You cultivate immortality, I cultivate merit

Chapter 227 Leaving the courtyard
The people surrounding the young man retreated to the roadside one by one. As they retreated, they protected the little girls who were traveling with them.

Xiao Yingzi held Shi Zelan's hand tightly, while Xiao Qiuhua grabbed Shi Zelan's other arm.

The three of them followed the neighbor teenagers and stepped aside, watching as Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu protected the young family as they walked towards the path pointed by the official.

Shi Zelan was a little uneasy and listened carefully to some of the voices in front of him, and finally heard some useful words.

"The scholar from the south was almost stabbed."

"Ah, then who blocked the knife for him?"

"The official caught the perpetrator."

"Such a vicious incident has never happened before."

"Yes, don't you remember that one year, one scholar in that inn gave another a croton, causing the other to miss the imperial examination that year?"

After a while, Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu turned around and came back.

After hearing this, the young man sneered: "You also have to keep an eye on the road. You won't meet people with such good tempers like us next time."

But Shi Xiaoliu stared at him coldly, and the young people from the neighborhood also gathered around him at this time.

After the young man lowered his head and ran away, the young people increasingly protected the little girl among them.

When the group of them returned to the street entrance, the sky gradually became brighter.

Xiao Qiuhua trembled: "Why are there such bad people?"

Xia Yu took advantage of the situation and took a step forward, just in time to rub the young man's foot. He jumped and was about to curse.

When Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi saw the young man staggering, his body was about to lean towards Xiao Qiuhua.

Xiao Qiuhua's expression suddenly changed, and Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi dragged her towards the crowd.

Just one step away can't stop those who are interested from approaching.

They found Shi Zelan and his party and said, "There are too many people, let's go back now.

As a group of them walked back, it was naturally not that smooth. From time to time they were scolded: "Why are you squeezing?"

The young man could only shout: "You walk well."

"We can't walk?
Or you can’t walk, and you keep coming closer, what do you want to do? "

The two of them reached out and pulled Xiao Qiuhua back almost at the same time, just in time to avoid the man's upside down body.

When the man saw that the test failed, he reached out to slap Xiao Qiuhua's face.

Xiao Qiuhua was so frightened that she couldn't walk. Xiao Yingzi and Shi Zelan almost dragged her forward.

Xiao Qiuhua accidentally walked to the front, and Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi were two steps behind her.

Shi Zelan whispered: "With us here, he can't survive."

Everyone followed closely and waited until they got out of this street to count the number of people who came together. "

"Can you walk?"

Xiao Yingzi said directly: "What are you afraid of? There are so many of us, does he dare?
He just thought you were alone and that's why he dared to act so arrogantly. "

Xiao Qiuhua kept holding on to Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi's hands, and they simply sent her home.

When Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi walked back, she said to Shi Zelan: "Why do I feel that Xiao Qiuhua's luck is not very good this year?"

Shi Zelan glanced at her: "I think she is very lucky, the kind of good luck that turns bad luck into good fortune."

Xiao Yingzi thought about it seriously and smiled: "Xiao Lanzi, you are right, she is very lucky. She will definitely meet a wonderful marriage this year."

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, then went home.

Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu were sitting in the courtyard. Shi Zelan entered the courtyard and asked, "Did I close the courtyard door?"

"Close it."

Shi Xiaoliu answered affirmatively, Shi Zelan closed the courtyard door, walked to them and sat down.

"Do you feel that this year's imperial examination is not going well?"

Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu nodded at the same time and asked Shi Zelan, "Do you feel the same way?"

"You escorted that brother into the examination room, and I felt something was wrong.

Later, I heard that a candidate was almost stabbed with a knife. At that time, I felt that this thing was so mysterious.

After all, the official is standing guard on the roadside. How stupid can a person be to stab someone in front of an official? "

"When we went in, we didn't find anything out of the ordinary."

Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu followed the young man inside. When the door of the examination room was opened to admit the candidates, they carefully felt the atmosphere around them and found nothing inappropriate.

After the three of them thought about it carefully, they felt that maybe they were overthinking something.

They quickly calmed down and went back to their rooms to practice.

The next day, they decided to go to the mountains, so they set out before dawn.

When the three young men came over, they all looked disappointed when they saw the lock on the courtyard door.

On the evening of the third day, brother and sister Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu returned home with nothing in their hands.

When I met the neighbors and asked about it, they smiled and said, "The free clinic at the Taoist temple outside the city has used up all the medicinal herbs, so we sent the medicinal herbs to the Taoist temple."

They did send part of the medicinal herbs to the Taoist temple, and also asked the opinions of Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng.

Decheng Zhenren said that they will not return for the time being.

Master Shanzheng asked about Shi Zelan's cultivation situation, and Shi Zelan told him about the problems encountered in the cultivation of spiritual consciousness.

He told Shi Zelan some solutions as he saw them. He said to Shi Zelan: "When you leave the sect, the curse's restrictions on you will be much lessened."

Shi Zelan nodded in agreement and told Master Shan Zheng about sending people into the examination room that day.

Master Shanzheng did not show any surprise after hearing this. He smiled and said to Shi Zelan: "We have heard some old things from the master of the temple these days. Some scholars are jealous and cannot tolerate anyone who is better than him to come forward.

As a result, some of them will do wrong things, and some of them can avoid disasters, and each of them has good luck. "

Shi Zelan listened to Master Shan Zheng's words without any surprise on his face.

For a person who has heard about poisoning cases in famous universities, these things are really trivial and not worth discussing.

Master Shan Zheng thought that Shi Zelan's temperament was calmer again, so he smiled and said to her: "Sister Lan, you are still a child, you don't need to think too much."

On the way back to the city, brother and sister Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu naturally discussed such things as the unpredictable nature of people's hearts.

Therefore, when they met the neighbors on their way home, they naturally mentioned the fact that the Taoist temple had no medicinal herbs in stock.

After hearing this, the neighbors lamented that Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng were rare good people, and asked when they would come back.
Shi Xiaoliu sighed: "My master and uncle are busy going up the mountain to pick herbs these days, and they won't be back for a while.

They know that you all take good care of us, and that the three of us, brother and sister, are not nosy people. "

Neighbors also felt that Shi Xiaoliu and the others were not busy. Except for going out to the city to pick herbs in the mountains, the three of them rarely left the yard.