Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself!

There is a city in the north, called Hanjiang City

People say: Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow

In the winter of Hanjiang City, there is a lot of snowfall, and it is often a few weeks at a time. But the people here have been accustomed to this kind of weather since the city was founded.

The people of the city wore heavy cotton jackets to keep out the cold. However, there was a young man in the city, dressed in a single coat, which seemed to have been sewn and mended many times, and many of the colors of the clothes were washed and yellowed. It's broken, but it's clean.

The boy walks on the street, revealing a particularly strange temperament, as if he is one with the city.

The boy had a delicate face, often squinting his eyes and a gentle smile. The boy's hands knew how to turn red, and it could be seen that he was cold, but the cold did not erase the boy's smile!

Yes, the existence of this young man, every part of his body, proves one thing, he is so different!

The boy greets everyone who passes by! The people who walk by the boy's neighborhood will smile back at the boy no matter whether they are sad or troubled before!

"Good morning, boy!" The uncle who bought the cooking cake handed the young man a piece of hot cooking cake, "Eat, warm up!"

"Thank you, uncle!"

"Young man, why are you still wearing such a little on this snowy day. Tomorrow my aunt will bring you two jackets, my kid used to wear them, and now he can't wear them anymore when he grows up, so I'll just give them to you!"

"Thank you, auntie!"

Everyone in the city seems to be exceptionally good with this young man.

The boy walked out of the city and walked all the way to the river. At this time, the surface of the river was already covered with thick ice and heavy snow, and people could be seen walking on the river. This is the winter cold river, to be precise, except for summer, the other three seasons, the cold river is frozen.

Take out the ice chisel and fishing rod that you bring with you. Finding a piece of ice that few people walked, the boy began to bang on the ice. The boy was beating very seriously, and it could be seen from his movements that he had done this thing countless times, and the ice hole knocked out was not big or small, and there were no cracks in the surrounding ice surface. After knocking on the ice cubes, the young man drank a lot of warmth, and even the sweat droplets on his forehead could be seen.

The boy sat alone on the ice and began the morning's work - fishing. People call this kind of fishing ice fishing, which means fishing on the ice!

In the cold wind, Lang Lang was a young man, motionless looking at the fishing line in the water.

"Hey, hooked!" the boy's mouth showed a bigger smile! It seems to be able to warm the snowy cold river and feel the warmth of the distant south of the Yangtze River.

Today, all the people in Hanjiang City live the same ordinary life as usual, there are no waves, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, which are all part of life.

At the gate of Hanjiang City, several luxurious carriages gradually drove into the city, and the destination kept heading in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion! Several carriages all had the same flag on them: a heroic man, wearing armor, holding a sword in one hand and a book in the other! It seemed that the two things were so incongruous, but they did not affect the majesty of the banner at all.

Pedestrians on the road, seeing the carriage, gave way one after another, put down what they were doing, and looked at the carriage as if they were saluting!

At this time, the teenager had finished the morning ice fishing, too. When everyone was saluting, the young man was also looking at the carriage, but he was not saluting, he was just curious about the new food, the cold river city in the remote area of the empire, the weather was extremely cold, and few people had traveled long distances to come here! However, these carriages were not ordinary people's things at first glance, they were either rich or expensive. Why did you come back to the remote Hanjiang City?

The curtain of one of the carriages was lifted, revealing a picture of the girl on either side, and the girl looked beautiful when she looked about eleven or twelve years old! The girl looked at the people outside, and everyone who was about to look at her lowered their heads, not daring to look at her. But there is one exception.

When the girl sees the boy, the boy also looks at her! A momentary gaze does not necessarily have a moving story, but must have countless exchanges! Fate is so wonderful!

The girl saw the young man's delicate face, a gentle smile, and eyes narrowed into crescent moons! The smile did not show teeth, and the girl had a feeling at that moment: A girl may not be as good as him when she laughs, and when she sees the young man's eyes, what kind of eyes are they? Bright, thorough, spotless, as if you can read his heart directly! But when she saw the clothes on the boy's body, the girl subconsciously had an indescribable feeling, disdain? No, no! Sympathy? No, even more! That feeling is a little sad, a little sympathetic, and a little self-pride! Worry about your body, the cold wind can pass? Mourn your life, heaven and earth can be bullied?

