Qianping County is actually the west of Chongyang Kingdom, there are no dignitaries and nobles here, there are no towering buildings, and the city wall is still made of clay, which is indescribably miserable.

The county government in the city is the only thing that can be held in the city, red tiles and green bricks, there are two lifelike huge stone lions in front of the two pitch-black gates, even if the rules on the surface are strict, there are still children who occasionally climb on the stone lion to play and play, for a long time, so that the top of the stone lion's head has already been touched to the paint off, becoming smooth and shiny.

The county magistrate's name is Yu Zhong, who was born in an orthodox academy, and won the title of a gentleman in less than a year.

You must know how few academies in Chongyang Kingdom have been given correct names, not to mention the top-class gentlemen and the like who are ranked in it with all moral knowledge?

Yu Zhong originally thought that ten years of hard study should not end up in obscurity, to enter the officialdom, to compete for a person to be known by the world, so he went to participate in the imperial examination with enthusiasm, and won the first place in the township examination and the meeting examination.

Looking back on the past, the knowledge of the examiner in the palace examination was actually not too high, he was just an officialdom fish in mixed water, but that person's morale was extremely high, and he also liked to find fault with others, so Yu Zhong and that person had a debate on an obvious exam question.

The man pointed at Yu Zhong's nose and scolded, saying that you can't get the first name as a gentleman of a genuine academy, but you are confused about such small questions, and it is really insulting to the gentleman of your name.

And Yu Zhong is extremely interesting, in his opinion, it is not that he reads books and talks about the truth every day, but whoever wants to reason with me, then I will reason with whom, and whoever wants to scold me, then I will scold whom.

So Yu Zhong also gave the examiner he met for the first time a big reason, saying what is your shallow eye sockets, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, even if you are not even a gentleman, how can you say that the gentleman and the like, and finally the angry examiner was red-faced, and his arrogant bones were completely slapped on the ground with a palm.

The light rain in Qianping County gradually stopped, and the bluestone road on the street was a little muddy, and the county lord named Yu Zhong walked around in civilian clothes, and it was okay to sit anyway, so it was better to come out to breathe and relax.

He first went to a small wine shop and bought two jars of blue and white wine, and wandered all the way to the small town school.

It was already evening, and the students had already finished class, and the only gentleman in the school was sitting alone in the backyard drinking tea and writing music.

Kong Xin'an really felt sorry for the young Jiang Huai, if such a good talent was wasted like this, he was a little reluctant to go, if he didn't know, it was okay, but this red lantern was seven or eight years in front of his eyes, the old man wanted to continue to look at it first, even if it was a little mistake, it would not hurt, but this directly planned to abandon school, it really made people angry, just like planting a cabbage after hard work, and when he came back from going out to drink, he was arched by a pig, who is not upset about this?

The old man slapped his thigh and muttered, "If you don't want to be a gentleman, take the initiative to admit your mistake?" ”

But as soon as this thought started, the old man pressed it in his heart, "Don't do it too much, everything has a fixed number, maybe it's just a snake to add to it." ”

The old man hesitated, pinched a sunspot and gently pressed it on the chessboard, and said loudly: "Why does Lord Yu stand still, it doesn't hurt to come in and sit down." ”

Yu Zhong, who was leaning against the door, raised his eyebrows, slowly walked to the old man, first bent down and saluted, took out the wine jar and shook it, "Is there any appetizer, please have a glass of wine from the old-timers." ”

"Wait. ”

Kong Xin'an unhurriedly took back the chess pieces, walked to the house with the chessboard, carried a wooden stool in one hand, and a plate of fried peanuts in the other.

Yu Zhong got up and took the stool, and after sitting down, he pointed at the peanut and sneered: "A half-step saint of the Nine Realms of Chongyang Country, he eats this every day?"

The old man took care of himself and pulled out the wine stopper, took a big sip, and said sarcastically: "Then you, the gentleman of the academy of the Seven Realms, are not ashamed to nest in this small land every day?"

Yu Zhong wanted to reply, "Aren't the predecessors the same?" but halfway through the words, he still wanted to say something.

The old man pinched a peanut and threw it into his mouth, chirped, and quipped: "Why don't you continue, I'm afraid that I'm not happy to trouble you?"

Yu Zhong shook his head, not avoiding the old man's hidden words, and muttered: "After all, it is different, the predecessors are teaching and educating people, which is a great thing, and I can use half of everything at most, or the kind that has always eaten the family." ”

The man picked up the wine jar with one hand, poured a big sip, wiped his mouth, raised his head and smiled: "When the official period is full at the end of the year, I will stop doing it, in this miserable situation in the world, I am not surprised that Chongyang Kingdom was trampled in Tai'an City in one fell swoop the next day." ”

He immediately put down the wine jar and said to himself: "But it really has nothing to do with me Yu Zhong, I can go back to the academy to continue studying, and in the future, I will be known as a sage, and by the way, I will see the situation in the eyes of the old-timers." ”

The gentle breeze swept the man's forehead, his hair fluttered, his clothes swayed, and the man was about to say more, but the old man waved his hand directly and said angrily: "You came here to complain to me? ”

Yu Zhong arched his hand slightly in place, with a smile on his face, and his tone was gentle, "Otherwise, the old-timers will also complain, which can be regarded as a courtesy exchange, and if you don't say anything honest about drinking some wine, it's like joking." ”

The old man, who usually likes to be quiet, frowned slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed at the man and laughed directly, "How did you get into this realm like a scoundrel, could it really be as the world says, spending money to pile it up?"

