The room was messy and smelled of alcohol because of him, and he would rather clean it up himself than be embarrassed to let the guy who carried him here do it.

In the hall on the first floor, he simply ate some food, settled the account of the accommodation, and then smiled at the guy and hugged his fist, greeted the sun, and turned to leave.

The soft sunlight falling on his body made this young man seem to be full of sunshine, and it would give people a very comfortable feeling, and people couldn't help but have a good impression of him.

In particular, the clean clothes and neat attire made him completely different from other stonemasons, there are types of stonemasons, simple divisions, rough craftsmen, and fine craftsmen. The rough craftsman is to cut the stone on the mountain into raw stone of different sizes and lengths, and the fine craftsman is generally under the mountain, or grinding or carving, without a certain calligraphy and painting skills, it is impossible to do well.

And he is a craftsman, relying on carving and grinding, although his strength is not as good as that of a rough craftsman, he can easily break the whole big stone, divided into small pieces, but he is more respected than those rough craftsmen everywhere he goes, his father used to be a rough craftsman, he worked hard all his life, and finally did not get the title of master craftsman, he could only do miscellaneous work for master craftsmen all his life, and the treatment was still the lowest.

So he decided to be a craftsman since he was a child, and polished and carved the stone broken by his father, so that its value increased countless times, and he knew that there was once a grandmaster who relied on a carving to obtain the emperor's imperial gift in the capital, and since then it has been brilliant.

And he is also very potential for stone carving, in the county-run stonemason training school, every time he can come up with a good price, which makes everyone envious, and feels that Li Jian is the most likely person in the whole county to become a generation of stonemason masters.

Similarly, his calligraphy and painting are also very famous in the whole county, which also comes from his father's requirements for him since he was a child, hoping that he will become a scholar and go to the examination to gain fame, who knows that Li Jian likes to paint, and likes to engrave the things on the painting on the stone since he was a child, which has achieved his status in the field of stonemasonry, and at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he was recommended by the county and went to the capital to obtain the title of master craftsman.

Once you get the master craftsman, it means that you can go to the Royal Qingyun Stone Carving Academy for further study, and the students in it don't have to do anything to live, and the annual income is more than twice as high as that of ordinary people.

Li Jian's whole body was full of vitality, beside the official road, he looked at the world in front of him, looked at the end of the official road, and couldn't see the place where he couldn't see, he faintly, and he seemed to be able to see the distant capital of Zhao along this direction.

"Li Jian, you must be able to do it, if you become a master craftsman, you can take your father and mother to the capital, so that they can also enjoy their happiness, with my income, it is enough to stop my father from doing the laborious rough craftsman's work. The young man took a deep breath and walked forward.

The spring breeze blew on his face, carrying the fragrance of flowers and plants rolled up from nowhere, blowing on Li Jian's shirt, making his cyan shirt dance slightly, and he liked to dress himself up like a scholar rather than a rough stonemason who looked muscular and had full chest hair.

There are many stones in Zhao Kingdom, and the profession of stonemason is the most common, and high-level stonemason is also the most respected profession, so the shouting of stonemasons can be heard everywhere, and the gentle sound of polishing can be heard in the wind at any time, and with his footsteps, he gradually got farther and farther away from the inn.

Only the sound of breaking stones and shouting was blown away in the wind, and I don't know where it was sent, swirling around, slowly blurring, until it became a remnant.

At the age of ten **, often tireless, Li Jian followed the official road, his eyes were smart when he walked, he paused from time to time, looked at the surrounding mountains and forests, and copied the stone carvings in his heart to carve them into what kind of stone carving works, and every time he gained something, his face would show a very comfortable look.

The time of the day passed quickly, and under Li Jian's unhurried and slow, walking and looking at the pace, a shade of trees in front of him was no longer fine, but slowly revealed a cyan river behind the shade.

The river is in a hurry, with the wind, in Zhao country, there are a lot of stones, so the craftsmen often chisel out some deep river channels on the stones, whenever the rain comes, these water will all flow into the river, along the chiseled river to various cities, the water in the river is easy to manage, very clean, no pollution, the people's domestic garbage is also handled quite well, the planning of the whole Zhao country seems to be very clean and orderly, the general official road is with the waterway, Li Jian at the moment to take this road, is so.

For example, right now, on the left side of Li Jian, there are mountains, and not far from the right side, there is the flowing river road like a winding belt, with several boats on it, walking down the river.

Gradually, there was darkness in the distance, and in that darkness, a dark cloud slowly coalesced, and a thunderous roar echoed from afar, and lightning staggered through the heavens and the earth, and from a distance, it looked like a silver snake.

