Natalie's magical growth record

Chapter 193 Extra () [New Year] Special gift from the sage of [World] (Part )

About ten minutes later,
  "Here we are, because we were worried about traffic police stopping us, so we drove a little faster. You don't feel uncomfortable?"

Passing by the heavy, majestic and historic ancient city gate, the shop owner slowed down and stopped skillfully at the traffic light closest to the city square.

[It seems like I walked through two more traffic lights...]

After recalling the route she had taken just now, Alina glanced meaningfully at the boss who had turned the car around and left. She quickly withdrew her gaze and said to the students beside her: "Let's go. The boss told us on the way. Let’s check out the hotel?”

Yes, on their way to the city, Alina found out more information about the fortune teller who was most likely her teacher through insinuations.

Mr. Shi Xun likes tea very much and often returns to the tallest hotel in the city center to teach others the art of tea.

This was not what Mr. Shi Xun told him, but what a customer who had met Mr. Shi Xun told him when he was chatting with him.

[It seems that we have passed all the levels set by the teacher. 】

Silently connecting all the random and unexpected incidents together, Alina thought quite firmly that she would follow the address given by her boss and go straight to the hotel where the [World] Sage was staying.

On the way, she occasionally felt that the music played by the dancers in the center of the square, which had a bar and nightclub atmosphere, was a bit noisy, but she didn't care.

After all, every country has some customs and habits that are difficult to understand and unique enough. This is normal.

But isn't their dance a little too monotonous? There are only a few movements repeated throughout the song. Wouldn't it be boring?

Once again, with some incomprehensible glances at the large dance troupes in the square that were festively dressed and crowded with people, but with relatively more middle-aged and elderly women, Alina quickly withdrew her gaze and led the students straight forward.

A few minutes later,

"Madam, I'm sorry, our high-end tea room is only open to guests and their friends at night. This is our hotel's rule. Please understand."

Alina led the students away from the reception desk of the hotel tea room with some shock in her heart. She couldn't believe that the final meeting that was supposed to go smoothly would encounter this unexpected but absolutely reasonable hurdle.

"I have no choice but to look at other methods. Alas, it would be much easier if I could use magic..."

After looking at the student beside her who looked quite uneasy but did not dare to say anything, Alina finally silently took back the illegal operation of quietly knocking out the hotel attendant, then changing clothes with the other person and sneaking in secretly, and began to think deeply.

"Teacher Alina..."

Seeing the teacher's helpless look, Natalie couldn't help but become more and more worried. She couldn't help but move lightly, loosened her grip on the teacher's clothes, and subconsciously took two steps back to the side.

"I'm sorry, Natalie, for making you worry. It's okay. The teacher will find a way."

After eliminating another unrealistic idea, Alina belatedly realized that the student was far away.

Just when she was about to leave the hotel and find another way out, a soft, long, quiet and sweet sound suddenly came from a certain area in the hotel hall leading to the first floor, which seemed to be the rhythm of a guzheng.

Alina listened attentively, and inexplicably felt that this soft and soothing music style gave her a sense of familiarity.

"Natalie, do you hear the sound of the piano? It gives me a feeling that I have heard it somewhere before. Can we sit here for a little longer?"

In the end, she calmed down and did not explore rashly. Instead, she sat back on the sofa closest to the hotel's interior area and carefully consulted the students' opinions.

"Okay, of course no problem!"

Hearing that the teacher seemed to be planning to stay a little longer, Natalie couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

Because she actually wanted to listen to this beautiful music that came from nowhere here for a while.

At this moment, the sound of the piano was still continuing, but the melody had unknowingly departed from the gentle and soothing tone when the two first heard it, and became bright and lively.

This brisk rhythm that was not noisy at all made Natalie's thoughts wander. She thought of going on vacation in the forest with her parents, and of when she was blowing the comfortable breeze in the forest and listening to the gurgling flow of the mountain stream. wonderful feeling.

In that peaceful atmosphere, she felt that her mood calmed down all of a sudden. Not only did the negative thoughts that occasionally flashed through her seem to be far away from her, but she couldn't help but feel a sense of closure. Open your eyes, open your arms, embrace the breeze, and embrace the natural sense of openness.

