Life in the countryside is actually very slow and quiet.

With the arrival of winter, the farming work has also ended, and the residents of the town have no more farm work to deal with except for a few odd things.

After a busy year, people finally have some free time to enjoy this rare peace.

Taking advantage of this atmosphere, Lu Yuan also put down his plan to hunt in the mountains and stayed at home every day.

In addition to the fixed practice of palms, expanding the meridians and tempering internal strength, from time to time I will bring some bacon and hors d'oeuvres, and find my cheap teacher Sun Siwen to cook wine in the stove and talk about it.

Lu Yuan still likes to talk with Sun Siwen very much.

Although Sun Siwen was looked down upon by the people in the town, thinking that he was in his twenties, he couldn't even pass the test for his talent and fame, which was really a shame for a scholar.

But for the classic subset of the imperial examination, Lu Yuan was not interested.

"Zi said, the one who knows the hu" or something, it sounds uninteresting.

Compared with these, he is more interested, and he still prefers to talk to Sun Siwen about the country of Yue and the customs of various places.

There is a good saying.

Xiucai doesn't go out, he can know the world.

Compared with the peasants who have been working in the farmland all their lives, the foot merchants who only walk in a certain range can often meet with other scholars and come into contact with Sun Siwen at a higher level, and the knowledge and vision they have are obviously a level higher than others.

For example.

Through Sun Siwen's mouth, Lu Yuan learned that there are eight counties and seventy-two prefectures in Vietnam, more than 1,000 counties, a territory of thousands of miles, and a vast territory.

I also learned that the Yue Kingdom was not the only dynasty in the world, and in the north, there were also the Liang Kingdom and the Zhou Kingdom, both of which were not inferior to the Yue Kingdom.

Among them, Liang and Yue did not deal with each other, and the two sides clashed from time to time, but they only caused some friction on the border and did not fight a big battle.

And around the Three Kingdoms, there are also some small countries around them, with strong and weak strengths, paying tribute and confrontation to the Three Kingdoms respectively.

Lu Yuan also knew that it was now the nineteenth year of Longqing.

Today, Longqing Tianzi Yuji has been thirty years, and Longqing is his third era name, and it is also the longest era name used, which has been almost twenty years.

The above and so on are all information that cannot be obtained in the rural teahouse.

Because of this, for his cheap teacher, he is more and more diligent.

……

On this day, Lu Yuan came with wine, and made an appointment with Sun Siwen to come to Meilin outside the town, and cook wine together in the small pavilion on the side of the road.

Today's topic is myths and legends.

Ever since he knew that there were martial arts in this world and that he had practiced them, Lu Yuan had become extremely interested in the legendary immortal method.

Although he doesn't know whether this is a martial arts world or a fairy world.

For more than a year, I have been walking in the mountains, and I have never seen any monsters. The likes of fox fairies and wild gods only exist in legends.

But none of this prevents him from understanding and exploring the truth of the world.

And at this time, the best way is naturally through Sun Siwen's mouth.

Fortunately, this grandson brother, although he didn't learn well in the subset of classics and history, he couldn't get into Xiucai. But for some rural anecdotes, gods and monsters, I know a lot, and I don't read much about related anthologies on weekdays.

At this time, when talking about it, it is also the head.

Especially the stories of some scholars who rushed to take the exam and met the fox fairy, men and women had a romantic affair overnight, and were also given examination funds, Sun Shusheng is the head of the story.

In this regard, Lu Yuan privately speculated.

This may be professional empathy, or it may be that he has been depressed for a long time, and Brother Sun is extremely depressed in his heart, so he is particularly fond of this kind of book business lewd story of a beautiful woman who throws herself into her arms and gets rich overnight.

Fortunately, he is not averse to these stories.

After all, men......

How can the topic of each other not be colorful?

Even when it came to Xingtou, the two also discussed the pros and cons of each fragrant story, whether the fox fairy is better, or the Bei girl is better.

But Sun Siwen is a scholar in the end.

These obscene stories, after just telling them as leisure, they will not be discussed. The topic was slowly shifted to the court of the world, talking about the things of Buddhism and Taoism today.

Today, Emperor Longqing advocates Buddhism, and also canonized several real mages, who are rumored to have unpredictable abilities, can tread water, control the flames, and are real fairy figures.

In order to support these real mages, Emperor Longqing spent thousands of dollars to levy conscription, and built several large palaces and temples near the national capital to live in several real mages.

