"My name is Tao Yao! This big brother can call me Tao Tao!" The little girl ran around Li Shan, Li Shan arched his hand and didn't know how to react for a while, but Tao Yao grabbed the hem of his sleeves, and the pure white linen clothes were pinched on the little girl's little hand, and Li Shan followed the little girl's strength to follow her forward.

Tao Yao walked beside Li Shan and was small, Li Shan looked at the little girl's hair thrown around, and his expression revealed a hint of softness.

The little girl chattered non-stop along the way, mostly asking Li Shan how he got lost and got lost to Taozhu Mountain.

Taozhu Mountain?

The doubts in Li Shan's heart flashed away, but this doubt was forgotten without leaving any traces in Li Shan's heart, and the little girl continued: "Big brother, you are carrying a cage, are you a scholar?"

Li Shan looked behind him suspiciously, and suddenly found that he was carrying a cage behind him, and the cage had been around for some years, so he realized the heaviness of the cage in hindsight. He smiled and said, "Yes, the eldest brother is a scholar. ”

"It's amazing!" Tao Yao raised her little head, and her cute face was full of adoration.

Just like this, he chattered all the way, and soon walked out of this bamboo forest, and the fog in front of him gradually dissipated, and then Li Shan found that he was actually standing on the mountain road, and at the foot of the mountain in the distance was a village.

"Big brother, my house is in the village!" Tao Yao cried out happily.

Li Shan looked at the mountain road behind him suspiciously, and said to Tao Yao: "Why did you enter the mountain alone? There are many wild beasts in the mountain that are very dangerous. ”

"There are no wild beasts in Taozhu Mountain, and even wild beasts will get lost in that bamboo forest. Saying that, Tao Yao shook the thin pole in his hand proudly, and the horse lantern hanging on it swayed: "Look! This is a horse lantern! A horse lantern can illuminate this bamboo forest! Without a horse lantern, grandpa will not dare to enter the mountain! This is such a powerful baby!"

Li Shan suddenly realized, and vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember it.

Before he could think about it, he was woken up by a laugh like a silver bell in front of him: "Big brother, come quickly!"

Li Shan smiled helplessly, so he could only follow.

Soon the two came to the village, and the villagers on the road came forward to greet the little girl very enthusiastically, and a few women also stuffed Taoyao with a lot of food and drink knick-knacks. And some people were not surprised when they saw Li Shan following behind Tao Yao, but just laughed: "Yo, Tao Tao has picked up someone again!

The little girl made a grimace and pulled Li Shan forward, and there was a kind laugh behind her.

Before following Tao Yao to a house, the houses in this village are all earthen houses, and a low fence surrounds a vacant land in front of the earthen house as a vegetable field, in which green vegetables and other green vegetables are grown.

"Sister Wan'er, Sister Wan'er!" A woman who was about twenty-eight years old was holding a food bowl and feeding the hens scurrying on the ground, when she heard this call, she raised her head, and a faint smile appeared on her originally slightly cold face: "Taotao, you are back." ”

The moment he saw the woman, Li Shan felt a strong sense of familiarity in his heart, but he was sure that he had never seen this person, and his expression was a little stunned.

"This is ......" The woman turned her gaze to Li Shan and said.

"In Xia Li Shan, dare to ask the girl's name?" Li Shan reacted immediately, and felt that it was inappropriate as soon as the words came out, how could he ask the name of the girl in the first sentence of the meeting.

"Little woman Chu Wan. The woman nodded slightly, the expression on her face was cold and indifferent, and after introducing it like this, Chu Wan turned to Tao Yao: "Come in, grandpa is waiting for you." ”

"I know!" Tao Yao grimaced, and did not let go of the corners of Li Shan's clothes, so he pulled him directly into the door of the house.

Passing through the courtyard gate, passing by the courtyard and coming to the low house at the end of the courtyard, Tao Yao opened the door curtain and walked in: "Grandpa! There are really people in the bamboo forest!

When Li Shan walked in, he saw an old man sitting on the kang, touching Tao Yao's little head lying in front of him with one hand, and listening to Tao Yao's chatter with a smile on his face.

"This little brother's surname?" The old man sitting on the kang looked over with a smile, and Li Shan saluted when he saw this: "The younger generation's surname is Li Mingshan, and he is still looking at Haihan when he gets lost." ”

"No hindrance, eight out of ten people who go to Taozhu Mountain can't get out, but they don't know where the little brother is coming and going?"

"Junior...... is from Lijia Village, under Daqing Mountain, and is about to go to the imperial city to catch the exam. Li Shan's expression was a little dazed, and he generally said such things.

"I see, this rush exam can't be delayed, fortunately, Taozhu Village is only half a day away from the imperial city, little brother will hurry into Beijing after a few days of rest!" the old man looked clear, and then said solemnly.

Li Shan didn't see that the other party meant to drive people away, but sincerely thought about himself, and laughed at himself in his heart for what he was thinking, and he actually regarded the simple countrymen as those servants of the palace.

Li Shan, the servant of the palace, was puzzled in his heart, and then was arranged by the old man to live in a side room, which woman named Chu Wan came to clean, the woman still looked cold, even if she was wearing simple linen clothes, she could not hide her stunning face. Li Shan saw that the woman was busy working, hesitated for a long time and stepped forward and said, "This ...... Miss Chu, have you ever seen a girl here?"

"I don't think so, the little girl hasn't been out of the village since she was born, so I guess the son has recognized the wrong person. Chu Wan bowed her head slightly, and left the room after cleaning up.

So Li Shan lived here, and woke up the next day to be pestered by Tao Yao, and asked Li Shan to teach him to read and write, Li Shan was helpless, so he followed Tao Yao's will to teach her the surname of the hundred families and the three-character text, Chu Wan, who had been busy, secretly listened to the side, and Li Shan did not expose the other party.

After five or six days, Li Shan carried the cage on his back, said goodbye to Tao Yao and others, and went to Beijing to catch the exam.

A few months have passed, the palace test has passed, the emperor list has been revealed, Li Shan is among the champions, the world is shaken, and he was personally awarded the six-grade official cultivation by the emperor himself, and entered the Hanlin Academy, which was immeasurable for a while.

At that time, the emperor wanted to marry the princess Yu Li Shan, but Li Shan politely refused.

After half a year, Li Shan returned to Taozhu Village and invited Tao Yao and others to go to the imperial capital to appreciate the customs of the imperial capital, and Tao Yao and others gladly agreed.

Before the identity of the champion made the villagers of Taozhu Village change their attitude towards him, anyone would speak respectfully to him, except for Taoyao, a little girl, as before, Li Shan was also willing to take her to play crazy in the capital. Every moment, Chu Wan would watch the two of them play with a faint smile.

Occasionally, he looked at Li Shan with shyness in his eyes.

After April, Li Shan got married, and the woman was not in the right household with him, but a vulgar woman in the countryside.