Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 377 A Different Christmas

The first three brothers and sisters in Chu Zihang's heart are of course Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang and Chen Wenwen.

After all, when he first helped Lu Mingfei rent an apartment, he seriously felt that a one-bedroom apartment was not enough for Lu Mingfei, and suggested that Lu Mingfei rent a three-bedroom apartment.

But given the current situation, I didn’t expect that after less than a semester, the three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment would no longer be enough to live in.

It was not Chu Zihang's fault that his mind was jumping around. It was mainly because he felt that he arrived at Lu Mingfei's house quite early. It was just after eight o'clock. The only people who could come earlier than him should be Liu Miaomiao or Su Xiaoqiang.

After seeing a few new faces in Lu Mingfei's house, I subconsciously thought that they should have stayed at Lu Mingfei's house last night. After all, last night was a special holiday.

Most of the time, Chu Zihang was as serious as he looked, with a blank expression and no mental activity at all.

Only when gossiping about Lu Mingfei, Chu Zihang would suddenly become sultry and turned into an old gossiper sitting at the entrance of the alley, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan and eating melon seeds.

She helped Lu Mingfei analyze his emotional problems, encouraged Lu Mingfei to date Eiry, and even instigated Lu Mingfei to snatch Nono's bride in front of Caesar.

So-called friends are actually creatures that are very easy to guess. Just like Chu Zihang always has a poker face, but Lu Mingfei can tell from this poker face whether Chu Zihang's bottom card is a pair of three or a straight flush.

For example, Lu Mingfei, who was busy in the kitchen, saw Chu Zihang's stunned expression and immediately realized that Chu Zihang was thinking something wrong again, so he took the initiative to say, "Brother, you came so early. They just arrived too. Come and sit down."

He calmly threw a message to Chu Zihang: The girl you saw just came to my house, and there is no weird relationship between us as you imagined.

The moment he said this, Chu Zihang understood that he had overthought. He had originally thought about whether he should accompany Lu Mingfei to see a new house after New Year's Day. He remembered that there was a small villa for rent near "Dad's" house. Now it seems that he doesn't need to ask for Lu Mingfei.

Lin Huihui was a little confused. What do you mean they just arrived? Didn't the monitor's cousin always live here? It seemed like she was the only one who just arrived?
Lu Mingfei wiped his hands on his apron like a househusband and found a pair of slippers for Chu Zihang. Chu Zihang took the slippers and stuffed the gift bag in his hand into Lu Mingfei's hand.

Lu Mingfei was stunned. He felt as if he was meeting with the members of the triad at a secret place as agreed upon, and then handing over money and goods.

"Merry Christmas. I didn't prepare anything. I just brought some gifts from home." Chu Zihang nodded and said.

It was said to be a casual gift, but when Lu Mingfei took a look at the foreign words on the gift bag, he found that Chu Zihang actually gave two bottles of Perrier Jouet, the flower of Paris, Belle Époque, top-grade champagne.

Christmas dinner with top-quality champagne, Lu Mingfei felt that his style was a bit too upper-class.

"Brother, you're welcome..."

Lu Mingfei smiled as he welcomed Chu Zihang in. Chu Zihang greeted Lin Huihui. They had met several times in the student union recently and were familiar with each other. Then he turned to look at Xia Mi and nodded, which was considered a greeting. It was not that he was impolite, but he did not know this beautiful stranger girl and did not know how to address her, so he simply nodded.

Xia Mi, with puffed cheeks, swallowed the last bite of steamed bun while nodding in response with a smile.

Lu Mingfei suddenly realized something. This seemed to be the first time Chu Zihang and Xia Mi had officially met in their lives.

However, their eyes did not meet again. After Chu Zihang greeted Xia Mi, he noticed the chopping board on the kitchen stove and turned to ask Lu Mingfei: "Do you need my help to prepare anything?"

Lu Mingfei was called back by Chu Zihang's voice. He wanted to be polite and say that he didn't need your help and just sat in the living room to watch TV and take a rest. But after hesitating for a while, he smiled and nodded: "Then can you help me peel the shrimp thread? I wanted to ask Lin Huihui to help me peel it just now, but she doesn't know how to do it."

"Squad leader, why are you bringing up such a topic?" Lin Huihui blushed instantly when her name was called. Then she gritted her teeth, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Isn't it just peeling shrimp threads? Senior Brother Chu, teach me, and I'll help you from the side."

Xia Mi next to him also raised her hand and said, "Master... cousin, I'll come too. I can also peel shrimp threads."

So, more than ten minutes later, when Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang walked in together, they saw such a bizarre scene.

