Chapter 205: An Unexpected Encounter
Charlotte originally wanted to ask Lu Mingfei what his purpose was in coming to Portugal. But Lu Mingfei had already exposed his family, so Charlotte naturally guessed that Lu Mingfei came to investigate the "antimony" incident.

Of course, she could not have imagined that Lu Mingfei would skip classes for a long time and take a flight for more than 20 hours from faraway China to Portugal just to be a flower protector.

Lu Mingfei was still worried that if Charlotte let him go, it would arouse the suspicion of the people from the Holy Temple Society, but Charlotte shook her head and said not to worry about it. Thinking of how those people were respectful to Charlotte before, Lu Mingfei was no longer worried.

There are many dragon-slaying families in Europe, so Charlotte's identity must not be simple. Lu Mingfei thinks those people should not make things difficult for Charlotte.

However, after coming to Portugal this time, he discovered that the information he knew in his previous life seemed to be just the tip of the iceberg of the world of mixed-race people.

Just like at the beginning, he thought that Kassel Academy was the West Point Military Academy in the world of mixed-bloods, the leading force for slaying dragons, and the leader of mixed-bloods around the world.

It was not until he went to Neon to carry out the mission that he realized that Neon's branch executive bureau and Kassel College were only superficially the headquarters and branch relationship. In fact, Neon's branch executive bureau was completely under the control of the Sheqi Eight Families.

Before the falling out, they were still polite to Kassel College, but after the falling out, they just stopped pretending and came clean.

And this time, if he had not come to Portugal and met Charlotte, he would not have known that there was a mixed-race organization called the Order of Solomon's Temple here.

"I suddenly felt that I had lived in such a muddle in my previous life that I had never understood anything about this aspect."

Lu Mingfei sighed in his heart, looked at Charlotte, and asked, "Do you have any other questions?"

Charlotte shook her head: "No more."

"Oh, then I'll be leaving first. I have something important to do here..." Lu Mingfei said, "By the way, I'll return your suitcase to you."

It was Lu Mingfei who helped Charlotte carry her luggage when they got off the train. Lu Mingfei stepped forward and was about to return the luggage to Charlotte, but he found that Charlotte took a step back as soon as he took a step forward.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then took another step forward. Charlotte immediately took a step back, always keeping a distance of two or three meters from him, as if the two of them were dancing some funny tango.

Lu Mingfei scratched his head. Just when he was about to ask Charlotte what was wrong, Charlotte pointed at the luggage in his hand and whispered, "You... just put the luggage there. I'll remember to take it later."

Lu Mingfei was stunned, and then he realized that Charlotte was still suffering from social phobia. Just now, he and Charlotte held hands in the carriage, and then they talked normally. Lu Mingfei thought she had become desensitized to him.

However, looking at Charlotte's green eyes blinking nervously, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that this European loli was quite cute - of course, this cuteness was not mixed with any improper thoughts. After all, Charlotte was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and even in Europe, she would be sentenced to more than three years and at most life imprisonment.

“Then I’ll put it here?” Lu Mingfei put the suitcase between the two of them.

"Ah."

Charlotte watched Lu Mingfei let go of her hand, then dragged his own suitcase, turned around and walked into the rain with an umbrella. After walking for a distance, Charlotte finally took a step and walked to her suitcase.

The rain splashed onto the box, and as Charlotte held the handle, she felt the temperature that had not yet dissipated.

……

Gulegão is a town under the jurisdiction of Santarém District, but it is far away from the central urban area and a long way from Santarém City. Portugal's railway transportation network is not very developed, so the next part of the journey can only be done by bus.

This section of the journey was quite smooth, especially after entering Gulegang, the weather gradually cleared up.

The area of ​​Golegã used to belong to the Ribatejo Province, which is the center of the traditional capital of Portugal and one of the important wine producing areas. The mild climate and stable rainfall here, and the Tejo and Omota rivers passing through here provide favorable conditions for the growth of grapes here.

Lu Mingfei closed the geography atlas in his hand and looked out the window.

From time to time, Manueline and Pombalist buildings flashed past the car window, standing side by side as if they had been standing here for thousands of years. Colorful flags were hung and fluttering between the buildings, and there were even people riding horses on the road. Looking at the expressions on their faces, you can probably imagine how relaxed and leisurely the people here live.

Compared to the modernized cities like Lisbon or Porto, Golegã seems to be frozen in time a thousand years ago.

