There is a place called Chaosi Lane in the outer city of Langya City, coincidentally, it has the same name as Chaosi Lane in Shuning Town, but the scope is much larger, and the width is enough for two carriages to run side by side.

There are noodle restaurants, taverns, study halls, and inns in Chaosi Lane.

There are a lot of busy people in the alley, so it is very lively.

Li Mengzhou is not a person who likes to be lively, but he still came here.

In addition to being surprised that the name of Chaosi Lane made him feel a little kind, the main reason was that there was a small courtyard that belonged to him.

This was arranged for him by the Heavenly Council, and it can be regarded as a meeting gift for him to join.

Although Li Mengzhou didn't know if everyone who joined the Heavenly Council could get a mansion, but if he didn't take advantage of it, he was a little glad that he didn't decisively refuse Qingyi.

After all, how difficult it is to have a yard of your own in the capital, Langya City is the first male city in the world, and it is also the capital of Jiang Kingdom, the residence here is naturally not more expensive than other cities, ordinary people in addition to being born in the capital, if you want to get a yard of your own, you have to work hard for several years or even more than ten years.

This is still those ordinary small courtyards, if it is a high-end mansion, I am afraid that ordinary people will not be able to earn it in their lifetime.

Of course, Li Mengzhou's residence is not a mansion, but it is not an ordinary small home, in addition to the main hall, there are three rooms including the master bedroom, there are separate kitchens, and there are also firewood rooms, and the kitchen and firewood rooms are in the backyard.

The backyard is very large, you can grow some vegetables by yourself, and in addition to the backyard there is a front yard, but the front yard is smaller, planted with a willow, a sycamore, the fallen leaves are covered under the snow, only a few lie flat on the snow.

For Li Mengzhou, who is only one person, this yard is big enough, and it may take dozens of taels of silver to buy it, or less or more, Li Mengzhou can't be sure, he only knows that this yard must be very expensive to buy, and he can't afford it, and now, this yard belongs to him, and he didn't spend a penny.

Of course, it is a good thing to get a yard for nothing, but the silver that the proprietress of Ning Lucheng gave him was already very little, and it has been spent in these two days.

If you don't have money, even if you have a place to live, you will inevitably go hungry.

Li Mengzhou was quite difficult.

Although he thinks that his face is not thin, it is difficult to ask for silver from the girl again, it is no longer thick-skinned, it is pure shamelessness.

People go to the Qinglou for silver, but he goes to the girl in the Qinglou to ask for silver, which is certainly a skill, but it is also easy to say.

And he is also a person who wants to save face, and the girl is so good to him, if he takes it for granted without shame, it will be really inappropriate.

As the saying goes, a penny is difficult to defeat a hero, although Li Mengzhou is not a hero, he also has to bend his waist for five buckets of rice.

Instead, he looked forward to whether the Heavenly Council would have any tasks for him, and whether there would be a reward for silver after completing the task, which would at least solve the urgent need.

There were still some copper coins in his hand, and Li Mengzhou also planned to break the jar and go to eat a full meal first.

The business of the restaurant in Chaosi Lane is not bad, and the price of a bowl of noodles is relatively cheap, and it can fill the stomach, which is the most suitable.

There is a noodle restaurant not far from his small courtyard, and opposite the small courtyard is a wine shop, and he still has a lot of wine in his wine gourd, so he did not choose to eat in the wine shop, although he can also eat in the wine shop.

The owner of the noodle restaurant is a woman, she has a husband who is sick in bed, has been married for many years and has no children, but she is also a poor person, these are all things that Li Mengzhou heard at random when he was eating noodles.

After all, as a neighbor, it is also necessary to build a good relationship.

Xu is a woman who takes care of a noodle restaurant alone and takes care of her sick husband, which is really miserable, so her complexion is a little sallow, her figure is also very out of shape, she looks unenergetic, and her face looks older than her actual age.

The woman was not yet forty years old, but she looked like she was fifty years old, and whether she was very good-looking when she was young, she had now become a yellow-faced woman.

