Twelve people landed on the square one after another, and then were led by Shui Yun and another white-robed man to the resting place.
Although the man was good-looking, he had a serious face. Yun Ruoyan heard Shui Yun call him Junior Brother Mo Yun. Maybe it's because she doesn't like to laugh, Yun Ruoyan thinks that Mo Yun looks bigger than Shui Yun.
The accommodation for men and women is separate. Yun Ruoyan, Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue were led west by Shui Yun to the women's resting place, Zhuo Yifeng followed Wang Meng and they were led south by Mo Yun to the men's resting place. district.
The terrain of the square is relatively high, Yun Ruoyan and the others followed Shuiyun out of the square, passed through several stone roads and some gardens planted with exotic flowers and plants, and finally entered a yard for women to rest.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, Yun Ruoyan saw Yi Qianying and Rong Yueshan surrounded by a group of people talking about something, and when she realized that anyone entering the courtyard, they all looked at Yun Ruoyan and the others.
As soon as Yun Ruoyan and the two made eye contact, they turned away indifferently and looked around the yard.
The yard is very large, and the houses are lined up in rows. It is estimated that there are dozens of rooms. At this time, most of the doors are closed.
"For some reason this year, at this time, the number of students who have come is less than half of those on the list." Shui Yun led Yun Ruoyan and the others to a room in the south, and she opened the door and said.
"Senior Sister Shuiyun, we have something to report." Yun Ruoyan said at this moment.
Shuiyun opened the door, turned around to look at Yun Ruoyan and asked doubtfully, "What do you want to report?"
Several people entered the house, Yun Ruoyan told Shui Yun about the horse thief she met on the road, Shui Yun frowned immediately after listening, she looked at Yun Ruoyan seriously and said: "Is this true?"
"Of course it's true." Lin Qingxue on the side said, "We saw this with our own eyes. If our horse hadn't been poisoned to death, we would have arrived two days earlier."
"Senior sister, we don't talk nonsense." Lin Qingchen also said.
"Those students who didn't arrive, their mounts must have been poisoned to death, and they couldn't arrive in time." Yun Ruoyan said: "This matter is of great importance, please report to senior sister earlier."
"Okay, you guys rest first, I'll report right away." Shui Yun turned and left after saying that.
There were exactly three beds in the room. The three of them tidied up a little and lay down to rest. After riding and walking for several days, the bodies of the three of them were very tired.
Yun Ruoyan really wanted to take a bath right now, but depending on the situation, this wish could not be realized for a while, so she had to give up.
When it was dark, someone came to deliver food, which was pushed by a wooden cart, simple steamed buns, porridge and side dishes.
Everyone lined up in the yard, and each person got a share. When receiving the meal, Yun Ruoyan didn't see Yi Qianying and Rong Yueshan, so they must have brought the meal by themselves.
Usually after dinner, Yun Ruoyan would start to practice, but at noon tomorrow, she would enter the trial ground, Lin Qingxue looked a little nervous, although Lin Qingchen didn't show it, but she must be a little nervous.
In order to relieve the tension, Yun Ruoyan began to tease them. After talking for a while, the three of them felt sleepy, and when they were about to turn off the lights and go to sleep, Shuiyun knocked on the door, saying that someone wanted to see her.
Yun Ruoyan followed Shuiyun to a separate courtyard, and when she entered the room, she looked up and saw a hale and hearty old man with gray hair sitting on the main seat, and beside the old man stood a man in white robes, it was the elder brother Ling Yun .
The old man started from left to right, and there were six people sitting there. On the left were men in white robes, and on the right were three women in white robes.
Yun Ruoyan saw that they were all around 30 years old, so they should be at the instructor level.
Shuiyun introduced that sitting on the main seat is their master Cangshan, who is the chief person in charge of recruiting new students this time, and sitting on both sides are Shuiyun's uncles, who are the future instructors of the students.
The purpose of calling Yun Ruoyan here was to ask about the horse thief.
It turned out that after Shui Yun reported the matter in the evening, Ling Yun personally checked along the road with his sword, and he found several teams whose mounts were poisoned to death.
At this time, the Kongming Academy had sent a group of students Yu Jian to meet him, and they asked Yun Ruoyan to come over to ask about some details.
Yun Ruoyan detailed what she had seen and heard, including how they discovered the horse thief and the strange situation that occurred after killing the horse thief.
Yun Ruoyan only narrated and did not reveal their guesses about the horse thief.
Cang Shan and the others listened to Yun Ruoyan's narration, and their originally serious expressions became more serious. Yun Ruoyan heard that the medicine man and medicine master were mentioned in the low-pitched conversation between the people on both sides, but she just bowed her head in silence and didn't interrupt.
After the matter was finished, Cangshan ordered Shuiyun to send Yun Ruoyan back to the resting place, without saying anything all night.
On the morning of the second day, after breakfast, the three of them did the final practice in the room to ensure that they were in the best condition to meet the trial at noon.
"It's the report from that nosy man in that room that made us have so many more opponents for no reason." At this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside.
