Chapter 371 A sudden thunderstorm
"When the moonlight shines on my face, I think I will soon change my appearance. There is a soup called Meng Po. Drinking it will make you forget the past~"
Dinner was still hotpot. Lu Mingfei was humming a song while stirring the soup base. Xia Mi, who was passing by with a drink in her hand, felt that something was implied and couldn't help but glared at him.
You are Meng Po, your whole family is Meng Po!
After glaring at him, he didn't forget to look at Chu Zihang. Seeing that he was concentrating on cutting the squid with a knife, as if he didn't hear what Lu Mingfei was implying at all, he felt relieved.
Sooner or later, I will beat you to pieces!
Xia Mi snorted lightly, then glanced at the two brothers, Bronze King and Fire King, who were busy at the barbecue grill over there, and sighed in her heart that the Dragon King's reputation had been completely ruined by them.
Constantine also felt that it was a bit stupid for him to use a fan to heat up the stove, but when he saw Old Tang skillfully flipping the skewers and sprinkling various seasonings on them, he couldn't help but think of the days when the two brothers worked together on alchemy.
They were like this at that time, the elder brother was responsible for forging, the younger brother was responsible for temperature control, and with brothers working together, they could cut through metal like a knife, and the seven deadly sins that could kill the Dragon King were created in this way.
The sparks from the oven reminded Constantine of forging under the setting sun, which was his lost youth.
Old Tang was busy at work when he saw Constantine's eyes suddenly lose focus, as if he was daydreaming. He casually stuffed a crispy sausage into his slightly open mouth.
"What are you thinking about?"
A hot sausage was stuffed in his mouth, and Constantine subconsciously wanted to spit it out, but it tasted good, and it was baked by his brother himself, so he couldn't bear to give it up. He took a bite and found it was fragrant and crispy. We all love it, so he said:
"It feels a bit strange. Is this what human life is like?"
In the past, he and his brother sat on the throne together, looking down at everyone, but they had never experienced such a lively scene.
Over there, Fingel, who had stayed in the room all afternoon, was moving the wine. Longma Xun, who didn't want to admit it but had indeed won his brother's favor, was preparing dipping sauce. The new blond Daqin (Daqin in ancient Rome) man set up a pan and frying steak. He looked a little out of place in his suit with everyone else.
The red-haired girl, who looked a little dull but had a very strong bloodline that made him a little afraid, sat next to Lu Mingfei playing games and accepted his feeding from time to time.
Jörmungandr was like a butterfly, sometimes she would come close to her male favorite and point fingers at him, sometimes she would run to the Qin pot to watch, and sometimes she would try to provoke Lu Mingfei, without any dignity of a Dragon King.
Although their identities are so different, they seem to be in harmony and not awkward at all.
Perhaps, this is what is called the atmosphere of human life.
Old Tang smiled, picked up a mutton skewer and stuffed it into his mouth. "You'll get used to it. There's still a lot of time to go. When there's a chance, I'll take you to America."
Before he came to China, he always thought that the United States was not bad. Although gangs were rampant in the slums, prostitution, gambling and drugs were everywhere, and there were corpses and police everywhere, but life was still pretty cool.
But after coming to China, he knew what enjoyment was. The Chinese people really refused to suffer any grievance in terms of food and drink.
He has only been here for a few days, but he has already forgotten about the United States and is only thinking about Shu.
He didn't know it before, but after coming to the mountain city, he discovered that he actually had a Sichuan stomach.
Spicy! Refreshing! Powerful!
The schedule is quite tight, as he has to go north to the capital to find Fenrir tomorrow. He wants to eat more tonight. Mingming said that there is something called douzhi in the capital that is very delicious, so he can go and try it then.
Constantine nodded without comment, then looked at Lu Mingfei and found that he pinched a piece of houttuynia cordata and put it into Eiry's mouth. The girl was so focused on playing the game that she didn't notice it at all. After taking a bite, she realized why blind trust is not advisable.
"Wow! Sakura, what did you give me to eat?!"
The good-tempered Eiry had a bitter face and made a "Pot, Pot, Pot" sound in her mouth, trying to spit out the strange taste of the Houttuynia cordata. For the first time, she felt that Lu Mingfei was a bad guy.
"Hehe, Sichuan specialty food." Lu Mingfei smiled.
He just had the urge to do something mean. Eiry was not picky about food. In her previous life, she had no objection to onions, ginger, garlic and cilantro, but she couldn't accept watercress. It was the same in this world.
She picked up the drink and took a few sips. After the sweet taste of the juice filled her mouth and slightly suppressed the strange smell of the watercress, Eri puffed out her cheeks to avoid Lu Mingfei's hand that was stretched out again, and then she moved away to the side in a cricket pupa, no longer accepting anyone's feeding.
