Chapter 13: Going to Shengjing

On the morning of the sixth day, the city was already feeling a little chilly.

The red sun emerged from the huge blood-red wound and was shrouded in mist, like a pickled egg yolk, reflecting the desolate scene inside and outside Yuyang County.

When Ji You pushed the door and walked out of his ancestral home, he saw a scholar on the empty street. He was walking out of the morning mist with a bamboo box on his back, a bundle on his left hand and half a pancake in his right hand.

"Brother Ji, good morning."

Ji You had just locked the door of his house, and seeing him like this, he was a little dazed: "Cai Chen..."

Kuang Cheng didn't hear clearly, and stepped forward and said: "I will also leave for Beijing today. The journey is long and the mountains are high, so I will bid you farewell here. I hope that Brother Ji will have a smooth journey to immortality."

"You are going to Beijing alone?"

Kuang Cheng nodded: "If I hadn't been delayed for five days because of the Qiu family's affairs, I might have set off long ago."

Ji You glanced at the misty morning and found that the sky in the west was still gray: "How do I get to Shengjing from Yuyang County?"

"First, take a carriage to the southwest, then walk around Dongshou Mountain, and then take a carriage. Mortals are not allowed to pass through the 100-mile radius of Xuanyuan Immortal Palace. I need to go around and then take a carriage at Mogu Post Station..."

"It's so troublesome. How much silver will it cost for your trip?"

"About five taels of silver."

Ji You was slightly stunned: "You are a young master after all, are you sure five cents of silver is enough?"

Kuang Cheng was stunned for a moment, then clutched his bag and said, "A scholar needs to study hard and clarify his aspirations. If you don't need to stay in a hotel, you can stay in the ancient temple. Although there have been many rumors of evil spirits and ghosts in the temple in recent years, I have a noble spirit and I am not afraid."

"Do you really have the noble spirit?"

"That... I'm not really sure, but that's what the book says."

"It's too dangerous, Brother Kuang!"

Ji You narrowed his eyes, looked at him carefully and said, "Why don't I go with you? I'm very interested in the haunted ancient temple."

After hearing this, Kuang Cheng was a little confused: "That's not necessary, Brother Ji. Although the road to the exam is extremely dangerous, two of the five can survive, and it may not be me."

"Only two? That's not necessary."

Ji You pondered for a moment, then looked up at him: "You are the only child of the Kuang family. It would be a pity if you died on the road."

Kuang Cheng looked up at the sky which was not yet completely bright and said, "If this is true, then it is destiny."

"Come on the road with me."

"?"

Ji You put on the bag and said, "I heard that Fang Ruoyao is going to bring a maid with her. I think I can also bring a companion student. It is more comfortable to ride on the fairy ship than to go around like you."

Kuang Cheng was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a moment, he chuckled and refused: "How dare I, a mere mortal, ride on the treasure ship of an immortal cultivator?"

"You can't hold back your mouth a bit."

"Kuang didn't."

After a long silence, Ji You suddenly stretched out his hand and said, "Give me five cents of silver for travel expenses!"

Kuang Cheng hesitated for a while, then took the bag off his shoulder, opened the three layers inside and outside, and finally took out a bulging purse, and found the smallest silver coin and put it in his hand.

Even this smallest coin seems to weigh more than five cents.

God, a scholar must suffer for his will. Ji You frowned and said, "You have so much, give me some more."

"Brother Ji, too much money will confuse the mind..."

"Why aren't you afraid?"

Kuang Cheng held his purse in his hand and said, "Because I am a scholar, I have a noble character..."

Ji You was silent for a while, and finally begged politely, and took out about two taels and three cents of silver, which he put into his pocket.

At this time, the dusk gradually faded, the sky gradually became brighter, and people began to enter and leave the city.

There is no slack season between autumn harvest and spring plowing. The people of Yuyang County have to go up the mountain to collect firewood or go to work farther away, and they live a hard life like this year after year.

After seeing this scene, the two remained silent for a long time.

"Let's go."

"Um."

The dew was heavy in the autumn morning, and on the way out of the city, the two men's clothes were already a little damp.

Fortunately, the sun soon broke through the clouds, and a ray of dawn light shone through the city hole, shining golden light on the feet of the scholar and the young man, and stretching their shadows longer and longer.

By the time the two arrived outside the city, many figures were already standing in the open space in front of the county monument.

Cao Jinsong, Pei Ruyi, the Fang father and daughter, and the three members of the Qiu family were all there.

In addition, the common people who had recognized Ji You as their relative in the grain field that day also gathered here to see him off.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Seeing Ji You and Kuang Cheng walking out of the city one after another, little Qiu Ru suddenly broke away from her mother's arms, rushed over with her little legs, hugged Ji You's thighs, and looked up at the corner of his mouth.

"Little girl, why are you getting heavier?"

"Master, Ru Ru ate meat at the county magistrate's house. It was delicious. Dad is a liar. I wanted to leave a piece for you, but my mouth wouldn't allow it. I was so angry that I cried!"

Ji You couldn't help but smile, and then he saw the Qiu family couple rushing over with a bundle in their hands: "Master, this is the silver I exchanged for saving Ru Ru before, please take it with you..."

Li Shuping also knelt down and said, "Master, I was ignorant before and always spoke ill of you, but you saved Ru Ru in the end. I kowtow to you..."

"That won't be necessary."

Ji You reached out and helped Li Shuping up: "I consider the third family in Nanya River to be mine, and Qiu Ru is my sister. I will definitely come back many times before I ascend to become an immortal. If you always treat me like this, how can I come back?"

Hearing the word "ascension" so casually, Cao Jinsong's eyelids twitched slightly.

This boy's words revealed a domineering aura in a calm and relaxed manner, he is indeed not an ordinary person.

Old Qiu handed over the bundle at this time: "Master, take this with you. You are away from home and don't have any acquaintances. Many things require money. Don't treat yourself badly."

"No need, Old Qiu. I still have some money. I'll leave it to you for your household expenses."

"When the Ji family fled, they took all the valuables with them, not even a single ingot was left for you. Old Qiu, I know better than you, young master, so don't refuse anymore."

"I'm not refusing. Master, I really have money."

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Ji You reached out and patted Kuang Cheng's bag.

Kuang Cheng was silent for a moment, and suddenly recalled the scene when he saw him covered in blood at Ji's house.

That day, Ji You once sighed to him, saying that the world was missing a brilliant and extraordinary gangster, but why did he feel that he was missing something?

"Everyone, after sending you a thousand miles away, we must say goodbye. Let's stop here."

"If any of my neighbors are free, please help me clean up my house. If any of the Ji clan members come back, I will entrust them with the task."

After saying this, Ji You turned his head, looked at the rising sun and the mountains in the distance, and exhaled softly.

He felt that he was not here for no reason, but that he had something to accomplish.

"Let's go, young man, and meet the wind of destiny."

(End of this chapter)