Lucid dreaming

Returning to the Li family mansion again, pushing open the wrought iron gate, looking at the tidy lawn and the hedge roses full of pink flowers, Li Zhaowei did not feel the shock of a lifetime.It may be that the impact of returning to Moon City and seeing the untouched room furnishings was too severe, or it may be that the Li family mansion is far from what it looked like ten years ago, and it has been remodeled by Li Zhaomin to look like a model house in the villa area.

When the lights came on, the mansion was lit up, and the shadows of clothes and temples reflected on the windows could be vaguely seen.Li Zhaowei walked towards the gate along the cobblestone path.The heartbeat accelerated with every step, and the blood pressure hit the eardrums and made a bang bang sound.He hadn't had this tense, uneasy feeling of trying to break free from the cage for a long time.

He wanted to go in and face Li Zhaomin.The woman who had imprisoned Kosi for ten years.

There was a small voice in his heart, unrelentingly questioning Wang Jiayi's judgment.Could Wang Jiayi be lying to him, just talking nonsense and giving him some false comfort.But Li Zhaowei also knew clearly that the reason why he believed Wang Jiayi's words was that on the one hand, Wang Jiayi's words were decent, and on the other hand, he always vaguely understood in his heart that Ke Xi would not be poisoned to death by that thing. Must be living in silence somewhere.

Li Zhaowei pressed the doorknob and pushed the door open with a little force.Bright lights shone on his dark suit.He walked into the hallway, stepped on the woven Persian wool carpet, turned left, and entered the bright and tidy living room.There were already five or six people sitting inside, and when they saw him, they stood up one after another.

Sitting in the innermost place, sitting motionless is Mr. Li, and sitting next to Mr. Li is his mother.Beside his mother, Li Zhaomin was wearing an off-the-shoulder black Dior evening dress, and then Li Zhaohe was dressed as if he was going to officiate a wedding. The strange woman between Li Zhaohe and Mr. Li should be Li Zhaohe's fiancée Gong Baotian.

Her hair is undyed, shoulder-length preppy style, full of rhyme, apricot face and peach cheeks.She cannot be regarded as a high-scoring beauty, but she is full of wealth and comfort from the inside out.Li Zhaowei understands why Li Zhaohe and Gong Baotian got engaged.She is a good girl who is stable and peaceful. For those of them who are mentally unstable, she is as reassuring as a soft melody.

"Zhaowei is back." Li Zhaomin said, "Tiantian, let me introduce you. This is Zhaohe's brother Li Zhaowei."

"Brother Zhaowei." Gong Baotian said.She has a sweet voice and speaks very slowly.Li Zhaowei nodded to her and smiled.

Li Zhaomin beckoned him to sit beside her, and everyone to sit down, saying, "Now our family members are back. Zhaowei hasn't been home for many years."

"Yes." Mom passed Li Zhaomin and reached out to touch him, "I haven't seen you for ten years, Zhaowei, do you want to go home?"

Seeing her mother's eye circles turned red with horror, Li Zhaowei hurriedly patted her mother's hand and said, "I'm back."

Gong Baotian was obviously puzzled, but she kept silent and smiled without asking any questions.Li Zhaomin said to her mother again: "Zhaowei is also doing very well in the company, and she is completely capable of being alone. Time flies, and the mischievous appearance of my two younger brothers seems to be still in front of me. In a blink of an eye, Zhaowei has become an adult. gone."

Everyone echoed a few words, and Gong Baotian smiled and said, "Does Zhaohe have mischievous moments?"

Li's mother opened her mouth to say something, and Li Zhaomin said before her mother: "He is quite naughty. For example, when visiting a high school for a school trip, everyone must obey the school's arrangements. Visit whatever you want to visit, and attend the lectures when you have to. This guy is fine, he skipped two whole days, went to Philadelphia to watch Comic Con, and got lost, and finally the police called me, and I went all the way to pick this guy up. It doesn’t make people worry at all.”

Li Zhaowei didn't know about this.Lee Jo-hyuk looked a little embarrassed, and said: "The school activities were boring. Most of the time was spent playing poker and chatting with classmates in the hotel. I only visited the campus in the afternoon and attended the class in the morning, but I couldn't understand. Why should I talk to them?" Get mixed up."

Gong Baotian smiled and asked, "Is that so?"

"Nonsense." Li Zhaomin said, "This guy is disorganized and disciplined. He is lawless! You will be busy in the future."

Gong Baotian lowered her head and smiled. For some reason, she seemed to like Li Zhaohe very much.Li Zhaowei asked, "Miss Gong, when will your parents come over?"

"Hmm..." Gong Baotian pondered for a moment, "I won't come today. They will officially get engaged tomorrow, and they will come back tomorrow."

