There is a river that flows through Qingyao County, and the water flow is clear, called Qingbai River.

At the bottom of the Qingbai River, in the floating water and grass, there is a man who looks like a scholar hiding in it.

The man's name is Qiao Zhuangyuan, a native of Qingyao County, two generations of ancestors, all of whom are poor scholars who are famous in Sun Mountain, Qiao Zhuangyuan's father named him Zhuangyuan, why not in his heart, pinning his hopes on his son, hoping to be the champion and glorify his ancestors.

Living up to the expectations of his family, Qiao Zhuangyuan has high understanding, excellent knowledge, and is proficient in poetry, but in a Yuelao temple fair, he met the daughter of Liu Junshou of Qingyao County, the two fell in love at first sight, and fell in love, but unexpectedly met Liu Junshou's opposition, according to Liu Junshou's words, "A poor scholar, also wants to set foot on my Liu family's door to marry my daughter?"

Fortunately, Liu Junshou's daughter is resolute and does not eat or eat, "In this life, Qiao Zhuangyuan will not marry." ”

Liu Junshou had no choice but to make an appointment with his daughter for three chapters, "If that poor scholar can pass the top prize, then agree to this family business, but if he doesn't pass the test, then he is not worthy of marrying the daughter of my Liu family, you will break with him and find a good family for your father." ”

After learning the request from Liu Qingran, Qiao Zhuangyuan was angry, reading books day and night, emaciated, it doesn't matter, if you don't have enough to eat, it doesn't matter, as long as you get admitted to the top prize, as long as you are with her!

The poor scholar who couldn't afford to sit in a carriage into Beijing carried a bookcase on his back and wore out a few pairs of cloth shoes before he walked to Nanxin City.

When those brocade-clad and jade-robed sons sang songs at night, he, a poor scholar, dipped water in the broken temple and lifted a pen.

People are thin and poor, but they are rich and rich.

After the big exam, Qiao Zhuangyuan breathed a sigh of relief, he did well in the exam, and waited for the title of the gold list with joy, the top student in high school, but the results were always unsatisfactory.

Not accepted!

The scholar who lost his soul and didn't know how to talk to his beloved woman, that sentence didn't pass the test, he couldn't be with us, one meaning.

However, there is no need for a scholar to speak, Liu Junshou laughed heartily after reading the list, and told his daughter that this is fate and fate, he is not worthy of being with you, a poor scholar who is full of complaints, how can he have any real talent and learning, but he is just showing off his writings and ink, as a reader, if he is not motivated, he can't pass the exam, it means that he doesn't love you, why do you care so much?

In the boudoir, the blind-eyed Liu Qingran took out a letter from under the pillow, Hibiscus came out of the water, and the four words jumped on the paper, and the handwriting was like a dragon, like a shock.

This was the first time that when the two of them met, the poor scholar before parting spent the last copper plate in his pocket, the paper and ink he bought, and the words he wrote.

Stroking the handwriting on the paper, Liu Qingran choked up, tears raining down.

The heavily guarded county guard mansion, the thin Qiao Zhuangyuan looked left and right, climbed over the wall to enter, and thought about it, maybe now Qing Ran already knew that he was not on the list, but he always had to say a word to her face.

Qiao Zhuangyuan didn't want to wait for me, the man just wanted to say, I'm sorry, I hope you can be happy!

He loves her, but he doesn't want to live up to her youth, yes, he is a poor scholar, he can't pass the top prize, how to give her a happy life.

Sometimes Qiao Zhuangyuan also thought about it, if she wasn't the daughter of the county guard of Qingyao County, but just a woman from an ordinary family, would she have a different ending? Or, if he was the son of a big family, would it be different?

The door is right, and it has been like this since ancient times.

The heartbroken scholar Qiao was groping in the county guard's mansion, and under a corner, Qiao Zhuangyuan, who was groping, heard a conversation, and the scholar avoided being discovered and did not dare to move.

"Have you done everything you have been asked to do?" asked a man in the dark.

"Don't worry, the examiner has already received a thousand taels of gold, and he won't say anything, besides, he has done it all, what good is it for him to denounce us?", a man replied.

"That's good, hmph, the toad wants to eat swan meat, and I don't want to see if he is worthy! ”

"What's the use of being admitted to the top prize, I heard that in a few days, there will be a son from the capital who will come to propose marriage to our young lady, heh, how can the poor boy compare with others, people are generations of scholars, that is a scholar. ”

Under the corner of the wall, Qiao Zhuangyuan clenched his fists when he heard it.

It's not that he failed to make the list, he was admitted to the top prize, it was Liu Junshou, it was he who bribed the examiner and wanted to break us up!

The poor book was angry and angry!

"Who?"

