Mrs. Meng sighed slightly, and said slowly: "It was not long after Mr. Qi came to our house, and you were still very young at that time. It's been so long now, and I don't remember much of what they said.

However, I remember two or three of them, which means that there will be calamities in your youth, and if you pass, you can soar to the sky, and if you can't get through, you will be displaced at best, and at worst you will die. ”

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Meng touched her son's hair and said in a low voice: "I don't believe that, so I haven't told you, I never thought that Mr. Qi also left a letter to mention this matter." ”

Meng Ran sighed slightly, "It turns out that you have known about this for a long time, why are you willing to tell me until now?"

Mrs. Meng shook her head slightly, and then opened her mouth to persuade: "Even Mr. Qi, who said this, is not sure that fate will be like this, how can we easily accept fate? ”

Meng Ran thought for a while, and finally spoke: "Mother, do you remember when I came to the study in the middle of the night a few months ago?"

"Well, remember, I also punished Xiaolian for this, and you are still angry with me. Mrs. Meng pretended to be relaxed.

"Actually... In fact, when I went to the street with Xiaolian that day, I met an old Taoist priest in the teahouse, and the old Taoist wanted to give me divination, but I refused. Later, I met him again on the street, and he mentioned the divination again, and I didn't refuse, so he divined a hexagram for me. ”

"What did the old man say?"

"At first, I just said, 'Your Yin Hall is black, and there will be a bloody disaster in the next few days. If you want to avoid evil, please listen to me. If you don't listen to advice, you may be in trouble,' and so on, I didn't pay attention to it.

Later, he took a serious divination, and what he said was almost word for word with what Mr. Qi said, saying that I had a strange face and a short-lived appearance. Perhaps traveling eastward to worship under the Taoist sect can be resolved, but it is also possible to aggravate the calamity and make it difficult to involve others. ”

After saying this, Meng Ran looked at Mrs. Meng fixedly, in the dark, he couldn't see his expression clearly, and there was no way to know his mood.

Mrs. Meng just patted him on the shoulder, "It's okay, if what they say is true, you and I, mother and son will bear it together, so why worry." ”

"Actually, the reason why I came to the study in the middle of the night that night was because I had a strange dream. I haven't dreamed since I was a kid and that night was the first. In my dream, I appeared in a place that I had never seen before, and it was very strange, where the people were dressed completely different from us, there were no carriages on the road, but iron boxes running, and the houses were not like courtyards like ours, but rose from the ground and looked boxy, and there were brilliant lights everywhere, and there was a lot of traffic, but there was an annoying atmosphere......

My body is not under my control, it just moves with the wind and drifts everywhere. Finally I stopped at the top of a tall building, but I saw a figure who had committed suicide, and I tried to reach out and grab him, but I couldn't get there. I hurried downstairs to check on him, and saw him lying quietly on the ground, dripping with blood, and I turned around to see that his face looked exactly like mine......"

When Meng Ran said this, he couldn't control his emotions anymore, and cried in Mrs. Meng's arms, months of torture were vented at this moment.

The crying continued for a long time, and when Meng Ran raised his head, his voice was a little hoarse, but he kept his head down, thinking that he was a little embarrassed.

Mrs. Meng took Meng Ran in her arms and said softly, "Then, it's time for you to set off." ”

"Huh, where?"

"Of course it's the Infinite Mountain. ”

Mrs. Meng looked like a matter of course.

Meng Ran was a little caught off guard, he hesitated, confused, and uneasy.

Mrs. Meng just touched his hair gently, "Son, for my mother to support you, you can go with confidence, I will wait for you at home, waiting for you to resolve the calamity, waiting for you to soar into the sky." ”

Meng Ran was speechless with emotion, but kept nodding.

After a while, Mrs. Meng said again: "You are in this Lin'an City, with me and a group of servants caring and pampering, many times your thoughts are too simple, and you don't know that people's hearts are sinister. Since you were a child, you have hardly suffered much, and you have been served by someone even to wash and dress, but if you go out of Lin'an City, there will be no such treatment, everything depends on you, you have to be prepared.

When you clean up, I will arrange for Geng Nursing Home to go with you, he is loyal and has good skills, and he will definitely be able to arrive with you safely.

When you are on the road, listen to his opinions, learn more from him to behave in the world, don't put on a look like a young master who is still at home, you have to learn how to see through people's hearts, how to deal with those who are the best people, how to deal with urgent problems......"

Mrs. Meng rambled on a lot of things that were neither nutritious nor logical.

After saying that, she got up and left, she couldn't hold back and didn't cry, but her shaking shoulders revealed her emotions.

