There is the melodious moon song in the mirror of mortals beside the ears, and the familiar magnolia tree in front of it. Baole walks across the water, leaving a string of ripples until the figure slowly disappears into the illusion.

At the end of the song, Xie Huai slowly put down the jade flute in his hand, took a deep breath, he and Han Ziyang looked at each other, neither of them spoke.Sending the Baole from another world back means that the Baole from their world will come back—the body that has been searched for for five years but has not been found, and finally after five years, a whole body can be returned.

On the mountain were Xie Huai and Han Ziyang. The seventh child of the Xie family slowly put his hands on the coffin lid, as if stroking a lover, his curled fingers trembling slightly.

At the foot of the mountain was Jiang Heng hugging Jiang Yuechan. This woman aged several years overnight, sobbing softly in her husband's arms.

Before dawn in the morning, many policemen came to the mountain.The villagers of Nvluo Village didn't know what happened, they gathered around curiously.Around noon, saw the policemen all over the mountain carrying down a coffin from the mountain, and don't know whose coffin it was.

Under Xie Huai's gaze, Jiang Yuechan walked to the coffin step by step.

The mother suddenly hugged the coffin, crying heartbreakingly.

It was originally a sunny day, the sun was shining brightly, and it was noon, which was the most yang time of the day.But for some reason, a dark cloud suddenly covered the sun, and near Nuluo Mountain, heavy snow fell.

Snowflakes fell on everyone at that time, and a funeral dirge was heard in a trance.

...

At the end of the song, the sun is shining brightly when you open your eyes, surrounded by vermilion walls and green tiles.Baole rubbed his eyes, only to realize that he was lying on a wicker chair.

There is a hundred-year-old magnolia tree in the yard. Although it is not the magnolia's flowering season, the magnolia flowers on the branches are blooming beautifully.It seems to have a dark fragrance, which is refreshing.Now she is lying on the rattan chair under the magnolia tree, wearing the down jacket she wore when she came back from the mirror world, and holding the magnolia chalcedony in her hand.

The little girl turned her stiff neck, and then her eyes fell on the flower bed on the right.

Xie Huai was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a brocade robe made of silk with a round neck and half sleeves. He was holding a book in his hand, leaning against the edge of the flower bed, and looking at it seriously.He was holding a magnolia petal in his hand. After turning the page, he used the petal as a bookmark and sandwiched it between the two pages. Then he closed the book and looked up at her.

"I am back?"

Xie Huai's voice was as gentle as jade, and he gave her an affirmative answer: "Yes."

Baole stretched his waist and pressed his stiff shoulders, feeling a little unreal: "It's like having a long, long dream."

"There's nothing wrong with being a dream." Xie Huai said.

"Where are Shen Wangyan and them?"

"Drinking tea with my grandfather," Xie Huai paused, and then looked at the chalcedony in her hand, "Have you found a place of enlightenment in the mirror world?"

The little girl said seriously: "It's a long story, you don't know, you and I in the mirror world are actually lovers. I was killed by your distant relatives, and my body was hidden in the mountain temple on Nuluo Mountain......"

Xie Huai smiled and said, "Sounds very exciting."

Baole rolled his eyes at him: "I'm very serious, okay? Why don't you feel anything at all? You're from another world!"

"The me in another world," Xie Huai said flatly, "it's not me either."

The little girl choked on this sentence, and always felt that he was connoting her and empathizing with herself in the mirror, which was a very stupid thing.Baole immediately disliked Xie Huai in this world. He felt that although he was polite and gentle as jade, he was just like Shen Wangyan, as long as it was not related to him, he was extremely indifferent.

Beside her wicker chair, there is a small stone table with a tea set on it, surrounded by two stone benches.

Xie Huai seemed to come here specially to decipher it for her. He sat down on the stone bench next to Baole, poured himself a cup of tea and talked eloquently: "I have a photographic memory since I was a child. You may think that a photographic memory is a very powerful thing."Ability, but it’s actually a disease. Normal people’s brain development is less than 10%, Einstein’s is 13%, and if I concentrate, it can reach up to about 15%.”

"I didn't know this when I was young. My parents only knew that I was fast in calculations and had a strong memory, so... for them, I was probably more of a commodity than their son. They just knew that I was special.Different, but I never thought about the possible side effects of being different. The first nosebleed, the doctor said that my blood clotting is poor, and excessive use of the brain will lead to massive internal bleeding. But my parents still don’t agree.They kept forcing me to do all kinds of things, and I was sent to the hospital again and again, and I escaped from death again and again. This kind of life probably lasted until I graduated from junior high school."

Xie Huai stroked the rim of his teacup, and smiled in a low voice: "I resisted later, and now it is the result of my resistance. You know, as long as you have this piece of chalcedony in your hand, the Xie family will be mine from now on.You can make me do things I don't want to do."

"..." Baole didn't know what to say for a while.

"But he didn't," Xie Huai said again, "that's why he likes the person who gives him light in the dark so much."

The little girl was stunned for a moment, but she didn't realize who he was talking about, but Xie Huai didn't say another word after that.Baole watched him sip his tea, and looked around for a while, she found that the yard she was staying in now was a very classic courtyard.

"Is this your home?" Baole asked.

Xie Huai put down his teacup: "Not yet, this is the old house of the Xie family in the outskirts of the imperial capital, where all the Xie family members who have not yet established themselves live. The yard was given to the family during the Kangxi period, and the size is about the same as Prince Gong's mansion.Worth the amount."

