Early September.
Taoyuan District of Dongshi City is full of lotus fragrance, bright willows and curved bridges, and the scenery is pleasant. It was midday, and the music in the teahouse had stopped. The cicadas were chirping everywhere in the community, but it was even quieter.
After turning around the curved bridge, a wooden sign was submerged into the neatly trimmed lawn, with four words written on it - Qu Lantingzhao.
Looking up again, a three-entry mansion appeared.
The courtyard is also quiet. After the bright hall, the door of the main house is open. There are large and small bags on the ground, and some things are lying on the ground, waiting to be packed away. The couple who were packing their things had already gone to take a nap, but a young girl was sitting under the jujube tree in the backyard.
There were clusters of peonies blooming beautifully in the flower bed. The girl sat in front of the peonies and under the jujube tree. There was a table in front of her. On the plate on the table, two freshly picked pomegranates were lying quietly.
Xia Shao's eyes fell on it, quiet and sad.
Senior brother didn't come.
After attending the inauguration ceremony of Aida Real Estate in Hong Kong, Xia Shao accompanied her master and friends before returning. When it's time to say goodbye again, although I'm a little reluctant to say goodbye, it's also a joy to see my friends live their own lives.
Zhan Ruonan refused to go abroad to study. If she didn't restrain her temper, she would get into trouble abroad. Considering this, Zhan Ruohao agreed to let her enroll in a random university in Hong Kong. The new dishes Qu Ran brought back from Malaysia were improved and were well received in the Past Restaurant. Reading, doing shows, and running restaurants, although there are still family matters to resolve, this little girl's life has begun to flourish.
Zhan Ruohao had a headache. He had some signs of the red luan star moving, but the other end of the red line hid when he saw him and didn't call at all.
Xia Shao just smiled at this. Everyone's relationship path is different, and this is what's interesting. As a friend, she has nothing but wishes and hopes for good results.
Master is in Hong Kong, and the real estate company and online media headquarters of Huaxia Group are all in Hong Kong. Xia Shao will definitely come to Hong Kong often. Therefore, this time the separation may not be a long time, and there will not be too much sentimentality. Some are just looking forward to the capital, looking forward to seeing their senior brother before leaving home.
But I didn't see this side.
On the night when Xia Shao returned to Dongshi, she received a call from Xu Tianyin as soon as she got off the plane. She thought he was coming, so she happily picked up the call, but she heard the man's cold and depressed voice on the other end of the phone, "I have a mission, I have to leave."
Xia Shao was stunned and stopped walking towards the airport hall.
But there was no silence on the other end of the phone for long. The tense atmosphere could be heard across the phone and hundreds of miles away. Xu Tianyin seemed to be packing his things and said quickly, "I'm leaving, don't worry."
He only had six short words, but his voice could be heard as dull and depressed. Xia Shao's emotions were all taken away by the first three words. She could feel the tense atmosphere. She suppressed all the emotions in her heart before he hung up the phone and said, "Brother, take care of yourself!"
"Yes." Xu Tianyin agreed quickly this time, but he paused again. The two words seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, "Wait for me."
"Yes." The moment Xia Shao responded, the other end of the phone hung up.
Xia Shao held her cell phone and didn't move for a long time. When she realized what she was doing, the people around her had already disappeared, and she was left standing alone at the entrance of the airport hall. Under the bright lights inside, her parents had strange looks on their faces, thinking that she If something happened, he was waving to her worriedly.
Xia Shao was stunned for a moment, then walked into the hall with a smile, and said lightly that it was a call from a friend. Then he talked about registering at Beijing University and changed the subject.
Xia Shao didn't know why Xu Tianyin still carried out dangerous missions. He is a soldier and should serve the country, but now he is the commander of the Qing Province Military Region. What kind of mission requires him to personally take action
The disappointment of not being able to see each other was not worth the worry. Although the two of them didn't have many opportunities to see each other, talking on the phone every night had become a habit. When Xu Tianyin went on a mission, his cell phone was naturally unable to get through. Xia Shao didn't know how to fight, but she was worried, so during the past few days when she was packing her luggage to report to Beijing University, Xia Shao couldn't calm down when she had some free time.
Before going to college, Xia Shao always felt that something was missing since she couldn't see her senior brother.
But the days are still passing by day by day, and Li Juan is busy packing her daughter's luggage for college. Xia Shao told her that she didn’t need to bring too many things, she could just buy them when she got to the place. Li Juan promised, turned around and hurriedly packed up a bunch of things. Xia Shao had no choice but to look through it from time to time and take out what she felt was not needed.
