Chapter 3: The Last Dream

The structure of this house is the same as that of most houses, with a small courtyard and three rooms. There was a fruit tree in the northwest corner of the yard, and next to it were a cluster of withered flowers.

"Did you grow it?" asked Lee Jae-chul.

"Well, I planted ...... two years ago," Li Anning whispered.

Without saying anything more, Lee Jae-cheol carried the girl and walked to the big house due north. Pushing the door in, a strong smell of smoke came to his face, which made him a little sick to his stomach. A man is lying on an earthen kang with a cigarette in his mouth and is swallowing clouds and spitting out mist. The index and middle fingers of the right hand are blackened by the perennial smoke.

"Hey, what are you doing in my house?" Seeing Lee Jae-cheol and the two entering the house, the man sat up and asked. Because Lee Anning shrank her head on Lee Jae-cheol's shoulder, the man didn't recognize her.

A woman walked out of the back room following the sound, Lee Jae-chul glanced at her, patted the girl in his arms on the back, motioned for her to raise her head, and then said to the man, "This is your daughter." ”

The woman standing on Li Zaizhe's side looked at the girl in the man's arms when she heard this, and her face changed and shouted: "You little brute, you dare to come back!

Lee Jae-chul felt the girl's trembling, took a step back, dodged the woman's outstretched hand, and frowned, "It seems that it is indeed your daughter." ”

The woman didn't catch it, and pounced unwillingly, Li Zaizhe's eyes flashed with anger, and he raised his foot and kicked it out, the woman couldn't dodge, she was kicked, and she was lying on the ground holding her stomach, moaning "oops" in her mouth.

The man on the bed didn't recognize his daughter at first, and after being stunned for a while, he found that his wife had been kicked down, and scolded in his mouth: "What a deflated calf!" picked up the iron rod inserted in the stove and pulled it at Lee Jae-cheol. At this time, Li Zaizhe was still holding Li Anning in his arms, and the man did not consider the consequences of hitting his daughter.

Li Zaizhe's eyes were even more angry, his palms rippled slightly, and he directly grabbed the hot iron rod glowing red, dragged it hard, grabbed the stick and threw it aside, took another step forward, stood in front of the man, and slapped the man in the face who fell into a stupor because he took away the iron rod with his bare hands.

"Smack!" the man was beaten back a few steps and sat on the ground with an unsteady foot.

Looking at a couple sitting on the ground, Lee Jae-chul spoke: "I came today for one thing, which is to adopt her." Lee Jae-chul pointed to the girl in his arms, "Of course, I will pay an adoption fee." ”

As soon as he heard the word "adoption fee", the man who was a little dizzy by the slap hurriedly stood up, and the wife next to him also sat up with a grunt.

"How much can you give?" asked the man, his eyes glowing red, and he couldn't wait.

Li Zaizhe put down Li Anning, who was stunned by the scene in front of him, and said to her: "An Ning, you go out and wait for me first, remember to put on your hat and be careful of catching a cold." ”

"Hmm. The girl nodded and walked out with a blank face.

After the girl closed the door, Lee Jae-chul asked rhetorically, "How much do you want?"

The man stretched out a finger and said tentatively: "Ten thousand?" Seeing that Li Zaizhe didn't speak, he quickly changed his words: "Five thousand?"

"No, I'll give you 10,000. Lee Jae-chul took off the backpack on his back, took out a bundle of cash from it, and threw it on the ground, "Oh, the money is here." ”

The man just caught a glimpse of Lee Jae-cheol's bag and shouted, "Wait, I changed my mind, you have to give me 30,000 yuan to take my daughter away!"

Lee Jae-cheol laughed when he heard this, and the man thought that the rich fat sheep had agreed to his request, and he grinned. Suddenly, Lee Jae-chul smiled, rushed to the man with an arrow, raised his elbow to the man's head, and then bent his knee and slammed into his stomach.

The man knelt on the ground and vomited, Li Zaizhe squatted down, and said coldly: "Just because you treated An Ning like that before, I can directly cripple you, but now I just give you a sum of money for the sake of you giving birth to An Ning, what? Do you like to kick your nose in the face? Want to go crazy for money? Love or not, from today on, An Ning has nothing to do with you, I will take her away." After saying that, he got up and walked out the door, and when he got to the door, Lee Jae-chul turned around again.

The woman on the ground shuddered with horror and looked at the man who had just beaten herself and her husband. Li Zaizhe smiled disdainfully and said: "You may see the glory of tranquility in the future, but it's best not to pester her, let me find out, and contact someone I know to give you incense in Qingming." After the warning, Lee Jae-chul pushed open the door and left. When the woman saw the demon leaving, she hurried up to the bundle of money, grabbed it, and stuffed it into her clothes.

At this time, Li Anning was standing under the small tree he planted, looking at the withered flowers. Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned around and stretched out her hand to Lee Jae-cheol. Lee Jae-cheol smiled and bent down to pick her up, then walked out of the hospital.

