A faint glow sprinkled on Su Ci's shoulder, like a deer looking up at Su Ci's slightly frowning brow.

Su Ci recalled the girl who climbed the mountain with him and grew up together, she, like him, was a person without any background before.

If she learned Yin-Yang by chance, Su Ci would like to believe it, but it would be strange to be surrounded by a group of obedient people, and she didn't like this.

"Forget it, I don't want to," Su Ci shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it when we go out." ”

Su Ci found that this sentence sounded so familiar, and he suddenly found that it was really not smooth for him to go out this time.

Sure enough, although I don't like the old man very much, I should still listen to his words, and it's really easy to bump into ghosts when I don't look forward to the date.

As early as before going out, his grandfather asked him to go out again after two days, he didn't believe it, and as a result, he first became a prisoner of Yang Xiu, and then a prisoner of Mingshan.

"Fuck, what the hell," Su Ci became more and more angry the more he thought about it, and he couldn't help but scold, he couldn't believe that he would run into such a thing.

Of course, Rulu didn't understand, but listening to his tone, he knew that Su Ci was in a bad mood.

"Childe, Lu'er believes that you will be able to find that sister. ”

"Well," Su Ci said: "Since Ji Tianhe said that this is the place to go out, it shouldn't be wrong, let's go out quickly." ”

Rulu said: "Childe, why does that green-skinned ghost have to kill you?" Seeing that Su Ci didn't want to say anything more, she asked the doubts in her heart.

I didn't feel strange that Rulu called that man a green-skinned ghost Su Ci, and I didn't think about it and said: "Didn't I say it before, my current identity is a disciple of Xilin Holy Master, even the extremely respected Wen Sheng has become my teacher, so Xilin people are unhappy, and they want to kill me to vent their anger," he said very easily, as if he had completely forgotten the long sword that almost passed through his head just now.

Rulu said: "Why are they unhappy, does the existence of the son infringe on their interests?"

For example, the deer is not stupid, and he also knows what the truth of the world is good.

Su Ci knew that Rulu didn't know much about the country where she was located, so she decided to popularize the basic knowledge for her, so she asked, "Does Lu'er know what status Xilin has in the south?"

Rulu thought for a moment and said, "The grandfathers of the village all hope that their children will be able to enter Xilin, and they say that it is the southern sky. ”

"Although it's a bit exaggerated, it's not much worse," Su Ci said: "After all, the biggest is His Majesty the Emperor,"

"Nanlin can be divided into three parts, one is the imperial court, the second is Donglin, the third is Xilin, the imperial court governs the world, Donglin manages the affairs of the six factions of rivers and lakes, Xilin cultivates students, and sends talents for the empire, all three of them belong to His Majesty the Emperor," Su Ci told Rulu with affection: "There is no difference between Xilin and Donglin, but because Xilin people govern the world, so Donglin people are a head below them." ”

In recent years, because the old master is gone, it was originally his disciple Wen Sheng who became the new master, but Wen Sheng was assassinated on the way back to China, causing the position of Xilin Master to be vacant. ”

Rulu said: "So there are many people who want to fight for the position of master?"

"Clever," said the two as they walked, "but the master has another disciple, who is my teacher." ”

"That childe's teacher is the most qualified. ”

"Yes, but those people don't want my teacher to be a master, because they think that the teacher is an imperial party and a Donglin faction. ”

"And then?"

"Then they smeared my teacher, Bai Zhouxing, a university officer, was going to hold an internal election, but Mei Xun opposed it,"

"And then?"

"Then there were all kinds of nonsense, all kinds of things that prevented my teacher from going back to Kyoto. ”

"Does that childe's teacher want to be a master?"

"I guess he didn't want to. ”

"Oh," Rulu suddenly realized, "I see, there is a saying that the husband is innocent and guilty, is that what it means?"

"I found that Lu'er still knows a lot of things," Su Ci reached out and touched Rulu's head.

Like a deer did not avoid it, the two walked side by side in the dark passage,

"Then Donglin and Xilin are really incompatible?"

Su Ci thought for a while and said: "The Donglin Divine Sect was established by Emperor Ming back then, and the original intention of its establishment was to check and balance Xilin, nominally to govern the affairs of the rivers and lakes, to arrest those who violated God's will, and to take on the responsibility of protecting the country,"

However, after the establishment of Donglin, Emperor Ming cultivated a large number of talents to enter the army as officers, and then gradually used Donglin to infiltrate Xilin and participate in national politics. ”

Su Ci paused and continued: "It wasn't until the new emperor ascended the throne six years ago that Donglin was rebuilt, and today's situation was formed, because Donglin was almost destroyed in the hands of Xilin, so the Donglin people can be said to not like the Xilin people at all. ”

Rulu asked curiously: "Is that son from Xilin or Donglin?"

