magician in town

Chapter 19 Mahjong

When he returned to the house, only mahjong was there.

"I asked Du Zhengyi to rest." He took out two cans of beer from behind the nurse's station, and handed one to Roach in a friendly manner, which seemed to represent reconciliation.

"Can I drink this now?" Roach asked in surprise, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to take it.

"Uh..." Curly thought for a while, "If Du Zheng sees it, he won't be able to drink it."

After a little thought, Roach picked up the beer and took a big sip.The taste of beer was very strange. He looked at the label on the beer can, but he had never seen this brand before.

"It was brewed by a small local winery and given by a family member of a patient." Mahjong said, sitting down on a children's bed next to him, holding his can of beer in his hand. "You've been sleeping for a day and a night, can you still fall asleep? Or go out with your brother to find a place to buy some good wine? Anyway, Du Zhengyi won't know."

"It has nothing to do with Du Zhengyi knowing, right? I was scratched by a cat, have you forgotten? Doctor?"

When Luo Qi went to the toilet just now, he walked about 20 meters away and still felt top-heavy.

Curly looked exaggeratedly frustrated, as if he was really hoping to get Roach out.Luo Qi really couldn't believe that he was much older than Du Zhengyi, and how could he still look like a young man without reason.

"Isn't this a doctor who issued a certificate for you, proving that you can go out and have a drink or two? Why don't you even trust the doctor?" Mahjong said, still not giving up the last hope.

Luo Qi looked at him a few times, doctors are all alcoholics, this is really a universal truth.In front of Mahjong, he exaggeratedly tucked the quilt on himself, expressing his belief with actions.Mahjong rolled his eyes.

Roach hoped that he could lie down comfortably, but his spine protested a little after sleeping for a long time, and the rib that was accelerated to grow when he fell asleep was exuding dull pain, and he couldn't sleep at all.

"If I go out with you, what good will you do me?" Roach asked hesitantly.

"I'll take you to play, buy you a drink, and give you extra benefits. Are you a classmate who engages in sex?"

"I love wearing it or not." Roach announced, "I'm falling asleep!"

"Hey, don't..." Mahjong stretched out his hand and made a gesture to interrupt him, "Tell me, what benefits do you want?"

Roach made some preparations and went out with Curly.His clothes had been torn to pieces by Du Zhengyi's lion, and he could no longer wear them. The clothes Mahjong gave him was a shirt, probably the overalls of a children's clinic, with a puppet frog sewn outside the upper left pocket of the shirt.Mahjong had been given to him as a dress, but Roach, with his wonderful sense of humor, was very pleased with the dress.

The climate where they lived was warmer. He put on a jacket with "other people's children" printed on the back, looked at his back in the mirror on the wall, and couldn't help giving Mahjong a thumbs up.

Mahjong looked at him with his arms folded, and nodded with satisfaction.

They left the clinic together, and there was a real early spring breeze on the street outside, cool and damp, a sign that everything would eventually start again.

"I didn't expect Du Zhengyi to be able to cross such a long distance." Roach took a deep breath of cool air and said, "He must have taken me through at least three provinces? You must be a great doctor, otherwise Du Zhengyi wouldn't waste so much energy running towards you."

"I've been his doctor for three years," Mahjong said lightly, and Roach realized that was an understatement. "I've heard of your father's name, a very famous doctor."

Luo Qi was not very interested in his father's reputation, "Does Du Zhengyi have any sequelae?"

Mahjong reached out to hail a taxi, seeing that he was living in the world like a duck to water, and was very adaptable. "Isn't it appropriate to ask a doctor about that?"

Roach nodded, and stopped asking further questions.When he got in the car, he felt that he was sweating a little. Mahjong gave him a tube of medicine, and after drinking it, he was so overwhelmed by the feeling of comfort that he didn't know what to do, so he smirked.He leaned back comfortably, feeling warm all over his body, and the symptoms of weakness and resurrection were much relieved.The driver in front peeked at him cautiously in the rearview mirror, probably thinking he was taking drugs.

They stopped in a bustling business district. The taxi driver kept a stiff silence the whole time, and he didn't say a word when he collected their fare. When they got out of the car, he accelerated suddenly and ran away in a hurry.