So in the past two days, her luggage bulged up and deflated again.
Xia Zhiyuan laughed happily on the sidelines, letting his wife and daughter toss him around.
Xia Shao set out from home on the 4th, and the weather was fine.
When she left home, she looked in the direction of the Qing Provincial Military Region. Although she knew that her senior brother was not in the military region and did not know where he was at the moment, she still glanced there and said quietly: "I'm leaving. ,Await your return."
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It takes ten hours to drive from Dongshi to Beijing. Set off early in the morning and arrive in the evening. Xia Shao took the Huaxia Group's business car to the capital because her parents wanted to send her to Beijing University to register.
Xia Shao had always been independent and did not need her parents to accompany her to the capital. But one night she got up and heard her parents talking in the room.
"When my daughter went to Qingshi to study, we didn't see her off. When we went to Hong Kong, we didn't see her off either. Now that she's in college, why are we letting her go alone? When other children go to college, their parents all go to see them off... "
Her mother's words were full of disappointment, and Xia Shao was shocked to realize that she was too independent and had some emotions from her parents. They may want to fulfill their parental responsibilities and send her to register at university to see Beijing University and where she will study and live in the future.
Xia Shao smiled and went back to the house silently. When she got up early the next morning, she called the company and asked the company to drive a seven-seater business car.
The reason why so many seats are needed is because Yuan Ze and Zhou Mingxu are both going to Beijing University to report together.
The car stopped at the station intersection, and a young man was seen standing there in the distance.
Under the early morning sunshine, the boy was carrying a shoulder bag, a white casual T-shirt and light-colored jeans. The sun shone on the boy's fair face. The sun was shining, clean and refreshing.
Yuan Ze.
The nineteen-year-old boy has grown up compared to when he first met. He stood on the side of the road with only the backpack on his shoulders. He was so refreshing that it lit up the scenery on the street. Many girls coming and going looked at him, but he just smiled and looked at the car parked in front of him. As soon as the car door opened, he greeted Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan first.
"Uncle, aunt, please give me a ride. Thank you for your hard work." The young man's voice was clean and his smile was quite gentlemanly.
Xia Zhiyuan and his wife met Yuanze. When Xia Shao went to Qingshi No. 1 Middle School, Yuanze and Xia Shao were the top scorers in the Dongshi High School Entrance Examination. Coincidentally, Yuan Ze was also the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Qing Province this year.
Xia Zhiyuan smiled and said, "What's so hard about taking a ride with the provincial party secretary's son?"
Li Juan knew that Yuan Ze was the son of Yuan Mingting, secretary of the Qing Provincial Party Committee, so she just smiled and nodded. She still didn't know how to entertain a young man from an official family, but when she met Yuan Ze three years ago, he didn't look like a young man from an official family. Although he looked aristocratic, he was easy to get along with.
If Xia Shao knew what her mother was thinking, she would probably laugh. Is Yuan Ze easy to get along with? He grew up in an official family. His background, upbringing, and upbringing were all superior to others, and he was a proud man at heart. It's just that he already knows how to deal with the world at a young age.
Xia Shao didn't get out of the car, she just smiled and said, "Dad, the son of the Provincial Party Committee Secretary's family is not short of money, so I have to charge him some gas for a ride."
Yuanze looked into the car and landed on Xia Shao's familiar smiling eyebrows. The young man also showed a warm and teasing smile, "I haven't seen you for a year, and I am becoming more and more stingy. I heard that the assets of Huaxia Group have doubled. , you, the chairman, even ask for gas money from your old classmates."
Xia Shao glanced at Yuan Ze and smiled, "If you don't give it, I will complain to Secretary Yuan, saying that he wants to train his son and let him report to Beijing University alone. But he turned around and came to give me a ride! This It’s opportunistic behavior and should be properly educated.”
"I think you don't want gas money, but hush money?" Yuan Ze laughed, with a warm smile like a big boy in the sunshine.
Xia Shao raised her eyebrows and chuckled.
Yuanze threw his shoulder bag into the car and got into the car quickly. Xia Shao stepped inside and Yuan Ze sat next to her.
The two looked at each other and both smiled.
They haven't seen each other for a year, and both of them have changed a bit, but their feelings have not changed. This is the most heart-warming place.
