Chapter Twenty-Three: One Step in the Red Dust, the Sea Has Been a Thousand Years!

The reason why Wuliuzhuang is called Wuliuzhuang is because there are five huge willow trees in front of the village, and the five willow trees are not lined up in a row, nor in two rows, let alone three rows, so it seems that there is a lot of nonsense, but in fact, there are not only five willow trees in front of Wuliuzhuang, but a willow forest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is said that the ancestors of Wang Yongan, who first settled here, planted five willow trees in front of the door, Wang Yongan's ancestors were the green forest giants, and later settled here, but also coveted the Wang family to shelter them, the village began without a name, there were many people who came here to settle down, and every household learned from the Wang family to plant a few willow trees in front of the Zhuangzi, and it was gradually called Wuliuzhuang here.

Although willow trees were no longer planted many years ago, the willow forest in front of Zhuangzi is growing more and more luxuriant, and now there are several acres of land, the earliest few old willow trees are so thick that the two people hug so thick, the five thick old willows in the forest, I don't know if it is the five willow trees planted by the ancestors of the Wang family, because judging from the location, the five willow trees are also far away, and the arrangement is irregular. The people in Zhuangzi like to cool off under the woods in summer, of course, they are ordinary people, and rich and noble families will not be so unruly.

It is the dog day when the sun is at the head, but the knowledge in the woods is silent, at this time there will be no one here to take a cool breath, all hide at home and sleep. I don't know if it's because there is no one, but because there are two young people who are in love in the woods. Could it be that the notoriously annoying knower has become empathetic?

No, knowing that he is also a well-known hero, he is also an insect boss with a head and a face in the annoying world, how can he give in easily? The so-called mighty can not be bent, the rich can not be lewd, it is the so-called big husband, knowing that a family has always lived very vigorously and resolutely, in just one summer, he married a wife and had children, and finished his life. Although it is short, it is very exciting, how can a character like this change his personality.

As the saying goes, poor people must have something to hate, and the awesome life is because they haven't met more awesome characters. People have to bow their heads under the eaves, knowing that they are just bullshit, not stupid, and then have character, looking at the two young people who are flying around in the woods, falling in love with the light and axe, especially the girl in red with an axe in hand, let the male cicada rejoice that he put away the instrument in his abdomen early.

The male cicadas tightened their tails and pressed the castanets of their abdomen tightly to the tree, for fear of being discovered, if they were caught home, it was estimated that it would not only be the torture of frying, but also the punishment of salt immersion before they could be fried.

With a 'dang' sound, the two figures that were constantly flying around the woods and entangled with each other suddenly separated, and each fell under a willow tree. A sturdy young man in a cyan samurai suit, flicked the ponytail behind his head, and then looked down at his long knife, can this still be considered a knife? Is it better to change his title of 'jade-faced Xiaolangjun' to 'sawtooth master', if you go to the imperial court to become a carpentry master, you don't need to buy a saw.

The girl in red stood on a thumb-thick branch of the willow tree, rising and falling with the branches, giggling and chuckling, "Li Ziqiu, don't blame me, you used the knife as my axe." A girl in a pink dress, with a pink flower in the middle of the two girls' buns on her head, the rest of her waist-length hair is scattered behind her head, a pair of sheared eyes, and a pair of willow eyebrows with appropriate shades on the top of her long eyelashes.

The boy is Li Ziqiu, fifteen-year-old Li Ziqiu is already an eight-foot-tall young man with a bee waist and ape back. There is no need to guess, the girl is Wang Rongyue, and she is already a beautiful girl with Tingting Yuli. In the five years of classmates in the family studies, the two people who have a good impression of each other have long become friends who have a good relationship with each other, and their feelings are secretly born.

Li Ziqiu has been at home since graduating from ethnology, Li Ziqiu originally wanted to learn business, but Ning Zihan categorically refused, the family has no shortage of money, and the Wang family does not allow the only son to run the cheap business. The Wang family also did not agree with Li Ziqiu's plan to break into the rivers and lakes, and Li Ziqiu was very depressed, but fortunately, Wang Rongyue often dismissed him, until a year ago, the news that the imperial court was going to hold a martial arts, Ning Zihan began to let Li Ziqiu learn the war book, and Li Ziqiu could be regarded as having a goal to strive for.

Speaking of martial arts, we have to admire the wise and great female emperor of the Wu family. Empress Wu has ascended the throne as the emperor, the country is called the Great Zhou, but even if she is already the emperor, she still can't change the powerful secular power, although the Empress Wu has repeatedly improved the status of women, and now the state capitals have clearly allowed women to enter the government and run schools, but in the end they still can't participate in the imperial examination and serve as official officials in the imperial court, of course, it is still okay to be a female official in the harem, at this point, the empress has to bow to the power of the world.

Xinyue Fox was a gacha tendon before he went down to earth, and the empress is also an indomitable character, since you can't let women participate in the scientific examination, and you literati can't make it better, if you corrupt and poor literati want to dominate the imperial examination, I won't let you get your wish.

