"The snow paper from Songzhuxuan? This is made after dozens of procedures, and a hundred pieces cost at least twenty taels of silver, which is equivalent to my monthly allowance for half a year. The purple stone inkstone is also a first-class product, the stone is delicate and lubricated, there is a warmth, and the ink will not freeze in winter. Musk ink, is a fine pine smoke mixed with gold leaf, musk, hammered, written, extremely smooth, the font jīng god, with a refreshing fragrance. The pen is also a good pen, pure fox fur. This set of four treasures of the study room costs at least hundreds of taels. I heard that this person is a corporal who is virtuous, anxious for justice and righteousness, and often helps poor scholars, and has a good reputation in Yujing City. But I think it's not small......."

Hong Yi carried a burden on his back and hiked to the road to the West Mountain outside Yujing City.

He was ready to take a scientific expedition, and he was too lazy to be angry in the Hou Mansion, so he simply went to Xishan to live for a while, and he could also guard his mother's grave.

Hong Yi's mother's grave is in Xishan, a lonely one, his mother's identity, after death, he can't enter the ancestral hall of the Hong family's ancestral temple.

Xishan is a big mountain outside the city of Yujing, the radius is nearly 100 miles, although it is not majestic, but also the jungle is dense, the terrain is complex, there are many mountains, there are flowing springs and waterfalls, there are also rocky mountains and forests.

There are many foxes and jackals and wild beasts in the mountains, and every winter, some princes and nobles will go into the mountains to hunt.

While walking, Hong Yi thought about the four treasures of his study yesterday when Xiaoli Guogong Jing Yuxing asked someone to give him the four treasures of the study, and he thought in his heart.

When it was dark, Hong Yi went to the foot of the West Mountain, cleaned his mother's grave, put on incense, and then settled in a small temple not far from the foot of the mountain.

This temple called Qiuyue Temple is a dilapidated Buddhist temple, the temple is guarded by an ordinary old monk, Hong Yi will live here for a while every year, one is to guard his mother's grave, and the other is to be clean.

After giving the old monk a few strings of incense money, and eating a bowl of mushroom noodles, he stayed in the side hall to rest, lit a lamp, burned a charcoal fire, and prepared to read at night.

The north wind howled, making the walls rattle on all sides.

In the courtyard of the temple's side hall, the ground is full of basil, and the withered grass is swept up by the wind, and it is desolate.

"This temple is getting worse and worse every year. However, the Daqian Dynasty did not pay attention to Buddhist temples, so as to build Taoist temples. And it's no wonder. Hong Yi looked at such a desolate and dilapidated temple, although he sighed in his heart, he felt much more refreshing than in the Hou Mansion, and his heart was comfortable.

"Mother, if you have a spirit in the sky, bless me with a Kede and correct your name. ”

Staring at the lantern flower with the size of vegetable seeds and oil beans, Hong Yi prayed silently.

Bang!

The lights burst out of a flower.

Woooo

In the deep mountains in the distance, there were a few terrible howls, like wolves and foxes, mixed with the night wind, and like night owls.

The deep mountains, the ancient temple, the north wind, the wolf and the fox laughing, all these are terrifying scenes.

But Hong Yi didn't have any fear in his heart, first, he thought that he had never done anything wrong, and second, he was familiar with the fox ghost notes, and the people in it were all upright and fearless as long as they were upright in their hearts, and the ghosts and spirits couldn't get close.

Wrapped up tightly, Hong Yi opened the door and walked into the courtyard.

"Huh, what's that?"

As soon as Hong Yi arrived in the courtyard, he found that in the valley about a few miles away in the distance, there were several fist-sized green flames floating up and down, which was very strange.

"This kind of ghost fire is emitted from the bones of the human body, and it is often seen in mass graves, but it is not a supernatural thing. Facing the ghost fire floating up and down, Hong Yi smiled and muttered to himself.

Suddenly, a terrible cry came from the deep mountains in the distance, and a black shadow flew up in the ghost fire, and in the blink of an eye, it was in the sky, reminiscent of the old demon coming out at night and sucking people's hearts. Ordinary people are already horrified if they see such a scene.

However, Hong Yi listened to the voice and knew that this was the night owl in the mountains.

