Chapter 55: The World I've Lost for a Long Time
"Xia Qiu, Qianqi, you are here." Dong Muya smiled and said that she couldn't remember the last time she laughed like this, and recently she seemed so tired that even her facial nerves had failed.
"yes, I just came back from Immortal Island." Xia Qiu responded.
"I've heard that you've seen the legendary Feathered Crane Immortal, how about it? What kind of person is he? ”
As soon as she mentioned the immortal island, Dong Muya became interested, some legends of the feather crane immortal she was very interested in earlier, the beautiful man who lost his memory woke up on a paradise-like island, isolated from the world and only accompanied by the crane, such stories will always fascinate women, especially her as a member of the appearance association.
"He's a very kind guy and he's pathetic...... I'm coming back to ask you for help, he has become weaker and weaker since leaving the Talisman, and he could die at any time, and I think that if I can find information about the part of his lost memory, maybe I can save his life. ”
"Hmm." Dong Muya paused for a moment, and then suddenly remembered the WiseMan, "I recently found a person who peddled this kind of information, although he claimed to be the truth and made me a little disgusted, but according to some of my acquaintances, the information he provided was very accurate...... That guy was so slippery that he attacked my computer! I don't know where he got this information, but I think he has a lot of things that I don't know, so I'll ask him next time. ”
Dong Muya later communicated with that WiseMan several times in succession, because his asking price was too high for information related to Blackfall, so she finally weighed and only bought some information about Soul Departure from him. She thought that there would be a way to catch him when she made the payment, but she didn't expect him to say anything about how to pay, and she was still wondering, when she received a message from the bank, and the corresponding money under her account had been withdrawn by herself. He even cracked her personal information and bank password, how powerful is this person? The more she thought about it, the more she felt surprise and shudder.
Dong Muya's answer made Xia Qiu feel a lot more relieved, and in her eyes, her teacher was becoming more and more legendary. The agreement with the Yuhe Immortal was finally settled, she breathed a sigh of relief and decided to go upstairs to talk to her family and Lingmei on the phone, her mobile phone was still left in Ouyang's ancient mansion, and Dong Muya had recently communicated with her family instead of her.
"These, these...... None of the books I've read have written about it, it's amazing! Qianqi was attracted to the computer just now, and now he saw the novelty called the mobile phone in Xia Qiu's hand, and when he heard about its use, he became completely incoherent.
Xia Qiu walked upstairs to the room where she had lived before, called her family and Liu Lingmei, and in order not to worry them, she deliberately made her tone appear calm, even as tears rolled in her eyes.
She dialed her grandparents' phone first, and it was her grandfather who answered the phone, because she was hypnotized by Ouyang Xiaoleng, they were not worried about her staying in Ouyang Ancient Mansion at all, but just told her about his and grandma's living conditions these days, knowing that their health was fine, she was somewhat relieved. The call with her father was also unexpectedly warm, she thought he would blame herself, but in his tone she didn't experience the cold taste, and the sentence he said at the end of taking care of herself made her feel that her father loved her for the first time. Liu Lingmei first complained to her that she didn't answer the phone and only replied to text messages, but then she began to care about whether she was doing well during this time, and told her about the new things in school since this time.
As soon as she hung up the phone, she burst into tears, but she still didn't dare to cry, because Qianqi and Dong Muya were still outside. She really wanted to lock herself in this room all night, but because Dong Muya insisted that she take her and Qianqi out to eat after she finished talking on the phone, she had to walk in front of them. Looking at her red eyes, Qianqi wanted to rush over immediately to ask what was going on, but was stopped by Dong Muya on the side, she couldn't know Xia Qiu's mood at the moment, at this time, instead of saying something useless to comfort her, it was better to choose to skip this topic and take her to do something else to distract her.
"There's a new store on the shopping street, and I've always wanted to try it, Western-style fast food, you young people will definitely like it."
When Dong Muya finished saying this, she suddenly realized that she was really old, she once felt that her time had stood still, from the day she met Ouyang Hongye, when she came into contact with another world and so many unknown things that she couldn't imagine in the past, she felt that the concept of time was irrelevant.
It wasn't until they appeared in front of her in the summer and autumn, as if they had reenacted every scene of her girlhood, that she realized that she was really not young anymore. Although her appearance looks smaller than her peers, she is also a thirty-four-year-old woman after all, compared with Ouyang Hongye's appearance that will not age for thousands of years, she has completed the transformation from a little girl to a woman in the past twenty years, she once thought that if she was old one day and her face was full of wrinkles, she would hide it and never meet Ouyang Hongye again, only leaving a picture of her youth in his heart.
