Chapter 180 Alternative Scholars and Progress Bar (8000)
Outside the city gate, there was an endless stream of people, and people came in and out from time to time. Before Xu Bai got close, he saw the position of the city gate, and people had already started to gather.
Originally, places like city gates should play a role in circulation, but at this time the city gates appear to be congested.
The lively voices from the onlookers came to Xu Bai's ears from time to time. Xu Bai listened a little, and then walked closer, and then he saw the situation inside through the gap in the crowd.
A scholar dressed in ordinary clothes fell to the ground at this moment, holding two worn-out books, crying and crying, and in front of the scholar was a rich middle-aged man dressed in silk.
When Xu Bai got closer, Xu Bai could understand the scholar's cries.
"You are too unreasonable. I work part-time at your house for the purpose of having a meal while studying."
"I worked hard for your family, but in the end I didn't even give me wages. Everyone, take a look, this Nanhua Road is a sacred place for scholars. Is there any king's law?"
"You have to give me an explanation today, otherwise, don't even think about leaving."
The poor and down-to-earth scholar was crying and shouting, his legs kicking the ground from time to time, quite a feeling of breaking a jar.
This scene has almost never happened in Nanhua Road, which is very bookish, so it has attracted the attention of many people.
Youdao means that one side nourishes one side with water and soil, and the people in Nanhua Road are also well-versed in books and rituals. Most of them have read a lot of sage books, so even if they are watching the excitement, they are quite orderly.
Xu Bai also hid in the crowd, being a melon eater.
In this world, who doesn't like to watch the excitement?
The well-built wealthy businessman was obviously disturbed by the crowd around him, and felt that staying here was a bit embarrassing, so he waved his sleeves, ignored the poor scholar, and turned to leave.
But before he took two steps, the poor scholar shuddered and quickly got up, using both hands and feet, crawled to the side of the rich businessman, hugged his legs, and continued to shout.
"Everyone testify for me, he actually wanted to run away. Is there any reason for this? If you don't pay your wages today, you are not allowed to run away."
While shouting, the scholar's eyes glanced at the surrounding crowd from time to time, and this scene happened to be seen by Xu Bai.
Xu Bai frowned. He always felt that there was something wrong with this scholar. This kind of situation is actually not uncommon in other places.
But rolling around in the street and looking at the people around him from time to time proves that the scholar's intentions are not in this, but in the people around him.
Xu Bai continued to watch.
At this moment, the scholar's eyes suddenly paused, and the place where he paused turned out to be in Xu Bai's direction. Xu Bai raised his eyebrows and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, finally understanding what was going on.
"Oh, it turned out that Xiang Zhuang danced the sword with the intention of Peigong." Xu Bai thought to himself.
When the scholar's gaze stopped in his direction, although he quickly moved away, Xu Bai could clearly feel that the scholar's real intention should be himself.
Xu Bai intends to continue watching, at least for now, it is quite interesting.
The rich businessman was a little annoyed by being pulled by the scholar. He pushed the scholar to the ground with a final wave of his hand, and then dropped a large amount of money.
"Take it, are these enough?"
"You guy, you do a part-time job at my place, but you are often lazy. When you are lazy, even though you are reading a book, you should do a job or a job, right?"
"You can count on the money today, but don't think about having this business again in the future."
After all, he is a businessman, and the rich businessman didn't want to waste time here, and he didn't spend much money. He said a few harsh words in a hurry, and left directly.
The poor scholar sat on the ground, staring at the money on the ground, he was stunned on the spot.
He raised his head slightly, and looked at Xu Bai indiscriminately, but saw that Xu Bai was looking at this side with melon-eating eyes, and he didn't intend to come out.
The poor scholar gritted his teeth. After realizing it, he picked up all the money on the ground, and finally left.
With no more melons to eat, the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed. Only Xu Bai stayed where he was, looking at the direction the poor scholar left, and disappeared in the same place the next moment.
After the poor scholar left the city gate, he walked through several winding alleys, and finally came to a dilapidated house.
This house is really dilapidated. Compared with the surrounding houses, it seems that it has never been repaired. If the roof is not relatively intact, it is estimated that it will leak.
The poor scholar opened the door and walked inside.
