Ye Qiu's trip to Jingrong Town this time was a lot of money, and it can be said that he has both people and money. Ye Qiu not only gave Mingyue's 1,500 gold coins to Mingyue, but also gave Mingyue interest. For Mingyue, Ye Qiu took her on a walk to the rivers and lakes for free to do chivalrous deeds, and had to give her an extra sum of money, which made her embarrassed, Mingyue wanted to refuse to think that this was a bit of a woman's demeanor, but then she thought of who made Ye Qiu her third brother, isn't it natural for her brother to spoil her sister, at most, I won't name the two little Wang Ba Ye Qiu No. 1 or 2 in the future. Then Mingyue happily counted the money Ye Qiu gave her, and cast an inquiring gaze as if to say if it was a little less.

On the way back to the city, because there were more Guo Xie masters and apprentices, it seemed more lively. Mingyue still maintained the excitement when she first set off, and kept asking Guo Xie and Mo Yuanbo about the things on the rivers and lakes along the way, and heard that the two traveled from Yanzhou to Jizhou along the way, which made Mingyue yearn for it, and she couldn't wait to let Guo Jie's master and apprentice move to Mingfu to tell her stories every day. This walk in the rivers and lakes is very complete for Mingyue, and this time she went to the small town of Pingyang more than 300 kilometers away without her parents. Although this distance doesn't seem to be so far compared to Guo Jie's master and apprentice, but for Mingyue, it can be regarded as a trip to the rivers and lakes, Mingyue thought that the old master who often taught her also said that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a foot", step by step, on the way back, Mingyue kept thinking about these things in her head.

When Ye Qiu and his party had already taken the carriage back to Pingyang City, Yang Ji and his party were still worried at the Yaohua station. Yang Fu was not only broken an arm, but the dantian qi sea was even destroyed by Yang Jizhi. As a monk, without the aura of the sea of qi, there is no way to condense and operate the aura, if the meridians are forcibly operated, the pain will not stop, until the meridians are broken and die, for Yang Fu, one thing is good is that the previous physique is still there, even if you can't use the aura, you can still be a martial artist, but the operation of qi and blood will also be affected by it. And Yang Shiqi is mouth full of teeth have been stripped off, and his swollen face has been reduced a lot after treatment, but it is still a big circle, Yang Shiqi's appearance is also handsome, plus he has a good background, he is the core figure in the circle on weekdays, and he is complimented by others, where has he suffered like this. In fact, Yang Shiqi did not suffer too much internal injury, and the injury he suffered would not affect his continued martial arts practice, and what made Yang Shiqi the most uncomfortable was that kind of humiliation.

When Yang Shiqi woke up, he was like crazy, and he kept vaguely shouting that he was going to kill Ye Qiu. Yang Jizhi came to Yang Shiqi's room, Yang Shiqi, who was still venting, saw Yang Jizhi walk in with a blue face, Yang Shiqi saw his uncle's expression, and he was a little stunned and stopped yelling. Yang Jizhi was very fond of this nephew because he had no heirs, so seeing Yang Shiqi's appearance, Yang Jizhi was also angry in his heart, but he knew that he had to endure it at that time, and at the same time, he had to continue to show favor to Ye Qiu at that time.

Yang Jizhi said coldly to Yang Shiqi: "What is the matter of a husband being able to bend and stretch, the one who laughs last is the real winner." If you're a coward, you don't deserve to win. Originally, there was your eldest brother, and your father and I didn't think that you would have a big future, but if you want to take revenge yourself, from today onwards, you will follow me to do things except for school, and don't mess around with your group of fox friends all day long. If you can't get me away, don't let me see you, you can make trouble wherever you like. ”

Although Yang Shiqi is domineering, he is not stupid, on the contrary, Yang Shiqi also has his own cleverness, but he has never suffered this kind of humiliation, which is a little difficult to accept for a while, and it can be understood, Yang Shiqi clenched his hands and looked at Yang Jizhi with anger in his eyes, although he didn't speak, but Yang Jizhi could feel Yang Shiqi's anger and thoughts. Yang Jizhi suddenly felt that this matter was not all bad, if this matter could make Yang Shiqi wake up, it would not be a bad thing, Yang Jizhi explained some precautions to Yang Shiqi and then returned to the room to wait for the news from Pingyang City. Because he knew the existence of Zhongbo, Yang Jizhi didn't dare to arrange for someone to stare at Ye Qiu for fear of getting on fire when the time came, so Yang Jizhi didn't know that Ye Qiu had left the town. In this way, in the evening, a worshipper who had left the town before midnight took an old man to Yang Jizhi's residence. Yang Jizhi saw the arrival of the old man, and finally put back his hanging heart, and then Yang Jizhi took Yang Shiqi and began to return to Pingyang City.

