At night, there are many simple tents by the Yunzhong Lake, but many people don’t even have tents. Some people are not experienced. In the past, they can come back at night when they go out for a walk, and even on Fengchi Mountain, so there is no need to prepare overnight items. This time, Ouyang Zheng chose the place farther away, and many people who followed him seemed to have less preparation.

Fortunately, this is not the time of winter, and there is still a bonfire to keep warm, so you can sleep well on this night. Xu Jie is this inexperienced person, who uses the earth as the mat and the sky as the quilt. The dark night in front of him is much bigger, and it seems that he is closer to the stars.

Early the next morning, the lake was surrounded by people who were washing their clothes. After eating some food, the spring outing began. On Jiugong Mountain, there were dense jungles, towering cliffs, and on the cliff walls, there were springs spraying out. This scene was rare, but it was even more difficult to explain. When you climb a high place, you would feel like looking down at the earth.

People who are good at literature are naturally in a circle, so they gather together to reach the top. From Yunzhong Lake to the top of the mountain, it is only about 30 feet high, which is not difficult to climb. The other people who follow them are embarrassed to join the circle of scholars. This is the difference between classes and the beautiful mountains and scenery, so scholars can enjoy it first.

Walking up the mountain, it was already at its peak.

Looking to the side of the mountain, there is a cliff standing opposite, and there is a big word engraved on it: Climbing a high will make you feel inferior!

There is a big pavilion on the top of the mountain. Both sides of the pavilion are flat, which is also considered an observation deck. Ouyang Zheng has been here for the first time. He looked at the scene of thousands of miles apart and felt refreshed. He even saw the words above the cliff. He looked around at the people behind him and said, "Although the cliff is a little low, there are actually people in this world who can engrave such big words on the cliff, which is a clever trick!"

Xu Jie was behind him, not surprised, and replied with a smile: "Master, the one who can do this is probably the master who practices qi in the martial arts world, perhaps the Taoist priest in the Taoist temple."

Ouyang Zheng turned around and asked, "Wen Yuan, how can you know that the Taoist master in that Taoist temple is a master of qi cultivation?"

Xu Jie naturally knew that although he did not talk to Taoist Master Daoqing last night, he could also see that the Taoist Master who came here to preside over the presidency from Wudang Mountain was a master.

However, before Xu Jie could answer, Ma Yongren, who was not far from Ouyang Zheng, had already answered first: "Mr. Ouyang, your disciple Xu Wenyuan can naturally know, because you are also a master in the world. I heard that he killed more than a dozen people in the river with one knife on the river, and his face remained unchanged. I heard that the boat had broken limbs, broken arms and internal organs all over the ground, so it was so clever and tight."

Xu Jie was stunned when he heard this, turned to look at Ma Yongren. Ma Yongren said this and said in front of these literati of Dajiang that Xu Jie held a knife and killed more than a dozen people. Why is this?

Then he saw Ouyang Zheng frowned, went to see Ma Yongren, and asked, "There is such a thing? Where did Ma Xuejue hear it?"

How could scholars be the one who slaughtered with swords? How could they be the one who competes with others in the world? It is just ordinary contempt for the words of humiliation. If the princes are not worthy of being together, that is the real rejection. Ma Yongren probably wanted to reject Xu Jie in this way, so that Xu Jie was rejected in this circle of literati. Birds of a feather flock together, and people were divided into groups. If the literati people did not accept Xu Jie, Xu Jie would not be able to stay in this Dajiang City.

This method is much simpler than conspiracy to attack Xu Jie, but it is just a matter of talking. Literature and people from the martial arts world are obviously clearly distinct. Even civil officials and military generals have obvious differences. In this world, the real commanders of soldiers have always been literati, and the military generals who can fight will always be inferior to others. This is the Dahua Dynasty after more than two hundred years of troubled times.

