Chapter 229: Ashes and Youth
Ye Qingxuan never thought that a meal would be eaten so late, until after the restaurant closed, the foreman hinted in various ways openly and secretly, and the disgust on his face was simply beyond words, Ye Qingxuan and the others only killed their last bit of beer and went home.
But soon, Ye Qingxuan found that there was a bigger trouble in front of him.
- Charles is drunk.
What kind of behavior is Charles getting drunk, Ye Qingxuan saw it on the first day he came to Avalon...... But today, he realized that what he had seen was not a complete body.
So, in the middle of the night, under the lonely moonlight, the legend of Avalon reappeared.
"Lalala~"
Seeing the drunken Charles, who was pulling his clothes and singing songs and running wildly on the streets, Ye Qingxuan had an urge to die here.
"Teacher ......"
He turned his attention to Abraham for help, but Abraham had no choice but to follow behind, pick up the clothes Charles had taken off, and then add a note to keep him warm so as not to catch a cold.
But what is more troublesome than a Charles drunk is that Bai Xi is also drunk.
Of course, the drunk Bai Xi is not the kind that makes people worry, she is still thinking about the shame of Charles touching her head while she is not paying attention, and shouts:
"Charles, don't run, the old lady will beat you to death...... Gross!"
She vomited too.
But the problem is, she is now being carried by Ye Qingxuan!
If it weren't for Ye Qingxuan, even if he bent over, he would have been spit out by her.
What else could Ye Qingxuan do? He was speechless and had two lines of tears. While wiping Bai Xi's mouth, he looked at Abraham:
"Teacher, I want to die. ”
"It's good to get used to it. ”
Abraham sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Really, just get used to it." ”
Hear him say that. Ye Qingxuan, who had been under pressure all along, finally couldn't help it, carried Bai Xi, and with a sense of anger, he pressed down Xia Er who was running naked in front of him, and pointed at his nose and shouted:
"Charles, calm down, you're twenty years old, can you look like a senior brother! But you can't drink and talk about it! How old a person is to drink, how much to brag about! When you are drunk, you still sing, do you want to dance! If you can't dance, I'll teach you!
You're still running, you're running a ghost, there's no wolf chasing you behind you......"
After a few falls, the bitterness in my heart was poured out, and the helplessness and grief from the beginning of school to the present were simply cathartic. In the end, after Ye Qingxuan finished speaking, Xia Er was already stunned and looked at him blankly.
Looking at his stunned and sluggish expression, to be honest, Ye Qingxuan regretted it in his heart, would he speak too seriously.
But Charles looked at him for a long time, and suddenly smirked. Jumped up and gave him a heavy hug and patted him on the shoulder.
"Okay, okay, don't make a fuss. ”
As if it was Ye Qingxuan who was counted, Xia Er looked at him with a tolerant and kind expression: "Senior brother, let's go home." ”
Before Ye Qingxuan could react, Xia Er resurfaced the weird foolish smile after being drunk, and continued to start singing and running naked to the front:
"Lalalala......"
Ye Qingxuan patted his forehead helplessly: Senior brother, you are hopeless.
On his shoulder, Bai Xi seemed to have finally sobered up. looked at him drunkenly: "Cousin, where are you going?"
"Let's go home......"
Ye Qingxuan was stunned for a moment after speaking. Soon, he couldn't help but smile: "Well, let's go home." ”
"No, I'm going to chase him and hit him!"
Bai Xi glared at Xia Er who was thrown in front of him, grabbing Ye Qingxuan's hair, as if riding a horse: "Cousin." Gotta drive!"
"Okay, well, sit tight. ”
Ye Qingxuan smiled, helped the girl behind him, learned the sound of the neighing of the horse, and galloped. Chased after it.
The gentle moonlight shone on the empty street, illuminating the unruly blonde young man in front of him, and the boys and girls who were chasing after him.
Their teacher ran helplessly, chasing after him, shouting for them to slow down.
There were runaway songs in the streets, and the cheers of girls, interspersed with a few sounds that sounded like donkeys barking. The silence was broken, making the cold city seem less cold.
Everything got lovely.
Under the moonlight, Ye Qingxuan ran with the girl on his back, laughing loudly, and wanted to go home.
