Tuesday night.
After the end of the ink study.
Zheng Qing did not return home immediately.
Nearly nine hours have passed since Miss Linda Barnes’ lunch. According to the witch, rumors against him are spreading throughout Phuket Island and even within the entire alliance, just like the seeds of grass in spring, they can appear at any time.
Maybe it can't wait to break out of the ground after a thunder.
Therefore, he had no more time to hesitate and needed to settle the interview with Colma as soon as possible.
After Christmas last year, when Zheng Qing took Su Shijun and Bo Saidong to visit his husband, he also took Kolma to Sanyou Bookstore. With this relationship, he thought he could ask Kolma to do a small favor.
It shouldn't be a big problem.
After the magic text class ended in the afternoon, he went to the Sakura Tavern to see the paper crane and mentioned that he hoped to visit him in the evening. Unsurprisingly, Kolma readily agreed to this slightly rash request.
So this trip to Qiye came about.
After leaving the teaching building, he turned into the corridor around the mansion, took several shortcuts, and soon appeared in a deep alley in the north area of Beta Town.
Then he put on his hood, hung the Dharma book dangling on his belt, and walked openly towards Gudiao Street, with a faint protective spell shining unabashedly on his body.
It is already late at night. Although the security of the entire North District has improved significantly after Korma became the Great Sage, the tradition that is deeply rooted in the marrow of the magicians cannot be easily eliminated in a short time. In addition, one person is single
, so it is rare for Zheng Qing to show some strength, hoping that those guys hiding in dark corners can retreat.
Everyone is lucky.
He arrived at No. 33 Gudiao Street safely.
On the nameplate on the wall outside the courtyard, there are still the two lines of small words - 'First floor: Sakura Tavern' and 'Second floor: Gini's Magic House' - but the situation around the courtyard is completely different from when Zheng Qing first came here.
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Except for a small team of North District wizards patrolling the courtyard with Dharma books hanging on their waists, there were also people coming and going in the courtyard. Even though it was late at night, it still seemed very busy.
Under the guidance of the paper crane, Zheng Qing stepped on the cherry blossoms all over the ground and walked straight to the tavern. Everyone passing by, after feeling the magic wave emanating from the paper crane, would look respectful and bow their heads to give way.
The last time Zheng Qing came to the Cherry Blossom Tavern was years ago, when the Exoneration Hunting Team was on a hunting team promotion mission, they took a short rest in the tavern. The lively scene in the tavern that day left a very deep impression on him.
But tonight, there is not a single customer in the Sakura Tavern.
The tables and chairs were neatly stacked in the empty room, and the sap-sucking fireflies lay lazily on the beams, stacked in a pile, illuminating the bar very brightly, while the rest of the tavern seemed very dim.
In this silence, the silver-haired witch was leaning behind the high bar, holding a bottle of Kraken Rum in her hand, frowning, staring at the table, as if she saw something incomprehensible. Spicy
The wine dyed her lips a deep blue, which looked particularly coquettish under the orange light.
"Here you come? What would you like to drink?"
Korma didn't even raise her head and responded lazily.
Zheng Qing hesitated, coughed softly, and muttered: "Well, apple juice will do...I will go back later and complete the tasks of the assistant teaching team, so I can't drink."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh heavily, and suddenly felt that he needed to drink a little.
"You have to graduate early, so this kind of hard work is inevitable." After hearing the boy sigh, Kolma finally raised her head, glanced at him, smiled slightly, and said something that all fortune tellers are familiar with: "...all
The gifts given by fate have already been marked with a secret price."
Zheng Qing didn't want to discuss the price with the witch.
"What are you looking at?"
He took the glass that floated in front of him and went to the bar. He saw a piece of overlapping tarot cards spread out on the table in a mess: "...divination?"
Kolma did not answer, but stretched out his slender fingers and tapped the table. The Tarot cards lined up neatly, were cleaned in a dazzling flight, and were finally piled into a pile.
, gathered in front of Zheng Qing.
The wizard thought this would be a good opportunity to talk things over.
"I……"
But as soon as he opened his mouth and said one word, he was interrupted by the owner of the tavern.
"You came just in time, help me pick a card." The witch didn't notice anything. She stretched out her hand and the pile of cards drew an elegant arc, blooming in front of Zheng Qing like a blooming flower: "...you
I know your purpose, and if the cards you pick are in line with my wishes, I will agree to it."
What else could Zheng Qing say?
He drank up the apple juice in the glass in one gulp, placed the glass on the bar, then took a deep breath, and his eyes slid over the shiny backs of the tarot cards one by one.
"Any one will work?" Before he started, he confirmed again: "I mean, do you need me to think about something in my heart?"
"I heard that what you learned in the divination class today was the face-touching divination method?" Korma did not answer the boy's question directly, but shook the bottle in his hand and said in a brisk tone: "...if my knowledge is not returned to you
Professor Yi, one of the most important principles when touching faces for divination is 'unconsciousness', right? In fact, this is very important in many divination techniques."
These words seemed to answer Zheng Qing's question.
Zheng Qing temporarily suppressed the curiosity in his heart, closed his eyes, emptied his mind of all thoughts, then raised his arm above the row of tarot cards, and let the magic pull him to move slowly.
In his perception, his arm was moving horizontally, but in the eyes of others, his arm was slowly falling. Then at a certain moment, his arm suddenly dropped at a ninety-degree angle, landing very abruptly.
On the cards.
Zheng Qing opened his eyes.
Turn over the cards.
On the card is a tall tower standing majestically on the top of the mountain. Golden lightning fell from the sky, struck the tower, and ignited a raging fire. The golden crown, the emperor and the priests fell from the tower, with awkward postures and frightened expressions.
In order to find a common language with Elena, Zheng Qing had studied Tarot cards seriously for a period of time, so he recognized it at a glance as a 'Tower' card, which belongs to the seventeenth position of the Major Arcana and corresponds to Mars.
It symbolizes disaster. There are twenty-two sparks produced by lightning strikes on the card, which represent the twenty-two Major Arcana cards in the Tarot. The background of the entire card is gloomy and the tone is deep, giving off an ominous atmosphere from the inside out.
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"The Tower Reversed."
Korma read out the card's identity softly, with an expressionless face and deep eyes.
Only then did Zheng Qing realize that the 'Tower' card he saw after flipping it over was face-up, which meant that from the perspective of the fortune teller, the pattern on the card was facing the fortune teller upside down.
This chapter has been completed!