Chapter 7: The King Tower
A month later, Jizhou, Qingyundu.
In the early morning, the sun is shining, the mist is steaming, and the river is sparkling.
On the riverside, on the three boulders of Qingyun Ferry, there are hundreds of iron rods, which are specially used to tie cables to fix passing ships.
In the vicinity of Qingyundu, the largest town is, of course, Qingyun Town. The whole town has mountains and mountains, and behind it is the huge Qingyun Mountain, relying on the water and water, and a mighty long river crosses and goes straight to the southeast.
The most spacious building in Qingyun Town is the King Tower. Covering an area of about 30 acres, the three-storey attic is a behemoth compared with the surrounding bungalows.
In name, the Taiwang Building is a large pharmacy that produces and sells various medicinal materials, but in fact, it can also be regarded as an outer gate rudder set up by the Taiwang faction in Qingyundu.
As the most powerful sect in Jizhou, the Taiwang faction can be regarded as a black and white predator in the rivers and lakes, standing between the two mountains of Taihang Wangwu.
Li Sanzhu is the earliest to get up in the morning of the Taiwang Tower, because he is the janitor, and the first thing he does every day is to open the two heavy gates before everyone gets up, and command a few outer disciples to sweep the courtyard.
On this day, as soon as Li Sanhammer opened the door, he grunted and rolled in a person through the door.
Li Sanhammer was startled, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a skinny little beggar about eight or nine years old, covered in dirt, and his little face was so black that he couldn't see his eyebrows clearly.
Li Sanhammer spat and said depressedly: "What a fucking bad luck, I met this one early in the morning!"
The little beggar slept so soundly that he was suddenly whipped several times, and he shivered in pain, but he got up and sat down on the ground without a sound.
"Get out, where are you going to die, don't fucking run to the door of the King Tower!" Li Sanhammer shouted hatefully, raised the whip, and made a gesture to whip.
The little beggar shrank his neck and hurriedly ran out of the gate, shouting "Uncle is angry, Uncle is angry."
Li Sanhammer drove the little beggar out of the gate, spat again, turned around and entered the door, ready to call a few outer disciples to sprinkle and sweep the courtyard. I saw a white and chubby middle-aged man, pacing square steps, and slowly walked out.
"Shopkeeper Wang, you're early!" Li Sanzhu looked at this person, and suddenly changed his appearance, and seemed to be stunned in an instant, and hurriedly lowered his head and trotted all the way over.
"Yes. Early in the morning, how can you explode foul language? Don't you know the rules of Taikoo Lou?" the middle-aged man frowned slightly, and said indifferently as he walked forward slowly.
"Yes, yes, the king's shopkeeper, the little one knows that he is wrong. Change it later, change it later!" Li Sanhammer hunched his waist, blushed, and nodded his head again and again.
"What's the matter?" asked the shopkeeper as he paced out the door, glancing at the little beggar.
"It's such a king's shopkeeper, the little one just opened the door in the morning, this little miscellaneous ...... This kid rolled in through the door, startling me not to say, you can tell me, early in the morning, isn't this bad luck!" Li Sanhammer hurriedly said.
"A little beggar, what's so bad about it. Recently, the sect decided to recruit a large number of outer disciples, and it is strange to see this little beggar, the monkey cub looks quite clever, so reward him with a mouthful of food. The shopkeeper said indifferently, and slowly paced back.
Li Sanzhu looked back at the shopkeeper Wang, and then at the little beggar, feeling a little confused. When he entered the Taiwang Building, he relied on several layers of relationships and spent several taels of silver before he became an outer disciple of the Taiwang faction.
This little beggar doesn't know which life has cultivated the blessings, and he has become an outer disciple so easily?
Li Sanhammer had fire in his heart, and he didn't dare to disobey the order of the king's shopkeeper, so he held it back several times before he said in a deep voice: "What do you see, monkey cub, you are blessed, just sleep at the gate like this, and you will become an outer disciple of our Taiwang faction." Don't get over here yet!"