He was about to close the door with his backhand, but he didn't expect that a hand suddenly jumped out, grabbed his neck fiercely, and pushed him against the wall.
The poor scholar woke up immediately, struggling to shout, but when he saw the owner of this hand, his eyes were obviously dull.
This sluggish mood only lasted for a moment, and was covered up by the poor scholar, but it couldn't escape the other party's eyes at all.
"Who are you? Why did you break into a private house? Be careful, if I yell, someone from the government will come."
There was panic in his tone, as if he was really a weak person who was suddenly caught.
Xu Bai smiled and said: "You were outside just now, weren't you looking for me, now that I'm here, why are you scared?"
"Who... who is looking for you?" The poor scholar shivered.
Before he finished speaking, the next moment, he heard a melodious music, which was very pleasant to his ears, but besides the pleasant sound, there was also a feeling of disturbing his thoughts.
He felt that his mind was getting confused, and in a blink of an eye, he had already fallen into chaos.
Xu Bai let go of his hand, let the poor scholar stand in front of him, and asked slowly: "Who are you? Why are you looking for me? What is your purpose?"
The scholar whose spirit was controlled was dazed, but after hearing Xu Bai's question, he replied: "I am an ordinary scholar in Nanhua Road. I mainly came to you to get close to you and kill you.
I deliberately set up this game, I wanted to test you, will you rescue me like those Jianghu people, if I can, I will make friends with you, and finally assassinate you. "
Xu Bai pondered and said: "Assassinate me, what do you use to assassinate me?"
It wasn't that Xu Bai felt good about himself, but the helpless scholar in front of him, standing there by himself, let the opponent hit him, and the opponent would not be able to break through the defense.
The poor scholar raised his hand, took a look in his pocket, and then took out a scroll.
The scroll is curled, and it looks like a painting.
Xu Bai stretched out his right hand and pinched it hard.
In the empty room, there was the sound of bones breaking.
The poor scholar let out a scream, dropped the scroll in his hand to the ground, and looked at Xu Bai with horror on his face.
Xu Bai picked up the scroll on the ground, and said calmly: "That's right, you were able to cope with my soul control, I don't know what method you used,
First, you used the so-called inferior method to get close. In fact, you already knew that you couldn’t get close to me, so you deliberately showed your flaws to lure me over, and then pretended to be controlled by me.
But you are still a little immature for playing this trick. "
The poor scholar smiled bitterly and said: "As expected of Prince Xu, he really lives up to his name. Today, I will fall for you, but this is only the first time."
As soon as he finished speaking, the poor scholar's face suddenly turned pale, and then he tilted his head and lost his breath.
"Is it really organized and disciplined, did you just commit suicide without a chance?" Xu Bai shook his head and opened the scroll in his hand.
After the scroll is unfolded, a dagger is exposed at the very end. The dagger looks ordinary, but it is painted with blood-red patterns. These patterns look very evil to the eyes.
Xu Bai suddenly had an idea in his heart—this dagger could hurt him!
This came from an intuition deep in his heart, which told him that this dagger could hurt him and make him feel dangerous.
"It should be related to the blood-red pattern on the dagger." Xu Bai thought to himself, and at the same time rewound the dagger into the painting scroll and handed it to the Yipin puppet next to him.
After doing all this, he scanned the surroundings with his soul, and he left the dilapidated house only after he found no other abnormalities.
…
Ching Wan College is the most famous college on Nan Hua Road, where there are almost everywhere academies.
Xu Bai came along this way, almost thirty or fifty steps, and he would come across an academy.
It may be majestic, or small and delicate, in a word, it is full of the atmosphere of scholars everywhere.
Because of Qingyun Academy's most famous relationship, Xu Bai just inquired about it and found it.
Looking at the bookish building in front of him, Xu Bai stood at the door, nodding frequently.
I have to say that this building alone is in line with the name of Qingyun Academy, elegant yet gorgeous, simple yet solemn.
The door is open, because it is an academy, there are no servants here, and many scholars are walking back and forth.
Sometimes scholars go in, and sometimes scholars come out. Everyone holds a thick book in their hands.
Some scholars looked down, some scholars tucked under their armpits, and some scholars walked while reading.
