Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

As soon as Lu Mingfei and the others stepped out of the elevator, a group of middle-aged men and women wearing nursing uniforms came out of the corner and walked past them hurriedly but quietly with their heads lowered, and disappeared quietly around the corner of the stairs. .

"So humane?" Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded.

"Because the cost of recuperation here is sky-high." Su Xiaoqiang said.

They walked through the corridor and entered the ward. The ward was quiet, and Eriki looked around curiously. The room was also filled with the smell of incense and the windows were open. The ivory linen curtains were slightly raised and lowered by the wind, and the sunlight through the thick window screen was much softer.

The layout of the room is almost a replica of the study room that Mr. Su had in his villa. There are tea sets by the window, large books that are not neatly arranged on the bookshelves and even many unopened books, and corners. There is a glass cabinet inside that is used to store his honorary certificates and corporate medals. Except for the hooks on the wall above the bed that are used to hang water bottles, this place looks like an ordinary room.

The sound of low, rapid breathing reached Lu Mingfei's ears. On the silk bed sheet, Father Su, wearing only close-fitting clothes, struggled to hold up his upper body and sit on the head of the bed.

Su Xiaoqiang is considered a lucky girl for their family. It is said that Aunt Sophia and Father Su tied the knot in a certain cathedral abroad. In the next six years, her stomach has not changed at all. Comrade Su also spent a lot of effort to get married. Finally, I finally had something to gain from my hard work. It was only when I was nearly forty years old that I finally embraced my daughter. At that time, Aunt Sophia was still a young girl in her mid-twenties and in her prime.

But although he had always described himself as a tough guy, Lu Mingfei's impression of Father Su was no different from the old man next door who wore a Beijing-style haircut and a cattail leaf fan and played chess next to the old locust tree downstairs in the summer. He was just that kind of guy. He is an ordinary little old man with a little belly, a little baldness, and a very old-fashioned mustache. He neither likes to wear Armani suits like other nouveau riche, nor does he follow the upper class and go to Italy to customize a high-end outfit. He likes to wear bamboo shirts and cardigans, and his lower body is always a pair of fat pants. He always holds a pair of iron eggs in his hands. Sometimes he drives to school to pick up Su Xiaoqiang. Everyone else thinks that this little old man is the grandfather of the little goddess. Generations.

Su Xiaoqiang also complained about this to her father, and advised him not to always dress up so old-fashioned. Although he is clearly only sixty years old, he looks like an eighty-year-old man. When he goes out with Aunt Sophia, people think it is him. A little mistress raised outside. Father Su said that Coal Boss has the aesthetics of Coal Boss. What’s wrong with the mistress? Doesn’t this also mean that your mother was raised well by me? A forty-year-old person still looks like he is thirty. I am getting older as I live, and she is getting younger as I live.

But no matter how harmless he dressed himself up, like a sheep ready to be slaughtered, he still had a vague temperament of a thug, and his occasional glances back were as sharp as knives.

From having nothing to building such a huge mining empire, it is obviously impossible for Mr. Su to build such a huge mining empire without some skills and abilities.

But now this thug who disguised himself as a sheep is paralyzed on the hospital bed, his eyes are cloudy and lifeless, the muscles all over his body are atrophied, his cheeks are slightly sunken, and pulsing blue and black blood vessels can be seen under the dry skin on his arms, and his beard is also Becoming grey.

Lu Mingfei could imagine how much torture the illness had brought to the old man. He originally had a character that refused to admit defeat, but at this time he could not even take care of himself. He must be feeling very painful in his heart.

Su Xiaoqiang had already sat down by the bed at this time. Her sitting posture was upright and her slender shoulders were clearly lonely, but she tried hard to make them appear wider, as if Su Xiaoqiang could prove to her father that she could hold up the sky even without him. This family will still not collapse suddenly.

"Dad, Mingfei and I are here to see you." Su Xiaoqiang helped old Su tuck in the quilt, resting his chin with one hand and staring into his father's eyes.

Cerebral thrombosis can cause hemiplegia and hazy consciousness. Fortunately, Mr. Su's brain blood supply disorder is not located in the language center, and it has not yet caused aphasia.

"And Mingfei's sister Xiaoli." Su Xiaoqiang added.

Hearing Lu Mingfei's name, Lao Su's eyes seemed to brighten at a certain moment. He cleared his throat. Su Xiaoqiang quickly leaned over and got a spittoon from the side to help his father expel the phlegm accumulated deep in his throat. .

