Ring

one year later.

Japan, Tokyo, Narita International Airport.

When Wei Shenzhi pulled his luggage and walked through the bustling crowd with Edgar, he felt as if he had passed away.Since that "car accident", normal life has been far away from him.He left human society, practiced the art of the five elements under the teaching of his grandmother Wei Siyun, and then returned to the blood clan with Edgar.

It has been five years since he left human society.In the past five years, he didn't miss the society he once belonged to very much. However, when he really returned, he realized that this familiar and fresh atmosphere really made him miss it immensely.Although the Narita International Airport is not crowded, the passenger flow is still very large.Wei Shenzhi originally thought that in his own life, he was already tired of the crowded scene, but now even this kind of crowded scene that he used to stay away from is very nostalgic.

After handing over the passport and passing through the customs, he and Edgar took the checked luggage, and soon saw the long-haired woman standing in the waiting aisle.Kondo Yumi was wearing a bright red dress, her long black hair was coiled up like a young woman, and she had light makeup on her face, as if she was no different from five years ago.And beside her, stood Selina in beige casual clothes.The blond woman obviously also saw the two, her brown eyes fixed on Wei Shenzhi's face, and her eye sockets turned red.

Before Wei Shenzhi had time to say anything, Selina rushed over and pushed Wei Shenzhi staggeringly.She hugged Wei Shenzhi's shoulders tightly, and pressed her cheek against his chest, her shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

"Boss... finally... you are finally back...!!"

Wei Shenzhi couldn't help being a little moved when he yelled out the long-lost address in a crying voice.So he freed his hand without luggage, patted Selina on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Now you have opened the Inspur branch to Japan, cooperated with Snowflake Enterprise, and expanded the original assets a lot. "—Of course, these are the news he got after he left Hungary, "Don't cry, Selina. If your subordinates find their eldest sister crying on top of me, you will lose your image. .”

"No matter! Boss, where did you go! Why haven't you come to see us for five years!"

"Didn't I come back, Selina? Hey, don't wipe your eyes with your sleeves! I don't have tissues here either... Forget it, just wipe my clothes, don't stain your sleeves! "

Over there, Selina and Wei Shenzhi were making a fuss, and the former president of Westnet took off the sunglasses on his face under Yumi Kondo's gaze.The face under the sunglasses, no matter how much time has passed, will not change in the slightest.His youth was cursed, yet he was grateful for the curse, which gave him endless hours to spend with his lover.

"Yumi." He came closer, reached out and touched the corner of her eyes, noticing the lines in the corners of her eyes.He is immortal, but she is just a mortal. Five years is enough to make an ignorant boy become an adult, and it is also enough to make a beautiful woman grow old unconsciously.

Kondo Yumi took his wrist and pressed her cheek against his palm.The temperature from his cheeks was still a bit cold, and his forever young face also reminded her of something.

"Edgar," she said, "you're still young and handsome, and I'm old."

——She is indeed old, even the child of her and ex-husband Shan Muhong is about to grow up.Now, she has become the president and chairman of Snowflake, not only entering North America, but also entering the European market, and opening branches in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France and other places.

From the perspective of a successful businessman, she is only 33 years old this year, and her success is too early.However, judging from a person's life, she has quietly left the most beautiful years in her years, that is the youth that everyone dreams of and will never come again.

Edgar did not say "you are not old at all" to persuade her, because he knew that being as strong and proud as her would disdain such things.

Therefore, he just stared deeply at his former confidante, and then deeply hugged this no longer young woman into his arms.It took almost a long time before he let her go, and she raised her head:

"Edgar, my ex-husband wants to see you."

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Kondo Yumi's ex-husband is Sugi Hiroshi, the general manager of Sakuragi Enterprise.Although the two chose to divorce for various reasons, after the divorce, the two still maintained a fairly friendly relationship.

And this time, the reason why he wanted to meet Edgar eagerly was because he had heard about what happened back then from his ex-wife.

The only son of the former chairman and former general manager of the famous software company Inspur in mainland China, the technical director of Clare Labs in the United States, and the chief software engineer of the magician company... Everyone is looking forward to this favored son from his uncle. When returning to his own country, an unfortunate car accident happened unexpectedly.

When he was pushed out of the operating room, his heartbeat had obviously stopped, but he miraculously "resurrected"—it was really a miracle.If it weren't for the blessing of the gods, who could recover from such a serious injury without leaving any sequelae?

"Edgar hired a warlock," his ex-wife told him. "A very powerful warlock. If you have a chance to meet Edgar, he should be willing to introduce this warlock to you." For you... to solve your problem."

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Outside the speeding car is a bustling street.The bustling neon lights and tall skyscrapers burn people's retinas.Yumi Kondo's car drove into the parking lot and led the two into a suite of a high-end hotel. An elegant man was already sitting on a chair, obviously waiting for a long time.

"Ahiro, these two are President Wei of Inspur and President Flanders of Western Open." Yumi Kondo introduced to his ex-husband.However, the title "President" sounded to Wei Shenzhi's ears as if it had happened in his previous life.Edgar seemed to sense his absent-mindedness, and squeezed his arm when the other two were not paying attention to them.

