Although the room is small, it is kept extremely clean. There are many various small decorations posted on the wall on the side of the single bed near the door.
There are cloth strips, stickers, and picture frames... This wall that was originally made of red bricks has been decorated with a bit more warmth.
And surrounded by those decorations, there are many photos posted.
Those photos include singles and couples.
One or two simple sentences are written on each photo to record the owner's mood.
Shen Qian was a little distracted. Although he could see everything clearly even ten meters away with his eyesight, he still couldn't help but cross the threshold and approach the red brick wall.
It seems that this way, we can see it more clearly.
The photo at the top is a bit blurry, and looks like a surveillance screenshot from the angle and the timeline in the lower right corner.
In the picture, a young man wearing a blue and white school uniform is standing in front of the counter, seemingly talking to someone.
The reason why Shen Qian was absent-minded was that the person in the photo was...him.
The date is March 19, and the location is the lobby of Kyushu Budokan Nancheng Branch.
If I remember correctly, that day was the first time Shen Qian went to Kyushu Martial Arts Hall. This scene shows him asking the front desk how to apply for a card.
On the photo, two beautiful handwritings were written in black oil-based pen: "Meet."
Shen Qian's eyes moved down and he saw the second photo.
This should be a photo taken secretly through the crack of the open door.
In the picture, Shen Qian is shown from behind, lifting irons on a high-speed treadmill.
"You can't tell that he is a novice martial artist at all. He is so young and so powerful."
Here are a few words written on the side of the photo.
The third photo is not of Shen Qian, but of a white cheongsam hanging in a locker.
"Mr. Zhu asked me if I wanted to give it a try, and I agreed without much hesitation. Oh my God, I'm so ashamed..."
The fourth photo shows Shen Qian again.
Shen Qian, who had just finished masturbating, lay on the massage bed, revealing the side of his sleeping face.
"The lines are very beautiful."
The fifth and sixth pictures... are all of Shen Qian from various angles in the training room, but there is basically no frontal view. Most of them were taken when Shen Qian was resting with his eyes closed.
There are no words left in these photos, but the shooting angle seems to be getting closer and closer.
It wasn’t until the eleventh photo that something finally changed.
Shen Qian still fell into a deep sleep after the massage, but this time two people appeared in the photo.
One is Shen Qian, who is facing down with his eyes closed, and the other is a girl wearing a black cheongsam with her head sticking out from above.
The girl smiled and took a photo of the two of them together for the first time.
"Hello, my name is... Jiang Xuan."
The slightly scrawled writing next to it seems to indicate the girl's nervous mood.
The photos after that were no longer monotonous, but became "co-photographs" of various girls and Shen Qian.
The short texts on those photos continue to tell the girl's thoughts.
"He hasn't been here recently."
……
"He's not in a good mood today, but I don't know how to comfort him."
……
"I still dare not take the initiative to send him a message."
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"I bought new clothes and... fishnet stockings."
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"He is about to take the college entrance examination. I don't know where he will go."
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"He shared photos of Mingcheng with me!"
……
"He... really soared into the sky."
……
Shen Qian's eyes slowly moved down, passing through one photo after another, and landed on the last photo.
This photo was taken in the past few days. To be precise, it was on the day when the city lord held a banquet for the whole city. Shen Qian could not resist the enthusiasm of the reporters and had to walk out of the restaurant and say a few words outside.
The girl was probably standing in a corner of the crowd, facing Shen Qian and taking this photo.
There are only four words on the photo.
"Fool Jiang Xuan."
The photo wall also ends here.
Shen Qian remained silent.
After a long time, Shen Qian breathed out a breath, "Xiaoxuan...is Jiang Chengye's sister?"
Shen Qian remembered that before the college entrance examination, he had seen Old Man Hu appearing near the Kyushu Martial Arts Hall, and combined with today's events, he naturally had a guess.
But I didn’t expect such a coincidence.
……
On the telegraph pole high in the slum village, Shen Qian and Old Man Hu stood side by side.
In the small courtyard below, a girl wearing short sleeves and jeans is watering the potted plants in the corner.
Shen's naked face was something she had never seen before.
Jiang Xuan came back suddenly, and Shen Qian had no choice but to take Old Man Hu and hide in a high place.
"To be honest, I'm also surprised that you and her are actually involved."
Old Man Hu looked at the busy girl below and sighed: "The year Jiang Chengye had an accident, Jiang Xuan was only ten years old. After Jiang Chengye left, she became helpless. She has suffered a lot in these years. Bitterness."
