"Letter letter, don"t run, the extras all have payment!” Zhao Menghua"s friends called Lu Mingfei, “Everyone had done a good job.”
Lu Mingfei looked back, Zhao Menghua narrowed an eye to grimace. Lu Mingfei knew what that means, he thought he should go back to punch Zhao Menghua, but he"s score on PE was also far less than Zhao Menghua, no need to mention he got lots of dudes. He had been weak for so many years and got used to it. So he said “oh”, turned his head and walked on to the stage, to be his “I”.
Then the light came from behind him, like lightning breaking through a cloud, and someone pushed the door of the screening room harshly.
There are times in a man"s life when he thinks he has seen the door of heaven open. Lu Mingfei had waited for 18 years. At his worst moment, the door opened.
The angel came in and looked around with the sight of the blade.
All were silent. The intruder, her lightness had overwhelming all other people. She was so dazzling that Lu Mingfei thought she was simply to show off.
“Ricardo, we do not have enough time, do you still want to partic.i.p.ate in the activities?" Nuo Nuo went to the front of Lu Mingfei with a piercingly cold and clear tone. Everyone can hear her clearly.
Her style of dress changed completely. Her dark red hair was combed neatly. Dark purple skirt, moon white silk blouse, purple stockings, and gold-amethyst customized jewelry had made her ten centimetres higher than usual. Her pressure even let Lu Mingfei"s legs feel weak. Nuo Nuo gave him a hand just in time to steady him.
“Oh, I…" He was the focus of all eyes, like a hot kettle on a solar oven. He"s going to burn under those sights.
“I told you not to wear these on sale clothes.” Nuo Nuo waved her hand.
Two girls with delicate makeup rushed forward and took off his clothes, but the process was gentle. Lu Mingfei did not have time to escape. Nuo Nuo took out a comb from her close-fitting bag, turned behind him to comb his hair. The feeling was between his mother and his sister. The two girls were probably clerks in a clothing store, holding five or six suits and leather shoes for Lu Mingfei to try on and match.
“This is our Ricardo M. Lu.” Nuo Nuo patted his face and smiled with thoughtfulness.
She faced the students, only Lu Mingfei knew what she is doing. Nuo Nuo pinched the face of Lu Mingfei happily, pinched into a fox and pinched into a pig. Lu Mingfei knew that she was very proud of his appearance right now. The little witch will not let someone overcome her willingly; she could only overcome and save, but not the other way round.
“Zhao Menghua wanted to trick you intentionally, junior brother.” Nuo Nuo whispered.
“How?"
“I use some beauty to let that little fatty tells me the truth.” Nuo Nuo looked pleased.
“Beauty?
“Just talking to him.” Nuo Nuo strengthened her pinch. “You think I"m good for everyone but not only you?”
Finally, the two salesgirls put a folded kerchief into the pocket of Lu Mingfei and asked Nuo Nuo"s opinion with their eyes.
Nuo Nuo looked up and down at the new outfit and frowned. "So so. It"s far away from Ricardo"s standard."
“Hi, dear students. Ricardo has evening activities and we shall go first. Have a nice day." Nuo Nuo bowed to Lu Mingfei"s cla.s.smates slightly, showing the immaculate smile of the housekeeper in the courtyard, cold, and consummate.
“Ricardo? “Zhao Menghua asked.
“Ricardo M. Lu, that"s what we called him.” Nuo Nuo said.
“Let"s go! Lift your eyebrows and chest! Don"t be silly!” Nuo Nuo stabbed Lu Mingfei in the back.
Lu Mingfei nodded his head and walked out obediently. Nuo Nuo took his arm with faintly smelling of perfume. But now Nuo Nuo looked a little taller than Lu Mingfei and felt like his sister was picking up him from school. Lu Mingfei thought that Chen Wenwen is looking at his back at the moment at Zhao Menghua"s side. He upstaged Zhao Menghua but got nothing.
Everything floated away as dreamlike light.
There was a car parked in front of the theatre, Ferrari 599GTBFiorano, red as a flame. He read in a car magazine that it was going to sell for about $5 million. He looked at Nuo Nuo hesitantly.
“Get in the car, be natural. They"re following you around, looking at you like, ‘Ferrari is nothing, my house is nothing but Bugatti Veyron and Maybach"!” Nuo Nuo whispered.
Lu Mingfei sat in the pa.s.senger seat, his hands on his knees sincerely. Nuo Nuo started the engine and the Ferrari bolted out like a wild horse. Lu Mingfei knew he was farther and farther away from his past, but he did not look back.
