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Later in the office, an old lady pointed at Lu Mingfei's nose and cursed him, saying that he was a bastard who had a mother but no mother to raise him. Lu Mingfei didn't care anyway because what she said was the truth. But Chu Zihang, who was beside him, rushed over like a gust of wind and punched the old lady's gangster in the nose, making his nose bridge crooked.

Mother Chu was so happy that she laughed so hard that she fell backwards. She asked the driver who drove the sky blue Panamera to take out a stack of money from the ATM outside and threw it on the desk, saying that we would pay for the medicine for the broken bones and the broken nose.

She stretched out her hand and embraced Lu Mingfei. She was obviously half a head shorter than Lu Mingfei, but she bared her teeth like a lioness protecting her cub and said to the aunties and uncles who were throwing a tantrum, "Who said this child was born by a mother but not raised by a mother? The godmother is not the mother!"

Lu Mingfei's nose felt sore and he almost cried. This was the first time in his life that he was protected by an adult like a child.

——The car stopped steadily at the gate of the lakeside villa, and Lu Mingfei was still tidying himself up.

When he was in school, he couldn't even tie a tie. In another time and space, it was Isabella who did this. When he returned to this world, the people who helped him tie his tie were Nono and Zero. Sometimes his junior sister would also help him pack his clothes.

At this time, the girl with exquisite figure crossed the seat and came to his side. Su Xiaoqiang helped Lu Mingfei turn over his collar with a serious face, then took off the scarf that was wrapped around his neck and tied it again, and folded the handkerchief that was stuffed in his shirt pocket into a delicate shape and put it into Lu Mingfei's chest pocket, leaving about one-third of it outside.

After doing all this, Su Xiaoqiang patted Lu Mingfei's chest, then stretched out his other hand to pinch his face.

"Done, still as handsome as before." The little angel blinked, stuffed a black umbrella into Lu Mingfei's hand, and then got out of the car holding another umbrella.

Chu Zihang's house was no different from what Lu Mingfei remembered. It was as if the past three years had come to a complete standstill in this building.

It still has a white dry-hanging marble facade and blue-gray high walls. The two heavy carved bronze doors are completely closed. There is an automatic sensing system installed on the doors, which will automatically slide open to both sides after swiping the card or recognizing the face. There is also a cirrus cloud pattern on the door head.

There are two tall ginkgo trees in front of the door, but at this season the ginkgo leaves have long since fallen off, leaving only white snow piled on the branches. The climbing roses on the wall have also long since withered, leaving only bare vines.

On the white marble slab at the door, "Lu House" was written in a flamboyant style.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei thought of Chu Zihang's awful stepfather Lu Tianming again. He had money but didn't mess around, and he didn't have a child with Aunt Su to inherit the family property. It was as if God had arranged for Chu Zihang to be an NPC who delivered a big gift package. Even if he didn't go to Kassel College and stayed in China to study at Peking University or Fudan University, he would still be a winner in life.

Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang looked at each other, hesitated for a moment and said, "Would it be inappropriate for us to ask Auntie out for a midnight snack at this time..."

Although Lu Tianming is relatively easy to talk to, any normal man would be worried about his wife running around in the snow in the middle of the night, right?

"Don't worry, my mom has a very good relationship with Mother Chu. I didn't tell her that you would be back. I just said there was a surprise... Brother, you know Mother Chu. She's like a little girl. She excitedly agreed to it when she heard there was a surprise." Su Xiaoqiang smiled with narrowed eyes. "I've also reported this to Boss Lu. We are business partners. The electronics factories he opened all get their raw materials from me. We know each other well, so he won't ask any more questions."

Lu Mingfei fell silent. He remembered that he had heard Su Xiaoyan talk about her relationship with Chu Zihang's father Chu Tianjiao before.

Now that I think about it, Chu Zihang is more like the product of a young girl who left behind a love that was growing unchecked when she was still young and ignorant.

Every time when Su Xiaoyan mentioned Chu Tianjiao in front of Lu Mingfei, she always looked like she was disappointed with him. Lu Mingfei once asked Su Xiaoyan, "Auntie Su, have you ever thought about going to find Uncle Chu?" Su Xiaoyan said, "Who would go to find him? If he comes to find me, I will talk to him. If he doesn't come to find me, I won't go to him either."