At the same time, he built Taoist temples in the world and gave these monks and Taoists the right to tax exemption, which can be said to be extremely advantageous.

"Today's peaceful world depends on the governance of my Confucian sages. Those monks did not accept forced labor, did not pay taxes, took in the dead, fornicated the temples, and caused chaos in the court. ”

Sun Siwen talked about the chaos in the court now, although he has no fame at all, he is still just a fart person, but he has the style of Lu Yuan's previous life Internet sage.

At this time, he drank a glass of green plum wine, and began to govern: "The hateful monarch was bewitched by these demons and connived at them, and in the long run, the country will not be a country." ”

What is the greatest sorrow for a Confucian scholar?

Of course, what you have learned is not valued by the king, and your lifelong ambitions are impossible to show.

And for a scholar who has empty ambitions but does not even have fame, this sadness is even greater.

Because he will find that he has studied hard for more than ten years, but in the eyes of the emperor, he is not as good as those demons who can only pretend to be gods and ghosts and deceive people's hearts.

At the very least, those demons can be exempt from taxes, and they can become the guests of dignitaries, and there are countless people to worship.

But he is a family with four walls, and he has to bear the tax of forced labor, how can he tell the bitter word.

Therefore, the frustration in Sun Siwen's heart at this time is understandable. It is also human nature to make two whining words.

Although Lu Yuan felt that if he reported this Sun brother to the government, with the above words, the other party would definitely be guilty of mismatching.

But who is he?

How could a trainee immortal, the god of arrows on Lantau Island, and a person who lives with the sky, do such a tasteless thing of betraying his friends?

So this idea was only turned around in my mind, and then I found that doing this thing was basically no good, but it would ruin my reputation, so I completely suppressed it.

If it's not beneficial, I'll not do it.

However, compared to Sun Siwen's complaints, the real mage mentioned in the other party's previous words instantly attracted his attention.

Treading water and harnessing the flames......

These deeds are supernatural, although Sun Siwen scoffs at them, and only thinks that they are demons pretending to be gods and ghosts, and he doesn't know how to use them to deceive the king.

But for Lu Yuan, his understanding of the whole thing changed in an instant.

"Although judging from my current exploration of this world, I have not found any mountain spirits and wild monsters, fox ghosts, gods and immortals. But since there is such a thing as martial arts internal force in this world, there is a mysterious power that does not conform to common sense.

Then the appearance of some people who have mastered the magic of immortal law is not so incomprehensible and impossible.

These real mages who claim to be able to tread water and resist fire, since they can be so respected by the emperor, they may really have real skills, and they have mastered some mysterious powers that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. ”

Lu Yuan pondered secretly in his heart, and then cooperated with Sun Siwen to scold the demon a few words, and got some rumors about the demon from his mouth.

For example, there was once a mage who was known to be invulnerable. In the middle of the city, put your hand directly into the hot oil pan, and then take it out intact without hurting a bit.

Another real person, who claimed to be able to read minds, pulled a stranger on the street, and was able to tell what the other party had done before, which was amazing.

What's more, it is a real person from the Heavenly Master's Mansion, who is rumored to have amazing powers and can harness thunder to drive away evil spirits. At that time, there was a haunted house in the mansion of a high-ranking official in Kyoto, so I asked this real person to help.

This real person from the Heavenly Master's Mansion just came to the main court of the high-ranking official's mansion and drank the spell, and then there seemed to be thunder all around, and there was a woman's wailing sound from time to time.

Then the real man said that the sneak had been destroyed by the thunder. Since then, there has really been no evil thing in the mansion of high-ranking officials, which was immediately amazed by the people of the time and widely spread.

Even Lu Yuan, in fact, when he was drinking tea in the tea soup in the county town two months ago, he heard a merchant talk about this matter, but it was already a version that I don't know how many times it had changed.

It has long been unrecognizable, and it sounds even more bizarre.

At that time, it was just a myth and legend, and I laughed it off, and I didn't care much about it.

At this time, after listening to what Sun Shusheng said, it suddenly dawned on me that this was talking about the deeds of real people in the dynasty.

However, after hearing these deeds, he began to speculate a little.

Because these stories sound too much like a magic stick using a trick to deceive the world and pretend to be a ghost.

For example, stretching out his hand in the hot oil pot, Lu Yuan knew that there was a scientific method that could be easily done.

There is also the so-called mind reading, and it is not difficult to arrange a few trusts in advance, or to collect information with some thought.

As for the thunder method to kill ghosts, it is even simpler. There may not be a natural sneakiness, but it is not easy to create artificial sneakiness?