"Mingfei, come here quickly, sit next to me." After clearing away the phlegm, Lao Su's energy improved a lot, but the movements of his palms seemed a little strange, which was obviously a sign of damage to the motor center. It is not difficult to imagine the lesions and lesions. The area has seriously affected the motor system, but the old man still patted the seat next to him and motioned for Lu Mingfei to come and sit.

"I never heard you say you have a younger sister... The little girl is so beautiful. There are lotus mist and oranges in the refrigerator, as well as strawberries picked from the greenhouse. You're welcome, you can take it yourself."

Uncle was still as enthusiastic as before. Lu Mingfei took two steps and sat down beside the hospital bed. Old Su looked at him carefully up and down.

"I heard from Xiaoqiang that you went to Chicago to study after graduation. Are foreigners so nurturing? It's only been two years since I last saw you. You've grown so big. You're even more handsome than before, much better-looking than when I was young."

"No way, I have seen my uncle in Xiaoqiang's photo album when he was young. He was also a handsome young man from all over the country. Otherwise, how could he have married a wife as beautiful as Aunt Sophia." Lu Mingfei pretended to be obedient.

To be honest, both Chu Zihang's family and Su Xiaoqiang's family made Lu Mingfei feel more at home than his aunt, and they were more like his family.

After Qiao Weini and Lu Lincheng left China in 2004, Lu Mingfei had been staying at his aunt's house. From then on, they had been transferring money to his aunt's bank card on a monthly basis. Lu Mingfei never knew how much money that was, but he knew that since he had been staying at his aunt's house, their living conditions had suddenly improved. His uncle drove a small BMW, Lu Mingze wore famous brands and studied at the most expensive aristocratic school in the local area. He was even honored as the Prince Ze in the school because of his generosity.

Even so, Aunt still disliked Lu Mingfei and wanted to trample him into the dust. Lu Mingze's pocket money was never limited, but Lu Mingfei had to rely on running errands for his uncle to buy cigarettes or go out to buy soy sauce to deduct a little from that money for pocket money. He never had clothes of slightly better quality, and he was not like his cousin who could always get support from Aunt, even if he had a fight with someone at school.

In fact, Father Su knew about Lu Mingfei's situation. Like Chu Zihang's mother, he also proposed to take Lu Mingfei out to live with them and expressed his willingness to support him to go to school until graduation, but Lu Mingfei declined.

But Lu Mingfei was very grateful to them from the bottom of his heart. He was indeed taken care of by Chu Zihang and Su Xiaoqiang's families during those years, so that his high school life was not a mess.

In Lu Mingfei's eyes, Father Su has always been a very close elder, and he is willing to behave well in front of the elders.

"Come here, Mingfei, hold my hand." Old Su sat up straight with a grunt. Lu Mingfei quickly reached out to help the old man support his back and cover the old man's hand.

The dry and broad palm was warm. It was not as well-maintained as Lu Mingfei imagined, but covered with hard calluses.

"Is that little girl really your sister?" he asked.

"She is not much younger than me. She was born in Japan. Before she was ten years old, she lived with relatives in the mountains of Kobe. Later, my parents went abroad for archaeological research and took her with them, so we have only lived together in recent years." Lu Mingfei had already thought about how to lie to Comrade Old Su about Eri's identity before he stepped into this ward. This was actually not difficult. He had been trained in the academy and knew what subtle expressions people would subconsciously make when they lied, so he was able to restrain those expressions.

"She has never been back to China before, right? Then you have to take the girl around, lest she forgets her roots after living abroad for too long." After saying this, the two fell into a strange silence. After a moment, the old man said, "You are already halfway through college, has Mingfei found a girlfriend in Chicago?"

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the meat system was still going to play.

He exchanged glances with Su Xiaoqiang without leaving a trace, pretending to be a little embarrassed and his eyes were erratic.

"Actually, I came to visit you this time because I have something to tell you, uncle..." Lu Mingfei carefully considered his words and carefully observed his uncle's expression, "Su Xiaoqiang and I still get together in Chicago as often as before... We are actually in love now..."

Old Man Su was stunned for a moment, and the air in the room suddenly became quiet. Lu Mingfei shrank his neck, always feeling a bit of a cold wind blowing.

"Go out for a while." Father Su patted the back of Su Xiaoqiang's hand. The little girl looked at Lu Mingfei with a little worry and apologetic. Lu Mingfei nodded to show that he was fine.

"Your sister should go out for a while too." Father Su said to Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei did not hesitate. He hooked his finger and called Eri over and whispered a few words in her ear. The girl happily followed Su Xiaoqiang out.

Lu Mingfei thought that he and Su Xiaoqiang would be beaten or scolded immediately for misjudgment, so he was mentally prepared, but Father Su just sighed and stretched out his hand to pat his shoulder with difficulty.

