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This season is not the time for the Dayue tribe to cross the border to plunder, but the heads of the more than 200 Dayue tribes are real, even if there are more than 300 ordinary human heads mixed in it, but because there is also the head of Peng Du such a leader in the killing, this alone is a great achievement, so after determining the authenticity of the head, Zhu Zichuan, the general of Weicheng, praised Tan Zheng fiercely, and prepared a tribute to ask for merit and sent it directly to the capital.

Tan Zheng was of course happy to receive praise from Shangfeng and to receive meritorious deeds and rewards in the future, so he also stayed in Weicheng for a few more days, during which he visited many officials.

This time Tan Zheng has made such a great feat, and the court will definitely issue a reward in the near future, if there is no accident, this official position will be further in a while, for such a person, of course, everyone also showed all kinds of enthusiasm, and for a while, the whole Weicheng was discussing Tan Zheng.

"My lord, at our speed, we should be able to reach the town below Jing Mountain before sunset!" said a private soldier riding close to Tan Zheng's horse.

"Hmm~~!" Tan Zheng turned his head and said to his son, "We will rest in the town for a night, and we will go up to the academy on the mountain early tomorrow morning!"

"Good father, my lord!" Ming Xuan is also the son of a military general, plus the people in Qingshui City are fierce, so he is not very old, but his equestrian skills are still very good, although it is very hard to travel these days, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered, which is different from those who are powerless to read.

The town under Jingshan is called Jingshan Town, although it is only a town, but because it relies on Jingshan Academy, although it is only a town, it is unusually prosperous, restaurants, inns abound, although Tan Zheng and his party came here very late, but it was also very easy to find a very large inn.

"Prepare a few upper rooms for us~!" Tan Zheng's personal guard directly threw a money bag on the counter, and the heavy money bag hit the table with a heavy sound.

"Okay~~!Okay~~!" Hearing this movement, the innkeeper immediately called the shopkeeper with a smile on his face, "Shunzi, hurry up and take these masters to the Tianzi room to rest! Wait a minute, I will let someone send hot water to you to wash, and the food will be delivered later!"

"Hmm~~!" the soldier nodded with satisfaction and said, "The exquisite point of the meal, our old master and young master are tired after a few days of traveling!"

"Yes~!Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, the food in our store is famous even in this town, and it will satisfy you!" The shopkeeper said and put away the money bag with a smile, he opened a shop, this eye strength is there, the person who spoke to himself looked like a soldier, and he could bring such a person out, obviously the identity of the other party was definitely not ordinary, and he must be careful to serve.

After Ming Xuan endured the exhaustion on his body and ate a little something, he did not go to rest immediately, but took out the book given to him by Li Hui and read it carefully, he had just begun to get in touch with historical records before, according to the normal level of reading, he had no way to learn such a profound thing so quickly, but because of Li Hui's annotations, it was much easier for him to learn than usual, but it was only slightly easier, and it would not work if he didn't put in a little hard work.

Ming Xuan read the book for more than an hour before going to bed, and tomorrow he will go to Jingshan Academy with his father to visit the mountain elder, so it is not okay to rest well! It may also be because he is too tired to rush on this road, so although Ming Xuan is very worried in his heart, he will fall asleep quickly after lying in bed, and he will reach dawn after a dreamless night.

Ming Xuan, who had rested all night, woke up early the next morning and felt refreshed, when his father Tan Zheng was about to visit the mountain chief of Jingshan Academy and did not sleep well all night, but he was also a guard in the end, after eating breakfast, he immediately asked people to take the gifts that had been prepared a long time ago, and purchased some fruits and the like in the town, and took his son and his own soldiers up the mountain.

"What are you going to do up the mountain at this time!" The inn's shopkeeper looked at Tan Zheng and his party going to Jingshan Academy, which was very strange, especially when this group of people still had a half-sized Haizi in them, no matter how they looked at it, they were going to study in the academy, but now it was not the time for the academy to enroll students, and this mountain was Jingshan Academy, one of the three major academies in Nanshu Kingdom, not ordinary academies, even if the other party was a relative of the emperor, it was not necessarily easy to do it here.

"Visiting our mountain elder?" The gatekeeper at the gate of the academy looked at the famous thorn handed over by the other party, just thought for a moment and said, "I'll let someone go and inform the mountain elder, a few adults, please come with me, let's have some tea in the side hall now!"

I don't know Tan Zheng's janitor, but he is also the gatekeeper of this academy, and the most contact on weekdays is the reader, although the stabbing man just now doesn't know what the words written on it are, but he also knows that it is definitely not something that ordinary people can use, so he will be so enthusiastic about Tan Zheng and them.

The mountain chief of Jingshan Academy is surnamed Bowen, and because he is the third in the family, he is called Mr. Three. Although he is now an old man in his sixties, he has already preserved the habit of reading every day, and now is also the time when he is studying, and usually no one dares to come over to disturb him if there is no major matter at this time, so when he sees his subordinate come to the study with a famous thorn, he is still very unhappy in his heart.

"What, is there anything important?" asked Mr. Hou, frowning, putting down the book in his hand.

"Master, there are guests outside who come to pay a visit, saying that it is Tan Zheng, the garrison of Qingshui City!" the housekeeper hurriedly said.

"Clear Water City Garrison?" Old Mr. Hou frowned even deeper when he heard the butler say this, he knew the place of Clear Water City, but he had no impression of the garrison of Clear Water City, and a small garrison was not worth his past meeting, so he picked up his hand again and continued to look, "No!"

