Drunken Exquisiteness

Here is part 2. Enjoy! ?

This way of reducing the temperature is very simple but effective. Just when she removed his sleeve, something slides down to his wrist. Using the light from the candle, Qing Chen saw that it is a black coloured beads bracelet. She immediately recognised that those are very pure black obsidian, the black l.u.s.tre was deep, each of the beads reflected rainbow like glow in the quiet and deep night.

The candle light was waning, the tourmaline bracelet on Qing Chen"s wrist suddenly flashed a seven coloured glow. Unconsciously, she thought of the Nine Exquisite Turns formation, also the mysterious sorcerer"s race"s forbidden spell. Since the Nine Exquisite Turns formation is formed using different crystal stones, then if she found the 9 required crystal stones, does that mean she can return to her previous world?

This thought made her very excited. While her mind was wondering, the man slightly moved. Qing Chen was worried that if turning his body might hurt his injury, so she quickly pushed down his hand. Out of her expectation, he suddenly grabbed her hand tightly. Qing Chen was stunned, then the tried to remove her hand, only to feel his hold was very tight, as though he was bearing extreme pain. Her heart soften, so she stopped moving.

She continued to change the cloth on his forehead, at the same time, her mind was busy thinking about the events that happened. Just like that, she continued for the whole night till right before dawn, Qing Chen finally fell asleep next to the bed. When she woke up, dawn has arrived with the soft light spreading towards four directions. The thin quilt that was originally placed on Eleven"s shoulders is now on hers, her hand was covered by the man"s long fingers, giving a feeling of being protected. She gently removed her hand, then put his hand under the blanket. It looked like his fever has cooled down and he was sleeping deeply.

Qing Chen felt like a heavy weight has been lifted, softly said: "That"s great."

"What"s great?" Eleven"s voice suddenly rang behind her.

Surprised, Qing Chen turned around, glared at him and said: "Why were you so quiet? You scared me!"

Eleven did not argue, but smiled and softly said: "We have troubled you last night."

Qing Chen knew that he has been tired, and he actually did not sleep well last night either so she did not mind, but lightly said: "Um, just remember that you owe me one."

Eleven folded his arms in front of his chest, laughingly asked: "Then, how do I return the favour? Just say it."

"I have not thought of one, I will let you know when I thought of one, just owe me for now." Qing Chen said.

"Sure, just count as me owing you." Eleven frankly said, "Such a rare opportunity shouldn"t be wasted, I don"t just agree with anyone"s request."

Qing Chen squinted her eyes, not believing him. Eleven laughed and said: "I will go out to take a look, at the same, will bring back something good to eat."

"Sure!" Qing Chen, who is also quite curious about the area, said: "I will go with you."

Eleven shook his head, made a gesture of asking for a favour, pointed at the person on the bed.

Qing Chen turned her head to look, raised her brows, rolled her clear eyes, said: "Two requests."

"You"re taking advantage of the situation." Eleven softly said with a light laugh, but did not reject, "As long as Fourth Brother is safe, just 2 requests do not count as anything."

Qing Chen was actually joking, but seeing him accepting her condition, she pursed her lips, laughed and said: "Ha! go, I will be here."

Eleven laughed heartily, turned around and left.

Qing Chen watched him leave through the window, the bamboo house was built leaning on the mountain, half hidden by the bamboo forest. The summer wind was slightly cool, the sky outside was blue like blue tourmaline, golden sunlight gently covering the wide sky.

She stood in front of the window and extended her hand, as though trying to catch that gentle glow that flowed in through the window. That glow felt slightly piercing her eyes.

Even the sunlight felt like a stranger. 

She sighed, lazily sat next to the table, uncaringly picked the zither. The long zither string trembles at her finger, releasing an almost undetected sound. This zither is different from the one she had seen before, but those bizarre memories flowed in like water into her heart, two memories intersecting, fusing together becoming a new self. She was curious, so lifted her hand and picked the strings one by one, taking her time fumbling with the zither.

In the midst of the movement of the strings and trembles of the zither, she could almost see a white silhouette, peach red filling the mountain, deep in the rain shower song after song from the zither, waves after waves of falling flowers.

Flowers falling like snow, the sound of zither entering the dream, there is a little bit of sadness and yearning, gentleness and reluctance, this is a feeling that she had never felt before. There are broken pieces of shadows within the sound of the zither but they not clear, those broken pieces of the past piecing together, leaving only one deep feeling, it"s an unspeakable sadness, moving people"s heart strings. The sound from the zither"s strings becomes very, very soft, a song is over. Lost in her thought, she lifted her hand pressing the zither string, doing her best to hold on to the broken pieces of the feeling, suddenly hearing a clear and cold voice said: "If you move slowly from the second to the third note, it will sound better."

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