Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Zhou Hui stood expressionlessly in the lobby on the first floor of his unit, his whole body was wet, with unidentified digesta and disgusting yellow mucus hanging from his body.

There was nothing within a radius of ten meters around him as the center of the circle. The second floor surrounded the corridor, and the inner, outer, and third floors were densely packed with people stretching their necks and looking down, their eyes mixed with curiosity, excitement, and great joy.

"..." Zhou Hui was furious: "Look at the numbness! Then look at all wage deductions! Go back to work!"

There was a bang, the crowd scattered like birds and beasts, and the sounds of gossip and discussion gathered into a sea of ​​joy.

Li Hu flew down from the second floor, opened his arms enthusiastically, and the human weapon was choppy in the wind: "Ahhhhh—"

Zhou Hui dodged quickly, Li Hu accurately passed by, and strangled Jialuluo who was walking into the gate: "Big-peng-little-handsome-brother!"

Garuda was hit head-on by a meat bullet, staggered and almost fell out of the door, and then his chest was squeezed violently by a human weapon, almost spitting out his intestines from his mouth on the spot.

However, Li Hu didn't care. He pulled Jialuluo back and forth to check the sound of tsk tsk, his eyes were full of intoxicated light: "Handsome guy! I haven't seen him for many years! When did you come out of Tibet? Tsk tsk tsk look at this figure, muscle, snow mountain The plateau is to exercise people..."

Carrying a half-person-high bag and a 3000-year-old nine-tailed fox hanging from his arm, Garuda struggled to move every step.

If Zhou Hui was the only one present, he would look like a ragged migrant worker going to the city to petition and beg for wages from unscrupulous contractors; "Handsome guy, you have good biceps, your endurance is very long-lasting." "Handsome guy, your ligaments are also good. You can put it in any position."... Such an enthusiastic nine-tailed vixen, the style of painting suddenly becomes handsome It's a tragic story about a young boy from a cute rural village who went to Beijing to work, was favored by a rich woman who was empty and hungry, and unfortunately was tricked into becoming a duck.

Jialouluo fought his way forward despite the strange gazes of countless passers-by, and finally came to the fourth basement floor. At the end of the corridor was Zhou Hui's office.Zhou Hui was almost driven mad by the vomit all over his body, and he only had time to say: "Don't touch my things!" before he entered the door, and rushed straight into the bathroom, and soon there was the sound of splashing water.

Garuda stood at the door of the office, looked up at the thousands of red threads hanging from the ceiling, and wondered, "Isn't this the Qiankun Formation?"

"Yes." Li Hu walked into the office generously, took out a phoenix pillow from the sofa, and twisted his waist onto the armrest: "Your father has now become a small white-collar worker working for human beings to earn a little living expenses Oh, to be honest, I saw his salary slip last quarter is really pitiful, what are you doing here? Ask your dad for living expenses? Don't ask him, he has no money. "

Garuda: "No, I..."

Li Hu said: "Come and call Ge Ge, and I will give you pocket money if you call Ge Ge."

Garuda: "..."

Garuda helped his forehead, walked to the sofa, and sat on the other side away from Li Hu.

"Don't be so far away," Li Hu immediately crawled over coquettishly, and said angrily, "Why do I have such a relationship now? I didn't see anything when you were a child. When your brother was beaten by your father and your mother went to fight I'm the one who takes you to play. What about breastfeeding, coaxing you to sleep, changing diapers, bare buttocks flicking dicks, little pink dresses with lace bows..."

Garuda said blankly: "There is no such thing."

"Yes, yes. Unfortunately, I didn't dare to draw you jumping around on the Dongting Lake naked because of your mother's lust." Li Hu seemed to be quite nostalgic: "That is What a loving time, to be honest, your family is the only one who is so obedient because Da Mao is too hard-working, if it were an ordinary family, you would be a reserve juvenile delinquent..."

Garuda subconsciously thought of Maha Man Hell walking the bird, and the next second he forced himself to erase the demonic image from his mind.

It's common for children not to wear clothes, he thought, at least I haven't been seen naked since I was a hundred years old.

·

Zhou Hui finally took a shower before Li Hu stripped Garuda completely naked, changed his shirt and came out, wiping his wet hair while staring at his son condescendingly.

