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Chapter 8
In June, the heat is approaching and the sun is scorching.
In the past few days, it has been extremely hot and sultry, the rivers have dried up a lot, and the crops in the fields have wilted. The whole city is only looking forward to a heavy rain. If this rain does not come, I am afraid there will be a severe drought.
Li Jifei came back from work in the field, sweating profusely. As soon as he returned home, he poured water on himself and slapped the cattail fan hard in the hall.
"You dog-save some water!" Li Yamao poured him a small glass of cold water.
"You should go in the afternoon." Li Jifei poured the water down, wiped his mouth, and said to Li Yamao: "Carefully sun into a dead dog."
"I'm pooh," Li Yamao said, "I can walk a big week today. You can catch up quickly. If we can go to cultivate immortals, we won't have to suffer this bird crime again."
Li Jifei sighed and said, "It's easy to say."
There is no rain in January, and Fujian, Guangdong, and Guizhou are thousands of miles away. It is another famine year. don't know how many young generations are like these two brothers, hoping to pass the Shangling Exam by chance, leave the world and live a fairy life.
Seeing the sun go to the center, Li Yamao said, "Let's go find Brother Lin for dinner."
——Brother Lin's family naturally had no food, so they had to take it with them. This has been the case every day for these two months.
When they went, Lin Shu was practicing swords under the tree.
Three-foot poplar branches and a sword flower are slanted. The two brothers have watched outside the door for a long time, but they are just the most basic points, thorns, chopping, cutting, and picking. There are no new sword moves.
——In fact, it’s not that Lin Shu is unwilling to practice. This little idiot’s body is really weak. After two months of eating and drinking on time, he didn’t see any improvement. Every branch of the dance was panting, let alone complicated sword moves. .
He was a little dizzy, just as Li Jifei Li Yamao came to look for, so he put down the branches and went back to the room.
These days, the two brothers often come to him, sometimes asking about Qi machines, acupuncture points and so on, and sometimes just coming over to play-speaking of it, this is the first time someone will come to play with him.
In his last life, when he was six or seven years old, he saw that others had friends, and he had envied him, and wanted to have a playmate or two together. It's just that I just stop thinking about it. He has followed his master since he can remember it-it is said that he received it from the orphanage. As for this old man who insists on wearing long hair and wearing a robes in modern society, how can he successfully adopt a child? Lin Shu couldn't think of how. , So he always thought he was stolen from the orphanage by the old man.
After being stolen, when he was very young, he began to memorize sword scores, learn the exercises, and the things his peers said... he didn't understand at all, he hadn't even seen it on TV. Therefore, he did not know how to talk to the people around him, nor did he know what to say. Children play in groups. Once a person has no friends at the beginning, he will never have any more in the future.
After graduating from elementary school and reaching junior high school, he could barely keep up with the rhythm of modern life, but he was already withdrawn to a certain degree and no longer wanted to contact people. After a long time, his ability to talk to himself was very high. Others become dumb.
When he got here, life in the village was simple and the same. The two brothers were very sincere. They laughed in front of him all day, and gradually became familiar with them. As long as they don’t touch themselves closely, Lin Shu can be with them. Being in peace is a rare experience.
I continued to live in peace for a few days, and it was the day of the Shangling test.
The aunt sent the three to the entrance of the village, and said to Li Jifei and Li Yamao: "You two are fucked up, don't care what kind of old mother you are in the test, don't lose the little care!"
Li Yamao smiled and said, "Don't worry, mother, we will take him well!"
Lin Shu looked at this scene and thought for a while. He didn't get lost. He didn't know why he left the impression that the auntie was easy to lose. He was a bit at a loss: "..."
The auntie cast her gaze on Lin Shu, very worried: "Look! It's like nothing else! Don't you just let it go!"
"He's listening!" Li Yamao excused him, "I just don't know how to make facial expressions, so I look a little dazed!"
Auntie "pooh", took a few steps forward, and said to Lin Shu, "Follow me!"
The distance was too close, Lin Shu was a little stiff, nodding silently.
The aunt was satisfied, waved her hand, and let them go.
Ning'an Prefecture is a small county, only a dozen miles from the southern suburbs to the center of the city. They each rode a gray donkey and walked side by side on the dirt road. Lin Shu brought an extra hat—this is the lady who knows he is not in good health. , For fear that he will be stunned by the sun, specially added.
Lin Shu was carried by a donkey while watching the scenery along the road.
When first entered the city, the streets on both sides were sparse, the houses were low, and they were all old wooden mud houses. They were not very prosperous. After passing an archway, when arrived in the inner city, saw a rather grand official office and gradually there were shops along the street. , Selling some melon and fruit desserts, shouting one after another, quite interesting.
As soon as arrived at the examination room, there was a lot of traffic, and the voices were also very loud. The examination room was actually a square of tens of meters and a green brick floor.
Across the black and crushing heads, Lin Shu saw a tall bamboo pillar standing in front of him. On it, a blue banner was hung on it, and the large characters "Shangling Test" were written on it. Participants sat on the ground with the bamboo pillar as the center.
Li Yamao: "It's also really stupid."
Li Jifei nodded.
Lin Shu thinks so.
However, when almost everyone arrived, he felt that the perfunctory and simplicity of this place was not without reason—the entire Ning'an Mansion did not know whether there were 5,000 people, and there were only 1,000 people who came to take the test. People are here to try their luck. The Shangling learning palace enrolls only a thousand people in Southern Xia a year, but the number of people participating in the Shangling test will be hundreds of thousands. If the venue is carefully arranged and the assessment is carried out in reality, it is really not easy.
Li Yamao turned out a hemp rope from somewhere, tied one of Lin Shu's wrists, tied the other end to his waist, and said, "Wait for a lot of people, if you are really lost, my mother is afraid I hang up and fight."
When the drum beat three times, the noisy crowd fell silent, and a vigorous and powerful voice was heard from a distance: "Get up!"
With the bamboo pillar as the center, a milky white complex array pattern suddenly spread on the bluestone slab, and after a short while, the light was bright.
Lin Shu's consciousness was suddenly pulled. After a feeling of weightlessness, he opened his eyes again, and he was already on a mountain road filled with morning mist. There was a stone on the side of the road with "Shangling Dreamland" engraved on it.
He climbed up the steps, turned a bend after dozens of steps, turned around, and suddenly reached the top of the mountain.
The mountain top is rising, and the morning breeze is refreshing. In front of him, a phantom of a blue-clothed man with a very kind-looking appearance, arching his hand at himself: "Friends, please sit quietly."
Lin Shu sat quietly.
"Where is the Taoist friend's house?"
"Min Prefecture, Ning'an Mansion."
"What is the name of fellow Taoist?"
"Lin Shu."
"How old is fellow Taoist this year?"
"fourteen."
"It's really a young hero."
After all, the blue-clothed man continued: "Friends, please close your eyes."
Lin Shu closed his eyes.
"Friends, please meditate."
Lin Shu Mingsi.
The blue-clothed man laughed: "Poke and jump, fellow Taoist is really obedient."
Lin Shu: "..."
The IQ of the test system is quite high.
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