Chapter 49: Various forms of living beings, County Examination and Burning Biao Self-League (4k)
The night became darker and darker, and the alchemist guild was also shrouded in a layer of fog.
Yu Que bumped out of the guild and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the carriage still parked in front of the guild door.
Fortunately, the coachman didn't leave.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to catch a ride at night and he would go to the county school on his own. In a hurry, he would definitely consume a lot of energy and energy.
With a clang, Yu Que jumped onto the carriage without hesitation.
As soon as the coachman saw him coming up, there was no one else behind him, and there was no need for Yu Que to give orders, he suddenly waved his ghost whip and shouted:
"Young Master, sit tight!"
The horses neighed, the bells swayed, and the wheels immediately ran over the stone slabs and crashed into the deep fog.
When Yu Que heard the coachman's address, his tense face softened and he smiled:
"Brother is joking, you are not a young master. If you were really a young master, how could you have such trouble today?"
The coachman didn't reply and smiled honestly.
Yu Que sat in the car and said proactively: "Thank you very much for tonight, brother. My surname is Yu, and my last name is the word 'que'. May I ask my brother's name?"
"Ah! Your last name is not Fu." The coachman was immediately surprised.
Seeing that Yu Que was polite and well-mannered, this man was completely different from his previous ferocious appearance. His mouth was finally no longer dry and there was some saliva, so after a slight hesitation, he said with a smile:
"But I can't bear the title of big brother. I just make a living on the streets. Others call me 'Ma Zai'er'."
The two chatted, and after Yu Que asked carefully, he discovered that this person was just like him. He also lost his parents when he was young and was forced to stay in other people's homes since he was a child.
It's just that the other person's luck is not as good as Yu Que's. This person's relatives are average, so he has already taken to the streets to make a living when he was less than ten years old. This is also the origin of the word "er" in the nickname.
Not long after, the ghost car drove near the county school.
Although it is night in the county school today, it can be said to be busy with traffic, carriages and carriages are queuing up, and people are rubbing shoulders.
There were constant shouts and shouts on the streets. There were candy sellers, roasted chestnut sellers, peanut and assorted dried fruits sellers, wonton buns sellers...everyone was breathing hot and lively.
The nearby families and merchants took advantage of the large number of people attending the county exam tonight and came to do business.
Ma Zai'er drove the ghost car into a corner, which was only two or three hundred steps away from the gate of the county examination, but it would not be crowded into the crowded crowd.
He stopped his horse, shook his head, and said triumphantly: "Although I have never passed the county examination once, I have been here six or seven times, and I love to see you students familiar with the journey!"
Different from the silence at the beginning, after the two got acquainted, the other party seemed quite enthusiastic and pointed at the county school gate:
"Gee! Go in from here along the edge. There are most stalls on the road, including soup buns, snacks, dried meat, elbows, and ham. They are all available! Pick out what you like and eat it, but don't eat too much, or you will vomit in the examination room. ”
"Thank you, Brother Marco!"
Yu Que stood up to greet him. Without further delay, he got out of the car and walked towards the county examination.
Suddenly, Ma Zai'er leaned out of the car, reached for his head and shouted:
"Little brother, work harder! I will wait for you here tonight until dawn."
Hearing the shouting from behind, Yu Que walked in the cold wind and suddenly felt slightly warm.
He turned sideways, cupped his hands towards the other party, and then disappeared into the bustling crowd.
Not long after.
Yu Que squeezed through a bunch of people who came to take the exam and finally walked to the gate of the county school.
The officials at the door checked the documents in his hands again and again, then waved their hands and opened the gate to let him go.
Another group of dark heads appeared in Yu Que's eyes.
At first glance, I saw that this place was crowded with people. I couldn’t count the exact number of people, but they were at least over a thousand.
Driven by the government officials, everyone gathered together street by street according to their place of origin.
Yu Que also quickly blended into the crowd with a few familiar faces.
As soon as he arrived, several people around him looked at him, whispering and pointing.
Yu Que turned a blind eye and found a corner to stand, closing his eyes slightly and adjusting his condition.
But he ignored others, who came to the door and said:
"Are you the one with a foreign surname, Yu Que?"
