Great Sui Guoshi

Chapter 45 Life is like a traveler in the world

The tranquility of the mountain village was broken, and the news about Lu Lang's third win spread. The villagers, young and old, flocked to crowd outside the fenced yard or between the roads at the entrance of the village.

After passing all the three-year children's exams, the next step is to go to the county to take the exams. Many people are somewhat reluctant to give up, and Taigong Lu picked up the crutches and taught them a lesson.

"If a good student wins the exam, it will be a matter of honor for the ancestors of all the people in my Lujia Village. What does it look like to cry and cry!!"

In fact, the eyes of the old man are also red.

The locust tree swayed in the wind, rattling, and the people on the road in the village separated. Lu Liangsheng walked out slowly, leading the old donkey and carrying the bookshelves, followed by Li Jinhua who was wiping tears and Lu Xiaoxian who was sobbing.

Lu Laoshi was a meek person, and he couldn't say anything. His big rough hands quickly brushed his eyes, and he didn't want others to see him like this.

"When you are away from home, don't wrong yourself. If you encounter difficulties, come back. The people in our two villages are on your side. If anyone dares to provoke you, we will fight back for you!"

Speaking of the back, the voice also choked up.Around, eight close friends, such as Lu Pan, also came over and slapped their chests: "Liangsheng, your father is right, if something happens to you, even if it is the capital, the eight of us will support you."

"Just go to Hegu County, and it's not like I won't come back."

Lu Liangsheng comforted his father before he smiled at the eight of them: "I'm not in the village, and my safety depends on the eight uncles. The training method I taught you before is easy to practice, and I also urge all the people in the village to practice when they have nothing to do." practice."

"Don't worry, Liangsheng, we will take good care of you."

Seeing Lu Pan's promise, Lu Liangsheng looked at his younger sister's wet red eyes, and Lu Xiaoxian pulled his elder brother's sleeve reluctantly, tears streaming down his face: "Brother...can you not leave?"

There are some things that she is still ignorant at this age, but it does not hinder her admiration for her brother. Most of the living environment is a family living together neatly. There are female ghost sisters, sleepy toads, and Rowdy but harmonious parents...

Lu Liangsheng gently scraped the water stains from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile: "If you leave early, you will return early. You should take good care of your parents at home."

The little girl nodded obediently.

Walking out of the village, his mother, Li Jinhua, and a group of villagers were waiting for him by the side of the road. They led the old donkey, took the burden from his mother, and walked for a while before Lu Liangsheng let the women and villagers who saw him off all the way go back. .

"Fellow folks, the parents of Liangsheng's family ask everyone to take care of them. If there is any difficulty in the village..."

A voice in the crowd shouted curiously: "If you have difficulties, won't you just leave?"

"I'll try my best to come back." Lu Liangsheng laughed.

What he said made everyone laugh out loud, even the tearful woman laughed through her tears and hit her son with her hand.

"I'm about to go far away, and I haven't started my career yet. When I'm outside, I'm not allowed to do that at home."

Lu Liangsheng suddenly hugged his mother, patted her thin back with his hand, and said in a low voice.

"Mother... my son is gone."

Riding on the back of the donkey, the copper bell on the donkey's neck rang softly, and walked on the official road. Looking back, Qixia Mountain in the distance is full of green fields, and the village below the mountain is still the same. A group of people standing there waved goodbye.

Maybe some feelings come to mind.

The scholar stopped the old donkey, came down and faced the place where he had lived for 18 years, held up his wide sleeves, bowed his hands and bowed down, and after a while, he calmed down and started on the road again.

It was nearly noon, and a figure of a man and a donkey slowly walked into Fushui County in the busy official road. Some vendors and pedestrians who knew this figure stepped aside and greeted each other.

Lu Liangsheng also responded with a smile, walked all the way through the long street, came to a remote courtyard in the corner of the city, opened the courtyard door, and called respectfully: "Men."

An ancient camphor tree, the sunlight passes through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and falls on the figure holding the book.

"Here we come, come and sit." Duke Shu Hua hung down his book and pointed to the stone bench next to him.

In the past three years, the old man has aged a lot, his gray hair is completely white, and he is still in good spirits at the age of nearly sixty. He gave Lu Liangsheng a cup of tea and sat down with him.

"Liangsheng is about to go to Hegu County, is it too hasty? You might as well wait another three years."

Although accepting such a good apprentice made the old man look good, but after Sanan Tong tried it, he also had a heart to protect his wings. If he failed the provincial examination, he was afraid that Lu Liangsheng's spirit would be frustrated, so he began to persuade him.

Over there, Lu Liangsheng took a sip of tea, put down his smile and said, "Master, don't worry, Liangsheng will go to Hegu County to settle down first, and the matter of Qiu Wei can be done easily, and he won't have the mentality of wishing for it. If you fail the exam, wait another three years."

"Well, it's best for you to have such an idea. When you arrive in Hegu County, there is no one who can help you as a teacher." Wang Shuhua nodded. sent a letter.

