On the seventh day of the second month of the seventeenth year of the first year of the first year of Akagi, it passed.

The day was stunning.

The sting means the first thunder of spring, which shakes the insects that have been dormant for a winter.

On this day, two major events occurred in the capital.

A lot of people died.

It was indeed a thunderstorm, which alarmed everyone up and down in the capital, regardless of the princes, peddlers, pawns, and rats in the city.

If the name Gu Xiaoan was just a celebrity in the mouths of gamblers, a hero in the eyes of Jianghu guests, and a tea talk at the dinner table of some ministers.

So now, the name is a thunderbolt, like thunder.

Because of this day, he not only killed the prince's mansion in a grand manner, killed Dugu Yu, one of the thirteen gods under the prince's command, but also retreated under the siege of the Qinglong Division, the emperor came to save him, but he did not accept the emperor's will, and left.

Such a delusional person, a madman, how long has it been since there has been a situation in this world?

And these things involve the emperor, the prince, and the court, so it is no longer a matter of rivers and lakes, but a matter of temples.

This is even more lively.

This kind of excitement is so much that even the triennial spring festival that will come the next day has been suppressed.

For a time, the entire capital only knew that there was Gu Xiao'an, but did not know that there was a champion.

On the morning of the eighth day of the second lunar month.

Originally, according to the usual practice, people would get up early to welcome the new year.

The so-called welcome is to go outside the Jinghua Gate to welcome the newcomers from all over the country.

This initiative, originally originated from the Tai'an period, when the millennium once met the martial saint Zhang Zixu Zhang Qilin into Beijing, because Zhang Qilin is not only extremely high martial arts and handsome to the extreme, then attracted the whole capital people are vying to watch, Zhang Qilin crossed the Jinghua Gate, the people present have seen from its body that there is a unicorn like surging, is a sign of soaring.

After Zhang Qilin really won the championship in high school, all the way up, martial arts into the realm is also a thousand miles a day, at the age of twenty-seven to reach the realm of the world's great masters, appalling, is the most in history, so there is a thousand years to meet the martial saint said.

Later generations followed suit according to Zhang Qilin's experience, and they also entered Beijing from Jinghua Gate on the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, in a vain attempt to create another myth, but they got nothing.

But because there are many people who follow suit, over time, this initiative has become a tradition, before the spring martial arts test, the new martial arts are not in Beijing before the eighth day of the new year, and then enter Beijing together in the morning of the eighth day of the new year, and the people in Beijing also have a habit, that is, the eighth morning of the new year to welcome the new year, the head of the discussion, lively.

It's just that compared with previous years, there are too few people to welcome the new people this year, and at the moment of the morning, the newcomers of Wuke come from outside the Jinghua Gate, some are in groups, and some are alone, all of them are high-spirited, and they are full of youthful spirit.

It's just that when they walked to the gate of Jinghua, they were about to stop for the people of the capital to taste, and they couldn't get a few admirers to go to Yingchun Tower to vote, but they were stunned to find that there was basically no one near the Jinghua Gate.

In other words, there are people, but compared with the crowding of Jinghuamen in the past, there are only a few dozen, which is really inhuman.

"This ...... What do you think?" asked the newcomer to the martial arts department in a low voice to his companion.

Several of his companions also looked at each other, wondering how this could be the case this year, could it be that they came early, or did they change the date of welcoming the new year this year?

Some people have the heart to ask the people of the nearby capital for some reason, but they feel that it is really a bit embarrassing, and looking at the people who came to welcome the new year, they didn't wake up and yawned for days, so they probably couldn't ask anything.

As a result, an originally lively orientation party turned into a sparse venue that no one cared about.

A group of martial arts newcomers entered the capital with doubts and unhappiness, passed the Jinghua Gate, and walked straight towards the Spring Festival.

Yingchun Building, this spring word is not the spring of spring, but the spring of spring.

The business of this restaurant is usually average, but the spring festival of one to three years is very popular, which can be called a big year.

It's not because of how good the food here is, or because you can live in a high school here, but because there is something in this restaurant that is not available elsewhere, and that is the voting conference.

