After saying this, Ling Fengxiao stopped talking, got up and lay on the bed, resting his head in one hand, looking at Lin Shu.
The eldest lady has a beautiful smile in her eyes, and with the soft red gauze curtain, it makes her beautiful as jade.
Lin Shu felt both good-looking and a little nervous.
Thinking that the eldest lady is the cousin, the cousin is the eldest lady, and the cousin treats him so kindly—it turns out that the eldest lady has always been good to herself.
The eldest lady reached out and brushed a strand of hair from his cheeks.
Lin Shu felt a little hot on his face.
At this moment, the sleeping cat woke up, made a "meow", and walked between the two of them.
The eldest lady reached out and took the cat into her arms, scratched the soft fur behind its ears, and said, "I think it is too fat, so I need to feed it less in the future."
The cat was still purring comfortably just now, when she heard the words, she let out a miserable scream, broke away from the eldest lady, and jumped onto Lin Shu.
Lin Shu: "I think so too."
The cat frowned, jumped on the table, turned his back on them, and became angry.
The eldest lady said: "Qingyuan is good, don't be angry."
The cats lie down and ignore them.
The eldest smiled, turned her head and continued to look at Lin Shu.
The tent was warm and fragrant, and the air seemed to smell of honey, and Lin Shu found himself relaxed a lot.
"I think it's not a waste of time to be like you every day," the eldest lady said.
Lin Shu didn't know how to answer, so he gave a soft "um".
If the other party is the eldest lady, then getting along with others does not seem to be a difficult thing.
They said some more words, and then the eldest lady reluctantly got up from the bed, hung up the tent, tied her hair, and said, "Go to Xiefeng Drizzle Garden, and save them from worrying all the time."
The atrium of Xiefeng Drizzle Garden is brightly lit, and the girls have not slept yet, and gathered in the atrium to read books.
When Ling Baojing saw the two of them coming, she was pleasantly surprised, "You're done, Miss!"
The girls gathered around and looked after them again.
"If the eldest miss is not awake, I will not be able to rest my mind. I have only read five pages of the book." Ling Baochen said.
Lin Shu looked at the books stacked on the table and suddenly thought of something.
At this time, Ling Baoqing complained again: "Miss, I can't see this 'Shu Di Shi Kao', I'm afraid I will get C!"
The eldest lady said, "It's okay."
Lin Shu: "..."
The Academy has exams twice a year, once in June and once in December—now it's mid-November.
It's the end of the period.
end of period.
Lin Shu: "!!!"
His Southern Xia Fengwu Examination, Southern Xia History, Outer Alchemy, Elementary Formation—20 courses, almost all of which are required to memorize.
The eldest lady seemed to remember something and looked at Lin Shu: "It's time for us to review our homework too."
Lin Shu nodded, in mad despair in his heart.
- There is also the number of crape myrtle techniques, which he has never learned!
In addition, he must also accept the assessment of Mr. Meng.
If you don't do well in the course, at most you will lose some people, get less jade soul, and postpone your graduation for a while. Mr. Meng could not pass the examination, but he would be kicked out of the Academy.
The eldest lady talked to the girls again before leaving, and asked him on the way, "Is there any homework you can't do?"
Lin Shu said, "I don't understand Ziwei's skills."
The eldest said, "I will study with you."
Lin Shu felt happy again.
He can get the help of the gods.
In the days that followed, the academy was quiet, and no accidents happened. The big sacrificial wine even came to Jingfeng Drizzle Garden, brought an extremely delicious fish soup to the cat, and promised that the canteen will specially invite a chef to make fish in the future, and the guardians of the mountains are welcome to come. This made Mao realize the fact that he would not be deprived of rations, and he was much more confident when facing Lin Shu and Ling Fengxiao.
The cat is naturally in a good mood, and Dajijiu seems to be in a very good mood. It is also true that the guardians of the mountains who have the realm of the gods on the land guard the Shangling Academy, what are they afraid of
—Even if the mountain guardian is just a fat cat that wanders from time to time in the two bamboo houses of Lin Shu and Ling Fengxiao, eating and drinking.
Cats like to sleep in the atrium lately, because everyone gathers in the atrium to study.
