I have a two world clock

Chapter 2 Former Lovers
After hanging up the phone, Li Mu took off his headgear and gown, changed back into modern attire, and took a shower before walking out refreshed.

At this time, it was around 07:30 in the morning, and there were people coming and going in the community, people going to school, going to work, and exercising, bustling and full of fireworks.

Wearing sportswear, Li Mu trotted to the nearby Zhongshan Park, only to see that all the activities in the park were uncles, aunts and a few children, and there were hardly any young or middle-aged people.

In today's fast-paced era, young people have to go to school, young and middle-aged people have to work hard to support their families, and old people face the pressure of retirement and dismissal and menopause. They are all busy like clockwork.

Only the retired old people have free time to come to the park to exercise and chat.

At the current stage of this country, parks belong to the elderly and children in most cases. Only on weekends and holidays, middle-aged, old and young people will occasionally show up in the park.

Li Mu came to an open space in the park, took a deep breath, opened up his movements, and began to practice boxing.

He is an ancient martial artist from his family. His father, Li Haichuan, once fought in the first national martial arts conference and won a gold medal. Later, the martial arts conference caused a death during a martial arts competition, so it was suspended indefinitely by the government, making Li Hai Chuan sighed.

Later, when teaching Li Mu Kung Fu, Li Haichuan shook his head every time he mentioned this matter: "Since ancient times, in martial arts competitions, how can anyone not die? Martial arts practitioners, do not raise your hands mercilessly, and do not raise your hands mercilessly! If you dare not Facing life and death, this martial art is probably going to become a dance!"

In fact, as Li Haichuan said, after many years, there is no place for martial arts in large-scale sports events.

Li Mu, who originally wanted to inherit martial arts from his family, also betrayed Li Haichuan during the college entrance examination, was admitted to Wencheng University as a major in architecture, and became an employee of Wencheng Architectural Design Institute.

However, working in the design institute is not very interesting, the salary is good, but the workload is also very heavy, every day is drawing, reviewing, drawing and reviewing the drawings. After a long time, Li Mu felt tired.

The leader of the group came in because of his relationship, he didn't understand bullshit, but he just liked to direct blindly, which made Li Mu very angry, and finally got angry, so he just threw things and left.

During this period of time, he was unemployed, and when he was visiting the antique market, he bought a small bronze clock, and after that, he gained the ability to travel back and forth between the two worlds.

When he first arrived in the world of the Great Yin Dynasty, he was terrified, fearing that the local natives would treat him as a different kind and kill him.

Therefore, in addition to looking for ways to find food on weekdays, at night, he secretly practiced his family's martial arts, sharpened his guns before the battle, and improved his strength as much as he could. It was better than being unprepared.

His family's martial arts is divided into nine levels. It is said that it is a method of practicing Qi that has been handed down since ancient times. However, Li Mu has practiced with Li Haichuan for many years. Apart from a slight sense of Qi, his body has become stronger. I have suffered from some kind of illness, but other than that, I have not seen any obvious gains.

But after starting to practice in the world of the Great Yin Dynasty, he was surprised to find that the qi training technique, which he thought was useless in the past, suddenly stripped off the external disguise and became an amazing method.

In the world of the Great Yin Dynasty, he only practiced for one night, and his dantian was full of energy, opened up the big and small circles, and at the same time forced out a lot of poison in his body, his eyes and ears were clear, and his strength increased greatly.

After ten days of practice, the whole body is as light as a swallow when walking, and the feet are as if springs are installed. The movement of the mind and the air can easily jump over the wall more than two meters high.

At that time, Li Mu just had a clear understanding.

The qi training technique passed down by my family may not be useful in modern society, but in the world of the Great Yin Dynasty, it should be regarded as a legendary secret book of magic skills.

It turns out that I have been sitting on Baoshan without knowing it!

After realizing this, Li Mu's initial panic gradually disappeared. Although he was in a strange world, as long as he had enough strength to protect himself, he wouldn't worry too much.

Later on the night of the full moon, the phantom image of the small bronze clock automatically appeared in the depths of Li Mu's mind, and Li Mu figured out what was going on, and also knew the key to returning to the modern society from the Great Yin Dynasty.

After he returned to the modern society, he deliberately bought tens of thousands of silver ingots in several places and returned to the Great Yin Dynasty.

I used these silver ingots to buy a series of things such as houses and furniture. During this period, I never stopped practicing. Although it was only a short period of two months, it was like a different person.

