"Are you more interested in Qingluan Academy?... Could it be that you had no interest in this place that is regarded as a sacred place in the entire empire before?"
The old man stared at the young man blankly for a long time. He thought that there was a big age difference between a seventeen-year-old boy like him and himself, and many ideas in his mind were impossible for him to figure out, so he didn't say anything in the end.
He just closed his eyes and took a nap.
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The spring rain was very lingering, and the carriage traveled north for more than ten miles in the mud. When Lin Xi saw the mountains suddenly appearing in the distance through the opened curtains, the spring rain was still falling.
But the mountain range is extremely high, and the tops of the peaks are covered with white snow. The sunlight is reflected on the cliffs above the rain clouds, but it looks clear and bright halfway up the mountain.
"That is the main line of mountains and seas."
Hearing the movement in the carriage, the old man wearing a raincoat sitting at the front of the carriage did not turn around and said: "Starting from Dongmiao Sea in the east, winding all the way along the coast, and finally reaching the Arctic Sea, these are the two major mountain ranges of our Yunqin Empire.
One, after passing through this mountain range, we are not far from Qingluan College."
"Qingluan College is behind this mountain range?"
Lin Xi looked at the mountains in the distance ahead. No matter whether it was rain, whether it was snow, whether it was the grass and trees on the mountain, or whether it was the sunlight refracted between the cliffs, they all looked exceptionally clean. On both sides of the muddy carriage road, there were various kinds of cars driving on them.
The grassland of small flowers stretched all the way to the bottom of the mountain range. He liked the clean and peaceful smell very much.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a village, with wooden houses scattered on the gentle hillside. In the surrounding ravines and on the hillside, there are apricot flowers growing everywhere.
Blossoming clouds.
"Uncle Liu, should we go over there?" Lin Xi's eyes were completely attracted by this quiet and pure beautiful village, and she couldn't help but ask the old man in coir raincoat sitting at the front of the car.
The old man was startled for a moment and nodded, "That's Xinghua Village. After passing through Xinghua Village, the canyon we want to take is right behind Xinghua Village."
"Xinghua Village?" Lin Xi couldn't help but smile, "Is there any wine in Xinghua Village?"
The old man turned his head in surprise, looked at Lin Xi, frowned slightly and said: "If the small shop at the end of the village is still there, it should sell wine, but the wine is really not good, and if we want to stop here,
Then it will take one more day..."
"No, I just suddenly thought of a poem, so I asked." Lin Xi smiled so hard that the corners of his eyes curled up. He knew that the old man would not understand the meaning of what he just said.
The old man nodded, obviously not interested in the poem, and said nothing more.
The village shaded by apricot blossoms was getting closer and closer, but Lin Xi was stunned.
On the hillside in the distance, there were several cows, and on the back of one of them sat a little shepherd boy wearing a raincoat.
"I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village." Although there is no wine in Xinghua Village, the current scene is surprisingly suitable for the occasion.
"Uncle Liu, can you stop for a moment?" Suddenly, Lin Xi said this to the old man driving the car again.
The old man paused slightly and stopped the carriage.
Lin Xi opened a yellow bamboo-bone oil-paper umbrella and stepped out of the carriage under the surprised gaze of the old man.
On the left side of the carriage was a meadow full of purple flowers, and the petals of an almond tree were scattered. Lin Xi walked into the meadow and looked at a wooden house on the edge of the village not far away.
There is a stream flowing in front of the wooden house, with a wooden bridge above it.
A woman carrying a basket was walking on the bridge holding the same oil-paper umbrella. The woman's appearance and clothes were ordinary, but her reality, innocence and cleanliness were those of the girls in the world he was in before.
Absolutely nothing, and absolutely cannot be faked. Just this, the shepherd boy in the distance, the woman on the wooden bridge and the Xinghua Village turned into the most beautiful scenery in his eyes.
"What's so interesting about an ordinary country girl?" The old man said with a frown, looking at Lin Xi who stared at the woman for a long time before returning to the carriage.
Lin Xi took off her slightly wet shoes, and after lying half down in the most comfortable position in the carriage, she said something that she felt was very profound and arrogant, "Uncle Liu, what I see is not that woman, but loneliness."
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"Cough...cough..." The old man seemed to be choking on his own saliva and coughed.
"We are almost arriving at Qingluan College. Uncle Liu, according to your statement, there are many people gathered at Qingluan College from all over the Yunqin Empire, and most of them are people of high status. Trouble comes from the mouth and passes through this place.
Big mountain, I won't talk nonsense." Lin Xi looked at the old man's trembling back, smiled, but then became serious, "But before crossing this big mountain, I will just tell enough nonsense to save my time.
I can’t hold it in anymore... I now have the best parents and little sister in the world, but sometimes I still feel a little lonely.”
