Kyushu Continent, Great Liang Dynasty, Qinglong Town.

A young man held a tattered ancient book in his hand, and rode a green ox on a single-plank path under the Lion Rock, and kept reading Xiaoqing up the mountain...

The young man's name is Ye Jiu, and he is the adopted son of Ye Jianguo, the head of the Ye family, one of the five major families in Qinglong Town.

According to legend, in ancient times, lightning and thunder suddenly fell from the sky, and a temple descended from the sky to the Lion Mountain in Qinglong Town. Therefore, the ancestors of Qinglong Town often go to the temple to pray for blessings: "It is said that the fairy god came to Lion Mountain to bless the people of Qinglong Town." ”

When Ye Jiu arrived in front of the Lion Mountain Temple, it was already noon, and there was no one in front of or behind the temple, only an old man who was there with his eyes closed and recuperated. Ye Jiu felt strange in his heart, there was obviously no one around, and the old man was dry here? So he walked over and said, "May I ask the old man, I don't know if you are doing hemp?" When the old man heard this, he said: "I am praying for the blessings of the people in the world." ”

Ye Jiu shook his head to say that he didn't understand, and the old man said again: "The Kyushu Continent, the nine great dynasties, and there are countless dynasties under the emperor, and there are thousands of dynasties under the dynasty, for millions of years, countless dynasties and dynasties have fought every year, I don't know how many soldiers have died, and there are countless people who have died without orphans, and countless families have been broken, I pray for them, I hope that there will be less war and more warmth in the world." ”

Ye Jiu heard this: "The old man is really a good man in the world. I haven't seen you in Qinglong Town before, I don't know where the old gentleman is famous, where he came from, and how to call him? ”

The old man said: "The old Taoist likes to travel to the starry sky, and people from the outside world call me the starry sky Taoist, who comes from outside the sky, travels through the starry sky, passes by this world, and is led by the Lion Mountain Temple, and stays here to understand the avenue." Little doll, what do you want here? ”

Ye Jiudao: "My father said that the five major families in Qinglong Town, except for our Ye family, each family has someone who has been a champion in high school, and they are all high-ranking officials in the imperial court, so I don't have it, so let me come here to pray to God and worship Buddha, this is also the third time I have participated in the scientific examination, and I have not won the previous two times." My father wants God to bless me. ”

the five families of Qinglong Town; The Zhang family, the Feng family, the Li family, the Zhao family, and the Ye family.

The Zhang family is ranked first, the Ye family is ranked last, in recent years, because the Zhang family and the Feng family are in-laws, the two families are traitors, and they conspire together to suppress the Ye family and want to destroy the Ye family, but because the five elders of the Ye family hold important positions in the imperial army, although the two families have this heart, they dare not do it too obviously, but in the secret they have suppressed it very much, although the family has been vigorously cultivating the descendants over the years, but the Ye family has not produced any talents in the past ten years.

This time it's actually a hard shot, if you can't pass the test, you won't be able to pass the test!

Then he said, "Sir, you are from outside the world. ”

"Why don't I worship you as a teacher, you teach me to cultivate and take me to the starry sky."

"How do you feel?"

The old man shook his head and said, "Your physique is very weak, and your qualifications are too poor to be my apprentice." Ye Jiu heard that he had been hit by the accompaniment, and after thinking about it, he turned around and walked towards the temple. ”

The old man looked at Ye Jiu, then at Ye Jiu's green cow at the foot of Lion Mountain, then at the temple, and then said to himself: "I didn't expect to encounter such a psychic cow on a low-level planet, and this temple, it is really a mysterious stone temple, and it can affect my mind." ”

That's it: "There is something important today, he came to see what was going on, and then he came to the green cow, he modeled the green cow, you go with me!" Then he disappeared, disappeared, and disappeared with him, along with the green ox. ”

In front of a stone statue in the temple, Ye Jiu put on three pillars of incense, and after worshipping for nine days, he was about to leave, when he suddenly found that there was a black broken iron knife at the foot of the stone statue, the black one was not big, and the palm of half a hand was small, giving people a very ancient feeling.

Ye Jiu was curious, so he bent down to get it, but he accidentally slipped under his feet, fell to the ground, and his head hit the iron knife unfortunately, and Ye Jiu's head was bleeding and unconscious.

The strange thing was that the blood on Ye Jiu's head flowed onto the broken iron blade, and then disappeared, and after a while, the iron piece shone brightly. Then a streamer flew into Ye Jiu's head, and the bleeding wound on Ye Jiu's head disappeared along with it.

When Ye Jiu slowly opened his eyes and woke up, he found that he was lying on a bed in a room and felt that his whole body was dazed, dazed, and had a headache.

"Am I dead here, is this hell? Why does my head still hurt so much? ”

At this moment, the door of the room suddenly opened, and a little girl in a long dress in a green dress entered, the little girl was thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was very delicate.

"Ahh

A scream: "Brother, you're awake, it's great, I'm worried about death, you're hungry, I'll go and make you something to eat, and I'm going to turn around and leave after speaking." ”

The girl's name is Ye Zi, she is Ye Jiu's younger sister, and she has had a very good relationship with Ye Jiu since she was a child.

At this time, Ye Jiu shouted: "Sister Ye Zi, no need, I'm not hungry, thank you, little sister!" ”

"I remember if I wasn't at the Lion Hill Temple? How did I get home, how did I get back? ”

Ye Zi turned around and said, "It was my father who saw that you hadn't come back for a long time, so he went to look for you and brought you back, and your green cow was gone." ”

Is there something going on there? How can you fall into a coma?

"Father and I are worried about you, so Father went to look for you."

By the way: "Where's your green cow?" Where did the green cow go? ”

Ye Jiu also said helplessly: "At that time, I put the cows down the mountain to graze and went to the mountain alone, and I don't know later, I can't remember what happened at that time." ”

Ye Zi listened and said, "It's okay, Niu Er should come back by himself." Brother, take a good rest, I'll go to the whole chicken stew to replenish your body, next month you will go to Kyoto to participate in the scientific examination, you want to eat something good to make up for it! ”

The expedition is conducted every three years, and each time is set on the third day of the first month of March.

Although the Great Liang Dynasty belonged to the middle and lower classes, most of them were literati and scholars.

Among them, the lyrics and songs are prosperous. It is very, very difficult to write good poems, good words, and be able to take the lead in the imperial examination, so Ye Jiu failed in the first two scientific examinations.

Ye Jiu smiled with emotion in his heart: "No need, I made up a lot for the first two times, didn't I miss it!" Saying that, Ye Jiu was about to get up.

Ye Zijiao hurriedly stopped: "Your body is still very weak, lie down and rest." ”

Ye Jiu got up and said, "My body is really fine, don't you see that I am up?" I remembered to go and see my father, he was there! Why didn't you see him? ”

Ye Zi smiled and said, "Father went to the family meeting, and he should come back in a while." ”

I heard my father say: "The family attaches great importance to this scientific expedition, and this time the Ye family has a total of three people to refer to, Ye Lang, the son of the Great Elder, Ye Tian, the son of the Fifth Elder, and the other is the eldest brother." ”

"Yes, each of the other four families has three people to participate, and all of them are talents. You're stressed! ”

At this time, the door suddenly opened, and I saw a middle-aged man in a purple robe and coat walking in from outside the door.