On the edge of Weizhen, there is a magnificent mansion, and two stone carved lions are erected in front of the main gate of the mansion, which are lifelike. There is a middle gate next to the gate, and there is no carving outside the middle gate, which is adjacent to the gate, which looks very bullying.

Li Hao followed the two men in front of him to the mansion, looked at the mansion, and sighed softly: "Although it is not as imposing as the Martin's mansion, the specifications and area of the building are not weaker than the Martin's mansion at all. After observing, I came to the middle gate, because that middle gate is where the owner of this mansion recruited people.

I saw a gorgeously dressed middle-aged woman standing at the middle gate, shouting: "I'll line up everything, come first and come first, if that guy cuts in front of me, the old lady will break his third leg." The middle-aged woman said something that did not match her gorgeous clothes, but it still had a great effect, and the crowding outside the middle gate was greatly changed, and everyone lined up in turn. Li Hao also followed the crowd and lined up.

After queuing for several hours, Li Hao finally walked to the front, standing in front and looking back, the long crowd did not decrease as he moved to the front, which shows that this family has a great influence among ordinary people.

"Next" watched the people in front of him go in and come out again, and Li Hao finally entered the middle door.

After entering the middle gate, there is a spacious courtyard inside. In front of the courtyard, five chairs were arranged in sequence, and on the chairs sat three women and two men, judging from their clothes, they should be the high-ranking subordinates of this family, because their clothes were the same. In a large family, people who wear the same clothes are generally subordinates, and it is impossible for the master to wear the same clothes, because they are work clothes.

The middle-aged man in the middle looked at Li Hao standing in the middle of the courtyard and asked, "Name, age, where do you live, and what are your specialties?" ”

Li Hao replied: "His name is Li Hao, he lives in a small mountain village in the Rem Kingdom, and his specialty is that he can endure hardships. ”

A woman next to the middle-aged man, who should be about forty years old, said, "There is a thick piece of firewood next to it, you go and chop it into a pile of small firewood." ”

Without saying a word, Li Hao walked towards the firewood on the edge of the small courtyard, there was an axe on the firewood, and there were rust marks on the axe. Picking up the axe with one hand, it is obvious that it feels heavy, and the axe is heavy but not sharp.

Raising the axe, Li Hao chopped the firewood in front of him. He has never chopped firewood, and he doesn't know how to chop it is the best, so no matter what it is, no matter what it is, let's split the firewood first.

After splitting for a while, Li Hao found that the axe suddenly became very handy in his hands. The subordinates next to him were stunned when they looked at this situation, thinking: Is this chopping wood, or cutting people.

Li Hao chopped and chopped and unconsciously used the move in the mixed yuan: 'Swimming dragon and frightening the wind, mixing with heaven and earth',......' He silently recited the mantra in his heart, and his whole body was fiddling with the mantra.

Because Li Hao's movement was too big, the five people sitting in the small courtyard were all attracted by his movements. The five of them stammered at Li Hao's action of chopping wood, and finally seemed to have reached an agreement.

The firewood in front of Li Hao, under his 'hard work', finally became 'chopsticks'. He stopped, looked at his masterpiece, and nodded, seemingly pleased with the result. He turned around proudly and walked over to the five people in the small courtyard, wanting to ask if he was qualified.

Walking to the original position, Li Hao stood and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?" Or the man in the middle spoke: "Have you practiced martial arts?" ”

The man suddenly asked, Li Hao thought for a moment, and felt that practicing martial arts was not a big deal, so he nodded and indicated that he had practiced. Then he said, "I have practiced some in the mountain village, and I use it to deal with the beasts in the mountains. ”…

The man looked at the four people next to him, and all four of them nodded. Then he said, "Congratulations, you have passed the test of the Stephen family, you can go back and prepare now, come here tomorrow morning, and we will arrange for you to go to the right place." After speaking, he said to the person next to him, "Call the next one." ”

Out of Sima's mansion, Li Hao looked up at the main gate of Sima's mansion and said, "Stephen's family, it seems that I am going to stay with you for a while." ”

In the evening, Li Hao walked into a restaurant, which was not large in area, and there were some people scattered around, which may be the reason why there was still some distance from dinner time. After choosing a seat by the window, I exchanged my hands with the shopkeeper, ordered a few of the store's signature dishes, and sat down to enjoy the lively street outside.

may be the reason why there are not many people now, the dishes from Li Haogang's store will be served in a short time. I raised my hand and put a mouthful of food in my mouth, tasted it carefully, and sighed in my heart, "The taste of the food in this world is still good, and compared with the earth, the difference is not very big." ”

