"Daddy, I'm back. The boy came to the firewood room in his backyard and put down the firewood He came directly to the wooden house, and as soon as he entered the door, he felt that the atmosphere inside was a little wrong, and he saw that his parents were frowning and relatively silent.

"Daddy, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing the sound of his son coming back, Qin Cao, who was in a wheelchair, suddenly pounded his head with both hands.

"Dad, you can't do this!" the wife on the side hurriedly stepped forward and pressed his hands.

"Daddy, you, how did you get this。。。。。。。? The boy wept with some trepidation.

"Don't cry. The woman lovingly embraced her son, took him in her arms, and sobbed incessantly.

"Mother!" the young man raised his head from his mother's arms and asked, "Mother, what's wrong with Dad?"

Looking at the immature little face in her arms, the woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in her throat: "Your father's wages have all been deducted by the Xiao family."

"Why did they withhold my father's wages?" Qin Jian asked puzzled.

"Your father accidentally broke a very valuable animal skin, and they deducted all the wages he had been there for three months, and your father was not allowed to work there in the future. Woooooooo

It turned out that after the boy left, the owner of the house, Qin Cao, in order to get more minced meat for his children to go home, scraped too thin when cleaning the animal skin with a knife, and he was not very convenient to work in a wheelchair, and it was not convenient for him to turn around, and he accidentally made a hole in a colorful fox skin, which made the owner lose a lot of money. At this time, the only source of income for the family was also cut off, so it is no wonder that he would harm himself.

The family of three was silent like this, sitting together quietly, until the moontop treetops, Xiao Qin Jian really couldn't bear to lie in his mother's arms and fell asleep, even if he was tired and hungry from chopping wood during the day, he just endured it secretly, without the slightest noise. The so-called children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and at this moment he also understands the difficulties of his parents better. I only secretly made a grand wish in my heart that I will honor my parents well in the future, so that they will no longer work hard for three meals a day。。。。。。

"Xiao Jian, come out quickly!" shouted Iron Bull outside the room.

Qin Jian was lying on the bed and falling asleep, when he was awakened by such a loud noise, wiped his eyes in a daze, and walked out of the room. Said to Tie Niu: "Brother Tie Niu, you are good at what you do, can you do it? I slept soundly, and you still came to quarrel with me." ”

"What else do you sleep on, you little lazy pig, you don't know what day it is!"

"What day?" the little boy was a little confused.

Tie Niu smiled and said: "Today is the day when your little daughter-in-law goes to the martial arts hall, but I heard that there are a lot of martial arts hall specialists in the city who are here to select students, don't you want to try it?"

Qin Jian was not interested in the selection of martial arts students, but when he heard that Xiao Lingling was going to the martial arts hall today, he immediately thought about it. slapped his forehead suddenly, "It turns out that today is the day when Lingling is going to the city." Then he hurriedly rushed back to the house and put on his latest clothes, quickly cleaned his dirty face thoroughly, and tied up his messy long hair with a red rope and put it behind his head. Even the iron bull on the side was a little envious, jealous and hateful. Secretly muttered, "This kid! No wonder Lingling wanted to play with him, I wanted to call her to play with her, but I was refused, it turned out that this kid was all making trouble。。。。。。 ”

"Brother Tie Niu, let's go!" At this time, Tie Niu was still secretly gritting his teeth, and he suddenly woke up when he screamed. "Oh, let's go. The two of them hurried towards the square in the center of town。。。。。。

It was the largest trading place in the town, and at least tens of thousands of monks who came here every day to hunt here to trade their prey. At this time, this place has been isolated and held the five-year martial arts hall enrollment ceremony.

It has been more than 3,000 years since human beings stabilized their homeland, and the so-called things in the world must be divided for a long time, and they must be united for a long time. The five countries of the human race, which were originally monolithic, are no longer as harmonious as they were at the beginning, and now they are even more turbulent. The people of Akari know that sooner or later there will be a merger war between humans, but it is still unclear who will kill the deer. Now the five empires are trying their best to cultivate their own strong people, taking precautions in order to protect their country's roots in the ****. Therefore, great importance is attached to those martial arts halls that are officially registered in the country, and every martial arts hall that can be registered in the country has a public background.

Among the Thang Long Empire, there are four martial arts halls directly under the royal family, and the most powerful ones can be seen at a glance just by seeing their symbols. They are marked by wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. And the owners of the martial arts halls that can be registered in the country are all from these four martial arts halls, so that the royal family has firmly controlled the lifeblood of the entire country.

