"Master, the city is so big...

"Yes, I've never seen a city this big."

At this time, two figures, one large and one small, stood in front of the city of Guizhou and sighed.

The heavy rain crackled down on the two of them, drenching them like chickens in soup, but the two of them looked interested.

Li Sanjian and Shan Kui traveled for more than a month and finally arrived in Guizhou.

Not to mention the hardships along the way, the key is that Li Sanjian is somewhat nervous about the uncertain fate of the future, and he is just pretending to be chic at this time.

This trip to Guizhou is Li Sanjian's first imperial examination, and it is also the beginning of Li Sanjian's imperial examination.

What Li Sanjian knows is that along the way, although the torrential rain is like a note, it can't stop the endless stream of students from going to Guizhou.

This is just a solution test, what if it is a provincial test of the Ministry of Rites and a test of the imperial palace? The difficulties can be imagined.

"Shankui, are you alright? Don't catch a cold. Li Sanjian said to Shankui, who was carrying a bookcase and covered in rain.

"Master, it's out of the way, Shankui is in good health." Shan Kuihan replied with a smile.

At present, Shankui is becoming more and more fluent in speaking, and can basically talk to people in Chinese normally.

The rain was pouring down, and in order to protect the books in the bookcase from being wet, the tarpaulin was almost all covered on the bookcase, and Shan Kui was soaked by the rain.

Li Sanjian held an oil umbrella and stood on tiptoe to try his best to cover the raindrops that fell on Shankui's head.

The two are called master and servant, but they are actually brothers, and during the year they have been together, their relationship has become deeper and deeper, and they both regard each other as their relatives.

Li Sanjian originally planned to go to Guizhou alone, but Shankui wanted to follow, and at the same time, Fu Erniang was not worried about Li Sanjian, so she asked Shankui to follow Li Sanjian to Guizhou.

"Brother Han Ren, go slowly." Just as Li Sanjian and Shankui were about to enter the city, Zeng Gongming rushed over with a servant panting, and shouted loudly from afar.

"Donglin, what are you... After Zeng Gongming approached, Li Sanjian asked in surprise.

The liberation test was approaching, Li Sanjian was ready to rush to Guizhou to take the exam, and he once asked Zeng Gongming and Ran Yunbiao if they were willing to go to Guizhou to take the exam together.

Ran Yunbiao was determined to be on the battlefield, so he had no such plan, he was planning to quit the county school and go to the place where the martial arts school was established.

And Zeng Gongming was reluctant to participate in the examination at that time, he just wanted to mix in the county school, and then see if he could be recommended to the state school and Taixue, after all, the possibility of Taixue entering the official is much greater than the imperial examination.

The release test is almost one out of dozens of people, and then the number of places in the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites will be even less, and it will be more difficult, and if you can enter Taixue, it is basically about two or three out of ten, and the possibility of entering the office is much greater.

At this time, why did Zeng Gongming suddenly come to Guizhou? This made Li Sanjian secretly wonder.

"Haha, Brother Han Ren." Zeng Gongming gasped and replied: "The little brother thinks that it is not easy to study in the state and Taixue, it is better to come to Guizhou to try his luck, maybe the little brother is Hongfu Qitian, hehe." ”

Li Sanjian couldn't help laughing when he heard this, patted the shoulder of Zeng Gongming, who was short and fat, and looked like a meat ball, and said with a smile: "Donglin will definitely be a blessing to the sky, and it will definitely be a lucky star." ”

"Where, where, over the prize, over the prize." Zeng Gongming laughed.

"Donglin, how about entering the city?" Li Sanjian then asked.

"Okay, let's go, let's go into the city together." Zeng Gongming replied.

So Li Sanjian and Zeng Gongming walked into the city of Guizhou side by side in the rain, and kept talking and laughing as they walked.

The servants of the two followed behind with bookcases on their backs, Zeng Gongming's servant was a little scholar, both in size and strength compared with Shankui, just like a giant and a dwarf...

