When Hegu County goes south to Fushui County, official documents are usually conveyed by yamen riding fast horses. Sometimes one person walks alone, and sometimes two people will escort relatively important official letters.

At this time, two government officials followed the official road to Fushui County. The mountains on both sides of the road were slightly yellow. The farmers who harvested crops bowed to the fields, occasionally straightened up to scold the children playing by the fields, and in their eyes, they watched two yamen runners riding horses and galloping over.

Such a scene is often seen. You probably don’t care. You have to bend down and continue to cut the grain. At the end of the road, smoke and dust are sweeping in the long scroll.

I couldn't help but take off the hat on my head and looked: "What?"

At this time, above the horses galloping in the official road, two yamen runners were carrying official letters and whips were being whipped.

"drive!"

"I also said that I could reach Fushui County in the afternoon. At this speed, I guess I'll go to the evening."

"Brother, we are pretty good. These two horses are the fastest in the government office. If it were a donkey, you can try it?"

Another laughed out loud: "You are right. If it were a country donkey, it would be dawn."

Step on the tread…

In the laughter, suddenly the sound of hooves flying and trampling came. The man who laughed out loud subconsciously looked at the back.

A ray of smoke and dust swept through them.

"What the hell... hey... hey... hey!!"

The two of them turned their heads almost at the same time. A bald old donkey spread his hooves and ran away happily, which was level with their sight. Two bookshelfs hung on the donkey's back creaking.

The man leaning against the edge of the field widened his eyes.

"You definitely don't believe it, a donkey has overwhelmed us..."

The other man suddenly stopped the horse, his face turned pale and gasped. In the blink of an eye, smoke and dust filled his vision, coughed a few times, and turned his head to look at his companion who stopped at a slow speed.

"...Look...I saw it, there were two people carrying the donkey,"

Then, the two of them all lowered their heads and subconsciously looked at the seated horse.

The smoke and dust gradually dissipated. When the two looked at each other again, they didn't even see the donkey's hair on the road ahead. They walked along the official road, on the back of the old donkey, Lu Liangsheng was in a good mood, and the stretching Qixia Mountain and the fields were passing back.

The Taoist sitting behind covered his temples, took out the yellow talisman with his other hand from time to time and put it on the donkey's butt, replaced it with all its magic power and threw it behind it, shouting in the wind:

"Next time, let's change a horse. Two big men will be misunderstood if they squeeze on it!!"

Lu Liangsheng turned his face and laughed: "When I went out, I forgot, but the old donkey is not bad, I have feelings for you!"

The Taoist had no luggage, and Lu Liangsheng's clothes were all placed in the bookshelf. The toad master did not occupy any land, and an old donkey was enough to accommodate it. With the magical technique of shrinking the ground and Taoist, the old donkey was not slow either, so he naturally didn't have to spend money to buy another horse.

We walked forward like lightning, crossing the mountain temple where we had rested, and went straight down the route, which was Fushui County. After a day or two, the two of us finished the journey in almost half a day.

Seeing the outline of the city wall from afar, the spell blessing was removed. The old donkey was swaying his mane with a whistle and struggling his hooves, but it was carrying the scholars and Taoists slowly approaching the city gate.

For a moment, it blinked its big eyes and felt a little confused about why it slowed down.

The two got off the old donkey, and Lu Liangsheng led the reins to walk through the familiar street with the Taoist. At this time, the yamen was already off work, so he went directly to the courtyard where his mentor was.

Lu Liangsheng knocked on the door a few times, but no one responded. Not long after, he learned from the passing neighbor that Wang Shuhua had been transferred to the position of the county magistrate Min Changwen.

At the beginning, I thought it was a joke by the other party, so I came to the yamen to inquire and found out that Min Changwen was transferred back to the capital to restore his post, and his mentor Shu Hua Gong went together as an aide.

Before leaving, he left a letter specifically in the county government office, waiting for Lu Liangsheng to come back.

On the way out of the city, the scholar opened the letter, with vigorous and powerful handwriting on it.

"Liangsheng's personal opening:

I wish Liangsheng the first place to win the provincial examination. Unfortunately, I can't congratulate you personally. Leave a letter as a farewell. When you were on the exam, the county magistrate had received a transfer order from the capital. The teacher had been with him for many years and did not want to see him return to Beijing to face the storm alone.

Now that you have achieved success in your studies, there are not many teachers who can teach you. You still need to consider the future path yourself. I believe that the first level of the provincial examination is not difficult for you, so I prepared a welcome banquet in the capital, hoping for good students. How happy the teacher and student gather together is."

Mentor...

Whether it is Master Toad or Wang Shuhua, who teaches his studies, they are all nobles on two different paths of Lu Liangsheng.

