Take the system to ancient times

Chapter 8 Goals and Lantern Festival

The old scholar poured cold water: "You can only take the road of sanctification. If you can't become sanctified in your lifetime, you will have to work hard for three generations."

Xinghe:? ? ?

"why?"

The old scholar replied unhurriedly: "Because we were still from Xiliang before January."

Xinghe was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"After all, we are natives of Xiliang. Although we have left our hometown due to natural disasters, once life settles down, some people will inevitably homesick. How can such a person be an official in the Yong Dynasty? Not to mention the gentry, it is a poor family, even if you have accumulated enough money The land is not qualified to be an official."

The old scholar sighed and said, "It's fine if you don't become an official. If one day the Yong Dynasty and Xiliang go to war, if you become an official in the Yong Dynasty, you will be in a dilemma."

Xinghe raised his eyebrows, he is not a real Xiliang person, so he will not be in a dilemma.

"Then why is sanctification enough?"

Old scholar: "A saint, at worst, can be compared to a hundred thousand troops. Which country is not trying to find saints from other countries? If you become a saint, even if you don't want to, the Yong Dynasty will also take the initiative to give you a title and status, so that Houli is tying you up, lest you go back to Xiliang."

Well, it seems that the saints here are comparable to future nuclear weapons, which belong to the kind that promised "not to be the first to use" before the war.

Then strive to be holy!

After making up his mind, Xinghe rubbed his nose, and was still in the mood to joke: "Actually, I really want to be a scholar, but I hate that God doesn't give me this chance."

The old scholar glanced at him, unfolded a roll of bamboo slips and spread them on the desk in front of him, and said with a sneer, "Don't worry, illiterates like you who can't read all the characters still have something to learn."

******

Xinghe, who was rated as illiterate, officially started his study career under the strict guidance of the old scholar.

The old scholar enlightened the children in the village every morning. Because Xinghe's study progress was much faster than these children, he didn't follow them. At this time, he just meditated and practiced. Start a small stove for him.

Xinghua Village is full of refugees from Xiliang, and they don't know each other well. They are newcomers, so they naturally need to adjust everywhere. Therefore, the old scholar who is the village head, private school doctor and Mr. Barefoot is often very busy and rarely has free time. .

However, because of Xinghe's "photographic memory" and the preciousness of the books, the little official did not send many bamboo slips. In just three months, he had read all the books in Xinghua Village and even several nearby villages. , has also been familiar with the truth.

In a farther place, because he couldn't go back and forth within a day, the old scholar didn't let him go.

For more than a year after that, because there were no books to read, the old scholar could only teach him from memory.

It’s just that he is old, his memory is declining, and the books he teaches are often only half, so there are many “fragments” in Xinghe’s reading system. Xinghe often looks at the sky and sighs when he reads it. This is simply killing obsessive-compulsive disorder. ...

In the past two years, the old scholar finally recited all the literary classics he could recite, regardless of whether there were mistakes or not, and explained the meanings to Xinghe.He refused to recite those few medical books to him, but when the villagers had minor disasters, they all took him to see a doctor and taught him with practice.

The old scholar said——

"The words of a sage, even if I recite it wrongly for you, it won't stray far from the topic, and it won't ruin your character."

"But those medical books are full of prescriptions for curing diseases. If I teach you wrongly, you should treat people correctly. Wouldn't it be a waste of life? I am old, and although I have never seen a doctor before, But I have seen common ailments, and they are always cured well.”

"If you have a remote illness, you will naturally go to the city to find a decent doctor. The villagers don't even count on me."

"I won't be with you for a few years. If you have a minor illness, just follow me and watch. If you have a headache in the future, you will always know what to do, so you won't ask for help. But for the rest, I'd rather you don't know if it's right or not. The wrong prescription is better than going to the doctor one day in a hurry and killing yourself."

"If you are determined to study medicine, you will always have a chance to learn it when you leave Xinghua Village in the future."

The old scholar didn't know that Xinghe had the Wanhua system as a plug-in, and studying medicine was just a preparation for using the skills of Wanhuali Jingxin method in the future, and all these considerations were all for Xinghe.

