I followed the direction the old man pointed out and came to the café on the other side.

The café was opened by a young couple who had just graduated from college, called "Mistaken Dust Cafe", taken from Tao Yuanming's poem "Mistakenly fell into the dust net, and went for thirty years". They rented the hallway on the second floor. Ten tables were set up. Therefore, no matter where you sit, you can see the scenery of the busy traffic on Guanglan Street. In this slum, there are not many customers in the café, and they are all students who depend on their parents for support. As well as some guests who come to "tour".

At this time, the café had just opened, and there was only one customer sitting inside, with his back to the cash register. Wearing a black T-shirt and a ponytail, the back is a little familiar, but I remember that Yamabi didn't like this flamboyant hairstyle very much before.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time," he raised the corners of his mouth slightly, smiled like a Mona Lisa, and gave me a vacant look. I haven't seen it for more than a year, and Shanbi still looks like "although the world is big, what does it have to do with me".

"I didn't expect you to come to me" I moved my chair back a bit and slipped inside. The mountain pen is much more haggard than before, and a few strands of hair hang on his forehead, like spider silk in an old house.

"When I left Liuye Village, I said I would come to you, but I'm sorry for the delay due to work. He smiled and nodded, and the strands of hair swayed for fear of piercing his eyes.

"I don't blame you, not to mention that I also said that I would go to look for you, but I didn't come in the end, everyone is very busy. By the way, your cultivation has improved again, and you know that I am here from such a distance. ”

He smiled mysteriously again: "I knew you were here when you were downstairs." ”

I looked him in the eye in amazement, he was a genius, I knew it. But there was a lot of noise on the street, and how he knew me through his spiritual sense, this kind of cultivation was not owned by his age.

He looked at my puzzled eyes and put down the coffee in his mouth: "I saw you coming in, don't think too much." ”

"Okay" I was a little embarrassed, so I asked him to pick up the coffee and take a sip, but it was bitter.

"Don't you get used to drinking it, add more sugar. He pushed the sugar jar in the middle of the table towards me.

I quickly scooped a spoonful of sugar into my mouth to remove some of the bitterness.

"How do you order such a bitter coffee?"

"I didn't order it, I brought it myself"

"Do you like this coffee now?"

"Yes, the work needs. It's so refreshing," Shanbi smiled helplessly.

I was a little surprised, what kind of work did Shanbi have always been afraid of, so he had to change his habits.

"Do you often work overtime, I don't think there is any need to work so hard during the study period, it's better to study first."

"No, I dropped out after half a year of classes," he said lightly.

"Why!"

"I can't learn anything, and I don't feel the need to stay. He said it with ease. However, the college where Shanbi is located is Guanshan College, one of the four strongest colleges in the country, has always been good at exercises, alchemy, and medical research, but Shanbi said that he couldn't learn anything. If any student or teacher outside heard this, they would think that Shanbi was crazy. But he is a mountain pen, not someone else.

"But you've only been there for half a year, and the teacher will definitely not teach you esoteric knowledge."

"Half a year is enough"

"So what are you doing now?"

"Alchemy"

"I don't remember you being interested in alchemy"

"I'm not interested in anything"

"Okay" I didn't know how to continue, and the two were silent for a few minutes. I haven't seen him for a year and a half, and there seems to be a wall between me and him, and I don't know what happened to him in the past year and a half.

"I'm sorry, no, don't you find it a little difficult to talk to me now?"

"No, I just think you're talking less than you used to"

"Do you participate in this year's martial arts competition?"

"I didn't want to go, but ...... Ahem, being forced to do so.."

"You know that there is a prize in this contest called Jie Zidan"

"Yes, I know, but I'm not going to go for that. How can there be a thing in this world that will increase its strength for twenty years if it is eaten, and if it exists, the whole world would have been turned upside down long ago" I secretly laughed at those people who took Jie Zi Dan as a prize.

"I developed that Jie Zidan"

"Is that Shanbi really you?" I was so surprised that I almost jumped out of my chair.

"There are some flaws, though"

"Shanbi, how is this possible!!"

"There are many more things in this world that you can't think of" This research that can change the course of mankind is said in the mouth of Shanbi, like an ordinary household saying.

"I'm sorry, but your words are beyond my comprehension. ”

"I can't explain it to you, there's a lot of expertise involved. I came to you this time for something I want to ask you for, and it has something to do with Jie Zidan. ”

"Okay, but how can I help you?" Shanbi came from a wealthy family and was a genius, and I couldn't figure out what difficulties he could have.

"Of course there is...," he was about to say, but the doubts in my heart about Jie Zidan beat against my heart like a huge wave. So I couldn't help but ask.

"This Jie Zidan, you said that there is a flaw, what kind of flaw, since there is a flaw, why is it regarded as a prize?"

Yamabi was silent for a long time before looking into my eyes: "My research institute overspent on the research of Jie Zidan, so it was sold to a businessman, but as for how it became a prize in a martial arts competition, I don't know. ”

"Can that really increase your power by twenty years?"

"Yes, but there is a backlash, and I still haven't figured out what the specific result is. ”

"Then how can you sell it to a merchant"

"I said there wasn't enough funding"

"Well, how do you want me to help you," I asked.

He took a newspaper out of his backpack and handed it to me. The headline on the front page was that Ling Bo and I had tied the knot.

"I hope to get Limbo's investment" he pressed his hand to Limbo's head, but his eyes looked like a careerist. The first time I saw the appearance of Shanbilu, I used to know Shanbi who was not afraid of heaven and earth, but he was a person who longed for freedom.

I said, you and Ling Bo also know each other, why don't you just go to her.

"I don't know how to speak," he said, "I only have a few faces to her, and you are husband and wife. ”

I was silent for a long time, not knowing how to explain my marriage to Limbo to him. Just as I hesitated, Yamabi saw my embarrassment.

"Do you have any difficulties?"

"No... It's not..."

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass your fiancée. Her investment will be returned to her at a hundredfold rate of return. Her family is also engaged in pharmaceutical and alchemy research, and I think she will be very willing."

"No... That's not what it means... Actually, Ling Bo and I are not the husband and wife relationship you imagined. ”

He stared at me for more than ten seconds: "If you are in trouble, I will go find someone else." ”

"No, or not. I'm going to see Limbo too, so let's talk as we go."