Chapter 43 Examination
The general altar of Ruiyao Sect occupies a very wide area, almost occupies a whole mountain, the original name of this mountain is no one knows, only know that this place is where the main altar of Ruiyao Sect is located, the gate of the general altar is built at the foot of the mountain, go up the steps, about more than 300 steps, come to a square, and the meeting of the disciples is held in the heavy eaves of the front of the square in the top of the hill building. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The two sides of the square are planted with flowers and trees, take a closer look, only to find that the flowers and trees on the left side seem to be a labyrinth, and the right side is borrowed from the landscaping of the Jiangnan garden, the gurgling water is tortuous and tactful, the strange mountains are majestic, the flowers and plants are sparse, it is very pleasant.
But at this time, no one cares about this, everyone only cares, who will be selected and become Li Shu's apprentice.
Lan Hai took Li Qianqian and Lan Tang out to eat, the four elders naturally followed closely, his family and son were discussing marriage, his daughter was married this year, the second son was twelve, and the youngest son was eleven years old, he, his wife and three sons were all straightforward, and the partial daughter was a delicate one, and her voice was a little louder, which could scare her to cry, so the four elders said directly when they saw Lan Tang, and then looked at the younger Li Qianqian, who had a sweet mouth and a good temper, think about it, how many children can there be without being scared by the cold face of the sect leader?
At least the four children of his family are not included, let alone his daughters, even when his sons were young, they were not scared to cry by the sect leader.
Although Lan Tang was not scared to cry, it could be seen that she was still afraid of the sect leader in her heart, only Li Qianqian, he was stunned and didn't see that she was afraid of the sect leader.
In response to the question of the four elders, Lan Hai Ben Li Qianqian saw the reaction of the sect leader for the first time and told him that the four elders didn't believe it, "How can there be a child who won't be scared by him?"
"I just said it, it was still a big night! Otherwise, how could Li Shu take her as an apprentice?" Lan Hai felt that maybe this was the main reason why Li Shu accepted her as an apprentice.
The four elders seem to make sense when they think about it!
"Do you want to go shopping?" the four elders pointed to the labyrinth on the left side of the square with a bit of a wicked taste.
Li Qian shook his head at a glance and pointed to the building directly in front of the square. "I'd rather go in and have a look. ”
"It's Ning Hetang. "It is said to be a hall, but it feels like a palace in the palace.
In fact, the general altar was the palace of Prince Xian, he was originally the prince, and later was abolished after the king, he was the largest in the fief, and the palace built here was given to his son, no one could speak, even Li Dingping's brother Xianwang Shizi did not have any objections.
After Prince Xian's brutal younger brother ascended the throne, he wanted to use this to fabricate charges, but Prince Xian had recorded this place in the name of his second son, Li Dingping immediately ordered someone to close the mountain, saying that he wanted to rebuild, and the emperor was trying to continue to make moves, but the court was already unstable, and he was unable to find trouble with Rui Yaojiao.
After the establishment of the Southern Chu Dynasty, the emperor also wanted to find trouble for a while, but was persuaded by a group of ministers, compared to the Southern Chu who had only been established for a short time, the foundation of the Ruiyao Sect, which had been standing in the Lotus City for nearly a hundred years, was actually more stable than the Southern Chu royal family, and it was for this reason that the original appearance of the main hall on the square could be retained.
It's just that it's no longer called Ninghe Hall, but changed to Ninghe Hall.
Lan Hai whispered to Li Qianqian to introduce the allusion of Ning He Tang, Li Qianqian nodded, took Lan Tang's hand, followed closely behind Lan Hai, and entered Ning He Hall.
The hall is an open room without separation, and the door of the hall is wide open, and you can see that people are divided into several places, and there are two people competing in the middle of each place.
Isn't it said that they accept apprentices? Could it be that people who have already learned other martial arts can still worship under Li Shu's sect? Their original master has no objection?
Li Qianqian asked in a whisper in Lan Hai's ear, Lan Hai smiled and was about to answer, his arms were empty, and when he turned his head, Li Qianqian had been taken away by the four elders.
What is rare is that the four elders with a loud voice are lowering their voices and explaining to Li Qian.
"Generally speaking, if you have already learned martial arts, you can no longer worship others as teachers, isn't there a saying that one day is a teacher, and a lifetime is a father? But what if it is a family tradition of martial arts? Anyway, as long as it is profitable, more words can be fulfilled. ”
He paused and looked at the field, "I don't know if this kind of examination was proposed by the Great Elder or the Sect Master. ”
"Do you think my cousin will bother about this?"
No, that's what the Great Elder proposed! Actually, if you want him to say that he wants the sect master to accept his great-grandson as a disciple, he just asks, he wants to engage in such a big battle, and get so many people to come, he really thinks that his great-grandson is so good, and these people are all here to be his great-grandson's foil? Even if he wants to, are these people willing?
He can understand the thoughts of the Great Elder for his descendants, but can he harm others for this?
"Great Elder...... "I can't say it after all!"
Li Qian glanced at him, "Mr. Lan was forced to stay at the main altar before to heal those who were seriously injured by attacks on the way to Liancheng. ”
The four elders had vaguely heard people mention it, but they didn't know the details, but now that they heard what Li Qianqian said, they thought of the two together in a flash of inspiration.
"You mean ......"
"My cousin said that the Great Elder had made too much trouble. She looked at the four elders with a smile, "My cousin is here to help the eldest elder clean up the mess." ”
The fourth elder looked at Li Qian's smiling face, and suddenly remembered a smiling face similar to her, the same little fox face!" "You really look like your cousin when he was a child. ”
At that time, Li Shu also loved to laugh and play, making his bad smile like a little fox who had just eaten an egg.
Li Qian smiled back.
