At the gate of Shilan Middle School, a woman waved to Lu Mingfei.
The afterglow of the setting sun hit the woman's face, making the faint smile at the corner of her mouth warmer.
Beside the woman, the man's eyes under his lenses had a strange luster.
He looked at Shilan Middle School in front of him and the surrounding environment, thoughtfully, and at the same time nodded towards Lu Mingfei, showing a long-lost smile.
When family members meet again after a long separation, both parties should be given time to buffer and digest the sudden joy, right?
Lu Mingfei stood there, staring blankly at the couple at the school gate, his eyes slightly red.
He had had many dreams and thought about this scene many times.
When he gets out of school one day, his parents, like the parents of many classmates, will appear at the school gate and shout his name loudly, telling him and others that they are here to pick up their son.
They will also prepare a small surprise for him and bring him some small gifts from abroad.
But, year after year, he went from hope to disappointment. His parents never appeared again. It was as if they had disappeared from the world, and there was no news at all.
They may have even forgotten that they had a son.
Gradually, Lu Mingfei got used to this kind of life and no longer had any illusions about miracles.
He was used to going to school alone, used to going to school alone, used to staying in Internet cafes until late at night, and used to sitting on the rooftop alone in a daze.
Lu Mingfei originally thought that life would be peaceful like this, without any disturbances, and nothing would cause his mood swings.
At most, you may feel happy just because you have a few words with the girl you have a crush on.
Until this moment, until he saw the woman and man appearing at the gate of Shilan Middle School, his heart, which was used to being calm, couldn't help but surge up with waves. What surged with the waves was what he had hidden in the corner of his heart. Years of grievance.
"Son, we are here to pick you up!" the woman said loudly, waving her hands.
Maybe it was because Qiao Weini's voice was so loud that it attracted the attention of many pairs of eyes around her.
Qiao Weini didn't care about those looks.
Lu Mingfei didn't care either.
Under the gaze of many students around him, Lu Mingfei seemed to have gone back many years ago, to the time when he was participating in track and field competitions, and his mother faced him with open arms.
He ran over like a child and hugged Jovini heavily.
"Oh, our son has grown up." Qiao Weini said gently patting Lu Mingfei's back.
"Mom, I miss you so much." Lu Mingfei said.
"Mom and dad miss you too." Qiao Weini took out a pack of tissues from her pocket and gently helped Lu Mingfei wipe away the tears that were almost coming from her eyes, "You have grown up and are a man. You can't cry. Do you know?"
Lu Mingfei nodded heavily, but said, "This is beyond my control."
Qiao Weini smiled softly and took Lu Mingfei's shoulder bag without any explanation, "Mom, help you get it."
"Well, thank you, Mom." Lu Mingfei said, looked at Lulincheng, and called, "Dad."
Lu Lincheng was stunned for a moment, as if Lu Mingfei's behavior had surprised him.
Is this Lu Mingfei’s true inner world?
Lu Lincheng thought calmly, nodded slightly, and said with a smile, "My child, have you had a hard time these years?"
As he said that, Lu Lincheng hugged Lu Mingfei's shoulders and said, "We'll have a good drink tonight. You should know how to drink?"
Lu Mingfei felt a little uncontrollably moved, and there was a strong impulse in his eyes, but he still hesitated and said, "I haven't drunk much..."
Qiao Weini hit Lu Lincheng and said, "The child is still young, what should he drink? Can you teach him to learn well?"
Lu Lincheng ignored Qiao Weini and said, "Mingfei is not young anymore. How can a man not know how to drink? Tonight, dad and you will not come home until we are drunk."
"But we have classes tomorrow..." Lu Mingfei whispered.
"Dad, I'll ask for leave for you. We finally came back to see our son. Why, is it important that there are parents in the school?" Lu Lincheng said very domineeringly.
"Hey, that's a good feeling." Lu Mingfei smiled happily.
"By the way, Mom and Dad, how long will it take for you to be back?" Lu Mingfei was obviously a little nervous when he asked this.
He was very afraid that his parents would go abroad again after only coming back for a few days.
"Mom and dad will not leave when they come back this time. They will stay with you!" Qiao Weini said beside them as the family of three walked out.
"Really?" Lu Mingfei said in surprise.
"Is it possible that I'm still lying to you?" Lu Lincheng said, "We can't worry about you. When your mother was abroad, she talked about you every day. If I don't come back, she might divorce me."
Lu Lincheng sighed.
