death office

Lian Jia was confused by his secretive expression, wanted to ask who he was, but stopped when he reached the point of his mouth.This pause seemed a bit abrupt in the middle of the conversation between the two, so that it seemed that even the air between the two was silent for a moment.

After a while, Lian Jia nodded indifferently: "Oh."

Shi Gui didn't seem to intend to tell him who this person was, seeing that he didn't ask, he quietly continued to wipe the cup.

There was an awkward silence in the air, Lian Jia propped his face with his hands, tilted his head slightly, and listened casually to the few conversations in the store.

"...a friend in the office is leaving." Lian Jia was quiet for a while, but still spoke out what was in her heart.

Shi Gui raised his eyes, saw the obviously irritable expression on his face, and asked, "Is this the reason for your irritability?"

Lian Jia waved his hand: "Half."

Shi Gui watched him hesitate to speak, did not speak, and continued to keep silent.Most of the time, Shi Gui plays the role of a listener. He has a gentle personality, and there are very few things that can arouse his mood.When he looks at people quietly, there is an inexplicable power that makes people trust him involuntarily, and can't help but confide in him.

Lian Jia's lips moved a few times, and then lightly pursed into a line, as if he wanted to say something, but hesitated.After repeating this several times, he finally couldn't help but ask, "What do you think Lu Xuan is thinking?"

"What happened to him?" Shi Gui asked calmly.

Lian Jia couldn't help but mocked: "He said that I would not leave him, hehe, where did he get such confidence?"

Shi Gui curled his mouth and smiled softly. What was different from this expression was that his eyes were extremely bright, bursting out with a sharp light in this dim space: "Lian Jia, the important thing is not what he thinks. , but what do you think."

Lian Jia glanced at him, and there was an indescribable mockery in his eyes: "Is it important what I think? It's not up to him to decide in the end."

Shi Gui shook his head, but he didn't open his mouth to refute him. He was just a listener, not a lobbyist.He doesn't need to enlighten Lian Jia, after all, everyone has a different fate, and his words may disturb each other's cause and effect.

Shi Gui put the cleaned wine glass on the counter with the mouth facing up, and took a blue porcelain bottle from the wine cabinet behind him, opened the seal on the top of the porcelain bottle, poured the clear liquid into the wine glass, and a burst of cold fragrance Immediately floated.

Lian Jia's nostrils moved, as if chasing after the subtle fragrance.

"It smells so good." There was a trace of surprise in his eyes.

Seeing his greedy look, Shi Gui looked thoughtful in his eyes, and then he seemed to think of something, and then smiled, "It's been stored in the cellar for a hundred years, and it's specially reserved for you."

Lian Jia couldn't believe it: "You know I'm coming?"

Shi Gui shook his head: "Of course I don't know. But you will come anyway."

Lian Jia didn't ask any more questions, picked up the wine glass, put it under his nose and smelled it lightly, and after a while, he took a sip along the side of the glass.The eyes were even more satisfied: "It really is a good wine!"

"Do you know what this wine is made of?" Seeing that he likes it very much, Shi Gui asked.

Lian Jia took another sip, feeling the cold fragrance of the sake at the entrance, and aftertaste, there was a hint of bitterness coming from the base of his tongue.He has tasted many wines, but every time he comes back here, there are always some novel experiences.Every time Shi Gui used the wine to entertain him, it could be called a treasure in the world, because the materials he used to make wine were completely different from ordinary wine.

Lian Jia shook his head: "You use strange materials every time, how can I guess it?"

Shi Gui pursed his lips and smiled, stretched out his hand to take the wine glass in Lian Jia's hand, shook it lightly, and then took a sip from the rim of the glass, not caring that the glass was just used by Lian Jia.

"Four things are used here. A family relationship, a love, a friendship, and a drop of my tear."

Lian Jia looked at him with a half-smile: "You still have tears?"

Shi Gui didn't react to his words, and just said what he said just now: "Emotion is the most unreliable thing in this world, but it's also the most touching thing. The wine brewed with emotion is naturally sweet and bitter. As for my tears, although I don’t have any now, I still saved a lot.”

Lian Jia smiled and shook his head.

"It's better to be here with you, drink as much as you want, and don't have to think about anything."

Seeing that there was something in his words, Shi Gui paused imperceptibly with his finger holding the wine glass, and put it down as if nothing had happened.

"If you were me, you wouldn't think so."

Lian Jia put down his hands, fell on the counter with his face sideways, half-closed his eyes and thought about it for a while, then raised his head and looked at Shi Gui's gentle eyebrows and eyes: "Indeed. It's really miserable to be alone all the time."

