"Thank you. Ye Zhiqiu put the handkerchief back in his pocket, put on his glasses, and pulled on the hood of his cloak to cover his face, tidy up a little, and after confirming that it was correct, he prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Jose also stood up and prepared to go to Rong Ruo to leave together.

At this time, Maruzat stepped on the creaking wooden staircase to the attic, he held a wooden saucer in his hand, there were three cups of tea in the saucer, and the heat was rising above the teacups, and when he saw the two people standing in the seats, he smiled and asked, "Have you finished talking?" Why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea, and it's not too late to leave." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Maruzat, for your kindness, but I will not stay for tea until I have to return to the capital tonight. Ye Zhiqiu bowed slightly to Maruzat to apologize.

José had no intention of staying for tea, first, he didn't like tea, and second, the conversation just now made him a little messy.

"Is that so?" Maruzat had a somewhat regretful expression on his face, but he still put the wooden saucer on the coffee table, lowered his head and thought for a while, then he raised his head again and said to Ye Zhiqiu and Jose, "That's it, the tea won't be drunk, but you can take a walk with me, an old fellow." ”

After Ye Zhiqiu was silent for a while, he picked up one of the teacups, first put it under his nose and sniffed it, then took a sip, and then put the teacup back into the plate, "Good tea, but Mr. Maruzat, I'm sorry, I really don't have time to stay longer." ”

"I know you have a lot to do, but you should take a break and go for a walk. Maruzat didn't mean to give up because of Ye Zhiqiu's refusal, and seeing that Ye Zhiqiu still didn't mean to agree, he continued, "Don't worry, Zhiqiu, you will return to the capital on time, I promise." ”

"I don't doubt your intentions, Mr. Maruzat, but the last ship bound for the capital is about to anchor, and I think you can afford to make it sail a little late, but I am afraid that it is not appropriate for me to delay the time of a shipwright. Ye Zhiqiu was still refusing.

However, Maruzat smiled mysteriously, "Do you know 'Hongqiao'?"

"Is there really a 'Hongqiao'?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

José did not know if the "rainbow bridge" that Maruzate was referring to was the one he knew, and in human mythology, the "rainbow bridge" was a bridge connecting the kingdom of their gods to the human world, and could reach anywhere in an instant, but José believed that it was just a myth that could not be verified.

"You can see it at a glance. Maruzat looked at Ye Zhiqiu meaningfully, and the latter was silent for a while before finally spreading his hands and agreeing to take a walk with Maruzat.

"And you, José, would you like to go for a walk with me, a bad old man?" Maruzat turned to José.

Jose was silent for two seconds and asked, "What about Rongruo?"

"She's with a few goblin friends, I'm afraid she won't be back for a while, would you like to walk with me in this space?" Maruzat looked at him with a smile, Jose nodded, and agreed, he knew that Rong Ruo, if she really played with those little goblins, she wouldn't be able to come back for a while, and it was acceptable to allocate this time to take a walk with Maruzat.

The two men followed Maruzate through the bookshelf where the Centuries were kept, and pushed open the door through which they had entered, and the moment the door was pushed open, José felt the wind blowing in from outside, and he followed Maruzate out, and it was not as dark as it had been when he came, but he saw a clear night sky, under which three huge moons shone brightly.

José silently glanced around, it was a wooden platform, built next to the trunk of a huge tree, the branches of the big tree were just below the platform under their feet, they were standing on top of the Pale Tree, José had never heard of such a platform on top of the Pale Tree, but José was silent for another reason, behind them was a door mounted on the trunk, the door was wrapped with some branches and leaves of the Pale Tree, José could see through the open bookshelves in the room, he was assessing Maruzate's strength.

There was no specific assessment of the omniscient being's strength in Valhalla, and he connected one door to another hundreds of meters away in almost complete silence without using any gestures or spells, and without causing any magical fluctuations that Jose could detect.

"Follow me. Without giving José more time to think, Maruzate led José and Ye Zhiqiu in the same direction, a path hidden between the branches of the pale tree, and along that staircase, they reached another platform.

It seemed that there was more than one platform on the Pale Tree, and Maruzat stopped at this platform, and he walked to the edge of the platform, holding the railing, and looked at the city under the platform, which had fewer branches and leaves, and his vision was much better than the one before, and he could see the whole Elven River, and after looking at it for a while, Maruzat closed his eyes, and José saw a very intoxicated expression on his side face.

"Did you hear that?" asked Maruzat suddenly.

"What did you hear?" Ye Zhiqiu asked rhetorically.

"The song of the city, you listen, is like a symphony. Maruzat's face was full of intoxication, as if he were really listening to a grand concert.

José didn't know if it was because he didn't know much about music, he didn't hear the symphony, "I only heard the wind." He replied truthfully.