He was telling the truth. When she was in the safe haven, Qiao Weini wanted to come back again and again. This thought never stopped after she entered the safe haven.
If it weren't for the Haven's agreement and her unwillingness to put Lu Mingfei in danger, I'm afraid she would have left the Haven long ago.
Lu Mingfei heard this and looked at Qiao Weini.
Qiao Weini smiled and walked next to Lu Mingfei. While walking, she helped Lu Mingfei tidy up his hair that was messed up because he ran over just now, and said, "Mom will cook you a delicious meal tonight."
"Then I want to eat Yong Tau Fu." Lu Mingfei said.
In his memory, Qiao Weini once made this delicacy of meat wrapped in tofu.
"Okay, mom promises you." Qiao Weini's smile was always so warm and gentle.
This woman looks really good when she smiles.
At least at this moment, Lu Mingfei felt that this was the most beautiful smile in the world.
"Did your school buy this ice cream?" Lu Lincheng looked at the ice cream in Lu Mingfei's hand with some surprise and asked.
"Ah?" After hearing what Lu Lincheng said, Lu Mingfei remembered the little boy, "This was given to me by a little boy..."
Lu Mingfei said, looking back towards the school.
But the place where the little boy originally stood was already empty.
"He should have gone home, right?" Lu Mingfei said.
When Lu Lincheng heard this, he followed Lu Mingfei's gaze.
He stared at an empty space for a long time, then silently looked away and asked, "What kind of person is he? He would actually give you ice cream. He must be a very cute child, right?"
Is it cute? Lu Mingfei thought for a while and said, "I actually don't know. There was a storm some time ago, and I met him when I went home. I don't know him, but he always calls me brother."
Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "Maybe he recognized the wrong person? Or maybe he wanted to have a brother, so he regarded me as his brother."
Listening to Lu Mingfei's words, Lu Lincheng smiled softly, "He is indeed an interesting child. Your mother is cooking tonight. Can you invite him to our house for dinner? Just to repay his love for the ice cream. ah."
"Hey, this is not something I can invite just because I want to. I don't even know where his home is. He was by my side just now, but now I don't know where he has gone." Lu Mingfei said.
"It doesn't matter, you will always meet that child." Lu Lincheng said.
"Dad, how did you know?" Lu Mingfei seemed a little surprised by Lu Lincheng's words.
"Because he treats you as an older brother, he will always be around you." Lu Lincheng patted Lu Mingfei's shoulder gently,
"The younger brother always follows behind the older brother, isn't that the case all the time?"
Lu Mingfei was a little stunned, "But I'm not his brother."
"But he treats you as an older brother." Lu Lincheng smiled.
The roof of the teaching building of Shilan Middle School.
The little boy was sitting on the edge of the roof, his feet sticking out from the gap under the fence, dangling in the air.
He was lying on the guardrail in front of him, quietly watching the family of three gradually walking away under the sunset, his black jewel-like pupils inevitably showing a hint of sadness.
"Brother, you are always so soft-hearted, you always want the beauty that cannot exist." The little boy watched the sunset gradually lengthen the shadow of a family of three in the distance, his eyes gradually became cold,
"In this case, let my brother help you and help you tear off these people's ugly masks!"
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Community, aunt's house.
Lu Lincheng was smoking on the rooftop.
After entering Lu Mingfei's dream, Lu Lincheng was a little surprised by everything here.
He didn't expect that Lu Mingfei's deep conscious dream could be so ordinary, so ordinary.
When many people were Lu Mingfei's age, their dreams and imaginations were always so wild and unconstrained.
Flying over eaves and walking over walls, cutting through mountains and rivers with swords, and even reaching for the stars and the moon are common.
This age is the age of fantasy, the age of high-spiritedness, and even the age of youth and frivolity.
But, at this age, Lu Mingfei's inner world is actually so simple.
Not to mention the mixed-race golden pupil, even slightly evil villains might not appear in his dreams.
He should have asked Lu Mingfei to come in and kill the guy who called himself Lu Mingze.
But now it seems that Lu Mingfei had no such intention from the beginning.
Lu Mingfei never thought of killing that guy named Lu Mingze.
If he hadn't entered Lu Mingfei's dream, he might not have known Lu Mingfei's true inner thoughts.
However, after entering Lu Mingfei's dream, Lu Lincheng discovered a benefit.
This world is composed of Lu Mingfei's thoughts and subjective consciousness.