The so-called voting conference, is to participate in the spring of the name of the person at a time, the following plus the person's past history and record, and then by other guests to vote, the highest person to sign, of course, it is impossible to directly get the champion, but there is an advantage, that is, if the number of winning lots, even if the number of wins is defeated and eliminated in the martial arts test, you can use this to re-enter the stage, what's more, if the number of signatures is really high to unattainable, and fortunately to be able to get the official signature of the Ministry of Officials examiner, there is also a chance to be exempted from the test, directly to the palace test.

Therefore, all previous martial arts newcomers are eager to this place, because once the number of signatures is high, there will be a chance to do it again, or even easily, straight to the clouds.

Of course, the Yingchun Building's voting meeting is so important, and the natural signing is not so simple, first of all, the person who votes needs to have the voting order issued by the Yingchun Building, a voting order of one hundred taels, a daily limit of ten signatures, one signing twenty taels, that is to say, if you want to win the first place in the Yingchun Building's voting conference, the easiest way is to throw money, that is, you must have money.

If there is no money, then it is necessary to be outstanding in force, because every time there is a spring in the spring, there will be some people from big families who will come to guard, once a person with strength but no money in the picture, he will support it, so as to receive it under his command.

And if you have no money and your martial arts are very average, but you want to make a name for yourself at this signing conference, then there is only one way left, and that is to look good.

In this Spring Festival Building, there is no shortage of deep resentful women, young ladies with spring, this capital land, full of gold, these women and women from high-ranking families, in addition to being lonely and rich, the ducks in the hook fence are tired of playing, so naturally they are interested in these men who have practiced martial arts since childhood, their bodies are great, and their blood is strong, so there are also people who have martial arts and mediocre backgrounds, but they rely on a face to get mixed into the Jinluan Palace.

Therefore, people in Beijing often say that a spring building is full of appearances in the world.

Let's say that the group of martial arts newcomers who were left out went all the way to the Yingchun Building, and there were already first martial arts newcomers in the building to show themselves on the platform in the building.

This display is also a very important part of the voting conference, although it is said that those who can come to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival, they must be famous figures from all over the world, many of them are also famous on the list of amazing talents, but there are also some reputations that do not appear, that when reporting the past achievements and resumes, it is inevitable that there is a lack of shyness in the pocket, and when the time comes, there is nothing under the name, it must be no one cares, so it can only be fought on this display platform to see if it can shock the audience by stunts.

In the past, there were people on the stage to show, even if the display was ugly, there would be applause, at most it would be a juggling.

But today, not to mention the applause, the entire Yingchun Building is a little lifeless, and everyone looks drowsy.

Not only the ladies and ladies in the fenced compartments in the building, but also the people sent by various families to squat, even the little guys in the Spring Festival Building were a little absent-minded, as if they hadn't woken up at all, and they were about to yawn at any time.

Seeing that there was a new martial arts newcomer coming in, the little guy really yawned first, and then said, "This year's martial arts, go over there to sign up." Then he ignored the people.

The newcomers of the martial arts who came to the Yingchun Building, some of them are taking the exam for the first time, and some of them have already participated in it a few times, but they are almost all people who have seen the world in the capital in previous years, and the scene in previous years is not like this, so the Yingchun Building is not lively and noisy.

What's going on this year?

First, there was a problem on the orientation side, and then the voting conference was also deserted.

Someone finally couldn't help it, grabbed the little guy who was about to leave, and asked, "Little second brother, what's wrong today? Why does it seem that everyone is listless, and the Yingxin side is too, is something wrong?"

"Hey, I also said, it's not that Gu Xiao'an made trouble. The little guy said and yawned again, "I listened to the book last night and heard it in the second half of the night, can you not be listless?"

"Ancient ...... Who is Gu Xiaoan?"

"You don't even know Gu Xiao'an? Oh, that's right, you are all from other places, and you have been outside the city for so long, and the news is closed, so it's not surprising that you don't know. The little guy yawned for the fourth time, not ready to say any more.

The questioner was also a clever man, and hurriedly took out a silver ingot from his bosom and stuffed it into the little guy.

