The spring rain was ticking down the eaves, and in the early hours of the morning, the spring rain had stopped for several days.

The morning light shone into the window lattice, Nie Honglian lay on the side of the bed, pillowed her chin and blew in the scholar's ear, and whispered: "Childe, it's time to get up." ”

The sunlight dragged on, and she got up and floated into the painting, and after a moment, her head poked out again.

"Childe!!"

Suddenly screamed, the startled Lu Liang sat up from the bed violently, and the female ghost on the opposite wall stuck out the tip of her tongue with a smile, returned to the painting with satisfaction, sat on the swing, and slowly swinged around.

"Ah......h

Lu Liangsheng yawned, glared at each other with the red pity on the painting, and then put on his robe and got up to wash, just put on his shoes and walked out two steps, and there was a 'chirp' under his feet.

The scholar looked down and saw that the toad Daoist was lying on the ground with his eyes bulging out, and his tongue was squeezed out and placed on the ground.

Belch......

Hurriedly lifted his feet, picked up the master, and whispered, "Master?"

The toad's eyes on the palm of his hand moved, he withdrew his tongue, his limbs trembled a few times, sat up, and knocked his back with his back.

"Evil ......"

Before the toad could spit out the words of scolding, Lu Liangsheng sighed lightly, and found that there were crumpled papers everywhere on the ground, and he picked up a ball of waste paper and unfolded it, which was full of black ink, and he could vaguely see the outline of the terrain.

"Master, what are you doing here?"

Hong Lian stirred her feet, dangled the swing, and said with a smile on the painting:

"Master Toad painted all night and fell asleep on the ground. ”

Ahem –

The toad coughed dryly, and the toad's eyes glanced to the side, his eyes rolled, and his expression became serious.

"As a teacher, I have lived with you for a long time, I have been stained with a lot of fireworks and worldly emotions, and I miss my homeland a little, but unfortunately I can't see the mana for the teacher, and my cultivation is a loss, so I can't return to my original place....... I can only draw my hometown in my memory to relieve the pain of homesickness. ”

Inside the house, Lu Liangsheng picked up a ball of waste paper, piled it on the desk, unfolded it for a long time, probably saw some outlines, and looked back at the master.

"Since Master can't draw well, let's dictate it, and I'll draw it. ”

After speaking, considering the size of the master, it is convenient to look through it at any time, Lu Liangsheng took a small shaft from the bookshelf, spread it on the table, listened to the voice of the toad, and slowly dropped the pen, outlining the lines of the mountains.

"From this Chen Dynasty to the north, to the west of the Northern Zhou Twenty miles, there is a grave mountain, and then seven miles to the east......"

The dictation of the toad Taoist, the names of mountains, rivers, and even several major roads were also drawn, Lu Liangsheng put down his pen, held up the small painting shaft and blew the ink stains on it in the sun.

"Master, from this painting, it looks like the sky overlooking it, and it's ......."

Lu Liangsheng turned his head to look at the toad Taoist sitting on the table.

"...... this is the map, right?"

"At that time, I was a teacher, and I often drove the clouds and fog, and what I saw was naturally such a scene!"

The toad Taoist looked at the map, said a word, and jumped back and forth a few times with his tense little short legs, and the flippers were half an inch away from the drawing axis, but he couldn't hook them, so he had to give up and sit back down, with the frog webbing propped up on his chin.

"Okay, this is the map, it is the place where the teacher hid a lot of pills and spells back then, if it weren't for this long time and not recovered, the teacher wouldn't want to go so far...... Especially being bullied by a small centipede spirit! I can't swallow this breath for the teacher!!"

"Tibetan pills, spells?" Lu Liangsheng raised his eyebrows.

The toad lifted its eyelids and sighed.

"But it's probably gone, and the teacher feels that the place has been moved, like someone has broken into it......."

Regarding the speculation of the Earth Demon Flame Array, the Toad Daoist did not say it, after all, if a secret is involved, there will be more secrets exposed, and he still understands it.

But right now, his apprentice is no longer the stupid mountain village boy he was four years ago.

The toad looked at the scholar with a serious expression, but his heart jumped suddenly.

