"Bring her here."

"Yes, Deacon Zhang!" The young man in blue answered, and then brought Hua Ying, who looked confused, to the big man in black.

Deacon Zhang's eyes lit up, and he looked seriously at the little girl from the mountain village in front of him. Seeing that he was about eight or nine years old, although he was dressed in simple gray cloth clothes, his small hands and face were very clean, and he had strange white hair, he was immediately interested.

"Little girl, what's your name?"

"Flowers." Hua Ying was timid.

"Hehe, the name is quite good, the light of the fireflies can also compete with the bright moon."

Zhang Zhi praised it beforehand, then pointed to Hua Ying's hair and asked, "Was your white hair born with it, or is there another reason?" ”

"Back to your predecessors, you were born like this."

"Oh, that's pretty strange."

Deacon Zhang nodded, with a look of sudden realization on his face, no longer entangled in this matter, and then said bluntly: "I see that your qualifications are mediocre, and you have no talent for martial arts, although you can't turn a disciple of the Sword Sect for me, but ......."

Hua Ying was originally curious about what the other party called herself, but when she suddenly heard this, her heart was slammed, and she secretly said that this was indeed the case.

"However, there are still a few maids in our faction, although the treatment is not as good as that of ordinary disciples, but they also eat and drink without worry, sleep well and dress warmly, I don't know if you are willing?"

Deacon Zhang, the big man in black, was smiling all over his face at the moment, and he looked inexplicably a little weird.

"Maid?"

Hua Ying was stunned for a moment, first turned around and glanced at the parents in the crowd, then bit her lip lightly, and asked tentatively:

"Can a maid practice martial arts?"

"Naturally, it can't."

Deacon Zhang was stunned when he heard this, obviously not expecting the other party to be this problem.

Hua Ying was disappointed.

"Little girl, how can practicing martial arts be such a simple thing, the hard work is not something you can understand at such a young age. Although there are many female disciples in our sect, none of them are ordinary people, and women have higher requirements for martial arts than men, and they are not easy to learn. ”

"If you can't practice martial arts, then you won't be a maid."

Although Hua Ying is young, she also understands what it means to be a maid in today's world, and she has to sign a deed of sale. If you can practice martial arts, even if your talent is not good, there may be a glimmer of hope in the future.

If she couldn't, then she would never agree.

Thinking of this, Hua Ying turned around and left.

"Wait."

Footsteps stopped.

"It's not a big deal, if you insist on practicing martial arts, it's not impossible, as long as you serve people comfortably, the rest is up to you."

A glimmer of light flashed in Deacon Zhang's eyes, and his words revealed an inexplicable meaning.

"Is this true?" Hua Ying asked.

"That's nature."

"Good!"

Hua Ying nodded in agreement.

She didn't believe that the other party would coax her for no reason, after all, she was a senior of a famous family, and there was no need to lie to a child.

It's just that in the future, I'm afraid I will have to be a maid to bring tea and water to people every day, wash and fold quilts. However, this is not a chore for her, after all, she is a child who grew up in a mountain village, and she can still endure some hardship.

What's more, for the poor, serving the rich is not considered hardship.

However, none of this matters, finding an opportunity to practice martial arts is the purpose of Hua Ying, as long as she can become what her parents call 'a person with a face in Qingyang Town', no matter how hard it is, it is worth it. She has to change not only her own destiny, but also the fate of her parents and family.

This is not only the expectation of her parents for Hua Ying, but also the decision in her own heart.

Half a day later.

A carriage drove slowly on the potholed dirt road, and on the horses leading the way in front of them were two young men in blue and a man in black.

Zhang Wu rode on a horse, straightened up and looked into the distance, estimating that there were still two or three miles to Qingyang Town, and said sideways to the disciples beside him: "Wait until you enter the town, you two will take these children to the east of the town to meet with Hall Master Li and others and obey the command, set off tonight, all affairs must be prepared, do not be careless." ”

"Deacon, it's not early today, why don't you rest in this Qingyang Town for one night, and it's not too late to return to the sect tomorrow?" A young man in blue was surprised.

It was already dusk, and the sunset in the distance was only a corner of the city.

"I have sent too many people to this Qingyang Town in the past few days, I am afraid that the news has already leaked, and the delay of half a day will be extraneous branches, this matter is instructed by Hall Master Li, don't ask too much." Zhang Wu's face was solemn, "I'll prepare some things, and I'll make peace with you later." ”

"Yes!"

The two in blue glanced at each other and said in unison.

Not long after, the distant Qingyang Town finally approached, and Zhang Wu asked him to ride into the city first, not knowing where to go.

Then two young men in blue drove into the town with the carriage.

Hua Ying shrank in the corner of the carriage, and woke up in a daze when she heard the movement outside the carriage, she casually pulled the clothes of the children around her, "Second stunned, are we in Qingyang Town?" ”

"Ahh Green... Qingyang Town? I don't want to ......."

The second stunned man seemed to have just woken up, with a blank face.

