Chapter 90: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada and the Yellow Sparrow Follows
Winter goes to spring, time flies. It's March of the following year. Although the Dongyang in March is still very cold, but the snow has long been gone, the spring rain that falls from time to time quietly moistens the earth, some cold-tolerant plants emerge first green shoots, occasionally you can see a few jumping rabbits in the forest, the loneliness of winter is dissipating, the lovely spring girl, with light steps to the world, that piece of vitality will come to all directions, the whole world seems to have just woken up from a long sleep.
It has been four months since Ye Wuwu received the admission qualification, during which Ye Wuwu either went to fish for cold stones during the day, or accompanied Xue Jian to play, practiced soul power at night, and went to Dongyang Town every seven days to purchase supplies, if he encountered a discount on goods, he would go to see it and improve his life, so unconsciously, Ye Wuwu had reached the time to report to Dongyang Academy.
"It's the beginning of the school year again, and I can't imagine that my dream of going to school has come true here, it's really funny!" Standing at the gate of Dongyang, Ye Wuwu muttered, Ye Wuwu in his previous life was frail and sickly, he often asked for leave when he went to school, and he was persuaded to quit by the school when he asked for leave, and there were many times he was persuaded to quit, so no school was willing to accept Ye Wuwu, and Ye Wuwu chose to study on his own, although Ye Wuwu thought that he had studied well, but he couldn't go to college after all, and in his previous life, Ye Wuwu was full of school, and it was not more than a year to go to school, which can be said to be a regret in Ye Wuwu's previous life.
The annual enrollment of Dongyang University starts today, for three days, if you want to enter Dongyang University, you must register and pass the assessment within these three days, the registration fee is three silver dollars, and failure will not be returned. If Dongyang is compared to a province in Ye Wuwu's previous life, then Dongyang Town is the provincial capital of Dongyang, and Dongyang School is the highest school in this provincial capital.
Maybe it's because of the start of school, the gate of the town doesn't collect the door fee these days, and when he enters the town, Ye Wuwu walks towards Dongyang Academy, Xu Laohan has taken Ye Wuwu to the school to go through the admission procedures, so Ye Wuwu knows how to go, to be reasonable, in fact, Ye Wuwu doesn't need to participate in the enrollment today, he is a guaranteed student, and he can go to register when the school starts, but Ye Wuwu is curious about what the enrollment assessment of Dongyang Academy looks like, and it can be regarded as coming to see the world.
On the occasion of the start of school, the originally deserted Dongyang town seemed to be very lively, walking on the street, from time to time I saw many children with depressed faces, next to their parents scolding and scolding their critics.
The entrance assessment of Dongyang Academy is divided into two sections, the first is to measure aptitude, this part is to judge whether you have the talent to become a high-level soul guide, talent is divided into ten levels, the test instrument is a pillar, put your hand on the pillar, the pillar will glow, climb up under the light, the higher the talent, the better, light up sixty percent can be enrolled, Ye Wuwu tested it once when he came to go through the admission procedures, and lit up a little more than seventy percent, according to Xu Laohan, Ye Wuwu's talent is more than enough than the above, and if you light up sixty percent, you have the potential to cultivate soul power, Lighting up eighty percent is considered a genius, ninety percent is called a demon, as for ten percent, hehe, how to say it, according to Xu Laohan's words, Dongyang has not lit up ten percent of the light pillar in the past three hundred years.
Xu Laohan once told Ye Wuwu that according to his talent, unless he can obtain any treasure to change his potential in the future to improve his potential, it would be good for him to reach the third order in this life, Xu Laohan himself only lit up seventy and a half of the pillars at the beginning, and now he has been stranded in the rank of third-order soul guide for a full twenty years, and in the past twenty years, he has made no progress in the cultivation of the consolidation, and his cultivation is still said in Dongyang Town, but it can be put in the Central Plains, hehe!
