Chapter 90: The Pianist
"Coming back?" said the woman in the yellow shirt.
"It's back. The black-robed man said.
"Did he make a move?" said the woman in the yellow shirt.
"Shot. The black-robed man said.
"Are you suffering serious casualties?" asked the woman in the yellow shirt.
"It's serious. The black-robed man said.
"If you make a move, you can defeat them?" said the woman in the yellow shirt.
The black-robed man didn't answer immediately, but thought for a while before saying, "It's difficult. ”
The woman in the yellow shirt smiled and said, "It's the first time I've heard you say it's difficult, and it's hard to be alone and undefeated?"
Dugu was undefeated and said: "Everyone has a difficult time. ”
The woman in the yellow shirt said, "Let them all come in." ”
As soon as the woman in the yellow shirt finished speaking, the door opened. Liu Baiyu, who was the leader, walked in first. The others walked in with him.
Although Liu Baiyu was injured, he still looked unruly, but everyone could know from the large red patches on his arms and thighs that he was definitely not lightly injured.
Liu Baiyu knelt down and said, "The subordinates are not doing well, please ask Miss Huang to condemn the crime." ”
Xiong Chaoqun also knelt down and said loudly: "It's not good for me to do things, please ask Miss Huang to confess!"
Then everyone knelt down and said in unison: "I'm not waiting for the wrong thing to ask Miss Huang to surrender!"
The woman in the yellow shirt said, "Everyone get up." ”
In the province of Longfo, the words of this woman in yellow shirt are orders, and no one can disobey them. Even if this woman in the yellow shirt wants them to assassinate the king of the Yuanlong Empire now, they can only go. So when the woman in the yellow shirt fell, they all stood up.
The woman in the yellow shirt said, "Elder Qiao gave them medicine. ”
As he spoke, an old man stretched out his hand, and a light flashed in his palm, and then more than a dozen white bottles shot out of the beam, Liu Baiyu and the others caught the bottle, poured out a pill from the bottle and ate it.
After eating, they began to activate the true qi in their bodies, and each of them sat cross-legged. A warm current slowly rises from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. Then they felt the True Qi in their bodies speeding up, and the wounds on their bodies were healing at a speed that was already visible to the naked eye.
At this time, each of them is like having a sun in their bodies, and dusk is the sun, warm but not scorching.
An hour later, everyone put away their true anger and smiled and said to the old man named Qiao Ke, "Thank you Qiao for being old. ”
Qiao Ke smiled and said, "You're welcome. ”
Qiao Ke said again: "You guys take care of your injuries during this time, and if the pill is not enough, ask me to get it." ”
In the morning, the warm sun shines through the clouds and shines on the earth, shining warmly on everyone.
At this moment, Sikong Yu was walking aimlessly on a street, just like the vast majority of the people on this street who came and went.
Sikong Yu was attracted by a shop on the side of the road, and the building was engraved with five words - four-leaf clover coffee.
The entrance of this building is lined with colorful flowers, which look particularly beautiful in the sunlight.
Sikong Yu gently pushed open the heavy door and walked in.
The moment he walked in, the melodious piano music penetrated his ears, and there were not many people in it, and there were not many of them. The first thing that caught his eye was a row of tall shelves stocked with coffee beans and a variety of liquors.
The interior decoration doesn't look luxurious, but if you know the goods, you'll know that the decoration here must be worth a lot of money.
There are paintings on the walls, and there are beautiful or weird knick-knacks on the tables.
It's hard to imagine that there is such a place in the current province of Long Buddha.
The moment he opened the door and walked in, all the hustle and bustle was shut out. It's as if this is a small world of seclusion.
"You can sit down. A slender girl in a purple dress smiled.
"Good. Sikong Yu said and sat down in a seat next to him.
Then the girl in the purple dress brought a red booklet and said, "This is the menu." ”
Sikong Yu casually flipped through a few times and said, "A cup of vanilla latte." A strawberry cake. ”
The girl said, "Okay. ”
Then she grabbed a handful of green coffee beans, Sikong Yu felt that the girl was also a cultivator, she grabbed the green coffee beans in her hand, and roasted the coffee beans with true qi. I saw that her other hand also emitted a slight true qi, and under the combined action of the two hands and the two true qi, the coffee beans were crushed into powder.
Then her hand flicked and the ground coffee was in a small jar on the table.
