The banquet lasted until the afternoon, and then they took a carriage back to Muyang Academy.

When Xiu Mu came back this time, Xu Xian officially entered the first-class class and directly accepted Zhang Jingming's preaching and teaching.

Xu Xian newly entered the first-class class, and the first-class students were not criticized, and they all agreed that Xu Xian's talent should be in the first-class class, and they all took the initiative to get to know Xu Xian during the break.

In the afternoon, Xu Xian finished learning the piano in Zhang Jingming's courtyard, returned to the dormitory with the Chunlei guqin, and found that Tang Wanrong had returned from Xiumu.

"Xu Xian." Tang Wanrong, who was dressed as a man, greeted her and shouted, with a smile on her delicate and fair face, looking happy.

Xu Xian couldn't help but smile and said, "You're back", while continuing to walk to his bed, first loosen the strings slightly, and then carefully hang the Chunlei Guqin on the wall.

The guqin cannot be placed on the table when it is usually stored, and must be hung upright, otherwise it will collapse and destroy the guqin.

"Xu Xian, come here, I brought you a lot of delicious food." Tang Wanrong shouted, opening the big bag placed on the table, there were at least seven or eight snacks in it.

Exquisite peony, five blessing cakes, peach cakes, golden silk candied fruit...... And so on, the style is exquisite, exuding an alluring fragrance that makes the throat bones slide and swallow saliva.

Xu Xian couldn't help but say, "Wow, it looks delicious." Tang Rong, thank you. ”

"Hee-hee, I'm usually tired of eating these things." Tang Rong smiled, took a piece of peach crisp and sent it to Xu Xian, "Taste it, is it delicious?" ”

When Xu Xian stretched out his hand to take the peach crisp, he accidentally found that Tang Rong was holding the two jade fingers of the peach crisp that were extremely good-looking, slender and white, like a jade tube, and under the background of the apricot-yellow peach crisp, the more white as snow.

"What's wrong?" Finding that Xu Xian was looking at the "Peach Crisp" in a daze, Tang Wanrong couldn't help but ask suspiciously, moved the Peach Crisp back to her eyes and took a closer look, but didn't find anything abnormal.

Xu Xian came back to his senses, showed a hidden smile, and said, "It's nothing." At the same time, he reached out and took the peach cake, put it in his mouth and ate it.

"Is it delicious?" Tang Wanrong looked at Xu Xian eating peach crisp and asked.

Xu Xian nodded.

Affirmation from Xu Xian, Tang Wanrong showed a sweet smile, turned around and poured a cup of tea for Xu Xian diligently, and brought it over: "Drink tea and eat slowly." ”

Xu Xian took the teacup and sat down to eat slowly.

Tang Wanrong also sat down and happily watched Xu Xian eat her things.

"Xu Xian, I have good news for you." Tang Wanrong's beautiful eyes shone brightly, "I'm also going to the first-class class." ”

She went home this time and was coquettish and soft at home, and her father finally gave up his old face to repair a book, and asked Muyang Academy to arrange for her to go to the first-class class.

When Xu Xian heard this, he almost choked, and finally swallowed the things in his mouth: "You also go to the first-class class?" ”

"yes, aren't you welcome me?" Tang Wanrong said, her face couldn't help showing a look of loss.

Xu Xian hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "No, no, I'm just an accident and a surprise, because we have to be at the same table again." ”

He went to class A, and it happened that he was sitting alone, and when Tang Wanrong arrived tomorrow, he was naturally arranged to sit next to him.

"Hee-hee, that's great!" Tang Wanrong suddenly smiled like a flower.

She was happy for a while, and said in a lower tone: "However, my studies are too poor, maybe I can't understand Zhang Gong's lectures." ”

"I was also poor in my studies, so it just so happened that we helped each other and made progress together." Xu Xian comforted.

"Hmm!" Tang Wanrong nodded vigorously, and then smiled happily, her eyes crooked, like a crescent moon on the horizon.

