The father and son lined up in the flow of people and slowly advanced, and after about half an hour, Zhao Lengfei suddenly saw two young men in green clothes galloping on horseback, and the two didn't look at the team in front of the right gate, and went straight to the city gate on the left. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info Both of them looked very young, they dismounted and talked to the guards at the gate on the left, and then took out something to show the guards, and then swaggered into the city.

Seeing the appearance of the two young people entering the city easily, the people in line on the right began to be dissatisfied, and many people whispered.

"Cut, these guys from the Xiuzhen family can obviously cultivate in the family, but they just come to compete with us ordinary people for that pitiful entry spot, it's really infuriating."

"Isn't it, every time these guys from the Xiuzhen family disrupt the balance of the assessment, they occupy the first few places."

"Shhh, you speak quietly, don't be heard by them, those two are not ordinary people, with their strength, you will be a little stumbling in the assessment, and you won't be able to eat and walk around."

"What, are these two guys strong? You don't think there's anything wrong with it, do you? ”

"These two people are not ordinary, didn't you see that they came by themselves, and they didn't even follow the family elders? Generally, people who are not accompanied by family elders are strong enough to greet acquaintances in the door in advance without the need for family elders to greet acquaintances in advance. ”

"I remember, they are the two sons of the Nanguo family in Nantaibao, the eldest son Nan Guo Yan and the second son Nan Guo Yan." Soon the two men were recognized.

"What? They are the Nanguo family, the largest cultivation family in our Sanyuan Province, the pair of cultivation genius brothers who are known as once in a thousand years? If it is really the two of them, then the first in the juvenile assessment and the first in the youth assessment are not the only two of them. ”

"That's not necessarily, it is said that the Yan family of Jiemo Province, the Xia family of Chilian Province and the Han family of Yingnan have all produced one or two geniuses with excellent cultivation qualifications in recent years, and this time several families are interested in sending these genius juniors to Xuanshuimen to apprentice."

"Hey! It's over now, with these people here, the chances of us passing the assessment are even slimmer. ”

"I didn't think that those two people have such a background, Nan Guo Yan and Nan Guo Yan, it sounds almost the same, it's really a strange name." Zhao Lengfei wrote down the names of these two people in his heart.

After queuing for an hour and a half, the father and son were able to enter the city, and when they entered the city, the guards also issued a notice and a map of Xuanyin City, which indicated the time and place of the Xuanshui Gate in Xuanyin City to accept apprentices and register for the assessment.

After Zhao Lengfei and his father entered the city, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was a little late to sign up at this time, so his father did not take him to the registration office to register, but planned to find a good inn to settle down for a night, and the registration will be talked about tomorrow.

Xuanshuimen's apprentice assessment registration has begun as early as ten days ago, with more and more people arriving in Xuanyin City in recent days, the city is overcrowded, the father and son looked at the map given by the guards when they entered the city, there are really a lot of inns in Xuanyin City, there are not a thousand but also eight hundred, but most of the inns on the map have been circled by a small red circle, indicating that these inns were full yesterday, and there are only a few dozen inns left that are not full, and they are scattered in all corners of Xuanyin City.

Fortunately, they have mounts, and after entering the city, they turned quickly, and went to three inns that were not marked full, but they all said that there was no room anymore, and the fourth inn they went to was in a not very spacious alley in the east of the city, the scale of the inn was not large, Zhao Qingshuang saw that the counter outside the door did not put up a sign that the tenants were full and closed the door, so he tied the mount to the pillar at the door, and took his son into the store.

Inside the high counter, an old man with gray hair was concentrating on settling accounts, the old man had ten fingers, and the oily abacus beads crackled, and there were two guys in the hall, both of them looked busy, and none of the three people in the hall noticed that Zhao Qingshuang and his son came in.

Zhao Qingshuang came to the counter and tapped the counter twice with the knuckle of his index finger.

The old man immediately stopped when he heard the sound, he raised his head, and said with a smile on his face; "Hello sir, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

"Well, the inns I just passed by are full, I wonder if you still have a vacant room?"

This old man is about fifty or sixty years old, although his hair is gray, his beard is pitch black, there are not many wrinkles on his face, there are no age spots, his complexion is ruddy, and his face is long-lived. ”

"Is there only one? That's enough, the two of us, me and a child, and two more mounts at the door to arrange stables and forage. ”

"It's good to live enough, Mr. register his name, pay a deposit, this upper room of the small shop is three taels of silver a day, including tea and snacks, three meals a day, two stable troughs, bean cake essence and horse walking bristles, half a tael of silver every day, I don't know how many days Mr. plans to live."