Although Yuanze's home is in Dongshi, his father works in Qingshi, and he is studying in Qingshi. He basically didn't go home during his senior year of high school, and even spent the Chinese New Year in Qingshi. Xia Shao came back for two weeks during the Chinese New Year. Her schedule was very tight, so the two of them never met. After the college entrance examination, Yuanze, as the son of the provincial party committee secretary, passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Capital University with a top score. Naturally, he had a lot of social activities. Therefore, the two did not get in touch until the day of registration at the university was approaching.
But when Xia Shao learned that Yuan Mingting was determined to train his son and let him report to Beijing University by himself, and he agreed very well and called back to give him a ride, he couldn't help but laugh.
This kid looks harmless, but is actually cunning.
After Yuanze got in the car, he waited for a while before Zhou Mingxu and his father Zhou Wang arrived. Because they were hitchhiking, they didn't have the nerve to bring too many things, but they took two boxes of fragrant pears, a specialty of Dongshi, and said they were going to the capital to give to Professor Zhou.
Yuan Ze and Zhou Mingxu knew each other. When they were in junior high school, they were in the same class as Xia Shao and were considered old classmates. When old classmates meet, they naturally smile at each other's changes in the past few years. However, if Zhou Mingxu hadn't grown up with Xia Shao, he might not have been able to talk to Yuan Ze. Although both of them were admitted to Beijing University, their grades were quite different.
When Zhou Wang heard that Yuan Ze was actually the son of the Provincial Party Committee Secretary, he was immediately shocked, and then he seemed a little embarrassed in the car. He never expected that when sending his son to register at the university, he would be traveling with the son of the provincial party secretary's family. Fortunately, Zhou Wang and his son were sitting in the back seat, not with Yuan Ze, so when the car started, chatting started in the car, and the atmosphere gradually relaxed.
"Liu Xianxian left for the capital two days ago. She said she would go sightseeing first." Yuan Ze said in the car.
Xia Shao smiled, she knew this. It was impossible for Liu Xianxian to get admitted to Beijing University due to her grades, but she had expertise in dance. In the past three years, she had won the first prize in provincial dance every year, and she was recommended.
What pleased Xia Shao the most was that Miao Yan, who had mediocre grades, actually caught the last train. Her college entrance examination score was lower than Zhou Mingxu's, but Miao Yan's registered residence was on the China-Myanmar border and her scores were lower, so she was successfully admitted to Beijing University.
Hu Jiayi went to the UK to study in pursuit of her dream, but no one expected that she would go to a magic school!
This is actually not news. Xia Shao remembered that in her previous life, there was indeed an officially certified magic school registered in California, Gray School of Magic.
This is the first registered wizard school in the world and has been officially certified as an academic institution by the United States. As long as the required studies are completed, a degree certificate will be issued. Moreover, the school is very strict and students need to study for seven years before they can obtain a magic proficiency certificate.
Principal Oberon spent his whole life studying dark magic. The school has sixteen departments, including alchemy, animal taming, horse language, wand making and spells. The school also teaches advanced magical mathematics, quantum theory, cosmology and metaphysics, as well as herbalism and all the ancient sciences. Students entering the magic school are divided into four ancient buildings - the wind, water goddess, dwarf and salamander.
However, when the school was registered, the castle was still under construction, so students were temporarily taught online. But no matter what, this school is officially accredited.
But in the previous life, this school was only registered in 2011, and claimed to be the only magic school in the world, and this school was in California, USA. The school Hu Jiayi went to was in the UK.
Xia Shao knew that Britain was the home base of the Obikris wizard family. She had no way of knowing whether Hu Jiayi would have contact with members of this family after he went there, but this school was very mysterious. Hu Jiayi refused to reveal more on the phone. Obviously, the origin of this magic school is not simple.
Hu Jiayi went to England to pursue her dream, and the remaining friends will gather at Beijing University as agreed a year ago!
The group set out from Dongshi at eight in the morning, and when they arrived in the capital, it was already seven in the evening.
The hotel had been booked long ago and the car drove directly to the hotel. From the moment they entered the capital, Zhou Wang and his son looked at the neon lights and bustling traffic in the capital at night from the car window. Not to mention the father and son, Li Juan also came to the capital for the first time, and her eyes were filled with wonder.
"The capital is so beautiful!" Li Juan sighed.
Xia Shao smiled and joked: "You have enough time to watch it if you want to. You can watch it from now on. It will take at least two hours to get to the hotel, which is enough for you to watch."
Li Juan was stunned and didn't react, "Is the hotel still far away?"
Yuanze heard the foreign tone of Xia Shao's words and asked with a smile: "Are you sure two hours is enough?"
