Qian Chao and Lu Pingchuan were the last two to get off the bronze carriage.

After getting out of the car, Qian Chao found that all the children who came with him were standing in front of a large hall. There is a black lacquer plaque hanging on the hall, with three gilded characters of "Spring Ringing Hall" on it. A few young men in green shirts were looking at them under the plaque, the children who had just arrived here, and they didn't see the old man surnamed Tang who sent them here again.

Seeing that these children had come out of the carriage, a young man in a green shirt drove away in the carriage, and then a man in a green shirt who looked a little older stood up and cleared his throat and said to everyone:

"Junior brothers and sisters, this is this Youming Valley, according to the rules of the sect, before officially entering the sect, you have to practice here for a year, go through the refining period and enter the qi refining period, once you can enter the qi refining period, you can officially enter the sect.

Because Uncle Tang traveled all the way, you were also the first to arrive here. It is estimated that the uncle and uncle who presided over the other selections should also arrive in a few days, and when the people arrive, there will be a senior brother sent by the sect to enlighten and lecture for you, and you have worked hard along the way, so take a rest in these days. ”

Later, the senior brother made some arrangements for some matters for everyone here. For example, the Spring Ringing Hall behind them is actually a place for everyone to eat. After all, these children can't eat three meals a day, so everyone can come here to eat whenever the cloud sign sounds.

The senior brother also pointed to the tallest building on the mountainside in the valley and told everyone that it was Tingtao Pavilion, and that in the future, the senior brother of the sect would give lectures there, and everyone would go to Tingtao Pavilion when they heard the bell in the future.

There was also the question of housing, and the senior brother told everyone that everyone could choose the houses in the valley at will, and all the things used in them had been prepared.

Then let everyone disperse.

Qian Chao followed the crowd slowly, and while walking, he looked curiously at this place called Youming Valley.

I have to say that in Qian Chao's opinion, the scenery of this place to stay for a year is still very good, and the road under his feet is paved with fine pebbles, winding in the valley and disappearing into the depths of the trees. The roadside is mostly a fluffy green bamboo, behind the bamboo grows a variety of lush trees, and occasionally in the open space is green grass and red flowers, bees and butterflies flying.

In the shadows of bamboo branches and trees, delicate houses reveal the glazed tiles in the corners. All the houses are not far from the cobblestone road, and at most two or three houses are gathered together and then there is a forest of flowers, trees, and bamboos to get to the next house.

The high mountains on both sides of the valley are densely wooded and green, and the white clouds on the mountains in the distance and the birdsong in the nearby forests are contrasted.

Qian Chao followed the scattered crowd for a while, and then fell in love with a house. He has been accustomed to living alone in a room since he was a child, and he went in to see that the room was not big, a bed, a table and a chair, and the rest of the things were also prepared according to a person's residence, although the furnishings were a little simple, but he was still more satisfied.

The place is quieter and there aren't many houses nearby, just one of the larger ones next to each other. After making up his mind to live here, after seeing that the desktop was clean and tidy, Qian Chao put the burden in his arms on the table, and then reached out to the bed and pressed the bedding on the bed, which was not only clean but also very comfortable, and he nodded with satisfaction.

As soon as he turned around, he saw a person standing behind him, almost face to face, which startled the unprepared Qian Chao, and after a closer look, it was Tang Ping.

"Hey! Why do you walk without a sound, scared to death! ”

Tang Ping didn't say a word, just looked at him angrily.

"What! I'm going to take a fancy to this room first! Qian Chao said again.

Tang Ping still didn't say a word, still looking at him with a puffed up.

Oh, I understand, Qian Chao said to her: "Hey, I am willing to lose the bet, but what you said, why does losing to me not count?" ”

Tang Ping said hatefully: "Of course not, if you lose, you lose, but you are also a man, why are you so stingy, you really took it all, it's not a shame!" ”

It turned out that the chess game bet between the two on this road, Qian Chao didn't figure out Tang Ping's chess path at first, and after he had the bottom in his heart, it became a fun game for Tang Ping, often losing to Tang Ping's candied fruit in three or four games, he could win it back and get a few hazelnuts from Tang Ping by the way, and Tang Ping found out several times.

Competitive spirited, Tang Ping didn't allow Qian Chao to play tricks on him anymore, and asked him to play chess with him honestly, but Tang Ping lost all when he arrived at Youming Valley.

This Tang Ping is also a glutton, and when the crowd disperses, he will chase the tide of money over, planning to get something delicious from him to relieve his hatred.

"Alas! Good, good, wait. As he spoke, Qian Chao opened the burden on the table, revealing the food box and a bag of hazelnuts inside.

Opening the food box, Qian Chao picked up a piece of candied fruit from it and gestured it to Tang Ping.