When Ye Qiu and his entourage took the carriage back to the Ye family on Changchun Street in Pingyang City, it was already a child, and the Ye family's two rooms and one vein were all gone, and Ye Qiu was left in the Ye Mansion.

The subordinates of the Ye Mansion gave Ye Qiu a letter from Yanbei. Ye Qiu's hands holding the letter when he saw that it was his grandfather Ye Qinglin sent it, couldn't help but tremble a little with excitement, the content of Ye Qinglin's letter was like a common saying: "Qiu'er, your father and mother have returned safely from the Yin Mountain experience, and your father and mother have confirmed the location of the lower sect of the Shushan Sword Sect about the location of the lower sect of the Shushan Sword Sect." I have already informed your grandfather about this matter, and after you receive the letter, you will go to your uncle's house and tell him about Ling Yun's preparation to establish the Sword Sect of the Shushan Sword Sect, and ask him to help more. Your father and I are fine, don't hope. ”

After Ye Qiu read the content of the letter, he knew that it seemed that the matter of the vibranium vein had been decided, and now he was going to inform Ye Jinwen, and it happened that Ye Jinwen also asked Ye Qiu to meet him after returning to the city, but at this time, it was already over, Ye Qiu was ready to rest first and then go to Ye Jinwen tomorrow.

After Ye Qiu woke up early in the morning of the second day, he asked Mo Yuanbo and Guo Xie to first move on their own to familiarize themselves with Pingyang City, and then Ye Qiu called Shangzhong Bo to go to Ye Mansion on Changde Street together, and Ye Qiu wanted to visit Ye Jinwen. Mingyue was also a little homesick because she was away from home for half a month, so she went back to Mingfu directly last night. Now that the New Year has passed, but there is still a little Spring Festival atmosphere on the street, Ye Qiu came to Ye Mansion and was told that Ye Jinwen had gone to the government of Pingyang City. Ye Jinwen is the third rank of the Shao Yin official of Pingyang City, and the post of Shao Yin is the deputy of the prefect of Pingyang City (Fu Yin), which is equivalent to the second-in-command of Pingyang City, because Pingyang City is the state capital, so it is half a cut higher than the ordinary city at the administrative level. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the holidays of the various departments of the imperial court will end, and the normal working hours will begin to resume. Ye Qiu saw that Ye Jinwen should go, so he said goodbye and left first.

Ye Qiu was going to go to Xiuning Academy first, because the academy was about half a month later than the vacation time of other departments of the imperial court, and the opening time of the academy was after the first month. Ye Qiu is exactly 15 years old this year, and he is about to apply for Xiuning College, since Ye Jinwen should go, Ye Qiu is ready to go to Xiuning College to register for the entrance assessment first. Because of the vast territory and large population of Great Xia, the nine official colleges of Great Xia will regularly enroll students every month except for the winter and summer vacations. Ye Qiu's birthday is on September 22, so the latest time for Ye Qiu to participate in the academy assessment is September this year, and if he turns 15 years old in September, he will exceed the standard. However, in order to carry out his next plan, Ye Qiu was ready to participate in the February assessment and enter the academy as soon as possible.

Ye Qiu and Zhongbo came to Xiuning College, located in the west of Pingyang City, Xiuning College, as the highest institution of learning in Jizhou, is currently the largest building complex in Pingyang City. Xiuning College occupies 100 square kilometers (15 million acres) of the entire area of Pingyang City, but it accommodates only 400,000 students, which is only 1/1000 of Pingyang City. Because of the large area of the city, the location of Xiuning College is closer to the outside of the city, and the straight-line distance from the west gate of Xiuning College to the city gate is fifteen kilometers. Xiuning College is located in the southwest of Binh Duong City, and the north gate of the college is adjacent to Anding Street.

