night, dormitory.
Everyone has been busy all day, and they have already gone to bed at this time in the past, um, in that posture of raising Dan Chun. It was different today, the constant sound of turning over, the creaking of the bed frame, as well as slight breathing and talking to himself, kept intermingling in the room.
"Xiaoyu, are you asleep?"
Suddenly, one person couldn't help but say hello. This person is Xie You, eighteen years old, and his family lives in Qiongzhou, the southernmost city.
"No, I'm thinking about the selection in seven days."
You Yu lay on his back, staring at the dark ceiling in a daze.
Hearing the other party's conversation, Xie You regained his energy immediately, sat up simply, and said, "Okay, stop pretending! Let's study together, what's the matter?"
"What else could it be, how obvious!"
It was Zhou Zhiming who took over, the oldest one, and said: "These seven days are the time for statistics, and the scores are based on the degree of task completion and the number of tasks."
"You mean, the higher the score, the more you can stay?" Another person hurriedly asked.
"I didn't say that, it's just a possibility." Zhou Zhiming didn't want to take responsibility.
"It won't be so simple. The task should be one of them, and the main thing is to look at other aspects." You Yu said suddenly.
"What are you looking at?" The five asked in unison.
"Uh, I can't tell the specifics. Let's put it this way, I know whether I can stay or not. Because in this year, I know what I have done, what progress I have made, and what mistakes I have made. Remember. If you think about it carefully, it should be similar."
"..."
The room was silent and the atmosphere was deep. They didn't know what they were thinking. After a while, a sentence came from the darkness, "Okay, it's getting late, go to sleep."
…
The moonlight is cold, silently shining on the empty mountains.
Tonight's Wutong Garden is very quiet, quiet means, quiet, with a bit of sadness.
Everyone is not asleep, thinking about their own thoughts. They live in the mountains, and they are busy practicing on weekdays, and they don't feel the passage of time. It wasn't until this moment that I suddenly realized: Oh, it will be a year soon!
If before, someone said to themselves, hey man, you can live a year without eating chicken, not traveling, not watching movies, not socializing, not taking selfies, and not having sex... Everyone will be pissed off!
And now, unconsciously, it has become a fact.
They have long been accustomed to this rhythm, but when they wake up the next day, they find that there are no tasks to do and no lessons to learn. The emotion of worrying about gains and losses quickly enveloped a thousand and seven people. Some stayed in the dormitory all day, some found a place to meditate on their own, and some seized the opportunity to contact fellow students to build a foundation for future contacts.
Seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was June 8th in a flash. One year ago today, the Phoenix Mountain held a forum to teach the Fa, and the whole country was in a state of excitement.
"Match right away, every group of ten people, those who are not called are waiting here!"
Early this morning, everyone gathered in the small square, and four counselors, Lao Shui, Li Dong, Yan Han, and Guo Fei, appeared together. Lao Shui briefly introduced the rules, and then said: "The first group, Zeng Ke'er, Xie You, Wang Rong, Li Bin...follow me up the mountain."
"yes!"
When the fate-determining moment came, even Zeng Ke'er couldn't help showing anxiety. Xie You's legs trembled even more, as if stepping on a pile of cotton, he walked up the mountain step by step.
They followed Lao Shui, passed the service hall, and reached the edge of the inner mountain.
There used to be a barbed wire fence, but now it has become a large peach forest, with powder falling on the branches and scorching its flowers. Lao Shui stopped outside, beckoning them to go in.
Ten people walked in tremblingly, and after a while, an open space with a gazebo appeared. Two young women were sitting in the pavilion, they hurriedly stopped when they heard a soft voice in their ears: "Zeng Ke'er, come forward."
"..."
The little girl pursed her lips, raised her head and held her chest high, trying to maintain her posture, and stepped into the pavilion.
"Sit down, don't be nervous." Long Qiu said with a smile.
"Thank you sister Qiu!"
With her butt on the stone bench, Long Qiu took another look and said solemnly: "Zeng Ke'er, sixteen years old, performed one hundred and ten tasks, completed ninety-eight, forty-five is excellent, and fifty-three is good." ...Although she has a delicate and savage nature, she is willing to help fellow students, studies hard and practice hard, and is not lazy, which can be said to be upward. She is also bold, cautious, courageous and brave, and repeatedly breaks through dangerous situations to avoid harm to others... "
Xiaoqiu finished her evaluation, and finally said: "Let me ask you, are you willing to formally become a master and be my disciple of Phoenix Mountain?"
"I do!"
Zeng Ke'er stood up all of a sudden, unable to hide her excitement, she paused for a moment before carefully asking: "Well, who is the master I worship?"
"Let's talk about this later, you go first."
"yes!"
She bowed in salute and stepped back quickly.
The other nine showed envy. They couldn't hear the conversation clearly, but they knew that things were going well when they saw each other's expressions. Immediately afterwards, the pavilion called again: "Xie You, come forward."
"Yes Yes!"
Xie You shrugged his shoulders and came to the front nervously. Seeing his appearance, Xiao Jin didn't bother to talk nonsense, and said, "You are not suitable for cultivating Taoism, pack your bags and go home!"
"I, I, I don't accept it!"
