Huang Tingguo is a small county town. The name of the county is Sui'an. It belongs to Yanzhou Prefecture, and this Yanzhou Prefecture is the cultural and educational spot where Huangting Guo has the most number one scholar and Jinshi. This county is not accessible
It is a large post office with many scholarly families. Before Chen Ping'an entered the county town, you could see the Wenchang Tower standing on the top of a hill.
Since ancient times, places where literary style flourished have always been like this. Wenchang Tower can be seen before the town.
Qing Tong dispersed his consciousness and looked around the county. It seemed that it didn't look like it. It can be said that "the water is not deep, the dragon is the spirit", but with Qing Tong's realm and vision, it stands to reason that it should be
It's only right to see some clues. It's just that there seems to be no rivers and streams around the county. In a county, the spiritual energy is extremely thin. The martial arts fortune is even more bleak. It can be ignored completely. However, the literary fortune does have some traces.
There are traces of signs, but they are insignificant. They are mostly a kind of continuous inheritance of ancestral protection. They come from some imperial archways, as well as those ancestral hall plaques with "Jinshi and rank" hanging on them, and some poor families in back alleys. Qing Tong becomes more and more confused.
I wonder, could it be that I am blind, that there is a great monk on the top of the mountain who is not born, or a saint with meritorious deeds living in seclusion here, deliberately covering up the secret of heaven?
Qing Tong couldn't help but ask: "Who are we looking for this time?"
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "I'm not looking for anyone, I'm just looking around casually. When Tongyezhou goes to work, I'll go back to Luopo Mountain. I'll stay here for a long time in the future... It's not a long-term stay, it's a bit like Dianmao in the Yamen."
, opened a private school in a rural school."
Previously, Chen Ping'an temporarily borrowed Lu Chen's Taoist skills, and as a monk in the Fourteenth Realm, he fell in love with this place during his long journey. Huangting Kingdom was bordering the old Dali territory, not far or near from Luolu Mountain.
I plan to become a teacher here in the future.
Qing Tong mistakenly thought he had heard wrongly, "Rural school to educate students?! Open a school and teach students, and become a teacher?"
Qing Tong would not be so shocked to say that Chen Ping'an, who has no official title in the Confucian Temple, is about to be the abbot of one of the seventy-two Confucian academies and serves as the mountain director of the academy. He does not even have a subtitle.
Chen Pingan nodded, "With my little knowledge and half a bucket of ink hanging around, of course I can only teach elementary school children."
How could Qing Tong believe Chen Ping'an's words? He immediately raised his spirits and felt that he must have been sloppy in his spiritual tour just now and missed some traces, so he failed to find out the real strangeness of this place. In an instant,
, the entire Sui'an County was shrouded in Qing Tong's mind. Government offices, ancestral temples, residences, streets, all kinds of shops, and even the bottom of the ancient wells were not spared, but they still searched to no avail. Several
After a blink of an eye, Qing Tong still refused to give up. He took a look at the mountains and flowing water outside the county town one by one. He carefully examined the origins of the mountains and rivers. He finally put away his consciousness and asked tentatively: "
Have you fallen in love with a promising Taoist cultivator?"
Chen Ping'an joked: "If you follow my senior brother Cui, you will surely prosper."
Qingtong heard the underlying meaning, saying that he had no profit and could not afford to go early.
Chen Ping'an, with his hands in his sleeves, led Qing Synchro into the county town. Both parties were like strangers entering an uninhabited land.
The streets were bustling with people, because it was New Year's Eve, so even though the shops on both sides were closed, everything was still lively and festive.
Chen Ping'an said: "I passed by this place before and read a few local county annals at the county government office. It has been more than a hundred years since there was a Jinshi. It's like a famine year when the harvest is not good."
Only then did Qing Tong remember that in the twelve landscape and fantasy paintings, this young hermit official from the literary sage lineage was obviously very familiar with the art of imperial examination.
