Second brother, I have an ominous premonition! ”

Li Yun, who was riding on a horse, said to Li Kui with a solemn expression. It was as if he was going through a life-and-death catastrophe, and a great terror happened overnight.

Li Kui took a curious look at the surrounding scenery, that's right! This place is not far from Mengshan County, and not far from Niubei Mountain, where he went out to do big business, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Li Yun, don't be suspicious, I'm almost home, don't make people laugh?" ”

When he passed through the Huaiyang Military Town, Li Yun went out for a long time, and when he came back, he brought back a lot of good things.

A dagger made of cold iron.

A piece of star iron.

A barrel that has been made for three years.

It's all good stuff that is worth a lot of money.

Li Yun smiled bitterly and looked at the burden on his horse, feeling that something was wrong, and suddenly remembered what was wrong, and said in his heart: No wonder the eyelids kept jumping, it turned out that the problem was here.

The so-called hometown is heartfelt, and most of them describe the mood of the wanderer when he returns home.

But Li Yun didn't think so, he was a little worried about his father and grandfather at home, and they were waiting for Li Yun to return from school. But his current outfit, once he is not civilized, he has a feeling of a bandit returning home.

On the contrary, it was Li Kui, who brought a long knife and two huge bookcases. Li Yun also has two bookcases, but when they are poured out of the boxes, one box of broken copper and iron, just a few broken books, are also placed in the baggage, not taking up space. To say that he has returned from school, looking at his luggage makes it feel like an insult to the reader.

Two knives.

A large iron spear.

Two barrels of guns.

A set of chain hammers.

……

It's almost the same when he returns from learning martial arts, and no one would believe that there will be so many bits and pieces in a scholar's salute. Even if the road is not calm, it is almost the same with a knife. Scholars prefer to carry swords rather than long knives like Li Yun, who carry two long knives in both hands. The Pu knife is still the standard weapon of the Great Song army. said that Li Yun participated in the forbidden army and came back to visit relatives, but it is quite vivid.

Li Yun, who figured out the flaws, said to Li Kui with a strange expression: "Second brother, can I say that the luggage you are carrying is all yours?" ”

The corners of Li Kui's eyes jumped, he looked at Li Yun unkindly, and grinned and sneered: "What do you say? ”

Li Yun was short, and suddenly lost the courage to let Li Kui take the blame. Originally, Li Kui's kind of force, he ate to death, and he didn't dare to let Li Kui take the blame for him on weekdays. Mainly when he returned home, his father found that after his son went back, he brought a complete set of eighteen weapons, even if Li Qing was an honest farmer, he would not believe that Li Yun had returned from study. Li Yun studied in front of the famous Master Su for two years, and nothing else has grown, but his martial arts have advanced by leaps and bounds. Does this sound like a word?

Besides, Li Qing is also a knowledgeable person when he says anything, he used to be the head of the yamen in Yishui County, and he is a fast leader, can he not know the mood of a scholar?

The study utensils, don't look like inkstones and the like are made of stone, if it is really the reader's heart, hundreds of thousands of times is a palm-sized piece.

For example, the sinking inkstone, the inkstone, the end inkstone, the quality of the high-quality goods, the price is much more expensive than a good simple knife.

There are also pen washes, water droplets, ink, pens, and even well-made mulberry paper, which are not luxuries that ordinary people can afford. Li Kui brought all these façade things.

Don't look at Li Kui who brought these readers' utensils, but he also has a lot of things that are cumbersome and incompatible with readers. But he insisted on not bringing it, not that he didn't bring it personally, but asked the merchant to send it to his hometown in Yishui. He also bought a Yellowstone bow, and even a set of fish scale armor, some of which were privately prohibited by the imperial court, which was no less than Li Yun's arsenal. By the way, and his Ghost King Axe.

But Li Kui is so fine!

If he returns to his hometown Yishui County with these things, facing the enthusiastic fathers and fellow villagers, he can still say with a shy face, the end of the imperial examination?

Thinking of Li Yun's change, Li Kui suddenly sighed angrily: "I asked you to check it in that day, and I was reluctant to say anything, and I saw that I was going to get home, but I was thinking about it." I'm going to enter the house, so I don't think I need to toss. Besides, if you carry a truckload of books back, if you fail the exam, won't it make people doubt your knowledge. ”

Li Yun touched his chin and said, "That makes sense." ”

However, he quickly reacted and said angrily: "Second brother, this time I will take the imperial examination, and I am also for the high school jinshi, why do you think I can't do it?" Besides, when I came home with a weapon, could it be a hint to my family not to expect anything from me? ”

When he said this, he was full of resentment.

