The noise of the crowd behind the stone suddenly became louder, and many people could be faintly heard calling "Master". Ye Mingke stood up and climbed onto the big rock, and sure enough, he saw that it was the master and the other people in charge of the entrance examination of the academy coming over.

He turned and crouched on the rock, looking at the girl below.

"Are you also here to take the entrance examination to the academy?" Ye Mingke asked the girl.

The girl looked up at Ye Mingke and nodded.

"My name is Ye Mingke. ”

The boy squatting on the stone looked at the girl seriously, his eyes clear and bright.

"Bai Qiaoqiao. ”

The girl tilted her head slightly to look at the boy above and replied seriously.

"Mingke, come here, the entrance test is about to begin. Tao Yao on the other side of the stone shouted.

"I'll go first. We'll see you later, Jojo. Ye Mingke waved at the girl while retreating, turned around and ran towards Tao Yao from the big rock.

"Tao Yao, do you know a girl named Bai Qiaoqiao in the town?" asked Ye Mingke, who walked towards the crowd with Tao Yao.

"Bai Qiaoqiao, she seems to be the daughter of the village dyer. Tao Yao replied, "But I heard that she is not in good health, so she doesn't go out much, and no one knows her." Is that the girl you were talking to just now?"

"yes. Jojo. Ye Mingke was distracted thoughtfully.

As they spoke, they had already walked to the place where the crowd had gathered.

Master Zhuang stood in the center of the crowd, with one of his female disciples and one male disciple in front of him. His two disciples were directing the crowd to stand in detachment, and Ye Mingke and Tao Yao walked over, but they were divided into different teams by the male disciple.

Ye Mingke looked around, probably knowing why he and Tao Yao were separated. Students who came to take the exam were divided into two groups according to their height.

Tao Yao's group are all fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers, most of whom are children who have failed many times in the previous school entrance exams, and their grades are relatively old. Except, of course, Tao Yao. This guy looks tall, but he's actually only a year older than Minke.

On my side, it's either a girl, or a child who has just turned nine years old and comes to take the entrance exam for the first time.

This year's exam is estimated to be related to physical fitness, Ye Mingke thought to himself. He looked at Master Zhuang in the center of the crowd, and Master Zhuang seemed to feel his gaze and glanced at him, but his gaze only stayed slightly before moving away.

Ye Mingke was a little nervous, but also a little happy, at least the master didn't let himself leave directly like last year. If the Master really doesn't like him, with the Master's authority, he really has no choice but to leave.

After all, the school can be said to be run by the master alone. It is said that there was no school in the village originally, and it was only after the village chief invited Zhuang Fuzi to come to the town that the school was opened.

It was also because of the arrival of Master Zhuang that this remote town was able to learn magical Taoism and many other aspects of knowledge.

After the line was neatly arranged, the female disciple of the master stood in front of the child who was still chirping.

"Everybody be quiet. ”

The female disciple said in a loud voice, while raising her hands to signal everyone to look at her. She was a handsome girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in red and wearing a ponytail, who looked calm and very imposing in front of the crowd.

The children subconsciously quieted down with her words.

"I am Song Yiwan, a disciple of the Master. This is my senior brother Song Qing, and today I and Senior Brother Song will organize the specific matters of your interview. Next, I will read out the contents of this year's entrance examination for the master. ”

The children were all holding their breath and listening with some nervousness.

"This year's entrance test is very simple. There is a mountain peak on the other side of the creek, and if you can climb the peak from the designated place and reach the foot of the opposite mountain by tomorrow morning, you will pass the test. Song Yiwan said to everyone.

This year's title sounds really simple, the children in the town are like monkeys, the nearby mountains and rivers that are not forbidden have already been run all over by them, and they are no strangers to the small peaks on the other side of the creek, it is no problem to run back and forth in a day, but it is too simple to climb to the foot of the opposite mountain.

It was so simple that many children laughed happily.

It was so simple that Ye Mingke felt a little toothache.

There are many demons when things go wrong, and there must be something greasy in such a simple question, otherwise the entrance exam will become just a passing scene. But the girl in red did not explain the content of the assessment again.

Ye Mingke looked at the loose group of children around him, patted his head, no matter, anyway, climbing the mountain is very beneficial to himself, a guy who carries firewood all day long, even if the hidden assessment content may be more difficult for him, but he only needs to perform better than most children.

This is typical of me not to run faster than a bear, just faster than you.

Ye Mingke couldn't help but be happy when he thought of Aunt Long's words, and confidently walked in the group of young children, followed the male disciple Song Qing to the starting point of the mountaineering, and raised a small fist towards Tao Yao in the opposite team to show encouragement, but a relatively tall young man walked in front of him, and the little Mingke was suddenly blocked so that he couldn't even see his hand.