The four exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Yumi Kondo was about to leave—she and Selina still had a proposal that they had not discussed yet.And they have to attend the meeting at the same time in the afternoon.Although the two wanted to reminisce about the old days with Edgar and Wei Shenzhi, it was obviously not a good time today.What's more, Sugi Hiroshi has been troubled by this problem for many years, and now when he consults them, they happen to be busy with work first.

This is an extremely high-end hotel. There are stages and curtains in the single rooms, and they are used to perform operas and Noh plays for guests.The whole stage is not decorated gorgeously, but it has a classical elegance.At this moment, there was a woman in a green kimono on the stage gently stroking the zither, her gaze was the same as the sound of the zither, mellow like flowing water.

"Mr. Shan Mu seems to like music very much?" Wei Shenzhi's eyes fell on the piano in the woman's hand.In fact, he doesn't know much about Japanese musical instruments, but at least he knows that Japanese kotos have different styles in different eras.And what the woman on the stage is teasing is a very old one.

"I'm ashamed to say, I just like kites." Sugi Hiroshi smiled, "This is also related to the reason why you two are here today. I heard from Yumi that you know a very powerful warlock. If possible, Can you introduce him to me? I want to ask him to... interpret one of my dreams."

"Dream?" Edgar asked. "What kind of dream?"

"This dream has been going on for many years." He said, "I always dreamed that I was wearing a royal robe and singing poems with some ministers. In my dream, I owned a very old zither. The music played surpassed all the sounds of nature in the world.... At the end of the dream, I left the zither alone at the place where we had a banquet. Then... I dreamed of a young man wearing a hunting suit of an onmyoji , playing sad music on that harp, and I always wake up crying."

As soon as he opened the chatterbox, he couldn't hold it back, and began to talk to the two about how often this dream appeared and how real the feelings he felt in the dream were.Wei Shenzhi winked at Edgar, then excused himself and left halfway.And Shan Muhong was immersed in his own description, and after a long time, he didn't care until Wei Shenzhi came back.

"I asked many onmyojis and a monk for help, but none of them could answer my question. I just want to know, that luthier... who is he, and why is he so sad?"

"It's a sad, very sad piece of music. However, I seem to be able to hear hope mixed with despair in the sound of the piano. That piece of music is like... ah! Just like it was played!"

At some point, the woman in the green kimono was gone, replaced by a man in white.The Zhuzi Zheng lay across his knees, and his white fingertips plucked the strings, the sound was like pearls falling on a jade board.The grand but desolate tune flowed from his fingertips, and even the sun in the sky lost its brilliance.

Shan Muhong froze in place, unable to believe his ears.The violinist moved gently and twirled slowly, the beautiful sound of the piano was exactly the same as in his dream.At this moment, the luthier lowered his brows and lowered his eyes, just playing the music carefully, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

As if bewitched, Shan Muhong stood up in a daze, walked towards the stage, and didn't even recover from bumping into a chair.He got closer and closer until the piano was completely exposed in front of him.The carvings and textures on the piano are exactly the same as the one in his dream.

At the end of the song, the long-haired luthier raised his head, revealing a face that was beyond human.

"Your Majesty... I finally..."

"Waiting for you..."

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"Master Qin Gu fulfilled his wish. Tell me, will he disappear?"

"Maybe not."

It was a little cold in Tokyo at night, and the night wind blew the clothes of the two of them rattling.At this moment, the two of them were standing under the Rainbow Bridge, looking up at the speeding vehicles passing by, leaving only a shadow of the speeding speed.

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

"Because Master Qin's wish has not been fulfilled. His wish is to follow the master and find his reincarnation, which is just a part of it."

The voice of the voice seemed so small amidst the roar of the engine, but Edgar could hear it clearly.He looked for a while at the strange psychedelic colors intertwined and changed by the neon lights in the distance, then stretched out his hand to grab Wei Shenzhi's wrist, and suddenly smiled: "After many comparisons, the human world is indeed smaller than the blood race's side." Much more exciting."

"You sneak away, Della and Rice are already busy with you again."

"Originally, I was just another leader in name, and I still couldn't live in peace with the feminists of various schools in the group." Edgar laughed, "I disappeared for more than ten years before, and the clan Nothing major happened here. Now I'm on the loose for a year or two, and they won't care."

Regarding this kind of free speech, Wei Shenzhi slapped him on the forehead unceremoniously, but said in his mouth: "Then, please accompany me back to China. I'm going to see me, Jingjing, and then go see Look at my parents. I want to go back to the Wei family's ancestral house to see if my grandmother and Miss Jiang Ze have come back. Also, I want to fulfill An Gong's wish."

"Jingjing? I heard that she has completely inherited her father's business methods, and she seems to be the next successor of Inspur Company." Edgar remembered the information he had read in the report before, "Before, she was still a little The weak little girl has turned into a strong woman who can stand on her own in an instant."

"That is, I don't even look at whose cousin it is."

"However, Daozhen Anyu's wish is to visit every inch of the Central Plains. One year or two is not enough to fulfill this wish, right?"

"That's three or four years."

"What if three or four years are not enough?"

"Then ten years, twenty years." Wei Shenzhi looked over deeply.

"We have countless years, and we can walk through every inch of land in this world together."

-d-

2015. 3, 25

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