Volume III Chapter 16 Exemption
When the woman heard Zhan Xiu's question, she shook her head a little confused and said, "I didn't do anything, and when I got to the door, the door opened."
Zhan Xiu was a little dizzy, and the later people didn't see any effort, but they only pushed and pushed the soil by themselves, did they not pay attention to what else could not be done in this door?
It wasn't until later that I learned that animals took different routes from humans, and they seemed to be the same door, but they weren't.
Just in confusion, the Purple Cloud Pavilion Lord beckoned to the two people who came first and let them pass.
I heard the Purple Cloud Pavilion Lord say to everyone: "These two people are the first, and they can be regarded as successfully passing the three levels, so they don't need to participate in the elimination and screening that is usually necessary for outer hall disciples, and they can be directly arranged to participate in the corresponding pavilion to participate in the experience, while the others also need to be selected as the final selected disciples."
As soon as these words came out, countless envious and jealous eyes suddenly looked at Zhan Xiu and the woman who came first.
Zhan Xiu was both happy and worried, happy that he would easily break through the customs, and worried that since it was so easy to enter the customs, the old man said that there was no hope for him to get something from it.
Isn't there the old saying that the heavens are in charge of the people, and they must be ...... I'm coming, who wants to be easy!
Zhan Xiu couldn't help but curse himself for a while, and said a lot of things.
On the other hand, the thick-eyed woman who came first seemed to have known the result a long time ago, and her expression was very casual and natural, touching the rabbit in her hand and standing there generously.
Seeing this rabbit, Zhan Xiu's heart moved again, didn't this woman still say that this was a rabbit, how could she become a beast, otherwise how could this Purple Cloud Pavilion master say that she has the ability to drive beasts.
Just such a fluffy rabbit like a pet actually became a beast!
In fact, this is also because Zhan Xiu thought too much, and it wasn't until much later that he realized what the problem was, in ancient times, like now, all animals have been domesticated, and even tigers can be kept in zoos for people to watch.
However, in ancient times, most animals were wild, and there were very few domesticated poultry-like animals, so there were things that Zhan Xiu thought were ordinary but seemed to these people to be very remarkable, of course, this is a later story and will not be mentioned for the time being.
Not to mention that Zhan Xiu was puzzled here, the Purple Cloud Pavilion Lord saw the envious, jealous and puzzled eyes of everyone below, and said coldly: "Don't guess, because you didn't arrive within the specified time, you can only choose out in this way."
Then he instructed Zhan Xiu and the woman who had come in earlier, "You two wait here, someone will come to answer you."
Then he said to the people: "The others come with me"
After speaking, he led everyone away from the exit.
Zhan Xiu and the woman didn't have to wait long before two other pavilion masters came over.
One was a somewhat obscene-looking old man, wearing dirty clothes that seemed to have not been washed for many days, and the other was a woman, with very colorful clothes and extremely charming people.
The old man walked up to Zhan Xiu and said to him, "You come with me", and said that he took the lead and walked outside.
The bewitching woman tilted her head and looked at Zhan Xiu with a smile on her face, and then led the woman away from the other direction.
This look was extremely charming, which made Zhan Xiu's heart beat violently, I didn't know why this woman's gaze was so weird, so he quickly withdrew his gaze and followed the footsteps of the old man in front of him.
Starting from a tunnel on the north side of the stone chamber, zigzag and walked forward for about a hundred meters, the old man led Zhan Xiu to a stone door.
The old man glanced at Zhan Xiu behind him, nodded and motioned for Zhan Xiu to follow closer, then reached out and pressed against the wall, and the stone door opened.
Zhan Xiuton's eyes lit up, and only then did he realize that he was at the exit of a cave.
Outside the exit, the sun is shining, the leaves are green, the grass is green, the birds are singing and the fragrance is fragrant, and it feels like a wonderful fairyland.
Zhan Xiu couldn't help but take a deep breath of fresh air, but the old man smiled when he saw Zhan Xiu's stretched appearance, and his footsteps continued to walk along the mountain road.
After about a cup of tea, the old man led Zhan Xiu to a thatched hut on the mountain before stopping, turned to Zhan Xiu and said:
"I am the Pavilion Master of the Pharmacopoeia Pavilion, as the Purple Cloud Pavilion Master said, since you have passed the most basic entry test, you don't need to participate in the subsequent elimination test."
