"Forbidden...... Touching the line of the Black and Gold Alliance?" Liu Ye looked into Dias's eyes, "Then why did you break this taboo?" ”

"Do you want to know?"

"At least, I don't want to leave without knowing why. Liu Ye smiled slightly, "Just take it as a thank you gift for saving people, and tell me your story." ”

"Well, if you want to hear it. ”

A long, long time ago, in July, Cremona was blowing the cool sea breeze as usual, and that was the first time I saw her.

She dragged a small, lonely suitcase, her long striking black hair wrapped around her emaciated shoulders, and stood at the intersection gracefully, like a burst of floral fragrance, suddenly suffocating, and then refreshing and pleasant after a moment. She asked me for directions, and I suddenly saw a flower bloom in an instant, her hair fluttering, her smile fluttering, and her dark brown eyes seemed to have rum swirling.

I didn't expect to meet her again, I stayed here as a magician just for a secret treasure in the church, but fate was always so fond of playing tricks, and Heaven let us meet twice in a row, once at a magic show at the local tavern, where she stood in the first row, clapping and cheering, and laughing brightly and brightly.

Another time, it was the night of my operation, a week after the performance.

I underestimated how much the local magic sect valued the Secret Treasure, and I also underestimated the strength of the Guardian, and that night I was extremely injured and ran away for a long, long time. When I finally shook off my pursuers and returned to where I lived, I saw her.

She stood there caressing the wood, so still as if her soul was about to be stripped of her body and gone. I am anxious and inexplicably afraid that she is like an elf that has broken into the world, floating above the earthly world, and should not be burdened by anyone or anything.

And yet she stood there, looking at me, with a bloodied face and a silver cup in my hand.

"You look like you need help? Do you want my help?" Eyes as full as rum.

"You don't look like an ordinary magician, so? Who the hell are you?" she gently wiped the blood off my face with a towel dipped in hot water? He carefully cleaned the wound with a cotton swab, "My name is Lynn." ”

I didn't answer? chose to be silent, is the identity of a magician still too heavy for an ordinary person? Rushing her into the world of magic would only bring danger to her life.

"Why are you saving me. "I asked her? When you see a man covered in blood at night, the first reaction of a normal person should be to immediately turn around and run away.

"You don't need a reason to save someone. She said.

"You said exactly the same thing. Dias looked at Liu Ye and said, "Maybe you are the same kind of people." ”

"Not necessarily, I'm talking about the second half of the sentence. ”

"Haha? That's right. ”

"And then?"

Early the next morning? When I woke up, Lynn was already gone, and she left a note on the table saying that she would come back in the afternoon and bring me some medicine.

Am I leaning against the window edge next to my bed, lazily looking at the sun-drenched street? Across the street is a workshop that makes handmade violins and seems to be quite famous. Isn't that an easy task in Cremona? Making a name for oneself in a town full of luthiers requires a great deal of craftsmanship.

I saw Lynn in the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor.

Cutting, grinding, mixing lacquer, boiling glue, the body is cut into beautiful lines? The panels are polished to a smooth and fine finish.

Lynn pulled up her long hair, revealing her long neck? Big earrings on your ears? The collarbone looks thin? The flipped wrist is like a magnolia in the moonlight, clean and pure.

There was a vial in my heart, and I suddenly knocked it over.

"Are you making the violin?" I asked her that afternoon.

"Yes, I came all the way to learn from him. Her eyes sparkled brightly, "Are you interested?"

Interested, of course interested.

"The top should be made of solid spruce, the back should be a softer maple, and the bow should be made of pernan boer, which must be straight-grained, dense and evenly grown, and can only be made after more than ten years of air-drying and resting. ”

Lin ran downstairs in a hurry, and after a while ran back again, a piece of wood in his hand. She told me she was going to make herself a violin.

"Legend has it that every tree will have a spirit, and in the process of engraving the years, the spirit of the tree will also be purified, and then made into a violin, and the spirit will exist in the violin. It's a story that every luthier knows and what every luthier believes, which requires respect and seriousness, which is why Cremona is the home of the violin. ”

Looking at her serious face, I couldn't help but believe the story a little.

As a magician, though, I know very well that there are no elves in the dead trees.

But this does not in any way detract from the beauty of this legend.

"Do you like her?" Liu Ye slowly closed his eyes, "but I feel that this is a story with a tragic ending." ”

"Well, it's not hard to guess. Dias smiled, "Well, do you want to continue listening?"

"Of course. ”

I'm leaving, in July, which is blown by the sea breeze.

The treasure has been obtained, the injury is almost healed, and I have no more reason to stay in Cremona.

I didn't want to be too sad to part, so I told Lynn that I would go quietly someday.

I can't take her away, she shouldn't live like that.

At noon that day, I told Lynn everything, including my name, the purpose of my visit to Cremona, and the treacherous magical world.

Lynn gave me a delicate wooden case, made by herself, with a piano in it, and she hugged me.

"Dias, Dias, Dias. Lynn said, her Italian not yet fluency, "Take care of yourself." Be sure to check back in five years, I'll be here again. ”

"Is this an agreement?"

"It's an agreement. ”

She patted me on the back in a dashing manner and winked at me playfully. I looked at her rum-tingling brown eyes and a sour nose.

Maybe it's reluctant, I've never experienced this kind of emotion before. It's like eating a very sweet sugar and suddenly biting into an extremely sour plum, and it can't be calmed down for a long time.

Without looking back, she ran to the violin workshop, and I rode the silver light of the moon through the vast sea back to where I had come.

"You just left?"

