The scholar spoke impassionedly, but Pan Long just wanted to laugh.

He suddenly remembered a famous joke from his previous life.

Question: How do I put an elephant in the fridge?

Answer: Open the refrigerator, put the elephant in and close the refrigerator.

You say, "The refrigerator is so small, the elephant is so big, how can an elephant fit in the refrigerator?"

Friend, you only ask how to do it, but you don't ask if you can do it......

The scholar's statement was similar to that joke.

Everyone knows that in order to deter the world, it is necessary to kill a few big people with weight. Even if you can't kill the great sage of Confucianism, Bi Lingkong, at least you have to kill a giant of the Mo family, or the Taiyi Jun of the Yin and Yang family...... Etcetera.

But let's not go anywhere to find these people. Even if it is found, it is not certain who will kill whom!

For example, the Mo family giant, although the previous generation of giants is dead, the current generation of giants is holding the Skyfall Divine Sword, and they also have the power to confront the demon gods and immortals and Buddhas. Not to mention that since the last time the Mo family masters were launched, it is estimated that they have all gathered together, and if they want to fight, they will fight a group.

If you want to annihilate those masters of the Mo family, I am afraid that you have to dispatch the entire Tianji Battalion to do it.

But even if the Tianji Battalion was dispatched as a whole, it would be impossible to gather together. If the forces are scattered, even if they encounter the overlord general Emperor Xiang You, the people of the Mo family will probably be able to escape.

...... In fact, if you really meet Di Xiangyou, the possibility of the two sides drinking tea and chatting is probably more likely than starting a fight.

Thinking of this, Pan Long couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Scholar's opinion!"

The two maids, who were waiting outside the room for orders, heard the voice coming from inside the room and looked at each other suspiciously.

They didn't have Pan Long's skills, so naturally they couldn't hear the voice coming from the banquet hall, and of course they couldn't understand Pan Long's words.

But that doesn't stop them from working hard.

They quickly brought purified water and fragrant soup to Pan Long, and waited for him to wash his face and hands. Then he was going to ask him to bathe and change his clothes, but Pan Long refused.

Of course, he knew that it was the custom of large families to bathe and change clothes when he went home, but he was really not used to this set.

The maids did not insist on it, and asked him if he was ready to eat.

It was still early in the evening, and Pan Long did not have the habit of eating six or seven meals a day, so the maids sent fruit.

Those fruits are full of aura, and they are all cultivated in the blessed environment of the cave, which is quite similar to the big peaches in the peach forest of Suitao Mountain.

Of course, they can't be like the fairy peaches that only bear fruit once in sixty years to wash the hair and cut the pith to improve their qualifications, but if they can be eaten for a long time, it is also very beneficial to nourish the body and replenish the vitality.

Such a good product, but in the Cangyuan Mansion, it is just an ordinary fruit used to entertain guests, and the treatment of this mere five-grade servant is obviously far beyond the grade of the official position.

Pan Long ate a fruit, felt that his mouth was full of fragrance, and was greatly admired, and curiously asked about the origin of this fruit.

But the maids did not know, they only knew that there was this fruit, and there were many of them.

"Then do you usually eat this?" Pan Long asked.

The two maids shook their heads together: "This is a hospitable thing, we are not allowed to use it without permission." ”

"Taste it, it tastes so good. ”

So the maids ate one of each, but they only smiled calmly, and it seemed that they must have eaten these fruits more than once in the past.

Pan Long nodded slightly in his heart, and had a general impression of Cang Yuan.

This person has a soft personality and lacks the domineering ability to control everything, but he treats people well, and even if he is a servant in the house, he can often get some benefits.

But even so, he is not the kind of person who is neither big nor small, and does not pay attention to the dignity and inferiority at all, he still pays attention to the rules and order.

It should be quite easy to get along with this kind of person, right?

After eating the fruit, Pan Long casually took a book from the bookshelf in the house to pass the time.

This is an interesting book that introduces the science of divination, and the process of divination is completed through the arrangement and calculation of numbers.

But Pan Long knew at a glance that it was pure nonsense, just the superstition of ignorant people who knew nothing about mathematics.

The divination of a supernatural person is essentially to sense the flow of the world with his own spiritual whims, so as to spy on fate. Strictly speaking, there are no special requirements for divination, and there are no necessary rituals. Those cumbersome and complicated rituals are often intended to give the caster a psychological hint so that they can better concentrate and activate their spirituality.

