(The second update, and the first chapter of today's chapter, chapter 1)

About 30 miles away in Yunzhou Sangganguan, there is a village house, gathered twenty or thirty families, build thatched huts at the foot of the mountain and live together, the farmland near the left is scarce, these families rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft, most of them are half-ploughing and half-hunting.

The weather is getting cooler, the morning sun is very warm, sprinkled on the hillside quite vigorous, there is a grass house on the mountainside, a girl in a coarse linen shirt, standing outside the house with the morning glow on her head, but staring at the mountain forest behind the house, dyed with a touch of charcoal on her little face full of melancholy.

A woman came out of the thatched hut, in fact, she was only middle-aged, her face was old, and her waist could not be straightened, and most of her life's hard work had made her too much overdrawn life, and at this time she had been wrapped in two clothes.

"Your brother hasn't left the mountain yet?" The woman moved out of the door, and with a worried look on her face, asked the fair-eyed girl in front of the door.

"Mother, why did you come out? You are not well yet, and you can't stand the cold wind. The girl hurriedly came over to help the woman, but was rejected by the woman who had been strong all her life, and said with a straight face: "The mother's body is clear and tough!" ”

The girl pursed her lips, but she didn't dare to say more, and said: "My brother has never made a mistake in entering the mountain, although it has been in for a longer time this time, but it is expected that there will be no problem, mother, you can rest assured." ”

Speaking of this, the girl sighed secretly, thinking that if it wasn't for the money for the medicinal materials for her mother, her brother wouldn't have been in for so long, right? Now there is only one brother in the family, Ding Zhuang, and the family of three is counting on him, but they don't dare to go on a business trip

The mother and daughter were worried, and a sturdy Shuo Erlang appeared on the mountain, and as soon as Wu appeared, he waved desperately at the mother and daughter, raised a wild deer in his hand, and with a proud and proud smile on his face, he shouted loudly to the mother and daughter: "Mother, girl, do you see it, this is a good thing!" ”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief, but the girl looked adoring, clasped her hands in front of her mouth and shouted vigorously, "Brother, come back quickly, and wait for you to eat!" ”

After running for a long time on the winding mountain road, Erlang returned to the grass hut, took the wild deer to the maiden and put it away, and immediately inquired about the woman's condition, and looked carefully at the woman's face for a while, and then relieved himself slightly.

"What is my old bone, it's only serious that you haven't been hurt." When the woman said this, she did not notice any contradiction with what she had said to the maiden.

Erlang stayed in the mountains for almost three days, although he brought some food when he went in, he was also very hungry at this time, and he devoured the rice bowl for a while. Looking at her son's unkempt face and munching on his head, the woman's eyes were full of distress, and she gave a piece of hare meat in her bowl to her son, "Eat more." ”

Erlang didn't raise his head, and the rabbit meat returned to the woman's bowl, "Mother, you are recuperating." ”

Seeing that the woman's face was not good, the girl hurriedly gave the meat in her bowl to Erlang, "Brother, you have worked hard for several days, eat more." Glancing at the woman, he saw that the other person's face was full of joy, and he felt very happy in his heart.

Erlang didn't speak, but the result was the same, the meat still returned to the girl's bowl.

Putting down the bowl, Erlang stroked the belly that had not been filled with much, and exhaled, looking very satisfied, "I'm full!" ”

Somehow, the woman's eyes welled up with tears, and she turned her head and wiped it with her rough hand, and scolded in a low voice: "Dead old man, why did you die so early!" ”

The girl buried her head and grabbed the missing rice bowl into her mouth.

Erlang suddenly looked at his mother and sister solemnly, and said seriously: "Mother, girl, I plan to go to Luoyang!" ”

The mother and daughter stopped their actions in shock, "What are you going to Luoyang for?" ”

"I've inquired about it, I'm going to apply for the martial arts academy!" Erlang's expression was unusually determined.

"Martial Arts Academy? What is Performing Martial Arts Academy? Luoyang, how far is that! The woman's face was full of rejection.

"Mother, the Yanwu Academy is a place for sergeants to study, and if you stay in the Yanwu Academy for two years, you will be the head of the sergeant!" The girl heard Erlang mention the martial arts academy, but in fact, she didn't know much about it, so she explained it to the woman at this time.

