After a day of rest, the 100,000 Song troops continued to head north. Many soldiers remembered Tangyin County for the first time. A young man from Tangyin used his wonderful archery technique to leave them with extremely deep memories.

As the army headed north, the farce-like Scholar Army was disbanded. Although many scholars did not even have the chance to show up, Tong Guan still gave each person a sword as a reward for their participation in the Scholar Army.

"I went to the weapons to inquire today!"

During dinner, Wang Gui excitedly said to everyone: "The sword that Taiwei Tong gave us is the sword of the imperial guards. It can only be bought at the Lianggong Sword Shop in the capital. A sword is worth at least fifteen stakes of money, which is really a big deal! One hundred swords are 1,500 stakes of money."

While speaking, he slowly drew his sword. The sword body made of fine steel shone under the light. It was extremely sharp and well-made. It was a great sword. Wang Gui couldn't let go of him getting this sword, and even kept it by his side when he had to eat and sleep.

But except for Wang Gui, others' interest in this sword has faded. After all, ten days have passed, and everyone has snatched the sword at the bottom of the box. Only Wang Gui is still in a state of interest. It can be seen that he really likes this sword.

"You like it so much, I'll sell my sword to you. Do you want it?" Tang Huai yawned and said jokingly.

"That word is determined, I'm a turtle!" Wang Gui immediately seized the opportunity and did not give Tang Huai any room for regret.

Of course, Tang Huai was just a joke. He was reluctant to sell the sword to Wang Gui. He turned his eyes and said, "I didn't say which sword it was!"

"Tang Wuba!" Wang Gui gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice.

Tang Huai slapped the table heavily, glared at Wang Gui and said, "Do you want to scold me again?"

Wang Gui didn't dare to say anything. At this time, Li Yanqing used a spoon to scoop a bowl of osmanthus red bean soup and asked with a smile: "Don't always pick up the sword. Tell me about your martial arts. When will you go to Anyang?"

Yue Fei smiled and said, "I asked the master today that the Wuju Jieshi test will be held on January 20th. After we go home for the New Year, we will set off directly to Anyang on the fifth day of January. We will not come to Tangyin anymore. Should Lao Li go with us?"

"Of course I want to go, but it depends on the master's arrangement!"

"The master is biased towards you!"

Wang Gui sighed and said with envy: "He actually gave you the copper bow and iron arrow, I am so envious."

Li Yanqing reached out and knocked him hard on the head, pretending to be angry and said, "It's shameless to say this. Didn't the master give you something? Your golden-backed tiger-toothed sword fell from the sky? There are also Lao Yue's Hundred-Refined Panlong Golden Spear and Lao Tang's Lotus Hook and Scythe Spear, all of which are treasured by the master for many years. If you don't say that you have gained the benefits, you will be thinking about my broken copper and iron bow all day long!"

Tang Huai and Yue Fei both started shouting, Wang Gui was talking nonsense himself and it had nothing to do with them.

Wang Gui covered his head and shouted unconvincedly: "It's obviously biased! Can my big knife compare with your copper bow?"

"I'm too lazy to talk to you. I'll go out for a walk to digest food. Who will go with me?" Li Yanqing stood up and said.

Yue Fei shook his laughter and said, "I want to read a book, I don't have time to accompany you."

Li Yanqing's eyes turned to Tang Huai again, and Tang Huai shook his fan and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to leave if my uncle is coming later."

Li Yanqing had to take a look at Wang Gui at last. Seeing that Wang Gui was eager to try and obviously wanted to go out with him, he kicked him angrily, "If you want to go, go!"

Wang Gui immediately smiled and put his sword around his waist, followed Li Yanqing out.

.........

Walking out of the gate, the two walked slowly along the street. At this time, Wang Gui stepped forward and lowered his voice and asked, "Old Li, is the rumor true?"

"What rumors?"

"It's the matter that Taiwei Tong wants to accept you as his adopted son! The entire county school has spread."

Speaking of this, Li Yanqing's heart was like a lit match and threw it into the oil pan. He was just pretending to be angry. At this moment, he was really angry. The anger in his chest quickly burned. He turned around and glared at Wang Gui, "Do you believe this boring rumor?"

Wang Gui scratched his head, "It's not a question that I don't believe it. The county schools are talking about this. I'm afraid that the entire Tangyin County will spread. If it is not true, you should avoid the rumors!"

"It's useless to avoid rumors!"

Li Yanqing sighed, "Everyone is talking about this kind of thing as a joke. I would rather believe it is true. The more you avoid rumors, the more fierce it spreads. Only after waiting for a long time, it will slowly calm down on itself."

Even though he said that, the rumors did cause great trouble to Li Yanqing. Everyone in the world knew that Tong Guan was a eunuch. He became the adopted son of the eunuch and would enter the palace in the future. Li Yanqing was also included in the ranks of eunuchs. It was obviously because of his malicious intentions and ruining his reputation.