"It's so comfortable..."

Thinking about it, she slowly opened her arms, just like when she looked into the distance in the forest that day, her hands were raised higher and higher, and her body was leaning forward more and more.

"Natalie, wake up, wake up, we should go find my teacher, Natalie, wake up, wake up..."

Just when she felt that she was about to come into contact with the clouds that should have been very far away from her, the teacher's voice suddenly came to her ears, which suddenly brought her back to her consciousness, which was getting farther and farther away from reality as her thoughts flew away. reality.

Yes, she is not on vacation with her family at all, nor is she in the small forest in the suburbs where she once had a picnic...

"I'm sorry, Teacher Alina..."

After realizing that she seemed to have done those exaggerated movements of standing on tiptoes, leaning forward, and spreading her arms in public, Natalie felt that her cheeks were burning hot, and she wished she could find a cave to bury herself in, and never do it again. Not facing everyone out there.

"Hahahaha, cough, it's okay Natalie, don't be nervous, everyone here seems to be very busy, so no one looked here just now."

Feeling the student's strong discomfort and uneasiness, Alina raised her hand in time to cover the smile that was about to overflow uncontrollably from her mouth, coughed lightly, quickly adjusted her mood, and said gently and comfortingly.

"Really…?"

Natalie was doubtful and still felt very uneasy.

"Really, really, look at the reception desk, are those people doing their own thing?"

Seeing that the students still didn't want to believe her relief, Alina immediately stood up and pointed to the reception desk a hundred meters away in front of the two of them, signaling the students to seek confirmation.

"What about the others..."

Natalie felt a little more at ease, but she was still afraid that her unimageable side would be criticized and criticized by others.

"Everyone is enjoying the fireworks outside or listening to music like us."

While speaking, Alina pointed in another direction, where several people who were dressed somewhat similar to them, but whose clothing materials were obviously different from theirs, were looking intently out of the window, looking at the colorful colors that bloomed in the sky from time to time outside the window. Fireworks.

Natalie's heart became more and more stable. Finally, she glanced at the teacher, raised her eyes to glance at the lower half of the teacher's face in embarrassment, and then looked back silently.

"As for me, I often do things that I feel very embarrassing, so I can completely understand Natalie's mood just now. Natalie doesn't need to care too much about my thoughts." At this point, Alina paused. After a pause, he then added thoughtfully based on his own mood when he first heard this piece of music, “Moreover, I don’t think Natalie’s performance just now was a shameful thing, because it was the first time I heard this piece of music. When singing the song, I was completely immersed in the beautiful melody just like Natalie. So, this is a very normal thing, and Natalie does not need to feel ashamed."

"Um…"

Natalie nodded. Although she was still a little uncomfortable, she was too embarrassed to continue wasting the teacher's precious time, so she added two more similar actions to the previous nod to express her determination.

"Okay, let's go find the teacher now, shall we?"

Seeing that the students had settled down, Alina secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly brought the topic back on track and asked for the students' opinions.

"Ok!"

After two or three minutes,
  The two successfully found the source of the sound, and saw the black hair sitting quietly on the side of the betel nut-colored long table with a classical charm, seemingly completely immersed in the playing, and the body was slowly swinging in the direction of the strings plucked by the fingers. Miss.

I also saw the black-haired man facing the two of them, facing the entrance of the leisure tea room on the first floor of the hotel, pouring the boiling water gracefully, and then gently putting the tureen back in front of him.

As if aware of the gazes of the two people at the door, the tea master first slowed down his movements in tacit understanding, then after completing the subsequent process of pouring tea leaves, he nodded slightly to the two of them, and politely raised his right hand as an invitation. The two of them took a seat on the side first.

Looking at the tea master with a calm and gentle expression, who was similar to the teacher she knew, and looking at the teacher who had already come to the side bench first and waved to her in a small way, Natalie finally He suppressed the doubts in his heart and quietly approached his teacher under the soft and soothing music.

At this moment, the tea master over there was still making tea, but unlike the tea leaves she saw when she was still standing at the door, the tea master had already entered the stage of opening the lid of the cup and gently smelling the fragrance of the tea.

