In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Hongxiu, the Panlong Town Government School Office ushered in a new education secretary more than a year after Mr. Li left, which is of course a good thing for the people in the town After more than a year, the bear children are finally going back to the school to pick up the books, as for the fact that the school office has been upgraded to a school, most people have not understood the meaning, but they just feel that this new teacher named Zhou Zhe looks really young, not like the gentleman in everyone's impression, and it doesn't look very reliable.

Since the star tide came again eleven years ago outside the town after a hundred and twenty years, there have been many new changes in the town.

Ten years ago, an old gentleman named Li Chunhao came from the capital, who was attached to the teaching department of the government school office, and when he left office, he also took three students and accepted them as disciples. Later, an old monk wearing tattered linen clothes came to the gate of the town, drew a big circle with a cane in his hand, and encircled the town gate and the peach tree at the door, saying that he wanted to build a small temple in the circle, which caused the traffic at the south gate of the whole town to be paralyzed.

In the next two years, the Jiangnan clan and the big family that had already started from Panlong Town also bought properties in the town, and the originally remote town gradually had the meaning of a major commercial town in the northwest of the empire.

However, all this has nothing to do with Zhao Wu, he is still the only post guard in the military post in that town, raising two military horses that are gradually showing their old state, except that the old injury on his left arm is more painful when it rains on a cloudy day, the only difference is that he has a son.

In Zhao Wu's words, when he was young, he was also a handsome boy in the army, but at that time, he was busy training and killing barbarians, so he delayed marrying his daughter-in-law, and later was injured from Miyun Pass to Panlong Town, with this thought, but he was already an old bachelor who was nearly forty years old. Zhao Wu originally thought that the old Zhao family was not a famous family anyway, and there was no need to pass on the ancestry, so this life would be like this. Until more than ten years ago, late at night in early winter, Zhao Wu returned from the post horse, passed under the peach blossom tree when passing by the gate of the town, heard a faint cry, and stepped forward to check, a naked baby boy was lying under the peach tree, and he was frozen red all over, and his breath was like a gossamer. Zhao Wu hurriedly ripped off the cotton clothes on his body, wiped off the snow water, rubbed his whole body repeatedly with spirits, and tossed for half a night, finally picking up the baby's life.

In the next few days, Zhao Wu inquired about the whole town with the baby boy, and none of them had recently lost their children, thinking that they might be abandoned babies left by occasional business travelers, so they kept them by their side, because when the baby boy was picked up, he faced Xifeng Mountain in the distance, so he named Zhao Xifeng.

Zhao Wu, who is old and has a son, is very fond of Zhao Xifeng, regards it as his own, and feels that life has a new meaning, he spent three months of money to buy a dairy sheep, and two military horses to raise together, when he does not go out on weekdays, he takes Zhao Xifeng to watch the sheep in the horse house to feed the horses, tell the story of killing the barbarians when he was young, or memorize two Buddhist scriptures that only know; when there is a task, he entrusts Zhao Xifeng to Aunt Li in the wine shop, so Zhao Xifeng learned to ride a horse at the age of five, drink and chant Buddha, and live a peaceful and harmonious life.

If there is anything that makes Zhao Wu feel a little regretful, it is probably because his son froze his muscles and bones in the snow when he was a child, and his body has been relatively weak and unbearable for the cold over the years.

In the past few years, Zhao Wu has been heartbroken for Zhao Xifeng's body and bones, not to mention the recuperation on weekdays, even the prescription of the Chengdong Pharmacy has been changed to the fifth pair, and in the past three years, he has taken Zhao Xifeng to practice the basic routine of forging his body in the army. So the people of the town often saw that before dawn, two figures, one big and one small, were jogging, kicking, squatting, and boxing under the peach tree at the entrance of the town, until the sun was three poles, and then stopped, day after day.

A few months later, Zhao Xifeng's health gradually improved, but the residents of the town were miserable.