Chu Zihang, the idol of all the students in Shilan Middle School, was wearing a cute Rilakkuma apron and squeezed in front of the trash can in Lu Mingfei's kitchen with two beautiful girls.

The attitudes of the people were serious and their expressions were holy, as if what they held in their hands were not shrimps, but the crosses hung on the chests of Christians. And what they were doing was not peeling shrimp threads, but praying devoutly for the birthday of Saint Jesus today.

Seeing Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang come in, Chu Zihang immediately nodded and greeted them: "Merry Christmas."

Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang also smiled stiffly and said Merry Christmas in return. Then Su Xiaoqiang immediately pulled Lu Mingfei's sleeve and said in a low voice with some blame: "Senior Brother Chu is a guest, how can you let him do such a thing? If you are too busy, you can wait for us to come."

In other words, they were not guests in this house and could naturally help Lu Mingfei.

Well, Su Xiaoqiang has subconsciously regarded himself and Liu Miaomiao as the mistresses of this house.

Su Xiaoqiang's voice was actually quite low, but because Chu Zihang's bloodline had been awakened, his five senses were far superior to those of ordinary people, so he could still hear Su Xiaoqiang's words clearly.

"I offered to help." Chu Zihang explained in one sentence, always being frugal with words.

Since Chu Zihang said so himself, Su Xiaoqiang naturally didn't say anything else. Instead, he and Liu Miaomiao rolled up their sleeves and went into the kitchen.

Although she and Liu Miaomiao were also unhelpful in the kitchen, and could only hand Lu Mingfei the corresponding vegetables when he wanted to cut them, she couldn't not go into the kitchen, after all, this was the only way to show that she was the hostess of the family.

As a result, the kitchen, which was originally spacious enough to accommodate two or three people, actually seemed a bit cramped. However, the joint efforts of several people were still effective. Lu Mingfei originally estimated that it would take about two hours to prepare the dishes, but he actually finished it in half an hour.

In fact, a party is like this. It doesn’t necessarily mean eating, drinking and having fun together. Even if a group of people are crowded in the kitchen to work, there can be a festive atmosphere.

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While Lu Mingfei and his family were happily preparing Christmas dishes at home, in the building diagonally opposite Lu Mingfei, Su Enxi was sitting on the balcony with closed curtains. She fed potato chips into her mouth while sticking out a telescope from the gap in the curtains to observe the situation in Lu Mingfei's home.

"Damn it! During the wonderful Christmas holiday, I can only eat potato chips in a dark room, and Lu Mingfei and his friends even opened the Paris Flower Belle Hour."

Su Enxi looked at Lu Mingfei's extremely unstandard posture of opening champagne through the telescope tube, and felt that it was such a waste to let Lu Mingfei drink such expensive champagne.

In the end, it was Liu Miaomiao who took the champagne and helped Lu Mingfei open it.

Damn it! She should have been like them, sitting on the sofa with a crystal glass of champagne, enjoying a massage from a high-end beautician in a dignified and elegant manner, while calmly directing the group's massive business transactions! This is the life that an elite Wall Street investor like her should have.

Instead of just hiding in the house opposite a little brat and eating potato chips. She bought this house in full a long time ago. Because a few months ago, her boss suddenly gave her the task of helping Lu Mingfei chase girls, so the day after Lu Mingfei rented in this community, she bought the house opposite the floor where Lu Mingfei rented.

Anyway, the house prices in China have not increased significantly these days, so it is not expensive and can be considered as an investment. And it will definitely increase significantly in the future.

Su Enxi's astute business acumen made her feel that real estate would be a high-return investment in China in the next few years. She had already acquired several Feng Shui treasured plots in several major cities and invested in several leading real estate companies.

But because there was nothing to monitor before, she had never used this house. Unexpectedly, she would use it today.

Through the telescope, she could clearly observe Lu Mingfei's every move from the house.

"Aaaah! Champagne should be drunk from a champagne flute! At the very least, use a glass, right? How can you just pour it into a disposable plastic cup?"

"Lu Mingfei, this guy! Does he even know that when pouring champagne, you have to pour it sideways and down the side of the glass? This guy is totally wasting good stuff!"

However, after Su Enxi thought about it, she sighed and thought, forget it, he was already pouring champagne in a plastic cup, so what else should she ask him to do?

She thought so, but when she saw Lu Mingfei drinking the champagne in one gulp through the telescope, Su Enxi couldn't help but want to rub her hair like crazy.

"I've told you so many times! You don't have to pour champagne into your mouth, you have to hold it in your mouth! Do you understand? You have to hold it in your mouth, linger for a while, and feel the vitality and pleasure in your mouth massaging your tongue with gentle touches. This is the correct way to taste champagne!"

