In fact, Ling Qianshan and Lan Linghuan were not separated for too long, counting the time he was in a coma and healing, at best, it was only about four or five days.

But Ling Qianshan felt that it was like thirty years before they met again.

Lan Linghuan wears a verdant hairpin hat, a high-grade brocade white robe, a blue belt, and a jade face and eyebrows like a star, which makes people can't help but say that she is a good beautiful girl, but she dresses up as a man. If you change into a dress and put on a little makeup, God knows what will happen to the sinking fish and geese, and the moon will be shy and embarrassing.

It's a pity that it's a man.

"Huh?"

Sensing that someone was approaching behind him, Lan Linghuan turned his head, turned his head vigilantly, and when he saw that it was Ling Qianshan, he was immediately overjoyed, so he threw the fat scholar away and enthusiastically hugged Ling Qianshan's side: "Ling Qianshan?!Brother Ling, you are here too!"

"Coincidentally, if we knew we were going to the same destination, we would have done it together. Ling Qianshan smiled.

Lan Linghuan couldn't help but snort, the three of them accompanied each other during the journey, but no one said where they were, and they tacitly didn't ask, but in the end they bumped into each other at the gate of the academy. The surrounding crowd was still boiling, crowding at the gate of the academy to line up to draw exam questions, a certain daredevils accidentally pushed Lan Linghuan down, and directly pushed him into Ling Qianshan's arms, Lan Linghuan suddenly flattened his face, but in the eyes of others, he looked like a young girl who "saw a gentleman, Yunhu didn't like it".

Ling Qianshan turned his head and reminded himself again.

This is a man!

"By the way, Sinan should be here, maybe she has already gone in. Ling Qianshan touched his nose and said to Lan Linghuan.

Lan Linghuan nodded, "I've heard of this. She has Zhenjiangnan as a guarantor, so she entered Xiaoshengxian Village without examination. Anyway, it seems that after I left, there was turmoil in the town immediately? Brother Ling, I guess there is your handiwork. ”

Ling Qianshan smiled bitterly: "It's just that the pond fish were affected." ”

"I said two, if nothing else, I'll go first. The fat scholar, who had been accosted without permission and thrown aside just now, said unhappily, "I'm going home, goodbye!"

As he said this, he angrily threw away the shredded paper exam questions in his hand.

Ling Qianshan's eyes were fast, and he quickly fished it out of the air.

"I'm sorry, but I can't help but be a little excited when I meet my old acquaintance in a foreign country. Brother, what do you call it?" Lan Ling said to the fat scholar with a smile.

As the so-called "reach out and don't hit the smiling person", the fat scholar also knew that most of his current anger stemmed from his own bad luck, he pursed his lips and replied patiently:

"Song Jian, the words are not modest. ”

"In Xia Lanlinghuan, the word is laughing. Brother Buqian, there are many people here, please go to a remote place to discuss one or two. ”

"Discuss, I'm out, what else are you discussing?" Song Jian flicked his sleeves and wanted to go.

"Don't worry, Brother Buqian. You see, we have all gathered outside this academy, and for such a long time, we have only been greeted by two scholars and a box of torn paper. However, no one has ever said that the words of these two scholars are accurate golden mouths!"

I saw Song Jian hurriedly walk out a few steps, then suddenly turned around and walked back, lowered his voice, and asked towards Ling Qianshan and Lan Linghuan:

"Are you telling the truth?"

"Whether it's true or not, you have to give it a try. Ling Qianshan raised his hand and sent back the blank paper that Song Jian had just thrown away, "Lan Linghuan is right, there are many people here, and it is inevitable that there will be ears on the wall, let's leave here first......

After Ling Qianshan finished speaking, he suddenly grabbed Song Jian and Lan Linghuan's hands and pulled them hard, and the three of them immediately lowered their bodies. At the same time, a person was smashed over the three of them, and several passers-by flew sideways, before they vomited blood and fell to the ground.

Everyone looked at the entrance of the academy in amazement.

A dumb servant held a gesture of his hand.

"That person just broke into the academy without permission, and he has already been beaten out. One of the two scholars said proudly, "Don't try again." Once caught, you will be beaten out like this and disqualified from the exam!"

Song Jian stood up fearfully, don't look at him fat, in fact, his foundation is very empty, but he can't withstand the collision.

"Thank you Brother Ling for saving your life, but the academy is also overbearing. ”

"It's okay, the man shouldn't be hurt. Ling Qianshan looked at the unlucky guy who was beaten away, and said in a deep voice. He and Lan Linghuan glanced at each other, and it was obvious that the two of them heard the scholar's voiceover at the same time.

As the scholar said just now, once he is caught, he will be beaten and disqualified from the exam. This sentence is reversed, but the meaning is: as long as you are not caught, you can stay in the academy. Ling Qianshan's eyes were like electricity, looking around the field, many practitioners were brave and brave, and they were already ready to move.

"What, Brother Ling wants to try it?" Lan Linghuan asked softly.

Ling Qianshan shook his head.

It is taboo to be the enemy and the darkness and the light. God knows how many dumb servants were ambushed in the academy, and Ling Qianshan didn't dare to act rashly.

Besides, the trap is very large.

Almost half an hour later, Lan Linghuan took Ling Qianshan and Song Jian to a restaurant, and entered the innermost private room with Xiao Er.

"I'll take a look at the menu...... Song Jian took the menu and looked at the price, and then heroically threw it to the shopkeeper, "Pick up the most expensive dishes on the list, order everything, enough for the three of us to eat!"

"Okay. The shopkeeper hurriedly went to work.

Lan Linghuan said on the side, "Brother Buqian is from a businessman?"

"Well, in the past few years, I have had good luck and helped my family earn some spare money, so my family asked me to come here to try my luck, which is better than having no official at home. Song Jian said frankly, and then asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

Lan Ling laughed and did not answer.

