Chapter 397: A Gentleman Is Hard to Find
Fill the cup with the elixir and jade liquid, and overlook the wine over the world.
The white horse is 3,000 miles away from the dust, crisscrossing the northwest city of Kyoto.
"Da Da Da!"
"Royal!"
It's noon.
On the north side of Zhenwu Mountain, a handsome white horse with a green shirt and two bright red flames dragged a light car, which appeared on the Beiguan Road almost at the same time.
The white horse was in a hurry, the car was slow, and the two quickly opened up the distance.
It didn't take long for the three horses to drive into Zhenwu Mountain one after another...
"Here he comes. ”
Yu Youran also came. ”
The green shirt suddenly attacked, suddenly like the spring breeze blowing, the grass bent over, and the flowers and insects looked back.
Many of the invigilators on the north wing of the Zhenwu Examination Room couldn't help but mention the spirit of a few points, and the number of candidates moved closer to the northwest without a trace. Obviously, both the candidates and the examiners are aware of what is happening here. Or rather, it's inevitable. Xiahou and the others killed three white-clothed sacrificers in the Drunken Immortal Building a few days ago, and slapped the Tang Dynasty court, and the Tang Dynasty government did not take advantage of the national examination to retaliate, which is really strange. Now nearly 100 northerners were forced to eat dead flies by the Ming Pit of the Tang Dynasty Mansion, but they did not move for a long time, and they only stalemate in the ring, which was nothing more than to show their attitude and delay time. If the time stipulated in the martial arts examination comes, they still have to be eliminated, and no one can make up for this pot. And now, Xia Xun is here. As the brainchild of the northerners, he is like the soul of this group, and he can always give people unexpected surprises. Therefore, no one will doubt that his arrival will inevitably bring turmoil to the stalemate.
Zhenwu Mountain, the main gate.
A platform stands tall.
The four dragon and phoenix Zhenwu flags stand at the four corners of the high platform, waving in the wind. Four columns of officers and soldiers with knives were stationed next to the flag, majestic. Two burly generals held eight-foot green dragon swords under the stage, tiger eyes like bells, mighty and terrifying, just like two living door gods. Compared with the low-key of the Hanlin Academy, the main examination platform of Zhenwu Mountain can be described as extremely respectful, which makes people awe when they see it.
At this time, the two chief examiners sitting on the high platform are also quite interesting.
One person has a bare face and a long beard, dressed in the armor of the Imperial Forest General, wearing a green brocade cloak, and also holding an eight-foot green dragon broadsword. The expression is majestic, not smiling, and the eyes are as bright as thunder and lightning, extremely martial. The other person was just the opposite, his delicate facial features were like a weak scholar who had no hands to fight, a blue and white robe was worn crookedly and sloppy by him, and the three-foot delicate long sword was thrown at the side of the desk at will and ignored. But he was drunk with a pot in his hand and a cup in the other, laughing from time to time, drinking low from time to time, full of stinky wine, like a down-and-out madman.
"Gazha..."
From afar, I can see the white horse galloping into the real martial arts with green shirts. The Shenwu military attache on the platform got up with his long knife and walked off the platform without saying a word.
"Hehe..."
As soon as the military attache took two steps, the sloppy drunken Taoist smiled stupidly behind him, and drunkenly shouted: "There is wine today and drunk today, don't wait for no wine to wake up." If you don't drink wine, General Wei, where are you going to fight?"
"Sha..."
The military general stopped when he heard this, and turned his back to the drunken Taoist with contempt, but because of the identity of this Taoist, he couldn't ignore it. Then he said contemptuously: "Someone is coming, I'll take a look." ”
The drunken Taoist was drunk and blindfolded, and his eyes swept under the stage in confusion, and his gaze finally stayed on the northwest side.
looked at the green shirt, laughed stupidly, and said nonsense: "Hehe, children are playing, there is no hindrance." Come on, come on, General Wei don't bother with this trivial matter, let's continue to drink! If you don't get drunk, you won't return, and you won't be allowed to go anywhere, hehe..."
The military attache sneered even more at the drunken Taoist's demeanor, words and deeds, and said contemptuously without looking back: "Li Gongzi will continue to drink if he has Yaxing." Wei was ordered to invigilate the martial arts test, and he was not allowed to accompany him!"
Then, the military attache stepped off the platform, took the reins handed by the attendant, turned over and galloped out.
Up and down the stage, two fierce generals and hundreds of sergeants followed quickly.
"Huh..."
When the people walked away, the Taoist who had been drunk slowly stretched his waist and yawned in a daze, and the drunken eyes looking at the northwest also set off a strange look.
It's like the awakened Wolong...
Look northwest.
The crowd suddenly closed, and the coldness suddenly became noisy.
A red horse led the white horse past the crowd and ran to the No. 37 square on the right.
Inside, two flaming horses led the blue light cart and slowly followed.
The show looks like it's about to begin...
