Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 395: Meeting the In-Laws? (5000 words)
When Lu Mingfei was playing a prank on Lu Mingze, he registered a small account called "The Mark of Sunset".

He used this account to pretend to be a girl and chat with Lu Mingze. Sometimes he was deliberately offline, and then watched Lu Mingze sitting in front of the computer, anxious and worried, and felt a sense of pleasure as if he had gotten a small revenge.

The reason why he named it "The Mark of the Sunset" was probably because he would climb to the rooftop of his uncle and aunt's house every day and watch the sunset alone.

Chinese people have the habit of drying quilts on the roof, but few people go to the rooftop of my uncle and aunt's house because the property has set up an iron gate at the door with the words "Rooftop Closed" written on it.

However, Lu Mingfei, who had been submissive at the time, still had a little rebelliousness in his heart. He climbed over the debris piled on the rooftop stairs, jumped on the garbage with his familiar steps, and then found a way to pry open the iron door to create a small gap and crawl in.

From then on, the rooftop became his secret base, where he could freely enjoy the wind, the light, and the smell of spring and autumn. During the time between returning home from school and his aunt finishing cooking dinner, he would hide on the rooftop to watch the sunset and think about Chen Wenwen.

But this was a memory from a long time ago. After joining Kassel College, he slowly lost this habit. The person he always thought about was replaced by another girl. Even Lu Mingfei forgot how long it had been since he had seriously watched the sunset in this city.

However, the sunset seen from the Ferris wheel and the one seen from the rooftop seemed a little different. When he used to sit on the rooftop and watch the sunset, he would only remember that the sunset was free but lonely. Now, the slowly falling sunset seemed warm and romantic.

Or maybe the sunset has never changed. It is neither free nor lonely, and probably has nothing to do with warmth and romance. It is just because the mentality when watching the sunset has changed. The little boy is no longer a little boy, and there are many precious people around him, so the sunset has changed in his eyes.

Chen Wenwen had naturally changed. It wasn't that Chen Wenwen herself had changed. The current Chen Wenwen was no different from the Chen Wenwen that Lu Mingfei had just met in the first year of high school. It was just that Chen Wenwen had changed for him. She was no longer a symbol far away in the horizon like the setting sun. She was a person right in front of him.

Lu Mingfei changed his mind and suddenly felt that it would be better to go to the amusement park. Although the aquarium was stable and there was nothing wrong with it, the sunset in front of him touched Lu Mingfei a little. He felt that the best surprise for a date was this stunning view.

What broke the beautiful picture of the two people watching the sunset side by side was the unusual sound of "creaking" outside the cabin. Amid the friction sound of rusted metal, the sunset slowly rose into the sky in the sense of weightlessness. It turned out that the Ferris wheel had been urgently repaired.

According to the broadcast from the amusement park, the repair time was as expected, and it took almost half an hour. They just watched the sunset silently for so long. It seemed that time passed much faster than usual. No wonder the sky in the distance had already shown a blue moment.

After half a circle, the gondola returned to the ground. Staff in uniforms stood at the exit of the Ferris wheel waiting.

When Lu Mingfei held Chen Wenwen's arm and walked out of the cabin and walked towards the exit, the staff came up to apologize and handed the amusement park ticket to Lu Mingfei. They said they were really sorry that such an accident had happened and the guests were frightened. The amusement park would return two three-month tickets as compensation, and the guests could come anytime within three months.

Lu Mingfei waved his hand and said it was okay, thinking that if it weren’t for the sudden accident on the Ferris wheel, he wouldn’t have been able to see such a beautiful sunset.

After leaving the Ferris wheel, the sky was completely blue, and the faint blue light was painted in the night like a glittering paint. The amusement park was still crowded at night. Families with children had left, and young couples could be seen everywhere along the way.

The amusement park seemed to have some special activities at night, but Lu Mingfei didn't plan to stay that long. Besides the fact that he had promised Xia Mi that he would go back early tonight, another factor was that Chen Wenwen couldn't stay out too late. He also had to send Chen Wenwen back.

"Have a meal together?"

The sky was full of stars and the moonlight was soft. When they walked out of the amusement park, Lu Mingfei invited Chen Wenwen at the right time.

