HLnovel Chapter 199: Jiangshan Old Friend and I
Chapter 199: Jiangshan Old Friend and I
The three people who slowly climbed to the top of the mountain looked at the man lying in front of them.
His eyes were narrow and his eyebrows were curved. He smiled and greeted, "Hey, you are here."
Su Ze burst out laughing for a moment.
……
"Why did you change into this outfit?" Su Ze gently raised the glass, clinked it with the other person, and then drank it all in one gulp.
Four people sat around a stone table in the wooden pavilion, with a specially brewed Japanese sake placed in the middle.
Xia Youjie pulled the sleeve of his cassock, put down his wine glass slightly, and said with a smug look on his face: "To intimidate the followers of the Panxing Sect, they wear -"
"I met some companions who could become 'family'," Xia Youjie looked down at the water swaying in the cup, "They taught me some other things."
Su Ze waited for his next words.
"One of them... is to intimidate the villains. Most people are 'fearing power but not virtue' -" he spoke slowly.
The head of the Gojo family next to him pinched his nose and gulped down a small glass of sake.
"Wu, wait, this is for us to drink, and that is yours--" Su Ze noticed the head of the Gojo family next to him, he quickly called for a stop, and then pointed at the bag next to him.
The head of the Gojo family looked over when he heard this.
There is peach-flavored fruit beer in the plastic bag.
"...Ze, are you looking down on me?"
"? You're so smart, you can see all this." Su Ze did not hide anything.
He leaned over, took out a bottle of fruit beer and threw it to Gojo Satoru, then said, "Hey, if this doesn't work, there's still orange-flavored soda over there..."
His expression was serious and correct, and his tone was steady and calm.
There didn't seem to be any intention of ridicule or contempt.
——But this makes people even more unhappy.
The head of the Gojo family angrily took a sip of fruit beer.
Su Ze turned to look at Xia Youjie, "Where were we talking about? Right... Panxing Cultists. Do they still have any remnants?"
"Yes," said Geto, resting his chin on his hand. "It's nothing more than a new skin, and then it transformed into some new "legal cult"——"
Just like the cockroaches in the kitchen cracks. These things can't be completely eliminated.
"Now you look like a mixture of Sherlock Holmes and Saeba Ryo—" Su Ze joked.
"...Does that mean I will also interfere in civilian cases and resort to lynching?" Xia Yujie filled the glasses for himself and Su Ze and responded with a smile.
Nozomi handed the empty cup forward and Geto Suguru filled it for her.
Holmes is a man who believes in solving problems in dark places where the law cannot reach and using lynching... It seems that there is no right or wrong, this is just his code of conduct.
"...How long has it been since we last had a drink together?" Glass drank alcohol like water, gulping down one cup after another.
"We haven't had a few drinks together..." Su Ze continued, "For me, the first time was probably the most memorable."
That was the time when classmate Su Ze secretly bought beer during the first-year exchange competition.
——The singer was there that time too.
The drunk singer made a little fuss, and in the end it was Su Ze who sent her back.
The head of the Gojo family's face has begun to turn red.
He held the bottle of fruit beer and took sips, as if trying to hide his drunken face.
Xia Yujie thought for a moment and responded, "We've met quite a few times since graduation, but the last time we sat down and had a good drink was five years ago, right?"
The first snowflake floated down lightly, slowly turned around, and landed in the pavilion.
The sky gradually darkened, and the sun shone through the thick clouds, spreading bright light all over the sky.
"Wu, why don't you drink some juice?" Xia Youjie noticed the embarrassment of his best friend and made a sincere suggestion with sweat on his forehead.
"If you get drunk later, I'll leave you here and I won't carry you back." Su Ze said while taking a sip of his wine.
"No way!" The head of the Gojo family seemed to be particularly stubborn about strange things, "I know my limits--"
He took a big gulp of fruit beer.
Su Ze couldn't help but twitch his eyes when he saw him like this.
