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Chapter 2 Qingyang Town

"Bring her here."

"Yes, Deacon Zhang!" The blue-clothed youth replied, and then brought the bewildered Huaying in front of the black-clothed man.

Deacon Zhang's eyes were bright, and he carefully looked at the little girl in the mountain village in front of him.Seeing his appearance of about eight or nine years old, although he was dressed plainly and only wore simple gray cloth clothes, his small hands and face were clean, and he had a strange white hair, which immediately aroused his interest.

"Little girl, what's your name?"

"Huaying." Huaying said timidly.

"Hehe, the name is quite good. The light of fireflies can also compete with the bright moon."

Deacon Zhang praised Huaying beforehand, then pointed to Huaying's hair and asked, "Is your white hair born with it, or is there another reason?"

"Back to the predecessors, you were born like this."

"Oh, that's rather strange."

Deacon Zhang nodded, with a look of enlightenment on his face, he stopped entangled in this matter, and then said bluntly: "I think your aptitude is mediocre, and you have no talent for martial arts. Although you can't be a disciple of Huadao Sect for me, but"

Huaying was originally wondering what the other party was calling her, but when she heard this, her heart skipped a beat, and she secretly thought that it was so.

"However, my school still lacks a few maids. Although the treatment is not as good as that of ordinary disciples, they still have enough food and drink, sleep well and dress warmly. I wonder if you would like that?"

Deacon Zhang, a big man in black, was smiling all over his face at the moment, looking strange for no reason.

"Girl?"

Huaying was stunned for a moment, first turned around and glanced at the parents in the crowd, then bit her lips lightly, and asked tentatively:

"Can the servant girl practice martial arts?"

"Of course it can't."

Deacon Zhang was taken aback when he heard the words, obviously he didn't expect the other party to ask this question.

Huaying is disappointed.

"Little girl, martial arts training is not such a simple matter. You can understand the hard work at such a young age. Although there are many female disciples in my school, none of them are ordinary people with ordinary qualifications. Women's martial arts training requires Taller than men, it is not easy to learn."

"If you can't practice martial arts, then you don't want to be a maid."

Although Huaying is young, she also understands what it means to be a maid in today's world, and that requires a contract of sale.It doesn't matter if you can practice martial arts, even if your talent is not good, there may be a glimmer of hope after you work hard.

If not, then she would never agree.

Thinking of this, Huaying turned and left.

"Hold on."

The footsteps stopped.

"This matter is not a big deal. If you insist on practicing martial arts, it is not impossible. As long as you are comfortable serving people, the rest is up to you."

A gleam flashed in Zhang Deacon's eyes, and there was an inexplicable meaning in his words.

"Senior, are you serious?" Hua Ying asked.

"That's natural."

"it is good!"

Huaying nodded in agreement.

She also didn't believe that the other party would lie to her for no reason. After all, she was a senior of a famous school, so there was no need to lie to a child.

It's just that, I'm afraid I will be a maid in the future, bringing tea, water, laundry and folding quilts every day.However, this is not a hard job for her. After all, she was a child who grew up in a mountain village, so she can bear a little bit of hardship.

What's more, for the poor, serving the rich is not considered hard work.

However, these are not important. Finding an opportunity to practice martial arts is Huaying's goal. As long as she can become what her parents call "a respectable person in Qingyang Town", no matter how hard it is, it will be worth it.She not only wants to change her own destiny, but also that of her parents and family members.

This is not only the expectation of her parents for Huaying, but also her own decision.

After half a day.

A carriage was driving slowly on the potholed dirt road. Two young men in blue and a man in black were riding on the horses leading the way.

Zhang Wu rode on the horse, straightened his body and looked into the distance. He estimated that Qingyang Town would be two or three miles away. The child will go to the east of the town to reunite with Hall Master Li and others to obey the command, and to set off tonight, everything must be properly prepared, and you must not be careless."

"Deacon, it's getting late today, why don't you rest in Qingyang Town for one night, and it won't be too late to return to the sect tomorrow?" A young man in blue asked in surprise.

It was dusk at this time, and the setting sun in the distance was only a corner under the cover of the city.

"I have sent too much action in Qingyang Town in the past few days. I am afraid that the news has already leaked out, and it will be delayed for half a day. This matter is instructed by Hall Master Li. Don't ask more questions." Zhang Wu looked solemn, "I Go prepare something, and I will reconcile with you later."

"Yes!"

The two in blue looked at each other and said in unison.

Not long after, the distant Qingyang Town finally approached. After Zhang Wu asked, he rode his horse into the city first, but disappeared.

Then the two youths in blue drove into the town with the carriage.

Huaying huddled in a corner of the carriage, and woke up in a daze when she heard the movement outside the carriage. She casually pulled the clothes of the children beside her, "You idiot, have we arrived in Qingyang Town?"