Garuda sat on the sofa and looked back indifferently, with his elbows on his knees, his fingers crossed, and his strong fingers were exposed in the half of the glove.

——In his demeanor, there is actually some indifference inherited from Phoenix, which is the sense of alienation brought by the powerful divinity soaked in the bone marrow.However, the phoenix has been infiltrated with a gentle appearance for tens of thousands of years, and Garuda's age group is more of a kind of silent rebellion.

Zhou Hui narrowed his eyes, seemed a little upset, and threw some clothes after a while: "Go take a shower and change."

"...for what?"

"Take you to a meeting."

Garuda grabbed his clothes and went to the bathroom. The sound of rushing water started and stopped, and he opened the door and walked out after 3 minutes.

Zhou Hui's clothes fit his son perfectly. A white cotton short-sleeved T-shirt and well-tailored brand-name jeans set off the boy's lean figure and handsome face.He doesn't look like a migrant worker or a Tibetan cultural relic dealer at all. If he walks on the university campus with this appearance, he should attract the hot eyes of many girls.

Zhou Hui's eyes rested on his son's short hair, which stood up naturally without hairspray, and looked very stylish. Deep in his eyes, he was a little puzzled, obviously wondering where the genes came from.

"Wait, don't pester me first! Let me take a picture first!" Li Hu jumped off the sofa with his mobile phone in his hand, snapped a 360-degree photo of Garuda, quickly opened WeChat and began to post to Moments: "Okay, now you It can be packed."

"..." Garuda wrapped a bandage around his face, "What is that?"

Zhou Hui said: "A cult that wastes time and wastes life. Are you still so afraid of sunlight?"

"I'm allergic in the human world. Why is it always foggy on the streets of Beijing?"

Zhou Hui walked out of the office and headed for the conference hall upstairs in unit 547, followed by his mummified son and his sister-in-law who bowed her head and concentrated on playing with her mobile phone.When he passed the window outside, he glanced at the gray sky, touched his chin and said, "Well...it's actually immortal energy."

·

"I don't recognize it—you stupid humans hahaha! It's no wonder you don't recognize it. This child's life experience is miserable and full of twists and turns. He is the illegitimate son of Boss Zhou who was thrown in his hometown in the countryside!!!"

Li Hu was beaming, holding his mobile phone and speaking in the WeChat group:

"You all know that Boss Zhou was a phoenix man who climbed up to the real phoenix back then, and the poor dick married Bai Fumei and then counterattacked to the pinnacle of life, right? The phoenix man was under great psychological pressure when facing a rich, powerful, talented wife, and then Once she was proud, she turned her face and was ruthless, and secretly found the mistress outside to cover up Chen Cang, but who would have thought that she would give birth to this evil child ten months later!!!”

Zhou Hui: "..."

Li Hu's unrestrained laughter resounded throughout the 547 unit building:

"In a fit of rage, Feng Si ran to hell to find her ex-boyfriend Mo Zun who never forgot her old love, and then decisively sent a divorce agreement to Boss Zhou! Their family's big hair was torn out of psychological shadow during the years when their parents divorced and forced Boss Zhou committed bigamy and gave birth to an illegitimate child. He felt ashamed to face the party and the people. In order to keep his official position, he had to leave the child in his hometown in the countryside for 18 years! The mistress who didn’t become a regular in the past year finally died! The last message asked this illegitimate son to go to Beijing to find his father, just to ask Boss Zhou! Do you still remember Xia Xiaofang by the river at the entrance of the village?!”

The WeChat group broadcast sounded on the mobile phone, and Yan Lanyu asked in a puzzled voice: "I... I never watched TV in Japan when I was a child, but why does this plot sound familiar?"

"Ask what love is in the world, and I will teach people all over the world to copy a lot of articles. The stories of cheating men looking for mistresses are always similar, little beauty!" Li Hu said with emotion: "Now that illegitimate son has traveled all the way from impoverished mountainous areas to Beijing to find his father. I spent a lot of time eating and sleeping in the open, and almost starved to death on the way! I finally picked up the junk and saved a few dollars to buy cold water steamed buns, and was picked up at the station! Begging on the roadside was almost taken away by the police station as terrorists! Hahahahahaha How miserable!"

Zhou Hui: "..."