"Brother, do you think those flowers can come back to life?" Feeling the warmth from the man's arms, Li Anning asked.

"No, it won't. Lee Jae-chul replied, and just as the girl began to grieve again, he continued, "Because they live in this yard without the sun, they will die, and only when they get warm and loving flowers can they survive and live happily." ”

After chewing Li Zaizhe's words carefully, Li Anning raised his head and said crisply: "Brother!"

"Huh?" Lee Jae-chul looked down at the girl in his arms.

The girl kissed Lee Jae-chul hard, leaving a watermark on his face.

"You are my sun!" Li Anning said with a smile. It is the sun that gives me hope, warmth, and love.

"That's my pleasure. ”

After the two walked for a while, the girl found herself walking on the way to the mountains and wondered, "Brother, where are we going?"

"I promised it when I took you away before, and I will definitely bring you back. Lee Jae-chul replied.

"Oh, you mean the little wolf?" After reacting, Li Anning said happily, "Great, I didn't see it last time." Anyway, brother, can you understand what the little wolf said?"

"Roughly understood. ”

"Then you're good, just as good as me. ”

"My brother is very good at everything. ”

"Huh. Flatter yourself. ”

"When did my brother lie to you? Isn't my brother amazing?"

"Okay, okay, my brother is the most powerful brother in the world!"

"That's pretty much it. ”

After walking amusefully with each other for a while, Li Zaizhe ran up, extremely fast, he reached out to protect Li Anning's hat head, and said, "Brother has to run for a while, or I'm not afraid that I won't be able to catch the train today." ”

"Hmm. Li Anning closed his eyes happily.

When he came to the cave a few days ago, Li Zaizhe really saw a wolf guarding here, Li Zaizhe put Li Anning down and said, "Let it call the wolf king to see you." ”

Li Anning nodded, trotted over and muttered in the wolf's ear for a moment, and the wolf left quickly.

More than ten minutes later, the wolves rolled in.

The wolf king, who was like the stars and the moon, glanced at Li Zaizhe, and then ran to Li Anning's side and lay down. Li Anning smiled and hugged its neck, rubbing it lightly with his cheek. Lee Jae-chul was silent on the sidelines.

After a while, Li Anning let go of the wolf king, ran to Li Zaizhe, and said, "I have already said goodbye to the little wolf, let's go." After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at the wolf king reluctantly.

The wolf king, known as the little wolf, stared at Li Zaizhe, and Li Zaizhe looked at its eyes and said seriously: "Don't worry, I will take care of her, just like you treat her, this is my guarantee." ”

The wolf king let out a long howl when he heard this, and turned away with the wolves. Li Anning shouted, "Little wolf, goodbye, I will miss you!" The wolf king's ears twitched and he left.

The brother and sister returned to the county seat and got on the train to QH.

Lee Jae-chul bought a bunk bed soft sleeper, and when he was about to go to bed at night, Lee Jae-cheol, who was lying on the lower bunk, asked, "An Ning, was it the wolf king who took you away in the first place?" There was no one on the other side, so Lee Jae-chul was very direct.

"No, it was the wolf king before the pack who took me, and the wolf cub is its child, and we grew up together. ”

"Sleep, there's a chance that my brother will take you back to see it. ”

"Hmm. ”

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There is a gate of hell in the Kunlun Mountains, where animals are often struck by lightning and die, and Lee Jae-chul is in an underground cave here.

After settling the girl in a hotel and asking the lobby manager to take care of her, Lee Jae-chul went to the gates of hell alone. After finding the cave with a sense of induction and entering it, Lee Jae-chul was stunned by the energy that permeated the cave, and then the energy that had been surging wildly seemed to have found an outlet and drilled into Lee Jae-cheol's body.

Half a day later, Lee Jae-cheol woke up and felt the power contained in his body and the mysterious energy lurking in the acupuncture points around his body. Lee Jae-chul sighed, "It seems that the energy in the crystal pillar was only a small part of the ...... before" said as he picked up a stone and tried to release the kind of energy called "Qi" by the world in the dream world, and the stone was instantly shattered, "That's just to let my body adapt to it." With that, he left the crypt and prepared to go back to the hotel to find Li Anning.

Only the last place remains. Lee Jae-cheol said in his heart.

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Italy

Florence

In a secret room in the Hundred Flowers Cathedral, Lee Jae-chul sat on the ground, and he had previously confirmed that the last location was in the Hundred Flowers Cathedral based on the memories he had obtained from the Gates of Hell, and took the opportunity to sneak in. As soon as he entered the chamber, he was struck by a light from the mural, and then immersed himself in his own world.

Like in a movie, he saw someone coming from the clouds and throwing a young man into a strange roulette wheel, countless people flying to the sky like the immortals in Chinese legends, and others writing poems and songs, splashing ink and danqing, carving lifelike character statues and painting magnificent and fantastical charming smiles. In the end, he saw his own life.