The first volume sharpens the sword

"Star Wars" tells us that if the beginning is too flashy and passionate, then the process can only write the ending, and the ending can only write the prequel. For the ups and downs, for the passion to flow, then allow me to start this book with a bland tone.

Chapter I

The Dali Dynasty is named after the Li River, the city of Ruzhou is located in the middle of the Li River, the throat of the world's trade routes, the upper can go directly to the capital of the capital of the Great Li Kingdom, the lower can be smooth and smooth all the way to the state of the state, cross the Yunfeng country and go straight to the East China Sea, Ruzhou has the name of the thoroughfare of the nine provinces in ancient times.

Inside and outside the city of Ruzhou in the spring of March, the spring breeze is intoxicating, the flowers are gorgeous, the catkins are flying, and the sun is shining and all things are lazy!

Occupy the geographical advantage of Ruzhou City, merchants gathered, plus the scenery is beautiful, there are many historical relics, so the literati and customers are all flocking to it, which makes the entire Ruzhou Street, including the willow forest on both sides of the Li River outside the city, every spring and autumn, are the crowds of people shoulder to shoulder, and the prosperity is not much better than that of Shangjing.

The ancients said that the weather was cool and autumnal, and the spring sun was lazy.

Zhiyan Hall is built along the river, not only the largest school in Ruzhou City, but also famous in the Dali Dynasty and even the entire Tianjian Continent, far away not to say how many emperors and teachers complement each other, it is said that the current emperor Di Fanglin is also here to study and enter Beijing to catch the exam, after the high school champion, all the way to the clouds, to now in the Dali country, under one person, above ten million people.

In the easternmost part of the Zhiyan Hall, a school specially opened for the children of the Di family, a gentleman with two gray temples and a thin long beard held the scriptures in his hand, shaking his head and shaking his head, and he was powerful. It's just that a group of eight, nine, and ten years old, dressed in brocade clothes and jade belts, have already followed the falling flowers on the river, and they are listlessly bowing their heads on the desk, and even more snoring, but it is also in contrast to the song and dance of the warbler in the willow forest outside the window.

Only a child of the Di family named Di Xinchen in the middle, sitting in a precarious position, staring straight at the book in his hand, seems to be combining what the teacher taught, studying and learning the righteousness, completely immersed in the scriptures, and has a self-cleaning demeanor that is not stained by the mud at a young age.

The old pedant who taught was a bachelor who was personally hired by the emperor Di Fanglin to return to his hometown. It's just that this former university scholar is a good hand at learning, and judging from the situation in the classroom, he has more than enough heart and not enough power to train this group of gentlemen, just like seeing a beautiful woman in his crotch can only sway.

The old pedant sighed secretly, and stopped what seemed to him to be full of charm, and to the children of the Di family it sounded boring and tasteless, like a lullaby. With a wave of his hand, he took the books on the desk and the ring ruler that had never been used, and the old pedant glanced up, but he saw that among the children of the Di family, it was not surprising to him, only Di Xinchen in the middle was still studying decently.

The old pedant's lonely face showed a smile of relief, the emperor Di Fanglin knew how much ink could be in his junior's stomach, and he had privately explained to the old scholar that he didn't dare to count on these Di family children to become successful, as long as there were one or two hopes.

Therefore, the old scholar has been here for half a year, and there is no pressure, at least there is a child of the Di family who is studying hard, and the monthly examination of the refutation of the scriptures, this child of the Di family named Di Xinchen, although he cannot be a blockbuster, but the results of each assessment can basically satisfy the old scholar.

The children of the Di family, who were still drowsy or had been snoring like thunder just now, immediately shouted "coaxing" when the old scholar stepped out of the school, and they all looked like they were alive and vigorous, and they still had a lazy appearance.

"Xinchen Xinchen, wake up, the old man is gone. A few companions who were good with Di Xinchen pushed the good students in the heart of the old pedant, and it seemed that he was really asleep.

"Everyone wakes up and I'm sleeping alone," Di Xinchen blinked his eyes, representing his farewell to Zhou Gong and officially returning to class, muttered a sentence in his mouth, raised his hand and subconsciously touched the corner of his lips, very good, this time he slept with his eyes open and improved his realm again, and he didn't drool anymore.

"Xinchen, hehe, you are sleeping with your eyes open here, can you teach us?" Several schoolchildren gathered around and laughed and repeated the old saying, this is not to say that they also want to fool the teacher like this, they are all a group of children, just for fun.

"Go, go, you have to find guilt when you are full of food and uncomfortable, don't you? I will sleep in the bright, let the old man beat me and try it? Brother Xinchen, hurry up and take us home to find the fortune teller to tell us the story of the demons and monsters!"

Di Xinjing stood beside Di Xinchen with her hands crossed her waist, and scanned the circle with white eyes in the posture of a tigress protecting her calf, and the people around Di Xinchen immediately retreated. It can be seen that this girl has ruined the name of "Xinjing" given to her by her parents.

"Everyone sleeps and I wake up alone, there is no way, you think I am willing to sleep with my eyes open like this to find guilt, I am not forced by you, if we don't even have a pretending to listen to the school, the teacher is angry and sues the uncle, Uncle Baozhun rushed back from Shangjing overnight, a family law down, we all bloom in the ass, you all stand with me and doze off!" Di Xinchen said old-fashioned, scheming and scheming did not match his nine-year-old age at all.

"Did you hear that, what a sin did Xinchen suffer alone in order to let us be lazy in the school, if you dare to mess around in the future, I will..." Di Xinjing said and climbed directly onto the heavy pear wood desk, staring at him with apricot eyes and rolling his sleeves, the meaning is very clear, whoever wants to disobey Miss Ben will face each other.

