People's perception of time is a very subjective thing, when events are frequent, they will perceive the slowness of time, and in the vast majority of ordinary and repetitive days, often in the blink of an eye, a long time has passed.

Midsummer passed quietly, and it was another autumn.

Ningcheng.

In an ordinary community, in a house, when Sun Xiaohan pushed the door in a daze in pajamas and walked from the room to the bathroom, he saw his brother standing in front of the mirror scratching his head.

"Yo, why are you dressed so formally today?"

Sun Xiaohan was stunned, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then asked in a tone that saw the sun rising in the west.

In front of the mirror.

Sun Xiao, who was wearing a slightly formal coat, kneaded the hair fixing lotion evenly on his hair with both hands, and when he finished this action, he turned his head to look at his sister.

In more than three years, the short and thin little girl has grown into a big girl.

He has grown a lot taller, and as a cultivator, his physique is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and he is already quite slim at the moment, but he is just ...... The face that has obviously lost a lot of weight because of growing taller always makes Sun Xiao feel regretful about the game - it's not cute at all...... Well, it doesn't seem like I was cute when I was a kid......

Sighing silently, Sun Xiao rolled his eyes, walked out of the bathroom, and said:

"I'm usually sloppy with co-authors? Let's go inside. ”

Sun Xiaohan didn't go into the bathroom when he heard this, he just looked at him curiously, puffed out his cheeks, and suddenly said:

"Sun Xiao, you won't talk about girlfriends, do you, what does my sister-in-law look like? Do you have any photos? Let me check for you? ”

"What are you doing here," Sun Xiao's face darkened, and then he said, "There is a party today." ”

"With whom?"

"And your second uncle." Sun Xiao said angrily, then turned his head and ignored her, Sun Xiaohan pouted helplessly, and whispered bb while walking to the bathroom, "How many years has the second master been dead......

didn't care about Sun Xiaohan's broken thoughts, Sun Xiao came to the living room, picked up his coat and mobile phone, looked at the time a few times, then pushed the door downstairs and ran to the parking space in the community.

"Drop!"

He pressed the car key, then pulled the car door, and waited until he was in the driver's seat before he let out a sigh.

Time, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Chung Yeung Festival.

He is indeed going to attend a party today, a class reunion, to be precise, a party with Fu Zhongting and Xiao Ningyu.

In the three years since graduation, although we have been in touch with each other and have met a few times, there has never been a serious gathering where everyone gathers.

After all, everyone has their own work and life, and holidays are often staggered from each other.

It wasn't until this year that the time was finally agreed, and everyone had free time, so they simply chose the day of the Chung Yeung Festival to meet back to the college to have a look and get together.

"Boom ......"

Twisted the key, lit the light, got out of the community, and then got on the road to the provincial capital, and it was only an hour's drive from Ningcheng to the provincial capital, but he didn't choose to go directly to the college, but waited outside the airport.

The Double Ninth Festival is not a statutory holiday, so the flow of people here has not changed from usual, Sun Xiao parked the car, and then stood next to him, hugged his shoulders, and looked at the time from time to time.

After a while, a group of people came out of the exit of the station, he looked around, suddenly his eyes lit up, he raised his hand and shook it, and the two people in the crowd who were dressed in ordinary clothes laughed one after another, waved their hands, and then walked this way.

When he got closer, he took off the sunglasses on his face and said with a smile:

"Long waiting!"

Sun Xiao looked at Fu Zhongting and Zhu Sha, stretched out his fist with a smile and gestured with the two, and then couldn't help but quip:

"Why are you two wearing sunglasses, and you're not celebrities."

Fu Zhongting immediately spread his hands and smiled:

"You have to ask him, I wore it completely with him."

Hearing this, Zhu Sha on the side looked around helplessly, then carefully pushed away his sunglasses, pointed to his dark and bloody eyes, and said with a wry smile: "A little injury is not good, isn't it afraid of scaring people." ”

Sun Xiao was stunned for a moment and said, "How did you get hurt?" ”

"The military region tried to fight, and he was hammered." Zhu Sha explained lightly, paused, his back straightened slightly, and the corners of his mouth said with a hint of pride, "The other party is much worse than me." ”

Sun Xiao immediately suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, Zhu Sha was different from a few of them, he went to the military, it seems that the past three years have not been leisurely, but looking at his spirit, it is obviously much stronger than when he graduated.

