Chapter 48 Heart-to-heart talk
The last ray of light in the sky fell below the horizon, and people on the long street walked back and forth in silence.
Lu Fei listened carefully to Jian An Ning's words and did not refuse.
Jian An Ning touched his chin and said, "The wine I originally planned to drink with you will not be enough. Let's split up and buy some other wine."
Lu Fei naturally would not refuse her, but Jian An Ning walked very fast, as if she had already made up her mind, and as if she deliberately wanted to get rid of Lu Fei.
This added another straw to Lu Fei's already overwhelmed heart. He couldn't help but wonder what Jian An Ning was hiding from him.
But in his heart he still preferred to believe Jane An Ning.
He told himself that he was just an apprentice, and Jane An Ning had no obligation to tell him everything. Besides, maybe she loved someone else in her heart.
When he thought of this, Lu Fei felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, as if there was a pent-up anger there, unable to go up or down, making him extremely uncomfortable.
"Are you okay?" Su Mei asked tentatively.
She originally wanted to catch up with Jian An Ning, but Jian An Ning walked too fast and she couldn't keep up at all, so she could only follow Lu Fei as a second best option.
Su Mei always had an inexplicable feeling in her heart that Jian An Ning also had a special feeling for Lu Fei, but this special feeling was not fully revealed, just like there was an unknown undercurrent hidden beneath the calm sea surface.
Lu Fei did not answer. He had already used up all his energy just to maintain his composure and not show any abnormality. He really had no mood to care about Su Mei's feelings.
Then he left without looking back. For some reason, Su Mei didn't dare to go forward.
The biological instinct made Su Mei aware of a danger hidden in the dark, just like the vague past events in her memory. She was completely powerless and could only watch things slide into the abyss.
Su Mei pursed her lips and thought to herself, she is no longer the young girl she used to be, but she can still do something.
So she took a step forward and wanted to catch up with Lu Fei.
However, she failed.
It’s not because Lu Fei is very fast, but it seems to be the effect of some kind of spell.
Su Mei widened her eyes and suddenly realized the effect of the spell - isolating Lu Fei from others.
Who cast this spell on Lu Fei? Can he himself detect it?
Su Mei seemed to smell a conspiracy, but what could she do?
She did know a spell to find people, but it required someone who had a close connection with the missing person to act as a medium. Jian An Ning and Lu Fei were both missing, so who else in this world could have a deep connection with them?
Su Mei thought for a while and decided to go look for Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan.
On the other side, Lu Fei was wandering aimlessly.
He was so distracted that he didn't realize he was heading towards a rather secluded place.
There was always a voice in his ears repeating what he feared and was unwilling to accept.
Jane An Ning loves someone else, she just feels sorry for him and treats him as her apprentice.
Lu Fei didn't want to believe it. After all, he had never seen Jian An Ning express her love for anyone.
He was in a state of confusion until the aroma of wine stopped him in his tracks.
"Would you like to see it? I have all the finest wines here."
The stall owner was dressed like an ordinary citizen and enthusiastically introduced the wine on the stall to Lu Fei.
"But if you want to say the best, this is it."
The stall owner took out a palm-sized white porcelain bottle and said admiringly, "It's like a fine nectar."
Lu Fei's mind moved, and he asked, "I need to hold a memorial ceremony with someone, and this little bit is not enough. How about other drinks?"
The stall owner said with a smile: "Those are just ordinary drinks. I have as many as you want."
Lu Fei actually didn’t know how much to buy, so he just bought as much as possible, put it in the storage bag, and then turned around and left.
"Please stay, sir," the stall owner called him to stop, holding the white porcelain bottle and continuing to recommend: "Would you really not consider this wine?"
"This wine is called the Water of Forgetfulness. Its most special effect is that it can restore the memories of those who have lost them."
Lu Fei paused, turned around and asked him, "Does alcohol have such an effect?"
The stall owner smiled slightly and said, "It's just that I got a little bit of the Water of the River of Oblivion by chance, which is why it has this effect."
"But Wangchuan is a place where people forget their past. Why did you give such a name to your wine that can help people restore their memories?" Lu Fei was really puzzled.
"That's because its original effect was [forgetfulness]. It was just by chance that it became able to restore memories of this life."
Lu Fei was still a little hesitant, but the effect of restoring his memory was too tempting for him.
He still bought it and put it in his arms.
Then he walked out of the city.
The people in the city also carried the bodies to an open space outside the city. The limbs were pressing on the heads, and the scene was very horrifying.
Until all the corpses were transported out of the city, people gathered around the corpses that were as high as a hill. The elder of the Ye family, who was in charge, lit a big fire on the corpses. The blazing flames illuminated the silent faces of the people.
Lu Fei also stood there silently, but he was still confused in his heart.
"Why were the bodies gathered together and burned?"
Jian Anning appeared beside him at some point and explained, "People in Mingzhou City have a saying that a great disaster will be followed by a great epidemic. No one knows when it originated, but they firmly believe it."
"And burning these bodies is the legendary way to avert the plague."