Tang Ping was mistaken, thinking that this kid was going to take a piece of candied fruit and send himself, but when he saw Qian Chao, he stuffed the candied fruit into his mouth, and then pushed the entire food box to her, then Tang Ping immediately smiled and said, "It's about the same, let's go!" He turned around and ran away with the food box.

Qian Chao shook his head while chewing the candied fruit in his mouth.

But as soon as I swallowed the candied fruit, I heard a voice in the larger house next to me, as if there were several people living in it, and I was about to go out to see who was living in it, when I heard a loud voice from the opposite room.

"Hey! Ay! If there is a vacant bed, then I will live here, it happens to be crowded and lively. "You don't need to look at it, as soon as you hear that loud voice, Qian Chao knows that it is Lu Pingchuan. At this time, Qian Chao had already sneaked out of his house door, standing on the door and looking into the house.

The children in this car all came together, and naturally recognized Lu Pingchuan and Qian Chao, originally this Lu Pingchuan was a rude and reckless person, no one dared to provoke, and they all felt that it didn't matter if they followed him, but this guy's snoring on the road was understood by everyone, if he stayed here, no one would want to sleep peacefully at night.

Those few people were thinking about how there were many empty houses in the valley anyway, and they were about to find a reason to quickly change the house and avoid this scary guy, but when they raised their eyes, they saw Qian Chao walking out of the adjacent house, I really didn't expect that there was still that vicious little evil star living next door, and no one in the house could stay anymore, and they ran clean with oil on the soles of their feet one by one, leaving only one Lu Pingchuan muttering there: "Why did they all run away, a group of boring guys!" ”

When Qian Chao was thinking about who these guys were scared away, Lu Pingchuan saw it and greeted Qian Chao: "Brother Qian, you also find a place to live, come, there are still a lot of empty beds here." ”

Qian Chao naturally didn't want to comprehend Lu Pingchuan's snoring at night, so he pointed to his hut and said: "Brother Lu, the younger brother is not used to living in a big room, I feel empty, I live next door, we are neighbors." ”

"It's okay, we will take care of each other in the future." Lu Pingchuan put the big burden on the bed as he spoke, and said to Qian Chao, "Brother Qian, come, the meat I brought from home is all made by my mother, it's delicious, come and taste it." ”

Li Jian and Qian Chao's backgrounds are similar, although their respective families are literate and martial, but they are also considered rich and noble families in the world, they have been served since childhood, Li Jian is more strict, after all, the Li family governs the family with military regulations, and the daily life of the children of the Li family is the same in the army, and many things have to be taken care of by themselves, his parents died since he was a child, although there are elders in the family to take care of him, he is also used to living alone, and he came to Youming Valley with the immortal master, and along the way, he has long looked down on those oily and powdery family children, so he also found a single house, After entering, I took a cursory look and made up my mind to stay.

After settling down, Li Jian began to worry about the war in Luojingcheng again, after all, his two closest relatives were still there.

He didn't know about the gift of Dan before the Tang seniors left, and he thought that his second uncle was seriously injured and in a coma and his grandfather was aging and his blood was declining, so he didn't know how safe this Luojing City was now. If according to what the immortal master said, since he came to the Five Spirits Sect, has the crisis in Luojing City been solved?

Thinking of this, he wondered who wanted to put himself to death, Luojing City's corpses were all over the field, and the blood was flowing like a river, could all this be caused by himself? What is behind the rivalry between these two countries that I don't know yet?

Li Jian's current knowledge is impossible to understand no matter what, he is now very tormented in his heart, while he can't wait to step back to Luojing City, and on the other hand, he knows that only here can he make the Li family more thoughtful, so he is bored, so he simply sits there holding the sword and silently distracts.

Yan Xuan walked a little dazed with her burden, her past experience made her feel somewhat helpless here, even though she was always bullied at home, but there was still her mother, as long as her mother was there, her heart would be steady. But now I don't know anyone around me, all of them are unfamiliar faces.

Oh, not all, where did the little girl in a lake blue dress named Tang Ping go?

Along the way, she was the only one who was more kind, and took the initiative to let herself sit next to her, as long as she didn't play chess, she would talk and chat with herself, although Yan Xuan didn't have much experience in reading people, but instinctively felt that Tang Ping didn't have any bad intentions towards her, but as soon as the senior brother finished speaking, the crowd dispersed, and that Tang Ping disappeared completely.

Alas! If only she were, now that I was at a loss, I could at least ask her, that girl knew a lot more than she did. Yan Xuan thought of this and looked around again, but still didn't see the blue figure of the lake.

"This girl!" Several young ladies of about the same age on the side of the road suddenly opened their mouths to greet Yan Xuan.

Yan Xuan wasn't sure if he was calling himself, but there was only one woman nearby, probably calling her, so he stopped and looked over suspiciously.

