Reading poems from Teyvat

Although she didn't know why, Keqing didn't have time to pay attention to that kind of thing, because even though she had time to distract herself, she couldn't escape from the young man's sword light that was as dense as drizzling rain. Even at this moment, even being distracted might be a precursor to defeat, because doing so might give herself an opportunity to take advantage.

Realizing that she might lose, or realizing that the boy who was just a powerless boy in her impression could achieve this level a month later, she felt that there might be a huge conspiracy behind this matter, so she absolutely could not admit defeat here!

So, as if she had a sudden inspiration, she swung out a lightning wedge with her backhand, and when the sword light almost cut the skin on her waist, she was pulled by the lightning element in her body and flashed from her original position to where the lightning wedge was in an instant. Just as she was about to take a breath, a breeze blew past her ears like frost in December and penetrated into her heart -

How can it be?

She held the sword behind her back and turned sideways, but was not surprised to see the sword light.

However, this time, she found that Shen Zhigui's movements were not as swift or smooth as before. It was as if mud and sand were embedded in the axle of the wheel that could originally run on the road at high speed, so it was no longer so smooth. So she got a chance to catch her breath, and then she quickly thought about it, and then she found that the so-called mud and sand were actually the thunder element attached to her sword.

It is obvious that Shen Zhigui does not have the divine eye.

If it were those people, they could use their God's Eye to make targeted defenses.

And Shen Zhigui might just be talking to the holder of the Eye of God for the first time...

No.

He must be up to something.

Keqing subconsciously overturned that conclusion. After all, no matter how you look at it, his appearance at this moment is too strange. Keqing may have had some good intentions towards him before, but that was purely because he wrote good poems and was pitifully weak. But now when Shen Zhigui began to show such abilities that ordinary people could never match, and he could transform into such abilities in just one month, she would never believe that Shen Zhigui was just a bard she saved by passing by. She even suspected that the reason why this person cried for help at that time was designed by him! The poem he recited was also written long ago!

So at this time, we must never let him go.

She was determined to catch him and interrogate him clearly as to why he was so determined to get close to her.

she thought.

Although she didn't know why her mood suddenly turned bad.

It feels like I was betrayed by someone.

Therefore, Keqing, who had seen Shen Zhigui's weakness, immediately continued to attach the thunder element to the sword, and then deliberately tried to collide with his sword, so as to mix more "mud and sand" into his "axle", causing his condition to continue to deteriorate.

But Shen Zhigui is obviously not the kind of person who would suffer loss twice for the same thing.

From the moment he realized something was wrong, his sword moves became more graceful and agile, but also more cunning and treacherous, attacking Keqing from all angles that she could not expect, forcing her to change her sword moves to defend herself, and then change her moves again in the middle of the fight, causing the two of them to be like butterflies dancing opposite each other. The sword light was their wings, but they never met, and they just tried in vain to get close to each other again and again, but were blown away by the wind they brought.

Keqing was tired of this entanglement, so she threw out another lightning wedge, trying to lure the boy somewhere else, and then when he followed her, she would perform "Heavenly Street Parade" to unleash the chaotic lightning element and take him down in one fell swoop.

But strangely, Shen Zhigui did not catch up.

He just stood there for a moment, but said, "I give up."

In fact, he had anticipated this situation from the very beginning.

It's just that he didn't expect that it would take Keqing so long to react and use this method to deal with him.

Although in reality the two should be considered a draw.

After all, no one can do anything to the other.

But Shen Zhigui looked at the iron sword in his hand that was about to be chopped into a saw, and finally chose not to make things difficult for it, giving it a chance to enjoy its old age.

"I wonder what the weapons sold at the blacksmith shop in Liyue Harbor are like?"

Shen Zhigui silently stroked the scar on the sword in his hand and thought.

When Keqing heard the young man say this at this time, she was shocked for a moment.

