Nightfall Chapter 149: Opening a building
Chapter 149 Opening of the Building
For Ning Que, the opening of the second floor is a big event, no matter whether he can grasp the slim opportunity or not, but at least this opportunity is realistically before his eyes.
For most people, being calm is an admirable quality for every major event. Ning Que, who has experienced countless life and death tests, can barely do this, but whenever he encounters a real major event At this time, in addition to forcing oneself to calm down, one of the most important preparations is to take Sangsang with him.
Chang'an hadn't raised his head yet, and the city of Chang'an was still dark. He took Sangsang and rode a carriage away from Zhuquemen to the academy under the mountain in the southern suburbs.
It’s still early, and the morning breeze is still cool. It should be a quiet academy meadow, but it is already very lively. The Habayashi cavalry in full-body armor patrols around vigilantly under the temporary sun canopy. The officials were nervously arranging seats. Under the green trees in the distance, there were some men who stopped with expressionless faces. These men were wearing official uniforms but could not tell which ministry they belonged to, and they smelled of danger.
Looking at the lively but solemn scenes around, Ning Que remembered the college admission test a year ago, and found that today's security alert level was not much worse than the day of admission. He suddenly understood that the opening of the second floor could not be just a major event in his life, it was a major event for the entire Chang'an City.
And this year, because Prince Longqing from the Temple Adjudication Department will enter the second floor of the academy, the complex relationship between the Tang Empire, the Xiling Temple and the Kingdom of Yan is involved, and it has become a major event that has attracted worldwide attention.
Due to strict security and poor luck, Sangsang failed to enter the academy this time, but regretfully stayed in the meadow outside the stone gate of the academy and waited.
At this time, there is still half a day before the second floor is opened. Ning Que came here deliberately. Naturally, not to sit on the grass in the college like a tourist and soak in the sun. He walked into a familiar college and went on. Straight along the back alley, through the bamboo forest, strolled around the wetland twice, then walked to the old school to say hello to the instructor who just woke up, lifted the front and walked upstairs.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s too early or something else. There is no childish figure of Professor Yu at the case side by the east window. Ning Que is slightly startled and walks to the case side by the west window. Mo Runhao, after taking a few deep breaths, wrote a few words casually, confirming that his mind was clear and calm, and then left the pen.
After walking through the wet place, the large dense forest suddenly opened up, and the green meadow was as smooth as felt in the first morning light, so that people who saw it could not wait to take off their clothes and put a dozen rolls on it.
This is a very remote place in the academy. In the past six months, apart from Ning Que himself, few students will come here. Even those who come will only sit on the edge of the meadow and look at the stars and fall in love instead of strolling. Enter the meadow and cross that distance, and walk into the middle of the sword-like forest.
Ning Que walked into the tall and steep trees, stroked the smooth and unbranched trunks with his palms, looked up at the sparse branches at the top of the forest, frowned slightly, silent.
"What did you do today." The female professor's light voice resounded in the forest.
"The student has met Mr."
Ning Que looked at the approaching figure in the forest and gave a respectful greeting. He straightened up and thought about it for a while and replied: "Today I ate a bowl of chicken noodle soup with shredded radish and came by carriage. When I went to the academy, I stood outside Shimen for a while, then went to Bingshe to put things down, walked around the lake two and a half times, went to see Mr. Teacher, and wanted to go upstairs to ask you for advice. I wrote an article because you are not here. Word, came here."
The female professor walked in front of him, and the face that could never tell the age was tranquil. She didn't ask what Ning Que wanted to ask herself for, but smiled and said calmly: "It's a pity that you have done so many things, and you still can't calm your mind."
Ning nodded his head and answered honestly: "I know I don't have any chance, but it is inevitable that I have some fluke ideas. Once I have an idea, it is difficult to calm down. I wonder if Mr. has anything to teach me? "
"I'm just a mediocre person in the Cave Profound Realm." The female professor gently lifted the wavy hair on her forehead, smiled and said: "For someone like you with great ideas, it is really impossible to teach." /
Ning Que smiled, scratching his head in embarrassment.
