Chapter 373: Blood Moon Trial
Blood Moon arranged a special test for Liu Zhiji, and she wanted to know if Liu Zhiji's determination was as he said, and if Liu Zhiji passed the test, Blood Moon could help him, after all, she hadn't seen a good show in nearly a thousand years.
After Liu Zhiji agreed to accept the test, there was a sudden trance in front of him, and the pictures were forced into his mind, and the huge memory washed his soul into pieces.
Yanwei City is a small city-state on the border of Zhao State, where there are three major families of Zhang, Wang and Li, who control the lifeblood of the entire small city, the Zhang family is located in the south of the city, the family is a scholarly family, and most of the children are engaged in politics.
Zhang Zongyuan is the concubine born to a woman in Jiaxing and a Qinglou advocated by the Zhang family, and the Qinglou woman has a thin life, and she has not enjoyed the glory of the Zhang family.
Zhang Zongyuan, the concubine, is a joke of the Zhang family! It is also a stain on Zhang Jiaxing, although Zhang Jiaxing tried his best to cover up that the woman in the Qinglou forcibly had a child with him after getting drunk, Zhang Zongyuan's existence still made Zhang Jiaxing often criticized.
"Butterflies love flowers, the fragrance of flowers is intoxicated, drunk and melancholy is uncomfortable..."
In a dilapidated small courtyard in the residential area of the Zhang family, a young man with beautiful eyebrows stood in the courtyard and sighed for a long time, he was Zhang Zongyuan, the son of the Zhang family, although he was not treated by the Zhang family, but after all, she had the blood of the Zhang family, so a simple residence and ordinary food and clothing The Zhang family did not lack him, but it was only so.
Zhang Zongyuan has only seen Zhang Jiaxing three times since he was a child, and his mother has not seen one side, he grew up with the children of the servants of the Zhang family since he was a child, the children of those servants' families are more excessive than the Zhang family, and the children of the Zhang family still have scruples about him, if one day Zhang Jiaxing remembers this kid and gives him something to do, then he will provoke an enemy for no reason, although he is a concubine, but the bloodline is also the main family, and no one in the Zhang family really messes with him.
"Look at that fool, what is he talking to himself in that person?"
Two black heads peeked out from the earthen wall next to the courtyard, they were the children of the Zhang family's slaves, and they usually took pleasure in teasing Zhang Zongyuan, because this kid looked stupid, and he wouldn't get angry when he was bullied, and they got a lot of satisfaction from Zhang Zongyuan.
"Aren't you reciting poetry here? I heard that this kid wants to apply for fame?" said one of them, a young man with a full head of green skin and a torn jacket, shrunk his neck.
"Applying for fame? Maybe! If this kid gets the top prize, it will be amazing, maybe he will soar! No wonder it's the blood of the head of the family! He has such lofty ambitions!"
"Huh, Brother Jin, what's the matter with your talking, you even use the word ambitious?" the green-skinned young man asked in surprise.
"Hmph! You don't know that! I heard it from Zhang Zhuangyuan!" Jin Yuan said proudly.
"Zhang Zhuangyuan, who is Zhang Zhuangyuan? Brother Zhang, do you still know Zhuangyuan?" the green-skinned young man said in surprise.
"Bang!" Jin Yuan patted the green skinned young man's slippery head, and said angrily: "What did we both say just now? Isn't Zhang Zongyuan the champion in the future?"
"Oh oh oh!"
Zhang Zongyuan was originally inspired to create poetry, but the two of them directly interrupted his train of thought on the earthen wall, and they were discovered by Zhang Zongyuan as soon as they came, but he didn't want to pay attention to them, but he didn't expect the two to speak louder and louder, and the words of the two of them also clearly entered his ears.
“......”
Zhang Zongyuan had no choice but to go back to his hut.
Then the door was closed.
Zhang Zongyuan really wanted to apply for the township examination, but unfortunately his repeated applications were rejected by the Zhang family for various reasons, and this was a few years, and finally Zhang Zongyuan also gave up this heart, thinking about whether he could find another way out.
For a person like him, who has no identity and no status, and can only barely make ends meet, is already very happy to be alive in this world, and whenever he passes by several open-air wine shops in the south of the city, he will be overwhelmed by the smell of wine and meat coming from inside.
Zhang Zongyuan is a reader, and the food mentioned most from the book is wine and meat, he has eaten a little meat, but not much, but he has never drunk wine, whenever he wants to write a poem about wine, inspiration is held in his mind and cannot be rushed out.
On this day, Zhang Zongyuan went to the study to rent books, and happened to pass by a wine shop, which set up a large pot in front of the door, the firewood under the pot was burning, and the thick broth in the pot wafted out an attractive fragrance.
"This shop is so vicious! Use this fragrant broth to attract customers! There must be spices added to it!" Zhang Zongyuan swallowed his saliva and pretended to pass by the liquor store, although he didn't have any expression on his face, the Adam's apple kept surging and betraying him.
A fat man with a full face was stirring the broth in front of the door, and suddenly saw Zhang Zongyuan passing by in a hurry, and a sneer suddenly appeared on his face.
"Yo, who is this? Zhang Jiagongzi!Why don't you come to me to drink a bowl of broth before leaving?" The fat man's tone was frivolous, his eyes were contemptuous, and he looked ill-intentioned.