At this time, the carved bronze door slowly slid open to both sides, and the woman who was holding a handbag on her head to block the snow ran out with her head down and her face covered.

After running two steps, she bumped into Su Xiaoqiang's arms.

Lu Mingfei opened his mouth, but in the end he just wrapped his clothes tightly and said nothing.

The Su Xiaoyan in my memory was such a dazzling woman. When she was at home, she always wore a black slim long skirt and furry high-heeled slippers, which made her skin look as white as snow.

When staying at Chu Zihang's house, Lu Mingfei had the opportunity to see Aunt Su playing the guzheng in the deserted lakeside garden after taking a bath. In the hazy sky, a glow flowed on her skin, and stars seemed to gather in her eyes. Her dignified figure was tall and graceful, and her slender waist was full of charm. It was hard to imagine that she was an aunt in her forties. She looked more like a young girl in her bud.

But when he saw Su Xiaoyan again today, Lu Mingfei felt that she had a cold smell of alcohol on her. He suddenly realized that this woman was actually a female alcoholic. She and her sisters from Hefei, who were famous for their beauty when they were young, often organized open-air drinking parties in the super huge garden of their home, and drank until they were drunk, not caring at all about exposing their long white legs and spring scenery. Sometimes when Lu Mingfei passed by here, he would always watch with his eyes and nose, and silently recite in his heart, "Don't look at what is inappropriate, this is my senior brother's mother. Don't look at what is inappropriate, this is my senior brother's mother."

Lu Mingfei stood next to the Rolls-Royce Phantom, about four or five meters away from the two people, silently staring at Su Xiaoyan's profile.

The woman who used to sit by the lake and play the guzheng gracefully is now old. After all, time has left indelible marks on her face.

But no matter how old she is, she still exudes a hint of charm and a childishness that can be seen at a glance.

Lu Mingfei thought that in fact, Mother Chu had always been a heartless and carefree girl. When she followed Chu Tianjiao, although life was a little poor, that man really didn't let her suffer much. Later, she remarried Lu Tianming, who was a famous entrepreneur in the city. She could only go home once every ten days or half a month, and each time she went home was just one or two days. Although they were apart more than together, she never lacked Su Xiaoyan for a penny in spending, and always put the bank card with a large denomination on it with Mother Chu for her to use as she pleased.

Chu Zihang is also a precocious guy. He even remembers exactly when his mother should drink milk and at what degree.

The wind was strong by the lake, and snowflakes were flying towards Lu Mingfei. He wrapped his coat tightly and felt tiredness suddenly coming over him.

Nuo Nuo said before that Chu Zihang did not exist in their time and space, and everything about his senior brother was replaced by a Middle Eastern man named Aba Aba or Waibi Babu. It was Waibi Babu who helped Lu Mingfei along the way, it was Waibi Babu who was in love with Xia Mi, and even his fucking sister Susie's secret crush became that damn Waibi Babu.

In everyone's world, there is someone to replace Chu Zihang, but in Su Xiaoyan's world, her son has completely disappeared. She herself has been locked up in a mental hospital called Sacred Heart of Mercy. Every day, she stuffs a small pillow into her clothes and happily announces to the nurses that she is pregnant.

Nuo Nuo said that there are only two people in the world who remember Chu Zihang, one is Lu Mingfei and the other is Su Xiaoyan.

Perhaps Lu Mingfei relied on his strong bloodline, while that childish woman only relied on fragile emotions that belonged only to human beings.

Some people call that power love.

At this time, Su Xiaoyan finally realized that there was a guy next to her who was silently watching her. She blinked and raised her head, and a hint of curiosity appeared on her delicate but somewhat sad oval face with painted eyebrows and hair.

"Xiao Qiang, is this your boyfriend?" Her voice was surprisingly tender and crisp, but Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief because Aunt Su was still the Aunt Su he knew.

Su Xiaoqiang couldn't stop laughing. Lu Mingfei sighed, took off his mask and pulled his scarf open a little.

The woman looked up and down at the boy in front of her, once, twice, and until the third time, she suddenly pouted and burst into tears.

Lu Mingfei was at a loss as to what to do, and Su Xiaoqiang was also confused.

"He, they all said you were dead, Mingfei, they scared me..." Su Xiaoyan burst into tears, "They scared mom..."

