"Miss, Mr. Su said that he is on his way and will come back to the house to say thank you after trying it out later."
Outside the carriage, Manager Xu said with a grimace.
The lady wanted to invite Su Wen to come over and talk about it, but maybe the manager failed to get the matter done, so naturally he was worried that he would be punished by the lady.
"Let's go..."
There was silence in the carriage for a while, then a cold voice sounded.
"Crunch..."
Under the superb technical control of the driver, several horses turned the front of the car and slowly headed towards Wuning City, leaving deep car marks.
"Hiss...the rumors are indeed true. How many meals of delicacies from the mountains and seas does Miss Xu have to eat every day to become as strong as a horse?"
Zhang? Covered his chest, shook his head and sighed.
"Ah……"
Su Wen shook his head.
Looking at the carriage, he believed that the rumors in the market were not credible.
Miss Xu's carriage is obviously made of excellent materials and is invulnerable, which is a basic requirement.
This carriage can even withstand a full blow from the top five in the sequence without being damaged.
Therefore, it is a matter of course that such a carriage requires five or six divine horses to pull it.
This is under the premise that there are already many formations attached to it and the weight of the carriage is reduced through energy materials. Otherwise, if the number of horses were doubled, it would be impossible to pull the carriage.
As for whether Miss Xu was as strong as a mountain, Su Wen was doubtful. He even felt that this news was probably a rumor deliberately spread by the Xu family.
As for why the Xu family did this, Su Wen was not able to understand.
"Let's go on our way..."
Su Wen waved his riding whip, and the motorcade slowly headed north.
According to Su Wen's idea, riding on horseback is the most reasonable and fastest way.
After all, the candidates in the academy are basically extraordinary people, and the weakest one is also a scholar. They are in good health and can reach Daliang Dynasty in less than ten days on horseback.
Just considering that the dusty journey might consume the energy of the scholars, Su Wen finally decided to allocate carriages and horses to the students. Not only could they avoid the hardship of traveling, but they could also ride in the carriage while on the road.
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Another point is that most of the candidates are not alone. Most of them are accompanied by book boys, and some candidates even have servants at home to serve them.
However, under Su Wen's request, each candidate could only bring one bookboy, and all the servants at home were sent back and were not allowed to follow the motorcade.
However, in order to take care of the candidates, Su Wen still transferred cooks and servants from the academy, and even invited two gentlemen to accompany him. One of the two gentlemen was a Confucian scholar, and the other was a gentleman. They not only had excellent moral articles, but also had extraordinary cultivation.
Not weak, he can not only guide students along the way to solve their problems, but also act as a guard when encountering danger.
"Isn't this a bit exaggerated? In the Liang Dynasty, would anyone dare to have the idea of a scholar...especially the scholars of Qingshan Academy? Isn't this too long-lived?"
Zhang Wei felt that Su Wen was making a fuss out of a molehill.
"Be prepared..." Su Wen shook his head gently.
He was not really worried that someone would be so crazy as to target the candidates of Qingshan Academy, but as the extraordinary beings from all major forces entered the ruins, the number of extraordinary beings guarding various places in the surface world had been greatly reduced.
However, in this process, the biggest threat is the dark sequence hiding in the dark, as well as those extraordinary beings with evil intentions who try to break the rules of the world and complete the promotion ceremony at the expense of harming the people. What if you encounter this kind of person on the road?
Unfortunately, Su Wen didn't feel safe without one or two strong men around him.
"How is this possible..."
Zhang? sneered: "Those who were transferred to Guixu are all extraordinary people from various university sects. The imperial court and the inner factory have almost no manpower to mobilize, right?"
The implication is that with the inner factory and the government around, how dare extraordinary beings to be so frantic and act recklessly.
"Ah……"
Su Wen just smiled again.
He had already seen the madness of extraordinary beings, and he was very impressed.
Su Wen is still impressed by how much bloodshed Hu Xiaoqian and Xie Lingyun caused, one for promotion and the other for forbidden objects.
"But having said that, the eldest lady of the Xu family is really nice to you!"
Zhang? changed the subject and said with emotion: "He who gives you money and a house, he really doesn't give up on you!"
"What are you thinking? They might just be expressing some apologies."
Su Wen rolled his eyes.
When Manager Xu came to see him off, he made it clear that the Xu family had purchased a property in the capital, which would be used as a hall for Qingshan Academy's academic examinations. All expenses would be borne by the Xu family.
In addition, he also sent Su Wen 10,000 taels in silver notes, saying it was for the expenses of the candidates' journey. In addition, the Xu family had restaurants and inns along the official road to Daliang City, all of which were given to Qingshan.
The academy has reserved guest rooms, so there is no need to worry about wind, food, exposure, or sleeping in the wilderness.
Facing the Xu family's enthusiasm, Su Wen couldn't refuse.
After all, these preferential treatment are not given to him personally, but to all the candidates of Qingshan Academy.
