Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 358 Chu Tianjiao (4.6k)

Chu Zihang flipped through the photos one by one. It seemed that the corners of the photos had been written with a red marker, but they could no longer be seen clearly because they were soaked in water.

He clearly remembered the scene in the photo.

Wearing a white test suit, he followed the kendo teacher in the kendo hall of the Children's Palace and swung his sword. His mother waved a rolled-up poster on the stage to cheer him on.

Then there was the first car "Dad" gave to Mom, a pink Maserati, and Mom was sitting next to the handlebars, making comparisons to the camera, but it was not a candid shot, but a shot of "Dad". In the photo, "Dad" will also be in the mirror, but his head was cut off.

There is also a shopping mall. Xiao Chu Zihang and his mother are sitting in Starbucks, drinking coffee and eating chocolate mousse cake.

Every photo is taken secretly, through the grass, through the glass, and through the rain
In the photos, the mother presents many kinds of appearances, smiling, staring, lonely, like a mother, a little girl, and a wife. Chu Zihang, who is a little green, always has a straight face.

It gives people the feeling that the person being photographed is a perverted stalker.

Turning to the last sheet, Chu Zihang suddenly froze.

It was a family portrait.

The shooting location is not an amusement park, nor a villa, but a simple farmers' market.

In the dark sky with sporadic snow, behind the three of them was a van with the trunk open, bacon and sausages packed in red plastic bags, a bag of green grapes, bulk halva and mung bean cakes, two boxes of pure Milk, and a new unopened electric train toy.

A child in a down jacket and a felt hat holds a crayfish whose pincers have been cut off, and holds it up high.

That was 6-year-old Chu Zihang, standing on his left and right were his biological father and mother.

Mom was worried about the camera, and Dad held a plastic box of brine in his left hand, and inside was the hot braised large intestine he had just bought.

The family portrait was written with a black marker.

"My favorite son", "My favorite wife".

Chu Zihang suddenly understood who took these photos.

Quietly followed behind the mother and son to take pictures, like something that man would do.

He's a top ten executive in Kassel, and cross-dressing and stalking are a piece of cake for him.

Since you are so reluctant, why did you have to separate in the first place?
Obviously, he could hold the hand of his beloved woman openly, but he did nothing and pushed her into the arms of another man, and he could only secretly take pictures like a perverted stalker.

Kassel's "S-level" executives will never be short of money. Even if they are penniless, they can still earn money that ordinary people can't earn in their lifetimes by virtue of their own abilities.

But at that time, life at home was always tight, especially after giving birth to Chu Zihang, my mother was planning to quit the dance troupe, but for Chu Zihang’s milk powder money, she had to reorganize the old clothes to make money to subsidize the family .

"Your father is just a little better. He will pick me up after get off work every day." Mom once told Chu Zihang in a joking tone.

Then my mother began to dress herself carefully, choosing a small skirt in front of the mirror, and taking out the jewelry left by her grandma from the exquisite small box, pearl earrings, a thousand pure gold necklace, and jade bracelets, she suddenly became radiant and charming. Kind of, with a faint scent of perfume floating on his body.

"Zihang be good, eat bread when you're hungry, mom will come back later."

She always took her father out to drink with her colleagues at night, leaving Chu Zihang at home alone, the TV was playing cartoons, and the little train toy was creaking and creaking on the circular track until the battery was dead. The drunk father and the hot-tempered mother squeezed in from the door, the two of them didn't say a word, the mother hugged Chu Zihang, and went to sleep in the inner room, while the father passed out drunk in the living room, reeking of alcohol.

When he came back to his senses, they were already divorced. Chu Zihang was awarded to his mother by the court, and he lived in a big villa, wearing brand-name clothes worth tens of thousands of dollars.

But the three of them never got together again, only Chu Zihang went back and forth between his parents, as if the family still existed.

Later, the man disappeared on that rainy night, and this broken home finally completely disintegrated.

"We found these photos in an abandoned factory building, and it seems that they were washed out by water." The person from the janitorial department said.

Hundreds of water pumps were pumping water out with full power, and the depth of the lake had dropped visibly to the naked eye. During further searches, the staff from the School Works Department came across these photos by accident.

Some of them recognized Chu Zihang. During the summer vacation last year, this "A-level" commissioner took care of them a lot, so someone immediately found Chu Zihang with these photos.

"Can you take me there?" Chu Zihang raised his head and asked.

The staff from the janitorial department pointed in one direction: "Please follow me."

Lu Mingfei walked on the cement road and shared these photos with Xia Mi and Eriyi.

"Wow, senior brother, have you suffered from facial paralysis since you were a child? You don't even smile." Xia Mi pointed to Chu Zihang when he was a child.

"Isn't this photo smiling?" Lu Mingfei held the family photo in his hand.

