Chapter 35 Play me a nocturne
"Can you understand?" she asked him in Plato.
His space knight's faint and arrogant smile appeared again, "A gentleman is at the right time."
He also pointed to the Chinese cursive writing works hanging beside him and said softly: "In the upper position, do not uphold the lower position; in the lower position, do not support the higher position. If you correct yourself and do not seek others, you will have no complaints. The higher the higher the higher the heavens, and the lower the lower the lower the lower the others. Therefore, a gentleman lives in a convenient position to wait for his fate, while a villain takes risks to bring happiness."
Although his Gaia Chinese is not particularly standard, Xuan Ji was still shocked.
"You actually know so much! I can't even understand these cursive scripts that fly and phoenix dance." Xuan Ji was amazed.
But she thought about it and immediately said, "No, although Platos are experts in their own field, they should know nothing about other knowledge! Where did you learn it?"
"This is my secret." He recalled the experience of the Elf Library, and showed a smug smile, looking like a teenager.
"Hmph..." Xuan Ji elves pouted strangely, "Actually, I like these ancient civilizations very much, but Eastern culture is too profound for me. When the United Government implemented the "Columbus Plan" for interstellar immigration, it also brought many ancient cultures from the old earth and built magnificent museums for them. However, as time goes by, fewer and fewer people are interested in the old civilization on earth..."
"People's love for civilization may be rooted in their attachment to the land. The Gaia people have been deeply embedded in the living atmosphere of Mangxing City. Almost everyone is busy with consumption and life, becoming impetuous and superficial. The earth is 36 light years away from Gaia, and now it is now close to me, but the Gaia people's spiritual world is already deserted, paler than heaven..." She said thoughtfully.
Now it was Karki who was surprised by Xuan Ji's words. She must be a girl with unique ideas. Although she was not old, she looked at Gaia from the perspective of the withdrawal.
"You seem to know the old earth culture better than most Gaians!" she praised him.
The tatami sliding door suddenly moved gently to the side. An old man in a simple blue-gray kimono knelt outside the sliding door and said in Chinese with a Japanese accent: "It is very knowledgeable, and these are brought from the earth, including the entire house. However, all the guests regard these as valuable works of art."
"Fortunately, the people are protected by the general, please." The old man paused his head modestly.
"How dare you?" Karki wanted to help the old man up, but the latter quickly withdrew.
The sliding door was gently pulled up again, blocking Karki who wanted to approach. It appeared and disappeared so suddenly, as if nothing had happened.
Xuan Ji couldn't believe her eyes. This scene was like an oriental drama that she had never seen in Gaia.
"Do you know him?" she asked softly.
Karki just looked at the Japanese sliding door and shook his head.
"The encounter in life is dominated by too many laws of the universe, and the laws of heaven do their own things, and humans are confused and ignorant." said the leader of the group.
"Is this the so-called 'cause and fate'?" Xuan Ji asked a little childishly, "You have a fate with Mangxing City and me."
Karki seemed to want to say something, but immediately gave up and kept quiet.
He originally wanted to say that if the capture was considered to be a "cause and fate" with Mangxing City, then he would rather not enter this world. However, if he said this, it would definitely hurt Xuan Ji's heart.
"Disturbate! Admiral Kalki, Miss Xuan, your dinner is ready."
Just as the two were standing and talking, the waiter took them to the dining room very politely.
This is the best room in the suite, with an open ground facing the regular bonsai view. Strange stones, turquoise, green bamboo and swaying koi fish, all so exquisite. Their dinner is placed on the wooden table in the middle of the room, facing the lake covered by the sunset.
"Oh my God, a real immersive experience, you have to kneel down to eat... It's really traditional. I thought such a pavilion had disappeared." Xuan Ji whispered, "The environment is excellent, but my legs..."
When they booked, it was already explained that Kalky needed all-purpose and refined cuisine. So everything was presented in the most perfect way they could imagine.
The food of excellent quality was placed on black porcelain, and it was so simple that it was clean. A white lilac with beautiful winding paths was inserted in the middle of the table, emitting a fragrant fragrance. It separated the two people who were dining with a very decorative natural beauty.
"This is a little different from what I imagined..."
"Where is different?" he asked her.
"I thought that such a expensive dinner should be a table of exquisite sushi, including bluefin tuna, super large peony shrimp, king crab, east star spot, tiger crab, black caviar... as much as you want, it turned out to be that little."
Now it was Kalki who smiled, "One dragon... I have eaten a lot of seafood in Gaia."