"There is no need to demand peace of mind under any circumstances. Although you are also a bookish person, after all, you cannot sit by the east window every day like me, and you don't know the year and month when you copy the hairpin. "
The female professor looked at him and said softly: "Many things in the world are not whether you have the ability to do it, but whether you dare to think about it. If you don’t even think about it and are controlled by self-doubt, then you are A weak person. I just need to know how strong or powerful is your idea of entering the second floor?"
Ning Que was about to say something, but he didn't expect to hear a sentence that shocked him immediately.
"If you give up entering the second floor today, I can introduce you a strong man who is not weaker than Liu Bai as a teacher."
The forest was quiet. Ning Que looked at the female professor’s calm face and found that the other person’s tone of this sentence was so casual and ordinary, as if saying that if you don’t want to eat pancakes, I’ll give it to you. You make a bowl of sesame sauce noodles without any ostentation, but it has an unquestionable meaning.
However... the Southern Jin sword sage Liu Bai is recognized as the number one strong in the world. Want to introduce a strong man who is not weaker than Liu Bai to be his teacher? Where can we find such a person in the world? How did the female professor recognize it?
Ning Que was so shocked that he could not speak for a long time. He didn't know why. He believed in the promise of the female professor. However, he also didn't know why. When he opened his mouth hard, the answer was no.
He said sincerely: "I still want to... give it a try and see if I can enter the second floor."
An interesting smile appeared in the female professor's eyes, she looked at him and asked: "Why?"
Ning Que was silent for a moment and hesitated and said: "I don't know why, but I feel as if I have been tossing about this matter for so long and devoted so much effort. If I don't try it, I will always be unwilling."
"That's it?" The female professor quietly looked into his eyes.
Ning Que scratched his head, and replied a little embarrassingly: "Because I really want to go into the second floor to take a look."
The female professor looked at the embarrassment on his face, and suddenly smiled, her beauty suddenly increased, and she smiled and said: "Thinking is the key. As long as people want to do things, they can often be done. Human thoughts or ambitions , It is the most beautiful thing in this world, you can insist is the right choice."
"I told you last time that these trees are like swords inserted into the earth. If you can pull these trees out, they will be a sword that pierces the sky. Human attachment is self, and self It is the sword in your hand."
"It's just a pity." She turned and walked outside Jianlin, leaving a sigh.
Ning Que didn't understand the meaning of this regretful emotion, and thought a little nervously, does the female professor mean that although she has a good foundation and a good will, it is a pity that this time she still cannot be the opponent of Prince Longqing?
Looking at the slender figure gradually disappearing at the edge of the sword forest, he suddenly asked: "Sir, just now you said that if I don't enter the second floor, is it true that you would introduce me to the teacher?"
The female professor did not look back, but calmly replied: "Nature is true."
Ning Que raised his hand to cover his forehead, smiled and asked, "Can I regret it now?"
The female professor smiled and replied: "I gave you a chance."
Ideas, persistence, self, ambition, sword.
The female professor’s words seemed to be covered with a light veil, and I couldn’t see the true meaning hidden inside, but Ning Que vaguely understood the meaning, because the female professor would say this to him, naturally. Seeing his nature, after escaping from Chang'an at the age of four, Ning Que relied on these spiritual qualities to live and live better and better.
Recalling last night Chen Pipi’s expression of "keeping his heart" and "achieving the best" in the old place, Ning Que discovered that this and the female professor’s statement is actually the same inside. After careful thinking, he still I don't know what the test method is when the second floor is opened, but I can probably guess what the test questions are.
"This should be something I am good at."
Ning Que lightly clenched his fists, walked through the wetlands and quiet alleys, and came to the already crowded front of the college.
In the black and white buildings of Qingmei Academy, I don’t know where so many people have emerged. Professors and doctors who spend most of their time studying their own subjects come here collectively with a variety of chairs. Outdoors, holding hot tea in his hands, arguing fiercely about the second floor today, and even began to bet.
Students from the academy came together early, although most of them did not dare to expect that they could enter the second floor, but no one was willing to miss such a moment. The students gathered the sixth students in the art department in the center. , Kept cheering for them, and Nanjin Xie Chengyun was naturally the focus of everyone's attention.
