Zhou Heng saw that he couldn't push it, so he had to get up and take the pen. Looking up at the distance sail above the green clouds, there are several green lotus leaves on the shore nearby, a sheng cloud flew through the air, and wrote on the paper: "The clouds are deep and I don't know where to go, and the green wind in the next life is sheng!"

Everyone looked at the festival and exclaimed: "Okay, the poetry and scenery are compatible, wonderful!"

The county magistrate Li Zhi sighed: "There has been no one in this county for many years, and it seems that this time it will be unprecedented!"

Zhou Heng hurriedly said modestly when he heard his words: "Where, I just got inspiration occasionally, I really don't dare to be!

Hearing the words in his ears, Li Zhixian sighed again and again.

I knew that in the evening, the banquet was over, the long road was long, the road was far away, and when I returned home, it was already midday, and the sky was already dark.

Probably Zhang Xiaoqing went back in advance to tell the Zhang family courtyard that the lights were colorful.

As soon as Zhou Heng and the others entered the door, the firecrackers on the side were lit.

Bang bang!

As soon as I entered the hall, I saw three large tables full of delicious food and wine, and relatives and friends were sitting on the seats waiting, waiting for the two of them to take their seats.

In this situation, Zhou Heng only felt very warm in his heart, and he also integrated into the banquet like an ordinary scholar.

The township test was two months later, but Zhang Cheng was already reviewing his homework every day.

For so many days, he has been working very hard, making tea and rice not thinking, and people seem to have lost a lot of weight, which makes the family very worried.

Zhou Heng seems to be looking better day by day, which is amazing.

No, out of surprise, Zhang Yuanwai has already come to ask for the secret method.

Zhou Heng took out a pill of the Baicao Qi Returning Pill that he had refined and handed it to him, but he did not explain the efficacy of the pill.

This Zhang outsider trusted him very much, and he couldn't help but say that he immediately gave it to his son.

An hour later, Zhang Cheng ran over and shouted: "Brother Zhou, what kind of panacea is this, I have been warm all over my body since I took it, as if I was wrapped in countless heat streams, so many days of fatigue disappeared at once, and even my mind is much clearer!"

Zhou Heng smiled slightly on the side: "That's right, reviewing books should be combined with work and rest, only the body is fundamental, the spleen and stomach are good to be full of energy, and the spirit is full of energy, and the spirit is strong to increase intelligence, and learning can get twice the result with half the effort." ”

Then he stayed in Zhang's Mansion, and for more than a month after that, Zhou Heng had been practicing the kung fu of the heartbeat period behind closed doors. He received a lot of energy from the bridge of heaven and earth, and he was already able to travel hundreds of miles in the air in one breath, entering the primary realm of the heartbeat period, only the slightest bottleneck still seemed to be indestructible to block there, but it was very close to breaking through.

However, he understands that those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and the more difficult they are, the more difficult they are, and they can't be taken lightly at all, so it's still the work of water milling.

Zhou Heng's eyebrows flashed with golden light, and then he released his divine sense and looked at Zhang Cheng next door through the wall.

Zhang Cheng has been studying hard in the study, but there is no trace of tiredness on his face, replaced by a faint luster, which is a manifestation of sufficient qi, it seems that it really works after taking the Baicao Returning Qi Pill.

On a bright spring morning with birds singing and flowers, Zhou Heng flew alone and secretly came to the stele forest in the southeast of Chang'an City.

During the opening of the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid errors when the literati and scholars copied the scriptures, the imperial court engraved the twelve scriptures on the stone tablet, as a model, and stood in the Guozi Prison of Chang'an City for people to proofread, which was called the "Kaicheng Stone Classic", plus the "Shitai Filial Piety Classic" written by Li Longji of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty before, collectively known as the Thirteen Classics, in addition to the Thirteen Classics, there are also various steles and epitaphs since the Han Dynasty are displayed here, and the steles are like forests, so the name is the stele forest.

The stele forest gathers the handwriting of famous masters of all generations, and there are many kinds of books such as seal, li, grass, truth, line, etc., which are dazzling and have style. In particular, the handwritten stones carved by Tang Dynasty calligraphers Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Zhang Xu, Shi Weize and others are particularly valuable. The famous ink of the Song Dynasty, such as Mi Fu, Cai Jing, Su Shi and other works are also excellent.

Zhou Heng was very familiar with the content of the scriptures, and what interested him was the calligraphy on the stone tablet and the knowledge of his predecessors.