It's dark outside now, it seems that Gong Baotian will stay here tonight.It doesn't matter, there are seven bedrooms in the mansion, no matter how many people can sleep.

"Let's eat." Li Zhaomin said, "Let's chat at the dinner table, don't sit here and drink tea. Last time I went to Xiao Huang's house, Xiao Huang happened to get some fresh sea fish and clams, and brought them to me Some. The size of the fish is funny, quite big. Let's eat and see how it tastes."

Everyone agreed and stood up.Li Zhaowei found that Gong Baotian was not short. Her height was about 1.7 meters. After removing the height of her high heels, she was taller than Li Zhaomin.

Looking at the back of Li Zhaohe and Gong Baotian going out side by side, Li Zhaowei thought, maybe this is the happiness of his younger brother, he will marry Gong Baotian and have children, and his life will be safe and stable.Maybe the younger brother will take over the family business in the future, or he may do what he likes.The younger brother is happy and free.

This is something that he can't get in his whole life.

His mother suddenly whispered in his ear, "Zhaowei, why didn't you go home before?"

After a while, he realized that his parents had already walked to him. Li Zhaowei raised his hand to scratch his hair that was not messed up at all, and said, "Well, the company has something to do, I want to experience it first..."

"Really." Mom said, "Then what's the experience like now?"

Seeing Mr. Li's expression out of the corner of his eye, Li Zhaowei didn't answer.Mom knew he was lying and knew he knew about it.This is the tacit past between them.

Perhaps Mr. Li thought that if he was raised well, given money, job, housing, and identity, sooner or later he would be touched, would know that happiness is hard-won, and would return to this family.It is also possible that Mr. Li has given up on him, and he is only maintaining the appearance of the second young master of the Li family.After all, Li Zhaowei has a serious tendency to violence, hurting others or destroying himself at every turn.In contrast, Lee Jo Hyuk only cares about his appearance and likes some paper two-dimensional things, he is simply a perfect good young man.

Li Zhaowei is very tired of himself and this life that is always under control.

Mr. Li suddenly asked him, "Zhaowei, how are you doing these days?"

"Very good." Li Zhaowei replied cautiously.

Li Zhaomin heard it from the front, turned around and smiled, and said, "It's okay, Dad, I'm here. I'll just use the materials from Xiao Zhou's family and take him with me. It's definitely fine."

Mr. Li nodded in satisfaction and said, "Yes. That's good. I plan to do some business in South America in the future, and I'll rely on you here."

If I read correctly, the corners of Li Zhaomin's mouth stiffened for a moment.Although she quickly covered it up with a smile, the subtle expressions couldn't escape Li Zhaowei's eyes.

Li Zhaomin was not talking nonsense, her "Xiao Huang" did deliver a very large fish, which took up most of the long table.There is not even such a big plate at home, the fish head and tail hang out limply, and the fish eyes stare at the bottom of the plate in frustration, as if they can see through the plate how they disappear piece by piece.

Li Zhaomin didn't eat very much, and kept talking, talking about his old friends with his father; discussing with his mother and Gong Baotian what new trendy brands she had seen—Gong Baotian was actually an expert, and he was very good at talking about luxury goods.It sounds like her major is luxury goods; and Lee Jo-hyuk talked about the experience in the United States, and laughed happily from time to time.

She played with Lee Jo Hyuk a lot.Although Li Zhaowei went abroad for one year after Li Zhaowei went to the United States, Li Zhaowei failed to finish high school in China. When he went to the United States, he had to transfer to high school and take two years of grades, unlike Lee Zhaohyuk who graduated from high school and went to university directly.In terms of time, he is Lee Jo Hyuk's elder brother, but he became Lee Jo Hyuk's junior in the United States.Moreover, during his study, Li Zhaowei was strictly guarded by his father's predecessor, and his free time was not as good as his junior high school.

Looking at it this way, he is actually the person at the table who has the least experience of the world and the least experience to share.

Li Zhaowei took an opportunity, put down his chopsticks, left the restaurant quietly, and went to the study on the second floor.He didn't know which floor Li Zhaomin's bedroom was moved to now.But he also didn't think Li Zhaomin would hide important things in the bedroom.

In the past ten years, her eavesdropping hobby will only enter the room, and will not disappear.She will definitely separate the important things and put them in places that others can't think of.

The study looked like it was just a study.According to the order of the textbooks at the bottom of the bookshelf, it is obvious that Li Zhaomin has not been back for a while. I remember that Mr. Li or Li Zhaohe said that now Li Zhaomin lives in hotels everywhere and only goes home once in a few months.It is also possible that after the explosive growth of e-books, she rarely buys paper books.

Li Zhaowei rummaged through the bookcase for a while, but found nothing. There was not even a safe in the study.

