Chapter 227 Leaving the Yard
The people surrounding the young man retreated to the side of the road one by one, protecting the young women who were traveling with them as they retreated.
Xiao Yingzi held Shi Zelan's hand tightly, while Xiao Qiuhua pulled Shi Zelan's other arm.
The three of them followed the neighborhood teenagers and stepped aside, watching Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu escort the young man to the path the officer pointed to.
Shi Zelan was a little worried and listened carefully to some voices in front of him, and finally heard some useful words.
"The scholar from the south was almost stabbed with a knife."
"Ah, then who helped him block the knife?"
"The police arrested the murderer."
“There has never been such a vicious incident before.”
"Yes, don't you remember that one year a scholar in that inn gave another person croton, causing him to miss the imperial examination that year?"
After a while, Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu turned around and came back.
They found Shi Zelan and his group and said, "There are too many people, let's go back now.
Everyone follow closely, and wait until you are out of this street, then count the number of people who came together. ”
Their journey back was naturally not smooth, and they were often scolded: "Why are you pushing so hard?"
"Can you walk?"
“We can’t walk?
Or maybe you don't know how to walk? You keep coming closer to me. What do you want to do? ”
Xiao Qiuhua accidentally walked to the front, and Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi were two steps behind her.
Just one step away, it can't stop those who are interested from approaching.
Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi saw the young man turn away and lean towards Xiao Qiuhua.
The two of them reached out almost at the same time and pulled Xiao Qiuhua back, just avoiding the man's falling body.
When the man saw that his attempt failed, he reached out to slap Xiao Qiuhua in the face.
Xiao Qiuhua's face suddenly changed, and Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi dragged her into the crowd.
Xia Yu took a step forward and kicked the young man's foot. The young man jumped up and started to curse.
But Shi Xiaoliu glared at him coldly, and the young neighbors also gathered around him.
The young man could only yell: "Walk carefully."
The young man sneered after hearing this: "You should also be more careful when you are walking. You won't meet people as good-tempered as us next time."
After the young men lowered their heads and ran away, the young men protected the young women even more as they walked among them.
Xiao Qiuhua was so frightened that she could not walk, and Xiao Yingzi and Shi Zelan almost dragged her forward.
Shi Zelan whispered, "With us here, he won't be able to make it."
Xiao Qiuhua trembled: "How can there be such a bad person?"
Xiao Yingzi said directly: "What are you afraid of? There are so many of us, would he dare?
He just thought you were alone, so he acted so arrogantly. ”
When they returned to the street corner, the sky gradually brightened.
Xiao Qiuhua kept holding Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi's hands tightly, and the two of them simply sent her home.
When Shi Zelan and Xiao Yingzi were walking back, she said to Shi Zelan, "Why do I feel that Xiao Qiuhua's luck is not very good this year?"
Shi Zelan glanced at her and said, "I think she has good luck. It's the kind of good luck that turns misfortune into fortune."
Xiao Yingzi thought about it seriously and smiled: "Xiao Lanzi, you are right, she is lucky.
She will definitely find an excellent marriage this year. ”
The two of them looked at each other and smiled, then went home.
Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu were sitting in the yard. Shi Zelan entered the yard and asked, "Did I close the door?"
"Turn it off."
Shi Xiaoliu answered with certainty. Shi Zelan closed the yard door, walked over to them and sat down.
"Do you feel that this year's imperial examination is a bit unsuccessful?"
Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu nodded at the same time and asked Shi Zelan: "Do you feel the same way?"
“When you escorted that brother into the examination room, I felt something was amiss.
Later I heard that a candidate was almost stabbed by a knife, and I felt that this was a very mysterious thing at the time.
After all, the police were guarding the roadside. How stupid must a person be to stab someone with a knife in front of the police? ”
"After we went in, we didn't find anything unusual."
Shi Xiaoliu and Xia Yu followed the young man inside. When the door of the examination room opened to let the candidates in, they also carefully felt the atmosphere around them and did not find anything inappropriate.
After the three of them thought about it carefully, they felt that perhaps they were overthinking things.
They quickly calmed down and went back to their rooms to practice.
The next day, they decided to go to the mountain anyway, so they set off before dawn.
When the three young men came over, they saw the lock on the yard gate and looked disappointed.
On the evening of the third day, Shi Xiaoliu and his sister and Xia Yu returned home with nothing in their hands.
When we met the neighbors and asked them about it, they smiled and said, "The free clinic at the Taoist temple outside the city has used up all the herbs, so we sent them to the Taoist temple."
They did send some medicinal herbs to the Taoist temple, and also asked for the opinions of Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng.
Decheng Zhenren said that they will not return for the time being.
Zhenren Shanzheng asked about Shi Zelan's cultivation progress, and Shi Zelan told him about the problems he encountered in cultivating his spiritual consciousness.
He told Shi Zelan some methods to deal with the situation. He said to Shi Zelan: "Now that you have left the sect, the restrictions of the curse on you will be much less."
Shi Zelan nodded in agreement, and told Master Shanzheng about the incident of sending someone to the examination hall that day.
After hearing this, Master Shanzheng showed no surprise. He smiled and said to Shi Zelan, "We have heard some old stories from the abbot these days. Some scholars are very jealous and will not allow people who are better than them to stand out.
Some of them will do wrong things because of this, but some of them can avoid disaster, and each of them has their own good luck. ”
Shi Zelan listened to Master Shanzheng's words without any expression of surprise.
For someone who has heard of poisoning cases in famous universities, these things are really trivial and not worth discussing further.
However, Master Shanzheng thought that Shi Zelan's temperament had become calmer, and said to her with a smile: "Sister Lan, you are still a child, you don't need to think too much."
On the way back to the city, Shi Xiaoliu and his sister and Xia Yu naturally discussed things like the unpredictable human heart.
Therefore, when they met their neighbors on the way home, they naturally talked about the fact that the Taoist temple had run out of medicinal herbs in stock.
After hearing this, the neighbors sighed that Master Decheng and Master Shanzheng were rare good people, and asked when they would be back.
Shi Xiaoliu sighed and said, "My master and uncle are busy picking herbs in the mountains these days, so they won't be back for the time being.
They know that you all take good care of us, and that the three of us siblings are not meddlesome people. ”
The neighbors also felt that Shi Xiaoliu and his two companions were not nosy. Except for going out of town or up the mountain to pick herbs, they rarely left the yard.
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