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Rather than sitting here and waiting for dawn, it is better to walk in the moon.

So, Gu Ming followed the mountain path and continued on his way.

Unexpectedly, the adventure does not seem to end

After walking about two miles, a dilapidated pergola appeared on the side of the road.

Of course, there is nothing to look at when there is a broken pergola.

The point is, a woman with bare feet and a light veil is actually standing by the side of the arbor. Under the bright moonlight, there seem to be two cherries hidden under the light veil.

Seeing Gu Ming approaching, the woman suddenly felt pitiful: "This official, I can't find my way home. This slave in the wilderness is so scared."

"The road is under your feet."

Gu Ming said lightly.

"Under your feet?"

The woman glanced subconsciously.

"What did you see?" Gu Ming asked.

The woman looked puzzled: "I didn't see anything."

"Then look what's under my feet?"

Gu Ming raised his foot and tapped his own shadow.

Seeing this, the woman suddenly came to her senses, a chill flashed in her eyes.

Because under her feet, there is no shadow at all.

In a flash, he put on a charming smile again, and walked over slowly: "I can't imagine that the official is so careful, knowing that the servant's house is a ghost, and he is not afraid at all."

While speaking, a gleam of green light flashed in his eyes.

As an ordinary person, Dang even would lose his mind and let her manipulate him.

It's a pity that she found the wrong partner.

"If you want to live, get out now!"

Gu Ming moved lazily and gave a cold drink.

Why doesn't the system that is watching the screen all the time not release tasks?Could it be that this host has too many points?

Seeing that Gu Ming hadn't been tricked, the female ghost was taken aback, and her footsteps also stopped.

He sized Gu Ming up and down, didn't he seem like some kind of Taoist expert?

So he gritted his teeth and said harshly: "I don't believe how strong your concentration is!"

As soon as the words fell, Qingsha disappeared.

This is a complete fight, the big deal is to be honest with each other, I don't believe it can't mess with your stinky man's heart.

It's just pitiful, no matter how beautiful she is, in Gu Ming's eyes, she is already showing her original shape, with skinny bones, sunken eye sockets, and many rotten sores on her body.

Clearly a sick man.

Looking at it one more time will stain the eyes, so Gu Ming immediately shouted angrily: "The witch is looking for death!"

An invisible force spurted out, immediately making the female ghost feel as if she had been hit hard, her figure drifted back a few steps uncontrollably, and her expression became sluggish.

It's ridiculous that she still hasn't accepted the lesson until now, and it seems that she is in a fight with Gu Ming.

"The old lady is fighting with you!"

At this time, she finally ignored the transformation, and revealed her true colors, while her hair was flying around like a spider's silk.

At first Gu Ming didn't bother to clean it up.

After all, he is not the kind of cultivator who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, kills demons when he sees them, and kills ghosts when he sees them.

As Yan Chixia said, when people become bad, they are much more terrifying than ghosts and demons.

But now, this ghost is obviously an evil ghost, so there is no mercy.

"Heaven and earth are righteous!"

Before using the wonderful pen to make flowers, just one sentence made the hair of the evil spirit shrink back in an instant.

"It's majestic, cut!"

This time, I finally used a wonderful pen to make flowers.

"what!"

In the night sky, a scream suddenly sounded.

"Evil spirits, kill!"

There was a surge of airflow, and the handwriting that was written with a swipe of a hair swept away in a blink of an eye.

Before the evil ghost begged for mercy, his figure suddenly disintegrated, turning into wisps of light smoke that floated in the night sky.

"What's the trouble?"

Gu Ming put away the brush, looked at the smoke in the night sky, shook his head, and strode away.

Now, his technique can be said to be more and more proficient, especially after upgrading to Gongsheng, it is even more effortless to deal with such little demons and little ghosts.

After thinking about upgrading Juren, I am afraid that even the magic pen and flowers can be used to receive miraculous results.

Going on for a few miles, we saw a small town.

However, Gu Ming didn't need to stay in the hotel at this time, he walked through the town and headed towards Yuhang Mansion.

Two days later.

Gu Ming's figure appeared at the south gate of Yuhang Mansion.

After entering the city, first find an inn to settle down.

"Shopkeeper, is there still room for use?"

"Young master, don't talk about getting a room these days, it would be great if you have a vacant room."

This is true, after all, the township examination is held three times, and scholars from all directions flock here, so the guest room is naturally a little nervous.

It's just that Gu Ming is not short of money now, and he doesn't want to share a room with others. After asking three or four houses, he finally found a good room.

The main reason is that the standard of this inn is relatively high, and the housing price is also high. A room costs [-] yuan a night. How can ordinary scholars afford to live there?

It's not one night or two nights, at least it's more than a month.

So Gu Ming had to sigh, it's great to be rich!

According to the shopkeeper, more than half of the customers in the store are scholars and accompanying servants who came to take the exam.

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Ming entered the backyard, he found that there were three or five piles in the yard, and there were at least thirty or forty scholars gathered around drinking tea, chatting, and reciting poems

There are different ages, most of them are between 40 and [-], and a few are in their early [-]s.

