009, lost heart

As one of the four major inventions in ancient China, the compass has a long history and is difficult to trace. The original form is a board and a spoon. Because of the geocentric magnetic field, the handle of the spoon always points to the south, so it was originally called Sinan.

But is the one who can't guide still be called Si Nan? Tang Xiaotang picked up Si Nan's chassis from the table. It was not engraved with the southeast and northwest branches like the pictures he had seen before, but it was smooth. Except for a circular mark under the spoon, which was probably used to mark the location of the spoon, there was no trace.

Si Nan looked very heavy, but in fact it was similar to a water cup. Tang Xiaotang held it in both hands and meditated in his heart - please tell me the whereabouts of the sunbird.

[Human girl, is the daylight bird the thing you want most now?]

An inexplicable voice appeared in my mind, as if someone was talking directly in consciousness. Tang Xiaotang was stunned for a moment, and then replied in his heart, "Yes, I want to find it anyway."

[I can see through everyone's inner desire. Sunbird is not what you need. Are you sure you want to find it?]

"The teacher needs a lot of fairy grass. What I can do now is to find the daylight bird. Although I don't need it myself, I want to find it for the teacher."

The voice in his mind fell silent, and Tang Xiaotang asked again inexplicably, "Can you tell me?" But there was no reply.

Si Nan in his hand began to rotate, and the rabbit cried and looked at Si Nan with great interest.

[The past came to Yanru and me for their own selfishness. You were the first to come for other people's wishes.]

"Ah, isn't it?" Tang Xiaotang unconsciously made a sound, and the rabbit on her shoulder looked at her strangely. She immediately changed to a conscious dialogue, "Then can you tell me the whereabouts of the sunbird?"

[Do you know a place called Nikko Rock?]

Sunlight Rock? Tang Xiaotang vaguely remembered that he had heard such a word, but he couldn't remember where it was for a while.

[Any creature other than the owner can only ask me for one thing in his life. The person you ask on his behalf is really cunning.]

"Huh?!" Can you only ask once in your life? Tang Xiaotang shouted out. It turned out that the rabbit refused to use it in person. Is that the reason? So it doesn't want to waste this only opportunity, or...

- I've been here before.

Or has the teacher already used it? More than a thousand years ago, I came here for something else.

When the rabbit saw her lowered her eyes, he arched her face: "Wo girl, girl! What's wrong with you? Did you ask?

Tang Xiaotang came to his senses and nodded: "I asked, Mr. Sinan said that the thing was in Nikko Rock. Does the teacher know where Nikko Rock is?"

The rabbit scratched his ear: "I don't know. Why don't you ask for more details?"

A person can only ask once in his life, and Tang Xiaotang thought dissatisfiedly.

"Sunlight Rock should refer to the Sunlight Rock on Gulangyu Island!" Yan Ru heard their conversation and interrupted.

Tang Xiaotang suddenly realized: "Ah, yes, that's right. I said I saw it somewhere. I saw it on the brochure when I went to sign up for a travel agency that day. It seems to be a very famous scenic spot on Gulangyu Island."

Yanru is still indifferent: "Yes, you have found what you want and can go on the road at any time. Of course, if you are willing to stay for a few more days, I won't charge you for food and accommodation for the face of Lord Zhu Jin."

Tang Xiaotang was slightly embarrassed and waved his hand quickly: "Isn't it good? Didn't you run a hotel before? You don't charge money? How can you continue? I'd better pay for it. How much is it for a night?"

Yanru looked at her and replied with a smile, "Ten taels of silver a night, free to eat, and the hot spring can be used at will."

"...ah ha ha ha, it turns out that the teacher's face is so valuable."

"Fad! How can my face be worth only ten taels of silver!"

So in the end, they still have to eat and live for nothing. Rabbit and Yanru don't mind at all, but Tang Xiaotang feels very embarrassed and can't afford to pay, so they have to do something else, right? So after lunch, she asked Yan Ru where the cleaning tools were.

The rabbit is deeply despised by her behavior of asking for trouble: "You are simply the stupidest human I have ever seen. You are not happy to eat for nothing, and you have to find something to do for yourself. Heatstroke is just right. What should I do if you are tired again? Ah, ah, it's so annoying!"

Tang Xiaotang smiled as he twisted the mop, "How can I not be happy to eat for free? It's just that Miss Yanru is so kind that she and I don't know each other and can't be favored for nothing. Although I don't have the ability, I can still do the cleaning work. I'm also very happy that I can do something for others.

The rabbit muttered unbearably, "I don't want to waste time with you here." A rabbit ran to play with the group of monsters last night, but this way of playing was probably quite brutal. When Tang Xiaotang mopped the floor under the porch, he could always hear screams in the distance.

