"There may be a way." Fang Yun seemed to be talking to himself.
Li Wenying remained silent.
After a moment, Fang Yun asked, "Will you take me back to Yuhai City this time?"
"Of course." Li Wenying said.
"I would like to trouble you to take me to Changning Prefecture, the capital of Xizhou. Do you have time?" Fang Yun asked.
"Of course... Wait, what are you doing in Xizhou?" Li Wenying suddenly widened his eyes in surprise.
"Why is Mr. Jianmei so surprised?" Fang Yun asked with a smile.
"There are not many things in this world that can surprise me. Even if you are now the best in the state, I would take it for granted. But how can I not be surprised that you want to go to Xizhou, to Xizhou controlled by the Xun family! Although you are young, I have never treated you as a teenager. Let me ask you, have you thought it through?"
"I have thought about it for a long time. If the Xun family does not protect Xun Ye, it will be fine. But if they dare to protect Xun Ye, I will fight Xizhou. Later, Xun Ye's palace was destroyed, and I wanted to give up fighting Xizhou and switch to other states in Qing Kingdom. But since the Xun family is so aggressive, I can only go to Xizhou."
"That's the Sub-Saint Family."
"I am Fang Yun from a poor family."
Li Wenying stared at Fang Yun for a long time and said, "Forget it, I'll take you there!"
"Under the whole world, only Li Daxueshi dares to send me there."
"Hmph." Li Wenying felt a little helpless and a little proud.
"There is no time to lose. Let's go now and return to Yuhai City tomorrow. I still have to prepare for the exam."
"Are you ready for the literary competition?"
"I will fight alone in a literary duel. There will be at most ten people from Xizhou. If I can defeat ten people in a row, I can be called the master of the literary duel of the whole state. If I lose to anyone, I will be a complete failure." Fang Yun said.
"The literary contest is a contest of literary courage, talent, or poetry. You have to choose one of the three. I know that your literary courage is unrivaled among the candidates. You may even be unrivaled among the Jinshi. But it's up to the other party to decide what to compete in. They will never compete with you in literary courage. Have you considered it?"
"Go to Xizhou, fight with literature, and then win. That's all I want to think about." Fang Yun said.
Li Wenying laughed and said, "What a mad king! Let's see who is better, the scholar from Xun family or the talented scholar from Jing country! Let's go!"
The two walked out of the study. Fang Yun bowed to the scholars in the main hall and said, "Please forgive me for having to leave for something. I can't continue to discuss books and papers."
"Are you two going to the Holy Academy?" Li Fanming asked with a smile.
Fang Yun sighed softly and said, "I can't go to the Holy Courtyard."
"What's going on?" Everyone hurried over and stared at Fang Yun with concern.
"The Xun family suspected that I had evil intentions towards Xun Ye, so I shattered his literary courage. Before the Xun family finds out the truth, I am not allowed to enter the Holy Court."
"How is this possible? Where are the people from Dongsheng Pavilion? Where are the people from the Criminal Hall? How can the Xun family be so confused about right and wrong!" Li Fanming yelled.
Mo Shan said angrily: "How shameless! I will write a letter right now and ask my Mo family elders to sue the Xun family!"
"First of all, we need to find out whether this matter was done by the Xun family or by certain people in the Xun family," Kong De said.
"They are all blocking Fang Yun. Is there any difference?"
“It’s a big difference.”
There was a brief silence in the courtyard. No one responded, as everyone was thinking.
If the entire Xun family did it, with the head of the family in charge, it would be like a huge monster moving. Unless it was a family with an old grudge against the Xun family, no family would be willing to intervene. The Kong family would stay out of it.
By then, half of the people here will have to leave.
They can live and die with Fang Yun in the Holy Ruins, but in the Holy Yuan Continent, they are not independent individuals, they still have families and entire clans behind them. Among these people, except Mo Shan, they can be ignored. From now on, no one else can speak nonsense.