"Because no one understands." Lin Xi opened the car curtain again, looked outside, and continued, "Actually, I come from another world. Our world is full of high-rise buildings, planes, and trains. In that world, I am
An ordinary college student who was about to graduate in his senior year had a car accident. When he woke up, he traveled to this world and became Lin Xi. To be honest, I like this world very much. It is very clean, especially my parents in that world.
They didn't care about me, and they probably didn't know that I had a car accident. I read a lot of books about this world, and I originally thought that the Yunqin Empire was almost the same as the Qin in the history of our world, an ordinary cold weapon dynasty, but I didn't expect it.
That girl who kept asking me would suddenly appear, and this Qingluan College appeared. Originally, I didn’t have much interest in Qingluan College. After all, it would be nice to be a carefree rich second generation in Lulin Town.
, it’s just that the adult who came with you that day carried out the order of the Ling Governor. This Ling Governor is equivalent to the mayor of our world. He came because he couldn’t resist me. But I didn’t expect Qingluan College to be
A place like that, whether it's a monastic sect or a magic academy, wouldn't I look a bit like Harry Potter..."
"You asked me why I looked at some things with great interest and so carefully along the way, including the woman just now." After a pause, Lin Xi added, "That's because I am actually a person in this world.
traveller."
"This story of yours is indeed all nonsense." The old man's brows furrowed more tightly than ever before, and he looked at Lin Xi as he confessed, "When it comes to such nonsense, we must stop talking nonsense."
Lin Xi nodded, looked at the serious old man, and smiled, "I've finished telling my story, Uncle Liu, what about your story? I haven't heard you tell your story yet."
The old man's body stiffened slightly, he turned his head, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled it, "I don't have any story, I just spent some years in the border army."
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It was still early in the morning when the carriage passed through a deep and long canyon, passed Xinghua Village, and entered this long valley that gave Lin Xi the feeling of a fantasy movie, but when we left the canyon, it was already evening.
At the back of the canyon, the spring rain stopped, and the scenery was not much different from the outside at first. There were still patches of mountains and plains, with apricot blossoms and various wild flowers blooming enthusiastically.
There was no town in sight, but the old man did not stop to camp as usual, but drove the carriage to continue north.
Lin Xi was surprised to find that the heat in the air was getting thicker and thicker. It was like walking from spring to summer, and the scenery along the way became more and more different.
"This is the Four Seasons Plain, a basin between the main mountains and seas we passed through and the Dengtian Mountains. Along the way, we will pass through the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. You can take off some clothes. It will get hotter and hotter, but don't be too hot.
If you want, people from the college will come to pick you up." As night fell, mist began to rise in the mountains, and everything became hazy. The old man still drove the carriage forward, but he said this to Lin Xi.
"Are we going to meet people from Qingluan College today?" Lin Xicai had just rolled up the door curtains and curtains of the carriage, and was surprised when she heard the old man's words.
"Tomorrow is the day for the entrance examination of Qingluan College. I originally wanted to arrive two days early so that you could at least know more about Qingluan College. However, there has been a lot of rain this year and the road is not easy to walk. If we are forced to go on the road, these two horses will
But the horse cannot eat enough, and will become even slower." The old man turned his head, looked at Lin Xi and said, "You can only take advantage of tonight to find out more about tomorrow's entrance exam."
Lin Xi was stunned, and finally understood why the old man had to cross the main line of mountains and seas to get here today.
Suddenly, the carriage suddenly stopped.
Lin Xi looked past the motionless figure of the old man sitting in front of him, and saw a light appearing without warning in the mist ahead.
A young man carrying a lantern walked out of the mist.
This young man is wearing a pure black robe with gold trim on the hem and cuffs. He is about a few years older than Lin Xi. He has a handsome face, eyebrows like swords, a friendly smile, a broad forehead, and fresh hair.
It felt so good to tie it behind the head with a blue cloth band.
"My name is Xia Yanbing. I am from the college. Am I here to take the entrance exam and recommend a card?" The young man nodded to the old man and Lin Xi first, neither humble nor overbearing. He said this very simply, but it gave people a
A sense of gentleness and pride.
"Yes." The old man nodded, reached out and took out something from his sleeve and handed it over.
Lin Xi looked at it curiously. He never knew what the recommendation token was, but what he saw was a square golden token that the young man took over, which seemed very heavy.
"Please come with me."
The young man looked at it carefully for a moment, smiled gently, turned around and led the way.
As the mountain got higher and higher, the two old horses walked more and more difficultly. Even the old man and Lin Xi got out of the car. However, the mist that filled the surrounding area gradually disappeared. The surrounding climate and scenery were already scorching in summer.
After climbing a hillside, Lin Xi looked at it from a distance, but was stunned for a moment.
Below the hillside is a plain, with a blue mountain lake in the area, and huge green weeping willows growing on the edge of the lake.
There are countless fireflies flying in the plain, but on the plain near the lake, there are countless tents and piles of bonfires burning. This scene is simply like Lin Xi watching the Harry Potter movie in his "last life".
Scenes from the Quidditch World Cup.
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