Pingyang City is divided into four by four avenues with a width of 33 zhang in the southeast and northwest, namely Changle Street (East), Yongning Street (South), Anding Street (West), and Anyuan Street (North), and the four avenues have been built from the city gate to the four streets of Changqing, Changping, Changchun and Changshou. The houses on both sides of the four avenues are lined up one after another, and the traffic is busy every day. It took Ye Qiu about half an hour to get from Changde Street to Xiuning College.

Xiuning Academy's three academies of literature and weapons, the Academy of Literature and the Academy of Weapons have enrollment restrictions, the monthly enrollment of the Academy of Literature only recruits the first 2,000 people who participate in the assessment in that month, and the Academy of Weapons is a little more than the enrollment of the first 5,000 people, while the enrollment of the Academy of Martial Arts is not restricted, as long as you can reach the Peiyuan realm before the age of fifteen, you are eligible to become a student of the Academy of Martial Arts. Although the enrollment of the martial arts academy is not restricted, the enrollment of the martial arts academy every time is the least, because the people who have the talent to practice martial arts are one out of a hundred, and there are fewer people who are qualified, and some of the people who have the talent to practice martial arts will go to the academy of literature or be recruited by the Jianghu sect, so the average number of people who are willing to come to the martial arts academy is about 1,000 per session. Xiuning College enrolls students 10 times a year, with about 80,000 new students every year, and the students graduate in 5 years, so the number of students in the school is basically maintained at 400,000. It sounds like 400,000 people is a lot, but the actual proportion is far less than 1/10,000 of Jizhou's population, which is only the official statistics of the registered population, plus the non-registered proportion is definitely less than 1/10,000.

Xiuning Academy's Three Academies of Literary Weapons were not well-known among the nine academies in the entire Great Xia. The Martial Academy is not as good as the Yuelu Academy in Liangzhou, and the Martial Arts Academy of Yuelu Academy is full of talents, which can be called the first of the nine martial arts academies in Great Xia; the Academy of Literature is not as good as the White Deer Cave Academy in Yangzhou, and more than forty percent of the Jinshi in Yangzhou are from Yangzhou White Deer Cave College; the Academy has Yingtian College in Jingzhou, and Yingtian Academy is named after Yingtian City, the capital of Great Xia, which is a collection of all great achievements, and is located at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there are countless capable people under the root of the imperial city. Xiuning College is also inferior to the three colleges of Yongzhou Baima, Xuzhou Songyang, and Yuzhou Kunlun, so it can only rank lower among the nine colleges in Daxia.

But despite this, even the worst academy is more profound than the first-class forces in the rivers and lakes. The deans of the nine colleges are also official positions, and the nine deans of the colleges directly report to the Holy Emperor after consultation with the cabinet on some daily matters, and are directly under the jurisdiction of the Holy Emperor. The minimum requirements for the teaching and training of the martial arts academy in the academy must be monks of the spiritual transformation realm, and the gentlemen of the academy are at least born and not less than 40 years old, and they have studied for more than 20 years, and most of the teaching and training of the academy are transferred from the Shaofu supervisor and the ordnance supervisor of the Ministry of Industry. As the name suggests, the ordnance supervisor is mainly a way to refine weapons and mainly uses weapons for the army to charge into battle, while the Shaofu supervisor has a wide range of industries, including formations, pills, manufacturing, surveying, construction and so on. As long as he passed the audit of the Great Xia Imperial Court and became a teacher of the Great Xia Academy, in addition to receiving the Yulu, he also gave himself an extra layer of protection, if he dared to kill the teacher of the academy in Great Xia, it was a capital crime, and if he was found in Great Xia, he would not be soft, this law is not limited to the city. Therefore, people who apply for the position of college teacher in Daxia are eager to apply.

