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The third chapter, the big party recruits people

Soon, two majestic official officers followed Du Dahai to the grocery store. After some investigation in the store, they found no clues. They interrogated Yi Xuan, Ma Ji and Diao Quan for a long time, and then turned the three of them upside down. There was no useful clue. They could only announce that the case should be temporarily sealed and shelved.

After a day of hard work, the grocery store did not open. Yi Xuan, Ma Ji and Diao Quan were afraid of being made difficult by Du Dahai, so they hid in their room and did not dare to come out. Yi Xuan seized the opportunity to run to the edge of the well and returned a basin of clean water to wash. With the reflection of the water in the basin, he saw that the scars on his face had indeed disappeared. Even the lumps that were smashed by Xiao Zhong in the morning were gone. Then he remembered the Xiao Zhong he picked up in the house. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find it. He thought it was taken away by the official, and he felt a little uneasy.

The night was so confused that it passed like this. In his sleep, Yi Xuan seemed to hear a faint crying sound from Du Dahai's room...

The next morning, Du Dahai called the three of them to the backyard and stood in a row. He glared each of them fiercely with his swollen eyes, as if he wanted to see through the thoughts of the three of them. After finding nothing, he said disappointedly: "I don't want to dig into what happened yesterday in the store. It's really weird. Even the officials were helpless. However, this time the store suffered heavy losses and could not turn around in the short term, so he had to... have to fire you all!"

"What?"

"No, shopkeeper, for my hard work over the years, I'd better keep me!"

"Then pay the wages you owe first!"

The three of them said to Du Dahai in a verbal manner.

"Wage, where do I have any more money now? My spirit stones were turned into powder by thieves yesterday. You guys don't know!" Du Dahai said like a scoundrel when he heard someone ask for wages.

When Ma Ji and Diao Quan heard that they had no wages, they hugged Du Dahai and begged hard, but in the end they could not touch his heart.

The three of them returned to their room, packed their belongings and made them into bags, and left the grocery store to find a way out. Du Dahai looked at the backs of the three of them and said grimly, "It must be the ones of you! I drove you all out, and I don't believe you will not show off. If you want to cheat me, you will have no way..." Yi Xuan has been lonely since he was a child. He came here with the crowd of people who fled the famine in the countryside three years ago. He worked hard and lived in the Du family's groceries with his cleverness and diligence. He didn't expect to be swept out again today. He doesn't have many opportunities to go out on weekdays, and there is no place to temporarily settle down. He can only walk aimlessly along the streets of Qiwanxiang, and unknowingly arrive at the streets of Central Avenue Supervisor in the county.

As soon as he arrived on the street, he saw many people hurried towards Shangwu Gate, the north of the city. Yi Xuan hurriedly grabbed someone and asked, and learned that it was the Yuzu Academy, a great cultivator, who had issued a notice to recruit people here. Although he didn't know what the rules, it was the great cultivator who was recruiting people after all. If he couldn't say it, he would get a trace of fairy spirit and become a cultivator with great supernatural powers, so he attracted many people to watch.

Yi Xuan couldn't help but lit up. He followed the crowd to Shangwu Gate closely. He saw that there were no less than a hundred people around the city gate, and everyone was facing the notice board and making noises.

Just as I was about to squeeze into the crowd, a sound like a bell suddenly came from the crowd: "Dear fellow villagers, please be quiet!"

Yi Xuan came too late and could not see anything. When he looked back, he saw a few bluestones at the foot of the big tree beside the city gate that were used as a rest for pedestrians. He ran over and stood on the bluestone and looked into the crowd. He saw four young men in blue Taoist robes and an old man in the same costume.

One of the young men watched the crowd slowly calm down, cleared their throats, and continued, "Shen Junliang, who is an outer disciple of Yuzhao Academy, is preparing to recruit several errand disciples, including me, brothers and deacons..." At this point, Shin Junliang paused briefly and bowed to the old man in green robe. The old man called Deacons nodded in response.

Shen Junliang continued: "The five of us will be responsible for the registration and inclusion work of the errand disciples in Changyang County. Any teenagers under the age of fifteen, regardless of men or women, can register and participate. Once entered, they can become errand disciples of the Yuxi Academy and can also practice the introductory skills of the academy. If you are extremely talented, it is very possible to be accepted as a formal disciple by the academy..."

When I heard that I was recruiting errand disciples, not recruiting disciples, many of the onlookers immediately dissipated. After all, most wealthy people were unwilling to be errand disciples who were called to drink. Besides, there were strict age restrictions, but many people still stood there to ask for specific matters for their younger generations. You should know that this Jade Sao Academy is well-known nearby. As long as you have the opportunity to join in, even the rough work of serving tea and water can be learned a lot of skills. If you have the opportunity to get guidance from famous teachers and seniors, you may have a bright path and a sky-high...

Seeing that many people were moved by their words, Shin Junliang struck while the iron was hot and continued: "Among the villagers, please stand in a series and receive the registration wooden sign. Tomorrow morning, the recruitment test will be conducted by the Bishui River outside the city..."

When everyone heard that the registration started, they wanted to seize the opportunity and squeezed into the crowd without any chance. Many people kept shouting: "Register, I want to register..."

Seeing that Shin Junliang lost control, he shouted in his mouth: "其!" Everyone immediately felt like thunder in their ears, and their bodies were slightly weak and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Yi Xuan was a little far away, but his ears were also buzzing, as if countless bees were flying in their ears.

Seeing everyone stopping, Shen Junliang's face turned cold and said, "It is a blessing for fellow Taoists to give the academy a little bit of a thin person to participate in the registration, but Shen said it again, only recruiting teenagers under the age of fifteen. If the villagers who do not meet the requirements, please do not take the opportunity to cause trouble. Everyone will not look good at the time. Everyone line up and don't be confused!"

The other three young men in green robe together with Shin Junliang divided the registered people into four columns, registering and distributing wooden signs one by one. Yi Xuan also moved forward little by little in the back row of the crowd.

Just when there were seven or eight people in front of Yi Xuan, the crowd in front of him actually started to make a noise.

"I'm really just fifteen years old, but I'm tall and mature. You can't judge people by their appearance!" A burly young man made a loud noise in front of him.

"Don't make trouble, you guys. I used my spiritual sense to measure your bone age. I am in my early twenties. Leave quickly and don't cause trouble!" The burly young man wanted to make a few words of quibbling, but when the old man in the green robe was sitting behind him, he immediately felt creepy and left in disappointment.

Finally it was Yi Xuan's turn to report his name. After his age, the green-robed monk in charge of registration swept his spiritual sense and quickly wrote on a wooden sign: "Yi Xuan, 14th, 109th year"; at the same time, he told Yi Xuan that he would definitely arrive at the test site beside the Bishui River outside the city on time before the hour of the year of the year. If it is out of date, he will be disqualified.
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