"In three days, it will be the day of the Stephen family's Aidan competition, and I don't know who will hold the beauty." A very familiar voice came from the side. When he heard the sound, he turned his head to look and found that sitting next to him was the man who had been talking about the Glo family in the tavern during the day. It seems that this man is very fond of saying right and wrong. This is Li Hao's opinion of this man. I thought: "Stephen's family is competing to recruit relatives, well, this matter still has to be listened to, after all, I will go to Stephen's house tomorrow to report, and I still have to pay attention to the affairs of my own family in the future." ”

The man continued: "Aidan, there is no need to say anything about the long one, the beauty is a mess, and he is still the only apprentice of the dean of our Mick Empire Royal Academy, just by virtue of these two points, as long as it is a young nobleman with a background in the Mick Empire, they have basically proposed marriage to Aidan, but the result is that no one can gain anything." ”

The fat man who was at the table with the man suddenly asked, "What about the prince of the empire, can't he get married?" ”

The man smiled slightly, revealing a sinister smile, although he avoided the eyes of the fat man next to him, but he could not escape Li Hao's eyes. Li Hao took a bite of the dish and thought to himself: "Someone is bleeding again." ”

Then the man said, "Big fat, what do you say, I haven't eaten for a day, and now I don't have any strength, so let's wait until I go home and eat." With that, he stood up and made a gesture of walking outward, but his feet did not move.

At this time, the fat man was in a hurry, and he didn't tell it halfway through the story, how could this work. Immediately grabbed the man and said, "Isn't it just rice, okay, what to eat when you go home, this is the restaurant, what do you need to eat when you go back." After speaking, he shouted to the shopkeeper: "Two or three side dishes." "Okay!" The shopkeeper consciously ran to the kitchen.

When the man saw that his goal had been achieved, he sat back as he was, proud in his heart, but he still said: "Big fat, why are you embarrassed to break the bank, I'll invite you next time." The fat man replied casually: "It's nothing, isn't it just a meal, trivial." Then he said, "Tell me quickly, since Ai Dan has so many nobles proposing marriage, why do you still have to compete to recruit relatives?" ”

The man answered the fat man's question very happily this time: "The reason is this, this woman, Aidan, has grown rapidly since she worshipped the head of the Royal Academy, Levin, as her teacher, and it is rumored that her current strength has reached the second-order Magister. Not long ago, when His Royal Highness the Third Prince of the Empire went to propose, he happened to meet His Royal Highness the Second Prince who also came to propose, and the two princes were fighting for the right to inherit the throne and had a lot of trouble. This was a very unexpected meeting, and both for the same purpose, although they did not move, but the battle between words was inevitable. The Stephen family felt that it was difficult to deal with the two princes, and in the end, I don't know who came up with a way to recruit relatives, which avoided the embarrassing scene at that time. ”…

After listening to this, the fat man sighed, and then said: "The competition to recruit relatives in the next three days must be very lively, and even the women that the two princes of the empire are competing for will definitely attract the attention of many outstanding young people in the empire, such a lively picture, I must go to observe it." ”

After listening to the conversation between the two people next to him, Li Hao thought to himself: Aidan, remember, this woman should be careful and don't offend, otherwise she will be in trouble in the future.

After eating, Li Hao found an inn to live in. Lying on the bed, thinking about how he would develop after entering Stephen's house, it is impossible for him to be a person in Stephen's house in the future, how can he live in such obscurity when he is pregnant with first-class exercises, so I am so sorry for the practice of mixed yuan. I still have to find a way to enter the Imperial Academy, and after graduation, I will be mixed with an official and a half-job, so that I can continue to improve my status through the Mixed Yuan Exercises. After figuring it out, he fell asleep in a drowsy state.

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The next day, a dark cloud appeared in the sky, overcast and gloomy.

Li Hao came to the small courtyard at the door of Stephen's house very early, there were many people standing here, but compared with the number of people the day before, it was too small, and it was obvious that the people here were all people who passed yesterday's test.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked out of the small courtyard, and this middle-aged man was the man who sat in the middle yesterday. He walked to the front of the courtyard and shouted, "Give me all silence and don't speak." Suddenly, all the people stopped talking to each other, and all looked at the middle-aged man in front of them.

The middle-aged man was very satisfied when he saw that everyone was quiet, and then said: "From now on, you are the descendants of the Stephen family, and the Stephen family is the great nobleman of the Sunset Empire, so you can enter this great nobleman today, which is the blessing you have cultivated in your previous life." ”

"I'm a god, the current person, it's still a blessing from the previous life, you have water in your brain." Li Hao said with contempt for the middle-aged man in his heart. Then he looked at the people next to him and found that they were full of enthusiasm and excitement about what he had just said. I thought to myself, "Hey, these people are hopeless." ”

The middle-aged man said: "Let me introduce myself first, my name is Annan, I am the second housekeeper of the Stephen family, and I am also the supervisor of your test yesterday, you can enter here, all of them have been screened by me, so if you work in Stephen's house in the future, if you go wrong, it will be counted on my head, of course, before I am punished, I will also find a backer, otherwise my heart will not be balanced." ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, another man came up from behind, this man was relatively old, maybe about fifty years old, his face was full of wrinkles, but his eyes were bright, dignified and powerful, and he did not look very old.