On the side of the road is a small slope of houses side by side, which looks like it can accommodate several people. Several little ladies in bright and luxurious clothes were looking at her with a smile and a groan, and the most beautiful dress at first was the one who called out to her.

"Are you calling me?" Yan Xuan asked timidly.

"Yes! Seeing that this girl hasn't found a place to live yet, how about we sisters live together, and we can be companions in the future, don't you have someone to talk to? The pretty little lady said with a smile.

Yan Xuan was a little hesitant at this time, he didn't want to go, he was really a little lonely alone. Let's go, I feel that I don't know them, and I still think that it would be good if I could find that Tang Ping, although that Tang Ping is a little spicy, but he is also a relatively familiar one. Just as he was hesitating, he heard someone talking behind him, and he was surprised that it was Tang Ping, who he couldn't find either.

"Yo, are you looking for a subordinate or a personal maid?" Tang Ping was holding the food box snatched from Qian Chao behind Yan Xuan, and was looking at the little ladies with squint and disdain.

"Hey! What did you say! The little lady who was talking to Yan Xuan immediately lowered her face and reprimanded.

"Say what? Hmph, do you not understand it or are you deliberately pretending to be stupid, do you think I don't know, if my sister Yan lives with you, I'm afraid you will have one more girl in the future, right? In addition to the daily sprinkling, I don't know how many of your own things you have to push her to do, am I wrong? ”

Tang Ping is not wrong at all, these little ladies played exactly this idea, they were Miss Qianjin when they were at home, and there were people waiting for them inside and out. Although it is a good thing for me to come to this Five Spirit Sect, it is an annoying thing not to bring all the maids and sisters-in-law, and none of these eldest ladies have ever served themselves by themselves.

So when they saw Yan Xuan, who was dressed in cloth and had a cowardly face, they planned to get her to live with them. In this way, some trivial and trivial chores and rough things in the future will be handed over to her, and she can save some light. If she doesn't want to, it's great to give some benefits or stare at and scare her, a little girl who is obviously born in the world, has never seen much of the world, and it is very simple to settle her.

I didn't expect the idea to play very well, and when I was about to succeed, I didn't want to kill Tang Ping halfway.

The little lady who confronted Tang Ping was about to have a seizure, but a clever person stepped forward behind her and muttered a few words in her ear, so the little lady dropped a sentence: "I don't know how to lift!" Then he turned and went into the house with the rest of the men.

Tang Ping didn't let them go, and said loudly: "Don't look down on people with dog eyes, look down on this, look down on that, beware of too many eyes and too small, you won't even be able to enter the inner door in the future, and when we meet, you will call us senior sister, I don't know what kind of face you will have at that time." ”

There was a "bang", and the carved wooden door of the house was slammed against the door frame.

"Alright, Miss Tang, let's go." Yan Xuan hurriedly came over and grabbed Tang Ping.

Tang Ping's words of reprimanding those little ladies, except for the "inner door" or something, she didn't know what it was, but she understood the rest. It seems that their idea of beating themselves was broken by Tang Ping, she was grateful but didn't want Tang Ping to offend people for herself, so she wanted to leave with Tang Ping quickly.

"Fortunately, I caught up with you, otherwise I would have let those little girls get their hands on it, Sister Yan, look, I just went to find that stinky boy to snatch it back, it was delicious, that stinky boy was too stingy, and he wanted to run if he won, how could it be so cheap!" Tang Ping proudly showed off the food box in her arms to Yan Xuan.

Yan Xuan didn't care about the food box and the delicious food inside, she wanted to find a place to live now. "Miss Tang, let's find a place to live first." Now Yan Xuan really wants to live with Tang Ping.

"Don't worry, Sister Yan, come with me, now there are fewer people and more houses here, there must be a good place for us to live, you just follow me."

The two little girls walked for a while, and Tang Ping led Yan Xuan to a house, which was one of the few independent houses in the valley, surrounded by flowers and trees, very elegant and secluded. I don't want Yan Xuan to be a coward, looking at this lonely hut nearby, I can't help but be a little worried, there must be some popularity nearby to seem safer, so I said to Tang Ping next to me: "It's too secluded here." ”

"Sister Yan, there are more men and fewer women here, and it's just right here, do you want a lot of bastards to be noisy here? Besides, with me here, what are you afraid of? Come on, come on. As he spoke, he took out one hand and pulled Yan Xuan to the house.

Yan Xuan pondered that Tang Ping was reasonable, so Tang Ping pulled him into the house.

When he arrived at the house, Tang Ping first stretched out a tender white finger and scratched it on the table, looked at his fingers without a little dust, nodded with satisfaction, put the food box in his arms on the table, and turned around to look at the other furnishings in the house, shelves, boxes, cabinets, chairs, beds and floors, nodded with satisfaction after reading, and said to Yan Xuan: "Although it is not as good as at home, it is not bad." ”

Yan Xuan looked around and said, "It's better than where my mother and I live at home." And he put his burden on the table.