Then she poured water into the spherical spot at the bottom of the siphon coffee maker, lit the fire, and inserted the container of the cylinder diagonally into it, and waited until the water boiled before straightening the contents of the cylinder. Then wait until all the water is on top, pour in the coffee grounds and stir so that the coffee grounds and water can be fully combined.
After twenty minutes, the woman extinguished the flame at the bottom and removed the coffee machine from the source, after which the coffee gradually fell again into the spherical pot.
Then the girl took out a rather large transparent glass, poured the coffee into the cup, then poured the milk, then poured a little vanilla syrup, and stirred them well.
The girl came over and smiled, "Long waiting. ”
Sikong Yu said: "Thank you." ”
The aroma of coffee made Sikong Yu relax a little.
He had been looking at the girl in the purple dress who had been making him coffee. Looking at her slender and beautiful fingers, she was stunned, for no reason, for no reason. But looking at her, there will be a moment of peace in his heart.
It was as if he had walked into this café, he didn't know why he had come in, but he came in, gaining a hint of tranquility in the soft piano music and the aroma of coffee, and even forgetting for a moment that he had been carrying the mission of restoration.
The piano player was a man dressed in a blue robe trimmed with gold silk. Sikong Yu knew that this robe must be worth a lot of money, but this robe was very old. The gentleman was like a down-and-out aristocrat.
The man's eyes were looking ahead, and there was a sparkle in his eyes, like the stars in the night sky, but the man didn't see anything. His mind seemed to wander to another place, where there was no war, no hunger, no wives and no separations.
The sun shines warmly on the earth, there are grass and flowers on the ground, and the flowers exude a faint fragrance in the air.
You can find a tree and sleep in the sun until the sun sets.
This is such a place.
The man's fingertips twitched lightly on the keys, and every note he struck seemed to have been brought from a beautiful dream-like place, and it could also bring everyone in the coffee house into that carefree dream.
Sikong Yu picked up the coffee cup and took a sip of coffee. It just so happened that the girl also brought the strawberry cake. Still smiling, she said, "Please use it slowly." ”
Sikong Yu thought for a moment and said, "Wait a minute." ”
The girl asked, "Is there anything else?"
Sikong Yu said: "Do you know the name of the song just now? ”
The girl shook her head and said, "He always improvises, and many of his songs don't have names." ”
Sikong Yu said: "Are you and him lovers?"
The girl said, "No, he's my brother." ”
Sikong Yu looked at her and smiled: "I really can't see it, it looks like you're relatively small." ”
"A lot of people say that," the girl said. ”
The girl said, "If you want to know what kind of song this is, you can ask him." ”
Sikong Yu nodded and said, "Okay." ”
At this time, the man began to play a new piano tune again, the song was slow and melodious, Sikong Yu took a small sip of coffee, cut out a small piece of pink strawberry cake with a spoon, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
The sweetness and sourness are just right, no more, no less. A little more will be sweet, and a little less When the sour taste of strawberries spreads in the mouth, there will be an indescribable discomfort in the mouth.
The girl was wiping her glass at the table, and behind her was a shelf full of wine and coffee beans. And she was standing in the middle of the table and the shelf, for some reason Sikong Yu felt that she was particularly beautiful like this.
Sikong Yu looked at the girl's slender fingers, I don't know how long, and then he sat down and fell asleep.
"Can I sit here?" said a woman in a long yellow dress.
Sikong Yu rubbed his eyes, there was an empty seat next to him. But when it came to his lips, it became: "Yes." ”
The woman in the long yellow dress didn't know what magic it was, she sat opposite Sikong Yu, and she hadn't said a word since that sentence just now. But Sikong Yu's eyes couldn't help but look at her.
Originally, Sikong Yu was still a little complaining, because the woman sitting opposite him blocked his view, and he couldn't see the girl. But slowly, Sikong Yu's eyes were attracted by this woman in a yellow dress.
And she sat across from him, drinking a large glass of cappuccino slowly, as if Sikong Yu did not exist, and the people in the entire café did not exist, as if she was the only one left between the whole world and the world.
Sikong Yu took a sip of coffee, ate another bite of cake, then closed his eyes, relaxed his whole body, leaned back on the sofa, and tried to erase the figure of the girl in the yellow dress from his mind.
At this time, the woman who looked at the yellow dress of Sikong Yu with her eyes closed was smiling, as if looking at her lover's face when she was asleep.