Because, that is the Sub-Saint Family. Even if the power revealed by this behemoth is just the tip of the iceberg, everyone knows how powerful the Sub-Saint Family is hidden.
The sub-sage family has the power to destroy a small country!
There are disputes among humans, but there is no more killing, so the real power of each family is mainly concentrated in the Two Worlds Mountain, the Prison Sea or the Ancient Land.
If a sub-sage family transferred people back from all over the place, it would be enough to destroy small countries like Gu or Jing.
Even if each of the two countries is blessed by a semi-saint!
No one dares to look down on a sub-saint, and no one dares to look down on the power left behind by the sub-saint after his death.
If Fang Yun offended the Xun family, he might receive huge rewards decades later, but his family might not be able to survive these decades, and the same might be true for Fang Yun.
They are not like the Mohist and Meng families who have a feud with the Xun family, nor are they as decisive as Li Wenying. For the sake of their own families, they can only keep silent.
Fang Yun understood them, so he was not angry and always had a faint smile on his face.
"Let us take you out of the city. You can't fly in Kongcheng anyway. How about we talk while walking?" Kong Delun said.
"Of course." Fang Yun said.
Everyone walked out together, but Li Wenying followed at the back, like a parent watching his children playing in the front.
Everyone walked out of the gate of Zhou's house and headed silently towards the east gate of Kongcheng. For a moment, no one knew what to say.
Han Shoulu broke the silence and said, "Although I have severed my friendship with Xun Ye, I cannot make enemies with the Xun family. After all, my ancestor Han Feizi was a student of Xunzi."
"My ancestor Jia Yi is the second-generation disciple of the sage Xun, so he cannot speak carelessly." Jia Jing'an said.
"I understand, but you are so brave. I thought you ran away after hearing about this." Fang Yun said with a smile.
Everyone smiled.
Mo Shan said: "I don't count on you. After sending Fang Yun away, I will go find the Meng family right away. The Meng family will definitely intervene."
"I'm afraid that it's not just the Xun family that's asking for help," Fang Yun said.
Many people only then understood and felt even more helpless.
"I'll ask for you." Kong Delun took out the official seal and began to send a letter.
Not long after, Kong Delun smiled bitterly and said, "You guessed it right. A great Confucian disciple of Zongsheng has applied to participate in the thorough investigation of this matter to seek justice for the Xun family!"
"Hmph, you villain!" Sun Naiyong accused him bluntly.
Kongcheng was very large, and the crowd could not walk slowly. It took them nearly half an hour to reach the east gate.
Everyone was talking about poetry when Mo Shan received a letter from a wild goose. He took a look at it and his expression became extremely strange.
Mo Shan was stunned for a moment, put away the official seal, and said, "I just received a letter from the wild goose, saying that the Miscellaneous School seems to be preparing to unite with the Xun Family to tarnish Fang Yun's literary reputation. There are even some strategists who want to publicize Fang Yun's entry into the Grand Scholar Hunting List and point out the benefits of the bounty to the rebels. They are just short of directly encouraging potential rebels to kill Fang Yun."
Fang Yun said: "It seems that after the death of a great scholar, the Miscellaneous Family has learned its lesson and started to stir up trouble in secret and kill people with borrowed knives!"
"It's a bit too much." Kong Delun's voice was a little low.
"Fang Yun, you should do something! I feel that the trend is not right. If you can't completely calm this matter down, once the news of the literary courage of the young man from the Sacred Family is spread, and someone frames and smears you, it will have a great impact on your literary reputation. You are not from a noble family like us, and you really need a good literary reputation now." Li Fanming said.
"Well, I'm going to do something that they'll regret right now!"
"Ah? Have you thought of a counterattack plan? What are you going to do?" Everyone looked at Fang Yun with anticipation and worry. They wanted to see Fang Yun defeat the Xun family, but they were also worried that Fang Yun would fail.
"Go to Xizhou, go to Wendou." (To be continued...)