Xu Bai didn't see Liu Xu. After all, he didn't notify Liu Xu in advance when he came this time, so no one greeted him.
But it's not a big problem. Seeing the situation, Xu Bai probably won't be blocked. Thinking of this, he raised his foot and walked towards the door.
Stepping into it, there is a sense of righteousness rushing towards the face. After all, this place is a holy place for scholars, even an ordinary person can feel it clearly here.
No one cared about him, and no one looked this way. Everyone looked at the book, as if the book in their hands was more important than anything else.
But Xu Bai doesn't know where Liu Xu is now, so he has to ask, so he finds a scholar and grabs him.
The scholar who was held back frowned, and shook his hands in dissatisfaction, trying to shake Xu Bai away, but Xu Bai's hands were like iron tongs, and he couldn't shake them off at all.
"Why are you so disrespectful, this is a place of sages, why do you make such an impolite move?"
The scholar's bun on the top of his head was a little crooked due to shaking his hands. He was very dissatisfied with Xu Bai's actions, so he couldn't help scolding
"I'm sorry, where is the catkin?" Although Xu Bai said he was rude, he didn't let go of his hand and asked.
"Senior Sister Liu?" The scholar seemed to have thought of something when he heard the words, and his face was full of contempt: "Another prodigal son, since Senior Sister came back from Jiantiansi, you guys have been tempted, I advise you It's better to go back early, don't make fun of yourself, and be careful to lose your life."
Xu Bai grinned, and said, "Why did you lose your life? Can Liu Xu be a hag?"
The scholar's face changed, and he said in a cold voice: "Senior Sister Liu is now the supervisor of Tiansi. This time, when she comes back from leave, she is mainly waiting for someone. Do you know who you are waiting for?"
"Who?" Xu Bai was quite curious.
The scholar's face became even colder: "The blood butcher swordsman, have you heard of it?"
In his opinion, the person in front of him is not only an apprentice, but also an apprentice who has no knowledge. He doesn't even know who Senior Sister Liu is waiting for. What knowledge does he have?
But for some reason, when he said the words "Bleeding Swordsman", he felt his hand tighten suddenly, and the opponent's strength seemed to grow stronger, and he could feel that the opponent seemed to feel disgusted with him.
"What do you want to do, do you want to play wild here?" The scholar felt the pain in his hand, so he couldn't help but increase his voice.
"Those who don't know are innocent, just forget it this time." Xu Baiyin said tentatively: "Call me this title again next time, I will hook your tongue, remember to call me Lord Xu in the future, no, call me This king is Lord Xu."
He didn’t forget that what Eunuch Wei told him back then, he had to call himself the king. After all, Xu Bai is now a king with a different surname, so he couldn’t lose the face of Great Chu.
"Prince Xu? My lord?" The scholar's face was full of doubts, obviously he hadn't reacted yet, and when he did, he finally understood the meaning of these words.
"You are a blood slaughter..."
He was full of astonishment, and wanted to repeat Xu Bai's title again, but he felt a chill emanating from his spine before he finished the sentence, making him swallow the next two words directly.
"The king... the prince."
At this time, the scholar was a little frightened: "I don't know the identity of the prince, so don't blame the prince."
"Yes." Xu Bai said, "Tell me, where is the catkin?"
Although there were people studying around, there was a lot of activity on Xu Bai's side. Naturally, some people turned their attention to it. After knowing Xu Bai's identity, many people took a deep breath.
The scholar quickly pointed to a direction, indicating that it was Liu Xu's room, and Liu Xu was waiting for him in the room.
Xu Bai just let go of his hand and walked in that direction, but before he left, he turned his head and said, "The so-called mighty can't be subdued. I think that although you are reading, you haven't read the character of a scholar."
This sentence was just a momentary quick talk, after all, Xu Bai did his part when it came to harming others.
"You can't bend with might..." The scholar looked at the direction Xu Bai was leaving, lowered his head and pondered over this sentence repeatedly, and left as if he had found a treasure.
The scholars who were watching looked at each other in blank dismay, repeating this sentence over and over again.
Of course Xu Bai didn't know this, he had already followed this direction and found Liu Xu's room.
As for why it can be found with incomparable precision, the answer is very simple, just one word.