Shi Gui shrugged indifferently: "It's been too long, I just got used to it."

The time in the reborn world is different from that in the human world. There is only one day in the human world, but a year in the reborn world.Shi Gui said that the wine cellar has been stored for a hundred years, but for Lian Jia, he hadn't been here for only three months.

Shi Gui has been in the world of the past for too long, so long that he even forgot when he was born and how old he is now.It seems that he has been staying here since he remembered it, with such an unchanged appearance.

Countless souls have come and gone, only he has always been here and never changed.He has no relatives or friends, and those who have been with him have left him in the end.As he said, over time, he got used to living alone.

Even Lian Jia, they can only be called acquaintances, an acquaintance who can chat, not a friend, not a relative.Because he knew that one day, even Jia would leave him.

Since we will be separated sooner or later, why bother to invest too much emotion.

Lian Jia stared at Shi Gui's face, his skin was very fair, and it was normal to have such fair skin in this dark world of rebirth where there is no sunlight all year round.Shi Gui's skin was so white that it was almost transparent, and he could even see the blue blood vessels under the skin, maybe he had stayed in the world of the past for too long.

His hair is a little long, and it is soft against his face. When he lowers his head, the hair on his forehead will hang down slightly, blocking his eyes and making it difficult for people to see his expression clearly.

Lian Jia didn't know how he endured living so lonely in an endless life, he didn't feel desperate because of this loneliness, when he looked at himself, the light in his eyes could even be called gentle .

"Shi Gui, have you ever thought about developing a second spring?"

Shi Gui: "..."

Although he knew that Lian Jia had never spoken out of his head, Shi Gui was still confused by his inexplicable question.

"You are crazy!"

Lian Jia smiled indifferently: "Isn't this the truth? Why are you so surprised?"

Shi Gui glanced at him helplessly: "Really. You don't have to use this as an excuse all the time."

"Excuse this kind of thing, as long as it's easy to use." Lian Jia stared at his fair face and said with a smirk, "What I said is true, you really don't plan to find another one?"

Shi Gui pursed his lips and did not answer, he suddenly understood that Lian Jia was not joking.

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Lian Jia didn't ask any more questions, and quietly drank the wine in his hands, and returned to fill it up for him when he waited.

The candles gradually burned out in the passage of time, and almost all the guests in the tavern had dispersed. Lian Jia was lying on the counter, her milky white skin was flushed, and she was drunk.

Shi Gui quietly watched a drop of crystal tear fall from the corner of his eye, and sighed slightly in his heart.

He walked around the counter and helped Lian Jia up: "Let's go, my store is going to close."

Lian Jia shook his head, trying to wake himself up.He raised his hand and rubbed his sore eyes, he didn't care about the moisture in the corners of his eyes, looked at Shigui's gentle look, and said, "Actually, you are just like that guy Lu Xuan, with a paralyzed face."

Shi Gui was taken aback for a moment, and then chuckled, "Why, isn't this bad?" It's better to pretend with a kind face than to do nothing.

Lian Jia shook his head: "I can't say whether it's good or not. If you always keep a straight face like Lu Xuan, then no one will want to get close to you, but you always put on such a gentle and kind appearance, but it will always make you People can't help but want to get closer, but in fact, you still keep people out in your heart. The sense of loss when you get close and be rejected must be much stronger than the sadness of being rejected directly."

Shi Gui's lips parted slightly, but he couldn't even utter the last word of excuse.

He helped Lian Jia out of the tavern. Outside the door, the pale lantern was still the same, making the faces of the two of them abnormally white.

"There's no need to send it off, you can go in." Lian Jia broke away his hand on his shoulder, and glanced at him indifferently, "Shi Gui, in fact, you are more indifferent than anyone else."

Shi Gui didn't seem to care about his words, the corners of his mouth curled into a slight smile: "Lian Jia, I told you that feelings are the most unreliable thing in this world, because they can't match time. No matter how deep the feelings are, they can resist I can't stand the erosion of time. You have lived for so long and you have seen how many emotions in this world have disappeared in the torrent of time. But I have lived longer than you. What emotions can I use to resist this endless time? "

Lian Jia's complexion changed, as if he had been stabbed in his mind, his face turned pale.There seemed to be a faint light struggling in his eyes, but it gradually dimmed in the end.

I can only say weakly: "Maybe there will be."

But Shi Gui seemed to see through his mind, and the smile on his face remained unchanged: "Lian Jia, even you don't believe what you said, so how can you persuade me?"

"Forget it, think whatever you want." Lian Jia waved his hand and left without looking back.

Shi Gui stared at his back, with a faint light in his eyes, which finally dissipated into the depths.