What she held in her hand was the bronze piece found in the back mountain.
Xia Fan was slightly startled, "Do you know this thing?"
"Have you not heard that the Luo family in Youzhou has the heavenly knowledge of all things?" Luo You'er, still covering her forehead, muttered, "Half of the libraries in the country are opened by the Luo family, and the Youzhou mansion has a collection of over 10,000 rare books. When it comes to worldly knowledge, no one can compare to the Luo family. You look decent, but I didn’t expect you to be a country bumpkin... "
Does their family run a library
"This is a minted coin, and because it is shaped like a blade, some people call it a knife coin." Luo Qingqing said, "As far as I know, only Yongguo uses such coins."
"Yongguo?" Xia Fan thought for a while, but could not retrieve the relevant information in his memory.
Even Luo Qingqing's expression became weird at this time, "That was the dynasty more than a hundred years ago. Because King Yong was tyrannical and unruly, he was eventually replaced by the new six kings, and the Yong Kingdom was divided into six. And Daqi , is one of them.”
Xia Ran suddenly realized the origin of the other party's solemn expression -
Doesn't that mean that this is a "relic" of the previous dynasty
"After that, all the six countries vigorously exterminated the remnants of the Yong Dynasty. Any act of retaining the objects of the Yong Dynasty is a serious crime, and coins are of course no exception. If the informant is accused, the informant will be rewarded with a hundred taels of money, and the latter will be exiled at the least, or -"
"Wait, wait..." Xia Fan quickly interrupted her, "I didn't know this thing was related to Yongguo at all. I just picked it up because I thought it had a unique shape. Don't talk nonsense!"
"real?"
"It's on the winding road in Qingshan, about seven or eight hundred meters from the fork in the road... er, I mean about two miles. In addition to the bronze coins there, there are also wooden tracks... "
As he spoke, Xia Fan's voice slowed down.
He caught a faint smile on the other person's face.
"Hey... are you trying to fool me?"
"Fooling? Weird word formation." Luo shrugged lightly, "What I said was not a lie, but I didn't say it was now. In fact, the purges were only relatively frequent in the first twenty years, and how can they still be done now? What is the Eternal Dynasty Hidden? Although it is named Eternal, nothing in this world can exist forever. Now even if you collect sword coins, no one will care about you, so don’t be so nervous. Just consider that we come in Everything I brought with me was searched by the invigilator, so there is a high chance that this thing was found in Qingshan Town."
Xia Fan couldn't answer the question for a long time.
This is definitely... revenge for her.
There is nothing more frustrating than intellectual suppression, and there is no way to fight back.
"Is it two miles away from the back mountain..." Luo thought for a moment, "It seems necessary to confirm it."
"There isn't even a path there. If you want to go up there, you have to have at least several people together. Senior Brother will definitely have objections if he finds out." Luo You'er dissuaded, "Now we have to assign people to help the Fang family, but also beware of people like him. "People-" She glanced at Xia Fan at this point, "I'm afraid there aren't enough people left in the hotel."
"I will explain it to him." Luo Qingqing insisted, "After all, this place is really weird."
"You also feel something is wrong?" Xia Fan asked.
"It's okay to tell you," she nodded expressionlessly, "the place where the spiritual fire was collected...the graves were buried very shallow and seemed to have been excavated temporarily. Also, we found two abandoned caves. , opened in the mountain wall, the scale is not small."
Xia Fan's heart skipped a beat. Here we go again, the remains of large man-made structures, just like the wooden tracks on the winding mountain road. "Is there anything stored in it?"
"We only found a few wooden kites."
"Mu Yuan? What is that?"
"Hey, do you have any common sense?" Luo You'er yelled, "It's a large kite. The biggest one is bigger than a person. Covered with animal skin, it can fly a person hundreds of steps. Don't you even know how to do it in "Qiao"? Haven’t you read "Works"?"
Uh... not really. When he was wandering around the world with his cheap master, he couldn't even fill his stomach, so he couldn't even bother reading. However, Xia Fan also knew that the point was not that, but why these things were stored in a place used to bury people. How much do the residents of Qingshan Town know about this matter
When he was about to ask a few more questions, another female disciple of the Luo family hurriedly walked into the lobby, "Senior sister, we can't stop you outside."
"It's my timeout, let them in." Luo gently gave instructions and looked at Xia Fan, "Do you want to go to the back mountain again?"
With you? "No." Xia Fan is quite self-aware. In the hotel lobby, the other party will still restrain his hands, but in the wild, it is really hard to tell. "I have obtained the source of spiritual fire. I just need to guard it in the next few days."
Seeing this, Luo Qingqing said nothing more, turned and left the lobby.
The Luo family disciples also dispersed one after another. When other candidates swarmed in, they only saw a messy lobby.
From being blocked to leaving, it only took a quarter of an hour. Considering that their response time was only more than an hour after they discovered that the house had been invaded in the morning, Xia Fan had a new understanding of the coordination and organization of the Luo family.
