"Chen Wenwen, please have some tea, you stupid woman."
"Chu Zihang, good senior brother, a weirdo."
"Lu Mingze, little devil, stupid Ou Doudou."
"Herzog, dead man."
The amber-like morning light slanted through the glass window onto the desk. As he wrote this, the boy couldn't help but take a deep breath and stare at the black hard-cover notebook in front of him. Then he seemed to muster up all his strength to write the last line.
Such a passage.
"Uesugi Eri, my love."
Lu Mingfei stared at the last line of words for a long time, as if the girl who haunted him but had never seen him was hidden in the book and appeared on the page. The boy just held his chin and looked at her carefully, with words in his eyes and in the corners of his mouth.
Full of tenderness.
Over the years, this was something Lu Mingfei would take the trouble to do every day. As if writing down those contents day after day was not enough, the boy seemed to want to ingrain the last name deeply into his bones.
"Lu Mingfei, did you forget that a professor from an American school came for an interview today? You don't have to worry about going to college, so you let others worry about you? Why don't you quickly change your clothes and get ready to go out?"
"oh."
The aunt's urging sounds kept ringing outside the door, but the boy at the desk didn't say anything like "If the emperor is not in a hurry, then why bother?" and so on. He just replied lightly without any anger.
He closed the notebook gently, as if he was afraid of accidentally crushing the precious name in the book.
"It's not that Auntie is nagging. There have been too many cases of people pretending to be famous universities and defrauding them recently. What's more, I've never heard of Cassel College. Yesterday I asked your uncle to go to the official website of this school to check the information. Guess what?
"
“When I clicked on it, it was full of rubbish ads like ‘Sexy dealer, dealing cards online’, ‘Come and kill me if you’re a brother’!”
"This probably has nothing to do with my school. It's probably a virus in my uncle's computer." Lu Mingfei replied helplessly.
Apart from the uncle himself, the only person who usually uses his uncle's HP laptop, which is about to become obsolete, is his cousin Lu Mingze. But every time Lu Mingze uses the computer, he hides in his room and locks the door, euphemistically known as
He didn't want to be disturbed and wanted to concentrate on studying. But when Lu Mingfei opened his browsing history afterwards, he saw some weird VPNs. It was obvious how the computer virus came about.
"In short, don't just say what others ask you, and tell outsiders all the information about your family. You have to know that the Chinese people don't lie to the Chinese people, so you can't believe it. Those copycat professors from foreign countries are very clever.
Be careful not to be deceived into wearing no pants, because you don’t have much pants to begin with..."
Once her aunt starts nagging, she never knows when she will stop. This is something that the whole family is helpless but accustomed to. However, Lu Mingfei still can't help but think: What if the physics world breaks through the sophon barrier one day and develops the first
Taiwan’s perpetual motion machine, that’s probably my aunt’s mouth!
"Mingfei, are you listening? Mingfei!"
"I'm listening."
In fact, Lu Mingfei wasn't listening at all, because he knew that Kassel College really existed.
One day when Lu Mingfei first entered high school, he would have a recurring dream every night. In the dream, he would sit on the windowsill covered with green ivy and read a story called "Dragon Clan". It happened that there was also a character named Lu in the story.
Mingfei's bad boy.
Not only Lu Mingfei, there are too many characters who appeared in Lu Mingfei’s life in the book: Lu Mingze (Fat House Version), Chen Wenwen, Chu Zihang... there are also many that he has never seen or heard of.
Previous names: Fingal, Caesar...Eriyi, until I read that the girl named Eriyi died helplessly, the whole story came to an abrupt end.
In fact, Lu Mingfei did not regard the story in the dream as anything special at first. After all, existences such as the Four Great Kings and the Eight Snake Qi Family sounded a bit too fantasy, compared with the one he lives in now.
There is no half-money relationship in the world at all!
Moreover, the story of a lost dog and a young boy looks like a dog-licking autobiography written by an old thief with a lot of literary problems.
Can you believe that?!
Just like one day when you met a strange blind man on the way, the blind man said: "Hey, do you believe in light? I think you have amazing bones and talents, and you will be a genius who saves the world from disaster."
Put a magic wand in your hand.
How do you know if that divine light stick is a small gift that comes with the Ultraman Tiga figure purchased in a boutique? Could it be that you really dreamed that one day a Gatanjie would appear in the world and then
Do you follow the miraculous reappearance of the BGM and become a giant of light to save the world?
If Lu Mingfei had just entered junior high school, he would have thought that slaying dragons was such a cool and great cause, and he had to get involved. After all, if the earth was missing his S-level Lu Mingfei, the rotation would be slower.
What should we do? Aren’t there twenty-five hours in a day? Isn’t it that the gravitational difference between the earth and the moon will increase, causing tidal action, global warming, Arctic glaciers melting, and then a tsunami covering the sky and sun will submerge the city?
The end of the world? That’s okay!
But Lu Mingfei was already a mature high school student at that time. Of course he believed that Jotaro Kujo had a heart of platinum, that Luffy's body could expand and contract at will, and that Yusuke Urameshi could come back from the dead. Lu Mingfei was willing to believe that
And I firmly believe that these must exist!