Shenwan Tiansi's voice filled with righteous indignation came out: "How could this be possible! I'm sorry for the original wife, I'm sorry for the child, and I deliberately abused the illegitimate child! How can I not starve to death?!"

Situ Yingzhi said: "Oh, I don't know how to do it. It's very difficult to come to the door to recognize the father's head. So the male banker has to take care of the lower body. The zombie world never engages in rough sex, mistresses, and mistresses." , it will be miserable..."

"True love! True love, listen to me, I won't have a mistress!" Shen Wantiansi immediately confessed to Yan Lanyu loudly: "Although I have a whole row of harem in Two-dimensional, you are the only one in my three-dimensional life. true love!"

"..." Yan Lanyu said euphemistically, "I'm still young, I want to focus on my studies, and I don't want to fall in love so early..."

Yu Jingzhong's cold voice resounded in the group: "Comrade Shenwan pay attention to influence. You are a monk, so it would be nice to let you eat potato chips and drink Coke. What is the harem?!"

Li Hu was so happy that he stood at the door of the meeting room and pushed the door open.

At the long round table, Yu Jingzhong stood in front of Yan Lanyu, holding up the Naruto comic book, and Tian Sizheng hopped to reach it with all his strength; It seems that it will be uploaded to youtube soon; Wu Bei, with a bandage on his head, is 1.8 meters tall and wears a black leather Burberry windbreaker. He is engrossed in browsing Douban with his mobile phone.

Zhou Hui said, "Cough—!"

Everyone stopped and looked together.

Zhou Hui walked into the conference room steadily under the watchful eyes of everyone, and stood at one end of the round table.

"I called everyone to a meeting today, mainly to make a proposal for the second encirclement and suppression of the four evil ways."

He pointed to Garuda, and said coldly: "This is the second son of me and Phoenix, the golden-winged roc bird Garuda. He brought some information about the four evil ways and planned to release death energy in the human world to refine a large number of We need to respond quickly to the news of the living corpse within these three days, if you have any questions, you can consult him."

Everyone's eyes shifted to Garuda's face, their gazes were full of undisguised suspicion and curiosity.

Garuda froze on the spot, facing everyone, and said firmly in the dead silence after a while: "I am really the son of Phoenix."

·

This is the second time Zhou Hui has proposed to encircle and suppress the Four Evil Realms. The difference from the last time is that the previous active attack was aimed at sealing the Demon Lord, but now it is a defensive battle against the invasion of death energy.

The sea of ​​dead air released by Jiang Sanshi and Xueshan Goddess in Beijing once caused huge turmoil, and even aroused considerable panic among high-level officials.Therefore, as soon as the word death came out this time, the higher-ups immediately ordered strict defense. In the middle of the meeting, Yu Jingzhong also received a personal call from a certain head of Zhongnanhai.

Zhou Hui didn't let Garuda participate in the whole meeting, but only asked him to introduce the Demon Lord's movements and the information provided by Phoenix, and then told him to go out and wait.

But when Jialuluo was sitting outside the meeting room, he could still hear Zhou Hui's voice inside.

Although he didn't say anything before, he always felt in his heart that his father was nagging, and there was always something wrong with his mind.It wasn't until today that he calmed down that Zhou Hui wasn't as stupid as the legend said.

He speaks clearly, thinks logically, and analyzes the problem very comprehensively. It even gives people a feeling that he has planned for a long time and is just waiting for this right opportunity to arrange everything according to his own plan.

It can be seen from this that his father's true face is actually very reliable - after all, he was born as a humble blood sea monster, but he almost dominated the four evil ways, and finally he was able to represent the heaven and the great Asura king in equal court.

·

Garuda waited outside until the meeting was over. Zhou Hui came out and looked down at his son sitting on the steps from the corner of his eyes.

"Where do you live tonight?"

"……do not know."

The father and son confronted each other for a while, and Zhou Hui said with a blank expression, "The real estate certificate bears my name and your mother's name, so theoretically you need to collect rent..."

Jialuluo asked: "Did you really conceive a mistress to have an illegitimate child?"

"no!"

"Then do you prefer to give the inheritance to Maha or me?"

Zhou Hui: "..."

"Since it will be handed over to me sooner or later, why do you charge for staying one night in advance?" Garuda stood up with his old schoolbag in his hand, and stamped the ashes on his feet.