The weather was still sunny during the day, but before the night had completely fallen, it became dense clouds and bursts, which was very changeable. The rocky mountains in the distance were pervasive, and they also became dark under the clouds, but fortunately, although the color was dark, the dark clouds could not cover them.

Looking at it from afar, the mountain is entangled with the clouds, the towering stone mountain seems to want to crush the dark clouds, but the dark clouds want to swallow the mountains, like the battle of the dragon and tiger, there is a wonder of the mountains and clouds.

At this moment, in the midst of a thunderclap, the rain fell heavily, Li Jian hurriedly ran to a tree, and took out a large oil umbrella from the bamboo back basket behind him, which his father bought in the shop in the county seat, which could be folded and stored, and completely opened, not only covering the bamboo back fence, but also shrouding his body under the umbrella.

Holding an umbrella in his right hand, Wang Lin looked at the black mountain that could not be covered by dark clouds in the distance, and watched the rain fall down, falling on the earth, on the leaves, and on the surface of the river next to it.

"As the old saying goes, black clouds turn over the ink and do not cover the mountains, and white rain jumps into the boat...... And so it was. Li Jian looked at all this, because he had been involved in calligraphy and painting since he was a child, so the poetry was also not bad, and he couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene, and chanted loudly.

"You young man, you are stupid, you are so stupid to see my boat sprinkled with rainwater, and you are still laughing there, it is really infuriating!" A man's voice came from the boat on the river that was very close to the shore, but he saw an elegant man holding an umbrella standing at the bow of the boat, with a sullen face, glaring, and pointing at Li Jian with his finger.

Li Jian was stunned for a moment, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he scratched his head.

The man was dressed in a white robe, and he looked very elegant, as if he was not a boatman, but a gentleman who taught at some school

The umbrella is slightly more ancient, the umbrella is made of old wood, and even the umbrella cloth looks like leaves, and a thin layer reveals a trace of feather-like veins, which looks quite peculiar.

At this time, the rain curtain fell, divided between the man and Li Jian, and fell on the surface of the river, but it was really a mess of beads, in that ripple and haze, like the water and the sky were connected, and even the green mountains in the distance seemed to be no longer dark, but became an ink outline, curling in the eyes.

This is the first time he has gone out of the mountain village, he doesn't have much contact with people, and he rarely copes with these situations, plus he actually has less communication with his father at home, his father is a simple stonemason, and he doesn't speak very well and the stonemason work is very tired, so Li Jian's personality is also shy.

The man was still depressed, but after seeing Li Jian looking at him stunned, his face was even redder, he knew that the other party might be unintentional, and then looked at the bamboo weaving back of the other party's back, and dressed up, knowing that it might be a craftsman who went to take the exam, but it is rare for a stonemason with such a temperament.

"Hey, are you a stonemason who went to the capital to take the exam? If so, you can come to my ship, I can help you get to the capital early......" The elegant man smiled, because of the respect of the people of Zhao for stonemasons, so when they saw Li Jian's appearance, they were not embarrassed, but were willing to help, and the people of Zhao were relatively simple.

Li Jian's face turned even redder, and even the roots of his ears were rosy, and when he heard this, he hurriedly propped the umbrella aside, clasped his fist at the elegant man at the bow of the boat, and bowed.

"It's Li Jian who is abrupt, and I hope the eldest brother doesn't mind. ”

The elegant man laughed, looking at Li Jian's dumbfounded appearance, and was about to speak, a soft and beautiful voice came out from the canopy boat.

"Mr. Feng, we are going to the capital, we also have related matters, I'm afraid it is not appropriate for outsiders to come in!" In the words, I saw that the curtain in the canopy of the boat was lifted from the corner by a jade hand, revealing a woman's delicate figure At the moment when the woman's face was revealed, the rain curtain seemed to have stopped at this moment, and in the endless raindrops, the woman's appearance fell hazely in Li Jian's eyes.

A blood-red robe, eyes like a bright moon like her out, so that the world lost its color, and as if she appeared, the little remaining light in the world was sucked on her body, under the dark clouds, on the river, in the black canopy, in the heaven and earth, this woman is the only one.

She is very beautiful, but under this beauty, there is a trace of sorrow between her eyebrows, which seems to be tired, like hesitation, like pity, so that the hearts of those who see it will fluctuate.

With anger in her eyes, she glanced at the elegant man, as if she was very unhappy that the other party was going to bring a strange man on the boat, after all, she paid for the first boat, although she did not say that it would be taken down, but she gave twice the price, just to hope that the boatman would understand that she did not like to drink with other strangers to cross the boat.

"Blood girl, I'm really sorry, I didn't think it through, I originally wanted to go out, he is also a stonemason who is rushing to take the exam, it looks like he should be a craftsman, so it is a handful to be able to help, since the blood girl doesn't like it, then it's okay. ”