Because of the large number of people, Lan Hai was afraid that her daughter would be trampled on by others, so she held her daughter in her arms just like the four elders hugged Li Qianqian, so Lan Tang could see Li Qianqian's smiling face, and she couldn't help but lean on her father's ear, "Qianqian is really similar to the sect leader." ”
Lan Hai also glanced at it when he heard this, "Of course it's like, his mother and her shallow grandmother are twin daughters." ”
Then it's no wonder!
However, there are a lot of people, but they have been divided into arrays to test martial arts, and the speed is quite fast.
Those who have been eliminated are actually not worried about their future.
The head of his own martial arts family is either recruited as a son-in-law, or married to a family with children, or recruited into the house, anyway, he will come out in front of people, and he will never return empty-handed.
Many heads of families brought their children here, in addition to hoping that their children would win the eyes of the Li sect leader, they also wanted to choose a suitable object for their children at this conference.
Martial arts people marry daughters-in-law, they have always been informal, and they don't pay attention to the right people, otherwise there would be no martial arts competition to recruit relatives!
Like the study of literature and the imperial examination, those who can achieve success in learning martial arts are actually rare, and if they have not been able to appear talented, it is the best policy to introduce new blood.
The reason why the martial arts conference is crowded every three years is because of this.
The Ruiyao Sect's disciple acceptance meeting was an accident, and with two thresholds, it was equivalent to screening them, so there were many people who came to attend the conference, and their relatives and friends were even more.
After the Great Elder announced the results, the people who were not selected did not leave, but stayed to wait for the final results to be released.
The sect leader didn't wait for the Great Elder to announce, he left first, and when he left, he specially walked to the side of the Fourth Elder and took Li Qianqian back. "Didn't I tell you to stay here and do it?"
"I'm curious!" Li Qianqian said confidently.
"Curious about what? Let's go!" After speaking, he took the lead and walked out of Ninghe Hall, Jin Yi and the four elders followed closely, Lan Hai followed with his daughter in his arms, and before leaving, he heard someone behind him asking, "Who is that ice cube face?"
"You don't know?"
"You know?"
"Of course, uh, little brother, I just went out with a female doll, who is that handsome man?"
The little guy who was stopped scratched his head, "That, our sect leader!"
"What?" the red-eyed girls choked, if they had known that one was the sect leader, they would have been struggling!
"I thought that old fat man was your leader!" the choked girl complained.
"Oh, that's our Great Elder. The little guy smiled and thought to himself, didn't you inquire before you came? Our Great Elder is celebrating his birthday this year, Sect Leader Gui Geng?
"Is the little girl he is holding his daughter?" asked the young woman, who was already a wife, curiously, that little girl was so beautiful! It would be nice if she could marry the daughter of the sect leader and become a daughter-in-law!
The little girl's laughter froze, "Our sect leader hasn't married yet!" As for the little girl, who knows it's that!
The sect leader who returned to the cloud stop courtyard, put Li Qianqian down, took off his robe and practiced boxing, the sect leader practiced so much that he forgot himself, Li Qianqian was fascinated, and he didn't know how to hide, he was almost swept by his fist wind, or the four elders moved fast, and a single arrow step put Li Qianqian under the corridor to the beauty, let her stand there to watch the sect leader practice boxing, and he turned around and pounced in front of the sect leader, raised his hand and swept towards his door, the sect leader blocked it with his hand, and the other hand beckoned to his chest, and the two came and went to beckon.
Seeing this, the two servant women hurriedly entered the house and brought tables and chairs, and let Lan Hai and them sit under the porch to watch, Lan Hai saw that they were clever, and smiled at them, "Go and prepare hot water first, let them freshen up and change their clothes first, and wait for the sect leader to finish their tricks, and then they will also bathe and change their clothes." ”
The servant woman took the order and went quickly, and after a short time she turned around, the road was ready, Lan Hai asked them to wait for Li Qianqian and Lan Tang to change their clothes, under the suppression of Lan Dad, the two children could only obey obediently if they were unwilling.
The two servants led them to the bathroom, and they wanted to wait by themselves, but they were all refused, Lan Tang's reason was that she was not used to being waited, and Li Qianqian said, "My mother said that she wanted to take a bath by herself." ”
Well, everyone else has said so, can they refute it as subordinates and say no? But in the end, they don't feel at ease, so they stay outside in case of emergency.
The pretty maid sent by Xiong Fangshu shook her step by step, and wanted to go in to wait, but was blocked by the servants, "The ladies don't like people waiting on the side, don't embarrass us, sisters!"
Strictly speaking, the servants and maids in Yunzhu Courtyard are generally one level higher than those waiting in other places, but because they are on an errand in Yunzhu Courtyard, they have no relationship with the sect leader, unlike these sent by Xiong Fangshu, who were carefully cultivated by her mother.
Although they were only the confidants of the wife of the deputy medicine hall master, the maids thought very highly of themselves, and they were very angry when they were stopped by the servants they looked down on.
Squeamishly stomped his feet and said coquettishly, "Hmph, I thought we wanted to wait for those two wild girls!
"Let's go and wait for the sect leader, shall we?"
"Yes. ”
After waiting for the sect leader, maybe you can get an aunt to be a pawn!
So a few people went to the master!
And then, just, no then!
When Li Qianqian was soaking in the bathtub, he was so frightened by the screams that he almost slipped into the bathtub, put on his clothes in a panic, and ran out with wet hair, which frightened the servants so much that he hurriedly wrapped her hair with a thick cloth towel, and wrapped her with another cloth towel, and sent her back to the room.
Li Qianqian turned his head and saw Lan Tang, who was carried back to the room with the same treatment as her.
When they wanted to ask what had happened, the two servants shook their heads and did not answer.