"I'm going to the bathroom."
Showing a meaningful smile at Duan Qing, Xueling Huanbing stood up and left the place. The air surrounding the corner of Valia's Tavern seemed to become quiet as the swaying steps left, leaving only the wine behind. The only two people left on the table, a man and a woman, looked at each other - different from the previous fierce and carefree situation, the red-haired girl was also sitting there rubbing her hands coquettishly, and she didn't want to The face that raised his head seemed to be getting redder and redder due to the surrounding atmosphere and the smell of alcohol. Duan Qing looked at him and said, "I...I...that..."
"Why, you don't dare to say anything when the situation comes to a close?" Unable to hold back his laughter, Duan Qing shook his head: "Even Ling Bing left the table to create such a good opportunity for you."
"I, I know!" He raised his head with both fists. Qian Zhihe's head suddenly raised and then lowered again as Duan Qing looked at him: "I just... just... cough!"
She patted her cheeks hard, making her already drunken little face turn even redder. Her deep breathing was accompanied by the girl closing her eyes, in a space that seemed to be cut off from the sounds around the tavern. Zhong Chuan Dang: "I, I have something to say to you."
"From the first time I saw you in front of the Fars Fortress, I felt that you were a very special person."
The red-haired girl put her hands between her legs, and after being silent for a long time, she said her next words: "At that time, our team also had my brother and a few unfamiliar acquaintances. Although Everyone takes good care of me, but I can clearly feel that they have always treated me as a child and a junior, thinking that I am just a sheltered and innocent little girl."
"Then I met you, and you became a member of our team. The situation began to change, and the atmosphere in the team became obviously different." The girl's voice became significantly softer and her tone changed significantly when she said this. He became softer and softer: "I began to enjoy adventures with you, and enjoyed the time spent playing battlefields or doing missions together. Sunny Day, who had always been polite to me, later became obviously much bolder, and both interactions and contacts began to become— —Haha, everyone suddenly started to regard me as a mature girl, and I was still a little excited at that time!"
"A girl who is full of energy has full charm and will be popular no matter where she goes." Duan Qing responded to the other party's words with a smile: "It's fortunate that our Xiao Qian can grow up, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult for her for the rest of her life." Being treated like a child.”
"Don't interrupt! I, I finally got up the courage to start talking!" Qian Zhihe, who clenched his fists, puffed up his cheeks, and then became melancholy again as her eyes dimmed: "Later, Fa Dramatic changes have taken place in Ers, the war with the empire has broken out, the situation we are facing suddenly begins to become difficult, and the future between us... also begins to become complicated."
"Those battles and what happened after that are still deeply engraved in my heart." The girl took a deep breath again, and then slowly said her next sentence: "Sometimes I often think , if I had gathered more courage to keep you, would everything have been different?"
"Maybe it will change, but after all, I am not a peaceful person." Duan Qing, holding the wine glass, kept his smile: "Let me live peacefully with a simple, innocent and sunny girl. , after all, it is incompatible with the rest of my life.”
"I knew you would say that, and you must have thought so at the time." Qianzhihe's raised eyes seemed to have some kind of light flashing: "So I never regretted the things I did after that. After I learned about your identity and past, and saw your 'choices', I decided to follow your path until today."
"Since I can't change you, then I will change myself! The once innocent girl has long since disappeared. Now sitting in front of you is a woman who has killed countless enemies on the battlefield and 'polluted' herself with countless blood. , the woman who became the Red Lotus Witch." The red-haired girl looked straight at Duan Qing's face: "I worked hard to learn magic, honed my skills on the battlefield again and again, and found those who had bullied me. Revenge, taking the initiative to take up the responsibility and important task of opening up the Mage Council branch - At that time, I still thought, if you are Brother Qingshan, if you are alive in heaven, and see me working so hard, you will definitely touch my head and praise me more. .”
"It seems that my choice that day did affect many people." Duan Qing sighed involuntarily: "I'm sorry for deceiving you."
