Chapter 298: The Tree of the Hub
Qing Ming and the others saw the piece of information floating above Song Xuan's order, and their faces showed a look of surprise.
"If it weren't for the power in your hand, I wouldn't have remembered that I had such a thing. Song Xuan spread his hands helplessly.
"And it even had my information engraved, but what I couldn't understand was how I became a sophomore before I even started school. ”
Song Xuan was confused, he thought of the old man who was a little obese, and he looked at himself like a wolf looking at his prey.
Song Xuan had a bad premonition at that time, and he felt as if he had fallen into the old man's trap.
However, seeing the information on the school order, Song Xuan felt that this old man was really good to him, not only did he not kick him out of the academy list, but also let him be successfully promoted to the senior year.
Although he didn't know what method the teaching used to hide the sight of the upper echelons of the academy, at least at this moment, Song Xuan felt that the fat old man had a good heart.
Just when Song Xuan had such an idea in his heart, in a small town thousands of miles away, an obese old man sneezed a few times.
"Holy, who's scolding me!" sneezed as he cursed like this.
"Sneeze ......"
In front of him was a blacksmith shop, where a middle-aged man was pounding a handful of iron bars that had just been burned from the oven, and the crimson bars were jumping on the big iron piers, and sledgehammers were clinking and clinking on the iron bars.
The shop is open on three sides, and there is an oven in the center, and a bellows is driving by the hearth, and a small guy is trying to pull the bellows. There are also a few people next to them who are busy, although the shop is crowded, but everyone has a clear division of labor, will not appear flustered, everything is in order.
"Beijiaoxi, it will take a little effort for your piece of iron today, its hardness is higher than the previous times, and the purity is also more mixed. The master of the hammer iron said with a smile as he looked at the fat old man in front of him.
"It's okay, you can temper it, as usual, as for the money, you are indispensable!" the fat old man pulled out a dry cigarette from his waist and smoked it himself.
"Look at what you always said, if it weren't for the help of the academy, the small shop would have been served a long time ago, how could the small one be the kind of person who forgets his righteousness for profit! “
The fat old man laughed a few times, revealing two yellowed front teeth, presumably caused by years of dry tobacco.
The old man's name is Bei Xiaoya, and his name sounds very delicate and elegant, but it is extremely inconsistent with his appearance, but few people inside and outside the academy know his full name, and everyone calls him the head of the Beijiao.
Bei Xiaoya knocked on the cigarette butt in his hand, and sporadic firelight jumped out of the smoke and sprinkled onto the mossy stone slab, he looked down and saw a small rattan sticking out a little tender tooth from the crack in the stone slab.
"It's the tenacious vitality! But you desperately want to struggle out of the restraints to see the outside world, but this world is not as beautiful as you imagined!" Bei Xiaoya muttered to herself.
Just as he was deep in thought, a person ran in a panic not far away.
"Beijiaoxi, it's not good, someone is making trouble at the end of the long street!" The person who came was wearing a light cyan robe, and there were dark black lines of different sizes in the lower right corner of the gown, and the lines were chaotic and disorderly, like the cracked bark texture of a thousand-year-old tree, and there was a circular pattern on its left chest, which was aggregated with the same black texture to form a "saint" character.
But it was these characteristics that made the people who came here dare not provoke them, because they had an identity, that is, students of Shengyuan Academy.
The town here is called Gen Town, located in the north of the center of the Central Plains, and the town has only two streets, Long Street and Short Street.
The long street is about a kilometer long, and the short street is also half a mile long, and the short street is located in the center of the town and crosses with the long street.
If you look down from the sky, you will see that these two streets are like a cross that cuts through the town.
Most of the buildings on both sides of the street are made of green bricks, with sloping roofs and wooden structures.
The buildings along the street are double-storey outer corridors, each building has steep cornices, and the outer walls of the buildings extend to the corners of the cornices and are hung with scarves. The contents of the towels are different, mostly one to four characters are appropriate, but all of them show the function and purpose of the store.
Genzhen is located at the foot of Minshan Mountain, which is the only passage to Minshan, and more importantly, if you want to enter Shengyuan Academy, you must pass through Ganzhen, then go to Minshan, and then go to Shengyuan Academy.
At the end of the long street is the initial road leading to Minshan, and at the end of the long street there is a huge tree, called the Misty Hub, and its tall canopy can be seen anywhere in the town.
If Qing Ming and the others were here, they would have found that this Hub Tree was exactly the same as the black veined pattern they had seen on the card before.
There are clouds in ancient books: there are wood, its shape is like a tree and black reason, and its flowers are shining. Its name is called Misty, and it is not fascinated. The tree is shaped like a tree, has a black vein, and when it blooms, it shines brightly, and it is said that you won't get lost when you go out with the branches of this tree.
The maze is the totem plant of Shengyuan Academy, and any student of Shengyuan Academy is proud to wear this pattern, and ordinary people regard it as a sacred object, especially the original people of Ganzhen, who will go to the huge maze tree at the end of the long street to worship every Chinese New Year's holiday, praying that relatives and friends who go out can find their way home.
Under the canopy of the maze tree, a bluestone road about dozens of steps wide winding like a giant snake leads straight to the mountainside of Minshan Mountain. Both sides of the bluestone road are covered with dense forests, you can't see the top of Minshan Mountain at a glance, the stone road turns a corner on the mountainside and disappears into the depths of the dense forest, there is an illusion that the forest is deep and dreams of deer.
At the beginning of the bluestone road, a torii gate stands impressively at the beginning of the bluestone road, and the torii gate is a torii-like building, which is composed of two pillars supporting the Kasagi, the toriki and the three parts between the two pillars.
The overall color of the torii gate is vermilion, and due to the erosion of the years, the vermilion gradually takes off, leaving a faint dark red color, and there is even a little moss at the end of the birdwood, and the green and red are intertwined, and the footprints of the years are revealed in the gaps.
If you want to go up the mountain, you must pass through the torii, which is the gate to Minshan.
At this time, a crowd of onlookers gathered in front of the torii under the maze tree, a slightly chubby young man in a blue robe was lying on the ground crying and howling, and another disciple was supporting him and looked at the three men in heavy armor in front of him with an angry face.
The crowd around them pointed at the middle of the field, looking at the three men with pitiful eyes from time to time.
The faces of the three men showed inexplicable expressions, and then they looked angrily at the two disciples in green shirts opposite.
They didn't hit the chubby boy at all, they just touched him, and he lay on the ground and howled.
The three of them were from the Canglan Empire, and they were originally escorting their young master of the royal family to the Shengyuan Empire, but they didn't expect their young master to get rid of them, and galloped directly towards the mountain road, throwing off the three of them from a distance.
Originally, their task was to escort the young master to the gate of the Shengyuan Academy before they could leave, but when they stepped into the torii, they were stopped by the two in front of them.
They didn't say that no one could set foot in the torii without the academy's order, especially the chubby boy was very arrogant, and the three people wearing heavy armor had to go in, and the chubby boy resolutely refused to give it.
So there was a little argument between the two parties, and one of the three of them really couldn't get used to the kid's face and stretched out his hand to push him, but he didn't expect the kid to fall to the ground and not get up, and howled directly.
The three of them suddenly had black lines on their faces, this is blackmail, **naked porcelain!