The train moves slowly through the undulating mountains, this is an earthy yellow world, no matter which angle and height you look at, all you can see is bare and closely connected, stretching towards the skyline, seemingly endless yellow earth slopes. Autumn is crisp, and the sky should be blue, but it also looks gray. The sun is lazy, without a trace of heat, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, desolate and desolate, together with a kind of vastness and heaviness that seems to have existed since ancient times, standing quietly between heaven and earth in the wind.

Longhai line, across Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi and Henan provinces, at the moment the train is passing through the Loess Plateau area at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu. This is a slow train, before the railway speeds up again, it is about to be eliminated, the big station and the small station are almost every station must stop, and the passengers who choose this train are either really unable to catch up with other trains, or they are people who are running back and forth in a short distance, so there are not many passengers on the car.

Although it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the inside of the carriage is still a little stuffy, and the scenery outside is unchanged, monotonous and depressing, and most people are drowsy. In the carriage, only the train's attendants pushed the convenience car, selling lunch drinks and tirelessly shuttling back and forth.

"Beer, cigarettes, mineral water...... just entered a carriage, and the waiter on the train suddenly saw a darkening eye, and in a gust of "whirring" wind, the train entered a tunnel. After a moment of visual darkness, the fluorescent lamps on the roof of the carriage brought the light back to normal. But at this moment of light and darkness, the train attendant shivered inexplicably, and even a layer of cold sweat appeared on his back and forehead.

"Hell yes!" muttering a sentence in his mouth, he reached out and wiped it on his forehead, pushed up the cart full of various convenience foods, and was about to continue walking, but he couldn't help but hesitate again, and he didn't know what was going on, the light emitted by the row of fluorescent lamps on the roof of the car seemed to be different from usual, and it was faintly a miserable white color.

The train attendant rubbed his eyes, sat down in an empty seat beside him, lit a cigarette, and planned to wait for the train to leave the tunnel before moving forward. Sitting next to him was a young man with glasses, looking at the lights reflected in the tunnel outside the car window. On the opposite side were two young men of the same age, one of whom seemed to be extremely bored, with his hands crossed and his ten fingers twisting and turning, and the other with his hands in front of his chest, closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

As soon as he finished smoking a cigarette, he raised his hand to look at his watch, and the train attendant suddenly broke out in a cold sweat again, and he finally realized that something was wrong. On this Longhai line, he has been running for more than ten years, and now the time is 2:10 in the afternoon, and he remembers that in another fifteen minutes, it will be a small county town. The length of this tunnel used to take only a few tens of seconds to pass, but after he finished smoking a cigarette, it was almost two minutes, but the train was still in the tunnel, and what was even more strange was that the speed of the train had not decreased, the whirring wind, and the light and shadow in the carriage flashed from the inner wall of the tunnel, but it gave people a sense of stillness.

When he was wondering, the train attendant suddenly felt a thick sleepiness welling up in his heart, and he fell asleep unconsciously, but at the moment when his eyelids closed, he seemed to see a faint red light on the two young people opposite.

The young student beside the train attendant also fell asleep in a sudden wave of tiredness, and was now immersed in a strange dream.

This is a moderate length and width, the bearing of the prosperous street, the street people come and go, rubbing shoulders, all dressed brightly, it seems that only under the feet of the Son of Heaven, can there be such a prosperous scene.

The two scholars walked together, but for some reason, one of them seemed to be in low spirits, and as he walked, he almost collided head-on with a carriage, but fortunately he was stopped by another person in time, "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, why are you in a trance?" ”

The scholar surnamed Zhang raised his head, but when he saw the whip-wielding coachman, he turned his head and glared at him angrily, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and smiled bitterly, "It's okay, maybe it's caused by the haggard heart in the past few days, and there is Brother Lao Shen." ”

Brother Shen paused, "Brother Zhang, if you are unwell, let's find a restaurant nearby, don't go to the banquet poems in Xiuchun Garden, and you and I will be the East Companion another day." ”

The scholar surnamed Zhang nodded, "That's fine, it's just that Brother Shen is also untrustworthy, and he is uneasy in his heart." ”

Then Brother Shen haha, "Brother Zhang, you and I are familiar at first sight, but there is no need to be so polite, Brother Zhang don't worry, this time the exam will come down, with Brother Zhang's talent, the Northwest Xie Yuan, the Gongshi Hui Yuan needless to say, when waiting for the palace examination, you will definitely be able to be holy and favored, this first champion position, it should be Brother Zhang." As for the next, a middle jinshi is enough to glorify the ancestors. ”

Walking not far away, I suddenly saw one side of the long street, and the people who usually took the exam with them were gathered around the hexagram stalls on the side of the road in twos and threes, asking about the future. On the street corner of this place, there are more than 10 hexagram stalls in a row, and there are flags hanging behind them, such as "Iron Mouth Divine Break", "Mai Divine Appearance", "Guigu Reincarnation", "Zhuge Divine Number" and so on. Although there are many hexagram stalls, they are still surrounded by groups.

The system of scientific research is generally divided into four levels. The hospital examination is only held in the local county government, the middle is the student, can become a public talent, and then it is a three-year examination of the township examination, and the one in the middle is a meritorious person in the body, and the name of the first class becomes Xie Yuan. At this time, only people can participate in the national examination has just ended, the whole world's lifters, gathered in Beijing, waiting for the release of the list of tribute, and finally can enter the temple pro-saint, promoted to Jinshi, and by the saint of the royal point out of the first champion, two lists, three flowers.

Therefore, except for those who have their own way and give up their money, most of the people will come here to tell a fortune, even if there are people who do not respect ghosts and gods on weekdays, they also want to ask for an auspicious word and ask for peace of mind. That Brother Shen pulled the scholar surnamed Zhang, "Brother Zhang, why don't we go and have a good time, maybe it's a sign." With that, he squeezed into the crowd.

The scholar surnamed Zhang shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, so he had to follow. But along the way, I couldn't find a vacant seat. There were all people in front of the hexagram stall. But seeing that some of the physiognomy masters shook their heads, their mouths were like a river, and some waved their sleeves and stroked their hair, not leaking their chances. Some of the listeners smiled and nodded, some sighed, and even wept.