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"I didn't expect Liu Yan'er to get first place in the third round. I thought you were never interested in this kind of political matter."

Liu Yan'er didn't have the time to pay attention to Xu Shi. Today, everyone was looking at their results, leaving only Li Han and Wang Ping in Exam Four. However, it was the name list in front of them.

"Li Han, first round, first class, second round, second round, first class, ranked forty-three."

Xu Hong was tall, and he had already found Li Han's name on the outskirts.

Where's Wang Ping? "How come there's no Wang Ping?"

Xu Shiji looked up and down for a long time. There were a total of a hundred people, but none of them were called Wang Ping. Everyone quickly looked at Wang Ping. In fact, Wang Ping wasn't surprised by this result. He knew very well that besides the first round, everything else he had won was very poor.

He saw Wang Ping walk out with a carefree smile on his face. Everyone was worried about Wang Ping's mood and chased after him.

"..."

"General, we have investigated properly."

Chu Huainan sat at the head of the table and lightly sipped on his tea.

"Oh? "So, who is Su Dingfang?"

It was Su Dingfang, who had started a conflict with Xu Qing. Chu Yinan had originally thought that Su Dingfang was just an ordinary young man with excellent archery skills or a travelling adventurer of the martial arts world. He immediately understood that this Su Dingfang was not that simple, so he sent someone to investigate.

"Su Dingfang once studied under Master Teacher Luo from the Northern Lands, and studied archery at his place. He came here together with his senior, and his senior's name was He Wu. However, Su Dingfang has only been a disciple of the Luo Family for almost two years. Two years ago, he … "

At this point, the general paused for a moment and looked at Chu Huainan's expression before continuing.

"It's the people from the Martial Kingdom's Han Mountain Temple. They're the disciples that brought cultivation to this place."

"Martial nation? Han Shan Temple? "

Chu Yinan frowned. Every year, there would always be people from the martial arts world participating in the Autumn Festival. This was quite a common occurrence, but people from other countries had come to Chu to participate in the Autumn Festival. This was truly unheard-of.

"Alright, you can go now."

After he dismissed his subordinates, Chu Huainan couldn't help rubbing his teacup as he started to think.

After all, the Martial King did not get accepted by the female emperors when he proposed the Imperial Examinations. Today, the people of Chu were rather angry, opening the door for the majority of the students. It would be false to say that the poor students of other countries were not envious.

The people of the martial arts world could not run back to the Martial Kingdom to obtain a position, and if they wanted to participate in the examination, then they would have to properly check the background of the scholars, not to mention that Su Dingfang was from Han Mountain Temple, a faction of the martial arts world. Even if Luo clan had laid their foundation, the Han Mountain Temple was, after all, still a Han Mountain Temple.

If one were to talk about this Han Shan Temple, one would have to talk about the sects that the emperors of Chu and Wu worshiped. The country of Chu worshiped the Taoism, worshiped the Taoism as the Orthodoxy, and established the Wu Dynasty as the orthodoxy. The Wu state, on the other hand, believed in Buddhism, and established the Hanshan Temple as an orthodox sect. It was just that Confucianism had been prevalent recently, and the Confucianism was no longer willing to be plain and ordinary. It was a style that greatly suppressed the two sects. Not to mention that even though the Chu Country believed in the dao, regardless of whether it was an exam or a salute, they still used the method of the Confucian school. This was quite interesting.

Could it be that the monks from the south wanted to show their faces in Chu? Could it be that the Martial Kingdom had changed their attitude towards these monks? Was this related to Wang Mingyang's plot to kill Xu Qing?

Chu Yinan couldn't figure it out. He really wished that Lin Chengyan was by his side right now. But right now, they could only think about it. Lin Chengyan still had to take care of the plans and plans from the northwest side. There was no way he would be able to escape that responsibility. Forget it, Chu Yinan decided not to think about it anymore. He decided to wait until the martial arts competition to check on Su Dingfang. He would find an opportunity to find out more about him.

Chu Yinan could be considered to have temporarily put down, but Xu Qingzhi was extremely anxious.

There was no other reason. When he woke up this morning, Xu Hong saw the letter that Wang Ping left for him. It turned out that this kid had packed his stuff and returned home last night. This fellow, a weak scholar, how could he be at ease on such a long journey?

"Senior, if you don't go and search for my companion …"

Without waiting for Xu Qingzhi to finish, Wang Jing waved his hand. Xu Qingzhi also understood that it was impossible for Wang Jing to leave Mo Yunchang's side. He could only helplessly sigh.

"I say, little Xu, if you really can't rest easy, why don't you go find your father, the general?"

Chu Yinan? Even now, Xu Qingzhi still had no way of accepting this identity. This matter was still too sudden for him. For a moment, Xu Qingzhi didn't know how to face it, so he instinctively wanted to flee.

Wang Jing was an experienced person. When he saw Xu Qingzhi's appearance, he didn't say anything more.

"Hai, this Wang Ping is very wooden, but since he's so honest, he definitely won't be harmed. Good people should be rewarded."

"..."

Three days later, it was the day of the civil and military duels.

Xu Qingzhi, Liu Yaner, Li Han, and Chen Zixi had undoubtedly chosen the literary competition, while Xu Zhen and Xu Hongding had chosen the martial competition. When the examiner read out the name, he realized that the situation had changed from before. This year, most of the examinees were fighting in the competition, and there were more than 312 people. The number of people fighting in the competition was actually only 188.

This caused Xu Hei Zi to be worried. It had to be known that no matter how many people there were in the competition, all of them would choose 150 people each. For those who chose the literary competition, it was undoubtedly a huge decrease in the competition. Xu Zhen looked sorrowfully at Xu Hong. Since the end of the third round of the first selection, the relationship between the two of them had inexplicably become much closer.

"Xu Qingzhi, quickly take a look. Isn't this Su Dingfang from that day?"

As expected, Su Dingfang was standing on the right side of the square, but there was another person standing beside him. He was wearing an elegant blue robe and was arguing with Su Dingfang over something, but he couldn't argue with him. Even from afar, they could see that Su Dingfang was blabbering nonstop, and even his face was slightly flushed. However, the man in the green tunic only smiled faintly, not moved by Su Dingfang.

"I say, senior brother, why are you participating in the competition? Isn't your swordsmanship just a waste of time?" I really don't understand you. "

How could he not understand that his youngest junior brother wanted to compete with him, but he really did not want to, because he would never say a word of rejection in his entire life. He could only pretend to be unfathomable as he looked at Su Dingfang, causing him to feel extremely exhausted.