"Master, but the other party has a very strange name thorn! The words on it are like ancient characters!" The thorn that the other party took is really special, especially the words written on it, although the housekeeper does not know what is written, but he also knows that these words are ancient words, and now the person who can write such words is definitely a person who is on par with his own master.

"What? Taikoowen, hurry up and bring it to me to see!" As soon as Mr. Hou heard that the name thorn was written in Taikoo, he quickly put down the book in his hand, took the name thorn handed over by the butler and looked at it, he suddenly stood up, and then ran outside.

"Master~~!Master~~!What are you doing here? Even if you want to see them, at least change your clothes! It's really not safe to go out like this!" The butler was frightened by his master's reaction, and hurriedly followed.

"Yes~~!" Mr. Hou stopped his steps and looked at the clothes he was wearing, this dress was a home dress, although it was very comfortable to wear, but it was also a little too casual, it was really not suitable for meeting guests, "Then I'll go and change my clothes first, and you personally invite the guests over!"

Seeing his master's reaction, how could the housekeeper not know that the other party must be a particularly important guest, so he quickly nodded and said that he would bring the guest over. And Mr. Hou went to change his clothes in a hurry, he looked like an old man in his sixties.

Tan Zheng's father and son were very respectfully invited to the academy by the housekeeper, this hour was already the time for class, and the entire academy was full of books, and this atmosphere also made Mingxuan's heart full of excitement and yearning. However, Tan Zheng's expression at this time was a little subtle, because the other party was too enthusiastic, especially after knowing that this was the housekeeper of the Jingshan Mountain Chief's family, he was even more strange in his heart, you must know that Jingshan Academy is not an ordinary academy, and Mr. Hou of the Mountain Chief here is also a bachelor who is praised by the world, even those nobles and people from the family have to be honored when they see him. Sir's, and he is just a small guard, how can he let the other party be so hospitable, I am afraid that the famous thorn in this has played a very important role.

As a result, the next scene surprised Tan Zheng even more, when they had just stepped into the courtyard where Mr. Hou lived, they saw Mr. Hou wearing a dark color dress and was already standing there waiting.

"Ah~~!Mr. Hou~~!" As soon as Tan Zheng saw that Mr. Hou actually came out to greet him in person, the whole person was even more frightened, what kind of situation is this!

"It's Tan Shoubei, Lord Tan~!Hurry up and please come in~!" Mr. Hou made a gesture of invitation very enthusiastically, but a trace of imperceptible loss flashed in his eyes.

Tan Zheng's heart suddenly became suspended in the air with Mr. Tan's action, and the act of being a housekeeper was enough to surprise him, and now even Mr. Hou is like this, what kind of origin is that Li family!

After everyone was seated, Tan Zhengxian expressed his admiration for Mr. Hou, and then euphemistically put forward the hope that his son could study in Jingshan Academy.

"There is no problem for this child to study in the academy~!" Since the other party has taken that name and stabbed it, it is not a big deal to study in the academy, Mr. Hou put down the tea cup in his hand and pulled the clothes on his body, and asked very respectfully, "I don't know what my uncle's situation is now, I haven't seen my uncle for more than half a year last time, and my uncle's health is very healthy?"

Mr. Hou agreed to his request so readily was enough to surprise Tan Zheng, and then Mr. Hou's question made him completely confused.

"Uncle Shi?" Tan Zheng couldn't think of which one he knew was actually Mr. Hou's uncle.

However, Mr. Hou also saw the doubts revealed by Tan Zheng, and then thought about the identity and age of his uncle, so he smiled and said to Tan Zheng: "It is the master of the famous thorn~! Although it is said to be a woman, it is the old man's little uncle!"

Mr. Hou still has something to say, that is, Li Hui is not only his uncle, but also the head of their lineage, and his identity is definitely unusual.

"Ah~~!Is it ~~~ is the old man's uncle?" Such an answer given by Mr. Hou directly shocked Tan Zheng and his son, even if they were imagining it before, there was no way to imagine that Mr. Hou's uncle was actually a woman.

"That's right~~!" Mr. Hou was not afraid that others would know about his relationship with Li Hui, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with a woman being her uncle, but said generously: "Uncle is a closed disciple of the ancestor in his later years!"

Now the father and son of the Tan family don't know what to say, especially Mingxuan's child, he has been in contact with Li Hui, he can't imagine that Li Hui is actually the elder of this old gentleman, but at this time he also completely understands why Li Hui's knowledge is so profound.

"Madam, she now lives outside Qingshui City, reading and riding horses in front of the grassland every day!

"Hmm~~!" Mr. Hou nodded and said: "Uncle Shi's temper is the same as that of the master back then, they are all special free and easy people, so much so that I am the envy of my master and nephew!"

Mr. Hou was full of emotion when he said this, although he had only seen Li Hui before this, but when he followed his master and stayed by Qiu Lao's side for a while, when he saw Li Hui that time, her temperament was so similar to that of the ancestor back then!

Tan Zheng sat there and heard these words, and the cold sweat on his body kept bubbling out, before he only thought that the Li family was close to the eighteenth master of the Huo family, but he never thought that her status was so high, even the old man Hou of Jingshan Academy was only her nephew, how high is her generation?

Of course, Mr. Hou didn't know what Tan Zheng was thinking in his heart now, but since the other party stabbed him with his uncle's name, he definitely couldn't refute his uncle's face, so he took a test of Ming Xuan's knowledge.

Being tested by such a university scholar, Ming Xuan was still very nervous at first, but he quickly thought of what Mr. Hou said just now, it turned out that this respected Mr. Hou was actually his aunt's nephew, and the nervousness in his heart subsided a lot when he thought of this.