Chapter 33: The Hills

What's the situation?

I looked at Jin Siniang, although she was already sitting upright unconsciously, she still didn't bother to say a word, only nodded slightly and signaled me to step forward, and smoked a cigarette.

Damn, has it already begun?! Didn't you say a good tomorrow? I still have a dozen reference books that I haven't reviewed! Why do you do this every time you take an exam?

I peeked at the fat-headed, big-eared merchant and the slick part-headed—not a joke in all the cynicism of their chatter and laughter—and walked up to the scroll that floated into the middle of the hall out of thin air.

"Little brother, you can take a closer look, I see that you just entered the Fa not long ago, and your qi is shallow and your routines are lacking, so let's test your basic skills first." It's the split glasses that speaks - what he said is the truth, and I can't refute it, I originally wanted to pretend to be a bear, but now that he sees it, he will be free from tricks, and simply act in his true colors, just use our reckless and vulgar mortal body, and will be this "ink maze" hidden in the depths of ten thousand laws for a while!

"The rules are very simple, the old man drew a few apples, which were mixed with a genuine product picked in his own orchard, and if the little brother could pick it out in a stick of incense, it would be considered a pass." After smiling, he shook the feather fan calmly, and watched the teacher and girl slowly light an agarwood. With a surging momentum, my head roared, and I felt that the round and sturdy man in front of me was as unfathomable as the smiling Maitreya in the temple. Although he agreed verbally, he couldn't help but ooze a few sweats on his forehead.

"It's not fair!" This sudden burst of sound startled me who had just stood still. It was Sister Minnie who spoke, only to hear her protest indignantly: "Lei Shibo, what do you mean by this? Why is it the most difficult 'galloping horse' picture when I was tested, but it's this kid's turn, but it's such a simple 'guess the fruit'! ”

"Easy!?" When I heard this, I broke out in a cold sweat. I don't have to think about it to know that this first scene is to test my mastery of "Wangqi", but even if I use the various methods of hope I have learned to look at those apples with different shapes and colors, I can only see the same hazy gray light, let alone distinguish between truth and falsehood, and even the specific shape of that qi cannot be seen thoroughly...... How good is that?

"Sister Ruyun is not strange, the tutor just chooses the painting with the appropriate difficulty according to the talent and qualification of the person being tested. And not everyone can have the momentum of a woman like Sister Yun, who is enough to challenge the Danqing leader. Without waiting for the smiling and silent split-headed glasses to speak, the teacher and girl behind him had already taken the lead, and those with good ears could naturally hear this, on the surface, they praised Sister Minnie for some talent, and in the second half of the sentence, she was already secretly ridiculing her for being too "a woman".

"Hmph", Sister Minnie's fat-headed and big-eared master couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and seeing that she was still complacent, she couldn't help but remind her: "Ah Yun, I said a long time ago that girls are used to being very aggressive, and they will become men's wives. Be temperamental! As he spoke, he pointed to Ah Xia, who was standing on the side of Jingjingyu, her eyebrows condensed, racking her brains to help me find a way.

Sister Na Minnie reacted when she heard this, and when she saw several people joining forces to squeeze her, how could she bear it, first gave her master a loud snap of the back of her head, and then pointed at the teacher and girl, and shouted angrily: "Mu Weiwei, where are you!" Only help outsiders to talk. Sister respects you as a talented girl, and treats you as a best friend, but you are a slut with an elbow turned out, to be honest, do you fall in love with this kid! ”

When the teacher heard this, she was not angry, sneered, and returned: "Sister Ruyun smiled, the little woman is not talented, but she knows the number of etiquette and knows the sequence, how dare she rob the Taoist companion with my sister before Sister Ruyun, who is busy with palm bead practice and delaying major events, finds the other half." Even I heard this sentence, implying that the Shui family had occupied the dust beads for too long, and even ridiculed Sister Minnie's older leftover girl for marrying. The infighting in the sect is not a new thing in the rivers and lakes, not to mention that there are a series of dust beads that have caused the collapse of a series of interest balances, although I have heard about it from Sister Jin, I can't think of it, even the newcomers of this generation are also burdened by these gradually entrenched sects.