This is not the first time that the Xu family has done something like this. Not only Qingshan Academy, but also spent a lot of money during the talent examinations in previous years, sending students to Daliang City comfortably. This was also a plan of Xu Bancheng
The Xu family is a giant and has many honorary titles bestowed by mathematical schools. It spends a lot of money and is naturally popular. Whether it is with various schools or court officials, the Xu family's network management is quite good.
But Su Wen still knew that the various benefits and conveniences the Xu family had given Qingshan Academy this time far exceeded those offered to scholars from other academies.
Just buying a small garden in the prosperous area of Daliang City and giving it to the academy as a guild hall cost no less than 300,000 taels of silver.
Moreover, the gardens in Daliang City are not something you can buy with money. Without enough connections and relationships, you won’t even be able to get in, let alone buy them.
And the inns along the way... Before this, Su Wen had never heard that the Xu family had opened an inn, so there was only one explanation. The Xu family bought these inns along the way to accommodate students rushing to take exams.
Naturally, these candidates are not so lucky to be so favored by the Xu family. The Xu family is not a fool. They know very well that no matter how famous the students of Qingshan Academy are in the provincial examination and no matter how excellent their results are, they are likely to be dismissed during the general examination.
If they are clean, even if one or two lucky people can enter the palace examination, there will definitely not be any Qingshan Academy students in the final list of scholars.
This is a costly investment.
So Su Wen knew very well that the Xu family, or rather Xu Bancheng, still had not given up on him, and wanted to use this method to win him over and become his Xu family's... son-in-law!
"Don't even think about it..."
Su Wen felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the tightly tied and extremely humiliating scene that day.
Even if the eldest daughter of the Xu family is as beautiful as a fairy...getting married...it won't work!
"A man is born between heaven and earth, how can he live by eating soft food?"
Su Wen finally thought so.
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After the setting sun was swallowed up by the mountains, the last ray of light quickly disappeared without a trace, and the sky became dark.
Due to the convenience of horse-drawn carriages and smooth official roads, they actually traveled more than a hundred miles in one day. At dusk, the carriages and horses arrived at Guyang Town in Qinghe County. This also benefited from the developed post station system in the Liang Dynasty.
During the meal, the coachman unloaded the tired horses and replaced the horses provided by the inn. When starting again, the speed of the carriages and horses could still maintain high-intensity operation, which is why it was so efficient.
The four words "Ancient Style Inn" raised a big flag at the end of the street corner in Guyang Town.
The Gufeng Inn was where Su Wen and his party stayed. When the carriages and horses arrived at the inn, lanterns were already lit at the door.
"Are they the gentlemen of Qingshan Academy?"
The innkeeper and waiters had been waiting at the door early. When they saw Su Wen and his party, they showed sincere smiles on their faces.
According to the message from the steward of the Xu Mansion, Qingshan Academy is likely to stay in an inn today. They must prepare the reception in advance and make sure the guests feel at home. If anything goes wrong, everyone from the shopkeeper to the servants who boil water in the kitchen will be sent to mine. They will be there for the rest of their lives.
Don't even think about coming back!
The manager paid so much attention to the matter and said such cruel words. Naturally, the shopkeeper did not dare to neglect it. He renovated the inn a few days ago and made it look brand new inside and out. He even invited a chef from Qinghe County to raise it in the backyard.
The guests of Xu Mansion cooked delicious food.
Su Wen chatted with the shopkeeper for a few words, and after confirming his identity, the shopkeeper welcomed everyone in happily, and asked the waiter to assign rooms. After he sent Su Wen to the best room, he quickly called the kitchen to bring hot meals.
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"Miss Xu family, you really didn't say anything!"
Zhang? gave a thumbs up to the steaming meal.
While talking, he winked at Su Wen.
Su Wen had long been accustomed to Zhang?'s teasing and didn't take it seriously.
"Shopkeeper Xu, I want to ask you something?"
After the meal, Su Wen invited the shopkeeper. When dealing with the shopkeeper, Su Wen had already asked the other person's name and learned that shopkeeper Xu was actually from the Xu family and was considered a direct descendant of the Xu family.
"Sir, please speak..."
Shopkeeper Xu also knew Su Wen's identity, and he was a little stressed when faced with this man who almost became the Xu family's son-in-law, a talented scholar with a well-known literary name in Jiangnan Province, and the temporary deputy director of Qingshan Academy.
"I once heard that Guyang Town is a prosperous place. Why does it look a little depressed today?"
Su Wen has never been to Guyang Town, but he has been to Qinghe County...half of it. He almost lost his life on the way, but then nothing happened. Because he often had accidents when he was out, Yan Duo never made arrangements for him to go out.
Because of the rotation, Su Wen never went to Qinghe County, let alone Guyang Town.
But he knew that Guyang Town was the place where Jiangnan Road and Shannan Road were connected by land, and the goods that came and went were in constant rotation. It was an important transportation place, with a lot of traffic of cars and horses, and there should be an endless stream of caravans coming and going.
But when he came to Guyang Town, he found that there were few pedestrians at sunset and it looked desolate, which made him inevitably curious.