Watching Dong Zhizhang's retreating figure, Liu Sandao was silent for a long time.
Being struck.
Dong Zhizhang left in a hurry because his literary spirit had been accumulated to the extreme and he needed to take secret medicine and perform the ceremony to be promoted to a great scholar.
And Liu Sandao is still far away from being promoted to the level that Dong Zhizhang will become.
Before Dong Zhizhang left, he also let Su Wen rest assured to study knowledge and accumulate literary talent without worrying about the lack of secret medicine. Dong Zhizhang has the secret medicine formula in his hands from sages to great scholars, and has enough materials. In other words, even if Su Wen
Worrying about formulas and materials is only a matter of becoming a great scholar.
This was the second heavy blow to Liu Sandao.
As the boss of an internal factory, it was extremely difficult for him to obtain the materials and formulas to upgrade the next sequence, but in Dong Zhizhang's eyes, it seemed as if all of this was free of charge.
The last blow came when Dong Zhizhang finally discovered the new scar on Liu Sandao's face before leaving and asked: Who caused the wound on your face?
Naturally, Liu Sandao would not say that he was scratched by a cat. He casually responded that the grape trellis at home fell down and he accidentally touched it.
But Dong Zhizhang chuckled and said: "The grape rack, isn't it? It looks like it was scratched by a woman. Oh, no, you don't have a woman either. Oh, it's really miserable."
He didn't delve into where the injury on Liu Sandao's face came from, and Shi Shiran left.
Liu Sandao was so ridiculed that he felt angry and wanted to draw his sword and hit Dong Xinzhang.
However... after learning that Dong Zhizhang was about to be promoted to a great scholar, Liu Sandao knew that it was not daytime and if Dong Zhizhang really threw off his arms and fought with him, he would definitely be humiliating himself.
So Liu Sandao naturally gave in, his enthusiasm waned, he steeled himself, told Su Wen some things about the internal factory, and then he covered his injured face and left cursing.
After sending Liu Sandao away, Su Wen was still a little confused. Enough things happened during the day, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen at night.
"Still making trouble with monsters?"
Thinking of what Liu Sandao said before leaving, Su Wen felt a sense of solemnity in his heart.
From Liu Sandao's story, the reason why he was robbed was probably the work of this monster, which spread a lot of rumors throughout Jiangnan Province, eventually triggering the robbed incident. But in terms of the whole incident, Su Wen and
Like most old bachelors, they get a blessing in disguise, but the blessings they receive are different.
As for why the monster acted like this, Liu Sandao also gave an explanation.
The demon race is the same as the human race. Special rituals are required for promotion.
Moreover, the promotion ceremony of each monster clan is different. It is precisely because of this that the inner factory has no clue about the troublesome monsters, does not know their origins, and has no efficient response methods, so that the monsters are raging to this day.
However, after all, the inner factory is not free from work. With the investigation by Liu Sandao and his team, the area where the monster is active has been gradually identified, and it is believed that it will be captured soon.
Liu Sandao told Su Wen this just to let Su Wen understand the relevant situation, and did not expect him to be of any help.
…
After sending Liu Sandao away, Su Wen went back to his room and opened the gift from Dong Zhizhang.
"Huh……"
The moment the box was opened, Su Wen felt a refreshing breath blowing into his face, and his whole body felt refreshed.
What was placed in the box were indeed pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and three green bamboo brushes, which seemed to have been made by Dong Zhizhang himself. There was also a line of small characters engraved on each pen barrel.
"Small words mean great things".
"Although there are tens of millions of people".
"The best is better than the blue".
"..."
Looking at the inscriptions on the three brushes, Su Wen smacked his lips. As a gentleman, his own knowledge was very mixed.
Next to it was a knife of green rice paper with rough edges, which showed that it had not been carefully cut. The refreshing breath that Su Wen felt came from this knife of rice paper. There were also two pieces of ink, with gilded words on the ink, and one piece of ink with the words "
"The Yu family is poor", and on the other side it is "I am good at cultivating the spirit of awe-inspiring".
"The family is poor..."
Su Wen twitched the corner of his mouth and thought to himself, my husband is really good at pretending. Although he doesn't know the goods, he also knows that such a piece of ink can be sold for at least dozens of taels of silver. Later he found out that it was due to poverty restrictions.
With his knowledge, he can actually make a more bold estimate.
The last stone inkstone was plain and simple. Su Wen picked it up and took a look at it. He only saw a small, almost inaudible word "morning" beside the inkstone.
Seeing this word, Su Wen's expression suddenly became strange. But he quickly turned his head and drove out an equally strange thought from his mind.
Underneath the box is a rolled bamboo slip, tied with cowhide. Needless to say, this is the Spring and Autumn Annals that Dong Zhizhang, a Confucian sect, carefully studied.
Su Wen also saw a small, rusty carving knife tied together with cowhide and bamboo slips.
"Are these bamboo slips and carving knives the sect's sacred objects?"
Su Wen twitched the corner of his mouth, carefully opened the cowhide, and held the heavy carving knife in his hand. He felt that the palm of his hand was cold, and then hot again, and his body alternated between the two heavens of ice and fire.
