Faced with a sudden cold arrow, Xu Chengye panicked directly, and he didn't have time to dodge.

Sou...... Burst!

The sharp arrow hit the scribe's scarf he was wearing, leaving it in the bun.

In a panic, the tune he was playing was interrupted, and the soldiers in charge of the defense disappeared.

Qin Mo put away the brush and won.

Everyone's eyes widened, and they, like Xu Chengye, didn't believe what they saw.

Xu Chengye is the most unwilling person, the first three rounds are his main attack, although he failed to gain the upper hand, but he also firmly controlled the rhythm of the fight, just changed to the defensive, Qin Mo seized the opportunity to defeat the enemy with one move.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, you won't believe it.

Only Xiucai, who served as the referee, could still remain calm, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and announced loudly: "The competition is over, and the winner is Qin Mo!"

Xu Chengye wanted to oppose it loudly, he was not convinced, losing to a new boy, where would he put his face?

The reason why he cheekily challenged Qin Mo was to avenge his younger brother, and secondly, to help the Xu family regain face, but now not only did he not get what he wanted, but he lost face.

He Chang smiled and said: "Ziyi's trick 'open gun and hidden arrow' is very good, and he caught the other party off guard, and now I believe it, you really taught it very well." ”

Gu Meng shook his head: "To tell you the truth, I didn't teach him 'open guns and hidden arrows'." ”

"Are you sure?" He Chang's eyes widened.

"I'm very sure!" Gu Meng Zhengse said: "The four-character [ligature] of soldiers, I only taught him 'one husband is a pass', and it is obvious that this trick 'open gun and hidden arrow' was realized by himself." ”

He Chang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "In just two days, Ziyi has not only mastered the [Ligature] Soldier, but also can teach himself a move, and the most important thing is to defeat the pre-test Xiucai who is higher than his level, he is simply a natural calligrapher. ”

Gu Meng looked up at He Chang, and stopped talking.

At the end of the competition, in the face of more and more ridiculed eyes, Xu Chengye turned around and left.

"Hey, are you just leaving, don't you say something?" Qin Mo shouted to stop him.

The referee echoed: "Yes, the whole county knows what your competition is for, Xu Chengye, you lost, should you fulfill your previous promise?"

Xu Chengye's chest rose and fell for a while, he took a few deep breaths one after another, slowly turned around, gritted his teeth and said, "Qin Mo, if you win, our Xu family will keep its promise and no longer trouble you, otherwise heaven will not tolerate it." ”

With that, he walked away quickly.

Qin Mo shrugged, and his classmates gathered around him to congratulate him.

......

Xiayi County, Hongbin Inn.

Zhang Wenqi lived in the best upper room, and it was already the seventh day.

He once boasted in front of the family elders that he would definitely defeat Qin Mo and obtain the quota to enter the Holy Pagoda Enlightenment, but in the end he failed.

For this quota, the family first turned the relationship and transferred him from the Nanjing Fu Wendao College to the Xiayi County Literary Academy, and then customized the Changge Spring and Autumn Pen, the seal of the former general of the Han Dynasty and other things, which cost a lot.

But the final result was that Zhang Wenqi lost to Qin Mo twice and failed to get the place.

He felt that he had no face to continue to wander in the Xiayi County Literary Academy, and he had no face to go back to see the family elders, so he lived here.

A man who looked like a scholar walked in from outside, and said with excitement on his face: "Young master, good news!"

"What good news can there be?" Zhang Wenqi was completely decadent, raised his head and glanced at the scholar, and snorted: "Unless grandpa himself says that he will not punish me, nothing else is good news." ”

The scholar smiled and said, "You know about Xu Chengye's challenge to Qin Mo, guess what the result is?"

Zhang Wenqi said angrily: "Do you need to guess, it must be the kid surnamed Qin who loses, and the surname Xu is a pre-test showman, which is more than enough to deal with a new boy." ”

The scholar shook his head and said: "Wrong, it was Qin Mo who won, Xu Chengye lost miserably, and the Xu family completely lost face this time." ”

When Zhang Wenqi heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Since Xiucai was not Qin Mo's opponent before the test, then it was a matter of course for me, a new boy, to lose to him, and the reason was reasonable, and the family elders could not blame themselves.

The scholar smiled and said, "Young Master, isn't it time for us to leave for Nanjing City?"

Zhang Wenqi instantly regained his previous self-confidence, raised his head and said, "Of course, you go and pack your things immediately, and we will set off." ”

......

March 20, the tenth day of the holiday.

It's almost spring, the temperature is rising, and the air is a little hotter.

The county Wendao College was quiet, and even Tingquan Caolu was the same.

Qin Mo set off for Muyang Town early in the morning, which was the first time he had returned to his hometown after becoming a child.

Because his family is surrounded by walls, and his parents are dead, and his soul is from modern times, there is no so-called homesickness.

The purpose of going back this time was to visit his cousin Qin Lang's family, in the past five years, only Qin Lang's family often helped Qin Mo, although it was only to send some grain, vegetables and other vulgar things, but at least he never went hungry.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Mo will transfer ten acres of land to Qin Lang for rent after he is admitted to the middle school.

The carriage stopped on the main street of the town, and when he walked down with a snack, everyone looked at him in a very different way than before, before they were disgusted, now they were envious.

The name of Shuangjia Tongsheng, coupled with the fact that he is valued by doctors and Xuezheng, and even has a relationship with the county lord, any one of them is enough to make these soil buns red-eyed and hot.

