Lijiang County, Lei Mansion's home.

Lei Luo was still practicing martial arts in the courtyard as usual, and in the main room behind the courtyard, there was a baby's cry, which was the younger brother who had just completed the moon, and after a while, he heard the voice of Lei's mother coaxing the child.

Because Lao Lei's family is accustomed to living a self-sufficient and poor life, even if they are rich now, they have not invited any servants to help, and they even do it themselves to coax their children.

On this day, Lao Lei came back very early compared to the past, and when he got home, he hurriedly pulled Lei Luo into the study, looking like he had something important to discuss.

It turned out that there was news from Lao Lei's Baibao Trading Company, and he also said that this Baibao Trading House was the property of the Bai family, one of the major families in Lijiang County, and this time the big proprietor, the Bai family, wanted to select a group of young people under the age of fourteen from the deacons or the juniors next to the outer door to enter the Bai family to be a new force.

If you have outstanding talent and outstanding qualifications, you can become the right-hand man of the Bai family's descendants, be vigorously cultivated by the Bai family, and become the young man of the entire Lijiang County in one fell swoop.

And this time, the shopkeeper Chen of the Laifu Inn, because he has worked diligently in Baibao Commercial Bank for decades, the chief shopkeeper of the commercial bank got a place for him, but the shopkeeper Chen has only one daughter under his knees, and he is already married.

Looking at the letter of recommendation in his father's hand, Lei Luo knew in his heart that he still hoped that he could get ahead.

However, I heard Lao Lei say that if you enter the Bai family, then you have to listen to the orders of the Bai family's descendants, and you may not be able to return home once a year at that time.

But if he refused, Lei Luo also thought of the result, it must be difficult to explain to the shopkeeper Chen, his father is old, and his younger brother is too young, so if he doesn't grasp it, maybe the old thunder will be branded.

Finally, in Lao Lei's expectant gaze, Lei Luo nodded and agreed after careful consideration, which made Lao Lei very happy, and hurriedly prepared a big gift, personally went to give it to the shopkeeper Chen, and at the same time went to inquire about what precautions there were when entering the Bai family.

And after Lei's mother learned that her son was going to work in the big family, in addition to being happy, there was also a trace of reluctance, so she kept telling her baby son in the room to pay more attention to his body when he went out, and to pay more attention to things in the future.

In this way, a few days later, in the morning, Lei Luo walked out of his door under the reluctant eyes of Lao Lei and his wife, and when he left, Lei Luo left the tiger strength behind, and told Lao Lei to teach his younger brother in the future, so that his younger brother can also take care of the second elder in the future, etc.

When he walked onto the main road of Lijiang City, he glanced back, but he could no longer see the familiar mansion gate.

Lei Luo left tears for the first time, and at the same time warned himself in his heart that he must get ahead, and he must be a big man who stands up to the sky to come back.

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The Bai family in Lijiang City is a famous force in Lijiang County and even in the whole Wuzhou, the ancestor of the Bai family practiced martial arts in the early years, because of its noble atmosphere, fairness, and attaches great importance to morality, it has won a good reputation in the rivers and lakes at that time.

Later, he abandoned his martial arts and engaged in business, and with the help of many friends on the rivers and lakes, he ran a large industry, and he made friends when he was in business, and he was kind and charitable, so the Bai family could eat well in Wuzhou's rivers and lakes, whether it was the underworld or the white way, and it was passed on to the current generation of the Bai family, and it was already a large force and a big rich man in the entire state and county.

The base camp of the Bai family is in this Lijiang City, covering an area of thousands of acres, backed by the Lijiang River, there are many pavilions and pavilions in the whole family, people come and go lively, and even Lei Luo also saw that there is a painting boat with the mark of the Bai family parked by the Lijiang River.

When Lei Luo came to the door of Bai's house, he was also shocked by this antique Noda Manor, and of course, this also made some children of the family who came and went look at him with a kind of hillbilly eyes.

Since today was the day when the Bai family recruited disciples, the entire mansion was full of people, most of these people were dressed as wealthy businessmen or deacons, and they were all accompanied by a young man about the same age as Lei Luo, both men and women.