"You're going to join the army?!" The woman understood, and immediately stood up, "No, no! At the moment when there are wars everywhere, how dangerous is it to join the army? Although this old bone is useless, you don't need to exchange your life for food! ”

Erlang was not happy, but he did not contradict the woman, but further explained: "Meritorious service in the army, fame in the world, entry and exit will enter the phase, retirement can glorify the ancestors, the husband should be like this!" Mother, this is the child's ambition, I have made up my mind, and please forgive me! ”

Say goodbye, bow deeply.

Seeing that Erlang was resolute and saluted, the girl was a little panicked, and she was afraid that the woman would not agree, so she bowed down beside Erlang and helped persuade the woman: "Mother, my brother is brave, and he will definitely be able to make contributions in the army, and I ask my mother to let my brother go!" ”

The woman was silent for a long time, sighed, picked up her son, and said earnestly: "It is a good thing that my son has such a great ambition, how can my mother not agree with you to go?" It's just that Luoyang is far away, and you have never been far away, and besides, you will join the army in the future, and you don't know how long it will take to see each other once."

The moonlit night in the mountains is particularly cool, there is no lamp in the thatched hut, and the sunrise is the life of the rural villagers, and the lamp oil is still too luxurious, and the poor people can't afford to use it. Erlang was playing boxing in front of the house, and the girl was sitting on a wooden stake next to her, holding her chin with both hands and looking at the sweaty Erlang, her eyes were full of respect.

When resting, the brother and sister sat together, looking at the Bishi Mountain and the Bow Moon, and Erlang said: "As long as I enter the Yanwu Academy, the court will give you money and food, and the salary is enough for you to live with your mother. ”

The girl patted her chest and promised: "Brother, don't worry, I will be very diligent!" ”

Touching the girl's head, Erlang swore and said: "When I join the army, make meritorious contributions, and become a general, I will definitely buy you a rich dowry!" ”

The girl lowered her head shyly, "No, I'm still young!" ”

Erlang laughed, laughed twice, quickly stopped, looked back at the grass hut, and saw that it should not disturb the woman's rest, so he relieved himself.

"But brother" the girl's eyes flashed with an innocent look, "I heard that the generals outside are very majestic, you can't be called Shi Dalang when you go to Luoyang this time, right?" ”

"I've thought it all out!" Erlang was confident, "This time I left home and made contributions, my name is Shi Yanchao!" ”

The next day, Shi Yanchao waved goodbye to the mother and daughter, and when his figure disappeared into the mountain road, the mother and daughter looked at each other and wiped their tears.

After walking for a month or two, Shi Yanchao finally arrived in Luoyang with sound limbs. Different from the treatment of scholars who enter Beijing to take the exam, the magistrate will not arrange the itinerary of the candidates of the Yanwu Academy, nor will they send someone to escort them, but this is because the Yanwu Academy is not short of students and different from the scholars, the Yanwu Academy has very strict requirements for the students' mental ability, and they will have to endure hardships in the future, and entering Beijing by themselves is also a test for the candidates.

Luo Shui in the autumn seems to be infected with the literati commotion, becoming more connotative than in the past, with his own mood, Shi Yanchao washed his face with the river water, looked up and saw the small boat on the Luo Shui, and the white-clothed scholars who stood on the bow of the boat, only then did they remember that the examination date of the Performing Arts Academy was at the same time as the autumn examination of the imperial examination.

No wonder Luoshui was infected with the commotion of the literati, it turned out that there were many people reading on the autumn trip.

Shi Yanchao didn't care about this, he counted the days, there was still some time before the martial arts academy exam, so he was not in a hurry to enter the city, but was ready to find a place to stay. The inn in the city is not able to live, he does not have that entanglement, the temple outside the city can be borrowed, but it is conceivable that the charging standard of the temple wing room at this time is not much cheaper than the inn.

In the end, Shi Yanchao decided to be an advanced city. Because he already knew that he had no other choice than to sleep on the streets, since he wanted to sleep on the streets, it was better to sleep in the city, at least closer to the martial arts academy.

After entering the city, Shi Yanchao first inquired about the location of the Yanwu Academy, and he wanted to know the specific matters of the exam as soon as possible so that he could prepare, although in fact he could not prepare anything.

Two hours later, Shi Yanchao stood outside the mountain gate of the Yanwu Academy. No wonder it took him so long, his Yunzhou accent was too different from Luoyang's official dialect, and it was very difficult to communicate, which made him feel a little panicked for the first time.

