The Weatherlight didn't stop for long before Rei Shigure drove away. When there was room, he lay down on the back seat. The giant salamander opened its mouth to the sunshine and yawned widely. The humidity in the Charming Mist State is very high, and the moisture it previously stored was enough for it to be exposed to the sun for three consecutive days.
Qin Qianbai sat in the passenger seat, holding her cheek in silence. Rei Shigure picked a radio station at random, and after the host rambled for a while, he played an old song. The lyrics were so vague that it made people laugh.
"Well, I've been running down the road, tryin' to loosen my load.
(I have reached the end of the road and am trying to let go of my burden)
I've got seven women on my mind:
(There are seven women in my heart)
four that wanna' hold me, two that wanna' stone me,
(Four wanted to keep me with them, two wanted to throw stones at me)
and one says she's a friend of mine.
(Another one said she was my friend)”
Qin Qianbai, who has a strong association ability, was touched and laughed. Shigure Rei also laughed, humming while laughing: "take it ea~sytake it ea~sy"
"Miss Shigure, do you like rock music?"
"I don't have a favorite genre. When I travel by myself, I turn on the radio and listen to whatever I want. If I hear something that suits my taste, I add it to the playlist and skip it if it's not interesting." Rei Shigure conjured up a pair of sunglasses for himself out of nowhere. on, "You don't like me, huh?"
Qin Qianbai didn't expect her to be so direct. She considered the way to reply and said slowly: "I have no ill intentions towards you..."
"Why do you, a martial arts practitioner, have such an awkward temper?" Rei Shigure smacked his lips.
"I can't get along with you." Qin Qianbai said simply, "I'm not used to a lot of your ways. I don't like you calling me 'little girl'. I'm not used to you walking around in very little clothes. I don't like you." Those snobbish jokes, many times you still linger in the room when everyone is ready to leave, and you are always the last to arrive when there are meetings and meals. These bad living habits make me very uncomfortable."
Rei Shigure shook his head vigorously, with an undisguised boredom on his face.
"It's a coincidence that I am too. I feel numb when I see your good-natured look. Little girl, do you think of yourself as our mother? Or are you the housekeeper of this place? Do you need to formulate a code of conduct? Instructing everyone on the wall to follow the instructions on time? Please follow the etiquette and join the atmosphere to play boring animation jokes with Qin’s mother, otherwise you will be warned and expelled? "
Qin Qianbai was irritated: "I didn't!"
Rei Shigure laughed repeatedly: "Isn't it time to bring in the Imperial Palace fighting drama? Caldesia and I have watched a lot of those TV dramas. It seems that the feudal families in the past had three wives and four concubines. Since we have to respect each other in person, do I have to take the lead in greeting the eldest mistress?"
Qin Qianbai suppressed his angry feelings and said coldly: "Use the heart of a villain to judge the heart of a gentleman."
Rei Shigure put his hand on his chest and said regretfully: "Oh, it seems that my heart is bigger than yours."
The eldest lady always thought that after four years with Gongsun Ce, she had developed considerable cultivation and tolerance, but it turned out that it was impossible to maintain a peaceful mind under the barrage of heart-wrenching words. In an instant, she came up with a mountain of words to retaliate, many of which were as vicious as razor blades. She restrained her desire to fight back, turned her head to the side, and stopped talking.
"Wow……"
The traffic light turned red, and the Weatherlight stopped at the intersection, and Whoops shivered at the atmosphere in the car. Rei Shigure turned around and touched the pet's head, and said in surprise: "Wow, you're such a sharp-tongued girl and you don't fight back? Are you really stupid for practicing martial arts?"
Qin Qianbai clenched his fist and said dullly: "You are Shigure. I don't want to talk to you about family when you are in a bad mood. It will hurt your pain."
Shigurei turned to stare at her, his beautiful black eyes full of surprise and unreasonableness. The traffic lights changed, the car stopped, and several horns sounded from behind the Weatherlight.
"It's time to drive." Qin Qianbai said impatiently.
"Hey, little girl." Rei Shigure still didn't move. "You do this when you talk to everyone? You worry about other people's feelings when you quarrel. Are you some kind of self-discipline doll?"