At this time, the door was opened again, and a short man walked in, and Sikong Yu, who heard the sound of opening the door, also opened his eyes.
The man was of short stature, but he was unusually strong, and he was dressed in a dark blue garment, and half of his chest was exposed, and on that bare chest was a small scar that was like a medallion. He also carried a machete on his back.
The man sat down at the bar and said, "Have a whiskey." ”
After he finished speaking, the girl poured him a glass of whiskey, still smiling, "Please use it slowly." ”
The man took a sip of wine, and then touched the girl's face with his hand, and the girl's head tilted slightly, and the man tried several more times but was dodged again, and the girl couldn't bear it, but even with anger she still had a smile on her face, even if the smile was very stiff. She said, "Sir, can you put your hands down?"
The man drank the whiskey in his glass in one gulp and yelled, "Who do you think you are, you are a low-class bar girl, I will not only touch your face, but also your breast!"
Saying that, he slapped it, and at that moment, Sikong Yu jumped up and grabbed the man's hand with one hand, the man was obviously surprised, he didn't expect that someone could be so fast.
But the man was not frightened, he said to Sikong Yu: "Young man, I advise you to be nosy. If you want to be a hero and save the beauty, I'm afraid you don't have this ability! Do you know who I am, listen to grandpa, my name is Cai Ran, you go and inquire, who doesn't know me Cai Ran on this street!"
Sikong Yu said, "Are you finished?"
Cai Ran said: "After that, if you are afraid, quickly let go of your hand!"
Cai Ran said that his wrist was broken, the bones were completely detached, only a layer of skin was still attached to it, Cai Ran's expression was distorted because of pain, his eyes were full of resentment, he didn't expect that the hairy boy in front of him really had the courage to do something with him, and what he didn't expect was that he, the middle rank of Wuzun, was actually twisted off his wrist all of a sudden.
Everyone was shocked, because although everyone here hated Cai Ran, no one dared to do anything with him, firstly because of his strength in the middle rank of Wuzun, and secondly, because he was good friends with Zhao Hu, one of the eight generals of Longfo Province, and offending Cai Ran was equivalent to offending Zhao Hu.
No one wants to offend Zhao Hu, because if you offend Zhao Hu, you may not be in this world tomorrow.
Sikong Yu said: "I was in a good mood today, but now it's not good. Do you know why?"
Cai Ran was terrified when he heard his voice, as if there were thousands of poisonous snakes crawling on his body, as if thousands of poisonous snakes were already eating his flesh.
Cai Ran said: "I don't know ......"
Sikong Yu said: "If you don't know, then I'll tell you, because you ruined my good mood!"
Saying Sikong Yu, with a push of his hand, Cai Ran fell to the ground. He could feel the force of the push just now, Cai Ran knew that this time he had kicked the iron plate, so he got up and ran out as fast as he could.
For a moment, there was a burst of cheers in the café.
The girl in the purple dress said, "Thank you for helping." ”
Sikong Yu didn't reply, but a voice came into the ears of the girl in the purple dress: "Can you beat him?"
Then a voice came into Sikong Yu's ears: "Yes." ”
Sikong Yu said, "Then why do you want me to save you?"
The girl in the purple dress said: "Because the girls are not elegant in fighting and killing, and I see you pleasing to the eye, I want to give you a chance to save the beauty of a hero." ”
Sikong Yu said: "I thank you, you have made me miserable." ”
The girl in the purple dress said, "Then why did you save me?"
Sikong Yu said: "Because I have a problem. ”
The girl in the purple dress said, "What's wrong?"
Sikong Yu said: "I can't refuse a girl's request, especially a beautiful girl. ”
The girl in the purple dress said, "To thank you, I gave you a free order for the food you ordered." ”
Sikong Yu said, "Thank you." ”
At this time, the woman in the yellow dress, who had been lowering her head and drinking coffee, did not speak. She said, "Why do you want to offend Cai Ran?"
Sikong Yu said: "It's not pleasing to look at him." ”
The woman in the yellow dress said, "Aren't you afraid that he will retaliate against you?"
Sikong Yu said: "Let him come." ”
Saying that, Sikong Yu also took a bite of strawberry cake and took a sip of coffee.
The woman in the yellow dress said, "You're confident in yourself, aren't you?"
Sikong Yu said: "Of course. Confident men are more handsome, have you fallen in love with me?"
