Little Phoenix tilted his head, full of doubts: "... Tweet?"
There was silence all around, and then like cold water poured into the oil pan, it exploded: "Phoenix!"
"Phoenix!"
"That's a real Phoenix!!!"
The flash of the mobile phone clicked and flashed into a sea of lights. Yu Jingzhong rushed out of the office and roared: "Just take a picture! Don't upload it on Moments! — Discipline of confidentiality! Don't upload on Moments!" Unfortunately, his voice was immediately drowned out by the rumbling footsteps.
"Boss, you're finally back!" A group of young men descended the mountain like tigers, and they rushed up and cried, hugging their thighs and hugging their thighs.
A group of young handsome guys usually find it difficult to find a girlfriend because of their confidential work. But after Zhou Hui left, the boss was replaced by Garuda. The golden-winged Dapeng bird had a serious personality, and trained these people to cry. Now that the boss is back, it's more than kissing his own father.
Zhou Hui held the little phoenix in both hands, and said solemnly: "This is your team leader Feng Si. Come over and recognize it... It's enough to be familiar with it! Talk about you! You can't touch it!"
The boys all bowed and said, "Hello, Team Leader 4!"
"..." Little Phoenix: "... chirp?!"
Phoenix is mysterious and aloof, and he has betrayed twice. In the legend of the special place, he has become the indescribable number one. It is generally believed that no matter what image or form he appears in, it is not surprising. Not to mention turning into a baby bird right now, even if he suddenly turns into a golden Bodhisattva statue sitting in the office one day, it is estimated that everyone will not feel anything strange.
However, there are also unacceptable ones, such as Shen Wantian Si:
"Mama, how did you become like this! You don't recognize me?! I'm a god! Can't you remember anything?"
In Zhou Hui's office, Shen Wantian shivered as he pointed at Little Phoenix, his face full of grief. The little Phoenix remained motionless in Zhou Hui's arms, returning innocent eyes to the little living Buddha.
"Look at me, look at me! Can't you really remember? Can't you even remember me?!"
After comforting the crowd outside who were excited to come to watch the rare birds, Yu Jingzhong pushed the door open, covered Shenwan's mouth when he heard the words, and dragged him to the back to teach in a low voice, "Phoenix doesn't even know Zhou Hui now. Recognize, let alone you... Next time I will say less in front of Zhou Hui, it will make him feel sad..."
God Wan Tiansi stood against the wall, with a deeply shocked expression on his face.
Yu Jingzhong patted God Wan Tiansi on the head, pushed him out of the office to face the crowd of onlookers outside, then walked to the desk, pulled out the chair and sat down, frowning at Zheng Jing Wo. Bird cub on the desktop.
Little Phoenix's round eyes looked back at him, his eyes full of curiosity.
"...It's really Feng Si? Doesn't it take hundreds of years to hatch?" After 30 seconds, Yu Jingzhong couldn't help but wonder: "Is it true that you miss Feng Si too much, just picked up a bird outside and came back to recharge?! "
"bare!"
The little phoenix fluttered its wings and was about to rush over to fan Lao Yu, but Zhou Hui quickly held it down, snoring and comforting him. After a long time, the frizzy hair on the back of the little phoenix's neck slowly calmed down, but he couldn't help but stare at Yu Jingzhong, his black bean-like eyes filled with resentment.
Yu Jingzhong was horrified: "It... it understands? If I go, I won't offend the Phoenix King, right?! I'm sorry, Your Highness! I didn't mean it, Your Highness! me!!!"
Zhou Hui caressed the little phoenix in every possible way, until the latter finally retracted his head into his palm and stopped moving, then said, "I wasn't sensible half a month ago, but now I understand more and more, it may be related to a natural goddess. Only when you change shape can you officially open your mind, and I don’t know when it will be… It is said that it is possible from a few years to a few hundred years.”
"Does he really remember nothing?" Yu Jingzhong asked.
Zhou Hui shook his head.
"then you… "
"Just wait like this, I can afford to spend 800 years." Zhou Hui picked up the little phoenix and kissed him, saying, "When he becomes enlightened, he will start all over again, the last time he was on the battlefield. The robbing of relatives has been successful, can’t it be successful this time? Even if the memory is cleaned up again, the soul will still be the same person, and there will always be a day when it will recognize me.”
"Besides, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize it." Little Phoenix rubbed Zhou Hui's face with his round head, making a slight chirp. A smile appeared in Zhou Hui's eyes: "He lived so bitterly when he was a child, and then he was deeply immersed in this treacherous situation, and he worked hard at every step of the way, but he never lived a day when he was truly at ease... Now it's better to forget it. Life always has to pass, only to have a new beginning.”
It was noisy outside, and the sound of a group of members running around and shouting to move things came from the corridor.
However, it was very quiet in the office. Red lines crisscrossed the high ceiling, and the balls came and went, each following a trajectory, like a vast star map in the night sky.
The office was completely blocked for half a year when the owner left, and no one ever stepped in. But now Zhou Hui opened the door and walked in. He was sitting here, as if the heavy smoke of gunpowder, war and displacement had never happened, everything seemed like yesterday.