Lin Shu endorsed the book, and the Yue family brothers and sisters practiced in the bamboo forest. Most of the classes they chose were martial arts, so they didn't need to recite too much, and they were much more leisurely than Lin Shu.
As for the eldest lady, she was very busy. She had to review her homework, help Lin Shu to see the number of Ziwei skills, discipline Henry Zhang, and abuse her younger brother when Henry Zhang was angry with Lin Shu.
But his younger brother was stubborn and unyielding. Despite domestic violence, he still insisted tirelessly to sow discord. Every day he recited "Ling Fengxiao is not a good thing" ten times in Lin Shu's ear, ten times "You are just a white face", ten times "Ling Fengxiao wants I will always give up on you."
Lin Shu: "Oh."
Ling Fengxiao: "The history of Southern Xia, copy it ten times."
Xiao Lingyang: "Ling Fengxiao, I advise you not to be arrogant. Although you confiscated the "Twelve Wicked Letters of Painful Chen Ling, Evil Thief" written by me, I can write it out silently at any time!"
Ling Fengxiao: "Even if you wrote "The One Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Letters of Pain to Chen Lingfengxiao", Lin Shu is already mine."
Xiao Lingyang: "You are not married, and everything is still unknown!"
Ling Fengxiao: "Oh."
- This scene is played back and forth day by day, and the whole November has passed in a jumble of chickens.
From December 1st, various courses will begin to be tested one after another.
As a scholar, Ling Fengxiao has taken a few more courses than normal people, and has more exams to take. Therefore, although the two live in the same garden these days, they hardly meet each other. Often Lin Shu was going to sleep, and Ling Fengxiao hadn't come back, or they had breakfast together, so they went to take their own exams.
On the afternoon of the day after the exam, the disciples went to Dreamland to accept Mr. Meng's assessment.
Lin Shu entered the dream state. Originally, Mr. Meng, who had turned his back on the mountain road and was watching the sea of clouds, turned around, straightened his robe sleeves, and said in a gentle voice, "Fellow Daoist, sit down."
He sat opposite Mr. Meng at the stone table in the pavilion.
"Fellow Daoist's martial arts accomplishments are already very rare. If you don't have a special opportunity to perceive, it must be just more skilled moves." Mr. Meng picked up the pot and poured tea for both of them, "So I want to see Has your fellow Daoist’s mood changed from before?”
After speaking, he sighed softly and said again: "But fellow Daoist's state of mind is already one of a kind, and I don't even know how to take the exam for a while."
- Whenever he talks to Mr. Meng and is praised by Mr. Meng, Lin Shu has to wonder if it is his salted fish who is being praised.
"Since it is difficult to get into the school, fellow Daoist may wish to tell me about the experience and understanding of this trip to Huandang Mountain." Mr. Meng finally said.
Lin Shu sorted out his thoughts and began to explain to Mr. Meng.
On the Tongtian step, the part that relies on spiritual power to move forward is lackluster, so it directly talks about the part that tests the heart of the Tao.
"I couldn't get out of the sky-reaching step at first."
Mr. Meng said "Huh?" quite unexpectedly.
"I'm cultivating immortals, but I can't think of any purpose." Lin Shu was a little nervous, looked down at the patterns on the stone table, and said, "I don't know why I cultivate immortals, so I haven't been able to get out."
Mr. Meng said, "What happened later?"
"Later... I thought about a lot of things. I realized that I really don't want to make progress, but I don't want to change. I thought again, I cultivate immortals, I just want to cultivate immortals, and I don't want to do anything else, so I cultivate immortals."
Mr. Meng laughed out loud.
Lin Shu blinked innocently: "Then I went down the steps, and Tongtianjie let me out."
Mr. Meng clapped his hands and praised the wonderful: "Fellow Daoist, if you can devote yourself to cultivating immortals, it means 'doing something', not wanting anything, and 'not fighting. It's your way."
Lin Shu said, "I don't know."
He thought for a while, and felt that according to Mr. Meng's statement, his own path was in harmony with the Tao of Heaven, and he should take the path of "combining the Tao", but he did not want to assimilate with the Tao of heaven, so he said: "Then I am a 'combining Tao'. Is it?"
Mr. Meng said: "No."
Just listening to his warm voice, like a flowing spring in a valley, slowly said: "Joint Dao is to understand the mechanism of the operation of all things in the world, understand the rules of the operation of heaven, and then obey the laws of heaven and assimilate with it, fellow Daoist, have you ever done this before? Pass?"
Lin Shu: "Never."
He just watched the sun rise and set in a daze, and he didn't have the diligent mind to explore the truth of the sun rise and set.
"That's right, therefore, you are still 'breaking the Tao', and you will rise through the thunder calamity in the future." Mr. Meng smiled slightly, and continued the tea ceremony: "The Confucianism and Taoism Institute is writing an essay, I think words are second, and the intention is square. First, the same is true for the Immortal Dao Academy."
Lin Shu listened quietly.
"The Taoist mind of the immortals is the idea of the literati. The Taoism of the immortals is the article of the literati. After the article is written, it must be judged by others - whether it is unique or not. Your Dao is firm enough, without flaws, and able to escape from the Dao of Heaven and exist alone, only then can you hope for the Great Vehicle, escape from the mortal world, and go to the Immortal Realm."
Lin Shu nodded.
If it was before, he might not have understood it, but now he can fully understand it.
What Mr. Meng said at this time is roughly the same as what the young master of Linglong Dongtian taught.
"Your dao heart is in harmony with the dao of heaven. That is, your intention can be compared with the dao of heaven." Mr. Meng smiled, "You are not yet weak enough to have such a temperament. It is rare. , The shape of the transformed dragon is already vague', when you grow up a little more, won't it be easy to catch you?"
It seems that it is not difficult to cultivate step by step and rise through calamity.
But Lin Shu still felt that he had no Taoism and no Tao.
In his last life, he had only cultivated according to the inner and martial arts of his master's sect, and naturally he had reached the period of transcending the calamity.
Mr. Meng probably saw his confused eyes, and didn't do much research, but said, "You will understand in the future."
Lin Shu nodded and said, "Okay."
After talking about Tongtianjie, he said that he solved a demon caused by an old incident in the maze, and then talked about the rare chess game that he and Ling Xiao completed together in Linglong Cave.
He didn't say who Ling Xiao was, but only said that he happened to be on the same road.
"The reason for the Zhenlong chess game is exactly the reason for the immortals to ascend to immortals." Mr. Meng said, "You have won the favor of the master of Linglong Dongtian, and you must have gained a lot."
Lin Shu nodded, his spirit was strengthened, and he was quite proficient in the operation of spiritual power.
He also said the truth that he understood in Linglongdongtian: his own chess game has loopholes, and Ling Xiao's also has loopholes. The two complement each other, the problem can be solved, and then the impurities are removed, and there is a perfect solution. According to what the son said, the cultivation methods of the two families are combined, and this is the case, all the cultivation methods in the world are gathered together, and it must be an extremely exquisite avenue.
Mr. Meng had a thoughtful look in his eyes, and then he was relieved and nodded: "Fellow Daoist, your words have benefited me a lot. Even if one person makes 1,800 solutions in the Linglong chess game... The family's words are self-evident. , but it was biased - but I went astray."
Lin Shu looked at Mr. Meng and remembered the person his cousin mentioned.
That person had the talent of making 108 solutions to the Zhenlong chess game, but he died in the night guarding the lonely city in the battle of Changyang.
The man's surname is Meng.
Meng, dream.
And Mr. Meng said at this time, but he went astray—
He was a little confused for a while.
Mr. Meng drank the last sip of tea in the cup, closed the cup, and smiled: "Fellow Daoist, you have really gained a lot in the past six months."
Lin Shu said: "Yes."
"However, even if it is the avenue to the sky, it will not be smooth. I have something to warn you."
Lin Shu said: "Okay."
Mr. Meng put his hands in his sleeves, looked at the sea of clouds outside the pavilion, and said, "This matter is difficult to describe. I will cite an example so that you can understand."
Lin Shu listened quietly.
Only to hear Mr. Meng ask: "Do you know why there are only women in Phoenix Villa?"
- That's a good question.