Chapter 9: The White-Faced Scholar
Who is Jiang Taiqing?
What is the Supreme Code of the Xuan Emperor?
Hearing these names from Gui's mouth made Zhao Rong feel very novel, but what made him most curious was ...... The "graduation" problem of the students of the four prefectures of Taiqing.
"What are the conditions for the completion of the Taiqing Four Mansions? Isn't it too miserable if this can't be completed?" he said curiously.
"If it were me, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. β
Zhao Rong said with deep understanding.
In his previous life, he spent a few years in college, but when he was about to graduate, he realized that it was so troublesome to get a graduation certificate, and Zhao Rong felt the anxiety that he might not be able to finish his studies......
Return: "......"
Why is your focus so weird? I thought you would ask something else, why do you always follow the rules?
It suddenly lost its interest in chatting.
Every time it faced Zhao Rong, it had a sense of powerlessness.
Maybe this is the world of scrap materials, right?
"Shouldn't they have to learn a foreign language?" Zhao Rong guessed. It was clear that he had been devastated by a foreign language in a previous life.
"It's not. β
Gui said sullenly: "Sword cultivation and Taoist cultivation must cast the golden pill before the age of twenty-eight, and the Dan product is not less than six grades, so that they can be engraved with the Taiqing Tianjiao record and successfully complete the course." β
"Oh, that's fine. β
"It's really okay, but I can't figure out why there are so many so-called geniuses who can't finish their studies, it's just a bunch of waste materials, a waste of human resources!" Gui sneered.
Zhao Rong didn't know much about the realm system of cultivating the true realm and the monks on the mountain, so he didn't have any feelings about being promoted to the Jindan realm before the age of twenty-eight.
After all, it was once a demon who equaled the record of the fastest Jindan realm of the human race.
"By the way, who is Jiang Taiqing?"
"Jiang Cang. Taiqing is his word. β
"Oh, who is Jiang Cang?"
"Why do you have so many questions? and all of them are so naΓ―ve!"
Gui said impatiently: "Don't ask me these simple questions in the future, go to the mountain market and buy a monk's primer to read." β
Zhao Rong said with a serious face: "It's not too much, you start to dislike me, how will you live in the future?"
Return: "???"
......
Zhao Rong chuckled lightly and stopped teasing.
I silently wrote down in my heart that when I went back to the fairy market on the mountain, I bought this monk's "popular science book" to take a look.
When he came back to his senses, he picked up a notebook in the bookstore.
I chose a few good regular script scripts, and I wanted to turn around and pay the bill, but I stopped after walking a few steps, and wanted to buy a few books from Baijia Zhuzi to see.
So, Zhao Rong walked to the inside of the bookstore again.
There are a lot of books in the house, and the rows of bookshelves make it a little crowded, and the store has opened a few skylights in the house, so it is daylight, so it is not dim and has plenty of light.
After Zhao Rong entered, he saw a few people reading.
He chose the meeting and chose the book "Mo Debate" and "Hu Feizi", both of which are Mohist classics.
A book with a dark blue cover and a fox and a lady suddenly caught his eye.
"The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox Fairy"?
I heard that there are many demon clans in this world.
Zhao Rong picked up the book with some curiosity and opened it to read it carefully, and was soon disappointed.
This is a romance novel dressed in a ghost legend, or the most old-fashioned story of a fox demon and a scholar......
It turns out that there is a chat in this world.
He smiled and shook his head, put the book back on the shelf, and prepared to pay the bill and leave.
"Hey~"
A laugh came from the other side of the shelf, very quietly, but he heard it anyway.
Zhao Rong followed the sound and looked through the space of the bookshelf.
On the other side of the bookshelf, a young white-faced scholar stood opposite him.
I saw that he was unusually handsome, his eyes were black and white, his eyes were blazing, and he was holding an open book in his hand, and his hand holding the book was as white as snow against the dark blue book cover.
At this moment, he was reading a book with great energy, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly.