The boy naturally saw the girl, he saw the girl's face, of course, he could only see the face! There was a faint sadness on his face, and when he saw the girl's eyes, he could see many things from a person's eyes, and the boy saw it, he saw the girl's natural pride, and he also saw the deep sadness in the girl's heart! So he smiled more gently! This is not ridicule, it is reassuring, a eye contact: tell you that I saw it, but it doesn't matter!

In a short period of time, the eyes of the girl and the teenager in the carriage made eye contact, as well as their respective emotions!

The carriage went on, and the girl lowered the curtains! The boy went on his way, in the opposite direction, but in a moment it was there.

The carriage arrived at the city lord's mansion, and the city lord who had already received the news came out early to greet him, the city lord of Hanjiang City was a middle-aged man who looked a little strong, surnamed Cheng, and was originally a military general, because he disobeyed military orders on the battlefield, because he had made great contributions before, so he was just removed from his post and sent to a remote town to be a city lord!

The people on the carriage came down one after another in a group of eight people, and the girl was naturally among them!

Seeing people getting down from the carriage, the lord of Hanjiang City greeted him: "Welcome to Hanjiang City, a remote town in Hanjiang, to entertain all the people of the Han Dynasty!"

"Lord Castle Lord, you're welcome!"

Among the eight people, an old man with a little white hair stepped forward, and it seemed that he was the leader of the eight people!

"It's cold outside, please come with me into the house to talk! I have asked my servants to prepare the room, and have built a fire in the hall! After a long journey, go first to rest and rest!"

"I'm in trouble with the city lord!"

"Yes, everybody, please!"

Everyone followed the city lord into the city lord's mansion, although Hanjiang is a remote and small city, it is not rich, but after all, this is the city lord's mansion, the place where the lord of a city lives, although it is not as good as the palace courtyard, but it is also quite exquisite!

When I came to the hall, the fire in the hall had been burning for a long time, and the warmth filled the hall!

"Please be seated, I'll have tea and pastries served!"

"Thank you, City Lord!"

After a while, the next people put a plate of exquisite pastries in front of everyone!

"Presumably, the city lord knows our intention to come this time! Your Majesty is kind this time, the Imperial Academy recruits students from all over the country, and students from anywhere can apply for the Imperial Academy, even if they are far away from the border!"

"Your Majesty is merciful, in previous years, the enrollment of the Imperial Academy, not to mention the application for the examination in a remote town like our Hanjiang City, will not even be issued here!

"We will take it to Hanjiang City this time, and we will return in about seven days! I hope that the city lord will inform the people in the city in time!"

"Don't worry, Cheng has already made preparations, just now I have asked all the guards in the city to post a notice to inform the people!

"Then thank you to the city lord!"

When everyone arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, the young man had already returned home! A small house that was not spacious, and the house was spotlessly clean! The young man was cooking the river fish that had been transferred in the morning! The thick white soup and the tender fish meat were in the kitchen!

The young man was doing what he was doing seriously, and he still had a smile on his face! He felt satisfied from the bottom of his heart, this ordinary life was what he liked!

But all the people in the city knew that his life might have been uneventful! But when he was three years old, his father died in battle, and his mother became depressed when she heard the bad news, and at the age of five she finally left him with excessive injuries, and after that, the neighbors began to take care of him, and wore hundreds of clothes!

Instead of relying on the handouts of his neighbors, he learned to fish, chop wood, cook, and sew clothes, but a boy as young as eight would do this, and only so that he would not starve. So since he was nine years old, he went fishing every morning, went to the school in the afternoon to study, and went to chop wood in the evening!

After eating lunch and replenishing his strength, the boy took out his book and walked towards the school!

From the first day, he conscientiously memorized every bit of knowledge taught by his teacher! The teachers in the academy will not call you to practice or call you military! They teach humanities, literacy, writing, astronomy and geography, and common sense in the world! Learning is chaotic, but this is what human beings who want to survive must learn, and it is enlightenment!

Of course, if you want to practice, or study military affairs, or become a scholar, you have to go to the academy! There are a total of eight academies in the empire, and the largest and best one is of course named after the empire - the Academy of Astrolabe. Then there are the Gilt Academy, the Aoki Academy, the Soft Water Academy, the Flame Academy, the Houtu Academy, the Imperial Military Academy, and the Imperial Research Academy.

The first six of them all have a desirable and unique discipline: spiritual practice!

And the Imperial Military Academy and the Research Academy are to give those who can't practice a chance to use their abilities to serve the Empire!

These eight academies are all in the imperial capital of the Astrolabe Empire, Dragon City!