At this time, the square was already crowded, and all the children who wanted to be recruited into the martial arts hall were in the middle of the square accompanied by their respective adults, which was also the best time for them to change their fate.

Tie Niu pulled Qin Jian and squeezed in from the crowd, but they were young now, and they were too short to see Xiao Lingling in the sea of people, which made the two of them sweat profusely. At this moment, a series of voices came from the front, and although the pitch was not high, it was unusually clear to the human ear.

"Hello fathers and fellow villagers! I am the supervisor of this year's Gute City Martial Arts Hall recruiting disciples, now please ask the parents of all children to go out of the central area and leave your children, and then there will be inspectors to test the bone age of all children, all children between the ages of six and nine can stay, if they are too young or too old, please take them away in time, otherwise the children's future quota will be cancelled and the imperial law sanctions. After passing the Dao test and being recruited into the martial arts hall, the parents went through the relevant procedures. Now please leave quickly" The official's last sentence didn't know what mana was used, but he heard all the adults' hearts tremble, and he quickly ordered his children to disperse quickly to the periphery.

This recruit martial arts disciples strictly follow the rules and regulations, the child is too young and the development is not complete, and cultivating martial arts too early will kill his innate ability, if he is too old to exceed nine years old, then even if he rushes to catch up with his innate bloodline, it cannot be completely released. If the children who missed the age like this were not specially taken in by the martial arts hall, they would be insulated from the martial arts, and the empire was extremely strict about the age limit for these children. They did not hesitate to formulate the law in the hope of cultivating the best talents at their best age.

Tie Niu and Qin Jian both came to see off Xiao Lingling, but they didn't expect that they were also left in the center of the square at this moment, they knew that they couldn't get the apprenticeship at home, so they both retreated sharply, and wanted to walk out of the square, but the square had long been surrounded by a large number of soldiers, and they walked aside and were angrily reprimanded by the soldiers and didn't dare to go out again.

The two of them just stood aside obediently and waited. After a while, a group of soldiers with bone age testing devices in their hands gave a quick test to the children parked in the square. Tie Niu and Qin Jian, one six years old and one eight-year-old, obviously met the standards, and after being probed by the soldiers at this time, they didn't dare to move, and waited silently in the corner of the square.

At this moment, the overseer walked up to a high platform that had already been erected, looked down at all the children, and nodded. A gentle voice rang out. "Children, you are the future and hope of the Empire, the door of the strong is open for you, as long as you join in you may become the future soldier, centurion, thousand-commander of the empire, or you may be a general or marshal of the town, and your family will feel the supreme honor of your achievements。。。。。。 The words of encouragement of this supervisor made all the children and parents next to them all enthusiastic, yes! Who doesn't want their children to get ahead, as long as they can be taken in by those prestigious martial arts halls, they will definitely find a job to earn a living in the empire in the future, which is also the biggest reason for those martial arts halls to accept gifts when accepting disciples.

In addition, now the style of emphasizing martial arts and light literature is even more than in the past, if you want to get a position in the army, then you can only join those big martial arts halls, if you can join the four major martial arts halls directly under the royal family, then it is no longer a problem to be an official and a half-job, even if you come back to open a martial arts hall, it will be a source of money. It can be said that wealth and glory can be selected into the martial arts hall today.

The overseer put away his words and said to all the children below: "Children, now please line up and come to the Dao Measuring Stone on the platform in turn, as long as the red area displayed on it can reach more than 20 Dao points, you can be selected, and wait for the next martial arts hall selection." Okay, now let's get started," as the overseer spoke, a group of soldiers opened up a passage and led the children in front of them upward.

This Dao Measuring Stone is also made of unknown things, about half a zhang high, it looks like a huge jade crystal, it looks extremely clear, there is a small circular hole in the middle that is concave inward, and the aperture is not large enough for the child's fist to reach into. On one side of the stone, there are numbers from zero to one hundred carved from the bottom to the top. Looking at the light and subtlety of the Dao Stone Treasure from the whole body, ordinary people will feel that it is extremely precious.

As the first child was brought to the Track Measuring Stone, the Elder in charge of the test asked him to roll up his sleeves and let the walls of his hands reach into the small holes in the Track Stone. I saw that half of the entire track measuring stone was red, and it stopped at a scale of fifty. Its brightness is clearly visible to the crowd watching below. An old man in his sixties who was on the side of the test couldn't help but smile and nod his head when he saw the numbers on the track measuring stone, and shouted at the martial arts halls on the side of the high platform: "Fifty loves."

