Reading poems from Teyvat

"Just... curious."

Shen He just said it lightly.

Shen He was indeed a little curious about the celebration of this festival.

Although she had related memories when she was a child, those memories had become blurred, and only pale echoes remained in her soul. She had never had the slightest interest in these things before. All along, True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng asked her to practice according to the immortal methods, and she had been practicing without distraction. She never delved into her past, nor did she feel the need to delve into those vague memories.

And her current curiosity was not caused by the past.

It would be better to say that at this moment, a strange emotion was rippling in her soul, which should have been calm, and she couldn't tell whether the ripples in her soul were like or disgust, whether she wanted to accept the status quo or return to peace, and the noisy noise and crowded crowds in the outside world continued to stir up those ripples in her thoughts, so she wanted to understand it more deeply and to be more sure of her own heart, so she wanted Shen Zhigui to help her.

Shen Zhigui just thought about it and nodded.

If what Wendy said was true, then this meant that this person's emotions had begun to be touched, right?

Although before he nodded, he was thinking whether to call Keqing.

However, when he walked with Keqing before, it was always the Lord Yuheng Star who took the lead. She might not be able to stand Shen He's strange personality, so he temporarily suppressed that thought and just went out with Shen He. As soon as Shen He walked out of the door of the hotel, she was like being hit by the oncoming sound waves, and even took a step back. Her eyes, which were originally like ice and snow, were staring at this vibrant, colorful and noisy city. At this moment, she was like standing in the center of a crossroads with thousands of forks in the road, at a loss as to which direction to take.

"Anyway, let's go get some breakfast, shall we?"

Shen Zhigui just said.

So Shen He found a nearby breakfast shop and ordered a lot of dishes, but she only tasted a little of each one. Shen Zhigui asked, "You don't like it?"

Shen He thought about it and shook his head.

"That's what hates?"

Shen He still shook his head.

"You are saying something like 'the sage cares about his belly, not his eyes, so he gives up the former and takes the latter.'"

When Shen He heard what Shen Zhigui said, he looked over curiously: "What do you mean?"

"Oh, that's how saints eat. They only seek nutrition to fill their stomachs, not extra things like taste, smell, or color."

"I'm not a saint."

Shen He just said it lightly.

"But maybe your current state is what some people have been pursuing," Shen Zhigui said casually. Of course, he is a vulgar person. If he can choose, he will not choose the tasteless one, just like he quickly threw away the biscuits and chose the bread with jam. "But I also know that you just don't have a preference, so maybe white and color are the same in your eyes, because there is no point in comparing them, so you don't think there is any difference between them."

Shen He nodded:

"So, Junior Brother, do you think that what I am doing is right or wrong?"

Shen Zhigui thought about it and shook his head: "It's hard to say."

"Hard to say?"

"If you were a normal person, you would probably encounter all kinds of difficulties in your daily life, and eventually even your survival would become a problem. But you are not a normal person, so I can't say whether your condition will have any impact on your survival. Although in my opinion, your life of neither feeling happy nor sad is really too boring."

"Boring?"

Shen Zhigui nodded: "For me, in life, we always have to find something interesting to do."

"So, what kind of things are fun?"

Shen Zhigui thought for a moment and said, "Do you think music is interesting?"

Shen He was silent for a moment, then said, "It is partly true."

"In that case," Shen Zhigui stuffed the bread into his mouth in a few bites, stood up, stretched out his hand to her, and said, "Then today I will take you to listen to the music played by those bards, and you can identify the part that you find interesting. How about that?"

Shen He looked at the boy, then looked at her own hand, then reached out her hand uncertainly and took the boy's hand. The boy just pulled her up with force, then walked quickly towards a bard.

And high up, a pair of crystal clear eyes watched the two people walking together, and then a low sigh was heard.

Chapter 79: Wandering in the Dark Shadows (Part 2)

But it is unclear whether Shen He's fate is indeed cursed by an invisible "evil spirit" or whether it is because the boundaries between people are blurred during the Wind Flower Festival, so people become particularly active. Even those who are usually taciturn seem to be infected by the atmosphere around them, injected with endless vitality and desire to talk, causing their vision to become blind, focusing only on the places they are willing to pay attention to at the moment, and losing their original rationality, and starting to become indulgent -

Even if they weren't drinking, they looked drunk.

Not to mention that most Mond people cannot live without alcohol.