"Yes, yes, yes..."A few Di family children who were around Xinchen ran out of the school when they heard the wind, and went to the back door of Di Xinchen's house to wait first, that piece of land was the only fun they had when they came out of their homes to go to school every day. Why are they so afraid of Di Xinjing? It's very simple, although everyone is a child of the Di family, but there are also distant and close relatives in the family, right?

Di Xinjing's father and the contemporary head of the Di family, Emperor Di Fanglin, are brothers, Di Xinjing is the only seedling in the family, and in the entire Di family's "heart" generation, she is also the only daughter, and her parents don't say it, even the emperor Di Fanglin loves her like a pearl in her palm, and every time she returns from Beijing, she will inevitably bring her some snacks and gifts. Under the hearts of the people, how to make her "calm"? It is commonplace to make trouble, and arrogance is even better than the men of the Di family!

As the saying goes, one thing descends one thing, Di Xinjing, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, in front of Di Xinchen, who can sleep with his eyes open, that is a fart and a protector, in addition to Di Xinchen, who was clever and gloomy since he was a child, has a trick to clean her up, the main reason is that following Di Xinchen can hear some rare ghost stories, not Di Xinchen will make up and tell, but a one-eyed blind fortune teller in Ruzhou, only Di Xinchen can let him tell stories.

"Jing'er, don't come down yet. Di Xinchen said a word, and Di Xinjing, who was still majestic just now, stuck out his tongue cutely, and staggered down.

"Be careful, don't stumble like last time. Di Xinchen looked at her reckless appearance, and quickly reached out to hold her arm and help her.

"Brother Xinchen, why do you be able to satisfy the teacher every time you sleep?" Di Xinjing, who had been dominated by others, took the opportunity to satisfy his curiosity while following Di Xinchen along the winding corridor.

"Because you're stupid!" Di Xinchen said in his heart, the old pedant had only been here for three days, Di Xinchen found that he was short-sighted, he could see whether you were sleeping on the table or sitting and listening, but he would never see you cheating during the exam, as long as you were shrewd, it would be no longer a problem to copy the book every time you took the exam, which was why Di Xinchen could only satisfy the old scholar with every assessment and could not be a blockbuster. Of course, Di Xinchen would not say this reason.

"Brother Xinchen, why didn't he tell me stories when the fortune teller gave me gold, but he told you stories as soon as you went?" Di Xinjing has become accustomed to Di Xinchen's silence, or rather, it is Di Xinchen's unfathomable sense of mystery that makes Di Xinjing willing to be his follower, because in Di Xinjing's young heart, Di Xinchen is so magical, and he seems to have secrets that she can never uncover.

Mysterious men have a fatal attraction to women, and mysterious boys have a strong attraction to girls.

As for why the blind fortune teller would tell stories to this group of Di family children every time Di Xinchen was present, this Di Xinchen really didn't know. So he was still silent.

Zhiyan Hall is far away from the hustle and bustle of the street, in a deep alley by the river, the main entrance is a two-story quaint pavilion, a piece of green glazed tiles outline the eaves like bird wings, standing here listening to the sound of reading aloud inside, for the children who can not enter this school, there is a sense of urgency to be thirsty for knowledge, but for the children of the Di family who have no worries about food and clothing, this is hell.

Above the two quaint wooden doors, there is a gold-lettered signboard with varnish as the background, on which are the three glittering characters of "Zhiyantang" written by the emperor of the current Dali Kingdom, as well as a line of interpretation:

Know what you say, don't deceive yourself.

"Brother Xinchen, what does this line of commentary mean?" Di Xinjing once again played her surname of being curious and inquisitive about anything other than the scriptures, and her two watery eyes stared at Di Xinchen with a hint of pity and pleading, as if to say, this time you are not allowed to be silent anymore.

The meaning of this sentence is to warn us to know how much we can say, and not to pretend not to understand. "Di Xinchen, who entered the Zhiyan Hall at the age of five, has been here for four years, and he has learned something somewhat.

"Oh..."I don't know if Di Xinchen's explanation was still not thorough enough or he was not satisfied with his explanation, Di Xinjing's rare "Xinjing" was a rare "Xinjing", and a person behind Di Xinchen was thinking about his heart sullenly. More than a dozen maid guards waiting at the door of Zhiyan Hall followed behind the two young masters and young ladies from a distance, these people know the temper of this eldest lady, when she needs you, you have to appear by her side immediately with a gesture, when she doesn't greet you, you dare to appear within ten meters of her, and obediently go home to find the housekeeper to get the board.

After walking like this for half a mile, Di Xinjing spoke again, "Brother Xinchen, every time I ask you a question, you are mostly silent, because you don't know, so you don't dare to be arrogant, right?"

Di Xinchen, who played deep at a young age, couldn't pretend anymore, and he was still 'not surprised' on the surface, and he was already sweating in a hurry, and he couldn't wait to tear his mouth off, and explain to her what the meaning of that line was for? Isn't this a stone to shoot himself in the foot? It seems that people will become smarter as they grow up.

"Yes!" Di Xinchen cherished words like gold.

"Giggles" Di Xinjing's face changed as soon as she said it, and her face was as if it was going to rain just now, and immediately the sun was shining around Di Xinchen and let out a string of silver bell-like crisp laughter, "Brother Xinchen, you are the best for Jing'er." ”

"Me?" Di Xinchen was puzzled.

"That's right, because you didn't lie to Jing'er!"

Di Xinchen sweated profusely, the conscience of heaven and earth, he never told Jing'er the truth from beginning to end.