She walked out from under Su Xiaoqiang's umbrella, stood in front of Lu Mingfei, looked up at him, then stretched out a hand and carefully stroked Lu Mingfei's cheek.

The hand was slightly cold and trembling.

Chapter 451 Su Xiaoyan

Is there any better time in the world to eat a meal of bubbling, hot and meaty mutton hotpot than now? The sky is full of snow and hail, and the tall sycamore trees on the river bank are frozen into ice sculptures. A man wrapped in a military cotton-padded jacket is walking under the iron railroad lights cast in the 1980s with a lit cigarette in his mouth. The man's shoulders are covered with snowflakes, and the whole world is filled with the only sound of the wind.

The Hefei branch of Jiumen Old Beijing Shabu-Shabu restaurant on the river bank hung two electric lanterns on the door. The light from the lanterns circled slowly like a searchlight, and the advertising slogan was outlined by the light and shadow, flowing on the broken ice and frozen muddy ground, while faintly illuminating the glacier and the lotus lanterns on the glacier that had long been extinguished and buried in the solid ice.

"I talked to Chu Zihang on the phone and he didn't say anything about what happened to you. He just kept telling me not to drink milk because I'm allergic to milk protein. But for so many years he has brought me hot milk at night. Chu Zihang should know better than anyone whether I am allergic to milk protein or not." Su Xiaoyan put on light makeup and had her hair done up. She crossed her tight and slender legs, and used long chopsticks to cook mutton, dipped it in sesame sauce, and passed it to Lu Mingfei's mouth. Lu Mingfei covered his already bloated stomach and opened his mouth with difficulty, and obediently accepted the kindness of this mother-like woman.

Thinking about it this way, I really should bring Eri along. The little monster's stomach is a small black hole that can hold all the food she likes in the world.

The canvas curtain hanging from the ceiling separated them from a very small private space. Even though it was cold late at night, the number of customers here was still astonishing. However, Su Xiaoqiang was a frequent visitor to this place. After he told the boss, the backstage immediately cut off the surveillance of this small space.

The hot steam, which was as comfortable as taking a bath in hot water, washed over the window glass facing the riverbank wave after wave, and the water vapor diffused outside the glass to form a warm air shield. Lu Mingfei was saying, "Auntie, you eat too, Auntie, you eat too." Su Xiaoqiang had just prepared the mutton for him and put it in his bowl.

"When you graduated that year, you sent me a text message saying that you had been admitted to a military academy and signed a confidentiality agreement, so you changed your cell phone number and I couldn't contact you, but I knew you were in the United States and Chu Zihang was in the United States as well. He must know how you were doing and whether you were being bullied outside." Su Xiaoyan buried her head and fiddled with her round, trimmed nails. Her voice was low. Her long hair was still black without a single gray hair, and she looked like a little girl. Su Xiaoqiang listened obediently, with his ears erect like a rabbit.

When they were studying at Shilan Middle School, Chu Zihang was a year older than Lu Mingfei, so it was the little girl who was inseparable from Lu Mingfei every day, not the expressionless senior brother. But who in the whole school didn't know about the relationship between Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang? Everyone assumed in their hearts that Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang were a perfect couple, so no one asked about the news of the counterattack loser, but many people came to ask for Chu Zihang's QQ.

It's a pity that Young Master Chu doesn't use that kind of social software at all. First of all, he basically has no social ability. The only person he can bring home, Lu Mingfei, is also contacted by phone. Secondly, Chu Zihang really doesn't like the new software with complex functions like QQ.

Anyway, the little goddess was actually quite interested in the gossip between Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang. For a while, she even thought they were a perfect couple...

"Every time he wrote to me or called me, I would ask him how he was doing and when he would return to China and would he come to see me. Chu Zihang always told me that you would come back after graduation and that you were actually in the same school as him, but you studied different majors... Auntie, I haven't been to college either, so I don't know if different majors mean such huge differences in treatment. But I'm very happy to hear that you are very popular with girls in school." Su Xiaoyan stopped fiddling with her fingernails and looked up at Lu Mingfei's face. That face looked harder than it was two years ago, less childish and more tired from the wind and frost. His facial features were also more open, like a man. As she looked at him, her nose felt a little sour.

