Chapter 175 Passing the Test
Yan Qingqiu approached Li Rongsen and asked him, "What did you dream about? You went back to ancient times, took in a few concubines, and was it fun to be an emperor?"
"I'm not the emperor." Li Rongsen frowned and touched the back of his head involuntarily.
An Yan cleared her throat and asked Li Rongsen, "If I don't beat you again, you won't wake up."
Li Rongsen asked: "I don't know what's wrong with me."
"It's an illusion." Yan Qingqiu said to him disdainfully, and then said, "You've been trapped once before, and you thought you were experienced, but in the end you still fell into it."
Li Rongsen breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but look at An Yan again, then quickly turned his head away, thinking that fortunately it was not true, otherwise what would he do? With three thousand beauties in the harem, he would never be able to handle the jealousy.
An Yan didn't ask him in detail what he dreamed about. After all, he could understand a man's dream of becoming an emperor. He said, "Let's go. Let's keep going."
Yan Qingqiu had just gone over to explore the road and said, "There's no road ahead. It's a cliff."
An Yan and Li Rongsen walked over together and found that the stone door behind them was closed, and there was a cliff in front of them. There was no other way but to jump, but if they jumped, their life would be in danger.
Yan Qingqiu shook his head and sighed, saying, "After all this time, it's still the same as death."
"There's no going back." An Yan said.
But at this time, a lot of broken stones were seen falling from the closed stone door. There were words engraved on them, and there was also a stone stake with a very long thick rope tied to it.
The content of the words is: Among the three of you, only one can survive. There is only one rope, so just go down along the rope.
"I give up. I am willing to give up the rope." Li Rongsen was the first to express his opinion.
"You will die if you do this." Yan Qingqiu said.
An Yan looked at Yan Qingqiu and said to him, "Originally I didn't want you to come, but you insisted on coming. Now go."
"You two will die." Yan Qingqiu frowned. He had caught up with them, not to watch them die. Besides, he would feel guilty. If he left, wouldn't it be equivalent to harming others?
All three of them remained motionless.
An Yan asked Yan Qingqiu: "Why, you still don't want to leave?"
"You two choose, I'll stay." Yan Qingqiu started to cry as he spoke, and then said, "When you get out, any of you must help me find that woman and ask her what she means. What's wrong with me that makes her not love me?"
An Yan quickly said, "Oh, go out and ask her yourself."
Yan Qingqiu wiped her tears and said, "I won't leave."
"I won't leave either." Li Rongsen also said.
An Yan sighed and said, "What should we do now? Are we just stuck here?"
"Have you two made up your minds to make me leave?" Yan Qingqiu asked.
"You go." Li Rongsen nodded.
"Stop talking nonsense, just leave when I tell you to." An Yan signaled him to leave quickly.
"How could you two not be afraid of death?"
"I'm not afraid." Li Rongsen originally wanted to say that he would not be afraid of anything as long as he was with An Yan, even death, but he didn't say it out loud.
Yan Qingqiu walked over to the wooden stake, untied the rope from the stake, and then threw all the ropes down the cliff. He said, "Okay, now we're safe. The three of us will live and die together."
An Yan and Li Rongsen looked at each other and couldn't help feeling moved.
At this time, a voice was heard saying, "There are two ways. One is to jump down and you will be caught. The other is to go down the stone steps on the right, drink the dream-forgetting water, and then you can leave the mountain and return."
"What does this mean?" Yan Qingqiu was puzzled.
"I don't know whether this is true or false." Li Rongsen couldn't guess and didn't understand where the voice came from.
An Yan considered it carefully and asked them, "Don't worry about whether it's true or not. Just treat it as true. There are two paths before us. Which path will you choose?"
"We can't come here for nothing." Li Rongsen replied.
Yan Qingqiu said, "Of course I'm following you. I've come this far, how can I not follow you?"
Li Rongsen said again: "An Yan, you choose, I will listen to you."
"You choose, and I'll listen to you." Yan Qingqiu also nodded.
After hearing what they said, An Yan stopped refusing and said, "Okay, I suggest you jump down."
Li Rongsen didn't even frown. He said, "In that case, I'll jump first." Then he took a step closer to the cliff and jumped down.
An Yan followed closely behind, and although Yan Qingqiu was afraid, he also jumped down.
As a result, the three people were safe and sound, and saw a wooden rope bridge in front of them.
Li Rongsen said, "Shall we go forward?"
"Let's go." An Yan nodded.
The three of them crossed the wooden rope bridge one after the other. The other side of the bridge was covered with flowers on the mountain, red, yellow, blue, purple, pink, and all kinds of flowers, with endless beauty as far as the eye could see.
In the middle stood a courtyard with an open door.
The yard was not big, only two stories high, and there was no floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. Instead, there were five-layer bookshelves made of bamboo, neatly arranged, filling the entire room, and they were all filled with books, brocades, bamboo scrolls and other classics.
An Yan said: "Could it be that this is the academy?"
Li Rongsen did not dare to enter the room. He just stood in the yard and looked into the house. In the middle was a mat table and a large wooden table that could seat eight people. There was an incense burning in the middle. There were all kinds of pens, ink, paper and desks, and many books were also placed there.
Yan Qingqiu couldn't help but murmur, "It's amazing that they let us in."
"Congratulations to the three donors."
The monk who had greeted them said this. The Taoist priest also came out and said, "I didn't expect the three donors to pass the test. No one has been here for hundreds of years."
"Did you set up the traps along the way?" Yan Qingqiu asked.
"You can get here only if you are not greedy, not angry, not only care about yourself, and not afraid of death." The Taoist said with a smile.
The monk said again: "Take off your shoes and go in, and remember to be quiet." After saying this, he left with the Taoist priest.
An Yan walked in carefully. She flipped through the classics and found the book she was looking for. She finally found the method she wanted and also discovered the Gu on Yan Qingqiu's body.
This kind of poison cannot be cured unless the person he loves dies, or he dies himself.
Yan Qingqiu asked her quietly, "An Yan, have you noticed what's on me?"
"No." An Yan also replied in a low voice.
"How is that possible? It's all in vain." Yan Qingqiu was unconvinced. He stood up, put on his shoes and went outside.
Only then did An Yan say to Li Rongsen, "It can't be solved."
Li Rongsen took the book handed to him by An Yan and read it. He couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart and asked, "Is he truly in love, or is he under the influence of the Gu?"
"No one knows." An Yan shook her head slightly, thinking that it was impossible to ask Yan Qingqiu to detoxify Li Rongsen because the poison could be transferred, which would only cause more trouble.
It seems that she needs to find another way to deal with him.
An Yan flipped through some other books and saw the King of All Gu.
Li Rongsen asked, "Even the King of Myriad Gu can't cure him?"
"I can cure Qianqian's poison, but I can't cure Yan Qingqiu's, because his is very special and different." An Yan had no choice but to start reading again. She thought that there were so many books here that she couldn't finish reading them all in a short time. Besides, Zhou Qianqian was still waiting for her to rescue her, and she couldn't afford to waste time.
An Yan stood up, put on her shoes and wanted to go out to find the Taoist priest and the monk, but she found a dagger stuck in the door frame.
This dagger was exquisite and sharp, which made An Yan like it. She couldn't help but reach out to pull it out. She was surprised and said, "This is really a good weapon."
(End of this chapter)
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