In the Giant Spirit Continent, the cultivation of the soul guide is actually calculated from the third order, the first order is a small miscellaneous hair, the second order is a more capable miscellaneous hair, the third order can barely be regarded as a master, the fourth order can become the master of one party, the fifth order can open a sect, the sixth order is the pillar of the country, and the seventh order is the highest realm that the human body can reach, and the soul guide of this rank is also known as the national treasure, a person can compete with a country, and the eighth order is called the realm of demigods. The soul power contained in the body at this stage is no longer the starting point that the human body can bear, thinking of the eighth order, you must reshape your body with the help of heaven and earth treasures, at this stage, moving mountains and reclamation is just a blow of ashes, it can be said that as long as you don't think about it, it will be difficult for the eighth-order soul guide to die! As for the ninth order, there has been no record of a ninth-order soul guide since there are records in the Giant Spirit Continent, some people say that the giant spirit god who created the Giant Spirit Continent (from the author's spoof) is a ninth-order soul guide, according to legend, a thousand years ago, there was an eighth-order soul guide who hit the ninth order, which caused a change in heaven and earth at that time, and the climate of the entire Giant Spirit Continent was abnormal, and the soul guide who hit the ninth order had a beautiful face, known as the first beauty of the giant spirit, and because of the snow word in the name, he was called the snow fairy, but unfortunately, after the three-month mutation was over, No one has ever seen this snow fairy again, so let's not mention it for the time being.
When Ye Wuwu learned that his future achievements were limited, his reaction was only to shrug his shoulders and say that it didn't matter, for Ye Wuwu, he was a dead person, and it was fate to continue to live, what else could he ask for? To be a man is to know how to be sufficient.
The second assessment content of Dongyang Academy is very simple for Ye Wuwu, because he has already done it, yes, this second content is to open your eyes, the first assessment is just the surface you can cultivate, but whether you can cultivate depends on whether you can successfully open your eyes, those who pass the first assessment will be led to a room, and will be distributed with pills that help open your eyes, of course, in order to ensure safety, the house is equipped with several tutors, once you find that the situation is not right, immediately terminate your eye opening, but this also means that you have failed this assessment, If you meet a mentor who is in a good mood, he may also say to you: "Young man, look at your bones and be amazed, don't give up, welcome to come back next year!" "Yes, if you fail, it's just that you can't enter school this year, and it's okay to succeed next year, but there is also an age limit for starting over, students over ten years old who haven't opened their eyes Dongyang Academy don't want it, because if they don't open their eyes at this age, their eyes have shrunk to a considerable extent, even if the talent is high, their future achievements are limited, and such students will only ruin their reputation, and this kind of loss-making Dongyang can't do it.
Of course, in view of the fact that the people who open their eyes are relatively young and it is difficult to open their eyes, it is not a bad choice to spend money to ask someone to help them open their eyes, but this is the cost! It's not paid by ordinary people, so Ye Wuwu compares it, he fishes out the cold stone for two silver dollars a month, and it costs one gold dollar to ask someone to help open his eyes, which means that Ye Wuwu has to fish for fifty months before he can ask for an eye-opener.
Of course, if you have opened your eyes before the assessment, then as long as you can light up sixty percent of the pillar of light, and you are not more than ten years old, then you can directly enter Dongyang Academy, so Xu Laohan's escort qualification seems to be very chicken, but this is only for Ye Wuwu, after all, he has already met the admission conditions, and Xu Laohan's escort qualification refers to unconditional admission, that is to say, as long as you take this admission qualification, you don't have to spend a penny, what assessment does not need to be tested, just let you in, even if you can't even open your eyes, However, if you can't open your eyes, it is recommended that you do not go to Dongyang University, Dongyang University will have an academic evaluation at the end of each year, and if you don't pass the evaluation, you will be dissuaded.
The door of Dongyang School said that it was lively, but it was just like that, it felt like staying in the vegetable market to Ye Wuwu, and after staying for a long time, I felt a little bored, so I wanted to go out for a walk, walked and walked, and unconsciously came to the slum of Dongyang Town, for this slum, Xu Laohan once warned Ye Wuwu not to go here easily, what to say here? According to Ye Wuwu's previous life, there were a lot of petty thefts and so on, which made the mayor a headache, and after a few times without any results, the mayor didn't bother to take care of it, and let the people in the slums fend for themselves.
The oncoming rancid smell woke up the pensive Ye Wuwu, and Ye Wuwu, who found that he had run away to the slum, did not plan to leave, he wanted to see what the situation of this slum was a headache for the mayor of his teammate town.
The houses of the slums, which can be called the four walls of the house, are easy to see, and can be seen from the cracks in each house. The destitute woman was in rags, her shoes were mended and mended, and the old man's face was full of vicissitudes and blurred. Her head full of silver hair was coiled on her head, her black and yellow face was full of wrinkles, she was wearing a tattered gray apron, a few strands of silver hair fluttering with the north wind, and her feet were wearing worn slippers, which seemed to tell her bitterness in the cold wind.
