"Jue'er, this trip to Beijing is difficult and dangerous, and you must pay attention to safety on the road. Don't get into trouble, you know. "It was an old woman in burlap who spoke. She instructed as she packed her parcel at the moment.

"Knowing my mother, don't worry, my son will go all out, win the lift, and come back to shine on the lintel. ”

This young man is Fang Jue, with clear eyebrows and a thin body. Wearing a literati robe, full of confidence in his words, he studied hard for ten years, entered a private school at the age of six, knew many Chinese characters, wrote beautiful articles, and then entered the largest school in Qingyang Town, and is now sixteen years old, famous in Qingyang Town, is a little prodigy.

Before leaving for Beijing to take the exam, his mother Fang specially took part of the private money she saved to buy a roast chicken and put it in her son's backpack. I've been chattering for a long time, and I'm always uneasy.

Father Fang Dalei sat on the rattan chair at the door of the house, smoking a dry cigarette, his expression was quite stern, and said, "If you don't do well in the exam, don't come back." ”

"The son must follow his father's teachings, and he will definitely honor his ancestors and return to his hometown in brocade clothes. Don't forget the instructions of my father and mother. Fang Jue once again expressed his determination to move in the middle of the move.

At this time, a young man came in from the door, looking like he was twenty years old, but it was a classmate who went to Beijing with him to take the exam this time, named Kong Long. His family name is Kong, and the old people in the family hope that he will fly to Jackie Chan and learn the way of Confucius and Mencius, so he got such a name. Kong Long was also wearing a white robe, a white fan in his hand, and a bag on his shoulder. This person has a national face, and the bookish atmosphere is not particularly strong. On the contrary, he has a big waist and a round waist, and he is very strong, and with that outfit, he looks a little nondescript.

When he came in, he saluted Fang Dalei and the Fang family, and said respectfully: "Hello uncle and aunt." ”

Fang Shi advised: "Xiaolong, you are four years older than Jue'er, you are his eldest brother, this trip is difficult, so I ask you to take care of my family's Jue'er." ”

"Mother, what do you say, I am also a little man, and I don't need anyone to take care of me. Fang Jue's words were slightly childish.

But it is also quite liked by Kong Long. Kong Long touched Fang Jue's childish head and shouted: "I'm not as good at reading as you, but you are definitely not as good as me in a fight, if someone bullies you, Brother Long, I will help you beat him." Ha ha. Aunts and uncles, don't worry, I promise that Fang Jue will be unscathed when he returns. ”

Fang Jue smiled, stuck out his tongue at Kong Long, and said, "I don't want you to help." I can do it too. ”

The two teenagers were about to argue, and the father said: "Okay, it's not early, this will set off, and I can catch up with the post station in Qingyang Town before dark, where I can rest for a night." Just don't rub it off. ”

"Yes. ”

The two said goodbye to their loving father and mother, and embarked on the journey to Beijing to catch the exam.

Along the way, Fang Jue quipped: "Brother Long, it's not hot, what are you doing with a white fan." ”

Kong Long smiled and said proudly: "You don't know about this, my father said that I am usually too gangster, and I am too angry with books, so I can buy a folding fan to let people know that you are a scholar, so that everyone will not bully you." Haven't you heard, don't bully readers. ”

"Don't bully others. Fang Jue rolled his eyes and said, "Your family has a dart game, and it's not good to learn martial arts from your father, how good it is to be a martial artist." ”

"I also learned martial arts, brother, I, both civil and military. As he spoke, he gestured twice, with a smug look on his face.

"Awesome. "Fang Jue Zhengdao.

Fang Jue's family background is mediocre, his father is a carpentry craftsman, and his mother usually spins yarn at home and sells it to rich people. According to Fang Dalei, the Fang family has been a carpenter for generations, and there has never been a scholar, but he doesn't know how many blessings he cultivated in his previous life to cultivate such a reading prodigy.

Fang Dalei and his wife were grateful to Dade, and they didn't teach Fang Jue to be a carpenter when they were young, no matter how poor their lives were, they had to make up enough for Fang Jue's tuition and send him to a private school to go to the school. It just so happens that Fang Jue is over 16 years old, which is enough to qualify.

The couple was nervous, but they were very excited, thinking that their son had studied hard in the cold window over the years, and his grades in the school were also the first every year, and they decided that their son would be lifted once and shine on the lintel. But they would never have imagined that it would be decades before they saw their son again.

At the gate of the city, the two spent three copper plates, negotiated the price with a cart driver who went out of the city to transport rice, and pulled them to the post station ten miles away.

Bumps along the way, Fang Jue's body was originally thin, young and frail, at this time he was tossed around, feeling that his internal organs were going to vomit out, his face was pale, but he insisted on not fainting all the way.

Kong Long saw that he was uncomfortable all the way, and knew that he was motion sickness, so he kept talking all the way to divert his attention.

The friendship between the two began six years ago when they just entered the University Hall in Qingyang Town, as the youngest and thinnest Fang Jue was always bullied by his classmates, Kong Long was a few years older than him, and he often helped him get angry, and everyone knew that a strong guy was Fang Jue's bodyguard, and gradually stopped bullying him.

But Kong Long's grades are poor, and he doesn't like to listen to the teacher's four books and five classics, he fails every exam, once because of the penultimate score by his father from the living room to the kitchen, kicked from the kitchen to the bedroom, the martial artist at home laughed and laughed, Kong Long asked for help in a rage, Fang Jue patiently gave him homework, in just a few years, Kong Long's grades soared, although he did not rank among the best, but from the penultimate among the hundreds of children in the school to the level of non-slippery, it is very rare, and he has also obtained the qualification to enter Beijing to catch the exam.