The woman in the yellow dress smiled, "No." ”
Sikong Yu left the café and walked aimlessly to the river, where the wind gently brushed his body. He looked at the flowing river and looked at it for a long time. Then sit down cross-legged and start running Zhou Tian Dafa.
The river gently lapped against him, and a protective shield gradually formed around him.
At this time, he asked the black dragon in his body: "Do you think I can return to the country?"
Sikong Yu thought that the black dragon would not reply, but the voice of the black dragon came from his body: "I don't know this, if I know that I will definitely not let you succeed in recovering the country." ”
The wind was gently blowing, the water was slowly flowing down, gently lapping against the stones, and there was a row of willow trees on the opposite side of Sikong Yu, and some birds were chirping on the willows, and all these sounds mixed together, and became a sound that was better than music.
Sikong Yu sat cross-legged like this, slowly running Zhou Tian Dafa.
When Sikong Yu woke up again, it was already dusk. The golden sunlight dyed the white clouds a gentle golden yellow. Sikong Yu looked at the sky and couldn't help but smile.
At this time, the sound of footsteps was approaching, and someone said, "Are you also here to see the scenery?"
Sikong Yu turned his head and saw a person walking towards him, that person was the pianist playing the piano in the café.
"Hi. Sikong Yu beckoned to him and said.
"Is the coffee business over?" asked Sikong Yu.
"Not yet, just leave it to my sister over there. The pianist said.
"Don't you have to play the piano anywhere?" Sikong Yu said.
"I can go whenever I want. The pianist said.
"What are you doing here?" asked Sikong Yu.
"Look at the scenery. The pianist said.
"Oh. Sikong Yu nodded.
"I always find inspiration for composing here. The pianist said.
Then there was a long silence, but neither Sikong Yu nor the pianist felt embarrassed. It's not that there is nothing to say, but there is no need to say anything. They listened to the chirping of cicadas, the running water, and the wind. These three melodies seem to make a great piece of music.
At this time, no matter what kind of sound is superfluous, it is a destruction of the current music.
It wasn't until it got dark that the pianist said, "Are you coming to the café tomorrow?"
Sikong Yu said, "What's wrong?"
The pianist said, "To thank you for helping my sister, and for the new piece I just came up with." ”
Sikong Yu said: "I'll go, will you give me a free order?"
The pianist smiled and said, "I still want to cheat you for a lot of money." ”
Sikong Yu smiled.
The pianist said, "Are you coming?"
Sikong Yu said, "Come." ”
The next day, in the afternoon.
The warm sun shines on the people drowsy. At this time, Sikong Yu was in the Clover Cafe.
Leaning against the sofa, half-squinting, lazy.
Slow piano music flowed in the café, and Sikong Yu took a sip of a cocktail called Yuese, and just kept listening to the music with half-squinted eyes. Let the music flow through his body like a slow-flowing mountain spring.
Suddenly, a group of people pushed the door and walked in, and the originally empty café was suddenly full.
A person sat down opposite Sikong Yu and said, "Are you Sikong Yu?"
Sikong Yu slowly opened his eyes, and sitting across from him was a middle-aged man. Sikong Yu could see that this person must not have a low status, because the clothes on his body were extremely gorgeous.
Sikong Yu nodded and said, "Yes." Who are you?"
The middle-aged man said, "My name is Zeck. ”
Sikong Yu's pupils were shrinking, because he already felt a kind of murderous intent in the four words that the man spoke.
Then all the people who had just entered this café looked at Sikong Yu for a moment.
They all have murderous intent in their eyes.
Slow piano music still flows like water in this café. The pianist didn't seem to see any of them.
Sikong Yu could also hear it, and there was no tension in the music he played.
Sikong Yu said: "I don't think you're here to make friends. ”
Zeck said: "You are very smart, I am indeed not here to make friends, I am here to kill." ”
Sikong Yu asked, "Kill whom?"
Zeik said, "Kill you." ”
The music was still flowing in the café, but now Sikong Yu sounded like a small ship, struggling to navigate through a huge storm.
Sikong Yu himself didn't know why he had such an idea.
But now another idea came to Sikong Yu's mind.
Inside the boat, wrapped in waves, there was a man playing the piano. The piano's wheels keep spinning with the waves. And the pianist calmly stroked the keys with his fingers, as if he was dancing a beautiful waltz with the turbulent sea.