"No, no, no! I don't know how happy I am to see you here." Wiping the corners of his eyes, Qianzhihe then puffed up his cheeks: "Of course, you who became Linyuan Duanshui actually You don't recognize me after meeting me... Humph, are you re-enacting the drama between you and Sister Yushang? Do you think I'm stupid?"
"Ha, it's as if you recognized me at that time."
"That, that, that... that's because I was very busy at the time! Maintaining the Imperial Mage Council branch also requires a lot of tasks! More than a dozen magicians come to me every day to ask for this or that. Either they are short of manpower or they are short of things. ...Ahem."
Realizing that he was being led by the other party again without realizing it, Qianzhihe, who had regained consciousness, cleared his throat again and became serious: "In the end, I found you again, and my motivation that kept driving me forward, later on, I found you again. It also has a new meaning, you...you..."
"Me what?"
"You, you must have done it on purpose!"
Faced with Duan Qing's pretending to be stupid, Qian Zhihe was so angry that he couldn't help but say, "You know exactly what I want to say! You...you bully others!"
"Who dares to bully you, a popular member of the Mage Council, the famous Red Lotus Witch?" Duan Qingfu couldn't help but chuckle, and then calmed down his expression: "Okay, I know what you are thinking, I have always known it. ,but--"
"Don't say it yet!"
He hurriedly raised his hand to block Duan Qing's unfinished words. Qian Zhihe, who stretched his arms forward, buried his head between his slender arms: "I, I know what you want to say, but you listen to me first. Finished."
"……All right."
"You know, since you disappeared, I have been spending my days and nights thinking and regretting. I have always regretted my slowness and weakness, and regretted that I could not help you."
Entering the state of telling again, Qian Zhihe, who put away his movements, looked at Duan Qing's face carefully, with a pitiful feeling in his eyes: "I work hard to become stronger, and I also hope that I can be strong at some point in the future. As your qualified helper, I will never let the tragedy of the past happen again, and I will never let myself regret it again."
"I thought that after so much experience, I had become a 'qualified candidate' in my mind. My determination was stronger than ever, and my confidence was stronger than ever." She pointed her finger. He stretched out slightly and pointed in the direction of the door of the tavern where he had driven Yudi out half-heartedly: "But now it seems that I'm still not good enough - don't get me wrong, I'm referring to my own problem, because what happened to me on the street just now I felt frightened by that scene, and I actually...actually had thoughts of 'jealousy' because of Yudi's words and the impulse in my heart."
"My heart, which has always been firm, actually wavered for a moment."
The girl put down her hand, and her long red hair seemed to be shaking with her loneliness, giving off a feeling of loneliness. Duan Qing didn't know what to say and after a while, he could only shrug and tried to say some words of comfort: "Well, that was just a misunderstanding. You don't have to blame yourself so much."
"No, I am also a woman, but I am very sensitive!" The girl raised her head and looked at Duan Qing, and the sudden burst of momentum scared the other person back: "Of course I also know that you like Sister Lingbing! Even such an excellent sister Yu Shang is no match for her! But such difficulties have never shaken my heart before! But today it suddenly shook! What is this... what is..."
"You, don't cry."
Qianzhihe, who lowered his head, almost curled up together, and the sobbing look made Duan Qing panic: "What's so sad about this? Isn't 'changing one's mind' a normal phenomenon in the world of love? This, this... ahem, if you keep crying, people around you will misunderstand me."
"I don't care!" Qian Zhihe raised his head because of the other party's words, and opened his red eyes wide: "Anyway, there are impurities in my heart that love you! I have become no longer pure! I am like this Do I still have the right to stay by your side? Do I still have the right to continue to ask for your trust? "
"Hey, hey, it's not as serious as you said." Duan Qing's hand stopped in front of Qian Zhihe, as if he didn't know what to do with the girl in front of him: "Don't say it's jealousy, even if it's you If you are resentful towards me, I’m afraid I won’t be able to express any complaints. You—”
He didn't say the second half of his words, just because the red-haired girl had already rushed into Duan Qing's arms with the oncoming heat. The moment of hot contact also flew by suddenly in the hustle and bustle of the tavern. The next moment With the separated lips and the girl staring closely into Duan Qing's eyes, they melted into the surrounding air: "As expected."
