Chapter 52: Zi Xiaoxiao
Walking out of the hall of the office of the Enlightenment Academy, which was no different from the admissions office, Li Molan knew that her expression must be very ugly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
He licked his dry lips, looked at the black and white snow on Yichang Street, and felt that his heart was also cold and transparent like this silver on the ground at this moment.
"Two hundred taels ......"
When Li Molan said these three words, her heart had already been filled with resentment and anger, "The world's cultivation is all Daomen, and the Daomen are the first peak in the world, I really can't imagine that the dignified Daomen will actually make money on the registration fee, you must know that some small sects do not charge money when recruiting disciples, and the Daomen is just accepting a disciple from the outer sect, and the registration fee for the opening assessment of the Enlightenment Academy can be as high as two hundred taels? It is no wonder that there has been a shortage of talents in the world for the past two hundred years, and it was not until this area of Daomen that there was a new Daomen saintess who could inherit the Dao system, and the culprit was ...... That's the entry fee!"
Fragmented thoughts blamed all the problems of Daomen over the years on these two hundred taels, and Li Molan, who thought that he had seen through the essence of the rise and fall of Daomen, no longer bothered about these useless empty words.
After all, the registration fee of the Enlightenment Academy would not be refunded to him because of his brilliant argument as the finishing touch.
He now needs to be more concerned about his food, clothing, housing and transportation, as well as how he will live in the future.
Originally, I thought that the remaining living expenses of more than two hundred taels could be safely supported until March, but Li Molan and Qin Li didn't eat anything other than the vegetable wontons in Wutong Lane......
As a result, now there are only about seventy taels of silver left, and Li Molan is very doubtful that he can survive half a month by relying on this money.
As for surviving the coldest period of the New Year, staying up until the spring and snow of March, it sounds ......
It's been a long journey.
Occasionally, one or two scholars walked out of the hall of the office, discussing how to deal with the opening assessment of the Enlightenment Academy.
In addition to the question of monastic qualifications that have been determined in private, they are more concerned about whether they have seen those exam questions, which scriptures come from them, and which ancient scriptures will be the key and difficult points.
Fortunately, the young man was facing away from them at the moment, otherwise his current complexion, which seemed to be beating his chest in the next second, would inevitably be ridiculed fiercely.
The young man who was suffering for his livelihood no longer had the high spirits he had when he came over, and he raised his head expressionlessly and looked at the sky.
There were sparse snowflakes falling in the sky, not as big as the day before, and the usual light winter snow.
Lowering her head, Li Molan sighed.
"Hey...... You!"
A voice rang out from behind the young man, with some uncertainty and a faint anger that seemed to contain some anger.
Li Molan was stunned, thinking that this voice should not be the first time he had heard it, so he turned his head and looked behind him.
I don't know when a young girl was standing behind him.
This woman has a beautiful face, dressed as a disciple of the Daomen, she should be a person in the Daomen, but it is not clear whether she is an outer disciple of the Enlightenment Academy or an inner disciple on the holy mountain, but at this moment, the girl's face has anger that does not match the beautiful appearance, like a vicious tigress.
"It's you!"
Li Molan was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and took three steps back.
Back then, he and the old sword fairy with two goatees made a special detour to Lin'an City on their way back from the south of Beihai to the north of Beihai.
At that time, the weather in Lin'an City was still warm, and the dry old man and Li Molan walked on the streets of Lin'an City, and then at the instigation of the bad old man, Li Molan followed him to tease the girls passing by on the street.
I don't know if the old man did it intentionally, but he teased a female disciple from the inner gate of the Daomen, which caused people to be furious, and they started to do it on the street, chasing an old man and a young man in Lin'an City.
escaped from one end of Yichang Street to the other, knocked over a number of innocent passers-by along the way, and trampled on countless ants.
At the moment, it was very unfortunate that the female disciple of the Dao Sect who chased the two of them with a face full of shame and anger and slashed with a sword was now standing in front of Li Molan's eyes, looking at him with angry eyebrows.
"Hmm...... Long time no see?"
The young man showed an expression that he thought was very handsome, but his eyes looked carefully at the girl's cheek.
"Long time no see, long time no see, last time you escaped very fast!"
The girl was dressed as a female disciple of the Daomen, and she didn't carry a weapon, but just waved Bai Shengsheng's small fist and made a threatening appearance.