All in all, these stories are too much like some of the tricksters he had seen in his previous life, and it was hard not to think of them when he heard them from others.

"So maybe this is really just a martial arts world, and there are no immortals?" Thinking back to the story he had just heard, Lu Yuan couldn't help but hesitate.

However, this suspicion only lasted for a while, and he was left behind.

Regardless of whether these are deceptions or not, whether those real mages can be immortals or not, these are too far away from themselves.

Kyoto is thousands of miles away from Oyu Prefecture, and what happened there really only exists in rumors for this small and remote prefecture.

"And compared to these illusory things, it is the most practical to practice my Liuyun Palm first." Lu Yuan laughed at himself, then raised his wine glass and continued to drink with Sun Siwen.

……

Since that day, Lu Yuan and Sun Siwen have had a lot less gatherings.

This is not because of any conflicts between the two, and the relationship has deteriorated, mainly because they have something to do.

Among them, Sun Siwen was busy reading the classics, forgetting to sleep and eat in order to read.

This scholar, who has been a child for more than ten years, is preparing to apply for the spring examination in February next year for the twelfth time, and once again hit the fame of Xiucai.

I wonder if it will be possible this time?

Judging by past examples, the estimate is very suspenseful.

And Lu Yuan was busy practicing martial arts.

The previous trip to the South China Sea gave him a harvest not only in terms of money. It also gave him a clear understanding of his own strength level.

"The leader of the Qingzhu Gang I killed that day also practiced internal strength, and seeing that he was holding an iron rod, it is very likely that he had practiced some exercises. The overall strength should be similar to me today. ”

Lu Yuan carefully recalled the situation of that day, and the vague concept in his heart gradually became clear.

"But such a person, in the Qingzhu Gang, is only a small leader, at most a middle-level manager, not even a high-level management.

According to this situation, then the high-level leaders of the Qingzhu Gang, those gang leaders and elders, have at least practiced two meridians and initially mastered a martial arts third-rate master.

Dayu County is obviously richer than Nanhai County, and the Black Wolf Gang here can control such a territory, and its strength should be stronger than the Qingzhu Gang.

Maybe the leader of the Black Wolf Gang is a second-rate master who has practiced the six meridians and has a small internal force. ”

Extrapolating this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but think of the original Ma Jiqing.

This person is carrying a flowing cloud palm, and his cultivation is obviously much stronger than he is now, and it is likely that he has practiced to the second level of the mental method, opened up three or four meridians, and his strength belongs to the peak of the third rate.

And he is such a good player, but he was still beaten and escaped with serious injuries.

Those who can do this may only be second-rate masters with small internal strength.

But after guessing this, Lu Yuan quickly thought of something: "Since Ma Jiqing was seriously injured, he must have fought with the high-level of the Black Wolf Gang, and among the other gang, there must be people who know Liuyunzhang."

And I got Ma Jiqing's martial arts, although I killed the other party and touched the corpse, but the Black Wolf Gang didn't know? ”

After all, according to the normal routine, after the other party got this situation, it was very likely that Lu Yuan would think that Lu Yuan had worshiped Ma Jiqing as his teacher and obtained the mantle of the other party, and then practiced martial arts and prepared to avenge his master.

This is the style that traditional martial arts should take.

As for his explanation, he did not apprentice, but helped the Black Wolf Gang kill the enemy and the like.

Let's not talk about whether the other party believes it or not, let's just say that a second-rate martial arts cheats book is enough to cause people to be greedy and murderous.

Lu Yuan felt that at this time, there was a big black cauldron on his body out of thin air, and he didn't know when it would be smashed down.

"So I still have to double my practice, if I don't practice the full stream of clouds, my internal strength will be small, and I will become a second-rate master, and I must not be on the rivers and lakes."

He was secretly cheering in his heart.

But he has already made up his mind that if he can enter the city less in the future, he will enter the city less, and avoid the people of the Black Wolf Gang as much as possible. Even if you encounter it, you must not show your martial arts skills in front of the other party.

Otherwise, a trouble is absolutely indispensable.

The rivers and lakes are too dangerous, they fight and kill at every turn, and they are a noble immortal, and they really can't fight with those reckless people.

You should give full play to your own advantages, compare your life with each other, and survive them.

Stay up until they are old, and the strength of their children and grandchildren has not yet grown, and then go to the Beihai Nursing Home, kick the Nanshan Kindergarten, and send the other party's family into the ground neatly.

Doesn't it smell?