——With the ability, it is inevitable to be conceited. What if Xinghe encounters the corresponding disease one day in the future and can't help but do it?What's more serious, if one day, it is Xinghe himself who unfortunately suffers from the corresponding disease, will he just kill himself like this?

It is reasonable to say that doctors do not heal themselves.

When the old scholar gave him all the things in his head, Xinghe's own martial arts also had a breakthrough.

His skills came out very quickly, and he was fully developed as early as the first year.

But just like a bastard who couldn't be killed with Huajian skills at the beginning, the healing effect of the scripture skills was not as good as Xinghe expected.Xinghe diligently gave the old scholar nine injections of Taisu every night, but it only made the old scholar look better. In the first year, he was sometimes too tired and fell ill.

If it weren't for the hard work of meditating to increase internal strength, the healing amount of the Li Jing skill and the damage of Hua Jian would have increased, and Xinghe would have given up on the goal of becoming a saint.

The progress of Wanhua Kungfu is different from that of martial arts in this world. It has been able to "discharge internal strength" early on, but its lethality is far inferior to the warriors of "Zhoutian Realm" here.

The entire Kang County is full of refugees from Xiliang, most of whom have never learned martial arts. Xinghe's comparison objects are only the soldiers guarding the city and the police officers of Kang County.

Most of the soldiers guarding the city are in the two realms of body and bone training, and their officers are only at the peak of bone training.

Because Xinghe has been meditating and doing exercises all the time, what has increased is his internal strength. Although his strength has also increased, let alone the "strength of nine oxen" in the bone refining state, even the "strength of five oxen" in the body training state is not as good.

If there is no system, the soldiers defending the city can smash him into a pulp with a full blow when Xinghe is not prepared.

And the policemen are more powerful than the soldiers defending the city. Those who can be a policeman are at least at the peak of bone training.

Folk martial arts gyms are everywhere, as long as the family has the conditions and is willing to endure hardships, ordinary people with the worst qualifications can reach the bone-forging state after practicing for 30 to [-] years.

When there are many people who practice martial arts, there will often be those who rely on their own force to break the law. The police often have to hunt down these criminals with high martial arts skills, so their own force must not be small.

Xinghe didn't sign up to study in the Kangjun Martial Arts Academy. Firstly, his family didn't have enough money, and secondly, because he had a Wanhua system on him, he didn't like the superficial kung fu in the martial arts hall.

Kang County is remote, and it hasn't been long since people settled down. The martial arts gym in the county is not large, and what they teach is only the method of exercising and strengthening the bones.

At the beginning, the soldiers guarding the Xinghe City were so envious of their infinite strength, they thought of going to the martial arts hall to learn.Later, once I went to the city with an old scholar to buy some necessities for life. While eating in a restaurant, the two policemen next to me drank too much and talked about martial arts. Time is wasted in the two realms of exercising and strengthening the bones to increase strength, but to cultivate the sense of energy and enter the dantian realm as soon as possible.

If you reach the Qi Xing state, then the strength of the five oxen at the body training level cannot harm the Qi Xing warrior at all, and the nine ox strength at the peak of bone refining can only seriously injure but not kill the Qi Xing martial artist, and will be countered by the Qi Xing martial artist. hurt.

At that time, Xinghe heard the words of two drunken police officers, and secretly kept it in his heart. When he went back, he found a doe without horns in the suburbs for an experiment, and provoked it to rush over and hit him vigorously, while he turned his back and refused to do it. Resisting, sure enough, as soon as the air flow brought by the doe rolled onto him, the internal energy of thousands of flowers in his body automatically circulated, and then the doe fell backwards with a bang, breaking its neck. It also comes with an "anti-shock" effect.

As for Xinghe, it was just a slight pain in his back.

******

Two years later, the old scholar has nothing to teach, and Xinghe has also adapted to life in another world.

After Xinghe showed the old scholar his unbeatable martial strength at the peak of bone training, as well as his powerful lightness kung fu for escape, he finally gained the freedom to go out and play alone, but the old scholar still forbade him to stay out overnight.

This day was the Shangyuan Festival, and Xinghe was approved by the old scholar to go to the city of Kang County to watch the lanterns, or to stay out overnight, but he had to go home early the next morning.