"There's something weird about this carving knife!"
Su Wen shivered and almost threw the carving knife away. However, he noticed that although his body switched back and forth between the two realms of ice and fire, it did not cause any harm to him. Instead, it made his consciousness clearer and more agile.
.
"It's a treasure!"
Su Wen knew that since there were extraordinary beings in this world, there must also be extraordinary weapons. No, they were magic weapons. This carving knife should be such a treasure.
"Sir, you are so generous! So proud!"
Su Wen's heart suddenly hit 666 for Dong Zhizhang, and his already majestic image suddenly grew higher, like a mountain.
He didn't know the specific use of the carving knife. He played with it for a moment, then carefully put it back into the box and unfolded the bamboo slips.
"The Spring King's first month □□□□..."
Su Wen lowered his eyes and saw a line of ancient seal characters.
But the words quickly became distorted and rhythmic in his eyes, and the words seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. Except for the first four words, he couldn't even make out any of the rest of the writing clearly.
"what happened?"
Su Wen was shocked.
Seeing the beginning of these four words, Su Wen knew that this volume of "Spring and Autumn" was the same as the one the world was familiar with when he came.
"The first month of the Spring King" is followed by "In the third month, Gong and Zhu Yi's father made an alliance in Mi."
Su Wen was not only familiar with "Spring and Autumn", but also understood "Zuo Zhuan", "Gongyang" and "Gu Liang" which are the three biographies of "Spring and Autumn" by heart.
But now, he has awakened his literary spirit and remembers the original text of "Spring and Autumn".
But I couldn't read the words on the bamboo slips.
"What caused it?"
Su Wen quickly took out the copy of "The University" that he had transcribed before, opened it and saw that the text he had added could be read without any problems.
"This is strange..."
Su Wen patted his head gently.
"It seems that this bamboo slip is also a treasure. You cannot easily read the words on it. You may need to accumulate more literary skills to do so."
After carefully recalling the rules of this world, Su Wen came to a clear understanding. The bamboo slips should be a treasure, and the words recorded on them require a deep enough literary talent to read.
This also means that words themselves contain some mysteries, and what they are exactly needs to be explored slowly.
"Hululu..."
Hearing the gray cat's breathing, Su Wen turned around and saw the gray cat quietly jumping up on the desk at some point and staring at the bamboo slips in his hand. Seeing Su Wen's gaze back, it flicked its tail and meowed.
, seemed to want to pounce forward and bite the bamboo slip in Su Wen's hand.
"Ban...uh, Walnut, where were you just now?"
Su Wen put away the bamboo slips, finally remembered the name of his gray cat, and reached out to touch Walnut's head, but thinking of what happened to Liu Sandao, his outstretched hand froze in mid-air.
He even couldn't figure out why his own cat felt faintly scared when he faced it?
"Is it really not my cat?"
Su Wen carefully searched through the memory of his predecessor, but could not find anything related to the gray cat. But this could not be used as evidence, because he did not remember much of the original owner's memory, so it was normal to ignore a cat.
When Su Wen came back to his senses, Walnut's ears twitched slightly, jumped onto his bed, arched his back, yawned, and slept on the head of the bed.
Seeing this scene, Su Wen no longer had any doubts in his mind. If this was not his cat, how could it be better than him at climbing on the bed?
Su Wen shook his head with a smile and put away the treasures given by Dong Zhizhang. Cats are very destructive. If these study utensils fall under Walnut's claws, they will be ruined.
At this time, Walnut, who was squinting in sleep, suddenly opened his eyes wide, his ears were slightly lowered, and his eyes were gleaming. But soon, he narrowed his eyes again, his ears were twitching slightly, and his fat face
, even a weird...smile appeared.
"What on earth happened to this person?!"
And on the hillside behind Su Wenfang, under the shadow of a big tree, a low and hoarse voice came out of a mass of black mist that twisted and deformed, eventually turning into a human form.
Just listen to the black shadow muttering: "My test of six desires has obviously been completed, but in the end I lacked the results of the test of life and death... Could it be that it fell on him?"
The black shadow was silent for a moment, and his figure gradually solidified. The expression on his face changed for a while, and then he spoke to himself again, but this time his voice became more delicate: "Now he has become Dong Zhizhang's student... and he has been raped by the inner factory again.
I have taken him as a pawn, and if I touch him, I am afraid I will get into big trouble."
The low and hoarse voice sounded coldly again: "If we don't get back those two spiritualities, our promotion will completely fail this time, and there will be only a dead end!"
A grumpy voice sounded: "That's right, as long as we get our spirituality back and complete the ritual, the internal factory masters in Jiangnan Province are nothing! Dong Zhizhang is no match for us. Even if Qian Haoran takes action, we can leave safely!"
"That makes sense... Let's make a quick battle and regain our spirituality, then we will leave Jiangnan Road and not deal with them!"
In the darkness, the hoarse voice that spoke first gave the final word.
Not long after, a pretty figure in white came to the door of Su Wen's house, waving her pink fist and knocking on the door softly: "Is anyone at home? Help... The slave family is lost, please be kindhearted.