The tray was covered with a piece of satin, and it was impossible to see what was underneath.

In front of everyone's eyes, Zhu Gantang's hand reached under the silk and took out a wooden plaque.

"Mud, B26!"

One of the examinees touched his head and stepped forward.

Zhu Gantang nodded at him: "You are the first to choose." ”

The candidate was a little flattered, turned around hesitantly, and wandered his gaze around the crowd for a while, pointing somewhere, and choosing someone to come out.

According to the rules, this person chooses the next person, and the next person chooses the next person. One of them was chosen, and soon all fifty people were chosen.

The original candidate was selected to do muddy work, and the fifty people who were selected along the way were all muddy water.

Zhu Gantang nodded, turned to face the row of craftsmen, and said, "Master Lu, I'm sorry for your trouble." ”

A tall and strong man came out of the group of craftsmen, arched his hand at Zhu Gantang, and then turned to the candidates and said, "You come with me." ”

As he spoke, he took them aside.

Xu Wen saw that this is to select the team first, and then determine the master to take them according to the team.

It makes sense. The apprentices belong to various categories, and so do the masters.

Determine the category first, and then it is convenient to arrange the corresponding master.

Zhu Gantang drew the lottery for the second time, and another candidate was selected to organize the team.

In this way, one by one the candidates were drawn, and the more than 1,000 people on the field were divided into more than 20 small teams.

Surprisingly, seeing that there are fewer and fewer people left, the people in Yao's Mufang have not been drawn.

At this time, a candidate from the fourth-level wooden workshop won the lottery, and after they drew their own people, they looked around, and the people from the Qinglian wooden workshop in the past spoke.

There seemed to be a dispute within Qinglian Mufang, and finally Meng Tong cast an apologetic look at Xu Wen, Xu Wen chuckled in his heart, and had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, Meng Tong came over to Xu and asked them very apologetically, saying that there were people in them who were very close to the people in that wooden workshop and decided to unite with them.

If the relationship was really good, how could they have agreed to ask them in the first place? And looking at the way the two sides communicated, it was obvious that they were strangers.

Meng Tong also seemed to feel very embarrassed, took two steps back, came over and pulled Xu Wen aside, and whispered to him the real reason.

The candidates were randomly selected, but the masters were not.

Some of them recognized it, and the first few masters who were assigned to the team were quite famous, and the next few masters were not heard of. So they guessed, is it better that the master arranged in front is better, and the level in the back is lower?

Of course, this is just a guess, and there is no certain accuracy. But at times like these, even if it's a guess, they want to give it a try......

Meng Tong apologized repeatedly, and Xu Wen said that it was understandable and asked them not to take it to heart.

Meng Tong left, and together with the people of Qinglian Wood Workshop, he joined the fourth-level workshop and became a team.

Xu Wen watched from afar, and Xu San asked him worriedly, "Then what should we do?"

"It's okay. Xu Wen shook his head and glanced at Zhu Gantang. "The master in front is better? I don't think the examiner will arrange it like this. ”

The draw of lots is still going on, and to make matters worse.

The people from Yao's Mufang have not yet been drawn, but Zhu Gantang has already called out the name of Muxuan in the Eastern Capital.

The person who had clashed with them before raised his eyebrows, and he glanced at this side intentionally, and Xu Wen chuckled in his heart.

Dongdu Muxuan is a third-level workshop, and this time there are forty people who come to participate in the apprenticeship test. To form a team, they need ten more people, and this is usually the case with ten Level 5 Workshop people.

The test-taking workshops are arranged in a pyramid pattern, and the five-level workshop is the cornerstone at the bottom of the tower, and the number of people is the largest. They could have found ten acquaintances at random, but they recommended them one by one, and nine of the ten people were just selected by Xu Wen.

Obviously, this is intentional. They had just overheard their conversation, and they had picked them up to embarrass them.

Anyway, there are forty of them, and they already occupy absolute dominance, and it doesn't matter who the remaining ten choose.

