Annam, Annam, there is a meaning of living in a corner of the south, except for a number of dense primeval forests, there is really nothing famous in the world, if you really want to study it in detail, there is a college in Jingguo and even the whole continent has a reputation, that is the Hidden Mountain Academy.

When did Hidden Hill College come into existence?

It is said that the first president of Yinshan Academy, more than 400 years ago, assisted the first King Jing to end the chaos in the southern part of the mainland, achieved hegemony, and retired after success, and came to the land of Nanban at that time, which is now Annan County, and single-handedly established Yinshan College.

The first generation of King Jing remembered his merits, and paid more favors to Yinshan College, plus Yinshan College since the date of its establishment, amazing people frequently appeared, and those who were determined to enter the society entered the court and joined the army, and those who sent love to the landscape traveled the world without asking about the world. If you take a closer look at the history of Jingguo from beginning to end, it is not difficult to find that there seems to be a shadow of Hidden Mountain Academy everywhere. Since ancient times, there has been a term about the Hidden Mountain faction in the DPRK, which refers specifically to those who graduated from the Hidden Mountain Academy and then entered the court, but it is strange to say that these people never form gangs and factions because they are from the same family, and they become their own henchmen, but they will deliberately keep their distance. And it seems that they all have the temperament of the first president of Yinshan College, "go to the clothes after the matter, and hide the merit and fame". So even during the reign of the most absurd emperors of Jingguo, the royal family and the Hidden Mountain Academy were extremely close, and even after the contemporary King Jing opened up his way and allowed the world to argue with the previous dynasty, many historians speculated that in the darkest period of Jingguo, if there were not those few amazing people who came out of the Hidden Mountain Academy, I am afraid that Jingguo would have already fallen apart. This also shows what Hidden Mountain Academy means to Jingguo and to the Jing royal family, and how important it is.

However, what is somewhat embarrassing is that since the lowest period of the Prospect Country has passed, there has been no sound in the Hidden Mountain Academy for many years, Jingguo has gradually recovered, and the Jing royal family has also produced several generations of virtuous kings in a row, the national strength is growing, and everything in Jingguo is moving towards the light, at this time the Hidden Mountain Academy seems to be really hidden between the mountains and rivers.

And the purpose of Mei Wangchen's trip is to come to Hidden Mountain College to study.

Hidden Mountain Academy recruits students every five years, only for teenagers or girls over ten years old and under fifteen years old, so if you want to enter Hidden Mountain Academy, everyone only has one chance in a lifetime, and if you miss it, you will exceed the age range. There are no other enrollment restrictions except for age, which can be said to be very relaxed, but where is the famous Hidden Mountain College so easy to enter. If you are really lucky enough to enter the Hidden Mountain Academy to study, then you will basically embark on a sunny avenue, after all, both the military of Jingguo and the imperial court are waiting for the students of Hidden Mountain to join with warm open arms.

Labeled as a hidden mountain, it is like drawing a golden edge on life.

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Mei Wangchen and Brother Xiaojian had a discussion about free verse in the forest, so they stepped up their pace, and it only took half a day to reach a village at the foot of a mountain.

Yuyue Village, a remote dilapidated mountain village in Annan County, is nothing surprising, but every five years, this village will regain its vitality, because the Hidden Mountain Academy is about to open the mountain gate to recruit new students, and the location that has always recruited people will be selected in this plain small mountain village, every time at this time, this village will become overcrowded, and all kinds of people will fill the entire village.

Mei Wangchen and Brother Xiaojian arrived very late, it can be said that it was just in time, the Hidden Mountain Academy opened the mountain gate on the third day of the third month of March every five years, and today is already the second day of the third month of March, which means that they basically arrived on the last day.

The village has long been unable to live in people, and those who can live in the houses have to pay a lot of money, so those who can live are either rich or expensive.

There are many tents of different sizes and sizes around Yuyue Village, which are built by the wanderers who come to study by themselves, but they do not have to bear any costs, so the number of tents is much more than the number of houses.

Looking further away, there is a raised hillside, and there are more than a dozen carriages parked on top of the mountain, these carriages have a characteristic, that is, they are exquisite and luxurious, and they can only represent the real magnate when they can stop there, and they are the characters on the clouds of Jingguo, not just a casual nouveau riche can stop up.