With her previous embarrassing experience in front of the teacher, Natalie did not let herself close her eyes this time, but watched intently as the tea master poured the water from the long cup into the two small cups on the lower right.

【So elegant...】

Looking at the tea master's gentle and slow pouring movements, Natalie couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and she couldn't help but feel an indescribable affection for this teacher whom she had never met before.

Looking at the teacher sitting next to her with an elegant posture and an equally calm and gentle expression, Natalie only felt more and more lucky.

[It’s so great to meet Teacher Alina...]

She couldn't help but sigh again.

As if aware of her inner thoughts, I saw that the teacher beside her had at some point left the elegant sitting posture with his hands folded on his knees, took out one of his hands, and placed it on the back of her hand equally gently. superior.

Feeling the warm and soft touch of the teacher's hand on the back of her hand, Natalie's expression softened a bit.

At this moment, the sound of the piano is still continuing, but it seems to be coming to an end unknowingly.

The tea master's actions were the same. He raised his hand gracefully as always, picked up the long cup containing the fragrant tea, and poured the tea into the small white cup that had previously been filled with boiling water.

After doing all this and putting the long cup back in place, the tea master slowly lowered his head, spread his hands slightly, and bowed gently and slowly to the empty entrance in front of him.

Following this movement, the tea master slowly stood up and walked towards the master and apprentice who were sitting quietly on the bench at the side of the hall.

"Xiao Mi, could you please help me prepare a camera, thank you."

Realizing that the disciple sitting next to the student seemed a little nervous, the tea master who had just demonstrated the tea art, Alina's teacher, the [World] sage from the Olivia continent couldn't help but stop and turned around to give instructions. Young contempt for wiping the piano surface.

"Yes, Mr. Shi Xun."

The female violinist named Xiaomi immediately stood up after the movements in her hands came to an end, and bowed seriously to the professional tea master specially hired by the hotel.

"Do you need to invite Mr. Peng to come over?"

However, she did not leave in a hurry, but asked cautiously.

"No, if Xiaolin is on the first floor, please ask her to come over and help."

This time, he did not look at the timid little girl standing next to the students. Instead, he temporarily changed his mind and asked the piano master to find a photographer on the first floor who had a relatively gentle personality.

"Okay, wait a minute."

The violinist nodded, and immediately left the leisure hall where the three of them were, not messily but relatively quickly.

"Long time no see, Ellie. One year has passed, and I'm glad you can still remember me so clearly."

When the violinist's back completely disappeared on the other side of the partitions on both sides, the [World] Sage immediately turned around again, walked towards the student who had already stood up and was about to salute, and greeted him in the common language of Olivia continent. “Long time no see, teacher, I’m glad to see you continue to happily travel around the world in the new year.”

Alina couldn't hide her joy and smiled restrainedly, and then she also tacitly switched back to the common language of Olivia continent. Her attitude was very correct, and her movements were very standard and she bowed.

"This is also due to you. I have worked hard for you in the past year."

"To each other," after the greetings, Alina immediately took out Natalie, who had been hiding behind her uneasily just now, and generously introduced the students, "Teacher, you know, Natalie, your disciple .”

"First time meeting, Natalie, I'm glad you can come and visit me with Ellie this time."

[World] The sage nodded slightly, and then showed a kind and friendly smile, and extended his right hand to the little brown-haired girl who was still very uneasy and nervous.

"It's our first time meeting you. I'm also very happy to meet you, teacher's...teacher..."

Encouraged by the teacher's gaze, Natalie finally cautiously reached out her hand and gently held the noble elder's fair but thin hand that felt clearly knuckled.

"Um, hello, Natalie."

After gently shaking hands with this little girl who was not very confident, the [World] Sage immediately let go and took the lead in taking over the right to speak.

"Hello..." With the other party's acceptance, Natalie felt a little less nervous and awkward. After thinking about it, she finally lowered her head with a guilty conscience and mustered up the courage to ask, "Excuse me, what should I call you?" ? Is it the same teacher who calls you teacher as before, or is it the name on that business card? "

"It's okay, Natalie can call me whatever she likes."

[World] The sage gently touched the other person's soft and fluffy hair, then gently withdrew his hand and answered warmly.