Little Phoenix didn't understand what Zhou Hui said, but habitually flapped his wings and chirped twice in approval.
Zhou Hui laughed.
This person and bird have their own aura, and the intimate atmosphere seems to repel others around them, forming an independent and warm little world. Yu Jingzhong stood up from his chair, looked at the scene across from the desk, and tried to hold back what he wanted to say.
Although Zhou Hui's expression was the same as usual, but after so many years of meeting, he could feel something even more heavy and desolate after that smile.
- What Zhou Hui said was not the truth.
·
Zhou Hui took Little Phoenix and moved back to his hardcover duplex apartment in the Third Ring Road.
As for Zhang Shun and Garuda who came back with him, one was taken away by Hu Liu, and the other could only live in the office.
Zhang Shun got all the assets and stocks in his brother's hands when Chu He left the Zhang family. However, Zhang Shun was incapable of managing the company first and second, so he simply sold most of his equity and became a director who received dividends in name, so he came to Beijing to make a living.
Zhang Ershao was alone and widowed. At that time, he did not decide whether to stay in Beijing or return to H City, so he did not buy property in Beijing. Later, he casually stayed in a hotel for two days, a nightclub for two days, and Situ Yingzhi's house for another two days.
Now that the real Golden Buddha descended into the human world, he was surprised to find that he didn't even have a foothold in Beijing.
The nightclub is definitely not allowed to go. When Venerable Badi finds out, he will spit blood and run down the mountain to kill himself with a knife in front of Zhang Shun. Now the house is in a mess, and even Xian San himself is staying in a hotel.
Although Zhang Ershao has been in the human world for a long time, there is some problem with his divinity, but after all, he is suspected to be a genuine Buddha, and the above still attaches great importance to it. He has emptied a building in a politically important area to use it as a Buddhist hall - helpless Zhang Ershao is now horrified when he sees the Buddhist hall, and in the face of Yu Fu, who is warmly invited, he can't wait to jump up and slip away against the wall.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Li Hu showed mercy and said:
"Since Zhang Ershao doesn't want to live in the Buddhist temple, let's live in my house. It's not too late to settle down and buy a house. It just so happens that my house has a large bedroom empty, and he can help me pay for water, electricity, gas, property, etc. at the end of the month. …”
Zhang Ershao said in a hurry that there is no problem, it is my honor to live with the beautiful women of 36DD. Besides, as a Buddha, you must always remember to purify all sentient beings. If you stay in the Buddhist temple and do not contact the grassroots, you will be separated from the people.
So the real golden Buddha followed the fox spirit and ran hand in hand, leaving Yu Fu behind, looking at Li Hu's particularly happy and unrestrained chest while running, his eyelids jumped.
The remaining one, Garuda, had been sleeping in the office all the time, and there was no pressure to continue sleeping in the office.
He slept in the office of Team Leader Feng Si back then, with three large studios on the top floor, complete with bedroom, living room, and kitchenette. Zhou Hui was so happy that he didn't live under the same roof with his son, he wanted to leave with the little phoenix in his arms, but was suddenly stopped by Garuda: "Wait... Dad."
"Um?"
Garuda stepped forward and carefully smoothed the slightly messy feathers of the little phoenix. Under the bandages, his eyes showed a calm expression. After a while, he took a half step back, looked at Xiao Fenghuang left and right, and then raised his eyes and said, "Dad, there is one thing..."
Zhou Hui's tone softened slightly: "What's wrong?"
"Lend me some money," Garuda said. "The salary is not enough."
Zhou Hui: "…"
"The internship period is 4,500, and the price of a steamed whole snake in the Snake Restaurant starts at 1,200. Although the salaries of Qian San and Shenwan are higher than mine, they are not too much higher. I wonder how they can maintain a balance of payments? I heard that you can earn some extra money by picking up jobs in private, but that day I asked for the disciplinary regulations, which said that picking up jobs in private is against the rules of the unit."
Garuda paused and said calmly: "My salary this month has been spent... Lend me some money, and I will pay you back when the salary is paid."
The father and son looked at each other, and a gust of wind blew between them.
"..." Zhou Hui said slowly, "I remember that when you came out of the snow-capped mountains, you took your mother's safe deposit box from the local bank, which contained 80,000 yuan in cash..."
"When the train crashed into the Demon Realm, Bao was devoured by Maha madly, and later in the Human Realm, he was caught by a thief."
"Then you later..."
"The world is too expensive. I have been relying on my salary to eat the cafeteria of my company. Fortunately, I can live in an office and save money on renting a house."
Zhou Hui stared at Garuda, looking at his son's incomparably young face, his old sports T-shirt, and last year's adidas shoes. For the first time in his life, a sense of responsibility as a father emerged from his chest. .
He took out his wallet, took out a card, handed it to his son, and said, "Take it, just swipe it."
The little phoenix had a natural affinity for Garuda, and before leaving, he flew around Garuda twice, seemingly reluctant to part, the gorgeous tail feathers passed around him like a ribbon, and sprinkled countless gorgeous of light.