Zhou Hui stared at his son in astonishment, and the latter looked back with a calm gaze.

Boss Zhou couldn't find any words to refute for a long time, and he suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling of being persuaded.

·

Zhou Hui then took his second son home, and at night the father and son ate takeaway at the same dining table, feeling absurd about each other.

This may be the first time in thousands of years that they have eaten at the same table with just two people.Jialuluo didn't catch up with Zhouhui's good time to feed vodka mixed with chili sauce to his eldest son. After he was born, Phoenix strictly guarded against baby's diet. Two little birds.

After Maha went to the 33rd heaven to practice Buddhism, Garuda always ate with Fenghuang. For a long time, he was a little afraid of his father—this is said to be a very powerful, cruel man who was born of a blood sea monster; This father who never pretended to speak to his children seemed to be vaguely vigilant and guarded.

The duplex luxury apartment is brightly lit, the dining table is made of solid mahogany, and the floor is shiny.Although two people always make the sound of chopsticks touching and spoons touching bowls when eating, the slight sound makes the silence and embarrassment even more obvious, as if even breathing is particularly obvious.

"...Where do you plan to go to block the Demon Lord three days from now?" Garuda finally asked.

Fortunately, Zhou Hui didn't listen to it as if he hadn't heard it, and just said calmly: "The location is still being checked."

"If mother really kills the Demon Lord and wants to give Maha the godhead of the Great Asura King, will you..."

"That's about Phoenix."

"You won't stop?"

"Blocking works?"

After Zhou Hui asked the question, he didn't expect an answer, so he got up and went to the kitchen sink with an empty bowl.At this time, Garuda unexpectedly spoke up behind him and asked, "The encirclement and suppression plan you mentioned at the meeting today is very complete, and it seems to have been planned in advance. Did my mother tell you something before I came?"

He asked this purely because he knew that Zhou Hui sealed the Demon Lord just to deal with the Dao of Heaven, but he didn't take it too seriously.However, at the meeting today, his plan to completely kill Demon Venerable Vatican and never cause future troubles was very mature. It is conceivable that he had conceived it for a long time in advance.

Because of the hatred of taking away his wife with the Demon Lord?

Jialouluo vaguely hoped that Zhou Hui would give such an answer.He hoped that Zhou Hui would show that he cared more about Fenghuang. It seemed that if this was the case, it would be more likely that Zhou Hui would not break up after Fenghuang came back, and the formal integrity of this family could be maintained for a while longer.

However, Zhou Hui didn't say anything, and when he heard Garuda mention Phoenix, he didn't even have any mood swings.

"I paid for the meal, you wash the dishes." He threw the empty bowl and chopsticks into the sink: "After washing, take a blanket and sleep on the sofa."

·

Of course, Garuda didn't sleep on the sofa, there are four large bedrooms in the duplex apartment, and he slept next to Zhou Hui.

In fact, he was no longer used to sleeping on a high bed with soft pillows.For hundreds of years in the snow-capped mountains, he slept in caves, under cliffs, and sometimes it was just a leeward area sheltered by a huge rock; when the snowstorm was too strong, he would turn into a Garuda and bury his head under the thick wings In the middle, there is not much chill of ice and snow.

Garuda tossed and turned on Simmons' bed, finally woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall asleep anymore.He lay quietly in the dark for a while, thinking about his mother and brother who were staying in the Demon Realm at the moment; after a long while, he finally got up lazily, and dragged his slippers to the toilet to drain the water.

However, as soon as he walked out, he saw that the door of Zhou Hui's bedroom on the opposite side was not closed, and a gap was opened, revealing a warm orange light.

Zhou Hui was facing him sideways, sitting in an armchair, as if he was holding something and looking at it carefully.

Garuda walked gently to the door, narrowing his eyes.The bird of prey's keen vision allowed him to see clearly that his father was holding a mobile phone, and there was a selfie on the screen - Zhou Hui was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, Phoenix was nestled in his arms, holding up the camera while expressing a blank expression Put on a pair of scissors.

Garuda was stunned.

"Where are you going?" Zhou Hui suddenly covered the photo and asked loudly.

"Go...to the bathroom." Garuda strode into the bathroom, closed the door, and let out a sigh of relief leaning against the door.