"That…"

Natalie nodded slightly. She subconsciously wanted to repeat the names mentioned by the previous teacher, shop owner, and the violinist just now, but found that it was difficult for her to imitate the syllables of those two words for a while.

Just when she began to feel uneasy and ashamed again, she heard her teacher's voice: "Shi (Chinese) means time in our Olivia continent common language (Olivia continent common language) language), Xun (Chinese) means wind in our Olivia continent’s common language (Olivia’s continent’s common language). Of course, I personally think it is a bit strange to directly use the two words time and wind, so If it were me, I would consider replacing it with other words that could pinpoint those two things.”

After a pause, seeing that the student was not disgusted and was even looking forward to the follow-up, Alina quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and continued to add: "In our calendar in Olivia continent, the corresponding month is March. The month corresponding to the wind is April, Natalie can consider remembering it this way. Of course, if this still doesn't sound smooth, we can also directly extract the two core words 'three' and 'four'.

Okay, these are my opinions. I wonder if they help Natalie? "

"Thank you, teacher!"

Natalie couldn't help but feel touched when she heard the teacher provide her opinions in such serious and detailed manner. Of course, she also knew that now was not the perfect opportunity to express her emotions, so she quietly took a deep breath, thanked the teacher and began to follow the instructions. Based on the reference opinions provided by the teacher and my previous titles, I selected the title that would satisfy me the most.

During this process, the [World] Sage waited quietly, not showing any dissatisfaction, but even urging him loudly.

This couldn't help but make Natalie feel a lot more relaxed.

Another half minute passed,

Natalie finished the screening and recited silently, and tentatively gave her own thoughts: "Then...can I call you 'Master Three or Four'?"

In fact, she wanted to simplify three and four again, but considering that her teacher had not provided any suggestions for further simplification before, and she was afraid of offending this teacher whom she liked and respected very much, she finally chose to follow it. My own teacher’s opinion.

"of course can!"

[World] The sage agreed without hesitation.

Natalie tentatively called her a few more times to make sure that her name did not arouse the other party's dissatisfaction. Only then did she feel relieved and once again expressed her solemn gratitude to the teacher.

"Then let's move on to the last step." As he spoke, the [World] sage from Olivia continent gently raised his hand, cast a small [Breath of Wind] magic, and struck the bell. Partition on the side of the hall.

Ta-ta-ta,
  As the knocking sound came to an abrupt end, two waiters in modern modified Tang suits entered the hall first, placing the two tea sets neatly stacked in the center of the tray on the table closest to the two guests. .

Immediately afterwards, a young lady with waist-length black hair carrying a stand and a camera entered.

Sensing the doubts of the two foreign guests, she quickly set up the stand and then said first: "I'm sorry, Mr. Shi Xun, for changing your needs without authorization. I heard that the two foreign friends like our country very much. culture, so I brought two sets of tea clothes for them to try. If you and your friends don’t like it, I can ask them to take the clothes back now.”

"It's a good idea, but I still need to ask for their opinions."

Saying that, the [World] Sage immediately turned his head and asked the two of them in the common language of Olivia continent: "Do you want to give it a try?"

"Of course!"

Alina was the first to answer, and then she got ready to get up and get some clothes to change into.

Seeing that the teacher seemed to have made his choice, Natalie thought for a while, and finally stood up rather embarrassedly and faced the two waiters guarding both sides of the entrance to the hall, as well as the young man in the center who was playing with strange shelves and strange cubes. The lady bowed deeply.

A few minutes later,

"We are back, how is it? Is it suitable?"

Alina, who was dressed in a light red tea suit, led Natalie, who was slightly restrained, back to the hall where the teacher was and asked everyone present.

"very good!"

"very beautiful!"

[World] The sage and photographer Xiaolin spoke one after another in almost no particular order.

"Then I'm relieved!" As she spoke, Alina tightened the student's hand, and then looked at the photographer in front again as the student slowly raised his head, "What action do we need to take?"

Photographer Xiao Lin first looked at Mr. Shi Xun who didn't seem to want to take pictures together, and then in order to avoid possible cultural conflicts, he handed the initiative to the young and beautiful foreign lady, "Miss, you can decide for yourself. "

"Decide for yourself?"

