Chapter 17: On the eve of the exam

Behind him, my sister suddenly let out a "ouch".

Ning Jiang turned around in an instant, and on his sister's left wrist, there seemed to be a spark flashing, and a wisp of green smoke rose up.

staring at Chun Jianli, as if there was a flash of anger, the momentum was amazing...... What did you do to my sister?

At this moment, Chun Jianli suddenly seemed flustered, and hurriedly said: "Little dream girl, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xiaomeng raised his left hand: "It seems to have been burned." Sit and look right: "But it's nothing!" ”

Chun Jianli smiled far-fetchedly: "That's it, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay!" He turned around and hurried away.

Ning Jiang quickly took two steps, grabbed his sister's slender hand, and stared at the back of her hand, at the joint of the back of the hand, there was a small blister, as if it had been scalded by hot oil. He looked at Chun Jianli's back coldly, at this moment, Chun Jianli, with a sword at her waist and a red dress, walked in a hurry, and didn't dare to look back.

"Sir?" Qin Wuyan whispered behind him.

Ning Jiang said: "Let's go back!" ”

Back at his residence in the city, Ning Jiang checked on his sister, who was in good health and there was nothing wrong with her.

With his hands on his back, he went to the window and looked out coldly. At this time, Qin Wuyan and Qin Xiaoya stood beside him together. Qin Wuyan said: "Master, what happened?" Could it be that Chun Jianli did something to the girl? ”

Ning Jiang said coldly: "She wants to cast a spell on Xiaomeng!" ”

On the other side, Xiao Meng, who had just been checked by his brother, rolled over from the couch and said, "That sister Jianli is a bad person?" ”

Ning Jiang looked out the window: "That spring note is likely to come from ...... Zoroastrianism!! ”

Ning Jiang has also done some research on Chun Jianli, who was originally a chivalrous woman in the land of Beiluo, and Beiluo is precisely the place where Zoroastrianism suffers.

The reason why Beiluo became the worst disaster of Zoroastrianism can be said to be all self-inflicted by the imperial court.

Originally, Zoroastrianism was originally only quietly developed in Beiluo and could not be put on the stage. However, a few years ago, Zoroastrians took advantage of the contradictions between the local barbarians in Beiluo and the local Chinese people, and suddenly attacked, and the Zoroastrians launched a riot and slaughtered a large number of Chinese people, even women and babies were not spared, and the local officials were so frightened that they abandoned their posts and fled, and tens of thousands of Chinese people died because of this.

In order to save the people, the famous general Bai Boliang did not get the call of the imperial court, and led his troops into Beiluo to suppress the mob, and even if he put down the butcher's knife for the barbarians who participated in the riot, he did not let go. The remnants of the Chinese people after the massacre also took weapons one after another, and in turn killed the Zoroastrians.

This incident caused a shock to the imperial court, and Bai Boliang was originally an unauthorized transfer of troops, and conniving at the massacre of officers and soldiers was even more contrary to the Confucian way of benevolence and righteousness.

In the end, Bai Boliang "died of shame" in the trial of the three divisions, and the officials sent by the imperial court to Beiluo were afraid of repeating the mistakes of Baiboliang and appeased the Beiluo barbarians, both for fear of causing riots again, and for fear that the suppression of Zoroastrianism would be too great, and they would become the next Baiboliang. Whenever ordinary people have a conflict with the Zoroastrians, they will definitely side with the Zoroastrians, and if the Zoroastrians threaten to make trouble, the local officials will definitely make all kinds of concessions and curry favor.

As a result, even the local Chinese people began to join Zoroastrianism, and the power of Zoroastrianism grew stronger and stronger in Northern Luo. In the imperial court, although some people began to realize that if this continued, Beiluo would change sooner or later, but this could not be said, because if Baiboliang's strong suppression of the Beiluo barbarians and Zoroastrianism was right, wouldn't it mean that the Confucian officials who insulted Baiboliang at that time and caused Baiboliang to vomit blood and die were all wrong? For the sake of face alone, they must continue to follow the policy of "appeasement" and "appeasement."