"Also, demons have always liked to use human bones to refine magical tools. So there's also a saying that this was a method that Mingzhou City came up with in ancient times to prevent demon invasions, and it's been passed down to this day."
Lu Fei suddenly turned his head to look at her.
I saw that there was an emerald green gourd in Jian An Ning's hand. The surface of the gourd was shining and colorful. Just by looking at it, I could feel that it was extraordinary.
Lu Fei looked at the emerald green gourd. It looked to be only the size of a palm, only slightly larger than the small bottle of water from the Forgotten River in his arms.
"Isn't it a bit too little?" he asked bluntly.
Jian An Ning was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "These are enough for the ritual of comforting the soul."
"But not here." Jian An Ning changed the subject, pulled Lu Fei and walked up the mountain.
He saw traces of light flowing through the mountains. Following those traces and gazing into the distance, he could see that the traces extended all the way until they completely surrounded Mingzhou City and the corpses outside Mingzhou City.
"This is a formation to soothe the souls," Jian An Ning explained softly, "Using this formation to cleanse the souls of the dead, those souls polluted by evil spirits can break free from the contamination and find their way to the land of reincarnation."
Then, she took Lu Fei and stood at the center of the formation.
Jian An Ning raised her hand to cast a spell, and countless hand seals changed. In an instant, those traces lit up all the way from the center of the formation.
"It would be great if you could sing the soul song." Jian An Ning sat cross-legged and said while looking at Mingzhou City in the distance.
"Don't you want wine?" Lu Fei also sat down and asked in a low voice.
Jian An Ning shook her head and said, "It's not time yet. The resentment of those who died unjustly is deep and needs to be dissipated."
The night was quiet and the breeze was gentle. Jian Anning looked at Lu Fei with gentle eyes and said, "So what do you want to tell me?"
"I..." Lu Fei pursed his lips. The words were on the tip of his tongue but he couldn't open them at all.
He wanted to say that he liked her, but Jane An Ning already had someone she liked, so how could he bring himself to say that?
Thinking of this, Lu Fei even felt a little resentful towards Su Mei for telling him the news. If only he knew nothing, at least at this moment, he could express his feelings without hesitation.
Jian Anning scratched his head in annoyance, took out a bone flute from his storage bag, and asked, "Can you play the Soul Song?"
Lu Fei was a little confused, but still shook his head. He had never come into contact with these things, so how could he play the soul-sending song?
But Jane Anning still wanted him to try.
Lu Fei had no choice but to take it and played a few syllables tentatively.
Soon he felt an inexplicable familiarity, and the scattered syllables soon became a peaceful movement. The melodious music sent the soul that was still trying to stay in the world into the distance.
Jian An Ning silently gazed in the direction of Mingzhou City. After a while, she poured the wine in the green gourd along the traces of the formation. In an instant, the light became brighter and almost illuminated the entire Mingzhou City.
However, until the sound of the soul-sending song faded away and the soul-soothing formation completed its mission, most people in Mingzhou City did not notice anything unusual.
After the song ended, Lu Fei had more doubts in his heart, and Jian An Ning just looked at him quietly, like a candle in the dark night.
"I don't know what you're thinking, what you're struggling with, or what you're hesitating about," she whispered, getting straight to the heart of Lu Fei's most troubling question. "I only know that you are indeed you. You've just forgotten something."
Lu Fei felt his heart beating violently, as if it was about to jump out of his chest.
Perhaps what he said in response to Su Mei was reality.
All the thoughts that were entangled in Yu Lufei's heart finally burst out like a volcano, but turned into only one sentence.
He raised his eyes to look at Jian An Ning and said, "I like you."
Jian Anning smiled softly and said, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Lu Fei was stunned, and his heart seemed to be filled with something light and soft. He was a little bit unbelievable and a little self-doubting.
And the next moment, soft lips suddenly touched his lips.
Lu Fei felt as if small fireworks were rising in her heart, and after the lips parted, she whispered, "I like you, too."
This is the luckiest thing in the world, Lu Fei thought at the time.
But when did Jane Anning fall in love with him? It must have been in the past that he had forgotten, right?
As Lu Fei thought about this, he thought of the [Water of Forgetfulness] in his arms, which could help him remember his memories of this life.
In Mingzhou City, although most people were unaware of Jane Anning's actions, a very small number of people noticed something unusual.
In a small alley in the city, Murong Jing stared at the direction of the light with resentment, and said grimly to the man dressed as an ordinary vendor beside him: "Haha, it's purified. This job is completely in vain."
"That's not the case," the vendor said with a smile as he straightened up the wine stall in front of him. "I've already given him the Water of the River of Oblivion."
"Who, having lost their memory, would resist the temptation to remember?"
If Fan Qingyue and Jiang Tan were there, they would definitely find out that the peddler who sold wine to Lu Fei was the same storyteller who had told them to steal the hibiscus leaves from the Ye family.
But it just happened that they did not gather again after that, so no one noticed the evil cultivator's plot hidden in the dark.
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