"In the past six months, she suddenly became a lot more cheerful. I was secretly wondering, but I didn't expect that she had anything to do with you."
"So?" Shen Qian asked, having calmed down from the initial shock.
Old Man Hu choked, and then said quietly: "...You have a heart of stone."
Shen Qian did not answer, but silently stared at the girl below.
Her life is very simple, so simple that there is a sense of loneliness.
Watering the flowers, washing clothes, and then going to the neighbor's house to teach two dark-haired children how to read. Occasionally, I sit in the small bedroom and stare blankly, but I don't know what I'm thinking.
Shen Qian's bracelet vibrated, waking him up from his trance.
When Shen Qian checked the message on the bracelet, Old Man Hu, who had also been stunned for a long time, finally spoke again with a complicated tone.
"Shen Qian, actually I know that not many people care about the truth buried in that past incident."
"Everyone is always looking at those who died in vain..."
"I'm just upset. I don't want to believe that I watched Chengye grow up with my own eyes, and I don't want to believe that those sixteen children would do anything to rebel against the human race."
"It is justice for those who die unjustly, but if they were wrongly accused, how can it not be justice?"
"I didn't have much hope when I came to see you, old man, today. I just wanted to give it a try, but I still wasn't willing to give in..."
Old Man Hu laughed at himself.
Shen Qian suddenly stood up and at the same time touched something and threw it to Old Man Hu.
Old Man Hu subconsciously reached out and took it, but it was a bank card. He looked at Shen Qian in confusion, "You kid, what is this..."
"There is some money in the card, not too much, maybe a few hundred thousand, and the password is on the back."
Shen Qian glanced at the dilapidated alley below and said, "Take this money and do something for them. At least let the children go to school normally and have enough to eat."
"I'm not a saint, but I still have compassion. I don't know if those people were wronged, but... these people are at least innocent."
After Shen Qian finished speaking, he turned around and left.
"Where are you going?" Old Man Hu asked after being startled.
Shen Qian stopped, turned around and grinned, "Lao Wei finally received the letter. I just bought a plane ticket and went home to pack my things."
"Air ticket?"
"Well, air tickets."
Shen Qian's eyes drifted and then softened, "Tomorrow... I'll go to Beidu."
After Shen Qian finished speaking, he jumped off the telephone pole, walked a few steps in the alley, stopped, and turned around and said, "Uncle Hu, I think you made a mistake."
"What?" Old Man Hu looked confused.
"I am willing to listen to your story because I respect you and we are friends."
Shen Qian shrugged, "But after all, what is Jiang Chengye and those people, or what was the truth back then, and what does it have to do with me?"
Old Man Hu was speechless for a moment.
"Even the prince can't figure it out. You probably overestimate me."
Shen Qian continued, "As for Xiaoxuan, she and I are one thing, but she and that irresponsible brother are another thing."
"Irresponsible?" Old Man Hu seemed a little dissatisfied with Shen Qian's words.
"If he really misses Xiaoxuan, he should think clearly about the consequences of every decision he makes."
Shen Qian sneered, "At least from your story, I didn't see that he still remembered that he had a young sister who needed to be taken care of in Jingcheng."
Old Man Hu was speechless again, and then sighed, "It seems that you are determined not to join the military anymore."
"You got another question wrong." Shen Qian shook his head again.
"What?"
Although Old Man Hu was angry at being led by Shen Qian today, he still couldn't help but be curious.
"Whether I go to the military or not has nothing to do with your story."
After Shen Qian finished speaking, he waved his hands and strode away without further explanation.
Old Man Hu shouted a few words and finally gave up, standing alone on the telephone pole.
After a long time, a whisper echoed in the air.
"Am I wrong..."
"But ten years of waiting, how satisfying, how satisfying!"
Old Man Hu stood in mid-air, lost in confusion.
……
High in the sky, the huge aperture is gliding smoothly.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the aperture turned out to be a huge psychic shield, and in the center of the shield, a large passenger plane with a civil aviation number marked on the fuselage was landing towards a prosperous city-state not far away.
Being gently woken up by the pretty stewardess wearing a black silk skirt, Shen Qian also realized that it was finally almost here.
He stood up and came to the unique floor-to-ceiling glass of the first class cabin, looking down.
After a blur, the passenger plane seemed to have penetrated some kind of protection, and everything in front of me became clear.
Between the drifting clouds and mist, a majestic city-state stretching for an unknown amount of time and with thousands of tall buildings appeared on the plain.
The capital of China, the largest existing city in the world.
Beidu.
