I ask you, how can you do this? Your mind is far away and you are biased.
Shanhai Academy is not very far from Jinling, about three to five days' journey.
On the way you will pass a place called Wo Taishan.
Where there are mountains, there are bandits. It seems to be written like this in books throughout the ages, as if bandits don't deserve to live in other places.
So let's innovate. There are still bandits in this mountain.
These bandits are entrenched not far from the capital and are defending themselves from danger.
The imperial court seemed to have no way to deal with them, and many encirclement and suppression campaigns ended in failure.
A woman in her twenties, with a heroic appearance and dressed in a red outfit, was leaning on the roof, holding wine in one hand and pouring it into her mouth.
A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old ran into the yard. As he ran, he shouted in a drake voice that was in the stage of changing his voice: "Sister, the carrier pigeon is here."
The woman lay motionless. The child stamped his feet, flew up to the roof and landed next to the woman.
Hand the dove in your arms to the woman.
The woman glanced away, but did not put down the wine jar, but impatiently uttered one word: "Read it!"
The young man pouted aggrievedly: "Oh~"
He took off the note and read: "The one from my family has left the country."
"Go find your second brother." The woman changed her posture and turned sideways, revealing her graceful curves.
The young man let go of the carrier pigeon and was about to go down. Suddenly he turned back and asked, "Can I go together?"
The woman smiled: "What do you think?"
The young man shrank his neck and jumped down hastily.
The woman in red looked at the sunset slowly setting in the distance, turning a large area of the sky red.
The afterglow fell on the woman's face, forming a beautiful picture.
"His wife? He is really an extraordinary person."
There was a scholar riding on a donkey, swinging along.
He was beating time with one hand and humming a few lines from a song he didn't know where.
After humming for a while, he took a few sips from a wine gourd in his other hand.
However, his drinking was not as chic as the woman in red on the roof. Instead, he looked like a drunkard.
The scholar was swaying as if he was drunk.
Suddenly there was a smell of blood, and the scholar raised his eyebrows.
A man with a scarred face was sitting on a big rock, and several corpses were lying next to the rock.
It was already noon, blood was flowing all over the ground, and densely packed flies surrounded the corpse, buzzing and buzzing.
"Last name?" Scarface closed his eyes.
"What if you have a last name? What if you don't have a last name?" the scholar asked.
Scarface opened his eyes, with a calm expression on his face: "Those with last surnames go up the mountain, and those with no surnames lie down."
"It seems that I can only have the last name Hou." The scholar took a sip of wine and said depressedly.
On my mountain, a woman in red is sitting on a big tiger-skin chair.
"What's your surname?" With her slender figure, she only occupied a small part of the chair and looked very thin.
The scholar looked at the scarred face sitting below, then at the woman in red, raised his drooping eyebrows again, and said with a playful smile: "That's really interesting."
The scholar thought for a moment and asked: "Can one live with a surname after that?"
"cannot."
"What if you don't have a last name?" the scholar asked again.
"No way."
"Then I won't tell you." The scholar shook his head.
The woman chuckled: "Then kill him."
Scarface stood up and drew his knife.
The scholar was startled and took a few steps back, "Why don't you follow the routine?"
The woman lay on the tiger skin: "Your routine has nothing to do with me. This is my mountain and it is under my control."
Scarface slashed at the scholar with his knife.
The scholar was jumping up and down, shouting: "Wait, wait, let me leave a last word!"
The woman got up and walked down the steps and walked outside. As she walked, she said, "You want to say it, but I don't want to hear it anymore."
The scholar hurriedly dodged and suddenly shouted: "You are from the Li family!"
The knife in Scarface's hand paused, and he turned to look at the woman.
The woman stopped and tilted her head: "This is not difficult to guess. There is not enough reason to want you to live."
After saying that, he walked away with his long legs.
"I have one last sentence!" The scholar looked at the woman and said hurriedly.
The woman frowned her heroic brows and said impatiently: "I'm starting to get a little annoyed with you. You are different from the rumors."
"The rumors are all made by those dead old men. They are all false. They are all false." The scholar bowed down and said to please.
"You can make requests, but I may not agree to them," the woman said.
The scholar grinned happily: "Really? Then spare my life." He bent down and begged.
The woman smiled: "What do you think?"
"Forget it, change it. I still have half a gourd of wine here, give it to you. I smell the smell of wine on you, and I haven't drunk it before. I'll exchange it with you."
"Kill you, all your wine belongs to me, and I don't need your wine." The woman shook her head.
The scholar added: "It takes a lot of effort to kill a chicken. If you switch with me, I won't resist and let him chop it."
"The rumors don't say you like to drink."
"It's all just rumors. As for me, I want to survive first. If I can't survive, I'll drink. If I can't drink, I'll study." The scholar shook his head and said proudly.
The woman smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Then it's a rumor that you have read all the books in the world?"
"Of course, it's impossible to read all the books in the world. I'm still far away," the scholar said.
"Then how many have you watched?" the woman asked.
The scholar thought for a while: "I don't remember clearly, but I have read them all in the academy."
The woman stopped smiling, and Scarface also looked serious, because they all knew what it meant to read the book from Shanhai Academy.
Although I have heard it many times, I still can’t believe it when I hear it with my own ears.
The scholar shook the wine gourd: "If you don't talk about this, you should try my wine first and then decide whether to change it. Make sure you haven't drank it." After that, he threw the wine gourd over.
The woman didn't believe it: "There are only a few kinds of wine in the world that I have never drunk. If you can get those kinds of wine, what if I trade them with you?"
After speaking, open the gourd and pour it into your mouth.
As soon as the wine entered her mouth, the woman's eyes widened immediately.
Then he looked at the scholar with a complicated expression.
After a long time, the woman turned to Scarface and said, "Bring him some wine."
Scarface put away the knife and walked towards the backyard.
At the foot of Taishan Mountain, the scholar led the donkey and held a jar of wine in one hand. He took a small sip and his face suddenly felt sour.
"Hey, what's your name, beauty? If I find some good wine someday, I'll come and thank you."
The woman looked at the scholar: "What? You can't do it after drinking my wine, but you still want my people?"
The scholar looked like a scoundrel: "How can you tell the truth about scholars?"
The woman laughed so hard she held her stomach: "Go away! I will tell you when I get to Jinling."
"Then the young man will just wait for the beautiful lady to arrive."
After saying that, he got on the donkey and swayed away.