Sorcerer

33

"No, never!"

The stream sparkling under the moonlight sings mysteriously softly.Wu Maxi just stared at the flowing water and sat there all night.

The past is washed away with the flowing water, and the road ahead gradually becomes clear.

The old liar once said that deception should follow the trend, if you are reckless, failure is the only result.

Wu Maxi is going to act recklessly now, he has made up his mind and will never leave.Entering the Zha family is the only goal, and this goal is unprecedentedly decisive, taking any risk and not retreating.

If Fengqing Xu really came, he would avoid him, he would never be able to stay by Taiyin's side forever.If Cao is doing well, it is not impossible to avoid this encounter.

After the decision was made, the mood began to become lighter.Looking at the time talisman, it was already four o'clock in the morning.Wu Maxi rectified her mood, stepped onto the rune leopard, and started to return to the city.

The moon has set in the western sky and will soon set.

"what is that?"

In Wumaxi's eyes, under the moonlight, a purple shadow came against the wind, misty and mysterious, and the speed seemed to be extremely slow, but it flew out of Wumaxi's sight in an instant.

"It seems to be a woman."

Wu Maxi made a judgment based on her first glance. The shadow was graceful and graceful, and it was definitely a woman with an excellent figure.And looking at the speed of that shadow, her strength was ridiculously high, even far beyond Wu Maxi's imagination.

Wu Maxi stood there blankly for a while, then continued her return journey. The rune leopard ran at full speed, fast, with the sound of howling wind blowing by her ears, dripping freely.

It was less than five o'clock when we arrived outside the city gate, and the city gate was still closed.According to the regulations, the gates of the city opened at seven o'clock, which meant that Wu Maxi had to wait outside the city for more than two hours.

The entire city gate was silent.Xiqu City is the rear of Quzhen Kingdom, and the city guards are notoriously unpopular in Xiqu City, so the city guards stick to their duties, opening and closing the city gates every day, even patrolling the city walls. discount.At this moment, there are not even half a soldier on the city wall.

Wu Maxi found a remote place outside the city, took out the jade buckle of "The Essentials of Artistic Conception", sat down and began to study.He has neither practiced nor studied tonight, and wandered around all night, which is a shameful waste.

……

An old man and a young man walked on the path east of Xiqu City, walking slowly and easily.

The old man had half black and half white long hair, wrinkles like annual rings, and a hooked nose that didn't match the expression on his face.The young man next to him was dressed in brocade clothes, his face was a bit rough, and there was always a smile at the corner of his mouth, he looked like a person who thought highly of himself.

The young man said, "My lord, why do you refuse their help?"

The old man said: "We do our work, and they do theirs. It's better to distinguish clearly. This time they failed, and their status is very embarrassing. Now there is a chance to pay off the crime. If we do things with them , after it is done, how much credit do you think they will share with us?"

The young man admired and said: "My lord has a great opinion. Their line has always been good at taking credit, otherwise it would not be possible to have the current status."

The old man said: "Chi Mo, after entering the city, you should first find a place to live, and then contact them after you settle down. Remember, keep it secret."

……

At seven o'clock, the city gate slowly rose.Wu Maxi stood up and entered Xiqu City again against the sun.

After entering the city, Wu Maxi returned home to tidy up a bit, and then went to Tai Yin's house.

Guan Xunxian and Ruyi Ningwei have already arrived.Ning Wei and Ru Yi sat at the stone table and played Go. When Wu Maxi entered, Ning Wei was playing tricks, acting like a spoiled child to Ru Yi, who was one year younger than her.The two flower-like girls laughed and made a fuss.

Seeing Wu Maxi coming in, Ruyi blushed, but Ning Wei became more reluctant, tugged at Ruyi's sleeves and said, "So Ruyi, why don't you let me pick up these things, anyway, I've lifted these things You also won, so you let me mention it."

Seeing this familiar scene, Wu Maxi felt as if she had finally come back, a smile could not help showing on the corner of her mouth, and then disappeared, returning to her icy appearance, and went straight into the room, directly into the environment room.

Today's study Wu Maxi became much calmer, and he didn't have so many questions to ask, which made Tai Yin very happy, thinking that his preaching had worked.

In the afternoon, Wu Maxi bid farewell to Taiyin and prepared to leave after finishing the three-dimensional structure study for Ruyi.He didn't rest all night and was a little sleepy, so he wanted to go back and rest earlier.

Ruyi waited for him in the courtyard, and asked coyly: "Brother Feng, I heard that your uncle is coming to Xiqu, can you bring me to meet him then?"

Looking at her expression, Wu Maxi probably understood what she meant, and refused, "No."

"why?"

"You will regret it." After Wu Maxi finished speaking, she turned around and left the gate.

"I won't." Looking at his back, Ruyi murmured to herself in a soft and aggrieved voice.

……

Under the solitary lamp, Wu Maxi and Zhou Zhoutai sat facing each other in the room. There was a small table in the middle with food and wine on it, as well as the roast duck from Dawanghe that the old liar had requested last time.

The old liar had a mouthful of roast duck and wine, enjoying himself.Wu Maxi sat quietly at the side, depressed, and said after a long time: "Old liar, have you read "On the String"?"

