A Million Possible

Extra Four: Inserting cornus all over, one less person

People’s perception of time is a very subjective thing. When events happen frequently, they will perceive the slowness of time. In most ordinary repetitive days, a long time has passed in the blink of an eye.

Midsummer passed away quietly, and it was another autumn.

Ningcheng.

In an unremarkable neighborhood, in a house, when Sun Xiaohan pushed the door in his pajamas and walked from the room to the bathroom, he saw the Big Brother standing in front of the mirror, scratching his head.

“Yeah, why do you dress so formal today?”

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

In front of the mirror.

Sun Xiao, wearing a slightly formal coat, evenly rubbed the hair lotion on his hair. After finishing this action, he turned his head to look at his Little Sister.

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

He is much taller. As a practitioner, his physique is much stronger than that of ordinary people. At the moment, he is quite slim, but… the face that is obviously thinner because of the height always makes Sun Xiao feel a little bit. Sorry-it’s not cute at all… well, it seems that I was never cute when I was a child…

With a silent sigh, Sun Xiao rolled his eyes and walked out of the bathroom and said:

“I’m usually very sloppy with me? Let’s go in.”

Sun Xiaohan didn’t go into the bathroom when he heard the words. He just looked at him curiously, bulged his cheeks, and suddenly said:

“Sun Xiao, you won’t talk about girlfriends anymore, what does my sister-in-law look like? Is there a photo? Let me check it out for you?”

“What and what are you doing,” Sun Xiao said with a black face, “There is a party today.”

“with who?”

“Second uncle with you.” Sun Xiao said irritably, and then turned his head to ignore her. Sun Xiaohan curled his mouth helplessly, and while walking to the bathroom, he whispered bb, “How many years have the second uncle died…”

Ignoring Sun Xiaohan’s thoughts, Sun Xiao went to the living room, picked up his coat and mobile phone, looked at the time for a few moments, pushed the door downstairs, and ran to the community parking space.

“drop!”

He pressed down the car key, then opened the door, and waited to sit in the driving position before he let out a sigh of relief.

Time, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival.

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

After three years of graduation, although they were in contact with each other and met several times during the period, serious gatherings where everyone came together never happened.

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

It wasn’t until this year that a time was finally agreed. Everyone had free time, so we simply chose to go back to the college to have a look and get together on the Double Ninth Festival.

“boom……”

Turning the key, lighting up, leaving the community, and then on the road to the provincial capital, Ningcheng is only an hour’s drive from the provincial capital, but he did not 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, then stood next to him, holding his shoulders, and checking the time from time to time.

After a while, a group of people walked out of the exit. He looked around, suddenly his eyes lit up, his hands shook, and the two ordinary dressed young people in the crowd laughed like ordinary young people. Waved his hand, and then walked towards this side.

When he got closer, someone took off his sunglasses and smiled:

“Awaited!”

Sun Xiao looked at Fu Zhongting and Zhu Sha, smiled and stretched out his fists and gestured with them, and then couldn’t help but jokingly said:

“Why are you both wearing sunglasses? You are not a star.”

Fu Zhongting immediately spread his hands and smiled:

“You have to ask him about it. I wear it with him.”

Hearing this, Zhu Sha on the side looked around helplessly, then carefully pushed the sunglasses away, pointed at the black eye sockets with bruises, and smiled bitterly: “A little injury is not good enough, isn’t it afraid of scaring people. ”

Sun Xiao was stunned and said, “How did it hurt?”

“The military region tried to fight and was hammered.” Zhu Sha explained lightly, pausing, his back straightened slightly, and a hint of pride at the corners of his mouth, “The opponent is much worse than me.”

Sun Xiao was stunned, and he was relieved. Zhu Sha is different from them. He went to the military. It seems that the past three years is not a leisurely life, but his spirit is obviously much better than when he graduated. .On the Cultivation Base, faintly, you can also perceive the hidden sharp aura, giving Sun Xiao the illusion that he is not facing the perception system cultivator, but the physical energy system.

As for Fu Zhongting, his appearance does not seem to have changed much, but his temperament is much more restrained. Compared with the beginning, he is a lot more quiet. Sun Xiao has asked before that the opponent has performed quite well in a division in the past two years. Transferred to a foreign country, responsible for work in a certain area overseas.

The three of them stood by the car, chatting casually, and the time passed quickly. When the next scheduled plane landed, the three of them looked towards the exit and quickly caught the three beautiful roads coming out holding hands. Figure.

“Here! Here!”

Waving their arms and shouting a few times, the three girls flying in from the capital also saw this place, glanced at each other, and walked over. Although they were not ostentatious in terms of dressing, they still attracted many eyes from the surroundings.

Xie Qingke took the lead, followed by Xiao Ningyu and Hua Bei. When they walked over, she greeted generously: “Why, why are they standing stupid?”

The three of them reacted and opened the car door.

Sun Xiao drove a six-seater model with a large space. There were just a few people, and the three girls leaned back. The flowers were splendid, and they looked very seductive.

Xie Qingke and Xiao Ningyu both have relatively sassy styles. There is no alternative. They work in the bureau, often have tasks, and they can only do so.