Do you really plan to live here as an anonymous private tutor, hanging out with kids who wear crotchless pants and have runny noses all day long?
The master of two dignified sects, a close disciple of the Literary Sage lineage, and then spent several years or even more than ten years of hard work just to cultivate a so-called Jinshi master?
Chen Ping'an thought to himself and said: "I have decided on a pseudonym, and I will call it Dou Yi."
Qing Tong asked: "Is it the Yi in the Yiji Chapter: 'The prime minister is just a grain, and all the nations are the Yi'?"
Chen Ping'an seemed slightly surprised and exclaimed, "I never thought that fellow Taoist Qing's knowledge is quite impressive."
Qing Tong twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Yin Guan is so complimentary."
Chen Ping'an said: "I don't know whether it's false or not, but the praise is true anyway."
Qing Tong thought of the words "both are important" between the young Yin Guan and Chen Zhenrong on the shore of Qililong earlier, and comforted himself, saying that it is more than enough to compare with the superior.
Qing Tong smiled and asked: "If Master Yin Guan devotes himself to the imperial examination, can he win three yuan in a row?"
Chen Ping'an thought for a while and said: "Winning three yuan in a row? It's something I don't even want to think about. If I were in the Dali Dynasty, let alone the first or third place, it might be difficult for me to pass the second-class Jinshi. But in Huang Tingguo, help
There is still some hope that Sui'an County brought back a plaque inscribed with the title of Jinshi. It may not be because of how talented I am, but it's just that the smaller the country is, the more know-how it has. There are shortcuts. The font on the test paper,
There are subdivisions in the pavilion system, and arrangements can be made based on the academic background of the masters and reviewers, and you can suit them anyway."
Qing Tong said: "I heard that among your direct disciples, there is a scholar named Cao Qinglang, who was once the second best in the Great Li Dynasty?"
If I had been so good at talking, I would have invited Senior Qingtong to drink.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "To add, Cao Qinglang was not only the second best in the imperial examination, but also the Hui Yuan in the previous Spring Festival in the capital, so Emperor Song He's vision is sincere."
If Cao Qinglang was chosen as the number one pick, even if I didn't agree to the wedding banquet in Beijing when we met last time, I would have stood up to greet him no matter what.
I only said that later at Chunshan Academy, Chen Ping'an had a chat with his husband. When they talked about the matter, didn't they all say the same thing? One was a student and the other was a disciple, and both of them were grievances.
While leading Qing Tong skillfully through the streets, Chen Ping'an asked something for no reason, "Earlier in the wine shop, you and Yang Zhi seemed to be chatting about Xiao Mo, and they were quite happy. Is there some... anecdote?"
Qing Tong shook his head and said: "No! Absolutely not!"
It is obvious that there is no three hundred taels of silver here.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Let's talk about it, I promise not to tip off Xiao Mo."
Regarding Xiao Mo's deeds, let alone the vast world without any records, even in the wild world, there is no gossip spread in the mountains, otherwise the summer palace will definitely record it, and Xiao Mo rarely talks about himself
things,
Qing Tong still shook his head like a rattle, but suddenly he laughed, put his fist to his mouth and coughed.
This means that there is no thirty thousand taels of silver in this place.
Chen Pingan glanced sideways and said, "I'll ask Xiao Mo myself later."
Qing Tong was afraid that Chen Ping'an would add fuel to Xiao Mo's side, so he could only say, "Yang Zhi said a little thing, saying that Xiao Mo was pestered by a female nun in his early years."
Chen Ping'an's eyes immediately lit up and he asked: "Why is it so confusing? What's her name?"
Qing Tong gritted his teeth and said: "My pseudonym is Bai Jing. As for her Taoist nicknames, she has quite a few. They are similar to a woman changing her clothes. She changes them frequently. Some of the more famous ones are 'Zhao Hao' and 'Outdoor Scene'.
'Yao Ling'."
