CHAPTER XVI
"How is it, do you regret it?" asked Mo Ling teasingly after telling the long story.
"I can't say I regret it...... "Fu Qin lowered his head, "but I feel a little unhappy." β
"That's right, if it's not fun," Mo Ling smiled and patted Fuqin's back, "It means that my purpose has been achieved." β
"Purpose, what purpose?" "Of course, it's the purpose that makes you depressed. β
"Why do you want me to be depressed?" Fu Qin was puzzled, and looked at Mo Ling with wide eyes.
"Because I'm afraid that you will be impulsive, ask what you shouldn't ask, and buy something you shouldn't buy. Mo Ling smiled evilly, "So I made this decision to cut down the restlessness in your heart." β
"The restlessness of the heart...... Is it because of the smell when you enter the door?" Fu Qin reacted suddenly, "It's that smell, right?"
"It's not just when you walk in the door," said Moling nodded, "and even now, I can smell it very clearly. β
"Why can't I smell it?" "Of course I'm used to it, but it's rare to see someone like you nowβhey, what are you doing?"
Before Mo Ling finished speaking, Fu Qin snatched the vial from Mo Ling, unscrewed the stopper and sucked hard, "Hmm-cough, cough-cough-"
Seeing Fu Qin's embarrassed appearance, Mo Ling laughed, "This is a thousand days of drunkenness, the first time I sucked like this, but it will be quite uncomfortable, hahaha......"
Fu Qin saw the schadenfreude on Mo Ling's face, hated itchy, angrily threw the bottle back to Mo Ling, turned his head and walked away quickly alone. Mo Ling snickered and followed behind, keeping a distance of three steps from Fu Qin. Fu Qin is fast and Mo Ling is fast, Fu Qin is slow and Mo Ling is slow, Fu Qin stopped suddenly, Mo Ling followed and stopped, Fu Qin turned around and glared at Mo Ling viciously, Mo Ling looked away and pretended not to see it. After repeating this many times, Fu Qin finally couldn't help it, turned around and stomped his feet, "Go back!"
Fu Qin didn't wait for Mo Ling to respond, he walked back angrily, and just after a few steps, he collided with an oncoming person, only to hear a crisp sound of "clang", and a golden token fell to the ground.
As soon as the token appeared, it immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding pedestrians. And the masked man who collided with Fu Qin squatted down unhurriedly to pick up the token, handed it to Fu Qin, who was about to apologize, and said softly: "Childe, valuable things must be taken care of, and it will not be good if you throw them away." β
Fu Qin was about to reach out to pick it up, but was grabbed by the wrist of the Mo Ling who rushed over, "This is not our brand, I'm afraid the girl is mistaken." β
"Oh?" said the masked man, looking at the token, a little surprised, "but this sign does have the word 'Fuqin' written on it?"
"What-" Magic Feather's heart jumped and snatched the token from the masked man's hand, "It seems that we were mistaken, thank you......, auntie" Magic Ling's gaze shifted to the sign in her hand, and the next words stuck in her throat, because there was no word on the sign.
"What the hell is this......" Mo Ling's face turned pale, "How did the girl know the name 'Fuqin'?" β
"Because that's what the sign says," another token appeared in the masked man's hand, "Childe is so rude, how can he casually snatch someone else's brand?"
"Got the wrong one?" Demon Ling was secretly surprised, "How is this possible, he only had one token in his hand just now!"
"How about it, would Childe be willing to give me back my brand?" the masked man shook the token in his hand, "Although I think they all look the same, I always feel a little uncomfortable with my brand being held in my hand by others." β
"Of course. Mo Ling smiled tightly, and exchanged the tokens in each other's hands with the masked man, "I have a question below, can the girl give me advice?"
"I don't dare to teach, if there is anything I want to ask, just say hello. The masked man's tone was effortless, as if it smacked of banter.
"Why is there no word on your sign?" "Because there is no word in the first place." β
When Mo Ling heard this, he carefully looked at the token in his hand again, and his face suddenly turned pale. Sure enough, as the masked man said, there was no handwriting on the token at all.
"Haha......" The masked man covered his mouth and smiled when he saw Mo Ling's actions, "Childe is really an interesting person, and the expression on his face is like seeing the gold medal for the first time." β
"......" Mo Ling was teased twice by the masked man, and he felt a little uncomfortable, but the truth was as the masked man said, Mo Ling had never looked at the appearance of the token carefully, nor did he think to look at it carefully.
"I will ask again how the girl knew the name 'Fuqin'. Mo Ling's voice was very low.
"Wow, Childe's expression is terrifying," the masked man took two steps back, "as if he was going to eat someone." β
"Doesn't the girl want to answer the next question?" Moling took a step closer.
"It's terrible, it's terrible, I don't dare to accompany it. The masked man turned around and wanted to slip away, but was held down by the Demon Feather, "If the girl doesn't answer the next question today, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to leave." β
"Yes, hee-hee-" The masked figure turned, and the whole person slipped out of the palm of the magic feather like a loach. Mo Ling changed his form, blocking the masked man's way in an instant, and his ten fingers followed closely to clasp the masked man's shoulders, and he was about to exert his strength, but the masked body sank, making a move of the golden cicada to break out of its shell, and Mo Ling only grabbed an empty coat.
