There is a place called Chaosi Lane in the outer city of Langya City. It happened that it has the same name as Chaosi Lane in Shuning Town, but the range is much larger and wide enough to be able to run parallel to two carriages. There are many people living here, all of whom are the most common civilians in the capital.

There is a noodle restaurant, a tavern, a study, and an inn in Chaosi Lane.

There are many busy people in the alley, so it looks particularly lively.

Li Mengzhou is not a person who likes liveliness, but he still came here.

In addition to the surprising name of Chaosixiang that made him feel a little friendly, the more important reason is that there is a small courtyard here that belongs to him.

This was arranged for him by Tianshu Court, and it was considered a meeting gift for him to join.

Although Li Mengzhou didn't know if everyone who joined Tianshu Court could get a house, he would not take advantage of it without taking advantage. Instead, he was a little lucky that he did not refuse Qingyi decisively.

After all, it is so difficult to have a yard of your own in the capital. Langya City is the world's largest city and the capital of Jiang Kingdom. The residences here are naturally no more expensive than other cities. In addition to being born outside the capital, ordinary people have to work hard for at least several or even more than ten years to get their own yard.

These are still ordinary small courtyards. If they are higher-end mansions, ordinary people may not be able to earn in their entire lives.

Of course, Li Mengzhou's residence is not a mansion, but it is not an ordinary small home. In addition to the main hall, there are three rooms in the master bedroom, including a separate kitchen and a wood-room. The kitchen and wood-room are in the backyard.

The backyard is very large, so you can grow some vegetables by yourself. In addition to the backyard, there is also a front yard, but the front yard is smaller, with a willow and a sycamore tree planted. The fallen leaves are covered in the snow, and only a few lying flat on the snow.

For Li Mengzhou, who only has one person, the yard is already big enough. If you want to buy it, it may cost dozens of taels of silver, or less or more. Li Mengzhou is not sure. He only knows that it must be very expensive to buy it, and he can never afford it. Now, the yard belongs to him and he has not spent a penny.

It is of course a good thing to get a yard for nothing, but the money the boss of Ning Lucheng gave him was already spent in the past two days. Fortunately, Miss Wuer gave him some broken silver, but it was not much, so she really didn't spend it.

If you don’t have money, even if you have a place to live, you will inevitably go hungry.

Li Mengzhou was quite in trouble.

Although he thought he was not very thin-skinned, it was difficult for him to ask Miss Wu again. That was no longer thick-skinned, but pure shamelessness.

People spend money when they go to brothels, but he goes to ask the girls in brothels for money. This is certainly a skill, but it is also hard to say.

And he is also a person who wants to save face. If Miss Wu treats him so well, it would be really inappropriate if he shamelessly takes it for granted.

As the saying goes, a penny stumped the hero. Although Li Mengzhou is not a hero, he still has to bow down for five dou of rice.

Instead, he was looking forward to whether Tianshu Academy would give him any tasks and whether he would reward silver after completing the task. This would at least solve the urgent problem.

He simply had some copper coins in his hand, but Li Mengzhou planned to give up and go for a full meal first.

The business in Chaosi Lane is pretty good. The price of a bowl of noodles is relatively cheap and can fill your stomach. It is the most suitable one.

There is a noodle restaurant not far from his courtyard, and opposite the courtyard is a wine shop. There is a lot of wine in his wine gourd, so he didn't choose to eat in the wine shop, although he could also eat in the wine shop.

The owner of the noodle shop is a woman. She has a husband who is ill in bed. She has been married for many years and has not had any children. She is also a pitiful person. These are all casually heard by Li Mengzhou while eating noodles.

After all, as a neighbor, it is necessary to establish a good relationship.

Maybe it was a woman who was taking care of her ill husband alone, so she was really miserable, so her complexion was a little pale, her figure was also very distorted, she looked insane, and her face looked older than her actual age.

The woman is actually under forty years old, but she looks like she is fifty years old. No matter whether she looked very good when she was young, she has now become a yellow-faced woman.