"Hmph, you don't need to worry about the old lady's affairs yet! The handover time of the dust beads will be decided by the Shui family, so why do you need to remind you again and again. Shui Ruyun naturally heard the thorns in the words, and pressed her master, who wanted to interject in the round, and directly said the words to death. Seeing this, the two bigwigs had to smile awkwardly at each other, barely diluting the smell of gunpowder that the juniors couldn't cover.

Seeing that everyone's attention finally returned to me, I also slowly had a plan - I was delayed for some time by the two of her to make such a fuss, and I had nothing to do, but I saw the hope of breaking the problem - after all, when I looked left and right, I had already caught a glimpse of Ah Xia, who was thinking the side, and her eyebrows had been stretched.

"Two masters are on top!" I saw that there was a turning point, so I hurriedly bowed to the two big guys of water and wood, and asked: "The little brother is still short in the time to get started, and he only knows one or two of all the methods, and there is a temporary trick that I can't remember. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Ah Xia.

Shui and Mu had already seen that Ah Xia's cultivation attainments were not as good as mine, and I was sure that the two of them should not be embarrassed by me, so they brazenly pulled Ah Xia down to join forces with me, so they dared to step forward and beg each other.

"Well, I don't think it matters. Black dick, what do you say? The split-headed glasses were really good to speak, shook the feather fan, agreed first, and only turned his head to ask the head of the water family opposite.

"Well said! The examiner is all in favor, I want to say no, wouldn't it be a shame for Brother Lei? Seeing that the momentum had been set, the fat-headed and big-eared black second man only rolled his eyes, immediately squeezed out a smile, and accepted it first. Although I saw that he was quite scheming, thoughtful, and worried, but Ah Xia had already come to me, but I didn't think too much, so I hurriedly gathered with her and discussed the strategy in a whisper.

"Lizi, do you remember the scene when you taught me to find the 'valve' in front of Aunt Bu's fruit stall before?" Ah Xia doesn't talk nonsense, since she told me about it, she must have something to say. I immediately recalled the day before yesterday at the fruit stall, using different fruits to practice "Wangqi" for Ah Xia. Speaking of which, pears are thin, watermelons are light, oranges are airtight, and apples are ......

In my impression, isn't Apple the most angry? Why, these things in front of you, but they are angry and sparse?

Seeing that I had realized something, Ah Xia excitedly took my hand and wrote a few words in the palm of my hand.

The four seasons are different.

I was startled, and my mind suddenly returned to the scene when I stopped at the fruit stall with Ah Xia that day. At that time, I heard Ah Xia say that she wanted to eat some sour fruits, so I took her to the stall and picked up purple grapes, but when I saw the white fruits stacked and mixed, I couldn't help but play with the means of "looking at the qi", and by the way, I taught her to distinguish anger. At that time, I tried more than a dozen kinds of melons and fruits in a row, and I was able to justify myself, until I came across another bunch of "crystal grapes" with a tender green appearance.

According to the method I taught her, Ah Xia looked at the qi of the green grapes, but found that it was a little turbid, and couldn't help but ask me: "It's the same grape, why is the green grape in front of me a rising pale cyan clear qi, but the purple grape just now is a settled cold white turbidity?" "It's the first time I've encountered this situation, and I didn't think about it before, so I was stunned for a while, and I didn't know how to explain it. Just when I blushed and felt that my face was about to fall to the ground, the aunt who was guarding the fruit stall happened to come over, and just heard the last conversation between the two of me, and I didn't know whether it was intentional or not, so I couldn't help but interject:

"The grapes grown in the greenhouse, the season is different, the taste is not the same, this green is our self-picked grapes, ugly is ugly, the season is long, the taste is sweeter! Baby, just bring some to your girlfriend! ”

I see!

I got her advice, and I had a certain idea, so I quickly calmed down, condensed my mind, and looked at the five apples of different shapes again: at a glance, it was still the same as before, and I couldn't see a clue; When I looked at it again, I found that the gray gas was faintly mixed with some faint clear air; After looking at it, I realized that the five apples that looked ordinary actually exuded green, red, yellow, white, and black, five different colors!