I saw a young man in brocade robes, wearing a fox fur cloak, with white face and red lips, slightly pointed cheeks, looking at him with pride.
The other party was accompanied by two companions, who were obviously the main ones.
Yu Que calmly opened his eyes and looked directly at this person.
The brocade-robed boy's brows suddenly frowned.
The other party stretched out his finger, pointed at Yu Que, and shouted: "I don't like the look in your eyes. But because of your so-called reputation as a candidate for the county examination, you can come over and stand next to me."
Yu Que looked around and immediately found that the faces around him were all familiar, and he knew his identity.
This man is the third son of the patriarch Fu Jin and the precious son of the You family, Fuling!
Faced with this man's self-righteousness, Yu Que's face not only did not get angry, but showed a strange look. His eyes swept over the faces of the Fu clan members on the left and right one by one.
Nearly half of the Fu clan had dark faces and twinkling eyes. They looked at Yu Que, not daring to speak and lowered their heads in silence.
"It seems that someone from the Fu clan told these candidates not to reveal anything about the You clan." Yu Que understood clearly.
He thought about it for a while, but did not want to take the initiative to reveal the matter, lest Fu Ling, who was young and energetic, cause any trouble for him in the examination room.
So Yu Que cupped his hands toward the other party and said, "No need."
Without waiting for the other party to react, he dodged and swayed into the crowd, avoiding being seen.
Facing Yu Que's disregard, Fuling looked angry and immediately cursed:
"Children are born in families that don't know how to praise!"
The man looked around and said to himself: "This man is domineering. We don't need to pay attention to him. We can just let him fend for himself."
But this person didn't know that when he said these words, the eyes of the tribesmen around him looked at him with more or less sarcasm, teasing, and pity.
Yu Que wandered around the examination room, continuing to look at the quality of the candidates taking the exam tonight.
He didn't know it by looking at it, but his eyes changed slightly.
Because as expected, all of the candidates present had domestic gods who were full of ghosts, and a few of them even looked at Yu Que as if they were aware of it.
This kind of keenness of inspiration is either a result of natural talent, or the maturity of the family god in the body has been cultivated to a great extent.
Yu Que suddenly alerted in his heart:
"There are good talents in a workshop.
It seems that even if my family's god is great and my consciousness is perfect, if I want to win the title of Lu Sheng in the exam, I must go all out and not have any intention of looking down on others! ”
But Yu Que didn't know either. When he looked at the others, everyone else was also frightened:
"The exam hasn't even started yet, but someone is already watching!"
suddenly.
Yu Que saw two more acquaintances in the crowd.
One of them is his friend in the alchemist guild, the rich young master - Qian Huazhen.
The other person is his partner in the fried ghost shop, apprentice Fang Mulian.
These two people were similar to him in age, and as expected, they both came to take the county exam tonight.
It's just that the expressions of these two people are quite different. The one with Qian Huazhen, who is rich in clothes and fine food, looks very similar to the clan leader's son Fu Ling, and they both look like they are sure of victory.
Fang Mulian was hunched over, with a dull expression on her face. Her eyes were filled with anxiety and expectation, and she looked extremely nervous at a glance.
Yu Que took these two people into his eyes and did not go up to greet them.
At present, everyone has not even passed the first level of the county examination, so there is no need to form gangs now.
It won't be too late to get to know each other again after the first round of sand elimination.
Time passes.
After a while, Yu Que saw that no one had announced the start of the exam, so he decided to find a place to sit down first so as not to worry about it.
As a result, a scream rang out in the courtyard of the county school: "It's impossible...Yu Que, I'm going to kill you!"
The scream came so suddenly that thousands of candidates were startled and the buzzing stopped.
In the silence, the cry continued:
"Beast, where are you!!"
Many people followed the sound and saw a young man with a cracked eye and a ferocious face. He was climbing up and shouting, looking around the entire yard. Yu Que also looked over in surprise, understanding that someone had told Fuling about the clan's affairs.
He muttered in his heart: "You haven't seen the body yet, why are you so excited?"
And at this moment.
Fu Ling was holding Youshi's bloody clothes button and belt in his hands, his eyes were wild and murderous.
"Quiet!"
Before he could get mad again, a government servant rushed to him and scolded him repeatedly.