The two people who talked were Liu Junshou's confidants, they were capable practitioners, and their hearing was outstanding, and Qiao Zhuangyuan's sudden shortness of breath was immediately noticed.

Sitting on the green wood seat, Liu Junshou took a sip of tea with a smile, and shouted to Qiao Zhuangyuan, who was gritting his teeth below: "Do you know what kind of crime it is to break into the county guard mansion at night." ”

"Heh", Qiao Zhuangyuan smiled angrily, and asked coldly, "Then may I ask Lord Liu, what is the crime of bribing the examiner privately and deliberately making Sun Shan's name ruined!"

Liu Junshou's eyes flashed coldly, walked in front of Qiao Zhuangyuan, and squatted down, "Don't blame me, it's your bad life, I underestimated you, I didn't expect you to really be admitted to the top prize, but what can you do? My daughter is going to marry, naturally she is a famous nobleman of this Nanxin Kingdom, as for you, you are unlucky." ”

"Ahh

Qiao Zhuangyuan, a poor scholar who is a gentleman who doesn't use his mouth, can't wait to give Liu Junshou a punch in front of him at this moment, but his hands are being pressed, as for letting go of his hand, whether he can beat it, that is also two words.

"If you do this, Qingran won't be happy, don't you care about your daughter's happiness at all?" Qiao Zhuangyuan shouted.

"I care, but my daughter's happiness has nothing to do with you, didn't you hear it just now, someone will come to the capital in a few days, and when the time comes, he will be engaged to Qingran, as for you?", Liu Jun Shousen smiled, "I don't want my daughter to know that there is a thief who is not dead and cares about her, I didn't want to do it so absolutely, no way, this is what you asked for." ”

Liu Junshou waved his hand to the two people who were pressing the poor scholar.

"For the sake of Qingran's happiness, I'll trouble you to die!"

That night, a sack was thrown into the Qingbai River.

In the sack, the poor scholar with his hands and feet tied and his mouth stuffed with coarse cloth struggled, but what could he do?

The river was cold, and there was a lot of blood.

Qiao Zhuangyuan, who has no vitality, has an out-of-body soul and gradually disperses, and is about to disappear into heaven and earth.

Suddenly, in the sack, a book card on the waist of the poor scholar emitted a faint light.

The light is very warm, the consciousness is confused, the scenes before his death flashed in the mind of the poor scholar like a horse watching the flowers, Qiao Zhuangyuan looked at the book card, that was after the big exam, waiting for the results of the days, the man felt that he would be able to win the title of champion, go to the mountain side in the suburbs of Beijing, watch the mountains and see the water, and express his chest, but that day in the mountains, he met an old scholar, carrying a bookcase, wearing cloth shoes, the old scholar looked at the green mountains in front of him, and chanted: "From a distance, the South Mountain is black, the top is thin and the bottom is thick, and one day it is reversed, and the bottom is thin and the top is thick." ”

Qiao Zhuangyuan wiped his sweat, this poem is a little unusual.

Seeing someone next to him, the old scholar who was reciting poetry was not ashamed, and asked with a calm face: "Young man, how is my poetry?"

Thinking about it carefully, Qiao Zhuangyuan said softly, "To tell the truth, the old man, your poems are a little unpleasant at first hearing, but if you think about it carefully, the green mountains are reversed, the universe is reversed, and everything is turned upside down. Good poetry!"

The old scholar laughed, "You young man has understanding, understanding, not bad." ”

On that day, the young poor scholar and the old scholar had a very happy conversation, before parting, the old scholar took out a bamboo card from the bookbox behind him, and exhorted: "Reader, this bamboo card will be given to you. ”

After the old scholar left, Qiao Zhuangyuan looked down and smiled, on the bamboo card, there were four big characters written crookedly.

Revert to one 's origin!

In the cold river water, on the bamboo and wood bookplate, the crooked four words emitted a soft white light, the light passed through the cloth bag, through the water surface, the entire Qingbai River, the water veins and aura and water transportation rushed madly towards Qiao Zhuangyuan!

The rich aura and water nourished the soul of the poor scholar, and there was no sign of dissipation, Qiao Zhuangyuan's consciousness slowly sobered up, looked at the sack under the river, and then lowered his head to look at himself, "Am I a ghost?"

Rumble!

The aura of water is still pouring towards the soul of the scholar, and the rich aura makes the scholar have to sink to the bottom of the river, unable to move, and absorb the aura of the water transport.

I thought I had escaped, but the world is impermanent, and disasters do not go alone.

Knowing from Liu Junshou that the poor book was born on the way back to his hometown, Liu Qingran was grief-stricken, looking at the paper all day, on the engagement day, the woman escaped from the county government, and jumped down in front of the Qingbai River.

