Dragon Tribe: Still Thinking Until Now

Many people turned around to look at Eri, and the girl shyly hid her face in Lu Mingfei's arms. Lu Mingfei smiled and led her across the fork in the asphalt road in the parking lot.

After crossing this intersection, they stepped on rustling gravel and looked up to see the huge torii gate standing at the entrance of Meiji Jingu Shrine in the sun. It is said to be made of Taiwanese cypress that is 1500 years old. Lu Mingfei pointed at the torii gate and said, "It's much bigger than the Sakejinji Temple of Genji Heavy Industries."

"Yes, should we wash our hands?" Eiry still remembered the hand-washing ceremony before entering the Shinto shrine, but Lu Mingfei shook his head to indicate that it was not necessary.

This place has been converted into a tourist attraction, and the shrine is no longer the pure Shinto shrine it used to be.

Passing through the Torii gate, you will enter the approach to Meiji Jingu Shrine.

In fact, you can see a lot of Torii in Japan. They are a common sight on the streets. Most of them are bright red, which is a very iconic color.

However, the color of the Meiji Jingu torii is a pale yellow color after the outer bark of the original wood was polished off and oxidized over the years. It was August, and the maple and ginkgo trees on both sides of the shrine fell down in a gust of wind.

When Lu Mingfei and Eri passed by the torii gate, they could hear the rustling sound of footsteps stepping on gravel all around them. It was quiet and Zen-like. It was hard to imagine that at this moment, a Shinkansen train full of passengers was rumbling past the woods beside them.

Meiji Jingu Shrine is a Shinto shrine. Shintoism believes in worshipping ancestors and all things in nature. Meiji Jingu Shrine enshrines the spirits of Emperor Meiji of Japan and his wife, Empress Dowager Shoken. Therefore, its history is not as long as those shrines in Kyoto that can be traced back to the Warring States Period. However, like the Kaminarimon Gate of Sensō-ji Temple and the cherry blossoms in Ueno Park, many people believe that this is a symbol of traditional Japanese scenery in Tokyo. It has no traces of modern industry and is so simple that it makes people feel bland.

Lu Mingfei originally thought that Eri would be very happy to come here because she has always liked beautiful things, but the girl's expression was always calm.

I guess I'm a little disappointed here.

The Sheqi Eight Families were originally an organization that believed in Shintoism. The family's annual meeting is held at a shrine in the mountains. Although it is far less spectacular than here, I imagine the scenery is similar.

Lu Mingfei took Eiry around the shrine twice and they happened to encounter a wedding. Eiry looked very curious and happy, and she couldn't help but hugged Lu Mingfei's arm tightly.

The bride, wearing a pure white Japanese-style dress, followed the ceremony procession from the corridor on the left side of the main hall, accompanied by the smiling and handsome groom, and the bridesmaids and groomsmen in kimonos followed closely behind. There was no music at the scene, and the priest who maintained order made a slight gesture, and the visitors who came to visit and worship stood on both sides. Lu Mingfei and Eri also stood aside and watched the newlyweds leave.

"Can we hold our wedding here in the future?" Eiry quickly wrote down the small note, her eyes sparkling. Lu Mingfei took two deep breaths and thought to himself that he couldn't escape it after all.

Fortunately, at this time a sneaky trainee priest came out from the corner and said, "Master, would you like to ask for a fortune? Today the son of the governor of Tokyo happens to be getting married. We can give you a 20% discount."

Lu Mingfei's heart skipped a beat and he looked around inconspicuously, thinking that Lu Mingze might be the one behind it again. He smiled crookedly and said, "I don't speak Japanese, so I can't understand your signature."

The young priest was stunned when he heard this, and said that Tokyo has now been integrated with the international community, and Meiji Shrine must keep up with the times. Master, if you are British, we have English signatures, if you are Chinese, we have Chinese signatures, and if you are Korean, we also have Korean signatures. Lu Mingfei sneered and said, "Do you have Latin signatures?" He then said complacently, "No matter how much you talk, I will not be fooled."

But I didn't expect the little priest to stand there proudly, looking down on the crowd.

Lu Mingfei said, "Wow, you don't really have a Latin sign, do you?" The little priest laughed and said, "May Amaterasu bless you, I just have the Latin sign you want." Lu Mingfei covered his face and waved his hands, "I've convinced you, give me a Chinese one."

