Chapter 2: Chapter 2: The Mountain
Not long after, Steward Zhao returned to Xu Mu's doorstep, standing at the door and shouting.
"Old Xu, hurry up and call your son, we're about to leave!"
Xu Baoshan sniffed and hurriedly led Xu Mu out, smiling, "Old Zhao, not sitting down for a while?"
Steward Zhao didn't have the heart to say, "What's the point of sitting down, aren't you afraid I'll break down your door? Let's go!"
Saying that, Steward Zhao directly turned around and walked a short distance away, Xu Baoshan made a gesture at Xu Mu, and Xu Mu hurriedly followed.
"Uncle Zhao, are we going to the mountain now?" Xu Mu asked curiously.
"Well, you'll be able to meet some boys from the same village as you later," Steward Zhao replied, saying nothing else.
Xu Mu followed Steward Zhao as he walked, remembering his father's instructions, but he didn't say much, instead clutching the bag of sugar cookies in his arms.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the entrance of the village, only to see that there were already a number of teenagers waiting for them.
There were a total of five children who had reached the age of thirteen in the small mountain village this time, and one of them was also a girl.
"Xiao Yu, why are you here too?" Xu Mu curiously looked at Shi Yu in front of him and said.
Xu Mu and the other four children were all from the same village and the same age, and they usually liked to play together.
Among them, Shi Yu and Xu Mu also had a good relationship, as they had all played in a river with their bare bottoms in the water when they were young.
It was only as she grew older that Shi Yu's tutelage became stricter, and things like the past, when she was out in the wilderness with a group of those boys for half a day, were impossible.
According to Shi Yu, the family had been teaching her sewing, embroidery, and cooking for the past two years, seemingly preparing her for marriage, and she hadn't expected to go to the trials this time as well.
Shi Yu flicked her mouth at Xu Mu, "Who says I can't come? My father has had another son and has been happy lately, so I'm just taking my chances by letting me go out this time, and if it doesn't work out, I'll have to go home and marry that ugly bastard from the city!
The ugly monster in Shi Yu's mouth lives in a small town fifty miles away from the small mountain village, but in the mouth of the village, this place has become a city.
The ugly monster is not a rich young master, but the son of a pharmacy shopkeeper, seems to be surnamed Meng, because of childhood naughtiness in the face left a big scar, so far has not been eliminated, so has not been able to find a daughter-in-law.
This surname Meng, although not what rich people's son, but also is a medicine shopkeeper's young master, these two years can be considered Meng shopkeeper's to be anxious, simply looking for a girl from the village.
The last time Shi Yu her mother gave birth to a baby difficult labor, the village maternity can not take care of over, is to go to the city to ask for Meng boss.
After a while, Mr. Meng really liked Shi Yu and decided to make her his daughter-in-law.
Shi Yu's father was so happy to meet a man from the city that he agreed, only to find out later that the other man's son was an ugly man.
But Shi Laozi is a good face, can only pinch the nose to recognize the marriage, even if the man is not good-looking, but the family is good, Shi Yu married over will not suffer, right?
However, Shi Yu is obviously not so think, once heard her future husband are disfigured, to this already strange man immediately did not have good feelings, a mind against this marriage.
This time, to be able to participate in the trial of Tai Ling Mountain was also the result of her gentle persuasion of Elder Shi.
When Xu Mu heard this, he couldn't help but remember that when he was a child, he seemed to have said that he wanted to marry Shi Yu when he grew up, and he couldn't help but blush.
However, the girl had obviously forgotten about this matter, and it was eighty percent that she had listened to similar assholes quite often as a child, and had not memorized Xu Mu's sentence.
"Alright, you all know each other, right? Let's go! Hurry up and get on the carriage, don't delay," Steward Zhao said as he herded the kids into a carriage.
When the five teenagers heard that there was a carriage to sit on, they were quite happy, but after they got on the carriage, they realized that the carriage was piled high with goods, and there wasn't even a place to sit, so they were not happy at all.
Originally, the small mountain village was not within the scope of the annual recruitment program of Taiwan Spirit Mountain, belonging to the nature of the back door.
People can let you go to participate has been very good, which can also send a special wagon?
With a carload of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar all the way, Xu Mu was bumped by the mountain road to the buttocks are numb, only to hear steward Zhao shouted "pause", the carriage suddenly stopped.
He heard someone outside the carriage ask, "Fatty Zhao, are you bringing your village back?"
Xu Mu lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw that the one who spoke was a young man with slicked back hair and a wrapped scarf, all in short beats, looking about twenty years old, with a small cloth bag hanging from his waist, very pious.
"When Steward Zhao heard the other party call himself Fatty Zhao, he was not annoyed and shouted to the crowd in the car, "Come down, little ones!"
Saying this, Fatty Zhao handed a small bag to this person without missing a beat, this person took the bag and weighed it, and with a flick of his hand, the bag disappeared.
Upon hearing this, Xu Mu's few people jumped out of the car one by one and stood aside in fear, their eyes looking enviously at the man on the side, this man's name was Wang Zhi, an outer disciple of Tai Ling Mountain.
Even though he was only a disciple, his status was higher than Fatty Zhao, the so-called Outer Sect Steward, because Fatty Zhao didn't have a spiritual root and was only a mortal.
The reason he was made a steward was because that kind of position usually had too many things going on, and if a disciple took that position, I'm afraid it would slow down the progress of cultivation.
If Xu Mu and the others didn't have a spiritual root but had other redeeming qualities, they could only become registered disciples of a lower level.
Registered disciples had the lowest status on Tai Ling Mountain, and they had to do a lot of work on weekdays, and they were at the beck and call of the outer disciples and inner disciples.
After ten years on the mountain, a registered disciple could leave on his own, and during that time he could make a large amount of money that he could not make in a lifetime on the mountain.
If they didn't leave and were resourceful enough, they would become an outer sect administrator like Fatty Zhao.
In addition, it would depend on the disciple's luck, if he was lucky, the Immortal Master would casually reward him with something that would be very valuable in the secular world, enough to become a family heirloom.
It is said that Xiao Longyou, the most famous doctor in the Mirror State, served as a registered disciple in a certain sect in the early years, and then an immortal saw his talent and rewarded him with an ancient medical book.
After going down the mountain, Xiao Longyou studied hard and eventually became a generation of famous doctors.
There are many similar examples, too many to count.
As a result, not a single person who went up to Ta Ling Mountain was willing to go straight down the mountain and become at least a registered disciple of Ta Ling Mountain.
At that moment, Wang Zhi saw a group of children looking at him with envy, and he couldn't help but smile faintly and say, "All right, you come with me!"