Chapter 4 Don't be ashamed, apprentice

swept the floor, but the questions in my head never stopped.

In his thoughts, he heard a gentle voice coming.

"Brother Wang Xiao, are you working hard again, come on!"

Wang Xiao turned his head, he was a young man dressed in a white Confucian suit with a green lotus on his chest, compared to Liu Mingfeng's handsomeness, his facial features were much more ordinary, and he had a gentle smile.

"Fifth Senior Brother!" Wang Xiao's heart warmed, this Fifth Senior Brother Jia Wenting was the most friendly person to him when he worked hard to worship this "Lotus Root Hall". Among his current clothes, there is a Confucian costume that was given by the fifth senior brother Jia Wenting, although it is an old clothes, it still makes Wang Xiao grateful. It is said that this fifth senior brother is the son-in-law of the Jia family of the great clan of Qinjun and the son of the great family. The Jia family originally belonged to a big family, but it is a pity that the Jia family was affected by a certain prince a few years ago, and now it has lost power.

Respectfully bowed to Fifth Senior Brother Jia Wenting: "Fifth Senior Brother, are you also here to practice?"

Jia Wenting said with a smile: "Little brother Wang Xiao, ah, no, it should be, junior brother, I am here to tell you good news, Master, I have promised to accept you from the entrance wall!"

Little junior brother?

Good news?

The master has already promised to accept your entry wall!

Promised to be included in the door wall!

Wang Xiao could hardly believe his ears.

Three consecutive days of kneeling to seek a teacher, three consecutive months of servant-like "trial" days, finally, the clouds broke and the sun rose?

Entering the door wall is equivalent to saying that he has become a formal disciple, and he can not rely on stealing learning, but someone will teach the tantric method! He is also qualified to learn the true skills of the Lotus Root Hall! As long as he becomes a formal disciple, then as long as he does not make any big mistakes, he will not be kicked out! The most important thing is that as long as he becomes an official disciple, then his identity will change, and if an ordinary person wants to be unfavorable to himself, then unless he is ready to offend the entire Lotus Root Hall, he will not do it.

Although Wang Xiao was very strange why he, a trainee disciple with no characteristics, was suddenly agreed to be admitted to the master's sect, but at this time, the joy trumped everything, and he only attributed the reason to his good character.

Wang Xiao couldn't help but rush to Jia Wenting's face, and hugged Jia Wenting's shoulder with some humility: "Fifth Senior Brother, thank you! Thank you so much!"

Jia Wenting said with a smile: "Okay, okay, little junior brother, you go and see the master, don't make the master wait for a long time." ”

"Yes, yes, I see!" Wang smiled and ran to the front hall.

Liangentang is still from a famous family, and it belongs to a branch of the "Qinglian Sect", one of the three major factions of the Great Han Kingdom. It only belongs to the lowest branch, which is named "lotus root".

However, even at the bottom, the emaciated camel is still bigger than the horse. At least, the most basic exercises are the exercises of the Qinglian Sect, which belong to the three famous families of the Great Han Kingdom, and they belong to the "famous and upright" exercises. This is also one of the reasons why Wang Xiao chose to work hard in Liangentang.

And Li Youshan, the head of the Liangen Hall in Chu County, is just like his name, he is kind and charitable, and he is a good person. Although the strength is limited, it is a good name broadcast.

Li Youshan's good name is the second reason why Wang Xiao chose Liangentang. With Wang Xiao's identity as a strange person with no power, no power and no wealth at this time, and a strange person of unknown origin, it is only possible to worship the teacher if he finds a good old man like Li Youshan. So three months ago, Wang Xiao, who felt that he had no livelihood skills and was desperate, would starve to death if he didn't find a place to live, knelt down in front of the Lotus Root Hall for three days, and finally fainted in front of the Lotus Root Hall, and was finally admitted as a trainee disciple.

Li Youshan was sitting on the main seat in the hall of the Lotus Root Hall at this time, wearing a ** white Confucian shirt, with a scarf on his head, and his clothes were completely dressed as Confucians, but on their chests, there was no sign of Qinglian.

