Chapter 54

Due to the cool weather in the evening, the summer family dinner was arranged on the garden terrace on the hillside of the manor. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the lake on one side, the sunset reflects the sky. The lake is like a mirror with a panoramic view of the mountains and waters.

Dr. Peter is not qualified to attend the family banquet of the Xia family, while Li Wei always stands by as a bodyguard. There are only Xia Wenyuan, Wu Lixia, Hu Xing, summer and Qingmu on the dining table on the terrace.

During the dinner, Xia Wenyuan asked Aoki for his bank card number, saying he wanted to give him a reward. Aoki was not so polite. He wrote down the card number and gave it to the housekeeper of Xia mansion.

After the dinner, because Hu Xing also wanted to go home, he took Qingmu home and didn't let Li Wei drive again.

Soon after the car left the manor, Aoki's mobile phone made a Ding sound. He turned on his cell phone, looked at it, and then began to count on the screen: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6..."

"What are you doing? You won't play hypnosis again. I'm driving!" Hu Xing said.

Aoki counted again, touched his head and said, "your grandfather gave me a sum of money. There are six zeros behind the number 3. Hey, how much are the six zeros?"

"You can't find the north with such a little money? Look, you're happy!" Hu Xing snorted, thinking that Aoki was deliberately showing off.

Aoki began to count with his fingers: "one, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand..." broke six fingers, and then "wow" shouted, "three hundred thousand!"

Hu Xing said, "can you count? There are six zeros behind 3. Is that three million?"

"Er..." Aoki looked at his finger and broke it again, as if Hu Xing was lying to him, then turned on his cell phone and looked, "it seems that it's really three million!"

Hu Xing shook her head and sighed, "do you know how pigs die?"

Aoki smiled and shook his head, and Hu Xing giggled holding the steering wheel.

An unknown Old English song is playing in the car stereo, and the soothing melody echoes in the car.

……

"What are you thinking?" Hu Xing asked when he saw that Qingmu suddenly stopped talking.

"Oh, I'm thinking about how to spend the money," Aoki said.

"Money fan!" Hu Xing laughed and scolded, but he was curious, "how are you going to spend it?"

"First pay the rent and meals, buy some delicious food for the coal boss, buy two clothes that look more like women for Ruhua, and then invite everyone to eat in the Zhuangyuan building... Hey, you calculate for me, how much will it cost? How much is left?"

Hu Xing has no choice but to take him. He doesn't understand how long this guy's brain is. She simply stopped talking about money with Aoki and asked about the dream: "I still don't know how I got into my grandfather's dream. Tell me."

Aoki said, "I told you you wouldn't understand."

Hu Xing said reluctantly, "cheapskate, don't pull down."

Aoki said, "when you can stably enter the state of lucid dream, you can think about this problem."

Hu Xing asked, "how can I get into a lucid dream?"

Aoki said, "it's the same process as today, but I'm not next to you. It's easy for you to step out. Just try a few more times, but..."

"But what?"

"Lucid dreaming is not a pleasant thing!" Aoki said. "If you can't control your subconscious well, you can't control your dreams. You can only be a sober bystander and watch what you experience in your dreams."

"For example, when you stand there well, the ground under your feet suddenly sinks, or you are enjoying a delicious lunch, but suddenly a tiger pours from behind. These are nothing. The most annoying thing is that the reality in the Qingming dream is very strong, and it is not as chaotic as an ordinary dream. You can still clearly recall the experience in your dream when you wake up, just like that It really happened. If you dream too often, you are likely to become a schizophrenic and can't distinguish between reality and dream. "

It was Hu Xing's turn to nod and ask, "so what should I do?"

Aoki said, "now I know how pigs die."

……

"Well, let me ask you something serious." Aoki changed the topic. "What happened to your grandfather's daughter?"

"Oh, you say my little aunt!" Hu Xing sighed. "She is the only child born to my grandfather and aunt Xia. In fact, she is not a few years older than me. When I was a child, my mother scolded me for calling her" sister "by mistake!"

"Although we are about the same age, we don't play much together. She was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley when she was a teenager, which is much better than my nephew who aspired to be a policeman. I don't know anything about her. I only know that five years ago, she suddenly came back from the United States, had a big quarrel with her family for some reason, and ran back to the United States Gone. "

"What happened later?" Aoki asked.

"Later, her family couldn't get in touch with her. At first, they thought she was angry and didn't care. They didn't know the situation was serious until they found that the bodyguard secretly arranged for her by my grandfather was missing. However, neither the police nor the FBI nor the overseas Chinese Gang entrusted by my grandfather found anyone, and she seemed to evaporate."

"How do you say he died?"

"What the FBI said. It was about half a year since they disappeared. When they cracked a case, they found my aunt's belongings. Later, they said they caught the murderer who killed my aunt. During the trial, my mother and aunt Xia went. According to the murderer's account, he just wanted to kidnap my aunt to extort a sum of money, but accidentally killed the person."

"What a coincidence? Did you find the body later?" Aoki asked.

"No," said Hu Xing. "The American police were too inefficient and didn't find much evidence. They were stirred up by lawyers, and the murderer later retracted his confession."

"The court acquitted?"

"That's not true. There are other cases on the suspect," Hu Xing said. "But my little aunt died in vain. I'm angry when I think of it!"

Aoki put these pieces of information together and had a little more confidence in his inner guess.

"Maybe your little aunt lived in Wuzhong before she died!" he said.

"How could it be?" Hu Xing looked at Qingmu like an idiot. "Wuzhong is the base of the Xia family. My little aunt is so excellent. If you live in Wuzhong, how can you not be found by the Xia family? It's like your coal boss mixed with a group of white pigeons, but you can't see it!"

Aoki thought it was right, so he smiled and stopped talking about this topic.

It was very late when he returned to Liuying lane. Looking at the decoration notice posted outside the bar, Aoki remembered that the bar was closed these days.

He never bothered to bring his keys when he went out. Today, the bar door was closed, so he took out his mobile phone and called Ruhua, ready to be scolded.

But no one answered the phone.

He had to come forward and smash the door. Fortunately, the nightlife in this street is relatively rich, and he is not afraid to disturb his neighbors. But he knocked for a long time and no one came to open the door.

Hu Xing looked at him at a loss and said, "why don't you... Stay with me for one night?"

"That's not good!" Aoki said.

Hu Xing thought this guy was quite serious. Just when she wanted to say that she believed in him, she saw Qingmu light a cigarette, lean against the porch post, spit out a big white smoke ring, squint her eyes and say, "what if you lose your body!"

"You've lost your head!" Hu Xing stomped angrily, sat in the car and started the car, "don't pull it down!"