Cultivation, faintly, can also perceive the hidden sharp aura, so that Sun Xiao has the illusion that he is not facing a cultivator of the perception department, but a physical fitness department.

As for Fu Zhongting, his appearance doesn't seem to have changed much, but his temperament is much more restrained, and he is much calmer than at the beginning, Sun Xiao has inquired before, the other party has performed quite well in the first division in the past two years, and he was once transferred abroad to be responsible for the work of a certain area overseas.

The three of them stood next to the car, chatting casually, time passed quickly, and when the next agreed plane landed, the three of them looked at the exit of the station, and soon captured the three beautiful figures who walked out holding hands.

"This way! This way! ”

Waving his arms and shouting a few times, the three girls who flew from the capital together also saw this, glanced at each other, and walked over, although the dress was not ostentatious, but it still attracted many eyes around them.

Xie Qingke took the lead, Xiao Ningyu and Hua Bei followed, and when they came over, she greeted with a generous expression: "Why, why are you standing stupidly?" ”

Only then did the three of them react and pull the car door.

Sun Xiao drove a six-seater large-space model, a few people were just right, and the three girls came to the back, full of flowers and branches, and it was very eye-catching to look at.

Xie Qingke and Xiao Ningyu both have a relatively sassy style, there is no way, working in the department, often going out on tasks, and sleeping in the open, it can only be like this.

However, the cultivator's physique is excellent, and with the promotion of cultivation, he has been running outside, and he does not look haggard.

In contrast, as the only one of the six people who had basically stayed away from the cultivation world, Hua Bei's student spirit was still strong.

Sitting in the back row, putting his hands on the plaid skirt because it was already cold, wearing a knitted white sweater on the upper body, shawl with long hair, and smiling very gently.

A group of six people who haven't been together neatly for many years will naturally chat, extremely happy, joking with each other, and before they know it, they have arrived at the Ninth Courtyard.

I had already talked to the counselor here with my internal relationship, so it was easy to enter the campus, and the students were in class at this time, and the environment was extremely quiet.

Because there had been a light rain before, the whole road was extremely black, and the ginkgo biloba leaves that had been dyed yellow and began to wither and fall were wet by the rain and stuck to both sides of the road.

After graduating for a few years, I returned together, and I felt a lot of emotion, and everything seemed fresh compared to the things in my memory.

"When was this new building built?"

"I remember it's not a flower bed?"

"I remember that we started renovating this piece when we graduated."

A few people pointed to a place while walking, talking excitedly, and there was no lack of emotion in their expressions, Sun Xiao was more familiar with the changes in the college because he was stationed in the local area, so he simply acted as a commentator and introduced them one by one.

The crowd walked and walked, and when they came to the square, they all stopped.

I saw that there were several "stone tablets" standing there, each of which was engraved with a dense name, when they graduated, they set up the first one together, and in the past few years, there were a few more, as if it had become a "stele forest".

He walked over and came to his own stone tablet, and then looked at the names and sighed.

And when they looked at the name in the middle of the stele, which had obviously been crossed out and seemed to be re-engraved, everyone fell silent.

"Cheng Lin ......"

Looking at this name, some emotions that had been deliberately ignored by them before suddenly surged.

Back then, there were seven people at each of their meetings.

Now, there are only six left.

Standing in front of this stone tablet, no one spoke for a while.

After a long while, Fu Zhongting finally spoke, and said in a tone full of emotion:

"I don't know where he is now or how he is doing."

Hearing this, everyone unanimously raised their heads, raised their heads, and looked at the extraordinarily high and pure sky where there was no trace of impurities.

After Cheng Lin and the "wriggling planet" disappeared together under the gaze of billions of people, there were many speculations about his state, some people thought that he had entered another dimension, entered the "projection" world where the planet was located, and some people thought that he had died.

From a certain point of view, it seems that it makes no difference to people, no matter which one is possible.

In silence, the cool breeze swayed the autumn trees around them, and the six of them looked at the sky quietly, and did not speak for a long time, before Sun Xiao said:

"With his ability, even if he goes to another world, he should be able to live well."

He didn't mention the possibility of "death", and the rest of the people tacitly ignored it.