"You were so small when you first came to our house," Su Xiaoyan gestured on her long and thin eyebrows, "you were only this tall, and skinny like a little monkey. I felt so sorry for you at that time, thinking who was this child? You must have suffered a lot. So I asked Chu Zihang to bring you back to visit us often, and asked Mr. Lu to take care of your uncle's foot bath city business..."

Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly. It turned out that someone had been secretly caring about him a long time ago. It turned out that there were not only selfish and materialistic middle-aged women like his aunt in this world. He poured a glass of wine for himself and Su Xiaoyan respectively. "Aunt, I toast to you." Lu Mingfei said, and then drank it all in one gulp.

"It's great that you've grown up." Su Xiaoyan took a sip. Her eyes were red, but she looked up at Lu Mingfei with a smile. She really had a pretty face that was not eroded by the years. She seemed to be the beautiful woman who was as graceful as a swan in the dance drama "Flower Rain on the Silk Road" more than 20 years ago.

Chu Zihang also said that his mother is a woman who never looks old. Even at the age of 40, she still likes to do her hair, buy clothes and go shopping. So in the eyes of others, his mother is the kind of artist who is sometimes cool and sometimes charming. His father used to like his mother to wear cheongsam, a true beauty in the style of the Republic of China. However, Su Xiaoyan never wore cheongsam again after divorcing Chu Tianjiao.

Chu Zihang also said that his mother looked good in cheongsam, but Lu Mingfei felt that his aunt was really beautiful in all kinds of ways.

"The last time I called Chu Zihang, he asked about you, but as soon as I talked about you, he changed the subject and told me not to drink milk. I guessed that you must have gotten into trouble outside. Zihang didn't even dare to mention you on the phone." Su Xiaoyan snorted, crossed her arms and gritted her teeth. "But you are all good kids. I guess it must be the American foreigners who bullied you, so I called that girl named Norma to ask what happened. She told me that you were beaten to death by the Japanese while participating in espionage activities in Tokyo..." Su Xiaoyan's voice was already tearful at the end. Su Xiaoqiang quickly hugged the emotionally sensitive aunt beside him and reached out to stroke Su Xiaoyan's straight back.

"I was so sad, thinking how could this be? I handed a good child over to you, how could he become a spy? I called the embassy in the United States and Japan, but they all told me that they didn't find any entry record of you. I was so worried, but there was nothing I could do. Auntie is just a useless old woman. What else can she do except cry and drink..." Su Xiaoyan couldn't say any more because Lu Mingfei stood up and hugged her gently.

This child who Su Xiaoyan watched grow from a boy to a man was so warm, so warm that it was completely different from the coldness unique to death and separation. His body was also so strong and safe, as if all the sorrows in the world could not catch up with you in this embrace.

"Auntie, thank you..." Lu Mingfei said hoarsely.

Su Xiaoyan pinched Lu Mingfei's face and burst into laughter.

"Your senior brother asked someone to bring me a letter from Japan. He said that you escaped and may or may not be dead. He will look for you when he recovers. He will bring you back no matter where you are." Su Xiaoyan said.

He will bring you back wherever you are...

It was indeed something that a man like my senior brother would do. In fact, if you think about it, you can guess that Caesar saving Lu Mingfei from the hands of the immortals is equivalent to betraying his family and the academy, and Chu Zihang is also his friend, so there is no reason why he should not be monitored.

Even if the situation in Japan is still clear now, and the Snakesaki Eight Clan has regained control of the situation and may even drive the academy's power out again, Norma will definitely not continue to incorporate Chu Zihang into the executive department's system, at least until Lu Mingfei is found.

It must be very difficult for the senior brother now. He is not trusted and may not be able to contact Sister Su Xi. He also has no idea about the progress of the academy's wanted list for Lu Mingfei. He just made up his mind silently and promised Su Xiaoyan that he would definitely bring Lu Mingfei back.

Lu Mingfei smiled silently, he let go of Su Xiaoyan and slowly stood up, looking at the brightly lit CBD in the distance. The golden building in the gray-white curtain hanging from the sky looked like a sword pointing to the sky.

"Mingfei, you are a good boy. Auntie believes in you. Tell me honestly, what trouble did you get into while abroad? Can Mr. Lu settle it?" Su Xiaoyan asked cautiously.

