In the mansion of the yamen, Wei Lianzhang, who was getting up early, was flipping through the records of books about Gusu City on the table. The paper was already a little old and covered with a thick layer of dust.

While he sorted out, his other hand held the plug-in cord that fell from the rice cooker.

Others have plates of jade, or plates of agate, Buddhist beads, etc. Wei Lianzhang has plates of wires and is happy.

As he flipped over, he felt something was wrong and his brows frowned.

There are 30,000 households in the north, 20,000 households in the west, and 25,000 households in the east...

What made Wei Lianzhang feel a little strange is why there were only a thousand households in the south of the city, and the record did not mention any natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Almost all the residents of Gusu City subconsciously stayed away from this urban area. Even those who lived there would not leave their homes at night.

If you can look down from above and look down at the town, you can feel the obvious gap. The rest of the place is brightly lit, and only the south of the city is pitch black.

Wei Lianzhang specially asked Zhou Qi to ask the county magistrate, and the answer he got was somewhat unexpected.

It is said that the place is not clean, and if you walk at night, you can easily bump into ghosts. In the same time, except for some poor families, all the people who can move out have been moved out.

Wei Lianzhang did not blindly deny it. In fact, with his age and experience, he had been exposed to ghosts and gods.

It's just a bit strange. Although demons are eager to absorb essence, they are also very afraid of qi and blood. In places like densely populated cities and towns, such blatant demons usually do not appear.

However, since it was involved in the affairs of ghosts and gods, Wei Lianzhang did not make any decisions without making any mistakes.

He suddenly remembered Qin Bai whom he met in the ancient canal. This man was definitely a strange man with some knowledge of Taoism, and he could ask for a few questions.

Wei Lianzhang talked about this person to Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi has not been idle these days. The more he checks the information, the more he becomes confused.

"I found his place to stay, an inn in Gusu City, whose name is Qin Bai."

Wei Lianzhang continued to listen to Zhou Qi with a sure smile on his face.

"I then checked the names of scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There was indeed one named Qin Bai, who was the right age."

"ah?"

It turned out that Qin Bai was really a scholar.

Zhou Qi continued: "But he has been unaware of his experience for fifteen years, and everything is hard to say."

Reversal and reverse.

Wei Lianzhang pinched his nose with some headache. When he thought of Qin Bai's appearance, his scalp became numb: "Since that's the case, then forget it."

However, Qin Bai really came to participate in the imperial examination. Maybe the other party is reviewing his homework, but he will not disturb him anymore. I will talk about it after the provincial examination.

Qin Bai was not as hard-working as Wei Lianzhang imagined, and he was not even prepared for the Four Books and Five Classics.

There is a bunch of miscellaneous books in the fish bag. Apart from the fishing skills, the only thing that can be done with the capital bottle of plums is barely touched.

After returning to the inn, he kept recuperating and occasionally went to the yard to do some radio gymnastics, or listened to donkeys singing songs.

As for the imperial examination, he did not intend to participate in it, but now it seems that it is still necessary to go there.

The demons have already flashed with their faces, and they must let the other party taste the power of the hammer.

Moreover, in Qin Bai's opinion, as long as it is not a sign-in task, no matter what kind of cultivation the demon has, even if he can't beat it, he can run away with his iron-forged magical power, and he can't do anything to him at all.

Ning Caichen was much more at peace in the guest room next door. Yesterday morning, he went to the house with the scholars from the club.

The school inside had already collapsed into ruins, and corpses could be seen from time to time in the yard. The pond was empty and the bottom was covered with human bones.

Ning Caichen felt enlightened when he saw this scene. Qin Bai's strange behavior immediately explained.

I'm afraid Brother Qin had already expected that there were demons, so he joined the club with him, so he was so kind-hearted.

He returned to the inn in a flash, and the other scholars also scattered birds and beasts.

Ning Caichen is now more convinced that he is prone to encountering lonely ghosts. How long has it been, and it has been several times, and it is dangerous every time.

But he obviously didn't realize that all this happened from the beginning of getting to know Qin Bai.

After the two chose to stay in the inn, their lives became peaceful.

Sometimes you won’t die if you don’t commit suicide. Lying down is the most impeccable.

Qin Bai, who was facing the guest room, sat cross-legged, opened his eyes and stretched. This time, he was a blessing in disguise, and his true energy rose to another level.

With his current cultivation level, he can try to practice paper sword skills.

If you have a hand-made paper sword technique when fighting against the White Bone Demon, you will definitely be much easier.

And he also wanted to try the sword, and every time he smashed a hammer at a demon, he was not suitable for his decent personality.

In terms of materials, Qin Bai has prepared a lot of talisman paper and cinnabar. Adding a few pieces of bark paper, it must be enough.

However, because bark paper is more precious, he plans to practice it on the talisman paper first.

Qin Bai organized the talisman of paper sword technique in an orderly manner according to the plan, but made mistakes in just a few strokes.

Compared to the talisman of the Paper Man, paper sword technique is much more difficult. He tried several times in a row and ended with spontaneous combustion of the talisman paper.

The main difficulty is to integrate the sharpness of the sword into the talisman. Qin Bai has no idea about this, and the descriptions in the books left by Yan Chixia are also somewhat plausible.

Qin Bai had never practiced swords before. It was a bit difficult to realize sharpness in a short period of time, so he had to try it out with a different approach.

So he simply chose to use iron instead of sharpness, just wasting some points before and after.

But there are also disadvantages of iron energy. Qin Bai had to explore the talisman by himself. After all, every time he started writing, it was crucial to the iron energy injected into it. If he was not careful, all his previous efforts would be wasted.

After a thick stack of talisman paper wasted, the progress of paper sword technique was only half over.

Seeing that the talisman paper and cinnabar were insufficient, Qin Bai had to come out of the room and planned to go to a store to buy some.

But when he left the inn, he found that the streets of Gusu City were decorated with lights and lanterns were hung in front of the doors of each room.

The passers-by couldn't help but feel joy on their faces. It was not until Qin Bai came forward to ask that he knew that the imperial examination was only three days.

He felt a little sudden, and before he knew it, half a month had passed.

No wonder I can’t even see a scholar on the street. I should have been studying my homework in the room.

If he could pass the imperial examination, he would not say that he would not be able to win the imperial examination, even if he did not go to the official career, he would be able to live a good life with the preferential treatment of the juren in the Song Dynasty.

However, there are thousands of scholars participating in the provincial examinations in various places, with only 300 places, and the rest can only fail.
Chapter completed!