It looks a little cute, but in Li Molan's eyes, it's different.
"Don't see each other like that, I haven't seen each other for four or five years, you see that you still remember me, I still remember you, how can you say that we are also concerned......"
Li Molan was about to show off her clever tongue, but she saw that the dark color between the girl's eyebrows was even worse, and hurriedly changed her words: "...... At least it's fate, why don't you look bad when you meet like this, isn't it?
"Trouble?!"
The girl rolled up her sleeves, as if she was a boxer on the street who was preparing to fight with someone, her appearance was domineering, but her expression was very cold: "Last time you escaped, this time let you see how my aunt and grandmother made trouble!"
The girl's word "trouble" was very loud and sharp, and passers-by on the side all looked sideways, as if many ordinary people recognized the girl in front of them, and then looked at Li Molan in the blue scholar's shirt, and didn't understand what was going on.
"Stop, stop, girl...... Auntie, we were wrong last time, and you forgave me a lot?"
Li Molan smiled awkwardly.
Speaking of which, the last time it was all thanks to the bad old man, saying that his little white face deceived the little girl to be caught, but who knew that the girl in front of him didn't look at her face at all, and she was ready to do it when she turned her face on the street, causing an old man and a young man to flee in embarrassment, and they were the ones who were to blame.
"Hmph. ”
The girl looked at the pedestrians around her who were gathering their eyes, snorted heavily, and then asked in a cold voice, "What are you doing here?"
"I ...... I'm going to sign up for the opening exam in March. Li Molan explained.
The girl sneered and said, "You still participate in the assessment of the Enlightenment Academy?
Li Molan was speechless, after all, it was his fault last time, so he had to sigh and say: "This is my ambition after all." ”
The girl said, "If you are blind with such a beautiful face, I don't believe that a person like you can recite scriptures and read a hundred times day after day, even if you have a talent for cultivation, that kind of assessment is not something you can pass." ”
Li Molan was not annoyed either, and asked, "Grandma, are you a female disciple of the Enlightenment Academy, or ...... That Inner Sect disciple of the Dao Sect on the White Lotus Sacred Mountain?"
"Who is your aunt?" the girl snorted coldly: "This girl's name is Zi Xiaoxiao." ”
"It's called Li Molan. Li Molan lost no time in saying.
Ben girl hummed...... It's not a female student of the Enlightenment Academy, it's a true disciple of the Daomen!"
Zi Xiaoxiao showed a smug look, like a proud little swan.
She is talking about female students and real disciples, and in a sense, she also represents the difference between the Enlightenment Institute and the Daomen itself.
As the outer gate of the Dao Gate, the disciples inside can only claim to be students of the Dao Academy, but not disciples of the Dao Gate.
Similarly, in the eyes of the inner disciples of the Daomen, they are the true disciples of the Daomen, and the outer disciples of the Enlightenment Academy cannot be counted at all.
Li Molan was surprised: "It turned out to be a real disciple of the Dao Sect, disrespectful and disrespectful. ”
Zi Xiaoxiao's eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, and her tone was a little subtle: "You were quite disrespectful five years ago. ”
Li Molan smiled bitterly and shook her head, suddenly as if she remembered something, and said, "Zi Xiaoxiao......"
Zi Xiaoxiao's eyes kicked.
"Miss Zi......" Li Molan said helplessly: "This ...... What do you know about the opening assessment in March? When I first arrived, I really didn't know very well. ”
"Yo, aren't you quite confident, you straw bag, what, you want to get the exam questions from me?"
Zi Xiaoxiao still squinted her eyes, and said strangely: "Don't say it, I not only know the exam questions for this admission exam, but I also participated in the questions, although I only helped the elders of the sect design a few small questions, it is also quite difficult, at least you will definitely not be able to do it." ”
The professors of the Enlightenment Academy are generally the more idle elders in the Dao Sect.
Sometimes these lazy elders are in a bad mood, and they will also let some disciples of the Dao Sect go down the mountain to the Enlightenment Monastery and teach for them.
Therefore, the teachings in the Enlightenment Academy are disciples in the Daomen, and the professors are the elders of the Daomen, and the actual status is not very different.
After all, being able to become a true disciple of the Dao Sect is inherently gifted, and there is no problem in teaching in the Enlightenment Academy.