Lu Mingfei's thoughts, Lu Mingfei's concepts are reasonable, rules, and rules.
For example, if Lu Mingfei didn't know about the existence of the Dragon Clan, then the Dragon Clan would not be allowed to exist in this world.
Lu Mingfei felt that if there were no hybrids or speech spirits, then the world would not allow hybrids or speech spirits.
This world was built by Lu Mingfei.
What Lu Mingfei thinks the world is like is what the world is like.
Even Lu Lincheng couldn't use the spirit of speech, nor could he do things beyond Lu Mingfei's imagination, nor could he overturn what Lu Mingfei believed in his three views.
Now, it is obviously impossible for Lu Mingfei to kill Lu Mingze.
Then, he can only find another way.
Lu Lincheng was smoking a cigarette, and his eyes slowly narrowed under his lenses.
"Dad, it's time to eat." Lu Mingfei's voice interrupted Lu Lincheng's thoughts.
Lu Lincheng turned around and looked at Lu Mingfei who appeared at the door of the rooftop. He gently put out the cigarette butt and said, "Let's have a good drink."
When Lu Lincheng and Lu Mingfei returned to their aunt's house, the table was already full of food.
Yong tau fu, crucian carp soup, large lobster, and golden crispy roast goose are all sumptuous.
Obviously, Qiao Weini worked hard.
Lu Mingfei's family and his aunt's family all sat down.
"Mingfei, come here, what you like to eat." Qiao Weini put a piece of Yong Tau Fu and a piece of crab meat into Lu Mingfei's bowl.
Lu Mingfei was a little flattered, and at the same time his heart was full of happiness.
In all the years he has been at his aunt's house, his uncle is the only one who has given him chicken legs.
That was the only time my uncle was scolded by his aunt.
From then on, his uncle never dared to give him meat again.
Looking at the plump meaty foam of the Yong Tau Foo in the bowl, which was filled with juice, as well as the large pieces of crab meat, Lu Mingfei pursed his lips and said, "Thank you, Mom."
"What are you thanking me for, kid?" Qiao Weini said angrily, "I am your mother!"
"Look, look, tsk, tsk, tsk, it really is a rich family. We have a simple life all year round, and we have to help raise other people's children. When they come back, they only eat abalone, lobster, big fish and meat, and they don't necessarily care about poor people like us. It's a shame for us. He even pissed a lot of shit and stretched someone out." Seeing this, my aunt's tone was sour, and she started to be weird.
"Mingze is here too, this piece of meat is rich." Seeing this, Qiao Weini smiled and put a large piece of crab meat in Lu Mingze's bowl.
"Some people have some conscience." Auntie said, pulling off a goose leg and putting it into Lu Mingze's bowl, and said at the same time, "Can't you eat more slowly? No one will compete with you."
"Oh." Lu Mingze replied weakly after being scolded.
The uncle looked at Lu Lincheng helplessly from the side. He moved his mouth. He didn't know what to say, so he had to raise his glass. "Welcome back, Mingfei missed you. Let's have a drink to celebrate."
"Come and celebrate our family reunion." Lu Lincheng also raised his glass.
He looked at Lu Mingfei and found that Lu Mingfei's wine glass was empty, so he poured another glass for Lu Mingfei, "Mingfei, come together."
"Huh? But...this is liquor?!" Lu Mingfei hesitated.
He has only drank beer at most, and he has really never drank much liquor.
"It's okay, we are happy today." Lu Lincheng patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder, "Besides, this is Moutai, you have to learn to taste it."
Lu Mingfei heard this and looked at Qiao Weini.
Seeing this, Qiao Weini nodded slightly towards him and said with a smile, "It's okay, just drink. It's only for today. It's not easy for you two to reunite. If it were in the past, I definitely wouldn't allow it."
"Oh." After hearing this, Lu Mingfei nodded slightly, raised his wine glass and touched it with Lu Lincheng, Uncle and the others.
The liquor entered his throat, probably because it was the first time he drank it. Lu Mingfei only felt it was spicy and strong.
After a long time, Lu Mingfei felt the rich and mellow aroma of wine.
This wine seems to have a faint fragrance.
But Lu Mingfei didn't understand wine, he just felt that the meal was very enjoyable.
Happy as never before.
But his father seemed to be happier than him, constantly pouring him wine and clinking glasses.
All the grievances and sadness that he had felt seemed to be dissolved into his stomach as he drank glass after glass of wine.
