Chapter Twenty-Five: The Year of Water
Nero found the boss to be really meticulous, at least when she habitually touched her bag, she was able to find the blow candy she was used to eating. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
After unwrapping and swallowing a blow candy into his mouth and chewing it, Nero closed his eyes and spread out the palm of his right hand.
A crimson air stream emerged from her palm, and at the same time, the ground facing her palm also began to emit some fine particles.
These are trace amounts of iron hidden in the riverbed soil.
Soon after, the iron began to coalesce, elongate, change, shape, and finally take on the original form of the Enma Blade. Nero picked up the whole blade and flicked it with a wave of his hand, seemingly satisfied.
Luo Qiu looked at it curiously.
Nero shook the Enma Knife in his hand at this time, and said quite proudly: "The people in the club think that I have only reached the first state, but in fact I am not. From the second stage onwards, the Enma Blade is no longer rigid to its outward appearance. What Uncle Cook took was just an empty shell, but the clubhouse had to find out, at least after they had failed to find a successor ten or eight times, and they didn't necessarily know it. β
But Boss Luo just shook his head, but looked at the black thing that Nero had made out next to him while condensing the blade.
"This?" Nero was stunned for a moment, then crouched down and began to dig up the nearby mixture of char and dirt towards the lump of things, "Uncle Cook is very careful, maybe he will come over during the day to see if there are enough corpses, and if I find that there is one missing, then I will mix it." β
Nero shook his head and said, "Uncle Cook in that state, I'll meet you later...... It's better to mess with less. β
"You're also careful. Luo Qiu said with admiration.
After arranging, Nero patted the stains on his hands, and then ran a little farther away, digging out a box under a treeβthe box that Boss Luo had given her to keep her soul in, and a small disc to chase down the iron whistle, as well as a small bag.
"I knew that Uncle Cook would definitely pick up my things, but fortunately I hid them early. β
She opened the box used to hold the soul, grabbed out the remaining soul inside, and then hurriedly ran to Luo Qiu's face, "This is fake San'er, this is fake Xiaoqi, these are healing...... Ah, it ran out all at once. β
Luo Qiu said indifferently: "Actually, you don't need to let me heal you, the second form of the Enma Knife, at least you are immortal." β
Nero shook his head and said, "But I'm not interested in lying in this barren mountain for a few months, I have to get out of here as soon as possible." Moreover, there is not a trace that Uncle Cook will find. β
"Oh, by the way, I seem to be able to get a discount, right? Are there any leftovers of these?" asked Nero as he suddenly looked at Luo Qiu.
"It's just a small matter, is Miss Nero going to use the discount too?" Luo Qiu said indifferently.
"Yes, what's the problem?" Nero said curiously, "The discount is in my hand, and it's my freedom to use it as I want, right?"
Luo Qiu didn't intend to say anything witty about this woman, and said softly: "Guest, this is the rest." β
He also gave Nero a soul orb.
Nero shook his head and said, "Just use this to buy some luck...... Give it to the mother and daughter. β
Luo Qiu said softly, "Miss Nero really has a heart. β
Nero stared at me dissatisfiedly and said, "Don't look at me like this, I'm also a woman, okay? Forget it, in fact, I can't talk to you at all, so be it, great boss." I'm leaving...... Next time I'm cornered, I'll come back to you, BEY~!"
It's another worthless kiss for the boss.
In this way, the tyrant of Michael's guild temporarily succeeded in faking his death and leaving the guild.
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I remember that it was about this time yesterday, and Cook, who was sitting quietly in the room, slowly opened his eyes...... By this time, remembering the strange feeling that had happened to him last night, Cook had already understood what had happened.
"It's better to get out of here, so you don't have to get me into trouble later. Cook muttered nonchalantly, tilting his head at the same time as he looked at the door of the room.
Even before he recovered, as Mark, he had an instinctive vigilance, let alone at this time?
The sound of footsteps coming step by step naturally could not escape his listening.
The footsteps stopped in front of his door for a few moments, and only then did there be a few small knocks on the door, and San'er's voice: "Mark, are you asleep?"
Cook was silent for a moment before he said indifferently, "What's the matter?"
San'er, who originally thought that he would not get a response, was about to leave in disappointment. But now she turned her head, approached the door again, and whispered, "You ...... tomorrow Are you leaving? β
"Hmm. β
β...... Will you have breakfast before leaving?"