"In Hegu County, I have an old friend who is well-educated."

The old man handed the letter to the scholar, and looked at him kindly: "...When you get there, if you don't understand anything academically, you can ask him for advice. The Qiuwei Township Examination is held every three years. This year is just your turn. Can you take the exam?" Then take the test, if you can't take the test, you should get used to it, don't force it."

"Good students know."

Putting away the book cover, Lu Liangsheng chatted with the old man in the small courtyard for a while, and the county magistrate Min Changwen also came over, and walked all the way to the north gate, chatting trivially about the past of the past three years, and there are also scenes that may appear in the future.

"If a good student wins the exam, maybe the three of you and I can still serve as ministers in the same palace. At that time, you, a young talent, will need to take care of you a lot!"

"Heh... the county lord loves you. Liangsheng heard from his teacher that the county lord was once a servant of a minister. He hated evil all his life and offended the villain and was demoted here. If there is a day, it should be the county lord who cares for Liangsheng."

"Hahaha."

Laughter filled the long pavilion, and soon after, the sun slanted and the red glow came over. Lu Liangsheng stepped on the old donkey, bid farewell to Wang Shuhua and Min Changwen and left.

Looking at the back of the donkey slowly riding, Wang Shuhua caressed his white beard and sighed, reminding him of how he embarked on the journey of seeking an official career when he was young.

On the side, Min Changwen's smile restrained, and he looked away from the distant figure.

"Mr. Shu Hua, it looks like you and I are going to travel far."

"Ok?"

Min Changwen took out a letter sealed with wax from his arms, and looked at the distant figure in the sunlight again.

"It was sent by someone from an old friend in the court. There is a heretical person who confuses your lord."

The old man turned his face and glanced at the letter in his hand.

"There are so many capable people in the court, how can you be used? It seems to be an errand that offends people."

Hearing these words, Min Changwen stroked his beard and laughed, put the letter back into his sleeve, and invited the old man to get on the carriage. Which demon is it, would Mr. Shuhua be willing to go with him?"

"Haha, the old man followed you to this remote place, how can you just leave, naturally you have to go all the way together."

Wang Shuhua stretched out his hand: "Please!"

"Please!"

Chapter 46

Towards early summer, in the bright red light, the green grass swayed, and the insects that climbed up the tip of the grass were suddenly rubbed into the donkey's mouth together with the green grass.

It was bright red, and the old donkey wagging its tail was eating the grass on the side of the road, while carrying Lu Liangsheng on its back, walking leisurely through the country road.

It is hundreds of miles away to Hegu County, if you hurry up, you can get there in two or three days, if you use the magic of shrinking the ground to an inch, you can get there at night.

But it's still early, there are still four or five months to go, even if it passes so leisurely, it can still catch up.

Saying goodbye to his mentor, he has already traveled several miles northward, and he has not been to the north in the past. The surrounding mountains, villages and villages all make Lu Liangsheng feel fresh.

The bookshelves placed on both sides of the donkey's buttocks were shaking, and the small door under the shelf opened. Beside a stack of books, Daoist Toad stretched his two short legs, sat there leaning on the black-striped gourd, straightened his short coat, and took a nap. A yawn.

"The scenery here is not bad."

On the other side of the frame, there were several scrolls, one of which was ringing with a silver bell and chuckling.

"Master Toad, it's funny that you look so ignorant."

Away from the old donkey and the bookshelf, Taoist Ha changed to a side-lying position, with his head supported by a frog web, and snorted.

"Presumptuous... The mountains, rivers and rivers that the old man has seen, and you, a little ghost, can compare..."

On the donkey's back, Lu Liangsheng heard the voice of the toad, turned around and smiled: "Master is awake?"

During the ups and downs, the donkey inadvertently pulled the rein, and the old donkey stepped on a stone with its hoof, and the donkey's body suddenly tilted.

The small door of the bookshelf was opened, and the old god Toad lying on his side said: "You, a little ghost, can compare." As soon as the words came out, he was shaken out, and his chubby figure was stepped forward again. The opened hoof kicked straight, and flew forward like a ball, bouncing on the ground a few times before stopping.

The toad got up in a panic, its head was still covered with grass clippings, and the breeze blew, and it swayed a few times.

"The villain... wants to deceive the master and destroy the ancestors... quack..."

Lu Liangsheng hurriedly got off the donkey, picked up Taoist Toad, and patted the donkey's head with his hand: "I told you not to go!" The old donkey blinked with wide eyes, and breathed heavily from its nostrils.

"Hum hum hum!"

After two neighings, Lu Liangsheng put his master on his shoulders and led the old donkey forward. The mountains on the left stretched in the sun, and the villages on the other side gradually receded to the rear. With the increasingly hazy sky, disappeared at the end of the road.

Sometimes chatted about a man with the Toad leaning on his head.

"I don't know how Sun Yingxian has been in the past two years... That guy should have a better life than me. Maybe he has broken through Qi training and reached the foundation building now."

The toad with its back against the scholar's ear tore off the grass clippings from its head and threw it outside.