Yu Zhong nodded, "It's better to say that I bought it, it took me more than ten years to buy it word by word, it's a bit embarrassing to say, my husband has too much expectation for me, and said that I will be mixed with the title of a sage within ten years, but I really have some poor donkey skills, and Jiang Lang is exhausted." ”

The old man didn't speak, but listened with a smile on his face.

Yu Zhong raised the wine jar, "Senior, I respect you." ”

The two raised their heads and took another sip of wine, Yu Zhong turned his head to look at a certain place in the small city, and said in a low voice: "That young man named Jiang Huai, his parents are really just ordinary people?"

The old man frowned, not thinking that the man would bring up this topic, and then recalled some old things, and said with emotion: "Both of them are ordinary people who can no longer be ordinary people, but their fate is bumpy, they have a strange disease at a young age, and they die earlier than others." ”

The man was amazed again and again, and said: "It is said that dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse hits a hole in the ground, but I didn't expect a dragon to crawl out of this hole." ”

The old man asked rhetorically, "Your father is also an immortal?"

Yu Zhong was stunned, picked up the wine jar and couldn't help but say: "Drinking and drinking, chatting with old-timers is really boring." ”

At night, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, the sky was full of stars, and a white moon hung high above it.

The door of the thatched hut was wide open, but the room was still not bright enough, and the young man hesitated for a moment and couldn't bear to light the oil lamp.

You must know that just a small dish of things cost him ten copper plates, if it weren't for the fact that the boy lived alone here, he really wanted to do the pitiful act of digging through the wall and stealing the light for a while.

The fire shone slightly, the flames swayed, and the young man's cheeks were reflected and rosy.

He took a blank sheet of paper from the drawer and counted it slightly, and there were thirteen left.

These things don't cost money, they are completely sent by the old gentleman, and every time I finish writing, the gentleman sends some again like a prophet, just tell me again and again, and write with some care.

Jiang Huaifen wrote quickly, quickly wrote down two lines of small characters, and at the same time kept muttering in a low voice, because the gentleman said that writing must be done to the heart, mouth, and hand, and every word is powerful, and only by respecting it can you feel the meaning.

After the young man finished writing, he no longer whispered but spoke aloud directly, "There is a breath in heaven and earth, ethereal and without a trace, I can't think about it, I can't ask for it, after a thousand words, I look up and see Haoran." ”

This ordinary simple sentence, over and over again, Jiang Huai has been writing it for three years.

But the feeling just now didn't seem to be the same, Jiang Huai's eyes were puzzled, and he stared at the small characters for a long time.

He unconsciously touched his head, "What's the matter, why don't I know these words at all." ”

At this moment, wisps of golden aura from the feet of the young man's body filled up like gurgling water, until they spread to the top of his head.

Jiang Huai didn't notice this at all, but the font in his eyes was clearly visible, but there were four words that were a little dazzling with golden glow.

"Heaven and earth, Haoran. ”

The boy picked up the pen again and tried to write it again, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't even write a single stroke.

The ordinary wolf hair pen was even more weighty in an instant, and the young man was stunned in a strange posture.

There was a slight ripple in the moonlight outside the door, and then a person walked out of thin air, it was an old gentleman with white hair and white beard,

With a smile on his face, his sleeves bulging, he nodded slightly and walked into the grass hut, gently closing the moonlight outside the door.

Jiang Huai raised his head, a little surprised, "Sir, how are you..."

Then the boy thought of something, and choked up, "Sir, I'm really sorry this afternoon, I shouldn't have said that..."

The old man waved his hand again and again, and said with a hearty smile: "It's nothing, a small matter of sesame seeds, Mr. won't take it to heart at all, but are you sure you have figured it out? Is it because you don't hurt Mr.'s heart and force yourself to read, and wait for a long time before you do the rest of the things, or do you really think that reading is the best thing, and you feel uncomfortable from the bottom of your heart if you don't read." ”

The sleeves of the old man's clothes were windless, and if there was a breeze in the two big sleeves, he gently pressed the young man's shoulder, and the brush in Jiang Huai's hand fell directly.

The old man laughed loudly with a unique demeanor: "Didn't you ask me if I could eat enough to eat, wear warm clothes, and travel around like the immortals in the book, I didn't plan to pull out the seedlings to help grow, but since you happened to step into the second realm today, then I will take you to see the demeanor of the reader."