Volume 2: Memories of Yonghui (Part 1) Chapter 10: Life is like a dream, sighing for the past
"Don't talk so much nonsense. Where is the medicine?" When Yao Ji was feeling inexplicably emotional about this extraordinary love, the eldest son of the Huan family's rather depressing words interrupted her trance.
At this time, the eldest son of the Huan family had a look of impatience on his face. He glared at Wei Shucheng fiercely with his small eyes narrowed into slits, and the flesh on his face was shaking, which made him look quite funny.
Wei Shucheng was surprisingly stubborn at this time, as if he didn't care about the threat in the other party's tone at all. He pursed his lips tightly and said nothing. At the same time, he looked at Yao Ji with a pleading look, as if he was patiently waiting for Yao Ji to answer the question he was concerned about first.
Yao Ji now looked at this man with a different eye. As for such a loyal and righteous person, Yao Ji could not say anything bad to him, but when it came to the question that the other party was hoping to ask, she was speechless and didn't know how to answer.
Because she was just talking nonsense, she had no idea about the whereabouts of Miss Ruo.
But when she mustered up the courage to tell him the truth, she found that facing those hopeful eyes , she could no longer say anything cruel.
However, if I have to deceive him against my will, I am afraid that giving him unnecessary hope will make it even more difficult for him to extricate himself.
Seeing her timidly stretching out her hand, before her fingertips touched the plain-clothed young man Wei Shucheng, her pupils suddenly dilated and she retracted her hand.
This happened several times, and she struggled like this in her heart for a long time. Seeing that the impatient young master of the Huan family could not help but start to sigh, he knew that the girl was kind-hearted and was probably soft-hearted again. He opened his mouth to stop her from causing trouble, but his mouth was covered by someone.
The eldest daughter of the Shen family raised her eyebrows at this time, and stared at Huanshu with her terrifyingly large and bright eyes, trying to stop him from interfering in other people's business.
In fact, Yao Ji was not the only one who was moved by Wei Shucheng's true love.
Although Miss Shen looks like this, she is like Yao Ji in heart, a soft-hearted daughter. How can she resist such deep affection?
That's why she had been silently wiping away tears just now, feeling sad for this person. Just like Yao Ji, she had long forgotten her original intention.
If she herself did not have the ability to perform the mysterious arts, she would have volunteered to tell Wei Shucheng's fortune and fulfill his wish.
However, this ability ultimately belonged to Yao Ji, and if Yao Ji didn't want to, she couldn't force her. Seeing that Yao Ji had softened her heart and had already had good intentions, she was even more delighted, so how could she let this troublesome joy be ruined.
Yao Ji glanced at the eldest daughter of the Shen family, who didn't say anything but whose eyes also flashed with anticipation, and finally made up her mind.
She just raised her white hand lightly, and her fingertips created a thin light curtain as clear as lake water to protect Wei Shucheng.
The bamboo stick in his arms was thrown out again, drawing a half circle in the air, and the previous "Life Art" was repeated in this way. However, this time, the flowing words and images floated into the thin light curtain where Wei Shucheng was standing.
At this moment, an accident happened! In the pile of ruins, a silver-shining object seemed to sense something, and jumped up from the deep ruins, rushing directly into the light curtain with the force of thunder, and then, swaying, fell into Wei Shucheng's right palm, which had been opened at some point.
Yao Ji was shocked and was about to take back the bamboo stick and stop the "Life Art", but she found that the silver object seemed to have life, and it was shining with the thin light curtain. The strange scenes that she had never seen when she used the "Life Art" to explore for the first time now appeared one by one in the light curtain like a revolving lantern.
The image that emerged was more like the memory of Miss Ruo than the memory of all living things.
What was slowly printed on the light curtain was Miss Ruo's slight surprise when she deliberately bumped into Wei Shucheng somewhere, and then she turned her face away secretly with a hint of shyness of a little girl.
The picture was changing, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into Miss Ruo's carefully painting in her boudoir. Who else could the vivid person in the painting be but Wei Shucheng? Wei Shucheng in the painting frowned intently, thinking about something. He probably didn't expect that his appearance at this moment had become a scenery in Miss Ruo's heart.
Then the picture continued to flip, and in the blink of an eye, Miss Ruo's expression became so panicked. She paced back and forth in the room, frowning, sighing, biting her lips, and then finally made up her mind. She reluctantly took down the scroll hanging in her boudoir, put it in her clothes, and then set her boudoir on fire and jumped away...
When Yao Ji subconsciously held her breath, thinking that she could get some more useful information this time, the scene suddenly stopped. Just like the first time, after Miss Ruo jumped away, everything was stopped by an invisible force.
Then, Yao Ji discovered that the silver object lying quietly in the hands of Wei Shucheng, the young man in plain clothes, was actually a small fish scale.
Yao Ji opened her mouth slightly and actually exclaimed!