Xia Zhiyuan chuckled and explained to his wife, "They are talking about traffic jams. In this place in the capital, there is a lot of everything, and there are a lot of cars."
Xia Zhiyuan has managed charity funds in the past few years and has made several business trips to the capital for inspections. He is familiar with the road and has naturally experienced traffic jams.
Li Juan didn't believe it at first, but Xia Shao and Yuan Ze were convinced. The car stopped and stopped along the way. When they arrived at the door of the hotel, Zhou Wang and his son, who were very excited at first, and Li Juan were already leaning on the seats. He was about to fall asleep. When the car stopped, Xia Zhiyuan shouted to get out of the car. The three of them woke up and looked at the time - it was already ten o'clock!
Yuanze got out of the car and said with a smile: "How was it? I won. I said we couldn't get there in two hours."
Xia Shao glanced at Yuan Ze and said, "You mean, after you hitchhiked with me, you still have to ask me to give you a meal?"
"You said it, then I'd rather be respectful than obey." Yuanze said with a smile.
Xia Shao didn't realize that this guy was so shameless. Xia Zhiyuan was led by the hotel waiter to park the car, and the group entered the hotel. After riding in the car for a day, the group of people were all tired. They had dinner at the hotel and then went to the room to sleep.
The next morning, it was the day for the new students of Capital University to register.
Xia Zhiyuan drove to Beijing University. The difference between day and night was that the grandeur and prosperity of Beijing were easier to see. Along the way, Li Juan became energetic again, and Zhou Mingxu also looked out of the car window. He has great respect for Professor Zhou, and he has come to this day because of his admiration for this second grandfather of the family. He wants to come to the city and school where he lives and teaches. How could he not be excited when he actually arrived in the capital today
Xia Shao seemed much calmer, but Yuanze didn't let her go.
"Master Xia, I heard that the feng shui in the capital is good. Can you explain it?" Yuanze said in a teasing tone.
Zhou Wang didn't understand why Yuanze called Xia Shao that way. He just thought it was a joke, but Zhou Mingxu knew Xia Shao's ability in metaphysics and couldn't help but raise his eyes curiously.
Xia Shao smiled when he saw this situation, but a charming smile flashed in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Even if you say it, it is not easy to see in the tall buildings nowadays. However, it can be said in general. . But when we talk about the feng shui of Beijing, we have to mention Dragon Vein. Two top students from Beijing University have a prize-winning Q&A time. How many dynasties are there in history?"
"Twenty-four!" Yuan Ze and Zhou Mingxu said in unison.
Xia Shao glanced at the two of them and nodded with satisfaction, "There has been a saying in Feng Shui that there are twenty-four dragon veins in China. The ancient emperors, after the establishment of a dynasty, would find a dragon vein to bury their ancestors and send it to their descendants. But dragon veins There is also Qi, and when the Qi is exhausted, the dynasty will fall. From the beginning of the Yellow Emperor to the end of the Qing Dynasty, all twenty-four dragon veins were exhausted, so there was no longer a feudal dictatorship dynasty."
"But in fact, the world's dragon veins originate from Kunlun. There are only three main dragon veins in China. The Yellow River and the Yangtze River divide the land of China into three parts: north, middle and south. Ancient Kanyuology called them the three major dragon veins! And the capital is located in the three Above Daxinglong's Beilong. The capital is not only within the Beilong River Basin, but also where Beilong's anger gathers! The capital is shielded by Xishan and Jundu Mountains, facing the southeast, and the nearby Haihe River impact plain is Xiaomingtang, Tianjin In the distance, the Bohai Sea is the Daming Hall, and the Shandong Peninsula is the Case Mountain, and water from all directions converges in the south of the capital! The size of its hall and the good Feng Shui are not available in any city. Therefore, the capital There is a certain rationale for not changing it to serve as the imperial capital for many dynasties."
Yuan Ze and Zhou Mingxu listened with rapt attention, not only the two of them, but also Li Juan. Zhou Wang was in disbelief. He didn't know why Xia Shao knew so much. However, she had taught courtyard feng shui to the villagers in the village. At that time, she thought she learned these things from Professor Zhou. Now think about it, did she really learn from Professor Zhou
As we talked along the way, time passed quickly. It wasn't until Xia Zhiyuan stopped the car that everyone was stunned.
I turned around and looked out the window - Jingcheng University has arrived!
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Don't think I've learned too much. The ideas for opening the book need to be sorted out and I'm a little stuck.