Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 393 Lu Mingfei, I'm not welcome? (6000 words)
In fact, the T-shirts sold in souvenir shops cannot be completely said to be couple's outfits.

Although the pink dolphin and blue dolphin clothes put together can easily be associated with couples, this is just an option for young couples visiting the aquarium.

In fact, some people who visit the aquarium alone will also buy this T-shirt as a souvenir.

But Chen Wenwen was thinking, what if Liu Miaomiao and Lu Mingfei come to visit the aquarium next time, and Liu Miaomiao also wants to buy this souvenir T-shirt to take back...

Imagine that one day in the summer, you suddenly have an idea and wear this dress to class. When you enter the classroom, you see Liu Miaomiao wearing the same one, and Lu Mingfei wearing the blue couple T-shirt for men.

If someone who doesn’t know sees this, they would think that the three of them are in a relationship!

No, this must not happen!
Chen Wenwen shook her head inwardly.

As good friends, it seems natural to give up in some aspects for your best friend's relationship.

For example, if you want to go out with your best friend, but her boyfriend asks her out, then as her best friend you should step aside and give up your date to him/her.

Chen Wenwen thought this was normal. Even though the pink dolphin printed on the T-shirt was cute, she still wanted to buy one.

In fact, according to the general thinking of people, seeing a girl and a girl in another couple wearing exactly the same clothes, they would just think that they are wearing the same clothes.

But Chen Wenwen was different. The first thing she thought of was that people might think she was in a relationship with Lu Mingfei.

I don't know if it's because of the subconscious influence of Su Xiaoqiang, Liu Miaomiao and Lu Mingfei being in love, or if there are other reasons.

I don't know where so many people came from in the aquarium so early in the morning. There was even a long line in front of the cash register of the souvenir shop.

Chen Wenwen was standing at the end of the line, holding the selected products in her hands. Fortunately, the checkout process was quite fast, and after waiting for a while, it was almost her turn.

"Lu Mingfei, do you want to buy something? Why don't you just give it to me and pay for it together? So I don't have to pay again."

Chen Wenwen turned around while speaking, and when she looked back, she realized that Lu Mingfei was not following her at all.

She was suddenly stunned for a moment, and was about to turn sideways to look back to see where Lu Mingfei was in the queue, but by then the line had already reached her.

"Hello, customer. Do you want to pay the bill? Or are there other items you would like to purchase?"

The cashier was a young lady, and she asked in a soft voice.

"what."

Chen Wenwen withdrew her gaze from behind her, wondering where Lu Mingfei had gone, and at the same time put the selected items on the cashier counter.

"Pay the bill."

"Okay, I'll settle it for you now."

The cashier picked up the barcode scanner and scanned the codes one by one.

"The total is 20 yuan. Do you need any other items? Our two aquarium-co-branded refrigerator magnets are also selling very well." The cashier said with a smile, recommending other products without reservation.

"no need."

Chen Wenwen said as she took out her wallet from her small bag and unzipped it.

At this time, Lu Mingfei's voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Wait a moment."

Chen Wenwen subconsciously turned around and saw Lu Mingfei, holding something in his hands, squeezing through the crowd behind him, smiling and saying sorry to the people queuing next to him.

When he walked to Chen Wenwen, Lu Mingfei said to her: "Chen Wenwen, you haven't paid the bill yet, right? Can you help me buy these together?"

"sure."

Chen Wenwen nodded, and Lu Mingfei put the clothes and doll in his hand on the cashier. The cashier pulled out the clothes and scanned the price.

When she saw the pink dolphin pattern on the clothes, a dazed look suddenly appeared on her pretty little face.

This is……

The cashier quoted the final total price. It must be said that the things in the souvenir shops of tourist attractions are expensive. A piece of clothing, a dolphin doll, plus the brooch badge that Chen Wenwen bought earlier, it would cost more than 150 yuan.

Fortunately, Lu Mingfei was now a wealthy landlord, so he didn't feel bad about the money. He handed it over immediately after the cashier quoted the price.

Chen Wenwen was still in a daze, as if she didn't hear the cashier's offer at all.

After the cashier gave the change, she put the items in a shopping bag and handed it to Lu Mingfei. The shopping bag also had the aquarium logo on it. Lu Mingfei took it and took a look at it: "Can you give me another bag, please?"

"sure."

At that time, the heavy blow of Western environmentalism had not yet hit China, and there was no charge for shopping bags, unlike later when you had to pay for them. Lu Mingfei took the shopping bag handed over by the cashier. At this time, Chen Wenwen came back to her senses from her daze, but found that Lu Mingfei had already paid the bill.

The two walked out of the store and walked back to the aquarium along the passage. Lu Mingfei was fiddling with something in front, while Chen Wenwen followed behind him and took out her wallet.

