Chapter 1: The Day of Seeking Immortals (Part I)

In February of the 40th year of Kangxi, this year's spring was surprisingly cold, and there was a snow a few days ago.

Zhiyun leaned on the beauty couch in the warm pavilion, holding a bowl of black chicken fish maw soup, and a rosewood box was placed on the kang table in front of him, which was neatly stacked with silver staffs.

While she was drinking soup, she took a thumb-sized kyanite and tested the staff one by one, picking out the dull staff and throwing it into the rattan box on the ground, ready to rebuild it.

But after a while, the black chicken soup in his hand was still steaming, and the work was done, Zhiyun closed the rosewood box with a smile, and his eyebrows showed sincere pleasure - in the rattan box on the ground, only a defective product was lying alone, and most of the staff were completely qualified. Clearly, her lovely group of apprentices would have come in handy.

"Fujin, a total of 1,120 people are eligible to participate in the selection this year, which is a lot more than last year......

October casually closed the list in his hand, frowned, and said, "This year, the Holy Lord allows the Han people to also participate in the selection, there must be poor families in it, if it is according to the previous standard of tuition and living expenses, I am afraid it will be ......."

"If there are really people with good qualifications and can't afford to pay tuition, then reduce or exempt as appropriate, anyway, the wool is out of the sheep, and the difference is all made up from the noble brothers, it is not a difficult task...... By the way, when I went out last month, I met a guy who was quite agreeable, but it seems that his family background is not very good, and he can take care of ......" Zhiyun raised her head, answered casually, and waved her hand to pass the report of July.

She is always lazy these days, sleepy, and even reluctant to go to the laboratory, dealing with these miscellaneous things, somewhat slack, but Ouyang went to Yangzhou because of official business, and this year's apprentice selection had to take a hand, fortunately, everything is on the right track now, and a few girls around her have long been able to take charge of themselves, so that she doesn't need to worry too much.

However, Kangxi was actually willing to let the Han people also participate in the selection, which was a little strange, Zhiyun raised his eyebrows, squinted and smiled, probably feeling the wonder of various magic props, and was a little anxious. Over the years, in addition to the 'Shunfeng Ear' and the 'Passing Array', Zhiyun has not presented the cheap and practical props made by the apprentices to today, tasted the sweetness, estimated the value, and estimated that Kangxi will no longer be willing to give up those convenient magic props.

Well, in the current situation, Zhiyun and Ouyang are quite satisfied.

Speaking of which, in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, when Zhiyun and Ouyang played the name of 'Royal Ivy League Spell Academy' for the first time with the support of Emperor Kangxi, the noble brothers in the capital were suspicious and eager to hide far away...... There are all kinds of tricks to come up with

But it's no wonder that the Manchurian aristocracy, who is willing to let their baby bumps go to some academy that pops up inexplicably, not to mention, this is at least three years, and the young ones are good to say, there are already seventeen or eighteen in themselves, and after three years, I am afraid that it will be a career, marriage, and everything will be delayed.

Seeing such a scene at that time, Zhiyun couldn't cry or laugh, and she simply didn't care, she just jumped up and down with them, anyway, what she cared about was talent, not her family background, and only Emperor Kangxi was the only one who cared about her background.

As a result, the ten boys and girls who were selected at the beginning have undergone earth-shaking changes within a year, not only their behavior is very different, but their temperament has also become confident and elegant.

After all, these people have all signed a magic contract, and they can definitely rest assured in terms of loyalty, in the future, it will be all Zhiyun and Ouyang's own team, how can they not do their best to cultivate?

In addition to learning magic, Ouyang also selected some non-taboo and various knowledge from the library of the half-plane, and let them learn according to their own interests and hobbies. What kind of memory potion, refreshing potion and other potions, it is also not stingy, as much as you need, you can provide as much as you need, plus the application of various concentration circles, these young boys and girls with good qualifications are really not slow to learn, and it is estimated that they can learn for ten or eight years for ordinary people in one year.

The so-called belly has poetry and books, coupled with being nourished by the dense magic elements on the floating city, those people are carefully selected from thousands of people, and their qualifications are absolutely extraordinary, if they can't be reborn, then Zhiyun and Ouyang should quickly find a piece of tofu and crash to death, saving people embarrassment.