He suddenly felt the urge to pray, to pray that the gods would let time stop forever in this moment, in a brief but abundant bliss.
Perhaps, what he has been looking for is a place to go back.
There's a teacher who doesn't speak well, a mischievous girl, and a slut brother who can't help it.
Sometimes life is simple, and sometimes it can get troublesome.
But that's how life should be.
Even if it was so, it was his dream.
Unfortunately, no matter how long the road is, there is an end, and when he stops, he looks at the sky in astonishment.
The light of the flames reflected in the distant sky, and the light dyed the boy's gray hair red.
In that direction...... In that direction......
He gritted his teeth and galloped away.
...... direction-
By the time they arrived, it was too late.
The old house, which was on the verge of abandonment, was bathed in flames. The flames crackled, engulfing everything. Ye Qingxuan stood in front of the burning house and watched the flames burn.
There was a faint laugh in the wind, like a mockery of something.
Soon, the flame indulgence triggered the enchantment of the academy, and the alarm sounded, and then, Yegor, who was on duty tonight, fell from the sky with the storm.
When he saw the burning music history department, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then raised his palm.
As he moved, large black clouds condensed from the sky, and the cold wind spread. But soon, his palm was grasped.
The rainstorm that was about to condense came to an abrupt end.
Yegor looked back in astonishment and looked at Abraham who had grabbed him. Abraham's face was expressionless, except for the steel prosthetic leg that he lifted and held it forward.
Bite!
In an instant. The massive flame flickered and vanished.
It's as if the fire was just an illusion and never happened, and the only proof is the old house that has been charred and half-collapsed.
-- Burning forbidden.
This is an advanced technique of the Forbidden Sect, but Yegor has never seen a similar skill from Abraham.
Abraham stood beside Ye Qingxuan. Silently staring at the charred ruins in front of him.
"Nothing. ”
Charles came out of it, frustrated that his hands had turned into a mass of ashes and smashed it to the ground, muttering to himself, "Nothing." ”
"Where's the old fee?"
Bai Xi ran through the ruins, looking around in a panic, but was stopped by Ye Qingxuan, she looked at Ye Qingxuan's face blankly: "Cousin, old Fei ...... Old Fei it ......"
"It's fine. ”
Ye Qingxuan touched her head: "Lao Fei hasn't been at home much in the past two days, even if it's there when it burns, it will definitely be able to run away." ”
"But ......"
Bai Xi endured the sound of choking. But he heard a familiar cry from the grass in the distance.
The big golden retriever dog who ran on the ground came out of it, looked around, and barked when he saw Bai Xi, as if he was comforting something. Seeing that it was fine, Bai Xi wiped the tip of his red nose and hugged it, but he didn't know what to say.
Ye Qingxuan wandered silently in the ruins, rummaging through the things that could still be used. In the end, it was found that only the contents of the basement had escaped.
There is nothing combustible. His own set of equipment had been put into an iron box by his own hands, hidden under the floor.
But except there. Everything else is gone.
Their rooms and beds, Abraham's study and all the books...... In just a few hours, the traces of life that everyone had accumulated had disappeared without a trace.
Ye Qingxuan stood in the ruins, feeling that he was standing in a strange place. The flames swallowed everything up, leaving nothing but ash and charcoal.
"The fire was so big that it set the whole house on fire in a minute. It should be that the weather has been dry recently, and the item spontaneously combusted. ”
After the inspection, Yegor did not find anything 'abnormal', but thinking of what had happened recently, he couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, there are no casualties." ”
"I see. Thank you for your help. ”
Abraham was not angry, but said, "Let's clean up the rest of the matter." ”
Yegor looked at him complicatedly and nodded, "If you don't have a place to live, you can come to change the academy, and I will let the students pack up a few rooms and come out." ”
After that, he left.
In the ashes and ruins, there was only silence, and everyone did not speak, just silently packed up some things that could still be recovered.
I don't know how long it was, but footsteps could be heard in the distance.
"It's really miserable, the house suddenly burned, there are unforeseen circumstances, please mourn. ”
Bart stood outside the ruins with a sympathetic face, "After hearing about it, the teacher sent me to condole, after all, the Department of Music History was once an important department of the Academy of Revelation, if you need it, you are welcome to come and ......"
