Not far from Yunyingshe, Jiang Yan's body went limp and fell to the ground.
"Jiang Chan, Jiang Chan, how are you?" Song Yu shouted repeatedly.
"Send me back to the inn." After saying this, Jiang Yan passed out.
Painting four paintings in a row, plus the battle with Qian Tong, depleted all his mental and spiritual energy. He was anxious to leave Yunying Tower because he was afraid that something would happen and he would have no room to fight back.
Lin Ancheng was not at peace while Jiang Yan was sleeping. Everything that happened in Yunying Tower quickly reached the ears of Feng Boyong and Lin Fan. Feng Boyong directly summoned Zhang Ji for questioning.
"In the past few days, the prefect and I have been searching for the remnants of Baiyang who neglected to discipline you. I heard that you fought with others in Yunying Tower and lost with four against one?"
"Sir, my lack of academic skills has embarrassed you," Zhang Ji bowed and said.
"Tell me carefully"
Zhang Ji did not tell the truth about what happened in Yunying Tower, but only concealed the process of how he provoked Jiang Yan.
"So this person has a arrogant and arrogant personality and is difficult to get along with?"
"Yes, even shopkeeper Qian had a fight with him."
"Then it should be him." Feng Boyong nodded.
"What is him?" Zhang Ji was confused.
"It's not shameful for you to lose to him. Lu Jing from Guzong City came to Lin'an City half a month ago and said he wanted to compete with people from Chengjun Academy on his painting skills, but he left without even entering the academy door and leaving a letter. The letter said
He resigned himself to defeat."
"Are you willing to be defeated? Is it Junior Sister Wanxi who is competing with him?"
"I asked, but Wanxi has never even seen his face. There are not many people in Lin'ancheng with such painting skills, so the prefect and I both guessed that it was this Jiang Yan who did it. The prefect sent out many people
We want to find him, but this kid has been avoiding us for some unknown reason."
"This Jiang Yan is just a country boy. He can't even buy paint. How can he have such painting skills? Even if he is really talented, he can't go far." Zhang Ji was still a little unconvinced.
"No matter how bad his character is, he is undoubtedly a genius. Don't try to look at real geniuses with the world you understand.
Just like Li Yelang and Zhang Dian, the two great geniuses of the same generation in the Wen Dynasty three hundred years ago, one was originally an orphan and the other was an alcoholic who became enlightened, but in the end he soared into the sky."
"How can he be compared with Li Yelang and Zhang Dian?"
These two people are the idols of everyone in Yunzhou's younger generation, but Feng Boyong compared a country boy with such a figure.
Feng Boyong sighed. It was obvious that his disciples did not listen to his words.
"The Gongsheng Examination is about to begin. Don't provoke Jiang Yan again."
In Tongbao Pavilion, although Qian Tong was defeated by Jiang Yan due to carelessness and narrowly escaped death, he was very excited.
In the dim room, Qian Tong could not restrain his hands from trembling because of his excitement, while a pale young man was half-lying on the chair opposite him, playing with a coquettish flower in his hand.
"Zuko, go help me kill someone."
"No problem, you know the rules."
"Of course, I asked you to kill a man named Jiang Gu. He will die as you wish, but he has a middle-grade tiger picture in his hand and I am bound to get it."
Whenever Qian Tong thinks about what happened that day, he can't help but feel extremely excited.
"After all, you are the shopkeeper of Tongbao Pavilion, and there are not many paintings that pass through your hands every year. Do you want to hire me to kill a medium-grade painting? My price is more expensive than a medium-grade painting."
"That's not an ordinary medium-grade painting. I can pay for it in advance with ten thousand taels of silver."
The tigers in Jiang Chan's paintings are silly and cute, but they are extremely powerful when angry, especially the ferocious bursts at the last moment that he has never seen before. This is definitely not a simple middle-grade painting.
"There is another request. Try to do it as secretly as possible. I don't want others to know that this painting ended up in my hands."