She had heard a legend about the Ruoye tribe that if young men and women of the Ruoye tribe fell in love, they would give each other their fish scales as a token of their love.
I didn't expect that Miss Ruo, who was just playing around, was such a sentimental person. She actually left behind this piece of fish scale at the moment of life and death, and even placed so much grief on this fish scale.
This is probably the last gift Miss Ruo left for Wei Shucheng.
Yao Ji was thankful for her decision just now. If she had not generously poured her own spiritual power into Wei Shucheng through the light curtain, giving him a trace of spiritual energy in an instant, the fish scales that retained the spiritual consciousness of Miss Ruo would probably not be able to sense Wei Shucheng's weak breath of an ordinary human.
This thing may remain buried forever in the ruins, leaving the two lovers with regrets for the rest of their lives.
Yao Ji looked at Wei Shucheng holding the fish scale blankly, with a look of wanting to cry but no tears. She turned her face away with relief and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. She thought to herself, perhaps, this was the best ending.
Although the two may be separated by the world, they are still engraved in each other's hearts. The love between us will never end...
When everyone was silent, Wei Shucheng, the young man in plain clothes holding the fish scales, forced his first smile. Although his smile was filled with helplessness and loneliness, he staggered to Yao Ji, his eyes full of emotion.
He slowly pulled out a piece of paper with small characters written on it from deep in his clothes and handed it to Yao Ji carefully: "This is the prescription you just asked about."
Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, he murmured in bewilderment, "The fish finally grew two legs today. The previous recipes were not perfect. Although the fish grew legs, they died soon due to various reasons. Miss Ruo knew it very well, so she kept urging me to work hard to improve the recipe, but I didn't expect that she didn't wait until today." He looked at the ruins with a disappointed look, and as if speaking to the missing beauty, "I originally brought it here today to burn it here to comfort her soul in heaven, but now it seems there is no need."
After saying that, he smiled sadly, opened his hands and looked at the glittering silver fish scales, holding them carefully in his palms as if they were rare treasures, and bowed seriously to Yao Ji: "The recipe is given to you. You can burn it or keep it for research. It's up to you. Consider it a thank you gift for finding this for me. Anyway, that thing is of no use to me now."
Yao Ji bit her lower lip tightly and said nothing. She just silently reached out her hand and took the prescription. She wanted to turn it into mist to prevent future troubles, but she couldn't bear to do such a thing in front of Wei Shucheng. She pondered for a moment and carefully put it in her arms.
When she raised her head, she seemed to have thought of something but didn't know how to start. After nodding for a long time, she finally gritted her teeth and spoke shamelessly: "I hope you can keep this secret for your whole life. Don't spread this recipe out... otherwise, this world..." Yao Ji knew that the other party was a smart man, so she didn't say it out loud.
Wei Shucheng stared at the young woman in front of him who was concerned about the world, and he felt a little more admiration in his heart.
He shook his head, his expression softened. "I don't remember the recipe anymore. When the medicine trial was successful, I burned the remaining medicine and the fish together with all the recipes in my mind. I wanted to burn the recipe in front of the ruins to fulfill her wish, and then leave this sad place. I didn't expect that I would have such an encounter and solve so many past events. Although I don't know where she is, knowing that she is still alive is enough to comfort me."
"So what are your plans now?" Yao Ji seemed to believe what this person said. Since he said he didn't remember, she was willing to believe that he really had forgotten.
"Plans? I'm a loner with no ties to anything. I thought I could settle down, get married and have children after meeting Miss Ruo, but I didn't expect it was all just a dream. Now, the world is my home, I travel everywhere, it doesn't matter where I go. Maybe to the end of the world? Maybe to the corner of the sea? Haha, maybe I'll go to the coast of the South China Sea..."
"Have a safe journey." Yao Ji thought for a while, and finally turned the thousands of words in her heart into a few simple words.
But the gentleman in plain clothes waved his hand, leaving his lonely back in the afterglow of the setting sun...
Perhaps, one day, the young man in plain clothes and the woman from the Ruoye tribe will meet again somewhere in this virtual world. Yao Ji has such a hope in her heart.
The little girl here was still secretly feeling sad for others, while the two heartless guys over there were already thinking about another situation in their minds.
The eldest daughter of the Shen family is different from Yao Ji. Although she is also a sentimental person, her temperament changes very quickly. Since this matter has ended successfully, she will not bother to think about other things. Now she has other ideas.
As mentioned before, these two people in Wucheng actually don't have any big hobbies in their lives. They just like to join in the fun. What if there is no fun? Stupid! Then make fun yourself!
Seeing the girl's lost look, the two men took it for granted that she was having sexual thoughts.
The matchmaking work of these people is one of the most fun and exciting things in the world, and just thinking about it makes this wonderful duo feel excited from the bottom of their hearts.
