Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 287: Blooming Cherry Blossoms at the Foot of Mount Fuji (Part 7)
Every young person was full of thoughts, either happy or sad. The big pork belly on the skewer in their hands turned in circles in the fire, and the oil that came out fell into the charcoal fire with a hissing sound, but no one had an appetite.
"Senior, I really envy you, especially when I know those legends about you." Jia Jia looked at Lu Mingfei, "Dare to break the world, dare to pursue what you like. In a small sense, it is the pursuit of self-worth. In a big sense, it is like Copernicus breaking the geocentric theory."
Lu Mingfei thought to herself, stop spreading the rumor. No matter how much I explain to you now, you won’t believe it anyway. If I continue to spread it, I will become the Joan of Arc of the lesbian world.
"It's better to say it out loud than to hide it. Otherwise, the two of you will be at odds with each other, and you know why, but it will make them very anxious." Lu Mingfei had no choice but to follow Jia Jia's instructions and nodded to the adults around her, "What are you going to do next?"
"I've thought about it." Jia Jia said softly, "I've never disobeyed my parents' wishes since I was a child. They sent me to learn piano, so I went to learn piano. They enrolled me in painting classes, so I painted. My grades seem to have always been good, but I don't have any friends to go out with during the holidays because they don't allow me to go. In their eyes, those people are unmotivated and not good people. They are not from the same world as me. In the future, I will become an elite, while they can only clean tables."
She sighed, "But I don't care whether I can become an elite or not. I just want to be myself. I don't want my life to be firmly controlled by them until the future, saying that all this is for my own good. I'm going to tell them not to waste their time. I won't be Lu Mingze's boyfriend or girlfriend. I'm sorry, Lu Mingze, I should have made it clear earlier, but I have never been very good at being straightforward, and I always hide things."
Jia Jia bowed her head and apologized to Lu Mingze. Lu Mingze didn't expect Jia Jia to be so formal. Instead, he felt a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, "Actually, I was wrong too. I didn't tell you earlier, which caused everyone to waste so much time and money to come to Japan. In fact my mother is reluctant to spend this money. She will take away half a bun left over after breakfast. But she just wanted to make you her own daughter-in-law, so she spent a lot of money to invite your family and even covered all the expenses."
"Don't laugh at her, Auntie treats you very well." Jia Jia said.
"I know, she's just being nice to me, but she never asks me if I want her. If I refuse and show it too strongly, she'll get angry, so I can only mature silently." Lu Mingze nodded, "I think I need to explain it to her clearly. I want to go to America first to see if I can find Xi Yang."
Lu Mingfei felt a chill in her heart, thinking, "Just let your blood boil like this, and don't mention that stupid sunset mark, okay? I'll cancel that account when I get back!"
Jia Jia smiled, and Lu Mingze also smiled. This was the first time he got to know the real Jia Jia since the two families were brought together, and it was also the first time he saw her smile. To be honest, when everyone was hiding their thoughts, they could never get along, but now that they were open and all they said were words of rejection, they suddenly began to have something in common.
"I'm going to die heroically." Jia Jia stood up and patted her skirt. She said serious words but still had a smile on her face. In fact, her smile gave people the feeling of a blooming peach.
Seeing that Lu Mingze was still smiling, Lu Mingfei calmly moved her shoe and stepped hard on Lu Mingze's instep. Lu Mingze was about to get angry in pain, but when he turned around, he saw his elder sister's serious look directing him to Jia Jia. He immediately understood what was going on, nodded twice, and stood up suddenly, which scared Jia Jia.
"I'll go with you!" Lu Mingze acted very manly at this moment, "I know Auntie's temper. If I'm here, she will have to consider her face and dare not do anything too extreme to you!"
"Thank you." Jia Jia nodded, "Then let's go together."
She took a step ahead, and Lu Mingze quickly followed. After a few steps, he hesitated for a moment, turned back and gave Lu Mingfei a thumbs-up. Lu Mingfei smiled and raised her right hand to cheer him up. Speaking of which, this boy is not as fat as before. It seems that he has worked hard to reach 160cm. Boys at the age of 18 will always lose some of their childishness and have long been taller than her.