The old man, before and after, motioned for Annan to go down, and Annan walked to the back very smoothly. The old man cleared his throat and said, "Hello everyone, I am Jack, the butler of the Stephen family. It's a pleasure to have you all here at Stephen's House, and I'm here to welcome you on behalf of Stephen's family. Being able to come to Stephen's house means that you all have a skill, so let's not say anything superfluous, now ask the second housekeeper to assign you to work in the corresponding location. ”

After speaking, the chief butler walked into the small courtyard and handed over the rest to the second housekeeper Annan. At this time, a large piece of paper appeared in Annan's hand, and he said, "Now I will announce that you are going to work there." Then Annan began to announce.

The Stephen family is really a big family, and even the division of labor is so clear, there is a laundry room, a cleaning room, a garment room, and so on. Li Hao was assigned to a guard room. I thought to myself: "When I heard the name of the guard room, I knew that it was a guard, and it was not bad, the guard was not tired of this work, but he was walking and stopping in the courtyard all day, and he was very comfortable." After inquiring about the direction of the guard room, Li Hao walked towards the guard room.

Passing by a small stream, he came to a very ordinary compound, which was red tiles and white walls, and in the middle was a square paved with large stones, and there were large and small traces on the square surface. Looking at the traces, it can be concluded that this is left by fighting each other. …

Walking through the square, Li Hao stepped into the hall of the compound and asked, "Is this the guard room?" "There were two rows of chairs in the hall, opposite each other, with three large chairs in the middle. Now the hall is very sparsely populated, and there are seven or eight people scattered around, all men.

At this time, the only person sitting in the hall spoke, "This is the guardhouse, is there anything wrong with you?" Li Hao thought to himself: "Hehe, I finally found it." He bowed to the man sitting in the hall and said, "Under Li Hao, the second housekeeper assigned to this guard room. ”

The man heard Li Hao's words, got up and walked to Li Hao's side, and looked at him carefully. Asked, "Have you practiced martial arts?" ”

Li Hao replied: "After practicing for a while, it's just embroidering pillows." ”

The man then asked, "What is the realm of strength first?" ”

Li Hao immediately replied, "Fighter." ”

When the man heard Li Hao's answer, his eyes didn't react, and after waiting for a while, he said again: "Fighter, it's okay, you are qualified to enter our guard room." Listen, my name is Elenru, and I am the steward of this guardhouse, and you will be the person in our guardhouse from now on. Wait for me to go back to the place where you live, you go down to the guard room first, get familiar with the environment, and officially become a guard tomorrow. After saying that, Eren Ru called a guard and asked him to wait for Li Hao to go down.

After lunch, Li Hao came to the lake in front of the guard room, this lake is not big, there is a pavilion in the middle of the lake, and a desk is placed in the pavilion. Looking at such decorations, this should be a place where some literati and scholars like to gather.

A person walked in the distance, and from a distance, it was not difficult to see that the person who came was a woman. The woman walked to the lake and faced Li Hao across the lake. Since Li Hao was standing behind a rockery, the woman did not notice his existence. The lake is not very large, and you can clearly see the face of the woman on the other side from the current distance.

The woman opposite, wearing a set of green clothes, with a round face, a delicate face, is about eighteen years old. The woman was standing by the lake, holding a stick about a meter long in her hand, which must be a magic wand. Because when Li Hao lived in Martin's family, he saw Martini carrying a magic wand at any time, although the stick held by the woman opposite was not the same as Martini's hand, it was still easy to judge.

The woman opposite waved her magic wand and chanted a mantra in her mouth, as if she was about to start a spell. Ever since Li Hao learned the Mixed Yuan technique, he has been very interested in other exercises in this world, among which magic is the most interested.

Li Hao, who was hiding behind the rockery, carefully observed the woman's magic. Suddenly, the water in the lake slowly gathers towards the center, and the center of the lake is thrown upwards with the flow of water. After about a minute, a column of water rushed out of the middle of the lake, and the water column slammed upward, and finally stopped after reaching about ten meters.

After a while, the lake returned to its usual calm. The woman on the other side finished her magic, seemed to be struggling, and sat down on the ground with a snort. Seeing this, Li Hao was about to step forward to ask, but at this moment, a person jumped out from the wall on the left, this person was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the woman.

The man stopped in front of the woman, and at this time, Li Hao saw the true face of this person. The man who came was an old man, dressed in a white coat, a bit like a doctor's uniform on earth. The old man said a few words to the woman next to him, and the woman also said a few words in her mouth after listening to the old man's words, and after that, the old man helped the woman jump out of the lake and went deeper into Sima's mansion.

