Fang Ping stood beside him, looking at his son who was still sitting on the ground, he slowly squatted down, Fang Zhan slowly turned his head and looked at his father, but his eyes were already moist.

Fang Ping smiled reluctantly and said, "It's okay, after so many years, you can also relax, it's no big deal, go home with your father!"

Fang Zhan smiled bitterly and said, "Yes! After so many years, in the end, it will be empty!"

Xun Fuzi and Li Langzhong came to the two of them at some point, and Xun Fuzi stood next to him and did not speak.

Li Langzhong said: "Fang Zhan, get up first, look at your father, if you are like this, it is your father who is most distressed!"

Fang Zhan glanced at his father, and seeing that the old father's face was full of worry and frustration, his heart suddenly tightened, and he didn't say anything more, he stood up.

In the guest room, Fang Ping was packing his bags, and the four of them agreed to return tomorrow.

The money shopkeeper walked in, looked at the father and son, clasped his hands on his shoulders, tilted his head, and said, "I don't understand?"

Fang Ping smiled reluctantly: "What doesn't the shopkeeper understand?"

The money shopkeeper tilted his head again: "What did you write?"

In fact, Fang Ping had always wanted to ask this sentence, but he held back several times, and looked at Fang Zhan at this time, his face full of questions.

Fang Zhan turned his back: "I don't know!"

The money shopkeeper walked around to Fang Zhan and said with a mysterious expression: "Do you know who came to announce the decree today?"

Fang Zhan glanced at him listlessly: "Isn't it Gonggong Lu?"

The shopkeeper said: "Father-in-law Lu is not fake, but he is not only a father-in-law, the emperor has never regarded him as a father-in-law, this person can be said to be a divine figure in my Gaotang Kingdom, and there is no reason for him to announce the decree!"

Fang Ping's father and son couldn't help but glance at him, and the shopkeeper said again: "If it wasn't for a big and important matter, the emperor would never let him come, so I asked the people in the palace, and they said that you wrote something that no one could understand." It seems to be another kind of writing, the emperor has summoned all the scholars of the Situ Pavilion, and without exception, no one can understand what you write. ”

After the money shopkeeper finished speaking, he stared at Fang Zhan's face, and seeing that Fang Zhan was expressionless, he couldn't help but sigh: "Fang Gongzi, Fang Gongzi, even if you have a talent that penetrates the heavens and the earth, you can't show off in front of the emperor, this is good, it angers the emperor and ruins your life!"

Fang Ping opened his mouth wide and looked at his son, he couldn't believe it, although Fang Zhan flipped over the sea of books, if he said that he would write a completely different kind of text, it would be impossible.

The shopkeeper said: "This father-in-law Lu, the great name Lu Xianxing, legend has it that he alone can reach 100,000 troops, and he is a hole card that the emperor attaches great importance to. When he came, it would never be as simple as a decree, so I was wondering if Gongzi Fang had any secrets, and the emperor would send Gonggong Lu to investigate. ”

Fang Ping said with a smile: "The money shopkeeper said that he laughed, my son has no secrets, we have been living in Zhuli Village for so many years, he was the only time he left Zhuli Village during the township test last year, and the rest of the time was in the village, holding books all day long. ”

The money shopkeeper smiled meaningfully and said: "Actually, it's my old money's good thing, does it have anything to do with me? It's just a pity that Fang Gongzi's talent is full of talent, it's useless to talk too much, and he leaves!" After speaking, the money shopkeeper walked out.

After the money shopkeeper left, Fang Ping solemnly glanced at Fang Zhan and said, "If there is anything wrong with you, just tell your father, don't hold it in your heart." ”

Fang Zhan turned around and looked at his father: "No, I'm fine!"

Fang Ping finally couldn't help it and said, "Then what did you write?"

Fang Zhan shook his head: "I don't know!"

Fang Ping hurriedly said: "You don't know what you wrote, and you still say that you are fine? How do you want your father to help you? Do you just go back without knowing it? Is it that your hard work for more than ten years has been in vain?"

Fang Zhan looked at the heartache and helplessness on his old father's face, he couldn't bear it in his heart, but he didn't know how to answer.

For the whole afternoon, Fang Zhan had been sitting in the guest room, staring at the window in front of him, never moving.

Fang Ping went to talk to Master Xun and Li Langzhong, and for what happened to Fang Zhan, Master Xun and Li Langzhong couldn't help but have been persuading Fang Ping.

Nearly in the evening, Fang Ping called Fang Zhan, and the four of them had a hasty dinner in the hall. By the time we had dinner, it was getting dark.

Fang Zhan stood up and said to the three of them, "I'll go out to breathe." ”

After saying that, he turned around and walked out.

Fang Ping said in the back: "Don't be too late. ”

Fang Zhan responded. Fang Ping suddenly said again: "Don't forget, you still have my father!"