"What did you say above?" The Taoist could not help but stumble into his head with some curiosity when he saw his melancholy expression.

Then Lu Liangsheng reached out and pressed his hand on his face and pushed it away.

"My mentor and county Zunmin Changwen went to the capital and invited me to come and meet."

"It seems you have a lot of things to do, so hurry up and run all the way. I'm so hungry."

While talking, the two and a donkey walked leisurely along the road to Lujia Village. The sky was setting in the west, and the dusk shone across the hills to reflect the fields of farmland in the distance. At this time, there were still many farmers busy harvesting crops.

Someone saw two people walking by the roadside, rubbed their eyes, opened their voices, and shouted excitedly to the surroundings:

"Stop busy, look, who is back?"

The sound echoed in the fields, and the busy villagers straightened their waists, then threw away the wheat straw and farm tools in their hands, and rushed to the roadside in a swarm.

"Good Student"

"Ryosen is back!!"

"... Everyone comes here."

People who run on the road will be filled with darkness and gather around the scholars excitedly asking how they live in the big city and whether they are bullied or not.

"It's okay there, there is a place to live there. Don't worry, everyone, you guys are busy first, and when you finish your work, you'll go back to the village and chat together."

Lu Liangsheng could not respond one by one, and said something uniformly with his hands. Someone saw the Taoist, and he went over and patted him on the shoulder with a familiar face, and greeted him warmly.

As soon as the entrance of the village, Lu Pan, Lu Qing and eight others ran out. The eight people had stronger bones than they had been more than two months ago. The improved food and the practice of body-forging methods taught by Lu Liangsheng, even the relatively thin Lu Qing's chest muscles became thicker, and they jumped twice from time to time, from left to right.

"Go away from everyone, let Liangsheng go back to see his parents first!"

Lu Pan squeezed the people away, and Lu Taigong, who was following them, paused on the ground with a crutch. When he heard the older generation speak, the people gathered at the entrance of the village gave in.

After walking past everyone, Lu Liangsheng released the reins and helped Lu Taigong back to the village. From far and near, there were children who had left school. They were stunned for a moment, and then bowed together.

"gentlemen!"

"Don't give a tribute, hurry up and go home for dinner."

Lu Liangsheng is very familiar with these children of all sizes. He has taught them all. There was a middle-aged scholar standing at the entrance of the school. He had a few patches on his wide-sleeved robe. When he saw Lu Liangsheng looking over, he politely started, saying hello.

I bid farewell to the villagers and returned to the fence courtyard. The morning glory season has passed, and the walls of the fence courtyard are bleak and yellow.

At the gate of the courtyard, Li Jinhua, Lu Laoshi, and fourteen-year-old Lu Xiaoxian were waiting there early.

"elder brother!"

Lu Xiaoxian rushed over and hugged her brother who was returning home. Lu Liangsheng touched her head and smiled and said, "You are all big girls, and you are still so anxious and dry."

"I don't care, you are my brother."

The little girl hummed in her brother's arms. When she let go, the Taoist rushed up and stretched out her arms.

"There are me, and I'm there?"

Lu Xiaoxian slanted him, took his hand, turned his toes, and walked back: "I won't hug others!"

"Hey, this is boring. I'm half a brother at least!"

Sun Yingxian shouted behind him, and something suddenly knocked on his head.

Looking back, the scholar had already put down his hand and walked over to him.

"Be careful, that's my sister."

At the gate of the courtyard, the family chatted and laughed, and returned to the courtyard together. Lu Liangsheng pushed open the room he had not lived in for two months, but was still spotless. He hung Hong Lian's portrait and poured it on the bed. The Toad Taoist ran out of his cloth pocket and stretched.

He turned his head and looked around and took a deep breath.

That's a familiar smell.

Soon, the sun set, and the small stove was full of crowds. Nie Honglian floated in the air to help add rice and hand over the bowls. Li Jinhua was busy cooking the last dish and asked the Taoist who was burning the fire at the opposite stove to throw some firewood.

Sun Yingxian took out a yellow talisman and threw it in, pinched his fingers, rushed out with a blast of flames, and licked it to the edge of the pot, causing Li Jinhua to chase him with a shovel.

The toad Taoist slinged under the oil lamp, and the old hen with colors under the table glared at him with eyes.

Under the eaves, Lu Laoshi weaved the baskets that the village wanted to use. He looked at the other eaves with a smile. Lu Xiaoxian held a brush and tilted her head. Looking at the portrait he drew on it, he tore it off and kneaded it into a ball in distress.

Lu Liangsheng watched the scene in the yard.
Chapter completed!