Li Molan said: "It's not true, but it's not very clear about the rules and regulations of the opening assessment...... By the way, I read the rules of the Enlightenment Academy, and I heard that you can enter the Enlightenment Academy without cultivating qualifications, what is going on?"
Although Zi Xiaoxiao didn't like Li Molan's ignorance of anything, she still explained seriously: "The reason why the Enlightenment Academy is named the word Enlightenment is to let people understand the true truth, everyone knows that the Enlightenment Academy has to assess the Four Books and Five Classics and other ancient scriptures, because reading is the only way to cultivate the soul." Only by truly understanding those books, all kinds of books from all over the world, can you raise your soul to the point where you can enter the realm of enlightenment. ”
As she spoke, she added: "So what the master of the Enlightenment Academy teaches is to read books and explain the principles in the book, and the other is to teach some kendo, or when the student is about to enter the realm of enlightenment, he will push behind him and mention a few sentences to help him have an epiphany." After entering the realm of enlightenment, the disciples who enter the Dao Gate will be screened according to their qualifications, and all the rest will stay in the Enlightenment Academy, waiting for graduation. And the temple itself...... There is no hard requirement for monastic qualifications, and even an ordinary scholar, after reading enough books and understanding enough truths, can serve as a teacher in the Enlightenment Academy, as long as he is not afraid of being looked down upon by his students. ”
"But if you don't have the qualifications to cultivate, no matter how much you study, no matter how powerful your soul is, what's the use?
Li Molan still didn't understand.
"In the past, there was no such rule, and a long time ago, the Enlightenment Academy did not admit any disciples who did not have the qi and vein dredging, because they could not cultivate the Tao, it would be meaningless. Until there was a person who broke the convention, although that person was not a disciple of my Daomen, and he had never even come to the Enlightenment Academy, but because of his accident, not only the rules of the Enlightenment Academy were changed, but even the Emperor Zizhai had revised the rules for recruiting people. ”
Zi Xiaoxiao said seriously, but when she talked about that person, there was a look of respect in her eyes.
"The elder brother of Akinayama?"
Li Molan asked strangely.
"Yes, it seems that you, a disciple, know a lot, don't you?"
Zi Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said: "The senior brother of Qiu Ming Mountain, adopted by the head of Qiu Ming Mountain, has read countless books since he was a child, read through the Taoist Collection, and understood the truth of the Quartet, and has begun to reveal the appearance of heaven and man, and is known as the Beihai Shuangjiao together with the Emperor Zizhai of the same period, and the Holy Maiden heard about it at that time...... I heard that it's still ...... Playing with mud ......"
Speaking of this, Zi Xiaoxiao's face turned red, and then he recovered and said: "Later, when this great disciple of Qiu Ming Mountain was tested at the age of fourteen, he was found to have a poor pulse in the first weather, unable to breathe out spiritual energy, and unable to cultivate the Tao, at that time, the world was in an uproar, almost a thousand people pointed out, even the disciples of Qiu Ming Mountain hated iron and steel for the senior brother who originally admired him very much, shook his head and sighed, it can be said that in the entire Beihai except for the head of Qiu Ming Mountain, no one can look down on this original pride of the sky. ”
However, in this case, the elder brother of Qiu Ming Mountain is neither humble nor arrogant, ignoring the criticism of the outside world, and still reading and writing on the mountain every day with peace of mind, watching the words of the world, and finally a few years ago, when the great disciple of Qiu Ming Mountain was about seventeen years old, he said that he wanted to cultivate, so he realized the Tao in a dream that night, and entered the realm of enlightenment, and then the Tao was broken into three in a year, and directly refreshed the "Emperor" of Emperor Zizhai The record of one and a half years of three entries set by Jun Buxie has been ranked as the strongest three of the young generation in Beihai at this moment with Jun Buxie of Emperor Zizhai and our Holy Maiden, and no one can compare. ”
"It's indeed a legend, and it's no wonder that the Enlightenment Academy has changed its rules, and not every kind of genius will be revealed immediately. ”
Li Molan said with admiration and admiration.
Zi Xiaoxiao's face was full of, probably because the senior brother of Qiu Mingshan was the prince charming of his dreams, and his eyes almost glowed.
Li Molan on the side pursed her lips, feeling that this girl's expression was no different from those fanatical fans who chased stars.