Jiuxi City was the closest city to the Great Xiao Kingdom, and it was very lively recently.
Even though it is night, there are still lanterns hanging high by the roadside, and there are still countless children in the city huddled in the corners to keep warm. Fortunately, although the autumn is deep, it is not too cold, and a blanket can barely keep out the cold.
The officers and soldiers patrolled back and forth on the street, and when they saw a suspicious and wretched one, they went up and took it down.
The hawkers hawked groceries along the street, gathering the eager eyes of the poor in the corner.
Every time they choose the dragon and the phoenix, it is a day when they make a lot of money, and no one is willing to close the stall because of the dark. Even the Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival items that are not usually at this time will be put up - those from the countryside who have never seen the world will always buy some back.
A dry old man with white hair and a large gourd walked up to a vendor who was buying pasta. After all, he exchanged a copper coin for the hot soup full of gourds and a steamed bun, and then returned to the corner to put the hot soup. One by one, a dozen children were given points, and they all had maple leaves on their heads, but they all came to participate in the general election.
The hot soup was divided, and each child only had a few mouthfuls, but they were not picky. After thanking them, they took out and prepared the wotou, and ate the hot soup.
The old man sighed, reached out and touched the forehead of a feverish young man next to him, and wrapped the blanket around him.
"Thank you," said the young man, although he was a little burned, but his mind was clear, "Let's wrap up together."
"I'm getting old too, so I can stand it." The old man frowned, "It's not that I don't want you to come, it's just that you are so weak, how can you get cold."
Along the way, the young man didn't complain or was tired, he gritted his teeth to keep up, but just as he entered the city, he started to have a fever, and the old village chief couldn't even worry about it.
"You are also a smart kid, I heard that smart kids are the best candidates," the village chief nags, "I also think someone in the village is selected. Even if they are screened out later, they can be picked up by the government and raised in the future. Not a small official, but also exempted the village from paying taxes for three years. Look at Zhang Village in the lower reaches of our country, only one was elected. Although he came back in the second year, he was able to catch the beasts! The days of the year are much better, and it would be even more incredible to be able to create a fairy, everyone can live in a large tile house of blue bricks, and there can be a teacher to teach..."
The village chief was chattering, with a look of hope in his old eyes, and the teenagers and children listening next to him also moved in their hearts, as if seeing the appearance of their choice.
A gust of autumn wind blew, and the children shrank even tighter, and the old man tightened his clothes, but he was still talking about how good the selection was.
At this time, several tall figures came towards them.
"This is a hundred blessings for my young master. Come, touch each of you, and give a big sum of money when you say a wish, hurry up!"
The black-faced man at the head took out a jade ball the size of a walnut, and proudly pointed at these poor corners.
A large amount of money was enough to buy a big steamed bun, and many teenagers automatically leaned on them, making it impossible to drain the crowd around them.
There was a child who got money and then sneaked in. He wanted to get another money. He was found by the black-faced man, dragged out and beat him severely, screaming continuously.
Many thoughtful children and teenagers accepted their thoughts and gave their blessings to retire.
This scene fell in the eyes of passers-by, and they all directly ignored it.
A youth in green clothes passing by looked at it and sighed.
"Why, why don't you go up and help?" The paper figurine master lay on his shoulders, raised his head, and asked curiously.
"If I can't take them away, then it's better not to help." Feng Qingxiu shook his head. He also came here like this, knowing the doorway inside, "Otherwise, if you can't be kind, you'll be vengeful."
"Why is this?" The paper figurine master sat up to avoid being too dazzling, and leaned against the apprentice's neck.
"Every family and family in every place are in the same spirit. There are too many ways to bully ordinary people. We can't stay here forever," Feng Qingxiu understood, "They won't go too far, they will only give a lesson."
"This kind of metaphysics method is very popular." The paperman saw that the child had only a bruised nose and a swollen face and no internal injuries, so he turned his eyes to other places, but saw several people come to ask for cloth pieces one by one, and each of them was a big money.
"That's the Baina clothes. It is said that it is made of hundreds of children's clothes to make inner shirts, which can improve the chances of wearing them." Feng Qingxiu smiled, "When I was picking dragons and phoenixes, my mother sewed them for me by herself. She bought a Qiannayi, and she cut a piece of clothing for every child in the town who was eligible to pick."
Ji Yunlai thought about the colorful plaid Xiaoqing, and couldn't help laughing.
"But this is also one of their income." Feng Qingxiu said sternly, "At this time, the aristocratic family will spend a lot of money to seek good omens, and these young people will also get this small money to support him in queuing up to his turn. It's their time. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the poor children to persist to the end."
"That's a good thing. Although Xuan doesn't save Fei Krypton and doesn't change his life, this kind of Golden Week is also very good." Ji Yunlai nodded, "I really want to see Xiaoqing wearing a patch."
"Let's see in the next life." Feng Qingxiu coldly rejected the unreasonable request of the master.
The paper figure master smiled and continued to stick it on the apprentice's neck, waiting for the apprentice to go here for the questioning stone.
There was a lot of traffic, hawkers on the side of the road and poor people in the corners took up most of the road. The crowd was crowded, and there were quarrels and quarrels from time to time, but there was not a single corner of the boy's clothes.
