A steep gravel mountain road no more than two people wide zigzagged all the way down, and when you reached the end, you found that the bottom suddenly became very wide, and there was a small lake in front of you, the water of the lake was crystal clear, and it did not look deep. If you look up, you will see that above the lake is an irregular round hole in the sky surrounded by a towering cliff.

"This is the legendary 'Zhuangyuan Cave'?" Xu Yaqin, who was wearing a bright yellow cardigan dress, asked in an uncertain tone.

Shen Junluo, who was squatting next to the small lake and teasing the small fish in the water with a branch, although he was not very familiar with this place, he had been here anyway, and when he heard the words, he reflexively replied: "Yes, this is it." ”

Originally, it was the careful thinking of Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo to come to Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs, but later it slowly became a trip for the little masters in the Shen Mansion to come together. Although Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs is not particularly far from the inner city, it can only be reached by horse-drawn carriage for half a day. In the afternoon of arriving at Zhuangzi that day, only the young masters still had the energy to run horses, and the girls basically rested in the room.

Shen Junqian and Shen Junluo came to Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs to come to this "champion cave", and they didn't want to see that this Zhuangzi was a little different from the usual ones after they arrived in Zhuangzi, so they became interested and thought of ways to have fun in Zhuangzi, and forgot about the "champion cave" for a while. When Zhuangzi was almost shopping, a group of people remembered that they wanted to go to the "Zhuangyuan Cave".

Because several sons and brothers of the Shen family have been to the "Zhuangyuan Cave", according to the rules of the Shen family, since the male heir has entered the school, he has to have a certain amount of time to study here every year, and every time he comes to say less, he has to stay for seven days, so several young masters of the Shen family have no feeling about the "Zhuangyuan Cave", but Xu Zhuqing, who came with him, has never been there, and finally Shen Junxi decided to accompany Xu Zhuqing and several sisters into the "Zhuangyuan Cave", and the other three went directly to the mountain near the Zhuangyuan Cave with a bow and arrow.

"This place is a naturally formed cave, which my grandfather accidentally discovered, and seeing that this place is spacious and dry without the infiltration of ground water to store books, he invited craftsmen to build a study here according to the situation. Uncle and my father were both trained here, and later because my grandfather and uncle won the champion one after another, this place somehow spread out, and was called 'Champion Cave' by people outside. Actually, it's nothing special, it's just like a study room in an ordinary reader's house, but the location of the study is a little special. Shen Junxi led Xu Zhuqing along the way down, bypassed the small lake and walked inside, and said to his sisters who were looking around curiously: "There is no danger in this place, you can walk around, the study is there." ”

Everyone stopped and looked at the position pointed by Shen Junxi, and sure enough, along the way down, they continued to look to the right, and there were bookshelves looming.

Seeing that several sisters nodded to indicate that they heard it, they didn't say more, raised their hands and led Xu Zhuqing directly to the bookshelf.

Xu Zhuqing seemed to whisper something to Yaqin, and walked along.

"Well, this study is not bad. Whether it is the reputation of the "Zhuangyuan Cave" or this unique study, it has always been the pride of the Shen family, after all, this is a unique place for the Shen family.

"Very unique study indeed. Xu Zhuqing's eyes looked at all the places, and then recalled the situation along the way, and said with a smile: "The most important thing is that it is very quiet here, which is very suitable for concentrating on studying." ”

In fact, this place is not a cave, but more like a canyon, surrounded by high mountains, just isolated from the outside, it is indeed a very quiet place.

"No, my uncle and my father both praise this place very much, so our brothers have to take turns to be sent here every year to study for a while. And every time we enter here, someone will be arranged to guard outside, not only to protect our safety, but also to prevent us from sneaking out to play if we don't read well, so we are not allowed to go out every time we don't complete the homework left by our elders. It seemed that thinking of the miserable situation of being locked up here, Shen Junxi's tone was proud and helpless.

"Don't go out?" Xu Zhuqing glanced at Shen Junxi, and then looked around, "Eat and sleep here?"

"Of course there is, here. On the side of the bookshelf that Shen Junxi brought Xu Zhuqing to, there was a doorway on the stone wall on the inside of the bookshelf that only allowed one person to pass through guò, and when he walked in, he saw that it was a simple bedroom, with two stone beds in it, and all the items were extremely simple.

"This was originally the residence of my uncle and my father when they were studying, and I heard that my grandfather was very strict at that time, and my uncle and my father studied here for a long time. ”

"What about your third uncle? Have you also studied hard here?" Although Shen San seems to be more fond of dancing and playing guns, his writing does not seem to be bad, and he should have studied so hard.

Xu Zhuqing only looked at it casually, and then withdrew with Shen Junxi, Shen Junxi also said while walking: "That's really not, my third uncle was only obtained by my grandfather when he was old, and when my third uncle reached the age of studying, it was when my grandfather studied hard to participate in the examination, and later in the first exam, he was busy with government affairs, and he had little time to take care of the third uncle." On the contrary, my aunt has disciplined and supervised him a lot, although my aunt has always had the title of a talented woman, but because she is more than ten years older than the third uncle, she has always loved and spoiled the third uncle, a young brother, where is she willing to really let the third uncle suffer. ”

"However, I see that although the third cousin doesn't see him much on weekdays, he likes poetry and books very much, but his literary skills are not bad, didn't he get the first place Xie Yuan in the township exam?"

