Qingtian Pavilion, a training institute, a group of teaching dormitories.

The home of Grand Master Anxi.

Liu Yuntian and An Xi drank tea in front of the wooden house, and the tea was produced in the big red robe of Wuyi Mountain, where the steep peaks and deep ravines of the clear water Danshan Mountain were made. Drink some black tea in late autumn to warm your stomach.

"Chen Letian's talent doesn't seem to be very good, he is eighteen years old, and his veins are still not enlightened. Liu Yuntian put down the teacup and said.

"So what, his comprehensive results are so good, do you dare to break the rules and not accept him?" An Xi asked with a smile.

"Then I don't dare, I'm afraid that the master will beat me. I'm just strange, in previous years, the people recommended by Li Rongsheng were all very talented, but even if the talent was good, Li Rongsheng didn't want to say half a good word. However, the Chen Letian recommended this year has a bad talent, but Li Rongsheng said a lot of good things. It's strange..."Liu Yuntian tapped his fingers on the armrest of the chair.

"Talent, to be honest, isn't very useful. This life is a decades of practice, and what we look at is the comprehensive results, and the excellence of a certain period of time does not mean anything. "Anxi Road.

"That's right, but with so many people, we don't have so much energy to focus on training. The master also accepted twelve disciples, and chose twelve out of more than 1,000 people, and talent was very important at this time. Liu Yuntian shook his head.

"It still depends on the heart, the heart is the foundation, and talent is just the icing on the cake. Don't talk about it, how is Chen Letian, let's look at it, do you want to gamble?"

"Bet on what?"

"Bet on when he will enter the summer realm. ”

"Xia Realm, pull it down, he will be thankful that he can enter the Xia Realm in twenty years. Since you bet, then I'll say widely, within ten years. ”

"I'll take it for a year. ”

"Okay, there's a bet?"

"If you lose, treat yourself to the swallow and return to the nest for three days and three nights. And touch the Master's head. ”

"Okay, deal, you've decided on Master's head, don't cry when the time comes. ”

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In the evening of that day, Chen Letian returned home and went to the Qiushi Inn.

Before it was time to actually serve the guests, the inn was overcrowded, and Chen Letian finally squeezed into the back hall and saw Qin Tieniu talking to the cooks.

Seeing Chen Lotte coming, Qin Tieniu hurriedly greeted him and said, "Lotte, you're back, let me tell you, I have a new idea recently..."

Chen Letian hurriedly raised his hand to stop Qin Tieniu, otherwise he could say that he would not drink water for an hour, and pointed to the front hall and said, "Why are there so many people?"

Qin Tieniu said proudly: "I'm here to buy our newly made lo-mei, let me tell you, that's my ......."

"Okay, Tie Niu, you have grown up, you don't need to report these things to me, you can handle everything by yourself, I came back today to ask you something, did the family that sold fish you told you last time send fish?"

Qin Tieniu said: "The surname Li is right, here, basically send dozens of catties of fish every other day." It's not enough for us, we need at least 100 catties of fish a day... Oh yes, there is a big beauty who came with me, I saw her talk about your eyebrows flying, you are too fast, you will have to get such a beautiful woman in a few days after coming back, admire and admire!"

Chen Letian gave Qin Tieniu a punch and said with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, that girl is an old friend I just met." ”

"Just met... Old man?" Qin Tieniu scratched his head.

"Yes, alas, I told you that you don't understand either. Forget it, you're busy with you, I'll go back to my room and rest. ”

When he returned to the room, Chen Letian saw a letter on the table, and the signature on the envelope was the Eighth Regiment of the Forward Battalion of the Northern Army. I immediately felt very cordial, it was my own battalion and my own army. When I opened the letter, there was a thick pile inside, and the words on it were really miserable, crooked and crooked, like the words of a six- or seven-year-old child who had just started school.

See the letter as well.

Is the Lotte exam going well, and is it going to be admitted to the academy? You kid will definitely be able to get in, I heard Captain Huang say, if you can't pass the exam, then no one in our entire forward battalion will be admitted. I think Captain Huang is blowing too much, don't talk about other troops, just our army, ten people, in addition to you, you can at least nine people, haha.

Let me tell you, a few days ago, we went to Xiliang, passed by Dingyang City, and camped under the city of Shan Yongkui, the guard general of Liang State, within a stone's throw away. That old man is really a coward, he didn't dare to let out a fart, haha. However, the general still scolded our battalion and punished our entire forward battalion for running 200 miles at night. Why? Because our entire battalion didn't come up with a single way to prepare for a night attack on Dingyang City. We really can't think of it, the place where we camped is too close to the city, we really can't think of a way, if you are, I guess we can come up with a way, right? Everyone was scolding you later, saying that you are gone, and our forward battalion is missing Zhuge Liang, but in our opinion, bullshit, you are at most the Sima Yi who lacks resourcefulness, hahaha.

Oh yes, in Huang Changgu, we ran into Xiliang soldiers and horses. The group of Second Ancestors stunned us, they didn't panic when they saw blood, they were much stronger than when we first joined the army. I still remember that when Xiaohai and Xiaohu first came, they were so scared that they peed their pants in the first battle, haha.