Then a soldier led the child to the side of the lantern that had been set up earlier, and as a large number of children came to the Dao Measuring Stone, everyone's Taoism was shouted out again and again. The main reason for shouting so loudly is to let the martial arts halls on the side choose the disciples they are satisfied with earlier, and because there are many martial arts halls, it is also good for the more remote martial arts halls and the people watching from the audience to hear, so as to show that this is a fair platform.

Besides, the innate Dao is very important, and the level of each person's Dao directly affects the height of that person's cultivation in the future. Although cultivation is an acquired thing, it is extremely difficult to reach the peak of martial arts without its own talent. A person's own Dao is up to 100, which is called the Great Perfection of Dao Feeling, and it is not difficult for such a person to ascend to immortality if he cultivates properly, but this kind of person can not be found.

Ever since humans stabilized their territory, the Ascending Dragon Empire had never seen anyone who could reach the Great Perfection realm. Generally, if a child has more than sixty Taoism, it is the object of competition among various martial arts halls. Not to mention exempting the apprenticeship of the martial arts hall from the adults of his family, even if they post tens of thousands of gold coins, they are willing. Just kidding! Once such a person grows up, he must be a marshal and the like, if he comes from that martial arts hall and does not follow the scenery, the benefits brought by him are not comparable to gold coins.

As for those who are not more than thirty, they will be eliminated directly, and those above thirty and below forty will have to bring a lot of gifts to join a martial arts hall, if there are more than forty to fifty loves, then there is no gift money, if it can be higher, then they will have to go to their house to invite the child to join, and when the joining ceremony is completed, the martial arts hall will also send them a lot of gift money, but there are very few such children, so most of the people do not know the reason, only know that if they want to join the martial arts hall, they have to give them a lot of gift money. Poor families like Qin Jian and Tie Niu never thought that they could have a martial arts hall to let their children join in.

This year is a very different year, the first child to come to the stage actually has fifty innate Dao feelings, which makes the old man who tested the Dao feelings and the martial arts hall waiting to recruit disciples on the side are very happy, especially the elder of the Gute City's largest sighing martial arts hall, Saint Xi, who was sitting in the middle, showed a smile as if he had eaten honey water. Who doesn't know the strength of the martial arts gym, as long as they can afford the gift money and want their children to join the martial arts gym, who hasn't inquired, and who doesn't want to join the largest martial arts gym in the city? As a result, many parents of powerful children have done a good job of public relations for them in advance, as long as their children's talents can enter the admission line of this martial arts gym, they will not spare their money.

As the children came up one after another to test the Dao feelings, after all, there were only a few who could appear fifty Dao feelings, and most of the shortlisted children were only in their thirties, even so, they were also very happy, as long as their parents paid the apprenticeship fee, they could also join the martial arts hall to cultivate. At this time, more children under the age of 30 can only be eliminated without their eyes. They all walked out of the square with tears streaming down their heads, and at this moment they could only hate the injustice of God to themselves. Let them be destined to be ordinary people in this life.

The speed of the test was very fast, and after a while, most of the children had finished the test. Just when it was about to be Qin Jian and Tie Niu's turn, they were pleasantly surprised by the call of a little girl from behind.

"Brother Qin Jian, Brother Tie Niu, you two are really here!" Xiao Lingling ran over from behind as quickly as a bird. Qin Jian and Tie Niu hurriedly greeted her, and just as they were about to greet her, the soldiers on the side stepped forward and reprimanded, "Don't shout! ”

Qin Jian and Tie Niu couldn't do it, so they had to go to the stage to test first. When Qin Jian turned around, he saw Xiao Lingling's smiling face as bright as a mountain flower, and this beautiful moment was heavily imprinted in the depths of the young man's heart. It can never be erased again. So many years later, every time I remember this beautiful moment, it is like a dream.

Tie Niu walked ahead of Qin Jian, so he took the test first. The old man on the side asked him to put his hand into the Dao Measuring Stone, only to see that the Dao Measuring Stone was almost half red and stopped on the scale of forty-eight Dao Love. Such a talent is already extremely rare, as long as he originally intended to join which martial arts gym, then it didn't matter if his family didn't have a gift. This is a great creation for their family. It's a pity that Tie Niu's parents were not at the scene, and if they saw their son with such a dazzling performance on the spot, they would not faint on the spot. Hehe!