Soon he arrived at the fairy temple in the city, which was also surrounded by water.
Feng Qingxiu was about to go in, but suddenly heard a "Fire!"
I saw a thick smoke rise from the backyard, followed by a crackling, and a group of fully armored soldiers quickly dragged an eighteen or nine-year-old boy out, dragging them away like a dead dog.
"How dare you make trouble in the fairy temple and kill him!" Many people rushed up angrily.
Feng Qingxiu was silent for a moment, with sympathy in her eyes.
"What is that?" Ji Yunlai asked curiously.
"That's the 'Legacy Pearl'." He explained a little disappointedly, "When you set up the Heart Stone, you said that anyone under fifteen has a chance, but over the years, everyone has tested the Heart Stone countless times. Children's minds are limited, and they can't see that they can't draw runes, and there are opportunities around fifteen, so they changed the age to seven to seventeen."
Ji Yun came to listen to the story and waited for him to continue.
"Kun-Lai's resources are limited, and the world's big family has limited the time to seventeen. Every time after going down the door and going up the mountain, Kun-Lai will always take time to choose again, so the gap will leave the last seven-year-old child without it. Opportunity." Feng Qingxiu smiled bitterly, "These children are the 'Legacy Pearls'. I have a cousin who is just in age and cannot be selected."
Back then, that cousin looked at him with jealousy and hatred.
"Then why don't you just avoid those two years to have children?" Ji Yunlai asked casually.
"After all, there are only a small number of people who can be selected. You can't be beaten when you are pregnant." Feng Qingxiu shook her head. "My parents didn't report their expectations, but there are always some people who are hard to settle."
Kun-Lai has no opinion on this. It would be better if there were fewer people. They would occasionally delay. After all, the population of West Continent was increasing year by year, and they couldn't accept it.
Twelve years is the time to choose the dragon and the phoenix. It takes almost ten years for formal study and education. The first two years are definitely not Lingmi but Fanmi. Start enjoying the days of hell exams.
When it was time to speak, Feng Qingxiu had already squeezed into the temple and saw the huge black stone that looked like Xiao Du.
And the master on the neck has been pasted.
"Can't Shizun take a glance at it?" Feng Qingxiu looked at the paper figurine with the stone, and suddenly felt a little itchy.
I really want to touch—no, as Shizun’s apprentice, I can’t be so disrespectful.
Feng Qingxiu forcefully shook her disrespectful thoughts out of her mind.
"I'm just attaching a bit of divine sense to the paper now. I have only divine sense and no power. An ordinary radar is definitely not as good as before. This stone is a work of my heyday." I was very fascinated, and seemed to want to get the paper head into it.
Feng Qingxiu wanted to touch it even more, so he pinched his hand hard.
After a while, when the moon was in the middle of the sky, Ji Zhicai raised his head and said proudly, "I really am a genius!"
Feng Qingxiu looked at him suspiciously.
"The previous spirit-testing stones were very inflexible and only tested the spiritual root but not the comprehension. This thing of mine, I will tell you..." Ji Yunlai's words suddenly stopped, and the paper man raised his head and looked into the air.
A yellow leaf fell, and a fat caterpillar that looked like it was about to form a cocoon also fell.
The paper figurine raised his hand silently, and forcefully sent out a negligible sword qi that slashed the caterpillar away.
Obviously, this pair of pieces of paper consumed a lot of money, so he slammed it into his apprentice's arms: "Master is tired, take a rest, this stone is fine, go to the next one!"
"Okay..." The paper figurine stuck to his chest seemed a little warm, and of course Feng Qingxiu left obediently.
Thinking of the pine forest on Zhaoyue Peak that uses demons to exterminate insects and does not allow ordinary birds to live.
Feng Qingxiu found that she seemed to have discovered something extraordinary...
I can't think Shizun is cute, Shizun is aloof! Out of reach!
Recently, it's just Master's demon period! ! !
Feng Qingxiu tried to convince herself.
Leaving the fairy temple, Feng Qingxiu turned into a remote alley and was about to fly away.
"Help! Help!" The sudden voice made him stop pinching Fajue's fingers. There was a young girl on the right, pulling a sick and weak boy who was out of breath and rushed over, followed by three A big man in black, holding a wooden stick with nails, rushed towards the two men fiercely.
That young man was a sick and weak young man who had a relationship by the city gate before, and now a wound on his back was overflowing with blood.
The girl saw Feng Qingxiu with sharp eyes, and suddenly gained strength, she violently pushed the boy into Feng Qingxiu's arms, and screamed to herself, "A group of demons who hide their spiritual roots, some kind of come after me. , you have to die sooner or later!"
Then rush to the other side.
Feng Qingxiu followed the almost unconscious young man, tapped his blood, with an indifferent expression, raised his hand to grab and pull in the void!
The big man and the girl seemed to be grabbed by invisible big hands, and they were pulled in front of him and smashed into a gourd.
The paper man master crawled out from his neck excitedly to join in the fun: "Is this a hero saving beauty?"
Feng Qingxiu thought for a while, then committed the following crime, reaching out and pressing Shizun back.