At night, there were many students who stayed in the library and worked hard to study. These people were afraid that if they went out at night, they would not be able to enter the library during the day. When they heard the noise, they put down what they were doing and looked outside.

The attendant of Laoshuge, who happened to come to buy tea for Xiao Jiu, heard this and answered, "It is said that someone broke into the academy secretly, and they are busy searching everywhere now."

After speaking, he smiled slightly and signaled everyone not to be nervous.

"Every year as the Qianqiu Literary Festival approaches, there are many people who want to visit the Academy at night and climb over the wall. We always catch a few. This must be the seventh time this year."

There is a curfew in the royal capital. After Hai hour, no one is allowed on the street. I don't know which bold student was discovered by the city defense army and searched as a annihilator.

After saying that, the old attendant slowly went downstairs, leaving several people in the pavilion looking at each other, and then continued to read his book.

Xiao Jiu guessed that it was getting late, and since his thoughts were interrupted and he had no intention of reading, he thought of going back to rest.

When he reached the lake, he took a look and stopped.

At this time, there were no guards guarding the lake, and there was no one around. Only the waterside pavilion in the middle of the lake still stood there quietly, and the densely packed bamboo slips hanging on the stone bridge made a sparse sound when the wind blew.

Xiao Jiu slowly walked to the stone bridge, and under the moonlight, he could see clearly a line of small words on the wooden slip closest to her hand, "The ancestor of Qin was just a little horse slave, how could he dare to express the aspirations of the world?"

The people behind it were either disdainful or confused, but judging from the traces on the wooden slips, they should have been left a long time ago.

Let’s look at the next piece.

"In the Battle of Maling, when Tian Ji and Sun Bin surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao, how did they lure Pang Juan into the ambush? Can you tell me in detail?"

"A soldier must attack rather than defend and build momentum according to the situation. How do you understand this statement?"

"Which of the hundreds of schools of thought is stronger?"

…

After reading the writings on the wooden slips near him, Xiao Jiu was about to continue reading when he saw a rope blocking his feet.

Xiao Jiu paused and smiled. This meant that he was not allowed to enter unless he wanted to.

There is no doubt that the visitor is the Spring and Autumn Visitor. If the visitor wants to continue moving forward, he must answer the questions on the stone bridge.

Xiao Jiu picked up the pen and ink prepared by the bridge and stepped onto the stone bridge, answering questions and answering questions step by step.

"Everyone has ambitions, but people are not different even though they have different ambitions. Ants can still move giant objects, so why can't people's ambitions be lofty?"

Later, he left a rough idea of ​​​​the formation of troops on the wooden slip asking for a detailed explanation of the method of warfare.

Finally, regarding the question on the third wooden slip he had seen before, there were only four words left, "Follow the situation and take advantage of the opportunity."

…

On the way, he also encountered many people scolding him for saying that everything he wrote was empty and the paper was full of nonsense. Xiao Jiu just ignored them, skipping those words of praise and disgrace, and only picked up the pen to write a few sentences when encountering problems or words that caught his attention.

"Why did Qin defeat the strong with the weak? Was it the favor of heaven?"

Xiao Jiu picked up his pen and replied, "No, man can conquer nature."

"Bai Qi is a meritorious minister. Why did King Qin Xiang kill him? Isn't he afraid of making people feel chilling?"

"The merits cannot be offset by the faults. Those who have merit must be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes must be punished. If you die in vain, you will die in the heart of a king."

Things that happened thousands of years ago cannot be tested. Who knows what the parties involved thought about it?

But after careful consideration, Xiao Jiu felt that Bai Qi's death might not have simply offended the king. The impact of his death was both political and military, but he could not escape the king's calculations.

Slowly looking back, there are many praises and criticisms for the characters who appeared in the book Spring and Autumn, such as this one, "Wu Qi is both civil and military, but he kills his wife for glory and is greedy for profit. He is really a villain!"

Xiao Jiu did not answer this question. Everyone thought that the book Chunqiu was fabricated by him, but little did they know that it was a real person.

Who has the final say on the merits and demerits of the characters in the book?

Everyone saw different things, and Xiao Jiu didn't care.

There is also speculation about his identity, asking who his true identity is.

It was even more impossible for Xiao Jiu to tell them. They all mentioned two words, "nameless."

…

The night is as cool as water, frogs are constantly chirping by the lake, and fireflies are dancing above the lake, making this place even more quiet and beautiful.

After finally luring the guards away, when I came back to take a look, I realized that there seemed to be someone in the waterside pavilion.

The man in green clothes slowly stepped across the stone bridge and got closer and closer to the waterside pavilion. When Xiao Jiu came back from his thoughts and noticed someone approaching, he still had a piece of paper with unanswered questions in his hand.

