Obligations of the elderly

The so-called "fixed deed", also known as "fixed instrument".

In ancient times, it was originally written as "fixing device".

Legend has it that when there were no "users" and "tools" in this world, people who wanted to use various sharp weapons needed to go to special shops and find craftsmen to customize an exclusive "tool" for themselves. device".

Today, the relationship between users and utensils is exactly the same as that of the past.

Early in the morning, the old man surnamed Xie specially came to wake Aji up.

According to his original intention, he wanted to take Aji away directly, but this matter was categorically rejected by the Gong brothers.They asked to be present all the time, but the other party didn't agree with this matter. After a stalemate for a while, seeing Aji start crying again, the old man finally agreed to their proposal when no one on the old man's side could coax him. side requirements.

"But only one person can go." The old man surnamed Xie said, pointing his fingers at Gong Si: "You go, the other two people can't."

"Why?" Qiu Xia asked immediately.

"You are the user, and he is another weapon. The fewer people around the contract ceremony, the better, especially ability users, let alone high-level ability users."

"Your eldest brother is an ordinary person, so at most he can only accompany you."

The old man looked at Qiu Xia's expression at this point, and added: "You don't want Aji's contract ceremony to be affected, do you? It will affect him too."

Qiu Xia pursed her lips and stopped insisting.

"Brother, I'll leave it to you." He said to Gong Si.

"Well, don't worry." Gong Si nodded to him.

"You have to take care of yourself..." Qiu Xia said this in a low voice, borrowing the time to pass things to the palace.

Dazed for a moment, Gong Si smiled: "I know the seriousness."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hands and waved goodbye to his two younger brothers.

To be honest, they didn't know what the deed ceremony was going to do.The book that Qiu Xia borrowed from school did not include this item. His enrollment was too short, and he was surrounded by low-grade users and utensils. Most of their contract ceremony was simple, but it was such a simple contract ceremony. I haven't seen it before. It is said that the contract ceremony between high-level users and utensils is completely different from that of low-grade ones. They knew that the contract signing ceremony that the little brother was about to perform must be the most advanced one.

It is also the most complicated kind.

"I heard that the deed ceremony that is popular among young people seems to be simple and fast, but the deed ceremony between the master and Mr. Aji will still use the traditional method..." While leading the way, the old man finally said something to the palace. About the deed ceremony.

God knows those servants never answered their questions about the deed ceremony these days!

"What are we going to do?" Holding Aji tightly, Gong Si took the opportunity to ask him.

"The etiquette officer will lead the way, just take Mr. Gong Siji and follow their instructions." However, this is the answer that Gong Si got.

Looking at the two rows of people wearing traditional white jackets behind him, Gong Si realized that they were not servants, but officials of ceremonies.

The old man led them all the way to a white house, and then he bowed and retreated. The next person who led the palace was another man in a white jacket who came out from the door. Although the hat and robes on his body are also white, they are obviously more gorgeous than those on the people behind him.

Instead of the old man surnamed Xie, he led the way in front of the Gongsi brothers. Through the long corridor, he finally led the Gong family brothers to a...

Big bath?

That's right!It's a big bath!

It's about the same size as the pool in their house, maybe even a little smaller. It's all made of stones. If you look carefully, there are moss on the stones~

There is a big tree beside the pool, half of the trunk is soaked in the pool water. I don’t know if it’s because of the hot springs. Even though it’s winter, this tree is still full of branches and leaves. A tree is like a big umbrella covering the entire hot spring pool.

"What is this for?" Frowning, Gong Si immediately asked.

The etiquette officer just smiled: "Next, Mr. Gong Siji needs to bathe physically and mentally in this pool."

Palace Si: ...

Aji doesn't know how to bathe his body and mind, he just knows it's a bath.

"Should I just take a shower?" Gong Sixin said that this didn't sound like a big deal, it seemed a little too simple.

He had just finished thinking like this when he heard the man say again: "Twelve hours."

"Ah?" Gong Si still didn't understand.

"Next, Mr. Gong Siji needs to soak in this pool for twelve hours."

Gong Si jumped on the spot: "He is a child, how can he soak in hot water for twelve hours? Even if it is a ceremony, you have to consider human life?"