In her opinion, Shen Zhigui had already exposed his ulterior motives, and he should do everything he could at this point. But did he want to just brush it off lightly with a single sentence of "I give up" as if nothing had ever happened?

Keqing glared at him fiercely.

But the young man still stood there as if he was unaware, trying to put the iron sword back into the scabbard, but it was stuck by the crooked serrations, so he kept pushing it back and forth.

But for some reason, seeing him like that, Keqing suddenly felt something in her heart loosen, so she quickly walked forward, grabbed the sword and threw it aside, then took his hand and said coldly: "Come with me! I have something to ask you!"

At this time, the commotion caused by the duel between the two had already caused quite a stir. A patrolling Qianyan Army had already rushed over. Although there were still some lights on the street, in this kind of weather, nothing could be seen clearly from a distance. The Qianyan Army soldier only saw from a distance that Keqing casually threw the broken sword that could not be sheathed aside, and saw the girl holding the boy and walking towards him. He subconsciously shouted: "What are you doing? Who told you to leave? And you littered everywhere. Do you have any manners..."

However, when he walked over and took a closer look at the girl's luxurious clothes and exquisite face, he could hardly stand still: "Kekekekekekekeke..."

Keqing frowned and said, "It's really bad to litter. Please help me pick it up and throw it in the right place."

"Yes! Lady Keqing!"

Chapter 12: Poetic World

When the Qianyan soldier shouted out Keqing's name, the crowd immediately focused their attention on the boy and girl. Thinking of their previous duel, and noticing that they were actually holding hands, the crowd began to discuss:

"Is that Yuheng Star?"

"Who is that she's holding?"

"Boyfriend?"

"Damn it! Could it be that Yuhengxing's criterion for finding a boyfriend is whether he can fight or not? I'm going to sign up for a martial arts school tomorrow!"

"Wake up! The human Yuheng Star has the divine eye. Do you have it? You may never be able to touch the edge of Yuheng Star even if you study for your whole life."

"That person doesn't seem to have one either?"

Keqing heard all these rumors, so she glared at Shen Zhigui fiercely. Shen Zhigui thought that she wanted him to come out and explain himself, so he wanted to break free from the girl's gloved hand and give an impromptu speech to clarify their relationship. But Keqing couldn't let him do whatever he wanted, so she said nothing and directly pulled him out of the crowd, walked to a secluded corner, and said to the boy with a serious face: "Who are you?"

"I should have said it the day we first met."

"Then how did you end up in that situation?"

Shen Zhigui simply said, "Because I hadn't practiced swordplay at that time."

"You mean this is all you achieved in one month?"

"If you don't believe me, Master Yuhengxing, you can actually go to the people at Wangshu Inn to get evidence. However, it's hard to say whether it's worth going to such a big fuss for a small person like me."

Shen Zhigui said as if nothing had happened.

"If necessary, I will check it out." Keqing took a deep look at the boy who was about her age, then took a few deep breaths before saying coldly, "What is the purpose of someone like you coming to Liyue? What do you want to do?"

When Shen Zhigui heard this question, he subconsciously thought that the reason he came to Liyue Port was just to complete the system's tasks so that he could obtain more martial arts or meet the conditions for practicing martial arts. However, at this moment, he suddenly felt like he had returned to the afternoon when he first walked on water. At that time, his mind was clearer than ever before. Although he soon made himself embarrassed, he was sure that he should be the happiest since he came to this world.

So he thought for a moment and said, "That's a good question."

"You really have ulterior motives!"

Keqing once again took out a weapon from her Divine Eye space, and her words became even colder.

Shen Zhigui still seemed unaware. He just stood there, thinking for a moment, and then said, "If you want to ask me why I came to Liyue Port, then I am just looking for a way to settle down in this world full of natural disasters and man-made calamities, or to find more opportunities to make money. But if Master Yuhengxing is asking what I really want to do and what I have to do, rather than just to survive, then I can say that I came here to find an ideal poetic world."

"A poetic...world?"