Only then did the little guy speak and talk about the things in the capital these days, especially Gu Xiao'an.

After listening to the little guy's mouth foaming at the mouth, those martial arts newcomers were stunned, feeling as if they were listening to a book from heaven.

Fighting with His Royal Highness the Prince, he killed all the way from Jinyang to the capital, and killed three masters above the half-step grandmaster, two of them, one was the Bangyan nine years ago, and the other was Tanhua nine years ago, and then he killed the prince's mansion, killed His Royal Highness the prince's confidant and favorite general, and retreated with his whole body, and refused the call of the Son of Heaven, which ...... Is this still human?

"Little ...... Little second brother, this ...... This is not true, is it?" the newcomer to Wuke, who spent money to ask, said with difficulty.

"I don't know, alas, believe it or not, anyway, the whole capital is spreading this now. The little guy shook his hand, impatient, and yawned again, as if he was looking for a place to catch up on sleep.

"Brother Huan Wu, you said this...... Is it true?" the man saw that the little man was gone, and turned back to his companion about it.

"Zhixin, I think it's ...... thing" The person who was called Huan Wu was not very accurate.

And at this moment, a voice suddenly came from upstairs, saying: "This thing is fake, what Gu Xiao'an, new Xiao'an, someone who has never heard of it, must be a nameless person who wants to sensationalize, have you forgotten the Fei Ao brother who threatened to break into the secret treasure three years ago? Now I don't know if he is doing well in the Imperial Prison." ”

"Brother Mo Bai, when are you here? I'll introduce you to a few good friends later. Na Zhixin heard the voice upstairs, looked up, recognized it as an acquaintance, greeted him first, and then thought about those words, feeling very reasonable.

Three years ago, in the spring of the year, in order to shine in the voting conference, a person was ashamed to say that he was invincible, even if he entered the palace alone, he could quietly take out the secret treasure of the Great Interior, and spread this remark to the capital, in a vain attempt to win a big name, but this remark was spread out for half a day, and the person was imprisoned by Qinglongwei.

Thinking about it, this is called Gu Xiaoan, and most of it is also a road number.

"Well said. The man named Mo Bai responded upstairs, and was about to return to his seat to continue drinking tea to recuperate.

But a voice came out from the other side, and said loudly: "Where did you come from, you are talking nonsense here, and the prestige of Gu Xiao'an Gu Shaoxia is also something you can tarnish?"

"Who is Your Excellency? But here are you talking nonsense?" Although Brother Mobai has good martial arts and a bit of family background at home, he is not from the capital in the end, and he is also thinking twice about doing things when he goes out, so he has a lot of room to speak.

"I tell you, hurry up and apologize to Gu Shaoxia, otherwise Lao Tzu wants you to look good!" This person is none other than Li Si, who won hundreds of thousands of taels in the gold building, today he has nothing to do, and he remembered that it was Chunqiu, so he came to this Yingchun Building to shop, anyway, he has won a lot of money recently, maybe he can hook someone's young lady to play.

Originally, he was sitting idly drinking tea, because he had also listened to a book in the middle of the night last night, and he would be sleepy.

As a result, I don't know who is outside saying that Gu Xiao'an is not good.

He originally won a lot of money because of Gu Xiao'an, and he had a good impression of this God of Wealth, listening to the book last night, hearing Gu Xiao'an angrily stepping on the prince's mansion, the real hero didn't accept the book of the Son of Heaven, and he listened to it enthusiastically, that is, he has completely become a fan of Gu Xiao'an.

Now I hear someone outside saying that Gu Xiaoan is not good, so can you bear it?

If you can endure it, it's not him Li Siye!

That's why this one came out.

Brother Mo Bai was angrily scolded by Li Si three times twice, it was the Zun Ni Bodhisattva who was also angry, and at the moment, he also said with a little anger: "Okay, this Li Siye, if I really said it wrong, then I will apologize to this Gu Xiao'an Gu Shaoxia, but I have a word to ask Li Siye, if it is true that Gu Shaoxia is so good, why is there no name of this person on the list of martial arts newcomers? ”

The list of martial arts newcomers is the list of people who have taken the martial arts test in this year's Spring Festival, and the Spring Festival Building is going to hold a signing meeting, so naturally there is this list, and it is also hung in the lobby.

