Act Seventy-Eight: The Afternoon Tea Plan
"I will cherish this sword and live up to your expectations." Chu Zihang bowed from afar to the pile of ashes that King Arthur's bones had turned into.
He was the last to walk out of the gate, and then closed the door, and several people stood in a row in front of the palace, with a kind of victorious posture.
"Senior brother, what are you thinking?" Lu Mingfei saw that he was silently looking at the sky and did not speak, and leaned over and asked.
"It's fine." Chu Zihang lowered his head, "It's just that my mood is a little heavy."
"What's so heavy, didn't they all succeed in getting the sword?"
"It's because I managed to get the sword." Chu Zihang said softly, "The meaning of this sword is too heavy, I'm afraid I can't afford it."
"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have told you the story of King Arthur." Lu Mingfei pouted, "Why did King Arthur choose you in the dark? Because he believes in you, brother, and he believes that you can fulfill his last wish and take this sword to defeat Odin."
"I can only say that I can do my best." Chu Zihang said, "I'm not sure if I can get the approval of this sword."
"Don't worry, I'll figure it out." Lu Mingfei patted his chest and promised, "However, the process of getting recognition is not so ......."
"Are you saying it won't be easy?" Chu Zihang turned his head and stared at Lu Mingfei's eyes, "I can overcome any difficulty, and the word "powerlessness" does not exist in my dictionary."
Lu Mingfei could see the flames dancing under his eyes, and smiled, "This is the senior brother I know, and he will never admit defeat at any time."
"Hello, have you finished talking about your topic?" Natsumi popped up from the side and asked, "How do we go back?"
"You can go back as you come." Lu Mingfei snorted disdainfully, "Senior sister, you little head melon, you are very disappointed in my brother!"
"You're on a par with me today, aren't you?" Natsumi grinded her teeth and creaked.
"Who told someone to let King Arthur's ghost come to me?"
"I'm just...... Say it casually! How do you know that Senior Brother Lu, you are so narrow-minded."
"Okay, I'm narrow-minded." Lu Mingfei started to warm up, "It's time to dive."
"I'll come first." Nono was always interested in this kind of thing, and with that, she rushed to the beach.
Everyone watched as she found a large reef, stood on it, and jumped upside down into the water in a graceful diving position.
"Senior sister did the right thing, this place should not stay for a long time." Lu Mingfei nodded thoughtfully, "What are you looking at, let's go!"
He also jumped onto the reef where Nono had dived before, and jumped into the water in a dog gnawing mud position that couldn't be more ugly.
"Senior Brother Lu is always self-aware." Natsumi sighed, "Don't he know how ugly it is?"
"Let's go too." Xia Mi stretched out a finger and poked Chu Zihang beside him.
Chu Zihang didn't speak, but stared at the holy sword at his waist.
"Senior brother, what's wrong?" Natsumi bent down curiously and looked at him from below.
Chu Zihang kept his head down, only in this way could Xia Mi see his face.
"I'm fine." Chu Zihang seemed to have recovered from some strange state, "You and Mr. Holmes go first, and I'll stay for a while."
"Oh." Xia Mi no longer asked, how was the Sherlock Holmes guy she didn't bother to care.
"Mr. Chu Zihang." After Natsumi left, Holmes remained on the beach, "Is there anything else bothering you?"
"Actually, I wanted to talk to you alone." Chu Zihang stood straight, looking at the cyan sea in a daze, with his back to Sherlock Holmes.
"And me?"
"Hmm." Chu Zihang came back to his senses, "You are actually inextricably linked with Lu Mingfei and him."
Sherlock Holmes shrugged, not admitting or denying it.
"I don't care who you are, as long as you're on our side, I'll turn a blind eye to whatever you do." The golden in Chu Zihang's eyes flickered, "But...... Don't think otherwise about the people around me."
"Why does Mr. Chu Zihang think so?" Holmes walked up to him.
"I heard you playing dumb riddles with Lu Mingfei before, although I don't know what dumb riddles you are playing, but it's definitely not something you want me to know."
"Don't worry, I'm absolutely, absolutely on the side of humanity." Sherlock Holmes used two absolutes.
"On the human side?" Chu Zihang keenly spotted what Sherlock Holmes said about taking sides, "It seems that you are a dragon."