It just wouldn't happen in his Lu Mingfei's world.
Until Lu Mingfei accidentally met Chu Zihang, a senior who existed in both the dream and the real world, after school.
On that pouring rainy evening, Chu Zihang, who topped the list of "Those to be punished" at Shilan Middle School and was more popular than the principal, rejected everyone. After all the students held umbrellas and left the school, he
Alone, I looked at the rain that drenched the whole world in darkness. The sadness in my eyes was as strong as a majestic ocean tide, which seemed to be able to submerge the whole world.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment because he didn't understand why Chu Zihang, who had already lived like a distant star in his eyes, looked more helpless and lonely than him, unless...
Until Chu Zihang's figure was about to disappear on that rainy night, Lu Mingfei chased after him.
"Brother!"
"Lu Mingfei?"
"Yes, senior brother actually still remembers me."
"Well, what's the matter?"
"Senior brother, are you alone after school? Where are your... parents?"
Chu Zihang glanced at Lu Mingfei strangely. Many people cared about him every day, from his appearance to his grades to his hobbies, but no one had ever asked him, "Why are you still alone after school? Where are your parents?"
Such words.
But Chu Zihang was instantly relieved, because the person who asked this question was Lu Mingfei, the only guy in the school who left later than him whenever it rained.
"They are divorced." Chu Zihang said.
"I remember meeting my senior brother's father before. It was also a rainy day. He was driving a very luxurious car. At that time, the senior asked me if I wanted to get in the car with him." Lu Mingfei said softly, staring closely at Chu Zihang's face.
Eye.
"Well, my father had a car accident on the elevated highway that day when he was driving, and then he disappeared. I was the only one who walked out." Chu Zihang said, his eyes were silent, "I still have saxophone lessons to attend, and you are alone.
Be careful on the way home."
Chu Zihang thought that Lu Mingfei missed his parents, but he was not good at comforting others, so he could only pat the other person's shoulder to express his comfort.
It was long after Chu Zihang left, and Lu Mingfei stayed there for an unknown amount of time as if he had been cast on a body-holding spell. The stories in his dream kept flashing back in his mind like fragments from old movies.
The heavy rain fell on his body, like nails piercing through his skin, causing pain all over his body and heartache.
"Hui Li Yi, Hui Li Yi, Hui Li Yi..."
After Lu Mingfei came to his senses, he ran home like crazy, muttering the name. He didn't even have time to take a shower, just wanting to fall asleep as soon as possible.
But Lu Mingfei discovered in despair that from the day dreams overlapped with reality, he lost the ability to dream.
"How come...why can't I dream..."
Lightning pierced the clouds, and thunder resounded in all directions. Lu Mingfei seemed to have been struck by a heavy thunder, completely losing his soul. Tears sneaked out of his eyes without even saying hello. The boy cried silently from the beginning,
From sobbing quietly to bursting into tears.
Lu Mingfei cried all night.
Outside the window was a heavy rain that seemed to flood the whole world, and inside the room was a boy holding the quilt and crying bitterly.
The tears, more ferocious than the rainstorm, finally completely pierced Lu Mingfei's life of stagnant water, and also wiped out the cowardice hidden in his bones.
It was like someone took a bloody boning knife and cut open Lu Mingfei's skin and then opened up the childish and decadent heart inside. The person just took out the heart and gave it to Lu Mingfei to take a look at, and then smiled contemptuously,
He stuffed his heart back without saying a word. The other party didn't say a word, but Lu Mingfei clearly heard the disappointment and sarcasm from that contemptuous laughter.
The one who was cut open was him now, the one holding the knife was himself who failed to save the girl, and the sharpest knife in the world is called "regret" and "regret".
Of the three thousand swords in the world, regret kills the most.
From that day on, Lu Mingfei transformed.
He gradually put down the mouse and keyboard, and left Warcraft and StarCraft. He turned around and picked up the bamboo sword and books, and wandered around the kendo hall and library.
From that day on, Lu Mingfei knew that there really was a place in the world called "Kassel Academy", which was a gathering place for psychopaths and monsters; he also knew that there was a girl destined for him on the other side of Japan, far away.
Waiting for him to save.
Lu Mingfei no longer dreams, but the story that appeared in the dream has too many details and is too complicated, so Lu Mingfei develops the habit of writing down some people he will meet and important things in his notebook every day.
It's a habit that he doesn't want to forget and doesn't dare to forget.
"It's time to go out, Mingfei."
Aunt's call pulled Lu Mingfei from memories back to reality.
Lu Mingfei put on the inexpensive and even cheap-looking suit he borrowed from his uncle, and combed his hair like an adult. The boy in the mirror looked quite reliable and steady. After opening the door, he
At this moment, the boy seemed to whisper to himself and to the distant shore thousands of miles away:
"It's not far, Eriyi. There are thousands of mountains and rivers, and the days are long. Please wait for me to find you!"
"must!"
Lu Mingfei, an ordinary boy living in a small coastal town in the south, has never even seen a helicopter or an express train. However, Lu Mingfei has not been yearning for or secretly thinking about such things since three years ago.
I was frustrated, because the young man had long known that his life was interspersed with roads filled with thorns.