When thousands of scholars were all verified and admitted, the sky was already dimming.
Groups of soldiers outside the Gongyuan were patrolling in high spirits, but at this time they were all lying around.
The entire Gongyuan and the vicinity of the Confucian Temple were extremely silent.
After Cheng Yu successfully entered the dormitory of Zhuang Huaijin, he flew to the aura-rich hill outside the city, only to find that the aura of Bai Zhonger's little hedgehog was missing.
Previously, Cheng Yu had been staying in Fucheng to watch the bustle of the rural trial opening of Longmen. The distance between Fucheng and Tofu Fang was beyond the range of his aura perception.
This little hedgehog lay dormant for several days and finally ran away.
……
Daliang is on the northwest border of Chao, about five thousand miles away from Qianjiang Prefecture.
At the foot of a large loess mountain lies a small mountain village that is obviously deserted.
"Ugh! Ugh!"
An old man was sitting on a stone pier at the entrance of the village, smoking a dry cigarette. Opposite him were a group of forty or fifty people in the village.
These people's clothes were old, and the snot hanging under the noses of several children had a little bit of loess foam. The group of people looked languid in the sun.
A gust of wind swept the yellow sand past, and everyone covered their faces.
The old man found that the last bit of tobacco in the pot was gone, so he knocked the pot on the stone pier and made two soft sounds of "Pop!", which scared away the two gray furs hiding under the stone. Mouse.
After the mouse ran out two feet away, it leaned against a broken wall and looked back at the crowd. It stood up like a human with its front paws off the ground, raised its mouse head and shouted dissatisfiedly at the crowd, "Zhizhi!" twice, and turned around. The corner of the wall disappeared.
Alas!
The old man sighed softly, and everyone quietly watched the two mice walk away, as if they were no longer surprised by this.
"Dad, we can't survive under this chicken coop mountain. Let's go."
"Yes, even the seeds have been devoured by these rats, so what's the use of spring plowing? How can we pay for summer supplies!"
"Bah! Return the summer offering? Pay a penny! Not to mention food, the wild vegetables outside the village used to grow well, but they all withered overnight."
"It doesn't matter to you, let's just say that my guard dog quietly went to drink water by the river outside the village, but was chewed by the dogs until only the skeleton was left. When I rushed there, , those densely packed gray mice, crowded into a big pile... Ouch!"
A man shuddered before he finished speaking.
"Tell me, what evil have we done? Since last winter, we have had so many wastes for no reason, and none of them are afraid of people."
At this time, another man slapped his thigh, causing a burst of dust on his cotton pants to fly into the air, and said angrily:
"Let me tell you, if we move away, we won't be able to plant the land anyway. It's useless even if Huang Xiangu begs, so why don't we just follow..."
When he said this, he turned around and looked around, then lowered his voice and continued:
"It's better to follow my elder brother and join the King's team to beg for food than to starve to death here!"
"What? Your eldest brother turned out to be a Hun Tianwang! Doesn't that mean he became a bandit?"
The crowd immediately went crazy when they heard the words "Huntian Wang" and started talking one after another.
"What's wrong with the bandits? It's better to be a bandit than to starve to death here and be eaten up by rats. If you don't go, I'll take the whole family with me."
"Yes! Anyway, either you starve to death, you are forced to death by the masters, or you are chewed by these rats. Your family will leave soon, including mine."
"It counts as our family."
"We'll go too."
When a leader emerged, everyone became excited.
"Stop making any noise!"
The old man on the stone pier shouted, and the crowd fell silent, staring at the old man one by one. The old man looked at the men who had just clamored to join the bandits one by one.
It happened that the two mice that had just run away actually came back along the wall, and there were also a few small mice dragging behind them. They were lined up in front and back, quite neatly, running in unison in broad daylight in front of everyone.
Past.
"Well..."
The old man took a deep breath, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and said in a low voice:
"Let's go! Are you going to join the stream...to join that gangster...what kind of mess are you doing?""
he asked a man.
"Huntian King!"
"Yes! If you go to the Hunwang, you won't be able to survive! You're rebelling!"
After hearing this, everyone really wanted to join the bandits, but they became quiet. They all looked at their dilapidated ancestral houses, their eyes full of lingering.
The old man suddenly stood up, patted the dust on his butt, and loudly called on the villagers to go back to their houses to clean up, and then everyone started to move.
After a while, the place fell silent. In addition to the whistling of the wind, there was also a slight high-pitched voice coming from under the stone pier where the old man was sitting just now:
"Go and report to the Master that the last village at the foot of Jilong Mountain has been forced away by us, so we can have a showdown with the Huang family."
"Squeak!"