The young priest turned around and happily brought a stick box from somewhere. Lu Mingfei took one out at random. Seeing that the priest's eyes were getting more joyful, he immediately threw the stick back in and took out another one.

"That's it." Lu Mingfei was confident. His boss Lu was also a smart man now. How could he be easily fooled by Lu Mingze?

The young priest smiled happily, "The two incense masters are indeed a divine couple." He showed the fortune to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei's eyes twitched as soon as he saw it. The poem on the fortune was really clear at a glance, "No separation forever, reunion for eternity. May all lovers in the world get married."

There are three words on the top: "Best Fortune".

Well, the money for interpreting the fortune was saved. Lu Mingfei, with a gloomy face, was about to pay the bill, but he did not notice that the girl behind him immediately blushed on her fair cheeks after seeing the fortune poem. Her whole body was caught in the light, and her eyes seemed to become brighter.

Chapter 178 Finger

"Long legs, what do you think the boss means by this?" Su Enxi sat in the middle of a large, exquisite bed, with soft and comfortable Egyptian long-staple cotton sheets under her butt. The furniture was quite simple, but the decorations on the cabinets were handmade pure gold Easter eggs by Fabergé, and hanging on the walls were authentic works of Rembrandt Harmansson van Rijn. In short, the items here, if packaged and sold, would be enough to cause a sensation in the world art collection community, and the funds recovered would probably be enough to revitalize a large enterprise on the verge of bankruptcy.

The potato chip girl was shaking the iced cocktail in the tulip glass with one hand and swiping on the tablet with the other hand to fully grasp the changing trends of the Wall Street stock market. She was actually only wearing loose Snoopy pajamas and her hair was just tied up with a headband.

At this moment, the ivory-colored window screens were rippling, letting in clean, transparent light, and in the distance one could actually see the famous volcano, Mount Fuji.

Mai Jude was leaning to one side. Her high bun and dark cheongsam cut to the point where her thighs were vaguely visible made her look more like a Shanghai socialite than a Japanese woman.

"I don't know. Isn't the boss a psychopath? Can we guess what a psychopath is thinking?" Jude Mai looked at the Tokyo city spread out on the horizon. Her narrow eyebrows were as sharp as a knife even without any emotional waves.

The sun was shining brightly today, and the wind was blowing in from the end of the long street. When the maple leaves fell, the dry stems broke and a rustling sound was made.

Probably because it was past the rush hour, pedestrians were not in a hurry. It was just that this country was like a huge machine, with everyone acting as a small screw in an orderly manner, which made it seem a bit monotonous.

"I've retrieved Finkel von Frings's information and sent it to you. This guy has a lot of secrets." Su Enxi said, with no intention of raising her head.

"We are just employees anyway. Since the boss wants us to keep an eye on him, then we should keep an eye on him."

She shrugged indifferently, apparently not feeling embarrassed about this kind of action. The long-legged girl's spiritual power could carry out the surveillance mission in most cases.

Jiude Mai opened her mailbox and saw the packaged information sent to her.

Born in Germany in 1984, he studied at Berlin Brandenburg International University when he was young. In the fall of 2001, he entered Kassel College, and his bloodline was rated as the best A-level. In the same year, he participated in the Greenland Operation organized by the school. The operation failed, and only Fingel and Schneider, who was the director of the executive department of Kassel College at the time, survived.

"To this day, I am still studying at Kassel College, and my rating is..."

"F?"

Jiude Mai's originally calm eyes suddenly widened, and she looked up at Su Enxi in confusion.

"Is there an F rank for hybrids? I always thought D was the lowest rank."

"The school board has set up a separate classification for Fingel. Generally speaking, those with a bloodline rating lower than D are not considered mixed-bloods," said Su Enxi.

Jiude Mai was thoughtful, "So, this guy was held back in the academy for six or seven years?"

"I suspect his retention was premeditated. There is no way an A-rank half-blood would fail to complete all the credits. He must have accepted some secret mission."

"But if this guy repeats a few more years, can he reach S-level?" Jiude Mai said, "Maybe this is Finkel's own plan. By repeating a grade, he can raise his bloodline to S-level in disguise. In this way, his authority in the secret party can be raised to the same level as the school board."

Su Enxi: "Stop making trouble."

Jiude Mai shrugged and sipped the champagne in her hand. The sunlight came in through the gaps in the gauze window, making her cheeks redder.

"But if the boss asked us to monitor this loser, shouldn't we go to Chicago? Why are you still here now?" she asked.