"Don't worry, we care about Mr. Gong Siji's health as much as you do. The water in this pool has a lot of origins. It contains the energy of the user who is about to be paired with Mr. Gong Siji. As time goes by, the other party's energy The information will become more and more intense. At the same time, the information of Mr. Gong Siji will also be conveyed to the other party along with the water in the pool. Before the ceremony, the energy information of the user and the device can be communicated and blended in this way. The method used in the contract ceremony is also the most gentle method with the highest integration rate. Due to the lack of various conditions, fewer and fewer people use this method nowadays. It is rare that everything is ready. Mr. Ji is really a good thing, after all, he is still so young."

The etiquette officer wearing a high hat explained to Gongsi in a gentle manner that this way of speaking is a bit similar to Qiuxia. To be honest, Gongsi is a bit uncomfortable with this way of speaking, not to mention that the other party is doing it for the good of Aji. Gritting her teeth, Gong Si patted Aji's little butt lightly: "Aji, how about going swimming next? Didn't you stay in the water yesterday and didn't want to come out?"

Aji recently learned to swim in the hot spring pool. He said it was swimming, but it was actually thumping. Bring him a baby swimming ring and he can float in the pool. His little hands and feet can move forward, backward, left, and right by pushing hard from time to time. move.

Sure enough, Aji laughed when he heard his brother say that ← he now understands what the sound of "swimming" means.

While he was happy, Gong Si took off the little clothes on him, took off the diapers, and then put Aji on the baby swimming ring handed over by the etiquette officer next to him ← well, the other party was already prepared.

Then he hugged Aji's small fat waist and slowly put him into the water.

Of course, he tested the water temperature before putting it down: the temperature of this pool is a little lower than the one in their house, and the temperature is more friendly, and Aji should be able to soak for a longer time.

Gong Si thought so in his heart.

but--

He was only thinking about the water temperature, but he forgot that Aji is a baby, and the things that babies think about are completely different from adults!

As soon as he got into the water, Aji obediently suspended in the water, staring at Gongsi with big eyes without blinking.

Others saw him as obediently soaking in the hot springs. This scene relieved the etiquette officers around him. The high-hat etiquette officer even praised Aji. However, less than five seconds after he praised him, Aji’s eyes rolled Bian started crying.

The baby should not "swim" alone, the baby should "bubble" with his brother~

Although he can't speak, his body language has fully expressed what he wants to say.

"Strictly following the procedure of the ceremony, only Mr. Gong Siji should go down this pool." After thinking for a while, the etiquette officer said: "But Mr. Gong Siji is too young, and if he is alone... I am afraid that it will take only 5 minutes. Unable to insist, the reason for not letting others touch the water is mainly because I am worried that other people's energy information will be mixed into the water and affect the establishment of contact. Mr. Gongsi is an ordinary person, and ordinary people do not have energy information on them. Even if they enter the water, they should be like a stone. Like a fallen leaf, it will not have any impact on the pool water."

Gong Si: So I am just a stone, a fallen leaf.

But seeing Aji crying, he was also anxious. Even if the other party's statement made him quite unhappy, he didn't say anything. The other party made two more phone calls. It seemed that he had discussed it with more professional experts. After the call was over, The palace was approved to enter the pool.

Sure enough, as soon as his brother came down, Aji stopped crying immediately.

Tears were still hanging in his eyes, his little mouth was slightly bent, and he was waving his little arms and kicking his legs. He started to circle around in the hot spring pool ← Aji’s strength was too weak, and he couldn’t swim well.

As long as my brother is soaking with me, I am satisfied, and I don’t need to be hugged by Gongsi. Aji has a lot of fun in the water~

An hour after they hit the water, the ceremonial officers stepped back.

Before leaving, the high-hat etiquette officer told the palace to soak for twelve hours, and you can leave halfway to soak in the cold pool next to it, but you can't stay on the shore for a long time, otherwise Aji's deed ceremony will be affected. Influence.

Gong Si was very serious about everything about Aji, and nodded to the other party, and Gong Si soaked in the pool with Aji.

To be honest, this pool is really beautiful.

Although the walls and bottom of the surrounding pools are made of stone, they don’t feel hard because they are covered with thick moss?Aquatic?Gong Si didn't know what the layer on the stone was called, they were thin and soft, it was very comfortable to sit on, and because it was clean, Gong Si would not feel sick.

The tree above the head is also very beautiful, look carefully, its leaves are not completely green, there are also red ones, which fall into the pond from time to time, Gong Si picked up a piece and looked, the veins of the leaves stretched, he hadn’t seen it in Lengshui Town any kind of leaves.

