"Have you heard? Qiu Sheng, who was stunned, woke up. ”

"He's dizzy for three days, isn't it just school homework, as for being scared like this?"

"Who knows if it's a real dizzy or a fake dizzy? But Mr. Zhao's face was not good that day, and he didn't expect to be mixed in with such a master. ”

"This kind of thing is not handled well, and it is said that Mr. Zhao deliberately makes things difficult for students, but it is not a trivial matter. ”

"It's also that Qiu Sheng was timid, and when he heard that a great Confucian was going to take the school homework, he lay down, and I heard that he was the head of the Yuanning Mansion Dao Exam, and I really don't know how this head came about. ”

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"Oh, the whole post house is spreading, saying that I was stunned because I was not good at learning and afraid that my original form would be revealed?"

Drinking the soup and listening to Luo Jiayun's narration, Qiu Yan shook his head.

Three days ago, he came into contact with the flames, fell into the reincarnation of flames, felt the humanity of heaven, lost consciousness, and the doppelganger also fell into a coma.

Of course, there are also other Confucian scholars who are indispensable to add fuel to the fire, since ancient times, there is no first, there is no second, some scholars, as long as they find the opportunity to fall into the well, they will immediately step on two feet.

"Brother Qiu, I know your knowledge, it was just an accident that day," Luo Jiayun sighed on the side, "It's just that people's words are terrifying, they are better than floods and beasts, Brother Qiu should be careful in the future." ”

Hearing this, Qiu Yan said: "Although the rumors are rising, it is not difficult to calm them down, as long as the knowledge is displayed, facts speak louder than words." ”

Luo Jiayun frowned and said, "Listening to Brother Qiu's words, is he planning to stop the rumors? ”

Qiu Yan smiled and said, "Brother Luo, this is too much to take for granted. If this matter is not clarified, it will soon become the debate, jokes, and scorns of the people of Shuxue, showing their humor, and becoming anecdotes, but for me, it will be very bad and my reputation will be damaged. ”

These words made Luo Jiayun unhappy, and retorted: "Is it for the sake of fame that we are studying? Brother Qiu's words are too utilitarian. ”

"Brother Luo, you and I are poor, just for a nomination. If you can use what you have learned in the world, but if you are promoted to an official and sit in the court, if you don't have a reputation to suppress your position, and you can't even suppress the officials of the government, how can you benefit the people?"

Qiu Yan knew that Luo Jiayun was unhappy, so he didn't say much, just pointed out a few questions.

The damage to this reputation may seem invisible, but the impact on people is real. Qiu Yan's scholar clone has other uses, and it cannot be easily abandoned, this road to the imperial examination must be taken, and fame and popularity must also be accumulated. You can't let go of the notoriety, and the embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in the anthill, and you can't be negligent at all.

Luo Jiayun still shook his head when he heard this.

Qiu Yan didn't insist. Then he asked again: "I don't know where Mr. Zhao is now?"

Although he didn't like Qiu Yan's words, Luo Jiayun didn't say anything evil, and still replied: "Today's festival envoy has a banquet in the mansion. Mr. Zhao took a few students who answered properly that day to the banquet together, you won't see it for a while, but I heard that in the evening, Miss Song is going to hold a literary meeting in Wenqu Building, and invited Mr. Zhao to sit in the town, you can give it a try, but don't be impulsive. ”

Speaking of zuihou, he still tactfully advised: "That Gu Yanzhi, Fang Ziyan and others are all rare poetic talents, and poetry collections have come out one after another, Zhuyu is in front, you want to leave an impression on Mr. Zhao, it is not easy." ”

"Thank you Brother Luo for reminding me, but although the poems are good, they can't be used to benefit the people, and I don't think Mr. Zhao will value these. Qiu Yan's answer made Luo Jiayun confused.

"The literary meeting, meeting friends with literature and cheering with poetry, is a place for literati to show their poetic talents, and Mr. Zhao no longer values it, and there is no way to avoid it. ”

Later, the two said a few more words, and Luo Jiayun couldn't stop persuading Qiu, so he shook his head and got up to leave.

Seeing off Luo Jiayun, Qiu Yan paced slowly in the room, re-sorting out his thoughts.

"It's better to gather some information first, and try to know yourself and your opponent. ”

As soon as he thought of this, he pushed the door out and walked on the road, the Confucian scholars along the way pointed and pointed from time to time, and could hear the ridicule, but Qiu Yan's face was as usual, as if he didn't care about it at all.

"The thoughts in the hearts of these people are like grass on the wall, moving with the wind, if they ignore and argue, they will follow their intentions, as long as the general trend changes, their thoughts will naturally change, and it is not worth caring at all. ”

After leaving the post house, Qiu Yan strolled through the streets.

Wuxin City is different from Yuanning City, there is less liveliness and more slaughter, and from time to time you can see a team of patrols passing through the streets and alleys.

However, there are many taverns and inns in the city, and business is thriving, and most of the people who live in the hotels are merchants.

Here is located in the frontier, the junction of the two provinces, to the south to the boundary of the swamp people, all year round, there are merchants to come, from the Central Plains to transport felt, cloth, tea, salt, and the marsh tribe to barter, probably to buy some animal fur, but there are also more valuable things, mostly for medicinal materials, such as red sandalwood, agarwood incense, stone cassia stone, tantric monk, musk and so on hundreds of kinds, one back and forth, enough to earn dozens of taels, can be called a huge profit.