The most shocking thing is the word "武" vaguely pieced together by countless buildings.
This is also the purpose why the flight attendant specifically asked if wake-up service was needed.
Such a magnificent scene can only be seen when you are high in the sky.
And except for the licensed warriors, people in the mountains and seas cannot control the sky in the northern capital at will.
Shen Qian felt a little excited after a long time.
Not only because there is a girl he misses between those buildings, but also because...
This is the first time I have left the province before I died.
And the first stop was the capital of China.
Three minutes later, the plane landed steadily at the Capital Second Airport.
Shen Qian got off the plane and walked quickly outside the airport.
Soon, Shen Qian saw Wei Sijian among the people picking him up at the airport.
It's really because the other party is extremely conspicuous.
...This guy pulled up a banner that read "Warmly welcome Master Shen Qian of alchemy to Beijing".
Next to him, he shouted out from nowhere to a bunch of young-looking students, who were still placing fireworks and applauding.
"Fuck!"
Feeling overwhelmed with shame, Shen Qian hid his face and walked away. Wei Sijian was stunned for a moment, but then he chased after him with several students.
It wasn't until he found a deserted corner that Shen Qian finally stopped.
"Brother Shen, you...why are you running?" Wei Sijian, who was out of breath, complained with his knees.
"I..."
Shen Qian originally wanted to criticize him, but when he thought that Wei Sijian's logic was different from that of ordinary people, he gave up the idea and simply refused to explain.
Wei Sijian didn't take it seriously. He pointed at the group of students who caught up and said to Shen Qian: "These are all students from the School of Pharmacy... They are called Brother Shen. Bah, no, they are called Uncle Shen!"
"Uncle Shen!" The seven or eight students were extremely well-behaved. Although they were surprised by Shen Qian's age, they still shouted in unison respectfully.
A few of the students vaguely felt that Shen Qian looked familiar, but they couldn't remember where they had seen him before.
"What uncle? What uncle?" Shen Qian had a dark look on his face.
"Unfortunately, uncle is an honorific in Beijing. After all, you are the elder." Wei Sijian said matter-of-factly.
Shen Qian was unable to complain, so he rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "Has Ding Yi been released?"
"Not yet, probably tomorrow."
"Then you called me here in such a hurry?" Shen Qian had the urge to hit someone, "I thought it was today."
"Brother Shen, I asked you to come early because I have something big to tell you!"
Wei Sijian suddenly thought of something and said excitedly.
"What's the big deal?" Shen Qian asked suspiciously as the group walked towards the parking lot.
"You will know after you go to Beiwu."
Wei Sijian rarely showed off his composure, but a proud expression showed on his face that he had everything under control.
"Last time, my senior brother and I sincerely invited you to join our pharmacy school in Beiwu, but you refused. But am I, Wei Sijian, the kind of person who gives up easily?"
"I came up with a brilliant idea that night. After some careful persuasion, the teacher finally agreed. I have been working on it during this time."
"Just wait for your surprise, Brother Shen!"
"Hey, from now on you will be a member of our School of Pharmacy, let's work together to do something big!"
The more Wei Sijian talked, the more excited he became, and the smile on his face gradually became abnormal.
Shen Qian shuddered when he heard this, and unconsciously moved away from Wei Sijian. Although he was a little curious about what big thing Wei Sijian was planning, he sneered at Wei Sijian's confidence.
Let’s not talk about which school to choose.
Even if he settles on Beiwu, among the nine colleges, the one he is least likely to enter is the Pharmacy College.
For things like refining medicine, working part-time is okay when you are short of money. Refining medicine full-time is equivalent to a waste of life and is meaningless to Shen Qian.
The two smiled tacitly and neither mentioned the topic again.
Wei Sijian drove Shen Qian himself to the vicinity of Beiwu and helped Shen Qian get a room in a five-star hotel.
After putting away his luggage and having a simple meal at the hotel's specialty restaurant, Shen Qian wiped his mouth and said to Wei Sijian who was reading a book beside him: "Sijian, do you want to go shopping?"
"I would never do such a waste of life." Wei Sijian immediately shook his head.
"Okay, I'll ask the hotel to send me a guide and I'll go by myself." Shen Qian waved his hand and stood up.
"Brother Shen, if you are missing something, I will find someone to buy it for you. Why would you waste your precious time yourself?" Wei Sijian frowned and tried to stop Shen Qian.
Shen Qian decisively rejected Wei Sijian with a meaningful smile.
"Actually, I don't like shopping either...but some things are meaningful only if you buy them yourself."