However, the practitioner’s physique is excellent, coupled with the promotion of Cultivation Base, has been running outside, and it does not appear haggard.

In contrast, as the only person among the six who was basically far from the spiritual world, Hua Bei still had a strong student spirit.

Sitting in the back row, put his hands on the plaid skirt, because it was cold, the upper body was covered in a knitted white sweater, the shawl had long hair, and the smile was very gentle.

A group of six people did not gather together neatly in a year, this will naturally chat, extremely cheerful, joking with each other, unknowingly, they have already arrived at the Ninth Academy.

I have already talked to the counselor here with internal relations before, so it is easy to enter the campus. At this time, the students are in class, and the environment seems extremely quiet.

Because there was a light rain before, the color of the whole road was exceptionally black. The ginkgo leaves that were already dyed yellow and began to fall were wet by the rain and stuck to the sides of the road. Looking at the clusters, it was also delightful. .

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

“When will the new building be built?”

“I remember this is not a flower bed?”

“I remember that this piece was renovated when we graduated.”

As they walked, several people pointed at each place and talked excitedly. Their expressions were full of emotion. Because Sun Xiao was based in the local area, he was more familiar with the changes in the academy, so he simply introduced them one by one.

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

I saw several “stone steles” standing there, each with densely engraved names. When they graduated, they set up the first one together. Over the past few years, there have been a few more and it seems to be a piece of ” Forest of Steles”.

They swarmed past, came to the stone tablet that belonged to him, and then looked at the names, sighing.

And when they looked in the middle of the stone tablet, the name that had been clearly crossed out and seemed to be re-engraved on it, everyone fell silent.

“Cheng Lin…”

Looking at this name, some emotions that they had deliberately ignored before suddenly surged.

Back then, each of their gatherings consisted of seven people.

But now, there are only six left.

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

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

“I don’t know, where is he now and how is his life.”

Hearing that, everyone raised their heads unanimously, looked up, and looked at the extremely high and pure sky where no trace of Impurities could be seen.

After Cheng Lin and the “creeping planet” disappeared together under the gaze of billions of people, there are many speculations about his state. Some people think that he has entered another dimension and entered the “projection” world where the planet is. Some people think he is dead.

From a certain perspective, no matter which possibility it is, it seems to be the same to people.

In the silence, the cool breeze swayed the surrounding autumn trees. The six people looked at the sky quietly, and they didn’t speak for a long time. Then, Sun Xiao said:

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

He did not mention the possibility of “Death”, and the others tacitly ignored this possibility.

“It’s just… if you go to other worlds, you will probably be very uncomfortable with eating.” Xiao Ningyu said suddenly worried.

“Possibly, I can’t get used to those foreign dishes.” Xie Qingke said with approval.

“Do you remember what he likes to eat?” Zhu Sha asked suddenly.

Everyone was silent, but couldn’t answer for a while.

After a few seconds, Hua Bei’s voice suddenly rang: “Barbecue.”

“What?” Everyone looked over.

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

“As he said, no one can refuse a barbecue.”

…

…

No one can refuse a barbecue.

The gods are not good either.

Therefore, when night fell and six people drove to a lively barbecue stall in the provincial capital, they almost just got out of the car and smelled the smoke and fire in the air, and they were naturally absorbed into the mixed and secular Atmosphere.

There is already a noticeable coolness in the autumn night.

Therefore, the red charcoal fire is especially warm.

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

The stall is open-air and looks very simple. Small tables are evenly placed under the huge awning. Many people have already been seated on those plastic stools.

The fragrance and people’s conversations mixed into a very harmonious, very lively atmosphere, as if there was some kind of extraordinary tolerance.

“That’s it.”

The six people glanced at each other, and simply selected a free table, and then went straight to sit down, and there were not enough stools, so they pulled two more from the side.

“Boss.” Sun Xiao did his part, stood up and started to talk, just like every dinner party.

“Lamb skewers, fifty, squid, ribs, chicken… oysters, yes, the same seven…”

I quickly ordered the order, and then brought in beer again. Considering that a small table might not fit, I greeted him and pulled one to put it together.

There are people chatting around, all with different identities, but no one goes deep into it. Everyone is chatting eagerly, waiting for the hot skewer to be delivered, everything seems to be a matter of course.

The six people ate, drank, and chatted. They didn’t use Cultivation Base to suppress anything deliberately, but let themselves dissolve in the slightly drunken atmosphere.

“Zhusha, what rank do you have now? Colonel? Yes, yes, when will you be a general?”

“I have to go back to the foreign base next week, but it has been very peaceful recently…”

“…Yes, yes…”

While chatting, the topic was nothing more than a few people revolving around.

Zhu Sha was promoted to a colonel, and his future is promising. Xie Qingke’s work abroad is also on the right track. Xiao Ningyu, as a treatment department, has an extra ability after being promoted to cultivate healing plants. Now he is simply busy with the research institute as a special talent. Let’s get the cultivation of a new type of spiritual plant together…

However, Fu Zhongting suddenly broke out a piece of “inside information”, saying that he had received internal notification and would return to the Jiu Division in a while, replacing Huang Yin as the new deputy chief.

