Autumn in Los Angeles is not cold, and it still carries the residual temperature of late summer.

The red snow at night is not quiet, and those students in their prime are still singing all night.

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In a quiet room upstairs in the No. 1 Qinglou of Tianzi, Ning Shu was holding a cup of steaming black tea in both hands, sitting at the table and looking extremely well-behaved.

Because sitting across the table was neither Li Wanqing, who persuaded him to drink, nor Yuan Youtao, who was pulling him to chatter, but a middle-aged beautiful woman who looked a little old, but could still see the charm between her eyebrows.

It was Mrs. Zhou, the head of the red pile of snow.

Even though Ning Shu had taken a hot bath in a wooden barrel in the bathroom room in the building before coming here, the middle-aged woman on the other side of the table still frowned when she smelled the aroma of bluegrass in the room, as if she could smell the faint smell of wine in the air.

Ning Shu, who was staring at a few pieces of tea floating on the tea water in his hand like fish in the water, peeked at the change in the expression on the face of the woman opposite, this situation and this scene, as if it reappeared yesterday, the young man who came to Los Angeles for the first time was scolded by the proprietress of the Qinglou, and came here again after disappearing for two months, it seems...... It seems to be scolded again.

After Mrs. Zhou frowned for a while, her expression became flat, looking at the respectful young man in front of her, she suddenly felt that the young man's temperament had undergone some slight changes compared to the first time I met two months ago, not the kind of book fragrance that was contaminated after entering the Taifu, but a kind of natural, quiet softness that burst out from the inside out.

You can't just send a nameless fire to this young man like last time, thinking of this, Mrs. Zhou remembered the last time Ning Shu was well-behaved with grievances, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl slightly.

The middle-aged woman's face in front of Ning Shu's meeting gradually softened, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but Mrs. Zhou frowned again.

"I thought that after you passed the Taifu assessment, you would understand the matter, stay away from this light, and walk on the road of sages, this morning I also reprimanded the girls who think about men and don't practice dance well, but you are good, you actually came over at night, and it caused a lot of excitement. ”

Although Mrs. Zhou's words were complaining, her face was kind to her relatives, but often the big people spoke, and they always started to lose their temper directly, and there was often a process of foreshadowing, which made Ning Shu feel more and more that he would face a stormy teaching next.

Silence is a simple and effective way to deal with such unmalicious bitterness of the elders, and more importantly, to show a very regretful and sad expression of wanting to reform in silence, so as to follow the earnest care of the elders and avoid being educated for a longer time.

Just as Ning Shu was thinking about how to make an expression of great regret and sadness with the intention of reforming, he did not wait for the storm that would follow.

I saw the middle-aged woman rubbing her eyebrows and slowly speaking:

"I heard that you won the first place in the Taifu assessment, which is good, but it is really inappropriate not to take the second subject of riding and archery, and I don't want to ask too much about the reason, if you enter the court as a civil official in the future, then you don't have to care, but it's always right to know how to order more things. ”

Ning Shu thought to himself, I can't tell you the reason why I missed the assessment, if I took the two subjects of archery, with the tricks I learned from Chen Shanhai since I was a child, be modest, and it should be no problem to get a second class, but at this time, it is difficult to speak, so I have to hold the teacup stupidly.

"I heard that you go to the end of the world in Taifu every day to read books, which is also very good, and you have to continue to keep it, but I am a little puzzled, why do you want to read the two-story foreign classics, saying that you are fighting for something with the talented son of the Wang family, with your temperament, I will never believe it. ”

Ning Shu was a little puzzled, it is not strange that Mrs. Zhou knows the results of the Taifu assessment, because after all, it has been publicized on the shadow wall for several days, and even the coachman in the city can know the content of the assessment, and it is normal for the proprietress of the Qinglou to know the results, but she even knows that she is in and out of the library, which is very shocking, but when you think of this is a Fengyue place, it is possible that those gentlemen who look stereotypical like old antiques are also ......

Thinking of this, Ning Shu's eyes widened in surprise and were full of shock.

It is often said that drunk people are easy to be cranky, even if the current Ning Shu was blown by the night wind, soaked in hot tea, and soaked in hot water, but the remaining alcoholic elements in his mind still ran out at this time, and was nagged a few times by Yuan Youtao's ears, and the combination of the two came to the above conclusion.

Mrs. Zhou seemed to understand what he was thinking, glared at him angrily, took out the theory from the first meeting, and scolded unhappily: "Little boy's family, the body has not grown up, it is okay to go in and out of these places, even the drunken skills have learned a lot, and I don't know what books you read when you go to Tianyaguan!"

