The south gate of Jianye City, the wilderness of Jiangnan......

The October day was especially a bit boring in summer, the sun hung in the air boringly, and the leaves of the roasted woods were a little wilted. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSeveral buffaloes snorted into the puddle, and everything around them showed a sense of lethargy.

But even in this disgusting weather, there is still an endless stream of pedestrians. There are people hurrying past on the official road. He looked anxious, as if he was going to attend some important meeting.

If you have the heart to look at it, it is not difficult to find a very strange phenomenon. Because among the pedestrians in this hurry, most of them go to the direction of Jianye City, but there are very few people in the opposite direction. Roughly speaking, it is not even a tenth.

Liang Yuan is one of the few travelers who travels in the opposite direction. Carrying a wolf tooth knife on his back, he looked extremely strong. The muscles all over the body are knotted, and the black is like a piece of black charcoal.

Although his body shape did not look like an ordinary person, Liang Yuan was still as unhappy as other travelers in his heart. The sweltering heat consumed most of his physical strength, and the more he hurried on the road, the more irritable he felt.

"The weather on this dog day is also fucking hot!"

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Liang Yuan turned his head to look at the right side of his shoulder, and said with a long breath: "I said Yunliang, why don't you guys even sweat a drop, don't you feel hot?"

Beside him, walked a young man with a handsome face. Hearing this, he snorted and laughed: "Is it hot? Why don't I think it? I said earlier that you lack exercise, and you are tired like this after only a few levels, in my opinion, you don't have to go to Chang'an, it's useless to go." ”

The man was about twenty years old, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a lofty instrument, and a white brocade robe, which made him look like a rich boy who went out to work.

What attracted even more attention was the red folding fan in his hand, which exploded with a faint electric light as the man's palm swung, and a subtle thunderstorm sound could be faintly heard.

Obviously, neither of these is ordinary people. Not to mention the two imposing weapons, the huge wolf-type summoned beast that followed them alone was enough to distinguish them from the other passers-by.

In fact, Liang Yuan and Gao Yunliang are two candidates who participated in the imperial examination.

Like the weekend imperial examination activities in Qin Lu's memory, the imperial examination competition in this world is not an examination for scholars in the literal sense. To be more precise, it is an all-round test of both civil and military aspects.

Similar to the triathlon competition in the previous life. Starting from Jianye City, candidates have to go through the test of 19 examiners along the way. From poetry couplets to chess and card rhythms, to calligraphy and painting art, Buddhism and Taoism etiquette. The content of the exam covers almost everything imaginable.

At the examiner, candidates have the option to take a written test. If the knowledge accumulation is not enough, you can also choose to confront the high-level summoned beast prepared by the examiner or the official martial artist through force, and only after passing can you directly enter the next test center.

There is another reason why this imperial examination is a two-way test for candidates. That's the long distance of the test center.

From Jianye City to the border of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination competition has set up 19 test centers, candidates need to start from Jianye City, all the way through the Jiangnan field to Chang'an City, and then through Chang'an City into the Tang Dynasty, and finally return to Chang'an, to the last test center of Guozijian.

It is worth mentioning that in order to make it easier to decide the best or the worst, the contestants cannot use any means of transportation, and can only rely on their own legs all the way. And this is also one of the main reasons why Qin Lu thinks that he can't pass the exam, with his weak chicken physique, let alone go to Chang'an, just this part of the Jiangnan wilderness can kill him.

"How long have we been gone?

Liang Yuan set off in the morning and had already passed the tests at four test centers along the way. Unlike the knowledgeable Gao Yunliang, he basically rushes through the level with violence, and he can't help but be a little tired when he consumes a lot of physical strength.

Gao Yunliang glanced at his companion and saw that his forehead was covered with sweat, so he took the initiative to say: "Speaking of which, I've been walking for more than half a day, why don't I find a place to rest, it just so happens that my stomach is also a little hungry." ”

"I thought you didn't have to fucking eat, shit, I'm going to die!" Liang Yuan waited for his words, grinned and slapped him on the shoulder, "You're blessed this time, I bought a lot of delicious food when I came out, you wait, I'll unload the package!"

The two giant wolves were quite human, and as soon as Liang Yuan's words fell, one of them took the initiative to take a few steps forward and obediently fell to the ground. Let the master take off the package that was tied to him.

"This Jianye City is not a big place, but there are a lot of things to eat, let me tell you, I went to a tavern a few days ago, and the food thieves in it are fucking interesting......"

While he was busy digging things out, Liang Yuan chatted with his companions about his discovery with great interest.

Gao Yunliang was quite interested, but when he listened, his brows furrowed, "Is it my delusion...... It seems to have a strange smell, it smells so good......"

"Fuck it, your nose is a little smart, I haven't opened the box yet......"

Liang Yuan looked at him in surprise. It's no wonder that this guy can become the chief disciple of the Transformation Temple at such a young age, this nose. You can smell the inside through the lunch box. Don't say it's yourself, even the family's prosperity is not so spiritual!

"No, it's not our ......" Gao Yunliang didn't know that Liang Yuan was slandering himself in his heart, so he interrupted him and said, "Do you smell it, it seems to be floating from outside the forest......"

Liang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously twisted his head in the direction that Gao Yunliang was pointing, not to mention, it didn't take much effort, and he also noticed the fragrance.

As a martial artist of the Tang Dynasty, although Liang Yuan's five senses are not as sharp as Gao Yunliang, they are far beyond ordinary people.

He was surprised to find that the smell was a bit like food, but it was mixed with the smell of some fruit for no reason, if you distinguish it carefully, Liang Yuan could even smell a faint fishy smell of seafood, many flavors added together, not to mention how strange it was.

"Hehe, there are people having a picnic nearby, and the mother will play!"

Liang Yuan immediately realized that someone was resting nearby, and said with a smile: "Either a merchant passing by or a candidate who is in a hurry like us, regardless of him, he eats his, let's eat ours!"

"No, I thought the two of us were fast enough, and there were still people walking ahead?"

Gao Yunliang snapped and closed the folding fan, frowned, and said, "Let's go, go over and see where the sacredness is!"