Fortunately, when he rushed to the river anxiously, he found that the village women and young wives who used to like washing clothes by the river had gone home to cook.
Of course, even so, he found a river bend with dense reeds and went down to the river to take a bath.
Although the river was flowing continuously, after Fang Xiaoyue took a bath, there were still some small fish turning white on the water around her.
This is also a helpless thing for him.
He estimated that he would have to practice this Wuqu Zhuang to at least level 5 or above before his body would not excrete such poisonous and smelly dirt.
He washed the dirt-stained clothes he took off in the water, wrung them out, and put them on directly. Then the star power in his body started to move, and with a slight shock, a layer of water mist covered the clothes.
Fly out.
This was half done, and coupled with the blazing sunshine, he was completely dry by the time he got home.
When he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he saw Taoist Master Qingyu standing guard outside the gate.
Fang Xiaoyue welcomed him into the study apologetically and made a cup of tea.
This is the tea that Butcher Zhang asked Zhang Yuanming to send specially. Although the quality is relatively average, it is still a sign of friendship.
In the words of Butcher Zhang, his grandson is now a scholar, and a real scholar must drink tea. Otherwise, if other scholars come to visit him and only have plain water to drink, wouldn't he lose his dignity as a scholar?
Taoist Master Qingyu was not greedy for such a sip of tea. The first time he saw Fang Xiaoyue, he felt that a great change had taken place in him. There were some things that he could not see clearly.
As a result, he looked more respectful to Fang Xiaoyue. He took the tea and took a sip, then smiled and said, "I have lived up to my great trust. It's finally done."
After saying that, Taoist Master Qingyu took out a pencil case.
Fang Xiaoyue took it and took a look. The box didn't look like much. It was made of green bamboo. But after opening the pen box, he couldn't take his eyes away from the row of silver pens inside.
Taoist Master Qingyu hurriedly introduced: "This pole is made by Pindao from the purple cloud bamboo grown in Wuquguan's backyard, and the brush is made from the silvery white hairs of the yellow skin. Unfortunately, there are still few silvery white hairs.
After a while, I added some more hair and made only three pens: large, medium and small."
Fang Xiaoyue didn't say anything. She picked up a large regular script and looked at it. It was indeed good.
In this regard, he still inherited Fang Mingrui's vision.
Whether a brush is good or not and its quality can all be seen at a glance.
This is not surprising, any scholar is very familiar with the Four Treasures of the Study.
Then Fang Xiaoyue soaked all three brushes in water to remove the glue.
Before saying goodbye, Taoist Master Qingyu gave Fang Xiaoyue a sword manual.
In the words of Taoist Master Qingyu, the Introductory Boxing Manual can strengthen the body, and this sword manual can give Fang Xiaoyue more moves to deal with Huang Pizi.
As for the silver pekoe pen, the moral articles written with it naturally have the effect of attracting dragon energy, so Huang Pizi is still very shocked.
As for helping Fang Xiaoyue directly remove the nest of yellow skin, Taoist Master Qingyu also made it clear that he could not do it for the time being.
Because the hundred-year-old monster in that nest of yellow skins has created its own obscene ritual and gathered the spirit of thousands of people.
And the Qi of thousands of people is actually close to the existence of dragon Qi. Unless the government comes forward to destroy its obscene worship, otherwise, Taoist Master Qingyu will be asking for trouble when he goes to deal with the centuries-old Huang Pizi.
But Fang Xiaoyue is different. With the protection of dragon energy and the moral articles written with silver pekoe pen, there is no big problem in protecting her own life.
If you can practice more in the introductory boxing scriptures and sword techniques, you may be able to kill the hundred-year-old Huang Pi in a few years.
Well, Taoist Master Qingyu didn't even know that the Introductory Boxing Sutra he gave to Fang Xiaoyue had mutated into a Wuqu Zhuang.
As soon as Taoist Master Qingyu left, Fang Xiaoyue took the sword formula and read it over.
In the eyes of Xingyi Quan master Fang Xiaoyue, this sword technique can only be regarded as average.
After all, the effect of his level 10 Xingyi Quan cannot be displayed in this world, but his vision is still there.
This sword technique is only second-rate.
But he didn't dislike this sword art.
Because this sword art comes from this world, if you practice it, it is likely to be transformed into a skill like the Introductory Boxing Manual.
In that case, the value of this sword manual is not small.
In the next month, Fang Xiaoyue spent most of his energy on practicing this sword art.