……

Time flies like a white horse, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the gate of Muyang Academy opened, and an ox cart slowly walked out of it.

The coachman on the ox cart turned out to be Qin Jie dressed in moon-white scholar Confucian clothes, and Zhang Jingming was sitting on the ox cart.

Although Zhang Jingming is old, he is in good spirits, sitting on the ox cart with a straight waist, steady as Mount Tai, and his momentum is extraordinary.

After the ox cart came out, it was followed by a group of Yuebai scholars and Confucian students, a total of seventeen or eighteen people, and Xu Xian was also among them.

Each of them carried a bookcase on his back, and a sword or bow and arrow in his hand.

It turned out that Zhang Jingming led a team to travel and study to one of the most famous academies in Gusu City for exchanges.

With Zhang Jingming's identity and the financial resources of Muyang Academy, he can hire a carriage and take the carriage directly to Gusu. However, Zhang Jingming has always followed the example of the holy master Confucius, who traveled on an oxcart for study tours and exchanges.

Qiantang County to Gusu is not very far, but there are about 250 miles, Zhang Jingming ox cart travel, students follow on foot, the journey takes at least three days.

The students who travel with Zhang Jingming are all voluntary, but due to the limited number of places, they have to choose.

Xu Xian himself was a disciple of Zhang Jingming, and his talent had been recognized by the entire academy, so he became an undisputed member of the accompanying students.

Although Tang Wanrong also wanted to participate, she was worried that she would not be able to eat and sleep in the open, and she would have to walk for three days, and it was not safe on the road, there were fierce beasts in the wild, and she was more likely to encounter robbers and bandits, so she did not sign up.

Xu Xian walked in the team with a bookcase and a spring thunder guqin on his back, holding an iron sword in his hand, his thoughts were a little trance-like, and he felt a little unreal like a dream.

The "shooting" in the six arts of the gentleman, he did not learn, and changed it to swordsmanship. First, archery is difficult to learn; Second, a good bow is expensive and difficult to maintain; Third, swordsmanship was more popular in this era.

The "shooting" of the six arts of the gentleman does not only refer to archery, but also refers to the ability of force and self-defense.

The team traveled from the morning to the time when they stopped to rest at noon, and the students worked together to make a fire and cook.

Have lunch, take a break, and continue on your way.

It wasn't until the evening that the sun was setting, and the team found a place to camp on a leeward flat ground.

After dinner, after a short rest, Zhang Jingming began to lecture in front of the bonfire, and the students all gathered around the bonfire to listen attentively.

It wasn't until late at night that Zhang Jingming finished his lecture and the students went into the tent to rest.

However, because it was a wild field, a total of 19 students were divided into three groups and took turns to keep vigil in case of accidents.

On the second day, I continued on the road, and the pace slowed down a bit due to the day's walk yesterday, but it was not slow at all.

The students of Muyang Academy are definitely not weak scholars, they practice the Five Holy Piles every afternoon, as well as practice "royal" and "shooting", and their bodies are even much stronger than ordinary people.

On the night of the second day, Xu Xian and the others didn't need to sleep out anymore, because they lived in a ruined temple with no people.

However, they did not know that there was a huge crisis hanging over them.

At night, Zhang Jingming still gave lectures to the accompanying students, and the bonfire in the broken temple was bright, but it was pitch black outside the temple, and the stars and moon were covered by dark clouds.

Woowoo......

A strange whirlwind blew not far from the ruined temple, and a ghost with a distorted body shape emerged from a lonely tomb, and then two foxes, a male and a female, emerged from the hole next to the lonely tomb, and transformed into human form, but retained the fox's pointed beak and fox tail.

"There are people in the temple, and there are quite a few of them," the ghost monster laughed, "so much blood food is delivered to the door, quack quack, quack......"

The two humanoid foxes looked at the broken temple, and their eyes glowed green: "After eating so much blood food, we will definitely be able to transform into real human form!" ”