The oil lamp was weak, Lin Haoqing gently rubbed the yellowed pages with the fingers of his left hand, and looked carefully with a thin paper-like object in his right hand. Tight, looking very focused. Suddenly, there was a soft knock on the door.
At first, Lin Haoqing didn't hear it. After a long while, he put down the things in his hand, stuck it in the pages of the book, closed the book, put it close to him, and then walked to the door. Before opening the door, he asked, "What's wrong?"
At this hour, it would never be his demon servant Siyu who came to knock on his door. He opened the door, and A Ji was standing at the door.
Half a month has passed, and A Ji has grown extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he has already taken on the appearance of a young girl. He is no different from Ji Yunhe before, but his expression lacks the coldness and determination that Ji Yunhe hides.
Lin Haoqing looked at her, she was standing in the moonlit night, her hair was loose, and she was holding her pillow in her hand. Because she was a little uneasy, the fluffy black fox ears on her head trembled slightly.
A Ji Yunhe who had nothing in the past. What I thought in my heart showed on my face. It was as if she used to be able to perform extremely well when she saw her act in a play.
But thinking about it, she should have grown into such a carefree appearance if she hadn't experienced the past boss of Demon Controlling Valley.
"Master..." She hugged the pillow and said anxiously, "I'm dreaming again."
"Come in first." Lin Haoqing opened the door, and Aji walked in. She put the pillow on Lin Haoqing's bed, then sat on it, shook off the quilt he folded, and wrapped it in her own. Then he said: "Master, it's still that dream, I saw me lying in the lake again, surrounded by water, but it's cold..."
Lin Haoqing sat down at the table, poured a cup of herbal tea, and handed it to A Ji: "It's just a dream."
Aji took the tea, shook his head and said, "No, it's weird... I also have other dreams when I fall asleep, but... But it's not like this... "
"How is it?"
"I... I also dreamed of a man with a fish tail. His tail was big and bright, but it was beautiful!" A Ji said, her eyes were glowing, and her expression made Lin Haoqing lose his mind and think of Yu Yu. In the Demon Valley dungeon, the first face of the merman...
Truly a stunning merman tail...
After being excited, Aji lowered his head again, staring at the water in the teacup in his hand, a little lost, "but... he doesn't seem to be happy. He was floating in the lake in front of me, looking at me, and then a bead came out of him. The eyes fell down and landed on my face..." A Ji raised his hand and touched his cheek, as if there was still a cold touch on the surface of her skin.
Lin Haoqing turned his eyes slightly and looked at the silver pearl between A Ji's neck.
"Like this!" A Ji also suddenly took off the pearl he was carrying, "Master, when you said you found me, this thing was on me, what is this? The one in my dream..."
Lin Haoqing walked in front of A Ji, gently took the pearl from A Ji's hand, pulled the quilt around her and pulled it back, exposing her neck, and put the pearl chain around her neck again.
"Aji," he said, "this thing is called a pearl. In this vast world, there are thousands of rivers, lakes and seas, there are many pearls in it, this is just the most common one. Your dream is only the most common among thousands of illusions. only one of them."
A Ji was silent for a moment, and Lin Haoqing's answer made her a little disappointed: "Really? Is that just that?"
Lin Haoqing nodded: "That's all."
A Ji looked at his undisguised eyes, and the two fox ears drooped down, "But..." She clenched the teacup in her hand, "Why did I..."
With a "click", a drop of water fell into the teacup.
Lin Haoqing was stunned for a moment, and A Ji was also stunned. A Ji looked up at Lin Haoqing, only to see an unfallen teardrop hanging from the corner of her eye, so striking in the dim light of the room.
A Ji wiped away the tears, "I... I don't know why I'm so sad... "
Lin Haoqing was silent for a moment, thought for a long time, and finally said, "Do you want to eat?"
A Ji blinked her eyes, her pupils that had just cried were as bright as if they had been washed, she stared at Lin Haoqing blankly: "Ah?"
Lin Haoqing turned around, rummaged in the room, and handed A Ji a fruit. As expected, A Ji stopped crying, and concentrated on eating the fruit in her hand. Seeing how she was eating, the corner of Lin Haoqing's mouth curved slightly, and then he sat down in front of her again, "I... had a dream before."