According to Yi Ningjiang's analysis, the reason why Bai Boliang was treated like that at that time had nothing to do with what he did in Beiluo, and the main reason was because he was a pure military general, not even a showman.

is like Di Qing in another world, in the Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature over military force, the greater the military exploits, the more it caused the suppression of civilian officials, and Di Qing's fault could not be found? It doesn't matter, make up a rumor about Di Qing's family "dogs have horns and glow in the night" to prove that Di Qing is guilty.

Bai Boliang is a pure military general, a military general with meritorious service to do the "cloud cavalry captain", has caused the dissatisfaction of many Confucian officials, if the quelling of the Beiluo riots is regarded as a meritorious service, then he has to do the "Zhu State", a military general who is not even a talent is awarded the Zhu State, how can this be obtained? Therefore, the Confucian officials of the Manchu Dynasty grabbed Bai Boliang and slaughtered him, making a big fuss, without it, just because Bai Boliang was a military general, it is politically correct to use sage books to paste his face.

As for those court officials and imperial historians who followed the insults, they didn't really have an enmity with Bai Boliang, or they really felt that Bai Boliang's approach was problematic, and scolded Bai Boliang, in the final analysis, it was just for ...... It's just prestige.

Anyway, it's just a general, and if you brush it, you will brush it. In this era, only the imperial examination can be counted as a real fame, what is a military general?

On the other hand, last year's Longyan Lake riots, all the people who started the incident were the Chinese people who lost their land and couldn't survive, and finally killed the corpses of Yinghu, and even happened to the local marshals who killed the good and risked the merits, and the result was not one by one promoted and rich?

It's just that when Bai Boliang was tried in the three divisions, he vomited blood and died, which was indeed beyond the expectations of those court officials. Originally, they wanted to take advantage of the Beiluo affair to demote the lord of Baiboliang to the end, but they didn't really want Baiboliang to die. It's just that Bai Boliang's death, in order to highlight their correctness, means that Bai Boliang is innocent of death, and they want to step on Bai Boliang to the end.

As a result, in Beiluo, the mob that was killed by Bai Boliang and the crowd all became the "good people" persecuted by Bai Boliang, and all the fault was put on Bai Boliang, everything Bai Boliang did in Beiluo was wrong, and the Zoroastrians and the mob instigated by Zoroastrianism all became good people who were innocently suppressed by Bai Boliang, so that the officials and Confucian generals who were later transferred to Beiluo had to follow this policy, and the result was that Zoroastrianism, which was obviously responsible for the riots, actually grew further in Beiluo.

Of course, the fact that Chun Jianli is from Beiluo does not mean that she is a Zoroastrian. However, what Chun Jianli did today made Ning Jiang basically determine this, she came from Zoroastrianism nine times out of ten, and she was not that kind of ordinary believer.

At that time, Chun Jianli definitely wanted to cast some kind of evil spell on Xiao Meng, of course, it was not directly done, but like a Gu and a kind of talisman, she made a "magic guide" on Xiao Meng, as an opportunity to launch evil art in the future.

If it had been someone else, maybe Chun Jianli would have really succeeded...... Although this is based on the fact that Ningjiang will never find out afterwards.

But for Xiaomeng, who has already practiced "Golden Spirit", it is by no means easy to plant a "magic guide" on her body so easily.

Under normal circumstances, if you want to make a person's soul reach the level of "golden spirit" through martial arts, you need to have at least a grandmaster-level level. Just because, only a master at the grandmaster level can swim on the edge of life and death through dangerous battles in the process of constantly cultivating his body and internal strength, so as to perceive the hidden energy of life itself, and then strengthen his soul in further cultivation.

But Xiaomeng is a dual cultivation of physique, although in martial arts, she is still far from a real grandmaster-level master, but in the area of soul refining, she who takes the initiative to refine her soul, in terms of the strength of her soul, it can be said that she has reached the level of a grandmaster. This is like, as long as you cultivate to the grandmaster, you are basically no longer afraid of Xiling's descending head and witch Gu, and you have refined the little dream of "golden spirit", although there is still a long distance from the grandmaster-level martial artist, but in this regard, there is no fear of ordinary witchcraft.

Chun Jianli didn't expect that Xiaomeng actually had such a ability, so after the failure of the spell, she would seem so panicked.