The leader of the group actually started to joke with her. Xuan Ji covered her face with a fan, looking very cute.
"It's time to start!"
After taking the seat, both of them were unable to start the dinner as delicate as artworks. Karki obviously didn't know how to start, so Xuan Ji could only say one thing to relieve the awkward atmosphere of being at a loss.
"Is your legs okay?" Xuan Ji asked him. Can he kneel for a long time with his legs so long? She thought worriedly because she was uncomfortable kneeling herself.
"Shangke." He spoke more and more Chinese.
"Get this, this way..."
She taught him to use chopsticks. At first, he seemed clumsy and even fell to the ground. The waitress in a kimono came to help very carefully, which made him look embarrassed and his cheeks flushed slightly. But he had a very strong learning ability and soon learned to use chopsticks. The way he just took the chopsticks seemed a bit strange to her.
She couldn't help but look at his fair and slender hands. The big captain's hands were not very big, but were delicate and narrow. Perhaps because of the long-term excessive force, the blue veins highlighted on the white skin, which made him feel very powerful. Every part of his body was almost perfect, just like a person who had been most carefully cultivated and raised. Karki's neck and chin looked very beautiful, and when he lowered his head to eat, he looked very beautiful. He looked like an oriental person in his kimono. Now the man in front of her was completely different from the murderous leader she had seen for the first time. Only his eyes were the same as the first time he saw. This was a person with a clear soul, and at the same time it was extremely deep and mysterious.
"Is it delicious?" she asked.
“It tastes similar to the canteen food.”
Xuan Ji almost laughed out loud. But then she thought that this might be his highest praise for the food. He might have not eaten outside of his group. She understood that his beauty was actually a lament to reality, hiding his strength and violence.
"Silent as a virgin, moving as if she was rid of a rabbit." She suddenly thought of a famous saying in "The Art of War" to describe a strong army, which is also appropriate to describe Karky's character. He may be the number one general today, but he hides it very well.
"Why are you looking at me?" he asked. He was alert. He had a special feeling about the thoughts of the people around him. He seemed to notice that she was secretly commenting on him.
"It's delicious!" She screamed cutely as if she was foolish, turned her face to the side, and gripped a piece of tofu into her mouth. She thought to herself: Karki, you can teach me this trick to confuse the enemy.
"Oh, we want to see Gaia's youngest and most handsome general!
Before they finished eating, there were many girls outside the sliding door, with a delicate voice, with a typical Japanese girl's voice stuck in her throat, a slightly sharp but pleasant voice. Outside the door, a group of geisha dressed in grandly and beautifully dressed were secretly trying to move the sliding door away, wanting to see the legendary "29-year-old general". Although they have seen many General Gaia, most of them are old men or middle-aged people in their forties and fifties.
The curious Kalkiramen went to investigate the sound of the warblers and swallows. As a result, many beautiful kimono dressed in gorgeous and exquisite rushes into the cracks of the door like a group of cats, hugging the general from all angles. Then, everyone tied together and kept saying things in Japanese such as "disgusting" (hate), "punishing", "punishing with me), "don't fight with me), "don't do this) and so on. Fortunately, Kalki's strength is amazing, and he can gently carry them off one by one like taking a kitten.
Xuan Ji saw his face turned red again, like a shy student. His shyness in front of women was completely different from his confidence and freedom on the battlefield. His long-term ascetic life made him instinctively avoid contact with the opposite sex.
"I can dance!" "I can play the piano!" "I can play the flower sect!"
They competed cutely with a delicate voice.
"It only takes one person to perform. Thank you all the respected ladies, please come back." Karki politely advised all the geishas who were dressed in very gorgeous and colorful, leaving only a beautiful girl wearing a blue background and white summer kimono.
"Please play the three strings for us to cheer up." He returned to his original position, but he didn't seem to want to kneel down anymore, so he just sat cross-legged.
Xuan Ji looked at the slim girl. She had thick brown curly hair, loosely tied into a bun, her bangs were trimmed into a slanted fashion, and she held a handful of three-flavored threads made of rosewood. She had no gorgeous decorations on her body, and she looked very elegant.
It seems that he likes the simple and elegant beauty, and she thinks it secretly.
At this time, the night had just arrived, and the twilight purple rose color turned into the darkness of the night, spreading like water throughout the entire elegant and exquisite space.
"My name is Fujiko, a distinguished guest, what song do you want to hear?" The girl chose to kneel at a corner of the railing by the water, tuning the strings while asking.