No way, if you offend Huang Pizi, it's hard to say when the other party will come after you.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue needs to speed up the improvement of his own strength.
But having said that, the sword manual given by Taoist Master Qingyu is not a fake, but a real Taoist sword manual.
Fang Xiaoyue activated the sword technique skill the next day.
The name is the same as the Zhuang Gong, called Wu Qu Jian Jue.
Although there is no real sword at home, Fang Xiaoyue also whittled a wooden sword out of wood to practice sword techniques.
In this way, for a week, after getting up early in the morning, he first practiced Wuqu Zhuang, then practiced calligraphy, recited the Four Books and Five Classics, then practiced Wuqu Jianjue, and then practiced calligraphy and recited the Four Books and Five Classics as a rest.
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After one month in a row, his Four Books and Five Classics were upgraded to level 15, poetry to level 17, Four Books and Five Classics to level 16, calligraphy to level 11, Wuqu Zhuang to level 4, and Wuqu Jianjue to level 5.
By this time, the improvement of the Four Books and Five Classics will be relatively slow.
Only poetry is not slow to improve by plagiarizing famous poems.
But at this time, there is less than a week left before the provincial examination.
Fang Xiaoyue originally planned to call Zhang Yuanming and find a few more people to demolish the Huangpizi temple, then trace the clues and eliminate all the Huangpizi temples.
But after all this time, Huang Pizi did not come to the door, and Fang Xiaoyue was worried that something would go wrong by then. If Huang Pizi could not be caught in one fell swoop, there would be big trouble in the future.
Considering the safety of her mother and grandfather's family, Fang Xiaoyue had to forcefully suppress this idea. Before leaving for the provincial capital, she went to Wuquguan to visit Taoist Master Qingyu and asked him to take good care of her family.
If someone else came to say this, Taoist Master Qingyu would not be able to agree even if he was given a hundred taels of silver.
After all, something like this will definitely offend those yellow men, and Taoist priest Qingyu has always been indifferent. Many people have asked him to come out, but Taoist priest Qingyu has never agreed even once.
Even if all the rice in Wuqu Temple was eaten, he was unwilling to do this. He even said to the little Taoist boy: "Drink more water when you are hungry, and you will not be hungry anymore."
Based on the above things, Xiao Daotong would make such a judgment.
But what made the little Taoist boy stunned was that Taoist Master Qingyu agreed to the matter without any hesitation.
So as soon as Fang Xiaoyue left, Taoist Master Qingyu opened the altar and locked the nest of Huangpizi in the Huangpizi Temple.
Of course, this approach is not offensive, so the yellow men don't know that someone is targeting them.
But Taoist priest Qingyu can learn the traces of the nest of yellow skins from this. Once they approach Yangjia Village where Fang Xiaoyue is located, Taoist priest Qingyu will be able to detect them in time and rescue them.
The little Taoist boy didn't understand this, and felt that he had offended those yellow men for no reason, but Taoist Master Qingyu just laughed and said nothing.
After bidding farewell to her mother, Fang Xiaoyue came to Kuanglu County, rented an ox cart, and headed to the provincial capital to take the exam.
The old man driving the bullock cart was quite humorous and kept chatting with him all the way, which did not make Fang Xiaoyue feel bored and tired during the journey.
After arriving in the provincial capital, the first thing Fang Xiaoyue did was to go to the Xuezheng Yamen and submit her scholar certificate to register.
As for meeting the examiner who just came from the capital, it was impossible.
At this time, I don’t know how many candidates mobilized various connections and wanted to meet the examiner.
But when the examiner arrived in the provincial capital and checked into the Academic Affairs Office, he stayed behind closed doors and did not give those candidates any chance.
This is not surprising. Although the examiner is only a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, with a rank of six, he has a bright future and is a Jinshi. There is no way he would get involved with the examinees and commit any malpractice for personal gain.
Even at this time, except for some well-connected candidates, most of the other candidates didn't even know the examiner's name, let alone guess the examiner's preferred writing style.
Of course, even so, major bookstores are selling four essays claiming to be in the examiner's favorite style for candidates' reference.
As for this kind of thing, it’s up to you whether you believe it or not.
Anyway, Fang Xiaoyue didn't believe it.
This time he stayed in the provincial capital, which was not as shabby as last time. Instead, he chose a moderately priced inn, and the room was naturally the cheapest.
Compared with children taking college examinations, scholars who take provincial examinations are undoubtedly much more active.
When Fang Xiaoyue had dinner in the hotel lobby on her first day, several scholars came up to make friends with her.
