No matter what world you're in, meetings are always boring.

Xu Ming originally thought that at this exchange meeting, he could learn from the monks of different sects and learn some techniques that suited him. But who would have thought that everyone at the exchange meeting was very restrained, and the disciples were also mother-in-law and mother-in-law when they were sparring, and the light salute and business blowing each other could take longer than the real exchange.

When I fight, I don't fight seriously, and if I win with all my strength, I will be said, "It's supposed to be an exchange meeting, so what are you doing so seriously." "If you don't go all out and deliberately lose, it doesn't look good in front of many sect disciples, so most of the disciples who came to the stage to compete and compete were evenly matched, and the sect masters and elders watching below also praised each other. No matter where the sect is, it didn't lose face.

"Sure enough, it's a meeting of unity!" Xu Ming looked at the exchange meeting that seemed to be a farce in front of him, and lost interest in an instant. He looked left and right, and when he saw that no one noticed him, he sneaked out of the hall of the Drunken Moon Tower.

The sky on the autumn afternoon was extremely high, the clouds were also very light, and the autumn wind carried a faint fragrance, which made Xu Ming, who was originally groggy, feel refreshed.

He saw a group of children sweeping leaves on the banks of the Qinhuai River, including the little boy who asked him not to litter last time. Xu Mingchao's group of children walked over.

"Ah, see you again, little friend. Xu Ming looked at the thin little boy in front of him, his forehead was covered with sweat, and there was ash on his face that came from nowhere, and he swept the golden and fiery leaves together with this blue sleeve.

The little boy looked up: "Oh, you're the brother who threw chestnut shells." ”

Xu Ming was a little embarrassed: "Eh, I have a name, my name is Xu Ming, what is your name, little friend?"

The little boy wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand: "My name is Lele!"

"Lele, are you volunteering here again?" Xu Ming touched the little boy's head, the little boy should have not washed his hair for several days, and his hair felt a little like sandpaper.

The little boy raised a pair of big puzzled eyes and looked at Xu Ming: "What do you mean by volunteering? Grandpa Dean asked us to come here to collect the leaves, and he wanted to teach us to use red leaves to weave a head ring!"

"Wow, it's amazing, my sister also wants to learn to knit a headband!" Guan Chunuan's voice suddenly appeared behind him.

Xu Ming stood up and looked at her: "Why are you here?" Guan Chunuan pouted: "What's the matter, I can't come out if you can come out?"

Xu Ming was choked by her and couldn't speak, and a gray-haired old man next to him walked over on crutches.

"Grandpa Dean!" the little boy laughed when he saw the old man, and pointed to the fallen leaves in front of him: "You see I have collected a lot!"

The old man touched the little boy's head and smiled kindly: "Lele is awesome, you go and call your brothers and sisters, and grandpa will teach you to weave a maple leaf headband immediately!"

The little boy gave a non-standard military salute, "Yes!" and then flew away as if he were a friend.

Xu Ming looked at the old men around him and asked, "You are the dean of the Wing Family, right?"

The old man nodded: "The contemptible person is none other than Wang Wei, the dean of the Feather Wing Family. ”

Xu Ming pointed to the children who were playing not far away: "Are these the children of the Winged Family?" The old man nodded and said with some emotion: "Yes." They are all children abandoned on the Qinhuai River. ”

The old man looked at the sparkling Qinhuai River in front of him: "You only look at the beautiful and affectionate Qinhuai River, but in fact, this river is the most ruthless!

Some of these children were picked up on the banks of the Qinhuai River, some of them floated along the Qinhuai River, they may be the children of poor people's families, they really can't afford to raise them, and they are discarded on the riverside, and some are the children of the women in the Qinglou along the river, who were ruthlessly discarded. No one knows where they are children, after all, they are all children of Qinhuaihe. ”

"The adoption of these children by your winged family is also a good deed. Xu Ming looked at the old man and cautiously comforted him.

The old man shook his head: "I didn't create the Wing Family. It was created together by the major Qinglou restaurants on the banks of the Qinhuai River, and I was just hired by them to watch the children. ”

A birdsong sounded from a tree not far away, a bird fluttered up, and a few leaves fell on the river with the wind, and floated away with the river like a boat.

Since leaving the Ziyang Sect, Xu Ming often had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, he couldn't tell what was wrong, but he just didn't feel right. Maybe it's a feeling of not being used to being separated from Tang Jinling since he came to this world, and now that the kitten who often sleeps in his arms is gone. Xu Ming comforted himself like this, after all, he was also in the end of the exchange meeting.

On the third day of the exchange meeting, Emperor Hongzhi also came, and brought several disciples of the royal practice to ask for advice and study. Not surprisingly, the royal disciples all won, and even the Qingyang Sect of the Liang Kingdom sold Emperor Hongzhi a face, so that a core disciple lost to a royal disciple.

Emperor Hongzhi even summoned Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan and gave each of them a jade talisman. Guan Chunuan put it away very preciously, but Xu Ming just looked at it with little interest and put it in the Qiankun bag.

Finally, the seven-day exchange meeting ended, and Xu Ming saw something more boring than cultivation for the first time. He couldn't wait to return to the sect and return to his own hill. When he opened the hut, he thought that a cute kitten would rush to him, meowing and asking him if he had brought something good to eat.

Xu Ming stood at the door of the hut with a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar that was still hot. The house was empty, there was nothing.

Zhang Gangsheng rubbed his sleepy eyes, and when he came to the small grass hut halfway up the mountain, the sun had already risen very high. He saw Xu Ming lying on the ground and didn't know what he was looking for, his expression was flustered and trembling.

Xu Ming raised his head and saw the little fat man with a puzzled face, almost screaming: "What about my cat!"

