With this shout, the noisy crowd quieted down, and looking in the same direction, they saw four handsome spirit beasts pulling a luxurious golden gem car and stopping outside the examination room.

Several servants of the Alchemist Guild stepped forward, lifted the curtain of the car, brought footstools, and an old man in a brocade robe with gray hair stepped out of the car.

This old man is Yan Fang.

Hong Ji greeted him with a smile, knelt in front of Yan Fang, bowed, and shouted: "Disciple Hong Ji, I have seen Shizun, I wish Shizun a long life and Tianqi, and immortal blessings will be enjoyed forever." ”

Yan Fang smiled, raised his arm, and said, "Ji'er, get up." ”

"Yes, Master," Hong Ji got up from the ground, coaxed, stood beside Yan Fang's (body shēn), and followed Yan towards the examination room.

Everyone looked at Hong Ji and showed their eyes of surprise and admiration, being fortunate enough to become a disciple of Master Yan Fang, it was really a blessing from the previous life.

Ge Huaiqing saw Hong Ji and Yan Fang walking together, his face was bitter, and he said to Xia Yu: "Little brother, the person you offended turned out to be Yan Fang's disciple. ”

Xia Yu glanced at Ge Huaiqing and said, "What's the matter, you regretted standing up for me just now?"

Ge Huaiqing said: "What do you regret, our Ge family is a family of alchemists, how can we be afraid of him Yan Fang." It's just that Yan Fang (身shēn) is the president of the Jizhou branch, and if you offend his apprentice, I'm afraid you're going to get into trouble. ”

Xia Yu said: "I don't make trouble, but I'm not afraid of things." ”

Ge Huaiqing said: "Yan Fang and I can still talk, or you can make peace with that kid, big things will be turned into small things, and small things will be turned into small things." ”

"I can't talk about peace. ”

"Why?"

"I killed the boy's brother and his people. ”

Ge Huaiqing looked at Xia Yu and thought to himself, this kid turned out to be a troublemaker.

In front of the entrance of the examination room was an open space, and there was a high platform in the open space, and Ge Huaiqing stepped onto the high platform. (身shēn) is an alchemist sent by the Alchemist Guild to Daliang City, and this examination is presided over by Ge Huaiqing.

Ge Huaiqing stood on the high platform, with a serious face, and shouted: "All the candidates who took the exam, gather in the open space in front of me, quickly, quickly, quickly." ”

One by one, the candidates ran to the open space in front of Ge Huaiqing, and there were about eighty people.

Ge Huaiqing looked at the more than eighty candidates and said, "I am Ge Huaiqing, the eighth-grade alchemist of Daliang City, and I will preside over this exam today. Let me explain to you first, the entire exam is divided into three sessions, and only those who pass all three exams are eligible to become alchemists. ”

Hong Ji shook his head in the crowd, looked like a ruffian, looked at Ge Huaiqing, and said: "Master, we all know what you said, don't say it, we can't wait, hurry up and let us take the exam." ”

Ge Huaiqing glared at Hong Ji, seven tricks were smoking, and if it was someone else, he dared to talk to Ge Huaiqing like this, and Ge Huaiqing kicked him away early in the morning. However, this Hongji is Yan Fang's apprentice, and it depends on the owner to beat the dog, and Ge Huaiqing is not good at getting angry at Hongji.

Ge Huaiqing grimaced and said to Hong Ji: "Boy, I'm an eight-rank alchemist, talk to me, you have to pay attention to your words." ”

Hong Ji snorted, not taking Ge Huaiqing in his eyes at all.

Yan Fang said in the distance: "Huaiqing, quickly tell me about the rules and requirements of the first exam." ”

Ge Huaiqing suppressed his anger and said, "The first test is your knowledge of the elixir. In a few moments, the examiner will give each of you a note with the names and weights of a bunch of elixirs. You take a note and a bamboo basket and walk into the first examination room, where there are many elixirs, and you find out the elixirs you need one by one.

"Remember, if you catch the wrong elixir, you will be considered unqualified. As for the amount of the elixir, the error cannot exceed one percent. When you are grasping the elixir, you are not allowed to use tools, you can only grasp it by your hands. ”

Some candidates complained, "If you use your hands to grab the elixir, the error will be eliminated if the error exceeds one percent, which is too demanding, right?"

Ge Huaiqing glanced at the candidate and said, "This is the alchemist qualification exam, it's not your children's house, if you are too harsh, you can abandon the exam." ”

Every candidate who participates in the alchemist qualification examination must pay 10,000 taels of silver, and for the sake of this 10,000 taels of silver, the candidates will not casually abandon the exam.

The candidates looked at Ge Huaiqing, scolded a few words, and didn't say anything.

"Now start handing out the task slips," Ge Huaiqing shouted, and more than eighty candidates lined up and walked towards the collection place.

There were several servants of the Alchemist Guild at the collection area, and they randomly pulled out a note from a box and handed it to the candidate.

The candidates took the note, looked at it, and most of them frowned and complained. The notes are all written about some strange elixirs, and the amount required is accurate to the slightest, isn't it embarrassing?