"Cute." Erika said.

"Where is there?" Xia Mi leaned over to look, and when he looked carefully, there was really a slight arc.

Lu Mingfei's focus was not on Chu Zihang, but on Chu Tianjiao who was beside him.

He has short black hair and wears a white shirt even in winter. The corners of the shirt are tucked into the waistband. He looks like a Hong Kong and Taiwan star in the last century. Judging from his facial features, he is indeed handsome. No wonder Su Xiaoyan fell in love with him back then. He, but the stewed large intestine in his hand made his temperament drop a lot.

The janitorial staff took them to a small gray and white three-story building, where the ground floor had been flooded before, but thanks to the hard work of the pumps, the water level had dropped to the waste accumulation area.

"here is"

"Brother, have you been here?"

"Dad used to work here, and I used to visit."

Chu Zihang followed his memory and entered from the long corridor.

When he first came, the factory area had already been sealed by the court, and the seal said "Media Asia Group Bankruptcy and Liquidation".

But the old man at the door saw that he looked familiar, so he opened the door for him and took him to find his father's single dormitory room.

"The photos were picked up near here." The person from the janitorial department said: "It floated on the water, and our divers collected them."

"En." Chu Zihang nodded, and continued to walk in.

Turning a corner, there was a room with a rusty door lock that fell to the ground, and the door seemed to be washed open by water.

That was Chu Tianjiao's former dormitory.

A group of people entered the room, and there was a soaked bed in the middle. Other daily necessities such as kettles and cups were scattered and washed down, and the white wall was cracked by blisters and fell off.

Chu Zihang felt strange, because only this room still had a lot of water, and he keenly felt that there was something wrong with the mattress.

The last time he came, the old man was with him. They only walked around the room and found nothing. Chu Zihang went back without thinking about removing the mattress. Normal people It is generally not thought that the mattress will be passive.

But that man, he is not a normal person.

Chu Zihang desperately wanted to lift the mattress. He was very close to the man's hidden side, but he forgot that he was still in the weak stage after the bloodbath, and the soaked mattress weighed several times its original weight. Suddenly, he lost his footing, slipped and fell backwards.

A petite embrace caught him: "Brother, eating tofu is not the way you eat it, it's so unskilled."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Chu Zihang stood firm from Xia Mi's flat chest.

"If you did it on purpose, I'd already be molesting." Xia Mi supported him.

"Let me do it." Lu Mingfei volunteered and lifted the mattress.

Beneath the mattress is a solid metal podium, but the mattress and podium do not fit perfectly, there is a slight misalignment.

A tightly assembled secret door came into view, the iron sheet and iron frame were welded, and a heavy padlock was added.

You can vaguely see water gushing out from the gap in the hidden door.

Lu Mingfei pulled out the wedge pill, the blade collided with the iron lock and sparked, the lock opened, and the hidden doors on both sides fell due to gravity. This is a secret basement, filled with water.

"It seems that we need to use a water pump to drain the water here." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.

Although he can dive directly, because the water below has not flowed for a long time, there is an unpleasant smell of water, like smelly leather shoes. He just took a shower and changed his clothes. It is true that he does not really want to jump in.

"Wait." Chu Zihang squatted down, asked for a strong flashlight from the school engineering department, and shone it on the secret door.

The spotlight didn't hit the wall, but a hole about two meters in diameter, which was about seven or eight meters away from the hidden door.

"Someone dug a tunnel to come here?" Lu Mingfei frowned.

Chu Zihang shook his head: "I should have accidentally blown up this hole with Jun Yan. This area belongs to the living area and office area of ​​the factory employees. The terrain is higher than the container area where the construction workers live, and the water level is also higher. It is higher, the wall of the basement is connected to the area below, and after being exploded, it becomes a connecting device, the water level will tend to be the same, and the water in the basement will be sucked out from that hole, the photo should be from that It was flushed out of the hole."

"Sounds so powerful." Lu Mingfei praised Chu Zihang's profound knowledge with wise eyes. He had long forgotten that connectors were something he had learned in junior high school physics.

"Is there a way for Eliyi to seal that hole? Use ice to temporarily freeze it." Chu Zihang asked.

"That's right! And Erika!" Lu Mingfei just thought of it.

Because they have been talking in Chinese, Erika actually doesn't understand what they are doing. She is probably in the mood to go shopping with everyone, and I will go wherever you go.

So Lu Mingfei explained to Erika in Japanese what they were doing.

Erika: "So we have to find a way to empty the water below here." (Japanese)

Lu Mingfei: "Yes, but you have to seal that hole first, otherwise it doesn't seem to work." (Japanese)

Erika (serious face): "I understand, leave it to me, Sakura and everyone will go out first." (Japanese)

In short, this matter was handed over to Eriyi, and the others were asked to evacuate. Lu Mingfei also drove away the people from the school engineering department, leaving only his own people.