"What's the foundation building? When I'm at the peak of being a teacher, it's not enough for me to yawn. Just say that the purple-gold black-patterned gourd can hit a bunch of ascetics..."

Lu Liangsheng picked out his ears, sighed helplessly, and the master began to chatter again. In the past three years, every time he asked him when the old man's injury would recover, he always said that it would be soon.

"...I always feel that Master wants to continue eating and drinking..."

As he was thinking about it, a figure suddenly appeared in the dim light of the setting sun in front of him. Lu Liangsheng stopped, and Taoist Toad, who was still talking on his shoulders, rolled over with a swish. With his legs hanging outside, he moved and kicked a few times before climbing up again.

"It's still coming, fortunately, the teacher has already prepared..."

Immediately, he also saw two figures in front of him, one thin and one fat, and Toad froze for a moment, "Jie Dao?"

"It's really a robbery." Lu Liangsheng was also a little dazed.

The two men were wearing single clothes, with their chests open, revealing their thick black chest hair, and they were blocking the way with their noses crooked and their mouths slanted.

"That scholar, you are unlucky today, and we brothers don't want your life, just leave your money..."

"Then you take it."

Before he finished speaking, a few ingots of silver over there had already rolled to their feet, the thin man in the middle glanced blankly, then raised his face again, and looked at his companion in blank disbelief.

"It's so refreshing... Could it be a fraud?"

The fat bandit quickly picked up the silver ingot, touched his head and said in a low voice, "Really."

"I got rich, and I met a fool." The thin bandit snatched the silver ingot, put it in his arms, pointed at Lu Liangsheng's waist opposite him: "and your jade pendant, too."

Lu Liangsheng nodded: "Okay." He took off the jade pendant and threw it to the other party. The thin man hurriedly caught it, breathed a sigh of relief at Pisces above, squeezed his sleeves and wiped it with a smile on his face, and then pulled his companion back away. .

"Seeing that you are so honest, I don't want your old donkey anymore. Let's go."

"Thank you two!"

Lu Liangsheng cupped his hands, and when he rode the old donkey and slowly passed in front of the two, he suddenly turned his face sideways, with a smile on his lips.

"You two know that all things have spirituality, and money also knows who is the master. In the future, you two still hope to do things according to your duty and stop doing this business."

"Let's go, let's go, studying is stupid." The skinny bandit waved the scholar to leave quickly, holding up the jade pendant and said with a smile: "Why do you have such a job and get money fast? You idiot."

While speaking, he didn't know whether it was his eyes dazzled or what, the emerald green jade pendant suddenly twisted a few times, the two fish on it suddenly turned their eyes and their tails swayed.

The skinny bandit was so frightened that he let go of his hand and stammered, "Fish...fish..."

The companion twisted his neck, and before he could speak, he saw the thrown jade pendant turned into two carp, swinging their tails in the air, and swam towards the leaving scholar.

"Come on!"

Someone yelled, and the two of them started walking together, but with a bang, they fell to the ground together, unable to get up, the few ingots of silver they had put in their pockets suddenly rolled out, right next to the two of them. In the field of vision attached to the ground, there was still a faint sense of 'Hey!The voice of 'hey' rolled towards the scholar.

Yinzi ran away by himself, and yelled his mother's slogan? !The jade pendant also turned into a fish swimming in the air...

The faces of the two were more terrified than seeing a ghost. For a moment, their bodies loosened and they quickly got up from the ground. The Pisces flew into each other's cuffs one by one.

"Mother too!!"

The two shouted loudly, so scared that Baimaohan ran out, only then did he realize that just now the two of them blocked an expert, and immediately knelt down behind him, kowtowed, and begged for mercy again, Then, screaming "Ah——", in the setting sun, he ran away like hell.

In the distance, Toad stood on his shoulder, holding the side of the apprentice's head with one web, and looked at the two path-cutting thieves running away from behind.

"This kind of short-sighted person should be killed."

Lu Liangsheng stroked the donkey's mane with his hand, and then put the jade pendant in his cuff back on his belt: "The guys in both of his hands are also sticks and hatchets, and they only asked for money. They kept their promises and let us go. It would be a bit too much to kill a person who is a big villain, and a small punishment will make them feel scared, and if they want to do such a thing in the future, they will feel more or less worried."

"Good guy." Taoist Toad sat back on his shoulders, hugging his fins.

The scholar smiled and didn't speak. He was not the kind of bloodthirsty person in the first place. He had a righteous cultivation base and had already trained his Qi. He couldn't add hostility to himself, so as not to enter the foundation-building realm in the future, which would become difficult.

The sky gradually darkened.

The stars and the moon hung in the night sky, and I was used to seeing the lights in the villages and cities, and the pitch-black barren mountains and mountains. Looking around, the mountains were like ferocious beasts lying in the shadows, eerie and terrifying.

Lu Liangsheng led the donkey to look at the intersection in the forest, and finally chose the road on the right. There was a dilapidated building standing there.

"Just make do with the night here."