It was late at night, but Qin Bufan couldn't sleep. Tossing and turning on the bed, thinking about the hopelessness of his imperial examination, and thinking about his father who is now suffering from a strange disease, unconscious, and in danger of his life at any time, thinking about this, he sighed in his heart: How can this be good!

I didn't want to flip around and couldn't sleep, but I suddenly felt a hard object pressing on my body, Qin Bufan hurriedly took it out and watched. When I looked at it, I remembered that it was the strange thing I picked up on the ground during the day, and I wanted to go home and find out what it was. But I didn't expect my father to suddenly fall ill during the day, and for a while, I forgot about it.

At this time, when he took it out and looked at it again, Qin Bufan saw it really through the hazy moonlight, and saw that this strange thing that was wrapped tightly in mud was faintly bright at this time, and the mud wrapped around it could not be covered, as if the light was coming out of the mud.

Qin Bufan's curiosity was aroused for a moment, what is this strange thing? During the day, he wanted to throw it away, but suddenly in his mind, it seemed that someone was telling him not to throw it away, could it really be that some kind of treasure can't be made?

Thinking of this, Qin Bufan couldn't wait to see it again during the day the next day, so he hurriedly got up and put on his shoes, and took a wooden basin from outside the door and filled it with a basin of water and put it on the ground. When the water came, Qin Bufan carefully picked up the strange thing and put it into a wooden basin filled with water.

As soon as I put it down, I didn't want the thing to shine brightly when it touched the water, and it suddenly lit up the whole room, as if it were daytime. The piercing light lasted for a dozen breaths before it dimmed again.

Qin Bufan's eyes were dazzled by this sudden light, and he rubbed it for a long time to get a little better, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, so he hurriedly cheered up and leaned over to the edge of the wooden basin to look over.

In the middle of the wooden basin where I was looking, the mud that had wrapped the strange thing had disappeared at this time. And the strange thing wrapped in mud also revealed its original true face of Lushan at this time. It turned out to be a dragon-shaped jade pendant!

The jade pendant is pale yellow, the whole is a dragon shape, this dragon is carved very realistically, the dragon body is bent as a whole, there are five claws on each foot, it is actually a five-clawed golden dragon! The dragon head is carved lifelike, a few whiskers seem to be blown up by the wind, two dragon horns with a large open dragon mouth, an indescribable sense of majesty comes to the face.

Even if it was across the water, Qin Bufan felt as if the two eyes of the carved dragon were staring at him tightly, not angry and arrogant!

Qin Bufan was overjoyed for a while, could it be that he had really picked up the treasure? Looking at it, it looked like it was a real living thing, could it really be that there is a dragon in this world! Qin Bufan hurriedly stretched out his hand in joy, wanting to pick up the jade pendant and take a closer look, but he didn't expect that at this time, the mutation protruded.

That dragon-shaped jade pendant turned into a golden dragon two palms long and three fingers wide!

Qin Bufan was shocked and hurriedly withdrew his hand.

The golden dragon swam around in the basin, and from time to time there seemed to be a sound of a dragon moaning in the water, and the dragon swam so happily that the water splashed on the ground from time to time. The golden dragon seemed to tell the world that it had been freed again.

Qin Bufan watched a dead thing turn into a golden dragon, and his heart was shocked, only to feel that his heart was beating faster, and a stream of blood rushed straight to his head, his eyes were round, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

The five-clawed golden dragon swam for a while, as if it felt that the water was too shallow, and the wooden basin was too small, so it actually raised its dragon's head, and the dragon's body suddenly accelerated, as if it was about to fly out of the wooden basin. Qin Bufan came back to his senses when he saw this, this dragon was actually about to fly out of the wooden basin!

Where did Qin Bufan dare to watch the dragon fly out, and he didn't know what he thought at the time, he only knew that he couldn't let this golden dragon succeed. So his foot suddenly exerted his strength and kicked it towards the wooden basin, Qin Bufan's kick was extremely strong, and he kicked the wooden basin over at once, and kicked it out two feet away.

He kicked the basin over, and the water was scattered all over the ground, and the dragon lost its water, as if it had lost its vitality, and with a wail it turned into its original state. The faint light that the jade pendant originally emitted was also hidden and disappeared. At first glance, it seems to have turned into an ordinary dragon-shaped jade pendant.

From the jade pendant encountering water, to turning into a dragon, to becoming a jade pendant again, it was actually only half a cup of tea, but for Qin Bufan, this half of tea was like a nail for him. This short time of half a cup of tea completely subverted the worldview that Qin Bufan had cultivated since he was a child, and what was placed in front of him was like a dream.

Qin Bufan has read sage books since he was a child, yearning for the study of saints, rejecting demons and monsters, and saying that strange forces are chaotic. Always tell yourself that a gentleman should be right. But what happened just now was like a different world for Qin Bufan.

After a long, long time, Qin Bufan woke up from deep thought, shook his head, and said secretly in his heart, no matter what kind of demons and monsters it is, as long as I have the right path in my heart, there will naturally be no taboos, and all evils will be avoided. Besides, no matter whether it is a demon or a demon, as long as it is not allowed to enter the water, it will not be able to make any waves, and it will be nothing more than a dead thing after all.

At that moment, Qin Bufan didn't think much about it, got up and picked up the jade pendant, and hung it on his waist. After thinking about the matter, Qin Bufan went to bed at this time, I don't know if it was because he had no distractions, or for what reason, Qin Bufan only felt warm all over his body this night, and he didn't wake up until dawn the next day.

Qin Bufan wouldn't know at this moment that it was precisely because of his decision that night that he embarked on a different path in the future. When he looked back on the past, he was naturally glad about tonight's decision, fortunately he didn't throw away the jade pendant in the first place!