"It's just...... If you go to other worlds, you may be uncomfortable eating. Xiao Ningyu suddenly said worriedly.

"It's possible, I'm not used to eating foreign dishes." Xie Qingke said with agreement.

"Do you remember what he liked to eat?" Zhu Sha asked suddenly.

The crowd was silent, and for a moment they could not answer.

After a few seconds, Hua Bei's voice suddenly sounded: "Barbecue." ”

"What?" The crowd looked over.

Hua Bei slowly retracted her gaze, looked at everyone levelly, pulled the white knitted sweater with both hands, and said very seriously:

"He said that no one can refuse a barbecue."

……

……

No one can refuse a barbecue.

Neither can the gods.

Therefore, when night fell, when the six people drove to a very lively barbecue stall in the provincial capital, they almost just got out of the car, smelled the smoke in the air, and naturally blended into the mixed and worldly atmosphere.

Autumn evenings are already noticeably cooler.

Therefore, the red charcoal fire is extraordinarily warm.

After a long distance, I could already feel the temperature over there.

The stalls were open-air, looking very worldly, with small tables evenly arranged under the huge awnings, and there were already many people sitting on those plastic stools.

The aroma and the sounds of people's conversation mingle into a very harmonious, very secular atmosphere, as if there is some kind of extraordinary tolerance.

"That's it."

The six of them looked at each other, simply chose a spare table, and then walked straight over and sat down, there were not enough stools, and two more were pulled over from the side.

"Boss." Sun Xiao took it as he could, simply stood up and began to show his head, just like every dinner.

"Lamb skewers, fifty, squid, ribs, chicken this ...... Oysters too, yes, the same seven portions......"

I quickly ordered an order, and then brought another beer, considering that a small table could not be placed, and beckoned to bring a piece to put together.

Surrounded by chatting people, with different identities and origins, but no one delved into it, everyone was chatting eagerly, waiting for a hot skewer to be delivered, and everything seemed to fall into place.

The six of them ate, drank, and chatted, not deliberately suppressing anything with cultivation, but letting themselves dissolve into a slightly drunken atmosphere.

"Jusha, what rank do you have now? Captain? Yes, you can, when will you be a general? ”

"I'll have to go back to the base next week, but it's been very ...... lately."

“…… yes, yes......"

Chatting and chatting, the topic is nothing more than revolving around a few people.

Zhu Sha was promoted to colonel, and his future is great, Xie Qingke's work abroad is also on the right track, Xiao Ningyu, as a treatment department, has an extra ability to cultivate healing plants after being promoted to the level, and now he is simply busy cultivating new spirit plants with the research institute as a special talent......

However, Fu Zhongting suddenly broke out an "inside information", saying that he had been notified internally that he would return to the Ninth Division after a period of time and replace Huang Yin as the new deputy director.

"You're coming back? Replacing Deputy Secretary Huang? Hearing this news, several people were surprised, and immediately asked curiously, "What about Deputy Secretary Huang?" ”

"I heard that I took a long vacation, well, maybe a few years of long vacation, saying that my cultivation has reached a bottleneck, and I want to go around the world to find opportunities for breakthroughs." Fu Zhongting swallowed a meat skewer sprinkled with chili peppers and cumin and explained.

"That's right......" everyone sighed.

After a silence, Fu Zhongting finally looked at Sun Xiao: "What about you?" Any thoughts on coming back? ”

"Come back?" Sun Xiao was stunned suddenly, as if he didn't expect the other party to say this.

"Yes, now the trend of public opinion about Cheng Lin has begun to change, and you should be able to feel the change recently, and the meaning of the headquarters is also to push the boat...... There are different versions of what happened at the beginning...... What you did back then now has leeway, how about it? Come back, I can get you a spot. Rejoined the Ninth Division as a social dissipator. Fu Zhongting said seriously.