Lu Mingfei asked Jude Mai to monitor Tachibana Masamune, and the boss asked them to monitor Finkel. These two orders were not actually contradictory, and they could just split up into two groups.

"Anger assigned Fingel an internship assignment in the name of the board of directors, requiring him to serve in the Japanese executive board in the near future. If he can pass the evaluation at the end of the semester, the college can make an exception and issue him a graduation certificate." Su Enxi said.

There are actually not many secrets about Kassel College for their organization. Before every action, the old guys on the board of directors will put a detailed action plan white paper on Su Enxi's desk.

"I see. The boss suspects that Finkel will be our enemy. He wants to keep an eye on him to prevent him from disrupting our operations in Tokyo." Mai Jude looked suddenly enlightened.

Japan is in a turbulent time now. The demons are returning to Tokyo, the undercurrents are surging within the Snake Family, and something that looks like a god is slowly awakening under the abyss. Maybe next year this island country that is famous for its Yamato Nadeshiko and romantic action movies will have sunk into the sea. At this time, we really need to eliminate all dangerous factors.

"There is one more thing. I have given the audio clip you brought back to professionals for analysis, and the results should be out soon." Su Enxi said.

Jiude Mai nodded. "The boss and Xiao Baitu are both very interested in the Eight Clans of Sheqi," she said.

"Come to think of it, Changtui, you are also Japanese, and your ancestors should also have the blood of the Sheqi Eight Clan flowing in your veins. Didn't your parents ever tell you about the family?" Su Enxi was curious.

Her doubts were not without reason. Whether in human history or dragon history, there was no record of any of the four great monarchs ever entering Japan.

It seems that the beginning and origin of the entire Japanese mixed-race species were the eight families of Sheqi that had not yet merged in ancient times.

This means that all pure-blooded Japanese, as long as they are mixed-blood, must be descendants of an ancestor of the Sheqi Eight Families.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you. My father was just an ordinary man who ran a convenience store in Kanagawa Prefecture. Although my mother's surname is Miyamoto, her bloodline is very inferior and is not even recognized by the family. With a background like mine, it is impossible for my family to have any classics handed down from generation to generation." Jude Mai said calmly.

She and her sister Aki Sakura were indeed offshoots of the Sheqi family, but neither of them was willing to admit this fact in front of outsiders because the family had never provided them with any help or assistance when they were still weak.

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Eri was actually quite disappointed with Meiji Jingu Shrine. She had only heard from Gen Chisei that many people who loved each other would hold their weddings here, so she had always had some longing for it.

Before setting off, Eri even had some girlish pink feelings in her heart, thinking that she was going to a sacred place with Lu Mingfei, where men and women who performed a certain ceremony would live together forever.

To this day she still doesn't quite understand the meaning of weddings and marriage, but she has some hopeful expectations in her ignorance.

After arriving at Meiji Jingu Shrine, I discovered that it was actually a shrine.

Eri was very familiar with shrines. She was originally a shrine maiden in the shrine where her family enshrined successive heads of the family and demon slayers. Eri did not find the wedding held at the Meiji Jingu Shrine very sacred or romantic.

In fact, she has always hated anything related to Shintoism, but she was unwilling to express it. Besides, the family did not care about her feelings. The heads of the family only cared about whether Miss Eri was still in their hands.

Lu Mingfei could see Eri's emotions, which was not difficult to do.

The girl's pupils would glow in the sunlight. Eri originally had a face that showed neither sadness nor joy, and she only showed a smile or sadness in front of Lu Mingfei.

If it was Gen Chisei who was here, he would probably observe Eri's eyes. If she liked it here, her eyes would be more lively, and she would look like a girl next door for a few moments. But if she didn't like it here, her eyes would be like a smooth mirror, and would only show different changes due to different reflected light.

Eiry actually seemed quite happy along the way, but that was not because she came to Meiji Jingu Shrine, but because Lu Mingfei was by her side.

The girl actually smiled softly with her hands covering her mouth because she came here, but it was when the trainee priest showed them the fortune poem that Lu Mingfei had requested.

It was still far from dinner time when Lu Mingfei came out of Meiji Jingu Shrine, and he was really at a loss. Although he knew a little about the local situation in Tokyo and had studied Japanese language and culture, he was not a real Japanese after all. After leaving Meiji Jingu Shrine, he felt that he saw people coming and going everywhere he looked left and right, and he had no idea if there were any good places to go nearby.