Zhao Lengfei listened to the old man's answer, and the first thing he thought of was whether he had heard it wrong, three taels of silver a day? The black shop does not have such a high price, in Fuzhou City, Yingbei, an ordinary inn like this only costs one penny a day to live, and the price of a luxury inn that arranges a stable for free will not exceed five yuan, and the currency of Dashengguo is ten yuan a tael, and he has never heard of any inn whose price can be so high.

The metal coins issued by Dasheng State are divided into three kinds of gold, silver and copper, the value of silver is the reference, and it is measured in two, money, cents, cents, and millimeters, and the smallest currency of the copper plate is measured in millimeters and texts, and one penny is equivalent to one cent, and copper coins have one millimeter, five millimeters, one penny, five wen, ten wen, fifty wen and one hundred wen, a total of seven denominations, and ten millimeters is equal to one penny.

Silver coinage is generally measured in two, money and cents, the smallest face value of one cent, the largest fifty taels, one tael of silver for ten coins, one penny of silver for ten, one cent of silver is equivalent to ten copper plates, silver and copper coins are more common currency. The annual income of ordinary people in Dasheng Kingdom is almost a dozen taels of silver, and when Zhao Qingshuang was a state pastor, his annual income was only 120 taels of silver, plus 50 taels of grain and some daily necessities.

The gold coinage is very rare, because its face value is very large, the smallest gold coinage is five taels, according to the exchange rate of one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, the lowest face value of gold coinage is fifty taels of silver, so it is difficult for ordinary people to see gold coinage.

The old man also knew that the price of his shop was high, so he hurriedly explained without waiting for Zhao Qingshuang to speak: "Sir, you also know that Xuanyin City is overcrowded today, and it is not just the price of one store that is so high, the price of the inn in the entire Xuanyin City has increased dozens of times, and this one is still cheap." ”

Zhao Lengfei is right to think about it, the reason for the tight relationship between supply and demand, the price increase is understandable, but it is too outrageous to increase dozens of times, and the inn in Xuanyin City will really make a fortune.

"Well, it doesn't matter how much the price is, we will probably stay for more than ten days." After Zhao Qingshuang finished speaking, he reported the names of himself and his son, and at the same time threw a piece of silver with a face value of fifty taels to the old man.

The gold and silver currency issued by Dasheng is not equivalent to the same weight of metal, such as the fifty taels of silver coins, its real weight is about five taels, which is a good progress, otherwise you will have to carry a thousand eight hundred taels of silver.

The production value of the coin is much lower than the value it represents, which is a bit similar to the paper money on the earth, in fact, Dasheng Guo also hairstyle paper money, the face value of the paper money is larger than the gold coinage, and the circulation is smaller, although Zhao Qingshuang's calligraphy and painting are priceless, but they are all bartered, and never used calligraphy and painting in exchange for money, so Zhao Lengfei has never seen what Dashengguo's banknotes look like.

The boss saw that Zhao Qingshuang directly took out fifty taels of silver, and smiled even more happily, and he completed the registration on the flowing water household book by dividing it by two: the second floor Kun Zi No. 1 special room to move in, adult: Mr. Zhao, children: Zhao Gongzi, the stable arranged two black and white horses, deposit: fifty taels of silver.

After the registration was completed, the old man put up the sign on the counter that was full, he grabbed a large string of keys from the drawer on the side, found one and handed it to Zhao Qingshuang, and then walked out of the counter, while shouting to the man to lead the horses at the door to the backyard to arrange, while personally leading Zhao Qingshuang upstairs.

Zhao Lengfei is short, and the counter in the store is about the same height as him, so the old man only saw his appearance clearly after coming out of the counter, and the old man saw that Zhao Lengfei was young but extraordinary, and said with emotion: "This is your son, he is really a talent, good!" The old man has not seen such a spirited young man for a long time, and he will definitely make great achievements in the future. ”

"Hehe, the dog is still young, and the shopkeeper's words are too awarded."

"No, no, no, sir, don't be too modest, I think your son does have his talent." The old man said as he walked: "Sir, please, is Mr. coming to Xuanyin City this time to take Gongzi to visit, or are you going to take Gongzi to participate in the Xuanshuimen apprenticeship assessment?" ”

"I'm here to participate in the Xuanshui Gate apprenticeship assessment." Without waiting for his father to answer, Zhao Lengfei hurriedly said.