"Anyway, I have never met her. I have only heard some rumors that she is extremely skilled in swordsmanship, extremely lethal, and has a very bad temper. Bai Jing, like Xiao Mo, is a swordsman, and she is also the owner of the 'Wei Jia'
, she is about the same Taoist age as Xiao Mo, but she reached the Ascension Realm earlier than Xiao Mo. She once opened a dojo in the great sun in the wilderness, but she could not stay there for a long time. The mansion needed to be rebuilt every few hundred years, so the wilderness
The demon clan in the world practices the sun and worships the moon, and half of the monks cannot avoid her, so they need to respect this sword cultivator."
Chen Ping'an listened to the female sword cultivator's alias and Taoist numbers, and asked curiously: "Is Bai Jing the incarnation of the fire spirit?"
Weird and mysterious, each has its own origin.
Just say the title "exterior scene", which is really good.
Qing Tong shook his head and said: "There have been such speculations from the outside world, but it shouldn't be the case, because Yang Zhi and I asked about this before at the wine shop. Yang Zhi said that Bai Jing, with the roots of Dao Dao, is not a miraculous person.
'On the way, I started training from the demon clan and climbed to the top step by step. Yang Zhi also said that Fei Fei may be Bai Jing's next disciple."
Chen Ping'an became more and more confused, "Then why is she entangled with Xiao Mo? Is it a dispute between the great avenues? Or is it a grudge between sword cultivators?"
Qing Tong chuckled, "It seems that Bai Jing fell in love with Xiao Mo and wanted to become Taoist companions with Xiao Mo. Xiao Mo refused. During this period, he tried sword fighting three times and failed, so he had to run away. This is not true.
So I fled to Luobaotan to hide, and started making wine with the master of Bixiao Cave."
In fact, Yang Zhi put it more bluntly. In one sentence, Qing Tong felt that all the depression in his chest had been swept away, so he followed Chen Pingan on his travels and was always in a good mood.
And what Yang Zhi said at that time was, "Bai Jing almost fell asleep with Xiao Mo."
Chen Ping'an said: "Stop talking, will you follow?"
Qing Tong was speechless. If you didn't ask, what would I have said?
Chen Pingan rubbed his chin and said, "I didn't expect our Xiaomo to have such a story."
In the Huangting Kingdom, the Hanshi River, the Yujiang River, the Baihu River, and the Tieguan River as the upper reaches of the Baihu River are all among the best river gods in the country.
As one of the vassal states of the Great Li Dynasty, being able to have so much water transportation is indeed a sign of ancestral merit. After all, it has inherited part of Zhengshuo's "ancestral industry" from the Shenshui Kingdom in the past.
Wu Yi, the founder of Ziyang Mansion, a female cultivator, returned from a long trip and took a private ferry in the shape of a colorful ship to return to her home territory. Passing by the Tieguan River, Wu Yi disembarked from the boat and waved her sleeves.
The maidservant turned into a pile of paper figurines with talismans, and then silently made secrets to turn a three-story colorful boat with carved railings and painted buildings into a small carved nuclear boat, which she put into her sleeves along with the stack of talismans.
The Tieguanhe Temple is called Jixiang Temple. The painted statue enshrined in the temple looks like an elegant old civil servant. Sensing the strong Taoism of the founder of Ziyang Mansion, the statue suddenly shone with golden light, and the water
The air filled the air, and a tall and thin old man walked out. He was the god of the river here. He floated out of the temple for more than a hundred miles in an instant. When he saw the tall woman with a cold face on the other side, the old man immediately bowed to the bottom, saluted, and opened his throat.
He shouted: "The little god Gao Niang of the Tieguan River welcomes Dongling Yuanjun Luanjia!"
Whether you are sincere or not depends on whether your voice is loud or not.
Although he was a river god who was officially recognized by the Huangting Kingdom, he was actually a vassal of Ziyang Mansion, a river god ancestral temple, somewhat similar to a "family temple".
To be continued...