"Don't be fooled by your Uncle Lu, who seems to be just a bespectacled guy with a side-parted hair and no talent. He actually has a wide network of contacts..."

When children grow up, they become more capable than their parents, so when you want to help them again, you will be careful to maintain their self-esteem and worry that your help will be insignificant.

Lu Mingfei suddenly felt relieved, but he was a little surprised that Aunt Su's evaluation of Lu Tianming was so accurate. To be honest, he did not have as much resentment towards Senior Brother Lu, who played a large part of Chu Zihang's father's role in his life, as others imagined. However, he did tell Lu Mingfei that his first impression of Lu Tianming was that he was a guy with glasses and split hair...

It's quite vivid.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you some things, but the mere fact that I come to you and ask for your help has already put you in danger... In short, there are many troubles in the world, and not all of them can be solved with money." Lu Mingfei said after hesitating for a moment.

Besides, even Chu Zihang himself admitted that his stepfather was just an ordinary wealthy man in China. In terms of international influence, let alone being comparable to the Gattuso family, it would be difficult for him to even meet those bankers who shamelessly stood outside Frost's office all day long and wanted to get on the express train of the Gattuso family.

If Lu Mingfei could accomplish what he wanted with money, then why did he leave Japan? Could the Shezi Hachika, who are wealthy thanks to their relationship with Eri, be so stingy?

"But after I went back, I asked my secretary to review the wanted lists of international and domestic government officials in the past two months, and I didn't see you on them." Su Xiaoqiang blinked, "To be hunted down across the country and not even allowed to stay under surveillance is so serious, you must have planned a terrorist attack on the Pentagon, or resold nuclear weapons or committed war crimes. But the only guy on the wanted list, Lu Mingfei, is Taiwanese, and the charge is that he killed the owner's golden python when he broke into a house in Florida."

Lu Mingfei's expression changed slightly.

He didn't mind Su Xiaoqiang investigating him, but this behavior might alert the college secretary. Although Ling said that senior EVA had been disconnected for unknown reasons, Norma was also a god-level existence in the information field.

"Don't worry, I asked my secretary to type out the names and deeds, and then I sorted them out and read them page by page myself." Su Xiaoqiang shrugged, "I understand the era of big data, but as long as I don't rely on data to look up, I won't be included in big data."

"The group of people targeting me are very scary. Su Xiaoqiang, you must not reveal your relationship with me to anyone." Lu Mingfei said seriously.

"What is our relationship?" Su Xiaoqiang smiled like a little fox, and also a little like a kitten. In short, he was some kind of cunning little animal. Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, but didn't know how to answer.

He is just a classmate. Even the murderers in the secret party would not take action against him just because of such a small relationship, right? We live in a society ruled by law now.

"They are all unreasonable lunatics." Lu Mingfei said. He did not answer Su Xiaoqiang's question and looked at Su Xiaoyan. "Auntie, don't mention me to others. Don't tell Uncle Lu either."

"I know, I know. I know it from Zihang's attitude." Su Xiaoyan waved her hands repeatedly, "Auntie is just a little bit clumsy, but not stupid."

She hesitated for a moment, "It was your idea to ask Xiaoqiang to ask me out, right? Is there anything I can help with?" Su Xiaoyan was actually a very smart person. She guessed that getting too close to Lu Mingfei would be dangerous. Under such circumstances, the kid would not take the initiative to involve her in this matter.

In this case, it must be because she can help Lu Mingfei with something.

"It was indeed me who asked Su Xiaoqiang to ask you out." Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment.

"It's about Uncle Chu."

"Chu Tianjiao?" Su Xiaoyan was a little surprised.

"Although it's hard to understand and I can't explain to you why, it's true. Uncle Chu's information is extremely important to me." Lu Mingfei said, "This involves some secrets of our world, so Auntie, please don't ask me too many irrelevant questions."

"He once told me that he had a very mysterious past, but I thought he was bragging." Su Xiaoyan covered her mouth with her hands and made a surprised expression.

Lu Mingfei sighed slightly in his heart. To be honest, Chu Tianjiao was such a rude guy. When Aunt Su followed him, she was only eighteen or nineteen years old. If it were today, she would still be a little girl with yellow hair who hadn't even fully grown. No idea how this guy could do such a thing to her.