So Zhou Xun held the lantern in one hand, grabbed the soft ladder in the other, and stepped on the ladder woven with knots with both feet, and went down slowly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The lantern was yellow, but after a long time, the color had faded, and now it was a little whitish, and the pale yellow light shone on the wall of the well.

There was no moss or aquatic weeds on the wall of the well, and it was apparently a dry well before, with no water at all, and the dry wall of the well was rough to the touch.

"Strange, this well, even if it's a dry well, shouldn't it be so dry? It's so clean, there's no moisture at all! It stands to reason that such a shady place is generally a little moist and gathers a little moisture, why is it so dry? ”

Zhou Xun was a little drumming in his heart, and all kinds of indescribable stories were recalled in his mind.

However, he was already halfway down, and he hesitated, looked down, and continued to climb down.

The bottom of the well was here, not too deep, just as he had speculated.

At this time, the light of the lantern also shines at the bottom of the well.

Stepping on your feet, this texture, is it sand?

When I looked down, it was all yellow sand.

Looking around again, there was nothing, except for an iron cable on the wall of the well.

Zhou Xun stepped forward to take a look.

A small silver-white fish, lying dying on the sand, with a thin and long iron cable, piercing its gills, dressed it, locked at the bottom of the well.

Putting the lantern close to the silver-white fish, Zhou Xun looked at it carefully.

This fish has a silvery-white body and a short beard, but the palm is large, and it happens to be a little longer than Zhou Xun's right palm.

It could be a special loach.

Strangely, there was no water at all, and the fish was slightly undulating, and it didn't look like it was dying of thirst.

"This can't be what Daddy brought back from the Dragon Palace, right? A small fish? ”

Zhou Xun thought secretly in his heart.

He wasn't going to reach for it, who knows if the fish had become a zombie fish?

After looking at it for a while, the fish didn't change much, it still opened its lips and opened and closed slightly, looking half-dead.

"This fish is weird, I'll go back and ask my dad what he says. This is on the edge of the ancestral hall, and this time he can't shirk and say he doesn't know. ”

The candle in the lantern itself was only a small section, and now half of it had melted.

Seeing that the time was not short, Zhou Xun hurriedly grabbed the soft ladder and climbed it up.

After a while, someone will find out that he is not there, and it will not be easy to explain at that time.

He climbed up slowly with the lantern, and accidentally dropped the fire breaker, which landed at the bottom of the well, making a little noise.

Behind it, the wilting silver fish quietly opened its eyes・・・・・・

When I came up, the candles in the lantern just melted away, and the small candle that had been used and discarded was finally dead.

Zhou Xun rolled out of the borehole, fell to the ground, patted his body, turned his head and patted his back.

"Can't you get this garment dirty, hey, where's my firecrack?"

His fire fold has fluff and special grease in it, and it will ignite when you wipe it lightly, and you can put it back when you are done, and it is cleverly designed and not easy to destroy.

Zhou Xun likes this gadget very much, usually, a few boys build a fire outside, barbecue sweet potatoes and potatoes, and use a slingshot to bake birds and eat them, not to mention how delicious it is.

"Oh no, this is falling, it must be in the well, and I have to go down again."

At this time, Zhou Xun didn't have time to go down again, and he vaguely heard someone calling him.

Hurriedly ran into the warehouse, put the lantern back in its place, ran to the ancestral hall again, obediently took out a stick of incense, and lit it on the candle in the main house of the ancestral hall.

Then, in order to be realistic, Zhou Xun leaned over again, puffed up his cheeks, and blew fiercely, blowing cigarettes and filling the vicinity of the ancestral hall.

"Ahem, that's pretty much it!"

After choking on the smoke twice, Zhou Xun was satisfied to see that the incense had burned for a while, and it looked like it had been burning for a while.

Then, on the large incense burner, plug it in, and make a look of worshipping the ancestors.

Soon, footsteps could be heard outside.

A little guy ran over, and when he saw Zhou Xun, he was overjoyed.

"Young master, hurry up, the master is here, waiting for you?"

Zhou Xun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw someone coming.

This person is the subordinate he usually calls, the little guy who follows him, called Liu San, three generations of the family are in the Zhou family, he is a typical family child, and his grandfather has been a slave who signed the deed of sale from the beginning.

"Which master?"

Liu San replied.

"It's Xun or Master Xun of the scriptures!"

The literary style of the Zhou family is very prosperous, and there are also people in the ancestors who have taken the imperial examination, and they have passed the meritorious examination, and they are even more famous in Zhou Gui, and they have long been regarded as the local scholarly family.

There are those who teach poetry, those who teach piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and those who teach the Four Books and the Five Classics・・・・・・

Anyway, the literati's things, as long as they are touched, basically let Zhou Xun learn them.

According to Zhou Gui's words, it is "I don't ask you to be proficient in everything, at least others are talking about this, you can't be ignorant and lose the face of my Zhou family!" ”。

However, what those masters teach are some basic things, after all, nine-year-old children are still cultivating interests, and they can't take this seriously, and the imperial examination is the most important.

As for practicing martial arts・・・・・・ this is a teacher that Zhou Xun himself pestered Zhou Gui to go to the mountain to cultivate, and when he begged to no avail, Zhou Gui had to invite a teacher.

Originally, he was a veteran in the army, he was a military commander, and he also had achievements in martial arts, and he could lift a stone mill weighing thousands of catties with both hands, and he used it as a weapon to wave half a pillar of incense.

Of course, he taught Zhou Xun to practice martial arts, but it was a deputy position, and his main job was to train family members and nurses.

It's not a stable year, and there are no thirty or fifty people at home who can fight, and they can't sleep at all.

Xun or Xun Fuzi, who teaches Jingyi, is different, he has a deep study of Jingyi, and he is also a person, if it weren't for Zhou Gui's friendship, it would be impossible for him to condescend to give a lecture to a half-sized son.

Master Xun is old, he is fifty years old, what he is best at in his life is to study the scriptures, he is an old pedant, he usually likes to keep a straight face, Zhou Xun is most afraid of him being angry.

Hearing that Master Xun was coming, Zhou Xun hurriedly trotted and went to the main hall.

"Young master, be careful, the master is going to ask questions!"

When Zhou Xun arrived at the main hall of the reception, Zhou Gui was already drinking tea with Xun He, and the two were chatting, and from time to time they would chant two crooked poems・・・・・・

Zhou Xun came to the door panting, and first tidied up his appearance, so as not to be disrespectful to the division commander, which is a terrible crime.

Then, with his head held high, he strode into the hall.

"Disciple Zhou Xun greets the master!"

The head is to make a deep bow, this Jingyi teacher is different from others, does not belong to miscellaneous studies, is a serious imperial examination subject, naturally the status of this Xun master is above the rest of the masters, second only to the enlightenment teacher, deserves this great gift.