I was favored by the evil god, and I became a white-bone bodhisattva.

??It’s all well and good to study hard and gain knowledge, but can you also climb a mountain?

Seeing Li Xingwen's unconvincing look, Lu Jie said anxiously: "Really? How could I lie to you? There is a barren mountain outside the county. As long as you climb to the top, you can get an ancient book. After reading this ancient book, your knowledge will increase greatly immediately!"

He took a breath and said with regret, "It's a pity that after climbing this mountain once, it's useless to climb it again. If I could learn more every time, I would definitely climb to the top."

Lu Jie spoke seriously, and Li Xingwen couldn't help but half believe and half doubt.

Although he is quite confident in himself, it seems like it would be a good idea to have an extra layer of assurance?

"Brother Lu, could you take me to that barren mountain tomorrow?"

"of course can!"

Lu Jie said seriously: "Everyone else thinks I stink, but you, Brother Li, don't. Just for this reason, I will repay you."

Well, actually, I also dislike it.

Li Xingwen laughed dryly, agreed on a time with Lu Jie, and then stood up to say goodbye.

On the way back to the inn, passers-by frowned and avoided the scholar when they saw him, which made him feel very embarrassed.

"Xingwen, why do you stink so badly after going out?"

Not to mention passers-by, even Shan Yunhe pinched his nose and looked disgusted.

"It may smell bad, but this trip is quite rewarding."

Li Xingwen briefly told Shan Yunhe about what happened in the barren mountain, and then hurried back to his room to change his clothes.

“Is there still any taste?”

"Yes!" the girl nodded vigorously.

"Well, then I'll take a bath."

After Li Xingwen ran downstairs, Shan Yunhe turned around and found that the little girl was looking down, thinking about something.

She was about to tease her fiancé when she heard Tangtang say, "This smell should be a mixture of burnt smell and corpse odor."

what?

Shan Yunhe blinked and looked at Tangtang with some confusion.

"Tangtang had helped Sister Xie deal with corpses in the charity cemetery before, so she can tell the smell of a corpse."

The little girl said seriously, "There's something wrong with my cousin's classmate. We'd better secretly follow him and see what's going on tomorrow to prevent anything bad from happening."

.........

The next morning, Li Xingwen set out feeling refreshed.

Of course, this time he did not bring Shan Yunhe, who was dressed as a man, with him. This was also the reason why Tangtang suggested "following secretly" earlier.

After Li Xingwen met Lu Jie, they walked out of the city without any delay.

After walking and stopping along the way for more than two hours, they finally arrived at the foot of the barren mountain.

"Lu, Brother Lu, this mountain is really far away."

The scholar sat down on the ground, indicating that he needed to take a rest before continuing.

Lu Jie didn't urge him either, staring at the barren mountain in front of him in a daze.

"Has this mountain been burned by a fire?"

After resting for a while, Li Xingwen stood up and spoke casually.

"Well, there was a fire fifty-three years ago that burned the entire mountain clean."

Lu Jie smiled deeply and changed the subject: "Although the mountain is high, it is not difficult to climb as long as there is a road."

"It's a pity there is no road." Li Xingwen stretched his legs and prepared to climb up.

"Haha, Brother Li, just watch!"

Lu Jie cleared his throat and said, "A gentleman is moderate, while a villain is the opposite. A gentleman's moderation is when he is moderate; a villain's moderation is when he is unscrupulous."

This is a famous saying in the book, and those who have passed the examination should know it.

And along with these words, a road actually appeared at the foot of the barren mountain?

Li Xingwen was surprised and delighted, and then he also said loudly: "If jade is not carved, it will not become a tool; if people do not learn, they will not know."

After saying this, the road quickly extended upwards.

Interesting, this mountain is quite interesting!

..........

As Lu Jie said, with the road built, the mountain will not be difficult to climb.

"Why are there so many books left on both sides of the road?"

The difficulty of climbing the mountain suddenly decreased, and Li Xingwen even had the leisure to observe the scenery on both sides of the road.

When the scholar saw the books scattered on the ground in disorder, he felt very sad.

"More than 50 years ago, there was actually an academy in this county. But after a serious accident, the academy was ordered to be closed by the county magistrate."

Lu Jie said calmly, "Before the county exam, the dean organized a mountain climbing activity. After the scholars reached the top with great difficulty, they saw the beautiful scenery on the mountain and proposed to have a picnic on the mountain."

This group of people who had no experience in camping, got into trouble as they were doing it.

The fire not only burned the entire mountain clean, but also buried everyone there.

This is undoubtedly a sad story, but when Lu Jie told this story at this moment, Li Xingwen was undoubtedly quite confused.

You were clearly asking about the book, why are you bringing up the fire that happened more than 50 years ago?

"Brother Li, don't you understand? The books on both sides of the road all came from the scholars who climbed the mountain."

impossible!