Qin Qianbai couldn't bear it anymore. She raised her voice: "What can people understand if they just go their own way! If they only think about their own things and live in their own world, then they can be happy at any time. But I understand that feeling. No, I don’t want to be like you!”
After Qin Qianbai finished such a long conversation, he lowered his head and said nothing. Reflection and shame immediately arose in her heart. She failed to control her emotions. This was a disqualification for a warrior. The most important thing in practicing martial arts is to cultivate the mind. If the mind is unstable, no matter how many skills you have, it is meaningless. The martial artist who arrived at Luojie made such a low-level mistake. If his grandfather saw it, he would be scolded and his practice would deteriorate. Qin Ming would make fun of him if he saw it.
Qin Qianbai felt that her condition was getting worse. She looked out the window, trying to focus on martial arts but was always interfered with by distracting thoughts. The car drove quietly like this for a while, and a hand reached out from the side and rubbed her head.
"I'm sorry, I went too far." The female hunter said, "I originally wanted to have a little argument like usual, but I didn't expect you to react so violently. This time it's my fault."
Rei Shigure's palms were warm, and her words contained genuine apology. Qin Qianbai suddenly remembered that she had been quarreling with the sisters in her family a long time ago. At that time, everyone was still an ordinary child, and there was no gap brought by martial arts practice. She was made angry and unhappy. The older sisters quickly knelt down and touched her head, saying Xiaoqian, please don’t cry. Fortunately, my sister was wrong...
She said angrily: "Don't touch my head."
Shigurei rubbed it vigorously and took his hand back: "What a young lady. My younger brothers and sisters were much more understanding than you back then."
"...I thought Miss Shigure only found her family relationship after the Hollow Disaster."
"How is that possible?" Shigure Rei laughed, "I don't care about Shigure, who has nothing to do with me, but those few idiots are my family members. In the past, I thought about escaping and running away, so I had to sever ties with them, but I always felt that in my heart I still care.”
Qin Qianbai still remembers Shigure-kun's mixed feelings when he talked about the topic of family. She had the impression that Shigure Rei had tried to completely abandon his former identity for a long time, and only picked it up after everything was over. Now it seems that this is not the case. She admitted it openly and said that she was just escaping during that time.
"I'm very honest at this time. I was obviously furious when Yan Qi exposed me."
"It was back then, I don't care now." Shigurei shrugged, "Actually, I know the source of your hatred. Whether we get along or not is secondary. You hate me because I hurt Gongsun Ce. Heart."
Rei Shigure finished speaking clearly and looked straight ahead, ready to receive the sword forged by the girl next door's words. What else could she say? There are some things that cannot be forgiven even if the person involved can forgive others. This little girl takes him too seriously, and anyone who hurts him must pay the price. When Xu Junyi was beaten by her on the dragon's back, it was just to get rid of the bad breath in the fight. According to her style, she would have to pay back the scars twice as much as she wanted to give up.
If I had known earlier, I would have mentioned this while the doctor was around, Shigure Rei thought, it would have been much easier to treat.
She waited for Qin Qianbai's slap or real attack, but the girl did nothing.
"What's the point of pursuing this now? You yourself regard this past as tormenting yourself. I don't need to vent my anger on Ah Ce anymore." Qin Qianbai said, "What's more, my grandfather said that there are grievances in the world. Walking The most taboo thing outside is a deep investigation. Because there are always new hatreds between peers, and there are even old hatreds between sects. Your father's leg was cut off by my uncle, and my senior brother's old injury was left by your master. Moving forward There might have been a big battle between the two families a hundred years ago... If we continue to study this endlessly, there will be nothing but hatred in people's eyes, and they will be unable to move forward.
I thought grandpa was right, so I always thought that this kind of thing would be over if the person concerned just looked away. You broke his heart, and you blocked the disaster for him. Your grudges are over long ago. "
When she said these words, she really looked like a child of the world, happy with her grudges, but she didn't look like the little girl she was before. Shigurei blinked and touched her head again while the car was parked.
"I'm sorry for hurting your boyfriend."
"I received the apology, and our grudges have been settled." Qin Qianbai slapped her hand away, "Don't take the opportunity to touch my head."
Shigurei chuckled a few times. They stopped talking and walked straight along the smooth roads in the town. No one proposed a location or route plan. The two of them just moved forward. After Qin Qianbai said this, he gradually returned to a somewhat lost and confused state, and his previous vigorous energy seemed to come back to him.