Therefore, these rituals generally focus on "feeling without thinking" - divination requires not the wisdom of thinking and speculating, but the spirituality of sensing fate. Anyone who tosses a bunch of numbers and calculates them is basically a liar, nothing more than someone deceiving themselves and someone deceiving others.

But it is undeniable that this kind of Shinto "accounting" seems really interesting.

Pan Long looked at it, took some yarrow from the bookshelf casually, and according to what the book said, he started a hexagram.

The hexagram is very interesting, it is Lei Huofeng. This hexagram is about to be used by the boss, but you need to be humble and cautious, not to get carried away, and to be as careful as a judgment - in general, it looks good.

"Congratulations, this hexagram is quite auspicious. A maid smiled and said, "A gentleman has a good fortune, which means good luck." As long as you are careful and self-controlled, you will be blameless. Although it is not auspicious, it is also an auspicious omen. ”

Pan Long smiled and put away the yarrow.

The maids in this Cangyuan Mansion all know how to calculate, and in terms of level, I am afraid that they are a little more clever than those fortune tellers on the street!

While he was talking, there were footsteps outside, but it was Cangyuan who had already finished the banquet and came to visit Pan Long.

"Pan Shaoxia, Cang was rude just now!" As soon as they met, Cang Yuan apologized first, "Now everything is troubled, and I often lack skills." Forgive me for my neglect!"

Pan Long shook his head: "It's okay, I really need to wash." This time, I was able to get the invitation of Cangyushi to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing party, and I have never thanked it. ”

His attitude is polite, Cangyuan is also polite, there is naturally no contradiction between each other, and they get along very harmoniously.

The two sides chatted for a few words, and a middle-aged scribe who accompanied Cang Yuan asked Pan Long for his opinion on the current situation.

"The current situation?" Pan Long said after a brief consideration, "I think the most important thing in the current situation is to change the law. ”

Cang Yuan was slightly stunned and asked: "The previous time when the sons of a hundred schools were in turmoil, King Wucheng was seriously injured, and the court officials and people were seriously injured. Now everyone says that they want to clean up the atmosphere of the world and arrest hundreds of fanatics, why does Shaoxia say that the most important thing is to change the law?"

"Because I can't catch all the sons and hundreds of schools. Pan Long didn't save face for the Great Xia Imperial Court at all, "If you can catch it, then of course you should kill people." But the imperial court has been busy for so long, and it hasn't even found a shadow of the hundred schools of thought - they may have already fled to a foreign land outside of Great Xia. In this case, instead of wasting manpower and material resources and doing those useless things, it is better to write down this account and pick up the matter of changing the law again. ”

He smiled and said, "After all, people can only do what they can do, can they?"

Cang Yuan frowned, thoughtful.

The middle-aged scribe smiled: "Pan Shaoxia really deserves to be a genius who can cultivate into a real person at the age of twenty-four, this statement is exactly the same as Mr. Guodong's statement!"

"Mr. Guodong, could it be the Marquis of Yangzhou?"

"Exactly. A few days ago, Mr. Guodong wrote to the imperial court, and he was very bitter, and his statement was quite similar to what you just said, Shaoxia. ”

Pan Long smiled, he didn't expect that his thoughts would coincide with that Yangzhou Marquis, whose reputation was famous all over the world.

"It's just that Mr. Guodong's statement has been opposed by many people, and the court is still debating this matter, and there is no result yet. Cang Yuan sighed, "I also understand that your statement has a point. But if you let go of the matter of tracking down the hundred schools of thought, where is the majesty of the imperial court!"

Pan Long didn't say anything, he just mentioned it casually, and he didn't plan to be a staff officer for Cangyuan or even Di Luonan.

To put it to the extreme, the Great Xia Imperial Court made its own stupid moves, and even killed itself, which was very in his interests, why did he help?

Cang Yuan thought for a while, sighed, and left.

Before leaving, he asked Pan Long to have dinner later, but Pan Long refused.

"When I was in the Northland, I heard that Zhongzhou was prosperous, but I never had the opportunity to see it. Pan Long said with a smile, "Now that I have arrived in Zhongzhou, I live at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and I always feel itchy when I don't go to the market." ”

Cang Yuan also smiled: "In this case, the young man can act at will." Whenever they return, there will be waiters in this room. As soon as you wash and eat, you can order your subordinates to do it at any time, don't be polite. ”

A moment later, Pan Long walked out of the Imperial History Mansion and wandered the streets of Nanxia City.

