Chapter 16 Ability Exchange
After sighing, Li Nuo accepted the reality.
Just be a worker. It’s better to be tired than to die.
He picked up a copy of the Law Book and planned to study it carefully.
The practice of Legalism is not that complicated. The first step is to carefully study the works of the Legalist predecessors, understand their propositions, and comprehend their thoughts. Of course, like Confucianism, it is not enough to practice Legalism by just studying hard.
Confucianism wants to govern the country and bring peace to the world, while Legalism wants to enforce laws, and both schools require people to enter officialdom.
Li Nuo can skip this step. Thanks to his father's identity, he can try the case even as a civilian.
In this way, the process of cultivation became very simple for him. He could try cases and investigate cases in the county government during the day, and come back to study the Legalist classics at night. In one or two years at the fastest, and three to five years at the slowest, he would be able to truly step into the door of Legalism.
For ordinary people, it is still a bit difficult to amend the law.
Although a legalist can become stronger as long as he judges a case, the prerequisite is that the judgment is correct. If he judges the wrong case, his cultivation may even regress. This feedback on cultivation will not be manifested immediately, but will accumulate over time, leading to qualitative changes from quantitative changes.
Therefore, even those who are from the legal school cannot judge whether a case has been correctly judged based on the changes in their cultivation.
Fortunately, Li Nuo is not an ordinary person.
The Code will tell him on the spot whether the judgment is wrong or not.
The Legalists control the rules. Even if they have just arrived, they can still control some simple forces of heaven and earth.
For example, the art of confinement is an ability that only those in the fourth realm of martial arts can possess. However, the art of confinement of the Legalists is different from the control of objects in martial arts. The control of objects is essentially using one's own true qi to control objects, while the art of confinement has already touched the origin of heaven and earth. The power of the origin is a power that only those in the sixth realm of martial arts can control.
Of course, there is a huge difference between the amount of power of heaven and earth that the two can control.
At least one must practice Legalism to the sixth level before one can compete with a martial arts master of the sixth level.
"Strictly enforce the rule of law, reform and strengthen the country, benefit the time and the achievements will last for thousands of years..." While reading the book, Li Nuo copied down the important parts to deepen his memory. However, after writing a few words, he found something wrong.
Although the words on the paper were not extremely ugly, they were not beautiful at all.
Li Nuo was very familiar with this font, as it was his own handwriting. However, during the day, he could still write the same delicate hairpin-flowered small regular script as the female assassin, but at night, his handwriting was reduced to its original form.
The first thing Li Nuo thought of was the "Code".
After calling up the code, Li Nuo immediately discovered something unusual.
The portrait of the female assassin became much darker than before, just like the difference between a color photo and a black and white photo. Not only the portrait of the female assassin, but also the portrait of the goateed thief on the second page became darker.
Among the four pages of portraits, only the portrait of Zheng Yuanwai's concubine is bright.
There are three dark and one light portraits, but the difference is that the portrait of the businessman named Cui Ze on the fourth page has never lit up from beginning to end.
Li Nuo fell into deep thought. The portrait of the female assassin dimmed and his words were turned back to their original form. This meant that the ability he gained through capturing people was not permanent, but had a time limit. Judging from the time, this time limit was most likely one day.
Li Nuo was a little disappointed as he originally thought it was a permanent skill but it turned out to be a one-day trial card.
It must be said that her handwriting is very beautiful and pleasing to the eye. I wish my own handwriting could be as beautiful as hers... As soon as this thought came to Li Nuo's mind, he saw the portrait of the female assassin light up again.
After a slight pause, Li Nuo realized something and picked up the pen to write a few words on the paper. As expected, the words he wrote turned into beautiful small calligraphy with flowers on the hairpin.
Although his ability was restored, Li Nuo was not very happy.
There is no free lunch in this world, everything has a price.
He immediately stood up and checked his body carefully, finding that he was not missing any parts and did not feel any discomfort.
Li Nuo finally felt relieved and closed the code again.
His eyes casually swept across the cover of the Code, and moved back the next moment.
"Name: Li Nuo."
