Chapter 3: Into the City
The Dragon King Temple is too deserted here, and Shen Ci doesn't dare to leave his mother there alone. Entrusted to Xiao Qi's care, Shen Ci set foot on the road into the city alone.
The induction stone is located in the center of each city, and it is not used to test it at any time, but it is opened once every three years, and it is called the "Soul Test". All underage children in the city have one chance to be tested for free. Fame needs to be achieved early, and cultivation is even more so. Poor families saw this opportunity as a rare opportunity. It is common to take the child to get tested early. Those who have spiritual roots will fly up the branches and step into the fairy road, and those who do not have spiritual roots should farm at home as soon as possible.
Shen Ci is already fourteen years old this year, and in another year, he will be able to get married. But she has been wandering around with her mother since she was a child, and she has never stayed in a city for more than half a year, and she has never been tested on the induction stone. Thinking about it now, Shen Ci always felt that his mother seemed to be hiding from something.
This year, it's not the time to turn on the Induction Stone, next year is. If you want to open the induction stone and detect the spiritual root when it is not the "Soul Examination" open, you need to pay a thousand gold costs. Shen Ci didn't have a daughter, only a big son just given by Xiao Qigang.
The morning dew made the path sticky, and as I walked in shoes with several holes, Shen Ci was careful not to get dirty. Last night she had washed her clothes by the stream. The blue-gray fabric had several holes in it, and it was washed white. The hair that has been unintentionally taken care of for many days is also well combed.
There are poems and books in the belly, and people with real strength can't hide it. However, there is no one in this world who does not pay attention to appearance. These two sentences were said by Ye Lanbi. Shen Ci laughed at him at that time and didn't have a backache when he stood and spoke, but he actually agreed with it in his heart.
Shen Ci suddenly found that he still hadn't changed. She is still as persistent and strong as she was back then. At the beginning, she was not afraid of Ye Lanbi as an impostor, and now she is just as stubborn. She just didn't want her mother to be so lonely, and she didn't even have a coffin to go into the ground. This is the only relative she has to rely on for her life.
In her previous life, she couldn't stand the blow of eternal separation from her mother, and felt that she had nothing to love, so she might as well go with her mother. That's why he didn't care about it and decided to sell himself to bury his mother. It ended up like that. Mother, you must be very heartbroken if I don't fight like that, right? Wiping his red eyes, Shen Ci clenched his fists. Even though she knew that she had a spiritual root, if she couldn't detect it, then everything would be in vain.
How to go to the sensing stone to test it once is the first difficulty that God puts in front of her.
When he walked to the middle of the day, Shen Ci came to the gate of the city.
An eldest son paid for the entrance to the city gate, and Shen Ci walked into the city. The first thing to think of is the rows of houses and shops, the bustling merchants and vendors, and the smell of food wafting from all around. Hot buns, roast chicken, sugar cakes, wontonsγγγγγγ
Touching his hungry stomach, Shen Ci took out half a steamed bun from his arms and gnawed it without hesitation. This is what Xiao Qi brought back yesterday, one for each of the two steamed buns, and she gnawed half of them last night, and she didn't plan to keep the remaining half. Since you are here today, if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!
The lady who sold steamed buns looked honest and down-to-earth, so Shen Ci asked her: "This sister, do you know how to get there from the induction stone?"
This "sister" made the lady who sold steamed buns smile and squinted: "Yo, the little girl's mouth is so sweet!
Shen Ci's heart moved: "Really, what's going on there today?"
"Don't you know?" the eldest lady smiled and lowered her voice, and said, "Does Shi Yuan's family know? His youngest son, Shi Jing, didn't have a spiritual examination at the spiritual examination conference last year, and he is a spiritual root, but recently he has gone to the spiritual examination with great fanfare. β
"Oh, that's a little weird. Shen Ci looked at the eldest lady with an excited face, and then followed her words and said.
Sure enough, the eldest lady looked left and right, and immediately lowered her voice again and said, "I'll tell you." My third aunt and her cousin's cousin were on an errand in the Shiyuan Outer Mansion. I heard that their little master has spent a lot of money to sell countless treasures and eat, no, I finally feel that there is a little change. That's why I want to check it out. β
"Oh. That's really lively!" Shen Ci thought for a while, asked the eldest lady for the way, thanked him, and hurriedly went there. It turned out to be on the big square in the middle of the street of the City Lord's Mansion.
The heavenly and earthly treasures that can make a person without a spiritual root produce a spiritual root are absolutely top-level and rare, and it is rare even among cultivators. If this Shi Jing didn't feel too good about himself, but really ate it, then he was really a person with a great opportunity.
Shen Ci thought in his heart, he didn't pay much attention under his feet, and when he passed by the corner of an alley, he didn't know what he tripped over, and he fell hard, and his palms were scratched.
When I looked back, it was actually a hand, and I almost didn't scare her to death!
Fortunately, it was not just a severed handγγγγγγ
Walking around the corner, I saw that the owner of this hand had his face pillowed on a big yellow-skinned wine gourd, and the rest were lying on all fours, with the smell of wine on his body, motionless. If you couldn't still hear the intermittent snoring, you really wouldn't be able to tell that you were still aliveγγγγγγ
Shen Ci was leaving, but after thinking about it, he turned back. This man was drunk until noon, and no one came to him, so he was allowed to lie on his stomach, afraid that he had tripped over many people. There were still several shoe prints on his body, and I don't know if they were kicked by those who tripped over himγγγγγγ
"A poor man, too. Shen Ci wasted all his strength before dragging the drunkard out of this dark and narrow alley, leaning against a conspicuous and empty roadside. It's a young offspring who is still good-looking, why did he drink so much at such a young age?" "I hope your family can see it and take you back." After saying this, Shen Ci didn't delay anymore and hurried away.
By the time she arrived, the square was already full of people. finally squeezed to the front, and Shen Ci saw the little master Shi that the eldest lady said. He looked about the same age as Shen Ci, wearing a gorgeous brocade robe, with red lips and white teeth, and a little boy's style. Outside the stone member, he is an old man who looks very kind. The father and son of the Shi family stood on a high platform in the middle of the square.
A foot of land at the edge of the platform was vacated, and there was no mark on the ground, but people consciously stopped approaching, and looked up from a distance. And the closer you get to the platform, the quieter the chattering crowd becomes. This is the awe that ordinary people have for immortal cultivators.