While admiring the beautiful calligraphy carvings, he read the contents of the scriptures again.

"University" cloud: "Those who want to cultivate their bodies must first correct their hearts." Those who want to correct their hearts must first be sincere. "Knowing and then sincerity, sincerity and then righteousness." The heart is right, and then the body is cultivated. "Furun House, Derun Body, Broad Heart and Fat Body, so the gentleman's self-cultivation must be sincere. ”

Reading this, he thought of the unity of the gods he was cultivating, and his heart moved, and he felt that there was a faint harmony.

Continue to read, and see that Mencius said "always cultivate the spirit of Haoran", so that he is righteous and upright, and his spirit is vigorous, and his spirit is full of heaven and earth.

Zhou Heng couldn't help but move in his heart: "Isn't this cultivation? Could it be that Mencius is also a master of cultivating immortals?"

Thinking of Wang Yangming in the previous world, he used to roar in the army, isn't it possible that he is also a master of qi training? Perhaps he is also the pioneer who opened up the method of a family.

In this way, he can combine cultivation with study, not only can he practice without stopping, but he can also read the books of sages, take revenge, and live up to the expectations of his parents and grandfather, so that the Su family's scholarly fragrance will continue!

Thinking like this, he immediately walked out of the stele forest, bathed in the gentle sunshine, thinking of the previous harvest, and suddenly felt comfortable, worthy of the trip.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Zhang Yuanwai personally went to Chang'an with Zhang Cheng and Zhou Heng to take the exam, and found two upper rooms in an inn to live in.

Previously, Li Zhixian had already reported the names of the two people, and the two of them just needed to look at the location of the examination room, everything had already been arranged, just waiting for the exam to start.

The next day, the Xiucai of the two provinces gathered in Chang'an. Zhou Heng observed carefully, and noticed that there were many people who had been trapped in the examination room for a long time, and their hair and beard were gray and they still didn't give up, but the possibility of getting the exam was getting smaller and smaller.

Because most of the examiners prefer young candidates, especially this time the main examiner is Lord Wu Lianlu of Futai, according to legend, Lord Wu advocated the promotion of teenagers when he supervised the school, so adults have removed their headscarves when they went to take the exam, and changed the children's hanging hairstyles, but the net marks of the headscarf on the forehead could not be removed for a while, but it was really very funny when Wu Lianlu inspected the examination room.

When it was time for the exam, Zhou Heng and Zhang Cheng entered the examination room one after another, and the township test was divided into two sessions, the first of which was "policy questioning".

This is a higher level of examination method than the Sutra and Moyi, which is equivalent to the essay questions in the current examination, simply put, the method of policy is to set questions for the main examination, and the candidates write articles, and the scope of the questions generally has major problems and current policies. If you only read the Four Books and the Five Classics, these questions are not easy to answer. However, Zhou Heng is familiar with the art of war, and he has led troops to fight, so he naturally copes with it easily.

The second session is the Bagu Essay, that is, the title is based on the sentences in the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the examinee is asked to write an essay to explain the righteousness therein, and the examinee's essay can only be played according to the specified annotations, and cannot have his own opinions, and the style cannot violate the format of the Bagu.

Zhou Heng has a profound cultivation in his body, so he is naturally well-read and memorized, and he is extremely familiar with the commentaries of the Four Books and Five Classics, so it only took half an hour to write an article steadily.

came out and waited for a long time before I saw Zhang Cheng come out with many people. Zhang Cheng's eyes flashed with excitement, and he seemed to be playing well.

The two returned to the inn together, rested early, and waited for the release of the list.

Two days later, someone on the street outside the inn finally shouted: "The list is released, the list is released!" Zhang Cheng hurriedly ran over to pull Zhou Heng to see. Zhou Heng smiled slightly: "You go, just help me take a look." ”

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Yuanwai hurried over, and saw from afar that the place where the list was released was surrounded by a sea of people.

The two of them squeezed forward desperately, and when they were still ten zhang away from the list, Zhang Cheng, who had good eyes, shouted loudly: "Big brother is in the middle, at the top, the big brother is in the middle of the yuan!"

After waiting for him for a while, Zhang Yuanwai also squeezed in front of the top ten zhang of the list, took a closer look, and looked at the big black characters on the list, and sure enough, at the top of the list, the name of "Zhou Heng" was written in a big way.

It took the two of them another half a day to squeeze to the front of the list, anxiously looking for it on the list, or Zhang Cheng shouted first: "I also won, I won the ninth place!"