Ma Yongren heard Ouyang Zheng's words and walked in the middle, laughing and said, "Mr. Ouyang, this matter has already spread throughout Dajiang City. Everyone talked about the peddlers and barrages, saying that there were talented people in the rivers and lakes of Dajiang County. It was Xu Jie and Xu Wenyuan in the green mountain. Even the teahouse storytellers compiled a poem for Xu Wenyuan: The scholar danced the blade, and the surface of the river ten feet. Slaughtered a few people in one step, and the red blood stained the sky."

After Ma Yongren finished speaking, he smiled and went to see Ouyang Zheng with a smile, waiting to see how Ouyang Zheng reacted to his disciples killing people with a knife. No matter what the matter had to do with the law, it depends on how Ouyang Zheng thought of himself as a disciple of a so-called heroic knight.

When Ouyang Zheng heard this, he turned around and went to see Xu Jie: "Wen Yuan, is there any such incident?"

Xu Jie smiled slightly and replied: "Teacher, this is a rumor that is half true and half false. There is indeed a murder. However, the murderer is not a student, but He Jiyue on Fengchi Mountain. This incident started because of the trafficking of children. The daughter of the hired person in the student's family was also lost. After inquiring along the way, he drove a boat in the river to chase traffickers and luckily caught up. He Jiyue held a sword and killed more than a dozen people and saved more than a hundred children who were trafficked in various places. The students found the people they were looking for on the spot. At this time, there were more than a hundred children on Fengchi Mountain, waiting for relatives from all over the country to come to recognize them."

Ouyang Zheng slowly smiled and nodded with Xu Jie.

Xu Jie looked at Ouyang Zheng's eyes and felt guilty. This scholar-in-law seemed to be able to guess the truth. Because the family Xu Jie was born could make Ouyang Zheng guess about this matter. Then what's wrong with killing someone with a knife after the Xu family Zhonglie?

However, it was Ouyang Zheng's smile on his face that made Xu Jie feel much more relaxed. This Ouyang Gong didn't seem to care about Xu Jie's murder with a knife.

"It's nonsense, everyone says that Xu Wenyuan is killing people with a knife. Although he is killing evil people who abduct human trafficking, the one who kills people must not be He Jiyue, but you Xu Wenyuan!" Ma Yongren heard Xu Jie lying in person, so he hurriedly accused him.

Xu Jie saw everyone, looked directly at Ma Yongren, and answered, "I don't know who said he was killing someone with a knife? Ma Xuejue is not allowed to speak nonsense. People like this kind of strange things, so they are willing to make up such strange things. At that time, I was not the only one present, but also a few people witnessed it on the spot. Should Ma Xuejue find these people and prove it one by one? Could it be that Ma Xuejue deliberately made up such stories to make things difficult for me, the younger generation?"

Xu Jie naturally couldn't recognize this matter, because it was not a simple matter of a scholar killing, but also a matter of law. Although Xu Jie himself did not have to pass the imperial examination, he could not give up the imperial examination halfway.

When Ma Yongren heard this, his face flushed and raised his hand to point at Xu Jie, but he couldn't speak. When the testimony was really going to be done, how could those people in the martial arts world speak for Ma Yongren?

Fortunately, Ouyang Zheng opened his mouth to help and said, "Forget it, some anecdotes are naturally interesting and how to spread them. What is the meaning of talking about these today? The five words above the cliff, climbing a high will lead to inferiority. Let's all explain it?"

The old scholar Ma Yongren saw that most of the people around him laughed and did not believe it very much, so he knew that his purpose had not been achieved. However, these scholars, who were judging others by themselves, would not believe that a scholar who could do good poetry would kill more than a dozen evil people in the world with a knife? He felt that it was a story he made up.

Ma Yongren, who was not very happy, heard Ouyang Zheng’s question and answered: “Mr. Ouyang, what else is there to explain the word “I am inferior to myself” when climbing a high place. Isn’t the meaning literally? When I climbed above this top and looked at the small mountains, I knew that the sky and the earth were big. I couldn’t help but feel that I was insignificant. Is that just that? After climbing a high place, people will feel their own humility.”

Many people behind him were also confused just now, and when they heard this, they nodded repeatedly, and felt that these five words were not easy to explain.
Chapter completed!