Xu Wen watched these people walk to Dongdu Muxuan's team one by one, and only one person shook his head, very obviously rejected the other party, and walked over to this side.

"Call me in a moment if you are short of man. The man said to Xu Wen.

He was of medium stature and average-looking, with a pair of small squinting eyes that always seemed to be unable to wake up and open. Among the nine people just now, Xu Wen was the most hesitant one, afraid that he would be lazy and not be able to do his job.

Unexpectedly, he was the only one who came over now.

"You ......" Xu Wen looked at him, a little hesitant.

"My master told me that if you have promised someone else's things, you must sit down. The man sat on the ground with his legs spread apart, still looking lazy.

But this time, Xu Wen will not misjudge him again.

This person's name is Dongfang Lei, and he is from Luojiafang, which is a fifth-level wooden workshop and is not famous.

Next, he sat here, watching the teams formed, still lazy, as if he didn't care about everything.

But before, most of the apprentices of Yao's Wood Workshop were a little anxious, but now with him, the strange atmosphere disappeared unconsciously, and everyone calmed down.

As expected, it wasn't until the end that a person from Yao's Mufang was pulled out.

It's Qian Ming.

At this time, twenty-two masters had already taken their own team.

A total of 1,122 people participated in the apprenticeship test, that is, 1,100 people already had a home, and in the end only 22 remained.

Exactly twenty-two.

The number of people is less than half of the previous one, but it is certainly not a problem to form a team for the exam.

It's just that you may not be able to make something too beautiful, and the overall score may not be so high.

In the end, there was only one master left, and he smiled and said, "Actually, you don't need to smoke it, in the end, these cubs are all mine?"

Zhu Gantang respects every master very much, and the last one is no exception.

He waved at him, and said with a smile, "Yes, Master Lu, please." ”

Master Lu walked up to them with a smile.

This is an old man of about sixty or seventy years old, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and there are so many wrinkles on his face that they can trap mosquitoes. But his hair and beard were all black and shiny, and he looked dyed.

He stroked his beard and looked at them, and finally his gaze fell on Xu Wen, a light of appreciation in his eyes.

"Okay, okay, good son, come, tell me your name—if I'm not mistaken, you should be a family, right?"

He asked cordially, with a casual look.

They were the last to form a team, and the number was more than half that of the other teams.

Now that the other candidates have started to prepare materials under the organization of the master, they haven't even decided what to do here, and this Master Lu still wants to pull them to chat?

The people in Yao's Wooden Workshop were a little impetuous, and only Xu Wen replied very politely: "My name is Xu Wen, and I am from Yao's Wooden Workshop." ”

With him taking the lead, Xu San immediately followed.

"I, my name is Xu San, come, from Yao, Yao's Mufang. ”

On this occasion, in the face of a stranger like Master Lu, Xu San's stuttering was even more obvious.

"Okay, okay, don't rush, speak slowly. Master Lu reassured him repeatedly, and then said, "Teach you a way, you go to a secluded place every morning, find a stone to put in your mouth, and speak loudly for two quarters of an hour." Stick to it every day, and after a while, you won't stutter. ”

He said it kindly and friendly, Xu San was stunned for a moment, nodded gratefully and said, "Hmm!"

After Xu San, the people of Yao's Mufang introduced themselves one after another, and finally Dongfang Lei.

It took a quarter of an hour for this alone, and Master Lu kept encouraging them with an unhurried look.

By this time, the other teams had already begun to take care of the various materials.

"Good, good, all good boys. It seems that all the carpenters here are apprentices now, so let's do some carpentry work. ”

Master Lu's gaze swept over them and said kindly.

This is a matter of course, and Xu Wen is also a little curious about what this master will ask them to do.

Master Lu smiled, his tone was kind, and he seemed to be very easy to get along with.

With such an expression and such a tone, he said, "Let's make a stepping bed together!"

Many apprentices didn't know what the stepping bed was, and their expressions were a little dazed, but Xu Wen immediately straightened up and looked at each other in surprise.

Pull out the bed?

Isn't that a bit too difficult?