There were already four or five empty bottles on the table, with glass being the most important.
She didn't blush or feel her heart beating as she gulped down the not-so-good-looking Japanese sake. The size of the delicate little cup in her hand seemed to limit her expression.
They haven't had a good gathering for a long time, but now that this environment has come, they don't know what to say.
Su Ze drank the wine in the glass, fiddled with the exquisite porcelain cup, and said in a playful tone: "We all say that if you don't have a partner by the age of 30, you will become a great magician."
He glanced at his two friends mischievously.
Xia Youjie closed his eyes, lowered his head, and shrugged his shoulders with a helpless smile. The head of the Gojo family was already drunk, and his tone of voice was full of tongue rolling.
"Ah? Ze! What do you want to say--"
The head of the Gojo family spoke unclearly and shouted in dissatisfaction.
Su Ze ignored someone and continued to talk to himself: "You two have successfully surpassed the "apprentice magician", "grand magician" and "magician"——"
He raised his eyes and looked at the two of them. "Reaching the pinnacle is just around the corner~"
Su Ze said softly with a smile on his face.
Xia Youjie still had that harmless smile on his face, with his long bangs falling on his forehead. The head of the Gojo family shouted even louder, with a blush on his cheeks.
At dusk, the sun shone through the clouds and snowflakes fluttered in the air.
"Is there anything you want to say, Ze?" Xia Yujie smiled and spoke softly.
Snow covers the pines and clouds roll in for thousands of miles.
Su Ze raised his glass high and toasted to the mountains in the distance. The thick white winter snow slowly fell on the rocks in the forest, and everything was white.
Cangshan is covered with snow, and the sky is brightly lit to the south.
He walked past the three people in front of him one by one, his voice warm and gentle.
"——Jiangshan is my old friend."
Su Ze's eyes seemed a little hazy, not as bright as before. His pupils trembled slightly, his tone was soft, and he gently lay on the table.
Xia Youjie's cheeks were also a little red from being drunk. He blinked and couldn't help laughing.
The head of the Gojo family, who was not able to hold his liquor, collapsed early, snoring and mumbling.
"Why are you speaking the Dayan Mandarin..." Master Xia held up his head, muttered while forcing his eyelids to stay open, then closed his eyes and fell heavily.
The empty wine bottles piled on the table rolled to one side with a clang.
There was still a half-finished bottle of fruit beer on the table, and some orange-flavored soda left under the table... It seemed that even with the soda mixed in, the invincible Gojo Sensei could not defeat the alcohol.
Ta-da! The empty bottle hits a boot lightly.
“…They all fell?”
Glass looked normal, with a slight blush on her cheeks. She looked around and continued to drink sake in big gulps.
"I'm still awake..." a soft voice sounded.
Glass looked at Su Ze.
He pressed his cheek against his arm, closed his eyes and responded slowly. He seemed to be a little tipsy, breathing heavily, his chest rising and falling slightly.
"If you're not drunk, why can't you get up?" Glass reached out and took the bottle of wine, slowly pouring herself another full glass.
Outside the pavilion, snow was flying heavily, the sky was covered with white, and only this wooden pavilion with red pillars was left in the world.
"Hmm..." Su Ze responded lazily, his eyelids trembling slightly.
Glass curled her lips.
"…Are you cold? Do you want to keep warm?"
Su Ze was still lying on the table with his eyes closed. He raised his index finger slightly, and light white Qi flowed out from his fingertips, and a warm feeling spread from his fingertips to the surroundings.
The head of the Gojo family, who had just curled up, stretched out a little.
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"The mountains and rivers and I are old friends", this is the voice line of [Ling] in "Arknights".
It is a line drawing technique similar to "withered vines, old trees, and crows", which achieves a different artistic conception through the elaborate description of scenery. So the sentence should be "rivers and mountains", "old friends", and "I", which I think is quite suitable for the artistic conception of meeting old friends here!
I like this sentence very much too!! (I like this sentence very much too!!)