I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

The sun was setting, and it was already evening in a blink of an eye.In the wilderness, on a grassy path, two people came.

A handsome young man in Tsing Yi was sitting on a donkey, with a young man at his side, almost like a master and servant.

The boy was Ji Zihe, and the young man was Huang Jiulang's bones.Before he knew it, Ji Zihe was already a young man.The war in the northwest has not stopped, and the imperial examination has not yet been held. Because of the elderly father at home, he still stays in Baihe Town to waste time.

This time I left home because I was going to attend a funeral.One of his distant relatives who lived in Honghe Town died. This distant relative was originally a scholar. Because of the Northwest War, he abandoned literature and went to martial arts.As a result, he died on the battlefield, and the body was not even brought back, but was buried in the northwest directly.

The family was very sad when they got the letter. Even if there is no body, they still want to build a tomb for him.This martyr has an old father and mother, a wife and four children. Fortunately, the family has small assets, so that his wife and children will not suffer.

Then, they found someone to send a letter to Ji Zihe's grandfather, hoping to ask Ji Zihe, a man, to personally write a sacrificial rite and epitaph for the deceased.

In fact, since Ji Zihe became a Juren, many weddings and ceremonies around him like to ask him to host, although they will provide remuneration and so on, but Ji Zihe doesn't like the little money anymore.

After becoming a juren, the state will give subsidies, and this subsidy alone is enough for his father and his father to live comfortably.In addition, he does not have to pay taxes on the land properties under his command, so many people come to "invest in cash", that is, put their land in his name, and then pay him taxes every year. Of course, this tax is far lower than state taxation.Even so, relying on these places alone, Ji Zihe can guarantee that his father and father will live a well-off and well-off life.

So the current Ji Zihe can be regarded as a person with a small fortune.Unless he is an acquaintance or a real rich client, he will generally refuse such a tiring job.

But this time was different. This distant relative who had never seen or heard of him died on the battlefield. He died to defend his family and country, and he was also a scholar.This kind of courage alone, this kind of righteousness, is worthy of admiration.

So Ji Zihe immediately agreed to write a memorial for him, and said that he could preside over his funeral.Of course Ji Zihe would not refuse Ji Zihe's proposal. They agreed on a good date and waited for Ji Zihe's visit.

Ji Zihe had never been to Honghe Town before, and his grandfather was still a little worried and didn't want him to go.That distant relative is really far away, a relative who has not been contacted or met for 800 years, why do you have to help.

Grandpa couldn't understand Ji Zihe's hot-blooded youth, Xiao Jiujiu, because of family reasons, Ji Zihe would not be able to go to the battlefield in this life, and he respected those soldiers who abandoned literature and went to military service from the bottom of his heart.

The Great Chu Kingdom is not a world for scholars. Although the country gives great preferential treatment to scholars, the people standing at the top of the pyramid are not only civil servants, even military generals are promoted faster than civil servants.After all, as long as there are battles, they can keep getting promoted, but civil servants need a little bit of seniority.Some civil servants may even become military generals in front of them. After all, these days, it is not a pleasure to cultivate scholars who are powerless.

However, for most ordinary people who need to serve in the military, being a soldier is not a good thing.Going to the battlefield is to die as cannon fodder. If you are lucky enough to survive, you can either continue to serve as a soldier or return to your hometown to farm.There are obviously more people who choose to go back to their hometowns to farm. Compared with making contributions, ordinary people like them want to live their lives, and nothing is important.

But Ji Zihe was already an adult, and Huang Jiulang said that he had been to Honghe Town and could lead the way, so Old Man Ji didn't object anymore.

But who knew that Huang Jiulang, an unreliable fox, suddenly asked Ji Zihe for leave before he set off, saying that his mother had given birth to him again, and asked him to go back and recognize people.

When encountering this kind of thing, Ji Zihe had to let people go home, but without Huang Jiulang, old man Ji would not let him go out.As a result, the bones turned into Huang Jiulang's appearance, and with Ji's hesitant expression on his face, one person and one ghost set off.

Relying on the simple map drawn by Huang Jiulang, Ji Zihe and the others walked for a day without seeing Honghe Town.Now that they have come to this wilderness, there is not even a village, and they can't find anyone to ask for directions.

Soon, it was getting dark, and when Ji Zihe was thinking about whether they should set up camp on the spot, Bones patted his arm.

"What's wrong?" Ji Zihe asked.

"Look over there."

Following the direction pointed by the bone, Ji Zihe saw lights in the distance, and was overjoyed, "Is that a village?"

"I don't know, it's too far away." Bone said.

"Then let's go and have a look." Ji Zihe said, he didn't want to sleep in the wilderness, who knew if there would be wolves or something at night.Even if he has bones to protect him, if his life is not in danger, he will be frightened.

"Hmm." Bones said he had no objection.

"Well, Gu Gu, you will scare people like this. Can we be alone for a while?" Ji Zihe couldn't help but said, Gu Gu's feet didn't step on the ground at all, and they didn't even step when they walked. How perfunctory and perfunctory.