Then it can only be on the top of the bookcase.This was her home after all, not a room she wanted to bug.

Li Zhaowei pulled the swivel chair and placed it under his feet, looking at the top of the bookcase.Sure enough, a row of plastic-covered CDs were neatly pasted above the bookcase, and each CD had its name written on the plastic cover.Judging by the neat handwriting and the aging degree of the plastic packaging, these CDs are at least five or six years old.

The plastic box is very neat, and if you just scrub it normally, it will not cause damage at all, and the cleaning staff will not feel the existence of the CD.Apparently, she just kept it where others couldn't see it, and didn't spend any more effort to hide or protect it.She doesn't store anything important on these CDs.

Li Zhaowei sighed and was about to jump off the chair when he saw a familiar name out of the corner of his eye.

Zhou Mingyuan.

Does he have any handles in Li Zhaomin's hands?

Li Zhaowei carefully peeled off the CD marked "Zhou Mingyuan". Fortunately, the desktop computer in the study room still has an optical drive that can be inserted into the CD.Li Zhaowei turned on the computer, inserted the CD, and there was a row of audio files named in chronological order.But that time was totally wrong.Li Zhaowei frowned and thought for a moment, it was when he first moved into Li's house.No, it was earlier than that time.

What must she and Zhou Mingyuan have to record?

Li Zhaowei clicked on the first audio.There is a rustling sound from the speakers.Li Zhaowei adjusted the speaker button and lowered the volume. After a slight rustling sound, a young girl said pitifully, "Ming Yuan..."

Although the voice is distorted, you can still hear Li Zhaomin 11 years ago.Another boy who had changed his voice during his youth said eagerly, "Sister Zhaomin! What's wrong with you?"

Li Zhaowei gripped the mouse unconsciously.He thought he had forgotten, but the voice lurked at the bottom of the memory, screaming curses and insults.He seemed to see the corridor where the rain was flying slantingly ten years ago, full of students who had turned into blurred shadows.

That voice, together with Cosi's, was the echo of his adolescence.

The young Li Zhaomin was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "You must know, right? My parents are divorced. My mother bought a ticket for two weeks later. She is going to the United States and will never come back."

The boy gave a grace, not perfunctory, but because he was so anxious that he didn't know what to say.Li Zhaomin waited for a while, and said: "Will you look down on me? Now I am a homeless person, and I am no longer a sister Li..."

"No!" The boy replied immediately, "Sister Zhaomin, you are not to blame for your family's affairs, you are so outstanding, no one says you are jealous of everything!"

"Thank you." Li Zhaomin said in a low voice, "But am I really good? If so, why would Dad give up on me for that boy...?"

"Who is that boy?" Zhou Mingyuan asked immediately.Li Zhaomin didn't speak, maybe he made some expression, or maybe he made some gesture, Zhou Mingyuan said "ah" in embarrassment, and said, "I understand, I didn't mean that."

"Speaking of which, you still know each other." Li Zhaomin said softly, "One named Li Zhaowei seems to be your classmate..."

"Li Zhaowei?" Zhou Mingyuan obviously raised his voice, "I know him! At first I thought you were related, so I asked, but he said no. Is he really your brother?"

"I'm not lucky to have such a younger brother." Li Zhaomin's voice was a bit self-defeating.Zhou Mingyuan immediately apologized to her, accompanied by a flattering compliment, Li Zhaomin listened silently, and waited until Zhou Mingyuan's compliment was exhausted, then said quietly: "You said you know him, you know him very well Is he... very good?"

"Not at all!" Zhou Mingyuan was filled with righteous indignation, "He is no match for you! Sister, wait, I will definitely teach him a lesson when I see him again!"

"Really?" Li Zhaomin blurted out, then lowered her voice, and said sadly, "No, Mingyuan, I'm a girl, I'm born to be inferior to your boys, and Li Zhaowei is the pillar of the Li family that everyone loves and looks forward to , what right do I have to bully him? It would be nice if he didn't come to bully me, you are the only one in this world, and you can still think that I am a decent sister..."

Afterwards, her crystal-clear voice was husky with tears. Li Zhaowei stared blankly at the screen with fluctuating audio, and Zhou Mingyuan's expression of panic and helplessness appeared in front of his eyes almost at the same time.

He knew that Zhou Mingyuan had always admired Li Zhaomin, and this admiration had lasted for a long time. Even his girlfriend, Wei, was introduced by Li Zhaomin.

Was his affection merely admiration?

Li Zhaowei suddenly looked at the door. At some point, Li Zhaomin was half leaning against the door frame, with an inscrutable smile on his face.Seeing that Li Zhaowei finally responded to her gaze, she stood up straight and asked him in a cold voice.

"What are you listening to?"