"You still dare to show up!"
Charles angrily interrupted him, tugging at his collar and glaring at him, "Believe it or not......"
Bart sneered, "Will you say that this is our ghost? If you want me to see, maybe you set this fire to win the sympathy of others. Otherwise, why haven't you lost a single hair?"
After hearing this, Charles suddenly stopped being angry, but the bones made a grinding sound, like iron rubbing, with a crazy force.
He didn't want to say anything more, but instead felt like he had never felt before, cold, gloomy, like a snake coiled over a clammy rock, its scales rubbing against each other, making a creepy sound.
Perhaps, this is killing intent, right?
There was a hand that grasped his wrist, from Ye Qingxuan. Ye Qingxuan stood in front of him, looked into his eyes, and shook his head slightly.
"Leaf ......"
"Senior brother, listen to what he has to say. ”
Ye Qingxuan let go of his hand, looked back at the sluggish Bart, and said softly, "Bart, you can speak." However, you'd better figure out what exactly you're talking about......"
The coldness in the young man's eyes made Bart couldn't help but take a step back, and soon, he reacted and stopped his gaffe, just snorted coldly, and seemed to be 'generous' and didn't care about Charles's movements just now.
"That's right, calm down, it's good for everybody. ”
He snorted twice, straightened his chest and looked up:
The teacher said that he was willing to admit that there were some coincidences and overlaps between his interpretation and that of Mr. Abraham: these are all academic commonalities, after all, there is only one truth.
But that doesn't mean he's going to acknowledge your control. It's just ......"
"Just?"
Ye Qingxuan tilted his head and looked at him, his expression was not as curious as he thought, just cold: "Bart, you have to finish speaking, your teacher didn't let you sell Guanzi."
To be a dog is to have the consciousness of being a dog, and you don't want to make some mistakes that your teacher doesn't want to see because of you, right?"
Bart's expression twitched, and his expression became ugly, but he finally chose to finish his words:
"Only, if you are willing to drop the trumped-up accusations, he is willing to add Mr. Abraham's name to the manuscript submitted. Share this achievement and glory with him. ”
In the silence, he sneered: "How about it? The compensation of a 'second author' is already a great thing for the broken place of the music history department.
This is the last chance, I hope you don't make mistakes, the teacher will not give in a second time. ”
This is the plan that Ingmar finally chooses, no matter how crazy he is, he can't let this incident ferment anymore.
Besides, after this warning, I'm afraid that the music history department will also learn smarter, and will not be entangled too much. This compromise is good for everyone.
But to his surprise, after he finished speaking, no one made a sound. They all had a strange look at them.
Only the white-haired boy nodded slowly.
"Yes? I see. ”
He said, "You can go." ”
Bart was stunned for a moment and didn't react: "What do you mean?"
"I mean, you can go, Bart. ”
Ye Qingxuan said again, his expression was careful and serious, but his eyes were indifferent, like a wind moving towards a long winter night, which was so cold that it made people's hearts cold:
"Don't make me repeat it, I hope you can see that I'm in a bad mood right now. ”
"You, you...... Are you crazy?!"
Bart looked at him in astonishment, incoherent, but he didn't know what to say, but he didn't dare to continue to entangle, and walked away with a flushed face.
His steps were fast, as if he was chasing some invisible evil ghost behind him, and it was not until he was far away that he dared to look back at his back, and spat at the ground viciously:
"A bunch of ignorant things. ”――
In the same place, Ye Qingxuan watched Bart leave in silence, and also saw his actions that he thought were secret in the woods. After a long time, he retracted his gaze and looked down at the ruins beneath his feet, at the ashes that had been burned.
Beside him, Charles looked at him worriedly and sighed softly, "Leaf ......"
"I know, don't persuade me. ”
Ye Qingxuan looked up at him: "Things have become like this, the house has been burned, the information is gone, and it is useless for us to be sad." Even in the school council, we don't have any hole cards. After all, we can't even keep the original, can we?"
He looked at the silent Charles, and after a long time, lowered his eyes, the pupils of which were like ashes, hiding an invisible anger. He said:
"--Senior brother, I'm angry. (To be continued.) )