Li Mengzhou ordered a bowl of noodle soup, which was very large, covered with chopped green onion, chopped carrots, and broken eggs. Sprinkle some pepper, which was a little spicy, and it felt really comfortable when you put it in one bite.

This should be the best noodle soup that Li Mengzhou has ever eaten.

According to the common phenomenon of early marriage in the secular world of Jiang, the noodle shop owner is nearly forty years old, and according to conventional rules, the child should be older than Li Mengzhou. Although Li Mengzhou did not know why the proprietress had no children, the proprietress looked at him very friendly.

Originally, Li Mengzhou's dark face and not very good attire were equal to the status of an ordinary person, the boss lady. In his eyes, he was naturally much more friendly than the fair and innocent young man in a wealthy family.

The noodle shop is not too busy, and the boss will occasionally chat with Li Mengzhou about some irrelevant things. When he learned that Li Mengzhou lived in a small courtyard not far away, he became closer. He said that he would come to eat noodles when he was hungry.

Li Mengzhou would not refuse. Although this may just be the polite greeting of the boss, not to let him eat noodles for free, Li Mengzhou thought that this was also a good start. If he visited him for a long time in the future, he would be able to eat noodles for free.

After eating the noodles, Li Mengzhou returned to the yard. After cleaning it for a while, he felt a little tired. Perhaps it was because of his mood. Even if he was allowed to fight with hundreds of people for a day and a night, he would not feel too tired. However, he seemed to have the strength to do it for cleaning that was not interesting. After cleaning it, he collapsed on a chair and never wanted to move again.

In the quiet courtyard, alone, Li Mengzhou recalled Chaosi Lane in Shuning Town sadly, Wang Paner and his daughter, Cui Cai, and everyone in Shuning Town.

The same Chaosi Lane, different environments, different people, different situations, the same poverty.

In the next few days, Li Mengzhou almost never left the courtyard. At about the same time as when he first arrived in the capital, it snowed again in Langya City. There was no thick quilt wrapped around him, and Li Mengzhou was frozen very much.

Although he didn't walk out of the courtyard most of the time, he didn't know anything about what happened in the capital. Because there was not much money left, he chose to fast. Only when he couldn't help it, he took two copper coins to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodle soup.

The enrollment of Lihua Academy has begun. It is said that it is very lively. Many powerful people in the court attended the examination. Even the emperors came to the examination room in person. Six arts took six days to take the exam every day. On the seventh day, the qualified students were selected, and then the students who announced their admission to the hospital and those who were regrettably eliminated were announced on the morning of the eighth day.

Now is the fifth day, which means that there is still one day left, and the academy assessment is over, just waiting for the results to come out.

Because Lihua Academy recruits students, this matter is being discussed everywhere in the capital, even Chaosi Lane is no exception.

While eating noodles soup, Li Mengzhou also heard something that made him interested.

In addition to those scholars who do not have the qualifications to practice and those who have the qualifications to practice, the other disciples in the practice mountain can also enter the academy, but they also have to participate in the assessment, but in addition to the Six Arts, one more subject must be issued.

That is a test that is completely aimed at practitioners. There is a high probability of accidents occurring during the assessment. It is common for vomiting blood and serious injuries during the assessment.

The assessment of practitioners is not just a single test of practice, but mainly at the level of mental state and will. Practitioners need to bear the will of the Taoist Heaven. If they cannot bear it, they will be in a low spirit, and at worst they will vomit blood and be seriously injured. They will recuperate on the sickbed for several months before they can recover.

The so-called will of Daotian is originally an illusory thing. Daotian is the source of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, or a belief of practitioners. It is the destiny that exists in the sky and is unknown in the dark. Because of the existence of Daotian, there is spiritual energy between heaven and earth. With spiritual energy, life can be found in the world. Daotian is the foundation of the world of cultivation, and it is also an unimaginable artistic conception. It can also be called this world.

Practitioners believe in Taotian, but are not afraid of Taotian, because practice is a long journey to contact Taotian and even surpass Taotian.
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