"Lifespan: 25 days."
Li Nuo's body shook, his face full of disbelief. No, he had 26 days to live just now, how come one day was suddenly lost?
It’s not even midnight yet, and it’s not dark outside yet!
Wait, is the price of lighting up the portrait of the female assassin and regaining her calligraphy ability the price of my own life?
Although his life span was only shortened by one day, it was still a major blow to Li Nuo, who had less than a month left. What was the point of writing well? It was very likely that what he got in exchange for one day of his life was just a one-day calligraphy experience card, which was a pure waste of life.
A quarter of an hour later, Li Nuo finally recovered from the heartache.
He could only comfort himself that the experience card had its advantages. At least, he didn't have to worry about accidentally stealing things and getting caught one day, which would be very embarrassing.
However, the portrait of the concubine's adulterer has always been dark. Doesn't this mean that he has no outstanding abilities or specialties?
As for Zheng Yuanwai's concubine, although her portrait was also lit, Li Nuo had no idea what abilities he had obtained from her. The code did not give any hints about these, so he could only discover them on his own.
Li Nuo shook his head, took a long breath, stopped thinking about these things for the time being, and continued to concentrate on reading.
Butler Wu stood outside the window, looking at Li Nuo who was reading seriously, a smile of relief and joy appeared on his face.
He just knew, how could the master's son be a fool?
Compared with the previous young master, the current young master is more like the son of Li Xuanjing, the Minister of Dali Temple.
He watched both the old master and the young master grow up. In the past two days, he finally saw the shadow of the young master in his youth. They were equally smart and clever, equally hardworking and studious, and even their looks were equally handsome.
People say that the young master is not worthy of the young mistress, but now it seems that the two of them, one literary and the other martial, are a perfect match.
As he was thinking this, a figure walked in from outside the courtyard. Butler Wu saw him and bowed quickly: "Young Madam..."
Li Nuo was reading a book in the room when there was a knock on the door.
He opened the door and saw Song Jiaren standing outside. He felt a little uneasy. Was she trying to steal his purse for him?
Seeing the woman raising her hand, Li Nuo subconsciously put out his hand to protect his head.
Song Jiaren gathered up a strand of messy hair on her forehead and said, "Pack up and follow me..."
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As the sky gradually darkened, a luxurious carriage drove out of Li's mansion.
Li Nuo was sitting in the carriage. It turned out that his wife was not looking for him to settle accounts just now. Today was the 60th birthday of the old lady of the Song family. As a grandchild, Song Jiaren needed to go back home to celebrate the birthday. As her husband, Li Nuo had to accompany her. Originally, Li Nuo was going to go there during the day, but he had been staying in the county government office during the day. It was actually a little late for him to go now.
Li Nuo had heard from Butler Wu that the Song family was a military family of Great Xia. When Great Xia was founded, they followed Emperor Gaozu and made great contributions. Although they are not as powerful as they were at their peak, they are still a noble family in Chang'an.
The Li family came from the lower class, and only his father's generation entered the officialdom. Li Nuo could be considered a true second-generation official of the Li family.
It is said that Li Nuo's father and Song Jiaren's father were close friends when they were young. At that time, the wives of both families were pregnant, so they agreed that if the children were both boys or girls, they would become sworn brothers, and if they were one boy and one girl, they would become husband and wife, so what happened today happened.
This made Li Nuo sigh. For the agreement made more than ten years ago, the Song family was actually willing to marry such an outstanding daughter to a fool. The ancients really kept their promises.
However, the Song family did not suffer a complete loss.
From a personal point of view, if my wife marries him, it would be like a toad eating swan meat or feeding the best cabbage to a pig.
But from the perspective of family, the marriage between the Song family and the Li family was completely a matter of climbing up the social ladder.
Even Song Jiaren's uncle, the current head of the Song family, is only a fifth-rank military commander.
However, his father was a third-rank official in the imperial court. The two men had a difference of four levels in official rank, and the power and resources they controlled were vastly different.
If you look at it this way, he is actually the cabbage...
(End of this chapter)
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