That light was like countless jumping little elves, and Garuda stretched out his hand in nostalgia—but the next moment, Zhou Hui hurriedly grabbed the little phoenix and walked away without ticking.
"Chirp?" Little Phoenix was shoved into the car and asked with a puzzled wink.
Zhou Hui quickly got up and drove, just as if he didn't see it. The heart said that if Phoenix regained his memory in the future and remembered that he almost made his second son begging for food, maybe he would make himself go down the street to beg for food in a fit of anger... So mother and son should save their headaches and cry when they parted.
·
After a six-month absence, Zhou Hui finally returned to his and Chu He's home in Beijing.
Although no one has lived in it for so long, Yu Jingzhong often sends his hands to clean it, so it is clean and free of dust. It's just a house that has been empty for a long time, and there is always a bit of an uncomfortable smell in the air. Zhou Hui opened the balcony door and opened the floor-to-ceiling curtains, letting the sunset pour into the living room and bedroom, and the solid wood floor glowed in the afterglow. Warm reflections.
"Yo, there are flowers." Zhou Hui looked at the glass on the coffee table. There were a few unknown pink and white flowers in it. It must have been placed here when Yu Jingzhong sent someone to clean it.
"—Tsk tsk, Lao Yu has been taught by the little beauty to have a taste for life, it's so rare... Remember? You used to pick a few wild flowers from the garden downstairs and put them at home, and you once wanted to open up a ginseng plantation in Yantai. …”
The little phoenix jumped on the table, sniffed the wildflowers for a while, and then took a sip.
"Bah ah!" Little Phoenix immediately spit out the bitter petals, flapped his wings for a while, and slammed his head back into Zhou Hui's arms.
Zhou Hui laughed, holding the car keys in one hand and Little Phoenix in the other, walking around the living room, and then came to the bedroom. I saw the sun shining in from the balcony connected to the bedroom, the big soft and snow-white pillows on the bed were glowing golden red, and there was a black casual suit jacket hanging at the corner of the bed—it belonged to Chu He, it was confiscated when he left, and it still hangs here today. .
Zhou Hui put the little phoenix on the bed, picked up his coat and wrapped it around his head, smiled and said, "This is yours, do you still want it? Don't let me give it away."
Little Phoenix laboriously stretched his head out of the pile of fabrics. When he heard that he was about to give it away, he immediately gathered his coats into a pile, spread his wings and folded them tightly, staring at Zhou Hui. That means that since it is mine, no one is allowed to give it away, and what is mine is mine, and no one is allowed to take my things.
Zhou Hui laughed and hugged Little Phoenix together with his coat in his arms.
"If you don't give it away, your things will always be yours..." Zhou Hui paused, buried his face in the jacket, and said sullenly with a smile: "Even if you wait until you die, it's still yours, No one can take it away, don't worry."
Little Phoenix was satisfied, and shrank his neck as Zhou Hui stroked him one after another.
·
There was nothing to eat in the refrigerator, but luckily there was half a pack of milk powder. Zhou Hui boiled water to make a cup of thick milk, added sugar and honey, adjusted it to the most suitable temperature, brought it to the bedroom and let Xiao Fenghuang drink it obediently, while he went to the bathroom to take a shower.
The master bedroom was connected to the bathroom, and Zhou Hui didn't close the door. Little Phoenix stood on the glass wall. From its angle, Zhou Hui's shadow could be seen reflected on the bathroom glass door, showing strong, firm upper body muscles and thighs.
Little Phoenix opened his round black eyes and watched for a while without moving, before slowly lowering his head and taking a few more mouthfuls of milk. Zhou Hui quickly felt dull when he was not there, jumped off the wall of the cup, bounced on the bed and flapped his wings a few times, looking up at this "home" that was said to belong to him.
The high ceiling makes the view very wide, the light golden heavy curtains, the beige carpet, the furniture and the beds are all made of high-grade solid wood, and the design is from a famous designer. Little Phoenix tried his best to raise his little head, his eyes swept over the photo frame on the bedside table in confusion, Chu He's face in the photo paused, and then he moved away without noticing.
Its gaze turned to Zhou Hui's bedside table, fixed on one of the drawers.
The drawer seemed to exude an aura that made it very familiar, and Little Phoenix couldn't help but take a step forward, followed by another step, standing by the drawer, stretching his neck and looking inside.
The drawer was closed, and it naturally saw nothing. However, the little phoenix thought for a while, and the feeling that was so familiar and indescribable became heavier and heavier. Finally, it carefully stretched out its claws. It was like a ghost, and it labored to open the drawer.
There was also the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, Zhou Hui hummed Turandot, and the singing was particularly loud in the echoes.
Little Phoenix's eyes were reddened by the oncoming bright light.
—I saw a glass jar in the drawer, with a delicate lotus-shaped bracket, which held a red ball precisely and securely. The beads were the size of a thumb, and they were crystal clear and smooth, and in the twilight world and the increasingly dim bedroom, they shone with a halo as bright as a nine-day cold star.
Several fragments of long-term memories whizzed past from the depths of my mind, but then they passed away, leaving not even a faint picture—
This is the phoenix pupil.
Little Phoenix stared at the glass jar, stunned there.