magician in town

Chapter 20 Tavern

Ma Jiang picked up the wine glass and had a drink with Luo Qi, and then drank it down.Roach weighed his newly mended body and took a small sip.The wine the doctor ordered for him actually tasted good, mixed with the flavor of mint, with a slight bitterness, but it was refreshing and sweet after swallowing.

Ma Jiang ordered another glass of wine, but didn't say anything for a while, Luo Qi thought that he probably wanted to leave time for him to think after he finished speaking.This is a common method used by good teachers, heuristic education, but Roach has never been on the road.

He thought about these things when he was in the clinic, but now if he withdraws, the credits will be gone.And he will always wonder in his heart why this matter came to him in the first place.What's more, the delayed trouble is also trouble, and sooner or later it will come to you again.

After thinking about it carefully, Ma Jiang is really not a villain, not even a very thoughtful person. "Do you really want to know how I teamed up with Du Zheng?"

Ma Jiang's eyes lit up.

Luo Qi picked up the wine glass and took another big sip before he had the courage to go all out, "Because Mr. Liu Li, you remember, is the head of the department who said that my luck value is particularly high."

Ma Jiang froze for a moment, then laughed out loud. "Does that mean you're a mascot?"

Roach slumped his shoulders, sighed, "Forget it," and began to sip his drink.He used to be very jealous of his mascot status, but now it may be because Ma Jiang is a casual person, and he is not as easy to arouse others' inferiority complex as Du Zhengyi.

"Don't care so much." Ma Jiang said, a little more easy-going, "The world revolves around geniuses like Du Zhengyi."

He picked up his glass and touched Roach, and shared his story with Roach. "In the year I graduated, half of the graduation project was completed. One day Pei Shu walked into my laboratory and told me that the topic of my graduation project had changed. The new topic was the recovery of that dead boy Du Zhengyi."

Roach laughed.

Ma Jiang continued, "It was unlucky enough at the time, but who knew that this project didn't end with graduation. When I came to my senses, it was a few years later, and Du Zhengyi seemed to be in my hands."

At this point, Roach couldn't help but want to ask if Du Zhengyi is often injured?Then he realized that Mahjong didn't answer him just now, and if he asked again, it would look like he was asking around.He rephrased, "Doctor, can I ask some questions about your field of expertise?"

Ma Jiang said with a smile, "Excuse me."

Roach put down his glass and asked seriously, "Can you kill an old drunk mage without attracting attention?"

Ma Jiang looked at him in surprise and forgot to drink the wine.

"If you don't want to be discovered by the Supreme Council, the safest way is to use human methods to kill people, so as to avoid the detection of energy residues."

"Human methods? Arsenic? Cyanide?" asked Roach, who was a lot of moviegoers.

"That's too obvious." Ma Jiang said, "Human beings are not idiots, and the police can see through them at a glance. If I wanted to kill an old drunk man, I might choose to kill him after he became unconscious. He injects alcohol. The difference between severe drunkenness and alcoholism is not that big. It is easy to kill a person who is already drunk by increasing the alcohol content in the body. At the final autopsy, it was alcoholism. It is not uncommon for an alcoholic old man to drink himself to death. For reasonable deaths, ordinary forensic doctors will not examine them carefully. In this way, they can escape from both mages and humans. "

Luo Qi didn't speak for a while, and the carousel in the corner of the case kept spinning, casting mottled shadows on his hands.The palace lantern above the head swayed the firelight of the old era beside the pillars, and the dragon in the algae well began to breathe under the deep and shallow light and shadow.The girls on the throne were already half-drunk, chatting together, it was much quieter.The idiots fighting swords were drunk, and fell on the pedestal of the throne like corpses, as if they were recovering from the palace change of that year.

Luo Qi drank the wine in his glass and became melancholy. For a while, he seemed to see the decaying courtyard. The old mage who had been old for a long time was sitting in the study two times ago, looking out gloomyly.He lost his treasure, and he could only see the souls of the dead, but not the desire of the living.He drank heavily until one day the New Age Reaper walked lightly into his yard with a syringe.

"So, is there a way to kill a person and make her look like she died of a heart attack?" Roach turned his head and asked.

