The people of Qing had left, and Tong Li had left, but the celebratory feast at Jinghai Brothel continued.
The resentment that had accumulated for seventeen years was released, and everyone was unable to control their emotions.
The people in Jing Hai Restaurant were drunk, and so were half of the people in Jade Sea City.
Fang Yun could no longer tell if this was a celebration banquet or a drinking banquet. Anyway, he was constantly being toasted and drank. If not for the fact that he had talent, he would have collapsed under the table.
When the celebration banquet was about to end, Magistrate Dong took out the prizes for the dragon boat competition. Two literary treasures, a dragon blood ink stick, and a chessboard.
One of the two literary treasures was the Canglang Brush, which used talent to create the battle poem 《Canglang Walk》 to form huge waves. The other was the Mountain Ink Stick, which carried the power of 《Ode on Mountains》 and could transform into the power of mountains to protect oneself.
The chessboard was more valuable than the other three combined.
There were a total of six people who participated in the dragon boat competition, and Fang Yun contributed the most. Fang Yun did not stand on ceremony and chose the chessboard.
However, the other five people did not want the other three items. They said that Fang Yun had washed away the shame of the entire city and gave up the limelight to let High Scholar Qian get the brocade. If they dared to take the prize, they would be criticized by the entire city, and would probably be splashed with ink and smashed by the old scholars before they could even walk out of Jing Hai Restaurant.
Fang Yun was not blinded by greed, and insisted that he could not win the competition alone. The other five people had contributed, and he could not monopolize the prize.
The six people went back and forth, and in the end, they had no choice but to find Magistrate Dong. Magistrate Dong decided to distribute the prizes according to merit. He gave the chessboard and the dragon blood ink stick to Fang Yun, and then let Fang Yun choose between the Canglang Brush and the Mountain Ink Stick. The remaining prize was shared by the other five people.
Fang Yun could only accept the distribution that was beneficial to him, and chose the Mountain Ink Stick, which had a strong defensive ability, and each of them would get three prizes.
Magistrate Dong instructed Fang Yun to place the Mountain and River Chessboard properly. This Mountain and River Chessboard did not contain any war poems and thus could not be considered a literary treasure. It could only be considered a raw material. Even so, it was enough to exchange for a Grand Scholar literary treasure. After all, there were only a few pieces produced in the entire Saint Origin World every year. In the eyes of Go experts, it was a top-grade Go board.
After the celebratory banquet ended, Fang Yun returned with a bountiful harvest. Not only had he obtained treasures that could not be bought with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, his name had also shaken Jade Sea City, officially establishing the foundation of his Literary Name in Jade Sea City.
When he got home, the concierge handed him many visiting cards and invitations. There were also the Holy Pages that Tong Li had sent over. In addition to the Holy Pages that Notre-Dame had given him as a reward, he now had seven Holy Pages. Fang Yun believed that even Li Wenying's personal Holy Pages didn't have that many, and most of them had been used up.
In June, the rewards for Holy Road would be given out in May. At that time, there would be eight more pages.
Fang Yun had tasted the sweetness of carrying a Holy Page with him the last time, so he decided to carry two with him in the future to prevent any accidents from happening.
On the night of the Dragon Boat Festival, Jade Sea Prefecture's Prefecture Lord, Feng Zimo, came to the Li Residence in the Great Yuan Prefecture and was led into Li Wenying's study room by a servant.
"This official pays his respects to Lord Li." Feng Zimo bowed respectfully.
"Zimo, why have you come here personally?" Li Wenying asked in a friendly manner.
"Reporting to Lord, Lord Shi's disciple, Shi Dehong, has his own selfish desires. He wants to borrow the power of the Xunzi Clan to bewitch Notre-Dame's Imperial Examination Inspector to come to my Jade Sea City to inspect the June Prefecture Examinations. He wants to obstruct Fang Yun from competing for the top talents, disturb his mind, and prevent him from going to Book Hill. Shi Dehong is Lord Shi's disciple, and he is also colluding with the Half-saint Clan. This official is unable to deal with it, so I came here to ask Lord Li to make a decision. "
"How dare you!" Li Wenying shouted. The room echoed, and an invisible force spread out in all directions. Li Wenying's residence didn't have any insects, but his neighbors did. Now, with a shout from him, all the insects within half a li were scared out of their wits and fled.
The people in the vicinity looked at the insects that scattered in all directions and clicked their tongues in wonder, not knowing what had happened.
"Tell me what happened in detail." Li Wenying said.
"Yes!"
Feng Zimo explained the whole story to Li Wenying. After he finished, he secretly looked at Li Wenying. He guessed that he would fly into a rage like before, and he might even kill his way to the Jade Sea Prefecture.
Although Shi Dehong was the disciple of this generation's Lord Shi, and this generation's Lord Shi was more talented than Li Wenying, Li Wenying was the number one person in the previous generation apart from the Four Great Scholars. He had become a Grand Scholar earlier than this generation's Lord Shi, and he was strong enough to kill this generation's Lord Shi. He wasn't afraid of killing a mere disciple of Lord Shi.
Unexpectedly, not only was Li Wenying not angry, he even laughed disdainfully and said, "Idiot, go back. I will write a letter to my good friend in the Meng Family, and I will deal with this matter. "
Feng Zimo didn't know what method Li Wenying used, but seeing that he had a card up his sleeve, he relaxed and said, "On the day of the capital examination, if the Notre-Dame's Imperial Examination Inspector participates in the grading, what should we do?"