The little beggar had already run out for dozens of steps, and when he heard Li Sanhammer say this, he was also confused, and he didn't understand what was going on.
Looking at the stupid appearance of the little beggar scratching his head and ears, Li Sanzhu became even more angry, and roared angrily: "It's you, don't roll over yet." ”
The little beggar is Guo Yang, who has gone through a lot of hardships and relied on a raft to go down the river to Qingyundu. Along the way, there were several times when I almost lost my life in the river in the wind and waves. At this moment, when I look at the situation, I roughly understand.
Originally, with Guo Yang's initial plan, he was bent on finding the Taihang Wangwu faction and looking for the small cyan stone. At this moment, when he heard that he had entered the outer disciples of the Taiwang Sect so easily, he was a little overwhelmed for a while.
Wandering along the way, Guo Yang also knows that the Taiwang faction can be regarded as the largest Jianghu sect in Jizhou, with more than 1,000 inner disciples and tens of thousands of outer disciples, which can be regarded as a behemoth that can make the entire Jizhou shake by stomping his feet.
Moreover, Guo Yang also heard that the more than 1,000 inner disciples of the Taiwang faction have stronger martial arts than the other, and they are extremely powerful. Especially the big leader of the sect, the eaves walk the wall, the martial arts are strong, and a flying sword is said to be haunting, which can be called a god.
Guo Yang was stunned, and then thought that he couldn't find the so-called Taihang Wangwu Sect if he searched so indiscriminately, so it was better to be a disciple of the Taiwang Sect for the time being, and solve the problem of eating first.
So, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, and said to Li Sanhammer respectfully: "Uncle auspicious, thank you uncle for your face." ”
Li Sanzhu saw Guo Yang's dirty appearance, and he was disgusted, and said in a deep voice: "Damn, don't call me uncle, that's the exclusive title of the big leader of the sect." Just call me Li Sanye. ”
"Li Sanye is auspicious, thank you Li Sanye!" Guo Yang hurriedly changed his words.
Li Sanhammer lived to be in his thirties, and no one had ever called Li Sanye so respectfully, and when he heard it at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little fluttering, straightened his chest, and walked in front with his head held high, quite proud.
After entering the residence of the outer disciple, he settled down with an outer disciple named Zhang Xiaopang, and then went out happily.
"Hehe, Li Sanye, it's not bad! Li Sanzhu couldn't help laughing.
Not to mention Li Sanzhu's triumphant appearance outside, Guo Yang, under the leadership of Zhang Xiaopang, came to the chores workshop, first received a set of blue-black outer disciple clothes, and then took him to clean the bathroom thoroughly, and then led him back to a small room.
There were originally three thirteen or fourteen-year-old outer disciples living in the room, and when they saw Guo Yang following Zhang Xiaopang into the door, they were also quite affectionate.
Guo Yang greeted everyone very respectfully, Li Xiaochun, Geng Danian and Zhang Xiaopang are Guo Yang's roommates and senior brothers.
The room is very simple, just a large bunk, and the laying is very simple, but it is expensive to be tidy. It seems that the requirements of the Taiwang Sect for foreign disciples are also very strict.
The four teenagers, under the leadership of Zhang Xiaopang, soon devoted themselves to the work of sprinkling the courtyard and daily sundries. After all, it is a teenager's heart, and in less than two or three days, the four of them have become a small team, eating and living together, working together, Guo Yang enjoyed a rare peaceful time.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, as there were more and more outer disciples, Taiwanglou set up a task workshop, and every outer disciple needed to complete various tasks arranged by the sect every month.
As the largest place for the production and sale of medicinal materials within a radius of thousands of miles, the main task of the Taiwanglou is still to focus on planting, collecting and concocting medicinal materials. Guo Yang and Zhang Xiaopang and other four people were all assigned to the medicine collection group.
Before they began to assign tasks, Taikoo Lou conducted them for six months of intensive training. The main training content is different.