Tang Ping saw an empty vase on the window next to the table, and thought that there were many wild flowers nearby, so she picked up the vase and said, "I'll go pick some flowers." And he ran out.

Yan Xuan put his burden in a cabinet in the house, and there were a few neat stacks of cyan robes in the cabinet, which seemed to have been prepared for their disciples who had just arrived here, and the style was somewhat similar to that worn by the sect brothers who were in charge, but it seemed that the clothes prepared here were not divided into men and women.

Took out two pieces, measured the size and put them on the bed, and was wondering whether to go out to see Tang Ping, when I saw the girl running in from the outside, putting a bottle of brightly blooming wildflowers on the table, and seeing that there were still water droplets hanging on the outside of the vase, he asked Tang Ping: "Is there a pond near us?" ”

"No, we have a mountain spring next to us, and it's very clean."

Yan Xuan sat down at the table and took care of the flowers in the vase.

Tang Ping picked up the cyan robe that Yan Xuan put on the bed and looked at it, and said while comparing it: "This tattered robe is still so ugly, you can't tell a man or a woman when you wear it." Then he threw down his robe and threw himself on the bed, burying his face in the quilt and stretching comfortably, and then he showed his face and looked at Yan Xuan.

Although Na Yanxuan was dressed plainly and had a cloth skirt, he looked at it from the side, and his skin on his neck was as white as jade, and he couldn't help but murmur: "Sister Yan, you are so beautiful, I really don't know which blessed guy will be cheaper in the future." ”

Yan Xuan's face turned red when he heard this, and he couldn't help but turn his head and say, "Don't talk nonsense." ”

"Hah!" Tang Ping sat up from the bed, her feet were very unladylike and swinging around on the side of the bed, and asked Yan Xuan, "Sister Yan, what are you thinking?" ”

"Me? I didn't think about anything. Yan Xuan said.

"Humph! Don't try to lie to me," said Tang Ping, who jumped off the bed, pulled a chair and sat next to Yan Xuan, spread his arms on the table and tilted his head on his arms to look at Yan Xuan.

"Don't say it, let me guess what you're thinking," she swept her gaze over Yan Xuan's face a few times and said, "Sister Yan, you must be homesick and miss your father, right?" ”

Yan Xuan sighed softly, and put his arm on the table as Tang Ping put his head on the table and said, "Well, I miss my mother." After speaking, she also tilted her head to look at Tang Ping and asked, "What about you, Miss Tang, don't you want your family?" ”

"Wait," Tang Ping tilted her head and stretched out a finger to Yan Xuan, "Sister Yan, don't always call me Miss Tang Tang, you are three years older than me, I call you Sister Yan, you always call me Miss Tang seems to be too angry, well, you just call me ...... Call me Ah Ping, that's what everyone in my family calls me. ”

Yan Xuan smiled when he heard this and said, "Okay, I'll call you Ah Ping in the future." ”

"That's right!" Speaking of this, Tang Ping sat up straight from the chair and said with a slightly straight face: "Sister Yan, what's the use of being homesick, there are only two ways to go home to see your father and mother now." ”

"What two ways?" Yan Xuan hurriedly asked.

"One is to be able to officially enter the Five Spirits Sect and become an inner disciple, and when you reach the foundation building realm, you will be more free, and you can go home to see your family. However, it takes many years of cultivation to do this, usually ten or twenty years, or even longer, and some people will not reach that point in their lifetime. Another kind of thing."

Speaking of this, Tang Ping glanced at Yan Xuan, who was full of thought, and continued: "The other is that you can't become an official disciple of the Five Spirits Sect here, and then you have to stay in the Five Spirits Sect as a disciple of the outer sect for five years, and in these five years, you have to do some rough work in exchange for the support of the master, and you have to practice by yourself, if you can't leave the refining body and enter the refining qi, you will be sent back to your hometown by the Five Spirits Sect." ”

Yan Xuan didn't understand what Tang Ping meant by the inner and outer doors, qi refining, body refining, and foundation building, but she understood the other meanings, that is, no matter what, for a long time, she had to stay here and endure the pain of leaving her hometown.

However, the latter method Tang Ping said is obviously not able to become the legendary immortal and then be sent back, if that is the case, she will be sent back five or six years later, at that time it is the age of her marriage, before leaving home, the mother said "some things, if not like this, the mother will not be able to do the master"

Probably what her mother is worried about is this, she is most worried that she will be the same as her in the future, married to a non-human, if that is the case, Yan Xuan does not dare to think about what will happen to her, so she sighed softly, it is better to stay, at least if she stays here and really becomes an immortal, not only herself, but even her mother's life will be much better.

Then, try to become an immortal, Yan Xuan thought secretly in his heart.