Monk Jingchen looked at them both in surprise, "Did people from the South China Sea come looking for you?"
Zhang Meng and Gu Mingtai nodded at the same time.
"It seems this is really God's will. Some things really can't be avoided. What is destined by God is destined by God. No matter how hard you try, you can't hide from it."
Monk Jingchen muttered these words to himself.
After muttering, he suddenly stood up and said, "You two come back with me. I have something to give you."
Without waiting for Zhang Meng and Gu Mingtai, he left the vegetable garden first.
The young couple sat in the open space for a while. Seeing that Monk Jingchen was about to go far away, the couple held each other's hands and chased after him.
The two of them caught up with them downstairs, and the three of them entered the Gu family one after another.
As soon as he entered the house, Monk Jingchen went straight into the room where he slept.
He came out not long after, holding a small cloth bag in his hand.
"Here, this thing is yours and it's yours! After going around in circles, it will eventually return to your hands." After saying these strange words, he stuffed the cloth bag directly into Gu Mingtai's hand.
Gu Mingtai was startled. He glanced at the cloth bag in his hand, then looked up at the monk Jingchen in front of him in confusion. "Master, why did you give me this?"
Monk Jingchen immediately said, "This is yours. You were wearing this when Master found you!"
Gu Mingtai didn't expect that he still had this thing on him when he was abandoned, so he immediately opened it and found a jade pendant that looked like a stone.
Zhang Meng walked forward to take a look, then picked it up and looked at it for a long time. Suddenly, she found that the jade pendant looked a little familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.
"Gu Mingtai, this jade pendant looks familiar. I think I've seen it somewhere before!"
Gu Mingtai stretched out his hand and grabbed the jade pendant on her neck. "It looks like this."
Zhang Meng looked down and realized why she felt that his jade pendant looked so familiar. It was indeed very similar to the jade pendant she always wore around her neck.
"They are not very similar because they originally belonged together. You can put them together." Monk Jingchen said.
Zhang Meng immediately took off the jade pendant from her neck and quickly put the other piece of jade pendant together. The two halves of the jade pendant were connected together seamlessly.
"Gu Mingtai, look." Zhang Meng was surprised and held the jade pendant in front of him.
Gu Mingtai looked at the jade pendant in front of him calmly. Suddenly, he took it from her hand and turned it over to look at the other side.
"What are you looking at?" Zhang Meng saw that he was looking so seriously and walked over to take a look out of curiosity.
"Gu Mingtai, why do these patterns on the back of this jade pendant look so much like a map?" Zhang Meng shouted in surprise, pointing at the jade pendant turned over in his hand.
Gu Mingtai stroked his chin and looked at it for a long time, then suddenly said with certainty, "It's not just a map, it's a real map. This is a real map."
Zhang Meng looked at him in surprise, "If it really is a map, what does it represent?"
Gu Mingtai shook his head, "I don't know."
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at Monk Jingchen who was sitting on the sofa and asked, "Master, do you know what kind of map this is?"
Monk Jingchen stroked his chin and said in a solemn tone, "If my research over the years has been correct, this map may be related to the legendary Jade Bead!"
"Jade beads!" the young couple shouted in unison.
Monk Jingchen saw that the couple were very surprised when they heard these two words, and looked at them puzzledly, "Why are you so surprised? Have you heard of this Jade Bead?"
Zhang Meng swallowed hard, "Before yesterday, we had no idea what it was. But today, someone from the South China Sea found us and told us about the Jade Bead. Only then did we realize that Jade Beads actually existed in this world."
Monk Jingchen rubbed his hands together and asked curiously, "What did they say? Did they tell me the location of the jade beads?"
Zhang Meng shook her head. "They don't seem to know that they came here this time just to ask me and Gu Mingtai to help them find the remaining four jade beads."
"Four, aren't there five? Did they find one?" Monk Jingchen looked over with his eyes wide open in excitement.
"They have one over there, a round black bead. They say it's a jasper bead, but no matter how I look at it, it looks like an ordinary black bead."
Speaking of the black bead, Zhang Meng still feels that it doesn't look like a sacred jade bead at all.
"Wrong, you don't know this. Before the Jade Bead is complete, it is just an ordinary black bead. Once it is complete and it can play its role, it becomes a night-shining pearl that can illuminate an area of 100 miles. And its legend has made many cultivators covet it."
Speaking of the power of the jade beads, Monk Jingchen explained with a look of longing.
Zhang Meng curled her lips, "Master Jingchen, you talk about the power of these jade beads as if you have seen it before."
Monk Jingchen immediately looked at her and said, "Although I haven't read it, it's recorded in the book. Wait, I'll show you the book."
As soon as he finished speaking, Monk Jingchen rushed into the room again in a rage.
Zhang Meng turned around and looked at Gu Mingtai beside her. Seeing that he also didn't seem to understand, she stopped asking and had to continue waiting with him.
When Monk Jingchen came out not long after he went in, he had a book in his hand that looked very worn.
The cover has been torn to shreds.
"Come, come, let me show you this book. It describes the power of the jade bead." Monk Jingchen turned to the middle page and handed it to Zhang Meng and Gu Mingtai.
The young couple was still curious about the jade beads. After looking at each other, they immediately lowered their heads to look at the book.
Zhang Meng rubbed his eyes and looked at it for a long time. He immediately looked towards Monk Jingchen angrily and said, "Master Jingchen, you are not kidding us, are you? The words in this book are all blurred and can't be seen clearly!"
Monk Jingchen came over and took a look, then he remembered that he had been flipping through this book every day over the years, and the blank space inside the book had been torn apart by him.
Looking at the pages that had rotted into a pile of mud, Monk Jingchen's old face showed an embarrassed expression. "I forgot that this book had been torn apart by me, but I really didn't lie to you. If these jade beads were gathered together, the power would be really amazing. I have traveled all over the place over the years and couldn't find a single one. I didn't expect that the hiding place of these jade beads was right next to me!"
Zhang Meng and Gu Mingtai looked at the intact jade pendant on the ground and fell silent.
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