The empress, who insisted on breaking the monopoly of the literati in the imperial examination, since she could not get men to agree to women to participate in the imperial examination, she adopted the method of internal breakthrough and came up with the method of the martial imperial examination. This method is poisonous, in the court, the military attache has been unpleasant to the increasingly powerful civil officials, thinking that when Taizong was in power, among the founding dukes, there were only a few literati, but now it's good, the civil officials are about to ride on the military attaché's neck and.

The empress hinted a little that the memoraries of the various military attachés with titles were piled up on the desks of the bigwigs of Zhongshu Province, all of whom demanded martial arts. The titles of the imperial court are not immutable, most of them are hereditary, but once the hereditary system will be demoted, many of the founding dukes of the Taizong period have become marquises, and some are already earls, in this way, it is likely to become viscounts, barons, and finally ordinary people.

If you can participate in the imperial examination like a literati, the children of the military attache family will have one more way to seek an official position in addition to joining the army and working for the imperial court, which is a pie-in-the-sky thing for the huge military attache group, so it has won the support of all the military attaches in the court, in fact, this is also a means for the empress of the Wu family to buy people's hearts, and if you buy the hearts of the military attachés, you can control the army to a greater extent, control the army, and the Wu family can be regarded as controlling the right to speak in the entire court, otherwise, Li Tang's descendants will engage in a mutiny or something, Isn't it bad, the heart moon fox deserves to be a fox, and it is very cunning.

Li Ziqiu put away his serrated knife and carried it behind his back, he was used to it, yes, could he not get used to it? A good Tang knife was chopped by Wang Rongyue's axe, which could be used as a saw. Although the knife has become a saw, Li Ziqiu still cherishes it, not only because this knife is made of the best Damascus steel in the world, sharpening iron like mud, ordinary folding iron knife meets Li Ziqiu's chain knife, it is cut into two pieces like rotten wood, even if it becomes a serrated knife, it is still a treasure knife.

When I was a child, I didn't know the true value of this knife, but now of course I know, every time I pick up the knife, Li Ziqiu will think that my father doesn't know how much he paid to fight this knife for himself. That is, it was cut down by Wang Rongyue, if it were someone else, Li Ziqiu would have been annoyed. Of course, no one else has a fairy blade that can cut Damascus steel.

When he first started to learn from Wang Rongyue, Li Ziqiu was afraid that his chain knife would damage Rongyue's axe, so he tried to avoid a hard encounter with the axe, but Wang Rongyue's martial arts and Li Ziqiu were just a line apart.

Since then, Li Ziqiu has known that although Wang Rongyue's axe looks small and delicate, it looks like a cute toy, but it is actually a sharp divine weapon. Rongyue didn't know that her axe was so powerful, she used to practice by herself, since she knew that her axe was so sharp, Li Ziqiu's chain knife was unlucky, Wang Rongyue every time she and Li Ziqiu learned martial arts, she always changed her method and slashed at Li Ziqiu's chain knife, no, after so many years, it became a saw.

The two know each other that they have themselves in each other's hearts, but no one has officially confessed, and the young man doesn't know what it's like to be sad, and he takes it for granted that if he doesn't say it, the other party also knows.

Li Ziqiu carried the knife on his back and jumped slightly from the willow tree to the ground, "Wang Rongyue, didn't you specifically ask me to come out to fight?" Look at this noon, the hot dog doesn't move, you can say something! When that's done, I'm going back to packing up! Wang Rongyue also jumped down from under the tree, like a green butterfly.

Wang Rongyue was a little unhappy with Li Ziqiu's attitude, but she still held back and said, "Li Ziqiu, aren't you going to Chang'an tomorrow to take the martial arts exam?" I also happen to be going to Chang'an, so we can go together tomorrow! ”。 Li Ziqiu was surprised, "What are you doing in Chang'an?" ”。 Rongyue was even more angry, "Why, you don't want to go together, then you better go by yourself!" ”。

Li Ziqiu reacted at this time, and Rongyue was angry! Hehe smiled, "Aren't I happy, I'm so happy to be confused, I'm so happy to be able to go with you!" Seeing Li Ziqiu say this, Rong Yue became happy.

For the matter between the two young people, whether it is Li Ziqiu's mother Wang, or Wang Rongyue's parents, they all know about it, they are all from the past, and there are also spies who report the news in the family science, Li Mochou is the spy of the Wang family, how can he not know? At first, I didn't care much about it, but then I knew that the child was still young, and then later, I found that I couldn't stop it easily, otherwise it would be self-defeating, and I thought that I would naturally separate after learning from the clan, and I didn't separate for several years after graduation!

The Wang family had seen Rongyue and knew that the Wang family was also a big family, in fact, he didn't object to the relationship between the two, Wang Yongan also liked Li Ziqiu, this child not only looks good, but also knows how to be polite, and his martial arts are good, in Wang Yongan's eyes, if Li Ziqiu can become his son-in-law, it is also a good thing to see it, so he didn't beat the mandarin duck and stopped it in time.

The problem lies in Wang Yongan's high-ranking officials and friends in Chang'an, who all know that Wang Yongan's youngest daughter is not only beautiful, but also has good martial arts, and I heard that she is gentle and lovely, virtuous and virtuous, so they all want to be a daughter-in-law for their junior boys.

