Yi Jiuxiao saw the two brothers of the head of the family, Huang Ce flashed his eyes, and saw that Yi Jiuxiao in front of him was taller than a few months ago, and he was very strong, and the twelve-year-old man was like a half-sized young man, and he was like a thin and dry little beggar last year.

"Haha~ If you want to say that cattle and sheep grow fast, they are not as fast as Xiao Yizi!" Huang Ce laughed happily.

Huang Si saw that the head of the family was happy, and also interjected: "This little Yizi practices martial arts every day, of course he has grown faster, and I have been practicing martial arts recently, and my health is much better." ”

"What is martial arts?" the two brothers, Huang Ce and Huang Luo, were asking at about the same time.

The words of the two surprised Yi Jiuxiao, it seems that there is really no one in Qi Country to practice martial arts. It is not surprising if Huang Si does not know what martial arts are, after all, he has lived in the mountains for a long time, and the brothers of the family, especially Huang Luo, are people who have seen the world, and they don't even know what martial arts practice is.

"Master, I'll show you a walkthrough. After speaking, Yi Jiuxiao practiced the family heirloom martial arts seventy-two Louis family boxing, only to see him jumping up and down, flashing and moving, like a storm and lightning.

After practicing, there was no need to speak, Yi Jiuxiao could see from the eyes of the two family masters that they really didn't know martial arts.

"It's a bit similar to the movements of Kabuki in the state capital song and dance studio, but it's much faster. Huang Luo said.

Yi Jiuxiao was dizzy for a while, thinking to himself, this is my martial arts, not dance skills, and what the singer dances are two different things. In desperation, he asked Huang Luo: "Second master, is there an army in the state capital, don't they practice martial arts?"

"The army doesn't practice martial arts, they are all cultivators, and they practice spells. ”

Huang Luo has lived in the state capital for many years, and each state capital has a garrison, and he also has contacts with the army in business on weekdays, so he has a good understanding of the skills in the army. Seeing that the kid didn't seem to understand his words, he added: "There are many people in our Qi country who are cultivators, they have been identified by spiritual roots since they were children, those who have spiritual roots can cultivate truths, those who do not have spiritual roots are mortals, those with spiritual roots can learn all kinds of spells, small spells can cast water, fire and swords at will, and high-level spells can fly in the sky. ”

Spells also exist in the Great Song Dynasty, and they are basically sideways, and they can't be put on the table, and they don't have much power. Spells are mainly used in the folk of the Great Song Dynasty as to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases, or the imperial court is used for stargazing and sacrifice, few people practice in the army, and the spells used in marching and fighting are just divination.

"Cultivating spells requires spiritual roots, where can I identify spiritual roots?" Yi Jiuxiao was quite curious about the spiritual root, although there were magic cultivators in the Great Song Dynasty, there was no so-called spiritual root at all.

Huang Luo has been out for many years, well-read, although he is a wealthy businessman, but he is also quite patient, seeing Yi Jiuxiao asking, he explained: "Spiritual root is a kind of talent, it is an innate thing for people, only those who are favored by heaven have spiritual roots, there are very few people with spiritual roots, and there will be one person in a thousand." Each state capital has a spiritual root identification office, and spiritual root identification can be carried out free of charge. ”

"I'd like to have a chance to get tested as well. Yi Jiuxiao's eyes reflected the light of longing, with firmness and persistence in his desire, he continued to forge ahead in his past and present lives, unwilling to be mediocre, he didn't want to be a shepherd boy for a lifetime, he also wanted to gallop on the battlefield, although he died without regrets.

The three of them were quietly looking at Yi Jiuxiao, a fatherless, motherless and homeless child, his eyes were full of curiosity, and there was also some appreciation in curiosity. They saw in this twelve-year-old a strength, a force worthy of respect and not to be despised.

It was Huang Luo's applause that broke the silence, and a kind of praise appeared on his face, and he said: "Young man, you have ambition! I will take you to identify how about this time? The sooner you identify the spiritual root, it is beneficial to practice." ”

After speaking, his eyes turned to Huang Ce, as if he was asking for his brother's opinion, only to see Huang Ce agree.

Three days later, Yi Jiuxiao followed Huang Luo to the state capital, the means of transportation was a carriage, there were four carriages in the same company, Huang Luo sat in a car alone, two cars were servants, and one car was full of hometown products, Yi Jiuxiao sat in one of the servant cars, and there were two people in the same car.

Carriages are also very common in the Great Song Dynasty, and many large families are equipped with them, but Yi Jiuxiao is still very curious, because the carriage he is riding in is carved with many strange runes, and the walking speed is twice as fast as that of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is very stable, and there are no bumps along the way. Yi Jiuxiao observed the road through the car window, although the road surface was very wide, it was not very smooth, why was it so smooth, could it be the effect of these runes?

