Shen Qingyun handed over the re-copied assignment to Bai Yuxiu the next day, and politely refused to borrow the copybook, but Bai Yuxiu did not force it.

At the end of February, Jixian Academy stipulated that a "monthly examination" should be held at the end of each month to test the learning status of students, and the scores were divided into six standards: A, A, A, B, B, and C. The results of the monthly test came out, and Shen Qingyun won the second middle school.

Wei Silent Ran got the armor.

Wei Jingran is the grandson of the Protectorate Mansion of the Shi Clan, and with his birth and upbringing, it is not surprising that he won the first place. This is a common idea among most people.

The first pass of the monthly test coincides with the Shangsi Festival, which is the most important festival in Eastern Xia, "February 2, the dragon raises its head, March 3, and Xuanyuan is born". The Shangsi Festival was first to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, and gradually changed with the passage of time, and finally became a festival for purifying the side bath, drinking and feasting by the water, and visiting the suburbs in spring.

Every year, Jixian College organizes a cleansing event on this day. "Those who are in the twilight of spring, the spring clothes are ready, the crown is five or six, and the boy is six or seven, bathing, dancing, and returning. ”

Jixian College implements the "three-room promotion method", which divides students into three classes: upper house, inner house, and outer house. All new students are divided into the outer dormitory, and those with excellent grades are promoted to the inner dormitory; Those who excel in the inner house are promoted to the upper house. After a certain number of years and conditions, the outer students will be promoted to the inner house, and the inner students will be promoted to the upper house.

Naturally, the activities organized by Jixian Academy were limited to the participation of the Master and the Upper House.

After the second day of school in March, local students are picked up by their elders, while students from other places live in the College temporarily, and only male students over the age of 12 are allowed to go out of the College.

Shen Qingyun proposed to Shen Wenhan that on the third day of the third month of March, he wanted to go out with Shen Yuyin, and he had no time to go outside in Luoyang City for a month, except for the Shen family and the academy.

Shen Wenhan was worried that the two of them would travel alone, and proposed that he take them out together. Shen Qingyun originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought that he and Yuyin were only seven or eight years old, it was normal for adults to be uneasy. And if he continues to insist, Shen Wenhan will most likely not allow him to go out, and he has something very important to do.

Shen Qingyun agreed to Shen Wenhan's request and went back to prepare the things to bring with him on his trip tomorrow.

Because of tomorrow's trip, Shen Qingyun forced himself to go to bed early, but he was restless, tossing and turning in bed and becoming more excited, and it was not until the second half of the night that he gradually became tired, and the room was finally quiet and only the sound of breathing was heard.

The cold moonlight outside the house shone on the window, but it couldn't illuminate the dark world inside.

Shen Qingyun had just closed his eyes, but his consciousness sank into an endless deep sea, sinking deeper and deeper, until he could no longer fall, standing in a void.

There was a trace of wind around unsteady, only a dead silence, Shen Qingyun lowered his eyes, and came here again.

The sound of squirming came from all directions, and a group of vague figures gradually and spontaneously surrounded him, Shen Qingyun slowly swept over, and everyone's faces were blurry and they couldn't see their faces clearly. They gathered together and suddenly burst out into a sharp and terrible howl at him: "Spare your life!"

Shen Qingyun's brain was buzzing, these desperate voices were like appendages crawling up from the depths of hell, even if he covered his ears and closed his eyes, he couldn't isolate the oppression and dullness that invaded his heart and even his body. At first, he was not used to these images, but as time went on, he gradually learned to be indifferent from being uncomfortable at first.

"Help!!I don't want to die yet!!"

"I have money! I have a lot of money! I give it all to you, enough for you to enjoy all the glory and wealth for a lifetime, please spare my life!"

"I'll kowtow to you! I'll be a cow and a horse for the rest of my life to make amends for you! Please give me a chance! Don't kill me!"

......

One of the figures struggled to pounce, but was violently pierced through the body by a shadowy black mist, the voice was still stuck in the throat, and the scarlet blood was the first to spurt out, and the mist was just a slight stroke, and the figure was instantly torn apart.

After seeing such a scene countless times, Shen Qingyun couldn't help but gasp, and the cold air spread down his spine to his whole body. The crowd suddenly scattered and fled as if water had been splashed into a pot of oil, and terrible screams and screams came and went, filling Shen Qingyun's eardrums.

The black mist that split the figure chased the fleeing crowd, like a game of cats chasing mice, not biting their throats, but driving them away one by one, and only when they had played enough did they gently retract and oppress to death, until the gods were destroyed, and Shen Qingyun's world returned to its previous dead silence.

