Wang Ling was twelve years old, and he was already proficient in all kinds of knives, guns and sticks, and he could even violate the laws of physics and walk dozens of steps away on the upright wall, which showed that he was a martial arts wizard.

Waiting for Wang Lingzhi's performance, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he walked up to Shen Xi triumphantly: "Senior brother, what do you think of my practice?" Is there anything you can point out about? ”

Shen Xi gasped, he really didn't think about what he used to fool Wang Lingzhi, this little friend really learned it one by one, how much patience and perseverance does it take?

"You're a good martial artist."

Shen Xi first expressed his affirmation, and then changed his words, "But are you wasted in reading?" ”

Wang Lingzhi's face suddenly became ugly: "Senior brother, don't mention it, those who care about it, I'm the most annoying on weekdays, but my father always asks me to read, I'm lazy, anyway, he's busy now, he doesn't have time to care about me, those gentlemen who come to teach, come and I'll beat one by one, until they don't dare to care about me." ”

Shen Xi straightened his face and said, "What, you dare to hit Mr.?" ”

"I didn't ...... No, I just taught them a lesson, yes, a little lesson, with a brick...... It's not a brick, how can you say it in my brother's words? Yes, it's bricks, and I hit them a few times with them......"

Shen Xi felt a chill.

What kind of student is this, who doesn't study well and only likes to take "physical education class", and Mr. Discipline actually dares to shoot Mr. with bricks? If it spreads, the reputation of the Wang family will be damaged, but in the end, the child is stubborn, and I think that those gentlemen will turn a blind eye to get by in order to earn a bondage, and let Wang Lingzhi skip class to practice martial arts.

Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it seems that you will not have the life of the imperial examination in the future." ”

Wang Lingzhi pulled Shen Xi's sleeve and said, "Senior brother, you can teach me some new martial arts, what you taught before, I am now very familiar with it, and I am still studying the Tai Chi you said recently." ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly: "You are more capable than me now, where can I teach you?" ”

"Then senior brother, you take me to see the master. Let the master teach me in person, senior brother, you are so capable, the master must be a more capable person, if the senior brother thinks that I am not qualified enough. You can test me. I can't learn new martial arts now, but I'm in a hurry. ”

Faced with a young man who was so fanatical about martial arts, Shen Xi was really speechless, he couldn't tell Wang Lingzhi that he made up everything about the master and martial arts. This will shatter a teenager's dreams, and the blow to Wang Lingzhi is very huge.

"Do you know how to ride a horse?" Shen Xi asked suddenly.

"Horseback riding?"

Wang Lingzhi was obviously stunned, "My father also said before that when I am older, I can learn to ride a horse." But I always feel that if you want to practice martial arts, how inconvenient is it on horseback? I can't use my fists and feet......"

Shen Xi finally found a breakthrough, and said with a smile of relief: "Senior brother, you are wrong, you can't practice martial arts in vain, no matter how you walk the rivers and lakes in the future." Or is it a bloody battlefield for the country, how can you do it if you can't ride a horse? Those who say that the heroes in the book, as well as the famous generals in history, which one is not skilled in arching horses? You can't just know martial arts, the most important thing is to use martial arts on horseback, and it's best to practice more archery. ”

"Oh, senior brother, you really aren't mortal."

One of the kings slapped his thighs and was pleasantly surprised. "Why didn't I think of that? Those heroes, generals, or whatever, aren't they all riding horses and traveling 800 miles a day? Then I'll go back and ask my dad to buy me a horse, just that archery...... I don't quite understand. Can bows and arrows be bought at outside shops? ”

Shen Xixin said that bows and arrows are really not easy to get, and the Ming Dynasty also has weapons control, and if you want to use swords, bows and arrows, you have to go to the government to report in advance, and only the militia or the family of military generals can get these things.

"It should be possible to find someone to do it."

Shen Xi thought for a while. "Just practice at home, but don't take it out, you are not an Orion, there are bows and arrows hidden at home, if the government knows about it, not only will it be confiscated, but it may also be punished."

Wang Lingzhi nodded understandingly, and then smiled: "Senior brother is right, I understand." ”

With the progress of martial arts, Wang Lingzhi admired Shen Xi more and more, and he felt that everything Shen Xi said was extremely correct.

It is rare for the two to meet, Wang Lingzhi personally took Shen Xi to walk around Ninghua County, Ninghua City has not changed much in more than a year, but there is one more famous building in the city, that is, the Ninghua Branch of Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The Ninghua branch was completed before the end of the year, with land provided by local merchants and gentry in Ninghua, and a four-story small building built with money donated by Hui Niang, as a public building in the city, temporarily "loaned" to the Chamber of Commerce as a guild hall.

The four-storey building stands on the riverbank, facing the rushing south of the Xixi River.

"Senior brother, they all say that if you can go upstairs, you should be able to see the scenery of the entire county, but those people are not allowed to enter casually."

Wang Lingzhi looked at the tall building and sighed a little.

Shen Xi smiled: "You want to go in?" Isn't that easy? ”

Shen Xi went to the main entrance of the Chamber of Commerce branch under Wang Lingzhi's incomprehensible gaze, and when he came to the door, he was stopped by the innocence of the hall.

"Little brat, this is not the place for you to play, go and play!"

The acquaintance spoke very politely, because the establishment of the chamber of commerce was supported by the government, and even Ye Mingsu, the magistrate of the county, also wrote a plaque of "Ninghua Guild Hall" for the guild hall, which made the guild hall have an official background, so that the intellectuals of the Ninghua Chamber of Commerce are like yacha and above the top.

