Chapter 15: Edgeworth
That night, the children quickly learned what it means to "eat a meal for a tael of silver".
Around the time of the unitary hour, a full meal suddenly appeared on the table, from meat to vegetarian, from fragrant rice to flower roll steamed buns, from salty soup to sweet soup, everything was available, and people who watched it were dazzled, but if you didn't put a silver or two on the table, you wouldn't want to touch those delicious meals until you died.
There are also those strong-willed children who resolutely don't buy it, but if they don't pay the money, the food is always on the table, the aroma is overflowing, but there are delicacies in front of the hungry, this kind of torture is no less than hell on earth, in the end, even Ye Ye couldn't help it, and was forced to pay the silver, but the amount of one or two silver was three dishes and one soup, plus rice or pasta, there was no more, and he was so stingy.
Everyone gathered together to eat among the beautiful warblers of Baili Gelin, all of them were angry, and Baili Gelin took a bite and scolded: "What is it called Xiaofeng Academy, just change its name to Grab Money Academy! On the first day, I forced everyone to spend money to buy food, I have never seen anything like this!"
Li Fei said: "The academy recruits new disciples for free every year, there is no source of money, and we have to provide us with disciple clothes and food, and we have to invite Mr. to teach, it is normal to spend some money on a meal, not to mention that it is not a meal to spend money, and when you learn to fly, you should not have to spend money." β
Baili Gelin sneered: "You are too naΓ―ve, you can eat and spend money today, next time you may need to spend money to buy cheats to learn a mental method, and then you will have to spend money to buy pills next time, and the days of spending money are behind!"
Isn't that scary?
Li Fei subconsciously touched the money bag, she didn't have much money, the master left her a total of fifty taels, if she learned an immortal method in the future and spent ten taels, and bought a pill for another ten taels, what could fifty taels let her learn?
The first night of the Young Phoenix Academy, the children passed in anxiety about the huge amount of money they would spend in the future.
The next day, everyone got up early in the morning, and it was ten taels of silver a meal when they were late, and for three days in a row, even Ji Tongzhou didn't want to spend this kind of humiliating money.
At this time, the sky is not yet fully light, and the floating island is surrounded by tulle clouds, green and white, as if draped in a gauze robe. Leaning against the edge of the island, leaning over the edge and looking down, there is an endless sea of clouds, the sea of clouds is ethereal and rolling, bottomless, and it is terrifying to look at.
"You say, what's going to be down there?" Baili Gorin was a little afraid of heights, and shrank behind her sister and didn't dare to look down.
Li Fei was not afraid at all, she stood firmly on the edge, the wind blew her clothes swaying, as if her whole body was about to be blown down by the wind, she said: "There is mud and bones down there, nothing special." β
She lives in Qingqiu, and every time she goes out with her master, she has to climb the Hukou Cliff, and she doesn't feel any of these cliffs, and the bottom of the Hukou Cliff is full of bones of fallen animals, and of course there are human bones, and she is tired of seeing them.
"I guess there's the sea down there. "Ye Ye is a rigorous and rational faction, "We have been flying on the rainbow deer car for more than twenty days, and we have already left Middle-earth for such a long time, this kind of floating island is huge in scale, and it is more suitable to build it on the sea." β
A strange male voice behind him interjected: "Below is a forbidden place full of demons and monsters, and if you accidentally fall down, you will die." β
Baili Gelin screamed in fright, everyone hurriedly turned around, and suddenly saw a young man in red in the clearing, he looked about twenty years old, unexpectedly young, with a colorful gold belt tied around his waist, and the red clothes looked very bright and eye-catching, but because his eyebrows and eyes were handsome, especially those eyes, he was smiling without speaking, and it was not ugly to dress so brightly.
At this time, the adults who appeared in the disciple's room must have been the master of the academy, and the children immediately became nervous, and they all held their breath and waited for the teacher's teachings.
The young man in red looked around and said with a smile: "None of you are late, it's really unexpected...... It seems that everyone has brought their swords with them, and this year's new disciples are good. β
"This gentleman seems to be very talkative. Baili Gelin whispered to Li Fei, "You see him smiling, we are really lucky." β
Li Fei was nervous and expectant, she still wouldn't be able to attract aura into her body, and she wouldn't be able to do anything, so she didn't know if she could learn what Mr. taught?