"Oh? Among the people who have participated in the assessment in the last few times, there are few teenagers of this age like Childe, so I just say, the little boy is amazing! The boss had a look of surprise on his face, but it disappeared in a flash.

"Old shopkeeper, isn't the age group for participating in the juvenile assessment eight to sixteen years old, why is it rare for me to be so old?" Zhao Leng asked puzzled.

"Hehe, the little boy seems to know something, you should know the rules of this Xuanshui Gate every time a young disciple who opens the mountain to sign up must hold a letter of recommendation and pay the registration fee, right? But do you know why? ”

"I really don't know this, please tell the old shopkeeper." Zhao Lengfei really didn't understand why, but he had heard about the requirements and content of the recommendation letter, and his father personally wrote one for him.

The reason is this, although Xuanshuimen stipulates that the age of young disciples must not exceed 16 years old, there are many people who are a few years older who want to falsely declare their age to get by, and this recommendation letter clearly requires the recommender to guarantee the date of birth of the teenager, in order to prevent someone from falsifying his age. Of course, the provisions of this letter of recommendation can only achieve a certain effect, and can not completely eliminate the age of fraud, each assessment in the age of the fraud is still a lot, even Xuanshuimen can not be thoroughly investigated, and those who are fraudulent in age more or less have some relationship, even if it is really found out, Xuanshuimen's auditors are also blind to one eye, so every time there are some age fake people successfully registered. ”

"Is it because the teenagers who can pass the assessment are generally older?" Zhao Qingshuang raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and asked.

Zhao Lengfei also understood that the boss was reminding him that he was too young and would suffer a loss if he participated in the assessment.

"Yes, every two or three years old from eight to sixteen years old, there will be a big gap in height, and the strength is the same, there are about twenty young disciples who can pass the assessment of Xuanshui Gate every time, among which the people of the Xiuzhen family will occupy five or six places, and most of the remaining children who have passed the assessment are fifteen or sixteen years old, thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers are very few, and I have never heard of teenagers under the age of ten who can pass the assessment."

"I see." Although Zhao Qingshuang said this, he was not surprised at all, he had already thought of all this.

"There is a certain danger in the apprentice assessment, every assessment, there are a lot of teenagers injured or even killed, all the teenagers who participate in the assessment will sign a life and death certificate when registering, in fact, Xuanshuimen does not want to have casualties, they have been sent to monitor and protect during the assessment, but the competition in this assessment is too fierce, death and injury are inevitable, the registration fee is actually used to compensate the family of the teenager who had an accident, these years under the age of 12 to participate in the assessment of fewer and fewer teenagers, for safety, Many of the children's families choose to let their children wait for eight years before taking the introductory examination for young disciples. ”

After speaking, the old man glanced at Zhao Lenghai, with his eyesight of opening stores and reading countless people over the years, he could naturally see that Zhao Lenghai's actual age would not exceed twelve years old, it was too reluctant to participate in the assessment at this age, Mo said that if he passed the assessment, if he didn't pay attention to it, whether he could survive or not was two words.

He has lived in Xuanyin City for more than fifty years, and he has seen the Xuanshui Gate apprenticeship assessment five or six times, and he has never heard of an ordinary child of this age who can pass the assessment.

Zhao Qingshuang had already thought about the danger of the assessment, so he would conduct special training for his son for more than half a year, and he was also confident in his son, so he smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for the reminder." ”

"Hehe, although things have always been like this, but there are always some special circumstances, although I see that your son is young, but it is by no means comparable to ordinary children, it is also very possible to pass the assessment, the room of the two has arrived, there is something to call me and my buddy, and the old man will retire."

"This shopkeeper has a good heart, and he has said so much, but there should be nothing missing from my father's previous guess." Zhao Lengfei thought in his heart and followed his father into the room.

The room is really not small, one bedroom and one living room, bathroom and bathroom, big bed and small bed, tables, chairs, cabinets and cabinets, no wonder the shopkeeper will say that it is the best and largest one,

"Hail, what do you think of the shopkeeper's words just now?" Zhao Qingshuang put the luggage into the cabinet after entering the house and asked.

"Haven't all these fathers already thought of it, and I'm fully prepared." Zhao Leng smiled and replied easily.

"That's good! You have a good rest here, I'll go out to find out some news later, and I'll take you to sign up tomorrow. ”

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