After Magistrate He finished explaining what had happened, everyone started to eat.
No one drank. After the meal, the three gentlemen each received three "official red documents" from County Magistrate He. If they encountered danger within Mi County, they could tear up the official red documents, and County Magistrate He would be alerted and come to rescue.
If someone tears two pieces of paper in a row, the county will report it directly to the prefect. If someone tears three pieces of paper in a row, it will be reported immediately to the governor.
The county sent three young students who were familiar with the local environment to serve as guides for the three classes.
After bidding farewell to the county magistrate and others, seven vehicles headed to the place where monsters had appeared recently.
Lujia Town is the confluence of three rivers in Mi County. The widest part of the river here can reach ten meters, and the deepest part can reach two meters. Water monsters attack humans from time to time. Moreover, Lujia Town is backed by mountains and forests, and the monsters here are like leeks, which can be cut one after another and cannot be killed.
When they arrived at Lujia Town, the third shift's carriage did not stop immediately, but moved through the town. Mr. Yu from the third shift sat in the carriage, holding the cultural treasure "Monster Detecting Tiger Head Paperweight" to detect monsters. In the end, no monsters were detected and they returned safely.
Everyone found the mayor, the guide took out the documents from the county, and the three gentlemen took out the documents from the state academy of literature. Then they found a large courtyard in the town to stay and began the final preparations. Everyone rested for an afternoon and then set off at night, because many monsters are active at night and hide during the day.
Everyone took a short break, and the mayor brought three students to visit. One was an old student who taught in the town, and the other two were young students who were preparing to take the examination for the scholar in Dayuan Prefecture this year. They had finally seen the talented people from the provincial academy of literature coming, so naturally they came to visit.
The mayor helped introduce them one by one.
"This is Mr. Yang, the teacher of the town's elementary school. He is a kind and mature man. All the students in our town are his students."
"This is Guo Yongzhi, only 22 years old, and has a great chance of passing the imperial examination."
"This is my nephew An Chengcai, who is five years older than Guo Yongzhi. If he fails to pass the exam in three years, he will not take it anymore and will just take over Mr. Yang's elementary education. Don't be fooled by his dull looks. He once vowed not to get married unless he passed the exam. But he saved a woman who was robbed seven days ago, and they got married five days ago. My niece-in-law is so beautiful, you little brat. He may fail in the exam, but he succeeds in love!" After saying that, he patted An Chengcai on the shoulder.
An Chengcai is a handsome man, but a little introverted. He smiles shyly, unable to hide his inner pride.
The old student was not seeking fame or position, and was very well-behaved. The two young students were very respectful to him, and were especially excited when they learned that Fang Yun was among them.
The students had nothing to do, so they talked with the two students about how to take the examination to become a scholar. Fang Yun was also a student, so he listened carefully.
Nunu, on the other hand, looked at An Chengcai curiously, occasionally sniffing him gently with a puzzled look, but he soon stopped caring and fell asleep in Fang Yun's arms.
As evening approached, everyone took a one-hour nap, then got up to eat and got ready to go.
Scholars were different from ordinary soldiers in that they all wore a set of "board clothes" which were usually folded up to cover the upper body. If they needed to write war poems, they would put them down to form a tray in front of them to use as a desk for writing.
Although Fang Yun was not a scholar, Mr. Wang prepared a set of plain clothes for him so that Fang Yun could get used to it in the future.
Before leaving, Fang Yunshen entered the Wen Palace and found that his talent had not changed much, but the vortex of Wendan was spinning faster and faster, and there was even a sign of condensing Wendan. It seemed that he could form Wendan in a month at most.
"I hope I will have become a scholar by then, otherwise the Tongsheng Wen Palace will not be able to accommodate a number of literary talents."
As night fell, the team set out.
According to past practice, students from the three classes had to be separated, but because of the appearance of the Demon Marshal, the College of Arts stipulated that the three classes could not be separated, and that everyone in each class must be able to see the other two classes.
In the quiet night, a group of people left the town and walked towards Yangshui River.
The lowest level of these people is still students, so even though it is dark at night, it is no different from daytime to them.
After walking for half an hour, accompanied by the chirping of insects, everyone saw the Yangshui River stretching across the front like a piece of white silk.
"be prepared!"
At Mr. Yu's command, everyone made final preparations.
The five scholars in Class 1 immediately put down the hard board in front of their chests, forming a tray on their abdomens with white paper on it, and then took out ink bottles and brushes, ready to write at any time.
Although Fang Yun couldn't talk about it on paper, he still followed along, purely for practice.
There were fifteen soldiers in the front of the group, five sword and shield soldiers, five spearmen and five archers. All their weapons and shields were of the most sophisticated quality, and even the shields were demon turtle shields, which could not be shattered even by a single blow from a demon general.
The three gentlemen took out the monster-detecting paperweight together. The poem inside this cultural relic was the "Monster-hunting Poem" written by the great scholar Gan Bao, the author of "Soushen Ji". It can detect all monsters within a radius of one mile, and only a very small number of monsters can be avoided.
The three teams moved slowly along the river, searching for monsters.
Fang Yun looked around carefully, his heart beat slightly faster and he was more excited than usual, because this was his first time to kill a monster, and even if he couldn't fight in person, it would be good to see the monster.
After walking for a quarter of an hour and finding nothing, a few people became a little lax and were warned by Mr. Wang.
Another quarter of an hour passed, and still nothing.
Fang Yun was a little disappointed. Lu Yu whispered, "This is a common occurrence. Last time we killed a monster, we saw one on the third night. If there is none by the river, we can go to that forest. There is no rush."