In fact, in the little fat boy's heart, he is still his sister, right? Just like in his heart, he is still his brother. Although everyone always makes it seem like the US and the Soviet Union are competing for hegemony when they are young, isn't that what children do? They will fight for a little pocket money, and fight for the last piece of potato chips in a bag. The older one will always bully the younger one, and then be scolded by the parents to give in. With a depressed face, they watch the kid hiding behind the parents and laughing smugly. The adults don't know that he was the first to start.
The elder sister can bully the younger brother, and the younger brother can also go against the elder sister, but in front of outsiders, everyone will still be of one mind. I can bully my brother, but what can you do to slap him? If there is a Japanese gangster who wants to kill Lu Mingze now, then Lu Mingfei will kill him.
Jiajia is a good girl. Even if she can't be with Lu Mingze, it doesn't matter. At least with this incident, they can become friends who truly understand each other. Sometimes a good friend is harder to find than a boyfriend or girlfriend. Lu Mingfei feels that she has an obligation to help her brother. Those years in Shilan Middle School were boring. If Lu Mingze was not against her at home, and Xiyang Kehen didn't have to find fun with him, maybe she would only be accompanied by sadness in her lonely days. How could she be the happy and sunny girl now? Sooner or later, she would become a dark and world-weary otaku.
Jiajia and Lu Mingze walked up to Mrs. Chen. Jiajia said something seriously in front of the two families. Lu Mingfei saw that the wife, who was well-educated, turned green. She raised her hand and slapped Jiajia, making her spin around and fall to the ground. She pointed at her nose and her eyes were red. Director Chen wanted to stop his wife, but Mrs. Chen ignored him and wanted to beat him again.
Jia Jia continued to talk while glaring at her mother with her hair all messed up. Mrs. Chen was so angry that she took the hot steel skewer from the charcoal fire and hit Jia Jia with it. Lu Mingze blocked Jia Jia behind him and took the skewer, causing her to grimace in pain. Her aunt was so frightened that she came up to persuade them with a smile on her face. Her uncle also took advantage of his weight to snatch the weapon from Mrs. Chen's hand, and together with Director Chen, he comforted her and made her sit down. Mrs. Chen was hitting others but hurting herself. Her tears flowed like a floodgate, and she cried and cursed. Jia Jia kept her head down and didn't look at her mother's expression.
Family ethics dramas are always chaotic, and Lu Mingfei should have gone over to join in the fun. After all, it was Jiajia who saw that she and Hui Liyi were a couple that gave her the courage to go to her parents to explain the matter, and she, Lu Mingfei, had to take responsibility. But Hui Liyi was also around, and Hui Liyi was a complete outsider to that circle. Lu Mingfei brought her out to make her happy, not to get involved in such a terrible thing that outsiders could not say anything about.
"Why are they so angry? Didn't Jia Jia and Lu Mingze both say that they don't like each other? I think it's a good thing that they can say it directly and let the other party accept it." Since there was no one around, Eiry could talk to Lu Mingfei in a low voice again, but to be honest, as she had participated in the whole process, she still didn't quite understand the current situation.
"Because what Jia Jia said is something that Jia Jia's mother would never allow." Lu Mingfei felt a little sad for Jia Jia.
"Isn't this possible?"
"Some people think it's okay, some think it's not okay, and most families probably won't support it. This is the case with many things in the world."
"Would my family be so angry too?"
Lu Mingfei was just about to say that he was more than just angry. With the way the elephant tortoise did things, he might just explode on the spot. He would take out the Spider Blade and shout at Wang Quan to use the Jianyu Thunder God to chop the other guy into pieces.
"I didn't hear clearly what you said just now." Lu Mingfei asked cautiously, afraid that she had heard it wrong.
"I said, if I take Sakura to meet my family, will they beat me like Jiajia's mother?" Eri repeated.