Su Enxi crossed her arms angrily, thinking that if she had the chance, she must teach Lu Mingfei the correct way to taste something with her mouth.

Of course, we are talking about champagne.

Su Enxi felt that she was going to waste a great deal of holiday time today, staying in this empty, lonely and cold house, mainly because of Jiude Mai.

Since yesterday afternoon, when Lu Mingfei inexplicably dragged her to participate in that ghost challenge, the culprit of that incident, Jiude Mai, actually ran away just saying that she was going to buy clothes. She didn't discuss with her how to proceed with the subsequent tasks, and she couldn't be contacted by phone. It seemed that she was going to give up.

Although the boss didn't say what the punishment would be for failing the mission... but Su Enxi really didn't think of just giving up and following Jiude Mai's example.

After all, compared to known punishments, the fear of the unknown is often the most frightening.

But if Su Enxi really wanted to come up with a good plan, she really had no idea. No matter how much Yan Ling Tian Yan calculated, he couldn't figure out how to make Liu Miaomiao or Su Xiaoqiang sacrifice themselves.

Su Enxi reached into her coat pocket with a puff of air, and then her slender fingers touched the square object in the pocket, which made her feel a little guilty.

"..."

No, it won’t work. This is the worst of the worst options and will only be used as a last resort... There is still a whole day today. Believe that you can come up with a good idea, Su Enxi!
Su Enxi silently cheered herself up in her heart.

However, although she was encouraging, when Su Enxi saw Lu Mingfei and a group of people gathered around the table happily preparing to have lunch, she suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart.

It's both Christmas, but the situations on both sides are completely different.

Lu Mingfei was busy and bustling over there, but she was all alone here, and she couldn't even contact her only good friend, the long-legged girl. She didn't know where she was.

Su Enxi certainly often feels lonely. The higher the bloodline of a mixed-blood, the more likely it is to experience "blood sorrow". Su Enxi has been accustomed to this sense of isolation from the crowd caused by her bloodline since she was a child, or she thinks she has become accustomed to it.

After all, carnival is also the loneliness of a group of people, and she doesn't think there is any difference between being alone and being alone in a group. She is no longer at the age where she feels sad because of loneliness.

So when Su Enxi felt a sense of loss rising in her heart, she was stunned for a moment and felt a little strange.

She thought about it and felt that maybe it was just an illusion. Maybe she just mistook the feeling of hunger for a feeling of loss.

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Lu Mingfei didn't know that someone was actually watching him just a few hundred meters away.

In the living room, the vinyl record player was playing Billy Mack's "Chrimas is All Around". Su Xiaoqiang brought the record player from home, and it was said that this set cost more than 100,000 yuan. However, the music quality was very good, and it made people want to stroke their capitalist beard.

The TV station was tuned to the children's channel, and the cartoon "The Divine Chef Little Fugui" was playing on TV.

The ending of this cartoon is very tragic. It is one of the few domestic cartoons with a tragic ending. It seems a bit inappropriate to show such a cartoon on Christmas. But Chen Wenwen and Deng Zhuoyin watched it with great interest.

They had already prepared the food. With Chu Zihang and Xia Mi helping in the kitchen, cooking was actually pretty quick.

Several of Liu Miaomiao's junior high school friends, whom Lu Mingfei didn't know but had met a few times, arrived one after another. Half of them were sitting on the sofa gossiping about Liu Miaomiao, while the other half were chatting with Xia Milin and Huihui, but their eyes were secretly glancing at Chu Zihang.

The questions they asked made Liu Miaomiao, an old couple, blush and her heart beat fast. She said with a dry mouth, "Oh, it's annoying. What kind of questions are you asking? They are so weird..."

Su Xiaoqiang was sitting on the sofa next to Liu Miaomiao, with a sly smile on his face, secretly using his mobile phone to take a picture of Liu Miaomiao's cute moment, hoping to use it as a handle to tease his sister in the future.

Lu Mingfei, another protagonist at the center of the gossip, volunteered to go to the gate of the community to pick up the restaurant's delivery man. I don't know if he was really that diligent or just making an excuse to avoid gossip.

Just when Liu Miaomiao's friends were trying to figure out how far Liu Miaomiao and Lu Mingfei had gone, the doorbell suddenly rang.

"It should be Mingfei who is back. I'll open the door!"

Liu Miaomiao's jade feet immediately found slippers on the cold tile floor. Before her friends could react, she had slipped out of the gossip circle and reached the door, opening it for Lu Mingfei. Several waiters followed Lu Mingfei and placed the turkey on the empty seat in the middle of the dining table.

As the waiter left, Liu Miaomiao turned around like a hostess and shouted to everyone in the living room:
"Stop chatting and eat."

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(End of this chapter)