Chapter 18: The Falling Phoenix
Although Zhao Yun didn't take advantage of anything in the end, this conflict deeply touched Tianci, and Tianci understood even more that even if he was powerful among his peers, if he met an old man with a high martial arts realm, he would be deflated, and strength was king. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The four cubs of the Snow Shadow Guinea Pig were a huge catch, and the other three were chosen first, and in the end there was only one cub left who seemed to be the weakest, but he liked it very much, and he thought that this cub, although small, would probably be the most powerful one, as it is written in many novels.
In his opinion, this kind of thing is not completely unreasonable, just like a human being gives birth to a child, and he who is born eight pounds or nine pounds may not grow up to be fat, and he himself was only four pounds when he was born, and now he is still very strong?
Tianci is called Moscov, and the rest of them, at first, several people did not agree with the name of Tianci, thinking that this kind of name is a bit like the name of the legendary Xiyuan Continent, not like the name of the Tianyuan Continent, but Tianci thinks that this is more foreign and interesting.
At the insistence of Tianci, several people were afraid that Tianci would not give them hexagrams, and finally had to compromise. The Tigers and Leopards took Kirilenko and Porzingis, while Surina took Sharapova.
Because of these four Snow Shadow Guinea Pigs, Tianci and the others went to Qingyun Mountain to fight the beasts, they received strong support from the elders of the family, and the other young people in the family were also envious, and they joined the team to enter the mountain, hoping that their luck would be as good as Tianci.
But two months have passed, the beasts of Qingyun Mountain have been chased and beaten all day long and screamed, but the shadow of the snow shadow guinea pig has not been seen, some people have caught ordinary beast cubs back, except for the daily consumption of meat, clumsy and clumsy, there is no use, and they are trained by their parents every day, and finally they have to be discarded.
And the snow shadow guinea pig caught by Tianci and others is getting more and more alive, and the Moscov, which is carefully raised by Tianci, has become white and fat, and Tianci is very worried about its ball-like body, in order not to let it become a useless pet, Tianci specially trained it to catch mice, and as a result, this guy even wiped out the family cat. Not only cats, but also dogs are not allowed to live in peace, and the rhubarb at home is played like a monkey by it every day, and finally succumbs to its obscenity, and carries it on its back wherever it goes.
As soon as Tianci was about to go out to practice in the back mountain, his father Chen Ziang hurriedly came in through the gate, and saw that Tianci was about to go out with Moscovfu on his shoulder, so he quickly stopped and told him not to practice today.
"Dad, it's going to be a martial arts meeting in a few days, and I'm going to practice as soon as possible. "Tianci is a little dissatisfied with Daddy's arrangement.
"Don't go, it doesn't matter if you delay for a day, I have something to say to you. Daddy had a gloomy face and looked very unhappy, but Tianci didn't think that he had provoked Daddy, and Daddy seemed to have something in his heart.
Tianci put down Moskov, made a look, and told him to play with Rhubarb, and Moskov flashed smartly.
After following my father to the study, God made a pot of tea for my father, and sat next to him and waited for my father to speak.
"Grandma's, it's too much to take my old Chen family seriously, but it's also a descendant of the royal family, so it's ...... Alas...... You kid remembered for me, you must be selected for this martial arts meeting. "Dad is obviously very unhappy, and his words are not in line with the preamble.
"Dad, don't worry, this matter is simple, why are you always in a bad mood?" Tianci knew that the conditions of the military were harsh, but he seemed to make Daddy happy, and at the same time asked tentatively, wondering why Daddy was unhappy.
Dad looked at Tianci's confident appearance, smiled and said: "Tianci, Daddy has high hopes for you, and I believe that even if you can't be selected this year, sooner or later you will be selected. ”
"That's it, Dad, don't worry, it's just this year, don't wait a few years. But when it comes to the military, can you see my talent, if you just look at the surface strength, I only have the quenching body four at present, I have been practicing hard these days, but there is no sign of breaking through the five layers at all. "Tianci actually has no bottom in his heart.
"The military has military rules, and those who can be selected at the age of fourteen are all geniuses, if you start practicing since you were a child, needless to say, at least you have the strength to quench your body at this age, and you are afraid that it will be too late to rush it. Those princes can almost break through to the martial arts realm at this age, but you have only been practicing for half a year, which is already very good, but at this age, you don't have the strength of the sixfold, and the possibility of being selected is very small. Strive for next year or the year after, you will definitely be able to choose. "Dad is obviously not optimistic that Tianci will be able to enlist in the army this year.
"What about the Heavenly Tiger, he is a six-fold, and there are Su Lina and Chen Mo?" asked Tianci curiously.
"It is estimated that it is also hanging, although Tianhu is six-fold, but it is already fifteen years old, if it is fourteen, it is very likely, Chen Mo and Su Lina's situation is similar, it depends on luck, but the luck of my old Chen family is obviously not good, otherwise, after all these years, how can my family not even have a person who is in the army?" Speaking of this, Chen Ziang couldn't help but be a little depressed.
