Luzhou City is a place with small doors, no busier than Gyeonggi traffic, and there are few inns in the whole city. Bai Jinyu chose a medium-grade inn to be sharpened, and the guy who greeted the guests at the door hurriedly came to help her lead the horse when he saw her coming.

Bai Jinyu thanked him, and was about to turn around and enter the inn, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of two men in green shirts hurriedly walking in front of him.

The people of Cuizhu!

Bai Jinyu was caught off guard for a while, and after only a moment's pause, the two figures disappeared.

Bai Jinyu hurriedly took out a piece of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it to the guy: "Help me open an ordinary room, I'll come later!" ”

Before the words fell, the man had already run far away.

As night fell, the people of the town rose and went to rest, and by this time the streets were deserted.

Bai Jinyu searched for a while in the direction where the two green shadows were going, but found nothing, so he gave up and went back to the inn.

She thought that today was not the fifteenth, and it was not the day when Cuizhu went down the mountain once a month, so how could she see Cuizhu's protégé in the city at this time? The two protégés were in a hurry just now, and they didn't know what was going on.

Bai Jinyu buried her head in thinking as she walked, and suddenly, a low sobbing sound came from nearby.

She paused for a moment, and realized that it was not an auditory hallucination. The cry was young, depressed, and desperate, and Bai Jinyu was curious, so he walked towards the place where the voice came from.

It stands to reason that it will be a little creary to hear the cry at night, but it has just been dark at this time, and this cry is just sad and not so weird, Bai Jinyu walked forward, and the doubts in his heart were greater than the fear.

She turned a few corners and walked into a remote alley, her crying becoming more and more distinct. When she looked at it, she saw a chubby man in a white shirt, shrunk in the corner with his shoulders shrugged and crying.

This is the second time Bai Jinyu has seen a man crying so sadly. The first time was Yu Xuanzi a few days ago, and the second time was in front of me.

She has a weakness, that is, she can't stand others crying in front of her, it's easy to talk about a quarrel or something, and when she sees people crying, she will automatically soften her heart.

"What's going on?" Bai Jinyu asked out loud.

The man cried so intently and sadly that he didn't notice that someone had walked behind him, Bai Jinyu's voice sounded, and he was stunned for a moment before turning his head to look at Bai Jinyu.

In the moonlight, Bai Jinyu visually observed that this man was only seventeen or eighteen years old at most, although he was a little plump, but his eyebrows were still very upright.

The man wiped away his tears and said, "You go away, don't worry about it!" Although the words were very impulsive, because he could not calm down his crying, he said it twitched and was not very intimidating.

Bai Jinyu said: "I don't want to care about you, it's just that it's dark, and you cry like a haunted like this, you want to scare people!" ”

The man was unconvinced: "I've avoided everyone and hid here, I just want to cry alone, isn't this okay, there are still people interfering here?" ”

Bai Jinyu heard the man's collapse and thought that something must have happened to him, so he said, "What problem can crying solve?" Tell me something, maybe I can figure it out for you!" ”

The man pinned his neck to look at Bai Jinyu, stood up and left: "No one else can help me with my business!" ”

As soon as he got up and walked out, Bai Jinyu's eyes were shocked, and he saw the man rubbing a ball of cyan clothes in his arms.

"Are you from Cuizhu?" Bai Jinyu asked in surprise.

The man was stunned for a moment and said, "No." ”

The word "not" was extremely weak, and he wanted to hide the clothes in his hand in the dark as he spoke.

Bai Jinyu couldn't help but get closer to him, his eyes were specially aimed at his hand, and said, "Now that the people of Cuizhu are already popular to be proud of not recognizing their identity?" The people who can be admitted to Cuizhu are all outstanding leaders, and they must have gone through a lot of hard work, do you deny it now, are you worthy of the hard work you paid at the beginning? ”

As soon as the man heard Bai Jinyu's words, the little emotion he had just suppressed suddenly popped out again, and he cried: "I shouldn't have been admitted in the first place, why did you admit me and let me suffer humiliation here!" ”

Bai Jinyu frowned, he didn't understand, this man had already admitted that he was Cuizhu's protégé, but there was really no precedent for a person in Cuizhu who looked at his identity like him.

Bai Jinyu couldn't help but be curious about this strange flower: "In which year were you selected, and what is your ranking?" ”

The man looked at Bai Jinyu, her tone was irrefutable, and she was actually a little familiar, and he replied in a ghostly manner: "Last September, forty-two." ”

"Forty-two?!" Bai Jinyu exclaimed in surprise and asked, "Isn't it, Cuizhu has always recruited no matter how many people participate, only the top thirty will be taken, you ...... Forty-second? Bai Jinyu felt incredible.

The man's face was embarrassed by humiliation, and he lifted his foot and wanted to leave. Bai Jinyu shouted to him: "Isn't it good that someone is willing to listen to you talk about your thoughts?" You and I don't know each other, you tell me to relieve the depression in my heart, I don't know who you are, and I won't let you go out and talk nonsense! ”

The man's footsteps were slow, and Bai Jinyu said again: "Tell me, I'll help you evaluate the theory, and see if this Luzhou Wen clan is a bully?" ”

This man didn't know if he was too young or too simple-minded, but he was moved by Bai Jinyu's words. He turned around, walked to the edge of the wall and squatted down, hugged a pile of clothes on his lap and brewed for a long time, then suddenly looked up and said, "You also think that forty-two people are too much, right?" ”

Bai Jinyu thought about it and shook his head: "It's not much." ”

The man's face was strange, Bai Jinyu stood and looked at him condescendingly, and analyzed: "Thousands of students come to Cuizhu every year to study, and only thirty people are admitted, it is not just too little, it is simply too extreme and harsh. ”

The man sighed and said, "I guess the mountain chief thinks the same way, so since he took charge of the family, forty-two people have been admitted every year. ”

Bai Jinyu was stunned for a moment, and she couldn't wake up for a long time, not only because of what the man said, but also because this was the first time she heard the news of Wen Yan in seven years, and the whole person was a little stagnant.

The man let out a long sigh, Bai Jinyu came back to his senses, and said with some confusion: "But the ancestors of the Wen family have established a century-old door rule, and they can only recruit thirty protégés every year?" ”

Wen Yan has always been empty-eyed, is he already arrogant to the point of despising his ancestors?!

The man shook his head and said, "No, the mountain chief didn't break the door rules. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"Every year, 42 people will be left at the time of admission, and from then on, these 42 people will be evaluated once a month, and the last one will be eliminated and returned home. Therefore, when it comes to the enrollment period for the next year, only 30 people were admitted last year. And only then will these thirty people be given agarwood names. ”

Bai Jinyu couldn't help but be impressed when he heard it, and even wanted to applaud, this was indeed like Wen Yan's handwriting.