As for Eri, there is no need to say more. The little girl has only been out of Genji Heavy Industries a few times since she was a child. The time she has really spent playing in Tokyo is probably when she ran away from home with Lu Mingfei in the last period of time.

"Mingfei, can you take me to buy some DVDs about that TV series?" When Eri tilted her head to look at Lu Mingfei, they were squatting on the curb eating two hot dogs with ketchup. Eri was originally secretly glancing at the man next to her, as if she wanted to memorize every detail of that profile, and at the same time she felt that there were indeed boys with perfect looks in the world.

“Tokyo Love Story.”

As expected, love can make people stupid. She was not smart to begin with, and if she became even dumber, her heart would no longer be able to accommodate anything other than Lu Mingfei.

A long time ago, a girl wanted to know what the world was like. Then someone suddenly broke into her life, and she followed that person like a little tail. From then on, Eri no longer cared about the truth of the world. She just wanted to follow him, because Lu Mingfei was the first person who made Eri feel loved. She lacked love since she was a child, so she loved whoever loved her, even if that person was a poor boy or a loser.

Lu Mingfei was looking around with a serious face at this time. Eri was brainstorming and thinking, could it be that Sakura is actually the legendary ace agent who is now carrying out a secret mission in Japan? Lu Mingfei thought that Japanese girls are open-minded, but the short skirt can't even cover their buttocks, but their legs are really thick, which is not my type.

When Eiry suddenly handed the note to Lu Mingfei, he was startled.

"Why do you want to see that kind of thing?"

"Because Mingfei once told me that it was a very touching TV series." Eiry's expression was very serious. She was not stupid, she was just ignorant. As long as she thought about it, her memory would be very good.

Lu Mingfei had boasted a lot to Eri before, but he himself had completely forgotten what they were. However, Eri still remembered them clearly, even the time he said a certain TV series was very touching.

Lu Mingfei was silent for a moment, then nodded and continued to work on his hot dog. In fact, Lu Mingfei himself was not the first person in China to watch that TV series. Many years ago, when "Tokyo Love Story" was broadcast, his aunt would grab the TV remote control from his uncle every night. Lu Mingfei didn't like his aunt, so he didn't like this TV series either.

At that time, what Boss Lu really liked were men's movies like "Young and Dangerous", "Fist of Fury" and "The Swordsman in Double Flags".

Xiaolu, who has not experienced any emotional setbacks, thinks that all the tears shed because of love are just whining. Like all boys of the same age, he likes the grandeur of "the smoke rising straight into the desert and the setting sun over the long river" and the heroism of "don't laugh at me sleeping drunk on the battlefield, how few men have ever returned from the battles since ancient times". Of course, he also yearns for the pleasure of eating big chunks of meat and drinking big gulps of wine.

I started watching Japanese dramas after high school. Naturally, a literary girl like Chen Wenwen could not like Wu Ji Ge. Lu Shenren, who was still a poor guy at the time, catered to his tastes and watched many Japanese dramas, including "Tokyo Love Story".

For the first time, Boss Lu, who was just beginning to fall in love, discovered that a TV series could be so...delicate.

It is so delicate that it even takes a glance or a teardrop dropped by a character in the play, or even the heavy snow reflected in the pupils of a man and a woman when they smile at each other in the cold winter wind.

But it is really not a Japanese drama with a happy ending for the whole family. But it doesn’t matter. Eri is a big girl now, and she has to know that not all problems in this world have solutions, and not all stories have happy endings.

After eating the hot dogs quickly, Lu Mingfei pulled Eri up and opened his phone to use Google Maps to see if there was any store selling CDs nearby.

The Snake Family would not equip Eri with a computer. The best option for her was to be locked in a cage. The biggest concession they made was to let her out occasionally to walk around Tokyo. Computers would expose Eri to too much information in too short a time. It was hard to guarantee that the girl would not lose control of her emotions under such a huge amount of information. So if you want to watch a show that a TV station almost never replays, a disc is the best way.

Eiry noticed that Lu Mingfei would take out his cell phone from time to time to look at it. She was very curious, so Lu Mingfei patted her head and said, "I have two friends who will come to have dinner with us later. Those two friends are idiots, so you don't have to care about them."

Eiry asked what an idiot was, and Lu Mingfei thought about it and said it was someone who acted on impulse, was stubborn, and insisted on taking a dead end with no future even though there were better options.

Eri said that brother was also an idiot.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter.