Since the implementation of the imperial examination system, the Daqin Dynasty has held a spring test in Ruyang City every year, and the thunder has not been able to beat it for 40 years.

As the last contest of smart scholars in the nine counties, the name of Sun Shan does not mean that the knowledge is not good, most of them are just almost tempered and lucky, and the scholar with the title of the gold list is known to the world once he became famous and has a bright future.

Some scholars in Ruyang City who rushed to take the exam failed to pass the exam in March this year, and they all stayed at the feet of the Son of Heaven when they returned to their hometowns.

It is not easy to live in the capital, especially for these poor scholars.

The New Year is approaching, the people who study in Beijing really can't go on, these days will set up a stall to sell some couplets and paintings to change the plate entanglement, thousands of people are out of the stall, everyone's business is sluggish, sometimes there will be a dispute between the book business and the business, the face is gone, the business is not wanted, the big fight, the humiliation.

Two monks, one large and one small, stayed in the palace to preach, and Liu Yi had nothing to do after leaving the palace, and walked around with a wooden sword every day.

On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the world snowed heavily, and Liu Yi climbed the Purple Mountain.

Liu Yi saw a Taoist temple named Zijin Temple on the top of Zijin Mountain, probably because he had been in Xuankong Mountain for too long, and Liu Yi was naturally close to Taoism.

Liu Yi took out the Taoist robe in his bag and put on the lotus crown neatly before slowly entering the Taoist temple.

After Liu Yi entered the view, he saw a little Taoist priest inside the door, and the pink carving was a little more handsome than the three children on Xuankong Mountain.

The little Taoist priest still only wears single clothes in the heavy snowy weather, and after seeing someone enter the door, the little Taoist priest habitually hands a bamboo stick.

Liu Yi didn't reach out to pick it up.

The little Taoist priest thought to himself that many people under the mountain knew that he was extremely effective in unsigning, and some people didn't want him to help unsign?

The little Taoist priest looked up, only to see a thin and slender Taoist priest holding a talisman sword, the little Taoist priest stopped on the wooden sword for a moment and was no longer interested, for the yellow Taoist robe he also acted as if he didn't see it, his eyes directly skimmed Liu Yi's facial features, and paused on Liu Yi's lotus crown.

The Taoist hierarchy is strict, the lotus crown is a symbol of the Taoist status of a person with a very high status, the little Taoist priest Wangliu Yi's dress should be the style of Xuankong Mountain, and asked with a smile: "Brother Dao is from Xuankong Mountain?"

Liu Yi nodded in agreement.

The little Taoist priest said to himself: "No wonder, the Taoist priests from the Taoist system in the world are different, wearing a lotus crown to walk in the world, very face-saving." ”

The little Taoist priest looked at the wooden sword in Liu Yi's hand here, and said with a smile: "The sword mentioned by Brother Dao is not a Taoist rune sword style, and it doesn't seem to be made of peach wood. ”

Liu Yi sighed: "Extraordinary knowledge!"

Liu Yi stopped talking and began to enter the main hall.

Being in the Taoist gate, it is natural to enter the temple to worship God.

Liu Yi went out of the main hall after worshipping the gods in the main hall and began to practice swords in the courtyard.

The little Taoist priest turned over the table, ran back to the main hall with a cigarette and got a huge offering cake, and grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds from the warehouse he had opened up in the main hall and put them in the placket of his clothes.

After the little Taoist priest prepared everything, he sat on the steps and watched Liu Yi practice his sword.

The little Taoist priest looked at the melon seeds in his mouth, and at the same time tore a large cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

The stone steps under the buttocks were cold, but the little Taoist priest had no intention of getting up and taking the stool.

The little Taoist priest saw it with relish, when he was thirsty, he grabbed a handful of snow and put it in his mouth to chew, when he was hungry, he ate a bite of flatbread, and when he was idle, he could eat melon seeds to pass the time, and so on.

The little Taoist priest felt that Liu Yi should be very good at practicing swords, and he was ready to give it a try.

Liu Yi tried to get close to Xuehua, but he never succeeded.