Tianci probably knew that it was not easy to be a soldier in this place, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult, and muttered: "There is a huge Qingyun City, and even ten people can't be selected every year, so it's so difficult to be cannon fodder?"
When Dad heard this, he looked at Tianci like a stupid child and said: "What do you know, there is a world of difference between martial artists and ordinary people, not to mention ordinary people, they are martial apprentices with a nine-fold body, and maybe ten of them together can't be worth a person in the martial arts realm." Although people often say that the six layers of the quenching body are considered real martial artists, in fact, after the six layers of the quenching body, there is only hope to break through the ninefold, but those who can break through the nine layers to the realm of martial artists are at most two or three out of ten. The people the military wants, at least it seems that they can break through to the martial arts realm, but in fact, almost half of them can't break through, if they can't break through to the martial arts realm before the age of twenty-two, even if they are selected, they will be returned, and every year the military will eliminate a group of people among the selected people. ”
"Then the number of troops should not be much, isn't it better to fight a war, the more people?" Tianci suddenly asked.
"I told you, there is a world of difference between a martial artist and an ordinary person, what do you want such a person to do, even if there are 10,000 martial artists, and they are passed by a god of martial arts, don't they all have to be broken into slag? If it is a martial artist, even if he spits out a few mouthfuls of old blood, at least he can still survive a lot, and those who are lightly injured still have combat effectiveness. Daddy was not in a good mood and said impatiently.
"Okay, I know, I'll definitely become a military general anyway, you always wait to be the general's father. ”
God's shameless remarks made Dad's heart very happy.
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After chatting with Dad for a long time, Tianci finally understood why Dad was depressed and knew what the so-called bad luck was.
It turned out that the old Chen family had been in this Qingyun City since they arrived, and it looked good on the surface, but in fact, they could endure humiliation for many years.
As the so-called fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken, the former royal relatives of the old Chen family, but now even the little city lord of Qingyun City dares to embarrass them, not only deliberately raising taxes, but also intentionally or unintentionally suppressing the Chen family when the military selects forces, and other local families are jealous of the identity of the Chen family's royal family, and try their best to squeeze out, which can be said to be a wall down and pushed by everyone.
As for the royal family in the far center, since they can send their family to this side of the city, they don't plan to recognize them again. Besides, people have to be face-saving, and they were bullied by the head snake in this small place, and they won't be laughed to death when they go back to ask for help, which is also the reason why Tianci's grandfather and others have been reluctant to ask for help from their own family.
Chen Ziang said these things to Tianci, mainly to give Tianci a preventive shot in advance, so as not to be hit after Tianci lost the election.
After hearing this, Tianci couldn't help but sigh at the cold state of the world, and sighed with his father!
At this moment, the City Lord's Mansion.
Xue Jianyang, the city lord of Qingyun City, was sitting in the living room in the back hall of the city lord's mansion at this time, looking at the sandalwood box presented by Zhao Xiong, the head of the Zhao family, with a smile on his face.
"City Lord Xue, this is a little bit of the Zhao family's heart, please don't shirk it. ”
When he opened the box, Xue Jianyang smiled even more happily, it turned out that the box contained two jade beads, which were translucent throughout, lustrous in color, and surrounded by clouds and mist, which was indeed rare. He recognized these beads as the finest cloud beads from the Dongying Kingdom, and they were usually used as tribute to the royal family. Although these four are not at the level of tribute, they are also rare treasures in the Tobu Empire.
"Zhao Xiong, you are still interested, unlike the three old miscellaneous hairs of the Chen family, who are relatives of the emperor, and don't pay taxes to the empire, even if you don't pay taxes to the empire, you don't even pay attention to me, the city lord, and never come to my door. ”
Not paying taxes is the privilege of the Chen family as a royal family, but in Zhao Jianyang's opinion, the Chen family should be filial to him, if he pays taxes, he can still make some money from it, and if he doesn't pay taxes at all, he won't be able to make it. In order to make more money, I have to work hard to find a way to make the ordinary **** in Qingyun City bleed, and it is difficult to leave a reputation of honesty and love for the people.
And Chen Mo's grandfather, Chen Gaoren, as the head of the Chen family, is a fierce temper who does not bow his head to death, and as a child of the former royal family, he will never bow his head to a small Qingyun City city lord. Tianci's grandfather Chen Gaoying and Tianhu's grandfather Chen Gaoyue had repeatedly persuaded his brother to get close to Zhao Jianyang and give some gifts and money, but Chen Gaoren just refused.
And this result also caused the Chen family to have a difficult foothold in Qingyun City, and it was difficult to be like other families. But Chen Gaoren has always believed that as a child of the royal family, it would be a great shame if he could not rely on his strength to stand in the world.
Not long after Zhao Xiong left, the heads of several other big families in Qingyun City also came back and forth, and they all gave money and goods like Xue Jianyang, hoping to win places for their children in the martial arts election meeting.