The forced marriage failed, but the poor boy turned around to exorcise demons and save people

Chapter 39 Discovering the other side

"Shall we go back?" After picking ginseng, Song Zhiqing looked at the sky and saw that it was late afternoon. The sun was moving westward and the forest was getting dark.

"You can go." Qiao Mu nodded.

"You are so lucky." Qiao Mu sighed on the way.

Song Zhiqing smiled: "Sometimes it's really good." For example, when things get desperate, there is always someone to help, and when you meet a special person like Qiao Mu.

"You collected a lot of good medicinal herbs and bought them and saved a lot of money. Why don't you take the scientific examination?" He was obviously rich, but he was not that poor.

The money spent on this marriage was all his savings.

So Qiao Mu was very confused. He said before that he didn't have the money to take the imperial examination, but in fact, why didn't he take the imperial examination if he had the money?

Song Zhiqing was silent for a moment: "My mother needs someone to take care of her." After being admitted to the Tongsheng School, he had to go to an academy to study. He was left with only his sick mother and younger sister at home, and he was worried.

"Oh!" Qiao Mu nodded. This is understandable. Song Zhiqing is like this. From the recent interactions, he values ​​family ties very seriously.

"There is another reason..." Song Zhiqing didn't seem to know what to say. Qiao Mu thought for a moment: "Is it because of your uncle's family?"

She heard clearly what Song Zhiqing said to Song Lishi that day, as well as Song Lishi's questioning.

Song Zhiqing was not surprised that Qiao Mu asked this. He followed her question and said, "When I took the county examination in the early years, my uncle's family bribed the son of the county magistrate's family and changed my test paper."

Although my family is poor, I passed the county examination and got the name Tongsheng, and I was considered a student member. Our court respected literati, so the policies for students were relatively good. If you got the name Tongsheng, even if you don't go to school, you can still enter the official school. Eligibility and field exemption rights.

For a farming family, one year's tax can cover the entire family's food rations for a year, so he tried his best to take the exam at that time.

After the exam, when the results came out, he saw the copy notice for the No. 1 test paper and saw Song Zhize written next to his article, and he only found out about it.

Originally they wanted to go to the county government to file a complaint, but Song and Li's wife knelt down to beg him and lent him money, three taels of silver.

At that time, his mother was seriously ill, so he went around asking relatives and friends to borrow money, but his uncle's family refused to lend him money. Later, Liu Mingfeng and another friend happened to lend it to him to take his mother to see a doctor.

At this time, the money of his uncle's family was not that important to him, but his mother still had to take medicine, and the money Liu Mingfeng borrowed could only be used for medical treatment, so he took the money and made an agreement that he would not expose it and would not participate in the medical department for the time being. Kao, and the uncle's family provided him with firewood every year and delayed repayment.

"But they borrowed money from the old lady. They don't come to collect the debt themselves. The old lady always comes every New Year." Song Zhiqing's voice was calm. These past experiences were all lessons for him.

Qiao Mu frowned: "This family is too cunning."

"Song Xiangyi hurt Ke Qing this time, so there is no need to abide by the agreement!" Song Zhiqing's eyes were cold and ruthless.

"Three years have passed since the last exam. Although Song Zhize's writing is good, he can't be ranked first. Three years is enough time for teachers and classmates to know his level. Knowing that this child's voice is ranked first is not worthy of the name." So he did a little push, This matter was brought to light.

After saying that, he realized that Qiao Mu had been staring at him.

Song Zhiqing narrowed his eyes to cover the leaked emotions and frowned.

He usually doesn't show his emotions easily, but he didn't expect that he just showed his emotions.

"I seem to have discovered another side of you!" Qiao Mu blinked. This side, how should I put it, is like her destructive power, darkness, destruction.

"Then you... hate it?" Song Zhiqing asked carefully.

In fact, he has long discovered that he is not a peaceful person at heart, nor is he a completely kind person!

Qiao Mu looked at him doubtfully: "Why do I hate you? I think it's great!" She has the power of destruction, destroying all situations that are not good for her.So why does she hate Song Zhiqing because of this?
Song Zhiqing suddenly laughed, his brown eyes were like stars in the night sky, full of broken light, full of joy: "As long as you don't hate it!"

"Then can you take part in the imperial examination now?" Qiao Mu asked again.

"Well! That's fine."

Seeing Qiao Mu getting excited, Song Zhiqing seemed to know why. He slightly curved his lips and said, "But I can't take the exam this year. The county exam is in February next year." So if you want to take the exam, you have to wait until February next year.

This half year was enough for him to teach Qiao Mu many things.

"At that time, everything in the house will be troublesome to my wife!" Song Zhiqing bowed his hands in salute, with a smile on his eyes and lips.

"Well, you go take the exam. I won't let others bully you!" Qiao Mu also smiled, with a calm expression, as if he was shining with light.

The two walked back slowly, occasionally saying something along the way, and someone responded. It felt good to know that there was someone around them all the time. Qiao Mu thought, this is what friends are for.

"To the east...southeast..."

"Is there someone there?" Song Zhiqing stopped and listened carefully: "This voice is a bit familiar, I don't know who it is."

"Taoist Master Zizhen of Tianyi Temple." Qiao Mu answered Song Zhiqing's question after listening.

"Why is Taoist Master Zizhen here?" The two walked forward for a while, and Song Zhiqing also heard Zizhen's voice.

He and Qiao Mu looked at each other and said something.

"It's the two fate masters!" Taoist Master Zizhen said hello when he saw the two of them. He was holding a compass in his hand, and the compass was engraved with the heavenly stems, earthly branches, southeast, northwest.

"I'm looking for a snake." Zizhen looked at the direction and said.

"Snake?" Qiao Mu and Song Zhiqing thought of the black snake.

"What did the Taoist priest do with the snake?" Song Zhiqing asked curiously.

Zizhen shook his head: "It's not an ordinary snake..." He glanced at Qiao Mu again: "It's a snake demon."

He thought that of these two people, one could catch ghosts and the other wouldn't be surprised if he met one, so he told the truth.

"Lu Yan?" Qiao Mu asked.

"My name is Lu Yan, do you two know?" Zizhen looked at the compass, then at Qiao Mu.

"I've seen it before. What did the Taoist priest want to do with Lu Yan?" Before Qiao Mu could speak, Song Zhiqing spoke first.Qiao Mu said that Lu Yan was a powerful demon, but he did not contaminate human life. Taoist priests usually hunt demons, so the situation cannot be explained in detail.

Zizhen didn't know Song Zhiqing's precautions.He looked at the compass again and couldn't help but frown: "He is a great demon and has never killed any living being. He is good friends with my first two temple masters of Tianyi Temple and is also a frequent visitor to Tianyi Temple. The previous temple masters were afraid of his killing. Before he ascended to immortality, he specifically asked me to come to him every year to reason with him, and this year it is Pindao's turn to come."

Song Zhiqing smiled and said, "That's it!" No wonder Lu Yan had a strange attitude when talking about Tianyi Temple before, and said that those Taoist priests were nagging. This was the reason.

"I wonder if the place has changed again this year. Pindao has been searching for a long time and still hasn't found any trace." Zizhen frowned.

He had been looking for it for two days, but he didn't know where the snake demon had gone.

(End of this chapter)