The voice was very strange, and Yun Ruoyan didn't recognize it.
"Miss Li, my cousin lives in that house, what happened?" Immediately afterwards, Yi Qianying's voice sounded from outside the house.
"Didn't we encounter some teams that lost their mounts along the way?" said the Miss Li family.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Yi Qianying asked.
"In order to show off, your cousin hurriedly ran to report the situation. As a result, the academy sent someone to control the sword, and dozens of students were picked up overnight. We immediately gained dozens of competitors." Li Miss Jia said angrily.
It turned out that most of these students who arrived at the Kongming Academy encountered a team whose mounts were stolen along the way, but they pretended not to see it in order to reduce competitors, and no one reported it. Yun Ruoyan's move this time has undoubtedly become a bird in the early days.
"My cousin has always been so pushy. When she was at home, she loved to show off in front of her elders. She never thought that she would not be able to change this bad habit when she came here. There is really no way." Yi Qianying added fuel to the fire.
"You can't get used to this stinky problem. You have to get rid of her sooner or later." Miss Li's words didn't sound like a good one.
After hearing this, Lin Qingxue stood up from the bed suddenly.
"Qingxue." Yun Ruoyan said, "Sit down."
"Sister Ruoyan, they told you this on purpose. If you don't go out, they will think we are easy to bully!" Lin Qingxue has an impatient and fierce temper, and she can't stand someone yelling at her door.
"That's two mad dogs." Yun Ruoyan didn't even open her eyes, "It's okay to bark."
"However, Miss Li's family is a bit strange."
Yun Ruoyan thought to herself, when she reported to Shuiyun, no outsiders were there, and when Shuiyun came to look for her last night, it was also at night, and no one saw her, so this Miss Li family would know that it was her who reported it. There is only one possibility for this to happen. Among the people present yesterday was the eyeliner of the Li family.
"Miss Li, do you recognize her?" Yun Ruoyan opened her eyes and asked Lin Qingxue.
Neither she nor Lin Qingxue liked to be sociable, so they were not familiar with the children of the aristocratic families in the imperial city. Only Lin Qingxue had friends with a few children of the aristocratic families.
"I don't know." Lin Qingxue replied, she was still angry, "I met her in the clean room yesterday, she has a big nose, she doesn't look like a person from our country, but like a remote stranger countrymen."
"She is from a foreign country." This was beyond Yun Ruoyan's expectation.
When it was almost noon, the bell on the square rang again, and someone came to inform everyone to gather in the square.
An hour later, more than a hundred students gathered in the huge square. Yun Ruoyan, Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue were standing in one of the teams.
Yun Ruoyan saw Zhuo Yifeng from a distance, so she waved to him and pulled him into her team.
After everyone had assembled, Cang Shan stood on the high platform and read out the rules and precautions of the trial.
"The quota for passing this trial is twenty."
When Cang Shan said these words, there was an uproar in the square.
"Why are there so few recruits this time?"
"I don't know what's going on, but in previous years, at least 30 people were recruited!"
"Could it be because there are fewer students this time?"
The original quota limit had already made everyone very nervous, but the sudden reduction in the quota caused even more commotion.
Fewer recruits means more intense competition, and the voices of discussion are mostly voices of dissatisfaction.
"Hand over all the storage utensils on your body and the spiritual weapons above the fifth grade." When Cang Shan said these words, the noise on the square became even louder.
"Why do you still have to hand in the storage utensils?!"
"Why do you still need to hand over the spirit weapon?!"
"Yeah, all the things I prepared are in my storage ring, won't I have nothing if I hand them over?"
"Stop talking, quickly take some important things and hide them on your body."
"Stop the noise!" This sound was made by Ling Yunzi who was beside Cangshan. He used his spiritual power. Although the voice was not harsh, it echoed very loudly in the square, and the noise of the crowd decreased.
Cang Shan continued: "This year, due to some reasons, only 113 of the 200 students who were originally issued were present. Therefore, after discussions with the elders of the academy, in order to ensure the quality of the students who will finally enter the Kongming Academy, the original quota will be allocated according to the proportion. The fixed number of thirty-five students has been reduced to twenty."
"What's going on, how did this happen?!" Most people were surprised by this decision.
"I thought there would be fewer people coming, so I could have fewer competitors. If I had known this would happen, I would have lent horses to those who didn't have horses on the way." Someone said angrily.
"Sister Ruoyan, now some narrow-minded people won't say that we are troubled." Lin Qingxue said loudly, and the backs of the Miss Li family and Yi Qianying standing in front of them were all stiff backs. Not sent.
Of the 113 students, only 20 were recruited in the end, which meant that 93 people would not be able to become students of Kongming Academy, and the competition was quite fierce.
"The rules for recruiting personnel for the trial are..." Seeing that Cangshan had mentioned the important point, everyone stopped talking consciously, and the square was completely quiet.
Cang Shan glanced at the crowd and said: "Three days is the limit, after three days, according to the number and grade of the magic beast inner alchemy and spirit grass obtained, they will be ranked from high to low, until twenty people are collected."