.....Don't let him see it.

Don't see it.

Don't look at it......

"Liangsheng, are you up?!"

At this time, Wang Shuhua's voice sounded outside, and the moment Lu Liangsheng turned his head, the long scarlet tongue wrapped around the painting scroll in his hand and flew out.

The toad man picked up the scroll and jumped off the desk, flicked his tongue and ran excitedly into the compartment of the bookshelf, stretched out his webbing and pulled, and closed the door with a bang.

“.......”

Lu Liangsheng looked at the empty palm and hung down speechlessly, Master seems to have really lost a lot of good things...... Thinking about it, he turned around and opened the door and walked out.

Outside, the old man was holding his hands and looking up at the sycamore, and on the side of the crescent gate, inside and outside the door, there were also many maids and servants, looking at the old tree with the same eyes.

In the courtyard, the sycamore trees have regained new branches in a few days, which really makes the whole house feel incredible.

"I remember this tree for many years, when the old man was just appointed as the scholar, the young lady was still very young. ”

"I've been in the house for a few years, and I saw that this tree was dying, why did it come back to life?"

"Could it be a student of Shuhua Gong?"

"You said Lu Gongzi...... Once I heard that the old man was drunk and lost his temper, and I vaguely heard that Lu Gongzi was a cultivator......"

"Hey, cultivators, that's amazing, no wonder this old tree can have a second spring. ”

"Don't say it, Lu Gongzi has come out, and he will disperse soon. ”

......

The whispers over there were naturally listened to by Lu Liangsheng, and as for the sycamore over there, it was also borrowed from painting a few days ago and used mana to save the old tree.

I don't know if it was a thunderstorm, or if I have improved my cultivation and calligraphy and painting, every time I sit under the tree, I seem to feel the sadness of this sycamore that is about to die.

The morning light was shining brightly, and Lu Liangsheng looked at Wutong and sighed.

"I saved your life because I thanked you for sheltering from the wind and rain for many days. ”

In the nine days between the spring and the spring, the originally scarce leaves gradually became dense, the old skin fell off, and new ones grew into the current branches, so that the servants and maids in the house who often passed through the crescent moon gate witnessed the miracle of dead wood in spring, and the mystery was enough to make the house up and down, in awe of this mysterious Lu Gongzi.

After the crowd dispersed, Lu Liangsheng came behind his mentor and arched his hand.

"Teacher, aren't you going out?"

"Heh..... magical, mysterious!" Shuhua looked at the sycamore branches and leaves stroking in the wind, stroked his beard and sighed, and turned his head with a smile on his face.

"The teacher just went out, but before he was halfway through, he received a message from Min Shangshu, asking the teacher to inform you to prepare for the preparation, and you will enter the palace and conduct the palace test later, which is the last test to enter the official career, so you should be cautious. ”

Lu Liangsheng was a little stunned in his heart.

Generally speaking, after the test, there will be a few days in between, if it encounters important government affairs, it will take an extended time, the top three horseback riding streets, Lu Liangsheng is ready, and the result is that he will go to the temple to prepare for the exam the next day

"So fast...... Fortunately, the matter of He Liangzhou and the matter of protecting the country are all things that should be done sooner rather than later. ”

There was still a little time, Lu Liangsheng immediately went back to the house to wash up, tidy up his appearance, and soon, someone from the palace came over and taught some rules after entering the palace.

“....... Lu Jinshi, when you get to the palace, don't walk around, many places are strictly forbidden for outsiders to enter, if you trespass, you will be punished, if it is serious, you will be killed

This palace test is personally supervised by His Majesty, but don't cheat, cheating in front of His Majesty, even the gods can't save it, Lu Jinshi must keep it in mind, and ......"

The eunuch who came out of the palace talked a lot, and Lu Liangsheng didn't want to brush off the other party, and after listening patiently, he took out some loose silver from his cuffs, and the eunuch nodded with a smile, grabbed it in his palm and stuffed it into the cuff without a trace, covered his mouth, and laughed flatteringly.

"Lu Jinshi is dignified and can be a man, in the future, he will definitely have a great future. ”

Soon, Lu Liangsheng went to the palace with his frame.