Suddenly, he came to a few poems, and read aloud: "The hundred-year-old owl has become a wood charm, and the laughter rises in the nest." ”

"Young man, you are not very old, but you are an elegant person. Laughter rises in the nest of ......"

Suddenly, a crisp, sweet voice came from behind him.

Hong Yi's surprise was not trivial! Cold sweat broke out all over his body. Hurriedly turned around, and saw that in his room, under the lamp, stood a slim and graceful girl wearing a pink sè lady's dress, aged around ten thousand years old, gorgeous and incomprehensible, looking like a breathless beauty.

The beauty under the lamp is a beautiful scene.

But Hong Yi didn't have the heart to appreciate the beauty at all. Think about it, in the ancient temple in the deep mountains, a woman suddenly appeared for no reason, either a ghost or a demon.

"Are you a ghost or a demon?"

Hong Yi pinched his fingers to calm his mind.

"Oh, how do you know if I'm a ghost or a demon?"

The woman who suddenly appeared looked at Hong Yi with a smile.

"It's very simple, your clothes are thin, the mountains are cold, and normal people can't stand it at all. Second, there are no people in this ten miles radius, how can you, a single woman, appear in the ancient temple late at night?" Hong Yi said, and suddenly felt a little sour under his feet.

"Yes, I'm a ghost. The woman's face suddenly changed, her tone was cold, and her face was blue, as if she was going to pounce and eat people at any time.

"I don't feel bad in this life, I came to the ancient temple to study for my mother's grave, what are you doing with me, if you are a female ghost and want to find a scholar to wind Liu overnight, then I tell you, you are looking for the wrong person. I have been studying since I was a child, and although I am far from being honest and intelligent, I can still keep the truth. You get out of here. ”

Hong Yi flicked his fingers, puffed up his eyes, and looked at him fiercely.

"I don't have the Taoist method of exorcising gods and ghosts, and I don't have the strength in my hands, I don't know martial arts, and I don't have the power to restrain chickens. When you encounter a ghost, you can only rely on your own vigor...... You can't show weakness, and as soon as you show weakness, the other party will infringe on you. Be firm in your thoughts. ”

When Hong Yi glared at the woman under the lamp, he cheered himself up in his heart and strengthened his faith.

To deal with demons and ghosts, Hong Yi firmly believes that the first thing to do is to be vigorous.

"Hee-hee, hee-hee. Boy, you're so funny. ”

Suddenly, the woman laughed out loud and beckoned: "I was just joking with you just now, I'm not a ghost, ghosts have no shadow under the lamp, you come here, you should feel the qi and blood on my body, is there such a ghost? If there is a ghost with qi and blood, then it is not called a ghost, but a yang god and immortal in the Taoist family." ”

"Oh?"

Hong Yi heard the woman's words, looked up at the shadow under the lamp, and sure enough, there was a shadow of the woman under the lamp.

After hesitating for a moment, Hong Yi still walked into the house.

Sure enough, he could feel the aromatic breath of this woman as she spoke, and she was a living person.

"Well, you're not a ghost. Demons and ghosts are all transformed by invisible thoughts, even if they are profound and can manifest, they are just a cold mass, and they will not feel like flesh and blood. You're not a demon, but you're not an ordinary person, so you must be a first-class sword immortal who lives in seclusion in the mountains?"

Hong Yi tapped his eyebrows with his finger.

"Oh, you seem to know a lot about ghosts and the like, and you are not an ordinary reader. The woman looked at Hong Yi with a trace of doubt in her eyes.

"That's just a person who reads dead books, a person who reads books in my generation, who has great righteousness, knows **, knows demons and ghosts, and reaches gods. This is Gewu. Knowing that the other party was not a demon, Hong Yi's mind calmed down and became flexible.

"Hehe, I came to Xishan today to see my relatives, but I didn't expect to meet such an interesting teenager as you. The woman in red said to herself: "Reader, well, not bad. It just so happens that some of my relatives also have children who want to study, and they want to hire you as a teacher to teach them, and I don't know if you will go or not, and the honorarium is ten taels a month. ”

"Ten taels of red gold in January?" Hong Yi was taken aback. The gold and silver of the Daqian Dynasty were a pair of fifteen, and ten taels of red gold was one hundred and fifty taels of silver a month, which was a huge amount.

