There are only two first-class masters under the age of twenty on the Tianji List. The duel between them should have attracted everyone's attention, but in the end it did not cause any waves in the academy.
Neither the two participants, Lu Jing and Yan Yun, nor Wen Xiaochuan, a bystander, mentioned the competition to anyone else afterwards.
Therefore, this matter is like a stream under the ice, rushing past, but in the end it is silent.
However, Wen Xiaochuan did go to see Lu Jing later. She went there early the next morning and found that Lu Jing was practicing in seclusion, so she went back two days later, but this time she came to nothing.
Lu Jing heard the chirping of birds outside the door early in the morning. He stood up and opened the door. He saw a nightingale with blue feathers, yellow belly and slender legs, standing on the peach tree in his yard.
After seeing him, the blue-feathered nightingale tilted its head and looked at him for a while, then spread its wings and flew down from the branch, landing in Lu Jing's outstretched palm.
Lu Jing untied the note tied to Nightingale's leg.
Zhang Zhang glanced at the signature first and found that it was written to him by Yan Yun, and then looked up again.
The note contained clues about how to obtain bamboo from the bamboo path that Yan Yun had promised to tell him.
Lu Jing and Xia Huai were punished for trespassing into the otherworldly cave, and were punished by having to take a hundred bamboos from the bamboo path, farm the fields for two months, and organize the library's collection of 5,000 books.
Although Huang Jianyuan did not set a time limit for them to complete these tasks, according to the usual practice of the academy, those who were punished would have to start corresponding work one week from the date of punishment.
For example, Yang Tao was fined for taking twenty bamboos from the bamboo path because he watched Lu Jing and Xia Huai enter the other cave but did not stop them.
Don't underestimate these twenty bamboos. Yang Tao had already started studying how to chop bamboo a month ago, but his progress was not very smooth. One month later, he only cut two bamboos, and they were already spent. There are hundreds of hatchets.
So he was busy looking for ways to deal with those bamboos during this time.
At the same time, according to Yang Tao, the academy actually has requirements for the time for completing the punishment, but it is not stated openly, but will mostly be reflected in the conduct evaluation at the end of the year.
If the Yellow Supervisory Academy finds that there is procrastination and slackness, then the conduct score will be lowered. In the mild case, he will be punished in the next year, and in the serious case, he may even be expelled from the academy.
In short, once punished, it is better to complete it as soon as possible. Therefore, although Lu Jing is more concerned about the trouble in his Dantian, he can no longer put the punishment aside and ignore it.
Fortunately, he had already visited the library once and helped the man with the mustache sort out some of the books. Thanks to his excellent eyesight, Lu Jing was making good progress on this task.
He roughly estimated the time. If he went two days a week from now on and everything went well, he would be able to sort out the five thousand books in about a month and a half.
Lu Jing on the Xuetian side didn't know what was going on yet, but since the time was fixed for two months, it was easier to arrange. So the most uncertain thing left was to take the bamboo path to cut the bamboo.
In addition, Yang Tao still had eighteen bamboos to chop, so Lu Jing moved this matter to the front of his schedule.
The bamboo used for taking the bamboo path is affected by strange objects. Unlike ordinary bamboo, its body is extremely hard, even stronger than hundred-refined refined iron, so it is very difficult to cut it down normally. Lu Jing himself has experienced this personally.
Fortunately, Yan Yun now provided him with a method in the note.
"Xinzi three hundred and thirty seven? What is that?" Yang Tao asked curiously.
It was still early at this time, and Yang Tao was doing morning exercises in his yard. Unexpectedly, Lu Jing and Xia Huai came to the door. After hearing Lu Jing's intention, Yang Tao immediately threw down the newly bought big gun. Gun, come the spirit.
"[Xin Zi 333 Shiqi], its name is Yatie. It is recorded in "Zhiwuzhi" that Yatie has a body like a bear, black and white, a small head, and numb feet. He likes to eat gold, iron, and bamboo bones, and his feces can be used Yu Zhubing."
To be honest, Lu Jing's eyelids jumped when he read this paragraph. Putting aside the seemingly mysterious things at the end, just looking at the description of the appearance in the front, it seemed a bit familiar to him.
For this reason, he made a special trip to the library, borrowed the "History of Weird Things" from it, and found the page about "Xin Zi Thirty-Third Shiqi". Sure enough, he found a picture on the right page. It looks 80% similar to the panda.
Yan Yun said that when she was stargazing at the Moon Pavilion on the top of the mountain at night, she accidentally bumped into Zie Tie. The latter wanted to eat her sword, but was frightened away by Yan Yun's snap of her fingers.
After she came back, she flipped through "History of Strange Objects" and spent a lot of time before confirming that the thing she encountered that night was a rodent.
Yang Tao and Xia Huai also gathered around the Xinzi scroll of "Stories of Strange Things" spread out by Lu Jing, looking at the paintings on it. However, they had never seen the national treasure before, so now they were just admiring it.
Although I think the appearance of biting iron is very strange, it is normal for strange things to look like.
Soon after, the topic turned to how to use the hands of [Xin Zi 333 Shiqi] to complete the punishment.
Yang Tao said, "It's rare that this guy likes to eat bamboo, and he can bite gold and iron. It seems that we can really try to use it to deal with those ghost bamboos that are taking the bamboo path, but the key is how to catch it."
"Since Yan Yun met it at Lan Yue Pavilion, we can also try to look for it there." Xia Huai also suggested.
However, Yang Tao then shook his head and said, "I am fairly well informed. While waiting for the academy to start teaching, many people were wandering around. The Moon Pavilion is on the top of the mountain, which is also the highest place. From there, you can have a panoramic view of the mountains. .
"Many people, including me, have climbed up there, but except for Yan Yun, I haven't heard anyone say they have seen rodents."
"If it wasn't pure luck, there should be other conditions," Xia Huai said, "which attracted Jie Tie to Lan Yue Pavilion. Unfortunately, the words on the back of the page were obliterated by ink."
What Xia Huai said was that after the first half of the description in [Xinzi 333 Shiqi] in "The Chronicles of Weird Things", there was actually a second half of the introduction, but it was completely covered up by a large ball of ink.
Lu Jing asked the man with the mustache and learned from the latter that this was done intentionally by the academy to cultivate students' investigative abilities.
In fact, the reason why the seniors of the academy lost so many strange objects in the academy was to test the students studying here. Naturally, it was impossible to reveal the standard answers in advance.
The situation of [Xinzi 333 Shiqi] is pretty good. At least there is a description and a portrait. However, the mandrill that Lu Jing encountered before was simply taken directly from "The Chronicles of Weird Things". Delete it completely.