Zhang Yuanwai cried with joy, and couldn't help but shed old tears: "It's not easy! After many years of hard work, there is finally a result, and in the future, my son will be equivalent to embarking on the official road!"

A list, a variety of people look at it, many people still surround after reading the list, talk about it, hang their heads when they don't, some are eclipsed, and some cry bitterly.

The two trotted all the way to the inn, but found that Zhou Heng was sitting at the table drinking tea, smiling and calm, as if he had already known the result. Zhang Cheng ran over and shook his shoulder and said, "Brother Zhou, you have won the Xie Yuan! I have also won it, the ninth!"

Zhou Heng said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, it's good if you win! I don't know how many people have been taken this time?"

Zhang Yuanwai couldn't close his mouth with a smile: "Whatever, as long as you win, it's done!"

Zhang Cheng said: "Only 40 out of 2,000 people! It's really not easy! It's really thanks to Brother Zhou's panacea, otherwise how could I be today?"

Zhou Heng listened, handed over another Qi Replenishing and Benefiting Divine Pill that he had refined before, and said, "This Pill can fill in the essence and replenish the essence, which is very good for memory. ”

Zhang Cheng had the effect of the last time, so he naturally ate the marrow and knew the taste, so he swallowed it without saying a word.

In the evening, Lord Wu of Futai invited everyone to a banquet and told everyone that their names had been reported to the Ministry of Rites and that they could participate in this year's examination. He saw that most of the people in this year's lifts were young people, especially Xie Yuan Zhou Heng was only twenty-one or twelve years old, and he was very happy in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Each person will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, as a plate for everyone to enter Beijing to catch the exam!" and then ordered everyone to drink happily and not get drunk.

At the end of the dinner, although Zhang Cheng was the ninth, he was also taken by everyone in turn, and he was naturally drunk and wanted to lie down after only a few steps in a daze.

Seeing this, Zhou Heng put a hand on his back, and the dark luck mana vaporized his wine.

After a while, the wine dissipated, Zhang Cheng also came to his senses, looked around, and said, "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry, I'm so happy, so I drank too much." ”

Zhou Heng comforted him and said: "The middle lift is a great joy, you should be happy!"

Zhang Cheng has recognized him as an immortal, and he is sincerely happy that he has this big brother.

After returning to the guest room to tidy up, they began to prepare for the subsequent exam, and ten days later, Zhou Heng and Zhang Cheng set off for Beijing to catch the exam. When he went out, Zhang Yuanwai told him thousands of times, for fear that something would happen to the two.

Zhou Heng comforted him and said, "Everything has me, please rest assured." "It's a long way from Chang'an to Jinling, and it takes at least two months to walk.

So both men rode on horseback. Due to taking the Baicao Rejuvenation Pill, Zhang Cheng's body is also much lighter, and it is not difficult to ride a horse.

After all, it is a juvenile habit, probably the first time he has gone far away, and there is excitement on his face that cannot be hidden.

The two of them walked and stopped, enjoying the beautiful scenery on the side of the road along the way. It's the early summer season, and everything is full of life.

Birds chirp softly in their ears, and hares gallop in front of the horses, all the way without feeling the slightest loneliness.

One afternoon a month later, I finally came to the shore of the Yangtze River, opposite the capital. While waiting for the ferry, Ye Haotian was pleasantly surprised to find that there was an acquaintance on the boat, who was not someone else, it turned out to be Luo Musheng, Zhou Heng's friend in Caiyang City before his predecessor!

I haven't seen him for more than a year, and Luo Musheng's already burly figure has become stronger, and there is more determination in his eyes.

Because Zhou Heng was wearing a mask outside, it was inconvenient to recognize each other rashly when he met him now.

In the midst of this anxious and awkward waiting, the ferry finally came, and a hundred or so people boarded the boat together, and the boatman slowly propped the boat up from the shore to row to the opposite shore.

The river is rushing, the sunset is obliquely shining, the waves are splashing, the droplets are far away, and suddenly someone is singing loudly: "The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes." Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. The voice was high-pitched and powerful, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Luo Musheng, and he paused at this point in singing.

Zhou Heng laughed for a long time, and then sang: "On the white-haired fisherman Jiangzhu, I am used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet. How many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking. ”

Before the singing stopped, Luo Musheng had already walked over and said, "Brother, get to know me, I am Luo Musheng, and I went to Beijing to take the exam." ”

Zhou Heng hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "I'm Zhou Heng, please bear with me." ”

"Zhou Heng, this name is the same as a deceased friend of mine. Luo Kaishan was a little surprised.