Now returning to the modern society, Li Mu was going to verify some of his ideas in the modern society, so after coming to the park, he started to do a set of Tai Chi slowly.

He loves martial arts and becomes addicted. Apart from work and study, he usually practices martial arts.

Not only is he familiar with family martial arts, but he has also learned a lot of other types of boxing, among which Taijiquan and Xingyiquan are the most proficient.

He is now playing the old frame of Chen-style Taijiquan. After performing the first two movements, he felt a shock all over his body, and a hot current rose from the Baihui point on the top of his head, and went down the twelve-story building along the center of the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose. In the middle of the mutton, it reached the sea of ​​​​qi in the dantian, and then the dantian shook, and the whole body was warm and indescribably comfortable.

"It doesn't seem to work!"

Li Mu finished a set of Tai Chi boxing one by one. He just felt that although this Tai Chi boxing can also generate true qi to travel through the meridians, this kind of true qi is just the true qi that has been cultivated in his body, and there is no new true qi. angry.

It's not like when I practiced Taijiquan in the world of the Great Yin Dynasty, every time I practiced, I felt that the breath in my body increased obviously. Although it was far from the obvious increase in the Qi training technique passed down by my family, it still improved after all.

But in modern society, there is no feeling of true qi increasing at all.

"It seems that it's not a problem with the rules of the world, it should be a problem with the legendary aura!"

Li Mu now has a vague guess. He feels that the spiritual energy in modern society is exhausted, so many people are not famous for practicing qigong, especially for some methods of practicing qi. , At most, it is just a little better, and it is impossible to practice at all.

But the world of the Great Yin Dynasty is full of aura, and only then will the power of his family's skills be displayed again.

After practicing this set of Tai Chi today, he became more and more sure of his guess.

"Good work!"

As soon as Li Mu closed his punches, he heard someone applaud from one side: "Little brother, who did you learn this Tai Chi from? It looks like you have quite a few years of skill!"

Li Mu turned his head to look, and saw a hale and hearty white-haired old man standing not far away, applauding lightly, with a look of admiration on his face: "Are you from Chengou?"

Chengou in Yuzhou is known as the birthplace of Taijiquan. Li Mu just practiced the Chen family boxing style again. The frame is rigorous and the moves are free and easy. Only those who have been taught the Chen family boxing style can't do it.

And the Chen family boxing is notoriously easy to learn but difficult to master. Most of the Chen clan can master the core essence of looseness, liveliness and trembling. People with foreign surnames rarely get the true instruction, so it's no wonder the old man asked such a question.

Li Mu glanced at the old man, and saw that the old man was tall and thin, with a goatee, wearing a practice suit, and his eyes were clear and bright, completely different from the old and dim eyes of ordinary old people.

"This old man seems to have some real kung fu!"

After Li Mu practiced qi, his hearing and eyesight improved several times compared to before, just looking at the old man standing in place with steady steps, and listening to his extremely long breathing intervals, he knew that this old man must be a martial arts practitioner.

The breathing of ordinary people is very different from that of warriors, and the details of the movements when their legs touch the ground are also completely different from those of warriors.

Just like people who have wrestled for a long time will have wrestling ears more or less, and those who practice martial arts walk, many of them turn their toes inwards to facilitate exertion. This old man looks loose when standing in place, but his feet are firmly grasping the ground, and his lower body Just like the root of an old tree, it naturally has a feeling of solid foundation.

Of course, what's more important is that this old man is wearing a practice uniform and holds a long sword in his hand...

Li Mu walked up to the old man, shook his head and said, "I'm not from Chengou, and I just practice boxing for fun, old man, what's the matter with you?"

The old man on the opposite side laughed, and quickly walked up to Li Mu: "Little brother, excessive modesty is pride!"

He said to Li Mu: "How can you miss an expert? My name is Gu Niangeng, and I am the president of the Wencheng Ancient Martial Arts Association. Little brother, I have practiced ancient boxing all my life, but I have never seen one that can strike you. This kind of young man with fists."

Gu Niangeng stretched out his palm to Li Mu: "Little brother, what's your name?"

Li Mu stretched out his hand to hold his palm, only felt that the palm of this person was dry and soft, and at the same time implied a force that could not be uttered, so he raised his brows immediately: "My name is Li Mu, and I am not an expert."

