Chapter 1 Double Examination and Three Provincial Literary Champions
The New Year has just passed, but it can be regarded as spring.
However, this year's winter seems to be reluctant to leave, the north wind blows in the academy, and the humid and cold air fills the road, so that the students who are already content with enjoyment are reluctant to go out.
"That's fine......" Looking at the pedestrians on the road leading from the teaching building to the dormitory area, the fifth Tingyun nodded silently and accelerated towards the champion stele forest behind the teaching building.
The cold wind wrapped tighter.
It looks like heavy rain is coming.
The Champion Stele Forest, as the name suggests, is that the school has engraved the names of the champions on the stone tablets, and those steles are now the size of a forest. It can be seen that this school has a deep heritage.
Fifth, listening to the clouds arrived quickly.
When he was in a bad mood in the academy, he would always sit alone in this stele forest, just as he would go to the firewood stand in the back mountain to solve the problem when he was at home. So, he should be familiar with this place, but it seems to be different today.
In the past, there was always no human figure in the stele forest, but at this time, a mother and daughter were pointing at the names on the stele. If it was just two more people, it wouldn't have attracted the attention of the fifth Tingyun, and what made him feel strange was that it hadn't rained yet, and the mother and daughter were actually holding a purple-black umbrella!
The mother and daughter seemed to be talking so vigorously that they didn't even notice that there was an extra person behind them.
"Mommy, Mommy. I have decided, I will also come to Nanshu Academy, there are a lot of champions here!" Although the fifth Tingyun was just looking at the back of this little girl, he vaguely felt from her voice that she was just a cute doll about ten years old.
"Okay, okay, maybe our little girl's name will be engraved on it in the future~" The mother seemed to scratch the little girl's nose, and said dotingly.
The little girl giggled and laughed, "What is called, it must be accurate! I must leave my name on it, and I will keep a few more, like him, three, four, five! In any case, more than him......" she said, pointing her finger at the nearest stone tablet.
The farther the stele goes, the closer the year is to the present.
Unfortunately, the little girl is now referring to the champion tablet that records the names of the champions of the last ten years.
"Silly girl, it's enough to leave a maximum of two such names......" The mother smiled helplessly, as if she was also amused by her daughter. If a child a few years older said this, it would definitely provoke ridicule, but who called the little girl only ten years old, how did she know what the name on this list meant?
"Hmph, what's the use of keeping so much!"
Originally, listening to the words of the mother and daughter, the fifth Tingyun didn't mean to interject. But the more he heard the back, the more angry he became, how could he not know who the "he" in the little girl's mouth was referring to, and wasn't he the one who left the most name on this list?
It's not enough for him to remember this shame all the time, does he need a little girl to remind him, laugh at him, and humiliate him?!
Everyone is proud of being on the list, but he is ashamed of being on the list.
He clenched his fists, trying to keep his anger under control.
"This little brother, the little girl is innocent and open-mouthed, if you say the wrong thing, you will be more responsible. The mother and daughter finally found that there was another person behind them, although the woman was angry for some reason that the young man in front of her was angry for no reason, but her gentle temperament made her pay for her daughter in the first place.
When the little girl saw the big brother's displeased face, she was also so frightened that she couldn't open her mouth.
"Heh, what am I doing here......" Fifth Tingyun ignored the woman's words, when he saw the delicate and gentle faces of the mother and daughter, he already regretted it in his heart, and said to himself helplessly, "Fifth Tingyun, have you forgotten the family motto of the Fifth Family?" Gentle, kind, courteous, thrifty, and letting, what have you done......
He smiled self-deprecatingly in his muttering, then passed by the mother and daughter, and walked to a monument and sat down. For him, this stone monument was not an honor, but a tombstone that weighed on his heart.
It's been almost three years, and the stele here is getting heavier and heavier.
It was so overwhelming that he almost wanted to go into the ground and couldn't sleep.
The mother and daughter with the umbrella were still talking in a low voice, but the fifth Tingyun had no intention of listening.
The rain was still falling.
At first, it was a drizzle, and after a few thunders, it was like a splash in the blink of an eye. The spring rain can also fall so heavily, which is something that the fifth Tingyun did not expect.
The bean-sized raindrops were like a curtain that was worn out, and the fifth hearing cloud was drenched through the face. But he still didn't move, and he usually didn't move when he wasn't in a good mood.
"Fifth brother, Teacher Ge Yunhai is looking for you everywhere. ”
There was a sudden crackling of footsteps in the rain, and the fifth hearing cloud opened his eyes and saw a boy about thirteen years old running over with an umbrella. He recognized the boy, but he didn't know his name, only that there was always such a little doll behind Ge Yunhai's ass.
"Ge Yunhai, what is he looking for me?"
Fifth, Tingyun drooped his eyelids, obviously not thinking that this person would have anything good to do when he came to him.