"Don't throw away the integrity of the Jingguo people. If he dares to make things difficult for Fang Yun, the day he leaves the grading room will be the day of his death! "Li Wenying said.
Feng Zimo thought in his heart, this is the famous Wind and Rain Sword Poem Li Wenying, who can slaughter all demons and kill all humans.
"This official will take his leave."
Feng Zimo walked out of the Li Residence and looked at the brightest star in the sky.
"If Fang Yun makes a mistake in the capital examination, resulting in him not being able to obtain a Maozai, I will definitely kill Shi Dehong and Tong Li to break Fang Yun's predicament!" Feng Zimo made up his mind and walked away with light steps.
After the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month, on the morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, Fang Yun hung a 'Do Not Visit' sign outside his door and stopped all social activities to focus on his studies at home.
Everything returned to normal. Fang Yun started to recite the original works of the Sages every day, and then he would pick up his brush to practice his calligraphy. After that, he would quickly read the annotations and articles of the great scholars in the Book World. Every day, he would write a piece of the classics and send it to his neighbor, Scholar Pang, for comments.
Every five days, the prefectural magistrate Feng Zimo would personally come to teach Fang Yun the classics and point out the shortcomings of Fang Yun's classics.
The World of Wondrous Books allowed Fang Yun to learn a large amount of knowledge in a faster and more effective way. His courage made his will firmer, and his talent made his thinking more flexible and his mind more intelligent. The Sacred Thunderous Sound and the Five Movements of Literary Tunes allowed him to improve in all aspects, so his progress was extremely fast.
Every time Feng Zimo pointed out the shortcomings of the classics, Fang Yun would record it down and think about it repeatedly. If he could improve it, he would improve it. If he couldn't, he would avoid it. This way, he would at most make the same mistake twice, and would never make the same mistake a third time.
A month's time passed in a flash.
On the thirtieth day of the fifth month, Feng Zimo once again came to Fang Yun's house to carefully review the classics written by Fang Yun. In the end, he found that these classics, other than some areas that were not explained in depth, he couldn't find any mistakes. If placed in the prefectural examination, it would definitely be a B-grade work.
Feng Zimo was very surprised and praised, "No wonder your 'if there is a mistake, change it; if there is a mistake, strengthen it' would trigger the Sacred Sound. You have indeed learned and used this sentence flexibly. Good!"
Fang Yun stared blankly for a moment before realization dawned upon him. No wonder he was always the first to discover his mistakes when he was writing the scriptures these days. From then on, he firmly remembered that there were no more than three mistakes. It turned out that those eight words had played a certain role. In his heart, he had a deeper understanding of the powers of this world.
"I see! The classics of the Sages are not only knowledge, not only principles, it is also power! It is difficult for ordinary people to use it, but if one can really touch the Sacred Way, then one can completely turn the knowledge and principles into one's own power! I only knew about it before, but today I can be considered to have truly understood it! "
"Literature carries the Way, not only does it use the text to explain the principles and spread the principles, but it also uses the text to carry one's own Sacred Way and one's own power. No wonder these words can form the dragon gate and allow those ordinary fish to have the possibility of transforming into dragons. It is because these words contain the power of 'correctness'. "
Fang Yun was very happy in his heart, beaming with joy.
Feng Zimo on the side slowly took a few steps back and nodded with gratification.
Not long after, Fang Yun returned to normal and found that his talent had increased to three inches.
Feng Zimo smiled and said, "I only gave you a few words, and you were able to quickly understand the principles. You are indeed a genius. Do you often comprehend the Way like this? "
Fang Yun immediately used the same trick and said, "When I was young, I liked to sit by the river and think. Maybe it was the experience of that period that made me better at understanding all kinds of principles."
Feng Zimo said, "I remember the river in your house. You have said many times that many of your achievements today were built on that river. When the County Exam is over, I will go to the river in your house to think. Maybe there is a magical power there that will allow me to comprehend the Way like you. "
"… Maybe." Fang Yun was sweating in his heart. The so-called comprehending the Way by the river was just nonsense to cover up the inspiration of the "Fox Rhymes" and the "Three Character Classic". If Feng Zimo really went there, nothing would happen.
Feng Zimo smiled and said, "Thanks to you, I can also comprehend the Way by the river. There must be something magical there. I will let my good friends go there to comprehend the Sacred Way."
Fang Yun could only pray in his heart, "Please don't comprehend the Way. If you do, I don't know what kind of trouble it will cause if the rumors spread."
Feng Zimo said, "This year's County Exam was originally set to be on the 15th of June, but I heard that because of the changes in the weather, Half-saint will be held on the first day of the month, which is very disadvantageous for you. You must not be careless. Your holy words and poems are not bad. It is not difficult to get the B class, but it is still a bit difficult to get the A class. However, when I look at your scriptures, you often have amazing words and are full of novel phenomena. But if you think about it carefully, it is reasonable. This may be the key to you getting the A class scriptures. "
Fang Yundao said, "Thank you, Master Feng, for your guidance. I will carry this point forward."
"You are teachable."
Fang Yun understood in his heart that Feng Zimo's so-called "amazing words and novel phenomena" were actually what he had learned and heard on Earth. There were many things that he had forgotten, but because of the Qi of Talent, his mind became stronger. Those vague memories became clear, and those knowledge that he could not remember clearly also became deeper. It had an impact on him and made him have "amazing words".
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