Gu Niangeng smiled and said: "Little brother, this is a bit too modest. When you practiced boxing just now, your steps were light, your movements were slow, your force was crisp, and your feet were powerful, showing all the essence of Taijiquan. Without more than ten years of hard work, there is no way to punch like this, our association is short of young people like you..."

When he was about to say something, a middle-aged man walked over quickly from behind: "Old Gu, I have your call."

Gu Niangeng smiled at Li Mu and said, "I'm sorry, little brother, I'll answer the phone first."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You are busy."

When Gu Niangeng answered the phone, he had already walked out of the park.

Li Mu now has a world waiting for him to develop and explore, and he is too lazy to deal with others. Even if Gu Niangeng is the president of the Ancient Martial Arts Association, he is not at all attractive to him.

He didn't want to know anyone who practiced ancient martial arts at all.

In today's society, nine out of ten of those people who claim to practice ancient martial arts are liars. Usually, one of them is more powerful than the other.

It is not ruled out that there are some experts in it, like Li Mu's father, Li Haichuan, who is really capable of fighting. Not only has he practiced the family's ancient martial arts to the extreme, but he has also learned wrestling. In street conflicts, three or five people are not enough at all. call taxi.

But that's all there is to it. If you really fight against an outstanding player among professional athletes, you may not be able to beat the opponent.

Even if you can fight well, it's no fun. No matter how good your kung fu is, it's not a meal.

In modern society, personal force has long been useless. That's why Li Haichuan inherited the small clinic at home, selling some plasters made from ancestral secret recipes, and working part-time for bone-setting massage.

Even Li Haichuan, a former kung fu fan, has started a small clinic, not to mention those weak-willed ancient martial arts successors, who have basically switched to other careers.

As for the current Ancient Martial Arts Association and how capable its members are, Li Mu doesn't even bother to know. This Gu Niangeng seems to be a bit of real kung fu, but it has nothing to do with Li Mu.

"Eh, man?"

After Gu Niangeng finished making the phone call, he turned his head and found that Li Mu had disappeared. He was immediately very curious and asked the secretary beside him, "Xiao Wang, why is the little brother who punched just now gone?"

The secretary hurriedly said, "Old Gu, he left while you were calling."

"Oh, why didn't you stop him?"

Gu Niangeng felt a great pity: "This little brother is very good-looking. This is someone who has a real inheritance, and he is also good-looking. Our Wencheng Ancient Martial Arts Association lacks such talents! What a pity!"

He shook his head again and again: "I missed it today, I don't know when I will have a chance to meet him again."

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After eating a few big buns and two bowls of tofu nao at the bakery outside, Li Mu was finally full. He sighed very comfortably, and then slowly returned to the community.

After returning home, looking at the big bag of rough jadeite in the room, Li Mu took out his phone.

"These rough emeralds have to find a way to sell."

After thinking about it, he still dialed a number that had always been in the contact list but had not been contacted for a long time.

"Hello? Li Mu?"

After the call was dialed, a woman's pleasant voice was heard, full of surprise and faint excitement: "You bastard, why did you think of contacting me?"

Li Mu rubbed his face, hehe smiled: "Jiang Mingyue, I have a few pieces of rough jadeite with windows, the texture is very good, will your silver house accept it?"

Jiang Mingyue: "I hate it! Talking about business as soon as you open your mouth, you have no interest at all!"

Li Mu: "You mean Sexy Nene? I just bought several sets. Would you like to come over and try them on?"

Jiang Mingyue: "Get out! I haven't seen you for so long, you still can't spit out ivory! Where are you now? When are you coming?"

When she said this, her voice lowered: "I heard that you resigned. Are there any difficulties? Why don't you come to me and be a supervisor first? The salary is not high, just take it as a favor for me, old classmate , I can rest assured that you are in the company."

There was a warm current in Li Mu's heart. He pinched the center of his brows: "Resignation is indeed resignation. As for the difficulties, that's not it. But my buddy has recently awakened his talent for appraising stones. He went to the market to gamble on stones, and he got a lot of money. Good material. We are not going to take advantage of others, so we can take care of your business directly."

Jiang Mingyue smiled softly: "Virtue! Do I still have to thank you for thinking of me?"

"Let's stop playing around, just give us more money then!"

"Cut, that's the quality of a stone. Don't worry, I won't treat you badly."

"Then where shall we meet?"

Jiang Mingyue: "Well, see you at the old place, I hear I miss the food street near the university."

"The old place..."