In addition to forcing these outer disciples to quickly identify thousands of medicinal materials, the training content of the medicine collection group also carried out basic martial arts training.
After announcing the content of the training, Guo Yang was very excited, thinking that he was about to officially practice martial arts, and he was so happy that he didn't sleep well all night.
A sheep herding baby, a fugitive, a child who died before the age of ten can learn martial arts to protect himself, it is an exciting thing to think about!
Early the next morning, Guo Yang was the first to arrive at the training ground.
This is a basically closed courtyard, covering an area of about three or four acres, a row of practice rooms, a small square, and all kinds of training equipment.
The head of the sect, Wei Changzhi, is a fair-faced inner disciple of the Taiwang faction, who looks not very old, about thirty years old, wearing a green shirt, with thin lips, and is very chic.
Looking at the more than 100 outer disciples who looked excited and nervous, Wei Changzhi looked at them coldly for a while, and then said majestically: "When you enter my Taiwang faction, whether it is the inner gate or the outer gate, you are all disciples. Therefore, the first thing you should do is to memorize the rules and precepts of the door. ”
Then, he took out a scroll from his bosom, slowly unfolded it, and read aloud the ten precepts of the sect. Its content is nothing more than that you must love the sect unconditionally, live for the sect, die for the sect, and betray the sect will be punished with death. And so on, and so on.
Guo Yang and more than 100 other teenagers listened to Wei Changzhi read out the ten precepts, each of which ended with the word "kill", and they couldn't help but be awe-inspired.
After everyone memorized the precepts of the sect, Wei Changzhi began his first training: rolling around the square, rolling for two hours without stopping.
Suddenly, more than 100 teenagers lay down one after another, and under the majestic supervision of Wei Changzhi, they began to roll.
For the first hour, everyone was still struggling, but they were mostly exhausted.
In the second hour, except for a very small number of two or three teenagers, who gritted their teeth and persevered, the vast majority of them were already dizzy, and their physical exertion was too huge, and they had long struggled to move.
Wei Changzhi looked coldly at the outer disciples who were covered in sweat and mud and looked inhuman, and didn't say a word. The more this is the case, the more frightened Guo Yang becomes, even if they are tired and half dead, they struggle desperately forward.
Finally survived for two hours, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and they all curled up on the ground like dead dogs, as if they couldn't breathe.
Wei Changzhi slowly walked to the middle of the square, glanced at it, and said coldly: "Roll for another hour!"
When everyone heard this, they immediately despaired. looked at Wei Changzhi blankly, but no one dared to say anything, they all got up one by one, and continued to roll around the square.
Guo Yang was already too tired to leave, and he regretted that he was in too much hurry in the morning and didn't eat a mouthful.
He mingled in the crowd, rolling half-dead, with Venus bubbling in front of him, and his stomach rumbling. However, he still persevered, and he was able to endure this hardship compared to the nine deaths during the escape.
finally rolled for another hour, and everyone looked at Wei Changzhi who was high up in pleading eyes, for fear that he would let everyone roll for another hour.
Wei Changzhi looked at everyone coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Don't think I'm tossing you, in fact, learning to roll is the first skill you need to learn in your medicine collection group." ”
He paused and continued: "Collecting medicinal herbs, most of the time, is on the mountain, and if you are not careful, you may roll down the mountain. When the time comes, you won't roll, so let's die. After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left.
More than 100 outer disciples of the medicine collection group lay on the ground for another half an hour before they got up from the ground one after another, looking embarrassed one by one, and they didn't look like anyone at all.
Seeing everyone's grinning teeth and limping in pain, Guo Yang sighed secretly in his heart, but he didn't blame Wei Changzhi at all.
It's better to sweat a little more than to lose your life in an emergency.
Thinking about this, Guo Yang's heart suddenly became hot, and he suddenly felt that Wei Changzhi, who had thin lips, seemed to be a good leader.