The sky gradually darkened, Xu Mingyuan and Guo Cailing came out of Granny Li's courtyard and took the courtyard gate with them.

Xu Mingyuan looked sideways at Guo Cailing, who had just reached his chest, and said with a smile: "Lingling, what do you want to do when you grow up in the future?" ”

Guo Cailing looked up at Xu Mingyuan's face and said without thinking: "I want to be the best embroiderer in Jiannan Road, and my mother-in-law said that only in this way can I go to Chang'an." ”

Looking at the resolute and sincere look on the little girl's face, Xu Mingyuan felt a little sad, if Guo Cailing was just to follow him to Chang'an, and put all the future on embroidery, how should he do it.

Xu Mingyuan thought about it seriously and said carefully: "Lingling, I will go to Chang'an, and I will not necessarily stay in Chang'an in the future." If you are sent by the imperial court, you will also have to go to other provinces to take office. ”

"And where are you going?" A flash of panic flashed in Guo Cailing's eyes, and she asked with some puzzlement.

"I don't know where I'll go, but if you learn embroidery and stay in Shuzhou City, Uncle Guo and Aunt Liu will be very happy." Xu Mingyuan couldn't bear it, but he still looked directly into Guo Cailing's eyes and said.

He doesn't want Guo Cailing's life to just chase his own footsteps, how boring and sad such a life is. Guo Cailing is still young, and her attachment to him may fade with time, and she should have a more free and comfortable life.

Guo Cailing stopped, her eyes drooped slightly, and tears were already rolling in her eyes.

Xu Mingyuan also stopped and opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything consoling. He would rather that the little girl now has a grudge against him, than that she will be obsessed deeply.

After being silent for a while, a tear slipped from the corner of Guo Cailing's eyes, she raised her head to look at Xu Mingyuan, sniffed, and said with a determined expression: "Then I want to be the best embroiderer in the world, and I want to write the best words in the world." My mother said that you are a talented person, and you are the reincarnation of Wenqu Xing, who wants to worship the prime minister, what I want to do is to be closer to you. ”

Xu Mingyuan looked at the little girl with a serious expression and holding back her tears, her heart softened, and she couldn't say anything serious. smiled and rubbed the little girl's hair, nodded and said: "Okay, we Lingling have great ambitions, and if we want to go to Chang'an to see, then go and see, who said that only men can travel thousands of miles, and there are a few sons in the world who dare to stand up with such great ambitions." ”

Guo Cailing pursed her lips and smiled, but tears flowed down her eyes.

Xu Mingyuan gently patted Guo Cailing's back, and when she stopped crying, they walked towards the noodle stall together.

Zhou Binjie, who had been busy all afternoon, was already sitting in the noodle stall, and was secretly eating vegetables while Liu Sanniang was not paying attention, when he saw Guo Cailing coming in with red eyes, he glanced at Xu Mingyuan, and also stood up and looked at Guo Cailing and said awe-inspiringly: "Which blind villain bullied our lovely Lingling, Lingling, you tell me, I will help you teach him a lesson." ”

Guo Cailing looked at the trembling flesh on Zhou Binjie's fat face, laughed out loud, shook her head and said, "It was windy just now, and I entered the sand, and no one bullied me." After speaking, he walked quickly to the stove and helped Liu Sanniang light the fire.

Xu Mingyuan said hello to Liu Sanniang, who was stir-frying, sat down at the table, pinched a peanut and threw it into the sky, and then opened his mouth to catch it.

Zhou Binjie also sat down again, poked his head over and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yuan, what's wrong with Lingling, did you tell you about going to Chang'an again?" ”

Xu Mingyuan rubbed the salt on his fingers, suppressed his voice and said, "This girl is stubborn, and she can't pull back ten cows for what she believes." You help me watch her in Jiannan Road, if she really wants to go to Chang'an, you tell me in advance, arrange for someone to send her there, don't let him go to the Shangyi Bureau. ”

Zhou Binjie nodded and said, "Don't worry, if the Shangyi Bureau wants to rob someone, I will also snatch it back for him." ”

Xu Mingyuan smiled and patted Zhou Binjie's shoulder, and his heart was also a lot more relaxed.

As long as Guo Cailing does not enter the Shangyi Bureau, when she is going to come to Chang'an, Xu Mingyuan will have a foothold in Chang'an, and Xu Mingyuan can also think about how to deal with it at that time.

When night fell, Zhou Binjie and Xu Mingyuan had already eaten a lot of dishes, mainly because Liu Sanniang cooked delicious dishes, which was really appetizing.

Guo Dongcheng went home first, changed into civilian clothes, brought two pots of wine, and sat down. Liu Sanniang cooked the last dish and sat down at the table with Guo Cailing.

After this period of getting along, Liu Sanniang and their family don't regard Zhou Binjie as a rich young master, Zhou Binjie calls Uncle Guo and Aunt Liu more kindly than Xu Mingyuan, and they don't know how to put up any shelves, so the people at the table eat happily.

Xu Mingyuan learned about Yuan, and he had won the first place in the college examination before, which is the greatest glory for scholars in Shuzhou City. Liu Sanniang was very happy, she also drank two glasses of wine, her cheeks were crimson, and asked Xu Mingyuan to write two plaques for her, and when he won the champion, she said that this plaque was written by the champion.

Xu Mingyuan, Zhou Binjie, and Guo Dongcheng drank a lot of wine, and they also talked a lot, and when it came to the numb-faced scholar, Guo Dongcheng also couldn't stop laughing.

