On August 14 of the year of Bingyou, there were still two days before the township test competition, and Sun Fu arranged for people to find an inn in the southeast of Fucheng near the Gongyuan. Approaching the autumn season, the inns near Nancheng are naturally full, and even many of them rent a room to four or five candidates, and candidates from counties and townships only want to take the exam safely, so they don't care. And there are candidates who have repeatedly failed to get used to the actions of these profiteers, but the Hongyun Inn booked by Sun Fu for Sun Xu is a clear stream, I have never heard of this inn making people mixed, of course, the price of this inn will definitely be higher than usual.

Sun Xu took Ah Shi, who was dressed in men's clothes, into the inn, Ah Shi called Xiao Er, reported his name, and Xiao Er said, "The two rooms are on the second floor, please come with me", and took Sun Xu and the two to the upper floor. Ah Shi saw that this inn not only did not even have Shangxinyuan's half-distinguished elegance, but also had a bad smell, fortunately, she was successful in martial arts and could close the six senses, otherwise she would not be able to live in this place.

Looking at Ah Shi's frowning brows, Sun Xu was not nervous and funny. Today's Ah Shi is dressed in men's clothes, but he has more charm, wearing a scribe's scarf, and he is indescribably romantic.

I was about to say a few words of ridicule, but I heard a hurried sound from upstairs, and then a man shouted in surprise, "Haunted, haunted", and then bang, it seemed that something had been knocked open, and then I saw a man dressed as a Confucian about fifty years old on the handrail on the second floor, his face was full of horror, he seemed to have encountered something terrible, and he was so frightened that he actually wanted to jump down from the second floor. Fortunately, there were still guests patrolling the corridor on the second floor next to him, and he hurriedly grabbed the Confucian scholar, "Brother Fan, don't be surprised, what happened, I'm waiting for the scholars to be upright, aren't we afraid of ghosts?"

At this time, the innkeeper had already been attracted by this exclamation, if this matter was spread today, would there be business in his inn in the future?" "Yes, guest, although the small shop is not a treasure of feng shui, it has never been contaminated with filth for more than ten years, and dozens of men such as me are majestic here, there are ghosts, but it is the ghost who is frightened." As he spoke, he pointed to the surrounding Sun Xu people.

Who knew that when Fan Sheng heard this, his face was full of anger, and he actually ignored Sven, rushed over and grabbed the shopkeeper's collar, and shouted, "People are not treacherous, and sure enough, you thief, there are ghosts in the store who dare to cheat people out of money here?"

The people next to him hurriedly came over to pull the two apart, and someone began to persuade, "Brother Fan, I have lived in this inn a few times, and I have never seen ghosts, I don't know what Brother Fan encountered, so panicked?"

Fan Sheng heard this, looked around again, and found that several people around him were looking inquiringly, as if they thought they were lying, and said loudly, "Hearing is false, seeing is believing, that female ghost is still hanging in my room, let's go and see it together." As he spoke, he took everyone to the second floor of Room C, and Sun Xu found that the shopkeeper's face was clearly a little unnatural when he heard this.

When he arrived at the room, Fan Sheng pointed to the beam without raising his head, "What is the female ghost hanging from it?" When I just woke up, I saw that the female ghost's tongue was more than two inches long outside the mouth, so I panicked. ”

After a while, Fan Sheng looked up and saw that the beams of the house were empty, where were there any female ghosts? The shopkeeper said with a smile, "The guest is participating in the township test this year, maybe the guest is worried about the dream, the ghost in the dream, look dazzled." However, it is a matter of the reputation of the shop, and I hope that customers will stop talking about ghosts. Ignoring Fan Sheng, who was full of shame, he went straight downstairs. Seeing this, everyone also left, and behind the kitchen door, one person said, "This Fan Sheng is crazy, the blue sky is white, it's really a hell of a life!" Another person said, "Hmph, he has taken the exam five times in a row, and he is over half a hundred years old this year, so he must be unsure, the pressure is too great, and there is a vision." A few people walked away, and there was no sound.

When Fan Sheng heard the shopkeeper's words, he lost his soul and came back to his senses, but he didn't find anyone else in the house, so he got up and closed the door, and when he walked halfway, he realized that something was wrong, only to find that there were two people sitting on the table and chair in the center of the room. Fan Sheng only looked at him as a joke when the two of them were here, and said coldly, "Why haven't you two gone back to your room?" ”

After Sun Xu entered the inn, he felt a trace of coolness into his body, and later Fan Sheng made a fuss, he knew that there was something strange about this inn, and after entering this room, he was more sure that what Fan Sheng said was true, and now Fan Sheng's eyebrows have a trace of black gas, after several battles, Sun Xu has experience, knowing that this is a sign of bad luck entering the body, if you ignore it, you will be in a trance at least, and you will be sick at worst.