Yanru sits in the yard and smokes. Tang Xiaotang doesn't like people who smoke, but Yanru's vicissitudes and lonely look with thin women's cigarettes are very harmonious, which will not make people feel disgusted. Looking at it from afar makes people feel that she is a woman with a story.

"Actually, you don't need to be so tired." Yan Ru spit out a smoke ring and said lightly.

"It's a little thing, it won't be very tired," Tang Xiaotang pushed the mop and ran back. "And only after exercising can I have an appetite. The pancakes made by Miss Yanru are really delicious. I can't eat them after leaving. I have to eat enough at a time."

Yan Ru smiled twice, but there was no expression on her face. After smoking a cigarette, she lit another cigarette and said slowly, "Si Nan has told me. Do you regret it?"

Tang Xiaotang knew what she meant, wiped his sweat and shook his head: "I don't regret it. The teacher is my benefactor, and I should repay him."

Yan Ru nodded silently and said, "I have lived for nearly 2,000 years. There are countless people who have come to beg me, including Lord Zhu Jin. Everyone came for their own wishes. Once they ask the whereabouts of their favorite things from Si Nan's mouth, they will immediately say goodbye to me. No one will want to repay me."

Tang Xiaotang soaked the mop in the bucket and rubbed it. There were no plastic gloves in the utility room of the hotel. She accidentally scratched a skin on her knuckle.

"Then aren't you always alone?"

"That's not true, at least... it was not."

The chat box was about to open when the rabbit jumped out of the corner of the wall: " girl, come on, I found fairy grass on the mountain behind, orange soft grass, orange soft grass, follow quickly!"

Yanru put the cigarette in her mouth again. Tang Xiaotang had to pour out the water in the bucket, carry things back to the utility room, and then followed the rabbit to dig fairy grass.

Orange soft grass is a pink floc plant. In the mature season, as long as the wind is slightly strong, it will be blown all over the sky. It is very similar to the breeding method of dandelion. The rabbit sucks saliva and commands Tang Xiaotang to pinch the whole flocculation part of the orange grass with a small cloth pocket. Wait to find the daylight bird to sow.

The hot spring that night was still overcrowded. Tang Xiaotang greeted the rabbit after taking a shower and went back to bed.

"Have you found what you want?" The man with two-colored eyes asked.

Tang Xiaotang stopped and nodded to him: "I found it. Thank you for your concern."

The man smiled slightly: "Congratulations, fewer and fewer people have known what they want in recent hundreds of years."

Tang Xiaotang remembered what Si Nan said to herself and couldn't help asking, "If it's not the master, he can only ask one question. If it's the master, if it's Miss Yan Ru, can he ask a lot?"

The man restrained his eyelids and his expression was full of melancholy: "No, she can't ask anything, because she doesn't know what she really wants."

Don't you know what you really want?

Tang Xiaotang chewed the man's words and walked on the way back to the room to sleep. He was about to open the door of the guest room when he suddenly saw the light in the room with Sinan at the end of the corridor. He was curious and sneaked over.

A candle was lit in the room. Yan Ru held Si Nan in her hand and prayed devoutly, "Tell me where he is. Please, tell me!"

Tang Xiaotang hid outside the door and couldn't take her eyes off. Yan Ru stood quietly for a while and suddenly knelt down. Tang Xiaotang was scared and thought she fainted. She quickly ran out of the hiding place and came forward to help her: "Miss Yanru, are you all right?"

Yan Ru sat on the ground, covered her face with her hands and cried: "Why don't you tell me? He is the only one I want. Why didn't you tell me..."

Tang Xiaotang didn't quite understand, so he could only try to comfort her: "Maybe Mr. Si Nan doesn't know either? The earth is so big that Mr. Sinan is still managed by the geomagnetic field. It's normal to have something you don't know.

Yan Ru cried and laughed: "It's either doesn't know, or it doesn't tell me. It says that I don't see my heart clearly, and what I ask from it is not what I really want... For more than a thousand years, I have asked it the same question every day, and it has always refused to answer me directly. It's not that it doesn't know, why it just won't tell me. ?"

Tang Xiaotang was hugged by her. She was embarrassed to push it away and didn't know what she could do, so she asked, "Then you can ask it what you want. Maybe it will answer you?"

Of course, this kind of question may be rejected by Si Nan on the grounds that "you don't know how I know".

Yan Ru cried for a long time before gradually resting. Tang Xiaotang wiped her tears with her pajama sleeves: "Don't cry. What are you looking for? Can I help you find it?"

"I'm looking for someone. No, I should say that I'm looking for a monster," Yan Ru stopped crying and threw a grateful look at her. "You can't help. I haven't found him for more than a thousand years. Even if you want to help me, you can't help me."