“Are you coming back? To replace Deputy Secretary Huang?” Hearing this news, several people were surprised, and immediately curiously asked, “What about Deputy Secretary Huang?”

“I heard that I took a long vacation, um, maybe a few years of the kind of long vacation. It is said that Cultivation Base arrived at bottleneck and wanted to go around the world to find a breakthrough opportunity.” Fu Zhongting spilled a pepper and zeal. Ran the skewers swallowed, explained.

“That’s it…” The crowd sighed for a while.

After silence, Fu Zhongting finally looked at Sun Xiao: “What about you? Do you have any thoughts of coming back?”

“Come back?” Sun Xiao was stunned, as if he didn’t expect the other party to say so.

“Yes, now the direction of public opinion about Cheng Lin has begun to change, and you should have felt the changes recently. The headquarter’s meaning is also going smoothly… the original things have different opinions… the original things you have now also have. Room, how? Come back, I can help you get a place. Rejoin Jiuji as a social Rogue Cultivators.” Fu Zhongting said seriously.

This news obviously made Sun Xiao unexpected. He was unable to 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 pretty good now…Why go back, besides, what can I do when I go back? Compete with those juniors and girls?”

As he said, he laughed himself, then looked at Fu Zhongting with bright eyes, and said with a smile: “Besides…you haven’t taken office yet, you have to leave the relationship, can you do it, you have learned nepotism? ?Ha ha.”

“I’m serious,” Fu Zhongting said without a smile, holding down his hand, “I can see that your Cultivation Base hasn’t fallen in the past three years. Normally, you should have worked hard, right? It’s just that. In order to be a Rogue Cultivators, such a high Cultivation Base is not available. I have been in Beijing for the past few years and I am not familiar with the place. Come back and help me.”

Sun Xiao pursed his lips, fell silent in the opponent’s gaze, then changed the subject with a smile, and looked at the flower bud who had always been quietly dealing with a charcoal-roasted green pepper:

“Talk about something else, Hua Bei, are you graduating soon?”Hua Bei was startled, then put down the iron sign in his hand, smiled, nodded and said, “Yes, it’s coming soon.”

“What are your plans after graduation? Advanced studies or…”

“I’m going to take the exam for a teacher to teach art or something.” Hua Bei said lightly.

Compared to the rest of the people still staying in the practitioner circle more or less, Hua Bei seems really determined to leave this area.

“Don’t think about it anymore?” Xie Qingke looked at her and asked.

“Actually, I always feel that I am not suitable for spiritual practice. I like to paint. That’s good. Well, I’m not sure. Maybe I will choose to continue to study. Who knows what I will do in the future.” Hua Bei brushed her hair with her right hand and said with a smile.

Yeah…who knows the future?

The crowd did not persuade, after a brief silence, they simultaneously cast their eyes on the specially vacant seat in the banquet. There was no one on the stool, but trays and wine glasses were placed in front of them.

It’s like someone sitting there all the time.

That’s the place they left for Cheng Lin, but it’s a pity…

The six sighed at the same time.

“Drinking!” Seeing the low atmosphere, Sun Xiao hurriedly raised his glasses 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 at the same time:

“The flesh and blood of Table 7 are connected. Be careful. Okay. Use it slowly.”

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

Sun Xiao was stunned, then frowned slightly and said:

“It’s wrong, we didn’t order this.”

As he said, he raised his head and moved up the arm that wore the sleeves, and saw a young face that was very beautiful, but he hadn’t seen it, but was a little strange and familiar.

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

“Yes. You won the prize at this table.”

As he said, he coughed clear, seeming to be a little embarrassed about the reason he was looking for, and then went on to say:

“Congratulations everyone, you are the ten thousandth table guests in this shop, so there are extra gifts.”

Faced with this incomparable reason, the six people did not have any doubts for some reason, and they just accepted it for granted.

“So…so this is the lucky gift?” Xiao Ningyu blinked and asked curiously.

“and this.”

The young man raised his left hand and showed the strange flower branches he held in his lower hand. The “flower branches” had dark green leaflets and small bright red fruits falling on the top, which looked quite cute.

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

“Today is the Double Ninth Festival. This is the cornel presented in the store. It represents good wishes and hopes you all have a bright future.”

“Thank you.” Several people were taken aback, then instinctively took them over and thanked them.

The young man handed them to them one by one. When it was Huabei’s turn, his hand paused slightly, and then he inserted the soft dogwood straight into Huabei’s hair, like a hairpin.

Hua Bei was stunned. For a while, he even forgot to say thank you, just staring blankly at the strange face of the “waiter” that he had never seen before, but was extremely familiar.

The young man just smiled, then turned and left and entered the “back kitchen”.

Until his figure disappeared completely, the crowd shivered suddenly, as if waking up from a certain dream, looking at each other and the flower branches in shock with surprise.

“Do you think that waiter seems a bit familiar?”

“It’s a bit, but I must have never seen it.”

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

Only Hua Bei touched the “Zhu Chai” in her hair and looked at the empty seat. For some reason, tears fell from the corner of her eyes.

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ps2: The new book is still in dystocia…I will soon!