After classes for several days, Sheng Xuanyuan came to Qiong Yi's place to help her do exercises to drive away poison. It got dark earlier every day. After finishing the exercises, the two of them were in the room with a small lamp and a candle. Several tables, sitting together.
Under the warm lamp, the two of them sat on the edge of the bed side by side. If they were reciting poems and composing poems, they would still be somewhat elegant, but when they were doing calculations together, the atmosphere they had was completely destroyed.
"I can't!" Qiong Yi collapsed and lay down: "I can't! Sheng Jing, I really don't understand! Why do you think the grain output is 9,600 taels?"
Sheng Xuanyuan wanted to find out where she had made a mistake in her calculations and asked her to get to the bottom of it, but Qiong Yi was already heartbroken. She spread her arms and fell on the bed, muttering: "Maybe after this assessment, I will be directly I was told to go back to Guangyang to sweep fallen leaves. The master disliked the wife and scolded her. The senior brother laughed at the senior sister for being disgusted with it..."
"Get up and continue counting." He pulled her up.
Qiong Yi turned away and waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no! Please let me go! I can't even read the questions and my brain is frozen!"
Sheng Xuanyuan sighed helplessly, "Get up."
Qiong also remained motionless.
He was a little confused: "What do you mean by being called back to Guangyang to sweep fallen leaves?"
Hearing this, Qiong Yigulu sat up and didn't know how to explain this to him. After hesitating for a while, he said: "It means literally. If I fail to get full armor in the assessment, I will be called back by the clan's wife to be punished."
She paused and then said: "Several elders and hall masters of the Lu family especially like to recruit apprentices, so every year the places for the five ethnic groups' academic and martial arts gatherings are fiercely competed for. Wasn't it held in Guangyang last year? Well, I have already participated in the training, so I am not one of the disciples who came to Yichuan this year. It was Madam who wanted me to learn the rules, so she sent me here."
Sheng Xuanyuan was a little dumb. He personally turned down the study tour in Guangyang last year. Now he suddenly thought that if he had gone there at that time, he would have seen her earlier.
"...Do you want to be sent home?" He asked with some seriousness, thinking of her repeated mistakes in calculations.
"Of course I don't want to!" Qiong Yi clenched his fists in front of him: "That... would be so embarrassing!"
She actually missed Guangyang, the neighbors in Taipa City, Aluo, her senior brothers and sisters, the Baiya Mountain that she could see from the window, and the brocade climbing by the window. I am afraid that all the leaves have fallen now, so All that's left is the dry vine.
However, there is no Sheng Jing in Guangyang.
"Since you don't want to, let's continue reading arithmetic." Sheng Xuanyuan coaxed: "You are so smart, how come you can't even learn this."
"No, no!" Qiong Yi covered the arithmetic book and took one from the desk: "Let's learn something else first!"
He said: "...Okay."
What came with her was a scripture, which was rather obscure and difficult to understand. It was also the one that was dissected and taught the most in Confucius’ class. The two of them read the scripture and started discussing with each other unconsciously: "... Chongyun The sky is covered, the rivers and lakes are gloomy, and the swimming fish are confused. Suddenly they see the waves are bright and moving. Fortunately, they are given by the sky, and they are taken care of immediately. The fishing is dead. The same is true for those who do not know that I have no self and follow the way."
Qiong Yi said: "I have no self..."
"I don't quite understand." He said.
Qiong also answered casually: "When practicing the Dharma and seeking the Tao, pay more attention to the word 'enlightenment'. If you are like the fish in the dark river who begs for food when you see the light, you will only die and suffer. Don't force it."
Sheng Xuanyuan nodded noncommittally, his thoughts suddenly dispersed, and when he came back to his senses, Qiong Yi had already read the entire paragraph.
Qiong was also thinking about the reasoning and didn't notice his distraction. She murmured: "It's much easier than arithmetic..."
He shook his head in confusion, put the scroll in his hand back on the table, and replaced it with another one, which was copied by hand: "You can only read that one, but this scripture must be memorized. My writing is afraid of you." I couldn’t recognize it, so I specially brought Su Ye’s.”
Qiong also felt that he was very self-aware of his handwriting, and she was a little confused: "Take Su Ye's? Doesn't he memorize it?"
"He copied it three times."
Qiong Yi burst out laughing. She found it very funny every time Sheng Xuanyuan said some bizarre things seriously. When I opened the handwritten scripture, I saw that the handwriting was neat and clear and beautiful.
"Wow, Su Ye's handwriting is so beautiful?"
"Um."
Qiong Yi was tired of reading scriptures, so he took advantage of the opportunity to change the subject: "Has he practiced before?"
"Yes. When he was a child, he had to copy as a punishment if he broke the family rules. If he copied something ugly, he had to copy it again. After copying for more than ten years, he has been able to practice calligraphy quickly and well."
Qiong Yi laughed for a long time, and then wiped the corners of his eyes after he recovered: "Sheng Jing never told me about your childhood."
"There was nothing interesting when I was young, I was very boring." Sheng Xuan complained, "I practiced swordplay in the mountains every day."
"Really?" Qiong Yi raised the corners of her lips.
"real."
"Then how did you and Su Ye meet?"
"When I was young, my father often took me with him when he went to discuss business. One time, I happened to meet Sect Master Su and Su Ye, and we met him and became friends." Sheng Xuanyuan closed his eyes: "These are all from a long time ago. It’s over.”
"It was also that time when my father had something urgent and he forgot me in Yangcheng. He only found out that I was missing when he returned to Sheng's house." Seeing Qiong Yi listening with interest, he twitched his lips and said, "Okay. , let’s not talk anymore.”