Ning Shu was guilty in his heart, and then cursed Yuan Youtao in his heart, and his head seemed to be lowered to the teacup.

Looking at his appearance, Mrs. Zhou continued as calmly as possible: "I open this kind of place, and I naturally receive all kinds of people, including those young masters, and I can also know some news after a few discussions, not to mention the matter between you and the talented son of the Wang family." ”

"I just want to read more books. Ning Shu politely explained.

"It's good to like reading, I just like your indifferent temperament, it's just that the talented son of the Wang family and the seven sons of Tianya are all cultivators, and they will definitely enter the back mountain, and they have been in Taifu for more than two months, and you must have heard about some of the situation in the back mountain. ”

"Do you want to come in?"

"Naturally, I want to. ”

Ning Shu replied affirmatively, in the past two months, he has benefited a lot from comprehending that Haoran sword intent on the second floor of Tianyaguan, and he has become more and more sophisticated in the way of swordsmanship, and he has even unconsciously reached the peak of the Divine Mind Realm, only one opportunity to break through, not to mention the young man who was suspected to be a great supernatural person who returned to the virtual realm at the gate of Tianyaguan, as well as the things in the lake, which made him feel more and more that Taifu is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

In the eyes of outsiders, the cultivation of the Divine Mind Realm at the age of fourteen or fifteen is already a gift, but in Ning Shu's own opinion, it is far from enough, because the goal he wants to pursue will definitely not be weaker than the Returning to the Void Realm, and becoming the core figure of a place like Taifu in the heart of the Divine Dynasty will inevitably have more resources, not only to improve his cultivation, but more importantly, to grasp more information, so that he will not be as clueless as a headless fly now.

"It's good to have an idea, although the eight sons of Tianya are all cultivators, but I have been in Los Angeles for many years, and the mysterious back mountain of Taifu has also heard of it somewhat, although there are very few people recruited, but I have never heard of the distinction between practice and worldliness, and it is said that there is a person in the back mountain who is just a mundane body before entering the mountain. ”

"When you are young, you should fight fearlessly, maybe a miracle will happen, your age is the easiest to create miracles and hopes, if you have confidence, I dare not say anything else, but in Taifu, even if you are a cultivator, what is noble?"

After Mrs. Zhou heard Ning Shu express the idea of wanting to enter the mountain behind Taifu, her eyebrows and eyes soothed, and she said with a smile, she remembered that the person who crossed the river in white back then, could he also be in Taifu?

Ning Shu didn't know what Mrs. Zhou was thinking, but when he heard that the young man who entered the back mountain of Taifu as a mortal, and then thought of the young man in front of the building, such a strong contrast made him even more determined to enter the back mountain, and at the same time, he also felt extremely warm about the middle-aged woman's care and encouragement for him.

Because he has lived with the old scholar since he was a child, he is still missing an important link in his life, although he has grown up without any ups and downs, but deep down in his heart he still longs for such a thing to exist, and Mrs. Zhou has only seen a few faces for him, but his words and deeds more or less fill this gap, so no matter how Mrs. Zhou reprimands, Ning Shu will always feel warm.

Mrs. Zhou took a sip of the teacup, and then said: " In my god dynasty since ancient times is the ability to respect, even I know this truth, I know this truth, I think you also know, although you are good in terms of literary talent, but there is a way to become better, no matter how you say it, you have to fight for it, your best friend Yuan Youtao is a rich son, that Jin Weiqi is a noble girl, even Xue San, Qiu Wan is also a little famous and visionary, to be honest, they are only attracted to you because they can't see through you, those quality things are not all, when they have passed the freshness of this burst, whether they can continue to do this to you is unknown。 ”

But if you want to maintain this relationship for a longer period of time, and eventually become a real friend, then you must always leave some mystery, so that they will still have enthusiasm for you after the novelty, if you enter the back mountain, then whether it is status, or ability and character, you have something to handle, under this premise, the relationship can last for a long time. ”

Ning Shu had to admit that Mrs. Zhou had a very thorough understanding of human feelings, and her words were very realistic and true, but he wanted to enter the back mountain, not just for such practical things, but to improve his strength, and then take revenge, as for whether anyone wants to be friends with him, it really doesn't matter to him.

After setting out from Ping'an City, all kinds of people and things he experienced along the way were related to the teaching place he was in, and the mountain behind Taifu had left him with too much mystery.

Ning Shu needed and needed to obtain it, to be a part of the mysterious vast mountains.