However, this accident was a double-edged sword, Chun Jianli accidentally exposed her proficient in occult magic, possibly from Zoroastrianism, and hidden evil intentions towards the Ning brothers and sisters, but it also made Ning Jiang and Xiaomeng inevitably be noticed by Chun Jianli and the forces hidden behind her.

Of course, Ningjiang is not afraid of conflict, but at this moment, the force behind Chun Jianli has been developing in the capital for a long time, and Ningjiang is just entering the capital.

Of course, on the other hand, Chun Jianli obviously didn't know much about them before, if Chun Jianli knew in advance that Xiaomeng had a record of killing the poisonous boy and Su Zhirong, she would never dare to do anything to her so easily. At that time, Chun Jianli actually looked down on Xiaomeng, and she didn't expect that she would stumble in advance, so it can also be known that Chun Jianli was originally full of confidence in her own spells.

At that moment, Ning Jiang asked Qin Xiaoya to sneak away to inform Qin Ze and Qin Kan, and let them hide in the dark of the capital, just observe for the time being, don't make too many moves, and don't go back to the mansion. And Qin Wuyan, who maintains a look, always dresses up as a maid, and doesn't use her disguise technique anymore at present.

And in the next few days, Ning Jiang noticed that there were indeed more masters around their house.

Even at night, when he flew out of the house with a fire spirit, he found that someone was watching them in the dark, checking out their movements.

Although he didn't think that the other party would be able to find out anything, Ning Jiang naturally didn't dare to be careless. Fortunately, no matter whether the other party suspects them or not, at this time, no one dares to act rashly, just by virtue of his title of "Tongzhou's No. 1 Talent" and the identity of the Tai Student, at this critical moment when the Spring Festival is about to start, the Yamen of the Three Law Divisions is nervous, and the Baidao master is doing his best to deter Xiao Xiao, unless Chun Jianli and the forces behind her really don't want to mix in the capital, they dare to attack him, a Tai student.

For these various threads, as well as the potential crises that may occur, Ning Jiang explained to his sister step by step, which made her sister a little nervous. In this regard, Ning Jiang also seemed helpless, sometimes, he would also think, his sister is still young, will it be too early to start teaching her these things now? However, if he doesn't let his sister know what scheming and calculation are from now on, then in the future, it is likely that reality will personally break her innocence and illusions, and he will never want to see that happen.

Although there have been people secretly watching, these people obviously haven't found anything.

This is also a matter of course, after all, the birth origins of Ning Jiang and Ning Xiaomeng are well documented, and the family background is clear, which will make others wonder, only Xiaomeng's martial arts, but what Xiaomeng's skills are, those people are not clear. Chun Jianli's failure, although it can be seen as Xiaomeng's skills, but it is also possible that Chun Jianli's technique was just restrained by Xiaomeng's martial arts.

And Ning Jiang himself doesn't know martial arts, there is obviously no doubt about this. Because of this, those people outside, although they were suspicious because of Chun Jianli's failure, finally quietly withdrew. After all, no matter how you look at it, these two brothers and sisters don't look like people in the rivers and lakes, especially the elder brother is still a candidate in the spring.

However, Ning Jiang did not intend to pin his safety on the contempt and negligence of the unknowable enemy, he asked Yue Mingmei to leave, and soon, Xiao Meng was hired by the eldest princess Luanmei as a female guard with a sword in the eldest princess's mansion...... That's a lot of things.

On the one hand, it made Chun Jianli and the forces behind her more scruples, on the other hand, it could be regarded as a bridge between him and Qimeng that could communicate with each other, and he even wrote a love letter specifically for Qimeng, asking his sister to help him bring it to Qimeng.

But things are not so simple, he began to find that although the group of people who were watching him quietly withdrew, but soon, another group of people were secretly observing him, these people were more sneaky, and each of them was a real master.

After the fire soul left the body, the counter-surveillance and eavesdropping on these people, he found that these people ...... It's all from the Quanqing faction!

This made him quite puzzled in his heart, and he couldn't understand for the time being where he had attracted the attention of the Quanqing faction. However, just as these people, no matter what their purpose was, they would never dare to trouble him at this time, at this moment, he did not have time to focus on these people.

Just because, it is related to the fate of thousands of students, the triennial spring festival...... It's finally here!!