Fang Zhan was stunned, turned around and barely squeezed out a smile and said, "I'm fine!"

He went to the kitchen, took a kitchen knife while no one was looking, and wrapped it in his arms. Then, he walked out of the nomination inn.

Fang Zhan walked very slowly, and it was completely dark at this time. He walked to the moat. When he looked left and right, he saw that no one was looking at him, so he went down the stone steps to the shore where he had washed his hands the day before.

Standing on the bank, looking at the river in front of him, the sadness in his heart rose sharply for a while, and he couldn't help squatting down, his eyes moist.

His mouth trembled and he muttered, "Why me? What the hell are you?"

It was very quiet in all directions, and there was not a trace of wind.

A crescent moon hung in the sky, and the moonlight sprinkled on the surface of the river, shining with silver scales.

On the other side of the river, the walled mountains stood there like a mountain, as if looking at him with contempt.

As if to say to him, "You can enter this city, so you should go back and stay in your little mountain village!"

Fang Zhan just looked at the barrier in front of him that blocked him from this city.

Two images kept coming to his mind.

One is the father sitting on a small bamboo chair in the moonlight, with a lot of bamboo strips in front of him, and the father is weaving bamboo baskets, which is a scene he sees every day.

For as long as he can remember, he has been watching his father weaving bamboo baskets every day, which is also the only way for Fang Ping to raise him.

The bamboo basket he weaves is really unique, it is slightly smaller than usual, but the workmanship is extremely fine, and the finished product is extremely delicate and beautiful. But this fineness will be much slower, under normal circumstances, Fang Ping can only knit one a day, and the second can only weave one bottom. In this way, you can make two in three days.

Someone once bought Fang Ping's bamboo basket and dismantled it from scratch, but found that he couldn't make it back, and he couldn't rob him of his business.

The second picture turned and appeared in Fang Zhan's mind. It was a pair of hands, a pair of thick hands covered with blood and calluses, a pair of father's flat hands.

Thinking of his father's hands, Fang Zhan couldn't hold it anymore, and suddenly his heart tightened, and tears flowed down his face.

"Humph!"

In the quiet of the night, someone suddenly snorted without warning.

This voice is like in my ears!

Fang Zhan was startled! Looking up for a week, he didn't see anyone except the quiet river and the city wall opposite!

He thought he had misheard, and slowly lowered his head.

"Humph!"

Fang Zhan stood up suddenly.

"A big man, with a dignified seven-foot beard, but crying like a child here, shame!"

This voice seemed to sound in Fang Zhan's ears, and it seemed to come from his own heart. Soft and flustering, cold and unconventional, lonely and arrogant, and a little motherly and soft-hearted.

Fang Zhan took a sharp turn for a week, and there was no one!

"Don't look for it, you can't find me!"

Fang Zhan's heart was beating suddenly. Say loudly, "Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you are a man full of talent and standing up to the sky, if you don't cherish your time, but secretly cry here, if I am your father, wouldn't I be sad to die. ”

Fang Zhan turned around again, but there was still no one. Suddenly took out the kitchen knife in his arms, held it tightly in his hand, and said loudly: "What are you?"

"I'm human, what else can I be?"

Fang Zhan held the knife tightly, breathing heavily, and roared: "You controlled me, you controlled me to participate in the palace examination, why?

"It's me! I'm in your body, in your head, and then again, your brain is so ugly!"

Fang Zhan said sharply: "Why me?"

"You still asked me? You chose me, and I haven't asked you yet?"

"I chose you, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"I have been sealed in this river for almost ten years, and suddenly the formation that sealed me opened, leaving only one exit, and you are standing at the exit, didn't you choose me?"

"How is it possible? What nonsense are you talking about? You ruined my life, you come out, I will fight with you!"

"How old are you? Just talk about your life, you can't get out, and in the future, we will coexist peacefully and use one body, well, it's fun to think about it!"

Fang Zhan looked up to the sky and smiled, tears rolled down, and said sadly: "My Fang Zhan has been studying hard for more than ten years, not seeking to have much fame in the future, just to make my father more comfortable." Have you ever seen my father's bloodshot and calloused hands? You ruined it all, you ugly and vicious woman, you come out, I'm going to kill you!"

"There's some manly spirit at this time! How do you know I'm ugly and vicious, how are you going to kill me?"

"What kind of hero are you hiding in a dark corner!"

"I'm a woman, I'm not a hero!"

"Where the hell are you hiding?"

"I said it, I'm in your head, you don't believe it, I can't help it, look! your brain is moving, it's so ugly!"

Fang Zhan shouted "Ah": "Okay! Okay! Okay! If you don't come out, you say that you are in my head, then I will cut off my own head and die with you!"

After saying that, the horizontal knife wiped it off his neck.