Lu Mingfei actually didn't know the exact location of Su Xiaoqiang's hometown, and he didn't even know Su Xiaoqiang's mother's last name. It was Lu Mingze who told him about Gulegang, and the place name was written on the first page of the "Daily Portuguese Dictionary" that Lu Mingze gave him.

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know whether this place was the hometown of the little goddess, he thought that Lu Mingze would not give him a coordinate for no reason, so he simply came to this place.

Of course, the easiest way is for Lu Mingfei to open his phone and call the little goddess, or send her a text message, telling her that he came to Portugal to find her and asking her where she is. But thinking of what the little goddess said to him in the rain that day, Lu Mingfei was not sure whether the little goddess would answer his call.

"But even though I'm here, I don't know what to do next."

Lu Mingfei got off the bus, looked up at the words he didn't recognize on the road sign, and sighed.

How come Europe is so small, with so many languages? And Portugal is the same. It is a developed country, but it doesn't keep up with the international standards. I don't expect you to make Chinese road signs, but at least you should put English underneath them, right?

Lu Mingfei took out his mobile phone from his pocket and clicked on the phone book. The top phone number was Liu Miaomiao's, and the second name after that was Su Xiaoqiang.

Portugal is in the Eastern Time Zone, 8 hours behind the Imperial Time. It is now : pm in Portugal, and the corresponding domestic time should be around : pm.

Although he promised the little girl that he would call her every day when he came to Portugal, a lot of things happened this morning and he was so busy that he forgot. The little girl always went to bed early, and he didn't know if she was asleep at this time.

Lu Mingfei pressed the arrow key, and the cursor on the phone screen moved to Liu Miaomiao's name. Before he could press the dial key, there was a sudden "whoosh" sound, like a gust of wind suddenly blowing in front of him, and a huge force pulled Lu Mingfei to take several steps.

Before Lu Mingfei could come to his senses, he saw a motorcycle gradually moving away from his sight, and the mobile phone in his hand and the suitcase beside him also disappeared.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted belatedly:
Shit! I was robbed by a car!
It is said that all foreigners are well-educated, and if you drop something on the ground, they will wait for you to come back?
On the motorcycle, a man and a woman took off their masks.

"What do you think? I told you that the Chinese people's things are the easiest to rob, right? They have no vigilance at all and they have a lot of money." The red-bearded man said in Portuguese.

"Okay." The short-haired woman said as she drove the motorcycle, "Let's find a safe place to stop the car and see if there is anything valuable in the bag."

"Just in the alley in front. There are no surveillance cameras there."

"it is good."

The woman twisted the handlebars of the motorcycle and was about to turn into the alley when she heard a rapid and powerful "da da da" sound behind her. The woman subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror of the motorcycle, and then she was horrified, as if she had seen a ghost.

“Que merda (What the fuck)?” the woman yelled. “How did that guy get here? Chinese Kongfu?”

……

Su Xiaoqiang walked along the path in Charles Reilvas' garden with his hands behind his back.

Charles Relvas Garden is an ancient building built in the 19th century. It is one of the famous landmark buildings in Golegã and one of the must-visit spots for many tourists when they come to Golegã. Su Xiaoqiang knew that his mother loved to grow flowers. When he came to Portugal as a child, his mother would always take him to visit this garden to feel the romantic atmosphere of the Portuguese-style garden.

After his mother passed away, Su Xiaoqiang would come here every year to pay tribute to her mother, accompanied by his cousins.

only……

Just as Su Xiaoqiang lowered his eyes, a crisp voice came from beside him.

"Roseira, are you feeling unwell?"

Su Xiaoqiang quickly looked up, smiled at the people around him, and replied in Portuguese: "No, Bettina."

"No?" Bettina's eyes did not move away from Su Xiaoqiang's face. "I noticed that you looked listless during the two days you came to Portugal. Even when you came to visit the garden, you seemed a little absent-minded. So I wanted to ask if you were not feeling well."

"That is……"

Su Xiaoqiang paused for a moment, then said with a smile, "Maybe he's not used to the local climate."

In fact, it was not a case of acclimatization. On the way from China to Portugal, she kept thinking about Lu Mingfei and the words she said impulsively in the rain that day. She kept thinking about it these past two days. That was why she was always in a bad mood.

But I didn't expect that my performance was so obvious that even Bettina could see it.