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"I said Brother Han Ren, you want to live in such a despicable inn?" After entering the city, the two came to a small inn, the inn was very small and very simple, after entering the inn, the furnishings, utensils, etc. were also extremely shabby, so Zeng Gongming asked in surprise.

Li Sanjian shook his head when he heard this: "My family is poor, but I can't compare to you in Donglin." ”

Chen Yide, a merchant in Quanzhou, forcibly gave Li Sanjian twenty gold leaves, which were almost used up at this time, and Fu Erniang did not allow Li Sanjian to use other people's money or accept gifts from others for no reason.

During this period of time, Fu Erniang has been spinning yarn day and night and doing some coolies outside Shankui to earn some money or food, so that she can barely make ends meet.

Li Sanjian also wants to make money to supplement his family, but Li Sanjian's only ability at present is reading and painting, and he can't make money by reading, and where can anyone be willing to pay for painting in a remote town? Besides, the test is approaching, and Li Sanjian has no time to paint and sell for money.

Therefore, Li Sanjian has very little money to prepare for the exam this time, where can he afford to live in a larger inn?

"Go, go, is such a vulgar inn inhabited by people?" Zeng Gongming then dragged Li Sanjian and said: "The younger brother doesn't know how to sing the Burrow, change the inn, and all the expenses are on the younger brother." ”

Although Zeng Gongming was born as a small official, his family still has dozens of acres of fertile land, and his family background is much better than Li Sanjian.

Otherwise, Zeng Gongming would not have brought a servant with him for the exam.

"My mother once said that the poor ... Li Sanjian was still struggling, and was dragged away from this small inn by Zeng Gongming.

Guizhou is a larger city in Lingnan, there are many larger restaurants, inns and so on in the city, at this time it is approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, students from all over the world have also gathered in Guizhou to prepare for the exam, so many restaurants, inns are also soliciting business, restaurants, inns are very hopeful that students from all over the country can live in their own places, if students can be solved as lifters, and even in the future gold list title, then this inn or restaurant will also be famous, will bring them countless business, bring countless money.

Zeng Gongming, Li Sanjian and others easily found a larger inn.

The name of this inn is Xikelai, and it is indeed much cleaner than the inn just now, much larger than the inn just now, and the cost is of course much higher.

Zeng Gongming asked for two upper rooms, one for Li Sanjian and Shankui, and one for Zeng Gongming and his little scholar.

After the innkeeper greeted Li Sanjian and Shan Kui into the guest room, Shan Kui was busy sorting out the water-soaked bookcases and packages.

After Li Sanjian changed into dry clothes, he took out his books and spread them on the wooden table, intending to review them again to prepare for the exam.

The test is scheduled to be held on June 15, and there are only 5 days left before June 15.

Generally speaking, there are four exams to be taken, one a day, for a total of four days, that is to say, from June 15 to June 18, students can leave the Gongyuan after the end of the daily exam, but they eat, drink, and sleep in the Gongyuan every day.

"Brother Han Ren, what are you... When Li Sanjian was reading, Zeng Gongming broke in again, his fat body almost squeezed into the door, Zeng Gongming then flipped through Li Sanjian's book and said with a smile: "Han Ren, you are holding Buddha's feet temporarily, too... Ha ha. ”

Li Sanjian snatched the book, glared at Zeng Gongming and said, "Grinding guns in battle, if you are not happy, what are you doing?" ”

"Ouch, my brother Han Ren." Zeng Gongming said with a smile: "The first time our brothers came to Guizhou, don't we want to enjoy the scenery of Guizhou?" Don't go to pay homage to the words of your predecessors? ”

"Where's that..." Before Li Sanjian finished speaking, he was dragged out by Zeng Gongming again.

"Donglin, Donglin, wait, wait, you have to let me change my clothes, right?"

"What more clothes do you have?"

Do you have more clothes? Zeng Gongming said secretly in his heart.

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Xiangshan Temple, located at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain in the west corner of Quanzhou County, Guangzhou, Guangnan West Road, was originally named "Pure Land Temple", was founded in the first year of Tang Zhide, and was founded by the Tang Dynasty monk Amitayus Buddha in the year, called "the first temple in southern Chu".