Li Mengzhou ordered a bowl of noodle soup, the portion was very large, covered with chopped green onions, chopped carrots, and broken eggs, sprinkled with some pepper, a little spicy, a bite of noodles, it felt really comfortable.

This should be the best noodle soup Li Mengzhou has ever tasted.

According to the phenomenon of early marriage in Jiang Guo's secular world, the proprietress of the noodle restaurant is nearly forty years old, and according to the convention, the child should be older than Li Mengzhou, although Li Mengzhou does not know why the proprietress has no children, but the proprietress looks at him very kindly.

Originally, Li Mengzhou's dark face and not good dress were also equal to the status of the proprietress as an ordinary person, and in his eyes, he was naturally much kinder than the white young man of a rich family.

The noodle shop is not too busy, and the proprietress will occasionally chat with Li Mengzhou about some inconsequential things when she is free, and when she learns that Li Mengzhou lives in a small courtyard not far from the side, she will get closer, and she will come to eat noodles when she is hungry.

Li Mengzhou will not refuse, although this may be just a polite greeting from the proprietress, not to let him eat noodles for free, but Li Mengzhou thinks that this is also a good start, if he visits the door for a long time in the future, he can really eat noodles for free.

Li Mengzhou returned to the small courtyard after eating noodles, cleaned up a little, and felt a little tired, perhaps because of his mood, even if he was asked to fight with hundreds of people for a day and a night, he would not feel too tired, but for the boring cleaning work, it seemed that he couldn't use his strength, and he sat down on the chair after half cleaning, and didn't want to move anymore.

In the quiet courtyard, alone, Li Mengzhou abruptly recalled Chaosi Lane in Shuning Town, Wang Pan'er's mother and daughter, Cui Debt, and everyone in Shuning Town.

The same Chaosi Lane, different environments, different people, different circumstances, the same poverty.

In the next few days, Li Mengzhou almost never went out of the small courtyard, and it was about the same time as when he first arrived in the capital, and it snowed again in Langya City, and there was no thick quilt to wrap himself, and Li Mengzhou was not lightly frozen.

Although he didn't go out of the small courtyard most of the time, he was not ignorant of what was happening in the capital, because there was not much silver left, so he chose Bigu, and only when he couldn't bear it anymore did he take two copper coins to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodle soup.

The enrollment of Ewha Academy has begun, it is said that it is very lively, many powerful people in the court are present to invigilate the examination, and even heard that even the emperor is present in the examination room, and the six arts take an exam every day, it will take six days, and on the seventh day, the qualified students will be selected, and then on the morning of the eighth day, the students who will be admitted to the hospital and those who have been eliminated by regret will be announced.

It's the fifth day, which means that there is still one day left, and the academy assessment is over, just waiting for the results to come out.

Because of the enrollment of Ewha Academy, this matter is being discussed everywhere in the capital, even in Chaosi Lane.

When Li Mengzhou was eating noodle soup, he also heard some things that interested him.

In addition to those who do not have cultivation qualifications and those who have cultivation qualifications, the rest of the disciples in the cultivation mountain gate can also enter the academy, but they also have to participate in the assessment, but in addition to the six arts, there is one more subject.

It is a test that is completely aimed at cultivators, and there is a high chance that there will be an accident during the assessment, and it is common for people to vomit blood and get seriously injured during the assessment.

The practitioner's assessment is not only a single test of cultivation, but also the level of state of mind, the practitioner needs to bear the will of the Dao Heavens, if he can't bear it, he will lose his spirits at least, or he will vomit blood and be seriously injured, and he will be able to recover after recuperating on the sickbed for a few months.

The so-called Daotian will is an ethereal thing, Daotian is the source of the aura between heaven and earth, or a kind of belief of practitioners, that is the unknowable destiny that exists in the sky, because of the existence of Daotian, there is aura between heaven and earth, and with aura, there is life in the world, Daotian is the foundation of the world of cultivation, and it is also an unpredictable artistic conception, which can be called this world.

Cultivators believe in the Dao Heavens, but they are not afraid of the Dao Heavens, because cultivation is a long journey to contact the Dao Heavens, and even to surpass the Dao Heavens.