Zhixin and the others downstairs listened to the quarrel between the two upstairs, and they couldn't tell the reason for a while, but now after listening to Brother Mo Bai's words, they immediately looked towards the newcomer list, and at a glance, sure enough, this person was not on the list.

At the moment, I knew that the one called Li Si was also a trust.

"Fourth Master Li, what else do you have to say?" Although Brother Mo Bai's tone was flat, it was implicitly compelling.

Li Si was speechless for a while, although he was usually a little domineering, but he still made some sense, there was indeed no Gu Xiaoan's name on the list, he couldn't just say that Gu Xiaoan had offended the court, and he didn't dare to take the test, wouldn't it be that he slapped himself in the face, so he could only keep his face and not speak.

"This brother, although Gu Shaoxia is not on the list, but those deeds, I believe are true, because I have been fortunate to see Gu Shaoxia's heroic deeds with my own eyes, and they are by no means weaker than rumors. Just when Li Si put out the fire, someone on the other side spoke again.

"Oh, dare to ask this brother again?" Brother Mo Bai only twitched the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard this, and said with a smile.

"In Xia Chang'an, Xu Yan and Xu Zijin!" That person gave up, it was none other than Gu Xiao'an's hardcore supporter in Chang'an City, Brother Zijin.

"It's all from Chang'an, who doesn't help him, your words can't be trusted. Before Brother Mo Bai could speak, Brother Huan Wu downstairs took it, they had been snubbed in Yingxin because of this Gu Xiao'an, and now there is no reason to keep their hands.

When the brother heard this, his face turned red, and he said loudly: "If you don't believe it, I have the live records here, all of which are manuscripts of the records of the battles at that time, and the author is the former Bai Xiaosheng's speech, and there is no possibility of falsification!"

"Hey, is it so fine to find Tuo Du now?There is also a manuscript, isn't this Gu Xiao An Mo trying to be famous and crazy?" Brother Huan Wu's words were sharp, even more so than Brother Mo Bai.

Brother Zijin heard that his scalp was numb, but he couldn't prove it, and he was pacing back and forth in a hurry.

A few people downstairs saw that Brother Zijin didn't speak, and ignored him, and walked straight to the voting office.

Seeing this, those people all raised their heads and congratulated Sun Mobai upstairs: "Congratulations to Brother Mobai, you are among the best, second only to the Immortal Sword Sect Yue Zi Liyue Shaoxia!

Second only to Yue Zili, here it is no longer a sarcastic word, but a real compliment.

Because of Yue Zili's identity, it is not too much to say that he is famous all over the world, and the first person under the Eight Princes is rarely reached.

Therefore, even if Yue Zi is not present from himself, he will definitely take the first place in the bidding meeting of this Spring Festival Building, and Sun Mobai's family background is good, it is not too much to say that he has a lot of money, and under the deliberate management, even if he distances himself from others, he is second only to Yue Zili.

"It's just a false name, it's just a false name, everyone praises it, it's true about martial arts cultivation, I and the more young heroes I have, that's a world away, and the other young heroes on the amazing list, I don't know how many people are different, I don't dare to be this second person!" said this, but Sun Mobai couldn't hide the smile on his face.

As for Gu Xiaoan, he didn't mention it, obviously to show contempt.

Li Si and Brother Zijin were all angry when they heard it.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves outside the building, and then, a group of people walked in quickly from outside the building, but it was a group of middle-aged people wearing official uniforms.

The shopkeeper, who was originally dozing off behind the counter, suddenly jumped up and walked quickly towards the group of middle-aged officials, and said tremblingly as he walked: "Wu ...... Master Wu, you ...... Why are you here?"

The person who came soon recognized the other people in the building, it was one of the chief officers of the martial arts department this time, Wu Xingyuan of the official department, Lord Wu.

Sun Mobai upstairs also came downstairs at this time, and wanted to say hello to this Lord Wu, because he is now in the second position of the lottery, the top three in previous years, and there is a great chance to enter the Jinluan Palace without taking the test.