Every time he picked up a leaf, Gong Si put it by the pool behind him, and when he collected the eighth leaf, he felt a little dizzy.

Is the water temperature getting hotter?I don't know if it's his illusion or it's really like this, Gong Si felt that the water temperature has risen.

The mist became thicker than before, and he had to push the mist away from time to time in order to see Aggie spinning around him at all times.

I don't know if it's because of this reason that he keeps moving, which makes him feel a little lack of oxygen.

With flushed face, Gong Si had to crawl out of the pool to soak in the cold water for a while in the cold pool next door.

But it didn't make him feel any better. In the end, he crawled out of the water and squatted on the shore, with the cold wind blowing, until his body feeling dropped to the usual time when he was in Lengshui Town, his brain felt like this. Only then was Qingming restored.

pity--

Aggie cried again.

The elder brother has been away for too long, he wants to bubble with his elder brother.

There was no other way, Gong Si could only bite the bullet and went down into the hot pool again.

This is probably the difference between ability users and ordinary people, right?

Aji soaked for longer than himself, but he didn't feel anything at all. He was still splashing happily in the water, but he couldn't do it anymore, and wanted to pass out anytime, anywhere.

It should be that thing called energy information is making trouble?

That stuff makes Aggie comfortable?So Aji can keep soaking in the water like this?That thing has no effect on me, so I can only soak for a while.

Trying to take a deep breath in the pool, Gong Si tried to let himself absorb more oxygen.

Relying on tenacious perseverance, he finally survived in the hot spring pool for three hours.

Three hours later, he almost passed out when he came out of the pool, and had to stay in the cold water pool for a while before going back under the call of Aji.

Then he persisted until six hours.

At this time, he was already in a daze, and he didn't even have the strength to leave the pool. It was Aji's call that attracted the etiquette officers outside. Rescued him back, but Aji left him and was about to get out of the pool. There was no way, those people had no choice but to sink the noodle-like palace into the hot spring pool again.

Like a hot spring egg - dizzy, Gong Si began to think wildly.

At the tenth hour, Aggie climbed on top of him and took a pee.

Although it was hot, Gong Si could still feel it.

Having been urinated by Aji several times, Gong Si has already been unaware of this kind of thing, but at this moment, he is thinking about other things in a mess.

For example, this pond has not only Aji's so-called energy information, but also Aji's urine. Will this make the information stronger?Maybe Aji's urine will go to the other party through the pool water along with the energy information...

etc--

Was he really confused by the heat?Why did he think of this now?

"...It contains the energy of the user who will be paired with Mr. Gong Siji. As time goes on, the energy information of the other party will become stronger and stronger..."

Did that person say that?

If Aji was the only one here, how could Aji's energy reach the other person in the contract ceremony through the pool?How could the opponent's energy become stronger and stronger?

The other party must be soaking in the hot spring at the same time!

The other party must be the same as Aji, and also has to soak in another pool for twelve hours, which is still a pool connected to this pool, so that the term "transmission" can be used. The longer the soaking time, the stronger the other party's smell...

MMP!How dare they keep soaking in other people's bath water?

Suddenly thinking of this possibility, with a jolt, Gong Si suddenly woke up!

But he quickly leaned back against the pool wall weakly.

"Drink more water and pee more." This was all he could tell Aji.

Finally, twelve hours came.

Aji had already fallen asleep, clinging tightly to the body of the sinking palace, the two of them were fished out of the water together.

Aji was changed into a small white robe, and Gongsi also got one.

"Thank you, Mr. Gong Siji, for your company. Mr. Gong Siji was able to persist in the pool for so long. In this way, the necessary preparations for the ceremony are completely completed. Next, Mr. Gong Siji will be brought into the venue, Mr. Gong Siji Are you tired too? We can take you to the nearest place to rest, or do you want to go back to your residence to rest?" the etiquette officer wearing a tall hat smiled and said to Gongsi.

Miyagi's answer...

He snatched Aggie.

The weakness just now was gone, only the rosiness on the face proved that those frailties had existed, Gong Si hugged Aji and said coldly to them:

"It's impossible for me to let you take Aji there alone. How do I know if the person Aji wants to contract is the powerful user you mentioned at the beginning? Will you change people temporarily? How do I know you guys?" Won't you do anything else to Aji?"

Gong Si, who had been very cooperative all this time, suddenly became violent, and those people remembered that someone told them before that "Gong Si is a thorn in the head".

