Chapter 2: What’s so great about having two stinky bucks?

Lu Mingfei had been a weed growing wildly since he was young. Not only was he seriously lacking in nutrition and fertilizer, but the gardeners responsible for pruning him were also of varying quality.

After graduating from elementary school, his two chief designers and first gardeners rushed out of Asia and headed for the international market, shouting incomprehensible words like dreams, missions, and the next ancient city of Loulan, and have not been heard from since.

The second gardener who took over from him was named Lu Gucheng, who was his uncle and had a partner whom he called "Aunt".

Different from the free-range or even abandonment education of parents, this educational policy for new gardeners is slightly biased, focusing on learning from each other's strengths and making up for each other's weaknesses, with resources tilted:

Take advantage of Lu Mingfei's strengths, make up for their family's weaknesses, and also transfer the resources he deserves to their children.

Thanks to his aunt's tireless pruning, Lu Mingfei successfully transformed from a lonely but wealthy boy into a lonely, poor and penniless loser.

If they had not fallen out for some reason later, he would have left in anger and never contacted her again. I'm afraid he would have lived under her shadow for the rest of his life.

Of course, today's mature souls who have experienced the baptism of the Internet will not be easily swayed by emotions.

So even though there had been years of resentment, Lu Mingfei was still able to send his blessings with a smile and a gentle tone, without any trace of sarcasm.

But he believed that his aunt would definitely get what he meant, and she would fly into a rage the next second, yelling at him in a hoarse voice, "You little ungrateful bastard, are you cursing me to death?"

It’s a pity that the development of things was slightly different from what he expected.

The old woman, who seemed to him to be a vicious person and not a good person, just frowned upon hearing this, and her voice, which was intended to compete with the heavens, dropped by more than ten decibels:

"What do you mean, your parents are back? They're downstairs now?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Lu Mingfei, who was about to perform the same scene as Zhuge Liang scolding Wang Lang, was stunned. He looked at the middle-aged woman whose aura had slightly subsided in surprise, with a bit of doubt in his eyes.

This...is he hallucinating or is the old lady possessed?

I looked back at the calendar and confirmed that today was neither Qingming Festival nor the anniversary of my parents' death. There was something wrong with the old lady's reaction.

Did he do something wrong and was afraid that his parents would knock on the door? That's nonsense.

As a staunch materialist fighter, Lu Mingfei firmly believes that there are no monsters or demons in this world.

Besides, his parents have been burned to ashes and buried in the ground for many years. Even if he wants to resurrect, he doesn't have the ability to do so.

Upon closer inspection, the unnatural look on the old lady opposite was not the fear she had before encountering a ghost, but more like the guilt she felt after doing something shameful and was about to be exposed.

Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei had some unrealistic guesses in his mind.

Could it be that...

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he remained calm and nodded slightly:

"Anyway, you can see them from the balcony."

Remember to keep your head facing upwards, otherwise you will not only meet them once, but you may have to go with them.

Lu Mingfei added silently in his heart.

The middle-aged woman at the door was uneasy and failed to understand the deeper meaning of his words. When he nodded, she turned around impatiently and walked quickly towards the balcony to survey the enemy situation.

Halfway through the walk, she seemed to have eyes on the back of her head and noticed Lu Mingfei's meaningful gaze. She slowed down her pace, hummed calmly, and took out her cell phone to call her husband.

The call was answered within three seconds, and she began to question him, showing her masterly demeanor:

"Lu! What's wrong with you? You didn't even tell me that your elder brother returned to China?!"

"ah?"

On the other end of the phone, Lu Gucheng, who had just picked up his son from piano class, almost stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake. Fortunately, he reacted in time and managed to stop the car at the gate of the community.

"When will they come back? I don't know!"

I haven't seen my elder brother and sister-in-law in several years. It would be a lie to say that I don't miss them.

But Lu Gucheng really didn't expect that the two people kept the secret so strictly. Could it be that they were planning to give his nephew a surprise? "Your nephew said that he was downstairs and asked me to jump from the balcony..."

The words stopped mid-sentence, and a dead silence came from the speaker, someone's silence was deafening.

Inside the air-conditioned BMW, a drop of cold sweat rolled down Lu Gucheng's forehead, and he subconsciously wanted to turn off the hands-free function.

Unfortunately, he was a step too late. The moment he raised his finger, a sharp explosion came from the phone, which was almost enough to pierce the eardrums: "Lu Mingfei——!!!"

The cell phone, which was half the size of a palm, turned into a sea banshee at this moment, roaring through the clouds and splitting the rocks.

The powerful penetrating power frightened the little fat boy who was slumped in the passenger seat, feeling sad about the passing of time, and even the guard in the message room jumped three feet high.

The aunt's roar broke the tranquility of the neighborhood. Facing her rage, Lu Mingfei leaned against the door frame, folded his arms across his chest, and leisurely admired the woman's red and warm face, praising her sincerely:

"That's right, that's it. Keep it up, and no one will ever call you a yellow-faced woman again."