Xinghe complied with a good temper, and happily went to Kang County alone after lunch.

Shangyuan Festival is on January [-]th, which is the first festival after the Spring Festival. On this day, people will worship the "Taiyi God", and there is no curfew on this night. People can go out to enjoy the moon and set off fireworks.There will also be a night market. The most popular ones in the night market are food stalls selling Lantern Festival and lantern stalls. Coupled with dragon and lion dance teams, it is very lively.

During the Lantern Festival in the first year, Xinghe lived with the old scholar in Xinghua Village. The festival in the village was not so lively. It was just offering sacrifices to the gods, eating the Lantern Festival, and enjoying the moon in the yard at night. The old scholar couldn’t tolerate the cold. After staying outside for a while, I was frozen back into the house.

Later, when Xinghe heard the villagers who worked in Kang County talk about the excitement of the Lantern Festival in Kang County, he inevitably became a little interested, so after the Spring Festival the next year, he began to tease the old scholar to promise him to go out on the Lantern Festival.

Because Wanhua Kungfu is special, Xinghe didn't want to show it to the outside world, so he didn't even use lightness kung fu casually, so he went all the way from Xinghua Village to Kang County at a normal speed. The winter days and nights were short, and when he arrived in Kang County, the night market happened to be sparse. There is a flow of people.

Xinghe first found a Lantern Festival stall and ate a hot Lantern Festival. Because it was the first business deal, and Xinghe was exquisite and cute, the stall owner only charged half the price when he was happy, and Xinghe smiled happily.

It gets dark quickly in winter, and after a meal of Lantern Festival, the egg yolks that were still hanging in the sky fell down the mountain, replaced by a disk-like moon. In addition, there are many lantern stalls in the night market, and many lanterns are lit together, which is actually very bright. .

At this time, there were already a lot of people, and there were continuous lion and dragon dance teams passing through the open space in the middle of the night market, and the loud sound of gongs and drums was deafening.

In the night market, children chase and fight in twos and threes, or gather in front of the lantern stalls, drooling at the beautiful and lovely lanterns, and begging their adults for it after a while.Because of the festival, adults often don't spoil the children's interest and buy them one.

However, there are a few of the most beautiful lanterns on each stall that cannot be bought with money, but need to guess lantern riddles. If the answer is correct, the boss will give the corresponding lantern as a gift.

In front of the booth, there are young men and women guessing lantern riddles. The men win lanterns and give them to the girl they like. If the girl is interested in the man, she will bow her head shyly and accept the lantern. Teaser, in a few days, someone from the girl's family may come to propose marriage.

Where has Xinghe seen such a battle?In the previous life, when I was a child, I had free time to play, but my family was in the countryside. At most, there was a Yangko dance team coming over. It was very rare to squeeze in the crowd and buy two bunches of candied haws with lucky money.After growing up, he worked and had no free time—one holiday he wished he could work overtime so that he could earn three times his wages.

Jumping off the stool of the Lantern Festival booth, Xinghe looked at the lanterns one by one with great interest. The ancient craftsmanship is not as exquisite as the modern ones, but the lanterns made by the craftsmen are full of ancient flavors and have a special sense of humor.

Xinghe commented on each of the rabbit lamps and goldfish lamps, and finally squeezed in front of a booth with a lot of people.

It turned out to be a particularly delicate beauty lamp. Unlike other beauty lamps that were only painted on, this one was actually made of extremely thin ceramics. The beauty's graceful shape attracted the attention of many girls.

There are more girls who are paying attention, and the gentlemen will naturally gather, eager to try, trying to win this lamp and give it to their beloved girl.The most hateful thing is that the stall owner also knows that this beauty lamp is precious, and he depends on it to make his own name, and he is not willing to let others win it easily.I found an extremely difficult lantern riddle from nowhere, and none of the gentlemen could figure it out, so more and more people came to the booth.

Xinghe saw the exquisite beauty lantern, and liked it, so he went to watch the lantern riddle, and unconsciously read aloud: "The white snake crosses the river, with a red sun above its head."

After Xinghe finished reading, he was very surprised: "This is not too difficult, why so many people can't guess it?"

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