This kind of dress doesn't seem to be the cultivator Wang Xiao imagined in the past, in fact, the cultivators in the Great Han Kingdom are all dressed in Confucian shirts, and Taoist dressing must be the mainstream in the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Li Youshan is slightly chubby, and the expression on his face is very solemn, but no matter how solemn some chubby faces are, they seem to give people a sense of no majesty, and they only feel approachable. Next to him was a plain woman who looked like she was in her thirties, with a gentle and beautiful appearance, and dignified and beautiful facial features, which made people feel close. This dignified and demure woman is Li Youshan's wife Xu Qinshuang. Although this master is over fifty years old, she is also a powerful cultivator with Taoism, and she is still as good as a person in her thirties.

On both sides of the hall stood six men and one woman, all dressed in neat and dignified Confucian costumes, dressed in white and standing tall, but they were Li Youshan's daughter and several other official disciples of the Liangen Hall.

Wang Xiao rushed into the lobby, then turned over and bowed down and shouted at the master. But I didn't expect that because I was in too much of a hurry, I didn't stabilize my body for a while, and I knelt down again after rolling on the ground, but the position was a little off, not to Li Youshan but to my sister Xu Qinshuang. His body was covered with dust, and his face was also black and gray, and his appearance was really embarrassed.

"Hee ......" A delicate laugh stopped, but it was the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl standing on the right hand side, it was Li Xianglian. When Wang Xiao heard this laughter, he was even more embarrassed.

MM, who was secretly in love, saw such an embarrassed side of himself, and Wang laughed to death.

Li Youshan saw this kind of apprenticeship for the first time, his face was a little stiff, and he glanced at the woman next to him, and then coughed dryly: "Wang Xiao, didn't I tell Wenting to tell you to pack up and come back to perform this apprenticeship ceremony? Why are you so embarrassed! What kind of place do you think of this hall? What kind of system do you have to climb here!!"

Wang Xiao was suddenly shocked, and cold sweat gushed out.

The Han Kingdom took Confucianism as the state religion and attached great importance to etiquette. Fang Cai was overjoyed, and he was really carried away. At this time, I remembered how unorthodox my behavior was in this great Han country, where etiquette was the first. This lobby is a serious and rigorous place, and his performance ...... If you encounter a strict one, you are afraid that you will blow yourself out, and it is a matter of course, and you shouldn't have half a point.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiao only felt that he had worked hard in the past few months...... I'm afraid it's going to be wasted......

Wang Xiao didn't have time to explain, and Jia Wenting's voice came from outside the door: "Master, it's the disciple who is wrong, and I haven't had time to explain the etiquette of apprenticeship to the junior disciple......"

Wang Xiao has always boasted of his righteousness, how could he help his senior brother Jia Wenting? Hurriedly rushed: "Master, it's the disciple who is not good, the disciple heard that the master was willing to accept me, so he was too eager to come, and he didn't even listen to the etiquette that the senior brother wanted to tell me...... The disciple deserves to die, and he has nothing to do with the senior brother. While kowtowing, he didn't see a trace of shame flashing in Jia Wenting's eyes, who was full of sincerity.

A smile flashed on Xu Qinshuang's kind face: "Husband, although this child is rude, but he is also sincere, forget about the abruptness." Etiquette is important in the heart, not in the form. Well...... I remember that the ancestor of our Qinglian Sect is the person who does not pay attention to form. ”

Li Youshan coughed: "Okay." Wang Xiao, since your master has told you something, then it's okay! ”

Wang smiled, he really didn't know how to apprentice. Fang just came in a hurry, and Jia Wenting didn't talk about the apprenticeship in detail, so how did he know how to apprentice at this time?

Li Youshan waited at the top for a while, but when he saw Wang Xiao's stupid appearance, no matter how big his stomach was, he couldn't put it down on his face, and said angrily: "Wang Xiao, are you here to trick me?"

Wang Xiao was terrified, but he also knew that Li Youshan had already tolerated him, and his performance at this time was indeed very wrong. That is, only a good old man like Li Youshan would tolerate Zi Fangcai's rudeness, and if he replaced others, he would have kicked himself aside.

Although the Lotus Root Hall is a third-rate sect, if it is spread that the head of the sect accepts disciples, but the disciples are not polite in the hall of the Lotus Root Hall, and they are still stunned and unmoved after waiting for the apprenticeship of the master, it is really a great shame, even if it is to kill Wang Xiao, it is not an exaggeration.