There is a bulletin board outside the mountain gate, and there is an announcement on the bulletin board about the opening of the martial arts academy.

Looking at those words, Shi Yanchao was not struggling, thanks to a scholar in the township, he could read and write.

"Unlike previous years, only the students were selected in the army, although this autumn the Martial Arts Academy is open to external recruitment, but the quota is only thirty people, which also includes the competition for the son of the general, brother, you are not a local, which undoubtedly increases your difficulty!" In front of the bulletin board, someone was talking to Shi Yanchao.

He turned his head and saw a young man about the same age as him, also sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a green shirt, carrying a long knife, holding a folding fan, looking personable, but actually very stupid.

However, Shi Yanchao didn't think that the other party was stupid, and those who dared to swagger through the market with a long knife on their backs were only one kind of person if they weren't on duty: sergeants.

Shi Yanchao was still understanding the other party's words, and the young man who thought he had an extraordinary demeanor began to show his chic again, "Brother Tai, I see that you have a tough body, a strange root, and what is even more rare is that your eyes are like an eagle, I don't think you are a general, it just happened that a certain person just came to Luoyang, and there is just a lack of an entourage, it is better for you to follow a certain person, it is better than being unfamiliar with life and being manipulated by others!" ”

"I didn't ask my brother Taigao's name." Shi Yanchao said slowly.

"No, Fu Yanlin is here!" The boy was delighted.

"Under Shi Yanchao, Brother Fu, if you can beat a certain person, a certain person is willing to be your entourage, if you are beaten by a certain person, you will be provided with food and clothing during the test, how about it?" After saying that, Shi Yanchao twisted his wrist, and with a calm face, he was about to pounce on Fu Yanlin.

Fu Yanlin was stunned at first, then laughed, put away the folding fan, and said a good word, about to meet Shi Yanchao.

At this moment, a cold voice sounded, "The mountain gate of the Yanwu Academy is important, how can you be unreasonable to wait here?" ”

Fu Yanlin and Shi Yanchao both turned their heads to look, but saw a young man of the same age as them, not walking out of the mountain gate, but walking from the direction of the street, looking at them coldly, with a warning on his face.

"Who are you?" Fu Yanlin was very unhappy, and raised her eyebrows, "You also want to come to learn from each other?" ”

The person who came looked at Fu Yanlin like an idiot, "Just like you, put down three of them with one hand." ”

"Don't be ashamed!" Fu Yanlin was suddenly furious, dropped Shi Yanchao, and swung his fist like the young man calling.

The young man's face changed, and the words that he had originally prepared to "change places" were too late to say, so he could only stand up to meet them.

Shi Yanchao looked at these two people, and suddenly had some doubts: What should he do?

After thinking about it seriously, Shi Yanchao felt that he couldn't just leave, and besides, he had nowhere to go - the person who wanted to solve this problem for him was being entangled by the Luoyang man at this time.

Shi Yanchao couldn't watch anymore, and greeted him with an accent that was difficult for others to hear, "Wait, Brother Fu, your opponent is me!" ”

"Good time, eat a certain punch!"

"And you kid, I almost forgot about you, you were presumptuous in front of the martial arts academy, don't want to leave!"

After Li Congjing inspected the martial arts academy, he was going out with Du Qianshu, and he was reported that someone was fighting in front of the mountain gate, which made him very unhappy, and he was about to say something, Meng Songbai continued: "One of them is Shi Chonggui, and the other two young men, but I don't know who they are."

At this time, Su Yuqi stood in front of Luoyang City, he looked up at the two majestic characters on the city gate, and before he could sigh, he was knocked down by a horse that ran away in a panic for some reason.

When the groom finally controlled the horse, a scholar got out of the car, walked up to Su Yuqi in three or two steps, helped him up, and made amends, "Brother Tai, how are you?" In Xia Su Fengji, I collided with my brother's platform, I really can't help it."

Su Yuqi hurried for days, but he didn't ride a horse, he walked with his feet, he was tired, he was hit by a carriage, and he was not too injured, but he was dizzy for a while, he didn't wake up in half a sound, and he couldn't stand steadily.

At this time, another scholar came over to help Su Fengji pick up Su Yuqi, and began to check the pulse of the other party, "On the first floor of Xiazhang, I know a little about medical skills, and let me show my brother Tai first"

Before the two trials were opened, the world's talents have rushed to gather in Luoyang.