Karki looked at this oriental sentiment full of elegance, something he had never experienced in his serious and tense military life.
"Play a nocturne." His voice was dignified, which was exactly in line with his identity as Admiral Gaia.
She played the melodious and gentle string sound with a cymbal, and slowly sang in Japanese:
Jun がみ hug がてくは (hearing in your arms)
Dream Boats and Birds Song (The Boats and Birds Sing)
The flowers in Suzhou disperse spring (the flowers in Suzhou fall in the water town of Suzhou)
Cherish むか双すすすく (It's a pity that the willow is crying)
Flowers flowing water. (Flowing water with petals floating)
Tomorrow's ゆくえはらねども (Where can you know where tomorrow will flow?)
こよいしたふたりの posture (tonight reflects the figures of the two)
(Please never erase it)
Kissing with a hair. (Decorate it on the hair and kiss it lightly)
Jun が hand-folded peach blossoms. (The peach blossoms you folded by hand)
The moon is ぐむよなおぼろのに. (Tear eyes are hazy and the moon is hazy)
The bell rings and Hanshan Temple. (The bell rings and Hanshan Temple)
Karki sat and listened quietly, and was fascinated by the fact that he had never heard a girl sing. Plato's law prohibited any art forms - painting, singing, portrait sculpture, etc., and he had never been influenced by any art. Fei's books could teach him a lot, but the only shortcoming was that there was no singing and music. During the war, he could hear the roar of various weapons and internal machinery. Usually he could hear the sound of the sea, the wind, and the sound of nature, but he had never heard the singing of humans.
The girl's melodious and tender singing was spreading far away under the water waves of the dark night, and his soul was drunk by the songs of the beauty behind the golden swords and iron horses.
Xuan Ji was jealous when she saw him intoxicated and stared at the beautiful singer intrigue. She was jealous. She suddenly realized that she would be jealous of him.
"Please go back!"
After the singer's performance was finished, Kalky asked her to go back.
At this time, the night was already thick and all kinds of lights were on. He looked at the open waters of the Karuizawa Prince Hotel alone. The artificial lake was almost crystal clear, with green algae and grass floating in the water. Koi carp of various colors wandered in it. The breeze rippled in the water, which was extremely beautiful.
The other courtyard suites around are also built with this area of water as the center. These suites seem to be very lively. Many singers and geisha are performing for guests, making noise and playing noises. Xuan Ji and him stood silently. A yaede cherry blossomed in the distance by the water. When the wind blew, pink petals floated around the water, responding to the laughter and floating on the clear waves. The electronic sky above his head shows the ancient night sky of the earth, simulating the feeling of Japan. He looked up at the Big Dipper and the North Star. This was a dream for Gaia's ruling class, a virtual dream-
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"The East is a poetic country." Karki sighed softly.
"When I was a teenager, I once read a poem by Han." He turned to Xuan Ji, "I don't ask for Lianchengbi, but I ask for a sword to kill people, wake up the power of the world, and lie drunk on the knees of a beautiful woman."
"Those words look very complicated, like alien words, neatly arranged, as if they carry many secrets... I didn't understand it at the time. I felt that the East was complex, ruled by the fallen warriors of the ancient earth, who liked beauty and wine. How pure we Plato warriors are, obeying noble doctrines, staying away from women and alcohol, and all kinds of depraved entertainment... How beautiful the world I live in is, so simple, so perfect and pure."
"Simple, stupid, shallow, childish," he began to be excited after using many adjectives. "It turns out that we all live in a false world, just like the guests under the simulated starry sky, enjoying themselves without knowing the illusion."
"Kalky?" Xuan Ji was a little confused. She didn't know what he was referring to.
"They only teach us how to use weapons, and we know nothing except that." He lowered his head, as if he was doing deep reflection and thinking, "I have only learned to kill and defend myself over the years."
"Xuan Ji, I..." He turned his head and happened to face her with all his eyes.
He also shone in the dark night, with a little cold light from his golden hair. The dark night made his handsome face look like a sculpture three-dimensional. She suddenly felt her heart beating like a deer, and his fingers touched her chin and looked at her tender lips.
He seemed to try hard to get closer to her slowly, and she felt the whole body stiff and his pleasant smell.
Suddenly, more curiosity and expectation about the world were developed, and in her clear and bright black eyes, there was something he wanted to seek.
"I'm going to take a shower." He suddenly left.
Chapter completed!