The carriage has doors and windows, the doors are closed, and there are curtains on the windows, Yi Jiuxiao lifted the curtains and watched all the way, this is the first time he has gone to the outside world in the year since he was reincarnated, and he can't see it with either eye. Neither of them bothered him, they spoke on their own, only occasionally raising their eyes to look at the child.

Vehicles walk on the post road, the flow of people and vehicles is continuous, there are many villages on both sides of the road, living in all kinds of people, the houses are also section and scale, most of them are brick walls and tile roofs, the form is simple. But it is much better than the dwellings of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Da * people are still mainly thatched huts.

This country is richer and more prosperous than the Great Song Dynasty, and it can be inferred from the flow of people and the dwellings of Yi Jiuxiao that Luowu Mountain, where he lived before, should be a very remote place, and he can really see the life of this country after leaving the mountain.

The car can walk more than 100 miles a day, and along the way through many market towns and county seats, basically day and night stay, and it took ten days to come to the vicinity of Kaizhou City, the seat of the state capital.

Near the city of Kaizhou, the road became wider, and the road surface changed from ordinary gravel roads and dirt roads to stone roads, and the road surface was much wider, full ten zhang wide. There were also more vehicles and pedestrians, most of which were horse-drawn carriages, and there were people of all kinds in the flow of people, including those on horseback, on foot and on shoulders.

But I didn't see the sedan chair, and I didn't see it along the way. In the Great Song Dynasty, civil officials sit in sedan chairs, military attaches ride horses, in addition to official sedan chairs, there are also private sedan chairs, from two-person small sedan chairs to eight-lift sedan chairs. Officials travel to take the official sedan chair, sound the gong to open the way, majestic faces, the bride gets married in a sedan chair, and it is also the only opportunity for many women to sit in a sedan chair in their lives, so the sedan chair of the Great Song Dynasty is not less than the carriage, or even more.

What will Kaizhou City be like, many curiosities passed through Yi Jiuxiao's mind, and when he really came to Kaizhou City, all the curiosity condensed into consternation, and through the front window of the carriage, he saw the whole picture of the city wall and the city gate.

I can swear that this is the highest city wall and the largest city gate he has ever seen in his previous life and this life, the height of the city wall is ten zhang, the height of the city tower is nearly twenty zhang, the length of the city wall stretches endlessly, the city gate hole is like the mouth of a giant beast, as if it will swallow the heavens and the earth at any time, and the whole city shimmers with pale golden light in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The county towns along the way have city walls, but they are only about four zhang, not higher than the city wall of Bianliang in Tokyo of the Great Song Dynasty, and this state city is too high, it is far beyond Yi Jiuxiao's imagination, who can build such a big city, is there such a big city in the entire Qi country?

The carriage did not stop because of Yi Jiuxiao's thoughts, and still drove smoothly into the city, and it was already dusk in the city, and the street lamps on both sides were lit up, illuminating as if it were day. The streets are full of pedestrians, and shops of all kinds are scattered on both sides of the street, and the streets are long and straight, and the pavement is smooth and spacious.

The convoy drove in the city for another half an hour before arriving at the gate of Huang Luo's mansion, which was not small in scale, with many courtyards and many houses. Before the convoy entered the door, the housekeeper Huang Sheng greeted him, and Huang Ce explained Yi Jiuxiao to Huang Sheng, who arranged a place to live and took Yi Jiuxiao to do the spiritual root test.

There was nothing to say that night, and Yi Jiuxiao was arranged to live in an empty room in the wing. After breakfast on the second day, the housekeeper Huang Sheng drove a carriage and called Yi Jiuxiao to go to the Linggen test place together. The Linggen test place is not far, only five or six miles away from Huangfu, and the two of them will arrive in a short time.

Get off at the door of the Linggen Test Office, this is a building similar to the government office, at a glance you know that it is governmental, only to see a plaque on the gatehouse, with five big characters on it "Linggen Test Workshop". At the door stood two people dressed as officials, both holding a stick in their hands, which was different from the standard water and fire sticks of the Great Song Dynasty officials, and was engraved with runes.

Huang Sheng stepped forward to explain his intentions, and gave a small red envelope, although the identification of the spiritual root is free, but the people in the yamen still have to do a point, after receiving the red envelope, one of the officials took the two to the inside.

Walking through the main gate, there is a courtyard in the middle, there is a row of tall houses in the back, and there are also a few officials with sticks standing in the corridor of the courtyard, as well as many teenagers and accompanying personnel waiting in line for the spiritual root test, Yi Jiuxiao naturally has to queue up.

The test was carried out by a white-clothed official, who brought Yi Jiuxiao into a room, the room was very large, and in the middle was a huge object placed on the top and bottom of the circle, I don't know what material it was made of, it was more than two zhang high, and more than one zhang wide, the dome was a black and white Tai Chi pattern, the square seat was octagonal, and there was a gossip diagram on eight faces.

There was a door at the cadre position, and the official opened the door and took Yi Jiuxiao inside, and asked him to stand on a round platform in the middle, not allowed to move around casually, and then the official walked out and closed the door.