casket of old days

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The merchants on the entire street next to the Gongyuan are pasting all kinds of red papers that are the best and the clouds are rising. There are also small stalls selling high school and martial arts charms from unknown sources. Kneeling and praying in front of the portrait.

In the small courtyard, Chen Gang was helping Chu Qiguang check the examination box. There were pens, ink, paper and inkstone inside, all prepared for today's scripture examination.

Although the scriptures of martial arts are just a formality, there are still the most basic requirements. If you fail even such a simple scripture, you will not be admitted no matter how strong you are in martial arts, and the discipline on the spot is still very strict. Fraud is a lifetime disqualification.

Chen Gang sent the prepared test box to Chu Qiguang: "Brother Dog, I checked it several times, and it should be all right."

Bringing the examination box Chu Qiguang came to the Gongyuan, Chu Qiguang lined up to enter the examination room.

Chu Qiguang took a look at the team of candidates. After calculation, there were only more than 50 people. Obviously, in each county, wealthy families monopolized the registration of martial arts through the recommendation mechanism, so that students from poor families can only participate if they embrace the legs of wealthy families. martial arts.

But Chu Qiguang thinks that the wealthy families have monopolized a lot of martial arts knowledge, and martial arts requires money and elixir, so they monopolize martial arts so that most of the poor students can only take liberal arts, which is naturally too simple.

Chu Qiguang suddenly had an idea in his heart: "Perhaps apart from being enchanted, martial arts and Taoism itself... are the biggest obstacles to the development of this world." '

Then Chu Qiguang saw the youngest boy in the team. The other boy's face looked extremely immature, but at the moment he was holding his arms across his chest, with an aloof look that no one should enter.

This person is the youngest candidate for this exam, Jiang Longyu among the Eight Generals of Xinghan.

While queuing up, 13-year-old Jiang Longyu shook his head and sighed, "I really don't understand why you have to take the martial arts test first before taking the martial arts test. Can't you just take the martial arts test? Don't you think it's a waste of time?"

Chu Qiguang looked at the ugly faces of the candidates around him, and thought that this brat was really as arrogant as Qiao Zhi said.

Jiang Longyu didn't seem to know it at all, he took the water poured by the boy, and sighed while drinking: "The spiritual water in the Fengshui pond on Zulong mountain is good for everything, but the taste is too bitter. I really drink it." I'm not used to it."

Zulong Mountain is a real royal garden, and the spiritual veins on it are related to the feng shui formation of the entire capital. The spiritual water on the mountain has only been enjoyed by the royal family in the past dynasties.

From the Chen family in Liyang County, Chen Yuebai with flowing long hair couldn't help but said, "Okay, Jiang Longyu, don't show off a little, everyone is queuing up to enter the Tribute Academy to prepare for the exam."

The Chen family in Liyang County is the Chen family who spent a lot of money to compete with the Wu family and Chu Qiguang for the cotton cloth business. .

Jiang Longyu looked helpless and said, "Why am I showing off? You think I want to drink this? My master didn't force me to do it. All the pills and ointments I eat, drink, take, and ointment I use every day are destined to die. I can’t even choose what to eat myself.”

Jiang Longyu sighed: "And you don't know how much pressure I have now. The master invests tens of thousands of taels of money in me every year. Everything I do has to be related to martial arts."

"To be honest, I really envy some of you childhoods where you have nothing to do, eat, drink and have fun all day long."

Chen Yuebai gritted her teeth, and decided to turn her head away and not speak.

As Jiang Longyu kept talking, the faces of the candidates became more and more ugly, but no one dared to speak out against this Xinghan Eighth General.

Until it was Jiang Longyu's turn in the queue...and he could no longer speak after entering the examination room, finally letting the examinees present breathe a sigh of relief.

When it was Chu Qiguang's turn, the invigilator checked his ID and compared it with the appearance written on the ID. Another invigilator checked Chu Qiguang's clothes and examination box.

After entering, the Taoist priests taught by the celestial master performed the rituals of exorcising demons and subduing demons. Chu Qiguang possessed the method of building the foundation of heavenly demons, and let the Taoist priests chant scriptures and burn paper without being affected.

Then he entered a square in the Gongyuan, and saw rows of desks had been placed there.

After all the candidates came in and sat down, the invigilators began to distribute the wrapped test papers and drafts.

After a while, with the ringing of bells from the bell tower, the invigilator shouted: "The time has come, everyone, let's start."

Everyone started to open the test papers and looked at the questions.

No matter how dandy they are usually, at this moment, they read the questions carefully and began to answer the questions on the draft, and finally transcribed them together.

Only Jiang Longyu still looked relaxed, and wrote directly on the answer sheet with a swipe of the pen. He didn't even bother to type the draft. Eliminate him.

After more than half an hour, Chu Qiguang almost answered, and then began to carefully transcribe the answer, and finally waited for the time to end.

Fortunately, he has taken time to practice calligraphy every day in the past few months. Although the writing on paper is not excellent, it will not be thrown out by the examiner directly.

When the candidates walked out of the examination room, they immediately began to exchange their answers in groups of three or four. Only Chu Qiguang and Jiang Longyu were not approached.

Chu Qiguang's reputation was so bad that the candidates were ashamed to be with him, and even Wang Chaoqun and Zhang Yuntian from the same county walked around him.

Jiang Longyu's character was too arrogant, and all the candidates who wanted to make friends with him in the past two days were directly angered by him.

He didn't take it seriously either. In his eyes, these candidates from Beiyue Mansion were all mediocre people, and they had no value in making friends.

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After Chu Qiguang went back, he practiced directly until the next day.

And in the early morning of the next day, five huge circular arenas were erected on the square in front of the Gongyuan.

The candidates were already standing aside, gearing up, and more than a dozen of them secretly looked at Chu Qiguang's position from time to time.

In the more peripheral positions, hundreds of spectators have already stood around the ring.

All martial arts competitions are allowed outsiders to watch the battles. This is the rule set by the Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty. just.

And in the restaurant box not far away, Hao Yongtai and Hao Xiangtong occupied a good window position, just in time to see the situation on and around the ring.

Hao Yongtai said with some expectation: "Unexpectedly, Jiang Longyu, a martial arts prodigy, will also come. With his martial arts talent, he should be the first in this child's test."

As a martial idiot, although he has no outstanding talent, Hao Yongtai still likes to watch martial arts competitions. This time he knew that Jiang Longyu, the eighth general of Xinghan, was also coming to participate in the children's test in Beiyue Mansion, so he came to watch the battle immediately.

Hao Xiangtong heard that he was coming to watch the battle, and all over the place followed to watch the ring. At this moment, his eyes were swept away... He was looking for a certain figure among the candidates.

(End of this chapter)