Back in the room, Li, who was lying on his bed, had entered a period of discomfort.
Her complexion was obviously reddish, her breathing was slightly short, and sweat continued to break out from her forehead, dampening the ends of her hanging hair.
Only then did Xia Fan have the opportunity to look at the other party's appearance in detail.
If you ignore the ears on the top of her head, she looks just like a human being. He also has long black hair and fair skin. Even though it is stained with dust and blood, his good foundation can still be seen.
Her eyebrows are not long, and the untrimmed eyebrow line is a bit thick, which is not a standard feature of a beauty. However, it softens the sharpness of her facial features and makes her look much more approachable.
If he hadn't been in contact with her in advance, it would be difficult for him to connect the fox demon who was taunting him every time he opened his mouth at night with the woman in front of him.
Another characteristic of the other party is the bright red at the corner of his eyes - it looks like eye shadow at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that it is not makeup at all, but is born that way. This touch of red extended the outline of her eyes outwards, giving her an enchanting beauty.
As for the ears that were the same color as his hair... Xia Fan secretly reached out and pinched them to confirm that they were real. There was no second pair of ears on the other side's cheeks. He was really curious about the structure of the fox demon's head and what she looked like when she was a child before her hair grew.
This is really a miracle of evolution, he sighed in his heart.
At this moment, Li's brows were frowning slightly, and he occasionally hummed once or twice, as if he was enduring extreme pain.
Xia Fan doesn't know how the world works at the micro level, but judging from various common sense and phenomena, small organisms such as germs are still responsible for the balance of the bottom layer of the life circle. Once the body is injured, they are the biggest enemies of survival. . Whether Li can survive basically depends on these few days.
He fetched a basin of water, wiped away her sweat, and put a wet cloth on her forehead - this was one of the few things he could do at the moment.
…
Four o'clock in the afternoon, deep in the green mountains.
"Senior sister, are you sure we want to keep looking?" Luo Youer curled her lips and complained, "In a while, the sun will almost set."
"Go up the mountain slowly and quickly down the mountain. One hour is enough for everyone to return to the town." Luo Qingqing was indifferent.
"The problem is not time, but what we are looking for. We found the wooden rails and several knife coins, but at most this can only prove that the guy is not lying." Luo Youer took a breath, "You always You don’t want to climb along the track all the way to the top of the mountain, do you? That’s a place that even the hunters in the town have never been to.”
Luo stopped lightly and looked back at everyone - although everyone did not say a word, their faces showed obvious fatigue.
From the time they climbed halfway up the mountain to now, the Luo family disciples have been searching in the deep mountains and dense forests for almost four hours. Even with the help of magic, it is not easy to carve out a path through the dense woods. Coupled with the sultry weather and mosquito harassment, it magnified the physical and mental exertion.
If it had been anyone else, I'm afraid they would have left her and returned the same way.
The most important thing is that she really doesn't know what she is looking for. Without a goal, she has no psychological expectations, which violates the principle of planning. Logically speaking, she should not organize such a search when the purpose is unclear.
There was just an uneasiness lingering in Luo Qingqing's heart.
In addition to the warehouse ruins found in Linghuo Land, she also heard from her senior brother that the Fei family and the Fang family seemed to have discovered some anomalies in the town. For example, the drainage channels under several dry wells were particularly wide and had many branches. , and the ends of some forked roads are actually locked by stone gates. No one knows where they ultimately lead.
If it was just to collect spiritual fire, why would the Privy Council set up the examination room in a place where evil was revealed everywhere
Perhaps the answer behind this is the key to passing the examination.
"Search along the track for another three quarters of an hour," Luo said after thinking for a moment. "If there is no new discovery, we will go down the mountain."
"Hey, we need to continue, I'm so hungry..." Luo Youer muttered feebly, but she had to obey due to the pressure from her senior sister. Just as she turned around and took a step forward, her body suddenly tilted and she fell into the grass with a whoop.
"Junior sister, you are exaggerating too much. Isn't that okay?" A fellow student said with a smile, "You are a cultivator after all, but you can't even compare to an Orion in terms of physical strength."
"No! I just accidentally tripped!" Luo Youer got up angrily, stepped on the weeds under her feet, and then said, "There is a new track here."
"What did you say?" Luo Qingqing stepped forward quickly, looking down and checking, "Is this a... fork in the road?"
"The track bifurcated? But we are on a cliff, right? There should be nothing on the side."
"Yes, we are walking on a winding mountain road. If it turns inward, it may lead to a cave or something like that, but it turns outward."
Everyone was talking about it.
Luo pondered for a moment and quickly made a judgment, "Let's follow the new wooden track."
"Aren't you going to continue climbing up?" Luo Youer rubbed her ankle.
"We can't reach the top of the mountain anyway, so why not see where this branch road is built." Luo Qing replied.
This time, they reached the end quickly.
After passing through a bush half as tall as a man, a steep cliff appeared in front of everyone.