The carriages on the hillside were reserved and condescending, and even when they arrived at a place like Hidden Mountain Academy, they still stood indifferently at the top, looking down at the thatched huts of Yuyue Village and the dense tents around them.

A few sparse figures could be faintly seen in the carriage, as if they were pointing at Yuyue Village under the hillside.

In their eyes, they are all the same, whether it is a rich man who can live in a grass hut for a lot of money, or a poor man who shelters from the wind and rain in a dilapidated tent on the very edge, but a bunch of humble insects, fantasizing about climbing the peak of the hidden mountain, hoping that in the future their children's carriage will also climb the slope of the mountain where they are now. It's ridiculous to think that the world is so big that they stand in a place where these bugs never even reach in their imaginations.

Of course, they will not show this contempt, because they are different from those nouveau riche, they pay attention to self-cultivation, heritage, and the thousand-year-old family standing in the storm without being surprised.

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However, none of this had anything to do with Mei Wangchen, he finally arrived at Yuyue Village on time, but he encountered some trouble.

It's getting late, and the sun is setting.

The sky was hazy and raining, lingering and tireary.

Mei Wangchen and Brother Xiaojian stood in the rain like two fools, the ground was wet and greasy and they couldn't sit, and the surroundings were very empty, there was no place for them to hide from the rain, and the tents in front of them were crowded with people, even if Mei Wangchen wanted to squeeze in with a dead face, he was afraid that he was powerless.

Mei Wangchen stood in the rain with a small sword, his face was ugly, like two stupid geese standing in the wind and rain.

Mei Wangchen may have been a little stupid in the rain, so that he didn't see a teenager running towards him, the young man lowered his head and raised his hands on his head to cover the rain, so naturally he didn't see Mei Wangchen.

"Bang!" the two collided.

Mei Wangchen sat down in the mud, rubbing his aching chest.

He turned his head and just wanted to scold a few words, but found that the round-faced boy who bumped into him had been scared into the third goose in the rain by an iron sword in front of him.

Mei Wangchen felt a little pain in his head, why did this stupid guy draw his sword at every turn, did he consider taking his broken sword to the mountain col, so that he could never pick it up again?

Mei Wangchen is a scoundrel, but he is also a reasonable scoundrel, but he accidentally bumped into a person he didn't know, and he was about to be cut into two pieces by a sharp sword, this kind of thing really doesn't make sense.

So he hurriedly stood up and glared at the little sword brother who was standing next to him with a sword and playing handsome, and then helped up the round-faced stupid goose boy who fell into the mud and was scared and retreated, and whispered a few words of apology, regardless of whether the other party listened or not, he took the little sword brother to the side to see if he could be lucky and find a tent that could be squeezed in.

However, Mei Wangchen and the two of them were really unlucky, and after looking for a long time, they found nothing except for a circle of white eyes.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it seems that there is a tendency to turn into a torrential rain, and Mei Wangchen's mood is getting worse and worse......

"Hey. Mei Wangchen seemed to hear someone shouting behind him.

Looking back, it was the round-faced young man who was scared stupid by Brother Xiaojian just now.

Forehead...... Mei Wangchen's first reaction was not to touch porcelain......

The round-faced young man naturally didn't come to touch porcelain, he glanced at the little sword brother standing beside Mei Wangchen with some fear, and then said with some uncertainty: "Are you looking for a place to hide from the rain?" or ...... Squeeze with us?"

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It's not the crowded tent full of the smell of sweat that Mei Wangchen imagined, nor is it a villager's house that only the rich can afford.

The round-faced boy sneaked them into a nearby wood, walked about half a cup of tea, and through the woods, a small cave with a faint glow of fire appeared in front of them.

The round-faced young man smiled at Mei Wangchen friendly, pointed to the cave, and said with a smile: "We came earlier, and we found this cave, although it is smaller, but it can still block the wind and rain, and no one knows about it......"

The round-faced young man glanced at Brother Xiaojian, and when he saw that the latter was still that cold appearance, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, he shrunk his neck, stopped talking, and walked inside with the two of them.

It is a karst cave that is ten zhang square, and it is also common in the mountains and forests of Annam-gun.