If you want to talk about the difference between Lei Luo and them, these people look more like the children of a scholar's family, white and pure, only occasionally a few teenagers are the same as Lei Luo, wearing strong suits, dressed like warriors.

After a while, the people of Baifu, who looked like the housekeeper at the door, shouted and asked the young disciples to enter with a letter of recommendation, and many teenagers and girls all said goodbye to their parents and relatives with tears in their eyes.

This made Lei Luo quite emotional, his parents are the same everywhere in the world, and he also walked into this antique mansion with the flow of people.

A few steps after entering the gate, a literati-like subordinate in front of him began to register them one by one with a pen and paper, and every young person in the past had to say the letter of recommendation and the recommender here, and there would be someone next to him who would accept the letter of recommendation, and then take out a roster to verify one by one.

When it was Lei Luo's turn, he also took out a letter of recommendation and reported the name of the shopkeeper of the Rifle Inn, and the next person took a look, and checked the roster, and after finding out Lei Luo's information, the next person nodded to the literati, and the literati naturally made a note on the book, and then he was allowed to enter a large courtyard.

This compound is very large, there are two or three acres of land, when Lei Luo came in, he found that there were already a lot of young people here, these people were chatting together in twos and threes, and there were also some like him, standing alone, and there were still people walking in one after another at the entrance of the compound.

When there were almost two hundred young people in the courtyard, a butler saw that there were no disciples entering the entrance, and the butler walked to the courtyard with dozens of subordinates, and began to give orders to Lei Luo and them.

According to the meaning of the housekeeper, these young people are divided into two parts: literati and martial artists, and there will be a written test for the study of the literature, if they pass, they can study with the disciples of the Bai family, and they can become their guests in the future, and there will also be a competition assessment for the martial arts later, if they pass, they can become the cronies and guards of the descendants of the disciples, and they will serve by their side in the future.

Lei Luo naturally followed the team of the martial arts competition to a compound similar to the martial arts field, and there were rows of wooden frames around the courtyard, and the two wooden frames were full of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, and sticks, and there was a high platform in the north of the martial arts arena, and on the high platform sat more than a dozen young men and women wearing brocade robes and hanging white jade on their waists, these are the real core disciples of the Bai family, and the white jade waist card is also the mark token of the Bai family's descendants.

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"Cousin Mu Ling, do you think this contest will find any good seedlings, I heard that some time ago, you went out and met assassins, and the guards were killed and injured, if you fancy anyone this time, those of us who are brothers will help you," a brocade-clothed boy sitting in the front row suddenly quipped.

And the object of his joke was a woman in white with a good posture and a slender figure beside him.

"Then thank you cousin, when Mu Ling finds any good seedlings, he must tell his cousin immediately, please ask my cousin and you to help me more, here Mu Ling will thank you first," this Bai family woman was unceremonious, and she accepted it when she pushed the boat down the river, but when no one noticed, a trace of coldness flashed in the corner of her eyes.

Just when Lei Luo looked at these Bai family disciples, a bald man stepped on the ground with his right foot, and the whole person flew down to the center of the martial arts arena like a big peng spreading its wings.

Seeing this, Lei Luo secretly said in his heart.

The big man first saluted the Bai family disciples on the high platform, and then said to the assessment disciples below: " Under is the commander of the Bai family's guards, the head of the family takes a fancy to give the surname, a single name and a battle word, today is responsible for your assessment, you will have to fight with the guards later, they will control the strength and proportion, as long as you play well, the young ladies on the stage will invite you to serve under your command, if you lose, it doesn't matter, you can join our Bai family's guards, okay, then take turns on the stage according to the roster, so let's start!"

The commander named Bai Zhan immediately flew away from the stage after finishing speaking, and then a man dressed as a guard walked up with a wooden knife, and at this time, some people began to take out the roster and start signing up one by one according to the names on the roster.

Lei Luo used to fight with beasts or bandits, either you die or I live, this time it was the first time to see others fight, but when he saw a young man and the guard fight a few moves, the guard slashed the wooden sword in his hand, and then kicked it away, he was not interested.

Some of these guards actually cultivated their internal strength, although this competition is a competition, but most of these assessment disciples have learned one and a half tricks, and when they encounter these guards who are good at fighting, the natural form is one-sided and complete.