When they approached the edge of the town, they saw a girl of high school age standing on the roadside, wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt, carrying a small suitcase. She raised her hitchhiking gesture listlessly, and saw Weatherlight stopped with a look of surprise on her face.
"Hey, female agents!" The high school girl waved, "Can I ask where you are going?"
Qin Qianbai couldn't help laughing: "Are we like agents?"
"The sister next to you looks like she is dressed up in the movie, and she is wearing sunglasses." The high school girl said expectantly, "I plan to go to Tata Star Town in the north...it's not too far, only half a day's drive, if you guys stop by, …”
"Come up here, Agent Sister is in a good mood and will give you a lift." Rei Shigure took off his sunglasses, "But our car is not big, so you can only squeeze in the back seat with your pet."
The high school girl looked at the back seat and said in surprise: "Wow, a giant salamander! It's so cute. I've wanted to get one for a long time, but my parents wouldn't let me."
"Wow~"
Wawu called out gently and moved half of her body under the seat to make some room for the new passenger. The Weatherlight set off again after a brief layover, and the new passengers were delighted to have hitched a ride. She told the two of them that her name was Putana, and she was going to Tata Star Town to participate in the movement to dispel the fog and return to the earth with her pen pal. She went to school in Blue Mist City, which was some distance away, and her parents lived in the distant Firewind. state.
"My mother wanted me to go to a missionary school, so I came here to take the high school exam behind their backs," Putana said dejectedly, her teeth covered with shiny braces.
"It sounds like you didn't do very well in the exam." Rei Shigure said, "You went to a vocational school?"
"It's even worse than that. I drew lots and got the best school in the state." Putana said bitterly, "It's a missionary school!"
Shigurei laughed loudly, but Qin Qianbai couldn't help laughing: "Your mother must be surprised."
"She laughed at me for the whole summer. Now I'm fine. I traveled a long way to this wretched place to practice boxing and chant with the nuns. In the end, I had to take twice as many cultural classes. Why is there such a weak thing as the church in the world? "
Putana's resistance made Qin Qianbai deeply curious: "You don't like the church?"
"I hate those old stuff." Putana shook her head. "Those religious professionals-priests, nuns, and big shots in red-were just picking things out of that moldy holy book. Words, trying to explain everything in the world with a story made up by a narcissistic maniac. All that nonsense can be summed up in two sentences: What the saint said is right, and what God says is correct."
"It turns out that the Saint is a narcissist." Rei Shigure said.
"Isn't he? Do you think how narcissistic a person must be to have his words recorded by his accomplices and let them tell others in the future." Putana said, "He is not only narcissistic but also violent. Most of the content in those old stories is that he went to various places to beat people. Such a person would be sent to a mental hospital if he lived in the 21st century. No one dared to live next to his house, and everyone would be worried about his buttocks. He opened the window in the middle of the night and beat himself on the right side of his face."
"It makes sense." Shigure Rei listened with interest. Qin Qianbai warned seriously: "We should respect our ancestors, and we cannot demand the ancients from thousands of years ago by current standards."
"Are you a traditionalist? I'm sorry I won't say it anymore, but you know, everyone thinks so now." Putana really stopped talking. The car lowered from the pillar at the border of the town and drove to the ground shrouded in the magic mist. Putana took out a pair of goggles from her backpack and put them on, staring at the girls in front of her for a few seconds.
"Um...you don't do any protection?"
"She is from the Empire." Rei Shigure said carelessly. "She knows Imperial Kungfu and is good at flying over walls and walls. She can go without eating for a month. She usually climbs walls instead of taking the elevator when going upstairs."
Putana laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe. Qin Qianbai sighed: "Ignore her. Can these windproof goggles block the magic fog?"
"This is to protect your eyesight. We have a simpler way to deal with the fog. I will teach you when it comes out soon."
The giant dragon landscape didn't keep them waiting for long. After just a while, the blue mist began to distort, as if it was about to condense into a new phantom. "Stop the car first," Putana said, "Clap your hands together, or do something else that will help you concentrate, and then think hard about those bad, annoying, trivial things."
