With five apprentices, Ran Jia still lived the days of eating, sleeping, and playing leisurely in the past, and occasionally dragged a few children to the market to play on a whim, but Jian Hall has been cold to her since that day.

Ran Jia was powerless in her heart, but she still insisted on not letting him become a ghost hunter, although a person's life is limited, they don't need to carry too much.

The two of them were at such a stalemate, and the servants in the courtyard were trembling in their work, for fear of making the world unhappy and being kicked out. With Ran Jia here, life in the house is much better, no different from other powerful families, the monthly routine in the courtyard of the prince has always been more than twice that of the servants in other courtyards in the house, and everyone usually would rather sweep the floor than worry about the prince all day long.

Now it's different, without the threat of demons and monsters, everyone is secretly working hard, wanting to work in this yard and earn more money.

Prince Jian and the princess were afraid that they would have a child in their womb, which would make Jian Hall feel a gap in his heart, and he ran more diligently than before, and he couldn't wait to come to see his eldest son three times a day.

After all, Jian Hall is their first child, and they have been together for more than 19 years, and their deep feelings are inseparable. What's more, they have never given up hope of letting Jian Hall live a normal life, look, now that the house is back to normal, they have ushered in a new life, and Jian Hall's body and bones are also very good.

Jian Hall's expression was faint, and there was a little less smile, and they put it down to worry and apprehension about the new life.

"Child, my father didn't want this child in the first place, your mother is almost forty years old now, and she has to go around the ghost gate, I'm scared when I think about it. However, when this baby comes, your mother insisted, saying that after she and I have been a hundred years old, someone will accompany you for the rest of your life.

Brotherhood and blood are connected, which is a kind of affection that no one can replace and give up.

Don't worry, although he is twenty years younger than you, you are still the most beloved child of me and your mother, and you are also the support of our old couple, and you will be the concern of your younger brother or sister. ”

King Jian patted Jian Hall on the shoulder, "Now I am very pleased with your mother, you can have a healthy body, and your life has just begun in the future." ”

"Father, I want to go to the academy to study," Jian Hall nodded, his face did not move, and he asked directly.

King Jian was stunned, he knew that his son was not a person who did not succeed in his heart, although Jian Hall was trapped in a palm-sized courtyard, maybe there was no interference from mundane things, this child was very smart, and sometimes he was used to sitting in this small courtyard when he encountered any troubles in the court.

This is a place that everyone in the house is taboo about, and it is also the place where there are the most supernatural events, but here lives his only son, looking at his son's pale and handsome appearance, his heart also calmed down, and all those impetuousness were dispersed.

He didn't say that Jian Hall never asked, occasionally he held back a few words, and Jian Hall was always able to make him pause with a sentence or two, and there was a breakthrough in the problem that he had been entangled for a long time.

So Jian Hall proposed to go to the academy to study, but King Jian was just worried, so he asked, "Did the little master say that you are in good health and can walk outside like ordinary people?" ”

Jian Hall curled the corners of his lips and nodded.

Prince Jian is the regent, he took over the burden of Xia Guojiang from his brother, and he hid all his emotions, and now his excited cheeks trembled, nodded and said yes again and again, and it took him a long time to calm down, and his hoarse voice said: "Child, what are you going to do?" ”

Jian Hall looked at the willow hanging by the pond with deep eyes, and said softly: "I want to participate in the imperial examination like ordinary scholars, serve the imperial court, and work for the welfare of the people." ”

"Well, it's really a good son of my father!"

If his son uses his mind in the right place, he will definitely be able to surpass his achievements.

Prince Jian sat for a while and left, his steps were so brisk that he couldn't wait to jump and jump to be able to express the happiness and excitement in his heart.

Ran Jia poked her head out, moved to Jian Hall step by step, and coughed lightly: "Na, I didn't listen on purpose, you also know that our ghost hunters are deaf and clear-sighted, and you don't shy away from talking to people, so I listened to it."

You, do you really want to go to the academy? ”

"Yes," he said, taking a sip of tea, his eyelids lowered and looking down at the figure reflected in the clear tea, his jaw tense, and they lived under the same roof, and he never looked up every day. I snubbed her unilaterally, and she also tried to avoid the opportunity to meet him as much as possible, and she appeared almost only during dinner.

Although she cares about the five newly accepted children, she has lost the strength to coax him in the past, and seems to really regard accompanying him as a task that cannot be pushed, perfunctory, and does not hide it at all.

