In June, the great heat is approaching and the sun is scorching.

In the past few days, it has been extremely hot and the river has dried up a lot, and the crops in the fields have wilted. The whole city is only looking forward to a heavy rain. If the rain cannot come, it will probably cause a severe drought.

Li Jimao came back from work in the field and was sweating profusely. As soon as he got home, he poured water on himself and slapped his palms into the main hall.

"You dog - save some water!" Li Yamao poured him a small cup of cold water.

"It's your turn to go in the afternoon." Li Jimao poured the water down, wiped it with his mouth, and said to Li Yamao: "Be careful and dry it into a dead dog."

"Bah," said Li Yamao, "I can walk a big Zhoutian today. You can catch up quickly. If we can go to cultivate immortality, we will no longer have to suffer the consequences of this bird."

Li Jimao sighed and said, "It's easy to say."

There is no rain in January, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, and thousands of miles away. It seems that it is another deserted year. I wonder how many young people are like these two brothers, hoping to pass the Shangling test by chance, and leave the world and live a life of immortality from then on.

Watching the sun reach the middle, Li Yamao said, "Let's go and have dinner with Brother Lin."

——Of course, there is no food in Brother Lin’s family, so they have to take it with them. This has been the case every day in the past two months.

When they went, Lin Shu was practicing sword under the tree.

A three-foot poplar branch was tied with a sword flower. The two brothers looked outside the door for a long time, but they were just the most basic points: five ways: stab, chop, chop, and snatch, and there were no new sword moves.

——In fact, it’s not that Lin Shu is unwilling to practice anything else. This little fool’s body is really weak. After two months of eating and drinking water, he has not seen any improvement. He is panting even when he dances on the branches, let alone complicated sword moves.

He was a little dizzy, and just came to look for him, so he put down the branches and returned to the room.

These days, these two brothers often come to him, sometimes asking about qi, acupoints and other things, and sometimes they only come to play - it was the first time someone would come to play with him.

In his previous life, when he was six or seven years old, he saw that others had friends, and he had envied him, wanting to have one or two playmates together. But he just thought about it. He followed his master since he had a memory - it was said that the master was taken from an orphanage. As for how the old man who insisted on wearing a Taoist robe in modern society, how could he successfully adopt a child, Lin Shu couldn't think of it, so he always thought that he was stolen from an orphanage by the old man.

After being stolen, when he was very young, he started memorizing sword scores, learning martial arts, and what his peers said... He didn't understand at all, and he had never seen them even in TV. Therefore, he didn't know how to talk to the people around him, nor did he know what to say. Children play together. Once a person had no friends at the beginning, he wouldn't have them in the future.

Later, after graduating from elementary school and entering junior high school, he could barely keep up with the pace of modern life, but he was already in a certain degree and no longer wanted to contact people. After a long time, his ability to talk to himself was very high, and he became a mute when facing others.

When they arrived here, life in the village was simple and the same. The two brothers were very sincere and simple. They laughed and quarreled in front of him all day long, and gradually became familiar with each other. As long as they didn't touch them close, Lin Shu could be at peace with them, which was a rare experience.

I continued to be at peace for a few days, and it was almost time to go to the imperial examination.

The aunt sent the three of them to the entrance of the village and said to Li Jimao and Li Yamao: "You two are done with the end of your exam. Don't leave Xiaoluo!"

Li Yamao smiled and said, "Don't worry, mom, we will hold him well!"

Lin Shu looked at this scene and thought about it. He had never been lost. He didn't know why he left the aunt with an impression that she was easily lost. He was a little confused: "..."

The aunt turned her eyes to Lin Shu, and was very worried: "Look! She looks like she is so indifferent to everything! Isn't it going to be gone if she lets go!"

"He's listening!" Li Yamao expelled him, "I just don't know how to express my expressions, and I'm a little stunned!"

The aunt "snorted", walked a few more steps forward, and said to Lin Shu: "Fine!"

The distance was too close, Lin Shu was a little stiff and nodded silently.

The aunt was satisfied, waved her hand and let them go.

Ning'an Prefecture is a small county, with only a dozen miles from the southern suburbs to the center of the city. They each rode a gray donkey and walked side by side on the dirt road. Lin Shu brought an extra hat - this was something the aunt knew that he was in poor health and was afraid that he would be dizzy by the sun, so she specially added it.

Lin Shu was carried by a donkey while looking at the scenery beside the road.

When I first entered the city, the streets and alleys on both sides were sparse and the houses were low. They were all old wooden mud houses, not very prosperous. When I passed a archway and arrived in the inner city, I saw a rather grand official office. There were shops along the streets, selling fruits and snacks. The shouts came one after another, which was quite interesting.

When we almost arrived at the examination room, we were a little busy and the voices were very crowded. The examination room was actually a vacant lot of dozens of feet square and paved with blue bricks.

After crossing the black head, Lin Shu saw an extremely high bamboo pillar standing in front of him, with a green banner hanging high on it, with the big words "Shangling Test" written on it. The participants took the bamboo pillar as the center and sat on the ground.

Li Yamao: "This is really awesome."

Li Jimao nodded.

Lin Shu believes that is.

However, when almost everyone came, he felt that the perfunctory and simplicity of the venue was not without reason. I don’t know if there were five thousand people in Ning'an Mansion, but there were one thousand people who came to take the exam alone. I’m afraid that all young people would come here to try their luck. Shangling Academy only recruited thousands of people in Nanxia a year, but the number of people participating in Shangling exams would have to be hundreds of thousands. If the venue was really arranged carefully and the assessment was detailed in reality, it would be really not easy.

Li Yamao took out a hemp rope from somewhere, tied Lin Shu's wrist, tied the other end to his waist, and said, "There are too many people later. If you really lose it, my mother will probably hang me up and beat me."

At the time of Si, the drum beat three times, and the noisy crowd calmed down, and a powerful voice was heard from afar: "Get up!"

With the bamboo pillar as the center, a complex formation pattern suddenly spread on the bluestone slab, and in a moment, the light shone brightly.

Lin Shu's consciousness was suddenly pulled. After a feeling of weightlessness, he opened his eyes and was already on a mountain road filled with morning mist. There was a stone on the side of the road with "Shangling Dream" engraved on it.

He climbed up the stairs, and after dozens of steps, he turned around and suddenly reached the top of the mountain.

The sun rose on the top of the mountain, and the morning breeze was refreshing. A phantom of a man in blue who looked very kind appeared in front of him, and bowed to him: "Fellow Taoist please sit quietly."

Lin Shu sat quietly.

"Where is the fellow Taoist family?"

"Minzhou, Ning'an Prefecture."

"What is the name of a fellow Taoist?"

"Lin Shu."

"How old is this year for fellow Taoist?"

"fourteen."

"What a hero is a boy."

After saying that, the man in blue continued, "Fellow Taoist, please close your eyes."

Lin Shu closed his eyes.

"Fellow Taoist please meditate."

Lin Shu pondered.

The man in blue smiled: "One poke and one jump, the fellow Taoist is so obedient."

Lin Shu: "..."

This test system has a high IQ.
Chapter completed!