There was a burning fire in the cave, and there were six people sitting around the fire, four men and two women, all about the same age as Mei Wangchen.

When everyone saw that the round-faced young man suddenly brought back two strangers, they were suddenly a little nervous, and they stopped what they were doing and looked at the entrance of the cave.

The round-faced young man smiled and explained a few words to everyone in the cave, nothing more than telling about the vague collision in the rain just now, but he didn't know what the reason was, and he didn't mention the sharp sword light.

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After the round-faced young man finished speaking, the cave fell into a short silence, and then a slightly older young man with thick eyebrows took the lead in smiling and said: "I see that this rain will not stop for a while and a half, why don't you come in together to bake and eat something?" Since they are all here to take the entrance examination to Hidden Mountain Academy, I can't say that they will still be classmates in the future, and they will have a good time after entering the school. The thick-eyebrow boy spoke very calmly, and his tone was very friendly, giving people a feeling like a spring breeze.

Mei Wangchen was naturally not such a blended person, so he thanked him with a big grin, and then pulled the little sword brother to find a place near the fire and sat down, took off his shoes and socks and the cloth on the outside, and baked them on the big stone next to the fire.

Mei Wangchen's actions were a little rude, but the others in the cave didn't say anything, but a short-haired girl opposite Mei Wangchen who was carving wood with a knife held back her mouth and snorted coldly.

The thick-eyed young man who was like a spring breeze smiled and began to chat with Mei Wangchen, as if he didn't hear the cold snort of the short-haired girl at all.

Li Yuan threw a few sweet potatoes from nowhere in his arms and roasted them directly into the fire. Presumably he went out in the rain just now to get food, but it seems that he didn't get much to eat, and these few sweet potatoes are not enough to eat, but he got two more big living people......

The rain outside the cave was really heavy, and the sound of rain could be faintly heard in the cave.

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It was completely dark, but the fire in the cave was bright, and there was no cave.

Due to the enthusiasm of the thick-eyebrow boy, the atmosphere in the cave is not as embarrassing as when he first came in, coming and going, after all, they are all young teenagers and girls, and the meaning of vigilance will only be written on the face, where will it be buried in the heart, and then by a few scoundrel jokes said by Mei Wangchen, it will naturally completely dissipate, and after a while, the sweet potato is also ripe, and everyone begins to eat, although one person can't get a little, at least they can be hungry, it may be the relationship of being full, and everyone's chatterbox gradually opened.

From the chat, Mei Wangchen also roughly knew their situation, the round-faced young man who took them into the cave was called Li Yuan, and the oldest thick-eyed boy Zhao Fengchun was a fellow villager in the same village, both of them passed the township test one after the other, but they were not recommended by the government in the town to go to the city to go to public school, no way, so they wanted to take the path of the academy, and finally the people in the village gritted their teeth after thinking about it, and made some entanglements for the two children, so that they could try their luck at Yinshan Academy. Zhao Fengchun was the oldest and most calm among the people, and he faintly felt like the leader of this small group, so before Li Yuan took Mei Wangchen and them into the cave to avoid the rain, it was also the first thing he started to say.

Sitting on Mei Wangchen's left hand side is a pair of twin brothers, the elder brother's name is Qian Duan, he doesn't like to talk, the younger brother's name is Qian Rui, but he is very lively, the appearance of the two brothers is just like their names, it is difficult for people to confuse easily, but the younger brother Qian Rui has a scar on the corner of his right eyebrow, I heard that he accidentally fell when he was a child. However, Mei Wangchen was complaining in his heart, didn't he really fall deliberately for the sake of distinction? The Qian brothers are natives of Annan, and their family background is slightly better, I heard that the family is a small and clear family, but it has also declined in their generation, and their parents let them come to Yinshan Academy to try, and naturally they also have the expectation of reproducing the family crown.

At this time, there was a tall young man sitting on Mei Wangchen's right hand, twelve or thirteen years old, who had grown about the same height as an ordinary adult, but he was too thin, and he looked like a thin bamboo pole from a distance. His name is Sun Xiao, his name is laughing, and he naturally loves to laugh, after a little familiarity, he pulled Mei Wangchen to speak without a word, very enthusiastic, and familiar, just now Mei Wangchen and Brother Xiaojian walked in, it was he who gave a place and gave the good position to the two of them. From the chat, I learned that he had been an orphan since he was a child, rolling in the market year after year, and when he was a little older, he secretly rubbed the private school of a large family for a few days to listen to the class, learned a few words, and heard the old master say that the best thing in the Panorama Country is the Hidden Mountain Academy, so he came to try his luck.

