"What book are you reading?"

Ye Mingke looked at Li Han in front of the bookcase and asked, his eyes curious and serious.

"This is one of the four books that teaches the 'way of benevolence'. Has Brother Ye studied scriptures before?" Li Han put down the book, turned his head to look at Ye Mingke and asked, his eyes bright.

He lived in a village where not many people could read, let alone anyone with whom he could talk about it.

Ye Mingke once wrote his name in front of him to show him, although his handwriting was slightly different from the popular Daxia script today, but it was obvious that he was at least a literate person.

"Nope. ”

Ye Mingke shook his head, looked at the book in front of Li Han not far away, which had been turned by him, and did not bring any other tone, but asked sincerely and sincerely.

"The Four Books are books that talk about great truths, and is this kind of book useful for learning?"

He is also a good reader. He likes to listen to the stories in Dabai's books, and he also likes the Gewu books in the school that he borrowed from Qiaoqiao.

The former is interesting, the latter is useful, but he listened to Li Han read the books in the past few days, but he never understood what the use of these awkward sentences was.

"This is a book of sages, all of which are useless books, and they are really rarely useful in reality, mainly for self-cultivation and self-cultivation. ”

"If there is any direct use, it is that when participating in the imperial examination, these scriptures are compulsory books. ”

Li Han didn't mind because Ye Mingke spoke bluntly, but said his opinion gently.

"Do you want to participate in the imperial examination? Do you want to be an official?" Ye Mingke asked with some curiosity, he had heard about the imperial examination in Dabai's story, and knew that it was a way to select officials that had been passed down for a long time.

"When I was young, my mother saw that I had the qualifications to learn literature, so she devoted herself to training me to learn poetry, calligraphy, scriptures and meanings from an early age, hoping that I would make a difference in my career in the future, and placed high hopes on me. ”

Speaking of being an official, Li Han had a complicated look on his face.

"It's a pity that when I was a teenager, I was affected by the atmosphere of cultivating immortals in Great Xia, and I wanted to take the immortal path. Even when I was fifteen years old, I went through the Tianka test, and it was clear that my spiritual aperture was only open at 107. Basically had no chance of immortality, and he was still very persistent in going to the capital Yangjing to seek immortals. ”

In the end, of course, it became a joke. Ten years later, I returned to my hometown, abandoned my studies, and my mother died of illness. ”

"Only then did I realize that I should not force my path to immortality, and abandon my duty to humanity. ”

"Over the years, I have been the head of the village, and I want to do more to make up for the mistakes I made when I was young. As for the scriptures, ten years of waste, I don't know if more than 20 years of hard work can make up for it.

"I'm going to start spring next year, so I'll probably take Aru south to take the exam. ”

Li Han looked at Ye Mingke and said a lot of words in one breath, as if he had a lot of words hidden in his heart for a long time, and was hooked out by Ye Mingke's words.

Ye Mingke felt a kind of strength from Li Han's low words, something that was heavy after being tempered by time and suffering.

Ye Mingke wanted to say something, but after all, he knew too little about human affairs, so in the end he could only choose Wen Yan to encourage.

"Okay, I believe that Brother Li will be able to achieve his wish. I'm going to head south in a while, and maybe we'll be able to walk together at that time. ”

Ye Mingke turned his head to look at Aru, the little girl who was very quiet and well-behaved by his father's side, and said with a smile: "When the time comes, you can also help Brother Li take care of this ghost girl all the way." ”

"Yikes. Seeing Ye Mingke, Ah Ru rolled his eyes at him, and waved the woodpole that did not exist in his hand to express his disgust.

Someone who doesn't even know how to take care of herself still wants to take care of her?

After waking up for a few days, Ye Mingke already roughly understood that when this babbling girl said "babbling", she generally meant to be happy, affirmed, and liked, and when she said "ah", she was generally unhappy, not agreeing, and not liking.

And when this babbling little girl was in front of him, there was basically only a "yah" girl left.

Ye Mingke touched his nose a little embarrassed, is he so disgusting?

Only then did he cautiously ask a question that had been hidden in his mind for a long time.

"Aru...... Why do you only say babbling?"

The babbling girl really only seems to say "babble".

After Ye Mingke's words fell silent in the room, the wooden house suddenly fell silent, and Ah Ru gently leaned his face on Li Han's shoulder.

"I asked the doctor to help Aru see it, and the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with Aru's voice, but I don't know why she couldn't speak. ”

"Maybe it's just because our family Aru learned to speak late, so it's good to grow up. ”

Li Han touched Ah Ru, who was a little unhappy, and said comfortingly.

He never thought of his daughter as a mute.

Although he couldn't learn to speak at the age of ten, in the eyes of others, this child was a mute in his life.

"Well, maybe we can help Aru find a doctor when we go to Yangjing in the future, the doctor in Dadu City should be more powerful. ”

Ye Mingke said, and suddenly he remembered what he had been curious about just now, and asked.

"What is the Heavenly Card you mentioned just now, and what is the relationship between the spiritual aperture and the cultivation qualifications?"

He has always cared about the spiritual aperture, because Jian Jiu said that he doesn't know anything about the spiritual aperture on his body, so he can't cultivate.

