The loud cicadas opened the curtain of early summer in the imperial capital, and the rolling heat wave that followed took away the last trace of coolness left in the spring breeze.

However, no matter how hot the weather is, it has nothing to do with the servant women in the Dongping Marquis's mansion, after all, the work that should be done will not be roasted by the sun like ice.

The little maids in the house shuttled back and forth and were busy with their own work, and the little maids in the Begonia Yard were washing clothes and sweeping the floor in the yard as always.

The doors and windows of Gu Cheng's house were still closed as usual, trying to isolate the heat that swept with the summer breeze.

Of course, it is destined to be in vain, and the heat of early summer always honestly occupies every corner of the imperial capital.

Sweat broke through the barrier of his eyebrows, slashed across his cheeks, and dripped onto the paper, smearing the ink on the notebook.

Gu Cheng put down the last word on the notebook, turned his head and said to the master: "Master Qi, I have finished this volume of Master Ouyang's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan", can I start the next one?"

Qi Fuzi looked approving, and said with his head on his chin: "Yes, you can come to the next one." ”

"When I enlightened you last year, I was worried that you would be too young to sit still. Qi Fuzi sighed.

"Qi Fuzi, I am a talented and intelligent little genius who is rare in the world. Gu Cheng quipped.

"Say you're fat, you're still panting! Hmph, you're still a genius with rotten words, keep writing. ”

Gu Cheng and Fuziqi have been together for a year, they are familiar with each other, and they occasionally joke.

Just as the two were talking, they heard a commotion outside the Begonia Courtyard.

I heard Wang Daxiong, the porter of the Hou Mansion, shouting in his trademark loud voice: "Hurry up, hurry up! Children between the ages of six and sixteen will come out quickly! Gather in the outer courtyard immediately! The immortal master of the Taiqing Sect has come to collect apprentices!"

The little maid's water basin also fell off, and the little girl's broom also fell off, and the front and back yards were in chaos.

Gu Cheng's face was blank, and he muttered: "Taiqing Sect?"

But there were terrible waves in her heart, and she thought that she had been reincarnated in an alternate ancient world.

It turned out to be a fantasy world, a dangerous world of immortal cultivation where the entire city of evil cultivators was gone!

Why does Taiqing Sect sound so familiar? Where did you hear it?

Qi Fuzi looked at Gu Cheng Suri's calm face, and it was rare to leak the ignorance of a child.

The watery apricot eyes were full of confusion, and the round little face wrinkled with the eyebrows.

With pity, he secretly sighed that this was also a poor baby who lost his mother at a young age, pinched Gu Cheng's face and said:

"You don't need to practice calligraphy, today is the day when the Taiqing Sect recruits apprentices. Let's go, I'll take you to see the excitement. With that, he dragged Gu Cheng to the outer courtyard.

When they reached the outer courtyard, they saw that there were already three rows of people standing neatly in the outer courtyard, and there were about twenty children in a rough visual manner.

I saw that the young ladies and young masters of the Hou Mansion were all standing in a row. After that, the maids and the maids, who were six to sixteen years old, stood in two rows.

The eldest uncle, the Hou Shizi, the second uncle, and the cheap father who he had never met a few times were all standing in the outer courtyard.

The usually spacious outer courtyard has become crowded at this time.

Uncle Dongpinghou has an angular face, and his sideburns show the domineering spirit of a general, and he said in a deep voice:

"The immortal master of the Taiqing Sect wants to select apprentices in the imperial capital at seven o'clock in the morning. Our Hou Mansion is located in the west of the city, and the children in the west of the city should gather on the boulevard at nine o'clock. There are still two moments to go before the meeting, and I will say a few words to you. ”

After a pause, he swept over the people below with his bright eyes, and then said, "You are all people from our Hou Mansion regardless of your status. If any of you can be elected as a fairy child today, my Hou Mansion will definitely take care of your family. Don't be discouraged if you don't choose, and work hard in the Hou Mansion. ”

With that, he let the porter open the door, and the guards led the twenty or so children to the boulevard.

Qi Fuzi also took Gu Cheng and followed them out of the Hou Mansion, and after walking for a quarter of an hour, they came to the boulevard.

In the western part of the city, there are either eunuchs or wealthy merchants, and there is a circle of alleys where civilians live along the periphery of the city. There are not many people living in the western part of the city compared to other areas, and there are not many people walking on the boulevards.

At this time, two rows of saber guards stood on the boulevard, marking a five-meter-wide queue with hundreds of children lined up. There are also adults who come with children.

On both sides of the avenue, there were a lot of people standing to see the Immortal Sect accepting disciples, and the street more than ten meters wide was crowded with people, people were crowded, and people were crowded. Even if it is the Shangyuan Festival, there may not be so many people on this street.

The guards led everyone in the Hou Mansion to the front of the team, and Gu Cheng and the others also followed into the team of the Hou Mansion test. Look at the front of the line, there is a long case, and two smooth stone plates are placed on top of the long case.

Behind the long case stood two immortals.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy with his head tied in a bun and dressed in white, the hem of his clothes swaying slowly with the breeze, he can really be called a fairy wind bone.

The other man, a little older, dressed in an azure robe, smiled and showed a pair of dimples, which made people look familiar.

At each of the four corners of the long case stood an armoured guard, armed with a sword or a spear, staring at the crowd of people who had come to test. If anyone dares to make trouble, it will definitely bring him a knife and a gun.

The queue of the test is also sorted before and after according to the three ranks of nobles, wealthy businessmen, and commoners.

In front of the Pinghou Mansion in the east is the British Mansion, and in front of the British Principality Mansion is the Prince Gong's Mansion.

