Chapter 49: The Six Arts of Confucianism
"Where did the rabbit cub dare to rob the grandfathers, impatient?"
Fang Huan smiled, looking at the four bandits who didn't even have a single cultivation, but were taller and stronger than ordinary people, and didn't care.
"Grandpas don't kill children, get out of the way, don't get in the way!"
A bandit slapped Fang Huan with the back of the ghost-headed broadsword in his hand, the force was not heavy, and it seemed that he just wanted to slap Fang Huan aside.
Fang Huan quickly made a move, raised a foot and kicked the opponent's wrist, the huge force made the bandit feel painful, and he directly dropped the ghost head big knife in his hand.
"Big brother, it's a prick!" the bandit who threw the knife suddenly took a few steps back.
"Cultivator?" asked the bandit with a solemn and tentative expression.
Fang Huan once again stabbed on his shoulder, raised his head to the sky and said, "What's the matter? Who stipulates that cultivators can't rob the Dao?"
The bandit smiled bitterly, threw away the big knife in his hand, and said with a fist: "Childe, even if we have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, if you have a lot of them, let us go." ”
Fang Huan suddenly felt very bored, can't you bandits have a little backbone?
"How many lives do you have on your hands?" Fang Huan asked.
"Human life?" The four bandits glanced at each other, and then the bandit led by them said respectfully: "If you return to Gongzi, our four brothers robbed the road, only robbed money and did not kill people, and their hands were not contaminated with human life." ”
Fang Huan was stunned for a moment, when the bandits actually had no lives in their hands?
At this time, the embarrassed scholar came from behind.
"Ah Dong, come here and smell it, are they lying?" Fang Huan shouted to Lingdong.
Lingdong walked to Fang Huan's side, twitched his little nose, and said after a while: "Brother Huan, these people are not good people, but they don't seem to be lying, and they really haven't killed anyone." ”
Fang Huan was a little helpless, and the short knife in his hand went vertically downward.
Why is it so difficult for me to kill a bad guy and practice my guts?
I finally ran into a gang of bandits, and they haven't killed anyone?
"If you don't kill people, what kind of bandits are you going to be, why don't you go home and farm and rob the roads in the mountains?" Fang Huan asked angrily.
"Back to ...... Back to Gongzi's words, the four of us have not had enough food and clothing since the Tang and Chu wars, so we are doing businessless for Kou. The bandit replied.
"If it's decided today, why don't you be a good citizen?"
"How can the government accept us thieves, we were discovered by the local officials, we are all meritorious, and we will not be given a chance to change our evil and return to the right at all, so we will be directly imprisoned and questioned, and we will be beheaded in the autumn. ”
"Really, so bad?" Fang Huan felt a little sympathetic to the four bandits.
The soaking scholar next to him stepped forward and said: "That's true, now that Datang has just settled down, many new officials have taken office, and they lack merit at hand. ”
Fang Huan turned his head and glanced at this scholar, as if he was a little familiar.
"Engong, is it your Engong?" the scholar looked excited after seeing Fang Huan's face clearly.
"Are you?" Fang Huan couldn't remember where he had seen this scholar.
"Engong, do you remember, more than a month ago, at the Anmin Town Market, Engong once sold me a century-old Ganoderma lucidum to go home to treat my mother. ”
"Is that you?"
Fang Huan suddenly realized, it turned out to be the guy who was almost cheated by himself.
The scholar saw Lingdong first, but when he was wearing a big black robe in the market that day, the scholar didn't pay much attention to it, so he didn't recognize it when he saw Lingdong, but when he saw Fang Huan at this moment, he recognized it at a glance.
"Engong saved my mother's name that day, and today he saved my Lu Wenhe's life, it's really ......" The scholar named Lu Wenhe was a little excited.
Fang Huan waved his hand, signaling that it didn't matter, and looked back at the other four bandits and said, "You four, do you want to die or live?"
Isn't this nonsense?
The four bandits immediately said in unison: "I want to live, I want to live." ”
Fang Huan pointed at himself, and then pointed to the agility on the side and said, "Do you see what the two of us look like?"
Four bandits, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why.
Should we see it clearly or should we not?
Fang Huan looked at the blank appearance of the four people, a little funny, and said, "Tell the truth!"