"How do I know? It's just that Mr. Ge asked me to tell you that he seems to have found the problem with your body, and it's up to you whether you go or not. ”
The boy didn't mean to step forward to hold an umbrella for the fifth Tingyun, and although he called him "big brother", there was no fear or respect in his words.
"What?" Fifth Tingyun didn't care about the child's attitude, there was still a generation gap between people with an age difference of three or four years and him. As soon as he rolled over, he jumped up and asked eagerly, "What did you say?"
The little boy didn't answer.
Fifth Tingyun didn't seem to want an answer, because he had already heard clearly, and he could hear such an important matter clearly even once! He wiped his face, shook off the rain, and then despite being soaked, he pulled his legs and was about to rush to Ge Yunhai's office.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he took the first step, two figures, one tall and one short, stopped him: "Big brother is the fifth Tingyun?"
Of course, it was the mother and daughter who stopped him, and the fifth Tingyun looked at the little girl's somewhat excited look, but he felt that he had been ridiculed again, so he said coldly: "What's the matter with you?!" After speaking, he ignored it again, and ran out around the mother and daughter.
It's just that at the moment when he passed by the mother and daughter, he saw the huge and sturdy purple and black umbrella in the hands of the mother and daughter, and suddenly felt that something was wrong with these two people. Could it be that they knew that the rain would be so heavy, so they prepared an umbrella that could hold four people?
Such a thought was only a fleeting thought, because now he had more important things to focus on.
"Hey, that's crazy. When the fifth Tingyun had completely run away, the little boy who came to inform him snorted in the direction of the fifth Tingyun's departure with disdain.
"Is he really the fifth Tingyun?" the little girl moved under her mother's umbrella and asked the boy, "Is that the fifth Tingyun on the stele?" The little girl was afraid that the boy would not understand the point of her question, and deliberately stretched out her hand to point to the champion tablet at the front.
Anyone will become a gentleman in front of a little girl, let alone such a peugeot little girl.
Of course, this boy was no exception, he put away his disdainful look and said with a smile: "It's not him, you can't find a second one with the surname 'fifth' in this school." Originally, his brother was still there last year, but now his brother has been admitted to a higher school......"
"He's so good that he can make a name on it twice. As she spoke, the little girl ignored the boy completely, and moved her eyes to the stone tablet with sincere reverence and admiration.
The mother just smiled and did not interrupt her daughter's true feelings.
Some things don't have to be debunked on the spot, and when you get older, you will naturally understand.
But there are always people who like to spoil the scenery.
The boy laughed unceremoniously and said, "What's so great about him!" After two years of taking the exam, he won the top prize twice, but his results in the martial arts examination were extremely unbearable, and I heard that he was eliminated in the first round of the martial arts examination in the first year. This year is the third year, but there is still no trace of Yuan Force in his dantian, such a person is actually a waste, what's the use of leaving more names?"
"Oh, that's right. ”
The little girl pouted, and then stopped talking, not knowing what she was thinking.
"He does read a lot of books, otherwise he can't be a literary champion every time, but there is no way, he can't absorb Yuan Li by his own waste, so he can only give up practicing martial arts and hope to read books......" The boy was still muttering, not noticing that the little girl had not listened to him anymore.
On the contrary, the mother seemed to be interested: "Little friend, how do you know that he has given up martial arts?"
"That's what everyone said, saying that the fifth Tingyun was born a waste of firewood and couldn't absorb Yuan Nali, and also said that he gave up on himself and simply didn't take martial arts classes...... "In the face of adults, children will always be a little timid, so the boy reluctantly told the truth.
The mother smiled noncommittally, gently put her arm around the little girl's shoulder, and said, "Lian'er, let's go." ”
"Mom, I want to go see him. The little girl blinked her watery eyes, pointed in the direction where the fifth Tingyun left, and pleaded, "I know why he was so fierce just now, because he was afraid, he was afraid that others would mention the Champion Monument and mention his name on the Champion Monument......"
Still smiling, the mother looked at her daughter's face and motioned for her to continue.
"Others are proud of being on the list, but he is ashamed of it, because he can't cultivate, he can't practice martial arts, others say he's a waste, they say he can't do this, he can't do that...... It may also be said that he only knows how to read books and read dead books in a day. When he looked at the name on the stele, he didn't feel how glorious it was, but felt that it was a sarcasm for him...... That's why he just murdered me......"
The mother scratched the little girl's nose affectionately and asked, "Don't you blame him for being so fierce?"
The little girl shook her head.
"It's just different for a child to think about things...... "The mother touched the little girl's head and said, "Let's go and see." ”
The little girl said "um" and took her mother's hand and jumped away. The mother and daughter did not notice the complicated expression of the boy behind them, and of course the boy did not understand the mother and daughter's behavior.
The rain continued unabated.
On the road leading from the school building to the dormitory, there is already more than an inch of stagnant water.
The little girl had taken off her shoes and put them in her hands, and she was jumping barefoot very happily. The mother held a large umbrella in her hand, and let the rain pour down, but not a single trace could enter the umbrella.