Roach speculates that he is a law-abiding citizen who is afraid of getting in trouble, and who may have high morals who don't want to be around drug-addicted scum.However, Roach has always had another suspicion. He feels that humans can more or less feel the existence of mages. If there are too many of them and they are too close to them, sensitive humans will feel uncomfortable.Just like he also felt the existence of lions, and perceived the appearance of the upper level of the food chain, which was an instinct written at the genetic level.

Mahjong led him into a building with a giant Meisterbonwe signboard. It was an old building with shops occupying the first and second floors. The remaining four floors looked completely deserted from the outside.It is not the business hours of ordinary shops, the whole building is dark and quiet, only the billboards outside are shining all night.

Mahjong familiarly led him into an inconspicuous corner door, the corridor was dark, only a white light from Mahjong's hand illuminated the peeling concrete steps.Roach thought he was using magic lighting at first, but later discovered that he was actually using electricity, and he was clutching an Anima cell phone.

Ma Jiang is much more fashionable than Du Zhengyi.

They climbed up to the third floor, and Roach felt a little weak in his calves, and the anti-weakness potion that Mahjong gave him couldn't support the climb.Luckily they were there too, and Roach smelled the familiar smell of popcorn, a by-product of carnival magic.A grand show mixed with light, sound, smell and even touch, with the tone and theme set by the host of the party, it's generally fun at first, and then the phantasms grow in power as more and more mages join the fray Big, which eventually turns into a collective hallucination, is a common entertainment item in the mage bar.The hallucination reaches its peak, and when it bursts it's like lightning flashing through the air.But what lightning brings is the smell of ozone, what the mage's power bursts emits is the smell of burnt popcorn.

It seems they came too late and missed the climax.

This kind of bar is forbidden by orthodox mages, and it is hidden in the busy city of humans.

They walked into the empty corridor on the third floor and looked over with the light of their mobile phones. The iron door closest to them was covered with chains, dirty and covered with stains, as if it had been locked for a long time.

"Not this door." Ma Jiang said.He led Roach forward for about ten meters, and the bright light of the mobile phone illuminated an old yellow wooden door, which was often used as an office door in the 80s of the last century.

The strange thing is that there are two stone blocks on the left and right of the door, on which are two pug-sized stone lions. One is sitting upright with a hydrangea ball under its palm; the other is lying on the stone block and sleeping soundly, like a cat. Bright belly.Roach knows that these abnormal signs that seem to be inconsistent with human customs are the way here. In his world, abnormality means signboards, which are no less shining than giant LED advertising light boxes.

Ma Jiang put his hand on the head of a stone lion, motioning for Luo Qi to do the same. "Two lions, two people." He smiled slyly, and explained, "The rule of this shop is that only two or more guests can enter, and no single guest is allowed."

Luo Qi let out an "oh", and only then did he understand why Ma Jiang insisted on encouraging him to come out to play together.He reached out and stroked the sleeping lion's head, and felt a weak static current in his palm. There must be crystals embedded in the stone lion for simple rule settings.

The dilapidated wooden door opened inward with a creak, and the jumping flames poured out. Behind the door was a narrow corridor made of red bricks. There were simple torches hanging on the wall, and the light of the fire shone on the large polished square bricks on the ground. The bricks are light black, and for some reason Roach finds them familiar.

Ma Jiang walked into the red brick corridor first, and Luo Qi also followed, and faintly heard the noisy music coming from inside, which was a bit messy, and the main sound was a bit like a pipa, but Luo Qi couldn't tell for sure.

The corridor turned a corner, and suddenly opened up in front of the eyes, a magnificent hall, about the same size as the Meisterbonwe local flagship store downstairs, it is very spacious.The scene is also full of grandeur, gold-pasted cloud dragon pillars, a gold-lacquered Kowloon throne in the middle, and a glittering golden screen. He can't recognize other decorations displayed in front of it, but he can still recognize the elephants and cranes.Looking up again, there is indeed a panlong caisson above the head.Although it couldn't stand a closer look, it would be very rough, but he could still recognize where this place was, the Palace of Preserving Harmony.