"Seek less. ”
"Brother Xun, they did their tricks in the lottery, and we were cheated. ”
"Grandma's bastard, it's better to them!"
"No one has come out of Zhenwu?"
"it, there's no one!"
"Uh..."
Xia Xunzhi, Xia Hou, Lei Meng, Fat Monk and others quickly all came over, chattering and coaxing. Needless to say, in fact, when Xia Xun met the panicked Luo Jue under the North Gate archway, he guessed that something must have happened here. It's just that after Luo Jue told him about the matter on the way, he knew that the revenge of the Tang Dynasty Mansion this time was probably really tricky. Therefore, when he arrived at the scene, he still asked the reason clearly.
"Are you sure? Have you been looking for them?"
"Sure, I'm looking for the examiner theory of Zhenwu, and people don't care about us at all. ”
"Where's the main examination stand?"
"That..."
Xia Hou stretched out his hand and pointed to the main gate of Zhenwu Mountain seven or eight miles away, Xia Xun muttered, raised his hand to block the sun and looked into the distance.
But seeing that the military attache had already left, there was only one drunken sloppy Taoist who was still drinking recklessly.
"Uh..."
"How could it be him?"
Seeing the drunken Taoist Xia Xun from a distance, he frowned immediately.
This person Xia Xun knows, and he knows it very well, and even his height, personality, hobbies, and cultivation are all clear. Don't look at this person's sloppy and down-and-out appearance, but his origin is amazingly big, if you talk about seniority, even Xia Yuan has to call him a big brother. No one will have any objections to the authority of his real martial arts examination, but will only be surprised. Because, with this person's uninhibited temperament, he will definitely not take care of this boring matter. However, he took care of it, which is very strange.
"Strange. ”
Xia Xun pondered and asked again: "Who is the chief official of the Tang Dynasty Mansion?"
"The Imperial Forest Army's Shenwu General - Wei Yan. Luo Jue replied.
Xia Hou then added: "The lottery match is presided over by him, and this thing must have done something." ”
"Tsk. ”
Xia Xun's face was even more sad, and his mind quickly searched for information about Wei Yan. After thinking for a moment, he muttered: "Wei Yan is the sixth god general of the Imperial Forest Army, who belongs to the direct line of the military department and is directly appointed by the emperor. If he is the main exam, I am afraid that this matter will not be good. How many people have we been eliminated?"
"Twenty-six soaring to the sky, six soaring to the pinnacle. Lei Meng replied simply.
"So much..."
"It's already the bare minimum. ”
Lei Meng said, looking at Mo Xian in the ring worriedly, and continued: "If this matter cannot be resolved, including Mo Xian, Le Yi, Bao Bao, Han Shi and others, we will have to be eliminated at least three Apocalypse and twenty-eight Heaven Peaks. ”
“......”
The index finger scraped the bridge of the nose lightly, and the bitterness was very heavy and thoughtful.
Xia Xun no longer had anything to say, and no one knew what he was thinking. But it is not difficult to see that this problem is difficult to solve even for Xia Xun. People have to bow their heads under the roof, and they have to act according to the rules of the national examination above the national examination, this is the reason. It's impossible for you to go to the Tang Dynasty Mansion to make a splash, because he can ignore you in other people's examination rooms, and other candidates are even happier to do so. The three hundred northerners are all good players in the North Polar Region, and if you talk about actual combat, it is more than enough to be shortlisted for the top three test. But all of a sudden, they were dirtily cut off and trapped, and for Xia Xun, such a loss can be described as heavy. After all, there is a heavenly test after the palace test, as the name suggests, with heaven and earth as the volume, slightly more than the civil and military army, and the united front is the highlight of the national examination. If even Mo Xian's absolute strength is lost, Xia Xun and the remaining northerners will be like toothless tigers, headless steel spears, and those who are afraid and red-eyed will inevitably let them fall into trouble directly, and bear the brunt of the siege of wolves. Judging from the danger of the previous national examinations, it is difficult to say whether Xia Xun and his gang will be able to come out alive at that time...
"What should I do?"
"What else do you think you can do?"
"What the hell is going on?"
And so on. ”
Xia Hou couldn't help but ask, but Xia Xun only replied with one word.
As for what he was waiting for, some people may know, but does "waiting" really work?
The only person Xia Xun can wait for now is Zhenwu Mountain, but Zhenwu Mountain's attitude is already very clear, that is, he doesn't care about it.
The crowd gradually gathered, and the words around them were like honeycombs and fragmented thoughts. The military generals who came from the main gate turned over and dismounted from outside the crowd, watching this side vigilantly from a distance. In the southeast corner, Gu Fan stepped down from the bloodiest ring and left the examination room. At the main gate, the sloppy drunken Taoist didn't know when he was gone, and he didn't know where he went.