Hey, hey, are you serious? Do you know what you are saying? Lu Mingfei was almost stunned. This little monster probably didn't know the meaning of this line...
"I'm dehydrated spaghetti. You know what spaghetti is? After it's frozen, it becomes straight." Lu Mingfei was a little scared, and her tongue started to become unsteady.
"Straight?" Eri tilted her head. She had never come across this kind of internet lingo before, so there was no possibility that she could understand it.
"I mean, I have a boyfriend."
"What does that have to do with me?"
Lu Mingfei racked her brains, she didn't know how to explain this complicated relationship to Eiry. Eiry obviously didn't have the idea that monogamy meant that any newcomer was a mistress. Although the little monster didn't explicitly say "I like you", the meaning was very clear, because Lu Mingze told her that boyfriend and girlfriend are people who will be together for the rest of their lives, so she remembered this sentence.
In Eri's lack of common sense, she is vaguely capricious and overbearing like a gangster princess. I like the time I spend with Sakura, so I will seize any way to be with Sakura, whether it is a girlfriend, boyfriend, servant, or any other strange relationship. Lu Mingfei should be glad that Eri has never seen yandere-style ACG, otherwise she would probably take out a collar and put it on Sakura with a smile, saying that Sakura should be her dog.
These days may be the happiest time in her life, without doctors in white coats, heavy medical machines, or cold eyes. This feeling is like a fairy tale, where a sixteen-year-old princess always takes the first trip out of the castle, and no matter if the man is a Tyrannosaurus or a demon, a prince charming or a humble maid, the princess will fall hopelessly in love with him.
But she didn't know that it was just some unique kind of possessiveness. Because she had never seen anything in her life, she was curious about everything. Because she knew so little, she cherished the things that others gave her. This feeling of caring and wanting to be together was not love in that sense, but more of gratitude, a return of companionship. Eri could not distinguish these things. She just took it for granted that by doing this, Sakura would always be with her.
"It's not as simple as you think." Lu Mingfei had no choice but to try to clear up the misunderstanding. "What you understand and what you want are not the same thing."
"I thought Jia Jia was right." Eri looked a little aggrieved, "Then how can I make Sakura stay with me forever?"
Lu Mingfei gently touched her round forehead. Everyone could see that Eri was asking this question seriously. What she wanted was clearly written in her eyes. She didn't really want to be someone of Sakura. She just wanted to stay with Sakura. If someone opened the door to the world for you, how could you not hopelessly want to continue the happy times you had with this person?
If I refuse, Eri will definitely be sad, right? In fact, it is very easy to lie to her. She knows nothing and only believes what she says. Lu Mingfei can just say something to make her happy, saying that I am the angel of justice sent by God, and I am a super good person who came to save you from the outside world! You know Sun Wukong, you can summon him by blowing his hair. I am your sacred beast Sakura!
But would that be interesting? You can fool around for now, but it won’t last forever.
Eri has been rejected by the world for many years. Lu Mingfei doesn't want her to just live in the present. She feels that she should tell the truth, even if it may hurt Eri, but it is better than the harm after deceiving. Since there is no way to promise a lifetime, let's say it earlier and cherish our present.
"It's impossible to be together forever. No matter what kind of friends you are, there will always be times when you don't know each other, and there will always be times when one of you leaves first." Lu Mingfei said softly, "I know why you said that, and I know what you are thinking. I can take time to accompany you more, and I can take you anywhere you want to go, but I also have my own life and things I should do. It's impossible for me to give you everything I have. That would be unfair to others and too selfish."
"But... I just want to be a selfish person. I don't want to see a white ceiling every day when I open my eyes, and someone holding a needle asks me how I feel today." Eri looked like she was about to cry, her eyes were a little red, and she spoke these words tremblingly.
She knew her request was rejected. She had never been happy in her life. It was only after she met Sakura that she realized what the outside world was like. She would laugh wildly while racing and thought that this was the happiest time in the world. She had rarely been sad in her life. It was only after she met Sakura that she realized that a person's shaking head could cause so much harm.