"It's so troublesome to be a human being, how comfortable it is to float..." Bone's face was full of reluctance.

"But you are my bookboy Xiao Jiu now!" Ji Zihe reminded the actor that Xiao Jiu can't float.

"Okay, master." Bones immediately entered the state, squeezed his throat and raised his orchid fingers, and flirted with Huang Jiulang's face at Ji Zihe enchantingly.

Sure enough, Ji Zihe shivered, and his skin got goosebumps.Xiao Jiu is not such a mother, this is purely disgusting to his bones.

Seeing his reaction, Bones laughed viciously, and finally restrained his aura, kept his feet on the ground, condescended and stepped forward with his long legs.

Not long after walking, a hunchbacked old man suddenly appeared in front of him and hurried over with a cane.If it's in other places, it's nothing, but look at the sky, and then look at the surrounding environment, no matter how you look at it, you feel weird.

Immediately, Ji Zihe thought of the ghost stories that the old people in the village liked to tell. He quickly tilted his body and asked, "Bone, is that old man a human?"

Bones shook his head, "It's a monster."

Ji Zihe knew it, and said in his heart, maybe this monster is here to confuse him, so he must not believe half of it.

When the old man approached, Ji Zihe and the others made way for him by the side of the road.Unexpectedly, the old man stopped and asked with a smile, "Young master, why are you still on the road so late?"

"We're going to Honghe Town, but we haven't reached it after a day of walking, maybe we got lost. Seeing the lights ahead, we want to go there for the night, and we'll ask someone for directions after dawn tomorrow." Ji Zihe said.

"Oh, young master, that's not a good place. Don't go there. Fortunately, you met me. Come with me. My house is nearby, so I can let you spend the night." Old man Zhang said.

Unfortunately, no matter what he said, Ji Zihe had made up his mind not to believe it.A monster invites you home as a guest in the middle of the night. Whoever dares to go may go to improve the food and add dishes to others.

"No, no, it's getting so late, old man, please go home quickly, we won't bother you." Ji Zihe said.

The old man Zhang was in a hurry, "Young master, I really can't go there, it's not a good place."

"Don't worry, old man, go home quickly, we're leaving first."

Regardless of the old man Zhang's persuasion, Ji Zihe and the others left, leaving the old man where he was in a hurry, and finally turned into a roe, jumped into the grass and disappeared.

"Don't the story books say that monsters like to turn into beautiful women to confuse people? How did they change the old man?" Ji Zihe complained while sitting on the donkey.

"Maybe the monsters also read the storybooks, so if they turn into beauties, they'll just wear it out." Bone said nonsense in a serious manner.

Ji Zihe nodded, "It makes sense, if you hadn't seen his original body, maybe I would be confused too."

After all, the old man's parent is really down-to-earth, he doesn't look like a monster at all!

"Don't talk nice things to me, I don't know you yet. With me here, even if you go home with him, nothing will happen to you. Aren't you just afraid that I will eat all those monsters, hum." Even if there is no bone, With Ji Zihe's vigilance, he would not casually follow a suspicious person home.

"You can't say that. Monsters are not necessarily bad. Maybe he didn't lie. He just kindly reminded me and invited me home as a guest. You see, I rejected him just now. Didn't he do nothing?" ?”

"No need to explain, I understand, you heartless man, I haven't had a full meal with you, I'm so pitiful." Bones used Huang Jiulang's face, as if possessed by a playwright, every minute There is no pressure to change faces.I don't know where I took out a handkerchief, and wiped away the tears that didn't exist on my face.

"Brother, I was wrong, can you stop torturing me?" Ji Zihe was about to collapse, he could hardly look directly at Huang Jiulang's face.If this action is placed on the original face of the bone... Hey~, it will be more irritating to the eyes.

"I'm not telling you to eat monsters, but can you only eat bad monsters?"

"Then why don't you ask the pig when you slaughter pigs during the Chinese New Year, is it a good pig or a good pig?" Bone asked.

Ji Zihe thought for a while and said, "I think, since I became a monster, I can think, have feelings, and have my own ideas and opinions on things, which is no different from you and me. I know, in your eyes Here, they are food, it is by nature. But, I am a human being, bones, I can't see them as food."

Gu paused, threw the handkerchief away, stopped pretending to cry, turned his face away and said angrily, "What a wayward guy, he knows how to do whatever he wants with my favor."

"Bone, you are the best." Ji Zihe said softly.

Bones didn't speak, but his ears felt hot.The sky is so dark that no one can see it, so it is red unbridled.

Soon, they arrived at their destination.There are no villages here, only a Buddhist monastery.It turned out that the lights they saw came from the temple.

Ji Zihe and the others stepped forward and knocked on the door. Soon, the gate of the temple was pulled open from the inside, and a man with his hair tied up in a bun and dressed in a blue Taoist robe came out.

Ji Zihe:? ? ?

Isn't this a Buddhist temple? Why is it a Taoist priest who opened the door?