Chapter 15: The Triple Test (1)
Ling Huqing's room was quickly cleaned up, not far from Aye's room. Only he and Ah Ye lived in this kind of thatched hut, and the other disciples lived in a wooden house, with all kinds of furniture, and the conditions were obviously much better than theirs.
But fortunately, the place where they live is far away from the residences of other disciples, and it seems very quiet, for her, the less contact with people now, the better, so as not to expose their feet and be recognized.
And through this period of time, Ano has a simple personality, is kind, and is very easy to get along with.
Ah Ye is now a nominal disciple and must pass the introductory test to become an inner disciple, and Aye has participated in the introductory test for five consecutive years, but every time he loses his name, so Xu Daozi is so angry with him.
There are two kinds of nominal disciples. One is like Aye, who grew up in the Heavenly Imperial Gate since he was a child, but his qualifications are poor, and he has no understanding in Xiuzhen, so he does some chores such as chopping wood, cooking, planting vegetables, laundry, and purchasing.
The other is those rich children, who really don't have any qualifications to cultivate immortals, and they also want to get a little bit of the immortal energy of the Heavenly Palace, and say that there is a master of the Heavenly Palace, which is very beneficial to their business. They also know how to repay their kindness, and they will make offerings for the New Year and festivals.
And the inner disciples only need to have morning classes every day, evening classes, as well as sword practice, meditation and cultivation, and nothing else has to do, after all, in the immortal sect, cultivating immortals is the most important.
These inner disciples, not only do they not have to work, but they can also receive a lot of monthly silver, and the entire Tianyu Gate has the most monthly silver in Jinyun Peak, each of whom has as much as fifty taels per month, and these fifty taels of silver are enough for a small family's living expenses for a year, which makes the disciples of other peaks very greedy.
The peak master of Jinyun Peak, Yujin Zhenren, is the head of the Tianyumen, and the nominal disciples outside are either rich or expensive, and there are countless silver taels of filial piety every year, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Jinyunfeng is so rich, and the disciples are naturally stained.
Only Wuyunfeng has the least amount of monthly silver, don't say five taels, you can't even send out five dollars of silver every month, sometimes even eating is a problem, and you also need to go down the mountain to sell the talisman seal to open the pot.
Wuyun Peak only has a nominal disciple of Aye, and there are no other nominal disciples to pay homage, Xu Daozi sometimes takes Yun Song down the mountain to catch demons and ghosts for people, and the silver earned is barely enough to eat, and Xu Daozi is a good thing in a cup, drunk like mud every day, and the money is naturally not enough to spend, which provokes the following disciples to complain, and privately complains that they were blind at the beginning, and chose a drunkard to be the master.
And Ling Huqing is not even a nominal disciple now, she must first pass the triple test of Xu Daozi before she can become a nominal disciple, and then take the introductory test half a year later before she can officially become a disciple of Tianyumen.
Ling Huqing stayed in her room, although it was very simple, in the end she had a place to live, she always slept in Ah Ye's bed, and let Ah Ye sleep in the firewood room made her very unhappy.
She was lying on the bamboo bed, looking at the bright moon outside the window, and secretly cheered for herself in her heart, Ling Huqing, come on, you can do it!
Before dawn, a petite figure appeared at the mountain gate. She was dressed in Ano's dark coarse cloth clothes, with her cuffs and trousers tied up, and her hair was tied with a wooden hairpin.
Looking at the cloudless peak from the mountain gate, the cloudless peak is like a goshawk, spreading its wings and ready to fly. The shadows of the other peaks are sufficient, and they are not distinct.
Ling Huqing counted the time, with her physical strength, she had to get up early to jump ten round-trips, and the ghost knows how many ideological struggles she had to go through to get up from the bed with difficulty.
She's fine with everything, she just can't get up early. In the past, in Zhuling Dongtian, if there was something, she had to get up early, and when she couldn't get up, Hu Yu and Hu Yan tore her off the bed with one arm and one arm, and she was still angry when she got up, so every morning the Hu Yu sisters were the most nervous, for fear of making her unhappy.
At this time, it was still early, but there were already many disciples wearing white Tianyumen gate clothes coming and going, all of them holding swords in their hands, holding their heads high, and their spirits were high.
Ling Hu Qingxin said that he must get rid of the problem of sleeping lazy in the future, these human beings who have stood at the peak of immortal cultivation are working so hard, what qualifications do I, the fox demon who has lost at the starting line, have to waste the years?
Tianyumen is really worthy of being the first immortal gate in Kyushu, and the aura here is very sufficient, so that Hu Qing took a deep breath and suddenly felt refreshed, and that bit of waking up qi has disappeared without a trace.
Ling Huqing put her hands behind her back, squatted down, and jumped up one stone step at a time, her move attracted sideways glances from passers-by.
Her ears were amazing, and the whispers of passers-by fell into her ears without a word.
"Who is this person? dressed so shabby, he must not be a disciple of my Heavenly Imperial Sect. ”
"No, how can there be such a stupid disciple in the Heavenly Imperial Gate, jumping stone steps, he can figure it out, if he can cultivate immortals by jumping stone steps, then the reckless man in the village can also resist the sword, hahaha-----"
"But don't say it, this person is really good-looking, alas, it's a pity, his brain is not very good"
......
Ling Huqing thought to himself, I thought I was gossiping about others about the stupid demons in the demon world.