Ye Qiu and Zhongbo came to the north gate of Xiuning Academy, the college was surrounded by a wall of three zhang and three feet high, each of the four walls was 10 kilometers long, four gates and four small gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the small gate was only accessible to the students of the academy, and outsiders could only register and enter and exit from the gate. The door of the north gate is three zhang wide and four and a half zhang high, and there is a door plaque with the word Xiuning written on the top of the door, and the list of students who have passed the monthly assessment is posted on the walls on both sides of the north gate. Xiuning Xiuning College has three academies of literature and weapons, the martial arts academy is in the west, the academy of literature is in the east, the instrument academy is in the south, and the north side is mainly the assessment site and the working accommodation place of the teachers of the college. Xiuning College in addition to the vacation period of the year, the north gate is always the most lively, Xiuning College enrollment every month every day in the enrollment assessment, because there are too many students to participate in the assessment, every day from Jizhou from all over the world to rush to the exam. The first two weeks of each month are the assessment of the Academy of Liberal Arts, and the last two weeks are the assessment of the Academy of Instruments, and the assessment of the Academy of Martial Arts only needs one day to be assessed on the penultimate day at the end of the month, and then the students who have passed the examination of the month will be released on the last day of the month. The reason why the Martial Academy only takes one day is because the Martial Academy does not need to be assessed and ranked, and it is mainly verified that it is indeed possible to enter the school after reaching the Peiyuan realm at the age of fifteen. In the past, there were many people who did not meet the standards to fake, and Great Xia specially issued a law for this purpose, punishing fifteen days of imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 copper coins for those who deliberately disrupted this kind of assessment, and since then, basically no one has come to blind assessments.

Because the Academy of Liberal Arts and the Academy of Instruments involve ranking and elimination, everyone in the Academy of Letters has three opportunities to be assessed, and if they are not admitted three times, they cannot be examined, and the Academy of Instruments has five opportunities to be assessed. Although it has just passed the first month, but the north gate has been lively, many students are taking advantage of the fact that there are many candidates on the road just after the first month, taking advantage of this opportunity to pass a higher rate, if you wait until February and March, there will only be more and more candidates. To participate in the assessment, you need to go to the student in advance to collect the application form and fill it out, and then pay the assessment fee, and the college will arrange the assessment time and place. Ye Qiu came to the registration office, probably because there were not too many candidates queuing up at this time just after the first month, and after a while, they lined up to Ye Qiu.

The teacher of the college who is responsible for the registration and application today is called Xiao Shuai, Xiao Shuai is a native of the west city of Pingyang City. Xiao Shuai couldn't help but get a logistics job in Xiuning College, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a very good job to work in Xiuning College, but in fact, he knows how cold and warm he is. The welfare of the teachers in the academy is indeed not better than that of most officials of the same level, but for the other logistics staff in the academy, although the treatment is also good, the difference between them and the teachers is 108,000 miles. Ordinary people don't know that for Xiao Shuai, after getting this job, the neighbors are impressed with him, and they can't help but become arrogant about it, and they are a little unhappy when they are arranged to apply for the exam today.

Ye Qiu came to Xiao Shuai and handed over his application form, Xiao Shuai took a cursory look at Ye Qiu's information and said to Ye Qiu: "The assessment fee of the Academy of Literature is 500 copper coins, and the assessment fee of the Academy of Instruments is 200 copper coins, and an additional 1,000 copper coins will be charged for the handling of others." ”

Ye Qiu handed over his household registration, Xiao Shuai looked at the portrait on the household registration and Ye Qiu himself and found that he handled it, it seemed that there was nothing to earn and then said coldly: "After paying the exam fee, you leave a mailing address, and you will be notified of the exam time at that time." ”

Ye Qiu paid the fee, then left his mailing address and left with Zhongbo. When Xiao Shuai was classifying Ye Qiu's information, his eyes widened when he inadvertently saw Ye Qiuliu's mailing address with the five big characters of Yefu on Changchun Street, and then looked up just in time to see Ye Qiu sitting in a carriage with a logo engraved with the word Ye. Xiao Shuai is now remorseful in his heart, people who can live in a place like Changchun Street are either rich or expensive, and they generally don't come to sign up in person, but they have people in the house to do it for them. If he had a warm attitude just now, he might be able to take this opportunity to leave a good impression on Ye Qiu, and it would not hurt him to break out in a cold sweat when he thought of his attitude just now, and now he was worried about reprisals, Xiao Shuai got this job and the people who came to propose his relatives were about to break through the threshold of his family, among them there was indeed a woman Xiao Shuai liked, Xiao Shuai didn't want to mess up his work because of this matter, and when the time came, he would be empty of people and money. Xiao Shuai only hoped that Ye Qiu would not care about his attitude, Xiao Shuai began to cheer up, and put on a kind face to the next candidates. Ye Qiu didn't have any thoughts about this matter, he and Zhongbo had bought some medicinal herbs in the town before, although they were cheap, they were not particularly complete, and they were more complete in Pingyang City, plus they had obtained a lot of money from the Yang family, and Ye Qiu was going to buy some medicinal herbs.