It was almost noon.
With melodious rituals and music, His Royal Highness Li Peiyan and Princess Li Yu, as well as several officials from the court came from under the meadow, followed by envoys from various countries, and dozens of priests from the Xiling Temple Taoist.
Some of the green trees beside the central road of the meadow have already blossomed, pink and pink, fresh and lovely, especially the peach tree near the main entrance of the academy, which is especially in full bloom for some reason, tender and tender in the spring breeze.
A young man in dark plain clothes walked from the road. The blooming peach blossom was lined by his perfect cheeks, but all the colors were suddenly lost. This person is the prince of Yan Guo Longqing.
The vice-president of Xiling Yutian Academy, Mo Li, and all the following priests and envoys of various countries stood up collectively, and the students of the academy who were talking about it suddenly became silent, even those professors and doctors who were used to the opening ceremony of the second floor. Seeing the young prince walking between the sunshine and the shadows, he couldn't help but admire.
Ning Que stood in the corner outside the crowd, watching the movement in the room, no one noticed him, even after that day, no one would regard him as an ordinary college student like the Prince Longqing. opponent.
The professor of the academy came out. He was one of the rune masters who had been repaired in the academy, and his status was extremely honorable. Seeing this professor on the stage, whether it was the prince princess or the great figures of the Xiling Temple, they got up and bowed slightly. For a figure like a rune master, no one would put an air in front of him, not to mention that he was in charge of opening the building today.
"The second floor of the Academy is opened today, and only one person will be recruited."
The professor looked at hundreds of people in the room with a blank face and said, I don’t know if it was a rune. The old voice was clearly transmitted to everyone’s ears, and it didn’t sound loud and loud. .
"The test method is very simple."
The professor pointed his finger at the fog-covered mountain at the back of the academy, and said, "There are stone paths that go around the mountain. If anyone wants to enter the second floor of the academy, enter the mountain at will. Whoever can reach the top of the mountain can enter the second floor. If you can’t get to the building, then the winner will be judged by who gets higher."
Take mountain climbing to determine the victory or defeat, to determine who is eligible to enter the second floor of the college? Many students were puzzled and puzzled, thinking that this would be too ridiculous and too ridiculous, but people like Prince Li Peiyan and priest Li Peiyan did not see any expressions on their faces. These big figures still knew something about the past two years. The details of the opening of the floor, knowing that the people in the academy like to play this kind of mystery, of course they would not think it is a trifle.
Everyone in the room raised their heads and looked at the big mountain behind the academy. At this time, the sun had risen to the top of the sky, and the light was blazing. However, I don’t know why, but it failed to dispel the fog on the mountainside. The appearance of the mountain amidst the clouds and mist of Chu, can only faintly see the stone cliffs on the top of the extremely high mountain.
Until this time, many students in the academy remembered that on weekdays, they didn’t seem to have seen this mountain directly. Although this mountain is tall and dangerous, it is just behind the academy, but because of its silence and calmness. And it becomes like disappearing, and no one has ever observed it specially.
The mountain is there, and the mountain will always be there. In that case, why bother to visit it?
The road leading to the back mountain is just behind the quiet lane of the academy, just behind a fence not far from the second floor, and people standing on the stone ping of the academy can clearly see the foot of the mountain Not very rugged mountain trails.
It was quiet and no one spoke.
Time passed by every minute, and no one walked towards the mountain.
"It seems that the little monk has to go ahead."
In the dead silence caused by tension, a voice suddenly sounded. Unexpectedly, it was not the students in the academy who started climbing and marching to the second floor of the academy first, nor was it the prince Longqing who was regarded as the son of **** by the followers of Haotian Dao in the world, but... a young monk.
The monk is in his twenties and looks handsome. He is wearing a tattered but clean monk robe and a pair of straw sandals on his feet. The edges of the sandals are about to rot. You can imagine this pair of shoes with him. He has walked through so many poor mountains and wicked waters and thorns everywhere, but if you look carefully, you can see that there is no dirt on his feet.
White and pure, like a lotus.