Captain Huang said, your military status will always be retained, no matter when you come back, the eighth unit of our forward battalion is waiting for you here. But of course we don't want you to come back, if you go out of our army, you must mix as much as possible, and it will be a shame to come back.

Okay, without further ado, in the end, let's have a word for you.

Hai: Does the woman who has the swallow return to the nest taste good?

HU: I've been reading the Analects lately, and it's so exciting!

Liu: I wish you to be on the hero list as soon as possible.

Hao: I have nothing to say, I just want to fight with you.

Yan: Get married early, so we can take a leave of absence and go back.

Qiu: Recently, I've been watching the Golden Plum, which is a hundred times better than Xiaohu's Analects, thank you for your recommendation.

Chao: I entered the spring realm with martial arts, haha.

Lu: Chao is bragging, don't believe him.

Shi: Chao is really in the spring realm, and he dreams of spring every night.

Hope for a reply.

After reading the letter, Chen Letian said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It seems that you have been very idle recently, and you still eat too much and practice too little." ”

The letter from the brothers made Chen Letian feel very good.

Then, he brushed up his most important matter at the table. Practice, he is going to start practicing, and he wants to ascend the Shendulou as soon as possible, and become a personal disciple of the master as soon as possible, he has decided that once he cultivates to the Xia realm, he will go to Liang Guo to save Zishu. He also knew that nine times out of ten, cultivators would never reach the summer realm in their lifetime, but he had no choice, Zishu stayed in Caolu for one more day, and the possibility of being assimilated would be aggravated, and even it was possible to be killed, after all, Liang Guo and Caolu, that was a place where monarchs and ministers were suspicious of each other, and people were deceived by each other.

Besides, even if Zishu has a firm heart and will not be assimilated by Caolu, he is like being in prison in Caolu, which is definitely uncomfortable. No one wants to be in a foreign land.

"You must cultivate the Summer Realm within half a year, you must!" He said to himself fiercely before going to bed.

Early the next morning, Second Master Li of the General's Mansion sent someone to call him.

Chen Letian hurriedly had breakfast and went. Li Tong was walking in the yard, saw Chen Letian, and said hello. During this time, I was busy with exams, and I didn't see Li Tong for a month, Li Tong was still the same, he was nearly thirty years old and had not yet married a wife, and he looked like he would never marry a general who was loyal to him.

"The general has replied to the recital on the establishment of the Firearms Bureau, and the saint attaches great importance to this matter, and asks the general to return to Beijing to discuss the matter immediately after completing the border patrol. The two sat down in a pavilion, and as soon as their buttocks fell on the stone bench, Li Tong said.

"Good thing, do you have a specific plan?" Chen Letian said.

"Yes, yes, a month ago, I was thinking about the establishment of the Firearms Research Bureau's personnel, systems, and so on, but it has not yet been determined, because after all, I will only use the murder gun, and I don't know the specific structure at all, I see that you know more about the murder gun than I do, so I came to you today to ask you if you have any good suggestions. Li Tong added some tea to Chen Letian.

Chen Letian drank tea and thought for a moment, and said: "I don't have a good plan for the time being, this needs to be carefully scrutinized, and I can't make a decision for a while, so let's make a plan when I go back today, and bring the plan book after a while, and let's take a look at it together." Then wait for the general to come back and show the general. In the end, the general went to sum up with the emperor, and I think this matter is almost done. This is not urgent, you must take your time. ”

Li Tong hummed and said: "Okay, let's bother with a little bit, this matter is the top priority..."Li Tong suddenly remembered Chen Letian's exam, and said: "The exam results are good, I sent someone to see it on the day the list was released, and I won several first places, but I didn't expect you to be born in the army, and you can also take the first class in mathematics!"

Chen Letian said with a smile: "What's the matter? Look down on us soldiers? Let's march and fight, it's not accurate, and our heads are long gone." Let's just say how much force can be used to kill the enemy with a single knife without wasting any effort? Besides, when blocking, what angle is the most labor-saving? How many times do you exhale and how many times do you suck down? These are all things that need to be calculated. ”

Li Tong also smiled: "How dare you! You practice those things? I really admire it! Now that you have entered the cultivation academy, you still need to work hard if you want to be the last batch of disciples of the master, are you sure?"

Chen Letian said: "To be honest, no. ”

Li Daodao: "Is it good to have a little confidence, do you know how many people you have eliminated when you are admitted to the training institute? I'll calculate it for you, first of all, sign up, at least seven or eight percent out of ten out of seven or eight percent of the exam, take the six arts exam, eliminate seven or eight percent, and take the test for the academy, and then eliminate seven or eight percent." After this pass, you have eliminated at least 100,000 people, which is much more difficult than the imperial examination of the Ministry of Rites. ”

Chen Letian waved his hand and said, "Thank you for your encouragement." But whether I'm sure or not doesn't affect my mood. Winning or losing is important to me, but it's the process of working hard that is the most interesting. It's like when we go to the swallow homecoming, the last tremor is important, but what we spend money to buy is mainly the process of listening to music and chatting and watching in the middle..."

"Poof..." Li Tong just drank a sip of tea sprayed directly on the table, raised his sleeve to wipe his mouth, and gave a thumbs up: "Wonderful! It's really wonderful! This kind of statement, looking at those literati and, I'm afraid it's not as good as you, haha, that trembling..."