"What is she going to do?" Chu Zihang had a bad feeling.

"Did you really tell her what to do?" Xia Mi also looked at Lu Mingfei suspiciously.

At this moment, the three of them retreated to the open-air parking lot outside the building, more than ten meters away from the small building. Erika waved to them through the window and gave them a thumbs up with a smile.

"Don't worry, Erika is not a child anymore, she will be [-] this year, and she is already a mature and reliable adult." Lu Mingfei chose to trust his wife unconditionally.

As soon as the words fell, a big hole was silently disintegrated in the wall of the small three-story building. Eriyi clasped his hands together, a golden light burst out from his eyes, and a deep gully was cracked on the concrete floor. From the shallow to the deep, the land at the end suddenly collapsed, and a deep well with a diameter of two meters appeared. The basement was forcibly dug out and exposed to the sun. The water in it flowed along the gully and flowed into the deep well.

Erika waved happily, "Come and praise me" written on her face.

Lu Mingfei walked over and gave her a high-five: "Eliyi is amazing."

"Hey." Erika smiled happily.

"This couple must be idiots," Xia Mi said slowly.

"The problem was solved smoothly, wasn't it?" Chu Zihang looked at the gully at least 10 meters deep on the ground, and carefully walked around to avoid falling.

The basement that had been covered in dust for many years was finally exposed before his eyes.

There was a steel pipe standing upright, Chu Zihang and Xia Mi slid down the steel pipe, Lu Mingfei landed lightly from a high place with Hui Liyi on his back.

Because of the current, the layout inside was washed into a mess.

But at a glance, you can still see a lot of things.

For example, classic jazz vinyl records, this kind of thing looks inconspicuous, but there are not many left in the world, and some versions are simply sky-high.

Then came the cigars, Chu Zihang picked up one, although it was wrinkled by blisters, he still recognized its brand, the most authentic cigars produced in Cuba, not just this one, but all of them.

And whiskey, the strongest island whiskey.

In the center is a large comfortable bed covered in Australian sheepskin.

Vintage cameras lay on the floor, along with a full set of photo-processing equipment.

In the corner is fitness equipment, the dumbbells are bigger than Chu Zihang's head...

The sunlight came in from the cracked floor wall, and Chu Zihang seemed to see the man living here.

Wearing a tight T-shirt that outlines his muscular lines, he walks in this space, smoking a cigar and holding a bottle of whiskey. He leans against the pool to develop photos, and the subwoofer plays the song "Sad Hotel" sung by Elvis Presley in 1956 .

In Chu Zihang's heart, his father was always coquettish, but he couldn't figure out where the coquettish energy came from. A driver who drove the boss in the factory, besides bragging in the bathing center, what else could he do?

Today he finally understands that his father knows the best cigars and the best whiskey, and loves listening to Elvis Presley and taking pictures.

That man has been to many places and had many experiences.

He was originally the kind of person who licks blood with a knife head. He has nothing to do with the life of ordinary people all his life. He is only accompanied by cigarettes, alcohol and a cold saber. Women are obsessed.

But he fell in love with a woman named Su Xiaoyan by mistake. That woman danced very well. It was too easy for him to chase a beautiful but stupid female dancer with his skills. They got married and gave birth to a child. They are all happy.

He lived the life of an ordinary person for so many years, he was greedy for all of them, but he had to abandon them, because he knew that it was best to keep only cigarettes, spirits and sharp knives by his side, otherwise one day, he would give His own wife and children brought disaster.

So in the end he pushed his wife and son away, and even found a man worthy of entrustment in advance.

How cool, this is Chu Zihang's father.

But it would be great if Dad wasn’t so cool, if he was really just a driver who loves braised large intestines and double hot chicken wings, maybe their family is still living an ordinary and happy life.

Chu Zihang suddenly complained to that man, and really wanted to complain to him, why he couldn't help falling in love with his mother back then.

Besides, since you are in love, at least you have to be responsible to the end, what kind of man is you to retreat halfway.

But he never had a chance to say these words, he took out the family photo and rubbed it with his fingers.

There is his own signature under the man's feet, which says "Chu Tianjiao" in elegant artistic style.

Everything is really a thing of the past.

"Father, are you still alive?" Chu Zihang asked softly.

"What's wrong, senior brother?" Xia Mi waved his hand in front of his forehead, "I feel like you're so lost."

Chu Zihang suddenly held her hand.

"What are you doing! I'm going to call!"

"I'm sorry, I just want to feel the temperature of another person."

"Did you feel it?"

"Well, thank you."

Chu Zihang let go of his hand, but Xia Mi held his hand again.

"Sometimes, it's better not to force yourself."

(End of this chapter)