"If what happened today arouses your suspicion and makes the rift between us bigger and bigger, I will be miserable." She wrapped her arms around the other person's neck, and her drunken exhalation sounded at a very close distance. It sounded clear and slow in Duan Qing's ears: "So I swear here: I, Chen Qianhe, am willing to be a follower of Brother Qingshan for the rest of my life. Even if you have doubts about me, I will never change."
"Uh, that, that..."
"The Red Lotus Witch has always been like this. If you don't believe me, go out and ask around. When did I wander around?"
The surrounding arms loosened slightly, and Qianzhihe's extremely serious look suddenly relaxed at the next moment, and put on a bright smile: "If you are stained with the witch's flame, you will never be able to get rid of it in this life. La! Just wait to be melted together by me, dear Brother Qingshan?"
"Ahem!"
An obvious coughing sound then appeared next to the two of them, and Duan Qing's words that were yet to be answered were suddenly choked in the air. The figure belonging to Xue Ling Huan Bing also appeared in front of the wine table at some unknown time. The two of them, who were almost entwined together, were suddenly frightened to both sides: "You two look very happy, are you planning to drink a few more drinks?"
"No, no, no, no." Picking up the staff he put on the side of the seat, Qian Zhihe, who was still active at first, jumped off the seat like a frightened deer: "I, I have finished what I said. , I - I suddenly remembered that there is something urgent to deal with! So, that - "
It was too late to finish these perfunctory words. The red-haired girl fled the scene of the "crime" with flying steps. At this time, only Duan Qing and Duan Qing were left beside the round wine table filled with wine glasses and coins. Xue Ling Huan Bing, the latter crossed his arms and was condescendingly looking at the face of the gray-robed magician who was sweating coldly: "...Let me tell you first, 'I am not On purpose, I was forced to do nothing, huh?"
"Have you predicted all this in advance?" I don't know whether it was because of the pressure in front of me or the plummeting temperature around him. Duan Qing, who felt that death was imminent, felt that his hands and feet were a little numb: "I just, I was just confused for a moment by that girl... no, that woman's words, so I was brought in!"
"You are questioning my 'perception'." Slowly walking in front of the other party, Xue Ling Huan Bing stretched out his fingers and raised Duan Qing's wooden face: "You think I have nothing?" Do you hear me? If I don’t show up, you might have to go home with her in your arms."
"Illusion - no, conspiracy! It's all a conspiracy!" Duan Qing forced out his dry laughter: "How could I, a tall and dignified six-foot man, fall into such a superficial conspiracy? My feelings for you are beyond compare. Jian, sun and moon——"
"Okay, okay, I know."
Blocking the other party's lips with her fingers, Xue Ling Huan Bing's iceberg-like indifferent face suddenly melted away at this moment: "There is no need to say those useless oaths. Anyway, you are a scheming guy who is very good at rhetoric. Is not it?"
"Well, we have been together for so long, and I can only get such a comment in the end. It's really sad." Facing the face of the white-haired woman who sat down, Duan Qing pressed his forehead and made a smile. He looked helpful: "When did I ever talk sweetly to Qianzhi He? Didn't you hear the conversation just now? I didn't even dare to say a few words."
"Okay, okay, I got it, I got it." Following Qian Zhihe's appearance just now, Xue Ling Huan Bing also hooked Duan Qing's shoulder with his arm and pulled him to his side: "Let's just do it. It's just that you didn't do anything wrong just now. Well... well, you shouldn't blame that girl just now. After all, who of the other people around you didn't follow you willingly until now? "
"I'm the first one."
The white-haired female swordsman winked at the man nearby, and then declared quite proudly.
