will take you to buy a gift." Lu Mingfei smiled.

The feeling of freedom is good. For Eri, there is no need to mention those worrying topics at this moment.

But he didn't expect that he had slept for two whole days and had come to such a festival.

Speaking of birthdays, Lu Mingfei's heart suddenly trembled. He remembered the dance a few days ago when Ling buried his head in his chest and said, "Someone told me that if I like someone, I should tell him, because you may all die tomorrow, and then I can't say it out loud. I thought about it for a long time and decided to tell you. I like you.".

Her birthday is also today...

But where are you, Ling...

The cheerful music inside the pedestrian street continued, and this time Lu Mingfei heard it clearly.

"Jinglebells, jinglebells, jinglealltheway..."

It was that familiar Christmas song. Even in China, where people don't celebrate Christmas very much, people will play this song all over the streets when this day comes.

Lu Mingfei turned his head to look, and was surprised to find that the corners he had always ignored were full of Christmas marks. The heavy snowfall from the sky by Eriyi had turned into dense and soft snowflakes. The warm lights everywhere just fell on the table where they were sitting, and the girl's cheeks were reflected rosy and pleasant.

"Come closer." Eriyi hooked her finger at Lu Mingfei. The girl smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes, like a little fox who had come up with a treacherous plan. Although Lu Mingfei was puzzled, he still sat next to Eriyi.

The girl put both her hands under the man's armpits, leaned her head slightly on Lu Mingfei's shoulder, and felt the warm breath on his body.

"It's good to be alive." She said, and at the same time looked up at the eyes of the man next to her. Lu Mingfei nodded and smiled, and Eriyi also smiled, and tears squeezed out of the corners of her eyes.

"Yeah, it's great to be alive." He said, touching Eri's cheek with his other hand, and then wiped away the tears rolling down the girl's cheek.

There was probably some kind of event held by young people deep in the pedestrian street. The crowd suddenly threw away the umbrellas in their hands, and the umbrellas rolled all over the ground. Everyone began to sing Christmas songs, and the singing was like the tide. The world became fresh and beautiful.

In fact, there was only an alley between this place and the office building behind the Regent Hotel, but that alley was like a natural moat between the two groups of people. The people on the other side were cold and ruthless in their pursuit of power and desire, and the winter snow could not extinguish the desires in their hearts; while the people on this side were like a bonfire in the winter night, the flames rose with the wind, and the place illuminated by the fire was so bright that even if the evil spirits used power as swords and guns, they could not break their defenses.

It was like a portrayal of ideals and reality.

"Actually, I don't want any gifts. I've waited for many years. You are the best gift the world has given me." Hui Liyi said softly, leaning on Lu Mingfei's shoulder, "The world is gentle, allowing us to meet again."

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

He stared blankly at the girl's profile, and the deepest and hardest part of his heart seemed to be pried by something, and a restless little bug began to throb again.

"I want to go home and see." Lu Mingfei suddenly said, "Let's go together... I can't find my parents, maybe going to my uncle's house can be considered meeting my parents."

Huiliyi raised her head from Lu Mingfei's shoulder, tilted her head, and the mask hanging on one ear swayed.

When she smiled, it was like a slightly frozen ice pot with a stone dropped, and the water surface was rippling gently. The girl straightened up slightly and kissed Lu Mingfei gently on the lips.

The girl's lips left after just a moment, and Eri blinked and shook her head, "If we want to get married, we have to go back to Japan. Although Eri doesn't have a father or a mother, she has a brother. We must tell her brother about this." She said seriously.

Lu Mingfei touched his lips, looked at the clouds flying on the little face pretending to be calm, and laughed out loud.

Eri put her hands on her hips and gritted her teeth, looking at Lu Mingfei angrily.

"Okay, if we get married, we will go back to Tokyo to meet Eri's parents." Lu Mingfei nodded heavily.

He didn't know whether Master Yue was still alive, so he didn't dare to tell the girl the truth that Eri was not a child without a father. If everything was missed, it would be better not to add to the sadness. (End of this chapter)