Chapter 156 I am the only one still in this courtyard
Baixi City.
Located in the south of Weiguo, it is a remote town.
Fortunately, it is located in a remote area, so the people of Baixi City are less affected by this battle between humans and demons.
And just in the north of the city, there is a private school.
The private school teacher did not care about the student’s status. If someone wanted to send their child to study, they only needed one pound of rice and flour per month.
This private school has been open for fifteen years.
But today is the last class in this private school.
After saying goodbye to his students, the scholar slowly walked home.
Back home.
The scholar cleaned the courtyard by himself, sorted out some clothes and put them into a storage bag.
Finally, the scholar took out the long sword that had been kept in the cabinet, put on a bamboo hat and walked out of the room.
But just as the scholar closed the door and turned around, a woman in a black skirt stood at the door, looking at him with a smile.
"Hey, senior brother, long time no see." Shang Jiuli smiled with his eyes curved, just like he did more than ten years ago.
"Yeah, it's been a while." Luo Yang nodded and said calmly, "How are you? Want to sit in the yard for a while?"
"Is there tea?" Shang Jiuli asked.
"I have wine." Luo Yang patted the wine gourd on his waist.
"Forget it, forget it. I won't drink what you, senior brother, have drunk." Shang Jiuli looked a little disgusted.
"Oh, it's okay if you don't drink it. I've been brewing this wine for a long time, and I can't bear to give it away." Luo Yang didn't seem to want to give it to her, he was just being polite.
Shang Jiuli wasn't angry either. After all, his senior brother was just like that. He felt familiar with him. "Brother, are you going on a long journey dressed like this?"
"Yeah." Luo Yang nodded, "Let's go somewhere farther away."
"How far?"
"The demon race is the world."
“.” Shang Jiuli was speechless for a moment.
But looking at his senior brother's eyes, Shang Jiuli knew that his senior brother was serious.
Shang Jiuli sighed and asked, "Brother, are you going to look for Xiaoyue's little rabbit?"
“I guess so, and not really.”
Luo Yang raised his head and looked towards the horizon.
"I want to go and take a look at the Demon-Suppressing City. I heard that there is a stone tablet in the Demon-Suppressing City. Now, in the whole world, only there is the name of my junior brother left.
I also want to see what the human race calls the Savage Land, and see how different that place is from the World of Ten Thousand Laws."
Shang Jiuli lowered his head with a smile, his long eyelashes trembling, as if reminiscing: "Very good."
"Let's go." Luo Yang pressed down his hat and walked forward, stopping when he was shoulder to shoulder with Shang Jiuli. "Sometimes when you want to cry, just cry. It's tiring to keep forcing a smile."
After he finished speaking, Luo Yang took a step forward and walked into the distance.
Only Shang Jiuli was standing there, as if he had never left or walked out.
When Shang Jiuli clenched her hands and her eyes were covered with mist, she took a deep breath and sighed softly with some resentment:
"Really? I just want some quiet time."
Wiping away the tears that had overflowed from the corners of his eyes, Shang Jiuli turned around and looked at the woman in the white dress in front of him with a smile: "Miss Bai, long time no see."
"It's been a long time since we last met." Bai Ruxue looked at Shang Jiuli calmly.
"Miss Bai is here to see me?"
Shang Jiuli looked at the Lord of the Four Seas. Compared to her previous innocence and somewhat immature character, she seemed to have really grown up now.
"Yes, I want to ask Senior Sister for a favor."
Shang Jiuli was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Ruxue would ask him for help.
"Okay." Shang Jiuli nodded, "But what does Miss Bai need my help with?"
"A painting. I would like to ask Senior Sister to help me draw a very long painting."
In the following year, Bai Ruxue took Shang Jiuli to one place after another.
These places include Sheshan, which was once part of the Qi State, Shiqiao Village (which has long since changed its name), Qingshan City, the imperial capital of the Qi State, and so on.
Bai Ruxue and Shang Jiuli walked through all the places Xiao Mo had been to before.
Every time she arrived at a place, Bai Rushue would ask Shang Jiuli to paint it on the same scroll.
Bai Ruxue didn't say why she did this.
But Shang Jiuli also vaguely guessed that -
The passing geese leave traces, and the passing wind leaves sounds.
What’s more, a person has lived in this world for several decades?
Ruxue wants to incorporate the places Xiao Mo has visited into a painting. It is very likely that she wants to collect Xiao Mo's soul bit by bit through these memory imprints one by one.
But will this succeed?
Shang Jiuli didn't know either.
In ancient times, there was indeed such a saying, but it only existed in legends.
A year later, Bai Ruxue and Shang Jiuli finally arrived at a courtyard on Yumo Peak of Bailu Academy.
Shang Jiuli picked up the brush and painted the courtyard where Xiao Mo once lived into the scroll. Then the painting was completed.
"I hope this painting doesn't disappoint you, Ruxue."
Shang Jiuli turned around and handed a scroll to Bai Rushue.
The scroll is a magical instrument. When it is unfolded, it becomes a five-mile-long scroll.
It records Xiao Mo's two lives and two worlds.
After a year of non-stop painting, Shang Jiuli had exhausted a lot of his energy and his face was pale.
Bai Ruxue took the scroll and carefully placed it in the Qiankun bag on her sleeve: "Thank you for your hard work over the past year, Senior Sister. I owe you a favor."
Shang Jiuli lowered his head, a trace of loneliness flashing in his eyes: "Ruxue, you don't owe me anything, but this world owes Xiao Mo too much."
"But Ruxue." Shang Jiuli raised his head and looked directly into the girl's eyes. "Everything you have done may be in vain."
Shang Jiuli bit his thin lips lightly, wanting to say something but stopping himself, but finally decided to speak out: "Ruxue, he's gone. You shouldn't be hanging around in circles. It's time to get out."
"If the so-called moving on means that I have to give up looking for him, then I don't want to move on in this life."
Bai Ruxue looked straight into Shang Jiuli's eyes.
"Comparatively, Senior Sister, perhaps I am not the one who should step forward."
Bai Ruxue bowed, turned and left, leaving Shang Jiuli alone standing in front of the courtyard.
Looking at the empty courtyard.
In Yu Shang Jiuli's mind, the scene of the three of them drinking and celebrating in the courtyard before their junior brother went down the mountain emerged.
It seems like everything happened just yesterday.
But now, after the junior brother's soul was scattered, the senior brother went to the world of the demon clan, and Ruxue spent her whole life looking for his remaining soul.
But he was still standing there, motionless.
Walking into the yard and sitting on the stone bench, Shang Jiuli raised his head and looked at the sky.
After a long while, Shang Jiuli couldn't help but smile:
“I also talked about others.
It's me who should be leaving.
just me.
Still in this courtyard.
Stuck in that time.”
(End of this chapter)
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