So when Shen Zhigui and Shen He were walking back and forth between the bards, trouble came. A man rushed out from the roadside, holding a bunch of gorgeous windmill chrysanthemums. He obviously only noticed Shen He's amazing beauty, but did not notice the divine eye tied in Shen He's hair. So he wanted to get close to Shen He, but Shen He froze him into a popsicle with a spell the moment he approached -

"what!"

The man screamed in pain.

Shen He's actions naturally caused a commotion.

Not to mention that she was too harsh.

Therefore, Shen Zhigui could only rescue the man from Shen He's hands before the situation escalated, and then calm the man down. However, after checking his condition, he didn't think he could solve the problem at the moment, so he carried the man on his back and sent him to the West Wind Church.

However, the man still had his wits about him at this time, and he obviously realized that Shen He was ignorant of the ways of the world. As her junior fellow apprentice, Shen Zhigui acted like a good man because Shen He was in the wrong, so he wanted to push his luck further. He first proposed to join Shen Zhigui's school, but after being blocked by Shen Zhigui, he still wanted to ask Shen He about her address in Mondstadt and Liyue, but was still rejected by Shen Zhigui. So in the end, he became angry and asked Shen Zhigui to compensate him with a large sum of Mora -

Barbara, who was on duty in the church today, saw a person whose body was obviously frozen stiff by elemental power arguing with Shen Zhigui.

She used her divine eyes to treat the man while asking about the whole story.

Shen Zhigui said a few words casually, but couldn't help but look up at Shen He as that person exaggerated how innocent he was and how cold-blooded Shen He was. Barbara couldn't help but look up at Shen He, only to see the tall and cold woman with a fair and beautiful face full of calmness, as if what was happening now had nothing to do with her.

Such an attitude really makes people feel that she is too cold-blooded.

But she had worked with Shen Zhigui for a period of time. Although Shen Zhigui's attitude during that period could be described as "cold and ruthless", Barbara could also perceive that he said that just because he hoped that people who came to them for consultation could be more clear about their own hearts, not because he was really indifferent. So she didn't think that Shen Zhigui was a person who couldn't distinguish right from wrong and only helped his relatives.

But the relationship between these two people seems a little strange:

Could it be that the senior sister he was talking about was actually the one who made him so desperate that he had to sit on the city wall and play the flute in the middle of the night?

Such a thought suddenly flashed through Barbara's mind.

The more she thought about it, the more it made sense.

Because this person looked so cold, people like Mr. Shen Zhigui could not impress her and could only recite such poems in despair.

"Miss Barbara?"

The man asked when he saw Barbara stopped.

Barbara soon realized her negligence, so she tried her best to treat the man, but he kept asking for Barbara's support. So the little nun looked back and forth between Shen Zhigui and Shen He. Seeing the man's miserable condition, she couldn't bear to ask Shen Zhigui:

"Mr. Shen?"

Shen Zhigui just looked at the man with a headache, thinking that this guy was just blinded by lust. Although Shen He did overreact, this guy originally wanted to join their sect to get close to Shen He, and now that there was no hope of achieving that, he wanted to blackmail him. So no matter what, he would not accept the settlement conditions proposed by this guy.

But this fact is too trivial.

So Shen Zhigui wanted to cut the Gordian knot: "Let's ask the Knights of Favonius to handle it."

The man was stunned:

He originally thought that Shen Zhigui took him to the Church of Favonius for treatment so quickly because he didn't want to make a big deal out of the matter, but he didn't expect that he would be so decisive and directly want to find the Knights of Favonius to intervene!

So he quickly chose to settle privately and offered a relatively reasonable price. Shen Zhigui directly cut it in half, and he did not argue again. After Barbara cured him, he stretched his arms and legs a little, took the Mora from the boy's hand, and ran away.

Barbara felt a little embarrassed and wanted to apologize to Shen Zhigui, but she heard the boy just asking her how much the treatment cost. Barbara waved her hands and said that Wendy had given her enough yesterday, but Shen Zhigui still insisted on handing over Mora. While the two were trying to refuse, Shen He had already walked out of the door of West Wind Cathedral.

So Shen Zhigui could only sigh, force Mora to Barbara, and then walk towards where Shen He was.

"Mr. Shen Zhigui..."

But Barbara shouted at this moment.

Shen Zhigui turned around and looked at Barbara. Barbara hesitated for a moment and said, "Is that lady the one you like?"

Before Shen Zhigui could respond, Barbara realized that the question she asked seemed to have crossed the line, so she quickly smiled and said, "Even if you've been heartbroken, you still have to keep going!"