The scale of Nanxia City is not very large, and it is much smaller than Guangling City, the capital of Yangzhou. However, the prosperity of the market is not inferior to Yangzhou.

The previous turmoil didn't affect this place - the people in the green forest are not fools, even if they want to make waves, they will be far away from the gods, how can they send them to the door by themselves?

Pan Long walked down the street and saw that the storefronts everywhere were quite lively, so he couldn't help but nod secretly.

(If all parts of Kyushu can be like Nanxia City, it will really be a peaceful and prosperous world!)

He also noticed that many of the pedestrians on the street were wearing special waist tags.

He had also seen that waist card, which was the status symbol of the Great Xia officials.

According to the laws of Great Xia, when officials travel, they must hang a waist card that can prove their identity in a place where they can be seen at a glance, otherwise it will be "derelicted" and will be deducted.

In addition to officials, ordinary people can naturally also wear waist tags. It's just that it is not allowed to wear a style of official waist card, and if it is used fraudulently, it will be punished according to the crime of "impersonating an official", and it will be fined or imprisoned.

Anyway, Pan Long has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, and he has never seen anyone other than officials wear this kind of waist card.

Therefore, the waist card has become a symbol of the identity of the official, and it can be used as a certificate in an emergency.

Previously, Cang Yuan had given his Imperial Servant Shi waist card to Pan Long, so that he could use it as a proof that he could get help from the government when eliminating the bandits who attacked the city.

Afterwards, Pan Long naturally returned the waist card - instead of returning it to Cang Yuan himself, he found a yamen and handed it over directly to the officials of the yamen.

Judging from the letter Cang Yuan later wrote to him, the official had returned the waist card, and there was no accident.

At this moment, among the pedestrians on the street, there is often one of more than ten people wearing an official waist card, and the number is quite amazing.

For example, in the bookstore where Pan Long was hanging out at the moment, two of the six customers in the store were wearing waist cards.

With Pan Long's eyesight, with a little attention, he saw the identity on the waist card, but it was two Hanlin bachelors.

Among the civil officials of the Great Xia court, the "Hanlin Scholars" were a rather special group. In terms of grade, most of them are not of high grade. However, because they were often able to meet the emperor and had the power to directly submit the recitals to the imperial study, the status of these Hanlin scholars in the court was not low.

It's not easy to be a Hanlin Bachelor. Only those who have passed the imperial examination and are in the top three are eligible to become bachelors. If you don't have this status, no matter what merit or qualifications you have, you can only be another official. Even if you reluctantly enter the Hanlin Academy, you can't hang the word "bachelor" on your official position.

Therefore, there may be parallel goods in the Hallym Academy, but the Hallym Bachelor must have at least one extremely powerful specialty and be called an extremely excellent person in the whole world.

Pan Long didn't expect that he was just wandering on the street, and he actually met two great talents.

There is obviously a priority between these two talents, a young man in his early twenties seems to be a little reserved, and a person who looks nearly thirty years old and slightly chubby is obviously the mastermind of the two.

He smiled and said, "Brother Zimian, you are new to the city, and you should walk around the market more when you have time." Don't always visit a bookstore. ”

The young man was a little embarrassed and said, "I like to read, but I don't like to socialize and so on." ”

"Your habit of doing scholarship is excellent. But being an official is not so suitable. The fat man said, "In life, all kinds of entertainment are always inevitable." I don't want you to drink with people every day, but there are a lot of things to socialize in officialdom, and you can't avoid it. ”

"But I've been doing it for so many days, and I haven't met much socializing......"

"That's because you're in Hanlin Academy. The fat man smiled, "Most of us in the Hanlin Academy are scholars, scholars, everyone is the same kind of people." For us, reading books and writing articles is the most enjoyable thing. Two or three friends get together, drink a little wine, talk about poetry, or discuss the world's major events, this is our entertainment. ”

Seeing the young man nodding again and again, he sighed and said, "But you won't stay in the Hanlin Academy for the rest of your life! Do you want to be a ten-year old bachelor like me?"

"Brother Zhang is only thirty-two years old this year, how can he be called old!"

"At the age of sixteen, I took the top prize and entered the Hanlin Academy. Now he has been in the Hanlin Academy for 16 years. The fat man sighed, "In the entire Hanlin Courtyard, except for the old man who guards the door, I probably have stayed here the longest." What is a good name for you to be an 'old bachelor'?"