The old liar was eating roast duck, and said vaguely: ""Shangxian"? Is it the bloody love drama handed down from the Wanliu era?"

There are hundreds of scripts and novels of various colors handed down from the Wanliu era, and "Shangxian" is one of the best.The critics commented on this script as "beautiful words and full of emotion", and the love between the hero and heroine is considered to be the purest love that transcends genres and status.

"On the String" is also one of Lu She's famous librettos, and Wu Maxi is one of the many people who have won tears.But once it came to the mouth of the old liar, it became a bloody love drama.

Wu Maxi ignored his nonsense, and continued: "Tell me, is love in this world really like that?"

The old liar was a little surprised when he heard what Wu Maxi said, he raised his head to look at him, and said after a while, "What do you think?"

Wu Maxi didn't answer, if he really felt like that, he wouldn't be bothered.

He thought about it all afternoon, and he always felt that there must be a dead end between him and Ruyi, and there was no other possibility.Ruyi's grandfather is a big boss in the realm of cultivation who can easily come up with small magic arts, and the Wuma family he belongs to is a corpse-hunting family that has been humiliated for thousands of years, and was kidnapped by Xue Kou nine years ago. It's gone.

Ruyi is a talented girl with sixteen branches, and her qualifications are among the top [-] people in the entire continent.And I can only divide my mind into twelve branches, and the only thing I can rely on is hard work.

The current self is just a wisp of catkins blowing in the wind, trying hard to take root by tricks and tricks.And Ruyi is a real princess.The two are the difference between cloud and mud.In the words of the old liar, it is the relationship between the toad and the swan.

Wu Maxi shook her head and said, "Feng Yuanzhang, it seems that he fell in love with a princess."

The old liar asked: "What about the princess? Do you like him?"

Wumaxi said: "The princess likes Feng Yuanzhang."

The old liar suddenly laughed happily, poured Wu Maxi a glass of wine, and said, "Drink, drink, you won't be troubled when you're drunk."

Wu Maxi shook her head.

"It's boring." The old liar drank the wine he just poured, "You, you are too hard on yourself. At this time, you should get drunk and think about nothing. But you are like a beast , the more injured you are, the more you force yourself to be alert."

Wumaxi said: "If I had been alert, I wouldn't have come to you."

The old liar chuckled, and said: "That's how it is when things like this happen. Let me tell you, the word 'love' is the natural enemy of our liars. There are many talented liars. It's not that their methods are not clever, and their operations are not. It's not exact, but it's because of the word 'love'." After the old liar finished speaking, he drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.

Wu Maxi turned her head to look at him, and asked, "You fell too?"

"I didn't. I almost fell once, but I didn't." The old liar shook his head, "But I wish I fell then."

Wu Maxi looked at his face and didn't speak.

The old liar sighed, and said: "16 years ago, when I was still called Zhou Qu, I was teaching in a town to pass the time. At that time, there was a very rich member of the town, and he had seven wives. Damn, at that time I'm still a bachelor. Later, that member invited me to go to his house to teach a few children how to read, so I got to know his sixth lady."

"Her name is Xiu'er. She is so beautiful. The first time I saw her, I felt as if I lost my soul. She was standing beside a peach blossom, looking very sad. My heart felt like it was pulling It looks the same. You know? It’s that kind of…” The old liar didn’t seem to know how to describe it, he gestured with his hands but still couldn’t make a gesture, so he gave up and poured a glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.

"Later, I often told her some jokes I heard. Seeing her smile, I was inexplicably happy. Later, she had my child." The old liar paused and continued. "She asked me to elope with her, but she couldn't, she loved Zhou Qu. That night I thought about it over and over again, and finally decided to give up. I wrote a letter, explaining my identity and my apology. It was all written in it and placed at the place I had agreed with her, and then I left that town overnight."

"Four years later, when I revisited the old place, I found out that she had passed away. Three months after I left, her belly gradually grew, and she couldn't hide it anymore. The officer asked her who her husband was, and confessed Forgive her when she came out. But she refused to tell, just refused to tell. The officer asked her to kill the child, but she still refused. Later, she was kicked out of the house and lived in a dilapidated thatched hut without enough food every day. I couldn’t dress warmly. Later, because of dystocia, I died.”

Wu Maxi looked at his face, and saw that the face under the light became lonely, and the sadness seemed to be carved into the wrinkles on his face.

On the way back, Wu Maxi kept thinking about this story, that poor woman, what was she thinking in her heart before she died?

Yuese accompanied his footsteps, making his heart extremely heavy.

What will happen to me and Ruyi?The question weighed on his mind and made him sad.

When he got to the door of his house, he suddenly realized a question: Is this story true or false?

Cao, absolutely fake!

Wu Maxi quickly gave her own judgment, but it was already too late.

Just after the story was finished, the old liar said: "In a few days, it will be the sacrifice day of the baby, his mother and the baby, but I am useless, I don't even have the money to buy sacrifices for their mother." It's a sad feeling.Wu Maxi relented and gave him another twenty gold coins.