As soon as I saw this scene, my heart was shocked, and I finally found a breakthrough, and then, natural thoughts are like springs: green fruits belong to spring, yellow fruits are in summer, red fruits are long in summer, and white fruits are in autumn. As the saying goes, the Taoist, the law is based on nature, and generally disdain things that go against the way of heaven, so it seems that the frozen fruit should be a fake!

Thinking of this, I was overjoyed, and was about to raise my finger to recognize the fake that fished in the troubled water, but was gently held down by Ah Xia, who was quick-eyed, and immediately reminded me:

"Plum, what we want to find out is the real one!"

"You're mistaken! I remember that if I found the fake one, I was able to pass the test! After listening to Ah Xia, I couldn't help but refute her, I just felt that she was mistaken, and what she said was different from what I remembered. Seeing her more and more incomprehensible serious appearance, I couldn't help frowning - this Nizi, it's the first time I've been so confused, and it's only more than ten minutes ago, so I can't remember it clearly!

As I spoke, I closed my eyes and thought about it again, and after making sure that it was correct, I opened my eyes, and where was the shadow of Ah Xia in front of me, I saw that there was already a yellow and cracked wilderness in front of me, and the shriveled grass and trees grew everywhere, sparsely distributed above and below the seven high and eight low mounds, and it was a little strange that I couldn't explain it.

I just happened to blow a warm breeze, which was very comfortable on my face, and I just felt that the hair all over my body was being held up, but didn't I just cut my flat head short? When did the hair grow below the ears? I was stunned for a moment, and in a trance I felt that something was wrong, although there were mounds of earth that are common in the northeast around me, there was something strange about how it was served. I suddenly felt that my mind was very confused, and I thought that it was not possible to stay where I was, so I simply took a puff of dry tobacco and walked forward.

"Ahem!" I'm rubbing, why is this hookah so choking! I felt bitter and spicy in my lungs, and my throat was so bitter that I was almost pimpleed, and when I finally recovered, I suddenly realized: How can I hold a hookah? Didn't you hold the long pipe that the landlord used to use in the TV series? Wait a minute! Isn't ITM a non-smoker? When did you make the act of smoking so natural!

I was still wondering, when suddenly a gray-haired hare the size of a buffalo suddenly appeared in front of me, purring and nibbling on the thatch that was as tall as a person—damn it, I said why I had always felt weird, it turned out that the earth, rocks, grass and trees around here were unreasonably huge......

Or rather, I've become smaller myself! As this creepy thought flashed through my mind, I suddenly felt a pain in my brain, and I felt like a cricket had entered my brain, and I couldn't help but just want to shake my head desperately and throw out the annoying bugs in my ears and eyes! Thinking like this, I couldn't help but grab something and wave it, and sure enough, the pain subsided, and when I came to my senses, I found that I had somehow ridden on the gray rabbit that was as big as an ox, grabbed the rabbit ears, brandished a hookah, and slashed and killed on horseback, like a bear child playing a war game. It seems that he has changed back to his presumptuous self in childhood.

In addition to acting recklessly, I only have one thought, don't let Ah Xia see my stupidity now.

Wait, Axia!

When I think of her, I suddenly find too much wrong. Shouldn't I be with her? When was it brought to this ghost place? While thinking, I grabbed the rabbit's hand and couldn't help but let go, my eyes went black, and I fell to the ground.

"Plums! Thank goodness you've finally woken up! ”

When I opened my eyes, I immediately saw Ah Xia's worried tears-wet eyes, and my heart suddenly settled down a lot. Looking at the pillar of incense again, only one-third was left, and she was shocked, she had already been helped up by the frightened Ah Xia, and with her suspicious gaze, on the suspended ink painting scroll, I don't know when, there was a weasel curled up and lying with squinting eyes and tilting his head to sleep!

"Plum", Ah Xia explained the ins and outs to me, while still keeping her eyes on the weasel that was pretending to sleep, and said carefully: "You just fell for its way, fortunately, I took the golden needle that Sister Jin gave me, and stabbed your human middle with it, so I woke you up." If I had fallen on the word, you would save me like this. As he spoke, he handed me two finger-long golden needles.

