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The walls of the house are made of some kind of blue-black stone, the stones are square in shape, different sizes, each piece is finely polished, irregularly spliced together with each other, there is no powder between the stones, but they are spliced seamlessly, which is amazing. The roof is made of dark brown wooden frame, covered with a layer of brown hides, which are cut into long strips the width of a palm, the edges of which are glued together by some kind of fish glue, and run down the high part of the roof, as if the surface has been coated with some kind of tree grease, and it glows with a moist luster from a distance.

The houses were connected by a covered corridor paved with blue-black stone, flanked by large round wooden pillars several feet apart, and a wooden bench every hundred paces for resting.

These houses and corridors are connected to each other, forming three square rings from the inside to the outside, from small to large, and also dividing the entire Li Mansion into three parts. At this moment, in the outermost ring building, near the northwest corner, there is a two-room house with east and west, and a hearty laugh comes from the east window.

"Haha。。。。。。 Brother Zhang, I haven't seen you drink for many years, and you haven't grown at all! Dayong looked at Zhang Tie's drunken face and said.

"You dead bald head, you deserve to be bitten off by a demon beast, and you will expose my shortcomings, and tell those two little dolls that I have a big head, my head is big? Look at your own head, it's not smaller than mine, I knew that I shouldn't have saved you in the first place, and let that old Wang* Bayi slap you to death. ”

Zhang Tie heard Dayong say that he couldn't drink enough, his face turned even redder, put down the wine glass and stretched out his hand to pat Dayong's bald head.

Dayong held the cup in his right hand, and suddenly leaned back to send the wine into his abdomen, dodging Zhang Tie's hand, and then snorted, seemingly unconcerned.

Turning around and pouring the glass full of wine, Dayong seemed to suddenly think of something, and looked at Zhang Tiedao with a solemn expression.

"Brother Zhang! Those two little dolls will be handed over to you to take care of, and they are all hard-working children. ”

Zhang Tie withdrew his hand, patted his lean chest and said:

"Don't worry, leave this little thing to me, you don't know, Mrs. Wan and I are in our own family, and we take good care of me, and the eldest lord loves Mrs. Wan the most, and I can still say something in the Li Mansion." But you, what do you plan to do in the future? ”

Dayong exhaled, nodded and said:

"I have carefully considered that if I work in the city, sooner or later I will be discovered by the old Wang*Ba, it is better to go to the red copper mine of the Zhong family in the east of the city to work, I can avoid a lot of trouble, although I am missing an arm, but the strength is still there."

Zhang Tie frowned when he heard Dayong's words, sighed again, and said:

"Hey... That's it. I heard that Wang Hai had already entered the realm of broken gold two years ago, and now he should be refined again, plus he can shoot Master Wang's sycophants, and he is becoming more and more powerful in the Wang family. ”

"Forget it, Brother Zhang won't mention this, I heard Xiuqin's sister-in-law say that the grandson of the eldest master of the Li family is nine years old this year? Can you smash this black gold stone on the wall with your bare hands? "Da Yongdao.

As soon as he heard Dayong's words, Zhang Tielai came to the spirit and said slowly: "Yes! Just a few days ago, on the training ground, Li Jiaotou was presiding over the monthly examination of the hunting camp in the clan, and a group of children in the clan watched and played on the side, and saw us splitting the green and yellow stones on the stone pier with our arms, and also followed alongside to learn. Children, everyone didn't care, but then when they heard a "bang" from there, everyone hurriedly gathered around to watch, but they were all stunned. The little young master climbed up a stone pier and smashed the stone on the stone pier, not broken, but broken, and the stone over there was not a green yellow stone, it was all black gold stone used to build a house, and Li Jiaotou would only use the stone over there to demonstrate it when he was teaching. ”

"This..."Dayong listened to Zhang Tie's narration and was speechless in shock.

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In the next room.

On a large bed covered with animal skins, there are two low bamboo baskets the size of a basin, and lotus leaves are spread in the blue, which contains many kinds of fresh fruits, red and green, purple and yellow, of different sizes, all crystal clear. One basket was still full, while the other had been hollowed out. On the edge of the bamboo basket sat a six- or seven-year-old girl cross-legged, with a pair of pigtails swaying from side to side on her head, holding a fruit in each hand at this time, and sending it to her mouth one by one, and saying something vaguely in her mouth, probably "delicious" or something.

On the floor under the bed, two children of about ten years old were eavesdropping on the door.

"Brother Tiedan, did the young master really smash the stone with his hands?" Suddenly, one of the boys, with short hair and big eyes, slightly darkened skin, asked.

"Yes, I was in front of the stone pier at that time, and I also climbed up the stone pier and split it once, the black stone was too hard, which made my arm hurt, and then the little master climbed up and smashed the black stone at once."

The other long, round, tiger-headed boy next to him replied.

Seeing Yun Shan's face of disbelief, Tie Dan straightened his round belly, raised his right arm and said, "Do you see this blue seal?" Then he brushed away the hair on his forehead, pointed his forehead to Yun Shan, and said:

"And here, it's been crushed by a piece of rubble."