They came out of Yangshan Village, said goodbye to their families, and were already exhausted from the bumpy ride in the carriage, and they never thought that half a day would pass just for a short rest, and now they were confused where they went.

"Sister Erya, let's go to the town, I just saw a lot of people outside, and there are also sugar gourd sellers!"

In the carriage, the youngest dog baby is the most sober one, this kid is the youngest who has never been far away, except for a few sad cries at the beginning, he is very energetic all the way, like a wild monkey, if it weren't for the other children who are annoying him, he would have yelled a long time ago.

"I'll see."

Hua Ying rubbed her eyes, squatted down to the window of the carriage, gently pushed open a small slit, and looked out curiously.

"Sugar gourd, two pennies in a string, no sour, no money! Take a look! ”

"Eat wontons, big wontons with thin skin and big filling."

“......”

Although she had been to Qingyang Town several times, Hua Ying was still stunned by the prosperous scene in front of her.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the traffic was busy, the street was full of hawkers, smelling the fragrant big wontons, her little belly screamed uncontrollably.

The full appetite swept away Hua Ying's low mood due to leaving home in an instant.

She was not the only one in the carriage, and the other children also gathered around, looking at the scene outside the car with longing eyes.

"Sister Erya, are we going to live in this town in the future? That's great, and when I make money, I'll have to try the sugar gourd. ”

At this moment, seven or eight children are crammed into this small carriage, full of yearning for the outside world and at the same time a little proud.

Several of them are all highly qualified martial arts wizards who have been personally selected by the predecessors of the Sword Sect, and they can only officially join the sect to practice a martial arts, and in a few years, they will be able to cross the rivers and lakes, and be admired by everyone, and they can share the glory and wealth of their parents and families when they return to the village again.

In this situation, the young man's mood is full of spirits, and he fantasizes about the fresh clothes and angry horses.

Hua Ying only looked out the window for a while, and without stopping for long, she withdrew her gaze and silently returned to her position.

is different from the selected children such as the second stunned child and the dog baby, with mediocre qualifications, she is thinking more about how to plan for her future sect life.

If it goes well, after entering the Sword Gate, she will first become a maid, and then find time to practice martial arts—provided that Deacon Zhang does not deceive her.

As for whether there is a master to teach, or whether she can enjoy the treatment of an ordinary disciple, Hua Ying can't even think about it.

She made up her mind that no matter what, she would find a way to get a practice first, and then explore the cultivation problems in the future.

Qingyang Town seems to be small, and it didn't take long after the carriage entered the city to stop in front of a mansion in the east of the city, and the two blue-clothed young men on horseback dismounted and lifted the curtain, shouting at the car:

"Come down, when you go in, no matter what you hear or see, you are not allowed to shout, otherwise I don't care if someone throws it out."

The children were startled by the man's words, and quickly got out of the carriage and formed a group in the street, looking at the mansion in front of them hesitantly, not daring to make a sound.

"Not bad."

Seeing this, the blue-clothed disciple nodded with satisfaction, and then took a few steps forward and walked up the steps in front of the mansion to call the door.

A short time later, a young man also dressed in blue opened the door of the mansion and let everyone in.

"Senior Brother Wang, Senior Brother Liu, this is the last batch of you today, and Hall Master Li is already in a hurry."

The young man in blue who opened the door walked as he walked.

Senior Brother Liu and Senior Brother Wang glanced at each other, and said with a wry smile: "Senior Brother Sun, Yangshan Village is too remote, and we don't dare to stop for a while. ”

"Don't worry, today, there are more than 300 children in the twenty-six villages under Qingyang Town, and Hall Master Li is very satisfied, I don't think I will blame you two for this trivial matter."

"Whew... That's good......"

Senior Brother Liu let out a sigh of relief, and quickly asked Senior Brother Sun, "Senior Brother, I heard that I am going to leave tonight, is it necessary to be in such a hurry?" ”

"Senior brother, it's inconvenient for me to talk about more, but what is certain is that the sooner we go, the better!"

This Senior Brother Sun seems to have a high status in the Sword Transformation Sect, and at this moment, he ambiguously revealed part of the inside story.

"Mo Fei's ......" Senior Brother Liu was suddenly startled.

"Shh

Senior Brother Sun was immediately silenced.

The conversation between the three of them lasted only a moment, and the conversation was so loud that it did not attract the attention of the children behind them.

Hua Ying's attention was on the garden in the mansion and the decoration of the pavilion carved with dragons and phoenixes, and they didn't notice the conversation between these young men in blue at all.

As they continued to go deeper, they soon came to a wide open space in the backyard.

Under the moonlit night sky, there were many children of about the same age, and there were probably hundreds of people in the dark, and they were either sitting in groups or in pairs.

Most of them are boys, and only a few are girls like Hua Ying.

When these children saw the newcomer Hua Ying and the others, they didn't say much and sat quietly on the ground, and some of them were still holding dry food in their hands and eating there.