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Bai Xiaoqi was sitting in the western restaurant, with a white tablecloth in front of him, and the waiter brought freshly fried steak to him.

He was clumsy when he was a child, and he didn't get much better when he grew up. All the work related to handwork was messy, and he could cut steaks into big pieces and small pieces.

Huo Zhenye couldn't see it, so he pulled the plate over and cut it for him.

"Brother, don't you want to eat?"

Huo Zhenye shook his head, there was only a cup of black coffee in front of him, he picked it up and took a sip: "You eat, bring a piece of cake for Axiu when you go back."

"The little old lady will definitely talk about it." Bai Xiaoqi's mouth was full of complaints, but his face was beaming. He had a lot to say to Huo Zhenye.

Talk about his affairs in college, talk about his female classmates.

Huo Zhenye was leaning on the sofa, holding a coffee cup, listening to him with a slight smile, watching the sun shine through the glass on his young face.

The gloom between the brows was gone, the eyes were not stained with frost, and he lowered his head and took a sip of coffee.

He likes Bai Zhun like this, but he doesn't love Bai Zhun like this.

What he loves is Bai Zhun, who has a bad mouth, a bad temper, a delicate body and a weak body.

Bai Xiaoqi stopped, he finished his steak and ordered a vanilla cream ice cream, with a little white cream foam on his mouth, he suddenly asked: "Brother, who are you looking at?"

Huo Zhenye smiled: "No one."

It's not that he hasn't found a way to wake up, but he can't wake up, lying in bed every day, and opening his eyes is still this dream.

Huo Zhenye still remembered what he was doing, he was buying cakes for Bai Zhun, and on the way home after buying the cakes, he fell asleep, and only when he fell asleep did he start having this dream.

Everything projected in the dream is people he has seen and things he knows.

To be precise, this dream was tailor-made for him, and everything did not escape his cognition.

Bai Xiaoqi took out two movie tickets: "Brother, are you free? Let's watch a movie together."

"Flowers in the Fog" was printed on the movie ticket, and the faces of Wen Ye and Xiao Yufang were on the posters at the entrance of the movie theater. The newspapers also reported that the two of them were together because of a love affair during filming.

This is Huo Zhenye consciously leading his dream.

He can always get what he wants in his dreams, as long as his reasons are reasonable enough.

For example, when I met Father John, he arranged a way for himself, and in his dream he gave himself a home.

"Aren't you two spending money recklessly again?" Axiu put her hips on her hips, staring at her two brothers, "I already bought a bicycle this month, and I told you not to spend any more!"

Bai Xiaoqi smiled and took out the small cake: "We didn't just eat it ourselves, we also brought it for you."

Axiu's face paled, but she was still angry: "Brother, it's not easy to make money, we can't spend it recklessly."

Huo Zhenye looked at his younger brother and sister, and leaned against the window: "It's okay, just eat, can you eat poor me?" He looked up to the sky while talking, occasionally there would be a floating shadow in the clouds.

This world is colorful, only the floating shadow is light gray, which is incompatible with this world.

Sometimes it was in the clouds, sometimes it was in the air, sometimes it was even a gray goose, and it always disappeared in a flash, slipping away from him without paying attention.

Huo Zhenye had an intuition that as long as he caught that gray shadow, he could wake up from his dream.

"Brother, do you think I'm right? Is it pretty?"

Huo Zhenye came back to his senses, and when he heard that it was Bai Xiaoqi who was asking the question, he nodded immediately: "Of course, it must look good."

I thought Axiu would jump up, but she frowned, blushes rose on her face, she quickly glanced at Huo Zhenye, hurried back to the room, and closed the door.

"What did you just say?" Huo Zhenye asked now.

"I said to buy a western dress for Axiu, like the one worn by Hu Die in the pictorial. She must be prettier than a movie star." Bai Xiaoqi glanced at the dangling half curtain on the door and smiled.

Seeing this smile, Huo Zhenye's heart skipped a beat. He looked at Bai Xiaoqi and smiled. There was something else in the smile: "Then you buy it for her."

He doesn't love this person, even if the appearance is the same, but not loving is not loving.

He will not be jealous because Bai Xiaoqi shows his affection for others.

Huo Zhenye began to pay attention to the frequency of that gray shadow appearing slowly, it was always in the sky, as if spying on the world condescendingly.

spy on his dreams.

"Master, did he discover something?" Gao Yuan looked at Huo Zhenye in the ancient mirror, standing behind Hongyang, and asked worriedly.

The person Huo Zhenye bumped into at the cake shop was Hong Yang.

As they passed by, Hongyang cast a spell on Huo Zhenye, making him fall into a dream.

"Will he see through dreams?"

Once the spell is broken, it will backfire on the caster.

Master used this spell to control many people, among them there were big businessmen and politicians, and they believed in everything that happened in the dream.

In the dream, the first teacher, the Heavenly Mother, issued a decree and bestowed wealth and power, and they easily became believers in one way.

So many big men failed to see through the nightmare, why did this Huo Zhenye intentionally or unintentionally, seem to have noticed something, as if he was observing the dream.

A red candle was lit in the room, and the candle light shone on the bronze mirror, which reflected half of Hong Yang's face. He stared at the mirror, and when the candle burned to the end and the sparks were about to be extinguished, he added another one.