Su Ci raised his eyebrows and said: "I practice martial arts and am from Donglin, but I also study Xilin academics, so I am from Xilin again." ”

Before entering the Five University Palaces and becoming a real scholar, he could not be regarded as a pure Xilin person, but only a Xilin student.

There are many people like Su Ci, but I'm afraid there are few people who dare to say it so clearly.

At some point, the dead leaves under my feet had disappeared, and the rhythmic sound of footsteps could be heard in the dark passage.

For Su Ci's answer, Rulu felt very good, and asked: "Does that son like Xilin people or Donglin people?"

Su Ci never thought about this question, but when Rulu asked, he didn't think much about it, and said, "Actually, I don't like it." ”

"Why?"

Su Ci raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I like myself." ”

Rulu was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Childe is really shameless." ”

Su Ci smiled and said nothing, Rulu continued: "Childe is now the junior uncle of Xilin, and he must be going to enter Xilin." ”

There was a faint melancholy in her voice, and Su Ci was noncommittal about it.

In fact, the moment he heard Ji Tianhe call him his junior uncle, Su Ci's heart was very shaken.

All along, Su Zi's father told him to work hard and shine on the lintel, and he was well aware of the many hardships his father experienced when he was young, so he has always taken the revitalization of the family as one of his life goals.

This goal used to be very far away, but from the moment he was accepted as a disciple by Gu Fen, his goal had already been half accomplished, and of course the remaining half would only be more difficult.

Now that the teacher has admitted to the empire, I'm afraid that it won't be long before someone in Kyoto will come to invite him.

Or the Xilin Academy, or the emperor.

Gu Fen told him that there are two people who are most likely to sit in the position of master in Xilin School Palace, one is Bai Zhouxing, the actual controller of Xilin School Palace, and the other is Shi Meixun of the university.

But these two people are not as good as Gu Fen, in fact, the emperor has already issued an order to let Gu Fen return to Beijing to serve as prime minister, but Gu Fen refused, yes, directly refused, and did not give the emperor any face.

Su Ci knew very well how disappointed his teacher was in the imperial court, so in his opinion, his teacher did not want to be a master.

It was also difficult for Su Ci to understand that such a gentle person as his teacher would directly refuse the emperor, although anyone above the rank of Xilin University had the privilege of refusing to accept the holy decree.

There was suddenly no sound of speech in the dark passage, only footsteps remained, and suddenly, a ray of light fell on Su Ci's shoulder, and the two stopped at the same time.

Looking ahead, what seemed to be a bead that was shining seemed to be hanging on top of a stone cave.

The light illuminated the stone walls on both sides, which were covered with moss, but strangely clean underfoot, not damp at all.

The two of them quickened their pace at the same time, and the light grew brighter and brighter.

Rulu beside him suddenly asked, "Childe, if you enter Xilin, will you bring the deer with you?"

Su Ci stopped suddenly, looking up at him like a deer.

Su Ci looked at Rulu with a smile, reached out and pinched her cheek, and said, "Of course, I will be your home in the future." ”

For example, the horns of a deer's eyes are moist, but in the faint light, they are not obvious.

"But... But I've heard that only those who are admitted to Xilin can get in?"

Su Ci said in an old-fashioned manner: "Don't be afraid, I have a high seniority, and they don't dare to object." ”

Rulu said: "But the son is not old at all." ”

Su Ci knocked it like a deer brain, and said angrily: "How the hell is your little head turning, talking is like turning a book." ”

"Childe, will you teach me literacy when you go out?"

"Good. ”

"And teach me how to write. ”

"It's fine. ”

"Hee-hee!"

The two of them talked and laughed, until they walked under the bead that bloomed with golden light, the light was not dazzling at all, and they could even look directly.

The beads were placed on top of a wooden plank, which had cracked and hung on the wall, and below was the mouth of a cave.

The walls here are not stone walls, but earthen walls.

Strangely, the light did not seem to shine into the cave, and the two looked at each other, like a deer reaching out and taking out the beads from the groove of the plank, and the beads fell into the palm of the hand, which was very warm.

The light fell smoothly into the dark cave, and the two stepped in at the same time with a tacit understanding, and suddenly, Su Ci and Rulu were startled at the same time.

This stone cave is not as deep as expected, and you can still see the bottom at a glance, but it is only about three meters.

However, it is very wide, about four meters, and there is a wooden table with a few coffee tables inside, and there is only a stone bed, so it is a stone chamber that looks like a stone cave from the outside.

But none of this was enough to alarm Su Ci and Rulu.

They were alarmed by a gray-haired, withered man sitting cross-legged on the stone bed.

A dim golden light fell on this person's body, his entire face was completely covered by his scattered white hair, his head hung down weakly, his pale hands were on his knees, and he was wearing a very loose robe, which did not fit at all.