-fragrant.
The pleasant sandalwood scent can be smelled clearly even if it is far away. Xu Bai guessed that the sandalwood incense had already been lit in Liu Xu's room, so he could smell it just by smelling it.
"Boom boom boom!"
He stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door, the sound of thumping recalled.
A moment later, catkin's voice came from the room.
"Xu Bai, wait a moment, I will revoke the mechanism in the room."
No matter how you say it, she is also a third-rank master. Of course, Liu Xu can easily tell who is standing outside the door.
Hearing these familiar words, Xu Bai instantly remembered the scene when he met Liu Xu for the first time that day.
At that time, it was still in Sheng County, and both of them were rookies, but Liu Xu was an old rookie compared to him.
In Liu Xu's room, there are various traps, and all of them are tricks from the rivers and lakes, for the purpose of defense.
Unexpectedly, in Qingyun Academy, catkins are still the same, nothing has changed.
Soon, the door of the room opened, and Xu Bai recovered.
Liu Xu covered her face with a veil, bent slightly, and said, "I have seen Prince Xu."
There was a joking look in his eyes. Although the veil covered his face, it could be seen that the smile in his eyes did not diminish.
Outside the room, a few scholars in white clothes happened to pass by and looked at him curiously.
But after feeling Xu Bai's gaze, they soon dispersed.
Xu Bai deliberately said with a straight face: "If you make fun of me like this again, I will turn around and leave."
How could he fail to hear that Liu Xu was teasing him.
Xu Bai was quite helpless, but he walked in anyway.
As soon as he entered the room, he smelled a more intense sandalwood fragrance. Xu Bai saw the metal container on the table emitting green smoke, so he couldn't help shaking his head.
"You are not afraid of the smell, pickle yourself, oh, no, you have already pickled the smell."
Liu Xu turned around and closed the door. Just as she was about to turn her head, she saw Xu Bai coming to the table. At the same time, she saw Xu Bai picking up the book on the table and slowly opening it.
Her expression changed suddenly, and she was about to take a few steps forward to **** the book, but Xu Bai's hand was faster.
"Hey, it seems that this is your secret, is it a diary, who is a serious person to keep a diary?"
Xu Bai jokingly turned over one of the pages, and when he saw the content on it, his face froze immediately.
"Boom!"
"ah!"
Liu Xu covered her head with indignation in her eyes: "What are you doing!"
Xu Bai withdrew his hand, the corner of his mouth twitched and said: "I told you not to write these things, why do you still want to write?"
That day, when they were in Shengxian County, Xu Bai and Wu Hua often discussed Buddhism all night long. In fact, it was Xu Bai's excuse to keep the progress bar on purpose.
As a result, Liu Xu directly wrote the two of them in the book, and wrote it vividly.
As for the content...cannot describe.
Now this book is actually a sequel to the previous book.
"Give it back to me!" Taking advantage of Xu Bai's knock on the head, Liu Xu quickly snatched her over, hugged her to her chest, and then quickly backed away.
"This is also my way of reading."
"Is this also counted?" Xu Bai was stunned.
Liu Xu nodded seriously: "Of course, everyone has their own way. I'm about to enter the second rank now."
Xu Bai was confused by what he heard.
"Okay, okay." Liu Xu waved her hand, changed the subject, and hid the book behind her back at the same time: "Let's not discuss this issue, Xu Bai, you are here for a long journey this time, I will go to the kitchen staff, Ask him to cook some side dishes for you to eat."
Saying that, Liu Xu ran away as if running away.
Xu Bai looked at the figure of Liu Xu running away in a hurry, and couldn't help shaking his head, but he didn't stop him, but sat on the chair, put his hands on the table to support his head, and waited patiently.
To be honest, I am indeed a little hungry. Although they have reached their level, it will not have much impact if they do not eat for a long time, but they will always have some appetite.
It's like a person who doesn't eat, but he can't refuse food, it's the same reason.
Not long after, Liu Xu came back, and many dishes were placed on the table.
Xu Bai glanced at it and said, "It's quite rich."
There is also a jug of wine next to it.
Liu Xu poured himself a glass, and poured another for Xu Bai.
Xu Bai didn't drink, but pointed to his face.