"I actually know that you rejected our Xiaoqiang in that cinema that day. She cried with her mother after she went home. I just came back to get the documents and heard it from behind the door." Father Su's tone was very gentle, even gentler than when Lu Mingfei saw him in high school, but he was very nervous. His uncle gave him the feeling that he had suddenly put down the burden on his shoulders and had no desires or demands.

People without desires and pursuits are terrible. They ignore their own lives and easily fall into a vicious circle of self-destruction. Such examples are not uncommon in the world of mixed-bloods. Most of the mixed-bloods with excellent bloodlines come from those ancient and wealthy aristocratic families. They have enjoyed things that ordinary people cannot even glimpse in their entire lives since they were young. When their bloodline is completely awakened and the sorrow of blood begins to appear, the tendency of self-destruction will become very exposed.

The S-level who committed suicide by swallowing a gun at Kassel Academy 40 years ago may be a similar situation.

"This little girl is really a worry. I had bought a house for her in Shanghai and she only needed to go to Fudan University to study. But she is just like that. She doesn't want to admit defeat and insisted on following you to Chicago. She sent her resume to the University of Chicago without telling any of us." Uncle Su looked a little sad. He felt like all fathers who see their daughters off, seeing another man holding her hand and leaving them.

"She sometimes calls your Aunt Sofia and happily reports to us about her situation there, but every time she calls, she never mentions your name. I guess you actually met in Chicago. It’s not that many, maybe you haven’t even met a few at all, right?”

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment and decided to remain silent.

Sometimes a question doesn’t actually require you to answer, you just need to remain silent and the person asking the question will know the answer.

"One time she called us and told us that she went to Six Flags Chicago to ride the roller coaster with you. Although Xiaoqiang's tone sounded very happy on the phone, she is my daughter after all. I always felt that she was smiling. It's all far-fetched." Father Su held Lu Mingfei's arm and stared out the window in a daze. "Later we saw on the TV news that there was a gas explosion in the amusement park and the entire venue was destroyed. Sophia was very worried about her daughter, so she flew to Chicago to see her... Xiaoqiang's eyes were red when he was eating, Sophia said She was wronged there, does it have something to do with you? "

When Father Su said these words, he did not blame him, it was just a question close to a statement. Lu Mingfei recalled the situation at that time. He was indeed accompanied by his female companions, but Su Xiaoqiang did not show that kind of behavior when he saw them. A trickle of sadness.

In fact, if you think about it differently, with Xiao Tiannu's strong character, even if she is sad, she will not express it in front of Lu Mingfei.

At that time, Lu Mingfei had not officially confirmed his relationship with Xia Mi. The reason why he told Su Xiaoqiang that Xia Mi was his girlfriend was because there was an insurmountable gap between the world of mixed races and the world of ordinary people.

Lu Mingfei was unwilling to bring the little goddess into this dark world, but things were unpredictable, so in the end the girl stepped in with half a foot.

Lu Mingfei stood up and casually took off the monitor in the corner that was used to monitor the patient's condition. He sighed and sat back down next to Father Su.

"The situation is more complicated. Uncle, you are also a person who has experienced great storms. I am not afraid that you will not be able to accept some things... Cassel College is different from ordinary educational institutions. It is closer to a military fortress. The education I received there To move closer to military training, we need Facing dangers that ordinary people cannot face, I didn't want Su Xiaoqiang to be implicated, so I rejected your daughter again in another way." Lu Mingfei also looked at the falling leaves outside the window, "Actually, I was also harassed when I returned to China. Forced, our organization is hunting me abroad."

Father Su smiled.

"You don't believe it?"

"I believe it." Father Su shook his head, "You were different from other people when you were in middle school. Other children's eyes were not only clear but also tired of their studies, but your eyes were only calm. Xiaoqiang No. When I brought you to see me once, I could even feel the rare aura of a superior person from you... I just didn't expect that your experience would be so ups and downs."

"Then why are you laughing?"

"Is our country sheltering you?" Father Su asked.

Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment, "That's right." He said that Lord Wa could even call on the military's heavy-duty synthetic battalion. There was no reason why he had no contact with the government, so Lu Mingfei was indirectly blessed by the country.

"Then do you also like our Xiaoqiang?" The old man stared at Lu Mingfei's eyes. His eye sockets were sunken and looked very deep. His pupils were not cloudy, but very calm.

Seeing this, Lu Mingfei suddenly seemed to hear the sound of metal armor clashing. This old man who couldn't even move by himself seemed to have suddenly returned to his youth.

At that time, he was a tyrant in the city, fighting his way out with huge funds. (End of chapter)