Listening to her, I naturally remembered that when Jin Siniang taught us some quick methods, she did talk about this trick to solve the trick of lowering your head, but I didn't think about it in a hurry. Fortunately, I pulled Ah Xia's Nizi down, if it was just me, I would have been forced to play GG just now, and I would be out.

Speaking of which, although the Jin family is not prosperous, it is also very strictly controlled, how did this yellow skin get in? I'm still wondering, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw that the fat-headed and big-eared Shui family boss was smiling evilly and whispering to Sister Minnie Mouse behind him, and I couldn't help but think of the ghost idea he played before, it turned out that it was you who made the ghost. Looking at Jin Siniang and Lei Datong again, it seems that he is also acquiescing to his move, thinking that he has cheated before forcing Ah Xia to help, and it seems reasonable for the second black child to intervene horizontally to increase the difficulty of the test, so he has to swallow this stuffy loss with hatred, and only secretly said in his heart: If this beast with a thousand knives is lost to me, it is easy to say, after all, there is Ah Xia to save the field, if it is Ah Xia's body, then I will be miserable, after all, this Nizi is much more dexterous and agile than me......

As soon as I thought of this, I suddenly found that Ah Xia was gone again, and hurriedly looked around, and when I saw her hiding five steps behind me, Ah Xia had already changed to a different person, I don't know where to find a chopstick and a bowl, in a man's tone, dancing on the ground and singing:

"My family lives next to the back mountain, and the name of the treasure house is Agarwood Hall; Hear the birds singing all over the mountain, and taste fragrant tea in the evening to drive away the spring cold. It's a pity that the old man saw me greedy and caught me in the hall to be a handsome man. only hated to go out of the mountain and start a thief, and his wife and children cried and broke his bowels. I just want to go home, why don't you make me cry. ”

My mother, daughter-in-law, you really fell victim to that monster!

Listening to her sing this limerick poem that obviously talks about the origin and encounter of the yellow skin, I had to secretly scream that it was not good, how can I accurately pierce the golden needle in my hand into the Axia people who are jumping up and down and wake her up?

Without further ado, I couldn't help but be anxious, and stepped forward to try a few times: pounce on her, and she gently retreated to dodge; rushed over to hug her, and was let go by her rolling on the spot; screamed to catch her, and was easily tripped by her - looking at Ah Xia's appearance, she was obviously not as flexible as usual, and it was estimated that she was taken by the cunning yellow skin and controlled her movements. After a few moves, although Ah Xia seems to be able to only show six or seven successes, after all, her fighting style is restrained, and she still easily suppresses me in the warrior department. I saw that she took advantage of my breath to catch my breath, and several rounds of rushing attacks in succession, directly forcing me to the front door of the hall, if I was not careful and she kicked out of the door, I would not have the face to climb back.

It's tricky!

Speaking of which, it seems that there has been such a only time before that I confronted Ah Xia, who was always on the same front as me, like today.

It was a sophomore year, and our travelers club once went to Dongshan for an outing activity, but we couldn't contact the driver, so the president had to organize a few of our members to play a werewolf game in the club activity room. This is my first time in contact with board games, and I am not good at it, and so are others, so our dear president, because he is familiar with the process, was directly appointed by everyone to be a judge, so as to avoid the imbalance of power between the forces caused by the veteran he joined the game.

The result? The duel between novices, naturally, is that it is easy to win because of the role of the werewolf side, because of the reason that the initiative is taken first; And the side that gets the good guys, due to the lack of cooperation, often suspects each other and buries the chance to win again and again. After playing it, I naturally noticed it, but the identity distribution was relatively random, and there were still some uncontrollable elements, so I still enjoyed playing it.

After losing two in a row, I finally drew the werewolf card, and without much effort, I "killed" all the ignorant villagers who were not determined and did not know the situation, leaving only Ah Xia and the other two lambs to be slaughtered. Hmph, it seems that the eternal law of "werewolves win" among newbies is finally going to make me win it back! It's just, I didn't expect that-

Ah Xia, this girl, take this game seriously.