Xie You's face was pale at first, trembling all over, and then he pulled his neck and shouted: "I calculated it myself, I performed eighty-nine tasks, and I completed eighty of them. Forty is excellent, and forty is good. The degree of completion is so high, There are also forty merits, why let me go home? I don't accept it, I don't accept it!"
"Presumptuous! What's the point of yelling?"
Xiao Jin slapped the stone table, said a pretentious sentence that she had wanted to say a long time ago, and said coldly, "Let me ask you, how many of your eighty-nine tasks did you complete alone?"
"..."
The other party's speech froze, not daring to answer.
"Let's not talk about collection for now. When you need to cooperate to kill the enemy, how many times have you taken on important responsibilities and charged ahead? Instead of hiding behind You Yu?"
"..."
"How far have you cultivated in Qi Cultivation? Have you ever memorized the Meditation Art?"
thump!
After asking three times in a row, Xie You couldn't hold on any longer and slipped from the stone bench to the ground.
He was stunned for a moment, then kowtowed again and again, begging: "Please give me another chance, I will work hard and not be lazy! I will do my job well, and I will not hide behind my teammates... I beg you, give me one more time." Chance!"
"The opportunity was given a long time ago. Isn't one year enough?"
Xiao Jin was extremely annoyed, and with a move, she withdrew the other party's identity plate.
"Go, don't hurt the last bit of fate." Long Qiu persuaded.
"Miss Qiu..."
Xie You liked her very much, and after hearing this, he knew that if she continued to stalk her, the other party would not bother to show affection.
"me… "
He opened his mouth for a long time, feeling so regretful that he couldn't utter a complete sentence, so he had to bow twice and stumbled down the mountain.
"Wang Rong, come forward." Long Qiu continued calling.
"yes!"
Wang Rong was also very clueless, sitting obediently on the stone bench, with her head bowed, waiting for the trial.
"Wang Rong, nineteen years old, task ninety-six, completed forty-five, eight is excellent, thirty-seven is good... The mentality is biased, ignorant of current affairs, in the task of searching for hemostatic grass, he was reckless and almost dragged down his teammates... "
It's over!
The girl's heart skipped a beat.
When I was doing the task of hemostatic grass, because I didn't pay attention to protection, I was tied up by it and almost wiped out. Then I ran into Long Qiu and saved my group. However, Long Qiu was sitting right in front of him, a complete witness.
She was thinking like this, but the other party's voice changed, and said: "Study is close to knowledge, hard work is close to benevolence, shame is close to courage. When you came here, you had a lot of problems, but you gradually recognized your shortcomings. From team tasks, try Although the degree of completion is not high and the rate of excellence is very low, you have worked hard to do solo missions, and you have been humbly asking for advice and united with your colleagues. In the last few missions, you have performed very well, with three out of seven It's excellent…”
Long Qiu obviously liked her very much, and said with a smile, "Let me ask you, are you willing to formally become a master and be my disciple of Phoenix Mountain?"
"say something!"
Seeing that she was silent, Xiao Jin urged her.
"I do, I do!"
Only then did Wang Rong come to her senses, her voice was crying, and tears were streaming down her face.
"Well, you go back first, and choose another day to worship the teacher."
"yes!"
…
Gu Yu said before that no one is born with Taoism, and a set of established standards cannot be used to demand a group of newcomers. The so-called Taoism is cultivated by the teacher.
Unless you are a big villain, you have to allow jealousy, arrogance, arrogance, laziness, and selfishness to exist. This is human nature and cannot be erased across the board.
Therefore, he gave a period of one year.
Among these people, some of them have excellent aptitude and temperament, and they are rare good seedlings. Some know that they are mediocre and seek stability. They only take on some daily cleaning tasks and work hard at the same time. This is not bad.
There are others, such as Xie You, who rely on sleeping with You Yu, hugging his thighs tightly, working without any effort, and being lucky, they haven't changed in the end... Such things are of course not acceptable.
Another example is Wang Rong, who did not perform well at the beginning, but she recognizes her mistakes and works hard to correct them, which is the best.
In Gu Yu's view, Wang Rong is more meaningful than Zeng Ke'er. If it was placed in the Taoist monastery, Wang Rong would be brushed off after staying for a few days—because of her bad character.
Every group of ten people, a total of 1,007 people, is one hundred and one groups.
To show their importance, Long Qiu and Xiao Jin sat down in person and talked with each other. Those who were not called were waiting in the square. From time to time, they saw familiar or unfamiliar partners coming down, either in mourning or in joy.
Those who were not left behind immediately packed up and were driven out of the mountain gate by Li Dong.
"Please, help me to talk, I know I was wrong, I must repent!"
"Brother Dong, we usually have the best friendship, so can you help me out?"
Many people are like this. They don't cherish when they have it, and regret it when they lose it. Those people didn't dare to disobey, but their faces were sad, and they kept begging as they walked away, hoping that Shan Shang would soften his heart and change his mind.
These cries and cries were heard by everyone's ears, adding pressure invisibly.
"..."
The time was spent in this extremely dignified atmosphere, from morning to night, for a whole day. When the last group came down, Long Qiu and Xiao Jin were surprised by the statistics.
Only 40% of them went, and there are 600 people left!