After hearing Jiang Mingyue's words, Li Mu was in a trance: "Okay, I remember that pan noodle restaurant is still open, let's try it together?"

Jiang Mingyue: "Okay!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Mu rubbed his face, a trace of sadness appeared in the corner of his eyes.

Jiang Mingyue was his college classmate. The two had been in love for two years, and they had many unforgettable memories.

It's just that it is difficult for a poor boy to become a family with Bai Fumei.

Jiang Mingyue's family is in the jewelry business. They have opened more than a dozen silver houses in Hedong Province. At the same time, they also own a supermarket chain and shares in more than 30 other companies. The entire family has at least billions of dollars in wealth.

Li Mu also knew that Jiang Mingyue's family was so rich when he knew that Jiang Mingyue's mother had found him in person.

But having money or not has little effect on Li Mu, he doesn't think money is the obstacle between him and Jiang Mingyue.

But the reality is that money does become an obstacle to love, and sometimes, it becomes an insurmountable mountain.

Only the wings of power and money can make people climb over this invisible mountain that spans between men and women.

Jiang Mingyue's mother approached Li Mu several times, and at the same time bribed several school counselors to put pressure on Li Mu. Even if Jiang Mingyue argued hard, it was still difficult to stop her family's influence on Li Mu.

The intrigue in the school and the entanglement of some gangsters outside the school made Li Mu very angry.

After he injured a few punks who were deliberately looking for trouble, the matter developed to its peak.

It was obvious that the punks started the fight first, but Li Mu was defined by a dean of the school as deliberately fighting, and Li Mu was given an inexplicable demerit.

Although Li Mu found a lawyer afterwards and wanted to go to court with the school to get the school to withdraw the punishment, this matter involved Li Mu's great energy and almost affected Li Mu's studies.

At this point, even if Li Mu doesn't want to break up with Jiang Mingyue, Jiang Mingyue can only take the initiative to break up with Li Mu.

So we broke up.

After breaking up, Li Mu took the postgraduate entrance examination, and after Jiang Mingyue graduated, he went directly to the family business and became the manager of a bank in Wencheng City.

Except for the occasional bubbling in the classmate group, the two parties have no longer contacted each other.

Former lovers are like strangers.

Li Mu hasn't found a girlfriend in recent years, and it's not unrelated to Jiang Mingyue.

It wasn't until now that he got the small bronze bell and the ability to travel between two worlds, his mentality changed a lot, and he really let go of this relationship.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have contacted Jiang Mingyue.

After changing his clothes, Li Mu got off the elevator, went to the garage, and drove to the main campus of Wencheng University.

A few years have passed, and the food street at the gate of the school is still the same, and it seems that there is not much change.

The milk tea shop on the street is that milk tea shop, but the little girl who sells milk tea has a lot of swollen waist, and her whole body has swollen several times.

When Li Mu was buying milk tea, he saw that the little girl with a pointed chin and big eyes had turned into a fat and big-faced woman, almost blinding his titanium alloy dog ​​eyes, and couldn't help but sighed with his hands on his forehead.

Time really is a butcher's knife!

It's only been a few years, and the former girl has become like this.

I hope Jiang Mingyue will never become like the milk tea girl.

Carrying two cups of milk tea, Li Mu walked along the street for a while, looking at the young men and women walking past beside him, he couldn't help laughing and shaking his head.

Back then, he was one of these young men and women. Every day after class, he either practiced boxing or accompanied Jiang Mingyue to hang out here. When he was tired from walking, he sat down in a small restaurant and had something to eat.

When I come back now, I have a feeling that things are different and people are different. The street is still the same street, but I no longer have the original mentality.

He stopped in front of a noodle shop.

Old Zhang's beef pan noodles.

This is where he came with Jiang Mingyue, or Jiang Mingyue often accompanied him to eat.

Lifting the curtain, Li Mu walked into this small restaurant filled with smoke, glanced around, and saw a young woman in business attire.

This woman's clothes and her own temperament are completely incompatible with the environment of this noodle restaurant. Sitting here, she is like a sanitary ball placed in the sewer, showing a sense of incompatibility.

Sitting here, the diners in the noodle restaurant couldn't let go, and even spoke in a low voice deliberately, for fear of disturbing the beauty.

Some people just sit there without saying a word, but their appearance and demeanor can still make people feel ashamed that they dare not blaspheme.

Jiang Mingyue was such a person.

(End of this chapter)