Even Li Kui felt that he couldn't continue to fight Li Yun, although this guy was becoming more and more unreliable, it was still a township party. It's really going to make Li Yun angry, maybe it's going to be angry on the road. It's not that Li Kui is afraid of him, but he is angry at the door of his house, which is not good to say. Li Kui waved his hand impatiently to Li Yun and said, "I'll wait for you in Mengshan County for a day, you can do it!" ”

Li Yun grinned, patted his burden and said, "I have money!" ”

Money is a hero's courage, and Li Yun naturally understands the magic of money.

It didn't take a day, just two hours, and there was a creaking sound on the road next to the tea shop where Li Kui was waiting to rest, like an ox cart that had been around for some years.

Li Kui was shocked and squirted out of the tea soup.

I saw Li Yun sitting on an ox cart like a moving refugee, and of course, there was a cart full of books under his buttocks. Waiting for Li Kui to walk to the side of the car, Li Yun said to Li Kui with a hippie smile: "Second brother, what you said still makes sense, I went to the bookstore to buy a cart of books, do you want to, take care of you." ”

"You will die!" As Li Kui spoke, he took out a beautifully bound booklet from the car, flipped through it in his hand for a while, and suddenly his heart was full of blood.

In particular, the illustrations are accompanied by the text, and the blood of the people who look at it is full of blood. Li Kui quietly closed the book and glanced at the writing, and there was a line of big characters on it, and there were four big characters - Fengyue Baojian. Li Kui felt that this should be a mistake, but it should not be Li Yun who made the mistake, after all, Li Yun is rushing to learn a lot, and no matter how bad it is, he is also rushing to buy books with a façade, and he will definitely not buy such an unsightly book. Out of kindness as a senior brother, Li Kui felt the need to ask, so he looked up at Li Yun and asked quietly, "You haven't picked these books, right?" ”

"I have always had a set of money, I told the boss, the bottom line, as long as it is a long knowledge, a kind of one, I want it!" Li Yun was still stinky and beautiful on the pile of books, and yearned: "It is said that the ancient sages learned to be rich and rich, and I thought that I thought that the sages lived in thatched houses, drank mountain spring water, and nibbled on wheat cakes, and their lives must be poor. Unexpectedly, it turned out that all the ancient sages were so rich. This car book actually cost 2,000 yuan, it's just a money grab! Five cars of books, it turned out to be 10,000. With such a large amount of furniture, it is designated as a large household. ”

Li Yun is definitely a good customer, at least the owner of the bookstore met him, and he made a profit. But the problem is, if your dad flips through your books, he is likely to understand a few of them. Don't get me wrong, Li Qing is illiterate, it can't be said that he is completely illiterate, but his knowledge is limited, so he can only write his own name and some very simple words.

A book can make people like Li Qing understand the truth contained in the book...... This book is certainly not a serious book.

But Li Yun didn't know about it, and thought that he had taken a big advantage.

Li Kui was entangled in his heart, whether to tell Li Yun about the danger. However, looking at Li Yun's proud appearance, he seemed to have a carload of books, and his knowledge had also increased with arrogance, and Li Kui was not used to it.

Forget it, Li Kui is determined not to tell Li Yun, let's let the old Li family have a headache!

Anyway, even if Li Qing finds out the clues, he is still ugly, and he will not make a fuss all over the world. Besides, Li Yun's knowledge is also very problematic, in Li Li's words, fooling around, solving the test is not completely hopeless.

What does it mean to be fooled?

Even Zhizhou and Tuiguan didn't see that Li Yun's article was copied. This is already a high evaluation, and it is almost catching up with Li Kui's level half a year ago.

Li Diao is a gentleman, and he has high requirements for himself, so high that he does not allow the slightest flaw. But he is also a gentleman who is strict with himself and lenient with others. He even resigned the recommendation of Prime Minister Lu Dafang and his teacher Su Shi to the imperial court and refused to go out. Although there is a precedent for this in the Great Song Dynasty literary circle, it is rare. For juniors such as Li Kui and Li Yun, there are no such high requirements. As for the provincial examination and the palace examination, Li Qian felt that Li Kui and Li Yun had no chance.

Those who can enter the Gongyuan as examiners, which is the master who is easy to fool, does not see the fault, it is a temporary neglect, but when entering the provincial examination stage, an examination paper cannot be read by an examiner, and the final judgment will be made only after many people have read the papers. Even though he knew that there was little hope, Li Qian still tried his best to improve the test-taking skills of Li Kui and others.

Sometimes, he would even pull down his face and ask Li Kui and others.

This is the extent to which Chao Buzhi said that he could not do anything.

Therefore, even the level of Gao Yu has improved a lot in the past six months.

