(Thank you for the reward of Baimo Building, this ID is slightly sao ==,)

Under the scarred pine, Xu Mingyuan gnawed on the roast chicken a little bitterly, thinking that the most likely opportunity to take advantage of Zeng Qingyi's unpreparedness to defeat her was gone, and even the joy of breaking through the third grade was reduced a lot.

Zeng Qingyi seemed to be able to see through what Xu Mingyuan was thinking, gently turned the Qingshuang long sword in his hand, and said with a smile: "Stupid Mingyuan, are you thinking about waiting for the injury to heal, and then come to challenge me." ”

Xu Mingyuan swallowed the last bite of meat, threw the chicken bones into the oiled paper bag, raised his head and shook his head righteously: "Where, I don't want to find abuse." ”

"Those two people were sent by Li Lixin, my three-legged cat's kung fu can't beat you, so I spent money to hire two Jianghu people to deal with you, it's really despicable." Zeng Qingyi's hand movement stopped, and said in a slightly cold voice.

From Xu Mingyuan's slightly exaggerated description just now, she could also hear the danger of last night's fierce fight. If it weren't for Xu Mingyuan's inexplicable breakthrough of the three grades, a swordsman who had been immersed in the realm of the three grades for many years would not be easy to deal with, and what a vicious heart he would be if he broke off Xu Mingyuan's arm.

Xu Mingyuan moved the tip of the sword facing him a little, and nodded with a slightly cold expression: "It's Li Lixin, who was punched by me in the drunken Xiaolou a month ago, and was punched by me at the gate of the academy yesterday, but I didn't expect to find someone to seek revenge that day." But both of them ran away, and I couldn't even see their faces, so there was nothing I could do. ”

Li Lixin is also getting bolder and bolder, but if there is no evidence, there is really nothing to do with him. The gang of gentlemen in Chengdu Mansion has never stopped, if it weren't for the Bai family's Bai Zhexiu, I'm afraid those people would have to come to Shuzhou City to show off their might. Zeng Qingyi also nodded when she heard this.

"Bai Zhexiu?" Xu Mingyuan was puzzled: "You mean the eldest young master of the Bai family, General Bai who has become famous on the southwest border in recent years?" ”

Zeng Qingyi nodded, and said with a smile: "Brother Bai is very powerful, before he joined the army, he dared to lead the big and small gentlemen in Shuzhou City, and beat the Chengdu Mansion Lord and the Chengdu Mansion Gentlemen who came to Shuzhou City to ride horses. Everyone is a gentleman, and their family background is there, but they don't dare to let the people of the rivers and lakes use any indiscriminate means. Since then, the gentlemen of Chengdu Mansion have not dared to be arrogant when they come to Shuzhou City, and they have not even come to Chongzhou Academy. ”

"After joining the army, he fought with Tubo, and he made a lot of military achievements, and he was soon promoted to lieutenant, and he was in charge of the southwest border, which can be said to be one person who suppressed the limelight of the entire Jiannan Province."

Xu Mingyuan looked at Zeng Qingyi talking like a treasure, and for some reason he felt a little pantothenic, and said, "It seems that you have a lot of respect for your big brother Bai." ”

Zeng Qingyi glanced at Xu Mingyuan, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and she continued to say with a natural look: "Of course, aren't you also very close to Lingling." The last time Big Brother Bai came back, he was wearing silver armor, silver guns and white horses, so I don't know how many Shuzhou girls he charmed. ”

"Oh, I hurt so much." Xu Mingyuan suddenly covered his shoulders and shouted.

Zeng Qingyi glanced at it, pouted and said, "Didn't you just say that it hurt your left shoulder, why are you covering your right shoulder now?" ”

"Secret injury, secret injury...... Xu Mingyuan said with a wry smile, and said again while covering his left shoulder: "Actually, it hurts quite a bit here." ”

Zeng Qingyi rolled her eyes, walked to the edge of the stone flat, looked at the undulating mountains in the distance and said, "The Zeng family should also have some masters, or I will talk to my grandfather and let the Chengdu Mansion send a few over." If you really can't do it, you can also live in the academy, no one dares to do it there, and even if you do, at least there will be me. ”

Xu Mingyuan listened to Zeng Qingyi's words, felt a warmth in his heart, and also helped Cang Song to get up, walked to Zeng Qingyi's side, followed her gaze into the distance, shook his head with a smile and said: "It's okay, my life is big, yesterday I was afraid that I would faint and be picked up by the pianist, but I didn't expect him to run away without even using the piano, it seems that he was frightened by my sharp swordsmanship." ”

Zeng Qingyi glared at Xu Mingyuan, thought of something again, glanced back at the direction of the main hall of the Taoist temple, and said with a smile: "That's right, there is Taishang Laojun on this mountain to bless you, it is safer than going to the academy." ”

"That's right, maybe the violinist was scared away by Taishang Laojun yesterday." Xu Mingyuan also said with a smile. He knew that the Zeng family was very powerful in Jiannan Dao, and there should be a master who was secretly protecting Zeng Fuzi and Zeng Qingyi, at least Zeng Fuzi's coachman, Wang Bo Xu Mingyuan, couldn't see through it.

However, let the Zeng family send a master to protect himself, Xu Mingyuan really couldn't open this kind of mouth. Although Xu Mingyuan and Zeng Qingyi grew up together since childhood, and Master Zeng also treated him very well, he is still an outsider after all.

As for the academy, something like that just happened yesterday, and Xu Mingyuan didn't want to go to the academy to see the ugly faces of those people.

