Chapter 52: Seven Styles of Leaving the Sword
This time the exam went surprisingly well, and even the fifth Tingyun himself was very surprised. But now that it's done, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief and let it go for a while. As for the promotion and exemption qualification competition in one month and the national unified entrance examination in three months, the former is still considering whether to participate, and the latter he must also participate!
It would be nice if the master was here, he couldn't help but think of the occasional indecent teacher. With a teacher, at least he won't seem so helpless and hesitant. I don't know why the master went, he went for so long, and there was no letter for most of the month.
Without Ge Yunhai's suppression, there is no need to worry about the criminal department in the academy for the time being, and there will be no pressure to defeat anyone in a short period of time. Smelling all kinds of spices and meat, and listening to the unbridled gossip and gossip in the hall of the dining hall, he rarely found that he was just an inconspicuous member of the crowd.
Oh no, he can't be inconspicuous now, he thought as he ate and laughed.
The people around him walked wave after wave, but he ate for a long time alone, and people kept coming up to praise him, and he responded with a smile. It wasn't until now that he suddenly felt that he was gradually beginning to integrate into the circle of Nanshu Academy - he used to be upset and unwilling to deal with others, and the students also looked down on him, and there was a generation gap with him.
After eating, he still did not leave, and after waiting for half an hour, he ordered another pot of tea.
This was his old habit.
When a person is upset, in addition to going to sit in the stele forest, he also comes to the dining hall to choose a seat near the window and drink tea quietly.
This habit was learned from his father, the Fifth Kengawa. In the Fifth Virtuous Village, there don't seem to be many days of drinking, except for major festivals and clan events, the people of the Fifth Clan usually seem to be more willing to drink tea. The fifth Tingyun often wondered, maybe this is also related to the ancestral teachings of the fifth clan, how else would he raise an old master like his father?
But he hadn't come for tea in a long time.
Today is in a good mood, and he plans to taste it well.
The fifth listened to the clouds and sat down until dusk. When the yellow-orange sunset glow sprinkled on the lake outside the window, reflecting through the lake into the hall, he realized that it was almost dark.
After settling the bill, he returned to his dormitory and lit the candle on the table.
"What is this?" The candlelight filled the room, and at a glance he saw an extra book on the table.
When I picked it up and looked at it, it looked like a sketched manuscript, and it was neatly stacked on the table, not even binding. He carefully picked up the stack of papers, opened the first page, and the words that caught his eye made him tremble.
"Rough and shallow sword moves, attached to the seven styles of the sword - the teacher is left behind. ”
It's a teacher again! It's a teacher who is not a teacher!
It can be seen from the font that the person who left the book is not the teacher of the fifth Tingyun apprenticeship, but the teacher who left a dart to remind the fifth Tingyun to "be careful, there is fraud". This person is obviously not the teacher himself, but he has left his name as the teacher three times and twice, which seems to be hinting at something.
"Seven styles of the Leaving Sword? Isn't this the matching swordsmanship of the Leaving the Human Sword?"
As soon as he thought of this, the fifth hearing cloud hurriedly turned back.
There are only about twenty pieces of paper in total, and the front ones are all simple moves outlined in the form of pictures, or one person holding the sword, or two people dismantling the moves, and the calculation is only fifty or sixty moves. Only the last page was full of text, and he leaned together in the candlelight, and saw:
A sword is a true sword, and there is no sword in the flowers, leaves, peach branches, and wood;
A sword wind and thunder are angry, and the wind is thundering;
A sword is uneven, the sea is inclusive of hundreds of rivers, and the water is turbid;
A sword resents in his heart, and the destiny of heaven is reckless, and his hatred is lonely;
A sword away from people's worries, borrowing wine to sing their sorrows;
A sword forgets lovesickness, and the heart of the south and the north is uneasy;
A sword is right, people are right, and their hearts are right.
No more, no less, exactly seven sentences.
"This is the "Seven Styles of Leaving the Sword"?" Although the poor fifth Tingyun could recognize every word, and even understood the literal meaning when read together, he just didn't understand how these seven sentences were seven-style sword moves? Compared with the villain diagram on the previous twenty pages or so, these seven sentences were inevitably too obscure and difficult to understand.
After browsing the paper left by the "teacher", he fell into deep thought.
Who is this "Shifu"? What does he have to do with the real Shifu? What does he want to imply by borrowing the name of Shifu three times and twice? Also, his motives are puzzling every time, but they are not harmful to the fifth Tingyun. On the contrary, he also seems to be secretly helping the Fifth Tingyun.
For example, last time's "be careful, there is fraud", such as this time I sent a sword spectrum - let's call it a sword spectrum.
Moreover, how does the name "Seven Styles of Leaving the Sword" sound like the matching swordsmanship of the Liren Sword, although it is difficult to understand, but the more it is like this, the more unfathomable it seems, and further, the more it can explain its authenticity. Of course, it is also possible that the so-called Seven Styles of Leaving the Sword were made up by the hidden person at all.
In any case, these two "teachers" are becoming more and more "interesting".
Put away the sword spectrum, no matter what, the fifth Tingyun still decided to practice according to the sword spectrum first, even if it is made up blindly, it will not hurt him, right? Besides, he is currently thinking about engaging in another set of sword martial arts, and he has a sword in his hand but can't use it, how embarrassing is this.
After making up his mind, he cleared his finances again. It cost eight silver coins to buy "Tiger Roar Vowels", and six or seven hundred copper coins spent on a piecemeal meal these days, and now he has less than two silver coins left on his body, which is not counting the loose coins he picked out in the corner of the dormitory.
"At most, it will last for another five days, and after five days, we will have to drink the northwest wind again. Checking the trivial copper coins in his hand, the fifth Tingyun felt that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, and he used to spend pocket money lavishly and didn't pay attention, but now he is in charge and finds that life is not easy.
No, it was only this month that I earned ten silver coins from the academy, and now that's all I have left.
"I have to go into the mountains to see if I can make some money, no matter what, I have to prepare some travel expenses, maybe I will go to Jiaqing in a month." Rubbing the few copper coins in his hand, he silently made plans, "Well, yes, by the way, let's go to the mountains to practice martial arts, and find a few beasts to fight in real combat." I hope the criminal department won't stare at me too closely......"
By the way, he took out the lost and recovered Sumeru Ring from his arms, thinking that if only he had a chance to open the Sumeru Ring, my father must have left something for me inside. Thinking about it, he thought of his father, mother, and clansmen suffering in the prison of the Criminal Department, and he couldn't help but clench his fists again.
You can't stop moving forward!
Putting away the Sumeru ring, the fifth Tingyun sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed, closed his eyes and began to meditate. Although he had been running for thirty-six weeks (one hundred and eight weeks for him) a few days ago, and was in the consummation state of the quenching realm, he did not relax at all, and he did not fall into meditation while practicing martial arts. He wants to keep this state all the time, although the opportunity is accidental, but he does not doubt that God rewards hard work and comes naturally.
Well, but at the moment, he still hasn't found an opportunity to break through......