The people from Prince Gong's Mansion were testing, and they saw a small child first put his hand on the gray stone plate. The gray stone disk showed a figure of eight, and then placed on the white disk, but the disk did not react. The guard said: "No immortal fate, next." ”

Another child put his hand on the gray stone plate. The gray stone plate showed a "five" character, and the white-clothed monk behind it said loudly: "I am not old enough, come again next time." The boy put his hand on the white stone plate as if he was unwilling, and there was no response.

"Didn't the children say they'd come back next time?" said the other monk with dimples, laughing, and then said in a loud voice to the man at the back of the line:

"Kids under the age of six are out on the list, and they come back in five years to be tested. Don't worry, I'll come back to accept disciples in five years. ”

Saying this, seven or eight more children came out of the team, and Gu Cheng was also brought out by Qi Fuzi. Stood on the side of the line near the guards.

In this way, dozens of people were measured in a row, and the white stone plate did not change.

The guard gradually became numb, and repeated like a repeater: "No immortal fate, next." ”

The onlookers were not as attentive as they had been at the beginning, and some had already gone home to work.

Someone began to whisper: "It's really hard to find immortals, I haven't tested so many of them." ”

"Hmph, I haven't measured a few yet, you think the fairy fate is all cabbage. I tested it five years ago, and no. There are only ten people in the entire Cangguo country who have immortal fate, and there are only two of us in the imperial capital. The scholar sneered at the bearded man who had just spoken.

"Hey, how do you talk! You have measured it, you know it! I tested it fifteen years ago. There were only seven people in the country that time, and three of them were from our imperial capital, and you couldn't do it that time. The bearded man said loudly to the scholar, squirting the scholar's face with saliva by the way.

"You guys didn't do it that year, and you kindly told you that you were biased towards me. The scholar said and took out a handkerchief to wipe his face, shook his wide sleeves, and glanced at the bearded man with contempt.

"Who is talking to you, it's obvious that you are talking in a weird way, what are you glancing at, little white face, are you looking for fault. As he spoke, he went to tug at the scholar's collar.

The onlookers also became chaotic because of their quarrel. This one stepped on the other's foot, and the other hit the other's shoulder, and for a moment it was extremely noisy.

"Stop arguing, stop arguing. "An old man came out to pull the rack, and after a while, order was restored.

It's just that everyone is no longer as quiet as just now, and you and I have started chatting one by one.

"In the past, the Taiqing Sect accepted disciples every ten years, but now how can it be changed for five years. ”

"It may be that there are too few people who have immortal fate, so they come to our country to look for it. The small country to the north of us, Suguo, is said to have recruited two people in the past 20 years. ”

"That Su country is too much of a thing, insidious and cunning, always provocative, many soldiers of our Su country are folded on the border. ”

"Dongping Hou has not been guarding the Qizhou Mansion on the border, I heard that our court may be going to fight Su State. ”

"I've been to Qizhou Mansion as a businessman, it's okay over there, the people are very open, and the big girls are running on the street. ”

"I've been there too, brother, what are you doing, I'm in the fur business. ”

"I'm a silk maker, you're in that chamber of commerce, next time we'll have a meal together......"

There may not be many opportunities for people in Dijing City to chat together, and the more onlookers chat, the happier they become, it seems to have become a dating conference, and no one in the Immortal Sect has taken a closer look.

Gu Cheng listened to the various topics spoken by the crowd while looking at the white stone plate that dozens of people had touched but had no reaction.

After a while, the people who arrived at the Dongping Hou Mansion began to test the fairy yuan, and the first test was the second young master Gu of the big house, and the words "fourteen" were displayed on the gray stone plate, and then there was no response on the white stone plate.

He shook his head and whispered, "Not this time." ”

The white-clothed monk behind the long case also smiled when he heard what he said, and immediately said to the people at the back of the queue: "Don't test what was tested five years ago."

If there is a fairy fate, there is no such thing, and if there is no fate, it will not change. If you have to test it, you can test it again to see if I'm right. ”

Several young ladies and young masters of the Hou Mansion tested one after another, but they all had no spiritual roots. At this time, a little boy came out of the team of the little servant of the Hou Mansion, put his hand on the gray disc, and the disc showed an "eight", not only that, but the disc also showed three faint golden lights.

The monk with dimples behind the long case spoke up: "The body of the three yangs!"

The crowd also followed the commotion, "Finally, there is one, it is our Chengxi District, I heard that there is no one in the Chengdong District just now." ”

"Isn't this Wang Daxiong, the porter of the Hou Mansion, his younger brother, Wang Daxiong's kid's family turned out to be an immortal. ”

The boy put his hand on the white disc, which glowed yellow, white, and blue.

"Earth, metal, and water three spirit roots" The dimple monk showed a happy look on his face, and then said: "Okay, it is still the three spirit roots of each other. Xiaoyou, you have a fairy fate, come to my side. Then he bent down and said to the little boy

"Xiaoyou, what's your name, say goodbye to your family later, and you can go back to the Immortal Sect with me.

"If you go back to the adult, the little one is called Wang Houxiong. The boy replied in an extremely loud voice.

The dimple monk was also shocked by the little boy's loud voice, rubbed his ears and said, "In the future, you don't need to call you an adult, just call Uncle Shi." ”

"Yes, sir!"

“......”

Gu Cheng, who was tortured by the "Queen Xiong Series Counseling Books" in high school in his previous life, was also happy when he heard it, and said in his heart: "What kind of auspicious name is Wang Houxiong, it is estimated that he will definitely be able to win the imperial examination." ”

The surrounding crowd stopped chatting and watched intently at the apprentice test.

After a while, the little guy in the Hou Mansion finished the test, and as expected, only Wang Houxiong had a spiritual root.

This is the turn of the little maid of the Dongping Marquis Mansion.