"Master, do you feel so sad when you dream?"
"Sad, but it's more complicated than sadness..." Lin Haoqing was silent for a moment, his voice was deep and slow, "I dreamed of a person I hated before..."
A Ji is not a good audience, she couldn't wait to ask: "How much hate?"
Lin Haoqing looked at her and smiled, "Probably the person in the world that I most want to kill and then hurry up..." His answer frightened Aji, Aji blinked at him, but did not dare to speak, Lin Haoqing Then he continued, "But the person I dreamed of, did everything that I hated for a reason. No matter what people in this world do, they probably have one or two other reasons. .There is no gratuitous good, no gratuitous evil…”
"Master... I don't understand very well."
Hearing such an answer, Lin Haoqing was stunned for a while. Changed to the previous Ji Yunhe, he would never say such a thing, but...
Lin Haoqing raised his hand, touched her head, and looked at A Ji's eyes, Lin Haoqing suddenly felt that he didn't know whether it was God who cast a curtain on her or gave her more suffering. The most authentic of her. But he couldn't go back, and he didn't want to go back.
"Anyway, in the dream, Master, no matter how much resentment and resentment he had towards that person in the past, he no longer resents or resents that person. I even have to work with that person to accomplish something. Aji, in the dream Everything will pass, and when you wake up, you should let the dream pass. Time is moving forward, spring flowers and autumn moon, year after year, you should not always look back. "
"But how do I control my dreams? How can I not look back?"
"It's okay to have a dream in a dream, but don't forget it when you wake up."
Arjim was silent for a moment, then tightly clenched the fruit in his hand. She subconsciously felt that what her master said was right, and she should do what she said. But... But why, when she thought of forgetting the man with the fish tail, she felt so sad that her heart tightened.
Seeing that Aji fell into silence again, Lin Haoqing withdrew his hand and asked her seriously, "You have spent so much time indulging in a dream, so you have learned all the techniques I taught you?"
A Ji was stunned for a moment, and was really distracted, scratched his head and said:
"Master, you teach me other techniques, it's all simple, forming seals, drawing formations, no problem! But... that... that face-changing technique..." A Ji glanced at Lin Haoqing a little embarrassedly, "I will Yes, but I change my face, I'm always uncomfortable, when my emotions move, if I don't pay attention, it changes back again, I can't keep the other look all the time..."
Lin Haoqing is really serious now: "If you can learn other techniques, it's good, but the technique of transformation, you must know it." He said sternly, "Aji, this is so that you can follow it in the future. The only way to live by your own will. Your real face, no one can see except me and Siyu. Have you forgotten the rules I made you memorize?"
His sternness made A Ji shrink a little: "A Ji remembers... not to go to the north, not to the capital, not to show people's true face, not to use the power of dual veins..."
Seeing her like this, Lin Haoqing's mood eased slightly: "You are a nine-tailed fox, and you are born with nine faces. The art of transformation should be your housekeeping skill. If you practice hard, you will definitely be able to control it well."
A Ji nodded: "But Master... Why do I have the power of a demon master even though I am a monster? Siyu sister is a sword demon, she does not have the power of dual pulses, Master, you are a monster master, but you also No magic power…”
A Ji asked himself, Lin Haoqing did not know how to answer, Ji Yunhe was refined by Lin Canglan into a demon, possessing the power of dual veins, and also possessing demon power, and possessing demon power, he would definitely condense the inner elixir. And the monster will not die as long as the inner alchemy is not broken.
Perhaps even Ji Yunhe didn't know that during the years she was refined as a demon queen, she naturally had two lives, one for her body as a demon master, and the other for her inner core as a demon.
So he took out her inner alchemy in the frozen lake, without much effort at all, after raising it for a few days, he let her congeal it again in the heaven and earth.
Only this time, she no longer carries the power of the demon with the body of a human, but carries the power of the dual veins with the body of the monster. It's just that her memory was completely left in that frozen body.
But Lin Haoqing couldn't explain these words to the current Aji, because once he said the beginning, he would be faced with a lot of "whys". In the past, Lin Haoqing was not lazy and explained, he just thought that since the new student , it will be a complete new life, and those complicated pasts will be thrown away.
Therefore, after a long silence, Lin Haoqing said softly, "Aji, don't look back."