"Wu ......" Who knew that as soon as he raised his hand, Wu Xingyuan directly pushed him away, picked up a token from the tray held by a person behind him, handed it to the shopkeeper of Yingchun Building, and said, "I am ordered by Your Majesty to come to send this token, and this year, there will be another person on the list of martial arts newcomers." ”

Hearing Lord Wu's words, the newcomers in the Yingchun Building all gasped, this Lord Wu came in person, but it was just to send a token to add another person to the newcomer list, and this person, it sounds, seems to be hand-picked by His Majesty.

Before the start of the martial arts, His Majesty had to see it himself.

Who is it that deserves such an honor?

"Lord Wu, may I ask who is it that can actually win His Majesty's favor?" The token was lying on his stomach, and Sun Mobai couldn't see it clearly, so he and Wu Xingyuan had seen each other twice, and asked boldly, also wanting to make more impressions.

"Of course, it is loyalty, bravery, benevolence and righteousness, heroic and unparalleled, Gu Xiao'an, Gu Shaoxia!" Wu Xingyuan originally had a majestic face, but as soon as he said this, a look of admiration immediately appeared on his face, "Gu Shaoxia originally regarded his fame as dung, and he was unwilling to participate in the scientific examination, His Majesty cherished his talents, and after several edicts and persuasions, Gu Shaoxia changed his mind, and said that Dachen has Gu Shaoxia, and there is a new color!"

After speaking, he didn't look at Sun Mobai at all, turned around and strode away.

And that Sun Mobai, as early as when Gu Xiao'an's three words came out, his face was colorless, and when he heard the last sentence, his legs were weak, and he almost fell to his knees.

This...... This Gu Xiao'an, actually, really...... Is there such a person?

That Zhixin, Huan Wu, also had their lips fluttering, at a loss, if the two people upstairs were in the past, this Lord Wu was a member of the court, and he was ordered by the Holy Order, could it be that this is also fake?

Those words that sound as straightforward as a book are actually true?!

Thinking of their loud and presumptuous words in the building before, they couldn't help but be red-faced and red-faced, and they didn't dare to look up to show people.

At this time, as soon as Gu Xiao'an's sign came out, the noble ladies and girls who originally seemed to be going to fall asleep, and the housekeepers in the family all came down from the upstairs like a tide, rushed to the counter together, and shouted loudly: "I will vote for Gu Xiao'an!"

"I also voted for Gu Xiao'an!"

It's like a vegetable market.

Zhixin and Huan Wu stood in the middle of the building, inevitably blocking people's way, and were pushed away by several noble women, and did not forget to look at them a few times, and said to them in an extremely disdainful tone: "Okay, the hillbilly has never seen the world and still appeared, is it not a shame to be ashamed? What about still thinking about winning the championship and being the champion? I don't want to be the head of my face! Hurry up and go home and raise pigs!"

Cheerful laughter rang out all around.

As for saying that Sun Mobai had already wanted to escape, but when he arrived at the door, he heard two voices upstairs saying loudly: "Buy me a thousand voting orders, and throw Gu Xiaoangu Shaoxia to death!"

After a pause, it was almost at the same time, and the two said in unison: "Oh, by the way, pay me to buy me the people who are now ranked third, fourth, fifth, sixth and even twenty, buy it fiercely, Lao Tzu doesn't want to see the person who just spoke, especially the name Sun Mobai appears in the top twenty, so as not to stain Lao Tzu's eyes!"

After saying this, the two looked up and down, as if they had found a soulmate.

And downstairs, Sun Mobai stepped out with half a foot, and when he heard the second half of the sentence, the whole person almost rushed back to the building, and said loudly: "Don't buy! Don't buy !!."

But it's too late, money can be channeled, as soon as the money is smashed, Gu Xiaoan's ranking rose in a straight line, surpassing Sun Mobai at once, and also surpassing Sun Mobai's unreachable Yue Zili, and after that, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh all went straight up to the thirty, directly overpowering Sun Mobai in the invisible place.

"No!! no, no!!" Only Sun Mobai's desperate roar was left in the building, but it was quickly drowned out.