During the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang, Jiyuan, Henan Province, produced an official named Li Hua. Lord Li was an official, and he was also very talented, and his reputation among the people was quite high.
When Li Hua was young, in fact, the conditions at home were not very good, although he could study, but compared with other children of the family, Li Hua could only be said to be "hard reading".
Probably in the years after winning xiucai, due to the chaos at home, in order to better study and prepare for the scientific examination, the family arranged for Li Hua to go to a famous local mountain villa in Jiyuan to study.
The environment of the villa is very quiet, there is no home around, only a deserted ancient tomb.
Of course, with the economic conditions of the Li family, it is certainly impossible to afford Li Hua to rent the mountain villa alone, but to partner with several local rich people, and in the calculation, Li Hua still picked up other people's oil and borrowed other people's light.
Fortunately, because Li Hua is indeed the leader in the same window, his personality is also very gentle, and his relationship with others is very good. Those rich families don't care about Li Hua going with them, anyway, it is just a person to eat and live, usually you can also let Li Hua answer questions for his children, which is a free reading teacher.
When I arrived at the villa, I stayed in the first few days, everyone was very curious, and I couldn't settle down to read at all, and as soon as some of the hot momentum passed, everyone gradually read the book with peace of mind.
The days passed like this for about half a year, and this night, the other companions were already asleep, and only Li Hua was alone in the room reading.
Reading until midnight, I suddenly found that there was an old man with a white beard sitting on the wall of the courtyard, like a child riding a bamboo horse, straddling the wall.
The old man had white hair, and perhaps he also found that Li Hua saw himself, and actually took out a stone from his arms, about the size of an egg, and threw it at Li Hua's window.
I don't know if it was the old man who was dizzy, or whether he was too old to be strong, and the stone was not thrown on the window in the end, of course, it did not hurt Li Hua.
But such a large stone smashed on the ground, the movement made was not small, not only Li Hua was frightened, but several other people who had already slept in the same window were also awakened.
But when everyone got up to check the movement, where there was still a figure on the wall, the old man had already run away.
Li Hua explained to everyone that no one knew where the old man came from, and no one had heard of it before.
But from then on, if Li Hua was the only one reading at night, the old man would appear on the wall and always take out stones and throw them at his room. Several times he also smashed into the room, almost hurting Li Hua.
But as long as Li Hua or someone else went out to scold, or tried to grab him and ask him what was going on, the old man always disappeared inexplicably, leaving everyone helpless.
After another two or three months, during this time, the old man smashed the house more and more frequently, and finally it was not even limited to Li Hua alone, which made everyone miserable.
Because it will soon be the end of the year, the family members in the city sent people to send a lot of food and utensils, the person who escorted it was surnamed Qin, was a famous dart master in Jiyuan City, it was said that more than a dozen idle people could not get close to his body, and more importantly, the bow horse was skilled, known as the sharp archer.
When Master Qin arrived at the mountain villa, after delivering the goods, he also deliberately asked Li Hua to say a few words. The reason is that Master Qin and Li Hua are good friends with his father, and he has a message at home, anyway, he is allowed to study well and not remember the family.
Li Hua and Master Qin chatted for a while, not knowing how to talk about the old man coming to harass him in the middle of the night.
When Master Qin heard this, he was indignant and volunteered to say that I would not leave tonight and would definitely solve this trouble for you.
That night, Master Qin had prepared his weapon and was lurking in the grass outside Li Hua's room, and he also knew that the old man was moving quickly, mainly arranging bows and arrows. I thought you're not very good at running, and you can still be faster than a bow and arrow?
Everyone has already discussed it, except for Li Hua tonight, everyone should try to turn off the lights and go to bed as early as possible.
Sure enough, Li Hua read alone until around midnight, and the old man really came again, smiling at Li Hua on the courtyard wall.
Qin Dart Master had been waiting impatiently in the grass for a long time, seeing the old man appear, the bow and arrow were shot with an arrow, and sure enough, he lived up to the name of the sharpshooter, and the first arrow hit the old man's thigh, and the old man fell in response to the sound, turned over and landed outside the courtyard wall.
As soon as everyone heard the movement, they heard the Qin Dart Master shouting that the shot had been shot, so they quickly lit the lamp and got up, and flocked to the outside of the courtyard to check.
At a glance, everyone couldn't help but laugh, it turned out that the arrow of the Qin Dart Master was actually inserted into a wooden plate. More importantly, the wooden plate was still stained with dirt and wet marks, which was obviously a funerary item.
Since then, there have been no strange things in the villa, and Li Hua and others have not been harassed in reading. The next year, Li Hua won the jinshi and became an official.