Keqing looked at the boy's figure close at hand in the moonlight. The hazy moonlight cast a thin layer of silver light on him, but his face was clearly visible in her sight. At this moment, the boy's expression was as clear as water, and his voice was almost like a gurgling spring in the mountains. No one could see any hypocrisy in his words:

“It is not enough for a person to have this life, he should also have a poetic world.”

Shen Zhigui plagiarized Wang Xiaobo's words without hesitation, and then he continued:

"The poetic world I pursue is in a country with infinite possibilities, at the junction of the city and the countryside. I can call my relatives and friends out without worries in the spring when the wild flowers are fragrant, and play cards with them on the fresh grass. In the refreshing summer, I can hear the singing of insects and frogs in the vast fields where young seedlings have been planted. I fall asleep to such sounds and sleep until noon the next day. In autumn, when most crops are ripe and people have harvested, I will climb to the top of the nearby mountain alone and learn to play the piano. When winter comes and heavy snow falls, I will build a tree house on the top of the mountain and open the window to watch the snow or read a book all night next to the warm fireplace. And when I occasionally want to break this peace, I can always find like-minded companions to accompany me to the unexplored borders of civilization and embark on an unprecedented adventure..."

Perhaps it was because the boy's voice really had such a charm that made people listen involuntarily.

Keqing thought.

So at this moment she could fully glimpse that kind of world from the boy's words.

She could even imagine that scene.

Although she had always grown up under the expectations of her elders and family, and naturally inherited the position of Yuheng Star, and naturally felt that her life should be busy and restless, and she would only run for the maintenance of the country of Liyue, but after hearing the boy's words at this moment, she couldn't help but recall the moonlit night when she met the boy——

Because this was the most poetic scene she had experienced in recent times.

So after the boy finished speaking, she was silent for a moment and said: "In the world of Teyvat, there is a place like this..."

Maybe it really exists?

“Such a place may indeed exist somewhere in this world,” Shen Zhigui said, “but what I want to pursue is not a portrait that existed for a short time and will be destroyed at any time, but an utopia where I can stay forever and will never be destroyed. I even hope that all the people close to me can choose to live such a life. Of course, people who don’t like to live like that can also live the life they want without oppressing others or being oppressed by others, so…”

"so?"

Keqing couldn't help but repeat the boy's words.

But Shen Zhigui did not continue.

Although his goal was only to acquire more martial arts and then build such an utopia by his own efforts, at that time, any demon, abyss or even justice, as long as they dared to affect his life, he could beat them up, and he only needed to do that.

Although he was not quite sure whether the so-called Index of Forbidden Martial Arts Books could do such a thing, because in his impression, the power level of martial arts was relatively low, at least it should be martial arts or magic.

But it’s always right to think about it, right?

Chapter 13: Residence

“So I’m looking for like-minded companions.”

Finally, Shen Zhigui considered his words for a moment and spoke.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the statement that he would beat everything up sounds too much like the rhetoric of a villain, and the shortcut for him to do that is to complete the tasks issued by the system, and to complete the system tasks he has to contact someone with the Eye of God, so he can barely say that.

Anyway, this is roughly what his recent strategy has been.

Although I guess it's just to make myself familiar to him.

Seeing that the boy still had such a clear look, Keqing put away her weapon, thought for a moment, and asked him again: "Did you really become like this in just one month?"

"It's true. If Master Yuhengxing wants to learn, I can teach you. However, I can't guarantee whether you can learn it or not."

"What on earth are you thinking about?"

Keqing was stunned for a moment when she heard the young man could actually say such words at this time.

Her current attitude is far from friendly. She even feels that after this, the two of them may become strangers.

"So, what was Lord Yuhengxing thinking when he saved me?"

"I saved you just for the sake of convenience."

"Then this martial art is not that important to me," Shen Zhigui simply said, "Besides, Master Yuhengxing saved me first, and this is just returning the favor."

