When I went to Tokyo to catch the exam, the scholars from Jingdong East Road gathered in Jinan Mansion, and then they were named one by one and traveled together. The Governor's Office examines the candidates' family history one by one, and checks up for three or four generations to see if you have any rebellious ministers and thieves, and whether there is a threat to the dynasty. After the main examination, there will be an official seal stamped on the paperwork, and the candidates can take the formal examination form to participate in the spring examination.

Daybreak. Chenshi. Cloudy. The sunlight occasionally shines through layers of dark clouds, like melancholy and uneasiness. The occasional cunning and quite mischievous are like a faint light in the heart.

Although the consequences have been foreseen for a long time, they have not yet experienced it, and everything may not be known.

Li Brown packed his luggage, a new cloth bag wrapped in a set of new clothes, some broken silver, scattered dry food, and occasionally a few reading notes. Pressed under the notes were the shoes that Su Li embroidered.

"Brown, have you forgotten anything to bring with you? Don't leave anything behind, and then come back and miss your companion, but it's troublesome. Mother Li said with concern.

Li Brown smiled and said, "Mother, everything has been ordered, and nothing has fallen." ”

"Don't forget to review the form, and be sure to put this in place when the time comes. If you don't have a formal trial, you can't take the test. Mother Li said cautiously.

"Remember my mother, don't worry!" Li Brown reassured the old lady again, but his heart was in turmoil. In the final analysis, it was the old blind man's character who completely messed up his life. He thought that if the old blind man did not appear, life would go on according to his wishes. In fact, when it comes to life, plans can't keep up with big changes. The Diamond Sutra says: The past mind is unknowable, the present mind is unknowable, and the future mind is unknowable. It can also be briefly demonstrated.

Li Brown didn't hesitate, put away the burden on his shoulder, bowed to his mother, turned around and strode out of the door. As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, the footsteps of Mother Li behind him gradually approached. He hurriedly turned his head, only to see his mother rushing up with the only old oil-paper umbrella in the house.

"The spring cold is still there, be careful, it's cold. I don't go out much at home, so it's okay if it rains. ”

Li Brown put away the umbrella and inserted it in the baggage. He wanted to be nostalgic for a while, but he was afraid that he couldn't hold back his tears. Straight lovesickness is useless, melancholy is madness, it is love after all, it is a thought. Alas, he sighed secretly in his heart.

That is, when he turned around and set out on the road ahead, his heart suddenly brightened. Even if what the blind man said is true, even if this is the destiny of heaven, can't I change it? Do I, Li Brown, have to sit back and wait to be killed?

He folded to the end of the alley, and the crooked neck locust tree watched him. The courtyard door is closed, and it seems that Su Li can't be behind the door. He thought that her mother must have pressed her into the house to do needlework, and that it would be better for her shoes to be up to the cold outside. The thought of shoes warmed his heart a lot. With Su Li by her side, what are you afraid of? Only cowards are afraid in front of their beloved girls, but it is also a rare fate to be afraid in front of their beloved girls all the time. In a peaceful and prosperous world, there is still no accident, let alone this kind of world? However, Li Brown has set his heart to seek an official, and with his own talent and learning, he will be able to become an official and a half-job.

He secretly supported himself, a good man is ambitious in all directions, and this trip must be successful. Su Li, you wait for me to come.

After striding up to the official road in the city, Li Brown's restless mind calmed down a little. He saw a figure in front of him who was very familiar, and this person was Zhang Ji. He wanted to avoid the broomstick, so he stopped.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he stopped, the figure in front of him also stopped.

"You're afraid of me, aren't you?" Zhang Ji shouted with his back to him.

Li Brown thought to himself, he couldn't avoid this puppy anyway, so it was better to go on his own and continue to hurry. When I caught up with him, I didn't look back, this kind of person, who has no deep friendship with him, doesn't have to pay attention to it at all.

Zhang Ji set off at the same time as Li Brown opened his steps. Li Brown must not have known that Zhang Ji's skill at this moment could already sense the energy field twenty or thirty steps away.

Zhang Ji took a big step, with a solemn hatred. Because a year ago, when a sword-bearer passed by here, he stayed at his house. Those who carry swords have no silver, and there is no silver flowing freely in these troubled times. However, because he could not repay the simple hospitality of the villagers, the sword-bearer taught Zhang Ji some swordsmanship and the method of breathing and breathing.

He said, you are a good seedling, and you have a good sword qi on your body.

Zhang Ji was confused. I never use a sword, I don't bring a sword, how can I have a sword energy?

The man with the sword told him about some of the dynasty's cultivation. The person with the sword said: "People are born by themselves, containing the aura of heaven and earth. It is the same as flowers, birds, insects and fish. People have their own spirit and beauty. Just like you scholars, you have morale, and we cultivators have our own cultivation breath. Everyone is a sword, the body, bones, and inside, the three are like the tip of the sword, the blade, and the hilt, and the qi that comes with it is high and low, and in the eyes of the practitioner, this is called the sword qi. ”

Zhang Ji nodded silently, listening to Xuanyan in a fog.

Hearing the end, he only remembered the sword and himself "is a good seedling".

The man with the sword said, "Because I have received your hospitality today, I can't repay it, but I am not a person who eats and drinks for nothing, so I will test the sword magnet for you." ”

"Sword Magnetism?" Zhang Ji's family was already confused. They are scholars, although they have never read any Taoism, and they are also familiar with Zhuzi, but it is the first time they have heard of this kind of mysterious theory.

The sword-bearer took out a magnet the size of stinky tofu, and a black hole was chiseled in the middle, and a stream of water was spread in the hole. There are 12 earthly branches around it, which represent the weight. Looking at it carefully, Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen Youxu Hai is engraved with two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twentie, twenty-two, twenty-four. The Zhang family was puzzled.

The sword-bearer twisted a mantra, and the water in the magnet quickly condensed into a column of water, pointing to the middle of two and four.

The Zhang family was amazed, as if a fortune teller was telling fortunes.

"It's unusual. You haven't practiced swords before?" the sword bearer confirmed to Zhang Ji again.

The Zhang family gathered around him and shook their heads. This is the first time in Zhang Ji's eighteen or nineteen years. He never imagined that he would pick up the weapon himself. The book of soldiers has been read, but it is just a paper talk.

Before the words of the sword-bearer fell, he saw that the water column in the magnet suddenly pointed to four.

Is there a practitioner here? But I clearly don't feel the presence of another practitioner. Although he is not too high-ranking among the royal cultivators, he is professionally trained after all, and the water column is a swordsman pointing to the twelve. Could it be that the royal swordsman caught up, it was impossible, otherwise, he would have been killed a long time ago.

He felt the aura of the place, which was southwest of the village.

And he confirmed to Zhang Ji that there is only one family in the southwest of the village, which is the Li family.

Zhong Lingyuxiu, it's not Li Brown, who else?

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