Ning Du and Pang Jiushan didn't notice Chen Nanping's gaze behind them, and left the cafeteria and walked around the Qingteng Garden at will.

Half a day is enough for everyone to visit the Qingteng Garden, as long as they are not stupid, they can have a general understanding of the layout of the Qingteng Garden. Notices will be posted in each place of the Green Ivy Garden, and questions such as the check-in of the house, the identity jade signature of the person who received the identity jade sign, the place to which the garden was assigned, where the classes were held, and who the students were taught, etc., were all in the notices everywhere. As long as you go around, you can figure out all the questions you want to know, and you don't need someone to guide you at all.

Pang Jiushan looked at the notice on the wall of the Qingmei Garden and said, "Brother Ning, Chen Nanping has also been assigned to the Qingmei Garden. Shang Chong's ancient teaching is really strong, and he actually recruited the top two. ”

Ning Du looked at the name and said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not a-for-tat confrontation with you." ”

Pang Jiushan looked around, lowered his voice and said: "Hey, who is not arrogant and arrogant when you are admitted to the four universities? Brother Ning, you have won the top spot of Chen Nanping, this is a deep hatred! I have to run away quickly, I can't carry this black pot for you." ”

"I can't run for the time being. ”

Pang Jiushan glanced at Ning Du, followed the other party's gaze and turned his head to look back.

On the winding path, there was a man standing. Green cloth clothes, white cloth shoes, high waist, hair shawl, cold horizontal eyebrows, thin lips like blades, looking at Pang Jiushan and Ning Du with his head high.

Chen Nanping suddenly retracted her gaze, walked towards the Qingmei Garden, and passed by Pang Jiushan and Ning Du, her gaze remained unchanged, as if she had passed through two stone carvings.

Pang Jiushan was a little suppressed by Chen Nanping's momentum, and only after he walked over did he whisper: "This woman's aura is so big, I'm afraid no one in Qingteng Garden can control it." By the way, who is this woman, similar to Shang Chonggu?"

"Chen Nanping. ”

"Chen Nanping, is she Chen Nanping, is Chen Nanping a woman?"

"Why not?"

"Brother Ning, do you know her?"

"Now I know. ”

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On the second day of school, classes began in each branch of Qingteng Garden.

The Omeen class is huge, there are no tables and stools, only polished floors, and it is obvious that classes here are all sitting on the floor. There were not many people who came to the class, only twenty in total, which made the class extremely empty.

As the bronze bell rang, a middle-aged man in white walked to the front of the class, put several books in his arms on the lectern, and said in a gentle voice: "Hello students, I am Sima E, and I am a teacher in Qingmei Garden. I'm going to teach this class today. The name of this course is - ginseng bamboo. Let's put this course aside for the time being, but first talk about your understanding of the Plum Garden. Students speak freely without restraint. ”

Pang Jiushan was the first to stand up, but was motioned by Sima E to sit down, he sat down and said: "Although it is a peaceful and prosperous world, we also need to be prepared for danger in times of peace." It is that cultivation can only be entered, not abolished. Today, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are still the mainstream, and Qingteng Garden is one of the four courtyards of Tiandu, which is Confucianism in essence. What is Confucianism? Not being corrupt is Confucianism. As Chief Teacher Fang Suru said on the first day of school, even if it is a path of cultivation, our generation should not be confined to the old-fashioned, reform and innovate. ”

"This classmate is right. But where is the basis for reform and innovation? The experience gained by our ancestors over the past 10 million years of exploration is the foundation, and the lessons learned by our predecessors in exchange for their blood and lives are the foundation. Without these, there is no room for innovation. The spirit of being proud of the predecessors can be there, but the heart cannot be had. Even though Sima E's words were full of criticism, they still made people feel gentle and amiable.

"I want to ask Sima Jiaoxi, does assigning us to Qingmei Garden mean that we must practice in the future?" asked Yang Keqing, a freshman.

"Of course not! You are assigned to each garden based on the results of the exams. You are free to go to one park and take any course. You can tell other students that anyone is very welcome to come and learn. ”

"Sima teaches Xi, Qingmei Garden teaches cultivation, so what exactly is cultivation?" Yang Keqing continued to ask.

Only according to the test results to divide the candidates, there will be a situation where the candidates' cognition of cultivation is uneven, some candidates are coming to the Qingxing Garden, but they are assigned to the Qingmei Garden, and there will naturally be a situation where they don't know anything about the practice, which is the case with Yang Keqing.

Sima E thought for a moment and said with a smile: "There are five new students and seventeen old students here. Let the old man answer this question. ”

Bing Jian took the lead in saying: "Heaven and earth have vitality, and they are mixed with manifolds. We use this vitality to exercise all kinds of things under the pretense of swords, guns, swords, halberds, chariots, horses, boats, and boats, for the sake of spiritual practice. ”

Immediately afterwards, another old student said: "Practice, strengthen the body first, and exercise the heart first." A hundred years ago, there was a demon race, but the physique was not stronger than our human race? The cultivation was not stronger than our human race? But in the end, why was he defeated and retreated to the extreme north? Without him, my human race was tough and strong. ”

"Great absurdity! How can self-cultivation be separated from self-cultivation and self-cultivation? If you are strong on the outside and weak on the inside, you will go mad; if you are weak on the outside and strong on the inside, you will exhaust your efforts. The two complement each other and are indispensable!"

......