"Don't worry, the little masters are still young, and they learn things quickly but need more time to digest. I teach them every one or two days for half a day, so I won't delay your big things. ”

Ran Jia puffed out her cheeks slightly, her eyebrows were helpless, she couldn't bear it, sighed and squatted down next to him, rested her hand on his knee, raised her head and stared at him with those clear and beautiful eyes, "Good apprentice, let's not quarrel, okay?" You are the same height in my heart as my father, and I want you to be able to live your life happily and do what you want to do in your heart, instead of being tied down.

Besides, you can't do spells, if you really become a ghost hunter, I can't be afraid all the time? ”

finally waited for her to show weakness and coax him, Jian Hall was not good to continue to take the shelf, and there was obvious grievance in her tone: "But I want to stay by your side all the time, I don't want to grow old by myself, and you are still like this." ”

His words almost didn't make Ran Jia cry, she never liked to look into the distance, and implemented the concept of a ghost hunter to get by. There are still too few people and things she has encountered, and she has not even experienced birth, old age, sickness and death that everyone feels deeply, and now she inevitably follows his words.

They have been getting along for more than half a year, and they have watched each other pass very slowly, but in a snap of a finger, a person's life has gone to a small piece, and dozens of such an instant, it is time for them to part.

The beauty Twilight is not better than the hero Twilight, and her face gradually dissipates in the years, but the friendship between them must be getting deeper and deeper, Ran Jia can't imagine that if one day Jian Hall completely withdraws from her life, leaving no trace, where will she go to cry and laugh?

Her eyes instantly turned red, "The world is impermanent, and maybe I ...... before you."

Jian Hall pulled her into his arms, hugged her tightly as if to make up for the lack of intimacy these days, if it weren't for Ran Jia's willingness to support his already firm and hard chest with his hands, he was afraid that he would be exposed.

Her little face flushed unusually, and her head rested on his shoulder.

"Didn't you say you would protect me for the rest of my life? I won't let you go first! He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "That Ran Jia, you can't give up halfway in life and doing things, since you don't accept me as an apprentice, I can't accompany you through hundreds of years, then please spend these decades, don't let me leave too many regrets, otherwise I won't let you go!" ”

Ran Jia opened her mouth, her pink lips were like a fresh fruit, full of bewilderment, "I know that you have a plot similar to that of a fledgling to me, I am a mortal and not a god, I really can't guarantee too much." But don't worry, since I have taken over this task from my father, I will definitely carry it out to the end.

You are not allowed to say such depressing words, I feel uncomfortable and panicked when I hear it. ”

Jian Hall chuckled and stroked her head, her heart was full of pity, and there was a deep sadness that could not be suppressed, she was already three years older than her, and the best years to accompany her were only one or twenty years old, and he would slowly grow old in the future, and she was still the same as yesterday, what should he do at that time?

For the first time, Ran Jia felt that the two were too intimate, and she did not reject them, but felt novel. In her impression, the beautiful father had never hugged her like this, and she had no idea of asking for a hug, she was running around like a leather monkey, and only when she was hungry would she run out of the horns.

If it weren't for the fact that she had a few senior sisters, otherwise she really didn't have the appearance of her daughter's family at all, and now she was wearing a man's clothes, she was even more self-free, plus she was on the top of the snowy mountain all the year round, developing later than ordinary people, she only came to the moon before going down the mountain, and now the two small buns on her chest are quite small, even if they are not restrained, they still can't make people think about her daughter's house.

"Ran Jia, will you go to the academy with me? Since your task is to protect me when I am alive, it is better for us to live these ten years together in a more unrestrained and chic way, and it will not be in vain for me to suffer in the next life. ”

Ran Jia nodded with crooked eyebrows, "It's good if you're happy." ”

"As long as you never change, I'm happy," the lines on his lips deepened.

The matter must have settled, so Prince Jian handed over the letter to Songshan Academy, and soon responded.

Songshan Academy was the most prestigious academy in the Xia Kingdom, and half of the students who passed the imperial examination and became officials came from Songshan Academy. There are countless protégés of the president of Songshan Academy, including powerful ministers, soldiers who have abandoned their pens and followed Rong, and there is no shortage of wealthy people in the business world. is the dean's arrogance that doesn't need to be polished by reality at all, and he can still be afraid of power.

The dean said that Songshan Academy was an ancestral property that was carried forward in his hands, and some rules were unbreakable, even if the prince came, he still had to abide by them.

King Jian knew that the dean didn't want to collect some straw bales to enter the hospital, in case the reputation of Songshan Academy was ruined.

An admission exam is not difficult at all, and Ran Jia entered the academy together as his scholar.

Since Songshan Academy is known as the "Semi-Imperial Examination", it has absolute strength and financial resources, and the students in the academy are all really talented and learned, because there is a tuition waiver for students from poor families but with outstanding achievements in the academy, which almost envelops Xie Yuan from all over the Xia Kingdom.