The Path of the Sage

Chapter 334: Say one thing and mean another

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Nunu didn't pay attention to the big rabbit at first, but the big rabbit kept looking at it. It raised its head proudly and looked at the big rabbit coldly, with a hint of queenly majesty.

The big rabbit seemed to have seen something, and was startled like a frightened bird. It quickly shrank behind Li Fanming, then stood up and grabbed Li Fanming's robe with its claws.

Li Fanming looked down and saw the big rabbit pointing at Nunu hurriedly, with a hint of fear in his eyes.

Li Fanming rolled his eyes at the big rabbit, slapped it on the head, and whispered, "Go and have fun with the little fox. We have something important to do. If you continue to be naughty, you won't get any carrots!"

The big rabbit wanted to cry but had no tears. It looked around and hurried to Fang Yun. It wanted to let the person who understood it best know that the fox was really scary and scared the rabbit to death.

Fang Yun touched the big rabbit's head and continued chatting with others.

The big rabbit didn't expect that the person who understood him best in the world would not help him. He felt like the sky was falling. Then he secretly glanced at the little fox. The little fox smiled gently, but the big rabbit felt cold all over and slowly backed away.

However, Nunu stretched out his right paw and hooked his finger at the big rabbit, signaling the big rabbit to come over.

The big rabbit pointed at himself with his paw, as if asking, "Can you let me pass?"

Nunu nodded.

Big Rabbit shook his head.

Nunu restrained her smile and once again displayed her queen-like majesty.

The big rabbit was so scared that his legs went limp. He laid on the ground and trembled for a long time before he reluctantly walked slowly to Nunu.

The little fox looked as if it was behaving well, then pointed at the small meteor flying in the yard, indicating that they should catch it together.

The big rabbit let out a long sigh, and immediately nodded vigorously like a pug to show that he would obey the Queen's orders in everything.

The little fox smiled with satisfaction and rushed out of the yard first, followed by the big rabbit. The fear in his eyes never disappeared, and he looked back at Li Fanming from time to time. It seemed to be saying: Let's go home, it's so scary here.

In the yard outside the house, the fox and the rabbit were chasing shooting stars, and inside the house, everyone was talking loudly.

Everyone came to Fang Yun's place just to take a look, but because the matter of the supplement of "Wen Bao" caused a big fuss and they didn't have enough fun chatting last night, everyone's interest was high and the chat turned into a literary gathering.

Everyone repeatedly studied and discussed the process of the literary contest last night. Not only the literary contest itself, but also in-depth discussions on poetry, lyrics, chess, and other arts. Fang Yun rarely participated in such literary gatherings, and wanted to learn more, so he was very active in this literary gathering.

In terms of the breadth and depth of the discussion content, Fang Yun surpasses these people, but there are serious omissions or even gaps in some details. This is an unavoidable problem for disciples from poor families and can only be made up for with time.

After the discussion on literary struggle was over, they started discussing public opinion.

The foundation of national destiny is the people's hearts. If you can win the hearts of the people, you can unconsciously influence the national destiny. Although national destiny does not have a very obvious and direct effect like talent and the vitality of heaven and earth, it also has its power. Especially when it comes to protecting the country, national destiny is a force that can turn defeat into victory.

Once the national fortune reaches its peak and begins to expand its territory, it will also be helped by the national fortune when it goes to war.

Back then, the two demon saints attacked Chen Guanhai. Chen Guanhai relied on the national fortune of Jing State to deal with the two saints and persisted until the rescue of the Saint Academy.

After that battle, the state of Jing went from bad to worse. Some people said that Chen Guanhai was overdrawing the national fortune of Jing, but most people in Jing did not blame Chen Guanhai, and did not even think that it would affect the strength of Jing.

Soon, all the candidates in the literary meeting reached a consensus that Fang Yun's literary competition in one state not only curbed the decline of Jing State's national fortune, but could even increase Jing State's national fortune by at least 10%.

The real reason why the people of Yuhai City outside the gate came to give gifts to Fang Yun was that they saw hope and had confidence. They hoped that Fang Yun could help them completely get rid of the suppression of Qing State and let Jing State rise.

After discussing the people's will, the candidates started discussing the hunting list, and then talked about the Juren examination and the Jinshi examination. They also mentioned many things that should be paid attention to in the Juren examination for Fang Yun's reference.

"Fang Yun, I suggest you keep a low profile in this imperial examination and don't be too ostentatious." Yan Yukong said.

Fang Yun wondered in his heart, could it be that these people knew what happened in the last scholar exam

Everyone looked at each other, and Li Fanming said, "In fact, there is no need to hide it. We, the children of aristocratic families, have reliable sources of information, and we can roughly guess many things. When you participated in the scholar examination in June, the sky above Yuhai City changed day and night, and Geng Xuncha, who came to Yuhai to supervise the examination, died. Geng Xuncha targeted you. The next day, Shi Jun went there to get something, and the great scholar of the Holy Academy got another good scripture. Putting these together, we suspected that you wrote the shocking scripture, but at that time, we thought it was very unlikely that it was you. But now, we have seen your strength in the Holy Ruins with our own eyes. If we still can't guess that the scripture was written by you, then we have lived in vain."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yun smiled helplessly. This incident had caused such a big fuss at the time that others might not be able to guess what was going on, but these top ten disciples would definitely be able to follow the clues and figure out something.

"It seems that a semi-saint has issued a gag order on this matter, but there is no need to do so now. After all, the gag order was issued in case the demons kill you. But now the demons have offered a bounty of 100 blood for you. There is actually no difference between keeping some things secret and not keeping them secret. Yukong, continue with what you are saying." Ma Xiong said.

Yan Yukong nodded and said, "You have won the first place in the state and completely suppressed the Xun family. Maybe in the future the Xun family will lift the so-called investigation and allow you to enter the Holy Academy, but it is absolutely impossible in a short period of time. Therefore, I suggest that you take the Juren exam quietly, then quietly go to the capital of Jingguo, enter the Jingguo Academy for further study, and prepare for the Jinshi exam in December. Once you pass the Jinshi exam, you don't need to be too low-key and cautious."

"Okay, I'll try to be cautious this time." Fang Yun said.

Li Fanming said, "Yukong, you forgot one thing. After the Juren exam, Fang Yun will go to the Book Mountain for the second time! By then, he will have received six baptisms of talent. We are all waiting for him to pass the sixth mountain, so he can't keep a low profile."

"Not to mention how difficult it is for a scholar to break into the Mountain of Books. Even if he does, he can deny it like before. Fang Yun can definitely do that." Yan Yukong said.

Fang Yun said: "Among the mountains of books, the third mountain's literary mind is to write furiously, and the sixth mountain's literary mind should be 'saying one thing and thinking another', right?"

"Yes, it means saying one thing and thinking another. Wenxin cannot kill the enemy directly, but when combined with other powers, it can exert incredible power. This duplicity is the best way to confuse the enemy. I once saw two genius scholars competing in literature. At the beginning, both of them spoke ordinary war poems, but in the second sentence, their war poems changed together."

Fang Yun said: "I know that saying one thing and thinking another can help people conceal their own poems. For example, if I clearly want to recite "The Arrow in the Stone", but I use saying one thing and thinking another, then the poem that others hear me reciting may be "The Cold Water of Yishui". However, this kind of concealment seems to be useless against monsters. Could it be that this literary mind is of little use to the outside world?"

"You don't know this. Low-quality duplicity is deceitful, but medium-quality duplicity has the effect of changing poetry!" (To be continued...)