Zhao Xifeng was weak since he was a child, but he was the master of his personality who couldn't get rid of idleness, he just learned to walk and he could climb on the roof and lift people's roof tiles, and when he was more than six years old, he rode a goat on a rampage in the town market, arched over the fortune-telling stall of the blind man of Jia, and collapsed Uncle Wu's calligraphy and painting table, so everyone found that the blind man Jia was really a fake blind man, and under the calligraphy and painting table that Uncle Wu never allowed others to touch, there was a private house money that had been accumulated over the years.

Later, Zhao Xifeng listened to a few deductive novels at the storyteller of Aunt Li's restaurant, and formed a Xifeng Sect among children of the same age, proclaimed himself the leader, and coaxed the rest of the "sect members" to give him a "three rolls on the ground" ceremony.

Now, the little devil knows martial arts, and no one can stop it.

Since then, there have been fewer sick seedlings in the town, more mischievous generals, marshals who fight, chickens, ducks, cats, dogs, birds and beasts, one is considered to be a bad luck, and there is no way to enter the ground by Zhao Xifeng, Zhao Xifeng does not bully and kill these small animals, but catches them in his hands and recites Buddhist scriptures for them, every day! Over time, the neighbors feel that the rooster crows with rhythm and Zen.

Now that Zhao Xifeng is ten years old, almost to the age when the children of the Great Zhou Dynasty are allowed to go to school, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and they can finally hand over this little demon king to Mr. for discipline.

When Zhao Xifeng was about five years old, Zhao Wu began to think about saving some silver to prepare for Zhao Xifeng's entry into the official family.

On this day, it was the first day of the new education department of Panlong Town, and it was also the day when new students signed up for school, Zhao Wu took the silver money, took the two pots of glazed roast of the town's specialties specially bought from Aunt Li, thought about it, and took down two hanging meat from the eaves, and then took Zhao Xifeng to the school office, I heard that the rules of this year's admission are different from previous years, in Zhao Wu's opinion, it is just that the new gentleman wants to set up a rule, and it is always right to bring more courtesy.

When Zhao Wu and the two walked into the side hall of the school, there were already four people in the hall, the first one was the new teacher Zhou Zhe, on the left hand side was the old monk of the small temple outside the town, and on the right hand side was a person five feet tall, with a bare face and beard, and the clothes were unspeakably expensive, and Guo You, the guard of a town, could only accompany the last seat, and the four of them were discussing something in a low voice, and when they saw the two of them walking in, they stopped and looked at Zhao Wu with a smile.

Zhao Wu first hugged his fist at Zhou Zhe, and then turned around to salute Guo You, this is the foundation of the Great Zhou Shujiao to govern the country with etiquette first, and then said: "Mr. Zhou, this is my baby, called Zhao Xifeng, just ten years old this year, I want the baby to read a book, and I don't want to be famous, just recognize a few words, and Mr. Private School in our town has no ability, so I want to send the baby to the head of the school office of the government to have some real skills, and in the future, I will be more promising, do you think I will arrange a position?"

Guo You said with a smile on the side: "Lao Zhao is the old man in the town, he has never made a mistake in his conscientious work for more than ten years, a few years ago, the star tide came to the world, or Lao Zhao's post, there are both merits and hard work, Mr. Wanwang Zhou accepted this child, and it was forgotten that Lao Zhao had a wish." ”

The old monk in Mai on the side also looked at Zhao Xifeng, his eyes full of kindness: "This child has been practicing in front of my small temple every morning for three years, and he is a good child with perseverance." ”

Zhao Wuhan smiled and hugged his fists and thanked Guo You and the old monk.

Zhou Zhe said with a smile: "Since there is a master and Guo Zhenshou as a guarantee, I will give this face anyway, but face is face, rules are rules, this year's admission to our Panlong Academy is to be selected by exam, if the exam is not passed, it will not affect the admission, but the selected winners will follow me to learn some gadgets other than literacy, I don't know if the Zhao family is interested." ”

Everyone looked at Zhao Xifeng.