With the passage of time, the sun in the sky and clouds is about to hang in the sky, thousands of martial arts platforms gradually extinguished a lot of gunpowder smoke and war, and the candidates who have no war have infiltrated the northwest from all directions one after another, and the inner three layers are three floors, and the life is to surround a stalemate and boring competition into the focus.
Wait.
Xia Xun is waiting, and these onlookers are also waiting.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it disappears into the past.
Xia Xun has been waiting in the ring for a long time, and it will be Shen Shi who will wait for another moment. According to the rule that if the winner cannot be decided within two hours of the martial arts test, it will be regarded as a defeat. If Mo Xian, Mo Yan and more than 30 other martial arts platforms do not move again, then these people will all have to be eliminated from the top three in the national test. Therefore, the onlookers waited for this final result.
"Ah Xun, there is less than a moment left. ”
"I know. ”
"You know you're still stunned?"
"What else could I do?"
"Damn. ”
Xia Hou couldn't help but scold, Xia Xun frowned, and didn't pay attention.
In fact, how could he not know that time was running out? But the bell must be tied to the bell, and if the current stalemate is not reconciled by Zhenwu Mountain, he really has no way to do it at the moment. Even if you can righteously and awe-inspiring the matter of the secret fraud of the Tang Dynasty government, and say that others are moved, it is meaningless. Therefore, Xia Xun really had no way except to wait for someone from Zhenwu Mountain to solve the matter. However, at this moment, he began to have some doubts about whether Zhenwu Mountain really had to sit idly by. Otherwise, since he's here, how could he be left hanging here for so long?
Wait a long time...
"I'm tired. ”
Xia Xun didn't wait for the people who came to Zhenwu Mountain to come forward, but he waited for an unexpected voice.
The voice was cold and ruthless, like frost and snow, like a dead corpse wailing, and it came from the blue light car parked on the west side of the Yanwu platform. At the moment of the scene, everyone heard the sound and looked sideways. Xia Xun, Mo Xian, Xia Hou and others were all surprised. The woman said she was tired, she could still be tired from sitting in the car, and she could only wait for tired. It's just that her "tired" voice is not known whether she is urging Mo Yan to hurry up with her sword or urging Xia Xun to hurry up and plot, after all, it is too vague.
Wink...
Mo Yan in the ring slowly opened his eyes and glanced at the blue car: "You wait." ”
"It's useless to wait, he can't solve this game. ”
"Uh..."
Words are emotionless, but they have undoubted affirmation.
Yu Youran had already decided that this was a dead end, but Xia Xun heard a hint of other meaning from this sentence. Because there is an extra word "he" in this sentence, rather than directly saying that this situation is unsolvable.
Xia Xun asked, "Why don't I have a solution?"
"How can you solve it?" echoed from the blue car.
Xia Xun asked again: "What is the obstacle?"
"A gentleman is benevolent. ”
"Uh..."
The four characters are cold, not heavy or light, but they are like Mount Tai pressing.
Xia Xun was stunned for a moment, his face did not change much, but his heart was already stirring up with the memories of a stormy wave. For him, the words gentleman's benevolence are all too familiar. Because in the past ten years, every time he was reprimanded by that great strategist, he couldn't do without these four words.
The benevolence of a gentleman is the taboo of a plotter.
This is Xia Xun's weakness, and in the same way, a gentleman plans to leave a line in everything, if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, if people offend me, I will punch me, and I will never punch again, which is also the principle of Xia Xun's strategy. Even if he was a big gamble in the Drunken Immortal Building, Xia Xun only took his life to pay for his life, and only took the lives of the three white-clothed priests who dominated the victory and defeat without injuring one more. And now, the national examination is a dispute between gentlemen, even if the ruling is unfair, it is just a rule, far from the extreme plot, so Xia Xun's plan can only stay on the word "wait", and dare not go beyond it. That's his limitation...
Now that the situation seems to be, it is obvious that his word "wait" no longer has the persuasive power to break the situation. The Taoist of Zhenwu Mountain seemed to know his thoughts, and he always seemed to be hiding from the plague, and he didn't even get close to the ring. Therefore, since people have made up their minds not to lend a hand, you will wait in vain.
"Hey..."
Thinking of this, Xia Xun sighed helplessly, and he already secretly admired the woman in the Lanbao light car. Xia Xun hugged his fists and padded towards the carriage, and said, "Please also ask the girl to teach." ”
"What do you think you will repay?"
Yu Youran was very direct, and without saying anything, he directly asked Xia Xun for compensation. It feels like she's just doing a deal, and if Xia Xun's remuneration is not enough, she pats her ass and leaves. Others may not understand why, but Xia Xun does. Or, on the first day he went to the Hanlin Academy to play chess with Yu Youran, he knew what Yu Youran wanted from him. That thing is actually not important to Xia Xun, but to Yu Youran, it is a matter of life and death.
didn't think much about it, Xia Xun replied directly: "Hanmei falls into a lonely pool, and they don't kill each other." ”
"Sha..."