The young man in red was still saying, "Now that everyone is together, I won't talk nonsense." Let me tell you first, there is no fixed Mr. in the Young Phoenix Academy, every year the Mr. is different, they are all outstanding young disciples selected from the major immortal sects, my name is Hu Jiaping, one of the seven disciples of the Wuyue Court Guangwei Zhenren, now you follow me to learn to fly with the sword. Anyway, in the future, the flight of the imperial sword is the most basic, and it is not even a practice, so I want to learn things from Mr. in the future, and pass this level first. β
He looked up at the sky, and said: "In this way, those who can fly before dinner can go to the north to get food for free, and those who can't fly before dinner will be twenty taels of silver for a meal." If you can't learn it in three days, I'll just throw you down from here. He pointed to the abyss behind him.
The only thing that responded to him was the dead silence of the audience. It's money again! And it's twenty taels! The children are almost numb.
Hu Jiaping sighed lazily: "Okay, then let's start now." β
He clapped his hands, and suddenly a red book appeared in front of everyone, and Hu Jiaping suddenly yawned: "The methods of Edgeworth's cultivation are all in the book, see and practice by yourself, don't bother me if you don't want to, I'll check the results before dinner." β
So he found a big tree, lay down under it, and refused to get up at all.
This...... What kind of gentleman is this...... The children were dumbfounded.
β...... I retract what I just said. Baili Golin burst into tears, this gentleman is not only not like words, he is simply a bastard!
On the first day of coming to the Young Phoenix Academy to start practicing, the children were completely defeated by the cruel reality, but the pressure of twenty taels of silver for a meal was too great, and no one wanted to spend time complaining about this irresponsible gentleman.
Li Fei opened the red book, and his heart sank before he finished reading the first page.
The book is sprinkled with countless mental methods to attract spiritual energy into the body and then sent to the sword, and there are pictures behind it, vividly interpreting the flow and movement of the spiritual energy in the body with pictures, and the tricks of how to control the flight of the sword are all here.
Although this was indeed much more straightforward than the dry words of the gentleman, it was of no use to her.
She couldn't draw the aura into her body at all, let alone control the aura to the sword.
Li Fei looked around silently, Lei Xiuyuan was holding the long sword in the distance in a daze, I don't know what to think, the Baili sisters and Ye Ye were meditating on the ground, and they didn't move, Ji Tongzhou and the county lord of Lanya were reading carefully, and some of the other children were standing and sitting, some were concentrating, and some seemed to have realized - everyone was practicing seriously, and only she couldn't do anything.
After a while, the children suddenly became restless, it turned out that Ji Tongzhou was stepping on the sword and staggering from one end of the open space to the other, although he was not flying steadily at all, but he was indeed flying.
"Hahaha! It's not difficult at all!" At this time, it was not Ji Tongzhou, the sword twisted awkwardly under his feet, one moment to the east, one moment to the west, he held on for a long time with a stick of incense, and then fell from it exhausted.
He looked around in high spirits, and saw Li Feisilly standing there without moving, and couldn't help but feel even more proud, although he compared these lowly civilians to the limelight, the limelight was very cool, but the most refreshing thing really pressed this Diao people.
"Hmph. He snorted haughtily at Li Fei, swung his sword, and began to fly crookedly again, but this time it was much better than the last time.
Li Fei felt like an ant on a frying pan, although he tried his best to stay calm on the outside, he was extremely anxious on the inside. Ji Tongzhou is indeed very talented, and she has mastered the essentials of the sword at once, but at this time she has no time to envy and envy him, and she never thought that after all the hard work to come to the Young Phoenix Academy, the first practice hit a wall.
If she can't learn Edgeworth, she's afraid she won't even be able to go to other islands, and she will have to pay for food, twenty silver for a meal, and when the money is gone, what will she do?
She suddenly remembered that there was still a strange person suspected of being a nine-tailed fox demon attached to her body, and as if she had found a life-saving straw, she hurriedly whispered to him: "Old man, old man, are you awake?"