The dark red blood gathered into a sea of blood, Shen Qingyun stood in the middle of the sea of blood, the ups and downs of the sea of blood gradually did not pass the instep, then the crook of the leg, and finally the neck, trying to engulf the whole person.

The black mist gradually changed into the outline of a human, calmly looked at him, and before the last trace of indifferent gaze disappeared, he put a finger on his lips and said softly: "Shh, you must not forget the agreement between us, until the moment you die, you must not break the oath you made today!"

The surroundings gradually darkened again, and Shen Qingyun floated in the spiritual sea for a long time, until a little light came from overhead, slowly spreading and dispelling the darkness.

Shen Qingyun slowly opened his eyes, his eyes wandering. He's still alive.

got up and glanced at the missing moment, which was just the same as twenty-four, and the time agreed with Shen Wenhan was still early.

He couldn't sleep anymore when he was awake, Shen Qingyun got out of bed and got dressed, sat down at the desk, opened the drawer, and found out the notebook that Shen Wenhan gave him before.

After sitting for nearly half an hour, Shen Qingyun got up and went to Songshou Hall. Stepping into the inner room of Songshoutang, Shen Qingyan had already taken a step forward. Shen Wenhan was afraid that the old lady would be dissatisfied if he only took the two of them out, so he proposed to bring Shen Qingyan with him.

After a while, Shen Yuyin also came, and the three of them greeted the old lady together, and withdrew from Songshoutang lightly.

The three of them went to the middle hall to wait for Shen Wenhan, and because it was not time for the morning meal, Shen Qingyan asked the kitchen to make some meals first, a pot of soybean milk and a crab roe bun for each person.

The three of them waited left and right, but Shen Wenhan was never seen. Shen Qingyan's patience gradually ran out, but Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the calm demeanor of the other two, restrained his emotions and continued to wait patiently.

It wasn't until the sun rose that Shen Wenhan hurried over. His face was full of tiredness, "I accidentally overslept, you didn't wait, did you?"

"Of course not, father doesn't have to mind. ”

Due to Shen Wenhan's delay, most of the schedule has passed, and Shen Wenhan's original plan to take them to the market first had to be abandoned. He told the coachman to turn around and go to Luanshui Mountain on Erli Road outside the city.

Shen Qingyan didn't understand why he wanted to go out of the city, Shen Wenhan hesitated for a while, and lied: "...... Isn't it the third day of the third month of the third month? ”

Shen Qingyan suddenly realized, Shen Wenhan saw that he believed it, and simply made up a lie to the end: "Qingyun and Yuyin are still young, they have been at home and in the academy for the past two months, so today it is up to them to play, anyway, there are many people on the mountain, you are not afraid, you will follow your father." Well, that's it!"

Shen Qingyan immediately became happy, and did not doubt the mistakes and omissions in Shen Wenhan's words.

Shen Qingyun held his cheek with one hand and glanced at the two at the same time. One can't lie, the other blindly trusts, and the father and son complement each other.

When they arrived at the destination, Shen Qingyun and Shen Yuyin seemed to have agreed in advance, and ran up the mountain as if they were happy as soon as they got out of the car, and disappeared in three or two steps, Shen Wenhan shouted at them to pay attention to safety behind him, but there was no reply, so he reluctantly led Shen Qingyan up the mountain.

Shen Qingyun and Shen Yuyin took the first step to hide in the grass, and when Shen Wenhan's father and son passed by, the figure completely disappeared from sight, and then Shen Qingyun and Shen Yuyin came out and walked up the mountain slowly.

The mountain road is long and winding, and the two talk all the way to pass the time.

"Brother, did Daddy deliberately make us wait for him?"

"I think he should have just overslept. ”

"Do you have anything to eat?"

"Brought it. ”

"Big brother seemed happy. ”

"Hmm. ”

"Go back and I've got something for you. ”

"Hmm. ”

"Brother!!"

"Huh?"

Shen Qingyun looked at Shen Yuyin, Shen Yuyin smiled, "What are you thinking about being so distracted? Stupid or stunned?

Shen Qingyun pulled out a reluctant smile, "I don't want to talk more today, can I be considerate?"

Shen Yuyin immediately reined in, since Shen Qingyun was in a bad mood, she would definitely not deliberately disturb him.

The two climbed halfway up the mountain, there was a gazebo for pedestrians to take a break, and Shen Qingyun and Shen Yuyin just had a place to sit down.