Bettina is her cousin, and Bettina's mother, Aunt Antonella, is her mother's sister. Su Xiaoqiang now lives with them in her grandparents' estate.

Bettina nodded when she heard this, and without asking any more questions, she simply said, "If you really don't feel like visiting the garden, then let's go back?"

Su Xiaoqiang looked at Bettina and nodded: "Hmm..."

As they followed Bettina out of the garden and onto the sidewalk, many people were attracted by the stunning pair of sisters and couldn't help but stop and look back to examine their slender figures from behind.

But Su Xiaoqiang didn't care about the gazes of these people. He just lowered his head and thought about his own things.

Why did I get so excited at that time and say everything that was on my mind...

Embarrassment is only one aspect, but more of it is regret. I have been patient for so long, but in the end I still couldn't help it and said those words.

Lu Mingfei must be in a difficult situation too, right?
Can I still be friends with them?

Ah... I'm so annoyed, so annoyed, so annoyed! Why did I say such words?
When she thought of this, Su Xiaoqiang suddenly felt annoyed. If her cousin Bettina hadn't been by her side, she would have covered her face and stamped her feet.

But at this moment, a bustling movement in front attracted Su Xiaoqiang's attention.

The narrow sidewalk was filled with onlookers. No one knew what had happened that even the police were called, and there were constant discussions.

A police car stopped by with its red and blue lights flashing. Two uniformed policemen were maintaining order among the crowd on the periphery. A man who looked like their superior squeezed into the crowd with a ballpoint pen and a small notebook.

"Did any accident happen there?" Su Xiaoqiang asked, standing on tiptoe.

"I don't know." Bettina shook her head. "Do you want to go and see?"

"Not really..."

Bettina looked at Su Xiaoqiang's face and suddenly said, "I'll go over and take a look. Rosella, wait for me here."

"what……"

Before Su Xiaoqiang could react, Bettina had already walked over and cut into the crowd like a knife. Not long after, she cut out again like a knife and said lightly:

"It seems that two groups of people had a dispute over some issues, and one of them was from your Chinese class."

"Chinese?"

Su Xiaoqiang was suddenly curious when she heard this. She had been to Portugal so many times, but she had never seen many Chinese people besides herself.

Bettina saw Su Xiaoqiang's curiosity and said, "Do you want to go and take a look? Okay, I think the Chinese guy seems to be in a difficult situation. He doesn't speak Portuguese very well and is communicating with the police in English. We can go and help him."

In the crowd, the red-bearded man was covering the wound on his face. He explained to the police with an innocent look on his face, while looking at the Chinese man next to him with a smug look in his heart.

At that time, when they saw that this Chinese man could catch up with their motorcycles running at 60 miles per hour with just his legs, they were truly shocked and terrified.

However, after the Chinese man kicked his motorcycle down, the red-bearded man immediately shouted loudly to attract passers-by around, and then turned around and bit the Chinese man, saying that he was driving the motorcycle well, but the Chinese man suddenly jumped out and attacked him, causing him to fall and be injured.

When the police arrived, the red-bearded man cried even harder to the police, denouncing the Chinese man's atrocities and demanding compensation from the Chinese man. The Chinese man did not understand Portuguese and could only communicate with the police in simple English, which made him speechless.

And this unlucky Chinese man is, of course, Lu Mingfei.

At that time, he finally caught up with the motorcycle and snatched back his luggage and mobile phone. Unexpectedly, the two motorcycle thieves turned into scammers in seconds, lying on the ground, covering their arms and walking according to the watch.

When the police arrived, they just listened to what was said by both sides and took notes silently.

"I think I know what's going on."

The policeman closed the notebook, looked at Lu Mingfei and said:
"Now both of you have your own story. Now, you and they need to come back to the police station with me to make a statement. After we have collected evidence and completed the investigation, we can determine the responsibility for this matter. If what they said is the same as what you said, we will fine them and detain them; if this matter is as they said, then you will have to compensate them for their medical expenses, and in serious cases, you may even be deported."

Lu Mingfei was stunned. Damn, what are you police officers for? This is obviously a car speeding and a fraud, can't you see it?
Just at this moment, a familiar voice suddenly sounded among the crowd.

"Lu Mingfei?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned and subconsciously turned his head, and saw Su Xiaoqiang standing in the crowd, his beautiful eyes wide open, looking at him in disbelief.

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(End of this chapter)