It turned out that the hemp face scholar really took off his clothes and ran around Shuzhou City, but he really lost face, but speaking of which, he also lost the bet with Jieyuan, admitting that the bet was lost, but it became a good story.

It was late at night, and the three of them were almost drunk, Xu Mingyuan and Zhou Binjie got up to say goodbye, and when they left, Xu Mingyuan also said that he planned to leave for Chang'an in a month.

Although the spring is in February of the next year, the journey from Shuzhou to Chang'an is not short, and in autumn, because he is afraid of heavy snow on the road, Xu Mingyuan also plans to set off earlier.

Riding Zhou Binjie's carriage to the foot of Micang Mountain, Xu Mingyuan got some grass for Lao Huang, enough for him to eat for two days, and went straight up the mountain.

For Xu Mingyuan to understand the matter of Yuan, his master was not surprised at all, and took the roast chicken and wine that Xu Mingyuan brought back to him, and he was still talking about when Zhou Binjie would come.

Zhou Binjie has been too busy these days, so the wine has been sent by Heizi, which also makes his master less able to listen to him with great interest and talk about the audience, but he is a little uncomfortable.

Xu Mingyuan chatted with his master for a while, and then went into the room to sleep, and the township tried to understand the yuan, because it was expected, so he didn't feel particularly happy.

The township test is just a competition of scholars in a state, and it will be a real gathering of talents from all over the world in February next year when the abbot of the Ministry of Rites gathers, and it is not a simple matter to win the championship in one fell swoop.

Regardless of the talents of the four major academies of Chang'an and the Guozijian, Jiangnan Dao is also a myriad of talents, ten roads in the world, and thousands of talents gather in Chang'an, and the people on the list are really famous in one fell swoop.

These days, Xu Mingyuan has also spent a lot of time practicing swords, because he was recognized by Gao Lao as a sword before, so Xu Mingyuan will also spend a lot of time adjusting some things, so that the sword does not look like a sword without affecting its power.

And with the hard training of these days, the qi in Xu Mingyuan's body has also increased a lot, but he doesn't know when it will be the end, and he doesn't know what the gap between the second and third grades is.

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Three days later, in the early morning, Xu Mingyuan went down the mountain to pick up two buckets of water, practiced swords for a while, and just washed up, Zeng Qingyi had already arrived with a food box.

Today's Zeng Qingyi is wearing a blue and white skirt, which is neatly cut and not luxurious, but it still makes her beautiful face with a bit of heroism between her eyebrows and eyes more and more beautiful.

"What did you bring? I want to make porridge. Seeing that Zeng Qingyi didn't bring a sword, it didn't seem that he had come to him to learn, Xu Mingyuan shook the water in his hand and took the food box that Zeng Qingyi was carrying with a smile. When I opened it, there was a cup of porridge, four steamed buns, a roast chicken and a pot of wine.

Xu Mingyuan took two steamed buns and the porridge, and then brought the rest into it for his master, and he didn't drink the porridge if he had wine.

Carrying two small chairs and sitting at the door of the Taoist temple, Xu Mingyuan bit the steamed bun while looking at Zeng Qingyi, who had just greeted his master, and asked, "What are you going to do today?" I thought you'd bring Bai Lingxuan's girl, but she's almost finished my books. ”

"Didn't you just take it a few times, where did you move it all?" Zeng Qingyi rolled her eyes and said, obviously not believing Xu Mingyuan's words.

Xu Mingyuan drank two mouthfuls of porridge and said with some annoyance: "How many times, she only takes it and doesn't pay it back, and she picks rare ones." ”

"Then you ask her for it yourself, and I didn't take it anyway." Zeng Qingyi directly brushed herself off, and pointed to a high mountain in the distance and said, "Let's go climb Fengqi Mountain today, I haven't been there for many years." ”

"Fengqi Mountain?" Xu Mingyuan raised his head with a cup and drank the rest of the porridge, nodded and said, "Okay, I haven't been there for a few years, wait for me to change my clothes." ”

Fengqi Mountain is not far from Shuzhou City, there is a Changle Temple on the mountain, and Xu Mingyuan is not good to wear a robe to go up the mountain. Taoist priests worship Buddha, Xu Mingyuan doesn't want to be seen all the way.

Xu Mingyuan, who had changed into a half-worn robe, went down the mountain with Zeng Qingyi, Zeng Qingyi came by carriage, but Zeng Qingyi let him go back when he went up the mountain, so he could only go by donkey cart.

The donkey cart was running on the fairly flat post road, swaying slightly, Xu Mingyuan sat on the wheel, leaning on the carriage, and Zeng Qingyi was sitting in the carriage. When going down the mountain, Zeng Qingyi deliberately went to Xu Mingyuan's room to pick up a few books, and there were books to read on the road, but it would not be boring.

The donkey cart swayed slowly to the foot of Fengqi Mountain, and it had been more than half an hour, Xu Mingyuan led Lao Huang to a place with green grass on the side of the road, fed it some water, and climbed towards the mountain with Zeng Qingyi.

Fengqi Mountain is named after a piece of mountain stone shaped like a crested head on the mountain, the mountain is secluded and the forest is beautiful, a hundred birds chirp, such as and the phoenix sings, there has always been a Tibetan dragon and a phoenix.

There is a memorial arch standing at the mountain gate, it looks like it has been quite a few years, the word Changle is often written on it, mellow and solemn. Engraved on both sides: the golden body of the treasure hall should smile and float in a dream; Shu Zhong passed on Yuyun, and I don't know who is coming again.