Xiao Jiu suddenly turned around, and through a hazy gauze curtain, the two people's eyes seemed to meet across the sky.

"Hey, I'm a fellow-minded person."

After a moment of silence, the person standing on the bridge three steps away from the water pavilion let out a chuckle.

The person who came seemed to be very young, and his voice was clear and playful. For some reason, when Xiao Jiu heard him say "people of the same kind", he always felt that there was something strange in his words.

Then he heard someone ask him, "I didn't expect that there are people like me who can't sleep at night and come to do good deeds?"

"What good thing do you do?"

The moment she turned around, Xiao Jiu covered most of her face with a kerchief, and asked in a deliberately dumb voice.

"Help people answer their questions."

The young man in green, who was standing sideways and facing the moonlight, said with a smile, speaking confidently, thinking that Xiao Jiu's purpose of coming here tonight was the same as him.

"Since the spectators in the Spring and Autumn Period disdain to pay attention to these people, then I might as well be a good person and answer those stupid people on his behalf. This will also save them from hanging more and more boring wooden slips, and one day the bridge will collapse, that will be a sinking of doubts.

The bottom of the lake will never see the light of day and is turned into rotten wood."

The young man shook his head, with a regretful and gloating smile on his face.

Xiao Jiu:......

I think you are clearly here to cause trouble.

If it hadn't been for today's unexpected encounter, who knows what kind of reputation Chunqiu Guanke would be spread tomorrow. If he wrote nonsense on the wooden slips, wouldn't he have to take the blame himself?!

Thinking of the guards who were transferred tonight, Xiao Jiu asked in a hoarse voice, "Were those people led away by you?"

"Of course. Leaving those wooden people here to guard here won't interfere with my husband's business." The visitor looked quite interested, his narrow eyes narrowed like a fox in the night, and his half-smiling expression looked very hazy.

, but somehow Xiao Jiu could sense his expression with half suspicion.

"Who are you?"

He said, "You have taken advantage of me and are still secretive and dare not see anyone. Could it be that you have a guilty conscience?"

Xiao Jiu immediately fell silent again.

Speaking of thieves, aren't they both now?

It's just that Xiao Jiu came here by chance, and this eldest brother had already planned it. He even wore a blue shirt late at night with his face uncovered, for fear that others would not remember him, and he was extraordinarily bohemian.

Xiao Jiu: "...When we meet by chance, there is no need to exchange names."

And in such an awkward environment, there is no need to get to know each other.

"That can't be done." The man in green shook his head, as if he was a little unhappy at being rejected. He sighed softly and casually picked up a wooden slip in his hand. When he saw the answer left by Xiao Jiu, his lips curled up.

With a wicked smile, "You have done what I want to do, so what should I do?"

Then I heard him reply softly, "Why don't you... I just help the guards catch the thief."

As soon as he finished speaking, before Xiao Jiu understood what he meant, he heard him shout loudly, "Here comes someone! A thief has broken into the waterside pavilion!!"

"Someone come quickly!"

Suddenly, half of the people in the academy were alarmed.

Xiao Jiu's half-covered face looked split, and a subconscious thought came to his mind, maybe this person is not a real dog!!

Hearing the footsteps of someone holding a torch and rushing here in the distance, Xiao Jiu quickly came to his senses, rushed out of the waterside pavilion, and jumped into the lake to escape.

At this moment, a man in green clothes jumped in quickly and stretched out his hand to grab Xiao Jiu.

"I want to see who you are?"

He was very interested, and the less he was allowed to see it, the more he wanted to know this person's identity.

Just when his hand was about to grab the hem of Xiao Jiu's clothes, Xiao Jiu turned around, stepped on the wooden railing and used his strength to jump into the lake, narrowly missing the latter's arm.

The moment he fell into the water, Xiao Jiu couldn't help but turn around and take a deep look at what this inhuman dog thief looked like, as if he wanted to engrave the face he saw into his mind deeply, and then he disappeared.

When the guards at the lakeside arrived, they saw the only figure standing in the waterside pavilion, a figure in green clothes.

"Where is the thief? Where did he go?"

A guard opened his mouth and asked, but when he saw no answer, he became anxious and said, "I want to ask you something!"

"I don't know."

Just after reading the other questions left in the water pavilion, the young man in Tsing Yi slowly put down the scroll in his hand and tossed out a sentence.

This gesture made the leading guard even more dissatisfied, "I don't know?! I didn't see which direction the thief ran in!"

What are you doing with eyes?

I was about to curse, but when I saw the person in front of me turning my eyes, I was stopped when I reached my mouth.

"I said, my husband's name is Zhang, I don't know."
To be continued...