What kind of person is the traveler Su Shi?
In such a short time together, neither Xiao Baicai nor the audience in his live broadcast room could give a deeper explanation and could only evaluate based on the existing surface information.
But even from the surface information, this is a person who makes people feel comfortable to get along with. Just spending such a short time together is enough to make them attracted by this person's personal charm.
He was humorous and witty. Sometimes he would tease in a mischievous way, and sometimes he would give gentle guidance. Xiao Baicai felt like she was getting along with a real friend she had just met. She almost forgot that this was just a game, and Su Shi was also a character in this game.
Even though he is 47 years old and his face shows many traces of time, when Xiao Baicai looks at Su Shi, she finds that his eyes are still as clear and pure as a child's. He maintains curiosity and friendliness towards unfamiliar things, and smiles from time to time, as if there are happy things everywhere in his life.
...Looking at this, one can't help but wonder, this person must have grown up in a peaceful and friendly environment, without any malice, right?
But in reality this doesn't seem to be the case.
"The world outside... Dongpo, what is it like where you live?" Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, couldn't help but ask.
Su Shi raised his head and thought for a moment, then smiled again, "It's not that good, nor that bad."
No one seemed sleepy that night. Xiao Baicai was reluctant to log off, and few viewers left the live broadcast room. When Su Shi was in the mood, he would talk to Xiao Baicai about things outside.
——There are several sentences in the middle starting with this and that.
When I think about my own demotion, I realize it's quite common for poets to be exiled. Poets like Bai Juyi, Du Shenyan, Du Fu, Liu Zongyuan, and Wang Changling, almost all of them experienced exile. Those who weren't demoted or dismissed from office were actually a minority. What does this indicate? It suggests that being exiled is a required course for poets—the last of which I summarized as "compulsory."
When Xiaobaicai asked about the names mentioned in Su Shi's speech, some people were almost confused by the huge network of relationships. However, some viewers with strong logical thinking skills sorted out these relationships and sorted them out in the barrage while listening to help others understand.
People always like gossip. Su Shi has a wide circle of friends and it is impossible for him to have a bad eloquence. Even many ordinary things become very interesting when he talks about them.
As Su Shi slowly told the story, a world full of thousands of years of romance slowly unfolded before them.
Finally, when it was very late at night, Su Shi smacked his lips and stopped talking. He said to Xiao Baicai, "What I can tell you is only one ten-thousandth of what they have said. If you have the chance to meet these people in the future, you will understand why they are the way they are."
The live broadcast room slowly dispersed.
That night, Xiao Baicai, who was in a period of transition, did not log off, but lay on the bed in the thatched hut. In this paradise, he fell asleep with the starry sky outside the window and the stories of the world described by Su Shi as his pillow. In his dream, it seemed as if he had really arrived in that world. However, when he woke up, he remembered nothing, leaving only a feeling of happiness and melancholy.
The next day, Su Shi accepted Xiao Baicai's invitation and went to the sea with him. They picked up a lot of crabs, oysters, octopuses and various snails on the beach. Naturally, the two of them studied cooking for a good meal and stopped only when they were satisfied.
Then the two of them slumped in their chairs for a long time, looked at each other and suddenly laughed. Su Shi laughed and said, "How wonderful!"
The cabbage that was in the transition period felt that it seemed that it had never been so happy.
It's been a long time since I met a friend like this.
They had just finished fishing and eating seafood, and Xiao Baicai couldn't help but start planning when they would go picking mushrooms together, go fishing together, and even farm together, and then study recipes together.
Xiao Baicai even secretly thought that if Dongpo was willing to stay, he would upgrade Dongpo's thatched cottage first, not just his own. He thought that the highest level of residential architecture was a "Siheyuan," which looked very beautiful and elegant, and was perfect for Dongpo.
but……
What Xiao Baicai didn't expect was that after one o'clock in the afternoon, Su Shi came to say goodbye to him.
"Is it so fast?" Xiaobaicai's sweet dream was shattered in an instant.
[No!!! I haven’t seen enough of Dongpo yet!]
[How could it be so fast? It’s only been a day! ]
[Why? Why did I just meet such an interesting person and he said he was leaving [crying][crying]]
Please, stay one more day!
Regardless of the fact that Su Shi couldn't see their comments, everyone in the live broadcast room posted messages of persuasion such as "Don't go".
"I've made an appointment with a friend to visit Chibi tonight, and I must be there on time." Su Shi couldn't see the comments. He just looked at Xiao Baicai and the audience in the live broadcast room behind him with his extremely young eyes, and said with a smile, "We'll see each other again if we're destined to."