"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!" Somehow, such a poem came to Ye Wuwu's mind; "Even if you don't want to care, it's really... Ay! The world is really unfair! ”
"Open the door, open the door! Taxes are collected! Open the door! "With a fierce knock on the door
Just when Ye Wuwu sighed, a commotion woke him up, and out of curiosity, the medicine walked over along the sound.
The sound came from a young man who looked like a soldier, knocking violently on the door, and after a while, he stopped knocking, because he actually knocked on the door.
"Coax!" The soldier was startled by the loud bang at the end of the door, but then shouted: "Come out quickly!" If you don't come out again, I'll tear your house down! ”
Perhaps hearing the words of the young man, a child came out of the house, the child's hair was very long and fluffy, covering his face, and his clothes were washed white, but they were still neat.
Seeing someone coming out, the young man shouted: "The tax has been collected, give the money quickly!" ”
"But didn't you receive it yesterday?" The child asked weakly.
"I finished collecting it yesterday and can't collect it today! Give the money quickly! The young man shouted.
"But isn't it only once a month?"
"So much nonsense! Stinky little ghost, give money quickly! The young man was clearly getting impatient.
"But~ But I don't have any money anymore!" Although the child was afraid, he still told his situation.
"What! No money! I won't kill you! "I heard that there was no money. The young man was furious, and he punched and kicked the child to the ground. The child was holding his head tightly, and although he was beaten badly, he never made a sound.
Seeing this, Ye Wuwu couldn't stand it, although it was natural to repay the debt, but beating the child couldn't be justified anyway, Ye Wuwu decided to stop it.
"Stop!" Ye Wuwu roared!
The young man was startled when he heard the voice, turned his head, and paused for a moment.
"It's you!" The youth roared.
Ye Wuwu was also a little surprised, he had seen this young man, it was the soldier who charged him two silver dollars to enter the city before, when Xu Laohan knew about this, he was furious, and ran back to Dongyang Town to rectify the atmosphere, and under the report of the people, many of the guards who connected this soldier were fired.
"Just now I was worried about whether I was obstructing official business, but now it seems that it is to eliminate harm for the people! You're not a soldier anymore, how can you still collect taxes? Ye Wuwu sneered.
The young man said, it is true that he is now a jobless vagrant, since he was laid off, he has no income, but his weekday expenses are relatively large, and he soon owes a lot of debt, seeing that the day of repayment is approaching, he has no choice but to come up with this method next year, even if he is discovered, it doesn't matter, anyway, he is not afraid of lawsuits, and not to mention whether these poor people will go through the process, even if he will, he knows the judge of the yamen, and the friendship is not bad, when the time comes, just say that these poor people slander it, anyway, the mouth grows on the judge's body, It's up to him to decide how to judge.
"Cut! I want you to take care of it, the little ghost looks at your poor and sour body, he should have beaten you up in the first place, now hurry up and get out of Lao Tzu, otherwise I will even beat you! The young man shouted with his fists and teeth and claws.
"It's not certain who hits whom! I couldn't beat you before, but now it's different! Ye Wuwu used his soul power: "Soul Sword!" ”
"This feeling... You're a soul guide! The young man looked at the pale yellow gas-like object in Ye Wuwu's hand and was frightened.
"That's right, but unfortunately there's no reward!"
"Poof!" Before Ye Wuwu could do anything, the young man knelt down and cried: "Young man, don't kill me, I am old and young, you see that I am a first-time offender, be merciful, treat me as a fart!" ”
"What are you doing here!! Looking at the young man with a 180-degree rotation in front and back, Ye Wuwu was a little overwhelmed.
The young man didn't care about Ye Wuwu's words, he just begged for mercy vigorously, after a long time, Ye Wuwu was also a little bored, the so-called out of sight is clean, Ye Wuwu let the young man go.
"Thank you Shaoxia, thank you Shaoxia!" After learning that Ye Wuwu didn't plan to attack him, the young man laughed and fled with a smoke. It's just that after the young man left, Ye Wuwu didn't see his resentful eyes, and Ye Wuwu didn't know how much trouble the young man he let go today would bring him in the future! Ye Wuwu still hasn't been able to fully integrate into this world after all, and he still acts according to some of the ideas he developed in his previous life, and Ye Wuwu, who has cut the grass and eradicated the roots, will not think about it at the moment.
