The spring night in Qingzhou City is still dark early. There were no pedestrians in the streets, except for the occasional sound of horses' hooves, except for the cry of a baby. This is not the day of the market in Qingzhou City, so the merchants on the street close early and light up candles. The residents along the street were resting on their beds, and after a while, the man began to snore.

The Tongfu Inn in Pingyang Fang is quiet and you can't hear any sound. There is no bright moon tonight, so the entire Tongfu Inn is pitch black, and it is impossible to distinguish any scenery. At this moment, the door of a room in the Xuanzi number of the Tongfu Inn opened, and a figure crept out, and in the middle of the night, few people knew his movements. Even if he was woken up, he just thought he was up at night.

On the roof of the Tongfu Inn, stepping on the broken tiles, along the unfixed footprints, like a monkey sometimes jumping high, sometimes low to pass by, speeding in the night sky, startled the night cat on the side of the road dare not call spring. This person moved cautiously, and when he walked on the roof, he still kept his figure low, for fear of being seen. When passing through the intersection, leaning sideways against the wall, and after confirming that there was no sound around him, he rushed to the side of Jinyi Lane.

This person was Qin Chuan, who came out of the Tongfu Inn in a night suit, carefully avoided the hunt, and headed towards Qingzhou City. Living in Qingzhou City for about half a year, Qin Chuan is still very familiar with several alleys and streets, although it is darker tonight, but Qin Chuan feels very comfortable.

Since Guan Lang knew that the exam questions he bought from the black market were fake during the day, he was sullen all the way, and Qin Chuan was not in the mood to invite him to eat hot pot at dinner, so he went back to the room to rest after taking a few bites.

Qin Chuan knew that for scholars like Guan Lang, setting up a stall in front of the White Deer Academy was just to make a living, and he thought that he could still enter the White Deer Academy, and if it was possible, he would definitely go to the Tai Academy in the capital to get ahead. But no one has ever instructed him, and he has not been able to read the scriptures and historical books completely, except for occasionally chanting a few lines of popular poetry, he has no strength. Unlike Shen Lingqiu, who is next door to the house, if nothing else, her guqin skills are enough to ensure her enter the White Deer Academy.

This world is unfair, and the White Deer Academy that Guan Lang hopes for is just a place for the descendants of big families like Shen Lingqiu to take advantage of it, without any respect at all. However, for Guan Lang, who was born humblely, Bailu Academy is a mountain in his heart, a high mountain that symbolizes the door, as long as he climbs to the top of the mountain, he can eat meat, eat and drink. But no matter how many old books are sold at the gate of Bailu Academy, and how many readers he has seen, it is difficult for Guan Lang to enter Bailu Academy.

Some gaps are difficult to cross with footsteps, and need to be filled with real money, glory and wealth, and the number of seats. Guan Lang didn't understand this truth, so he walked very tired. But he believes that there is a shortcut, and would rather go to the black market to buy the exam questions back after a month of hunger, and he does not enjoy it alone, but borrows Qin Chuan, who he thinks is sympathetic.

Although Qin Chuan didn't want to enroll in the White Deer Academy, he could get the opportunity to go to the capital, so he had to try it no matter what. However, Qin Chuan read some wild history, and several ancient poems were all in the teahouse of Qingzhou City, listening to the white eyebrows of the floating door storyteller, those old scholars of Bailu Academy will definitely not know, whose family bullied whose yellow flower girl in the previous dynasty, which descendants of the wealthy giant are now living on the streets, and how many miles can the peerless powerhouse in the martial arts rivers and lakes jump in one step.

I heard Guan Lang say that today's rich children live in Jinyi Lane, and the man with the exam questions is the descendant of a large family surnamed Meng, whose owner has opened a lot of restaurants in Huzhou and other places, but rarely comes back. Only when the new year alternates with the old year, he pulls a box of silver coins into the house. The people of Qingzhou City said that half of the silver money in this box belonged to Zhou Youliang.

For wealthy people like them, it is not impossible to spend some money to send their descendants to Bailu Academy. If the martial arts can't be passed, then donate a person, which can be regarded as a glorious ancestor. After all, there is a precedent in Qingzhou City, as long as a certain amount of money is donated, their descendants can be admitted to Bailu Academy, not that they can be admitted directly, it is said that these people know the exam questions in advance and memorize some answers, so that other scholars will laugh at the illiterate people can enter Bailu Academy.

Qin Chuan thought that since he was also going to get the exam questions of Bailu Academy, it was better to use them as a favor and share them with Guan Lang. After all, Qin Chuan doesn't know anything about scriptures and historical books, and instead of holding exam questions and asking others secretly, it is better to cheapen Guan Lang. As long as he enrolls in Bailu Academy at that time, he can take the money and invite himself to the Green Treasure House for a drink.

After passing through several streets and groping his way forward in the night, with his daily memories, Qin Chuan finally walked into Jinyi Alley. Now that I have reached the realm of synaesthesia, I can perceive the situation within ten steps in advance, and I have never felt a little sleepy even after walking for half an hour, but there is a warm current in my body, and I feel extremely comfortable, presumably because of the role of the empty mountain and the Danhai.

Qin Chuan remembered the situation when he fought with Qiu Meng in Jinyi Lane a few days ago, and couldn't help but sigh. At that time, Lao Dao was still beside him, although there was always danger, but he always felt that when he was dying at the end, Lao Dao would never die without help. How do you know that Lao Dao is really hard-hearted, and the tip of the knife almost touched Qin Chuan's neck several times, but Lao Dao was very carefree, watching the play with his hands behind his back.

Now that the old road is gone, the courtyard wall that was knocked down by Qiu Meng has also been repaired, and it is not clear in the dark night that the old and the new are not distinguished, but the passage of time is the passage of time, and the old people are no more.

With his memory, Qin Chuan walked into Jinyi Alley, and looked at a courtyard gate with two tall stone lions from a distance.

According to Guan Lang, the first place from Jinyi Lane to three hundred steps, from south to north, and there are two stone lions, is the Meng family. However, Guan Lang thought that Qin Chuan was going to spend money to buy exam questions, and also persuaded Qin Chuan not to waste his efforts, but Qin Chuan was preparing to take advantage of the dark night to do bad things. If Guan Lang knew, he would definitely stop him.

Jumping to the courtyard wall, I saw that the Meng family was indeed wealthy, and ordinary sandalwood was already very precious if it was the size of a finger, but there were dozens of pieces in the courtyard of the Meng family. In the corner of the east courtyard, there is a rockery flowing water, but in the darkness there is a little starlight, the rockery must be made of Taihu stone. Even the bluestone tiles that Qin Chuan was lying on, touching it with his hands, he could feel a lot of patterns, presumably from the hands of famous craftsmen, and he couldn't imagine that the Meng family, which was so low-key outside, was so luxurious inside.

Originally, in the dark night, most people had already gone to bed, and Qin Chuan also estimated the time before going out, but the Meng family was brightly lit at the moment, and the hall was crowded with figures, as if they were discussing something lively. A lot of people went in and out, brought a lot of good wine and good food, smelled from afar, and could know what kind of food it was.

At this moment, a familiar figure came out, Qin Chuan held his breath, lowered his body and hid behind the ridge of the roof and waited quietly.