"Hey, tell your shopkeeper Wen to come out, something happened to his family, and his son asked me to inform him." Shen Xi is talking nonsense.

The principal of the Ninghua Chamber of Commerce branch is the shopkeeper of the pharmacy hired by Hui Niang. Shen Xi knew very well that if he asked this acquaintance to call someone, the other party would definitely not help, and he would not know anyone if he showed his identity.

Fortunately, Shen Xi's ability to make up nonsense is not ordinary, and he thought of an idea in a blink of an eye.

When the acquaintance heard this, he believed it and hurriedly went in and called the shopkeeper out. Shopkeeper Wen is in his forties, his home is in Ninghua City, he hurriedly came out when he heard the letter, and when he saw that it was Shen Xi, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Oh, isn't this a little shopkeeper?" What is the wind that brought your old man here? Come in, please come in. ”

Only then did Shen Xi enter the guild hall with the appearance of Wang Lingzhi.

After sitting down, the shopkeeper immediately asked the acquaintance to come up with tea, and asked about the situation in detail, and then Shen Xi explained the reason.

Shopkeeper Wen smiled: "I'm wondering, when I came out of the house in the morning, I was fine, how could something happen before I even had an accident." It's also that this acquaintance has no eyesight, and the little shopkeeper wants to take a friend up to have a look, so he just goes upstairs. After noon, I have to go back to the pharmacy to do something. ”

"Don't bother Shopkeeper Wen, let's go up and take a look and leave." Shen Xi didn't let Shopkeeper Wen entertain him, and he took Wang Ling to the fourth floor of the small building.

Due to the use of the masonry structure proposed by Shen Xi. And the foundation was deepened, so that the load-bearing capacity of the house was greatly increased, so that the four-story building was born.

Looking out of the window on the fourth floor, most of Ninghua County is in full view, and Wang Lingzhi has never seen such a spectacular scene. He couldn't help but raise his arms and shout, as if the whole world was his.

"Senior brother, you're right, I can't nest in this small place in the future." Wang Lingzhi said with great ambition, "I want to be a chivalrous hero in the future." ”

Shen Xi shook his head with a smile: "When you are a hero, you can only help the needy, and you can only save one or two people, you should go to the martial arts test, and then join the army and kill the enemy on the battlefield." Be a general, and when the time comes, you may save the whole world. The great man of chivalry should be for the country and the people! ”

Hearing these words, Wang Ling was stunned.

"Senior brother, why is everything you say so reasonable?" Wang Lingzhi was amazed.

Shen Xi patted Wang Lingzhi on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Because I am a scholar, I am responsible for reasoning, and a scholar holds a pen, and the matter of fighting and fighting is not good." Carry knives and guns to the battlefield. It is your responsibility to defend your home and country. ”

Wang Lingzhi nodded firmly, and with Shen Xi's encouragement, his life goal had changed dramatically. From the original expectation of being a hero, to the hope of becoming a general or even a marshal who fought for the country.

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When Shen Xi returned to Ninghua, he was able to walk around the city for the first two days, but as the exam deadline approached, Shen Xi was also locked in a house to study, and he could only come out at sunset every day to breathe. Move your muscles.

Although the Shen family's family situation is much better, they don't have any extra money to hire Mr. to come back and tutor alone, and the method adopted is to let Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Xi study on their own.

The knowledge is almost instilled in the brain, and even the basic exam process has been mastered, and the rest depends on the on-the-spot performance.

Shen Xi had been reading for a few days in a row, and he felt that he was about to be a little stupid.

Fortunately, no one cared about him, so he simply used painting to adjust the pressure of reading. The most he painted were portraits of Hui Niang and the two little Lori, which were painted with charcoal and then with a brush.

On the ninth day of February, the examination date was announced.

The first session of the county examination will be held on February 27, and the registration process will start immediately. Ninghua County is a small place, and only 50 people were admitted to the county examination this time, but the number of applicants was four or five hundred.

During the Hongzhi period, the world was peaceful, and the people sent their children to study more than usual, among the four or five hundred candidates, most of them were from Ninghua County, and the candidates from 16 to 26 years old were the mainstay, among which the older ones were old children in their fifties, and the youngest was Shen Xi, who was only ten years old.

When the candidates of the same class learned that Shen Xi had come to take the imperial examination at the age of ten, they did not praise and encourage the young and promising, but a burst of ridicule and ridicule.

Although there was a precedent for Yan Song to pass the county exam at the age of ten, Yan Song was known as a "prodigy" since he was a child, and no one knew about Shen Xi's reputation at all.

Of course, when it comes to "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng", almost everyone in Ninghua County knows about it.

Ninghua is the origin of storytelling books and engraving comic books, but anyone who is literate in the city has basically seen the storytelling books and comic books sold in bookstores, and used them as entertainment.

Even the poem "Peach Blossom Nunnery" written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng has long been transmitted back to Ninghua from Fucheng, and many people are proud of it. Because the people of Ninghua County feel that this Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is a native of Ninghua, although it is not known who it is, it is expected that this person will definitely be a blockbuster in the future.

Shen Xi didn't prepare anything special for Yiming, what he thought was that as long as he could pass the county test, he could return to Fucheng as soon as possible, not only could he reunite his father and mother, but he could see Hui Niang and the two naughty little Loli day and night.

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