"That's a bit difficult. After all, Lin Fan and Feng Boyong are both first-class painters."
"I guess Jiang Lun came to Lin'an City for the Lin'an City Gongsheng Examination in two days, and then got a place to go to Qingdu to take the Civil Service Examination. People die in the Gongsheng Examination every year. You can sneak in in advance and do things secretly." Qian Tong said with a face.
The smile on his face was a little gloomy.
"Isn't it true that only the prefect knows where the exam is? Even Feng Boyong can only know it on that day."
"You can't hide it from others, but you can't hide it from me. Just wait at Sanchuan Pass."
"No problem, I have a newly developed one here."
Before Su Kou finished speaking, Qian Tong's expression changed and he quickly refused.
"Thank you. I'm in good health. I don't want to eat."
“That would be a shame”
Su Kou shook his head regretfully, and Qian Tong suddenly felt a sharp pain like a knife coming from his abdomen, and for a moment his whole body couldn't help but tremble.
"So you want to eat or not?"
Qian Tong saw a red pill that Su Kou had taken out and hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth. It took a long time for the bone-shattering pain to disappear, while Su Kou stayed by his side and carefully observed the changes in Qian Tong's body.
“It turns out this red pill can work.”
When Jiang Yan woke up, he finally had some energy, but the spiritual energy in his body was empty.
"You're okay, that's great. Here's some food I bought for you outside."
Song Yu was very happy to see Jiang Yan wake up.
"How long have I been asleep?"
"Two days"
After eating a big meal, I finally regained some physical strength, but it took a while for the spiritual power in my body to recover.
"If you wake up late, I'm afraid you will delay the Gongsheng exam," Song Yu said.
Jiang Yan himself was cursed by an evil spirit. Lu Daoxuan said that the Master of the Wen Mansion was one of the few strong men in the world, and there might be something he could do. Regardless of whether he was willing to learn the Danqing method or not, he had to go to Qingdu.
"When?" Jiang Yan asked.
"Early tomorrow morning, everyone will register outside Chengjun Academy and then be taken to the examination room."
"Are there any rules?"
"I heard Mr. He Qingzhi say in Yunying Tower that the Gongsheng Examination and the Liberal Arts Examination are all boiled down to three words: learn from nature!
The external teacher created the painting, gained the source of the heart, drew the essence and inspiration from the unfamiliar environment and nature, and then created the painting.
Last year, Chengjun Academy sent all the students to an island for a week, and then judged all the paintings."
Jiang Yan probably understood that he was taking everyone to an inaccessible place to sketch, and then selecting those who could go to Qingdu to take the exam based on their sketching skills.
"Aren't you afraid of cheating?"
"Before entering the island, everyone can only bring two pieces of drawing paper with the special mark of the Gongsheng Examination, and no seals are allowed on any drawings."
Although Jiang Chan was very skilled in painting, he was not very familiar with the Danqing method. He only learned from Song Yu that seal sealing was a special method.
The painting spirit will have a subordinate relationship with the painter who created it. If the painter wants to give his painting to others, he needs to cut off this connection through a seal and establish a subordinate relationship between the painting spirit and the third party.
Allow the sealer to control the painting spirit.
Jiang Chan had achievements in painting that were beyond his age, but Song Yu was a little worried when he saw Jiang Chan in such a state.
"You have no spiritual power at all now. It is very dangerous to participate in the Gongsheng Examination."
"Danger? How can the exam be dangerous?"
“Teachers usually choose places for creation in inaccessible wilderness or isolated islands. The beautiful and magnificent scenery can give people unlimited imagination.
But at the same time, there will be many wild beasts, some of which even possess the cultivation level of the Enlightenment Realm and the Spiritual Realm. Over the years, candidates have encountered dangerous situations in exams, and there are not a few cases where rescue is not timely and their lives are not saved."
"Don't worry, I can recover in four or five days at most."
"Let's do this. We can go together so that I can help you if you encounter any danger. I will leave when you recover," Song Yu said.