This news obviously made Sun Xiao unexpected, he couldn't speak for a while, facing the eyes of the others, he put the can of beer in his hand on the table, looked away, shook his head, and said:

"Forget it, it's been three years, and I'm fine now...... Why go back, besides, what can you do when you go back? Compete for a place with those juniors? ”

As he spoke, he laughed himself, then looked at Fu Zhongting with bright eyes, and said with a smile: "Say it again...... You haven't taken office yet, you're going to leave the relationship, are you okay, have you learned nepotism? Ha ha. ”

"I'm serious," Fu Zhongting didn't smile, pressed his hand, and said, "I can see that your cultivation hasn't fallen in the past three years, so you shouldn't have worked hard, right?" It's just to be a casual cultivator, you can't use such a high level of cultivation, I've been in the capital for the past few years, and I'm not familiar with the place anymore, come back, just help me. ”

Sun Xiao pursed his lips, was silent in the other party's gaze, and then changed the topic with a smile and looked at Hua Bei, who was always quietly dealing with a charcoal-roasted green pepper:

"Tell me something else, Hua Bei, you're graduating soon, aren't you?"

Hua Bei was stunned, then put down the iron stick in her hand, smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, it's almost there." ”

"What do you plan to do after graduation? Continuing education or ......"

"I'm going to be a teacher and teach art or something." Hua Bei said lightly.

Compared to the rest of the people who still remained in the circle of cultivators to a greater or lesser extent, Hua Bei seemed to be really determined to leave this area.

"Don't think about it anymore?" Xie Qingke looked at her and asked.

"Actually, I've always felt that I'm not suitable for cultivation, I like to paint, so it's good, well, I can't say for sure, maybe I will choose to continue my studies, and who can say what will happen in the future." Hua Bei brushed her hair with her right hand and said with a smile.

Oh, yes...... Who can say what will happen in the future?

After a brief silence, they turned their gaze to the deliberately vacant seat in the room, where there was no one on it, but in front of them were trays of skewers and wine glasses.

It's like there's someone sitting there all the time.

That was the position they left for Cheng Lin, but it was a pity......

All six sighed at the same time.

"Drink!" Seeing that the atmosphere was gloomy, Sun Xiao hurriedly raised his glass consciously, and everyone cheered up and squeezed out a smile again.

At this moment, a "waiter" wearing an apron and sleeves came over with a tray and said:

"The flesh and bones of the 7 tables are connected, be careful, okay, you use it slowly."

As he spoke, he saw a well-proportioned hand gently lowering the tray.

Sun Xiao was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly, and said:

"Wrong, we didn't order this."

As he spoke, he raised his head and went up along the arm with sleeves, and saw a very delicate-looking young face that he had never seen before, but there was a vague sense of strangeness and familiarity.

The young man smiled gently, giving people a feeling like a spring breeze:

"That's right. You've won the lottery at this table. ”

As he spoke, he coughed, as if he was a little embarrassed by the reason he had found, and then continued:

"Congratulations, you're the 10,000th table guest at our restaurant, so there's an extra gift."

Faced with this lame reason, the six people didn't have any doubts for some reason, and just accepted it as a matter of course.

"That's right...... So the lucky gift is this? Xiao Ningyu blinked and asked curiously.

"And this."

The young man raised his left hand and showed the strange flower branches he was holding in his lower hand, the "flower branches" with dark green leaves, and the small bright red fruits falling on the top, which looked quite cute.

In the curious eyes of everyone, he leaned over slightly, handed one to everyone, and said at the same time:

"Today is the Chung Yeung Festival, this is a gift of dogwood from the store, which represents good wishes, and I hope you all have a bright future."

"Thank you." Several people were slightly stunned, and then instinctively took it and thanked them.

The young man handed them them one by one, and when it was Hua Bei's turn, his hand paused slightly, and then he stuck the soft dogwood straight into Hua Bei's hair, like a hairpin.

Hua Bei was stunned, and even forgot to say thank you for a while, just staring blankly at the strange "waiter's" face that she had never seen before, but was extremely familiar.

The young man just smiled, then turned away and went into the "back kitchen".

It wasn't until his figure disappeared completely that everyone suddenly shivered in unison, as if they had woken up from some kind of dream, and looked at each other and the flower branches in their hands in amazement.

"Do you think the waiter seems familiar?"

"It's a little, but I'm sure I haven't seen it."

Under the influence of mental manipulation, several people naturally ignored the suspicions in this matter, and then continued to talk.

Only Hua Bei was left touching the "doghair" in her hair, looking at the vacant seat, and for some reason, tears fell from the corners of her eyes.

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ps: March, 5,000 words extra.

PS2: The new book is still in difficult birth...... I'll do it as soon as possible!

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