"The fire was so big that it burned the entire mountain to ashes. No books would remain."

Li Xingwen frowned and thought for a moment: "And there are too many books. Could it be that hundreds of scholars carried baskets of books up the mountain back then?"

"Too much? Not too much, not too little."

The stench on Lu Jie's body became stronger and stronger. "After all, over the years, every time there was a county exam, they would try their best to lure the scholars who were taking the exam up the mountain. Over time, it's normal to have this number."

Li Xingwen suddenly stopped in his tracks. He forced a smile and said, "The dead are the greatest. Brother Lu, I don't like such jokes."

.........

Just kidding, haha.

Lu Jie grinned and pointed two fingers at Li Xingwen: "Brother Li, you have two choices now."

"Oh?"

"One, follow me to the top and be burned to death by them. Two, trick a scholar to go up the mountain every year. Not only can you survive, but you can also gain countless knowledge."

Li Xingwen looked unhappy and did not respond for a while.

"Brother Li, you are a smart man, as the saying goes, one who knows the times..."

"You chose the second one?" Li Xingwen interrupted Lu Jie and asked sternly.

"It's natural"

Then I choose the third one!

Seeing the scholar turn around and run, Lu Jie shrugged and chased after him.

"Brother Li, I'm not saying anything bad about you. With your leg strength, it's impossible for you to escape."

"Lu Jie! I'm going to ask you two questions, do you dare to answer me?"

Ha, why not?

"You really survived?"

"You are still a human being!"

After hearing these two sentences, Lu Jie seemed stunned.

"Of course I'm alive, of course I'm a human!" Then he looked a little confused and a little angry.

"Then why do you stink so much? When did you start to stink?"

"I...haha, take it!"

It seemed as if the confusion and anger just now were all fake. Lu Jie grabbed Li Xingwen's clothes while he was talking nonsense.

"Bah-"

Fortunately, Li Xingwen's clothes were of very poor quality and were torn by Lu Jie when he struggled hard.

The scholar ran for his life, and as he ran, he saw countless burnt arms sticking out of the soil on both sides of the road.

Faced with such a horrifying scene, Li Xingwen was horrified, but a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Tangtang, over here! I'm here!"

Chapter 033 Qinghua Treasure Edict

Although Li Xingwen was somewhat repulsed by Tangtang in the beginning because she knew magic, but looking back, the little girl was simply his savior!

If it weren't for the little girl, he would have probably been sucked dry of his energy by the witch;

If there were no little girl, I would still be worrying about getting engaged;

If the little girl riding a huge crane hadn't arrived in time, I would probably have been doomed today!

"Tangtang--"

Li Xingwen's eyes were filled with tears as he watched the little girl jump off the giant crane and rush towards him with a wooden fish stick in her hand.

At this moment, he really felt that Tangtang was like a Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering.

"Haha, my cousin is so grown up and still crying."

The little girl half-knelt on the ground and used the wooden fish stick in her hand to knock back all the burnt arms that broke out of the ground around her.

This action completely angered Huangshan. The extended road disappeared and the disgusting stench of corpses rose into the sky!

“It’s a strange mountain.”

While talking to herself, Tangtang suppressed the stench of corpses all over the mountain with her own wonderful fragrance.

Hey, it doesn’t stink anymore.

Li Xingwen opened his mouth to vomit, but suddenly found that the terrible stench disappeared without a trace, and even smelled a bit fragrant?

Without Tangtang's urging, he quickly pulled himself together and climbed onto the back of the huge crane.

"Brother Li, where are you going? Take me with you."

A familiar voice came, and Li Xingwen looked at the burnt and smelly corpse that could not be distinguished, and a look of pity appeared in his eyes.

"Tangtang, my classmate's soul is trapped in a corpse, can you help him?"

"Cousin, you are mistaken. It is not that a human soul is trapped in the corpse, but that this strange creature is imitating human actions."

what? !

Li Xingwen was stunned and couldn't help but ask, "You said this person is not Lu Jie? But I was still discussing academic matters with him yesterday."

"Is there anything wrong with him compared to before?"

Tangtang asked as she knocked the charred and smelly corpse to the ground with a wooden fish stick.

If there is anything wrong, it is that my knowledge has greatly increased.

A chill rose in Li Xingwen's heart. Based on what Tangtang had just said and some information he currently had, he thought of a possibility.

.......

Lu Jie, or rather the strange creature pretending to be Lu Jie, once said that as long as one climbs to the top of a barren mountain, one can obtain an ancient book and increase one's knowledge.

Is it possible that this is actually true in some sense?

It’s just that there is no such record in ancient books, but there is one in real life of the scholar.

"If he could take away the knowledge of other scholars, then his own knowledge would surely increase greatly!"

"Although he said that repeated climbing is useless and he can't become the top scholar, is it possible that what he really meant was that he felt that the knowledge he had taken away was not enough, so he couldn't become the top scholar?"