When Keqing heard him say that, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed for a moment, because she found that the boy's attitude towards her had not changed at all from beginning to end. Instead, she initially thought that the boy was as weak as he was a month ago, so she preconceived that he was just practicing alone with a sword, so she condescendingly asked him to join the martial arts school. After discovering that he was extraordinary in strength, she thought that he had ulterior motives in approaching her. But until now, she found that the boy's attitude towards her had never changed, and even the five words he addressed her were "Master Yuhengxing" from beginning to end -

Although she always felt that he did not use this title with much respect, she just thought that saying it could express the subtle relationship between them.

So Keqing turned her head awkwardly, looked around, and confirmed that no one was around, then asked: "Have you found a place to live?"

"Not yet."

Shen Zhigui speaks his mind.

"Then, do you want to come to my house?" After saying this, Keqing felt a certain throbbing suddenly become extremely clear in an instant. She could even hear the roar of her heart beating in her chest and the sound of blood flowing in her body. The blood rushed to her cheeks. Without touching it, Keqing knew that her face must be hot. Without looking in the mirror, she knew that her face was red. So she turned her face away so that Shen Zhigui could not see it, but finally turned it a little bit, trying to calm her voice, "Don't get me wrong! I mean, I haven't confirmed what your intentions are yet, so I have to supervise you nearby!"

Shen Zhigui thought to himself, what did I misunderstand?

Although being considered as someone with ulterior motives did make him a little frustrated.

But anyway, he had already gained her recognition on that moonlit night. If his favorability dropped and then rose again, he might be able to get another system reward. If he dropped it again, wouldn't he be able to get it infinitely? Although it was estimated that such a good thing would not happen in reality, if he did not have other opportunities in the short term, he would not be able to beat Keqing, so he did not need to care about what Keqing was thinking. It would be best if he could teach her "Come like thunder and end with wrath", so that he could return the favor.

Although it seems that it cannot compare to the gratitude of saving my life.

But this is all we can do for now.

……

Keqing was indeed born into a prominent family in Liyue, so her house was indeed very large and it was even a garden, so finding a guest room for Shen Zhigui was of course no problem. Moreover, Liyue's civilization process was essentially still in a period similar to that of a feudal dynasty, so her home was also full of service staff such as maids and servants.

Although speaking objectively, a family of Keqing's status would still have maids even in modern society.

When Keqing brought a strange boy of her age to her house, her family was immediately in an uproar. The maids came to spy on them in their free time. Keqing didn't want to make a fuss. She was just planning to let Shen Zhigui, who had been delayed by her, stay for a few days. But her behavior was really inconsistent with her previous style, so in the end even her parents were alarmed and ran over to meet Shen Zhigui.

Shen Zhigui didn't think it was a big deal. It was only natural to meet the host when visiting someone else's home.

Her parents just observed him in person and didn't ask any questions, but later when Shen Zhigui went to rest, they stopped Keqing and said:

"Ah Qing, tell me the truth. What is your relationship? Why did you bring him to the mansion?"

"It doesn't matter!"

"It doesn't matter, why are you taking him home?"

"He just can't find a place to live for the time being. Don't ask. It's not what you think anyway."

"What do we think it is?"

Her parents couldn't help but tease her.

But in fact, Keqing is far from the age of being eager to get married. Although her daily behavior makes her parents worry about whether she can find a suitable partner in the future, so when they see Shen Zhigui, who is of similar age to her, coming to their house, they can't help but think about this. But when they found out that Shen Zhigui was a traveler from afar and not a native of Liyue, they didn't say much about it, because they would also discuss privately that with Keqing's status and personality, if she wants to find a partner in the future, she must either find someone with a strong personality that can suppress her, or someone with a gentle personality who completely obeys her. The first impression of Shen Zhigui is that he is just a thin and handsome boy. His personality is neither strong to a certain extent, nor gentle and weak enough to completely serve as Keqing's yes-man.