Now that Xu Mingyuan has broken through the three products, and Li Lixin sent someone to fail yesterday, he should also stop for a while. Although Xu Mingyuan is not a person with status, after all, there are still Zeng Fuzi and Bai Molou standing behind him, if Li Lixin does too much, I am afraid he will not end well.

After seeing Xu Mingyuan's refusal, Zeng Qingyi did not continue to mention this topic, but instead talked to Xu Mingyuan about the township test a month later.

Although Zeng Qingyi did not participate in the imperial examination, she still knew a lot more about the imperial examination than Xu Mingyuan. The content of the township test is similar to that of the college test, but compared with the reference of 100 people in the academy, ten people were finally selected to be on the list, and the township test can be described as a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses, and there are countless people who fell into the water.

Shuzhou has jurisdiction over Jinyuan, Tanglong, Qingcheng, Xinjin four counties, according to the provisions of the Dawan imperial examination, such as Shuzhou such a medium-sized state, only ten can be on the list of township examinations.

You must know that there are thousands of scholars in Shuzhou, some such as Liu Shusheng in Dongcheng, who failed to make the list for decades, and some young scholars like Xu Mingyuan, who are in their prime but failed to enter the academy.

Thousands of scholars, not one out of a hundred, it can be seen that the township examination is miserable, compared to the academy examination, I don't know how much worse.

However, there is no way to do it, except for the sons of powerful people, most of the scholars in the academy are the top scholars in Shuzhou and even Jiannan Dao. Every time the imperial examination, Chongzhou Academy can have students from Jinshi background, sometimes even more than one, which is also the reason why Chongzhou Academy can be ranked among the top ten academies in Dawan.

And those who are on the list in the Shuzhou Township test, if they can produce someone from the same Jinshi, it is extremely rare, and those from Jinshi are very rare.

Xu Mingyuan and Zeng Qingyi chatted on the stone flat for a while, and then entered Xu Mingyuan's room. Zeng Fuzi and his master were already playing Go, a jar of rice wine and two wine glasses, and they were killing vigorously.

Xu Mingyuan has a lot of books in his room, although he doesn't dare to say that there are more books than the academy library, but he is better than many strange books and solitary books. Every time Xu Mingyuan traveled with his master, he could bring back only a limited number of books, so he basically bought them all the way, read them all the way, and sold them all the way. Only those unique books that are truly interesting or worth cherishing will be brought back.

If there is anything that is the most precious on this Micang Mountain, it is not the clay statue of Laojun on the platform in the main hall, but these lone ancient books in Xu Mingyuan's room.

Zeng Qingyi's slender fingers slid over the spine of the ancient books, and finally stopped at a somewhat old biography of the Jianghu rangers, pulled it out, looked at it casually for a while, then carried the stool in front of the desk, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, and began to read.

Xu Mingyuan slowly walked to the bed, picked up the book next to the bed, looked at Zeng Qingyi with his back to him and smiled, and also looked down at the book in his hand.

After a long time, after drinking a pot of wine, the stinky chess basket Qingxuan and Zeng Fuzi's Go were almost played, the sun was already setting in the west, and Zeng Fuzi and Zeng Qingyi were also about to go down.

When leaving, Zeng Qingyi didn't forget to put three books he picked in the food box, and then said to Xu Mingyuan, "Don't forget to bring it back and return it to me, this is a lone book, a lone book." He went down the mountain.

After a day of recuperation, the soreness on Xu Mingyuan's body has also been reduced a lot, but it is unrealistic for the wound to heal so quickly, and it will take some time. And now that the weather is so hot, the wound must not fester, otherwise it will not be good.

There are some gold sore medicines on the mountain, but they basically can't use them as masters and apprentices, so they can only deal with it simply, and Xu Mingyuan also plans to wait for tomorrow when his health is better, and then go to Shuzhou City to dispense some medicine.

Sitting on the threshold of the main hall, watching the sun set, Xu Mingyuan, was still thinking about whether to do it himself and solve the problem of food and clothing at night, but a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man in Tsing Yi climbed up the mountain panting with a food box.

The young man in Tsing Yi looked at Xu Mingyuan who was sitting there, stood at the entrance of the trail and gasped for breath for a while, only to step forward with some weak legs, and asked a little respectfully: "Excuse me, are you Xu Mingyuan?" ”

Xu Mingyuan nodded, and said with some confusion: "I am, you are?" ”

Seeing Xu Mingyuan nodding, the little guy in Tsing Yi breathed a sigh of relief, handed over the food box in his hand and said: "The small one is a guy from Dongxing Building, this is ordered by a Miss Zeng, let us send it here, you see where these drinks and dishes are put first, and the small food box should be brought back." ”

Xu Mingyuan also understood, it should be that after Zeng Qingyi went back, he knew that Xu Mingyuan was inconvenient to cook, and his master didn't cook, so he asked the restaurant to send him to the mountain.

Xu Mingyuan pointed to the small square table in the corner of the main hall and said, "You help me take out the small square table, and then put all the wine and food on it." ”

"Okay." The little guy responded with a smile, put down the food box in his hand first, and after moving the small square table out, he took out the wine and food and put it on the table, without being slacking off at all because of Xu Mingyuan's clothes. He didn't know Zeng Qingyi's identity, but he could guess that her identity was good from the shopkeeper who had been laughing with her, and Xu Mingyuan, no matter how poorly dressed, was not something he could provoke.