“&*%&8*...... It's a little higher. Ye Mingke's face darkened suddenly, and the pride that had just risen was destroyed at once, and he lowered his head.

At this moment, a slender white shadow flashed in the corner of his eye, it was the girl he had just met. In the marching crowd, some nervous children subconsciously gathered together in twos and threes, but the girl and Mingke were the islands of the crowd.

At this time, the girl also saw Ye Mingke, Ye Mingke avoided her gaze a little embarrassed, and the girl also lowered her head. The silent crowd was still moving, like a flowing river.

The girl and Mingke approached each other, consciously or unconsciously, like a lonely goose that had lost its flock and saw its kind that could fly together over the mountains and seas.

There are always some people who can notice someone at first sight in the sea of people, as long as they are all outliers with the same qualities, even if they are just a drop in the ocean.

The crowd came to a halt at the bottom of a hill. Song Qing, who was dressed in white, smiled and turned to look at the group of children behind him.

"From this side of the hill, we end at the famous bullfrog rock at the foot of the opposite hill. Hurry up, you little boys, and if you stay until the evening, the surprise will be even greater. ”

Song Qing smiled gently, but somehow it made people feel that he was smiling a little cheaply.

"What surprise?" asked one of the more detached children.

"Guess?" Song Qing smiled and his eyes narrowed, and the boy who asked the question felt a little cold inexplicably when he looked at this smile, shuddered and said he didn't know, and quickly ran away with the other children.

Song Qing watched most of the children set off, and turned away with his signature smile.

Mingke walked down the hill and looked at the surrounding environment, roughly determined the direction, and was ready to go. But suddenly he turned his head with a feeling.

He saw the girl standing alone in the shadows of the bushes not far away. Why hasn't she set off yet?Minke came closer with some concern, but the girl quickly wiped her eyes with her hand and ran into the woods.

She seemed to be crying. Minke was a little worried, but not sure, and since they weren't even friends, his concern didn't seem to make sense.

Minke grinned, turned around and went up the hill as well.

He walked a path that few villagers knew, and this path was not trampled by hand, but was almost naturally formed in the dense forest, and it would not have been possible for him to know if he had not spent most of the day in the mountains to cut wood.

This path is much more rugged than the mountain road that the villagers often walk, but Ye Mingke intuitively thinks that this road must not be so simple, and the big road is probably designed by the gentleman of the school to design a trap or something.

"Master is a scholar, and certainly did not grow up in the mountains like me, a woodcutter. I don't think the master knows this way, but maybe I can really climb this mountain smoothly this time. ”

Mingke thought a little smugly.

The mountain road is very steep, and Ming Ke uses both hands and feet, like an ape that only grows up in the mountains, with the help of vines and branches, and climbs quickly with the help of a strange strength and familiarity with this mountain field.

But after a while, everything in front of him seemed to blur. He stopped for the first time and rubbed his eyes with his hands, suspecting that they were wet with sweat, but in a short moment, everything in front of him became more blurry.

Ming Ke was a little surprised, and looked up, but saw that the trees not far ahead were only hazy shadows, and the white mist appeared out of thin air and enveloped the entire mountain forest. Fog in this area is common.

But the fog is usually in the early morning, and the fog has dissipated after the sun came out just now, so why did it suddenly become so big again?

Could it be the Master? Casually change the climate of one mountain and one place? If it is really the Master, then the Dao technique is really too handsome! Ming Ke did not feel frightened, but became excited.

He slowed down, after all, the path he had chosen was too rough. He walked for a while, and then suddenly stopped, and he seemed to hear a low cry not far away.

The voice was indistinct, and behind him, he couldn't see the figure clearly. But when he heard that voice, he inexplicably remembered that the girl wiped her eyes in the shadows as if wiping away tears before entering the mountain forest, and remembered the girl's clear and serious answer.

"Bai Qiaoqiao. ”

We told each other our names, so maybe we could be friends...... Maybe not friends yet, but ......

Ye Mingke hesitated, but his steps stepped back step by step, towards the place where the voice came from, he was not sure, he was not confident, but he still involuntarily walked in that direction.

There are always some people who can notice someone at first sight in the sea of people, as long as they are all outliers with the same qualities, even if they are just a drop in the ocean.

Maybe he is essentially a child who is too afraid of being alone but has been lonely for too long, so everyone who may become his friend, he will pay no matter the cost, and involuntarily approach.

It's as if when he knew Tao Yao, just because Tao Yao was the first child who didn't call him a monster, he blocked the fists and kicks of more than a dozen children in the town for Tao Yao alone.

He was a child who was too afraid of being alone but had been alone for too long.