The old man continued with a little seriousness: "However, this does not mean that you can easily pass the level, on the contrary, there are some more important things to do"
After speaking, he pointed to the grass house and said: "From today on, every morning you can pick up water from the mountain spring under the hillside to water the medicine garden behind the grass house, no less than 100 quintals, go to the back mountain in the afternoon to chop firewood, not less than 50 bundles, do not be lazy, and at other times, you can choose to go to the pharmacopoeia pavilion to read the classics, or you can go to the mountainside to see the disciples of the outer hall practice."
"In two months, you will participate in the training with the newly selected new outer hall disciples and some of the original disciples to be tested, you can do it yourself", after speaking, the old man walked away with his steps, leaving Zhan Xiu alone in front of the grass hut in a daze.
"Just gone? How do I eat, how do I sleep, why don't I mention it? Zhan Xiu was a little uncomfortable with Shennongtang's style of ignoring it as soon as it was arranged, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
Perhaps knowing what Zhan Xiu was thinking, the old man shouted again when he was about to walk away:
"If there is any problem, ask the people in the hut, and the others will be solved by themselves", after speaking, he turned the hill and disappeared.
"What am I here for, I'm here to participate in the outer hall disciple test", Zhan Xiu was a little speechless,
"Could it be that the work done by these peasants every day to carry water and chop firewood is the experience arranged for me by the old man?" , thinking about this work for two months, I am even more entangled.
If you are a person who has never done menial work, doing this kind of thing may have some effect, but for an orphan like Zhan Xiu, who has experienced all kinds of ups and downs since childhood, it is actually quite boring.
Of course, now there is also an identity of the second son of Xiqi City, who has definitely not been exposed to these farm jobs since he was a child, maybe he will really feel a little novel, thinking of this, Zhan Xiu has an understanding!
But the reality is indeed a little helpless, if the old man is to let him experience the suffering of the lower class people, it is purely a bit redundant.
The real Ji Fa has never tried the folk suffering, but I am full of flavors, and it is really a handful of snot and tears to think about!
"But the old man just said that there is a pharmacopoeia to read, and you can also learn from others to practice, which is pretty much the same, hurry up and take a look at the pharmacopoeia first, and then go to learn to practice after a while", Zhan Xiu rushed to the grass hut without saying a word, intending to see what the pharmacopoeia looked like, and I didn't know if there was anything particularly magical.
As a result, I entered the grass hut and found that there was nothing in it, and I looked up and down carefully for a long time, not to mention the pharmacopoeia, and even the things were pitiful, only a broken mat.
A chubby man on the broken mat slept there with his shirt and pants on, drooling and snoring.
When I got closer, this fat man looked quite like the old man who had just seen the master of the Pharmacopoeia Pavilion, his nose was particularly conspicuous, and his fat body shook up and down rhythmically with the sound of snoring, and he was sleeping soundly at the moment, as if he didn't notice Zhan Xiu coming in at all.
Zhan Xiu had a lot of confusion in his heart, and called a few times, planning to ask this person.
As a result, after shouting for a long time, the fat man still didn't wake up, but turned over and snored even louder.
Zhan Xiu was helpless, so he had to shout loudly: "Senior brother, wake up, wake up!" Senior Brother ......"
After a long time, the fat man finally woke up, opened the pair of blistered eyes that were a little swollen from sleep, and Fei Lao sat up from the seat, snorting and listening tired.
Looking at his expression, he was still a little confused, glanced at Zhan Xiu with sleepy eyes, yawned and said, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? With that, his eyes closed again.
Seeing this, Zhan Xiu had no choice but to say loudly: "Senior brother, senior brother! I'm a new disciple to take the outer hall test."
The fat man was a little annoyed by Zhan Xiu's loud voice, and was about to speak, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he suddenly came to his senses.
His eyes suddenly widened at the boss, "What did you say?" Are you a new disciple to take the Outer Hall Test? ”
"Yes," Zhan Xiu replied loudly.
"Haha, this ghost place, someone is finally here", the fat man suddenly smiled after hearing Zhan Xiu's affirmation, stood up from the seat, and said to Zhan Xiu enthusiastically:
"I'm Du Xingsun, a disciple of the outer hall, and I've been here for many years, what's your name?"