And the saddest thing is that the poor scholar, nourished by the aura of water transportation, Qiao Zhuangyuan even feels integrated with this Qingbai River, as if his mind moves, the Qingbai River is surging, but in the nourishment of water transportation, Qiao Zhuangyuan can't move.

On that day, the poor scholar watched his beloved woman jump into the river and slowly sink.

Pain, the pain of the heart, the poor scholar struggled, but he still couldn't break free from the rich aura of water luck, Qingbai River, with the grief of the scholar, the river rolled.

Seeing the woman drowning in the river, a piece of letter paper floated out of the woman's arms and was torn apart by the current, Qiao Zhuangyuan's eyes were empty, but there were no tears in his soul.

When the aura gradually dissipated, Qiao Zhuangyuan, whose heart was like ashes, picked up the woman in the water, raised his head and roared!

The Qingbai River is surging, and the man takes advantage of the water vapor to step on the county guard's mansion, he wants to ask, why did he ignore his daughter's happiness and force his daughter to death? He wants to ask, you Liu Junshou is so lawless, there is no one who can take care of it, if no one cares, he cares!

In the county guard's mansion, Liu Junshou trembled and shrank in the corner, "Qiao Zhuangyuan, don't come over!"

Qiao Zhuangyuan smiled miserably, "Liu Junshou, what are you afraid of?"

Holding back his fear, Liu Junshou trembled and said: "People and ghosts have different paths, you have done evil, God will not let you go." ”

Qiao Zhuangyuan laughed and said angrily: "You are also worthy of being a man?"

grabbed Liu Junshou, Qiao Zhuangyuan wanted to return to Qingbai River, he wanted this dog Junshou to experience the pain of not being able to breathe in the river!

Airplanes!

The sound of chanting sounded, and an old man outside the main hall of the county guard mansion shouted: "The ghost Hugh wants to be presumptuous, retreat quickly!"

Behind the old man, a man lit a Taoist talisman, the golden light flashed, and the woman lit a stick of incense, and the incense was ethereal, blooming with the sound of preaching.

The golden light covered Qiao Zhuangyuan's eyes, Qiao Zhuangyuan only felt hot and painful, and the sound of preaching in his ears made his soul unstable.

When the water vapor was filled, Qiao Zhuangyuan had to put down Liu Junshou and quickly return to Qingbai River.

Since then, Liu Junshou, who escaped by luck, began to look for the nearby surrounding immortal masters, preparing to besiege and kill the man hiding in the river, but as long as Qiao Zhuangyuan was hiding in the Qingbai River, no one could do anything about him.

Recently, Liu Junshou saw that the pig and dog were not as good as the thing, seeing that the immortal master was useless, and even made a deal with the water demon in the Qingbai River, as long as he caught Qiao Zhuangyuan, Liu Junshou would sacrifice a hundred living sacrifices to the water demon in the river every year!

Qiao Zhuangyuan was furious, he couldn't wait to rush out of the Qingbai River immediately and tell the world about Liu Junshou's ugly face, but there was no way, as long as he went out, his strength would be sharply reduced, and it would be difficult to resist those immortal masters, and no matter what he said at that time, those immortal masters would only think that he was confusing people.

Fortunately, Qiao Zhuangyuan seems to be integrated with the Qingbai River, and it is not easy for those water demons to catch him, but the man overheard the water demon with the face of a crab and the size of a millstone with crab claws a few days ago, saying, "In a few days, the realm of the king will reach a higher level, resonate with the Qingbai River, and then the scholar will be able to catch him." ”

Qiao Zhuangyuan, who was hiding in the aquatic plants, sighed secretly, is it true that good people don't live long, and bad people live for a hundred years?

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Dong Nanyan and his party, who had trekked all the way to Qingyao County, were stopped by the soldiers guarding the city wall.

The commander of the army at the head said kindly: "Outsiders, let's go, the county town has been under martial law recently, and you are not allowed to enter." ”

Outside the city, the old man who didn't look like a good person laughed and said, "We are here to relieve the siege of the county town." ”

"Break the siege?"

The somewhat scary-looking horse waved his sleeves heartily, and the city gate opened by itself.

Senior Sister Qian shouted: "Don't let me go yet!"

On the city wall, the commander of the soldiers woke up like a dream, hurriedly ran down, bent down and said: "Immortal masters, please, just now the villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and I ask the immortal master to forgive his sins." ”

As Dong Nanyan and his entourage walked into Qingyao County, the gate slowly closed, and in the distance, there were bursts of shouts.

Dong Nanyan, who was standing next to Ma Xinxin, turned around and looked.

Outside the city gate, there was an old scholar with a bookcase on his back, dusty, out of breath and shouting while running.

"Wait a minute, wait for me, don't close the door!"