Lu Mingfei chuckled and stuffed the remaining Houttuynia cordata into his mouth. His expression was a little strange, but he did not spit it out.
He actually can't eat it, so I'll just make some watercress and feed it all to Fingle.
Finkel had finished moving the beer and was putting the champagne into the ice bucket when he suddenly shuddered. He looked around alertly and felt that someone was trying to harm him.
But when he looked around, no one was looking at him. Just as he was wondering, he saw Caesar waving at him.
Thinking that the steak was cooked and they wanted to find someone to test for poison, Finkel immediately came over with the plate.
This is cooked by the president of the student union, the young master of the Gattuso family, and the richest man in Kassel himself. If this happened in the academy, the girls would definitely fight over it.
If he could snatch a piece and put it up for auction on the Night Watchman Forum and support cold chain delivery, the day when he could pay off his credit card loan on his own would probably not be far away.
However, Caesar stayed here for dinner not just to show off his cooking skills, he was waiting for news from Finkel to see what was going on at the Chen family.
But this guy worked hard for most of the day but there was no news at all. If it weren't for Finkel's good credibility in intelligence, he would have suspected that this guy had been sleeping upstairs.
Finkel was greatly disappointed, but he still told the information he had found out about the Chen family.
There is not much useful content. The Chen family has always presented itself to the outside world as a wealthy and powerful family. No one knows whether they are glorious in public but harboring evil behind the scenes.
Finkel dug for an entire afternoon and even used backup hidden energy, but the information he finally found didn't go very far.
The head of the Chen family, who is also Nuonuo's biological father, is a heartless man.
If Caesar's father is a pure scumbag who only cares about his body and not his heart, then Nono's father is probably a heartless scumbag who always replaces the old with the new. He changes wives one after another, and abandons them if the children they give birth to are not good enough and replaces them with the next one.
However, his control over the Chen family is impeccable. He came to power with iron-blooded means, and later worked hard to govern the family and eliminate dissidents. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has the final say in the Chen family today.
He has done a lot over the years, the most important of which is to strengthen overseas investment and cooperation. Finkel even found out that the Chen family and the Gattuso family had many unknown transactions.
This was the first time Caesar heard of it. He respected Nono's privacy very much. Since she was unwilling to say it, he would not take the initiative to investigate, which might reopen her inner wounds.
Moreover, he was unwilling to ask old Frost for help. He didn't want to owe that old man a favor.
"And Nono's biological mother. She died when Nono was very young. After that, Nono's relationship with the family fell apart. It was also from that time that she returned to China from Europe to study."
Finkel picked up the key points that Caesar would care about, and although he tried to express them as objectively and fairly as possible, Caesar had similar experiences before, so he directly linked the cause of Nono's mother's death to the Chen family.
Sure enough, people who have experienced the same pain will always gather together. This is another manifestation of the sorrow of blood.
As he thought this, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the two couples over there.
Lu Mingfei and Eiry's family situations are hard to describe, but their personal fighting power is ridiculously strong.
He was well aware of Chu Zihang's situation. Although it sounded like he was using someone else's wounds as an example, he really wanted to use Chu Zihang's life script.
Dead parents remarry.
It’s a pity that good people don’t live long, and the harm they cause will last for thousands of years. Given the extent of the harm Pompeii caused, Caesar doubted whether this old man would still be alive and well after he died one day.
As for Xia Mi and Long Ma Xun, I won't comment on them as I don't know the full story.
He had had contact with the remaining Old Tang, but only knew that he was a lone bounty hunter. He never expected that this time when he came to the mountain city, he would find his long-lost brother. This made him suspect that all the actions Lu Mingfei took when he came to the mountain city were to find his brother Old Tang, rather than because he had received a revelation in his dream that the Dragon King was about to revive here.
But the same thing goes, without evidence, no one will believe your guess.
Finkel muttered to himself, reselling the information he had actually told Lu Mingfei a long time ago, and sold it at a high price, successfully receiving the intelligence consulting fee from Kaizisa in cash.
Based on the previous call and Fingel's information, Caesar also became suspicious of the Gattuso family. He was worried that his account was being monitored in real time and that they would detect something from his transfer of money to Fingel.
It was a bit like taking off your pants to fart, but it was indeed true that compared to virtual numbers, real money could make him feel the reality of the world, especially the smug look on Finkel's face after he got the money.
Let him know that his price is still too high.
Not long after, the grand dinner officially began. Caesar, who was always in the center of the crowd, could only sit in the corner this time, watching them clinking glasses and laughing loudly. It was an experience he had never had before.
Fortunately, he was thinking about something and didn't care too much about the gap.
Moreover, looking at people and things from an observer's perspective and analyzing their personality traits from them has its own unique flavor.
But Chu Zihang was a real dampener. Everyone was laughing, but he had a cold expression on his face and couldn't say a word. He was a real atmosphere destroyer.