"We'll take the trail for a while, and the farther away from the main road is better, so as not to run into passers-by. ”

Shen Yuyin nodded. Today is the Shangsi Festival, the birthday of the ancestors of the Eastern Xia, and the Eastern Xia law prohibits all funerals and marriages. If what they are going to do next is discovered by someone with a heart, it may affect the entire Shen family.

The sun was shining, and Shen Qingyun estimated that it should be noon. He took out two baked cakes and a bag of water bladders from his bag, and filled his stomach with Shen Yuyin.

After eating and drinking, my strength also recovered. The two of them took the path and stepped on the weeds all the way to the depths of the mountains and forests, Shen Qingyun led Shen Yuyin, carefully observing whether there were poisonous insects and beasts around in front, Shen Yuyin didn't know where he got the confidence to shuttle through the mountains and forests without getting lost, but he just trusted him inexplicably.

The two finally found a flat land with sparse weeds, and Shen Qingyun threw his bags to Shen Yuyin to deal with, and cleaned up the weeds with his bare hands.

Shen Yuyin took out the things in his bag one by one, incense candles, paper money, offerings, flint......

Shen Qingyun suddenly hissed, and Shen Yuyin hurriedly asked him when he heard it: "Brother, did you cut your hand?"

"It's okay......" Shen Qingyun turned his back to her, took his injured finger in his mouth and sucked, and after the bleeding stopped, he squatted down and lit the incense candle with a flint, a total of four pillars of incense and four pairs of candles.

They did this secretly, so they didn't dare to bring too many things, even the offerings were Shen Qingyun stole a few cakes from the house and wrapped them in oiled paper and brought them up the mountain, and also stole a few fruits, which looked very shabby, but this was already within their ability to do as much as possible.

The paper money was divided into four piles according to the name of the person on the first letter, and after the two men had finished their preparations, they held the lit incense and bowed reverently in the direction of the candle, and then knelt down and kowtowed respectfully three times.

After bowing and burning the paper money, the two of them lit the paper money by the fire of incense and candles, and watched the words on the paper money be swallowed by the flames, slowly turning yellow and then turning into ashes with sparks, and being swept up into the sky and disappearing with the mountain wind.

The fire grew stronger, and the faces of the two were red. After burning the paper money, the two sat side by side next to each other and slowly waited for the incense candles to burn out, and neither of them spoke.

When the incense candles were extinguished and the paper money was burned, the two slowly walked on the way back hand in hand, silent throughout the whole process.

Shen Qingyun and Shen Yuyin didn't know what to do next after walking back to the road, it was still early before Shen Wenhan agreed on it, Shen Qingyun understood that Shen Yuyin would have to sneak around with him when he got out of the door, and proposed to go up the mountain together to have a look.

Shen Yuyin is small, if it weren't for the worship of the mountain road that she couldn't walk for so long, she shook her head and said that there was no need, and Shen Qingyun took her back to the pavilion she had passed by before to rest.

The two had nothing to do, and chatted about the bits and pieces of the past month in the academy.

Shen Yuyin's female teacher is the old-timer Jiang Fuzi of Jixian Academy, she used to be a female official in the palace when she was young, and later was released from the palace and married Ji Fuzi of Jixian Academy, and was invited to become one of the few female masters of Jixian Academy, specializing in teaching female students aristocratic etiquette and rules.

"Jiang Fuzi is not only from the palace, but also a female official level, any aristocratic young man at that time is better than now, but I didn't expect her to choose a scholar in the end. ”

Shen Yuyin thought that Shen Qingyun was looking down on Master Ji, and waved his hand and added: "Master Jiang and Master Ji are very affectionate, they have three sons and three daughters, and Master Ji has never taken a concubine for Master Jiang all his life. Jiang Fuzi's face has a happy expression every day, I have never seen an elder who is kinder than her, and people's temperament and life experience are closely related. ”

"Why do I think you mean something......

Shen Yuyin was stunned for a moment, with a disgusted expression on his face: "What's the matter, you're too sensitive, aren't you? Don't always take bad things on yourself." ”

"Just talk. ”

Shen Yuyin said: "Is Bai Fuzi good to you?"

"Generally good, but I don't expect him to like it. ”

Shen Yuyin was about to find something to say, but his face suddenly changed.

Shen Qingyun saw that her expression was wrong, and immediately looked behind her.

I saw two people standing outside the pavilion, one was dressed in white and had a noble temperament, and his face was as cold as snow, and the other was looking at them with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shen Qingyun hadn't figured out how long they had been snooping beside him, and his body had already taken a step forward to get up and salute: "The student has seen Master Bai, Master Baili." ”