The elusive hoarse voice never gave her any response, he hadn't spoken since the second election, was he asleep? did he ignore her, or was he no longer attached to her? Even the last bit of hope was dashed, and Li Fei was completely helpless.
Baili Singing Moon, who had been meditating silently behind him, suddenly exhaled a long breath and stood up.
Ye Ye hurriedly asked, "How's it?"
She neither nodded nor shook her head, but closed her eyes first as if she was reminiscing, and after a while, she suddenly opened her eyes and said lightly: "Okay, I will." β
Lei Xiuyuan walked over and smiled shyly: "I, I seem to have some understanding......
Baili Singyue looked at him quietly: "Then let's try it together." β
He hurriedly shook his hand: "No, no...... In case you fall......"
"I'll take care of you. Baili Singyue couldn't help but say, and threw her sword hard, her sword was like a meteor, cutting an arc in mid-air, and finally returned to her steadily, suspended horizontally in the air.
"Let's go?" she stared at Lei Xiuyuan.
Lei Xiuyuan seemed to smile helplessly, and finally threw out his long sword, and among the many curious or envious or surprised eyes, the two of them jumped on the sword together, one was elegant and the other was elegant, as if they were not beginners, but immortals who had already flown countless times.
The sword under Lei Xiuyuan's feet shot out, instantly turning into a streamer, carrying him into the air high and far, Baili Singing Moon followed closely behind him, and the red and white disciple clothes of the two swayed and danced, like a pair of butterflies fluttering in the air.
The children let out an envious exclamation, how could someone learn to take the sword so quickly! And fly so well! The movements of the two of them were beautiful and neat, and they could not be seen as novices at all, and the sword glittered in the sun, shuttling between the clouds and floating islands, which was pleasing to the eye.
Baili Gelin was so excited that he couldn't meditate at all, he jumped up and clapped his hands and shouted, even Ye Ye, who was calm on weekdays, couldn't help but clap his hands, and Ji Tongzhou's little limelight was so easy to come out of the limelight that was completely covered at this moment, he was a little surprised, and a little unconvinced, squinted for a while, snorted coldly, found a tree shadow to meditate, and turned a deaf ear to everyone's exclamations.
Li Fei looked at their elegant figures in a daze, and he didn't know whether to envy or be happy for them for a while. Even Lei Xiuyuan flew so well, it was really unexpected.
The two gradually flew away, and about a cup of tea flew back again, and landed steadily on the island clearing, Baili Singing Moon was bulging in his arms, I don't know what it contained, Lei Xiuyuan also held a paper bag in his hand, which was steaming and smelled like something to eat.
"You can eat for free on the northern island with a name tag. Baili Singyue took out the things in her arms, which was also a paper bag, took out a few buns and threw one person away, "Eat some, save wasting a tael of silver to buy food." β
Li Fei broke open the bun, only to feel that it was fishy, it was actually a meat bun, she quietly put it aside, and she didn't want to eat a bite.
Lei Xiuyuan walked over timidly and said in a low voice: "Eldest sister, I'm sorry, I forgot that you don't eat meat and don't take vegetarian buns...... I'll go get it for you again. β
"Don't worry. Li Fei pulled him to sit beside him, "Aren't you flying very well, you should have some confidence." β
Lei Xiuyuan hurriedly shook his hand: "I, I can't do it, how can I compare to the eldest sister! You must have learned it right away, and you must be able to fly better than me." β
"Xiu Yuan, ......"
She sighed and looked at his timid face fixedly, to be honest, he was such a strange child, a person with great talents, it was good not to bully others, how could he not be like this. He always cries, always has to pull him by himself, she subconsciously regards him as a weakling, but he is not weak.
Lei Xiuyuan had a sense of disobedience.
"Big sister, what's wrong? Look at me like this. Lei Xiuyuan looked at her timidly, revealing an innocent and cowardly look that didn't know what he had done wrong.
Li Fei hated his expression, shook his head, got up and patted the ash: "It's nothing, I'm leaving." β
She couldn't worry about her own affairs, and she didn't have the energy to think about him.