Finally someone who can speak normally.
Liu Qingyue felt relieved. She had walked along several streets but had not found the plump young man. Instead, she discovered that she was lost and her cell phone had no signal. She couldn't even make the basic call to the police. After wandering around, she found that this place was too big. In addition, the boots she was wearing had high heels, so her ankles were so sore that she could hardly lift them when she walked.
However, the man in front of her was wearing ancient costume and spoke in a strange way. The woman did not dare to be careless and continued to ask questions.
"Who are you waiting for? Is it important?"
Lu Liangsheng looked at the crescent-shaped door, the two old men who were gathered together talking and drinking, and the woman named Min Yuerou. He smiled, nodded, and said softly, "It's important."
Over there, Liu Qingyue walked up the stone steps, crossed the high threshold, followed the scholar's gaze, and looked inside. She saw a woman sitting on a stone bench with beautiful eyes and a smile as beautiful as peach blossoms. For a moment, she was a little dazed, feeling that she had seen the same woman as the scholar in front of her somewhere before.
Looking at the surrounding courtyards, there is also an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"Is that the person you're waiting for? Why don't you go in and see her? Do you want me to help you?"
Coming back to her senses, Liu Qingyue raised her chin towards the crescent-shaped gate and tentatively glanced at the handsome scholar in ancient costume. Lu Liangsheng smiled and shook his head, then turned and walked out of the courtyard gate. "Don't bother. You should go back early. Walk out of the city gate early tomorrow morning and go into the alley when you see it."
He speaks strangely, could it be that he really traveled to ancient times accidentally
When this thought flashed through her mind, Liu Qingyue scared herself. She looked at the beautiful woman inside the Crescent Gate again, turned around and ran out, catching up with the figure in front of her.
"You are the only person I met who can speak normally on the road. Can you please tell me where this is?"
The scholar who was walking forward did not look back. He looked at the pine branches sticking out from the quaint and warm courtyard wall and responded casually.
"Chang'an."
"Chang'an? Shouldn't it be Xining?"
His fingertips touched the blue brick wall, and Lu Liangsheng smiled and turned his head, looking at the woman in front of him for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "I'll take you back to the inn where you are staying." Without caring whether the woman was willing to follow or not, he put his sleeves up and continued to walk forward.
"Hey, wait a minute!"
Liu Qingyue hurriedly followed, looking back at the mansion she had just passed from time to time. She walked quickly and caught up with the scholar in ancient costume in a few steps. As a woman, she has always had a natural sensitivity and curiosity about love. The woman inside must have many stories with the man in front.
He took two steps forward, suppressed his previous doubts, and asked out of his curiosity.
"What does the woman in the yard have to do with you?"
"I owe her something."
Liu Qingyue raised her lips, raised her finger and pointed over there, dragging out a long "oh~~~" sound, "It's a debt of love, then I have to pay it back."
Walking through this quiet street, the noisy voices gradually became clearer. Coming from the street corner in front, Lu Liangsheng said "hmm" lightly, picked up a clay figurine on the street and handed it to the woman following behind him.
"… I have to pay back what I promised her."
Suddenly a clay figurine was stuffed into her hand. Liu Qingyue was a little overwhelmed. She wanted to refuse, but the clay figurine was a girl in a green dress, and it was very lifelike. She really liked it. She turned it around in her hand and looked at it, saying, "What's the point of just talking? Even if you want to wait, you don't have to stand at the door and wait. Are you going to let the girl come out to find you? I think you have a lot to wait for."
Lu Liangsheng stopped, turned his head to look at the woman fiddling with the clay figurines, and said, "I've been waiting for you." Then he suddenly raised his head to look at the night sky. Only he could feel a cool breeze blowing across the long street.
Over there, the woman, who had not yet recovered from the words "I've waited for it", was about to ask, "What have you waited for?" She moved her eyes away from the clay figurine and looked ahead, but there was no trace of the scholar.
"Leaving now? Didn't you say you would send me back to my guest..."
As she spoke in a panic, her eyes subconsciously glanced at the street next to her. There was an inn there, the one she had stayed in before. The waiter at the door seemed to know her. He put a rag on his shoulder, came up to her enthusiastically, invited the woman into the inn, and personally sent her to the door of the room.
Liu Qingyue pushed the door open in a daze. Her sister had fallen asleep on the wooden couch. When she heard the noise, she sat up dazedly and rubbed her eyes, "Sister... where have you been? I've been waiting for you for a long time. I called you but there was no signal... Hey, is the clay figurine in your hand a gift for me? Sister is so kind!"
The little girl jumped off the bed, snatched the clay figurine from the woman's hand, sat down at the table, and fiddled with it curiously. Over there, Liu Qingyue, listening to her sister's words, seemed to wake up from a dream. Thinking of the scholar she had met before, the doubts that had been suppressed in her heart surged up again. When she sat on the edge of the bed, she saw the phone in her hand and suddenly remembered something. She opened the album and her fingertips quickly slid across the pictures until she stopped at the murals taken in the caves. She enlarged the photo and saw the scholar on the mural. Her pupils suddenly shrank and her hands trembled.
Is this the man I just met on the street
'Come out of the painting?'
At this moment, the little girl lying on the round table let out a soft "eh" and turned her little face towards him.
"Sister... this clay figurine looks just like you."
The woman sitting on the bed didn't say anything. She just stared blankly at the mural and the scholar in the painting on her phone, and could vaguely hear the man's gentle words.
"I'm waiting for someone..."
“…I’ve been waiting for this.”
The corners of the eyes of the pretty face gradually became moist, a tear slid down the cheek, gathered at the chin, and fell onto the phone, wetting the screen.
"Sister, why are you crying?" The little girl came over holding a clay figurine.
Hearing her sister's voice, the woman woke up suddenly, hurriedly wiped the tears from her face, looked at the wet marks on the back of her hand, and murmured something between her red lips.
"Why am I crying..."
…
The noisy night continued outside the window. In a restaurant with flags flying, Lu Liangsheng went straight to the second floor. A middle-aged man in an official robe was sitting at the table, pouring wine and drinking it himself. Feeling the energy coming up, he moved his eyes to the stairs and saw a familiar figure appear. A smile appeared on his face. He put down the cup, stood up and bowed.
"Chang'an City God Ji Xin, paying homage to Imperial Master Lu."
Lu Liangsheng stepped forward and held up his hands. He looked at the familiar face with indescribable complex emotions in his eyes. He stretched out his hands and invited the other party to sit down.
"City God Ji, please."
"Please, Imperial Master."
The two men politely accepted each other and sat down at the same time. A waiter came over to pour wine. Ji Xin knew that all this was done by the magical power of Master Lu, so he raised his glass and toasted him without any concerns about the presence of others.
"See you again, Imperial Master, after a thousand years. I'll toast you first!"
"City God Ji, if you keep drinking like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to drink any more."
Lu Liangsheng clinked his cup with his, lifted his sleeve and drank the whole cup in one gulp. The City God Ji Xin could also hear the meaning behind his words. He suppressed his excitement and leaned forward curiously.
"Master, is there anything else?"
"Naturally, it might be lively later."
The empty wine glass was slowly filled with wine. Lu Liangsheng smiled and said to him, then looked out the second-floor window. In the distant night, a group of people were coming here from the distant northwest desert, stepping into Xining City, looking for the magical energy here.