Hong Yi is in the Hou Mansion, and there is only four taels of silver a month. Don't look at it, there are only four taels, but one tael of silver is exchanged for copper coins for 1,000 wen, and one penny copper coin can buy a large baked cake. One tael of silver is enough for a small family of three to live for a month.

For example, Jing Yuxing gave Hong Yi the four treasures of the study worth hundreds of taels because of a poem, and even a rich and noble woman like Hong Xuejiao was surprised.

"Don't you believe me? I can make a deposit. The woman smiled, shook her hand, and wiped it on the table.

Ding-dong, ding-dong, a row of small glittering gold cakes are placed on the table.

Hong Yi could see at a glance that this was money made by the Daqian Dynasty, and like small cakes, it was also called "gold cake" by the people, and "gold coins" by the official. One or two pieces.

"This golden into sè. Not ordinary gold. Only in the palace there is such money. After Hong Yi looked at the money, he was stunned, it turned out that the face of this gold coin was red.

Seventy percent gold is green sè, eighty percent gold is yellow sè, ninety percent gold is purple sè, and ten percent gold is red sè.

As the saying goes, "No one is perfect without gold." This means that there is no gold in the world.

However, the Taoist priests of alchemy can burn it, and this kind of red gold, also known as "medicinal gold", is a medicinal material for Taoist priests to practice lead and mercury and practice Jindan.

This red gold, which was printed as a coin, was only available in the Imperial Palace.

Generally, the emperor and queen reward the ministers of civil and military affairs, or the harem concubines.

"This woman seems to be mysterious, but in fact, her mind lacks some delicacy, and she easily exposes her identity, the people in the palace, the palace maid is not like the palace maid, what are you doing in Xishan late at night?" Hong Yi said after a flash of doubt in his heart: "A gentleman loves money, and he takes it in a good way, you want to ask Mr. Jiao to actually give ten taels of gold a month, it can be seen that the students are not so simple to teach." You put the money away, or find a time to check it out. ”

Although I want this money very much, today's things are so strange that Hong Yi has to be careful: "Don't be greedy for women, don't be greedy for money, no demon can help me." ”

"That's for sure, let's go, it's really difficult to find a teacher now, it's rare to meet you, a person who understands reading, although you're a little younger, but you're not afraid of ghosts, you're not afraid of demons, it's rare, it's you." The woman muttered to herself and stood up.

"Let's go now?" Hong Yi glared.

"Of course. The woman grinned again, "It's still about sixty miles from here, but you can't walk at dawn with your feet, so I'll take you." ”

"Men and women can't stand it, and besides, it's so late, you can come back tomorrow during the day. Of course, Hong Yi tried his best to refuse, and it would definitely be a blessing in disguise to suddenly follow a mysterious woman out of the ancient temple in the mountains at night.

"I'm going back at dawn, and I can't tell what men and women are teaching, and no one can see them. The woman looked up at Tian Sè, there was a trace of inexplicable majesty between her eyebrows, and suddenly stretched out a hand to grab Hong Yi's arm, and the whole person jumped and went directly to the outside of the courtyard of the temple.

This leap, as if shrinking into inches, was directly the distance of twenty steps of ordinary people, and Hong Yi only felt the clouds driving the fog.

"Shrinking the ground?"

"What kind of earth shrinking technique? This is just the footwork of the 'ape lifting'. ”

With the sound of the wind whirring in his ears and the voice of a woman, Hong Yi only saw the big trees in the distance, and he seemed to be a kite being flown by someone, his ears and mouth were all wind, and he couldn't open his eyes.

"This woman can run faster than a horse. Hong Yisuo closed his eyes.

After about two or three pillars of incense, Hong Yi suddenly felt a sudden stop, and when he opened his eyes, there was a dark valley in front of him, and the valley zhōngyāng was faintly firelight.

"What's that!"

Hong Yi saw a scene that he will never forget.

In the middle of the valley there was a large bonfire, and next to the bonfire, dozens of foxes with snow-white fur sat around.

These foxes, half-squatting and half-sitting, seem to be human, especially them, holding books one by one, making strange sounds, as if they are reading, as if they are children reading in a private school.

A group of foxes, reading like a human!;