Halfway through his words, Qiong Yizheng was curious and he stopped abruptly. She was very reluctant and pushed him with her lips curled up: "You haven't finished talking yet! Keep talking."
He only looked at her and said no more.
That day, he saw his father use a sword for the first time. The sword energy was like a rainbow, crossing the sky. It was also the first time he saw his father's sinister look on his face. As far as he is concerned, his father usually just has a cold face and shows no anger.
Sheng Xuanyuan still remembered what he said at that time. Even though he was busy stumbling into his arms, he still remembered those words.
"Yangcheng without Ah Xian is still Yangcheng, but Jianghu is no longer Jianghu."
To this day, Sheng Xuanyuan doesn't know what happened during this time.
His thoughts broke away from the returning wave and he said: "I don't remember."
Qiong also knew that he was perfunctory and snorted, "I don't remember it at this time. I'll endorse it myself!"
Sheng Xuanyuan wanted to keep her, but she slipped away quickly. She suddenly dodged from the edge of the bed to the small table, holding a book in her hand and muttering to herself, all of which were difficult-to-read scriptures. "Okay, let's stop here for today. I'll come back tomorrow." He said, stood up and collected the books, placing them in an orderly manner on the table. Then he waved goodbye to her and walked out of the room with a small lamp.
Qiong Yi half-raised her head and waved to him, saying "see you tomorrow".
There was a cold wind blowing outside the house, but Sheng Xuanyuan didn't mind the cold wind blowing all the way. He liked this kind of solitude from the bottom of his heart. Seeing her sitting next to him and talking together, the joy in his heart could overflow. The various emotions in her eyebrows and eyes, whether she was smiling or feigning anger, could keep his attention for a long time.
If only it had been longer.
*
The cold poison in Qiong Yi's body completely faded away on the fifth day of practicing the exercises. Not only did his true energy return to its original state, but during the practice of the exercises with Sheng Xuanyuan, his cultivation level increased dramatically.
The nightmare assessment came as scheduled.
On the day when the results were released, Lu Li and Yang Xiaosi followed Qiong Yi to the public fence in front of the school to see the rankings. The disciples surrounded the public fence and Qiong Yi could not squeeze into the crowd, and because of his short stature, it was difficult to stand on tiptoes. Out of sight. Next to him, Lu Li closed his eyes and kept chanting some blessing spells. Qiong Yi said angrily: "Xiao Qi, stop chanting. Open your eyes quickly and help Xiao Si take a look, and help me take a look."
Lu Li opened his eyes and looked at the rankings in the public column from a distance: "Senior sister, I can't see it either!"
Yang Xiaosi clasped his hands together: "Thank you, senior sister. Actually, I don't really want to know."
The crowd was noisy, and when people in the front row were seen, there were cheers of joy and frustration.
"Qiong Yi."
It was Sheng Kyung’s voice.
Qiong Yi's eyes lit up and she squeezed forward. Sheng Xuanyuan stood about three feet away from her. He looked back at her and reached out to her across the crowd. Qiong also held that hand and walked to him after passing through numerous disciples: "There are so many people..."
"Yes." Sheng Xuanyuan held her hand tightly.
Where am I... Qiong Yi's eyes searched hard for the wooden board with the name engraved on it. There were several people in front of him, so he couldn't see the name underneath.
"Sheng Jin!" Qiong Yi shook his hand and shouted happily: "You are second!"
"Um."
The wooden board is clearly engraved, ranking second on the list: Sheng Xuanyuan, Grade A. Looking up again, the top column above Sheng Xuanyuan's name read: Yan Tingshen.
Yan Tingshen was actually at the top of the list. Qiong Yi clicked his tongue in thought and continued to look for his name.
"Nineth position, first class." Sheng Xuanyuan clasped her hand back with his fingers and said.
She couldn't believe it: "Am I also A?"
"yes."
Qiong Yi held his hand tightly, pursed her lips and showed a beautiful smile, her eyes were filled with joy, and he felt lost for a moment.
"It's all thanks to you for accompanying me!"
Sheng Xuanyuan tilted his head slightly, covering his half-red ears and face: "You're welcome, it's all your own hard work."
She chuckled and said, "Let me check for the junior brothers and sisters. Maybe they haven't squeezed in yet." Qiong Yi searched for a long time and found Yang Xiaosi's name in the front of the middle stream, and Lu Li's name in the back of the middle stream. Name, surprisingly, I saw the three characters "Su Yiyang" at the bottom of the list.
Eh?
Are you really at the bottom?
After reading the results, the disciples dispersed, and new disciples gathered eager to know the results. Qiong Yi stepped out of the crowd and waved to Lu Li, who was standing far away: "Xiao Qi, you are over seventy."
Lu Li hurriedly asked: "Where is Xiao Si?"
"She appears at fifty."
Lu Li looked peaceful: "It's over."
Yang Xiaosi said happily: "Oh yeah!"
"I remember that Madam only asked me and Lu Lanshan for the assessment, but she didn't seem to ask you?" Qiong Yi recalled Yang Suyong's instructions when leaving the Lu family, only to hear Lu Li silently say: "Xiao Si and I made a bet. If she fails in the exam, help her do errands for two months. Look how happy this person is now..."
He asked again: "Sister, what about you?"
Qiong Yi tilted his head and looked at Sheng Xuanyuan unconsciously: "I was lucky enough to get a full armor, and Lu Lanshan is still behind me."
Lu Li was shocked. If his senior sister could get full armor, had she mastered the life-threatening arithmetic? I saw her standing next to Sheng Xuanyuan and humming softly, with a smile on her face.
broken.
He slapped his head: Senior sister seems to be abducted by this person.