Zhou Hengxin said: "Not only is the name the same, but the person is also the same, and he is still standing in front of you and talking to you!" You'll treat me like him. ”

As soon as these words came out, Luo Musheng had a good impression of Zhou Heng. At this moment, Zhou Heng pulled Zhang Cheng over and introduced: "Introduction, this is my cousin." Luo Musheng couldn't help but feel sorry for him when he saw that he was another beautiful and young man.

After a short conversation, the three of them quickly became friends, and after getting off the boat, the three of them entered Jinling after a while.

This Jinling is worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, pavilions and pavilions everywhere, carved beams and painted buildings, the streets are full of traffic, pedestrians are endless, a good picture of the prosperous scene, Zhou Heng three people rummaged in Jinling City for two or three hours before finding a hotel near Guozijian to stay.

It was the end of June, and the weather was very hot, but the evening breeze was still a little cool. A few people had nothing to do, and Luo Kaishan proposed: "The Qinhuai River is famous all over the world, so it's better to go and see it." Zhang Cheng first said: "It's not proper, I'm afraid there will be trouble when I go there before the exam." Ye Haotian said: "Let's go, it's okay to go and have a look." ”

Qinhuai River is located in the south of Jinling City, the river painting boat Lingbo, the lanterns are hanging, the rich on both sides of the bank gather, the green buildings stand in a forest, the gold powder towers, the rows are one after another, and the sound of oars and the light shadow constitute a dreamlike picture.

The three of them did not board the boat, but rented a small boat and drifted along the water. From time to time, the sound of kitsch singing was heard in my ears, and the river was filled with a faint fragrance, which seemed to come from the rouge washed by the girls on the painting boat.

Suddenly, a piano sound like a song and a cry, like a golden jade, was like a young girl singing softly in her ear, delicate and gentle.

It was the first time he had heard such a graceful and moving sound of the piano, and he couldn't help but be completely lost in it.

When he woke up, seeing Luo Kaishan beside him looking up at the sky, with a solemn expression on his face, as if there was a golden light emitting from his body, as if he was trying his best to resist the sound of the piano, Zhou Heng was shocked, and even took the two of them to float over the water, until he left the place where the sound of the piano was hundred, and the demonic singing voice disappeared!

Back at the hotel, Zhou Heng and Luo Musheng were also frightened, only Zhang Cheng was still safe and sound, opening the scriptures in front of the lamp to review.

Zhang Cheng was not surprised, because he had already decided that he was an immortal. Luo Musheng looked at him a few times and said, "Brother." You can climb the Ping and cross the water, and the end is extraordinary. ”

Zhou Heng just smiled and asked rhetorically, "Brother Luo, I see that you are very angry, and you have probably practiced kung fu, right?"

Luo Musheng did not deny it, and said after a moment of silence: "My ancestors were people in the Shaolin army, when the ancestors followed Yang Zaixing to die in the battle of Xiaoshanghe, and since then my generation has abandoned martial arts and literature, but the family tradition of kung fu does not dare or forget, men must practice martial arts and abstinence for several years, until the beginning of internal skills and a set of Luo family marksmanship mastery before they are allowed to go out." ”

Zhou Heng said: "Brother Luo is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and he is the pillar of the country. In recent years, the coastal provinces have been rampant, and it is best to release the southeast area after the title of the gold list of brothers, so that you can have a place to use. ”

"yes, I thought so too. Speaking of this, Luo Kaishan's eyes emitted a ray of divine light.

There are still more than ten days before the big exam, Zhou Heng told the two of them that they want to go out for a walk, they must come back on time, take the exam, don't worry, as for his ability and cultivation, Luo Musheng and the others are not worried, but just tell him to pay attention to the time.

Then he rode out of Jinling City and rode away. Why is this so, because there is a famous Taoist mountain - Maoshan Mountain, eighty miles away from Jinling City.

The name of this Maoshan comes from Sanmao Zhenjun, the three immortals respected by Taoism - Mao Ying, Mao Gu, and Mao Zhen.

The name of this Mao Ying, first seen in the Han Dynasty Weishu, it is said that he was eighteen years old into Heng Mountain to learn the Tao, accumulated 20 years, only to return, just when he returned to his hometown, to the Juqu Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, it took a lot of effort to avoid the disaster of flood, drought, disease and locusts, so that people near and far are favored, when the people changed this mountain to Maoshan.