Hearing Fan Sheng's question, Sun Xu didn't plan to explain more to him, so he lied and said: "My brothers and sisters have had a hyphenated character since they were young, saying that the two of us will 'enter every time' in the future. I just saw that Brother Tai suddenly changed dramatically, whether it was true or not, if he stayed here for a long time, he must have refused. Why don't you do this, how about the exchange of my brother's room A and my brother's desk?"

Fan Sheng over there was overjoyed when he heard this, his family was not rich, he himself had a habit of cleanliness, and he did not want to live with others, and now there was still a place to live around the Gongyuan? If he continued to stay here, how could he still have the heart to study and prepare for the exam? I can't say that this township examination is going to be named Sun Shan again, just now the shopkeeper and others said, he listened to it in his ears, like a needle prick, he is over fifty years old, and there is no shade at home, where is he willing to let go of this township test?

However, he was inevitably uneasy in his heart, and persuaded, "Hou Sheng, you don't know, this inn seems to be strange, I have lived here for two days, I have been restless every day, and I can't sleep at night, and I fell asleep easily in the early hours of this morning, so I snooze for a while, and when I woke up, I saw a woman hanging on the beam of the house, and the old man with her tongue sticking out! ”

Since Sun Xu encountered this matter, he would definitely not ignore it, although Liu's matter has already indicated that there are demons doing evil in Guobei County, but no matter what, at least he must ensure that the Jinhua Mansion is clean, if he shuttles through the heavens, the demons will be a disaster, and the family may be difficult to preserve. Seeing Fan Sheng like this, he told him that he was the son of Fu Yin, and if something happened, he would call the government to come to help, so that he didn't have to worry.

When Fan Sheng heard this, the enthusiasm on his face was gone, replaced by arrogance, and he didn't say much, he directly took Sun Xu's key, packed up his things, and went out.

Ah Shi looked stunned, "Why does this person change his face faster than turning a book, we change this room with him and owe him money." ”

Sun Xu was relieved, turned around and closed the door, sat down again, and then explained to Ah Shi, "Ah Shi, if you don't study, you don't know the nature of the scholar. In this dynasty, the imperial examination, the township examination is the official foundation. However, not everyone can participate in the township examination, and you must be qualified to participate. There are about four types of students in the Wu Dynasty, mainly the students of the Guozijian Students; the prisoners are only eligible for the children of the nobles, but at the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, the old sages and ministers were restructured, and the young disciples with excellent official studies in the county capital and prefecture can also be enrolled, but they are called Gongsheng; the children of officials like me; and there are also students, among these categories, generally speaking, the students have the strongest examination ability, because they are neither relatives of the emperor nor the country, nor are they recommended by the master to be admitted to the Guozijian, let alone the disadvantages of the ancestors. Since ancient times, the literati looked down on each other, and the students looked down on the Gongsheng, saying that they were eligible to be shortlisted for the township examination without passing the examination, and the Gongsheng looked down on the Yin Sheng, saying that they could get the examination post without even entering the school, and the Yin Sheng looked down on the prisoners, saying that they would only rely on the afterglow of their ancestors, and the prisoners looked down on others, felt that they had noble blood, and even felt that they should be ranked in the court without the examination. This fan student must be an old student who thinks that he is poor. ”

Ah Shi over there sorted out the room and laid out the things used one by one, while listening to Sun Xu's explanation, "Cut, what's so great about the exam, Childe's Luo Shenfu is the best article Ah Shi has ever read, the words are gorgeous, the artistic conception is subtle, the old man is already a romantic figure in Shilin, and he also read it in his early years, but compared with Childe, he made a judgment." It's a pity that Gongzi is low-key and doesn't let me take it out, if it is passed out, it will inevitably cause a sensation in the world. ”

Sun Xu brazenly took the sycophant, ignoring Cao Zijian, who was crying and fainting in the toilet in another time and space. "Ah Shi, you don't understand, learning and excellence is the so-called learning of literature and martial arts. ”

Suddenly, a yin wind blew in the room with closed doors and windows, which made people feel cold all over the body. "Ah Shi, it seems that what Fan Sheng said is true. Sun Xu picked up the exquisite full-kiln tea set that Ah Shi had just brewed, smacked it, and said lightly.