Fang Yun nodded.
Another hour passed with nothing found, and even Mr. Wang began to relax his vigilance.
Suddenly, Nunu pointed at the bushes about three meters ahead and chirped softly.
Everyone immediately became nervous. Mr. Wang shouted to warn the people in the other two classes, then looked at Nunu.
Nunu didn't care about Mr. Wang at all and just pointed it out to Fang Yun.
Fang Yun said: "Sir, let's go there and take a look. Nunu may have discovered something."
Mr. Wang had seen many spirit beasts and demon servants, so he had no doubts at all and said, "Yun Cong, take five people to see what's there."
"Yes!" Immediately, two sword and shield soldiers, two spearmen and an archer protected Li Yuncong and walked towards there, while Mr. Wang held a mountain-shaped treasure pen holder in his hand, ready to take action at any time.
Li Yuncong returned quickly, holding a palm-sized scale in his hand, and said in surprise: "Sir, this is a scale of a fish monster. I looked carefully at the traces there, and it seems that several fish monsters passed by here and went to the north."
"Gather everyone, I'll go take a look." Mr. Wang immediately walked over quickly, carefully examined the traces of the fish monster, and made the same judgment as Li Yuncong.
People from the three classes gathered together. As usual, the three gentlemen said nothing. They just assisted the scholars in their training. If these students were not in danger, they would not take action.
The scholars from the three classes unanimously decided to chase the monster to prevent it from harming people.
So everyone started running forward.
After running a few steps, Fang Yun whispered, "Nu Nu, come to my hands."
Nunu immediately crawled along Fang Yun's right arm like a little squirrel and onto Fang Yun's hand, looking at Fang Yun in confusion, as if asking what was going on.
Fang Yun asked as he ran: "How long has that fish scale been there?"
Nunu immediately frowned and thought, then stretched out his fleshy right paw.
"Five hours?"
Nunu shook his head.
"Five hours?"
Nunu still shook his head.
"Five quarters?"
Nunu still shook his head.
Fang Yun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly asked seriously: "Nunu, don't tell me you don't know how to count!"
"Oh oh!" Nunu was angry, as if to say that you are the one who doesn't know how to count.
"How long exactly? Five days?"
Nunu shook his head and stretched out his claws firmly, with a little bit of pride in his eyes, as if to say that it was obviously you who didn't know how to count!
Fang Yun looked at Nunu's claws carefully and finally realized that its claws were not like human hands that could be retracted, but five when stretched out.
Fang Yun rolled his eyes at Nunu, stretched out his left hand, curled up his thumb, and asked, "Is it four?"
Nunu shook his head.
"Is it three?"
Nunu nodded quickly, then used his little paws to wipe the sweat off his face, as if to say, "You finally guessed it right, I'm so tired!"
"About three quarters of an hour ago?"
"Oh!" Nunu nodded with a smile.
"How many monsters are there?"
Nunu tilted his head and thought for a moment, then raised his two paws.
Fang Yun couldn't help but smile. He started guessing from six, and only nodded when he guessed eight.
"Can you tell whether they are demon civilians, demon soldiers, or demon generals?"
Nunu shook his head and then nodded.
Lu Yu and Ning Zhiyuan, who had been watching, suddenly felt a headache. It was too difficult to communicate with the spirit being. They couldn't understand anything at all.
Fang Yun thought about it carefully and asked, "You can distinguish between demon generals, but can't distinguish between demon soldiers or demon civilians?"
Nunu nodded happily.
"Is there any demon general here?"
Nunu hesitated for a moment to recall, then shook his head to indicate no.
Fang Yun immediately said to everyone: "Three quarters of an hour ago, eight monsters passed by here. We are not sure how many were monster soldiers and how many were monster civilians."
Everyone looked at Fang Yun and Nu Nu with gratitude. This information was so important that the fifteen scholars discussed it as they ran, and the three successful candidates did not interrupt.
After a while, Nunu suddenly stretched out his claws and grabbed Fang Yun's clothes, and called out twice in a very serious tone.
Everyone looked at Fang Yun immediately.
"Are we close to the monster?" Fang Yun asked.
Nunu nodded.
Everyone looked at the three gentlemen holding the monster-detecting paperweights, and all three of them shook their heads.
After running for a while, everyone saw eight monsters in front of them. The eight figures were very clear under the moonlight.
Ma Yuan, the scholar from Class 3, served as the temporary commander and said, "We have spotted a monster! Slow down and make final preparations."
Everyone slow down and prepare for battle.
The eight monsters soon noticed them and rushed over shouting.
Ma Yuan continued to command, with the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen protecting everyone. The scholar was at the back, and all the archers were at the end. He also asked Fang Yun, the three boy guides, and the archers to stand together.
The eight-headed fish monster rushed over at an accelerated speed.
The solemn and tense atmosphere was like an invisible cover covering everyone, and Fang Yun even had difficulty breathing.
After the eight fish monsters ran for a while, Ma Yuan issued an order.
"They are three demon soldiers and five demon civilians. They are all ordinary fish demons. Don't be afraid!"
"I will write "Ode to Xingtian", Luo Tianqi will write "With You as My Comrade", and the rest of you will wait for them to get closer and decide when to write "Song of Yishui" to attack based on your own writing speed! Each of the three squads will attack one demon soldier, and every three archers will shoot one demon civilian."
Fang Yun looked up at the sky. The Wenquxing star was particularly bright tonight.
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