That's not good. In addition to me, there is also Xiao Huang of the same grade who is also a werewolf, and Ah Xia has three villagers connected to her, if it is replaced by someone else, casually take advantage of some human weaknesses, create a little disagreement, and confuse the audio, it is easy to end the game, but, Ah Xia's big eyes staring at me are full of surging war intent, isn't it already from my previous performance, I can see that I am a wolf in sheep's clothing? Although she has clear thinking and excellent reasoning, it should be impossible to find the way in the third game.

Wait, I suddenly remembered, could it be that when the president and judge ordered us werewolves to open their eyes and kill people just now, I was a little big because I cooperated with Xiao Huang to identify the villagers sitting in the distance. Could it be that this stirring breeze has been keenly captured by Ah Xia, who is sitting next to me!?

Xia Beauty, you feel like you're cheating, you know no!

Next, as expected, Ah Xia, who intercepted the information and grasped the opportunity, naturally criticized me, which led the other two ignorant "villagers" to cast suspicious eyes on me one after another. Could it be that my rare chance to win is going to be buried here by "Detective Axia"?

Fortunately, this time was postponed by my teammate Xiao Huang. However, as a rookie, when he tried to clear my name, he couldn't help but reveal some flaws, and he was directly seen by the discerning Ah Xia, who immediately seized the opportunity, shifted the target, and led the two civilians to set fire to Xiao Huang, and after several interrogations, to see that the fire had arrived, and finally passed the vote and cut the Huang classmate who tried to protect me to fall under the horse. And for the revival of the werewolf, I could only vote for Xiao Huang against my will, hoping to blend in with the masses again and find a chance to turn over. It's just that I know very well that in this next round, Ah Xia's goal is me.

"Please close your eyes when it's dark!" With the president's order, I closed my eyes with apprehension, and my mind was full of plans for the next step: the odds are still obvious now, as long as I kill the shrewd Ah Xia first, then the remaining two civilians will be easy to handle!

That's it!

"Werewolf, please kill!" As soon as the president's voice fell, I immediately gently pointed my finger at Ah Xia next to me - sorry, Xia beauty, since you have seen through my brother's true face, I can only kill you first! I'm sorry, I'm undercover.

"Open your eyes at dawn!" I opened my eyes and looked at Ah Xia's eyes full of pity, to blame, I can only blame you for being too smart. If the confused driver hasn't arrived, the next round will be born on the side of the werewolf; This one, the victory belongs to the brother!

"Well, the werewolves came out again last night! Which unfortunate villager was attacked? The president opened his slightly bulging eyes, and he became more and more nervous about this thrilling game. I saw him look around, and seeing that he had attracted everyone's attention, he suddenly pointed at Ah Xia and shouted:

"It's this beautiful woman with outstanding temperament!" As soon as the words fell, it immediately caused several school girls to sigh, how much they hoped that Ah Xia could win, after all, Ah Xia, who was agile and talented, was already their idol. Alas, girls, your wishes are going to be frustrated. I looked at the president calmly, just waiting for him to announce the decisive wave—

"It's just that the guardians have descended from the sky to protect this unfortunate girl! I declare that she has been saved due to the incursion of the mysterious guards! The president deliberately dragged the word "has" for a long time, for fear that the screams of those juniors were not loud enough.

How can it be?! Is there a guardian in this round? Even if there were, wouldn't we have killed them a long time ago? After all, after these rounds, hasn't this so-called "guardian" never shot at all? Could it be......

Thinking of this, I quickly glanced at Ah Xia, only to see that she was looking at me with confidence, and her eyes were as clear as water and full of pride in her victory.

Could it be that Ah Xia, you, are the guardians who have been hiding for so long! Oh my god, you waited until the end to make a move, did you just fear that we would find out, and besides, you didn't use the guardian for yourself until I was forced to choose to kill her—after all, a guardian can't guard the same person for two rounds in a row! In this way, Ah Xia deliberately stared at me in the last round, and she was also testing me? When did this eccentric Nizi become so cunning? She didn't rely on her keen senses, but rationally combined her perception with strategy, fused the rules of the game, designed and led me into her trap step by step, and only when I thought I had won her, did she show her hole cards and fight against me!

Finished.

The president, who played the role of a judge, asked me to speak, but my mind was blank, is there a turning point for turning defeat into victory?