Although he didn't speak, the meaning was already obvious.
You still have a veil on your face, how do you eat and drink?
Liu Xu smiled: "You are still so curious about my appearance."
"I wear a veil on weekdays, and I just don't want to cause unnecessary trouble because of my appearance."
"It's just you and me today, so it doesn't matter if you pick it up."
As she spoke, Liu Xu raised her white hand to her ear, and took off the veil in front of her.
A pure and white face appeared in front of Xu Bai.
"Pretty." Xu Bai's simple words seemed very uneducated.
It's not that he doesn't have other adjectives, on the contrary, he also has them.
For example, say that the cheeks are dyed red, and the pearls in the earrings are swaying.
Or cloud temples soaked in ink, with phoenix hairpins flying in the head.
Or spring green onion and jade fingers are like orchids, and small golden lotus is like ingots.
Or lightly swing the cloud sleeves to dance with butterflies, and slowly twist the floating silk sash on the slender waist.
Those sentences are used to describe the catkins at this moment, there is no problem at all.
But it is far less than the word "beautiful", which is wonderful.
As we all know, when a person has countless emotions, he can express them with some specific words, but when he comes to his mouth, two words can express them brilliantly.
—Damn it!
It can be expressed in two words, so why use other words?
The corners of Liu Xu's mouth twitched slightly, she raised the wine glass in her hand, raised her fair neck, and drank it in one gulp.
Xu Bai also drank the fine wine in his glass.
The two began to chat, and under the atmosphere of talking and laughing, the more they chatted, the more excited they became.
Chatting and chatting, three rounds of wine, five tastes of food.
Liu Xu's cheeks turned red, which was the reaction after drinking.
Although it won't be drunk, it is extraordinarily charming.
In Xu Bai's view, beauty is like jade, and drinking is like putting a white veil on jade, making it even more attractive.
"By the way, I almost forgot to talk about business."
"I have something here that I want you to take a look at."
One person said a sentence, and they said it at the same time.
Xu Bai and Liu Xu were taken aback.
"Do you have something for me to see?" Liu Xu asked.
Xu Bai wasn't polite either, saying something like this first.
He beckoned to the first-rank puppet next to him, and the first-rank puppet immediately stepped forward and handed the scroll to his hand.
"I was assassinated on the way here." Xu Bai slowly told his experience when he came here.
The scroll was placed on the table and opened, and then the dagger inside was exposed.
The blood-red pattern on the dagger still looks strange, like a blood-stained flower.
"This thing gives me a very dangerous feeling. My instinct tells me that it can hurt me." Xu Bai said.
Liu Xu was a little surprised when he heard Xu Bai talk about his experience.
Although surprised, but not enough, after all Xu Bai's current strength, Liu Xu thinks there is no major difficulty.
However, when she saw the dagger in front of her, she stood up abruptly, with astonishment in her eyes.
This kind of behavior instantly aroused Xu Bai's curiosity. Obviously, Liu Xu knew it.
"Do you recognize this dagger, or do you recognize the pattern on this dagger?" Xu Bai asked.
Liu Xu came back to her senses, nodded with a complicated face, and then sat back on the chair.
"This is... engraved by a scholar."
"Scholar?" Xu Bai rubbed his chin, and said, "Isn't a scholar an awe-inspiring spirit? Why do you still play such a wicked thing?"
In his opinion, the pattern on the dagger is very strange, and it cannot be made by a scholar with awe-inspiring spirit.
Liu Xu smiled wryly and said: "This thing was carved by a scholar, and it contains the essence of a scholar's life. The person who carved this thing must have died of exhaustion."
Xu Bai frowned and said, "Tell me in detail, from beginning to end."
He felt that what he heard was foggy and had no beginning or end, so he needed to understand it from beginning to end.
Liu Xu nodded slightly, didn't even drink the wine, and explained the ins and outs of the matter.
Xu Bai listened quietly, and after listening to Liu Xu, he gradually understood.
As we all know, scholars gain ability through reading, and the so-called ability is awe-inspiring spirit.
But scholars have a characteristic, which is well known, except for Xu Bai.
After all, Xu Bai has not been in this circle for long.
The aura of grandeur that a person acquires from reading good books is righteous, and the aura of grandeur that a person acquires from reading bad books must be evil.