"I'll leave before dawn. β
"You've regained your memory, haven't you?" when you came back, you made me feel different," San'er whispered against the door.
It's really different, whether it's his expression or her own feelings, it's already different, San'er keenly caught something.
"Hmm. β
After thinking about it, she finally mustered up the courage to say, "Mark." You...... Do you want to stay?"
There was no response in that room for a long time.
San'er probably knew that this was the answer, so he sat down along the door panel, hugging his legs.
She didn't know if the man who had broken into her life was sitting or leaning against the door, and she didn't know what he was thinking.
After a long time, San'er raised his head and said softly: "Little squeak...... It's going to be sad. β
Cook's voice was heard, "Little children quickly forget people and things. β
San'er suddenly tilted his head and asked, "What about the adults?"
Cook looked through the door, touched the door panel with his palm, and said indifferently: "It's been a long time, and so have adults." β
San'er smiled lonely, and after a while, he said again: "Also, if I don't look at the photos, I will almost forget what my husband looks like." β
Cook didn't speak.
San'er thinks about what happened during this time, from the time Xiao Qi found this man in the river, to the time when he forcibly lived in his own home.
I started to feel that it was nice to have a man in the family...... When you are sick...... There is no time to rely on.
All kinds of times.
Although the gossip began to increase, more often than not, some long-lost laughter came to this small tofu shop again.
"It was like a lot of things were happening, like a dream. San'er smiled and said...... She remembered something that had been embarrassing.
"Hmm. Cook answered.
For him, what happened to Mark was also a ...... An experience that you can't let go of for a while.
"I never thought that so many things would happen to me. β
San'er held his face at this time and said: "I got married very early, gave birth to children, and had a good husband." Later, when my husband died, I just thought about taking the eldest child. You know, sometimes I wonder if after more than ten years, I'm just like those aunts next door, and I'm going to start worrying about my daughter's marriage again. β
"More than ten years? Cook said indifferently
"Too early?" San'er was stunned for a moment, then giggled.
"What are you laughing at?" Cook frowned.
San'er seemed to laugh fiercely, and his eyes were foggy with laughter, "I just want to laugh, can't I?"
"Whatever you want. Cook said indifferently.
"Mark, are you always so cold?"
"Because there's nothing to laugh about. Cook also sat down against the door, his back against the door as well, and he did so subconsciously.
"You don't think you've never been happy, have you?"
"Questions?"
"No, I just think it's so pathetic. San'er shook his head, "Even if it was me, I would have encountered a lot of happy things before." Ah, I really miss when I was in high school...... By the way, do you know that once in high school, several naughty boys in the class quietly stuffed a small yellow disc in the Chinese teacher's textbook, and was later discovered by the teacher's wife, I heard that I didn't sleep well all night, and the next day in class, those boys were directly punished to run laps on the playground, and said "I won't watch the little yellow disc in the future", we were all watching, laughing to death! Why didn't you react......
Cook said, "What's funny?"
San'er asked rhetorically, "Isn't it funny?"
San'er thought for a while, "Then there is another time, you will definitely want to laugh this time." I'll tell you......"
The woman was talking about the things she cherished in her youth outside the door, and the man sat quietly and listened inside the door, never smiling, but shaking his head, sometimes making simple comments.
"Isn't this funny?" San'er asked the same question tirelessly.
"It's not funny, won't you just tell the teacher?"
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"What about that?"
"General. β
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For a long, long time.
San'er unconsciously leaned against the door of this room and fell asleep.
Suddenly the lights came on in the room, and then there was a faint and continuous sound.
Slowly it dawned.
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Later, San'er woke up because of the cool air in the early morning. She stood up and silently opened the door to the room, which was empty, empty.
San'er gently clasped his arms with both hands, looked at the neatly folded quilts, like quilts that had never been used, and clothes that were folded well on the quilts, and then walked towards the only table here.
A lifelike wooden swan, larger than a palm, was placed here, and there was a basket under the table and sawdust that had been poured into it.
San'er stretched out his hand and nodded on the wooden swan, then opened the curtains of the room and opened the glass window, and the air outside was a little colder.
She leaned against the window and smiled as the sun began to rise as usual.
Like a year of flowing water.