"The Tianka is a test set up by the Heavenly Court Duty Division in various states, counties and counties after the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, and every citizen of Great Xia, women and men, must go to the test when they are weak. ”

Li Han said with a deep groan.

"There are as many as 720 spiritual points in the human body, of which there are 361 acupoints, and there are 108 acupoints in the 361 acupoints. ”

"Among them, penetrating the 108 key points is the premise of whether or not the aura can be guided to form a cycle. However, this is only a basic requirement, and the Tianka test is to select people who have at least 280 correct points before they will be recorded. The people below this are actually not destined for the immortal path at all. Even if you cultivate, it is difficult to make a difference. ”

He had traveled far away for ten years to seek immortals, and he obviously had a comprehensive understanding of the basic information of these cultivations.

"But today's imperial monarchs worship immortals, and immortal cultivators walk in the world, are not bound by the laws of the world, and can enjoy the support of the government. This makes even people with very low qualifications squeeze their scalps, abandon their families and children, and do whatever it takes to cultivate immortals. Most of them end up in vain. ”

The corners of Li Han's mouth were a little self-deprecating, because he himself was once one of the people in the cult of immortal cultivation.

"Moreover, the practice of cultivating immortals is widely spread, and it seems that some people with improper intentions can also get the opportunity to embark on the road of cultivating immortals. ”

"He has the power of immortal law, but he does not cultivate his mind, and he still retains the greed and evil of the world, and he is not bound by the law. Such so-called immortals do whatever they want in the mortal world, which is tantamount to evil demons, and they don't know how many disasters they have brought to the people. ”

"The Ye Brotherhood will meet us mortals in the sea of ghosts, and it has something to do with it. ”

Li Han's voice became very heavy, his eyes lowered, and his heart seemed to be carrying something heavy all the time.

"We have a Lingchen Immortal in Canglan County who founded the Canglan Sect. In the first year he came here, there were demon beasts in the mountains that came out to eat people, and after wreaking havoc, he appeared to drive the demon beasts back to the mountains and spoke to the people nearby.

The demon beast is ferocious, and it takes a lot of mana to suppress it, and someone needs to go to the ghost sea to get the fairy grass and immortal stone to offer to him, so that he can seal the demon beast in the mountain. ”

"Even though the men in the county knew the danger of the ghost sea, in order to help the immortals suppress the fierce beasts, nearly 100 people desperately went into the sea to get the fairy grass and immortal stones to worship. ”

But the next year, the beast came again, and the immortal reappeared, and before suppressing the beast, he once again asked the people for the fairy stone and fairy grass in the sea of ghosts. The young man of the county once again risked his life to enter the sea. ”

Since then, it has become a year for the men in the county to enter the ghost sea to take the immortal stone and immortal grass to worship the Lingchen immortals, and every year, the young people in the county have lost countless lives in the ghost sea. As long as it hasn't been paid for a year, or if it is less, the demon beast will go out of the mountain to eat people. ”

Ye Mingke listened to Li Han's heavy words, his eyes gradually became solemn, and he asked slowly.

"Is it a demon beast eating people? Or is it the so-called immortal eating people?"

"Who knows. Before the future of the immortals, we had never heard of a demon beast eating people in the mountains near us. ”

Li Han shook his head, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth.

"And the immortal has since founded a mountain gate in the mountains, and accepted disciples, his younger brother is similar to a demon beast, and he is also rampant in the township, in the name of cultivation, killing people and setting fires, and taking advantage of it, like demon beasts, has become a sharp blade hanging over the heads of us mortals. ”

"We're all dragging our lives now, if we don't change this pattern, we will either die in the ghost sea, or die in the mouth of the demon beast, or one day we may die if we bump into those immortal cultivators who have no way. ”

"I have traveled far away in Great Xia, and this is not a problem that we have in one county of Canglan County, but an immortal disaster that the entire Great Xia has. ”

"Isn't there an effort to change?"

Ye Mingke's heart was extremely heavy when he heard this, and he looked at Li Han's eyes and asked seriously.

"Nowadays, everyone in Great Xia is vying to be immortals, and there are not many people who realize the calamity of immortals. Even if I realized it. How are we mortals going to fight against immortals?"

"All I can think of is that one day when I pass the imperial examination, I can see our Great Xia monarch on the Jinluan Palace, and ask him, Great Xia is the kingdom of the world, why do I only respect ghosts and gods and don't ask the common people?"

Li Han uttered the last sentence word by word, his eyes burning, his face as hard as steel, as if he was facing the king he most admired and most heartbroken.

He sighed, and saw Ye Mingke looking at him in a daze, as if he had just met him, and laughed at himself with some embarrassment.

The scholar was angry, and he spat out wild words again, which made Brother Ye laugh. ”

Ye Mingke was indeed very surprised, in the misty sea, he really didn't find that this man hidden under the simple appearance of hard life, still has such hot feelings and great ambitions.

"Brother Ye asked if anyone had ever wanted to get rid of today's immortal calamities, I have little knowledge, and I only remember a magnificent thing that happened when I was in Yangjing. ”

"100 martial arts swordsmen, sacrifice sword Yangjing"