Zhao Xifeng cleared his throat in a milky voice and replied, "Then you have to teach me well." The tone was confident and determined, and he never thought that he would not pass the exam.

The crowd laughed.

Zhou Zhe handed Zhao Xifeng a hand card, with an eye engraved on the front and a blank on the back, and told Zhao Xifeng to put it away closely, and then got up to send the guest.

Zhao Wu had a matter on his mind, took Zhao Xifeng to say goodbye to everyone one by one, and put the hanging meat and shochu in the gatehouse when he went out.

Zhou Zhe took over the previous topic and continued to say to everyone: "It has been more than ten years since the star tide descended into the world, and its impact on the world has gradually begun to appear, especially here, my master has stayed in the town for many years, according to him, the concentration of star yuan and heaven and earth yuan qi in the town far exceeds any place in the territory, and it is still converging, so if it goes on in less than two years, you can catch up with the white sea and Yunmengze, and become the most suitable place for cultivation in the entire Middle-earth continent." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, Zhou Zhe paused, and continued: "However, the biggest change is still people, after the baptism of the star tide, Panlong Town must be one of the places with the highest concentration of cultivation geniuses in my future, even comparable to the capital. In the past few years, the Jiangnan clan, the five sects of Shengjing, the Daze lineage, and even the Baihai tribes have successively arranged arrangements here, thinking that this is why even people from outside the world like the master will come here to find heirs. ”

The old monk's face was calm and he returned the salute.

The bearded man snorted coldly: "These have nothing to do with me, the most important thing for my emperor is genius, and he doesn't compete with the master, but the daughter of the head of the family has been weak since she was a child, and she needs a place where she can meditate and cultivate, so please Guo Zhen keep it convenient and leave the drum tower area to me." ”

Guo Zhenshou smiled and twisted his beard and said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." "But I secretly thought to myself in my heart, who doesn't know that the daughter of the head of your Emperor Ji Sect, Tianzong Genius, is comparable to Princess Yongle twenty years ago, how to start with her frailty since childhood? As for the drum tower has been idle for a long time, if you want to take it, you can save the government from repairing it.

"Since this is the case, then it is decided, while Tianqing Division is recruiting students, it will also help the master find a suitable successor, and the drum tower will be allocated to the Emperor Sect by the government. Zhou Zhe stretched his waist, moved his slightly stiff neck and said: "Let's talk about business, let's talk about something else, what do you think of the child's qualifications just now, it just so happens that Mr. Zheng is good at the art of looking at qi, help me take a look, and save me the effort to take the exam." ”

The bearded man known as Mr. Zheng said coldly: "The meridians are usually flawless and perfect, but the essence and blood in the body are depleted like the elderly. ”

The old monk was noncommittal.

Zhou Zhe smiled and was silent, thinking of another person who had exhausted his essence and blood but had a bird's-eye view of the world.

Guo You shook his head and said: "There are many cultivators in the world, and there are countless people who are congenitally deficient and have achieved great power, it still depends on personal experience and creation, but I don't know when Mr. Zhou's exam will start, and I haven't seen you yet." ”

Zhou Zhe replied with a smile: "It's already started." ”

Zhao Wu and the others came out of the school, Zhao Xifeng said that he would go to Zhenkou to make up for the physical training homework owed this morning because of the registration, Zhao Wu allowed him to go, and he went home to cook, thinking about the big day, to make a few more dishes that Zhao Xifeng likes to eat.

Zhao Xifeng came to the peach tree, in fact, after his body began to forge his body, the recovery speed was far from as fast as Zhao Wu thought, but after Zhao Xifeng became sensible, he couldn't help but stop shouting cold, so as not to worry Zhao Wu. At this moment, he repeated over and over again those movements that were so familiar that he didn't need to think about it anymore, the winter noon sun passed through the peach tree, mottled into pieces of light, and sprinkled on Zhao Xifeng's body, like broken glass, like a falling galaxy.