"Don't hear with your ears, hear with your heart. Maruzat slowly opened his eyes, he turned his head and looked at Ye Zhiqiu and Jose with a smile.

Ye Zhiqiu closed his eyes when he heard this, and Jose also closed his eyes like him, but he could still only hear the sound of the wind, and maybe the sound of his own heartbeat, he opened his eyes and shook his head at Maruzat.

A hint of regret flashed in Maruzat's eyes, but he still spoke, "It's okay, one day, you will hear the natural sound of this world." Maruzat turned his gaze to the night view of the Elven River, and asked casually, "Do you know how we communicated with the cavemen in the first place?"

"This is not recorded in the Centuries that you handed over to the Education Bureau. Ye Zhiqiu had already opened his eyes, and the current textbook for the history of magic in the empire was a volume of "Centuries" compiled by Maruzat.

"Not everything needs to be written down on paper. Maruzat glanced at Ye Zhiqiu meaningfully, and then said, "It's music, when the pale tree just sprouted, we met the owner of this land, and we used music to cross the communication barrier between the two races for the first time, maybe we don't understand the language, but we have the same perception of the singing of this world, it was a wonderful time." Maruzat had a look of remembrance on his face.

Suddenly, he shifted his words and looked at Jose, "Many years ago, the demon spirit also had this talent, but you forgot about it. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he turned to face Ye Zhiqiu, "I don't mean to despise human beings, it's just that the songs of this world can't be listened to with your ears, but you have to listen with your heart, but it is always difficult for you humans to do this." ”

"Big sound. Ye Zhiqiu said after being silent for a while.

"Big sound?" said Maruzat, after a pause, "what a 'big sound'." He looked at Ye Zhiqiu approvingly, but soon the look in his eyes turned into regret again, and he sighed, "But you still haven't heard her voice." ”

"Yes, I didn't hear it. Ye Zhiqiu replied.

"You can see far away, Zhiqiu, much farther than me. Maruzat said to him.

"The gentleman praised it falsely. ”

"It's not a compliment, Zhiqiu. Maruzat stared at Ye Zhiqiu, "You look too far and you often ignore the things around you, and sometimes the important thing is not the result, but the process." ”

"But what we got in the end was the result. Ye Zhiqiu replied.

Maruzat shook his head, "I'm just giving you some advice as an old man. ”

Ye Zhiqiu raised his head suddenly, staring at Maruzat, a glint flashing in his eyes, "You saw my fate?"

Maruzat shook his head in the negative, "Fate is too great, all I can do is to spy on some future fragments and give you some advice based on these fragments." ”

Ye Zhiqiu asked, "What kind of clips did you see?"

However, Maruzat smiled mysteriously, and left the platform like an upward staircase, saying as he went, "It doesn't matter what kind of future I see, what matters is how you choose." ”

Then Ren Ye Zhiqiu asked again, but he just smiled and didn't respond.

After walking through two more platforms, they reached the top of the Pale Tree, here is a circular platform of hundreds of square meters, the surrounding area is open, there is no upward staircase, there is a small round platform half a meter high in the middle of the platform, Maruzat walked to the side of the round platform, turned to Jose and Ye Zhiqiu and said, "We have arrived." ”

Ye Zhiqiu walked to the edge of the round platform, squatted down and looked at it for a long time, and asked, "This is 'Hongqiao'?"

"It's not really 'Hongqiao', it's just that the old man did it in my spare time, and it's much worse than the real 'Hongqiao', and it can't connect anywhere, only the Elven River and the capital. Maruzat replied casually.

Suddenly, Jose remembered that the White Emperor Sword in his black book was also copied by the old man in front of him, and he seemed to be particularly good at imitating those legendary things.

Hearing this, Ye Zhiqiu walked onto the round platform, he looked at Maruzat and said to him, "Then I will take my leave first, thank you for your teachings, Mr. Maruzat." ”

Maruza nodded, "Goodbye." Rainbow light flashed on the round platform, soaring into the sky for a moment, illuminating the entire night sky, and the next moment, the rainbow light dispersed, as if everything just now was just an illusion, but Ye Zhiqiu on the round platform was gone.

"Let's go too. Maruzat patted José on the shoulder and led him back to the inner hall, Rong Ruo had come back at some point, and was sleeping on Maruzat's desk, a little goblin was lying in her arms, and all her saliva flowed onto Maruzat's manuscript, and all the words on it were spent.

Jose frowned, it was easy to catch a cold when he slept like this, he walked over and patted her on the shoulder, Rong Ruo raised her head, rubbed her eyes, and looked at Jose sleepily, "Senior brother, are you leaving?" she yawned.

Jose nodded, "We're going to go far away." ”

Hearing that she was going to go far away, Rong Ruo suddenly came to her senses, "Where are you going?"

"Jiangcheng. "PS: I admit that I've been a little wet these days, so my conscience finds that I'll add a change tonight.