It has been eleven days since Lei Fa left, Lin Yue began to teach the three disciples the Five Spirit Immortal Technique, although the three of them have not really started, but the most basic qi sense has already been obtained, and the three of them are not bad. After turning the sky, the land could already be seen in the distance, and Lin Yue asked, "Which country is ahead?"

Qu Zhengyin said: "This should be Xiandou Country. ”

"Salted beans? Why isn't he called sweet garlic? Lin Yue shook his head, but saw Qi Diaoling's brows frowning slightly: "Ah Ling, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, I don't like it here. There is no trade here, so the eldest lady and I will not get off the ship. With that, he turned around and left.

Lin Yue didn't know, so he asked Qu Zhengyin: "Is there anything in this country that she hates?"

Qu Zhengyin said with a wry smile: "This place, how to say it, the good is excellent, and the bad is also the worst." Xiandou pays attention to rank. ”

Lin Yue said: "The same is true of Da Zhou. ”

"But this place is more extreme, different from our upper and lower thirds, the people here are divided into five levels, and the highest is the temple people, who are in charge of communicating and sacrificing to the gods. They have the highest power and the best status. The second level is called scholars, and like our Great Zhou, the royal family and civil and military officials are scholars, these two are the aristocratic layer, and the third level is called the national people, that is, the general free commoners, which is needless to say. The fourth level is called the sluts, and they are more miserable, they have no freedom, and they do the most tiring work. ”

Lin Yue asked rhetorically: "The fourth level is like this, what is worse?"

Qu Zhengyin nodded: "The fifth level is called Piggy, a very insulting word, you can't call it a person, although the slut is low, but he can also work and have income, these Pigs, no one will use them at all, and they are not even happy to contact them, they can only wander around the countryside to find something to eat." ”

Lin Yue shook his head: "It's indeed more powerful than Da Zhou." ”

Qu Zhengyin said again: "And what makes Miss Kou and her sisters unaccustomed to seeing should be the atmosphere here, and you will naturally understand when the ship docks." ”

When the fleet docked, a fishy smell came, the whole dock stinked, some skinny people, only a piece of white cloth in their crotch, sat on the side of the road in groups of three or five, as if they were basking in the sun very leisurely, in fact, they were the fifth level in Qu Zhengyin's mouth, even if it was a fourth-level slut, they could still find a job at the dock, and where they could only wait for the leftovers to be thrown away.

The three little disciples didn't want to go ashore when they looked at the dirty dock, and concentrated on continuing to cultivate on the boat, Lin Yue walked alone on the path between the cities, accompanied only by Qu Zhengyin, who helped purchase on the ship, and a few sailors.

Qu Zhengyin introduced: "This is Lucheng, one of the largest city-states in Xiandou Country, Xiandou Country and Sanwei are the same as the three dangers, although they claim to be unified to the outside world, but in fact they are separate, a city is basically a country, and some small countries even have only a few villages. ”

Lin Yue saw that many civilians had to give way and lean over when they encountered others, he knew that this place was about class, but he didn't know how to look at it: "Xiaoqu, you see that old man in fancy clothes gave way to the young man, isn't it that the young man has a higher status?" The young man did not wear a shirt, revealing his hardcover upper body, holding a bow and arrow and quiver in his hand.

Qu Zhengyin said: "This is natural, the old man is a third-level countryman, that is, a commoner, maybe a businessman or a landlord, so he is dressed more gorgeously, and the young man knows that he is a second-level scholar when he looks at the forehead picture." ”

Lin Yue looked at it: "Forehead picture, is it the pattern drawn on their eyebrows?" Everyone here, except for the fifth-level piggy, the other four levels have drawn forehead pictures, Lin Yue observed again, the old man simply drew a red circle on his forehead, and some people who didn't seem to have much status just dotted a red dot, and a very few people didn't have any patterns.

If we extrapolate by analogy, the old man is the third level, the red dot is the fourth level, and the people who have nothing are naturally those who cannot be touched. So how to distinguish between the first and second levels?

Qu Zhengyin explained to him: "The first-level temple people are the sacrificial families handed down from ancient times, and they draw on their foreheads the gods worshiped by their families, maybe the wind, maybe the mountains, or the water, the main gods in the Xiandou country have corresponding marks, and there are only a dozen or twenty in total, from the powerful to the untouchables. As for the scholars, the scope is larger, they all painted their own family crests, with animals, and some with flowers and plants as prototypes to process. ”

Lin Yue nodded: "I see." ”

Several people bought some necessities in the market, but they saw many people walking in one direction with bows, arrows, and short knives like the young men just now. Lin Yue also noticed the difference: "Xiaoqu, they are calling for the competition one by one, is there any martial arts competition today?"

The boss who was helping a few people load the goods spoke first: "Guests from afar, today is our Lucheng Crown Festival, and as usual, the children of the Shi family in the city will go to Xiangtai to perform martial arts. ”

Lin Yue also didn't understand this, Qu Zhengyin said with a smile: "Xiangtai is the meaning of the arena, and the crown worship festival is a festival that every city-state in Xiandou Country has, but the time is different, it is the day when the first king of this city brings a jewel laurel crown and officially establishes the country." ”

Lin Yue suddenly realized that it was the National Day of this small country. It is also interesting for all the children of the nobility to compete in martial arts on the National Day. Immediately invited these people to take a look at the freshness, the other sailors go to sea all year round, they are not curious about this, the important thing is to send the supplies back to the ship quickly, and in the end, only Qu Zhengyin and Lin Yue went to Xiangtai.