Yun Shan looked at the blood scab on Tie Dan's forehead that had not yet grown, and finally believed it, but he was even more confused in his heart and continued to ask:

"Brother Tiedan! Young Master Cheng is one year younger than me, how can he have so much strength, how can his arms be so hard? ”

"What's this, I eat too much tiger and bear meat, Daddy will change some for me every time I come back from hunting, but sometimes it's more, sometimes it's very little, I don't know how many there are this time, this time let's eat together, let's get up together, and we will go together for next month's selection, and we'll do everything together in the future." Tie Dan seemed to be glad that he had a younger brother, and said excitedly.

Although Yun Shan was skeptical about eating tiger and bear meat, he was very moved by Tie Dan's words, and hooked his arm to Tie Dan's neck full of meat, and the two continued to crack the door and whisper.

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Half a month later, the Li family practiced at the ground.

The ground mixed with small stones in the fine sand is about 100 zhang square by rolling stones. On the north side of the site, there is a stone platform about three zhang long and wide, and more than one zhang high.

There are more than a dozen wooden stakes scattered on the west side of the stage, and the wooden stakes are formed by three bowl-thick logs crossed by each other, and the lower end is buried in the ground, and the middle intersection and the top are wrapped and fixed with thick hemp rope. The wooden bodies of the three logs are wrapped in animal skins and wrapped with a layer of fine rope. On the east side of the stage are several sets of single and parallel bar frames, several thick stone piers and a huge ladder tower.

At this time, there were more than 20 children standing on the south side of the stage, whether tall, short, fat or thin, all looking up at the middle-aged man on the stone platform.

The man was of medium stature, well-proportioned muscles, wearing blood-red leather armor, black and brown boots under his feet, a brown leather skirt around his waist, long black hair tied up high, and a serious expression.

"Uncle Chong! Why don't you start carrying wood? A child in black-brown leather armor in the audience asked crisply.

As he spoke, he shrunk his two little arms into the sky, and swung his neck back and left and right, and he learned the strange movements from nowhere.

On the stage, Li Chong looked at the child's nondescript movements, the serious expression on his face could no longer be pretended, he coughed lightly, and pointed to a pile of logs behind the children with his right hand:

"Start now, see these logs, carry the logs along the edge of the training field for ten laps, and pass the test without resting halfway."

The child who asked the question seemed to know this, and before Li Chong could finish speaking, he had already picked up a log with his little arm and ran away.

In the crowd in the audience, Yun Shan looked at the log with the thickness of an adult's thigh and more than half a person's height, and then looked at the child's small arm that was thinner than himself: "This... This is Cheng Xiao Master? Although I had expected it, I was still shocked.

Shaking his head, Yun Shan also picked up a log and put it on his shoulder, bent his knees and weighed it twice, feeling that it was heavier than the burden of stones on the road, but fortunately, ten laps on the training ground were only ten miles away, so he walked like this. I don't know if it's because he ate tiger and bear meat with Tie Dan a few days ago, Yun Shan successfully completed ten laps although he was tired, he still had a lot of energy to spare, and he was a little excited and proud in his heart, but when he saw a few children such as Cheng Xiao Young Master and Tie Dan who had already passed the test and were playing on the side, Yun Shan couldn't help but be a little discouraged and frustrated.

"I'm still too weak, so how can I avenge Daddy?" Glancing down at the small leather bag on his waist that contained a sugar man that had already melted, Yun Shan put aside his chaotic thoughts and continued to move forward silently.

In the Li family, such a selection is carried out once or twice a year, and most of the boys who participate in the selection are from the Li family, including the children of the Li family's descendants and collateral lines and the children of domestic servants, but there are also some children who are introduced through acquaintances. Every year, through this selection, the best children are gathered together for special training. Teach them, how to hunt, how to practice qi, and even for more excellent children, they will be taught the Li family's family qigong to them.

Among these children, a very small number of talented ones will become masters in the family, ensuring the family's status in Yuquan City, and most of the remaining children will enter the family hunting team, which is also an important part of the family's strength for a big family. Of course, there are also some children who can't bear the hardships and are eliminated and will be arranged to work in the family's fields, mines and workshops, or arrange to do some chores in the house.

Li Chong stood quietly on the stone platform, and the performance of the children in the audience was clearly seen by him, of course, he also noticed Yunshan, and found that this slightly dark-skinned boy worked hard, but he didn't care too much, if you want to become a master, you can't rely on hard work alone, you must have talent.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Chong said to the audience:

"Okay, let's stop!"

He pointed to Yunshan again and said, "You have passed, and the others who have not finished are not qualified." Training starts three days later. With that, he turned and left.

After the children who did not pass saw Li Chong leave, there was a burst of cheers, some sat on the ground, and some simply lay down, babbling some things like "finally over" and "it's over".

Yun Shan also saw that there were still two children who still had the strength to laugh and play together, and he really suspected that they were deliberately not allowed to pass through the water.

On the other hand, among the children who passed the test, there were a few who were depressed and depressed.

"Brother Xiaoshan!"

At this moment, a crisp child's voice came from behind him.

Yun Shan turned around and saw Yun Xia running towards him, holding a half-eaten sugar man in front of him in one hand, and dragging a girl about the same age as Yun Shan with the other hand behind.