Zhao Rong glanced at the book cover in the white-faced scholar's hand.
The corners of his mouth twitched.
Is this book really read?
Seeing that he was "smirking" again at the moment, Zhao Rong's eyes couldn't help but bring a little more love.
Maybe Zhao Rong had been staring at it for too long, and the white-faced scholar suddenly raised his head.
Finding that Zhao Rong was looking at him through a bookshelf, he quickly put away his expression, and then glanced at Zhao Rong fiercely.
Zhao Rong coughed lightly, looked away with some embarrassment, and turned back again, the white-faced scholar was no longer in place.
Turning his head, the handsome scholar took a few books to the counter to settle the bill, but he was obviously wearing a green shirt, but he walked lightly and had a graceful posture.
Zhao Rong suddenly felt a chill.
......
Zhao Rong returned to the Duke's Mansion in Jingnan with the notebook and the book.
On the way back to his room, Zhao Rong met Zhao Lingfei's second brother, Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo looked embarrassed and wanted to explain something to Zhao Rong, because through Zhao Rong's attitude towards him in the past few days, he guessed that Zhao Rong knew that he had leaked secrets.
It's just that Zhao Rong ignored him, arched his hands and staggered away.
Maybe he had his own reasons, but Zhao Rong didn't want to hear it, anyway, he was about to leave, and he didn't want to have too much to do with the Duke's Palace.
Back in the room, looking at the empty room, Zhao Rong laughed at himself.
Now I'm really alone.
He threw the notebook and book on the desk, turned to open a nondescript closet in the room, and pulled out a wooden box from the corner.
He opened the wooden box and took out all the contents and placed them on the table.
A jade jade bracelet. Mother handed it to him before she died, saying that Zhao Lingfei coveted it when she was a child, but she never gave it to her, and she asked Zhao Rong to give it to Zhao Lingfei after she got married.
Two road guides, one new and one old. The new one was what he had entrusted Zhao Kuo to do for him before, and it was also what he needed to use when he traveled in the future. The old one was left by his mother, and this road was full of dense seals, except for the last one was the official seal of the Great Chu Dynasty, the other Zhao Rong didn't know him, but he could understand how far his mother had traveled at the beginning.
It is worth noting that the old road was issued by a country called Dajin, which is also likely to be the destination of his trip - his hometown.
A quaint token of unknown material. The one left by the mother has a dream character engraved on it with a small seal, and I don't know the purpose.
A delicate dagger. It was given to him by his mother. The hilt of this sword is equipped with a sword spike, which can be called a "literary sword", the sword has the virtue of a gentleman, and the scholar wears a sword, which means the noble identity and status, and he played with it, and found that this literary sword is very sharp, not just an elegant ornament, he is ready to carry it close to his body for self-defense.
A black card and a silver medal. This is the token of the ticket for the mountain ferry that Zhao Kuo bought for him, the ferry corresponding to the Xuanpai is from Dachu to the southernmost part of Wangque Continent Lihuo Country, and the silver medal is the token of the cross-continent ferry that departed from Lihuo Country.
I heard Zhao Kuo say that the ferry boat in front belonged to a medium-sized immortal family force in the south of Wangque Continent - Qingfeng Pavilion, while the cross-continent ferry boat in the back belonged to one of the few great immortal families on Wangque Continent Mountain, Wei Wei Mountain.
Finally, there are some spirit stones and gold. The spirit stone is left over after Zhao Kuo helped him sell some of his mother's relics and buy the ferry ticket. And the gold was prepared by himself, after all, the Da Chu silver ticket is not common in other countries, only gold is the hard currency under the mountain.
These things, plus the Xuanniao jade plate and private seal, are probably all his current net worth.
Zhao Rong picked up the Xuanpai of Qingfeng Pavilion and played it gently, remembering in his mind what Zhao Kuo said when he handed over the things to him.
The next ferry from Qingfeng Pavilion will arrive at the Longquan Mountain Ferry Port 100 miles away from Qianjing around March 15, so don't miss it.