As soon as a group of reborn children appeared, those who thought that it was another person who had made the 'evil sect' to coax the saint, and the so-called wise family master, who was very disdainful of this, was so surprised that his eyes were about to fall, plus Kangxi vigorously promoted all the selected people, and paid special attention to the grace of those selected boys and girls.

So-those who played clever and fooled the heads of the family who changed people, one by one, they were bitter and regretful, but they had to sigh and began to care about the concubines who were not taken seriously, but they were also their own family, flesh and blood, although they were not as noble as the children of their relatives, they saw that they were promising, and they could also help the family. And those who abide by the rules and do not change people, of course, are proud of their own foresight.

In this way, the situation was completely opened, and on the day of the second selection in the forty-fifth year, before the will came down, the Manchurian nobles in the capital began to clean up their brothers and looked forward to it.

That time, Zhiyun elected a total of more than 100 people, however, the ratio of men and women has changed somewhat, there are 70 boys, and there are only 34 girls, which can't be helped, who makes this time meet the requirements of the people, there are many more boys than girls, it seems that although the status of Manchurian aunts and grandmothers is not low, however, patriarchy is still the mainstream of society.

The choice is naturally a lantern and a feast to celebrate, and those who did not choose are depressed, but also put their hopes in the coming year.

This is much more cost-effective than the imperial examination, the examination of the imperial examination has to be overhung and stabbed, hard and desperate study, boiled down the body, boiled until the head is full of gray hair, and may not be on the list, but such a selection, no matter how many scriptures you have in your belly, as long as you are of the right age, in good health, and have a clean family background, you can participate, and after you come out, the future is also bright, and people who understand in their hearts, how can they not know what to do?

The dispute between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty has always existed in the Qing Dynasty, and now this major event, only the Manchus have benefited, how can the Han people be willing? In the forty-fifth year, the court, the Manchu and Han sides, fought a whole year of lawsuits in front of Kangxi, plus Ouyang directly told Kangxi that the Manchurian Eight Banners Brother Reagan had almost been selected, and if you want to increase the number of candidates, I am afraid you have to expand the scope of selection......

Therefore, in this year's selection, the Manchurian and Han Eight Banners, Bao Yi and those with a clean Han family background can all participate, of course, the Manchurian Eight Banners are preferred. However, presumably, Kangxi will also raise the flag for those Han people who are selected, or use other methods to envelop them.

Zhiyun finished drinking the soup, stretched her waist, hugged the quilt with the scent of grass, and fell asleep on the couch.

Soon, it was the annual Immortal Day again.

Although it is a cold spring, the atmosphere in the capital is extremely hot, not only the men and women of the Manchurian lords are full of anticipation and nervousness, but even the children of the common people are counting on this rare opportunity to ascend to the sky.

The girls took out their best clothes and dressed up before dawn, and the boys obediently let their parents clean up and tidy themselves.

On this day, I don't know how many young boys and girls in their hearts are full of anticipation and anxiety.

Beijing, big locust tree alley, most of the people who live here are poor people who come to the capital to beg for life, the innermost family surnamed He, is from Shandong to Beijing a year ago to join the family, however, on the road, the old couple of the He family unfortunately died, leaving only He Qing, He Hong brothers and sisters.

The two brothers and sisters suddenly lost their parents, naturally they were grief-stricken, but they could only barely cheer up, and took out a large part of their small savings to bury their father and mother......

Fortunately, although He Qing is young, he is also fifteen years old, he is considered an adult, and he looks beautiful and beautiful, and he knows a few words, and he found an errand in a small restaurant in Beijing, and his sister He Hong is also well-behaved and obedient, and can embroider some purses on weekdays to sell, and the two brothers and sisters depend on each other.

In addition, most of the neighbors are honest and honest people, seeing that their brothers and sisters have no father and mother at a young age, they naturally feel pity and take care of them.

Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was bright, He Hong got up from the bed early, walked lightly to the kitchen to make a fire, and picked off the only half catty of pork in the house, which was kept under the eaves.

Looking at the oily fat meat, He Hong swallowed his saliva, finally gritted his teeth and carefully placed it on the board.

He Qing vaguely heard a little movement, opened his eyes, as soon as he woke up, he instinctively reached under the pillow, until he really touched a piece of paper with beautiful green vine lines, he breathed a sigh of relief, first wiped his hands on the shabby quilt, took out the paper, put it in front ......of his eyes, and looked at it intently for a long time, and a trace of panic mixed with joy faintly appeared on his face.