Shen Zhigui didn't know how to respond for a moment, so he just nodded and quickly turned around to follow Shen He.

After that, they didn't cause any trouble, but listened to the performance of several bards smoothly. At dusk, when the two were walking on the way back to the hotel, he heard Shen He's calm voice: "I'm sorry."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because meeting that kind of person would make you very unhappy, right?"

"A little bit indeed."

Can't she just care about nothing?

Why are you so... sensible today?

Although Shen He actually doesn't have a thorough grasp of his own thoughts.

So when faced with the boy's question, she thought about it and just shook her head.

Shen Zhigui continued to ask: "Are you more satisfied with your previous state or your current state?"

Shen He pondered for a moment and continued to shake his head. After a long silence, he suddenly asked, "What about you?"

But before the boy could say anything, she quickly walked away, as if she didn't want to hear his response. But Shen Zhigui still called her, and handed her a handful of Qingxin, and said nonchalantly: "I accidentally put it in the 'cave heaven', I didn't expect it to be kept now..."

Shen He took it, but suddenly said: "But I heard that Mond people also give people poems when they give flowers."

Shen Zhigui was so concerned about this that he couldn't think of a suitable one for a moment, but suddenly, he thought of the preface that the poet Kubo had published in the new serial, so he blurted out:

"May you see my perfect appearance

"May the one you love be my true self

"I hope you don't see me wavering between the two"

After Shen He finished listening, he lowered his head and remained silent for a moment, but finally raised his head, and a slight smile appeared on his beautiful face:

“Thank you, I love this poem.”

Chapter 80: A thousand trees bloom in the wake of the dead tree (Part 1)

"The fourth move of "Sword Art of Mountains and Rivers" has been released in my heart full of ice and snow."

At this moment, the system information was refreshed in Shen Zhigui's eyes.

But after that, Shen He became silent again, so Shen Zhigui just silently looked through the new martial arts while returning to the hotel with her. However, there was no sign of Keqing in the bustling restaurant on the first floor at this time. So after seeing Shen He return to her room, he temporarily put aside the martial arts and went to knock on Keqing's door. Not long after, Keqing's pretty face appeared.

Although her expression was not good at this time, she still glanced at the boy first, then stepped aside: "Would you like to come in and sit for a while?"

Shen Zhigui always felt that something was not right.

But it seems awkward for him to just come straight out and say he wants to send her flowers. He needs to lay the groundwork and build up some emotions, right?

Although he had already decided to give up, the poem he wrote for Keqing was still "Peerless"!

Back to the present, he walked into Keqing's room.

To be honest, he was a little nervous.

Because in his past and present lives, he had never entered a girl's bedroom alone, nor stayed in the same room with that girl.

Although whether a hotel room can be considered a girl’s boudoir is very debatable.

But if you think about it, isn't it worse to be in a hotel room with a girl?

Shen Zhigui was thinking about these messy thoughts in his mind when he saw Keqing pour him a cup of tea. Then he and Keqing looked at each other, but they were speechless for a moment. They could only let the silent air flow in the night. The fragrance of tea was thick. Shen Zhigui took a sip. When he was about to continue talking, he heard Keqing say:

"You and Shen He, did you have fun today?"

When Shen Zhigui heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows, but in the end he didn't say much: "Not bad."

Then Keqing asked about their daytime schedule, and Shen Zhigui briefly described it, omitting the part about sending flowers at the end. But Keqing got straight to the point and asked, "Did you send her flowers?"

Of course Shen Zhigui just nodded.

"What was the poem you sent her?"

Shen Zhigui was a little reluctant to say anything, but Keqing's eyes were shining brightly as she looked straight at him. Shen Zhigui really couldn't think of any extra excuses, so he had to recite it again. After hearing him recite such a poem again, Keqing was silent for a moment, then glared at the boy fiercely, and then stood up to see him off: "I'm a little tired today..."

Shen Zhigui naturally had no choice but to stand up with her. However, when he reached the door, he finally realized that there was something he had not done. He patted the jade box, took out a bunch of Cecilia flowers, handed it to Keqing, and said absentmindedly: "Well, Master Yuhengxing, happy Wind Flower Festival."

"What about poetry?"

Shen Zhigui raised his eyebrows, looking very surprised, and then pretended to say: "If it is the first time to snow..."

"Have you no new poems?"

Keqing couldn't help but interrupt him and said.

"But I think this song is the most suitable for you, Master Yuhengxing."

So, to you, my only acceptable feature is my appearance, right?