Seeing that the old man and the woman left his sight, Li Hao slowly came out from behind the rockery, patted the dust on his body, and thought in the direction where they disappeared: "That woman and the old man should be members of the Stephen family, and their strength should also be very high, especially the old man, the first image of this old man to me is unworldly and unfathomable." ”…

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On the second day, Li Hao got up early, and last night he was arranged in a wooden house in the backyard of the guard room. The cabin was rudimentary, with nothing but a bed. Although it was very simple, he was the only one living in this cottage. Pushing open the door, Li Hao walked quickly towards the hall of the guard room.

The guardhouse has to practice on the playground every morning, which is the traditional rule of the guardhouse. Li Hao was on his first day on duty today, so he got up early, and when he came to the playground, there were not many people.

"Li Hao, come here." A young guard on the edge of the playground beckoned to him, the young man was the person who arranged his house yesterday, surnamed Xiao, a famous soldier, a local.

Xiao Bing was not alone, there were three or four people of his age standing next to him, judging from their clothes, they were also people in the guard room.

Xiao Bing saw Li Hao walking towards him, so he said to a few people next to him: "Let me introduce you, this person was new to our guard room yesterday, don't look at his age and we are about the same age, now others are fighters." ”

The others sighed, "Wow, fighter, it's an intermediate force in our guard room. ”

Li Hao listened to their words and thought: "The fighter is the middle force here, it seems that this guard room is nothing more than that, and after a while, after I step into the fighting spirit, it will not be in the guard room to be windy and rainy." ”

Li Hao talked to each other with them, knowing that the few people next to him had only entered Stephen's house some time ago, and their strength was in the realm of fighters.

Suddenly, the entire playground was quiet, Li Hao didn't know why, but he was a newcomer, and he could only follow them when he stopped talking.

At this time, a woman appeared on the playground, and this woman Li Hao recognized at a glance, she was the woman who practiced magic by the lake yesterday. I saw that the woman walked to the middle of the playground and took out the magic stick that accompanied her.

"Hello Miss" The guards in the playground all saluted the woman at this time. Li Hao also learned from the crowd to salute this woman. After saluting, Li Hao asked Xiao Bing, "Who is this woman?" Xiao Bing replied: "She is the eldest lady of our Stephen family, Aidan." "Oh!"

"And what is she doing here?"

"You just came, and you don't know yet, our eldest lady gets up very early every day, and comes to our guard room at this time every day."

"And what is she doing here?"

"Come to a sparring partner."

"Sparring?"

"Don't worry, I won't look for you, your current level is not enough."

"That's, good"

After the two finished talking, they observed the movement in the playground.

After a while, the guard room steward Ellen Ru walked into the playground, and there were about a hundred people on the playground at this time, and it seemed that everyone in the guard room should be everyone.

Ellen Ru walked up to Aidan and said, "Miss, it's still so early!" ”

Aidan didn't react on his face, and blurted out, "Who will be my sparring partner today?" ”

Judging from his face, Ellen Ru was not displeased with Aidan's rude attitude, it seemed that he was used to this eldest lady's attitude.

"Whose turn will it be today?" Eren asked the guards around her. The guards just looked at each other, and no one stepped forward.

Ellen was displeased when she saw that no one came out, and shouted, "Who is it?" Come out quickly, if you don't come out again, Lao Tzu chopped him. It seems that Ellen still has a lot of influence in the hearts of the guards, and a person walked out of the crowd and said softly: "Steward, it's the sophomore turn today, but he is on shift today and is now on duty at the gate." ”

Ellen Ru frowned and said, "Then who is tomorrow's person, let him come, tomorrow will be the sophomore." ”

"Tomorrow is Wang Wu, he has taken leave to go back to his hometown." A man in the crowd spoke.

"Who is the acquired person?"

"Zhou Bo, the day after tomorrow, went to the border town to deliver goods."

Ellen Ru's face was a little unhappy at this time, and he shouted loudly: "Then whoever else can play, come up." ”

After listening to Ellen Ru's words, Li Hao asked Xiao Bing: "Who else can come up, who else can come up, who are you?" ”

Xiao Bing replied, "Those people are all masters of our guard room, and they are all fighting spirits. ”

Although Ellen Ru spoke, the people on the playground still stood up. Aidan stared at the crowd and suddenly said, "Forget it, I'm not in a very good state today, so I'll just let a few fighters come out and let me practice my hands." ”

As soon as Aidan said this, the audience suddenly boiled, some people were happy and some were still happy. Xiao Bing stood next to Li Hao and gloated and said, "Haha, brother, I'm sorry, you're going to hang up the lottery on the first day today, hehe." ”

Li Hao didn't understand very well: "Is that Aidan very ruthless?" ”