"If I ever come to Peach Blossom Spring again, I'll tell you about my visit to Red Cliff. How about that?"
"Well... okay then..." Xiao Baicai could only agree.
According to the game rules of Peach Blossom Spring, travelers come and go entirely by themselves, and this is something that players cannot change.
[He burst into tears]
[I feel like I've been heartbroken, or forced to break up QAQ]
I also have this feeling of loss, but it's not the feeling of being heartbroken, right? I haven't been this sad since I was heartbroken.
【this……】
[Do you remember this is a game?! This is all CH's conspiracy. If you show your true feelings, you will lose. Don't be fooled!]
But what game are you playing without sincerity?
The person who lost by speaking his true feelings has nothing to say.
I watched Su Shi's back as he walked across the path in the fields, slowly heading towards the stream and the small bridge. He was almost at the cave where the travelers came and went.
"Mr. Dongpo!" Xiao Baicai, who was in a difficult situation, suddenly had an idea. He cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted, "In a few days, I will get the second gift pack to unlock pigs, cows, sheep, geese and ducks. Come back then!"
Su Shi waved his hand as a sign of agreement, and his figure slowly disappeared into the cave.
The young cabbage stood there for a while, then ran to the cave entrance and looked inside. He could vaguely see a little light coming through from the other side of the cave, and a human figure that was getting smaller and smaller as it walked farther and farther away in the light.
He reached out tentatively and took a few steps into the cave, only to find that as he walked a little closer to the cave entrance, he was unable to move forward, blocked by a wall of air.
...Damn it, that's too much!
This was the first time that Xiao Baicai wanted to secretly curse CH. Why did he make the NPCs in "Peach Blossom Spring" so good and so realistic that he couldn't even treat them as NPCs!
Xiao Baicai returned to the village and planned to clean it up, but accidentally found a story fragment on the page belonging to Su Shi in the traveler's atlas that lit up at some point. The story fragment was a portrait of a young Su Shi.
Xiao Baicai reflexively clicked on this story fragment.
The next second, the environment he was in changed.
[Wow, it's the same as when you unlocked the companion backstory in "Shan Hai Lu"! And they still say it's not a card game!]
[Shh, keep your voice down, don't let CH hear you, or I'll change it during the public beta.]
【Hahaha it’s okay we all saw it】
[Okay, okay, let’s take a look at the background story! ]
【……】
This first fragment contains the first twenty-one years of Su Shi's life.
Taking the important turning points in Su Shi's life as the dividing line, Xu Piao divided his story into five parts so that players can unlock it step by step. Only the ending was not added by Xu Piao. Players will not know their endings from the story fragments of the travelers themselves, but will learn about them from the mouths of other travelers.
The first piece was about the time when Su Shi took the imperial examination.
He spent his childhood studying under his mother's tutelage, playing with his younger brother Su Zhe, learning at a Taoist temple, marrying, and traveling to Beijing to take the imperial examinations...
Xiaobaicai and the livestream audience saw Su Shi, full of youthful vigor, in these fragments of story. He pondered at his desk for a moment, then picked up his pen and scribbled a brilliant essay. They saw him wearing flowers on his clothes and riding a horse. They also saw him traveling with friends, writing poems and exchanging them, discussing articles with his younger brother, and sharing delicious food he had found with him.
If I had to use any word to describe all this, it would only be romantic.
And Su Shi seems to be a microcosm of this romance, romance itself.
When the story fragment ended and Xiao Baicai was ejected, he was still a little dazed.
He ended the live broadcast in silence, without looking at the discussion among the audience in the live broadcast room, and exited the holographic game cabin.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally sent a private message to CH.
[Qinghuang Bujie Xiaobai: CH, how were these stories and characters created? You mentioned in a previous interview that "Shan Hai Lu" had a prototype. So... what about "Peach Blossom Spring"?]
Ch was probably using his computer, and not long after he sent the message, he received a reply from Ch.
[CH: Same. They all come from a nation called Huaxia. Anything else?]
[The Cabbage in the Green Gap: What about Su Shi and Su Dongpo? ]
Xu Piao, who was replying to Xiao Baicai's message, saw the familiar name and realized that he had probably met the traveler before and was lucky enough to meet Su Shi.
He even came to ask her about Su Shi, which showed that he cared about her.
This is exactly what Xu Piao wanted.
She curled her lips and replied to Xiao Baicai, "Of course he really existed. I can tell you that the stories of every traveler in Peach Blossom Spring are adapted from real history."
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