The little fat man was startled and instantly came to his senses. He looked at Xu Ming in a daze: "It was still there yesterday." ”

The sunlight came into the room from behind the little fat man and shone on the chestnuts that had cooled down on the table.

Xu Ming searched the entire Ziyang Sect and asked the people of the entire Ziyang Sect: "Where is my cat?" but no one knew where the cute little cat had gone. She vanished like the wind without a trace

Guan Chunuan knew that it was already evening when Xu Ming ran out of the sect, and she thought that Xu Ming would disappear from now on until she found his cat. But she still rushed out of the sect.

Xu Ming actually didn't go far, he was at the door of the Ziyang Sect. When Guan Chunuan found him, he was sitting on the stone steps in front of the sect, watching the night gradually fall in a daze. She walked gently to his side.

Guan Chunuan sat down beside him and looked at his calm side face. It's hard to relate him to the horror of what his fellow disciples describe as man-eating monsters. Xu Ming didn't speak, and neither did she.

It was a long, long time, maybe an hour, or more. Guan Chunuan heard a hoarse and heartbreaking voice. It's hard to believe that this is Xu Ming's voice, but it is true that only Xu Ming's mouth is gently opening and closing, and there are only the two of them in this place.

"I came out into this world under such a night sky. Xu Ming's voice was hoarse and choked, with a sense of looking back on the vicissitudes of the past. "When I woke up and saw the world, it was night, and I was lying in bed and looking through the window at a magnificent galaxy. At that time, my first reaction was that I was rescued by someone in the mountain village, just like the plot of the young master who lived in the mountain village. Xu Ming sighed: "Later, I found out that I am not from this world. Although there are many people like me, it seems that I am the only person who can truly belong to another world in this world. Xu Ming told Guan Chunuan his story, as well as Tang Jinling's story.

After I came to this world, I had dreams about life, about finding the way, about traveling through this world with the girl I loved, but now I look at this galaxy again late at night, and these little stars are in front of my eyes, just like my broken dreams.

Xu Ming talked for a long time, a lot, and finally hugged his knees and buried his head in his arms and sobbed in a low voice. Guan Chunuan felt like his heart was cut by a knife, and tears flowed silently. She gently hugged the boy who was crying in front of her, as fragile as a piece of paper, and didn't know what to say, so she could only hold him silently like this, using her body temperature to give him encouragement and warmth.

Suddenly, Xu Ming suddenly raised his head from his arms: "I can calculate a hexagram, figure out where she is! I will calculate a hexagram! I will tell a hexagram!" Xu Ming's body trembled violently, although there were still tears on his face, but his body still couldn't stop trembling with ecstasy.

......

"In the north, the big murderer, ten deaths and no life. Finally, Xu Ming's barely controlled hands trembled violently again, and the tortoise shell in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang".

The silent night of the Ziyang Sect was broken by a wail, and several crows in the woods flew up and croaked, screaming so that the stars were dim, emitting a weak white light.

......

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" when the tall and strong man entered the door, the official hat was touched by the lintel, and he didn't have time to pick it up, so he hurriedly rushed into the back room.

In the room was Xu Ming, who had shrunk into a ball and dried his tears and cried dryly, and now he could only howl, next to Lin Mengke who was at a loss and a beautiful girl. The tall man walked briskly and asked, "What's the matter, why are you crying like this?"

Lin Mengke gave him a look, pulled him aside, and briefly told him what had happened.

"Xiao Ming is now begging you to calculate a hexagram for him, he said that he is not accurate in his studies, and "Qimen Dunjia" was passed on to him by you, you must be much more accurate than him. Lin Mengke looked at Gao Dazhuang, "I feel distressed when the child cries, we have no heirs, I treat Xiao Ming as a son, you can calculate a hexagram for him!" Gao Dazhuang frowned: "I also treat him as a son, but the key is that I have a sin to come back from work today, it is a felony to leak the heavenly secret and violate the rules of heaven, and if I am discovered, I may be seized and imprisoned for a few years!" "You be careful, don't say no to the important things, and make up some words that make Xiao Ming not so uncomfortable to listen to, anyway, the matter of divination is not scored, you can say whatever you want!" Tall and strong, Lin Mengke had no choice but to nod.

"This hexagram depends on how you choose. Gao Dazhuang took advantage of Xu Ming's lack of understanding the hexagram in front of him, and quickly put it away, saying that this would reduce the probability of being discovered by the Tiangong Patrol.

Gao Dazhuang looked at Xu Ming: "If you go north to find it, you will be able to find it according to the hexagram, but this is dangerous, but it is not ten deaths and no life, but nine deaths and one life. ”

Gao Dazhuang looked at Xu Ming, whose eyes were rekindled with fire in front of him, and continued: "You can also wait, you can cultivate by yourself, and when the time comes, fate will come, and she will appear in front of you." ”

Xu Ming looked at the tall and strong and asked, "Then how long will you have to wait when the time is ripe?" Gao Dazhuang shook his head: "I don't know, it may be a few days, months, or even years, or you will have to wait until you are old to meet her." ”

Xu Ming was silent, lowered his head and thought about it. There was no sound in the cabin for a moment, silently.

"Give. Xu Ming looked at the 1998 version of the one-dollar coin in front of him with some astonishment, and raised his head to look at the tall and strong.

Gao Dazhuang looked at him and said, "This is given to me by Xiaoxi, he said that when people make choices, what they need most is a coin." ”

Xu Ming held up the coin in front of his eyes. I don't know how long it has been in this world, but there is not a trace of rust. On the front is the long-lost heart-warming national emblem of the People's Republic of China, and on the reverse is "1 yuan" and a silver peony.

Xu Ming looked at the coin and suddenly laughed. He tossed the coin high up to the ceiling.