These people didn't necessarily know each other before.

However, everyone came to participate in the rural examination together, and they were destined to live in an inn for a month or two, so they would naturally visit and get acquainted with each other.

The important thing is that the chance of being selected is too small, about one for every hundred people admitted.

For nearly a hundred years, Jiangnan has always been the province with the largest number of test takers and the largest number of admissions.

But in the most year, only 120 candidates were admitted, but there were also many candidates in that year, nearly 2000.

After all, the township examination is held every three years, and I don't know how many scholars study hard in the cold window, just for the slim chance of these three years and three years.

Therefore, some scholars know that they have no hope of being selected, but they will come to join in the fun and make friends widely.

If you make a few friends who will win the next exam, firstly, you will have a reputation, and secondly, you may be able to gain some reputation.

This is the network of relationships.

Multiple friends have multiple roads.

As soon as Gu Ming appeared in the courtyard, two scholars greeted him enthusiastically.

"Presumably this dear friend is also here to take the exam?"

"Yes" Gu Ming nodded with a smile.

"Then everyone can be regarded as half of my classmates, Xiaosheng Xu Jiaying, from Jinhua Mansion."

"Xiaosheng Ma Yun, from the suburban county of Yuhang Prefecture, don't you know your brother's name?"

Chapter 1

Hearing the two scholars self-reporting their families, Gu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then he cupped his hands and smiled meaningfully: "I have admired you for a long time, Xiaosheng Gu Ming, a native of Guobei County, Jinhua Prefecture"

"Wait, brother Gu's name is a bit familiar"

Xu Jiaying thought about it for a moment, and couldn't help but smiled, "I remember, did you write The Story of the West Chamber?"

"It's just my humble work."

Upon hearing this, Xu Jiaying cupped his hands again: "It's really Brother Gu, I've admired it for a long time! To tell you the truth, Brother Gu, Xiaosheng really likes that book you wrote, The Story of the West Chamber."

"The Story of the West Chamber? Why hasn't Xiaosheng heard of this book?"

Ma Yun asked suspiciously.

Xu Jiaying said with a smile: "Maybe Yuhang Mansion didn't sell it, but it's well-known in Jinhua Mansion, and even compiled an excerpt

Brother Ma, I just brought a copy over here, and I will lend you a copy when I have time, and you will like it if you keep it. "

"Thank you so much Brother Xu."

"Humph!"

Suddenly, a heavy cold snort came.

"But a mere miscellaneous diary of market slang is worthy of the title of a book? What a joke!"

Hearing this discordant voice, Xu Jiaying couldn't help frowning and glanced over.

The one who made a cold snort was a scholar in a white shirt, brocade clothes and a crown, and a folding fan in his hand. He looked like a handsome young man.

This person's name is Niu Huayue, and he is a disciple of a famous school in Jinhua Mansion.

Several of his ancestors were officials. Now, the Niu family can be regarded as one of the richest people in Jinhua Prefecture. The family runs wineries, dyeing factories, tea, porcelain and so on.

At the same time, the Niu family is also notoriously domineering.

Whenever some small merchants dare to compete with them, the Niu family must find ways to stop them.

After all, the Niu family is rich and powerful, and they have a lot of friendship with the government.Either buy the other party's store directly, or directly suppress it until the other party can't operate it and close it voluntarily.

Because of this, the Niu family is notorious in Jinhua Prefecture.

Many small traders hate it to the bone, but they have no choice but to rely on their breath to survive in the cracks.

The Xu family is also a well-known family in Jinhua Mansion, but it is a scholarly family, and all disciples of the family are prohibited from doing business.

Therefore, over the years, one has purchased fertile land in the outskirts of the city from time to time, or purchased shops in the city for rent collection, and is relatively wealthy.

The two families belonged to famous families in Jinhua Mansion, so it was inevitable that they would have contacts.

Xu Jiaying and Niu Huayue have known each other since childhood, but their personalities are completely different, at most they just meet and say hello, they don't visit each other on weekdays.

Xu Jiaying likes to make friends everywhere, and treats others with enthusiasm, while Niu Huayue is the opposite, he is arrogant, lofty, and even mean.

Unless he meets someone with a higher status and status than him, he will put on a warm smile.

"Brother Niu, it doesn't matter if you don't like this book, but the three of us are discussing it here, but you are sarcastic from the sidelines, I'm afraid it's a violation of etiquette for scholars."

Xu Jiaying couldn't help but said with a cold face.

Unexpectedly, Niu Huayue got excited, slapped the fan, and deliberately raised his voice and shouted: "Since Brother Xu wants to talk about scholars, let's have a debate.

As a scholar, I should read more books of sages and sages, and write some words in the market when I have nothing to do.

It's purely for fame and reputation, and it's an insult to scholars! "

Gu Ming didn't want to pay attention to this person at first, but what the other person said was a bit serious, did he really regard himself as a master?

"Brother Niu, you"