Mo Ling wanted to chase again, but he couldn't find the shadow of the masked man, and the speed of the other party's escape was beyond Mo Ling's expectations. Although it was only a few simple moves just now, the movement was not small, and the golden token was too eye-catching, at this moment, many pedestrians stood around, whispering while not forgetting to point. Mo Ling gave Fu Qin a look, and quickly left the place without saying a word.
On the way back, Fu Qin had been silently following behind Mo Ling, obviously feeling that Mo Ling was a little angry. Mo Ling had already instructed himself to hide the token, but he accidentally dropped the token and attracted so many people's attention.
Mo Ling didn't speak, and Fu Qin felt uncomfortable, until he was about to reach the end of the stone ladder, Fu Qin finally couldn't help it, and said, "This time I was careless......
Before Fu Qin finished speaking, Mo Ling paused, turned his head and glared at himself fiercely, Fu Qin swallowed his spit and repeated, "It's all my fault, I didn't hide the token properly......"
"Do you really think so?" said Mo Ling with a hint of doubt in his face.
"When, of course......" Fuqin was like a child who had made a mistake, drooping his head, shocked and frightened, "if I don't make a little temperament and pay more attention when walking......"
"I'll ask you again," Mo Ling thought Fu Qin took a step closer, staring at Fu Qin's eyes, "Do you really think so?"
"Well, well......" Fu Qin bit her lip, her heart was full of grievances, and the look on her face seemed like she was about to cry, "It's good for you to blame me and scold me, but don't be silent anymore......"
"......" Mo Ling let out a long sigh, her tense expression suddenly relaxed, "I'm really angry, but I'm not angry with you. β
Fu Qin raised his head and looked at Mo Ling in dismay, "Then why ......?"
"I'm angry with myself, I didn't see through the masked man's tricks. "Aren't you mad at me?"
"Of course not, why should Iβ" At this point, a wicked smile appeared on Mo Ling's face, "If you want to say that you are not angry at all, that's not right, I'm still a little angry." β
"......" "Do you know what I'm angry with you?" "I don't know." "Because I asked you twice just now, and you thought it was your fault that the token fell out, and it seems that you were also deceived by that masked man." β
"Tricked by him?" "Well, I walked behind you, so I could see clearly what was happening at that time, and the token that fell to the ground fell not from your arms, but from his hands. β
"It's ...... What do you mean?"
"That is, the moment you collide with him, he has a token in his hand. It's not so much that he knocks the token out of your arms, it's that you knock it out of his hand. β
Fu Qin suddenly remembered what Mo Ling said when he grabbed his wrist, "This is not our brand, I'm afraid the girl is mistaken." Now that I think about it again, I realize that it meant meant.
"So, we knocked out his token?" asked Fuqin.
"At first glance, it seems like this, but if you think about it, who would walk with a golden token in their hand?" "And more importantly, after he handed it back to us, we didn't have an extra token for that. β
"That's what I mean......" Fu Qin vaguely knew what Moling meant, but couldn't say it for a while.
"That means that the token in your arms was in his hand before you collided with him - this explanation makes more sense. Mo Ling said.
"He stole my token!" Fu Qin suddenly realized, "No wonder I thought the token fell out of my arms." β
"If my guess is correct, the whole thing goes like this: the masked man is a clever thief, she deliberately passes by you, steals the token in your arms, but unexpectedly collides with you when she stops, and the token she just stole is knocked to the ground. She was worried that the matter would be revealed, so she made a mistake and picked up the token and returned it to you. The token I snatched at that time should be our token, and the other token she took out of nowhere should be her own. She lied that there were words on the token and teased me twice by exchanging tokens, presumably to confirm that your name was Fuqin. β
After listening to Mo Ling's speculation, Fu Qin was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and after a while, he asked stupidly: "In this case, if I hadn't knocked the token in his hand off, our token would have been stolen?"
β...... That's how it turned out," Moling grinned, "let's hit it right." β
"Now that you see that he is a thief, and you see through his tricks, and we haven't lost our tokens, then what are you angry about?" Fu Qin asked again.
"Do you really don't know or pretend not to know?" this time it was Mo Ling's turn to be surprised, "The biggest suspicion in the whole thing is not the back and forth movement of the token, but where did she know that the owner of the token is named Fu Qin!"
"There's no word on the token," Mo Ling continued, "we are masked and we don't recognize each other, so how did he know the name of the token owner?"
"I don't think she knows. Fu Qin said suddenly. Mo Ling was stunned, "What did you say?"
"I don't think she knows the name of the token owner. Fu Qin repeated, "Didn't you just say that she teased you twice by exchanging tokens, and if the purpose of this is to confirm that I am Fu Qin, it means that she didn't know who I was in the first place." β
"If you say that, there is some truth to it......" Mo Ling muttered with one hand on her chin, "that means that all she knows is that there is a man named Fuqin in the room, and this person named Fuqin has a golden token in his hand. She wanted to find out who Fu Qin was, so she used some special means...... "Mo Ling suddenly exclaimed, "Could it be that she deliberately collided with you and dropped the token on the ground?"
After Mo Ling said this, both of them were silent for a long time. The lights on both sides of the stone staircase burned silently, and the silhouette of the magic feather was reflected on the wall, beating slowly in the mottled marks.