People come and go downstairs in the old book building, but the building is quiet as usual. The books on the bookshelf are rare books for the practice of sewing old books, and the thin paper sandwiched in the books is the ordinary thin paper commonly used by the students of the college, and the pen and ink and inkstone are quietly resting on the desk by the west window. The female professor sat quietly under the east window, the young man sat cross-legged on the floor and meditated, occasionally got up and wrote a few words on the paper and then stuffed it into the book, and at night, another fat boy quietly came, opened the page and looked at the handwriting on the paper, and then went to the west window to return to Liao Liao a few sentences or a big word.

Ning Que and Chen Pipi, two guys who didn't know each other's identities, kept communicating in the way of keeping books, and in the late spring and early summer, they slipped away silently between their strokes, paintings, mocks, and laughter, calm and beautiful.

"Nameless brother, can there be any way to soften the sword intent in the book?"

"Idiot, what is the sword intent if ......you can be supple? It's weird, what is the relationship between quantities?"

"Idiot, don't call everything you don't understand weird, is there really no way to get the hang of it? I still don't believe that Lord Haotian would be so unfair to me as a genius. ”

"Yes, yes, but don't get your hopes up. There is only a fine line between a genius and an idiot, but whoever has this hope, whether he is a genius or not, will eventually become a poor idiot. In addition, I still want to reiterate that your math question the day before yesterday was really weird, and there was no simple beauty. ”

"Okay, then I don't ask about the general knowledge, I heard that the Demon Sect uses different paths, not to seek to echo the breath of heaven and earth, but to try to incorporate the breath of heaven and earth into the body without a knot, can you step into the path of cultivation with this method? ”

"This question is just a level of learning, are you humiliating me? Regarding the matter of the Demon Sect, I must warn you, in the academy, fortunately, if you don't mention these two words in the outside world, you will be hunted down and killed by Haotian Dao very badly, and I must tell you with a smile, even if the Demon Sect accepts heaven and earth into the body, it also needs to be able to understand everything, so that the breath of heaven and earth can penetrate through the body. ”

"It's a shame that I thought there would be some other path. ”

"I can come up with the eight methods of Yongzi to solve words, you are also a guy who goes off the edge of the sword, I am really worried that you are forced to be in a hurry and really run to cultivate demons, so you should not regret it, but you should feel glad otherwise, if you fall into the devil's path, maybe in the future I may have to lift the sword and split you in half." ”

"You have a point, and I'm disappointed. ”

"Anyway, we're pen pals, aren't we? Why don't you ever ask me who I am? Don't you think it's a big chance to get to know this genius?"

"I've never been very curious about other people's affairs, and you haven't asked me who I am. ”

"Well, who are you? Where are you from? Are there beautiful sisters in the academy?"

"My name is Ning Que, I am from Weicheng, the academy is a housekeeper, and there is only a little black charcoal maid in the family...... Who are you? Where are you from? You already have a fierce wife and concubine in your family, that's why you hate women so much?"

"My name is Chen Pipi from Xiling, and then, no. ”

"I heard that five years ago, a Xiling candidate took six subjects to teach in the whole academy, and they all ran out to watch, because it was the best result in a hundred years, is that person you?"

"It is on the Lord, do you feel awe and worship for me now?"

"I took three first-class exams, two subjects at the end of the exam, and one car exam, which is said to be the unique result of the academy in the past hundred years, in this case, why should I be in awe and worship you?"

"Three subjects are good in the exam, you can get two subjects at the end of the exam, and one subject is abandoned, it's really a rare level of vigor, even if you are ruthless, I temporarily admit that you have the qualifications to talk to me on an equal footing.

"You are from Xiling, why did you come to Datang to study?"

"I came from a big family in Xiling, and the family's family business is too big for you to imagine. You know, a genius like me must have been destined to inherit the family property from birth, but the problem is that I also have a brother who is also very talented, only a little bit worse than me, and more importantly, since I was very young, this brother has treated me very well, taking care of me in everything, and not complaining at all because the elders of the clan have decided to hand over the family property to me to inherit. I didn't want to inherit this family business at all, I thought my brother was the best person to inherit the family business, but the elders in the clan didn't allow me to refuse at all, the longer I stayed in the Xiling family, the better my brother treated me, the more uncomfortable I felt, so I simply sneaked out when I was ten years old. ”

"Sneaking out of the house at the age of ten, don't the elders in your family look for you everywhere?"

"How could they not find it, since they couldn't find it, then they would definitely be able to guess that I was hiding in the academy. Why did you enter the academy, and why did you work so hard the other day?"

