On the third day after Chen Sheng left, Li Fuyao packed up and closed the courtyard door.
Standing at the door, Li Fuyao carried a large bag and laughed in a low voice, “Maybe I won’t come back in the future. In the past, I always thought Baiyu Town is really small and I could wander everywhere in a short time. But now I am unwilling to leave here.”
Qing Huai had nothing in her hands and ignored him. She just held her chest with both hands and looked the small courtyard up and down.
After they walked less than one hour, they would go out of this town. Li Fuyao turned his head and looked at this small town for the last time under the morning sun and then left.
There was an official road outside Baiyu Town, and it was the only way to the outside world, so they chose this road. The Sword Mountain was on the border between Yanling City and Dayu, and it was in the north of Dazhou Empire. Therefore, on this trip, Li Fuyao planned to walk
The young scholar was going to the ghost Zhuyu Town, which made Li Fuyao’s expression a bit unnatural. Finally, Qing Huai had some interesting ideas. Then they returned to the Zhuyu Town. On the way, it was obvious that the young scholar’s spirits rose. He was talking all the way. And he just let Li Fuyao know the ins and outs of the matter.It turned out that the young scholar had a girl friend who grew up with him together. The two originally loved each other. They had already made a deal that they waited after the scholar went to the capital to take the examinations and then they got married. But no one knew why the woman married far away to Zhuyu Town after the scholar left the village. The scholar returned from the exam and learned of this. So he raised a machete in preparation for coming to Zhuyu Town to grab his girlfriend back.Speaking of this, Li Fuyao really admired the young scholar. But because he made Qing Huai stop and go to Zhuyu Town, Li Fu
In everybody’s opinion, it was not a small matter to break a mansion’s gate for no reason. A mansion’s gate was the dignity of a family. After being embarrassed, that family wouldn’t look happy anyway.But now, what happened was that Qing Huai broke this mansion’s gate and entered it boldly, while nobody in the large mansion came out to stop her.Li Fuyao was petrified. Seeing that Qing Huai was going to get out of his sight, he hurriedly stood up and jogged to catch up with her. She had told him that Zhuyu Town was not safe, and he didn’t dare to get away from her.But he turned around and glanced at Huang Jin who sat on the stair in a daze. Li Fuyao quickly pulled him up and followed Qing Huai into that mansion.They rapidly walked a few steps and passed a short path. Li Fuyao finally saw Qing Huai’s back in front of a pavilion. He heaved a sigh of relief and stopped. Huang Jin took deep breaths and asked in a low voice, “Mr. Li,
Huang Jin was obviously not a man who was disloyal to love, and he was not even a bad man. He studied hard for so many years in order to be outstanding. And the reason was that he did it for this female ghost in red in front of them and wanted her to live a better life after marrying him.Thus, Huang Jin could bring a machete which he had never used to snatch a bride in Zhuyu Town. It was rare for a scholar to pick up a machete, but Huang Jin didn’t care for the sake of this woman. However, when he faced death, he might be willing to die, but as somebody asked abruptly, he would be scared. So it was not his fault to shake his head.But women didn’t like to listen to reasons, and perhaps this female ghost didn’t like to, either.Li Fuyao grabbed the machete and looked at the female ghost whose face turned ferocious. He cautiously kicked Huang Jin’s back, but the latter didn’t stand up after coming back to reality. Huang Jin just stared at the fe
On the roof of a house in this mansion in the deep of an alley, Qing Huai who disappeared as soon as she entered the mansion was sitting and looking at the pavilion in the distance with a smile.Next to her, there was a young woman in a cloth dress whose face was pale but looked peaceful. In the daytime, she still held an oil paper umbrella and covered herself under it. Now she was sitting idly on the roof with Qing Huai, a teenage girl dressed in black clothes.After Qing Huai called “idiot”, the woman whose name was Hehua showed a faint smile. Seeing that Qing Huai still didn’t plan to leave after calling, she asked in confusion, “Qing Huai, why don’t you go to help him?”Qing Huai looked emotionless, “I have to let him experience the danger in the human world. Otherwise, such a boy from a small town would be bullied when he is out.”Hehua covered her mouth and chuckled, thinking, “Qing Huai, you look so young. Why do you speak l
After leaving Zhuyu Town, they continued to walk northward. These days, Huang Jin was in low spirits obviously. After getting out of that mansion, he didn’t carry that machete on his back, and it was replaced with that umbrella, so the machete was on Li Fuyao’s back.It was ridiculous for a swordsman to carry a machete on his back. Although in Chen Sheng’s opinion, Li Fuyao was an unpresentable swordsman, he was a swordsman anyway. However, Li Fuyao had special feelings for this machete which was with him when he fought the first fight in his life, so he didn’t say anything.The three continued on the official road. Huang Jin walked quickly behind the other two but didn’t raise his head. This scholar took part in the first test of the imperial examination in Shaoliang City this year and learnt the news that the woman got married. Then he gave up the next tests and came back home in a hurry. According to the rules in Dazhou, he couldn’t attend the imperial e
After parting with Huang Jin, Qing Huai and Li Fuyao walked much more quickly. After one day, they left the official road and came into a large provincial city. Earlier, Li Fuyao bought a map of Dazhou on the way and knew that this city was not ordinary. When the first emperor of Dazhou established the country, he had risen from here. After Dazhou was established, this provincial city named Yamen had a new awkward-sounding name, Yanshi. Now, Yanshi City and the capital city Shaoliang were the most important cities of the country. And the local people even called Yanshi the second capital city in secret. It could be seen how significant Yanshi City was in Dazhou.After they entered the city, Li Fuyao thought they would buy some food and continue to walk, but Qing Huai wasn’t in a hurry and insisted on having a rest for one night. Li Fuyao looked at Qing Huai helplessly. He certainly couldn’t defeat her if they fought. But except fighting, if he tried to reason her, he wo
The young general waved his knife several times in a short while, chopping the spring rain and the stairs and even hitting a big bowl. He stabbed with much strength each time, but he didn’t hit the two young men once.The young man who had called his big brother earlier flew out of the eave and fought against the young general in the spring rain, while the big brother ignored the general and came to Li Fuyao, smiling at him, “Aren’t you afraid?”Li Fuyao smiled, “In fact, I look forward to seeing you take actions later.”The young man was surprised and looked curious, “Why?”Li Fuyao replied calmly, “They are common warriors, but you are a cultivator.”He got right down to the heart of the matter.The young man asked seriously, “How did you know?”Li Fuyao answered with a smile, “Because I am a cultivator, too.”As a matter of fact, Li Fuyao was not confident when he was saying th
It was a happy ending. Yang Lai joined the army, and Xie Ying didn’t need to worry about the escaped prisoners. After reading the saint’s essay, Yang Wei should return to Hengyang Academy which fully deserved to be the most prestige school in Dazhou. That academy was not in Dazhou, but its fame spread far and wide, so it had an awe-inspiring reputation in this country. Earlier, the three and Li Fuyao as well as Qing Huai had dinner together in the hotel.Qing Huai always talked little to the irrelevant people except for Li Fuyao, so she just brought a pot of liquor and sat alone on the doorsill. She would take a sip when she looked up at the starry sky and didn’t get drunk.The shopkeeper of the hotel and his wife had heard about the talent from the Xie Family but had seen the top young promising man in Yanshi City for the first time. They looked at him several times, but they were afraid of the soldiers in the courtyard, so they didn’t say more.