He thought that although Chen Wenwen's house had a curfew, there should still be time for dinner. And it was also thanks to Chen Wenwen that he was able to see the sunset just now, and thought about what kind of surprise he could give Liu Miaomiao.

Chen Wenwen held the gift bag in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and then shook her head.

"Well, no need. Maybe next time."

Chen Wenwen smiled and said, "I told my mother that I have to go back for dinner tonight, and it's quite late now. If I don't go back now, my father might be home by now. What will my father say to me if he knows that I come home so late?"

Lu Mingfei nodded, but did not force it. After all, there would be many opportunities to treat Chen Wenwen to a meal in the future, so it was not something to rush.

However, Lu Mingfei was a little surprised that Chen Wenwen's father was the stricter one. In a normal family, daughters are the little cotton-padded jackets of their fathers, so fathers usually dote on their daughters, while mothers usually play the role of tiger moms.

For example, Liu Miaomiao's family is like this. When I was in the hospital, my father-in-law turned a blind eye to my visit to Miaomiao, but my mother-in-law was a little strict.

However, if Lu Mingfei remembered correctly, Chen Wenwen's father seemed to be a university teacher, right? Isn't the work of a university teacher quite easy? Aren't weekends usually off? The teachers at Kassel Academy would go sailing in the suburbs of Los Angeles when they had nothing to do. They lived such a petty bourgeoisie life that Lu Mingfei wanted to find a street lamp to hang for them...

"Chen Wenwen, isn't your father a university teacher? Why haven't you come home so late?" Lu Mingfei asked casually.

Chen Wenwen was stunned for a moment, wondering how Lu Mingfei knew that her father was a university teacher. She didn't seem to have told her classmates about her family affairs...

But she still answered truthfully: "Well, my father is a university teacher. Normally he wouldn't be so busy so late, but recently there is a more important project at the school and he is the person in charge. So he has been very busy recently and often doesn't get home until eight or nine o'clock."

Lu Mingfei nodded: "So that's how it is."

……

A white BMW 3 Series sedan was driving slowly on the road in the old city. Everywhere you looked, there were pedestrians taking a walk after dinner, and the river bank was covered with withered grass.

Lao Lu sat in the driver's seat, following behind a tricycle selling fruits. He looked through the rearview mirror at the face of the middle-aged man sitting in the back seat, his heart beating fast.

As a civil servant, the weekend should be his day to relax. Usually at this time, he would have been sitting in front of the TV, spreading out a newspaper, pretending to listen to the news broadcast that started at 7 o'clock, but actually waiting for the lottery program of the double-color ball at 9:30 in the evening.

The reason why he was working as a driver here was because a government-school-enterprise project between his unit and the local university had been delayed. This morning, he followed his leader to the school for a meeting, but was stuck again due to some reasons.

Ten minutes after the dinner, the leader asked Lao Lu, who was passing by, to send the leading teacher in charge of the project back from the university, and to see if he could find an opportunity to "do some work" on the way to overcome the school's problems.

However, this person in charge was like an iron barrier. All the time, Lao Lu tried to strike up a conversation with a smile, but the other party avoided the topic without a single mistake. This was a big blow to Lao Lu, who was always confident in his critical thinking, sense of logic and touching eloquence.

Working overtime is not a big deal, but if this project cannot be carried out, the unit may have to change the person in charge, and it may even affect the professional title evaluation at the end of the year!
When he thought about the impact on his job title evaluation, Lao Lu felt depressed, but it was useless to be depressed. No matter how warm your face is, the other person's butt is cold. What's the point of sticking to him?

While I was thinking this, the car had already arrived at an old residential area, which was the former teachers' apartment building.

Lao Lu cleared his throat silently and asked the middle-aged man in the back seat how to get there. The other man began to give directions.

The 3 Series BMW stopped in front of a building. The other party thanked him very kindly and then pushed the door open and walked out.

Seeing this, Lao Lu quickly unbuckled his seat belt and got out from the passenger seat.

"Professor Chen, please wait a moment." Lao Lu straightened his collar, rubbed his hands together, put on a smile and stopped the man who was about to go upstairs.

Professor Chen paused, turned around and pushed his glasses: "Chief Lu, do you have anything else to say?"