Fortunately, Xia Mi kept chattering, which made Caesar realize how these two people complemented each other.
Everyone drank and was a little tipsy after the meal. Caesar had a good alcohol tolerance, but he drank a few more glasses and felt a little groggy.
He saw Lu Mingfei go out under the pretext of getting some fresh air to sober up, without anyone, and come back almost half an hour later.
I was a little curious about what he did when he went out, but Lu Mingfei didn't even bring Chu Zihang with him, so it was even more impossible for him to tell him what he did when he went out.
However, based on Caesar's long experience in high society, Lu Mingfei was most likely going to meet with the head of the mixed-blood family to discuss some unspeakable secrets, or to agree on the distribution of benefits after achieving their goals...
Apart from this, he really couldn't think of anything else. It couldn't be that Lu Mingfei sneaked into the bottom of the river under the all-round surveillance of Kassel Academy and tried to excavate the ruins of the Bronze City alone, right?
That's a bit far-fetched.
After taking a shower, the drunkenness soon dissipated. Caesar did not return to the temporary base in Kassel, but stayed directly in the B&B and set off with the main force early the next morning.
Nuonuo doesn't like to talk on the phone for long, she usually chats online. He sits at the head of the bed in his pajamas, holding his laptop and telling her what he saw and heard that day.
Nono is very interested in Eri, who has the same color scheme as her, and Xia Mi, the potential rival of her best friend Susie. The topic basically revolves around the two of them. Caesar has long been accustomed to his girlfriend's unconventional ways, so he caters to her interests and discusses the two beautiful girls with her.
But after all, they were already taken, and he also had someone in his heart, so he couldn't keep staring at them. He stopped talking nonsense after Nuonuo boarded the plane.
After finishing, he typed for a while, read a book, and waited for the noise outside to stop before lying down to sleep.
There was no conversation that night, and the next day Caesar was awakened by the sound of thunder.
He opened his sleepy eyes, turned his head to see the dark sky outside the window, and his vision quickly regained clarity. He got out of bed and opened the window, and immediately heard the howling wind above the river, like the howling of ghosts and wolves.
There was a continuous downpour outside the window, and the distance seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog, making it impossible to see where the mountains and the sky met.
"Didn't the weather forecast say it would be sunny today?" Caesar frowned. Thunder roared in the sky, lightning snakes flashed in the dark clouds, and the heavy rain continued to stimulate the Yangtze River, as if it would let the world know its violent side in the next second.
The formation of a thunderstorm requires sufficient water vapor, unstable atmospheric stratification, and sufficient lifting power, and the commotion caused by the resurrection of the Bronze and Fire King perfectly matches these conditions.
In the scorching summer, the Yangtze River evaporated in large quantities. The Dragon King's fall caused elemental turbulence, and the earthquakes caused by Norton's revival and the Bronze City's self-destruction...
Norton, you have really caused so much harm!
I don’t know how wide the range of this thunderstorm is. If it affects the normal operation of the airport and causes flight delays, it will be troublesome.
After changing clothes and going downstairs, I found Chu Zihang sitting there watching TV. The local TV station was broadcasting the sudden thunderstorm, and two experts wearing glasses were talking to the camera.
The good news is that the thunderstorms will not cover a large area.
Bad news, the mountain city has issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms and strong winds. The current gusts have reached level 8, accompanied by strong thunder and lightning. Citizens are advised to stay at home and not go anywhere.
Caesar watched the news, his eyebrows almost squeezed together.
If we wait a few hours before leaving for the capital, won’t the opportunity be lost?
Nuonuo is now on the plane. Unless there are robbers hijacking the plane or the plane crashes in an accident, she will definitely arrive in Beijing this afternoon.
Without them, wouldn't she be a lamb to the slaughter?
I glanced at the river outside the window. It was surging and flooding. No boat dared to stay on the river. The strong wind and waves could capsize it at any time.
Caesar frowned and looked for a solution, then saw Lu Mingfei walking down yawning. He hurried forward to ask him if he had any ideas.
"That's easy, just go directly to Yichang Airport." Lu Mingfei had already made a plan. So what if there was a yellow thunderstorm warning? He could just go back the way he came.
Last month, when he came to the mountain city, he was surrounded and blocked by Kassel College, so he ran to Yichang and returned to Fuzhou.
"I know that too, but the question is how do we get there?" Caesar certainly knew that he could go to another city to avoid the thunderstorm, but the problem was that in this weather, any means of transportation would be affected and the speed would be greatly reduced.
"If we drive, it will take at least four or five hours." Caesar unfolded the map and began to study it. However, Lu Mingfei's voice, which sounded a bit profound, came from the side:
"Who said we were going to drive?"
(End of this chapter)
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