Seeing this, the people of the same clan quickly pulled Fu Lingzhong down from the high place and comforted him:
"Dead people cannot be resurrected! My condolences, young master."
"If you rush over now, you won't be able to see your mother for the last time. Since you are already unfilial, then take the exam well."
Several people surrounded Fuling, crying, and for a moment they seemed more filial than Fuling, his own son.
But amid these cries, Fuling's blood surged and his heart became even more irritable.
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His face turned red and he glared at the yamen servant in front of him so viciously that his teeth almost broke.
The government officials were not afraid at all, but pointed at this guy while talking and laughing.
In an instant, the news that a candidate's mother died tonight swept the entire examination room like a wind.
There was a lot of chatter among the people, and there was even a good guy wandering around, trying to see who the unlucky child was.
The word "Yu Que" has also been kept in the hearts of many candidates.
For example, right in front of Yu Que, someone was talking excitedly in front of him:
"Good guy, you just took a test and then you killed someone else's mother. This guy really thought he would pass the test!"
"Tsk, tsk, you can't say too much about such a vicious person..."
Yu Que stood in front of the other party, and was turned around by the other party. The other party was beaming and said to him:
"What do you say, man?"
Yu Que's expression was strange, and he held his hand obediently without saying anything.
Dang Dang Dang!
Finally, the gongs and drums sounded, and the county examination officially started.
The candidates who were talking about each other broke out into the loudest noise, and the crowds of people immediately crowded towards the real examination place.
Although it was Yu Que's first time here, he had been an intern at the county school before, so he knew which direction the entrance to the examination room was, and he had already wandered nearby.
So he squeezed into the front row, staggered along with everyone else, and filed into the examination room.
In the examination room, what everyone saw were clusters of braziers, but there was no fire in the pots, and there were piles of incense ashes.
In addition, there are no tables, chairs, stools, pens and ink. You need to bring your own pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Yu Que carried his paper bag and rushed to a brazier near the eaves that could provide shelter from wind and rain.
He sat down cross-legged and firmly occupied the pit.
The exams for immortality in this life were different from the Confucian exams in his previous life.
Although classics and classics are also examined in the Immortal Examination, there are no live examiners to mark the papers. Instead, they are all written on yellow paper. After burning incense and praying one after another, green smoke will rise slowly, which can communicate with ghosts and gods.
The first level of the county examination is called "Literary Examination", and this green smoke is also called "Literary Qi".
That night, the county school examiners will select the students with tall and strong facial expressions and admit them to the next level of examination.
The level of literary style is related to the candidate's response level.
The more accurate the answer is, the more solid the smoke that can be burned, and the more it is in line with the wishes of the ghosts and gods, the stronger it will be.
In addition, occasionally there will be people who are unlucky and can barely pass the test, but then a gust of wind blows or a drizzle falls, which blows away their literary spirit, and they are eliminated, and they are unlucky.
Yu Que seized the pit position in order to avoid such a situation.
After all, even if this matter was reported to the examiner, he would only be laughed at.
Because of the practice of burning incense in the immortal family, although they will choose a good and auspicious day, occasionally it will encounter windy and rainy weather. At that time, they still have to open the altar and do it without mistake.
As long as there is something really good in the stomach, no matter how strong the wind blows or how heavy the rain falls, they will definitely be able to make a sound and will not be eliminated.
In the examination room, thousands of candidates were seated, and amid the commotion, lanterns floated out of the examination room and floated around the place.
There are grimaces on the lanterns, and they all stick out long bright red tongues, and exam questions are written on their tongues:
"Who compiled the seventh edition of the Immortal Sutra? It took several years."
"There is one city in Huangshan, which is simply called Huangcheng. There are several cities with the same name. What are their full names?"
"What are the similarities and differences between "The Twenty-Seven Precepts of Xiang'er" and "The Nine Precepts of Xiang'er"...
A bunch of basic knowledge of immortality caught everyone's eyes.
There are also questions that are almost free of points but appear to be tricky:
"The red city and the yellow city both have clouds on the city, and the clouds extinguish the light, which is a wonderful sight. Which of the two is higher and which is lower?"