"It's like this, Professor Chen." Lao Lu nodded slightly, "Regarding the project, I would like to tell you more about our unit's views..."

Professor Chen sighed, "Didn't I tell you, Chief Lu, that I don't have the final say on this matter alone? I only represent the school's opinion. Besides, the company cooperating with the project has been unwilling to give in to our school..."

"That's why I wanted to trouble you to give feedback to the school leaders and see if we can both make concessions. As for the company, we will find a way..."

Lao Lu said so, but the enterprise side is actually the most difficult to deal with. Although their unit is a government unit and should be very tough at the negotiation table, the project cooperation enterprise is a provincial demonstration enterprise with deep financial resources. Many places want to attract investment and introduce such large enterprises to generate income for the local area.

Between the government and enterprises, the former is undoubtedly more assertive. However, between local units and listed companies, the relationship is reversed.

However, it is obviously necessary to stabilize the person in charge of the school first. If the school can convince them, it will be much easier to find companies with the conditions.

After some explanation, Professor Chen's stern face finally relaxed a little. Seeing this, Lao Lu was delighted, thinking that this time he had a chance! As long as he could get the school's approval, he would be...

Lao Lu had just imagined himself being promoted from deputy section chief to full section chief when a high beam suddenly shone from behind him, almost blinding him. It turned out to be a taxi.

If Professor Chen hadn't been here, Lao Lu would have jumped up and cursed, and then stopped a taxi and asked the driver how he drove the car. Is it decent to use high beams at night?
But before he could stop it, the taxi drove towards them on its own.

Lao Lu was stunned for a moment, wondering what was going on with this taxi, was it trying to run into him... At this time, a figure opened the door of the back seat of the taxi and got out of the car.

One side of the taxi door was completely sealed and could not be opened. Lu Mingfei, who was sitting outside, got out of the car first and said to the people inside:
"Now that we're downstairs at your house, I won't take you upstairs, right?"

"I told you not to send me to the community. You could have just dropped me off at the intersection. Why did you even go around in a circle?" Chen Wenwen said coquettishly as she slowly moved out from the inner side.

"I won't feel at ease if I don't send you home. It's so late now. If something happens to you, Uncle Chen will kill me, right?"

"How could there be any accident? I have been walking on this road for more than ten years. There are people walking on the road at night, and there are surveillance cameras along the way."

As Chen Wenwen answered, she thought of Lu Mingfei's overbearing behavior of sending her to the community without paying attention to what she said in the car just now, and her heart was in turmoil. In fact, there was nothing wrong with sending her to the community. She was mainly a little afraid that if her mother saw her upstairs and she was sent home by a boy, she would be finished.

She told her family that she wanted to go to the city library to read books for a day as an excuse to go out. If her family knew that she didn't go to the library to read, but went on a date with a boy.

Although she and Lu Mingfei couldn't be considered dating, at most they could be considered mutual help between good friends...

But just now when the taxi drove downstairs, she took a quick look and found that the lights in the kitchen and balcony were not on. Her mother should be watching TV in the living room. Fortunately...

Chen Wenwen got out of the car from Lu Mingfei's side. When she was about to say goodbye to Lu Mingfei, the moment she looked up, her pretty face froze, her little heart suddenly trembled, and her beautiful eyes blinked confusedly in the direction behind Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei also noticed Chen Wenwen's sudden change in expression. He turned back in confusion and then was also stunned.

Chen Wenwen’s father...and uncle?

?

Was he hallucinating? This wasn't a parent-teacher conference, so how could these two people refresh at the same time?
And even if they were attending a parent-teacher conference, the two of them wouldn't be together. Because most of the time, Lu Mingfei's parent-teacher conferences were attended by his aunt, and Chen Wenwen's parent-teacher conferences were mostly attended by her mother.

His scalp was tingling. Lu Mingfei was not afraid of his uncle, but he wanted to run away immediately when he thought that his uncle might nag him earnestly afterwards.

Lao Lu was also stunned when he saw his nephew suddenly appearing in front of him. He was obviously very surprised that Lu Mingfei appeared here.

His eyes then turned and fell on the well-behaved and pretty girl next to Lu Mingfei. After a moment, he determined that this was his nephew's premature love.