So when Li Yanqing mentioned this, there was always a fire in his heart that was unknown.

Wang Gui hesitated: "I know this rumor was fabricated by Huang An and the others. They didn't have the chance to play that day, but you were shining. They were jealous. But we all saw with our own eyes what you agreed to, and asked you but you refused to say it. Can you still believe the brothers who have been there for so many years?"

Speaking of this, Wang Gui glanced at Li Yanqing, with a little complaint in his eyes. Li Yanqing smiled bitterly, "It's not that I don't believe you. This matter is probably just a joke from the powerful. Before it becomes a reality, I think it's better to be silent."

"Isn't it really that I want to accept you as my adopted son?" Wang Gui opened his eyes wide.

"Of course not. You really want to know that I can tell you, but you must not spread it to me, the master cannot say it, and Lao Tang and Lao Yue cannot say it, just keep it in my heart."

"I promise not to go out and talk nonsense!" Wang Gui patted his chest and said.

Li Yanqing glanced at him suspiciously. He knew this guy too well, and the more he was confident, the more he was, the more unreliable he was.

Wang Gui blushed and hurriedly said, "Although I have a quick mouth, if you have told me, I won't talk nonsense. I know the importance of it."

"Okay! I will tell you that it is not something that is adopted as an adopted son, but Taiwei Tong is planning to recommend me to go to Taixue and Shangshe, and he is considered his disciple."

"Ah!" Wang Gui exclaimed, his eyes full of envy.

Although it is difficult to enter the Taixue Shangshu, it is not unattainable. There are three Taixue Shangshu Shangshu in Xiangzhou. The key is that Taiwei Tong recommends that even if he does not take the provincial examination in the future, he will get very generous official positions after he comes out of the Taixue to be appointed.

The Song Dynasty is still peaceful and prosperous, and it is still ten years before the country is destroyed. Almost everyone has no sense of crisis. The six thieves do not exist. Tong Guan won several victories in Xixia and defeated Tubo again. He has a high prestige among the people.

Even though Prime Minister Cai Jing manipulated power and nepotism in the court, and was hated by the court officials, he vigorously promoted the social relief system, with an unprecedented scale, which allowed the people to have a place to support themselves and have little support. He also vigorously established state schools and Imperial Colleges, giving scholars a way out, and allowing Cai Jing to have a high reputation among the people and scholars.

Until the fourth year of Xuanhe, the Liao Kingdom was destroyed and the Jin army began to invade the south. The Song army was defeated repeatedly. The court did not want to resist, but instead cut the land to seek peace, lost power and humiliated the country, which made the people of the world excited, and the whole country began to pursue the condemnation.

In order to shirk responsibility, Song Huizong had to lose his car to protect his commander. In order to crack down on the interests of powerful people, Song Qinzong also used public opinion. The father and son tacitly agreed and designated Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and other six people as traitors. Until then, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others were notorious and everyone in the world called for a fight.

But at least at this time, Tong Guan was still high-ranking, and it was not the ordinary people who could look down on him. He was of course shocked and envious to a country boy like Wang Gui when he heard that Tong Taiwei actually recommended Li Yanqing to study in Shangshe.

Before he knew it, Li Yanqing's image in Wang Gui's heart also became taller.

After the two walked around, Li Yanqing's irritability gradually calmed down. Everything had two sides. Although archery in the military camp brought him opportunities, it also brought him jealousy and slander. This negative impact cannot be eliminated in a day or two, and can only be slowly faded by time.

As soon as Li Yanqing walked to the front of the gate, he saw the magpie running out and said nervously: "Uncle Li Zhen is here and said there is something important to talk to you!"

Li Zhen is Li Er and Li San's father. He was once Baozheng from Li Wen Village. He also worked as Baozheng from Xiaohe Township for several years. He resigned last year and stopped working.

Now there are less than ten days before the New Year. Li Zhen comes to find him at this time, which must be related to the tribe sacrifice in Li Wencun.

Li Yanqing was quite disgusted with Li Zhen for a while because Li Wengui got full support when he was the clan leader. However, he heard that his father said that two months ago, the two turned against each other because Li Wengui sold the clan’s grain privately.

Because Li Zhen strongly called on his clan members to boycott Li Wengui, his youngest son Li San was beaten seriously injured on the way home from school, and Li Zhen was even more hostile to Li Wengui.

No matter what the reason for the two of them to rebel, as long as they are hostile to Li Wengui, they will stand aside with him, Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing quickly walked into his yard and saw Li Zhen sitting in the study drinking tea, looking very anxious and uneasy. It seemed that something was wrong?

"Uncle San, what happened?" Li Yanqing walked to the door and asked.
Chapter completed!