It turns out that these Xianmen disciples who look like dogs are all long-tongued women.
Whether I eat your rice or drink your water, what's your business, hum!
"Judging people by their appearance", "Dog's eyes look down on people", "Nosy", "sanctimonious", "Dislike the poor and love the rich", "Pretentious"
......
These words kept drifting through her mind, and one day, I will make Hu Qing impress you guys,
I must sit on the top spot of the Heavenly Imperial Gate, and let you little ones kneel on the ground and bow to me!
If you look down on me today, he will make you unattainable tomorrow!
......
Thinking about it for a while, Ling Hu Qing seemed to have a lot of strength on her body, and she jumped a little faster than just now.
She squatted on the stone steps and wiped the sweat oozing from her forehead, and looked up, she was almost at the top, her legs were already sore, but she could bear it, this was the first time to go back, it was still early.
Ling Hu Qing couldn't help but speed up, and soon reached the peak of Cloudless Peak. The mountain breeze blew on her face, which made people feel quite comfortable, and the fine sweat on her body was quickly dried by the wind.
She didn't have time to enjoy this moment of comfort, so she crouched down and continued to jump down the mountain.
Jumping down doesn't require much physical effort, but you need to keep your balance at all times, and of course it's much faster than when you go up the mountain.
Soon she was back at the gate at the foot of the mountain.
"Ah Qing!" A crisp voice sounded in her ears, and Ah Ye walked towards her with a small white cloth bag in his hand.
"I just knocked on the door outside your room for a long time, so you have already gone out", Ano handed her the white cloth bag.
What is this? Ling Huqing still had his hands behind his back, and he didn't pick up the cloth bag.
"You didn't eat last night or this morning, I left some for you", Ano followed her all the time, holding the cloth bag in his hand.
"I'm not hungry, thank you!" Ling Huqing's face was expressionless, it was not that she didn't want to eat, but she was really not interested in those meals.
Every meal is a black mixed noodle steamed bun, dry and hard, making it difficult to swallow. Those dishes too, are some green vegetables and radishes and the like, boil in white water, put a little coarse salt is the dish, such a meal her dog will not eat, she would rather be hungry.
Although she used to be a vegetarian, every meal was either bird's nest porridge or cordyceps soup, and those dishes were all refined through multiple processes.
Bergamot bamboo shoots, glutinous rice lotus root in honey sauce, shredded mandarin duck vegetarian fish, tributin vegetarian shrimp, crispy roasted vegetarian chicken......
Each time she jumped up, one of these dishes popped out of her mind, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva as she finally realized what it was like to be "gluttonous."
Once the gluttonous worm was hooked out, his stomach seemed to start protesting, and he had already spent a lot of physical strength just now, so Hu Qing was indeed a little hungry. It's all because of Aye, a nasty guy, who dances so well that he has to come to make trouble.
Ling Huqing's face was a little unsightly, she jumped up on her own, no longer looking at Aye.
Ah Ye kept chattering behind him: "Ah Qing, people are iron and steel, you are so small, how can you stand it without eating......"
Ling Huqing only felt that Aye's voice was like a bee buzzing in his ears, making people have a headache, if there was anything bad about this Aye, it was that there were too many words, and she kept talking in front of her every day, and she didn't talk much, but she also liked to be quiet, and she couldn't help but feel irritated in her heart: "Shut up!"
Ah Ye seemed to be taken aback, the brilliance in his eyes instantly dimmed, and his lips, which had been slightly upturned just now, were pursed into a line, and he said timidly: "Then I'll put it on this stone platform, remember to eat when you're hungry, I'll go fetch water." ”
Ling Huqing heard the grievances from his words, and thought about it, people are also kind, is he too much?
She didn't want to say anything more to him, so she nodded at him, and when Ano saw her nodding, she became happy and left in a hurry.
Ling Huqing opened the cloth bag, and it turned out that there were two hard-boiled eggs inside. In Wuyun Peak, eggs are also considered a good thing, and they were specially brought to themselves early in the morning, which made Hu Qing feel a little regretful in his heart, regretting his bad temper.
Eat, people's hearts, the most important thing is that she is really hungry, this is the most troublesome place to be a person, as a fox she can go ten days and a half without eating, but as a human being, she has not eaten two meals, and she is so hungry that her chest is close to her back.
When she reached the peak of Cloudless Peak again, she sat down to rest for a while, and two eggs soon fell into her belly.
She felt less hungry, and it would have been nice if she had a few more eggs.
This descent is not as easy as last time. The muscles on both sides of my thighs were so sore that I pulled at every step.
Ling Huqing bit her lip and persevered a little bit.
The third back-and-forth, the fourth-round trip, the fifth-round trip......
The sun shone on her body, and beads of sweat glistened in the sunlight.
It was past noon, and the sun was getting brighter and brighter, making Hu Qing feel hotter and hotter. Her clothes were wet and dry, dry and wet, and a thin layer of salt frost appeared on her chest.
Her throat was so dry that it was about to burst into flames, and the fire in her throat was so hot that it was about to smoke. His legs were also heavy as if they had been filled with lead.
"No. 9996,9997,9998......" she counted in her heart, there are still a few steps to reach the peak, and she can rest a little,
"10,000!" When she finally reached the summit for the eighth time, she collapsed to the ground as if she had fallen apart.