"Does it matter if it's a dragon or not?" Holmes smiled, "Since you have guessed it, I will be blunt, everything I do is for the sake of the Lord."
"Lord? Is it a guide?" Chu Zihang paused, "I didn't expect Lu Mingfei's identity to ......."
"That's not what you know right now." Holmes interrupted his conjecture, "I suppose that when you have the power to stand on the right side of the Lord, all your doubts may find answers."
"Understood." After all, Chu Zihang couldn't help but ask the question that had been hidden in his heart all along, "The path I chose...... It's hard to walk, isn't it?"
"Yes." Sherlock Holmes nodded, "For this, you have to be mentally prepared, it will be difficult, from ancient times to the present, there is not even one person who has achieved this position, or rather, only half a person."
"Then why can I succeed?"
"The time, the place, the people." Sherlock Holmes said affirmatively, "Actually, you have already occupied all the places you don't know, just by virtue of this."
"I can't know?"
"I can't know." Sherlock Holmes stood on the reef, "Don't ask, I won't tell you if you ask, the only thing I can tell you is that everything the Lord has done so far is to pave the way for you."
"Lu Mingfei ......," Chu Zihang muttered to himself, "What exactly does he want."
"Maybe it's just trying to get a happy ending?" Holmes fell back with ease, "Or perhaps as he often says, the friendship between men is as strong as a diamond."
Chu Zihang looked at the sea where Sherlock Holmes disappeared thoughtfully.
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The sea reflected the strange clouds in the sky, almost without ups and downs, and suddenly a figure leaned out, he floated from under the water, raised the long sword in his hand high, the light of the setting sun fell on the sword, and the sword that had been sealed for many years finally saw the light of day.
Immediately afterwards, the surrounding sea water suddenly churned, and another head emerged from the water, and Lu Mingfei shook his wet messy hair, like a lion that had just crossed the river.
"Woohoo!" He did, roaring, remembering a long time ago someone saying he had a lion in his eyes.
"Sick?" Nono said her long, dark red hair floated like seaweed in the water.
"No, I'm just too excited to scream." Lu Mingfei smiled.
"What are you going to do later?" Xia Mi also showed her head, "There is still a whole day of leave granted to us by the principal's grandfather, I think we finally came to the UK, and we have to take advantage of this day to play around."
"How about a celebration feast?" Lu Mingfei proposed, "To celebrate the success of our trip."
"Agreed." Nono raised his hand.
"I'm sure I agree." Natsumi smiled.
"I don't care." Sherlock Holmes said.
"Wait." Natsumi suddenly became vigilant, "You guys aren't going to rely on us all the way to the academy, are you?"
"How does Miko speak!" Lu Mingfei pretended to scold, "Mr. Holmes, he has done a lot for us, is it a bit of a problem for you to cross the river and tear down the bridge like this?"
"I just don't like him." Natsumi wiped the sea water from her face, "Let's just rely on it, but can we Kassel let in such a person of unknown origin?"
"It's not easy." Lu Mingfei raised his chin, "You, Senior Brother Lu, and I are the faces of Kassel, just let whoever you want to come in and talk to Principal Ange."
"No wonder I've seen a rumor in the Night's Watch forum that you're the illegitimate son of the Headmaster's grandfather
。」 Natsumi whispered.
Lu Mingfei almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, "Who spread it? Please, I'm so many years behind Principal Angers, and I don't use my brains to spread rumors, can Principal Angers still be able to make a son when he is over a hundred years old?"
"Looks like the vice principal." Nono said.
"Sounds like he can do it." Lu Mingfei silently scolded the old thing who was disrespectful a thousand times in his heart.
"Half-bloods, who knows?" Natsumi snorted maliciously.
"Can you go to shore first and then talk?" Chu Zihang interjected, "We are still floating in the sea."
"Senior brother is right." Lu Mingfei slowly swam towards the shore in a dog-planing style.
"I don't know why I'd find someone like this as a boyfriend." Nuno looked at Lu Mingfei's upturned ass and sighed helplessly.
"Marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog." Xia Mi comforted, as if she was going to fight with Lu Mingfei, swimming beside Lu Mingfei in a beautiful backstroke position.
"Hey, this is all better, you still have no humanity!" Lu Mingfei's face turned dark.