After everyone chatted a few more words, Sun Xiao found that Mei Wangchen was actually alone and helpless, so his enthusiasm slowly faded, and he turned to laugh with others, especially to the Qian brothers, and to Zhao Fengchun was also polite, but he was much colder to Li Yuan, and he didn't care much about it. Mei Wangchen gradually noticed that when Sun Xiao was chatting, his eyes looked at the far corner of the fire intentionally or unintentionally.

There sat a young girl who looked down at a book, dressed ordinarily, with long hair, holding a wooden stick and coiling it up at will, not talking much, only when someone asked her head, she put down the book, answered a few words seriously, and her voice was slightly crisp.

It's just one thing, the girl's skin is really white, like the first snow in winter, clean, pure, and a little dazzling white, and then from the fire in the cave, it seems that the whole person exudes a faint milky white halo. The girl's facial features are not amazing, but they are also delicate, very attractive, look at a few more times, the more you look at it, the more comfortable you feel, just like drinking a pot of ice water in the middle of summer, refreshing people's hearts.

From Zhao Fengchun's whispered introduction, Mei Wangchen learned that this snow-white-skinned girl is called Fan Hanshu, and she is also a hard-working person, her parents died in a shipwreck in her early years, and she was raised by her vicious aunt's family. A young lady from a large family, with no gold or silver on her body, and no jade embellishments, wearing ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and even her hair is just a wooden stick, which shows that she is indeed down-and-out and a little pitiful.

The last person in the cave is the short-haired girl who hummed coldly before, surnamed Leng, with a single name Shan, who came out of a large tribe in the deep mountains of Annan County.

Annan is remote, as early as a thousand years ago, has not been civilized, few people have set foot in it, the local residents are mostly in the ancient tribal form of living in clusters, more than a thousand years have passed, Annan has also become Annan County, divided into the territory of Jingguo, but this original ecological form of life still retains their original style, the smaller tribes have long been extinct in the long river of time, and those left are basically large tribes, and although the Jingguo court has also set up a government agency in the tribe, but the rights are limited, in fact, they still acquiesce to manage their own internal affairs。

The short-haired girl's surname is Leng, but in Mei Wangchen's opinion, her personality is not cold at all, and she even has a hot temper, she goes straight to the point, likes it, hates it, and hates it, she has to pretend to be happy when she doesn't like it, in Leng Shan's words, this is the hypocrisy of these people in the east.

Mei Wangchen thought deeply about this, but smiled bitterly. Because in Leng Shan's heart, he didn't know if he was a hypocritical easterner, but judging from Leng Shan's behavior of just glaring at him without saying a word to him, in her heart, she must be annoying.

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It was late at night, and the young people around the fire were still chatting hotly.

The rain outside the cave had stopped, and since everyone was already familiar with each other, it was natural that Mei Wangchen and Brother Xiaojian would not be driven out of the cave again, although Leng Shan was very unhappy about this.

After chatting a lot, Mei Wangchen naturally knew a lot, for example, this group of boys and girls from all over the world just met on the way to Yinshan Academy, and everyone had pain and no support, so they went together. Another example is Zhao Fengchun, Li Yuan first met the Qian brothers in Dongming City, and then met Fan Hanshu, who was still sitting quietly on the side of the road reading after being abandoned by his family, and rescued Sun Xiao, who was beaten by the boss of the business house because he couldn't pay the car money when he first entered Annan County, and was rescued by Leng Shan from the mouth of the hungry tiger in the primeval forest, until the night, Li Yuan accidentally bumped into Mei Wangchen, who was standing in a daze in the rain, and then was frightened by a sword light of the little sword brother, and was dispelled by the firelight The nine people in the wet and cold small hole, relying on strange fate, gathered together, chatting, snuggling with each other, huddling together for warmth, although there is still a little cold, but it is better than nothing。