In addition, the five marshes also produce mountain horses, wading through the spring, such as walking on the flat ground, but the private merchants can not participate, because horses in this era, is a strategic material that can affect the strategic balance, so the government presides over the horse market.

However, the pay and risk are not small, the harvest of the caravan exchange must be given to Wuxin City, if the reselling of prohibited goods is caught by the patrol, it will be immediately beheaded on the spot, and the income will be lost.

Not to mention that if you encounter an unreasonable barbarian tribe in the land of Wuxi, you will be killed directly, or you will be used as a slave, and you will not get anything.

However, the place where businessmen gather is also a well-informed place, and among restaurants and wine shops, there are all kinds of three religions and nine streams.

Qiu Yan was sitting in a tavern at this time, ordering side dishes, listening to the words of the people around him, and his eyes were staring at the medical hall opposite.

This medical hall is the most famous medical hall in the entire Wuxin City, and the doctor who sits in the hall is not an ordinary person, but the chief military doctor of the original Wuxin Army, known as "Hades hate", that is, Hades hates this person for robbing his livelihood, which is a great compliment.

Until now, what kind of illness is there in the palace, it is necessary to make the king of Hades hate the past diagnosis and treatment, which shows that the medical skills are excellent, but ordinary people can hardly afford the pharmacy consultation fee, but if the soldiers and soldiers in the army come to see a doctor, it is another matter, and sometimes they don't even accept the medical fee.

Looking at the medical hall, Qiu Yan was silently thinking in his heart, and suddenly heard what the two people behind him were talking about, his heart moved, and he listened attentively-

"I heard that at the five crossings in the north of the city, a fortune-telling Taoist priest came to him, which was very effective. ”

"This is not a new thing, these days, the most famous in the city is the Taoist, or two, one is the fortune teller Taoist you said, but he does not only stay in Wudaokou, but wanders all over the city; ”

"And this thing? It's so lawless, even the guards of the Jiedu envoy have been killed, this is also a Taoist priest?"

"But isn't it, these years, these Taoist priests are becoming more and more incomprehensible, I heard that there are some strange people in Guanzhong, similar to Taoist priests, but they are all bald, helping others, helping the needy, and have a good reputation. ”

"I've also heard a little about this, Xu is a new branch of Taoism, that group of people is really kind, many people also want to join the sect, but I heard that once you join the sect, you can't marry a wife and have children, and Zuihou can't do it. ”

"There are three unfilial pieties, no queen is great, how many generations of bloodline has been passed down to us, the inheritance of the ancestors is not only their own thing, that is connected to the ancestors, how can they be emasculated?

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The two people who spoke, with extraordinary appearances, dressed in general tailors, dressed in big hats, looked like rich and noble people, but there was a little philistine atmosphere between the eyebrows, Qiu Yan only glanced at it, and knew that these were two businessmen with some background in the family, Xu is an official eunuch branch, and he is well-informed.

"What these two people said is a bit interesting, two Taoist priests, one fortune teller, one murderer, and the bare-headed sect, which is somewhat similar to a certain religion on earth in the previous life. ”

Just as he was thinking, there was a dispute outside the door of the medical hall, and he saw a group of uniformed soldiers carrying a person, apparently going to seek medical treatment.

But before he could enter the medical hall, he was stopped by a group of stout men in colorful clothes, and then a man with long hair walked around several people.

The man had black hair like a ribbon, hung down his ankles, wore a colorful shirt, and wore a string of bracelets on his hands, which made a tinkling sound when he walked, implying rhythm and drawing attention to it.

The long-haired man stood in front of the group of soldiers, his face was grim, and he said coldly: "Aren't the people of the Central Plains renewing their promises, since they boasted about Haikou before the competition, and now they have lost, it is time to fulfill their promises, you should cut off your left arm!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice of Qiu Yan sounded in the pawn.

"You swamp chief is quite unreasonable, saying that it is a martial arts competition, but you let poisonous insects bite people, who is not keeping your promise? You want to take the opportunity to play! Let me make it clear to you, those tuntian slaves are all self-inflicted, if they don't cross the line to kill people and rob people, how can they be ......?"

"Well, that's a familiar sound. Qiu Yan looked intently and saw Liu Hong's face in the crowd.

On the day Qiu Yan entered the city, Liu Hong and another rider, Yang Huang, accompanied him, and they hadn't seen each other for many days.

"This Liu Hong is a Wuxin cavalry, that is a noble army, it takes a lot of time and materials to cultivate one, but the long-haired swamp people actually want to force them to cut off their own arms, in other people's territory, force others to cut off their arms, so arrogant, and look at Liu Hong's reaction, they actually have scruples, so to speak, the identity of this long-haired swamp people is about to come out. ”

Thinking of this, Qiu Yan's perception extended over, and he calculated it in his heart, and suddenly his eyes lit up, catching a trace of breath.

"Hmm, this long-haired swamp man actually has a familiar aura on his body, it's really an unexpected surprise, well, if the prince of a tribe has a diplomatic dispute, at least the festival envoy can't ignore it......" (To be continued......)

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