In fact, the reason why the young man asked for forgiveness is because according to the law of Dongyang Town, the soul guide has the privilege to deal with some outlaws from time to time, and he can cut it first and then play, that is to say, even if Ye Wuwu kills this young man, he will not say anything to him, and the young man had a conflict with the soul guide before, and was seriously injured by the soul guide, and almost hung up, after that, the young man will be involuntarily afraid as long as he sees the soul guide, so after seeing that Ye Wuwu is a soul guide, he immediately confessed and knelt down to beg for mercy, It doesn't matter what kind of threat Ye Wuwu can pose to a five-year-old child, what is this? Once bitten by a snake for ten years, I was afraid of the well rope!!
"That! Are you okay! Driving away the young man, Ye Wuwu walked up to the child, helped him up, and asked.
"I'm fine, and thank you!" Although he could see that the child was beaten very painfully, covered with bruises, and tears rolled in his eyes, the child never said anything.
"It's okay! It's okay! Anyway, is there no one at home? You've been beaten so badly, and no one has come out to take care of it! It's really a bad day! Ye Wuwu snorted haha.
"Me, no one at home!" Hearing Ye Wuwu's words, the child suddenly fell silent.
"Huh!? Where's your dad! Ye Wuwu looked a little surprised. You must know that even in the slums, it is not easy to have a house, this kid said that he has no family, but he obviously came out of the house, Ye Wuwu was a little curious.
"I don't have a father, I only have a mother!" After thinking for a long time, the child said such a sentence.
"What about your mother!" Ye Wuwu didn't think about it, and blurted out such a sentence, but then regretted it, the child said that he had no family and said that he only had a mother, isn't the answer obvious!
"Mother, she died of illness last night!" After a long silence, the child cried and said such a sentence.
"That~ I'm sorry, I don't know, I'm really sorry! And, what's that, hey! I'm sorry! Ye Wuwu knew that he had said something he shouldn't have said, and he seemed a little incoherent.
"Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, my mother said, only strong children can be happy, Liuyue woo Woo Liuyue, Liuyue..." As he spoke, the child let out loud and began to cry bitterly.
Ye Wuwu looked at the crying child in front of him, and was at a loss for a while, "Bang!! Ye Wuwu slapped himself fiercely, and the red handprints appeared on Ye Wuwu's face, which startled the child, but also successfully stopped the child's crying.
"That, Liuyue, it's called Liuyue, right?"
"Hmm!"
"I was not good just now, I talked nonsense, I beat myself and apologized to you, but what! Liuyue, your mother must not want to cry your nose, right! She wants you to be happy, right? ”
"Hmmm! My mother said that the smiling Liuyue is the best-looking! The child seemed to remember the past, and tears rolled in his eyes again.
"Is your mother happy when you laugh!" Seeing that something was wrong, Ye Wuwu immediately said!
"Well, my mother was happy when Liuyue smiled!" Kids, oh no! Liuyue sobbed, but also said proudly.
"So! Liuyue, do you want your mother to be happy! ”
"Yes! My mother is happy when she is happy! So Liuyue can't cry, Liuyue must live happily, so that her mother can be happy in heaven! ”
Liuyue wiped her snot in her eyes and stretched out her nose, but she stopped crying. "Oh my god! can be regarded as not crying, what the master is most afraid of in this life is to see others crying, well, this child is also pitiful! The days to come will also be an ordeal for him! Do you want to take him in? No, it's not that I can't afford it, but I just helped him drive away the young man, and when I turned around, I said that I would take him in, which makes me think I was a human trafficker, and I can't speak! Ye Wuwu roared in his heart.
"That~that!" Just in Ye Wuwu's heart, the child finished speaking!
"Huh!?"
"Well, can you take me in!?"
"Hah!" Hearing Liuyue's words, Ye Wuwu was surprised, this is not something that a child can say!
"I have nowhere to go, that big bad guy might come back later! I, I~ Don't worry, I don't eat much, I! ~I'm very good at work~I~I~" Liuyue looked a little anxious.
"Stop !!" Ye Wuwu, who came back to his senses, looked at Liuyue who was selling himself and quickly stopped him.
"Can't you!" Liuyue looked a little desperate.
"Yes! I can take you in! Seeing that Liuyue was about to cry again, Ye Wuxian hurriedly said.
"Really! Are you sure! ”
"Hmmm! It's true! Let's introduce it! My name is Ye Wuwu, please give me more advice in the future! Ye Wuwu smiled and stretched out his right hand.
"Hmmm! My name is Liuyue! Please advise me in the future! Liuyue also smiled, stretched out her left hand, and the two small hands were tightly clasped together.
In this way, two life trajectories that could not have been intertwined merged together.