A huge mouse squeaked cheerfully twice, overturned the stone pier, and "噌噌噌噌!"" brought up a strip of loess and scurried toward the foot of the mountain.
……
On the back side of Jilong Mountain, in an inconspicuous mountain col, among a pile of spiked bushes, a burst of yellow sand flowed past, and a hole suddenly appeared in the bushes.
The walls of the earth caves on the Loess Mountain are as hard and smooth as rocks. Not to mention cracks, not even a single slag falls out.
Ten feet away from the entrance of the cave, stood a tall and heroic gray-haired man, wearing a gray robe made of linen. The robe was smooth from top to bottom without any wrinkles.
Judging from his appearance, he is only about thirty years old. His hair is neatly tied into a bun without a trace of stray hair. His slender eyebrows and eyes are like lightning, staring intently into the loess cave.
After a huge weasel jumped out of the cave, it stood in front of the cave entrance in human form, with its two front paws intersecting in front of it and slightly saying "Ten Thousand Blessings", and opened its mouth and said:
"I don't know that Brother Gray is here. I forgive my little sister for being late to welcome you. I dare to ask Brother Gray, why do you want to come to Han Cave in person again?"
The gray-haired man glanced at the yellow rat demon opposite him, then at both sides of the hole behind him, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
There are three bushes on the left side of the cave entrance, but only two bushes on the right side.
He shook his head slightly in his mind. He was not particular about it, extremely not particular about it.
Resisting the urge to step forward and pull out a bush, the gray-haired man smiled slightly, stood with his hands behind his back and said:
"As the saying goes, a visitor from afar is a guest, and the wise sister asked the foolish brother like this at the door, but how does the Huang family treat guests?"
"Brother, I don't know. The Huangyan Cave is currently closed to all visitors. If brother really has something to do, you can tell Long'er, and Long'er will report it to her sister."
"Oh? Junior Sister Shan entered the quarantine again not long after she was released from the quarantine. Is it possible that she has been released from the quarantine again?"
"Never!"
"Since you haven't left seclusion, how can you tell your sister?"
"Sister, I refer to Sister Huang Ling. After Sister Shan entered the customs, she has handed over all affairs in the cave to her."
The gray-haired man chuckled, turned around, took two steps, and finally pulled out a bush on the left side of the cave entrance.
Looking at the symmetrical shrubs on both sides, he felt relieved, smiled and said to the weasel banshee opposite:
"Last year during the spring season, Brother Yu came to visit me in the cave. I had to wait for a long time for Junior Sister Shan to come out, so I was able to meet him. Unfortunately, Junior Sister looked a little sad at that time, and Brother Yu couldn't bother her too much.
A few days ago, I heard rumors outside that a new human cultivator had arrived in the cave, and then Junior Sister Shan hurriedly went into seclusion. Could it be that... your sister found a cultivator, and couldn't she achieve enlightenment through dual cultivation in the cave?"<
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"You! You are talking nonsense! As the head of a Immortal Family, Senior Brother Gray, how can you believe such ridiculous rumors and insult my head with filthy words?"
"That being the case, that's good. It just so happens that I am interested in formally proposing marriage to the head of the Huang family, Miss Huang Shan. Please send me a message."
"Ah?"
The weasel demon was obviously unprepared, and took a step back in surprise. Soon, another weasel demon that was exactly the same as it sprang out from the cave. The two demons stood side by side, glaring at the gray-haired man opposite as if facing a formidable enemy.
When the gray-haired man saw another demon coming out of the cave, he immediately laughed. Although the two demons on the opposite side looked exactly the same, he recognized at a glance that the latter one was Huang Ling, the sister of the previous one.
"Since the two junior sisters Linglong are here together, then..."
He was just mid-sentence when he suddenly saw a slender rat whisker falling from the air. The gray-haired man's eyes were as narrow as a torch, and he saw that the already slender rat whisker was actually engraved with a row of extremely small characters.
.
The gray-haired man who was standing with his hands behind his hands and a smile on his face suddenly froze, but he recovered in just a moment.
He waved his robe sleeves, gently tucked the rat whisker into his sleeves, bowed his hands and said to the two yellow rat banshees opposite:
"Since Junior Sister Shan is still in seclusion, Brother Yu will wait for her to come out of seclusion, and then come to Guidong Mansion with the betrothal gift to propose marriage. There is so much trouble, please don't be upset, Junior Sister, and say goodbye!"
After he finished speaking, he immediately turned around, stretched out his hand and threw the bush that he had just pulled out into the loess on the ground. In the blink of an eye, the bush turned a little greener again.
The gray-haired man took a step forward, and as soon as his toes touched the low bush on the ground, he disappeared, leaving only a small green bush planted on the ground, standing exactly at the center line of the cave entrance.