Chapter 100 Dream Lover Eriya

Perhaps it was because of the last name Uesugi, or maybe it was because the student who had already left school for internship was still missing the old noodle stall, or maybe it was because it was the first order of the night and Master Yue gave a generous amount.

His technique is so skillful, just like a veteran who has been dealing with ramen all his life.

Lu Mingfei felt that his knife skills were good enough for him to be a meat-cutting chef for Lanzhou Ramen. The thickness of each slice of meat was almost accurate to the millimeter, and his hands were so steady that he didn’t look like a man in his seventies or eighties at all.

While waiting for the noodles to be cooked, the two chatted about this and that, and the atmosphere wasn't cold at all.

Lu Mingfei wanted to ask some questions, but there were always people around greeting the ramen stall owner, so he swallowed the words back before he could say them.

“Master Yue, with your cooking skills, your children must have had a very happy childhood.” Lu Mingfei chewed the slices of meat carefully.

I can’t say the taste of this noodle is particularly good, it’s plain and not out of place, but it gives people a warm and everyday feeling. To use a more exaggerated metaphor of the Japanese, it has the taste of home.

It's the feeling of working hard in the city and returning to your hometown in the countryside for the New Year, when your taciturn father cooks you a bowl of mediocre ramen, hands it to you, and tells you to eat it while it's hot.

Well, this saying comes from my uncle.

It seems that his father, Lu Mingfei's father-in-law whom he had never met, was also an apprentice in the kitchen. Later, somehow the kitchen knife in his hand turned into a samurai sword, and he embarked on a path of no return.

Anyway, when he saw the family portrait of the Uesugi family, he couldn't tell that the solemn old man with a slicked-back hair, a beard and a scar on his face was also a good spoon-teller when he was young.

It is said that the father-in-law only cooks three times a year, and without exception, he cooks a meal for his three children on their birthdays.

Ps: My two brothers-in-law eat ramen most of the time, but my wife only has three dishes and one soup every year.

"Haha, you're wrong. I'm still single and I don't have any children."

Master Yue wiped his hands with a towel. His hands were as big as a palm-leaf fan with distinct joints. If he used them to make rice balls, theirs would be bigger than others.

He didn't seem to care about his situation of being old and helpless, and looked like an optimist, which saved the guests from the embarrassment of feeling that they had touched on his sore spot.

"That's a shame. When I was a kid, my biggest wish was to go home and have a hot meal every day."

"Are your parents busy?" Master Yue seemed like an elder to whom Lu Mingfei could confide his thoughts. If Lu Mingfei wasn't so shy, he might have taken out some liquor to comfort himself.

Lu Mingfei nodded, but did not say anything about his parents. After all, it was difficult for him to tell others that his parents, who had been lost and recovered but still had little sense of existence, took the initiative to send him to the dragon-slaying battlefield.

If it weren't for his arrival, it would be hard for him to imagine how miserable and embarrassing his life would end in this world.

"Adults always have a lot of things to do, especially in a bustling city like Tokyo, where everyone is busy working just to survive."

The stall is open early and there are few customers. Chef Yue picks up the spoon and stirs the soup pot: "Many of the children who come to eat noodles here have parents who work late at night like you, and sometimes they can only see their parents before going out every day.

This is life, loneliness is always around, and we must learn to adapt to it. "

"Master Yue, you are so eloquent."

"You've lived this long, you should have seen through what you should have seen through." Master Yue winked and smiled, "Besides, this is the best university in Japan, some students know more than I do."

“Haha, then I’ll set up a stall here when I’m old.” Lu Mingfei revealed his true intention and used this as a starting point to inquire about the news about this street.

I asked about everything from stall fees and store rents to protection fees, and found that they were not that expensive, and there were no gangsters here to collect protection fees.

Although Master Yue said that the University of Tokyo was under the government's attention and no one dared to come here to collect protection fees, Lu Mingfei felt that it was not that simple.

The underworld is synonymous with illegality and crime, and going against the government is their basic operation. If it is banned openly, they will collect protection fees secretly. Anyway, they want to take from the people and use it for themselves.

After finishing the last bit of noodle soup, there were already many students waiting around the ramen stall. Lu Mingfei could feel the gazes on his back, as if they were condemning him for taking so long and talking so much while eating.

After paying the bill and leaving, Lu Mingfei said before leaving that he would come back to patronize Master Yue's business next time. The latter also smiled and said that he was welcome to come again next time.

After he left, Master Yue's always gentle eyes began to turn slightly cold:

"This kid is asking questions all the time. Could it be that someone is targeting my street?"

Although Lu Mingfei was dressed like a homebody, his words and actions were not like that of a homebody. He had something stuck on his waistband under his loose shirt, which clearly showed that he was not a normal person.

Master Yue hoped that he was worrying too much. After all, this was his coffin book. If someone wanted to touch it, he would be in big trouble.

Of course, if someone could find him, it would mean big trouble was coming.