Qin Qianbai tried hesitantly. In past meditations, the first thing she did was to get rid of distracting thoughts. This kind of practice of actively seeking out distracting thoughts had never been tried before. As soon as she closed her eyes, she found that the distracting thoughts in her heart were endless: worries about the journey itself, not adapting to the new family, the progress of practice, the responsibility of defeating Qin Ming, the pursuit of martial arts...
"Stop, stop, stop!" the girl couldn't help but exclaimed, "Oh my god, have any of you encountered any major setbacks?!"
Qin Qianbai opened his eyes and found that the fog around the vehicle was surging with violent force, making him feel uneasy like the sky before a storm. A high-pitched scream came from the chaotic mist.
"Woo! Woo! Woo!"
Many small shadows were approaching the car at a trot-like speed. Qin Qianbai took a closer look and found that it was a purple gelatinous creature about the size of a fist. They have two snail-like tentacles on their heads and a big mouth in the middle of their bodies. These gadgets whined, opened their mouths, and puffed out mist literally, sucking in all the uneasy mist.
This was obviously a big meal for them. After inhaling the mist, the little creatures swelled up like balloons. After rising to their mouths, they dispersed with a "Woo!" and melted into the mist. Putana quickly got out of the car, quickly picked up a small thing that was not so full, tied it with a thin string, and placed it above the air conditioner of the car.
"Okay!" she announced cheerfully, "We've caught a bug, and now there will be no more phantoms."
Qin Qianbai poked at the little thing curiously. It looked extremely serious after eating, and its two tentacles stood upright, as if pointing at people and saying, "You have to be happy."
"Is this the Haojing from the Charming Mist State?"
"Yes, they will eat the mist caused by distracting thoughts. If you carry the bugs full of distracting thoughts with you, those seductive dreams will be too annoying to come out. Isn't it interesting?"
Rei Shigure was busy taking photos of this little thing. She untied the rope, put the bug on the top of Wawu's head, and took a photo of the two fools: "It is also a liquid life form, so cute."
"Don't let go of the rope, it will run away."
"It will stay in the car obediently." Rei Shigure started the car again. Putana prepared nervously for a while, but the little thing was really sitting comfortably above Wawu's head.
"How did you do it?" Putana was surprised.
Rei Shigure said lazily: "I am a magical princess, and all the little animals obey my words."
"You must have used some trick. Perfume? Pheromones? Invisible strings?"
"Be respectful, you are talking to the princess."
"Take off your sunglasses first, princess." Qin Qianbai glanced at her.
The female high school student's interest soon turned to another aspect. She observed the two people's movements for a while and asked the question enthusiastically, with a sense of expectation that touched the taboo: "Can I ask a more personal question?" ? I was wondering, are you two..."
"Yes, just like you guessed." Shigure Zero nodded, "We are a couple."
The female high school student let out an excited scream. Qin Qianbai covered her forehead and said tiredly: "Don't listen to her stupid words. We are roommates living together."
Putana's eyes were twitching: "The age difference between the two of you as school roommates is a bit big..."
"You see she is shy." Rei Shigure smirked, "Seriously, we are love rivals. We fell in love with the same man, but a heart cannot be cut in half. In order to fight for his ownership rights, we are I plan to find a secret place and fight to the death like a cowboy in the West. With two revolvers and two bullets, whoever wins will get the man's love."
The female high school student was shocked: "Is it true?"
"What do you think, little sister?"
"The Southern Continent is much more open than I thought..."
"Don't just believe the words of strangers." Qin Qianbai sighed again. This sense of stupidity and the freshness of fearing that the world would be peaceful reminded her of her best friend wearing a top hat, "We are travel companions, our orientations are normal, and we all have our own Boyfriend. My boyfriend is a just and brave man with a spirit of self-sacrifice. He always cares about my mood and tries to make me happy."
"My boyfriend is a fragile and introverted little boy." Rei Shigure whistled, "He is sentimental and a bit masochistic. He needs to find ways to find a sense of security, but when he fights, he is like a god coming down from the earth."
Putana quickly imagined a sunny, frail scholar and a melancholic, muscular man. She said with certainty: "The relationship between the two of them must be very bad."
"You may not believe it." Rei Shigure said, "They have a pretty good relationship."
(End of chapter)