Ma Jiang smiled, "There are many ways to do that, kid."

"I suppose so," muttered Roach. "It must be as easy as a gas explosion."

Ma Jiang didn't know the meaning of his words, so he beckoned and ordered another glass of wine for him and Luo Qi.This time his drink was honest amber, with a large puck frozen inside.

"I don't know what you mean by asking me." Ma Jiang took a sip of his wine and added, "I don't want to know either."

Roach looked at him.

"But I think I'll give you another doctor's order. Do you want me to write it on paper? Forget it, I won't recognize the words I wrote the next day." He put down his glass, turned his body around, almost Facing Luo Qi solemnly, he announced his doctor's order, "Listen well, your body will basically return to normal by tomorrow, and then you can go back to school and tell Liu Li that you don't want that little credit, let him She'll keep it to herself."

"You mean, I should threaten Liu Li to give me more credits before I can work?" Luo Qi said, "I never thought that this matter can be negotiated before."

Ma Jiang stared at Luo Qi with drunken eyes, "Okay, young man, are you very courageous?"

Roach snorted and endured the slap and slap of the drunk.Ma Jiang's shoulder approached his, and said in a low voice, "Let me use an analogy, you must play games like this, so you can definitely tell that Du Zhengyi is a professional gamer, and he is destined to compete , you are an amateur player, you can’t get involved. Of course, I’m exhausted here, these words are all from a kind doctor’s advice to you, it’s up to you whether you follow the doctor’s advice or not.”

"How do you say that?" Roach humbly asked for advice.

"I think so." Ma Jiang said, "There are very few coincidences and accidents in this world. For example, you were chosen so coincidentally because of your high luck value. Accidentally lost control in Du Zheng's hands...is it possible?"

Shaking his head to himself, he drank half the glass. "Since these things happened, there must be a reason, but we can't see through this reason for a while. I don't doubt that you have a problem. What I suspect is that someone is making a fuss about you. Some people think that you should be Chess pieces, if you ignore them and don't enter the game, won't it be over?"

Luo Qi hesitated and said, "Even if I don't enter the game, Du Zhengyi will always be in it, what should he do?"

Ma Jiang raised his eyes and looked at Luo Qi carefully, "You are really a real kid."

At this moment, the frog on Luo Qi's chest suddenly vibrated, startling himself, and Ma Jiang looked at him teasingly.With a look of sudden realization, Luo Qi took out his mobile phone from the shirt pocket behind the frog. It seemed that he was not used to the mobile phone and forgot to carry it.Ma Jiang turned his eyes away to look for a beautiful woman who can heal his eyes. Luo Qi is a half-fool, he really has nothing to see.

Roach looked down at his cell phone, his first reaction was Du Zhengyi, but later he remembered that Du Zhengyi didn't have a cell phone at all.It was Guan Xinyue who sent him a wechat message, asking him how the situation was going and why he hadn't replied for so long.

Guan Xinyue sent him several WeChat messages, but he was in a coma at that time, so he didn't know it at all.He replied that he was embarrassed that he didn't read WeChat, and Guan Xinyue asked him if he was an old man who couldn't read WeChat, and he replied Guan Xinyue with a series of spitting rabbit emojis.

The music in the tavern gradually became quieter, and it probably changed to the second half, when the gloomy ancient drum music was added to the music.A woman sang lazily with the drums in a modern, tough voice.She is a small young woman, wearing a Manchu-style waistcoat and narrow sleeves, but underneath the wide-leg trousers that have recently become popular again in human society.In fact, it seems that her top is also a modern dress, and the nostalgic feast tonight seems to be completely over.

Ma Jiang changed several kinds of wine to drink, and it seems that he doesn't care what the theme of the fight here is, even if it's for Women's Day, it doesn't matter to him.For him, a tavern is a tavern, and nothing can overwhelm the guests, and wine is the eternal theme.

A thin middle-aged man sat beside them at this time.

When Roach looked up from the phone and saw him, he had already sat down.He was said to be a middle-aged man, but Roach could not accurately guess his age. He may be around 60 years old, or he may be over a hundred years old.He looked neat, sprightly, well-groomed, like a narcissistic successful man.But his eyes were gentle and humble, and there was a charming smile on his lips.He sat next to the casual Ma Jiang, like a loyal, honest and alert shepherd dog spontaneously looking for an orange cat for companionship.