Alina thoughtfully repeated the other party's words. Finally, after confirming a few ideas, she bent slightly and asked about the student's attitude.

About half a minute later,

The two posed, smiled, and looked in the direction of the photographer.

"I'll count to three, and then both of you shout the words 'Happy New Year' together, okay?"

"can!"

After receiving Alina's response, Xiaolin immediately bent down slightly and made final adjustments to the camera.

During this process, Natalie did not slack off and kept rehearsing with the teacher the blessings to be said together.

More than a minute has passed, and the three parties are ready.

"3, 2, 1——"

"Happy New Year!"

As the teachers and students said their blessings, there was a click, and a dazzling bright light flashed in front of their eyes at the same time.

In my ears, there was the faint sound of fireworks exploding outside the window.

Amidst such lively and joyful background sounds, Natalie slowly opened her eyes.

What appeared in front of her was no longer the unfamiliar and huge strange shelf, but a simple street that felt familiar to her and that occasionally brought cool sea breeze.

"Back, back...?"

Natalie blinked in disbelief, and then looked to her side worriedly.

Seeing that her teacher had successfully returned to the real world, Natalie breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at her clothes.

I saw that she was still wearing the same light red tea dress that she wore when she faced the strong flash of the camera.

She was a little confused and turned her attention to her teacher again, only to find that her teacher was also dressed the same as her, wearing a tea dress that felt a little thin.

But what was different from when they took pictures was that this time, this thin tea suit seemed to have more clothes that originally belonged to them.

"This is the gift the teacher gave us. Although the clothes brought out of the fantasy world will disappear soon, if Natalie likes the outfit just now, we can also find a famous fashion designer to make the clothes. The teacher has already given me the design of the suit just now!"

Alina explained patiently and gently.

"Really? Great, then let's..."

Natalie couldn't help feeling happy again. She was about to ask the teacher to hand over the design drawings to the costume designer, but when the words came to her lips, she fell silent again.

"What about Teacher Alina, the teacher's, no, Master Sansi? Didn't he come back with us?"

After hesitating for a while, she finally asked the question that just came to her mind before her teacher asked.

Hearing this strange combination of words, Alina was uncontrollably stunned for a moment, and then she forcibly suppressed the helpless smile that she subconsciously wanted to form after being stunned. It was not abnormal, but it had something different. He replied in a gentle tone, "He, he said he wanted to enjoy the New Year atmosphere brought to him in that world, so he would come back later than us."

"So that's it, I understand!"

Natalie quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, she secretly wanted to ask why her teacher's teacher didn't come back with them now, but she found that there didn't seem to be a clear answer in the teacher's answer just now, so she finally silently put away the questions in her heart that she shouldn't have asked. , nodded vigorously to the teacher.

[I hope to see you again one day, teacher’s teacher, Mr. ‘Sansi’...]

After quietly lowering her head and praying, Natalie immediately raised her head again and held the teacher's left hand tightly...

　Keep everyone waiting, this year’s New Year’s episode was officially completed in three days. Initially I planned to limit the number of words to less than 1 words, but as I continued, I ended up writing so much more. After I exceeded it, I thought about deleting it, but as a result, I couldn’t bear to delete a lot of content.

　　The content about my country’s traditional metaphysics and China’s traditional tea art culture in this article are all based on my personal love and understanding of these magnificent treasures. If there are any mistakes, professionals are welcome to give me advice and corrections. I am happy to learn!

　　In fact, there was originally a segment about palmistry analysis and square dancing, but considering the length and the core theme of this extra chapter, I finally refrained from writing it.

　　In short, if you are interested in the two contents I mentioned above (palm reading and square dancing), I will make up for it when I have time. As for now, I need to take a short break. Writing more than 10,000 words in three days is almost exhausting me. Thank you everyone for your support!
  　　Finally, let me talk about the issue of congratulatory pictures, only to find that the Qidian platform forgot to post them (my mistake qaq). The illustrations were drawn by the teacher [Chu Tian Bu Ge]. It is super awesome. It feels very flavorful and very New Year! Finally, in fact, I expected that there should be another part of this extra chapter, but I can't write it now. If I want to write it, it will be written together with the square dance easter egg. If you are interested, you can look forward to it. .

　　
  　
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