They then went to the American-style family restaurant on the commercial street, and along the way, Xia Qiu was always a little worried that they would meet other classmates, after all, Yongchuan was not very big, and they couldn't help but feel a little worried. And what she is most worried about is Liu Lingmei, in fact, she has made up her mind several times to reveal some of the things she is experiencing to Lingmei, because she can't tell it all, so she can't say which part to reveal and which part, so she can't choose.
Yongchuan's night added a bit of coolness, Dong Muya chose a sweatshirt and a pair of jeans for Qianqi in Ouyang Xiaoleng's clothes, jeans are a very magical design for him, he likes it more than the sportswear he wore last time, the kind of material he has never seen before, it is a little heavy, but it is not difficult to walk, especially the lines like water mills on the pants, indescribable casualness, he made up his mind to buy a touch of the same if he has the opportunity.
Xia Qiu insisted on sitting in the corner of the restaurant, but Dong Muya didn't think so, and was not worried that they would be seen by others if they appeared together. It's been a long time since I've eaten a decent meal, and during this time in the demon world, Xia Qiu has been living a life of eating and sleeping in the open, so when the hamburger is placed in front of him, it is like a kind of magic that can cancel out all the troubles. Qianqi ordered the same thing with Xia Qiu, he was simply fascinated by the taste of hamburgers, this was undoubtedly one of the best things he had ever eaten, compared to the most famous horned deer spirit in the demon world and the almost extinct white ghost fish, and the fries to be eaten with tomato sauce also made him full of praise, he swallowed four or five large hamburgers in a row, and finally felt a little full.
Dong Muya only ordered the tuna salad herself, and as soon as she left the books and materials in Ouyang's ancient mansion, her endless energy because of her high concentration was gone, and the tiredness that she should have hit her whole body, she lazily ate the food on the plate in front of her, and looked at the two children in front of her. I thought to myself that it would be nice if the food I made could make others eat so happily, and then I couldn't help but laugh.
The next day was the weekend, and Xia Qiu wanted to go home to see her grandparents no matter what, and Qianqi insisted on accompanying her. The plants in the courtyard were all yellow, and the leaves were listlessly hanging to the ground, compared to the four seasons in the courtyard of Ouyang's ancient mansion, which were full of late autumn colors, looking at them, a trace of imperceptible sadness flashed in her eyes.
Sensing the emotion in her eyes, Chiki stepped forward and gently brushed the plants with her hand, and they unbelievably flourished again. Xia Qiu remembered that Mochizuki had used the same method to reopen Ouyang Yong's plum blossoms, and dragons were creatures with healing powers, they could not only heal diseases and pains, but also heal plants, and grandpa's favorite peony was even waiting to bud again, I wonder if he would be frightened when he saw it.
It has always been Chiki's wish to be able to come to see the place where Xia Qiu lives, and when she enters the house, he is waiting for her outside the courtyard. On the way back to Ouyang's ancient house, she deliberately chose to take a detour past her and Ouyang Xiaoleng's school, which was where she used to come every day, but now it has become a little strange, only a few scattered people are playing basketball in the empty playground, and the rooftop that can be seen at a glance is full of memories of the past.
In Chiki's opinion, this place was as strange as other places, although he had read about the school in the human world in the book, but for him, who had been taught by several teachers alone since he was a child, it was unimaginable for him to have so many people gather to study together.
The path to Ouyang's ancient mansion was already familiar to Xia Qiu, Dong Muya still locked herself in the underground database to search for information about the Yuhe Immortal, and Xia Qiu decided to clean Ouyang Ancient Mansion during her busy time. Although he didn't dare to move the materials scattered everywhere in the living room, he at least cleaned up the floor and kitchen. Qianqi sighed how a human girl could have so much energy to be busy from morning to now, while she was obviously tired and hungry.
Towards the end of the evening, Dong Muya suddenly rushed up from the underground database, holding a stack of newly typed documents in her hand, she called Xia Qiu and Qianqi to the living room, and then sat down on the sofa all of a sudden, looking tired.
"It's been a big day!" She continued while taking the hot tea handed by Xia Qiu, "I thought he wouldn't come today, because he would only appear once in a while, but I didn't expect him to really pop up again." ”
Dong Muya knew that her computer should be under some kind of surveillance by WiseMan, so she had been deliberately searching for information about the Feather Crane Immortal, but the dialog box never popped up, and just when she was about to give up, he finally appeared. He offered an unprecedentedly high price for the information of the Feather Crane Immortal, which she couldn't afford now, but he took the initiative to say that he could pay him in stages, and under this temptation, she accepted the deal without hesitation.
"I didn't think he would know about the Feathered Crane Immortal, but as soon as he heard the name, he told me that he had always liked this person, and that he had a lot of information about him now. Of course, this guy is going to pay a lot of money again, but fortunately he actually allowed me to pay him in installments, otherwise I would have to watch the important information slip away. ”
"Don't sell it, you've already whetted our appetite." Qianqi urged with some impatience.