"Of course, I want to be an imperial official when I enter the academy, and of course I want to practice more, as for why I work so hard, it's because I have a lot of things to do, and if I don't work hard now, I may die in the future. ......

"What's so troublesome?"

"That's the story you can't tell. ”

The ink paper on the west window of the old book building left a book exchange, from the beginning of the practice of mathematics to ask each other, gradually progressed to the curiosity of each other's lives, at any time time passed gently, Ning Que's body quickly got better, and he no longer coughed, and the relationship between the two young people who still hadn't met became more and more familiar and uninhibited.

As the summer approaches, the temperature is getting higher and higher, and the west window has been closed for some time, shrouding the building in a gloomy atmosphere, Ning Que looked at the message on the paper in the past few days, the smile on his face gradually faded, and found some very shocking details: that guy said that his family couldn't find him, so he must have guessed that he was hiding in the academy, this sentence indirectly shows that for the family of that guy, there is no place in the world that they can't find, and only a sacred and lofty place like the academy can make that family fearful.

"Xiling Divine Kingdom...... Where is there such a powerful family?"

He frowned slightly and thought for a moment, but he was puzzled, and then looked down. Yesterday afternoon, he asked for the first time in the letter if he could meet, and now that he was sure that the other party was on the second floor, he was naturally a little curious about the reply in the letter.

On the paper was someone's handwriting from last night: "When you can go to the second floor, you will naturally see me." ”

Ning Que shook his head and replied, "The problem is how to enter the second floor. ”

Haotian is unfair, so that the young man's body is incomprehensible, no matter how much he has no other mind to read books in a deconstructive way, with a fearless spirit to move mountains and dig holes, he has never really taken a step forward on the path of cultivation, at this time looking at the two floors of the three words, his mood can not help but be a little gloomy.

Putting down his pen and looking at the quiet bookshelves around him, he laughed at himself and sighed softly, thinking that he was standing on the second floor and wondering where the second floor was, this is really a funny and boring thing.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed slightly, and he noticed that there was a shallow scratch on the ground under the bookshelf leaning against the gable not far away, and the scratch on the dark wooden floor was extremely light and faint, and it was really difficult to find if you didn't look carefully.

Ning Que walked over after a moment of silence, squatted down and touched it lightly with his fingers, confirming that it should be the result of years of friction, looking up at the heavy bookshelf, and the fingers pressed on the scratches trembled slightly.

On both sides of the bookshelf are carved some intricate but incomprehensible patterns, the ornaments are accumulated with years of gray greasy, round and steep, and there is no specific shape, which looks extremely clumsy and ugly. Every detail of the cornices carved building of the old library building is extremely exquisite, but the ornamentation on the bookshelf on this bolted wall is so vulgar, Ning Que feels more and more strange, his fingers slowly touch it, and then close his eyes, feeling every touch between his fingers.

Could it be that behind the bookshelves is the legendary two-story building? Could it be that behind the wall is the real academy?

"You can try to pry this bookshelf open and see what's behind it. ”

Ning Que Huo Ran opened his eyes and turned to look, and found that the gentle and small female professor had quietly come behind him at some point, and was looking at him with a gentle and even somewhat encouraging gaze at this time.

He didn't know the true meaning of the female professor's gentle and quiet gaze, so he glanced at the ornaments on the bookshelf with a wry smile, and occasionally a light flashed in his mind, remembering how he felt when he looked at the Suzaku portrait on Suzaku Street and saw those eaves beasts in the palace, and vaguely guessed some things, where he dared to do anything disrespectful.

Time has now come to the midsummer of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, Ning Que and Sang Sang have been in the Xiongcheng of Chang'an for several months, opened an old pen house, entered the academy to study, and ate some leftovers every day, it seems that life has not changed at all, but in fact it is not.

The young soldier from the border city followed someone to brave the spring rain to kill all night, entered the palace once, and fought hard with those spiritual texts on the old book building for many nights, he saw a bigger and more magnificent world, and got to know some people who had risen up, and both his vision and spirit were very different from before.

The most important thing is that in these months, he sent away the first friend in his life, killed Yushi Zhang Yiyi and Chen Zixian, and took the first step on the road to revenge, and until now, the death of these two people does not seem to have alarmed the Tang Empire government and the powerful Xiahou general.

"It's too hot, and that's not good for Chang'an City. ”

Lying on the bamboo chair and looking at the stars overhead, Ning Que wiped the sweat off his face, shook his head and said, "The weather will not be cooler until the morning, you said that there is a small lake next to the tea master's house, will it be more comfortable than ours?"

Sang Sang took the towel and soaked it in the bucket of cold water, and said in a low voice: "Young master, are you going to kill him because his house is cool......er?" Is it really that interesting?"