He didn't stop and walked straight to his uncle's house.

Turning an alley, he saw two children squatting on the ground arguing, neither of whom would budge.

Looking closely, they are Qin Lang's two sons, the eldest is called Qin Zhuang, who is thirteen years old this year, and the younger one is called Qin Han, who is eleven years old.

On the ground, a chess board is drawn with crooked lines, with bricks, stones, and wood of various sizes as chess pieces, and the two boys quarrel over whether the elephant can cross the river.

Qin Zhuang insisted that elephants could cross the river, but Qin Han strongly objected.

Qin Mo shook his head, chess was too difficult for a child of this age.

The most important thing is that the children in the countryside have no guidance, but they have heard from adults about simple rules such as horses walking the day and elephants walking in the fields, so they play with this simple cognition to pass the boring time.

"Qin Zhuang, Qin Han. He called out their names.

Speaking of the names of these two goods, it's quite interesting, strong man brother!

Uncle Qin Lang is an ordinary farmer, he just studied in private school for a few days when he was a child, and giving his children such a name is nothing more than to ask for good luck, hoping that his two sons can thrive and become the pillars of the family in the future.

The two boys who were arguing turned around at the same time, and when they saw that it was Qin Mo, their four eyes shone at the same time, and the two jumped up from the ground and shouted in unison: "Cousin is back!"

Qin Mo used to teach them to read and write when he was not busy, Qin Zhuang had limited qualifications, and it took several days to learn to write his name; although Qin Han was young, he revealed a natural intelligence, and he was stunned to follow him to learn the entire "Thousand Character Text".

It stands to reason that such a child should be sent to a private school, even if he can't become a scribe in the future, it's not bad to be an ordinary literati, and he can still pass the imperial examination and soar.

Qin Lang's thoughts, like those of others in the town, thought that only the awakened children of the Wen Palace could have a chance, and it would cost a lot for a child to study, so he would simply keep it at home, and he could help with some work when the farm was busy to reduce the pressure on adults.

Surrounded by two brothers, the three of them walked into the gate deep in the alley together.

The conditions of Uncle Tang's family are not good, his wife is frail and sickly, basically has no ability to work, and the family's food and clothing are all pressed on Qin Lang alone, so that he is only thirty-six years old, and he looks older than a fifty-year-old person.

Qin Lang was honest, his hands trembled with excitement when Qin Mo handed over the gift, in his own words, this was the first time in his life that he had received a gift from a scribe.

In addition to a few small snacks, there are also whole hooves and roast goose, plus more than a dozen catties of homemade dried fish, the strong brothers are almost hungry to death, and a pair of eyes can't stop glancing at the paper bag.

Although Qin Lang's family is poor, the tutor is still very good, and after getting his approval, the two children picked up one of the packets of dim sum, happily walked into the back room, and enjoyed it with their bedridden mother.

After the greetings, Qin Lang left Qin Mo to eat lunch, and then went to the kitchen to prepare the meal.

Half an hour later, three dishes with barely visible oil stars were served, two of them wild vegetables and the other steamed dried carp, plus a pot of brown rice.

Qin Mo did not show any dislike, but ate very deliciously.

After the meal, he asked the strong man brothers to find a piece of wood and cut it into square pieces of wood of the same specification with a thickness of half an inch.

[Using the pen as a knife] is already a medium-grade star, and it is the highest level in the Wen Palace except for the star of the literary position, and the literary power generated acts on the pen edge, which is enough to cut through a few inches thick planks.

The two brothers were dying of envy, especially Qin Han, whose eyes never left the brush in Qin Mo's hand.

There were a total of sixteen pieces of wood, and Qin Mo first used block letters to write one word on each of the eight pieces of wood, because he used the skill of [Strength through the back of the paper], and the handwriting was three points into the wood, and it was strong and powerful.

Every time he wrote a word, Qin Han would read it out: "Elephant!"

"Lion. ”

"Tiger. ”

On the other hand, Qin Zhuang had the expression of a dog looking at the stars, obviously he didn't know these words.

Elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, dogs, cats, rats.

That's right, it's the simplest animal chess, which can also be called animal chess.

After writing the eight pieces of wood in block letters, he changed to the official script and wrote the same content on the other eight pieces of wood.

Then he explained to the two brothers in detail the rules of chess, the elephant can eat any chess piece except the mouse, the lion can eat any chess piece except the elephant, and so on, the rat is the weakest, but can eat the most powerful elephant.

Then draw a square checkerboard of four by four on a piece of paper, and then put sixteen small pieces of wood with the handwriting side down, shuffle the order, and put them into the checkerboard, so that the two brothers can guess the order of the punches.

The first piece turned out is their own, and the other type of chess piece is the opponent's, and the two alternately turn over the pieces and eat each other until the winner is decided.

Although it is simple, it can't even be called chess, because it doesn't require any IQ, it just relies on luck.

But for the country children, he also said that this kind of game is much better than chess, and chess is too difficult for the two brothers, and it is precisely because of this that Qin Mo thought of the beast chess he had played when he was a child, and made it for the two brothers to pass the time.

Qin Zhuang and Qin Han quickly learned, the two of them had a lot of fun, Qin Mo smiled and said: "This is called beast chess, next time I come over, I will make another kind of beast fighting chess for you to play." ”

"Okay, thank you, cousin!" Qin Han's mouth was sweet.

In the middle of the afternoon, he said goodbye to his cousin's family and returned to the county Wendao College.