Over the years, the shopkeeper of the Kong family has visited Fang Dalei with good cigarettes and wine, and there is no need to repeat too much if he is grateful. The relationship between the two families has also become much closer.

The conditions of the Kong family are much better than those of the Fang family, and these years of purchasing the wood products and cloth of the Fang family are important long-term buyers of the Fang family.

In this way, the Fang family gradually improved, with some savings, and life was getting better day by day.

Kong Long and Fang Jue's friendship is also gradually deepening, and they are the most important little friends and big brothers in Fang Jue's life. Kong Long is naturally thinking about Fang Jie everywhere.

"Huh. Do you want to be an official so much in the future?" Kong Long said without words.

Fang Jue looked into the distance, thoughtful, although he was young, he had read the Four Books and Five Classics and matured early. He sighed: "For ordinary families like us, the only way out is to study." Otherwise, what's the point of us traveling long distances to take exams?"

Kong Long shook his head and said: "You, you are stupid to read, and you can become a talent if you don't study." Have you ever heard of the monk?"

"Monk?" Fang Jue shook his head.

"It's amazing, I've heard people say that that kind of monk can practice peculiar exercises, cultivate into immortals, can open mountains and split the ground, and can pinch a person to death with one finger, just like pinching a bed bug to death. Kong Long yearned, "It's a pity, I'm afraid I won't be able to see that kind of immortal in my life." Otherwise, we will also become immortals. ”

Fang Jue glanced at him and shouted: "Brother Long, you are stupid to listen to the story of the storyteller one day, it is all a legend, everyone has gone to cultivate immortals, who will farm the land, who will still be an official? ”

Kong Long touched his head, smirked, and said, "So you must not tell my father." Otherwise, the friendship will be gone. In case this trip to Beijing, you will have an adventure, meet an immortal, and teach a few sets of Taoist techniques, hehe, it is much better than reading. That's more than 10,000 people, more powerful than the emperor. ”

Fang Jue simply felt that Kong Long was crazy, and simply ignored his crazy words.

The groom couldn't listen anymore and said, "Little friend, I know a little bit about cultivating immortals. More than 50 years ago, there was a vision in Qingyang Town, the world changed color, yo, it was really an immortal, there are all kinds of strange things in this world, people always have dreams, this little brother wants to become immortals, that is also a dream, if people don't have dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish. ”

Kong Long became interested and said, "Yes, yes, the old uncle also understands this truth." It's just when we have such an opportunity. However, I have also heard about the vision you mentioned fifty years ago, and later some people refuted the rumors, saying that it was normal wind and thunder. The arrival of the immortals seems to have refuted the rumors. ”

"Hey, that's all official language, if it's really announced, it's the arrival of immortals, won't it cause panic. ”

That's the same thing. Kong Long was convinced.

"So, young man, don't be discouraged, there are times in life when you have to have them, and there are times when you don't...... Yo...... Don't force it. ”

When it was dark, the carriage successfully arrived at the post station, this post station was at the three-way junction, a road leading to the capital, and the other leading to other places, the coachman had to collect a cart of grain within two days and return to Qingyang Town to sell, and the coachman had to return to Qingyang Town before dark the next day, so he did not stay overnight, and left overnight.

Bidding farewell to the coachman, the two rested in the inn, a simple tiled house with a large room and ten beds for passers-by to rest and stop.

The owner, who is only two men in the prime of life, offers some simple food such as scallion oil noodles and steamed pickles.

The roast chicken can't be left for a long time, so as not to spoil, so on the first night of going out, Fang Jue divided it into two and eliminated it, leaving a chicken head, Kong Long salivated, but still decided to let it out. Fang Jue was also unwilling to enjoy it alone, and the two shirked it for a long time, and in the end they were eaten by Kong Long.

Soon it will be night, and the next day I will have to get up early to hurry, so I will no longer move and rest early.

The next day, Fang Jue woke up Kong Long very early, and the two continued to set off. This time it was unlucky, there was no carriage, and the next post station would be on foot for at least three days, but there was a stronghold of their Kong Family Dart Bureau there, where the senior brother in the door could find a carriage.

Two months later, a few carriages were changed on the way before entering the suburbs of the capital. There are guards and sentry posts all over the ten miles, and safety is no longer so worrying. However, there were no other things along the way, except for the bumps in the road.

It was night again, and the two decided to rest for the night in the dead wood forest on the outskirts of the city, and then go to the capital, according to the plan, there was at least a week left before the time for the exam. Not particularly rushed.

The two of them chopped wood to make a fire to ward off the cold, and after eating some dry food at random, they were a little sleepy.

"Fortunately, we are almost in the capital. I need to have a good meal, I haven't eaten a few meals of meat in these days. It really hurts my stomach. Kong Long touched his hungry stomach and tugged at his face.

Fang Jue took advantage of the fire to read the book, the exam was about to begin, Fang Jue did not relax at all, in the past two months, whether it was on the carriage or at night, as long as there was light, Fang Jue would have to read the book. For many nights, Fang Jue slept with a book.

As the night deepened, the two of them became more and more sleepy, and they both fell asleep, Kong Long fell directly on the blanket and fell asleep, Fang Jue was also confused, and he was about to fall asleep.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, I heard a thunderclap.

The two of them sat up abruptly.

I saw three figures flying from the distance of the dead wood forest at a rapid pace, crackling and exploding like cannonballs falling on the road, and the sound resounded through the night sky. The two people in front are running, and a figure is chasing behind.

"Double-shaking, Hugh has to leave. The man behind burst into a shout, and threw out a talisman with one hand, which became extremely hard in the rapid movement, like a piece of iron, and burst out, chasing behind the two people in front of him, and detonating in the air.