"Lu Mingfei, do you have the invoice? How much did I buy? I'll pay you back." Chen Wenwen asked.

"It's okay. It's just something worth a few dozen bucks. Didn't you accompany me for the 'preview' today? Just consider it as a thank you for the gift."

Lu Mingfei stopped walking as he spoke, turned around and handed the shopping bag to Chen Wenwen: "Here."

Chen Wenwen thought that Lu Mingfei wanted her to help him carry the things, so she reached out to take them. But when she looked up, she saw that Lu Mingfei was holding a shopping bag in his hand, and a plump dolphin doll was shaking inside the bag.

She looked into the bag in her hand and saw the two brooches she had bought and the pink dolphin T-shirt in it.

Chen Wenwen smiled and said, "Look how careless you are. You put the clothes you bought for Miaomiao in the wrong bag."

"You didn't put it in the wrong place. I didn't buy it for Miaomiao, I bought it for you. This dolphin doll is the only one I have."

Although I thought that I had to go to the amusement park in the afternoon and it might be troublesome to bring a gift for Xia Mi back, but I thought that I would have to carry a bag to buy that dress for Chen Wenwen anyway, so I simply bought the gift for Xia Mi at the same time.

"?"

Chen Wenwen's smile suddenly froze on her face, as if it had suddenly frozen. Her bright eyes looked at Lu Mingfei in a daze. She was stunned for a long while before she came to her senses. Then her little heart began to beat rapidly.

"Wait...but...that...ah?"

Chen Wenwen felt her heart suddenly go haywire. Her usually quick-witted brain seemed to be at a loss for words. It was getting hotter and hotter, and she couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

Isn't this a couple's outfit?

You didn’t buy it for Miaomiao, you bought it for yourself?

What does Lu Mingfei mean by this?
She recalled the scene when she met Lu Mingfei holding Liu Miaomiao in one hand and Su Xiaoqiang in the other on the way home from school. She felt that the scene was harmonious enough. Wouldn't it be awkward if she added herself to the picture? And there weren't that many hands...

No, no, now it’s not about whether the hand is enough to hold, but how to respond to Lu Mingfei’s words. The New Testament clearly prohibits polygamy. But then again, the Old Testament does not prohibit it, and it also records that some saints had similar behaviors...

Of course, Lu Mingfei had no idea what was going on in Chen Wenwen's little head at the moment. He only watched the expressions on Chen Wenwen's face change, the emotions in her eyes were bright, dark, and wavering, and he felt that she must have thought of something inexplicable.

"I saw that you seemed to want to buy this dress, so I bought it for you as a thank you gift for accompanying me this weekend."

Lu Mingfei cleared his throat and said, interrupting Chen Wenwen's unreasonable associations in time.

"It seems to be just an ordinary cultural souvenir shirt. The blue one is for men and the pink one is for women. I looked around and saw that quite a few people came to the aquarium alone and bought this shirt."

The reason why Lu Mingfei said this was that he wanted Chen Wenwen to put her worries aside and stop worrying about other things.

"Let's not do it. It would be embarrassing if we were wearing the same clothes as each other at school."

"What's so embarrassing? Wouldn't it be the same thing every day when we wear school uniforms to class?"

Lu Mingfei shrugged: "Besides, isn't it important to see whether you like the dress or not? Why do you always care about other people's business?"

Chen Wenwen paused for a moment after hearing this. After a few breaths, she gently raised her eyes, looked at Lu Mingfei from bottom to top, and asked quietly: "The important thing is to see whether you like it or not?"

Lu Mingfei nodded: "Or else?"

"As long as you like it... you can have it? You don't have to care about others?"

Lu Mingfei felt strange, wondering why Chen Wenwen was so concerned about a piece of clothing.

"You can't have everything you like. You still have to have positive energy. We can't touch anything that's illegal or criminal." Lu Mingfei joined in the complaint at the right time: "Anything else is fine. If you always care about others, you will live a very tiring life."

Chen Wenwen lowered her head, thought for a while, then raised her eyes, nodded, and said with a smile: "Okay, I understand. Then I won't be polite, Lu Mingfei?"

"You are welcome."

As Lu Mingfei answered, he thought to himself, this piece of clothing only cost sixty or seventy yuan in total, why should he be so polite?
Basically, after coming out of the Dolphin Theater, I only walked around half of the aquarium.

On the other side, there were some very strange marine creatures whose names you could tell from them. But it was almost twelve o'clock, and the dolphin show alone took more than half an hour.

Considering that they still had to go to the amusement park in the afternoon, Chen Wenwen and Lu Mingfei discussed and decided to stop at the aquarium. They would leave the aquarium to eat first, and then take a bus to the amusement park. The remaining half of the aquarium would be left for Liu Miaomiao and Lu Mingfei to explore next time, so that there would be some surprises. Lu Mingfei thought that he couldn't wait until Miaomiao came, and he would have to visit the other half when he came to visit the aquarium with Xiao Tiannv or Xia Mi.