Sima E watched the old students fight more and more, smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Senior Brother Shang once said on the day of the beginning of school that life is full of cultivation. If you have to draw a boundary, you can only say that you are borrowing the vitality that exists in heaven and earth to make yourself stronger, and it is for cultivation. ”

"Teaching, I have seen and heard in the book: cultivators, fly to the sky and escape to the earth, use a three-foot flying sword, and kill enemies for thousands of miles. Is that really the case?"

"After teaching, practice, where should I go?"

"Is there a date for teaching, practice?"

"Teaching, how should we practice?"

......

Throughout the morning, Sima E patiently answered all the doubts, and even the old students benefited a lot, no matter how ignorant the new students were before, they now have a general idea of the practice. Of course, the chores outside the door were also clearly heard. However, the strange thing is that Chen Nanping, who is also a freshman, sat in a precarious position all morning without saying a word.

After having lunch with Ning Du and discussing what he had learned in the morning and Chen Nanping, Pang Jiushan said: "Brother Ning, don't you like to see Tiandu? Today we will go to the corner tower of Danfeng Gate and let you see most of Tiandu. ”

The students who are admitted to the four courtyards are eligible to climb the corner tower of Danfeng Gate to overlook the Tiandu in these three days, so that these students will also add some yearning and ambition in their hearts.

In the afternoon, Ning Du went home and called Hu Ran, and the three of them went to Danfeng Gate together.

Danfeng Gate is the east gate of Tiandu, open five gates, towering like a mountain, build a seven-storey gatehouse, all layers are like flapping wings Danfeng, set up three floors on both sides, the one on the left side is the one that you students can board and visit.

According to the rules, only the official students of the four courtyards can climb the Danfeng Gate, but Pang Jiushan has money.

After passing through three layers of checkpoints, Ning Du and the three climbed the city gate tower as they wished.

"There aren't many people!" Hu Ran looked around the third floor of the Wings Tower, and found that there were only three or two people.

"There are 400 people who have been admitted to the four universities, and Danfeng Gate has been open for three days. It's not that these people don't want to come, it's that they really can't get out. Do you know that there is a word called 'catching a son-in-law under the list'?"

Hu Ran shook his head while swallowing melon seeds.

"Those who are really talented and promising will be contested. Whether it is a wealthy businessman or a high-ranking official, they are very willing to win over such promising young people. Most of the students who are admitted to the four universities are discussing their marriages, so how can they have time to come here?"

Ning Du stood by the window, staring intently at the sky outside the window.

Pang Jiushan didn't go to talk to Ning Du, Gu Zi said: "People often say that the sky is one family. This is actually good, it is really not a problem for the upper-class people to have seven or eight daughters in order to marry. During the old dynasties, there were people who took 300 concubines, allowed guests and friends to enter and leave the backyard at will, and gave birth to countless children. Although this person has green mountains and grasslands on his head, he has relatives in the middle of the dynasty, and it is not surprising that in the end, this power leans towards the opposition. ”

Hu Ran didn't understand it, so he didn't listen, just swallowed melon seeds.

Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound beneath my feet.

"The main gate of Danfeng Gate is open, could it be that which big man has returned? Under normal circumstances, except for the feudal officials, there are almost no main gates. Pang Jiushan said this, and looked out.

The neat hooves of the horses became drumsticks, and the dull and powerful beating of the bluestone pavement made people feel that the surrounding houses were trembling slightly.

"Dongjin Palace is doing business, and the idle people are waiting to back down!"

The shouts immediately spread throughout the street, and the women and children of all the ages flashed to the sides.

The horse team rushed out of the Danfeng Gate, fully revealed. Immediately, everyone wore black and red flying brocade clothes, with embroidered spring knives on their waists, and Fengmo knives on their backs, with cold faces and sharp eyes, galloping past, and passers-by all looked sideways.

Among the black horses, a white horse stands out.

Pang Jiushan took a light breath and said: "Who did I say, it turned out to be the second master of the East Jin Palace-Lord Di Mingyue! This East Jin Wei has always walked through the north gate or the west gate, but today he walked through the east gate so publicly, and he is still Lord Di." Thinking about it, this matter should be related to the Great True Kingdom, and His Majesty the current Holy Emperor of the Great True Kingdom is really a figure. Oh, how did I forget this autumn's 'Dynasty of Nations'?! But this year's 'dynasty of nations' should be much more complicated......"

Ning Du's gaze had already been retracted from the building in Tiandu, and it was all condensed into a point, landing on the white horse.

Pang Jiushan turned his head to look, only to find that Ning Du's gaze had changed, and he felt a trace of awe inexplicably.

"What's wrong, Brother Ning?"

Ning Du didn't answer Pang Jiushan, just stared at Di Mingyue's back.

Maybe Di Mingyue was just a whim, or maybe he noticed something, he turned his head to look at the winged tower of Danfeng Gate, his eyes intertwined with Ning Du.

Hustle and bustle!

It seems that the whole world has darkened, and only Ning Du and Di Mingyue are left.

Di Mingyue just looked back and withdrew his gaze, he shouldn't have noticed the gaze of a young man in a certain window of the Wings Tower.

Da! Da! Da!

The sound of horses' hooves resounded, and the whole street was again drowned out by the noise.

Click!

The crisp sound of swallowing melon seeds sounded in his ears, and the noisy Tiandu gradually appeared in front of Ning Du's eyes again.

"Brother Ning, you ——?"

Ning Du let go of the hand he was holding, exhaled lightly, and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

"Young master, let's go, there's nothing to see here. After Hu Ran finished swallowing the melon seeds in his hand, he didn't want to stay here.