Mrs. Xue's maiden family is the family of the eunuch, and the Wang family was also the Guogong Mansion before the crime, although her son cannot be an official in this life, she hopes that her daughter can marry into a wealthy family. So persuade Wang Rongyue to go to Chang'an for a long time. In Xue's mind, when Wang Rongyue went to Chang'an, saw the prosperity of the capital, and experienced the life of the metropolis, maybe the concept changed.

Wang Yongan is the most painful, the reason why he did not agree to their marriage proposal is that the most important thing is that the high-ranking officials and wealthy families who come to propose marriage are not sons-in-law, not concubines, or side branches, or there are sons-in-law to propose, but they are not regular wives, so Wang Yongan naturally will not agree. After all, the Wang family is in decline, no matter how rich they are, they have already withdrawn from the noble group, and in this feudal family, they have lost their qualifications to enter the upper class.

Wang Rongyue doesn't have too much thought, except for embroidery every day, he is practicing martial arts, or he will mix bartending, and if he is bored, he will let his maid ' Axe 'send a chicken feather letter to Li Ziqiu, which was agreed by Li Ziqiu and Wang Rongyue when they were in school, the red long chicken feathers represent the competition in the willow forest, and the green short chicken feathers are to go fishing by the river, if the petals with white peony represent that Wang Rongyue has homework to Li Ziqiu to do on his behalf, the red petals represent the need for Li Ziqiu to bring some snacks, and so on, and so on, I don't know how many there are between the two, only the two know, but they are not afraid of others seeing through, that is' The girl only knows that her young lady often laughs silly, and sometimes she sleeps at night and says 'Li hates it, you hate it'!

Since knowing that Li Ziqiu was going to Chang'an to participate in the martial arts exam, Wang Rongyue planned to go to Chang'an as well, and heard Li Ziqiu say that it might take almost a year to go this time, Wang Rongyue felt that the time was too long, and she was used to being with Li Ziqiu, and if she was alone at home, she would suffocate to death.

After thinking about it, I really let Wang Rongyue come up with a way, the Wang family now regularly supplies osmanthus wine to Chang'an, Wang Jiayu is responsible for escorting, Wang Rongyue said to her mother, I hope to go to Chang'an to see it, just follow my brother to Chang'an. Xue thought that his daughter had opened up, so he happily agreed, but in fact, it was mainly because Rongyue would follow Jiayu together, so that Xue could rest assured.

Rongyue asked Li Ziqiu: "Are you with Mr. Ning?" Li Ziqiu shook his head and said, "Uncle Ning let me go alone this time, what about you, do you want to go with me?" Rongyue's playful wrinkled nose, "The beauty of thinking!" I followed my eldest brother, how lonely you are, I see that you are also with us, and you don't know my brother! ”。

Li Ziqiu heard that someone had a piece, and he was also very happy: "Okay, when are you leaving, will I go directly to your house?" Wang Rongyue hurriedly said: "Don't go to my house, so let's go, you go to Qiu County tomorrow, and we will also go to Qiu County tomorrow, there, you go to my eldest brother again, I guess he won't refuse you!" ”。

Li Ziqiu said: "Okay, then I'll go to the county seat first, I'll leave early in the morning, I'll ride a horse fast, I'll wait for you at the county seat, I'll wait for you at the east gate of the county, you can't be wrong." Wang Rongyue said: "Okay, you go back and pack your things, I'm going home too, in the evening, Uncle Wu Gang is coming, I told him last time, come to my house for dinner tonight!" ”。

Li Ziqiu had never met Wu Gang, but he had heard Rongyue say it many times, so he asked: "You have said it several times, you want me to meet your master, is it okay this time?" Wang Rongyue thought for a while, "Okay, you are a little late in the evening, when Uncle Wu leaves, I will send him out, and I will introduce you to each other when the time comes, do you think it's okay?" ”。 Li Ziqiu happily agreed.

The two discussed tomorrow's affairs, Wang Rongyue looked at Li Ziqiu, who was looking at him stupidly, turned her body around, faced Li Ziqiu sideways, and muttered: "Fool! ”。 Li Ziqiu was blessed to his heart, stepped to Wang Rongyue's side, and reached out to pull Rongyue's white and slender fingers.

As soon as she touched it, Rongyue's fingers dodged, Li Ziqiu suddenly became bolder, stretched out her arm around Rongyue's waist, and with a little force, Wen Xiangnephrite hugged her full arms. Rong Yue propped her hands on Li Ziqiu's strong and thick chest, her heart was beating so fast that she forgot to breathe nervously, and her face was full of red glow.

Li Ziqiu also felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat, 'dong, dong' was like a cowhide drum of the three armies, he was feverish, he didn't know what to do, he only felt happy to die, and under the excitement of his heart, he kissed Rongyue's face. Rongyue was tense, nervous and overwhelmed. Suddenly pushed Li Ziqiu away and ran towards the outside of the woods, "Li Ziqiu, if you lose me, I will kill you!" The green and delicate figure quickly ran away.