Reading can make people wise or sensible. Good books and bad books are like fine wine and blended wine.
Reading a good book is naturally approved by the Great Chu State, but after reading a bad book, the aura of grandeur has changed, and naturally it can't be called the aura of grandeur.
Not only that, but it will also affect the mind and make people more evil.
These are also scholars, but like rats crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats them.
At this moment, the pattern on the dagger in Xu Bai's hand was carved by this kind of person.
"Wait." Xu Bai raised his hand and said, "Liu Xu, I don't know if I should say something or not?"
Liu Xu is a smart person, of course she knows what Xu Bai is going to say, so she smiles: "You want to say that my grandeur is not right?"
As he spoke, the awe-inspiring aura that belonged to Liu Xu came out vigorously. The awe-inspiring aura carried a strange feeling, which made people feel dazed and confused.
"I am also very confused, but I can be sure that it has not affected my mind." Liu Xu explained: "The teacher once said that a book is like a knife in the hand of a butcher. The butcher's heart is righteous. No matter how many livestock the knife kills , is still true."
"Although this metaphor is a bit vulgar, but after thinking about it carefully, it is also the same, so I think I have no problem."
Xu Bai touched his chin. He didn't know if there was any problem, but at least from the contact point of view, the catkin didn't give him any abnormal feeling.
"So any clues?"
Since someone wants to target him, Xu Bai of course wants to follow the clues to find out and give a strong counterattack.
"No." Liu Xu said helplessly: "They hide very deeply, at least they are almost extinct in Nanhua Road. I didn't expect to see them today."
According to this, there is no news or clues.
Xu Bai didn't care about this.
It was still his previous thinking that there is nothing flawless in this world, it just depends on the number of flaws.
The more chances the opponent has to attack, the more flaws there will be.
"Let's talk about your business, you asked me to come here from such a long distance, do you have anything to tell me?" Xu Bai changed the subject and asked.
Liu Xu shook her head: "Originally, the dean asked you for something, but now the dean has something to go out, and it may take a while to come back, why don't you stay here for a while?"
"Dean?" Xu Bai was slightly surprised.
He didn't expect that it was the dean who wanted to find him?
Who is the dean? In Xu Bai's view, he is as famous as Wei Gonggong.
From that book, and it was written by the dean when he was young, I can see the progress bar from it, which can definitely prove it.
"Yeah." Liu Xu nodded, and said: "The dean didn't say anything when he left, but said that if you came, just wait for him here, and he will come back in a short time, by the way, The dean asked me to give this to you, and he said that he learned from me that you like to read books of various professions the most, so he brought you a travel note he wrote in his early years."
Travel notes?
At first, when he heard the word book, Xu Bai became interested in it instantly. After all, it might be related to the progress bar, but when he heard the word travel notes, his interest was somewhat lost.
What is a travel note? To put it simply, it is something recorded incidentally when traveling.
"There shouldn't be a progress bar." Xu Bai thought to himself.
As soon as this idea came out, he took it back instantly, because he saw a golden progress bar on the book Liu Xu handed over.
Not only that, the speed of this progress bar is actually very slow.
You know, his cheat has been upgraded, the speed of the progress bar should be very fast, but now the speed of the progress bar has slowed down, which proves that this book is a good thing.
Get rich!
Xu Bai is very convinced.
He took it with a blank face: "Thank you, Dean, for me."
Although there is no expression on his face, he is very happy in his heart. This wave is another **** profit.
Liu Xu was used to seeing Xu Bai's jumping off, so she nodded indifferently, and chatted with Xu Bai again, this time, it was about household chores.
The two were chatting and drinking, the wine had bottomed out, and the food was almost finished.
Liu Xu got up, put the veil back on in Xu Bai's sight, and was about to arrange a room for Xu Bai.
But before she could say anything, suddenly, a loud noise appeared.
"Boom!"
This voice came from outside, and at the same time, the painting scroll in the hands of Yipin Puppet shone red.
It was 38.5 degrees last night, and this chapter is still written down.
Everyone, please pay attention to protection, this thing hurts unreasonably, really unreasonably, it is very uncomfortable.
(end of this chapter)