It is normal to be foul-mouthed in the gaming circle. Lu Mingfei is a gentle, easy-going and polite person who usually doesn't swear, but he can always provoke other people's anger with just a few words.

Just as his compliments were like a pot of hot oil poured over his aunt's head, her anger, which was already at its limit, instantly exploded.

"Lu Mingfei, are you going to rebel?!"

My aunt stopped at the balcony door, holding her cell phone and staring with red eyes, her teeth chattering with anger.

She really didn't expect that this nephew who always looked cowardly would have the guts to talk back to her today, and speak so disrespectfully! "What are you saying? The Qing Dynasty has been gone for many years, and the old Lu family has no throne to inherit." Lu Mingfei spread his hands and pretended to be helpless:

"Even if there is, according to the patriarchal system that the eldest son inherits the throne, it should be me, the eldest grandson of the eldest branch, who will be crowned the emperor."

If it comes down to who can swear louder, Lu Mingfei may not be a match for his aunt.

But what a coincidence, he knew that the thing his aunt was most obsessed with in her life was to compare herself with his mother, who was well-educated, intelligent, and beautiful.

Appearance, family background, knowledge, work, husband...she was compared in everything, but she was no match for him.

After being completely defeated and on the verge of collapse, she took a moment to reflect and decided to fight for her child and her future.

Then, Lu Mingfei fell into her hands.

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But before she could widen the gap between her two children enough, her lifelong enemy died first.

Later, the nephew, who thought he was under her firm control, left home angrily, and with the help of kind-hearted people, he got back his parents' inheritance and compensation. He successfully walked out of his way and left her son behind without even seeing his taillights.

As a result, this matter became an unsolvable knot in her life.

Even though Lu Mingfei hadn't stepped onto the long steps to godhood yet, when she heard his meaningful theory about the designated crown position, veins on her aunt's forehead bulged:

"Lu Mingfei, what qualifications do you have to look down on Mingze?! Do you want results..."

“I’m more handsome than him.” Lu Mingfei interrupted the spell nonchalantly. He was the most handsome man in the world, certified by his wife, so he was confident.

The aunt, who was choked, continued to criticize Lu Mingfei, trying to list the ten sins that made him inferior to Lu Mingze: "You have no ambition, and you just eat, sleep, and play all day long. You are a useless person!"

Lu Mingfei gestured with his hands to show his thin body: "I'm thinner than him."

What he meant was that he couldn't even climb the wall with his weight, so Lu Mingze shouldn't even dream of reaching that level. They'll just rot in the mud together.

"What's the point of being sharp-tongued? You can't go to a good university and you don't have any skills to make a living. Aren't you afraid of starving to death when you go out into society?" The aunt was obviously anxious when her son, who she thought was the best in the world, was targeted like this, and she began to make personal attacks.

Lu Mingfei deftly parried and bounced back: "It would be good if he didn't die from obesity, high blood sugar and diabetes."

"You are so sharp-tongued and talk so rudely. Aren't you afraid that people will say you have no manners when you go out?"

"You taught me everything by example."

"You..." Auntie was so angry that she took two steps forward and pointed at his nose and scolded him:

"I taught you all that, so why is Ming Ze more popular in school than you and more capable than you?!"

"You use my money to act like a rich man." Lu Mingfei curled his lips in disdain.

Although his parents were good at making money and were willing to spend money on him, the living expenses had always been paid into the guardian's account, and Lu Mingfei had no idea of ​​the specific amount.

In addition, his aunt always said that his living expenses for this month were almost used up, so he thought that he only had a few hundred yuan a month. Therefore, he lived extremely cautiously and was full of envy for his cousin who had so much pocket money that he could not spend it all.

As for the considerable inheritance and compensation that came later, they were managed by a foreign trust institution in accordance with the will that his parents had already prepared, and a fixed amount was withdrawn every month and sent to Lu Mingfei as living expenses.

My aunt solemnly promised the person in charge that she would keep his living expenses in a voucher and would never misuse it!

All we can say is that he was too young and too naive at the time and didn’t understand the evil of human nature.

"What do you mean by taking your money?!"

Perhaps because Lu Mingfei's words were too blunt, my aunt could no longer hold back.

Her face flushed, and her voice cracked when she retorted, with a hint of hysteria after something dirty was exposed: "Mingze spent all the hard-earned money your uncle and I worked so hard for. It has nothing to do with your living expenses!"

"Is it a big deal that your parents have a couple of lousy bucks? They haven't come back to see you in the past five or six years since they left the country. They don't care about your affairs at all. Without us watching over you, you would have become a different person!"

Her original intention was to change the subject and accuse Lu Mingfei of being addicted to playing games in the Internet cafe and ruining his brain sooner or later.

But to the latter, it just confirmed the previous unrealistic speculation.

"What happened to my parents?"

(End of this chapter)