"I didn't say I was comparing to you." Xia Mi looked at the sky, and suddenly a sentence came out, "So whether you go or not, now you have no opinion."
"Me?" Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, only then did he realize that Xia Mi was talking to him, "I can do it."
"You can't do it casually." Natsumi went ashore and shook off her long soaked maroon hair, "Okay, if you can't, you can't."
"Okay, I'll go." Chu Zihang was a little puzzled why Xia Mi suddenly became so tough.
"Oak, unanimously approved." Natsumi clapped her hands, "Where are you going to eat?"
"Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing." Lu Mingfei shrugged, "How about buying some ingredients for a wild barbecue, anyway, there are very few things that meet our tastes here in Northern Ireland, so it's better to eat them ourselves."
"Yes." Xia Mi's eyes lit up, and he turned his head slightly to look at Chu Zihang, and the soft and soaked forehead hair was close to the forehead, "Senior brother, what do you think, I saw that there was a nice clearing in the town we came from before, with a wide field of vision and beautiful scenery......
She tried her best to persuade her, and listed many advantages of having a picnic here, for fear that Chu Zihang would not agree.
By the time Chu Zihang came back to his senses, Xia Mi had already gone to discuss the details of the picnic with Lu Mingfei, and his voting rights were excluded.
"She's always like that, isn't she?" Nono said, looking in Natsumi's direction, "In order to make you less bitter and hateful, try to come up with ideas."
Chu Zihang didn't speak.
"If you want me to say, when you meet such a girl, cherish it, anyone with a discerning eye can see that she cares about you very much and thinks about you everywhere." Nuno walked towards Lu Mingfei, "I rarely express opinions on other people's feelings, because I don't understand this myself, but I can't help it."
"Think about it yourself, I've said everything I want to say, I believe Lu Mingfei has also said a lot."
Chu Zihang looked down at the sword at his waist, maybe ...... It's time for me to take the initiative, I've found the sword, and the shadow that haunts my heart seems to have a solution.
He heard Lu Mingfei say that feelings are a two-way thing, and if one of them never gets a response, no matter how warm the emotions are, they will be slowly consumed until they dissipate.
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"What should I do?" Xia Mi stood in front of the diving shop with a bitter face, "In order to open the living spirit, we all cut the diving suits."
"What's this?" Lu Mingfei said indifferently, "Let Senior Brother give me more money."
"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk." Xia Mi said with a strange yin and yang aura, "Anyway, it's not your Lu Mingfei's money, and it doesn't feel distressing to spend it, right?"
"Is that your money?" Lu Ming is not happy, this is the beginning of the husband, to figure it out, you are not together yet, okay.
"You two don't quarrel, you haven't stopped." Chu Zihang separated the two who were facing each other, "I'll just give some extra money,
I'll ask the boss later, it shouldn't be too much, after all, it's just a small opening."
"Senior brother, why are you so good to him!" Natsumi puffed out her mouth to look at him.
"Friendship between men is strong, you know?" Lu Mingfei dangled proudly in front of Xia Mi's eyes.
When Chu Zihang heard this, his heart moved slightly, Lu Mingfei always put this sentence on his lips, and then linked to what Sherlock Holmes said, everything he did was paving the way for himself......
The corners of his mouth raised silently, yes, it doesn't matter what kind of purpose Lu Mingfei has, at least he sincerely wants to be good for himself, isn't he?
Nuo Nuo frowned beside her, and after Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei walked into the store shoulder to shoulder, she said to Xia Mi, "Now I also feel a little wrong."
"yes, yes." Natsumi stared at someone's back with a murderous gaze, "These two ...... Alas...... Sister Nuno, we have to be careful, as soon as we find signs that something is wrong, we must quickly pinch them off!"
"Hmm." Nono put on a baseball cap, the one she often wears, "You say, no matter how good the friendship between men is, can it be so good?"
"I just don't know." Natsumi grinds the stones on the ground with her toes.
"I really didn't expect it...... Nono sighed again, she felt that the sighs in the past two days combined were more than the sighs she had sighed in her life, "The first time I had a sense of crisis, it was a man."
The time she talked to Lu Mingfei at night before, in fact, she didn't have a sense of crisis, because she understood Lu Mingfei, he was just guilty about that girl, but he was a little apprehensive in his heart, but this Chu Zihang ...... She couldn't say.