Ming Fei's girlfriend also lives in this neighborhood? He showed up here so late at night. Was he here to send his girlfriend home?
Didn't I tell him earnestly last time that he shouldn't fall in love too early and should focus on studying? Why didn't he listen? Although this girl is really pretty...

"Ming Fei, why are you..."

Lao Lu had just opened his mouth when he heard Professor Chen's voice behind him.

"Wenwen, are you back?"

Lao Lu was stunned for a moment, then he saw the girl next to Lu Mingfei lowering her head, rubbing her toes against the ground, and replied shyly: "Yes, Dad, I'm back."

?

dad?

Lao Lu was still digesting this sudden change when the voice behind him rang out.

"Student Lu, did Wenwen go out to play with you today?"

Although Chen's father was somewhat shocked when he saw Lu Mingfei sending his daughter home, he had seen Lu Mingfei pick up Chen Wenwen from his home the day before Christmas Eve. He was somewhat mentally prepared for the possibility that his daughter might be in love.

And today, when he saw Lu Mingfei personally sending his daughter to the doorstep, Father Chen became even more certain that this brat was in love with his daughter.

Lu Mingfei, who was suddenly called, quickly reacted and nodded: "Yeah. By the way, I forgot to say hello to you, hello Uncle Chen."

"you're good too."

Father Chen had a stern face and said to his future son-in-law, "It's good for students to be a little student-like. There's no need to be so polite. But thank you for sending Wenwen back so late at night."

"It's my duty. I won't feel at ease if I don't send Chen Wenwen to her doorstep."

Lu Mingfei said, turning to look at his uncle: "But I'm a little curious, Uncle Chen, why are you and my uncle together?"

"Children shouldn't ask so many questions about adult matters."

Lao Lu quickly interrupted Lu Mingfei. At this time, he finally figured out the interpersonal relationship. It turned out that his nephew had seduced Professor Chen's daughter.

"Your uncle?"

Father Chen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the section chief in front of him also had the surname Lu...

No wonder this Section Chief Lu looked familiar when he saw him at the dinner party. It turned out that he had seen him in Lu Mingfei before. It seems that this is a family inheritance.

"..."

He seemed to have heard that Lu Mingfei lived in his uncle's house.

In other words, Chief Lu and I are half-relatives?
But now is obviously not the time for the relatives to meet, and he has not yet officially acknowledged Lu Mingfei's identity.

"Yes, some adult stuff with your uncle."

Father Chen also cut off the topic, looked at Chen Wenwen and waved his hand. Chen Wenwen immediately understood and trotted to Father Chen's side. When passing by Lao Lu, she bowed her head and said lightly, "Hello, uncle."

Lao Lu suddenly felt a little happy.

"That's it for today. I'd like to thank classmate Lu for sending Wenwen home. Wenwen and I will go back first. Take care, uncle and nephew."

"Take care too," Lu Mingfei replied. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief until he saw Chen Wenwen and her father go upstairs.

What the hell? One of the most embarrassing things in the world is to meet your girlfriend's dad when you're driving her home, right?
Although Chen Wenwen is not his girlfriend, the degree of embarrassment is still the same.

Not to mention that my uncle was actually there.

Lu Mingfei looked at his silent uncle in front of him and wondered if he should just run away and escape from this nagging?
However, the expected earnest instructions did not come. Lao Lu just silently pouted at Lu Mingfei angrily and said, "Get in the car. I'll take you back."

"Oh? Oh..."

Lu Mingfei widened his eyes, somewhat flattered.

The engine of the BMW 3 Series roared. Lu Mingfei walked to the door of the back seat and was about to open it to sit in, but his uncle's voice came from inside the car.

"Sit in the front, Mingfei."

"Huh? Okay."

Lu Mingfei obediently opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat. As soon as he fastened his seat belt and turned around, he met his uncle's burning gaze.

Lu Mingfei was stunned, thinking that the nagging was finally inevitable. It turned out that his uncle wanted to trick him into getting into the car and kill him.

But his uncle just reached out and patted him gently on the shoulder.

"Mingfei."

"Hmm? What's wrong, uncle?"

"come on."

"?"

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(End of this chapter)