Of course, that's a story for later, so let's not mention it for now.

At dawn the next day, Qin Bufan got up early in the morning. There is no way, the Qin family has been destitute for so many years to support Qin Bufan to study, and Qin's father, the pillar of the family, is dying at the moment, of course Qin Bufan has to find a way to make money to buy medicine for his father, otherwise what should he do?

After washing up and having breakfast with his mother, Qin Bufan left home in a hurry, wanting to go to Xinglai City, the county seat, to see if there were any good errands that could make money to buy medicine for his father.

Qin's mother watched her son leave home in the dust, and her heart was sad, she thought that her eldest son was born with a champion life, but she didn't expect that she failed to pass the township test three times, but her husband suddenly suffered from a strange disease, and his life was in the blink of an eye, what kind of sin did my Qin family do, thief, God, you have to do this to my Qin family!

Originally, Qin's mother wanted to die and no longer drag down her son, but she thought about her infant daughter, but she couldn't be ruthless, thought about it all night, and didn't decide, so she had to take a step and look at it.

"Alas, I really can't do it, so I have to go and ask the child to his grandfather's side. Although he ran away from home and insisted on marrying his husband, for the sake of the child, even if the father is ruthless, he will help one or two. ”

Qin Bufan set out at dawn, because he was thinking about his heart, he traveled ten miles, and after walking for half an hour, he came to Xinglai City.

For more than 200 years, the country of Liangguo has built countless cities, and the counties and counties of the country are divided into three levels, which are said to be the first-level upper city, the second-level middle city, and the third-level lower city. Although this Xinglai City is only a second-level middle city, it is the only big city within a radius of 100 miles, and although the scale of this city is not very large, it can come and go for business and travel, and tourists and students are weaving. It's a critical place.

The Liang country established the country by force and advocated force, which was the prevalence of the martial arts of the Liang country. It is rumored that among the rivers and lakes, there are seven righteous factions, three major demon factions, plus a number of martial arts factions, which constitute the huge system of rivers and lakes in Liangguo.

From ancient times to the present, several major factions of the righteous and demons have been fighting endlessly, and a number of small martial arts factions, in order to compete for living space, there are often martial arts fights between small factions, and the government is happy to have more than one internal strife among the martial arts people in the rivers and lakes, so as to weaken the influence of the martial arts people on the imperial court.

As a second-level and medium-sized city, although there are no people from the martial arts faction stationed in Xinglai City, there are also a number of small factions that are powerful here, and they are invincible.

The largest faction in this city is called Zhengqimen, occupying the richest east and south cities of Xinglai City, while the remaining west and north cities are naturally divided up by a number of small factions.

The largest of those small sects is called the Ten Thousand Evil Sect, and it has only been five years since the establishment of this sect, but its rise is so rapid that it is eye-catching. The evil of martial arts is terrifying.

This faction occupies the western city, and its momentum is faintly in line with the righteous qimen. In order to cope with the increasing pressure, Zhengqimen had to recruit a wide range of disciples to enrich the strength of the sect. It just so happens that today is the day when the Zhengqi Gate is held once in March and the outer disciples are selected.

At the east gate of Xinglai City, there were two young disciples dressed in Zhengqimen clothes and a slightly older man, about forty or so, who were promoting Zhengqimen.

I saw the two young disciples dressed in white clothes with a small cyan sword embroidered on their chests and raised their hands and hugged their fists around, and the older disciple said loudly: "The two of us are the disciples of the first sect of the Zhengqi Gate Outer Gate in Xinglai City, today we are waiting here to recruit disciples, as long as you are not more than twenty years old and can pass the assessment of this sect, you can join my Zhengqi Gate and become the disciples of the Zhengqi Gate Outer Gate." ”

Another slightly younger disciple answered: "I have a long history of righteous qimen, and I am also famous in the rivers and lakes of Liangguo, as long as you meet the conditions, you can enter my righteous qi sect disciples, and my righteous qi gate can protect you for a lifetime of glory and wealth!"

When Qin Bufan walked to the city gate, the two of them just began to say, Qin Bufan heard it clearly, his heart moved, and he said in his heart: It seems that I can't go on the road of the imperial examination, and now the family is short of money to buy medicine for my father, why not try it? If you can really join the Zhengqi Gate, listening to what these two people said, it seems that a little money is not a problem for the Zhengqi Gate. But this righteous sect is a sect of rivers and lakes, and it is inevitable to fight and kill in the future, is it right or wrong for me to choose this path?

The two disciples of the righteous qi gate didn't care about Qin Bufan's calculations at this time, and looked at what they had said for a long time, but none of them responded, and their faces were not very good-looking. But as the saying goes, no matter how nice the words are, there is no real thing, and no one believes it, right?

The other man who was a little older looked at no one and didn't respond, pondered for a while, and then said: "Today, I am here to recruit disciples, and those who can pass one level of assessment will be rewarded with ten times, and those who can pass two levels will be rewarded with one hundred times." If you can pass the three levels, you will be rewarded with thousands of dollars, and you can join my Zhengqi Gate and become a disciple of my Zhengqi Gate, in this life, I will ensure that your family is rich. ”

When the man had finished speaking, he shut his mouth and began to recuperate.

Hearing this man's words, there was a gasping sound on the scene, and if you can pass one level, you can get ten guan! You must know that ordinary people can eat ten guan for three months! And the second level is 100 guan, and the third level is 1000 guan!

When Qin Bufan heard the man's words, he lowered his head and sighed, and said in his heart, okay, for the sake of his father, let's try it!

Immediately, he raised his hand and said loudly: I want to go!

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