…

Lu Mingfei didn't know that he had been labeled as a symbol of trouble. He came to the crowded subway station, hesitated for a moment, walked to a Honda on the side of the road, opened the door and got in.

There were two girls with delicate looks sitting in the front row, they were Mai Shude and Ling.

Lu Mingfei had already guessed that they would follow him, so after getting in the car he just asked "Have you had dinner?" as if chatting with them casually.

"We're waiting for you to bring us some food." Jiude Mai started the car and drove along the crowded street towards Shinjuku District: "How is it, have you found the person you are looking for?"

I've already been to three places, it's time to speak frankly.

Cooperation also requires sincerity. If Party A is secretive and unwilling to state all its requirements at once, not only will it be difficult for Party B to get things done, but the design plan will also always be sent back for redoing.

“No.” Lu Mingfei shook his head and sighed. Tokyo was very hot and big. It was indeed difficult to accurately locate someone based on ambiguous information.

"Tell us who you are looking for. If you keep searching everywhere like this, you will never find him." Jiude Mai said, "It's ok for you to be wary of Kassel Academy and the secret party, but do you have to be on guard against us too?"

Lu Mingfei sighed: "It's not defense, it's just that some things are long to talk about."

Jiude Mai said firmly: "Then let's make it short!"

"Come to see the man of my dreams."

“Crunch——!!!”

The four wheels of the car left half a meter long scorch marks on the road and almost hit the car waiting at the red light ahead.

Jiude Mai braked the car narrowly, and looked back in surprise at Lu Mingfei, who was holding the seat belt in the back seat with a look of "you want to murder me". Her delicate face was full of "Are you kidding me".

"Are you sure you're not talking in your sleep?"

Lu Mingfei spread his hands: "See, I knew you would react like this."

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After two dry coughs, Jiude Mai suppressed his desire to complain and asked who his dream lover was:

"Is it Hanazawa Kana, Noto Mamiko, or Kugimiya Rie?"

All three are well-known Japanese voice actors, and are deeply loved by otaku, especially the last one. Shana, who Lu Mingfei talks about every day, was voiced by her.

"Neither. Her name is Chen Xiyuan, and her Japanese name is Uesugi Eriya."

Lu Mingfei turned his head and scanned the neon lights at night, as if he was trying to find the figure that had been bothering him so much that he couldn't sleep.

In the front row, Mai Jiude and Ling looked at each other, and then looked at the boy in the rearview mirror who seemed to be fantasizing about puberty:

"So you came all the way to Japan just to see your 'lover' who only appears in your dreams?"

No wonder the Potato Chip Girl found nothing based on the information he provided, it turned out to be just a pipe dream.

"She is a real person in reality, not a creation of a dream." Lu Mingfei's eyes darkened slightly, and his voice was very firm: "My intuition tells me that she is in this city, and she is waiting for me."

"Hiss—" Jiude Mai took a breath and touched the goose bumps on her arms: "You really know how to give us problems."

"It's okay, I'll find it slowly by myself."

Lu Mingfei said calmly: "You have your own things to do, you don't have to mess around with me."

The problem is that our job is to play with you! Jiude Mai wanted to say this, but finally held back. She called the potato chip girl and said, "Tell me about that Chen... Uesugi Eri, I'll ask the potato chip girl to find him for you."

In the boss's plan, Europe, the United States and Japan are all very important links, and the degree of danger of each is higher than the other.

The only relatively safe place is China, but Lu Mingfei is unwilling to go back and stay there honestly.

So they could only help Lu Mingfei find his dream lover as soon as possible, and then pack her up and send her to China.

"She is of Chinese, Japanese and French descent. She has two older brothers, one is a lawyer and the other is a singer. Her mother died early, and her father was a former gangster who died of multiple organ failure."

"Anything else?" The potato chip girl was recording the key words.

"Her brothers are twins. One is called Uesugi Tomokatsu and the other is called Uesugi Tomoha. They graduated from the University of Tokyo and the University of the Arts, respectively. Their father's gang is called Heiyang."

"What's her father's name?" asked the potato chip girl.

"Uesugi Yue."

"You know quite a bit." After reconfirming it, Chip Girl hung up the phone and started hacking into the Tokyo government's census system.

If normal means can’t find it, then use some special means.

If all else fails, she can ask the Eight Snake Families for help. Cats have their ways and mice have their ways. It would be a waste not to use your connections. Those local thugs will definitely find people faster than she can.

But unfortunately, until Lu Mingfei and others returned to the Hilton Hotel, Potato Chip Girl had not found the Uesugi family.

As for the Eight Snake Clans, she also asked someone, but there was no Black Yang Gang among the gangs registered by them. They were basically Black Tiger, Black Dragon, Black Bear and the like.

She asked them to trace back half a century, but the time was too long and it would take time to investigate, at least three days to confirm.

There is no choice but to wait.

As for why they didn't directly report the information of the Uesugi family, that's an explanation.

(End of this chapter)