Ge Huaiqing shouted: "Candidates who have received the task slip, hurry up and enter the candidates, our first exam will take one hour." ”

The test taker for this first exam was a semi-circular green enchantment with only one entrance, which looked like a giant yurt.

After the candidates enter the examination room, the barrier is completely closed, and after an hour, the barrier will be reopened after the exam is over.

Xia Yu walked into the examination room and found that the examination room was very large, and it would take at least twenty minutes to walk around. In the examination room, there are shelves with all kinds of elixirs.

Xia Yu looked at the task bar in his hand, carried the bamboo basket, and began to grab the elixir according to the requirements on the task bar.

Xia Yu knew all the elixirs written on the task bar, and this first exam was not difficult for Xia Yu.

Xia Yu felt that the first exam was very simple, but some candidates complained bitterly, 10,000 taels of silver were wasted, and they didn't recognize the elixirs written on the task bar, and this first exam had to be eliminated.

Hong Ji looked at the candidates and said, "Don't complain, everyone. ”

The candidates quieted down and turned their heads to look at Hong Ji.

Hong Ji raised his head, coaxed, and said: "Presumably everyone knows me, my name is Hong Ji, and I am a personal disciple of Master Yan Fang. Master Yan Fang needs a few servants, if you can help me do something, I will talk to Master Yan Fang and recommend you to be this servant. ”

The servant that Hong Ji said is the servant of the Alchemist Guild, not just anyone can be a servant, being a servant in the Alchemist Guild is more majestic than being a petty bureaucrat in the world.

When the candidates heard that Hong Ji could recommend them to join the Alchemist Guild as servants, their eyes widened one by one, and they flashed into the light, shouting, "Hong Shao, what do you want us to do for you, just ask." ”

These candidates can't get into the alchemist exam anyway, so it's good to retreat to the second best thing and enter the alchemist guild as a servant.

Hong Ji said: "That No. 86 candidate named Xia Yu, you all know each other, right, give him a violent beating, don't let him pass this exam, I will let you enter the Alchemist Guild as a servant." ”

The examinees rolled up their arms and sleeves, and said aggressively, "Okay, Hong Shao, just take a look." ”

When Hong Ji pouted the candidates to beat Xia Yu, Xia Yu was concentrating on grabbing the elixir. This exam requires that not only the name of the elixir be grasped correctly, but also the amount of the elixir should be grasped correctly, and the error should not exceed one percent.

Xia Yu used the skill of Di Zhengxing, turned his palm into the most sophisticated instrument, and grabbed the elixir, and the amount was not bad at all.

(In "Water Margin", Di Zhengxing is the iron-faced face - Pei Xuan, who has served as an official in six cases, and is upright, and the precise skills here are the imagination skills of this book)

Xia Yu took the task strip and took less than half an hour to grasp all the elixirs according to the amount.

Xia Yu was about to rest when he heard someone shouting behind him: "He's here!"

Xia Yu turned his head to look, and several candidates rushed over like wolves, surrounded him, and shouted, "You are Xia Yu, the No. 86 candidate, right?"

Xia Yu frowned and said, "That's right, it's me, what are you going to do?"

"Someone told us to clean you up," the candidates shouted, and without nonsense, they raised their fists and hit Xia Yu.

Xia Yu pursed his lips and thought, there is really no way.

Xia Yu is a pacifist, he doesn't like to fight, but there are always those bastards who provoke him, bully him, and (force bī)bī) him to fight.

"If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone sins against me, I will offend. ”

These sixteen words are simple and rude, but they are Xia Yu's creed.

Xia Yu held a bamboo basket containing elixir in one hand, and clenched his fist into a fist with the other, and hit the candidates.

Several candidates thought that they were outnumbered, and beating Xia Yu violently was like a joke. Unexpectedly, Xia Yu turned out to be a hard stubble.

After a few rounds, the fist shadow flew over, and Xia Yu didn't even hurt his hair, but the candidates were knocked to the ground, and they screamed.

Xia Yu walked over and stepped on a candidate's mouth with one foot, and the sole of his foot was very strong, and there was a tendency to stomp on the candidate's mouth with one foot.

The candidate was terrified, shed tears, and begged for mercy again and again, "Heroes spare their lives, heroes spare their lives." ”

Xia Yu glanced at it, there were five of these candidates, and he showed a god-killing face, and shouted: "Do you want to die or live?!"

Xia Yu's appearance is definitely capable of killing, and the six candidates did not doubt it at all, crying and crying, and said: "We want to live, we want to live, beg the hero to spare his life." ”

The corners of Xia Yu's mouth raised a wicked smile and said, "If you want to live, take off your shirt for me and stand up." ”

The six candidates are inexplicable, what are they doing when they take off their shirts?

Seeing the six candidates stunned there, Xia Yu's eyes widened, and his voice was fierce, shouting, "Do you want to live?!"

"I want to live, I want to live, I want to live," the six candidates didn't dare to rub, and quickly took off their shirts and stood up.

(End of chapter)