In the darkness, the Ferrari raced down the elevated road with lights blazing on both sides. Lu Mingfei looked at the fast pa.s.sing lights outside and felt that he was dreaming. Now he turned into a small firefly in the stream of light. He rushed forward with other fireflies, not knowing whether there was an exit ahead.
“I never thought it would happen to me.” Lu Mingfei mumbled.
“What is it? Dumped by your lover in front of everyone, then got kicked to the corner?” Nuo Nuo glanced at him.
“It"s picked up by a hot girl driven a Ferrari in front of everyone.”
“But the hot girl driving the Ferrari doesn"t have oil.” Nuo Nuo said.
Their speed went down in a sudden, and the Ferrari turned off from elevated road to a deserted alley. The engine died and the car stopped in front of a 24-hour drugstore, which"s the only light on the street.
“Heck, I forgot to refuel.” Nuo Nuo clapped her hands on the steering wheel. “Let"s get off and wait until they send a car to pick us up.” Nuo Nuo opened the door and jumped down.
“We can take a few steps to get a taxi.” Lu Mingfei suggested.
"Nope, I don"t want to walk. I"m wearing high heels." Nuo Nuo refused with the simplest ground.
Lu Mingfei looked under the skirt of Nuo Nuo"s suit. It was a pair of Mary Jane high heels with at least ten centimetres. With this pair of shoes, she instantly evolved from a sporty girl to a ladylike woman.
Nuo Nuo adjoined to Lu Mingfei proudly, “Look, this makes me as tall as you.”
“You will die if you are not over other people?” Lu Mingfei sat on the curb with his arms around his knees.
Nuo Nuo didn"t cherish that exquisite dress. She sat down beside Lu Mingfei, took out her mobile phone and sent a message.
“Why are you being so nice to me? Lu Mingfei asked.
“It"s not ‘we" that"s nice to you. It"s ‘I" that"s nice to you. The college only wants you and they will not care who you like. You bought me ice cream, didn"t you? That"s just paying back." Nuo Nuo said.
Lu Mingfei suddenly looked at Nuo Nuo, “Hey, did you prepare for this? You guys are trying to trick me, or why would you wear this? Are you that kind of ladylike sister?”
“Who"s playing you? I went out in jeans and sneakers. After I knew you were being played on, so I just drove off to buy a suit, put it on, and I ran in all the way."
Lu Mingfei looked into her eyes and knew she was not lying. He was moved a little to cry but refrained.
“It doesn"t matter. If you agree to be admitted, you will be our junior brother of Ca.s.sel college. As your senior sister, I need to take care of you." Nuo Nuo said.
“Any other chance?"
“It"s an exception for you. You can choose one more time." Nuo Nuo patted Lu Mingfei"s shoulder, revealing a narrow smile, “But now it"s all right to follow us. Anyway, I knew that Chen Wenwen doesn"t like you."
“Don"t rub it in, please?” Lu Mingfei turned his head away. “She didn"t mean to, she just couldn"t feel my existence.”
“Well well, Mr. Don Juan, everything is all right in your heart about Chen Wenwen even she dumped you.” Nuo Nuo shrugged, “Didn"t she know your mind? If yes, why she made you like this?”
“Hey, why on earth did you want me? Don"t lie to me, just because of my mom and dad? Can you make that clear? Even if I jump into a fire pit, I need to know why I jump."
Nuo Nuo slapped him on the forehead, “36,000 dollars" scholarship, lots of people will just jump for this fire pit! You"re really expensive.”
Lu Mingfei had no way to deal with Nuo Nuo: if he"s a little tough, she will be ten times more tough than him. He shouldered Nuo Nuo, “Are we friends? Maybe leak a little to a friend.” He made a “little” gesture with a pleading tone, “Otherwise I will not know the truth."
“All I can tell you is that you are very important to us. It"s the principle"s decision to have you but not Professor Guderian… “Nuo Nuo exuded a little fox"s charm, “Come! Call me sister!"
“SISTER." Lu Mingfei p.r.o.nounced very clearly.
“Well, good boy.” Nuo Nuo said complacently. “But I don"t know why the princ.i.p.al wants you.”
Lu Mingfei had no other ways. “Well, I agree. What if I don"t? I did not review well and can"t pa.s.s the entrance examination. What will my cla.s.smates think of me for showing off so much in front of them today?” He looked down. “What should I do if and what shall I say when I go back?”