Just by what he said just now, it seems to be extremely heroic, but in fact, all kinds of restrictions in and out of his words are prerequisites, and he can guess a few points with his habit of calculating everywhere. However, this friend can still be made.

"Let's take out the exam questions. Ling Qianshan proposed.

Ling Qianshan got a paper anagram, the riddle is a "day" word, I still remember that the riddle was made by the former prime minister, so even Huangkou Xiaoer knows a little bit about it.

Song Jian got a blank piece of paper.

And Lan Linghuan, what he got was a sentence written in a small seal: Jing Si Yi has been blocking the return period for a long time, remembering the time of parting, and turning Jing Si Yi when he hears the leakage.

"What is this?" Song Jian played with Lan Linghuan's exam questions, at least this one looked more like a puzzle, Ling Qianshan frowned, he seemed to have vaguely read the solution to this sentence, but he couldn't think about it.

Lan Linghuan shook his head lightly and recited: "Meditation Yi long-term resistance to return to the period, long-term resistance to return to remember parting, remembering parting when I hear the leak, when I hear the leakage of Jing Siyi." ”

This is a very elaborate looping poem.

But in essence, it is no different from the anagram of Ling Qianshan.

The three candidates looked at each other, and there was no correlation between the questions. After that, Lan Linghuan asked for lamp oil and other things from the second shop, and experimented one by one, but there was no response, they were just ordinary paper. After that, although the shopkeeper brought good wine and good food, everyone was also tasteless like chewing wax. Song Jian pushed the plate and said dejectedly: "You said that it is possible, we are all unlucky, so we didn't draw the right exam questions......

"No way. Lan Linghuan and Ling Qianshan said in unison.

Ling Qianshan due to personal interests, in the Lingfu has not encountered an accident when I heard a lot of secrets about the rivers and lakes, such as the development of the Honglong Society, for example, is the Sage Village, although it seems to be just a holy place to read, in fact, the Chai family has been operating for several generations, through family marriage, interest bonds, has constituted an unimaginable huge monster, any exploration of it is just a blind man touching the elephant, and the small Sage Village is the selection entrance of the Sage Village, it will never abandon its martial arts, play with the candidates.

However, why did Lan Linghuan insist that it was impossible? Ling Qianshan glanced at Lan Linghuan, but saw Lan Linghuan pick up the shredded paper suspiciously, thinking silently.

"How could it be impossible?" Song Jian still insisted on his thoughts, "Maybe, that box is full of shredded paper written casually like this!"

"Don't worry, there must be another mystery here......" Ling Qianshan's words were interrupted by Lan Linghuan before he finished speaking.

"Perhaps, Brother Buqian is right. Lan Linghuan's eyes were like torches, staring at the shredded paper tightly, he suddenly raised his head and said in amazement, "Maybe everyone will get such a puzzle!"

"So what?" Song Jian wondered, while Ling Qianshan thought thoughtfully.

"Assuming that everyone gets such exam questions, it means that these questions are meaningless at all, then, what are the real exam questions? What is the value of this shredded paper?" Lan Linghuan's words became faster and faster, he excitedly held a few pieces of paper and asserted, "The real exam questions are the paper itself!"

"You mean, the type of paper?" Ling Qianshan muttered.

"That's right!"

Lan Linghuan spread out the shredded paper and looked at it carefully.

"There are four major paper merchants and eleven small shops in Jiangnan City. Chengxintang has always only produced rice paper, Huanhuaxi special cloth head note, Qingtang Pond money paper, mud gold and silver cloud to sell gold flower white Luo paper. You see, the edges of this shredded paper are very frizzy, and this is not the leather paper, which is known for its toughness, the paper with its long width, and the printed water-patterned paper, but more like the Tibetan scripture paper introduced by Nishikawa. Moreover, the paper is new, and it should have arrived within two days, if I remember correctly, three of the eleven small shops are specialized in collecting foreign paper and hoarding it. That's it. ”

Lan Linghuan happily slapped the shredded paper on the table and asserted in a deep voice. He raised his head and continued to Ling Qianshan and Song Jian: "If I guess correctly, this kind of shredded paper is a reminder to us, the clue must be in one of the three families!"

Ling Qianshan and Song Jian looked at Lan Linghuan in a daze.

Song Jian was still holding chopsticks and pinched a piece of fish meat, but the meat fell to his pants, which made him come back to his senses after a while.

"Little brother, you can!" Song Jian hurriedly said with admiration, "If you don't enter the academy, who else is worthy of entering?"

"It's just the benefit of coming a few days early, and you can investigate it to your heart's content. Lan Linghuan's face suddenly turned red.

Ling Qianshan picked up the Ling family sword and said to the two, "Let's go, maybe the first name is us!"

"Okay!" said Song Jian with applause.

But as it turned out, they rejoiced too soon.

According to what Lan Linghuan said, they checked the first two without any clues, and when they arrived at the third one, they suddenly felt that the pressure around them suddenly increased. Outside the small shop with "Qingyunfang" written on it, it was actually crowded with businessmen, shopping, and tricksters - Ling Qianshan was stunned to find that when they arrived, everyone's eyes gathered. Where are these idlers, they are clearly candidates!

"It seems that we all underestimate the heroes of the world. Lan Linghuan said softly.

Ling Qianshan opened his mouth to answer, but with a flick of his fingers, he suddenly pulled out the Ling family sword, and the blade of the sword slashed obliquely, cutting off the arrow shot from the shadows.

Attracted by the aura of Ling Qianshan's long sword, all the candidates who were still pretending to be and observing the situation put on a posture, even if they didn't know martial arts at all, they also subconsciously kept their distance from others, and this in itself was a kind of exposure.