After leaving the aquarium, the sun suddenly became stronger. The sun was strong at noon, and it was a warm sunny day.

The feeling of the sun shining on your face all of a sudden is like when you are sleeping soundly at night and your roommate who went out to surf the Internet suddenly comes back and turns on all the lights in the dormitory.

Lu Mingfei put his hands in front of his eyes to block out the sunlight. Chen Wenwen, on the other hand, seemed not to be afraid of the sunlight, squinting her eyes and stretching lazily in the sun.

"Chen Wenwen, don't you think it hurts your eyes?"

"Yeah, it's a little blinding. But I feel fine. It's rare to be so warm today, so it's quite comfortable to bask in the sun."

After Chen Wenwen stretched, she turned to Lu Mingfei with her hands behind her back and said, "How about it? Lu Mingfei, what do you think of the aquarium as a date location?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, thinking, weren't you here to help me with my advice today? How come you turned the tables and asked me questions?

But he still thought about it, and then expressed his thoughts truthfully: "Miaomiao should like it very much."

"I think Miaomiao will like it too." Chen Wenwen nodded and said, "That is..."

She blinked thoughtfully and met Lu Mingfei's gaze coincidentally.

Lu Mingfei added the second half of Chen Wenwen's sentence: "Is it lacking a sense of surprise?"

"Yeah. Besides, there will be more people around noon, and there will be no space if we want to be alone..."

Lu Mingfei also felt that the content of the aquarium date seemed a bit routine, even the animals in the tank were in order. It was like eating pre-prepared meals in a large chain restaurant. The taste and quality control of the dishes were naturally not bad, but they could never surprise people.

It is the kind of place that can definitely be used as a date location and will provide a good travel experience, but it cannot achieve the kind of surprise effect that Lu Mingfei wants.

Of course, he couldn't make a decision to reject the aquarium so quickly. After all, Lu Mingfei hadn't been to the amusement park yet, so he had to go to both places before he could make a comparison.

After lunch, the next trip was naturally to the amusement park. Fortunately, the amusement park can book tickets by phone, so when I went to the amusement park in the afternoon, I didn’t need to buy a ticket again. I just lined up at the entrance for a while and then went in.

The amusement park on Saturday was packed with visitors. If you looked down from the highest point of the amusement park, you would definitely see a crowd of people. There were long queues in front of every amusement project, even in front of the haunted house.

"It's 1:30 in the afternoon now. If you want to see the sunset on the Ferris wheel, you have to wait until about 5:30. We still have time to go somewhere else."

As Chen Wenwen spoke, she turned her back to Lu Mingfei and asked, "Come to think of it, Lu Mingfei, you have ridden a Ferris wheel before, right?"

"I've been there." Lu Mingfei nodded.

Although he has never been to an aquarium, he has been to the amusement park several times.

The largest amusement park he had ever been to was naturally Six Flags, but even if you don’t count the time at Six Flags, he had been to amusement parks a few times with Lu Mingze when he was a child.

As for the smallest amusement park he had ever been to, it was the one in the small town of Umezujimachi, which couldn't even be called an "amusement park."

Because apart from a small Ferris wheel, it's hard to tell what other decent rides there are. Not only can it not be compared with Six Flags, even the amusement park in Lu Mingfei's hometown is much bigger than that.

But as far as he could remember, he had never ridden a Ferris wheel during the several visits to the amusement park.

The first time I rode a Ferris wheel was on a Christmas Eve date not long ago. The little girl said she wanted to go to Window of the World to ride the Ferris wheel, so he took his two girlfriends to ride the Ferris wheel for the first time. When the Ferris wheel went up, the scenery of the entire Window of the World shrank and collapsed in front of his eyes, which made people feel an unreal beauty.

"With a girl? Miaomiao or Qiangqiang?"

"two."

"……oh."

After receiving the reply, Chen Wenwen said "Oh" and stood back beside Lu Mingfei.

For some reason, Lu Mingfei felt that Chen Wenwen's mood seemed to be a little depressed at that moment. But when Lu Mingfei looked over, Chen Wenwen's face was full of joy, not depressed at all.

illusion?

Lu Mingfei stared at Chen Wenwen's profile and saw no sign of any situation on her face. He thought it must be his illusion.

Because there was still plenty of time, Lu Mingfei planned to experience other projects besides the Ferris wheel project which was the last one.

He and Chen Wenwen both passed on the roller coaster, even though it was a must-try classic ride in every amusement park. But thanks to a certain "Snake in the Courtyard", he now has PTSD for roller coasters. Chen Wenwen has always been afraid of this kind of exciting ride.