Sitting on the throne were four very noisy girls. The makeup painted on their faces stabilized the current human fashion, but they were wearing Qing Dynasty court dresses, purses hanging from the skirts, and round fans in their hands. Meticulous.In front of the throne, there are four young men in coats and robes, fighting swords two by two.Luo Qi could see that the sword was made of wine, and the boys who lost the gesture would definitely be forced to perform sword swallowing, and would die of drunkenness after a while.

Ma Jiang looked around with interest, and said with a smile, "Hey, today is the theme of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It's a pity that I came late and missed the climax. Fortunately, I came late, and not wearing the right clothes will spoil other people's interest."

Luo Qi was still observing the Palace of Preserving Harmony, and after studying the pillars for a while, he suddenly broke off a piece of gold leaf and stuffed it into his mouth, "Well, it really is chocolate."

Ma Jiang said, "Don't eat blindly. Eat according to the doctor's advice, you know?"

Roach frowned, "It's actually a substitute for cocoa butter."

"That's why I told you not to eat blindly." Ma Jiang said, "That's what I mean."

"We've also started using this kind of cheap stuff." Roach smacked his lips, trying to find a glass of wine to eliminate the remaining inferior taste in his mouth.Ma Jiang was already walking in one direction, and Roach quickly followed.There are not many people staying in the Hall of Preserving Harmony at this moment, probably because the climax has passed, and everyone is a little bit depressed, and now is the time when everyone starts to feel sleepy.

There are some tables and chairs of Ming and Qing Dynasties placed on both sides of the Hall of Preserving Harmony. They are all round tables with carved and embroidered piers. Luo Qi was a little surprised to see that there were some elderly people beside the tables.They are quieter than the young people, and they can also stay up late, and now they are sitting at the table drinking and chatting in twos and threes.They all looked decent, but they were honestly wearing robes and jackets. Roach didn't expect them to be willing to make jokes with young people.When he squeezed past a group of old mages, he caught a glimpse of the high-quality robes of the old mages. He suddenly realized that the average age of mages was in the early [-]s, and these old mages were originally from the Qing Dynasty.Tonight's theme should probably be Nostalgia Night.

Roach was suddenly a little embarrassed, as if he was desecrating someone else's wonderful world with jokes like those noisy young people.He didn't know what to say, mages lived in the human world, but humans changed too fast, they had just adapted to the beauty of the world, and fickle humans overthrew everything, and everything familiar to mages disappeared .And humans themselves, too, their lives are too short, you meet them, you fall in love with them, and then they're gone, like a summer wind blowing through a long street and you're standing there bewildered , the ice cream in my hand hasn't even melted, leaving only sweet and sore pain.

Feeling sad for some reason, he followed Ma Jiang and sat down beside a long table, which might have been used for painting.A traditional revolving lantern was placed on the table, and he stared at the rabbits jumping non-stop on the lamp in a daze.Ma Jiang pushed him a glass of wine and poured a tube of potion into the glass, and he drank it without asking what it was.

"You really trust Du Zhengyi, have you found out yourself?" Ma Jiang asked him suddenly.

Roach looked back at Majiang, he was drinking a blue drink, the color was uncomfortably blue, it looked like a glass of Smurf's urine.

"Why do you say that?"

"I urged you to come out, so you come out with me, I'll give you medicine, you just drink it without even thinking about it." Ma Jiang said, finishing the wine in his hand in one breath, raised his eyebrows comfortably, and then motioned to the waiter in the shop again Get him a drink. "You don't know me at all, and I'm not friendly at first, but you still trust me because you think Du Zhengyi trusts me."

Luo Qi glanced at him indifferently, "My world is very simple, buddy. The teacher asked me to help Du Zheng, and I will do my best to help. When he decides to go back to school, I can take the to the credits."

Ma Jiang didn't speak for a while, his gaze was habitually lowered through the glasses, with a hint of coldness.He looked at Roach carefully, and seemed to be carefully considering what he wanted to say.

"I have known Du Zhengyi for a long time. He is a real mage. He is different from you. Don't get emotional. I have no other meaning. Because he is also different from me. He is like those noisy people who claim to be mages. It's different. Our world hasn't produced a real mage for a long time. So they don't spend scarce resources on ordinary small things, and he will always be implicated in all kinds of troubles. You follow him now, that's also That means you're in trouble."

(End of this chapter)