"Even the traditions are used for consumption, we really are becoming more and more like human beings, aren't we?" This is his first sentence, which he said to Ma Jiang.His voice has the cadence of the good old days, his demeanor is gentle, there is a hint of humor in the corner of his eyes, and he has appreciation for Ma Jiang, a junior.

Luo Qi didn't know how the drunk and slovenly Ma Jiang was caught by this man. Even Ma Jiang felt flattered and looked a little confused.Ma Jiang turned half around and said, "I haven't seen you before, this is my first time here? Their Jinbo wine is definitely worth recommending. The taste hasn't changed for 800 years."

800 years... Luo Qi silently calculated, if Ma Jiang didn't fart, it was the wine of the Song Dynasty.

The stranger accepted his suggestion graciously, and the shopkeeper brought out the fine wine in a Jun kiln wine cup, which seemed to confirm Ma Jiang's words.The stranger also seemed to have extraordinary taste. He first admired the porcelain for a while, showing a satisfied smile, and then slowly tasted the wine, "Good wine."

How can you use such literary words to evaluate?This man seems to live in the wrong era.Roach took a strong sip of the wine he had mixed with a lot of juice and milk, and used the straw to make a harsh sound to express his disapproval.

The stranger turned a blind eye to him, and he began to chat with Ma Jiang about his travels. He had just finished his archaeological work in the upper valley of the Xilamulun River.As far as Roach knows, it may not be far from the Hongshan cultural site, and the ancestors of the mages may have settled there for a period of time.

Luo Qi quietly looked at the stranger. He had no traces of sun exposure, nor did he look like he had lived in the ice and snow for a long time. Even his nails were well-groomed and neat, and the skin on his hands was even more tender. Woman's hands.The robe on his body is neat and elegant, and all the corners of the clothes are very docile. He is dressed in the most orthodox mage's attire, and his collar is pressed meticulously.The clothes are expensive, and it looks like they were made by mages. Now there are fewer and fewer mages who are willing to spend so much credits to wear such clothes.

Strangers are very good at talking, and when he starts talking, he seems very plain, but this kind of plainness can always lead people into the snare he weaves with words, and when he throws out the burden of words, Ma Jiang has already laughed tears.The speaker himself always just smiled faintly, as if the bombardment of jokes had nothing to do with him.

"Are you a doctor?" After laughing for a while, the stranger suddenly asked Ma Jiang.

"How do you know?" Ma Jiang asked him with a smile.

The stranger let go of the wine glass, opened his palms upwards, and made a movement as if feeling balance.

"Can you feel my energy preference?" Ma Jiang's expression became admirable, "It's really amazing. Among the people I know, only a few people can do this."

Luo Qi seriously suspected that Du Zhengyi was among the people Ma Jiang mentioned.

"I just feel the traces of the magic you often use." The stranger smiled. "The medical magic that accelerates the growth of muscles and bones will leave a faint smell of tobacco."

Roach kind of got it, like he could smell the caramelized popcorn left over from the magic of a grand carnival, only the stranger's senses were sharper.The grand magic that many people participated in is of course obvious like a scar on the forehead when the traces are still fresh, and ordinary humans can also smell it.But it is not easy for Ma Jiang to be aware of the magic performed by himself after several hours.

Ma Jiang also thought about it. Although it was not an active magic measurement, it was still very remarkable. He extended his thumb to the stranger.

"Have you just had a major operation?" the stranger asked casually. "Need alcohol to balance your weight?"

Now Luo Qi felt a little embarrassed. He originally thought that Ma Jiang was an unreliable alcoholic, but now he remembered that he must have spent a lot of energy on treating him.Concentrating on using a large dose of single magic for a long time is very uncomfortable for the mage, dizzy, excited but unable to think.Alcohol happens to be a way to speed up the wizard's recovery of balance, so many senior wizards drink more or less in their old age.

Roach was ashamed, his meager energy reserves were not enough to overload at all, so he forgot about this, appearing a bit ungrateful.

(End of this chapter)