I am not human

This feeling of unreality became stronger when walking into the gleaming European-style mansion.

Stepping on the soft wool carpet, Liao Qingshu reckoned that there was only a difference between him and Lu Yiping who went to Lu's house to beg for living expenses.Jiufang Ziyan, who was behind him, acted very calmly, as calm as a black boy who came to collect protection money, full of an aura of "yes, I'm beating someone today".

"You know you can't hit someone today, right?" He asked Jiufang Ziyan in a low voice, with earnest hope in his voice.Jiufang Ziyan's response to this was to snort coldly: "It depends on whether that guy deserves a beating."

"The things here look so expensive." Liao Qingshu said worriedly, "If you break it, you will have to pay a lot of money."

"...I will try my best to control myself."

Whispering, the blond woman had already led them to the study.It was quiet in the elegantly decorated space. The owner was sitting behind the desk, taking a nap with his back facing them. From Liao Qingshu's perspective, he could only see a small piece of baldness protruding from the back of the chair.The blond woman walked up to him and shook him gently, then showed a troubled look, approached the two of them and said apologetically, "Master is sleeping. I don't want to just wake him up like this, can I ask the two gentlemen?" How about coming again?"

Hearing this, Jiufang Ziyan's face immediately stretched halfway, Liao Qingshu looked at him worriedly, and was about to leave when Jiufang Ziyan said: "No, we can wait."

The blond woman looked at him in embarrassment and said, "Could this be..."

"I said, we can wait." Jiufang Ziyan said without doubt, "Just wait here, I'll see how long he can sleep."

The blond woman had no choice but to let them stay.After serving them two cups of tea, he left quietly, leaving only the two of them waiting in the study.

Liao Qingshu didn't know what Jiufang Ziyan was planning, but in his opinion, it's okay to wait a while, and he just took this opportunity to take a look at the master's collection of books.It has to be said that, as a monster, his collection of books is quite rich, and he obviously prefers Japanese culture. Liao Qingshu even saw a few old waka collections in the corner of the bookcase.

What surprised him even more was a display case next to the bookcase.It is filled with wood carvings, pottery and glass, many of which are accompanied by trophies and certificates.His eyes fell on a strangely shaped clay pot, and he glanced at the certificate beside him.This is an award certificate of an international art competition. Liao Qingshu was in awe when he saw it. He looked at the pottery pot and was immediately impressed by its extraordinary temperament. Countless pieces of broken glass seem to be full of countless connotations.Liao Qingshu pondered for a while, and finally moved her gaze to the name marked below—"Bastard" with reverence.

... As expected of winning an award, even the name is so refreshing and unaffected, it's really different.

Jiufang Ziyan has been pacing back and forth impatiently since just now, with heavy footsteps, as if he wanted to wake Youji up in this way.But it's a pity, that Youji didn't move as if he had made up his mind, and even had a way of beating his snoring louder than Jiufang Ziyan's footsteps, which made the latter's veins throbbing with anger.

He stopped suddenly, and looked at Youji's shiny bald gourd and said bitterly: "I should have brought my little light cannon if I knew it!"

"It's 'my' little light cannon." Liao Qingshu reminded him to pay attention to the words. Although he didn't like the X stick at all, it didn't mean that he could accept others changing his ownership at will. "It was bought by my friend. Mine can only be considered as a loan from you, remember to pay for it when it is worn out."

Jiufang Ziyan frowned, and turned around with a look of displeasure.Liao Qingshu secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this. Frankly speaking, he was actually very glad that Jiufang Ziyan did not bring a weapon. No matter how the situation got out of control like this, at least it would not develop into an armed fight...

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a "chuckle", and a cold light flashed out of the corner of his eyes.He turned his head in horror, and saw Jiufang Ziyan was holding the western sword that had just been pulled out of the scabbard on the wall, and was rushing towards Youyu with a murderous look.

"Jiufang! Calm down!" He panicked and shouted hastily.Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he heard another voice with higher decibels in the room: "What do you want to do! I warn you not to mess around... If you dare to mess around, I will, I will Just call me wife!"

"..." Liao Qingshu stared at the little old man who jumped up from the seat, and suddenly understood how to wake up a person who pretended to be asleep.

"You knew he was pretending to be asleep?" He looked at Jiufang Ziyan in surprise.Jiufang Ziyan "cut" and said: "It's an old trick! Bian Chunshan is a secluded one, and you lie down when you see people. I said you can't get rid of your bad habits, right?"

"Go, go, I just don't want to see you, okay?" Youji waved his hands wildly, desperately trying to drive away Jiufang Ziyan who was holding a Western sword, "You cut off my hair when you came last time ! That's my only hair!"

"Show your hair, you have the nerve to call that little hair hair." Jiufang Ziyan snorted, "If you didn't pay attention to what you said at the time and just played in the mud, would I need it!"

"I was creating!" The old man Youji argued angrily, "I am an artist! An artist's creation needs inspiration and enthusiasm! It is you who insisted on running to interrupt my enthusiasm..."

"What kind of art is it? It's enough for a monster to know how to build a house with mud!" Jiufang Ziyan threateningly inserted the Western Sword into Youji's ear, "Are you awake? Come and fill out the form when you wake up, Settle the management fee for three months!"

"Are you still ashamed to ask me for management fees?" The old man seemed about to have a myocardial infarction, "You don't call it management at all, it's called infringement! You are invading me now! I have a lot of respect for your mountain management office." Big opinion, I'm going to complain to you!"

Jiufang Ziyan sneered: "Do you want to complain? Go ahead. Anyway, the Shanguan Office has no father or mother. The Jiufang family doesn't want to take care of the Banyao Academy. I'll see where you can go to complain!"