After Mrs. Meng left, Meng Ran sat in the study for a long time. He wanted to leave, but he was reluctant to leave this family affection, this family and a quiet and peaceful life, if he didn't leave, he would wait here and do nothing, and he would always feel a little unwilling in his heart.

He pounded the table lightly and sighed. Then he slowly walked out of the study, staring at the moonless sky in the dark courtyard, his heart was very dazed.

Meng Ran returned to his room with a melancholy that was so thick that he couldn't dissolve.

At this time, in the room, Xiaolian was sitting there with a female red, and when she saw Meng Ran enter the room, she put down the work in her hand and said happily: "The young master is back! I have made the bed, I will wait for you to wash up first." ”

Meng Ran waved his hand, "Don't be busy, I have something to say to you." ”

"Oh..."

Xiaolian walked in front of Meng Ran, ready to listen to Meng Ran's orders.

After waiting for a long time, but she couldn't wait for Meng Ran to speak, she looked at Meng Ran with some curiosity, only to see him looking sluggish.

"Young Master?"

"Hmm... I was distracted. Where did I just go?"

"The young master said that he had something to say to me. ”

"Oh, sit down. ”

Meng Ran sat at the round table, motioned for Xiaolian to sit down as well, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Sister Xiaolian, what are you doing that is difficult for you to choose and decide?"

Xiaolian thought about it, shook her head and said, "No." ”

Meng Ran sighed, "There is a difficult thing to choose in front of me now, and I don't know how to choose. ”

If you don't want to make your own choice, you can only live in the choices of others.

If you only want one, and you only have the good part and no bad part to choose from, then you will be struggling with pain all the time.

If you are afraid of making a mistake and take not choosing as a choice, this is still your decision, and all the consequences of this decision are still up to you. ”

"Sister Xiaolian, your words make so much sense. But how do you know what you want?"

"So... Then close your eyes, think about nothing, empty yourself, and then start thinking about the outcome you want most, which is your choice. ”

"Really? I'll give it a try. ”

After speaking, Meng Ran solemnly closed his eyes.

It was dark in front of him, and he could vaguely see the flickering of the candlelight in front of him, and he could hear the breathing of Xiaolian and himself. Gradually, he could clearly hear his own heartbeat and could hear the sound of blood rushing through his body......

He could hear more and more subtle sounds, and then, he couldn't hear anything, only a chaotic world of nothingness, desolate and boundless.

Then he saw the afterglow of the setting sun lazily crawling over the white and smooth skin of the mountain, shining warmly on this quiet land, the clouds on the horizon drifting by as if following in the footsteps of his companions, the warm blue water of the lake flowing slowly, and a few small boats diagonally by the lake......

Xiaolian looked at Meng Ran, who closed her eyes and didn't move, looking at that handsome face very nervously, and she didn't dare to come out.

After a long time, Meng Ran suddenly opened his eyes, and the moment he opened his eyes, there seemed to be a divine light shooting out, which startled Xiaolian almost screamed.

"Young Master, have you figured it out?"

Meng Ran nodded, "I figured it out, I know what I'm going to do." I want to leave Lin'an, I want to go to Wuliang Mountain to learn art, I want to be a person like Mr., I can fly with a sword, and I can do what I like. ”

"What?" Xiaolian asked with a look of incredulity, "You want to leave?"

"Well, I'm leaving, probably not long after. ”

"For... Why?" Xiaolian's mood was obviously not high, and she asked in a low voice, "What about the lady?"

She still has an unspoken word in her heart, what should I do? What should I do when you're gone?

"My mother has agreed, as for Xue'er, I will tell her, when I succeed in my studies, I will come back, she will definitely understand me, and she will wait for me. Meng Ran said confidently, without taking into account the feelings of the people around him.

Xiaolian sighed and said in a very strange tone: "Then congratulations to the young master, the young master will definitely succeed in his studies." ”

It wasn't until many years later, when Meng Ran returned to Lin'an after some upheaval, that he understood all the emotions contained in that sentence, but it was a little late.

As to whether and how it can be remedied, it is up to Providence to do so.

Meng Ran, who had made up his mind, was already sleepy, he had forgotten the lingering nightmare, forgotten the possible catastrophe in the future, and just wanted to go to bed early.

Under Xiaolian's service, after washing his face and soaking his feet, he lay on the bed, and in less than a few breaths, he already heard a slight snoring.

This night, Meng Ran slept extremely peacefully.

In the dream, the sky is thousands of miles, as blue as a wash, and the white clouds are gently floating, forming a beautiful picture, in which he flies in the sky, so uncomfortable.