The little Taoist priest was shocked, this is the Taoist priest of Xuankong Mountain? Anyway, he is also the world's Taoist bull with his ears, why is it so watery?

After the little Taoist priest ate the last bite of the flatbread, he stood up with his shirt in one hand, grabbed a handful of snow in the other hand and threw it at Liu Yi.

Liu Yi's back seemed to have eyes, and the wooden sword was stuck diagonally in his back and the snowball bounced out.

Liu Yi was very amazed by Xiao Daotong's strength, and the style just now shook Liu Yi's back after the injury.

The little Taoist priest was playful, and quickly threw out seven or eight snowballs, all of which were slapped back by Liu Yi with a wooden sword without exception.

The little Taoist priest threw it faster and faster, and the snowballs as big as goose eggs were thrown out one by one, and there were no less than twenty snowballs when they reached Liu Yi's body.

Liu Yi blocked or patted, picked or stabbed, and quickly dissolved the large array of more than 20 snowballs.

Xiao Daotong finally smiled and said: "Brother Dao is really kind-hearted, a simple sword move can be practiced thousands of times, and he actually practiced a pure sword for you to come out, and you have also practiced a killing move thousands of times, but you have not grown much." ”

Liu Yi stopped his body, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then hugged his fists and smiled: "One sword and three styles, stealing Du Heli's sword moves." ”

The little Taoist priest returned the salute with his fists, and the melon seeds in his pocket fell to the ground.

The little Taoist priest spread his hands and sighed long, the little adult was general, unsatisfactory.

On the roof of the main hall sat an old Taoist priest, leaning crookedly on his clothes.

Then another Taoist priest who stepped on the snow without a trace came up to the roof, and the person who came said: "Yan boy has stolen offerings again, you have to discipline and discipline well, 'stealing needles when you are young, stealing gold when you are big', you must not guard against it." ”

The old Taoist priest nodded in agreement.

Looking at the expression of the senior brother, the visitor knew that the senior brother would not only not criticize the education, but might also praise it in private.

The man smiled and said, "You still like to sit on the roof after so many years!"

The old Taoist priest replied: "It's stinky, people are about to go into the ground, and I haven't thought about correcting it." ”

The person who came asked, "What does that kid think of the sword training senior brother?"

The old Taoist priest smiled: "Excellent!"

The people who came felt that the senior brother was perfunctory to him again.

After practicing the sword, Liu Yi prepared to go down the mountain.

After Liu Yi got off the Purple Mountain, he took a boat all the way west through the entire Ruyang City.

There is a mountain named Qixia Mountain in the west of Ruyang City, when the sun sets, half of the sky seems to inhabit that mountain, so the previous generations named that mountain Qixia Mountain.

Liu Yi began to climb Mount Xia.

Qixia Mountain is big and long, if it is just a small mountain bag, it cannot get the name of "Qixia".

There is a Qixia Temple on Qixia Mountain, and Qixia Temple is the largest temple except for Ci'en Temple, Lengyan Temple, and Fahua Temple.

In terms of incense offerings, the incense of the three great temples living on the three banks is much more prosperous than that of Qixia Temple.

Qixia Mountain is high and far away, and there are not many characteristics, the people in Beijing are delicate and vicious, and they are too lazy to climb so many steps without eye-catching characteristics.

Qixia Temple is too ordinary among the four major temples in Beijing, and most of the good men and women who went to the mountain were half monks and couldn't see it.

Someone once caught a monk and asked why he couldn't see half a monk on the mountain?

The monk said with an underbeaten expression that he wouldn't be scared to death when he saw half a monk!

The otherness of Qixia Temple can be seen.

Liu Yi also saw the big temple when he went up the mountain, not a monk, and he didn't see a pedestrian.

When Liu Yi turned back and went down the mountain, he heard someone behind him say in an old voice: "You have also been put into the dispute between the three religions. ”

Liu Yi turned his head to look, but there was no one.

After the Xingke examination, the dispute between the three religions has long become a dispute between the two religions, which is inexplicable.