"Husband, calm your anger. ”

A gentle voice made the tense atmosphere in the hall suddenly fade.

Xu Qinshuang, the lady of the house, smiled: "Husband, although this etiquette is important, it is also more important than people's hearts. Although this child's behavior is inappropriate, how can you see that he is playing tricks on you in such a frightened state? If you say that the three days of kneeling down and begging for the entrance, and the diligent miscellaneous work in the past three months, it is really a joke to say that it is just to play tricks on you, why do you bother this child? ”

Li Youshan couldn't say anything to refute it, and said with a wry smile: "Madam, I didn't mean to make things difficult for him, but you see how ...... him"

Wang Xiao hurriedly knelt down and said, "It's the disciple's fault! It's the disciple's earnestness to seek the teacher, and the behavior is inappropriate, please calm the master's anger." It doesn't matter how the master punishes the disciples, just ask the master to calm his anger, don't get angry!"

Li Youshan accepted a compliment, and suddenly he was angry and not easy to attack, snorted coldly, and did not answer.

Xu Qinshuang, the lady of the head, smiled: "I saw this child rolling when he rushed in, but he just worshiped in front of me, but it was also fate." Well, otherwise, I'll take this kid in. ”

Li Youshan was good, but when he saw his wife's smiling demeanor, there was a hint of firmness, and he immediately understood his wife's painstaking efforts to accept apprentices on his behalf.

The origin of this Wang Xiao is unknown, although his behavior is indeed sincere, but he has always refused to tell his origin, only saying that the whole family was harmed by the enemy, and only he escaped with his life.

It is taboo to accept such a person of unknown origin as an official disciple. Because no one can say for sure what kind of trouble such a disciple will bring to the sect.

Who is this Wang Xiao's enemy? Is it something that he Li Youshan can provoke?

Besides, this Wang Xiao is exactly evil, why was he destroyed?

If you accept a person who has a great enemy or is greatly implicated as a disciple, maybe one day you will be desolate and depressed.

Being wiped out because of accepting the wrong apprentice is not an uncommon thing in this Shura world.

If it weren't for the fact that this lady suddenly said something about this Wang Xiao three days ago, or if this Wang Xiao had been a trainee disciple for ten or eight years, she would definitely not agree to accept him into the school. Half of the previous episodes were just taking advantage of the opportunity.

At this time, Mrs. meant that if she took over this Wang Xiao, then if something happened in the future, at most her husband and wife would bear it, but she would not be implicated in Liangentang.

Thinking of this, Li Youshan looked at Wang Xiao with a panicked face, sighed slightly in his heart, and nodded: "That's okay! Wang Xiao, are you willing to worship my wife as a teacher? My wife is also from a famous family, and her skills are not under me." ”

In fact, this is just a clichΓ©.

In this world, there is no such thing as "equality between men and women". Although there are many women cultivating truth in this Han Kingdom, in general, in the Confucian tradition, the status of women is far inferior to that of men. Although the status of women is not as low as that of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasties during the earth, the whole society is still dominated by men.

It is normal for a woman to apprentice to a woman, but it is humiliating for a man to apprentice to a woman. Or even great humiliation.

In the matter of apprenticeship, if a man worships a woman as a teacher, first, there are many rumors, and second, it is very insulting to dignity. Therefore, when fighting, there is a particularly insulting sentence that is, "You also come to fight with me in this kung fu, go back and learn from your teacher for a few more years!" It can be seen that men worship women as teachers, and they are very unwelcome.

But Wang Xiao was overjoyed.

Wang Xiao comes from the 21st century on earth and has been advocating equality between men and women for many years. As far as Wang Xiao is concerned, he doesn't feel any humiliation in worshipping a woman as a teacher. And this teacher takes care of herself so much, when she wants to come to learn by herself, she can also learn more real skills. All I want is to strengthen myself, what kind of reputation and fame are things outside the body, so where do I care? Hurriedly rejoiced: "To be able to worship under the master's mother, the disciple is fortunate to have three lives! The disciple will be a cow and a horse in the next life, and he will not be able to repay the kindness of the master." ”

Xu Qinshuang nodded and smiled: "This is very good, I will accept you as an apprentice on behalf of my husband." However, since you worship me, then you can only be a registered disciple of my Lotus Root Hall at present, and your name is not on the score, do you know?"

