The third agility test is the stump run.

Running from one end of the plum pile to the other, the distance is not far, but it does not go in a straight line, but intersperses back and forth between the stakes, serpentine walking.

"Tired of that, aren't you? You take a break first. ”

The senior brother said to Zhao Lin very considerately, summoned a thin young man, and ordered: "Xiaofan, you run and show him once." ”

"Okay!"

The young man named Xiaofan agreed, came to the plum blossom pile, held his breath, and ran quickly from the plum blossom pile, like a butterfly wearing flowers, and ran the whole distance in a few breaths.

"So fast!" Zhao Lin praised it.

It reminded him of the scene he had seen in a dog racing agility race, where the border herd walked through the railing.

"Hehe, this is Xiao Fan's specialty. He couldn't lift the stone urn at the beginning, and he relied on this superior result to enter the door. The yellow-faced youth explained.

Zhao Lin suddenly remembered a question and asked, "How do you time this?" ”

The yellow-faced young man smiled slightly, slapped his right palm rhythmically on the palm of his left hand a few times, and said: "Beat the beat, there is a string in the heart of a martial arts practitioner, which is more accurate than a drip." ”

"I see."

Zhao Lin stretched his hands and feet a few times and walked to the plum blossom pile, "I'm resting." ”

The senior brother nodded and said, "Then let's start." ”

Zhao Lin squatted slightly, and rushed out with his legs kicking the ground.

He didn't sprint with all his might, but learned the movements of Xiaofan just now, shaking his shoulders from side to side during the run, constantly adjusting his center of gravity......

"Nine and a half beats!"

At the same time that Zhao Lin rushed over the plum blossom pile, the senior brother's voice fell: "It can be rated as up and down, third class." ”

"Yes, congratulations!" The yellow-faced young man patted Zhao Lin on the shoulder and said.

"Thank you!" Zhao Lin breathed a sigh of relief, he was quite satisfied with his performance.

"Have you seen enough? Don't go to practice yet! The yellow-faced young man waved to the onlookers like a fly.

The onlookers dispersed, and the senior brother came over and said to Zhao Lin: "You have passed the assessment, and your results are very good, but we still have to investigate your background to see if it is true." ”

Zhao Lin thought that he was really rigorous, and responded: "No problem, please say." ”

"Where do you live, what is Lingzun's name?"

After hearing this, Zhao Lin probably understood the other party's intentions.

In this era, ordinary people did not have ID cards, but the household registration of each household was recorded in the "yellow book" of the county government.

As long as the Liuhemen entrusts the county government master book, you can know whether your origin is true or not.

"My family lives in Sanjia Village, Baitou Mountain, and my father's name is Zhao Baotian."

Senior Brother nodded, "Then let's go back first, come over this afternoon or tomorrow morning." If there are no surprises, you're good to go. ”

"Thank you both, and ...... farewell"

Out of Liuhemen, Zhao Lin made a decision after a little thought: he would not return to the village for the time being, and would wait for the results in the city.

With nowhere to go now, he wandered aimlessly through the streets, saw a bookstore on the side of the street, and remembered that he had been planning to buy a history book all along, but he had delayed it until now because he had no money.

Anyway, there was nothing to do, so he walked into the bookstore and bought a copy of "Eight Hundred Years of the Founding of the Yuan Dynasty".

Zhao Lin learned from the shopkeeper that Jianyuan was the founding year of the Great Yue Dynasty, and the book was written less than 20 years ago.

In other words, the Great Yue Dynasty has existed for more than 800 years.

"It's strange, isn't the feudal dynasty a cycle of two or three hundred years?"

With such a question, he spent half a day reading the book from beginning to end, and the doubt in his heart not only did not disappear, but also had one more question.

Why was there no peasant uprising?

There are several wars recorded in the book, but they all happened within the dynasty, either the powerful ministers seized power, or the powerful rebelled, and there was not a single incident of grassroots rise!

Zhao Lin vaguely felt that the crux of the two problems might be the same, but he couldn't figure out the reason.

Seeing that the hour was not early, Zhao Lin temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart and came to Liuhe Gate again.

"We've checked, and everything you said is true."

The yellow-faced young man was much more enthusiastic than in the morning, "My surname is Yuan, my name is Yuan Cheng, you can call me Senior Brother Yuan." ”

Although he knew that this was the result, Zhao Lin still felt happy.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Yuan."

As he spoke, he took out the six taels of silver that had been prepared, and offered them respectfully.

There were more than a dozen disciples in the courtyard, and Zhao Lin was not worried that he had polluted the money, but his heart hurt a lot.

I went into the mountains to hunt and earned a total of more than 20 taels of silver, and after two tosses, only a little more than five taels remained.

After three months, what will happen to the next tuition?

"I'll take you to Master." Yuan Cheng accepted the silver and said.

Liuhe Gate is not big from the outside, but it covers an extremely wide area, the pavilion of the water pavilion, the rockery verandah, there is nothing else.

Yuan Cheng took Zhao Lin to the backyard and saw an old man sitting in front of the stone steps drinking tea.

The old man was wearing a white-washed cyan robe, and it was impossible to tell how old he was, giving the impression that he was between fifty and seventy years old.

Zhao Lin guessed that this person should be Zhu Huaishan, the owner of Liuhe Gate.

Sure enough, I only heard Yuan Cheng say: "Master, someone brought it." ”

Zhao Lin also saluted, "I've seen the door master." ”

"Well, I know about you."

The old man nodded, took a sip of tea, and said, "As soon as you entered the door, Yuan Cheng will take you to practice martial arts first, and when you break through the power realm and enter the qi realm in the future, I will teach you in person." ”

"The assessment can only see the potential of the body, but not the heart."

"No matter how good the talent is, if you don't have the perseverance to endure hardships, it will be difficult to become a great tool after all, remember!"

Zhao Lin said respectfully: "The disciple knows. ”

……

Before sunset, Zhao Lin returned to Sanjia Village.

He was wearing a set of black tight-fitting practice clothes, and the word "Liuhe" was embroidered on his chest.

"Brother Zhao, what kind of clothes are you wearing, why are there still words on your chest?"

"I haven't seen it, I've seen this dress, Niu Er in the town is dressed exactly like him, and he wears it for martial arts."

"Aren't you working in the city? Why did you learn martial arts again......"

The idlers at the head of the village surrounded Zhao Lin and said gossipingly.

"When I delivered goods to Liuhemen, people said that I was in good health and that I was the material for martial arts, so they accepted me into the door."

Zhao Lin grinned.

He came back in this dress on purpose.

The Zhao family is a well-known poor household in the village, and has received help from many villagers over the years, but also suffered from bullying and difficulties.

With the identity of a person who practices martial arts, their family's status in the village has risen, and if anyone wants to bully them in the future, they will have to weigh it in their hearts.

"I heard that if it doesn't cost you less money to learn martial arts, can you afford it?" Someone asked.

Zhao Lin said without blinking: "Learning martial arts will definitely cost money, people know that my family is poor, so they only charge a little, so I can pay it back when I earn money in the future." ”

The questioner was shocked: "Is there such a good thing? ”

"It's amazing, this is a noble person!"

"See? I told you a long time ago that the Zhao family kid will definitely have a future when he grows up, but you still don't believe it......"