José squinted at this Sophia, although she looked like a little girl in her teens, but from the look and tone she showed after entering the county guard's mansion, it was enough to make José feel valued. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sure enough, Sophia listened to Joseph's words, and just smiled faintly and said, "My background, I'm just an ordinary little girl in the imperial capital, but ten years ago, I was fortunate enough to be favored by my teacher, Master Kant, and then became one of his eighteen inner disciples.

I'm sure you've also heard that the teacher is very famous in the imperial capital, so many famous children have visited the teacher, hoping to become his introductory disciples. However, the teacher always values the innate qualifications in teaching students, so he has always been eclectic in accepting disciples.

I won't talk about the specific process, but in short, I stayed with the teacher for eight years, and then followed the teacher's rules. After we disciples have been with him for a certain period of time, we have to travel and go on our own trips, which is one of his teaching lessons. ”

"Wait, you said you stayed with Master Kant for eight years, and traveled in the northwest for two years, and you are sixteen years old this year...... Aren't you accepted by Master Kant when you were six years old?" José couldn't help but look at Sophia with a frown, and asked in some surprise.

"Yes, I originally lived in an ordinary family in the outer city of the imperial capital, although my family was not very wealthy, but I could barely learn to read and write. It's just that I'm a little smarter than others by nature, and when the teacher accepted the apprentices, my family sent me to his house with a bit of luck.

I was only five years old at the time, but I was able to memorize the entire General History of the Empire and the official revision of the General History of the Continent of Ceylon. Not only did he recite these two general histories in front of the teacher, but he also said other things according to his own understanding. The teacher was surprised and satisfied with my performance, and in this way, I became his eighteenth inner disciple and the youngest. I remember when I officially started, I was just six years old......"

Sophia explained a few words casually, but José noticed that the little girl didn't have any mood fluctuations in her eyes when she said this, and it seemed that she was just a little understatement......

Thousands of miles away in the county town of Sadland, in a small courtyard in the city of Gilliat, somewhere in the outer city, a middle-aged man who looked to be forty or fifty years old was lying calmly on a wicker chair, his side covered with a thin fur blanket, but his eyes drifted into the courtyard.

Although it was already early spring, the chill did not seem to have dissipated, and a few plum blossoms in the corner of the courtyard had just fallen petals, and a servant in an old cotton robe was sweeping the flowers with a broom.

"Time flies. The middle-aged man seemed to sigh in a low voice, and then stretched out his hand seemingly casually, and a falling plum blossom happened to fall on his hand.

"I remember that when I was an apprentice, it was also such a spring. The middle-aged man seemed to be talking to himself, and as if he was talking to the servant: "Almost all the children of wealthy families in the imperial capital, the children of aristocratic families, have been sent to my small courtyard. Oh, the Duchess of the Ellios family, the eldest son of the Norman duke's family, I remember taking my exams back then......"

Master Kant is like an ordinary person at the moment, and he can't tell that this middle-aged man who is not amazing is the famous Master Kant. The servant who was silent on the side, who only cared about sweeping the floor, heard him say this, and the movements in his hand slowly stopped, and then glanced at Master Kant, and also said in a low voice:

"Yes, I still remember these two children, although they were young, they were two extremely smart children. Among all the children of the nobility, only the two children of the Ellios family and the Manno family are the most conspicuous, and in every respect, they should be able to meet the entry standard...... But I remember that you didn't choose them, master, and I was surprised. ”

When Master Kant heard this, he didn't seem to even raise his head, but was silent, and his eyes showed a somewhat complicated look. After a long time, he shook his head with a reluctant smile and said, "These two children are both highly qualified, I know this very well. It's just that in addition to looking at their qualifications, my background and personality are also very important.

Although some people have good qualifications, their temperament is difficult to hone, and although I am somewhat famous, I am just an ordinary scholar in the final analysis, no matter which family I am involved in, it is a very dangerous thing. ”

A hint of surprise flashed on the servant's face at this moment, and he paused for a moment before continuing to sweep the ground: "It turns out that at that time, you saw that there would inevitably be a break between the two families, and if you both taught both, you would cause two troubles. Neither is taught, so neither is it offended?

I thought...... Master, you are not afraid of anything, is there anything in this empire that can pose a danger to you?"

Master Kant shook his head, but did not explain anything, but seemed to look ahead with a somewhat confused gaze, as if he had fallen into his own contemplation.

Although he has been in the imperial capital for many years and his reputation has spread far and wide throughout Gilliat, he has always lived in the small courtyard of this outer city. I don't know how many rich and noble families in the imperial capital hope to invite him into the palace, but he, the first wise man in the imperial capital, has always been so alone.

It seemed that it was the last day of his own announcement of the apprenticeship examination, and as soon as the servant opened the courtyard door, he saw a middle-aged man with a haggard face standing at the door with a little girl of five or six years old. He even remembered the look of the man with humility and deference, the look of countless civilians in the imperial capital, the appearance of a pair of low-ranking people living in the city of Gilliat.

But only that little girl, who always seemed to be indifferent, what kind of eyes were there? as if she had seen through the warmth and coldness of the world, and could no longer stir up any waves. Even a wise man like Master Kant couldn't help but be attracted by this little girl's eyes, and he agreed to assess this girl unusually.

Master Kant still remembers that after the girl was led alone in the backyard that day, facing the first wise man of the empire, the girl calmly faced his assessment. With a surprising memory, she recited the general history of the empire and the general history of the continent that normal people would need to read for several months to read, and casually answered a few questions from Master Kant. He was surprised to find that this little girl, who looked only five or six years old, was as calm as a middle-aged person.

Facing Master Kant, the five or six-year-old girl looked at Master Kant very seriously, and then explained to him her identity and origin.