In the following days, Bai Suzhen's condition turned critical, and she could occasionally open her eyes and move her fingers.

She was already in poor health, but this time she walked by the ghost gate, and she was even weaker and decrepit, and she was like a gossamer.

Shili Village is located in a remote area, and the nearest county seat is more than ten miles away, and under the recommendation of Zhao Mao, Roger and Luffy, Anduin asked the three of them to go to the county seat with him to buy some nourishing medicinal materials.

Anduin led a thin pack horse and pulled a cart carrying three laughing and playful bear children on the narrow mountain road.

Roger sat cross-legged and shouted in a deep voice, "Eat me a Navy Type 6 Finger Gun!"

I saw him stretch out an index finger and attack Luffy in front of him with the momentum of fierce thunder.

"It's good to come and see my navy six-style paper painting!"

Luffy sneered, and the moment he turned his palm into a knife and slashed Roger's index finger, his entire arm twisted around the opponent's wrist like a light piece of paper.

The narrow board car turned into a battlefield for two people to fight, and all kinds of weird and treacherous moves emerged in an endless stream, and you came and went.

As the so-called chess opponent will meet a good talent, the strength of the two is between the two of them, and they are deadlocked, and they all shouted "Overlord is domineering!"

I saw that the two of them were shocked, and an indescribable inexplicable momentum spread like ripples, and Zhao Mao, who was watching the play next to him, was stunned in place as if struck by lightning, and couldn't even move his eyelids.

The pack horse carrying the cart suddenly stopped, and Anduin glanced back and said lightly: "If you make any more trouble, you will be punished for walking upside down to the county seat." ”

Roger Luffy, who was originally fighting, immediately wilted, lowered his head and complained to each other, and the domineering domineering aura that shrouded the surroundings gradually escaped, and the originally trembling pack horse took steps again.

Only this time, Zhao Mao, who originally had a smile on his face, became dull, he glanced at Luffy Roger melancholy, silently got off the cart, and walked quickly to Anduin's side.

"Sir, I'll help you carry your bag. ”

"That's a good feeling. ”

Anduin casually threw the backpack into Zhao Mao's arms and said, "Just say what you have to do, you have nothing to do, and you are either a traitor or a thief." ”

“..... I would like to learn from you. Zhao Mao held the package and said solemnly: "I also want to practice martial arts like Roger Luffy." ”

Zhao Mao is different from other ignorant children, he is deeply disgusted with the mediocre life facing the loess with his back to the sky, and is eager to change his destiny and let his relatives and friends live a better life.

Thanks to his mother's teachings, Zhao Mao has read more books and read more words than his peers, and he knows that nesting in such a ravine, his future will be as dead and silent as the dead grass on the side of the road.

Anduin glanced at him and said lightly: "What's so good about practicing martial arts?" Tang Chengsui rules, open the imperial examination to recruit talents from all over the world, you study hard, the title of the gold list in the future, the court is Tian Shelang twilight to the Tianzi Hall, the young man is proud of the fresh clothes and angry horses, he sees all the Chang'an flowers in one day, and the marquis worships the wife and the shadow son, isn't it beautiful to honor the ancestors?"

"Where did the head of the countryside come from?" Zhao Mao gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "This imperial examination sounds good, but in the end, how many people can be admitted are from mud legs? It's just a different way to recruit talents from the big families." ”

After a pause, he said gloomily: "How can a country kid like me, who barely knows a few big characters, compete with those clan children who eat and study heirlooms?"

This is the truth, it is different from the TV dramas in later generations, because paper is expensive, the knowledge blockade of famous families, and the cultural classics of this era are cherished strategic resources.

For example, if a poor boy like Zhao Mao wants to study, he has to save money to buy pen, ink, paper, inkstone, scriptures and classics, and he has to worship his master and accept cultivation. These expenditures alone are enough to easily bring down a well-to-do family.

To put it simply, the imperial examination system during the Zhenguan period could not achieve the task of expanding the channels for the people at the bottom to rise - in fact, even in the eyes of Li Dong himself, the heads of the countryside were not included in the scope of the imperial examination to recruit talents.

What is quite dark humorous is that, although the purpose is not the same, this kind of lie that the ruling class specifically uses to fool the people at the bottom is still playing out in later generations in America - a female journalist once personally substituted for the people at the bottom of the slums, working hard during the day and staying up late at night to study and recharge, hoping to prove that the people at the bottom can change their fate by learning.

But she found it almost impossible, with a meager salary barely enough to pay rent, utilities and other necessities, and she couldn't save up money to enroll in some classes, not to mention the fact that she had no energy to be self-taught.

The people at the bottom have no ability to help themselves, and the commoners who have been squeezed out of surplus value by hard work are pinning their hopes on their next generation of children, but the "burden reduction", "relaxation" and "happiness" learning methods that have been implemented in the school are like cultivating piglets, raising the children of the people at the bottom in captivity, so that they are unable to compete with their own next generation, and can only engage in some uncreative manual labor.

This kind of policy of ignoring the people is very much admired by some Western countries, and the upper class has used this bloodless knife to slash the people at the bottom one by one, and the latter, who has been tortured out of pleasure, has become the most staunch advocate of "burden reduction learning", which makes people feel that the Western ruling class's application of social psychology is really perfect, and it is breathtaking.

Anduin, whose thoughts had drifted thousands of miles away, came back to his senses, looked at Zhao Mao with a resolute face and sighed: "I didn't expect you to have such insight at a young age, but I warn you first, you can't learn the overlord color domineering I taught Roger Luffy." ”

Zhao Mao's face suddenly collapsed and asked, "Why? I can endure hardships...."

Anduin interrupted: "It's not a question of whether to endure hardships or not, the domineering spirit of the overlord is innate, and only those strong people who are born with a majestic bearing and a broad and majestic mind can cultivate." ”

The corners of Zhao Mao's mouth twitched, and he looked at his playmate who was still hooking his shoulders and carrying a hippie smile, thinking of the childish time when he had peed and mud together in the past, and he was speechless.

"What I can teach you is just some strange and clever tricks that deviate from the scriptures and classics, and they will not be on the stage after all, even if you do, do you want to worship me as a teacher?"

Zhao Mao was overjoyed, ignoring the fine gravel on the ground and bowed his head, "The disciple is willing." ”

Anduin coughed and said, "What do you want to learn in my life?"

He was really afraid that Zhao Mao would give him a whim, "Can you live forever?"

Fortunately, there are no novels in this era, and Zhao Mao said honestly: "The disciple is dull, and it is all up to Mr. to decide." ”

"You kid seems to have thick eyebrows and big eyes, but in fact he is cunning. Anduin originally wanted to fool around, but then he had to say: "There are three secret books here for the teacher, one is called "Mathematical Principles in Natural Philosophy", one is called "World Metallurgical History", and the other is called "Renjiao Version of Junior High School Chemistry", which one do you want to learn?"

Zhao Mao smiled innocently, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, "Disciples all learn." ”