When I came to Xiangtai, it was already crowded with people, and the Crown Festival was a good opportunity for various countries to preach their strength, except for the fifth level of the piggy, everyone could come to watch, and the rulers just hoped that everyone could see the young generation of Lucheng galloping on the battlefield in the future.

The two found a good seat, and the competition in the venue has begun, including foot shooting, mounted archery, chariots, and double battles, in Lin Yue's opinion, the battle of these young people is really simple, even when he and his senior sister first came out of the rivers and lakes, they were much stronger than them.

Unlike those poor people, who wore a crotch because the poor only had a piece of cloth left, these teenagers were based on tradition, on the one hand, to show their strong physique, and on the other hand, to tell their opponents and the audience that they were not prepared for tricks, and that the competition was fair and fair.

This was a riding and archery competition, in which the boys each rode a tall horse, and a hundred paces ahead of them was indeed a nimble lamb. With the order of the king wearing a jewel on the top of the stands, more than a dozen young men galloped forward, bows and arrows in their hands.

The king said to an old man beside him: "The head of the prime minister's family is in the first place, but there is a bit of your demeanor back then. ”

The king made two people on the left and right, one was a white-haired old man holding a wooden staff, and the other was a bearded strong man with an iron rod in his hand. Although the many city-states of Xiandou Country will be slightly different because of their customs, this configuration is generally unchanged.

Hearing the king praise his grandson, the prime minister did not show too much joy, as the prime minister who has been in power for more than ten years, the largest family in Lucheng, his grandson should be so good, which is gratifying but not worth boasting about.

At this moment, a hurricane-like figure burst into the arena, compared to all the teenagers who started late, but the last to come first, and gradually caught up with the teenagers in front, and this figure was a young man who straddled the jujube red horse, his riding skills were very good, and the teenagers competing on the field were obviously a grade higher, and rushed to second place in a few clicks, only after the prime minister's grandson held it for a long time.

Closer and closer to the prey, Changzhi also didn't want to fall behind people, the two people went hand in hand, leading the arrow with a bow, with the sound of breaking the air, the two bows and arrows shot the lamb together, the lamb fell to the ground and could no longer dodge, the two teenagers ran to the prey, after all, the long hold is the grandson of the prime minister, the BMW under the crotch is extraordinary, although the unknown boy rode is also a good horse, but after all, it is worse, just when the long hand stretched out his hand to pick up the prey, the young man flicked the long whip and rolled up the lamb into his hand.

In this way, the long hold and the prey missed, and the whole venue erupted in warm applause, it is not difficult to throw the long whip when galloping the horse, but it is not easy to roll back a lamb with the long whip.

The king asked, "Whose family is this young man?"

The general looked at it: "The minister doesn't know. "Although the whole Lucheng is known as a country, it is actually just a city-state, not small but not very large.

Looking left and right, not only the general and the prime minister, but also some close attendants and ministers have never seen it, could it be that the foreign scholars know that today is the crown worship festival in Lucheng, so they come to show their skills? This kind of thing is not unheard of in history or in other countries. The king warmly said to the young man who was prostrate on the ground and offered the lamb: "Arise, my child, from which country are you a warrior?"

The young man said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I am the people of Lucheng!"

The king was amazed: "Oh, but I didn't know that there was such a hero in the city, what is your name, and which family is the descendant?"

The boy replied, "My name is Rial, not a descendant of a family, my father was a carpenter in the city!" The sonorous voice did not hesitate at all, but what he said caused an uproar.

The king frowned and said sharply, "Take off your headband!"

Rial stared at the king, took off his headband, and there was an exclamation on the main stage, the young Rial had only one red dot on his forehead, not even a red circle representing the countrymen. At this time, not only the king and ministers, but even the young men who had just competed just now also found knives and guns nearby, and chased the prey with a slut, which was an indelible shame for the scholars.

"You slut, you dare to break into the sacred elephant platform!

"That's right, what qualifications do you have! Learn fighting skills! As a slut, you dare to covet sacred learning! This is a blasphemy against the holy scriptures. ”

"Kill him!"

"Yes, kill him, vile villain!"

In the Xiandou country, there is a sacred book that has been secretly passed down in ancient times, which talks about the class division of people very clearly, and also marks the unique national spirit and moral code of the Xiandou country, including swordsmanship, archery, fighting and other fighting skills, as well as arithmetic, astronomy, Wisdom such as divination and writing, collectively known as sacred learning, can only be learned at the two levels of temples and scholars, and what ordinary people can come into contact with may only be a few commonly used words or a few hands of military kung fu recruited for soldiers to exercise, such a level as a slut can only engage in cheap work, that is, being a soldier is also a servant soldier, building bridges on the battlefield, filling in pits, testing the existence of traps, and the value of life is to choose a useful way to die.

A slut participated in the martial arts performance of the crown worship festival, and also overwhelmed a group of rookies of the warrior clan, which is a shame for the entire Lucheng.

Rial said: "Your Majesty, I am also a citizen of Lucheng, I exercise myself day and night, just to be able to contribute to my country, love my parents, protect my country, and realize my own value, I know that my behavior is very abrupt, but I want to dedicate this prey to you, I hope you can feel my determination, Rial will become a sharp weapon in your hands, please give me this opportunity." ”

But the king shouted angrily, "Shut up, a lowly man is not worthy to raise his head and talk to me, and put me down to be executed!"

Rial didn't expect this to be the case, and he panicked for a while: "Your Majesty, I just want to prove my strength, Your Majesty ......"

The guards couldn't help but say that they wanted to drag the rial down, but then a voice said, "Wait, Your Majesty." ”