"yes, I'm leaving. ”

"The story isn't over yet. ”

"Yes, it's not over yet. ”

Five years later, in July, I returned to Cremona, an old town that hadn't changed much from before, with the sea breeze blowing through the sunny streets and the refreshing scent of flower beds beside the road.

Through the wide, clear floor-to-ceiling windows, I saw Lynn, who had matured a lot, and a piano had just been made. She plucked the strings gently, and the sound was as cool as soaking the moonlight in water.

I put my shirt on my shoulder and stood quietly listening to her play the violin.

Suddenly, she saw me, playing the violin with a smile on her lips, her rum-dripping eyes full of crummed starlight, and I will always remember those beautiful eyes and the beautiful scenery in those eyes.

Lynn pulled me into the house.

She has a large study, which is very well lit, and the sunlight is always as light as dancing, so many books, many languages, and words that zigzag and climb like earthworms, but also beautiful and vivid.

"You're back!"

"I'm back. ”

"Five whole years. ”

"Five whole years. I smiled and said, "That's what you said, that's an agreement." ”

We spent quite a few hours together, and Lynn would sometimes show me a flamenco on a whim, wearing a bohemian colourful skirt. The expression is lonely, the action is enthusiastic, from slow to urgent, and then everything comes to an abrupt end on a bright tone, this is the flamenco step, the passionate encounter of an old gypsy dance with a Spanish style, proud and enthusiastic, and it is unsatisfying.

"An excellent fairy tale, this should be the end of it. Liu Ye said, "The hero and the heroine have lived happily together since then, love at first sight, reunion after a long absence, and complete elements." ”

"But life is always much more exciting than a fairy tale," says Dias, "and it's much more painful." ”

"Go ahead, give this story an end and reveal why you broke the taboo. ”

How long can hatred last?

Is it an hour, a day, a year, or longer and longer?

I should know better than most people the tenacity of the vitality of hatred and malice, the seeds sown with good intentions often do not sprout, but the bitter fruits sown with malice often grow into towering trees.

I had forgotten that, and how dangerous my return would be to Lynn.

One moonless night, the sect found us, and they threatened me to return the treasure, but the silver cup was no longer in my hand, and there was nothing I could do if I wanted to.

I asked them to let Lynn go, and it had nothing to do with her.

However, the seeds of malice had grown, they didn't believe what I said, and after the threat was fruitless, a priest cursed Lynn.

"Liu Ye, do you know how cruel people can become when they protect the things they love?"

"Worse than the most vicious beasts. ”

I killed all the church magicians.

The mage's blood flowed all over the study, and the moonlight was no longer as light as dancing as the daytime sun, but cold and bitterly heavy, and the blackness of the ground polluted the pure room, and I knew it wasn't their fault, I knew the cause of it was actually me, but I couldn't control my anger.

I tortured the cursed priest with the worst torture to force him to unravel Lynn's curse, but it was too late.

Her body has been irreversibly damaged and is in danger.

I can't save her.

I paid some price to forcibly freeze her physical state and keep her last breath.

"Is this the end of the story?" Liu Ye groaned slightly, "Don't you think it's cruel to forcibly keep her?"

"I want to save her. "Over the years, I've been looking for all sorts of methods, magical, scientific, and I've tried them all, but none of them have succeeded. So I put up a personal bounty, as long as I can treat the dying person who has failed all five organs, he can exchange an arbitrary commission with me. ”

"Can the highest technology be saved?"

That's what he said. ”

"Do you believe it?" Liu Ye asked, "You can divinate other people's fate, Lin is an ordinary person, have you ever divined her?"

"......" Dias's eyes closed for a moment, then slowly opened them again, "at least, it's worth a try." ”

"I see. Liu Ye nodded, "I understand." ”

"Why do you want to know this?"

"As I said, I don't want to leave without knowing why. Liu Ye stood up, "I don't need a reason to save people, but it's not bad to be able to figure out some things through this." What are you going to do next?

"No, I'm going to be alone for a while. If I offend the Black and Gold Alliance, I will definitely be hunted down next, and going back will only bring danger to them. ”

"I have a proposal. Liu Ye said, "Are you interested in hearing it?"

"What proposal?" asked Dias.

"You've completed the commission, and if the high-tech people are trustworthy, they should be in touch with you soon. Liu Ye said, "Of course, it is also possible that they will directly disclose your information to the Black Gold Alliance, if that is the case, we will be in danger." ”

Dias's face changed.

"My proposal is that if someone from the Black and Gold Alliance comes to you, you can stay with me first. Liu Ye said, "After all, my contact with you is not obvious so far, and it should be relatively safe for you to act with me." ”

"Acting with you, aren't you afraid of getting burned?" asked Dias.

"Hmm...... There are more lice and it is not itchy, to investigate to high technology, I need your help. Liu Ye said, "There is only one way to save people with internal organ failure, and that method is a top-secret technology that cannot be seen for the highest technology, so I think the second situation is very likely." ”

"Zizizi......" Something shook in Dias's pocket. He paused, then reached out and took it.

A cell phone with an unknown incoming call on it.

"Drip—that's good, you've done the commission. Because of the long period of non-answering, the call automatically turned into a voice message, and a processed voice said, "We've got the things, and you can get what you want." Tomorrow, the patient will be sent to Dekang Ning Hospital in the East Fourth District, and someone will take over the follow-up work. ”

"Drop-" The phone hung up, Dias looked at Liu Ye, and the two fell silent.

"Do you believe them?" after a long time, Liu Ye spoke, "Dias, you have to think clearly, this may be a trap. ”

"I'm going to give it a try anyway. "That's what I have to do." ”