Xiangshan Temple is actually the first ancient temple on Guangnan West Road, and the pilgrims who come to burn incense and worship the Buddha every year are endless, and there are also many literati and ink writers who come to visit the ancient temple.

There is an iron incense burner standing in front of the Xiangshan Temple, and an iron gong is hung on the shelf next to it.

The incense burner is hollowed out, the smoke is floating, and the iron bell is calmly engraved with six words of mantra. According to the mountain situation of the Mahavira Treasure Hall is placed majestically, the ground floor is a Jizo Palace, along the steep steps on one side can reach the second floor of the Mahavira Treasure Hall, which enshrines all kinds of Buddha statues.

The pilgrims who pay homage walk through the hall and temple to pay homage to the great virtue and law, and there are some monks in the temple who quietly sweep the fallen leaves and dust on the dirt road in front of the temple, the Sanskrit sound is swirling, the birds are singing in the mountains, the sun is sifting and sprouting, and the temple is majestic.

"The founder of the mountain is a monk Quanzhen in Jingshan, Hangzhou?" Li Sanjian looked at the stele and said.

Isn't Quanzhen Taoism? Quanzhen is still a monk, what does it mean? Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

"What? What questions does Brother Han Ren have? Zeng Gongming saw Li Sanjian's strange expression, so he asked.

"Nothing." Li Sanjian replied: "I'm just curious about who the Quanzhen monk is?" ”

"The younger brother knows about this." Zeng Gong replied when he heard this: "The younger brother once heard my father say that the true monk is a high-ranking monk, and there is a legend about him. ”

"Oh? Would you like to hear more? Li Sanjian asked curiously.

According to legend, during the Li Tang Dynasty, Master Quanzhen came to Quanzhou to build the "first temple in southern Chu", Xiangshan Temple, which once needed a large number of fir trees. In order to build a temple, he went to Caiwan Mountains and Rivers, where there were endless cedar trees within a radius of dozens of kilometers. He found a farmer and wanted to buy some fir wood, but the owner looked down on the Buddhists and shouted a very high price. The temple was newly built, and the funds were tight, can the donor be cheaper? The owner jokingly laughed, "Of course there are cheaper fir trees, and if there are some broken tail fir trees, I will give them all to you." Master Quanzhen said, 'The owner must not break his word. The owner secretly thought that although there are countless fir trees in this mountain, the broken tail fir trees that can really be seen are only three or two, and it doesn't hurt to give them away, so he said with a full mouth: 'A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!' After receiving the promise of the owner, Master Quanzhen put his hands together, turned his body, and said something in his mouth, and in an instant, he saw the dark clouds rolling in the sky, and the sky was dark, and then the wind was fierce, and the sand and rocks were flying, lightning and thunder were roaring, and the rain was pouring down. Tilting slightly, the wind and rain stopped, the smoke dissipated, and the blue sky was clear again. When the owner opened his eyes, he couldn't help but be stunned, only to see the mountains full of fir trees all over and over all over the place, all of which had broken their tails, and immediately regretted it, secretly screaming bad luck, but they had already said it in advance, and it was not good to regret it. However, when he looked around and saw that the mountains were high and the roads were steep, he thought that such a road would be given to the monk, and the monk might not be able to transport it. When he was secretly complacent, he saw Master Quanzhen poke the ground with a cane, and a huge hole appeared, and he used the crutches to draw a circle around, and saw that the cedar trees with broken tails were like a loach, and they drilled into the hole, but they came out of the hole near the Miaoming Pagoda under the Xiangshan Mountains. At this time, the owner of the village realized that he had met a man of God, and he was busy kowtowing to ask for sin. . . ”

"It's wonderful!" Before Li Sanjian could answer, someone next to him suddenly spoke: "It's just a person who deceives the world and steals fame, carving insects and small skills, how can I be as immeasurable as Tianzun?" ”