This is not surprising. Although the appearance of Fang Xiaoyue's body is not outstanding, after being attached to it for such a long time, under the influence of his soul and the erosion of star power, the appearance of this body is constantly being optimized.
Many acquaintances can feel that Fang Xiaoyue is getting more and more handsome, but no matter how he improves his appearance, they can still recognize him.
Fang Xiaoyue will not refuse to interact with the candidates at this time.
After all, the situation this time is different from last time. Once these candidates pass the exam, they will have the power to become officials.
Although he can't be a high official, he can still be regarded as a network of people.
What's more, if one of them is admitted to Jinshi in the future, he will be considered a fellow student who was a Jinshi at the same time.
The intimacy of this relationship is very important in officialdom.
Often the cliques formed by officials are based on their fellow villagers.
In the officialdom of this kind of feudal dynasty, if you don't have a group of officials behind you to support you, it will be difficult to do many things well.
And if you have a group of friends who echo each other in the officialdom, it will be much smoother for you to do things.
After exchanging pleasantries, Fang Xiaoyue learned the identities of these scholars.
They are all talented people from Kuangluo County.
Fang Xiaoyue should not be surprised by this. As a junior Sanyuan scholar, the other party must have known about it. Otherwise, he would not have come so presumptuously to communicate during dinner.
The three scholars are Lei Wangcai, Tang Wucheng and Yun Jujue.
Lei Wangcai and Yun Jujue are relatively skinny and wear long gowns that have been washed slightly white, while Tang Wucheng is slightly fatter and wears more polished gowns. One look at them shows that they come from a good family.
Lei Wangcai was the leader among the three, and he had good eloquence. After some words, he invited Fang Xiaoyue to attend the cultural gathering held in the provincial capital, Qixian Lake, three days later.
Through Lei Wangcai's words, Fang Xiaoyue learned that the organizer of the Xiaxian Lake Cultural Festival was Qian Laipeng, a wealthy businessman in the provincial capital.
This Qian Laipeng was born in Juren, but after three hard exams, he failed in the exams and finally had to go home in pain to inherit the family business.
However, he was quite talented in business. After inheriting more than ten business houses in his family, he expanded his business territory more than ten times in just twenty years, and became a wealthy businessman in the provincial capital.
The industries under his name cover almost half of the industries in the provincial capital, and he has a reputation as half the city with money.
Of course, in a feudal dynasty like Daze Kingdom, wealthy businessmen were just the meat on the cutting board.
Therefore, Qian Laipeng was keen on building bridges and roads, opening charity halls, collecting corpses of innocent strangers, etc.
Among them, Qian Laipeng's favorite thing was to hold a literary conference every time the college examination was held in the provincial capital and during the provincial examination.
And every time he holds a cultural meeting, he will set up various rewards, euphemistically called promoting the culture and education.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue can also see that Qian Laipeng's move is nothing more than to build good relationships.
After all, the literati who participated in his literary association would definitely not be down-and-out literati who could not even pass the boy's entrance examination.
Especially like this Xiaxian Lake Cultural Conference, the participants are all scholars.
As long as a few of them are admitted to the Juren Examination, Qian Laipeng will not lose money.
If someone gets admitted to Jinshi in the future, they will make a lot of money.
After all, in Daze Country, collusion between officials and businessmen is not a big deal at all.
Even if the other party is an upright official and does not engage in collusion between officials and businessmen, as long as he reminisces about old friendships and informs him of certain matters in advance, it is enough for Qian Laipeng to make a lot of money.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue didn't care too much about these. What he cared about was the reward offered by the Xiaxian Lake Literary Society.
After all, although he has some money now, if he is admitted to the Juren Examination and wants to go to the capital to take the examination, this money will not be enough at all.
Although Zhang Tufu's family has some savings, it is impossible to hand over all the family property to Fang Xiaoyue.
Therefore, he always thinks of some ways to make money during this time.
The first place in the Cheixian Lake Cultural Association can get 100 taels of silver, the second place can get 50 taels, and the third place can get 20 taels.
If he gets 100 taels, Fang Xiaoyue's expenses for traveling to the capital will be settled.
So after chatting for a while, he nodded and agreed to go to the Qixian Lake Cultural Conference with him three days later.
Three days later, before Fang Xiaoyue even got up, someone knocked on the door.
When he got up and opened the door, he found that Lei Wangcai and the three of them were outside the door.
After apologizing, Fang Xiaoyue washed up and then left the inn with Lei Wangcai and the others.