As he spoke, he gestured to the little girl.The little girl gasped, and when she looked at the yard again, it seemed that it was no longer a yard, but a mountain of RMB.

Xie Huai smiled and said, "Although it's not mine yet, it will be soon."

Baole put on a respectful expression, wishing he could embrace his thigh immediately.

"Boss, do you still need the leg pendant?"

...

Baole came back from the Mirror Realm, but he was not in a hurry to return to Nanjing.Taking advantage of Shen Yan's relationship, the little girl found Qin Yao and took her cousin Han Ziyang to have a meal together.After eating, she got the address she wanted from Han Ziyang.

A few days after the new year, Baole, accompanied by Junzhi, came to Nuluo Village—but this is the Nuluo Village in their world.Nvluo Mountain collapsed due to an earthquake in the last century, and Nvluo Village was moved to the surrounding area.But when they arrived, they found that the structure of this village was almost exactly the same as that of the Mirror Realm, so they easily found the Sunshine Inn in Nuluo Village.

The little girl stood at the door of the inn, took a deep breath, finally made up her mind to take a step, but took it back by herself.

"I, I, I'm not ready yet, or I'll come back tomorrow." Baole buried himself in Junzhi's arms, thinking that this person smells so good and feels good, especially the 8 yuan under the sweater.abs.

Jun Yi saw through her tricks, grabbed the little girl by the collar, and gave her a push.

"I'm here," he said, "go in."

Baole sighed, and knocked on the door of the Sunshine Inn resignedly.

The structure of the inn is exactly the same as the mirror world, the lobby, stairs, and even the bell on the counter.The owner of the inn didn't know where he went, and there was no one in the lobby. The little girl repeatedly crushed the bell on the counter with one finger.

Through the experience of ringing the bell for the second time, Baole confirmed that they really couldn't hear the sound of the bell outside.

The bell didn't ring for a while, and a younger woman walked out of the back room, who looked a little familiar.Although the hair style is different, she can barely tell that it is the owner of the previous inn. She is wiping the water on her hands, as if she was washing something just now.

"Don't press it, isn't it coming?" The innkeeper looked up at the two of them and asked aloud, "Eat or stay?"

Baole thought that everyone is a stranger, although I know who you are, but you don't know who I am.The clever little girl thought of a trick, followed her words and said, "Dinner, boss, what special dishes do you have here?"

"Hey, don't ask me about that, I'm just a part-time job," the woman yelled towards the back room, "Auntie, a guest asked us what's special about this place!"

Then another person came out from the back room, and Baole stared at her in a daze - Xie Lihua looked much younger than that in the mirror, her hair that should have been grizzled was now dark and dark, and she had a style.

She looked at Junzhi and Baole, and smiled kindly: "I am the boss here, and you two are here to travel? Why don't you try our signature braised water noodles. It's Chinese New Year, just treat you as my treat, noCollect money."

"it is good."

The little girl responded sullenly.

The two waited in the lobby for a while.

Xie Lihua came over with two bowls of noodles, and asked casually, "My daughter, do you eat spicy food?"

Baole was in a daze, and he said after a long time, "Auntie, I don't eat spicy food."

While talking, a new guest came to the Sunshine Inn.This one is also an acquaintance. Thinking about the New Year's Eve, how could anyone really come to such a remote country for tourism? Naturally, they all came for a purpose.

Zhang Jian shook the snow off his shoulders, and put the umbrella in the umbrella frame at the door.

"Auntie, it's snowing outside again," Zhang Jian said to Xie Lihua, "Your transportation is not convenient, why don't you close the inn and stay with me for a while, and come back after the Lantern Festival."

With his back on his back, Xie Lihua shook her head while wiping the counter: "That's impossible, I still have customers here. I'm leaving, what are they eating?"

Zhang Jian touched the back of his head: "Where are there any guests?"

"It's not there..." Xie Lihua turned her head, and the two bowls of noodles on the table were almost eaten, but the people who were sitting were missing.Although it was said that no money was required, there were still three or four hundred yuan bills under the noodle bowl.

Xie Lihua took the money and murmured, "Why did you give me so much money?"

...

Baole and Junzhi walked along the highway, digesting food while walking, the little girl seemed to be in a good mood.

"The world in the mirror is really a magical world," the little girl put her hands behind her back, "You and the self in the mirror have chosen different paths, so you are running in opposite directions. Junzhi, will you ever have such a time, whenYou made a choice at a crucial time in your life, and after many years, would you wonder what would have happened if you had taken a different path back then?"

Junzhi listened to her words silently, without answering.

Baole then said to himself: "Zhang Jian in the mirror world chose to escape. Since then, he has been in a daze and has been burdened with Zhu Yan's death. He even has to use drugs to numb himself. But in our world, Zhang Jian did not choose to escape in the end.", he even surrendered himself to the police after the accident. Beizhong High School did not hide the truth about campus bullying. Lu Pengfei did not choose to commit suicide.The frequency of coming to Beijing once a year is to thank Xie Lihua for Zhu Yan who saved me back then."

The little girl looked up at the sunset, her eyes filled with tears: "How wonderful, everything is so perfect in our world."

Junzhi took her hand behind her back, and under the setting sun, their fingers intertwined.

"Speaking of which, I am completely different from me in the mirror world. After all, she found a boyfriend in Beijing, and I found a boyfriend in Nanjing."

Junzhi lowered his head and gave a soft "hmm".

Baole looked at his side face seriously, as he had seen countless times before.

"So Junzhi," she said suddenly, "your original name was Shen Linjun, right?"

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