Obviously, if these questions are simply answered, they will probably not be able to answer the questions in the heart of the person who asked the questions. They must be well-reasoned and cite scriptures.
Yu Que leaned down, immediately spread out the yellow paper on his knees, put the brush on his tongue, melted it with saliva, and stuck it with cinnabar to write one by one.
From time to time, after writing for a while, he would spit out a few mouthfuls to avoid eating too much cinnabar and hurting his body.
People's saliva can communicate with ghosts. This is one of the tips for taking exams.
In an instant, the sound of bah-bah was heard continuously in the examination room.
There are also candidates who are using water and ink instead of using their own saliva.
It's just that the other generation either comes from a wealthy family, and the ink they use is mixed with zombie tooth powder, or the water they use is actually the tears of the dead.
Or they come all the way from outside the city, don’t understand anything, and don’t know how to learn from them.
Half an hour passed.
Yu Que wrote a long and special book, transcribing five pieces of yellow paper in succession, with dragons and phoenixes dancing on each piece of paper.
At this time, in the examination room, someone was already burning incense and burning the smoke, making the night sky full of will-o’-the-wisps that flickered on and off.
However, Yu Que hasn't burned the watch yet. His grades in immortality have always been good and he is confident. He plans to burn it together after he has collected a basket.
The "wenqi" produced in this way is so thick that it may not be destroyed even if water is poured on it.
Finally, Yu Que met a big question:
"Drink the elixir to establish an alliance, grant blessings, God has spirit! Now there is the "Elixir of Water" as follows, please write the "Self-Agreement Article", which is in line with the appearance and order."
His spirit perked up, he immediately knocked on his teeth and drums, leaned over and wrote:
"Incense has a dynasty, Huangshan County, No. 7 Fang City, there are still many disciples of Fairy Tong, I bow my head again, and say:
The secret god of the Tao, the Supreme Taoist Lord, the gods of the five directions, and the true Tao of the ten directions. The Thirty-Six Parts of Taishang Lingbao's Sutras and Treasure Talisman, all the great masters of Gaoxuan, have been blessed by fate, and will be immortal in the nine days of calamity. They were caught by Qing Zuo, and the birthplace of the reincarnation was obtained. I have made vows beforehand, admired and glimpsed, Dharma passed the Mahayana, my mind was delighted, and I was afraid of rotting. Today, due to the fate of the gods, several lines of the emperor's way have been drawn up and written in the seven counties of Menghuang to enlighten the ignorant, bestow spiritual texts on ministers, and serve the sage. The flesh corpse was frightened, washed away the oil and filth, and had to serve on the spiritual altar. ”
After writing one page in one breath, he kept writing.
"The remaining celestial beings should encourage themselves to be dignified, make offerings to honor the rites, abandon emotions and tiredness, aim at the secluded mountains, live well in the world, only aim at the hills and rocks, worship day and night, think about the foolish tubes, rely on the holy scriptures, and pull away the rotten corpses. , control your suspicions with your heart, and don’t dare to: violate the alliance and betray the oath, deceive the teacher, show your face without intention, and you will not be safe.”
Yu Que calmed down and wrote again tremblingly:
"Now I admit my sins and speak boldly. I invite my parents of the seventh generation and the ancestors of the Nine Mysteries to testify my oath. When I see people in the world, the nine ethnic groups regard it as an alliance. Yu Que enjoys his immortal way and dares not to restrain him. One day If you disobey, you will end up in the five realms of hell together in life and death, and you will not dare to hide yourself.”
After writing this, he checked three times and found blood on the prick, but he did not use the blood to mix the ink. He just tapped and finally wrote:
"Appeal to the Taoist secrets, swear an oath to the five emperors, face the teacher's treasure, and make an oath on your own. I am sincere and sincere, but I can only accept it with humility. The fairy boy Yu Que is sincere and frightened, and bows before me again."
After the alliance letter was completed, he picked up the examination papers in front of him, piled them into the brazier, and lit them.
Poof!
The bright light from the brazier made his face turn red.
In Yu Que's expectant eyes, a line of green smoke suddenly shot up.
The smoke slowly rose up to more than one foot or three feet, which was so spectacular that it immediately attracted the attention of many candidates, ghosts and gods.
(End of chapter)