Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

Aecilia had no choice but to skip this topic:

"I'm going to buy something later. What do you want to do?"

The girl answered without hesitation:

"Go buy sugar water!"

Aecilia smiled and allowed her to use her little ideas.

She stood up, took the girl's hand and walked out, not forgetting to pour a bottle of disguise potion into her before that.

"Remember to disguise yourself next time you come out."

"I know~"

She looked down and saw that the girl's head only reached her chest, and her young face was full of undisguised joy and excitement.

She knew that the girl's joy at this time came from her. This feeling that someone would be happy because of your arrival was very subtle and strange.

She calmly suppressed the emotion that was briefly revealed.

As we walked further, there were fewer and fewer people around. After passing a monument without a word, there were only three or two pedestrians left on the road. People on the side were walking around this place, as if there were some wild beasts among them.

They walked through the narrow alleys. At an intersection, Aecilia squeezed the girl's hand. The girl understood, let go of her hand and walked towards the candy shop on the left hand side in front.

After a while, a few more people passed by, and Aecilia walked out of the intersection and looked at the diagonal corner of the candy shop. There was a window there, with a crooked handwritten sign on the top of the window. Herbal Medicine Shop" sign, and there is an open door to the right of the window, but there is still a roller blind hanging on the door to cover the entire room.

Aecilia took a few steps forward. A group of people in uniform black clothes passed by her and walked towards the window with a clear purpose. So Aecilia turned left and entered the candy shop, sitting with the girl. They were at different tables, and the two of them never made eye contact.

From this position, you can clearly see the whole medicine shop.

"Prepare as per the list."

The leading man in black pushed a piece of paper behind the window, and then suddenly pressed the paper:

"Why did you change the person?"

An old laugh came from behind the window:

"The last family was unlucky enough to be reported and put into the police."

The man in black was silent for a while, and then the old voice continued:

"They are all doing business. Hey, what's the difference? What medicinal materials does the customer want? I guarantee that the last family has it. If it doesn't... Haha, maybe there is one too."

The man in black asked:

"Is there that kind?"

"Are you talking about two forest trees or a red heart? Both are available."

"Show me a pair of clamps."

"Wait a moment, wait a moment."

The man turned around and wandered around the house for a while, then carried something in a fishing net and walked back. The man in black leaned forward and looked at it for a while, and then said:

"Not a cop?"

"You have a good conscience, are you asking the old man to do something? You can blow my ashes in one breath."

"Look at the list."

"Sure, let me see...hey...there is this one, and there is this one...hey? The last one, are you serious? Are you kidding me?"

"Do you have this?"

"No, oh, you are knowledgeable. This is a priceless treasure. How can I have it so easily..."

"How can it not be easy?"

"Well... to be honest with you, there really isn't one, but I know where it is... you can give it to me? Don't take it easy."

"Let me ask about the price first."

"There are so many. I'll write you a list later?"

"Row."

"Do you think it's suitable?"

"Row."

"Can you give me a price for the last one?"

The man in black picked up a pen and wrote a number on the paper. The old man leaned over to take a look, then straightened up and looked at the other person.

The man in black added a zero at the end of the number.

"Oh! Distinguished guest, distinguished guest!"

"Move quickly."

"Hey, go right now, go right now, wait a moment, wait a moment!"

By the time Aecilia finished drinking the sugar water, the group of men in black had already disappeared.

She walked slowly to the window, knocked on the window frame, and asked:

"Lizard tail and white wine, any?"

"...Yo. Guests have good taste. Come in quickly."

"Which way?"

"Going astray."

Aecilia changed the direction of her shoes, raised the roller blinds and walked into the house.

An old man wearing a round hat with a snow-white beard that reached to his chest raised his head from the pile of gold coins and looked at her. He stretched out an old wrinkled hand to adjust the round glasses on the bridge of his nose and said:

"I've been looking forward to having you here. I thought you were teasing me. It would be so chilling if the old man followed you all the way here and was never seen again."

"Don't you just want to see me now?"

Aecilia used this strange accent to chat with the old man familiarly.

"Do you know those people just now?"

"I don't know, it's the first time we've met. A big customer is leaving half of my warehouse at once... Oh, don't look at me like that. The old man is remembering who the real big customer is."

"What materials did they buy?"

"This...I still have to do business..."

"Who was the big customer just now?"

"Two pairs of clips, two thousand grams of dragon beard fairy, fifty grams of white fox tail, seven hundred grams of nolatin, three hundred milliliters of blue water, ninety pieces of spirit stones, four hundred moon rats, two cliffs, five bags of snakes The hand...and the last one...the little doll."

The old man rattled out a long list of names of medicinal materials, but when he read the last one, his tone became much longer.

Aecilia raised her eyebrows:

"It's really a big customer. Are you going to rebel? You want so many Dragon Beard Immortals."

"Who knows, which one of the Dragon Beard Immortals can be used has nothing to do with command hypnosis. Maybe a group of 'rebel armed forces' will pop up somewhere after a while. Marionettes with brains are easy to use..."

"Don't leave home just now and you're leaving too."

"What will you do if I leave?"

"Finish together."

"Hey."

"How did you get reported when you left home? Who reported it? How can you report it so easily in the underground city, and your clothes were taken off the ground?"

"I heard that he was picked up by the big guy in charge. He packed up and ran away overnight. He was caught as soon as he got up. Many people saw him."

"Oh? Which big guy?"

"Just the one...the one with the least direct connections."

"Oh--"

When asked about this, she did not continue to ask why she was reported.

"Old man, will you carry the Dragon Beard Immortal on your back for me?"

"Why do you want to hear this... Let me think about it. Yin is born and water nourishes, so..."

"There are still a few hundred words left, right? I'm jumping, and I'm going to memorize the results."

"Five hundred and three words. Oh. Take it alone as a sleep aid and control the amount of medicine to control the time it takes to fall asleep after taking it. After the total medicine dose reaches a certain value, you can take several compound potions to achieve a directional hypnotic effect..."

"Directed hypnosis?"

"Rebel rebels."

"Not made."

"real or fake?"

"What kind of person am I like?"

"Ok."

"Is there more? Bring it to me and smell it."

The old man lowered his head and rummaged through the space artifact for a while, then took out a piece of withered grass and brought it to her.

"This is valuable, you should be rare."