Approaching his hometown, when the shadow of the city wall of Yishui County jumped out of the horizon in his sight, Li Kui and Li Yun all spurred the mount under their crotch.

The county government of Yishui County.

Lao Xu is much older than he was two years ago, and his actions are a little slower. However, the old man was in good spirits, and when he saw Li Kui riding a horse and jumping off the war horse in front of the yamen, the old man rubbed his eyes in disbelief. When Li Kui ran over and called him, the old man recognized that it was Li Kui. However, to Li Kui's surprise, Lao Xu not only ignored him, but turned his head angrily and left.

"Uncle Xu!"

Unexpectedly, Li Kui screamed, and Lao Xu walked faster.

There were whispers and snickering from the officials: "I heard that Fat Chun's belly is big, and I don't know whose family it is." Daddy Xu will have a hard time in the future......"

Li Kui was stunned, did his clan brother open his mind?

Li Kui glared at the threatening mouthy servant, and snorted coldly: "If I hear your nonsense again, break your dog's legs." ”

"Who! You kid have such a big breath? ”

"Don't, don't."

"Second master, why did you come back?"

"Is the teacher in the yamen?"

"Here, the little one will give you a briefing!"

"Eventful"!

Li Kui didn't look at anyone, and went straight to the back office.

In the study, Li Kui handed over the letter written by Su Shi to Zhou Yuan to Zhou Yuan, as well as the gifts he brought from Yangzhou. However, the gift was prepared by Li Kui.

Zhou Yuan looked at Su Shi's letter and said with emotion: "The teacher's penmanship is becoming more and more vigorous, and the words are much more profound than those of half a year ago. ”

Li Kui stood aside, wanting to tell Zhou Yuan the reason, after thinking about it, forget it! Can he say that it was Gao Yu who wrote to Zhou Yuan before, not Su Shi?

If he really told Zhou Yuan about this cruel reality, would he still want to pass the county test?

Putting down the letter, Zhou Yuan looked at Li Kui. It's a lot more stable than two years ago, and it looks a lot softer. It's not like when we first met, I was completely like an aboriginal who ran out of the mountains and forests, more than strong, but not stable enough. At this time, Li Kui, although there are still traces of martial artists, is not so prominent and significant.

Zhou Yuan's head was praised: "It's not a teacher, it's only been two years of hard work to teach you like this, Li Kui, you can't live up to the teacher's expectations of you." ”

"Yes, Teacher."

Li Kui said respectfully. For Zhou Yuan, his feelings were complicated. Speaking of which, Zhou Yuan is his mentor, but to say that most of Li Kui's knowledge is either derived from Su Shi's words and deeds, or Su Guo's professor, as well as Chao Buzhi, Li Diao and other uncles and uncles. Even the master Bo Huang Tingjian discussed with him the trick of writing articles.

It can be said that if Li Kui wants to continue to improve in his studies, he can only work hard all year round and keep polishing his shortcomings in learning.

Zhou Yuan originally wanted to test Li Kui's knowledge, but he thought that doing so was a distrust of his senior brother and teacher, so he immediately gave up this plan. asked about Su Shi's recent situation: "I don't know how the teacher is doing recently?" ”

"I'm healthy, I'm in good spirits, and I still like to go around."

Su Shi can't sit still as an official, there is no way, it has been like this for decades. As long as there is nothing important in the place, he ponders going out for a walk.

Zhou Yuan rejoiced: "That's good, that's good." By the way, are there any other reasons why you came to the house suddenly? ”

Li Kuixin said, Master, you don't mention it in the letter, if you keep mentioning it, won't I hold the handle in my hand with the county magistrate? At this time, relying on relatives to distance and be close, I am afraid that Zhou Yuan's unkind character may be very disadvantageous to himself!

Li Kui had no choice but to think about it: "Teacher, the ancestor means to let me and Li Yun participate in the county examination in Yishui County. ”

"It's only been two years, and you've gotten to this point?" Zhou Yuan exclaimed.

Li Kui said: "Teacher, there are not only disciples this year, but also junior brother Li Yun. Uncle Xiao will also go down, and Gao Yu, the scribe next to Shizu, will also go down together. ”

"Gao Yu?"

Thinking of what Gao Yu had done to stumble him at the beginning, Zhou Yuan felt a burst of disgust in his heart. But there is no way, in terms of proximity, his identity as a son of Sumen may not be as good as Gao Yu.

After visiting the teacher, Li Kui hurriedly left the county office and rushed home.

Not long after entering the house, Li Yun carried a knife, a gun and a bow on his back, and rushed into Lijiazhuang at a trot. While running, he shouted and shouted: "Second brother, help!" ”