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On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Liu Yi, who was shy and shy, bought pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Liu Yi, who was busy all morning, started to set up a stall on the west bank in the afternoon, and he also started a business selling Spring Festival couplets.

Liu Yi's writing is not good, so he replaces small characters with large characters, with thick strokes, which looks very festive and bloated and rich, plus Liu Yi's mind is active and loves to shout and attract customers, and he earned twenty taels of silver when he started work.

The scholar next to Liu Yi couldn't do it, his expression was wooden, and he didn't make a sound when he opened his mouth for a long time, because he should be a stammerer who didn't dare to speak when he met a stranger.

The scholar seems to have a brain disease, the New Year is approaching, jubilant, everyone is wearing red cannons and laughing to welcome the Spring Festival couplets, he is very different alone, and he wants to sell white paper at this time.

No one cares about it, because of his influence, the business of a few thin-skinned and embarrassed scholars near him has also been greatly affected, and some customers will inevitably look around when they come to choose, and they will simply throw away the very festive Spring Festival couplets in their hands after accidentally seeing the white paper couplets.

A number of people in the city who came to shop with a smile had to scold a few words after seeing it, and everyone was not in a good mood when they saw the white paper Spring Festival couplets during the New Year.

The blue-robed scholars have set up stalls in many places in the past few days, and he has also been to the south bank, and the scholars who are waiting for the favor of the officials have already done their best, and the scholars who are not short of money at home have already bought a good position for the stall at a high price, and they all put out the best calligraphy and painting in their lives.

The blue-robed scholar was excluded everywhere because he only sold the couplet, and he couldn't find a place elsewhere so he chose to set up a stall on the West Bank.

Liu Yi looked at this stunned young man, and he really admired and admired.

At the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good district, there has never been a shortage of scholars in Ruyang City, and the people in the Huanghuang City have taken root in Ruyang City for generations, and each family has several relatives and friends of scholars.

During the Chinese New Year, large families never lack Spring Festival couplets, large families have Spring Festival couplets given by friends of Danqing Holy Hands, Spring Festival couplets rewarded by Shangguan, and Spring Festival couplets sent by officials below.

There are also a few scholars and relatives in small households, and the people in the Shoushan District can't change their love to take advantage, and they will also think about taking advantage of the Spring Festival couplets.

Many days ago, they told the readers of their nephews' generation that they needed a few pairs of Spring Festival couplets for the New Year, and the scholars were naturally happy when someone recognized the words, and they were often full of promises.

When the rice cereal at home is boiled, those relatives will hurriedly come to the scholar with red paper to ask for the Spring Festival couplets, and the unceremonious relatives often leave in a hurry with the couplets after the scholar finishes writing, and the three melons and two dates will not be left.

The scholar has a thin face, and he is embarrassed to polish the pen, and some shy and cheeky relatives are even more excessive, and the red paper used in the couplet requires the scholar to be satisfied with it himself.

Reading is very popular, maybe even if the family is poor, it doesn't count these, but some relatives not only don't read well, but have to inch in, see the neighbor's Spring Festival couplets are also written by nephews, and when they read more festive than their own family, the shrews will scold their nephews a few words, and they can say anything insulting.

Liu Yigang moved into the alley and lived for a few days, and two people came to recognize relatives on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

What uncle's family name is this, and which surname does the nephew marry.

They knew that Liu Yi was a scholar, and when they saw that Liu Yi had a luxurious robe in the house, they naturally thought about Fa Pan's kinship, and when to write letters and when to resolve ghosts and gods needed people.

There is a saying among the people who have lived in Ruyang City for generations: When you meet outsiders, don't spend money indiscriminately if you can move your mouth and say things, otherwise it will be a loss for the Son of Heaven.

The people on the streets of the city may know what it means to be dignified, but the Baixin in the alleys is used to being spicy, and they are also used to taking advantage.

In the alley, the family's foot-washing water was splashed at the door of the house, and they were all about to quarrel, and some of the women who were domineering often jumped up and tore them apart when they were arguing.

Everyone else is not a big deal to see the excitement, the white flower's chest can be exposed, don't look at the white, if you look at it, you will quench your thirst.