"We just put Mr. Gong Siji into the venue. There is no one else there except the master of your mansion. This is a ceremony for the two of them. We will not do extravagant things..." the high-hat etiquette officer said slowly to him.

However, Gongsi just stared at him with a kitchen knife, holding Aji tightly in his hands and not letting go.

The protocol officer had to call again.

After the phone call, he didn't say anything else, and let Gong Si hug Aji, and he led Gong Si out from another corridor.

Waiting at the end of the corridor was still the old man surnamed Xie, followed by five other old men.

Looking at the palace with a serious face, the old man said in a deep voice: "I will agree to all your requests, the reason is only for Mr. Gong Siji's mood to be happier, and the success rate of the contract ceremony with the master will be higher, that's all. It's not because I was moved by your perseverance or persistence, let alone by your shitty family affection."

"I know." Gong Si raised his head: "I will agree to all your requests, and it's also for Aji, there is no other reason."

One old and one young, one tall and one short, the two looked at each other for a full minute, and the old man was the first to turn around.

"Follow." He said to Gong Si.

Supporting his weak body and hugging Aji tightly, Gong Si followed his pace.

***

It is still a long and thin corridor, with snow on both sides of the corridor. The corridor that can only accommodate one person walks twists and turns, and there are paper lanterns above the head that seem to be endless.

However, where there seems to be no end, there is still an end.

They stopped before a wooden door leading to the end of the corridor.

The lantern disappeared over their heads, and the door was dark.

A strange fragrance floated in from the door, the fragrance was cold, as cold as snow.

"This is the venue for the ceremony. It was supposed to be an ordinary etiquette officer who carried Mr. Gong Siji in. Because of your request, I decided to let you replace the other party's job." Standing at the door, the old man looked at Gong Siji coldly. road.

"There's only one way inside, you can't go wrong, carry Young Master Gong Siji over there, hand him over to the master, and your mission will be completed."

"Then you come out quickly, run as far as you can, don't affect the ceremony."

After saying this, the old man didn't say a word, he just guarded the door with his hands behind his back, one of the other old men guarded the other side of the door, and the other four people had already made arrangements to stand still, looking like guards.

Without looking at them, Gong Si looked at Aji in his arms, and stepped into the dark door resolutely.

He quickly understood the meaning of "there is only one way in it".

Ahead is a red carpet.

Soft and scarlet.

There are candlesticks on both sides of the carpet, the low ones, the candles are not too bright, just enough to illuminate the small area next to the candlesticks.

Gong Si could only see her own feet, those candlesticks, the carpet, and...

At the end of the rug and candlestick is the bed curtain.

He could only think of this description, it seemed to be a bed, and it seemed to be a huge seat, surrounded by red curtains, and there was no wind in the room, and those curtains were blown up.

However, no matter how the wind blows, he still cannot see the scene behind the curtain.

Until he got close, he saw a faint figure behind the curtain.

Huge room, weird layout, no one, no sound...

Gong Si walked forward step by step, holding Aji in his arms, his heart was terribly cold, but Aji didn't understand, being hugged by his brother was very comfortable, Aji gnawed on his fingers, occasionally looked around, but most of them For a long time, his eyes were fixed on his brother's chin.

He even yawned a little.

Seeing such a younger brother, Gong Si's heart became more determined.

Yet he didn't stop.

Walking forward at a constant speed, he reached the end of the carpet, in front of the curtain.

The figure was behind the curtain, less than two meters away from him, as long as he opened the curtain, he could see it.

"Put down the weapon, you can step back." In the wind, he heard a low and deep male voice faintly behind the curtain.

Gong Si didn't listen carefully to the voice, and gritted his teeth. Instead of putting Aji down, he hugged Aji even harder, and then said to the other party:

"I don't care how powerful you are, how old you are, how big your family is, and everything else has nothing to do with me. I just want you to be nice to my brother and Aji, otherwise, I will I'm just the most ordinary person, and I will do everything possible to hold you accountable, and spend my whole life holding you accountable, you—"

He felt clumsy when he got to the edge of his mouth, and finished what he wanted to say in a daze, Gong Si pulled away the veil that was in the way, he wanted to see this old man who was about to make a contract with his younger brother...

It all ended the moment he saw the man in the veil.

Looking at the familiar face behind the curtain, the previous coldness turned into unstoppable surprise, the other party's name was on his lips, and Gong Si read out the other party's name in a daze:

"stream?"