He was a little sad. The Ferrari in front of him, the little princess Nuo Nuo beside him, the $36,000 scholarship and the distant Ca.s.sel College, all seemed to be a mirage. They suddenly came to him and will be disappeared. He looks like Cinderella, in which the witch gives him a beautiful girl and a Ferrari, but at midnight, it will be invalid and will be returned to its original form. What the h.e.l.l is he? What"s the value of him? He can"t even explain himself.
Nuo Nuo looked at his eyes with a face clearly written “I am very sad" and felt a little pity. She suddenly put out her hands to grasp the head of Lu Mingfei and exclaimed, “You now look like the little rabbit which"s used to wipe the b.u.t.t of the bear!”
Lu Mingfei was so angry that he almost burped. “You were wiped by a bear, and your whole family was wiped by a bear!”
Nuo Nuo was not angry at all. She opened her arms and looked at him with her head askew. “Come, little rabbit, give me a hug!”
Surprised, Lu Mingfei looked down at Nuo Nuo and felt feverish when he saw her chest, soft as a spring ridgeline under the silk. In order to not be shamed too much and reclined in Nuo Nuo"s arms, his hands tightly embrace his chest and shirked back, “Why do you want to eat my tofu?" 1)
Nuo Nuo spat out her tongue, “Look at you. I"m just comforting you, are you tofu? You are at most a dried bean curd!”
“Dried bean curds also have their dignity.” Lu Mingfei had to say some disordered words to cover up his confusion.
“Well, have you decided? Quick decision. There won"t be a second chance." she said, taking off her heels. “My feet hurt.”
“I…” Lu Mingfei said, “Well, I accept."
Nuo Nuo put the pair of purple gold high heels on the side and jumped on the street only wearing socks, not afraid of dirty, “This is more comfortable! Look what a sacrifice I"ve made for you! I hate wearing high heels. Give Professor Guderian a call, and tell him yourself, then the choice will work." Nuo Nuo said.
“Work?"
“You are different from normal people. You have a hidden choice in your life. If you have this call, the hidden choice will be activated." Nuo Nuo said. “We always say there"s always another option, whether you want it or not.”
“Hidden… Options?” Lu Mingfei opened the phone and dialled Professor Guderian"s number.
“Mingfei, I"m in Beijing right now. Have you make the decision?” Guderian Professor"s voice was even more nervous than Lu Mingfei"s, it seems that Lu Mingfei is a superb beauty, who is considering to marry him.
Lu Mingfei licked his lips, “I"ve made the decision. I agree to sign the doc.u.ment.”
Nuo Nuo was jumping on the small stone street. She didn"t even look at Lu Mingfei.
“Confirm?" Professor Guderian was delighted.
“Confirm.” Lu Mingfei thought this sentence is like a wedding girl saying “I do”, which will affect his life.
“Validation pa.s.sed, option on. Lu Mingfei, date of birth February 14, 1992, male, code A.D.0013, level ‘S", listed at Ca.s.sel college. Database access is opened, the account is created, the course selection table is generated. I"m Norma, secretary of Ca.s.sel College, at your service. Your ticket, pa.s.sport and visa will arrive in three weeks. Welcome, Lu Mingfei." A steady female speaker was on the phone.
Professor Guderian"s voice came again. “Mingfei, the voiceprint signed was finished, and the rest will be taken care by Norma. Are you with Nuo Nuo? Stay where you are, and I will send a conveyance to meet you at once. There"s a few doc.u.ment need to be signed."
The phone hung up, Lu Mingfei was still a little confused about what had just happened.
“Norma is the central computer of the academy. She"s an anthropomorphic computer. “Said Nuo Nuo.” Let"s play jumping grid!”
“Oh, ok. “Said Lu Mingfei.
Jumping with the grid, Lu MingFei has no idea what is happening around the world just now. What before was just a start. A large number of data packets gushed from the supercomputer named “Norma” to different corners of the world. The word “Lu MingFei” had appeared on the screens of a lot of people, and was remembered in mind. After the data lock was opened, thousands of secret gateway were opened for “Lu MingFei”.
Ca.s.sel College had just embraced its new student.
A loud noise was making its way through the dark night sky.
“What???” He murmured.
“The old guy was in such a hurry to pick you up?” Nuo Nuo looked up. “The helicopter is coming.”
On Friday, May 15, 2009, a black helicopter flew over a southern town like a giant bird over the head of young Lu Mingfei.
The war, hidden in history, is about to reopen.
Eat tofu is a Chinese idiom of a man obscene a woman under a condition of both sides is ok with that. I can"t find a better English way to translate it here…