Liao Qingshu silently covered her face.Can we stop talking so proudly about such a shameful thing?

"Uh, that..." He tentatively uttered, his gaze quickly swept over the award certificate in the window, "Mr. Shi Kai? Shi...Master, can I call you that?"

The old man was taken aback for a moment, then raised his eyebrows, and raised the corners of his mouth, showing a complacent but desperately restrained expression: "I don't dare to be a master, just call me Lao Shi."

"Good master." Liao Qingshu secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that he was coaxed, stepped forward and pushed Jiufang Ziyan away without any trace, and asked, "Is Mr. Shi Kai an artist? I saw the man over there There are a lot of works in the display case, especially the miscellaneous... that is, the clay pot filled with broken glass, which is very unique."

"Oh, you said that, that's one of my most proud works." Youji's mood improved obviously, and he even chatted with Liao Qingshu, "I have read the books of the Japanese master Kenya Hara, and I was very inspired , this work comes from that.”

"Well, I have read a little bit of Master Kenya Hara's book." Liao Qingshu blocked Jiufang Ziyan and quickly mobilized his memory bank, "But I remember that he seemed to emphasize the purity of the material..."

"'If you want to regard a certain material as an excellent material, the first step is to purify the characteristics of this material infinitely.'" You Jie recited naturally, "'For sculpture, clay is the hidden infinite The material of possibility, but the realization of this possibility is inseparable from the purity of clay as a sculptural material. If there are nails or metal pieces hidden in the clay, one cannot shape it as one likes.'” He snapped Pat the table, "This is where my inspiration comes from!"

... People say you can't mix nails into the soil, so you mix glass into it?The inspiration came easily enough.

"Materials should pursue purity, so there should be no other sundries in the clay. But what if the clay mixed with sundries is regarded as a material? Then those sundries will no longer be defects, but will be full of infinite A new quality of possibility!" You Jie said excitedly, dancing so much that he wanted to demonstrate it on the spot.Liao Qingshu began to worry that he would have a myocardial infarction again.

You You proudly showed Liao Qingshu his ape-like claws: "For human beings, glass sticks to the hand, so it becomes an 'impurity'; but for me, whether it is glass or nails, you can do whatever you want. Kneaded material, so to me they're also 'pure'."

Liao Qingshu tilted his head and thought for a while, then continued: "What is pure? What is miscellaneous? In the end, it's just a question of standards."

"Yes, yes, that's what it means. If it is tolerant enough, why can't bastards be called pure, and why can't glass dance with clay!" You Quail excitedly slapped the table, and directly grabbed Liao Qingshu's hand with her claws, Sitting down beside him, he asked, "Young man, what's your name?"

"Liao...Liao Qingshu." Xiao Transparent, who came from the isolation class, was a little nervous.

"Okay, Xiao Liao, let me tell you. In fact, this work of mine expresses such a concept. Come here, and I will tell you..."

Liao Qingshu's buttocks hadn't warmed up yet, and she was led by You Yu to the direction of the display cabinet.Jiufang Ziyan stood aside and looked at them stupidly, with a rare expression called "dumb" on his face.Ever since Liao Qingshu called Youji "Master Shi", he had no idea what the two of them were talking about.By the way, who is Kenya Hara?Onmyoji?When did such a number one person appear in the Japanese spiritual world, why didn't he know?

Liao Qingshu took the time to turn her head and lip-sync with him, telling him to go out first, he can handle it here.

It was rare for Jiufang Ziyan to go out obediently, and deeply felt Liao Qingshu's mood a few minutes ago - this world is really not real at all.

It wasn't until two hours later that Liao Qingshu came out of Youjie's residence with a smile on her face, she was a completely different person from when she first entered the door.

"Mr. Shi Kai has filled out all the forms!" He announced proudly, "He also paid all the management fees and prepaid all the shares until the end of the year!"

Jiufang Ziyan looked at him with a cigarette in his mouth, and put the special machine he brought for part-time work into his pocket: "By the way, who is 'Shi Kai'?"

"It's Youji's name. To be precise, it's the human name he gave himself." Liao Qingshu happily stepped into the back seat of the battery car, "Don't you even know?"

"I know he's a Youji. Whatever his name is, it's definitely not his real name anyway." Jiufang Ziyan started the battery car while talking.Liao Qingshu seriously retorted behind him: "That's not what I said. I chose a name, of course I hope others will call you. Say it yourself, do you like me to call you 'Jiufang', or just call you 'Ren' ?”

"I don't like any of them." Jiufang Ziyan said coldly, "Names that aren't real names have no meaning."

"Then does it make sense for you to call him 'You Quail'?" Liao Qingshu retorted, "'You Quail' is just his race, and to put it bluntly, it is also a label. You call him by a label, but you don’t want to use a pseudonym to call him Calling him, do you think this is strange?"

"It's different..."

"What's the difference?"

Jiufang Ziyan was at a loss for words.After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure it out, so I stopped the car with a sullen face: "Here we are! Get down!"

"Why are you so angry again..." Liao Qingshu curled her lips, got out of the car, and threw the helmet back to Jiufang Ziyan.He turned back to the mountain management office, and just stepped into the enchantment, he heard a sound of pappura from inside, a bird with blue feathers and white eyes jumped out of the mountain management office, brushing past the two of them On his shoulder, he slammed into the telephone pole at the door, wailed, became dizzy for a while, flapped his wings again, and flew away high and low.

"Da Qinggeng?" Jiufang Ziyan frowned and looked back, "What happened to her?"