Zhang Zongyuan was desperately trying to read all kinds of poems to suppress his greed, and was suddenly stopped by the fat man, and stayed there in surprise.
"I... I don't drink soup, get out of the way!" Zhang Zongyuan was frightened by the fat man's huge physique and took a step back, he was teased by this fat man several times, and every time he was disgraced, today he was really anxious to borrow a book, and if he went late, he might be borrowed by others.
"Hmph, what are you going to do here if you don't drink the soup? My soup smells like you! Give me two coins of silver!" the fat man showed a fierce face.
"What... What?" Zhang Zongyuan opened his mouth in surprise, he didn't expect the fat man to be so aggressive, and he would ask him for two dollars of silver when he smelled it.
Zhang Zongyuan touched his chest without a trace, there was two coins of silver that he rented a book, and it was impossible to hand it over to the fat man.
"What are you doing in a daze?
The fat man took another step forward, and the saliva in his mouth sprayed Zhang Zongyuan's face, Zhang Zongyuan was horrified in his heart, and his hand involuntarily stretched out into his arms.
"Here you go!"
Zhang Zongyuan was ruthless, threw the two coins of silver to the fat man, and then turned around and ran, he knew that if he didn't run, the fat man would still think of all kinds of tricks to deal with him.
If you don't have money, you can't rent a book to read, Zhang Zongyuan walked alone to the river in the north of the city, there are few people here, I heard that there are monsters infested, but Liu Zheji has been here for a few years, and he hasn't seen a monster beast, maybe even the monster beast is too lazy to touch him, a poor boy, right?
Zhang Zongyuan sat by the long river with a wry smile, and every time he was sad, he would sing the poems he composed here.
"I often hate the injustice of every day, the land is not allowed, it is difficult for me to give birth to me, and I am miserable!
Zhang Zongyuan smashed his leg hard, buried his head in his knee and squatted down.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Zongyuan was awakened by a vicious mosquito bite, and as soon as he woke up, there was still a blur in front of him, and there was a faint fire
Flickering not far away, Zhang Zongyuan suddenly smelled a smell of incense, the fragrance was ten thousand times more fragrant than the broth he had smelled, Zhang Zongyuan had never smelled such a fragrant smell, he rubbed his eyes with his hands, and walked in the direction of the fire after finding out the direction.
Not far ahead, a complete wild boar roasted golden brown on a raised fire, Zhang Zongyuan sat by the fire, his stomach growled, but his good upbringing still made him not steal food, he was waiting for the owner of the roasted wild boar, preferably a heroic knight, so that he could give him a piece or two of pork, maybe he could rub a sip or two of wine to drink.
Thinking about it, Zhang Zongyuan fell asleep again, this time he was woken up, and a red figure blocked the view of the wild boar, so that Zhang Zongyuan couldn't help but raise his head.
"What are you doing?"
The first thing he saw was a delicate chin, and her face was shrouded in darkness and it was impossible to see her face, but Zhang Zongyuan could be sure that she was a woman, and she was an extremely beautiful woman.
"I..."
As soon as the woman opened her mouth, a fragrant wind wafted from above, which was different from the fragrance of wild boar meat behind, and could be described as refreshing and intoxicating.
"Disgusting!"
The woman in front of her suddenly cursed, and then squatted down in Zhang Zongyuan's surprised eyes.
"Hey, I don't expect to be a pervert, I said, how many little girls have you harmed?"
The woman's face was very close to Zhang Zongyuan, Zhang Zongyuan, who had never been in close contact with a woman, suddenly turned red, he subconsciously wanted to leave the other party, but he didn't expect to retreat, the sore legs that were originally sitting were weak, and the upper body fell directly to the ground, and then there was a sharp pain in the back of the head, which seemed to have hit a stone, and Zhang Zongyuan fainted directly from this trauma.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Zongyuan woke up slowly, his first reaction was to touch his chest, when he found that it was empty, he immediately guessed that he had been robbed, but then he remembered that his two coins of silver had been thrown to the fat man.
"What is so precious?"
A voice as crisp as a yellow oriole sounded from Zhang Zongyuan's side, Zhang Zongyuan quickly turned his head, and a girl in a red dress happened to be looking at him flawlessly, she had a small green grass in her mouth, and her big eyes were full of curiosity.
"I..." Zhang Zongyuan was stuck again.
"What are you, are you stumbling, can you tell me the whole story?" the girl frowned, looking very angry.
Zhang Zongyuan had only spoken one or two words to the daughter of the bookstore owner, and he really didn't know what to say when he met such a beautiful girl.
"It's nothing..."Zhang Zongyuan half-opened his mouth to say something, but he dismissed this move again, lowered his head and said sullenly.
"You're so boring!" The girl gave him a blank look, got up and wanted to walk away, when Zhang Zongyuan's stomach suddenly made a gurgling sound, the girl's ears were excellent, and she could hear that Zhang Zongyuan was hungry enough.
"How long have you not eaten?" the girl laughed, she got up and walked to the side of the shelf, and she didn't see her move, and a whole steak was removed by her with a plate.
"Let's eat it, it's a little colder, but I think it's still going to be eaten. The girl stared at Zhang Zongyuan and handed Zhang Zongyuan the plate and a pair of chopsticks that had been conjured out of nowhere.