The light of the fire turned from dark to bright, and everything in the mirror became clear again.

"He knew it from the beginning." Hong Yang said.

Huo Zhenye has a long life and wealth, and has both fortune and fortune, which is a rare good fortune.If this person is a businessman, he will become a big merchant, and if he is an official, he will ascend to a high position, but he did not take these two paths.

If there is no place to arrange for the good fortune that fate should give him, he will make up for it elsewhere.

His consciousness is strong and his inspiration is keen. He knew from the beginning that this was a dream, and he was still intentionally manipulating this dream.

"He knew from the beginning?" Gao Yuan was shocked, and seeing Hongyang frowned, he lowered his voice, "Master, I'm worried about your old man's health."

In order to expand the territory of Yiguandao, the momentum is extremely fierce, and Hongyang still has to spare time to concentrate on dealing with Huo Zhenye. If you ask him, it is not worth investing so much energy in just eight sects.

"Master, why do we have to do this, haven't we already opened so many sub-forums in Hongkou?"

The way of the Japanese went through, and the patrol soldiers would let go of the Taoists when they saw a gate, and put the sign of the gate on the door, so that the Japanese soldiers would not break in.

If you hold a protective umbrella, you will naturally have to collect protection fees. As soon as there are more and more Taoist altars, they will soon be in parallel with the Green Gang. Why do you still care about the eight sects?

Hongyang's eyes moved slightly: "What do you know?"

He doesn't care about Bamen, what he cares about is Bai Zhun's paperwork, he wants to see how capable Bai Zhun really is.

Huo Zhenye in the bronze mirror looked down thoughtfully. Hongyang moved the bronze mirror, and saw that he was looking down at a pond with the sky reflecting in the pond.

Gao Yuan held his breath: "Did he find the key?"

Hongyang didn't speak, since this kind of dream can't fool him, let him think that he found the door to get out.

He activated the spell, and the bronze mirror slowly turned, turning faster and faster, and time passed quickly in the dream.

When Huo Zhenye came home, he saw Axiu wearing a new dress and walked up to him: "Brother, do you look good?"

Huo Zhenye thought it was Bai Xiaoqi who bought it for Axiu. The pink bow-knot shirt was covered with a long gauze skirt. Axiu was already beautiful. Wearing such exaggerated clothes on her, she looked like a porcelain doll.

"nice."

"Second brother invited us to the Red House Western Restaurant for dinner, and celebrated my birthday." Axiu also permed her hair, dressed like a female star in a movie pictorial, her hair was curled, and she wore a crystal hairpin .

Huo Zhenye smiled: "He is quite caring."

The two went to the street together. People on the street looked sideways at the handsome men and beauties. Huo Zhenye stopped a rickshaw and said, "Go to the red house."

Axiu was always silent on the road, sneaking a glance at Huo Zhenye from time to time.

She likes big brother, she doesn't want to be big brother's little sister, she wants to be big brother's wife.

Huo Zhenye didn't realize that Bai Xiaoqi and this little Axiu were his younger brothers and sisters who were raised by him, he would occasionally covet Bai Xiaoqi's face and look at Bai Zhun through his face, but they were family members to him.

"Call us here, but he himself is late?" Huo Zhenye said as he flipped through the menu, he actually didn't need to look at it, he could report a long list of Bai Xiaoqi's favorite food with his eyes closed.

Axiu held the coffee cup, her curly hair fell to her cheeks, she looked down at her own shadow in the cup, and mustered up her courage: "I...I like big brother."

Huo Zhenye's casual expression froze, and he turned his head slowly.

"I fell in love with Big Brother the first time we met." The first sentence was spoken, and the rest became easier, "Does Big Brother like me?"

"Like it, but not that kind of like."

Axiu's eyes were full of tears, she seemed to have already thought of this result, she asked: "I know, I know who my elder brother likes."

"Eldest brother likes second elder brother." Huo Zhenye always treats him the best, picks fish for him, and covers him with a quilt.

Always looking at the second brother very tenderly, even she has never been looked at by such eyes.

Bai Xiaoqi stood by the table, holding the cake in his hand, opened his mouth wide and looked at Axiu, then at Huo Zhenye.

His face changed layer by layer, and finally he seemed to understand suddenly. He gave Huo Zhenye an angry look, then turned his head and ran away.

Huo Zhenye remained silent. He never thought that such a thing would happen after raising a child.

Sighing, he ran out quickly, and just as he was about to catch up with Bai Xiaoqi, a car rushed up, Huo Zhenye pushed Bai Xiaoqi away.

I was hit hard by a car, knocked out of the road, and rolled to the side of the street.

Although it was a dream, the pain was extremely real. When he fell to the ground, he rolled into a pond, which reflected a gray shadow in the sky.

Huo Zhenye suddenly opened his eyes, his chest heaved and he was panting violently, the pain spread from all four feet.

"Are you awake?" Bai Zhun sat beside him, a row of white candles were lit in the room, and the candlelight reflected in his eyes.

A little bit of light stirred the emotion in Bai Zhun's eyes, he leaned forward uncontrollably, their noses were facing each other.

This time, Bai Zhun took the initiative and kissed her.