Chen Wenwen couldn't play the exciting activities, so the pendulum clock, pirate ship, and bungee jumping machine were naturally eliminated by the two of them. In winter, there is naturally no way to experience water rafting and other activities.

So, the only attractions left were the carousel, haunted house and bumper cars.

Putting aside the haunted house, the other two projects gave him the feeling of a spring outing in elementary school, especially the carousel, which in his impression seemed to be an activity that only children would like to play.

But he never went to an amusement park during his spring outing in elementary school.

What surprised Lu Mingfei was that there was a long queue at the carousel, which was even longer than the queues at the two major attractions they had just passed by, the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster.

In addition to parents who brought their children to play, there were also many young couples like him and Chen Wenwen queuing in the queue.

"..."

Wait, I was wrong. They were a young couple around the same age as him and Chen Wenwen. He and Chen Wenwen were not.

“Is it really that fun, with so many people queuing up?” Lu Mingfei muttered in surprise.

"It's fun." Chen Wenwen, who was standing in front of him, turned around and said, "I always ride the carousel twice every time I come to the amusement park. Hey, Lu Mingfei, you've never ridden it before?"

"I think I have sat before, but that was when I was a kid..."

Lu Mingfei had forgotten the last time he rode a merry-go-round. His memories before third grade were very vague, and he probably hadn't ridden one since then.

Although the line was long, it moved quickly. After a while, it was Lu Mingfei and his friends' turn.

After paying the ticket price, Chen Wenwen chose a white unicorn and sat on it with the help of Lu Mingfei. With the mentality of "since I'm here", Lu Mingfei also sat on a black horse next to Chen Wenwen.

As the seats were filled, the carousel began to spin to the sound of some loud music.

At the beginning, Lu Mingfei was still thinking, "That's it?" As the speed gradually increased, the carousel began to shake up and down, the wind began to whistle in his ears, and Lu Mingfei slowly began to think, "Hey, this is quite interesting."

Just as Lu Mingfei was gradually becoming interested, the speed of the carousel suddenly slowed down. It seemed that time passed much faster than usual, and the three-minute experience time was over so quickly.

Even when he left through the exit, Lu Mingfei still had a lingering feeling in his heart.

Damn, is the carousel such a fun ride? It feels much more interesting than a roller coaster. When I was on the roller coaster, I felt the wind whizzing, my head was buzzing from the cold wind, and the high-speed roller coaster was shaking like a blender, and my brain was almost shaken.

Could it be that the same is true for rocking cars? No wonder children like to play with rocking cars. He seems to have never sat on one since he was a child.

Who will make up for his missing childhood? It turns out that what Freud said about people's lives are always making up for the lack of childhood is really true!
"Hey, the carousel is fun, but the ride time is too short. It would be great if I could ride it for more than ten minutes like the Ferris wheel."

Chen Wenwen sighed and said with some reluctance: "I really want to go play again."

Lu Mingfei actually wanted to play it again, but thinking about his usual image, he was too embarrassed to speak up.

After hearing what Chen Wenwen said, I was about to say "reluctantly" "Since Chen Wenwen, you want to go out and play so much, then I will accompany you to ride the carousel again."

Chen Wenwen continued, "Although I really want to queue up and play again, Lu Mingfei, you definitely don't like such childish activities, right?"

"what?"

Lu Mingfei blinked blankly. No, he never said such a thing.

Chen Wenwen naturally couldn't hear what Lu Mingfei was thinking at the moment, and just said to herself: "Although it's a bit of a pity, we don't have time. We still have to go to the haunted house and bumper cars next, and the lines there are quite long. If we don't hurry up, we will miss the Ferris wheel."

Wait, no, Chen Wenwen, why don't you ask me first. How do you know if I am willing or not without asking?

At this moment, Lu Mingfei suddenly understood the little angel's feeling of being "tired of freeloading".

Damn, is it so painful to have something in your mind but not be able to speak it out? It seems that I need to listen more to the voice of the little goddess in the future.

Lu Mingfei had a bad look on his face as he watched the carousel going further and further away. He felt lost and as if his childhood was getting further and further away from him.

As a result, I couldn't play the bumper car and haunted house rides anymore.

When experiencing the haunted house project, he was hiding inside the haunted house, waiting for the scary amusement park employee to jump out from the corner, when he suddenly saw Lu Mingfei looking at him with an expressionless face. He was stunned for a moment, as if the Titanic had hit an iceberg.

Chen Wenwen had not noticed the abnormality on Lu Mingfei's face, because she had been hiding behind Lu Mingfei in fear, just holding the corner of Lu Mingfei's clothes with both hands.

In this way, she can feel at ease.

……

(End of this chapter)