"Ah Qing. Qingyang Town? I don't know."

The second fool seemed to have just woken up, with a dazed expression on his face.

They came out of Yangshan Village, bid farewell to their family members, and were already exhausted after the bumpy journey in the carriage. They never thought that half a day would have passed just for a short rest, and now they were at a loss where they arrived.

"Sister Erya, we are in town now. I saw a lot of people outside just now, and there are also people selling candied haws!"

In the carriage, the youngest Gouwa was the most sober one. The youngest boy had never traveled far. Except for a few sad cries at the beginning, he was very energetic along the way, like a wild monkey. The other kids were annoying him, and he was already yelling.

"Let me see."

Huaying rubbed her eyes, squatted by the window of the carriage, gently opened a small slit, and looked out curiously.

"Candied haws, two pennies a bunch, not sour and free of money! Take a look!"

"Eat wontons, big wontons with thin skin and big stuffing."

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Although she had been to Qingyang Town several times, Huaying was still stunned by the bustling scene in front of her.

When the lights came on, there was a lot of traffic, and there was an endless stream of hawkers on the street. She smelled the fragrant big wontons, and her little stomach growled uncontrollably.

The full appetite swept away Huaying's depression caused by leaving home in an instant.

She wasn't the only one who was hungry in the carriage, other children also gathered around, looking longingly at the scene outside the carriage.

"Sister Erya, are we going to live in this town in the future? That's great. When I earn money, I must taste the taste of candied haws."

At this moment, seven or eight children were crowded in this small compartment, full of yearning for the outside world, but at the same time proud.

The few of them are excellent martial arts prodigy who were personally selected by the seniors of Huadaomen. They just waited to formally join the sect and practice a martial arts. Back in the village, parents and family members can share the prosperity and wealth.

In this situation, the young man's mood is full of vigor and high spirits, imagining the angry horse in fresh clothes.

Huaying only looked out of the window for a while, then looked away without stopping, and returned to her seat silently.

Different from Erlianzi and Gouwa, who were selected children, she with mediocre aptitude is thinking more about how to plan for her future life in the sect.

If it goes well, after entering the Huadaomen, she will be a maid first, and then find time to practice martial arts—provided that the deacon did not lie to her.

As for whether there is a master to teach, or whether she can enjoy the treatment of ordinary disciples, Huaying dare not even think about it.

She made up her mind, no matter what, she would find a way to get a practice first, and then explore the problems of future practice.

Qingyang Town doesn't seem to be big. Not long after the carriage entered the city, it stopped in front of a mansion in the east of the city. The two blue-clothed youths on the horses got off their horses, opened the curtain, and shouted into the carriage:

"Come down, everyone. When you go in, no matter what you hear or see, you are not allowed to yell, or I don't care if you are thrown out."

The children were startled by this person's words, and they hurriedly got out of the carriage and clustered together on the street, looking at the mansion in front of them hesitantly, not daring to make a sound.

"good."

Seeing this, the blue-clothed disciple nodded in satisfaction, then stepped forward a few steps up the steps in front of the mansion to call for the door.

Not long after, a young man also dressed in blue opened the door of the mansion and let everyone in.

"Junior Brother Wang, Junior Brother Liu, this is the last batch of you today, Hall Master Li has been waiting impatiently."

The young man in blue who opened the door walked and said.

Junior Brother Liu and Junior Brother Wang looked at each other and said with wry smiles, "Senior Brother Sun, Yangshan Village is too remote, and we dare not stop for a while."

"Don't worry, Qingyang Town's 26 villages have summoned more than [-] children today. Hall Master Li is very satisfied, and I think I won't blame the two of you for this trivial matter."

"Huh, that's good."

Senior Brother Liu let out a long breath, and quickly asked Senior Brother Sun: "Senior Brother, I heard that we are going to leave tonight. Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?"

"Junior brother, it's not convenient for me to tell you more, but what is certain is that the sooner we leave, the better!"

Senior Brother Sun seemed to have a high status in Huadaomen, but at this moment he revealed part of the inside story ambiguously.

"Could it be that?" Junior Brother Liu was startled suddenly.

"Shh."

Brother Sun immediately fell silent.

The conversation between the three was only for a moment, and the conversation was very quiet, which did not attract the attention of the children behind them.

Huaying and the others were all focused on the landscape of the mansion and the decoration of the pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard, and they didn't notice the conversation of these blue-clothed youths at all.

As they continued to go deeper, they soon came to a wide open space in the backyard.

Under the moonless night sky, many children of roughly the same age gathered here. There were probably hundreds of them in the dark, and they sat in groups or in groups of two or three.

Most of them are boys, only a few are girls like Huaying.

When these children saw the new Huaying and the others, they sat on the ground quietly without saying much, and some of them were still holding dry food in their hands and eating there.

(End of this chapter)