If the name is not on the score, this is another great humiliation for ordinary disciples.

The so-called name is not in the score, which is equivalent to an auditor. You can learn without being recognized as a formal protant. When you go out to mingle, you can't say "I'm X sect X". When you go out, most of the time there will be no teacher to help you get ahead. Although this registered disciple is one level higher than the probationary disciple, it is not comparable to the official disciple.

This is the equivalent of studying at a certain school in the 21st century, but not getting a diploma.

In modern times, even if you go to school at Tsinghua University and Oxford, if the school does not give you a diploma in the end, you are not allowed to say that you have studied here in the future, and I am afraid that few people are willing.

But this is not the slightest problem for Wang Xiao. What Wang Xiao wants is strength to protect herself, not a diploma.

Wang Xiao bowed respectfully: "The disciple only wants to learn a little bit of the master's master's magical powers, so that he can strengthen his body, and it is a great fortune to know how to protect himself with one and a half moves." The disciple knows that he is foolish, and he will never dare to defile the master. The disciple is so rude today, he should have been expelled, and at this time he can worship under the master's mother, and the disciple's wish is fulfilled. ”

Li Youshan and Xu Qinshuang saw that Wang Xiao's happy and submissive demeanor was not fake at all, and they were secretly surprised in their hearts, and they also put their hearts at ease.

Although Wang Xiao's performance was reckless and rude, it also made Li Youshan and his wife feel that Wang Xiao's child did not have any city government, so although Fang Cai was very rude, it also made Li Youshan and Xu Qinshuang feel a little less suspicious of Wang Xiao in their hearts. At this time, seeing that Wang Xiao only sought to learn skills and not to seek fame, he believed that Wang Xiao's apprenticeship was just for revenge.

Li Youshan said: "In this way, you can't be regarded as an official disciple of my Lotus Root Hall, so you don't need to apprentice here!

"Yes, the disciple retired. ”

With a cold sweat, Wang Xiao withdrew from the lobby.

After walking into the backyard, Wang Xiao only felt weak, a little more tired than squatting for a day. However, at this time, Wang Xiao was relieved.

In any case, even if you are only a registered disciple, you can still learn something!

Thanks to that lady,

If it weren't for that lady, most of the time, most of them would have been kicked out of the Lotus Root Hall and left out. But I don't know why that lady is so kind to herself and takes care of herself several times......

Wang Xiao thought about it for a while, but he couldn't think of where he had seen Shi Niang before, so he only put the reason on Shi Niang's kindness and compassion. Thinking that he was going to visit his master to get the secret method, he only hated that he didn't have any money at this time, and he couldn't send some gifts to his mother to show his gratitude.

At this time, Wang Xiao had nothing to do. Laptops, mobile phones, T-shirts, travel tents, and other things that I had brought with me from modern times were buried in a pile of rubble on the top of the mountain. Even if you don't bury it, how can you take it out as a gift?

Just when Wang Xiao was worried about how to repay him, a crisp voice said: "Stupid junior brother, why don't you even know the etiquette of apprenticeship?"

Wang Xiao turned his head, but it was Li Xianglian, this beautiful girl was looking at herself, covering her mouth and snickering. Wang Xiao only thought of why this senior sister teased herself in the morning, most likely because she knew that she was going to be included in the door wall and become a formal disciple, and she would never have to do miscellaneous work in the future, so she deliberately let herself sweep more.

Wang Xiao hurriedly saluted: "Hello senior sister, I haven't seen senior sister for a few days, but I don't know what adventures senior sister has had and what panacea she has eaten." ”

Li Xianglian accepted the salute wantonly, with a puzzled face: "I didn't take any panacea, why do you say that?"

Wang smiled with a look of surprise: "The little brother just found that the senior sister was a little more beautiful than what he saw the day before yesterday, and he just thought that the senior sister had eaten some treasures, but he didn't expect that it was the senior sister You were born beautiful!"

Li Xianglian's face turned red and she said: "Flamboyant thief, hmph, my mother is somehow so good to you! She also specially instructed me to tell you the etiquette of apprenticeship first! Hmph, senior brother is so powerful, my mother is not as good as you!" When Li Xianglian talked about senior brother, her eyes naturally showed a trace of reverence and admiration.