"That's because it didn't take long for my aunt to get married, and the third uncle was disciplined by the uncle and my father in turn, and the uncle and my father were also a little spoiled, but once the third uncle was found out by the grandmother, and the grandmother punished the uncle, my father and the third uncle together, and after that time, the uncle and my father were much stricter than the third uncle, and the third uncle also restrained a lot. ”

Xu Zhuqing casually took a book from the bookshelf, flipped through it, and said "Huh" with some surprise, put it down and changed a few more, "Look at these books, the handwriting is not the same, and some of them even have the immature state of just learning for a short time, this is ......"

Shen Junxi stretched out his head from the bookshelf and said with a smile: "This, it was all copied when we were studying here, and those immature handwriting were copied by a few younger brothers." In fact, every time we come to read hard, a large part of the time is copying poetry books. My uncle often said, 'Read a book a hundred times, its meaning is self-seeing', if we have nothing to do, we have to memorize more and write more, and this place is quiet, copying poetry books here is conducive to familiarity with poetry, and second, we can calm down and hone our handwriting. ”

Shen Junxi walked over, picked up a few books put together on the shelf, and flipped them to Xu Zhuqing, "Don't look at the many books here, in fact, most of them are our transcripts." In the past, there were Mengtong books that we first learned to write and copy, and the handwriting was miserable, and then when the books we copied were put on these shelves, the uncle arranged for us to clean up once and remove the previous ones. At that time, we knew that what we copied was going to be put on the shelves, and we were desperately trying to fill all the shelves as soon as possible, so that we could replace the previous ones. ”

Xu Zhuqing thought for a while, but still shook his head puzzled, "Why is this?"

"It's nothing, you also know that my grandfather and uncle have won the top prize, even my father is also Tanhualang. I don't know when, this study of our house has been spread everywhere by people who have good things outside, and they all say that this is the 'Champion Cave', and the more it is spread, the more amazing it becomes. So there are always people who come to the door to ask for this to come here, some want to come here, some want to borrow here, my family is worried that the more they refuse to be outside, the more curious people will become, and finally they come up with a way to find a time every year to allow people to come to the door. Most of these people who come to the door are scholars, but there are also people who come with their children and grandchildren. Put all the books we practice copying here, if someone asks, my father wants this person who accompanied him, and he knows everything and tells him which young master copied it, and then it's not the person who came with his children and grandchildren to teach his children and grandchildren, and compare us, or it is rumored outside, which young master of the Shen family has how to write words, you say this ......"

Shrugging helplessly, Shen Junxi remembered the shock he was when he heard the news, alas, he couldn't look back. Which child can write well at the beginning of the year, but if you want to put that kind of handwriting copy book here, with the great reputation of the Shen family, which young master can not be spread outside for a while and dare not go out.

Patting Shen Junxi's shoulder was considered comforting, Xu Zhuqing couldn't help but smile and said: "I used to hear Junchun complain about his second cousin, saying that he wanted to see you make a fool of himself all day long, I thought it was him who said it, but I didn't expect you to mean it too, it seems that the second cousin ......."

After all, he was an elder, Xu Zhuqing didn't say much, and Shen Junxi also smiled and didn't say more.

"Second brother, second brother......" Hearing a voice from far and near, Shen Junxi and Xu Zhuqing both looked up and saw that it was Shen Junluo running over from afar.

Shen Junxi grabbed Shen Junluo, who almost fell down, "What's the matter, this is so panicked?"

Shen Junluo easily took a breath and said, "Brother Junrui slipped on the mountain and seemed to have fallen on his leg, the sixth sister and sisters are not worried and have already gone back to see it first, let me come and tell you." ”

Shen Junrui is the third son in the second room, and he is the younger brother of Shen Junxi's mother, although Shen Junxi has always been steady, he can't help but be a little anxious, "Then let's go back quickly." ”

At that moment, the three of them walked outside, probably because they were in a hurry, Shen Junxi's footsteps couldn't help but go faster, but the way out and the way in were not very easy to walk, Xu Zhuqing couldn't help but comfort on the side, "Cousin Junxi should be relieved, they have been going to the mountain for the past few days, and there are people following, I think Cousin Junrui will be fine." ”

Shen Junxi also knew that he was not in a hurry at this time, so he nodded and temporarily settled down, although his steps were a lot calmer, his pace was still a little hurried.

When he got out of the mountain pass and asked the subordinates who were waiting outside, he only said that he didn't know how Junrui was injured, and only said that he had been escorted back to the courtyard, and Shen Junxi and the three of them immediately rushed back without delay.

This time, because Shen Junzhuo had to live with Shen Junrui and Shen Junjie, he arranged for the three of them to live together in the Dangui Pavilion in the front yard.

Shen Junxi took a closer look at Shen Junrui, and saw that except for some rubbing and mud on his body, there were no wounds on his legs, and he thought that there would probably be no major problems. A noble family

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Chapter 67 of the text is a trip to the southern suburbs of the mountain villa 03