"I saw it clearly, I saw it clearly. ”
"Go to the Lianheng Mountain Range, find Hu Beiyue, the owner of the Tiger Mountain Villa, and say that it is our Huan who asked you to go to him, and describe me and his appearance to the owner of the Hu Zhuang, and the owner of the Hu Village will naturally take you in at that time. ”
"Shooting...... Shoot Tiger Village ???"
"Why? don't want to go, do you have to be a bandit here?" Fang Huan asked with a frown.
"No, no, no, I'm willing to go, I want to go in my dreams, but I'm afraid that I won't take it in. The bandit led by him was excited, knelt directly on the ground, and said, "Thank you for your great kindness." ”
Seeing this, the other three bandits also knelt down after the eldest brother.
These bandits are quite sincere, and they believe what others say.
"After you go, follow the villagers to hunt and collect medicine, don't do bad things, okay, you all go. Fang Huan waved his hand.
"Gongzi Xie, Gongzi Xie!"
After a few bandits walked away, Fang Huan was a little depressed, looked at the short knife in his hand, and muttered, "When will you meet someone worth killing?"
After shaking his head, Fang Huan turned around and pulled Lingdong, and said to Lu Wenhe: "Let's go, go to the temple, don't get drenched outside." ”
Lu Wenhe nodded and followed Fang Huan into the broken temple.
"Brother Lu, where are you going? Walking in the rain at night?" Sitting on top of the haystack, Huan asked curiously.
"Lu is going to Beijing to take the exam, I don't want to have nowhere to hide from the heavy rain on the road, and I also ran into robbers, if it weren't for the help of the father-in-law, I'm afraid that the money in Lu's pocket to catch the exam will be robbed. Lu Wenhe said.
"Rushing for the exam, isn't the exam early spring next year? Brother Lu set off so early?"
Lu Wenhe was a little embarrassed and said: "It's really that Lu has a cyst and is shy, and it is thousands of miles from Luzhou to Longzhou, and Lu can't afford to hire a carriage, so he can only walk on these feet, so he set off earlier." ”
Fang Huan nodded and didn't say anything more.
"Engong, where are you two going?"
Fang Huan said: "Don't call me Engong, it sounds weird, my name is Fang Huan, this is my younger brother Smart, we are going to Qingyang City." ”
"Qingyang City, for the enrollment of Qingya Academy?" Lu Wenhe asked.
Fang Huan nodded.
"Well...... Brother Fang...... Do you have three tripods to cultivate?" Lu Wenhe said in surprise.
Fang Huan was confused and asked, "Why is the Sanding cultivator?"
Lu Wenhe replied: "The first criterion for enrollment in Qingya Academy is that the age cannot exceed eighteen years old, and the cultivation is above three dings. ”
"The first standard?" Fang Huan said with some curiosity: "Brother Lu, it's really not a secret, I don't know anything about Qingya Academy, can you tell me about it?"
Lu Wenhe cleared his throat and said: "The first assessment standard of Qingya Academy is cultivation, and only those who are not more than eighteen years old are eligible to register for the exam. ”
"Exams?"
"Well, exam, Brother Fang, how are you reading the Liyi poetry book?"
"Reading? So-so, right? I have been reading for a few years......
Fang Huan said that in the third year of Yinlonggou, Zhang Gongliang taught him the books he read.
"How is the little brother playing the music?"
"Playing music? I won't. ”
"There are also archery skills, will Brother Fang know?"
"Archery?" will be a little ......"
Fang Huan does know a little bit, he learned it in Shooting Tiger Village a few days ago.
"What about horseback riding?"
"Horseback riding!?What do you do in the academy exam? I haven't ridden a horse. ”
Lu Wenhe was speechless for a long time, and then said, "Then brother, how are you doing arithmetic?"
"Arithmetic?"
Fang Huan was a little speechless: "This ...... This is all to be tested in the entrance exam of Qingya Academy?"
Lu Wenhe nodded and said: "Etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics, collectively referred to as the six arts of Confucianism, are all part of the entrance examination of Qingya Academy, and you must pass more than four items to be eligible for admission......"
"I ...... I don't think I'm very good at it. ”。
"Brother Huan, should we still go?" asked Lingdong with his little head.
Fang Huan suddenly hesitated.