fairy family

Chapter 55: The farce of picking up leaks, the final exam in the field

Yu Que watched Fang Mulian leave with regret in his eyes.

Although he won the first place in the martial arts exam, it was a happy event for him.

But this happy event was indeed a little unceremonious.

Yu Que was able to solve the problem quickly not only with the help of Fang Mulian's "guidance", but also because he had a good relationship with Fang Mulian, who had helped him a lot in the beginning.

Therefore, his eyes changed, gradually becoming colder and colder, and he thought to himself:
"Zheng Laohei, you really deserve to die!"

At this moment, Yu Que was filled with murderous intent.

This murderous intent was caused not only by himself, but also by the fact that he had lost his energy in the other party's ghost shop for more than a month, which affected his origin. Fortunately, he succeeded in visualization early on and was able to recover.

It was because Fang Mulian was such a talent, but was hindered and harmed by this beast, and her life became exhausted and her immortal path was shattered. It was truly a tragedy that the fox mourned the loss of the rabbit!

However, after pondering it in his mind, Yu Que suppressed all his emotions and stopped thinking about it.

He is still taking exams and his last exam has not started yet. It is not worth it to affect himself because of a scumbag like Zheng Laohei.

In the examination room, Yu Que looked up at the examiner Lu Tiehua.

With a whoosh, he jumped off the iron stove and walked towards the other party quickly.

When he walked up to Lu Tiehua, the man turned around and looked at him in surprise. He didn't expect that someone would actually complete the martial arts test in such a short time.

"Hand it over, I'll take a look."

"Yes, examiner." Yu Que greeted and handed over the gold ingot chestnut in his hand as he said.

After playing with it for a while, examiner Lu Tiehua reached out and patted Yu Que on the shoulder, with a look of satisfaction on his face:

"Not bad, not bad. The quality is OK."

While this person was speaking, Yu Que suddenly felt a chill all over his body, as if someone was stripping him of his clothes and peeping at him.

He subconsciously used his own spiritual sense to protect his body and resist being watched.

Two spiritual consciousnesses collided.

This time, the examiner Lu Tiehua's expression was even more surprised.

At this moment, this person was using his spiritual sense to check Yu Que's body, but was blocked.

"No wonder he was able to master it so quickly. He's still so young, it's incredible." The other party muttered to himself, and then withdrew his spiritual sense.

Since Yu Que has cultivated his spiritual consciousness, it means that he knows his body very well, and a situation like Fang Mulian should not happen again.

Even if he appeared, Yu Que possessed spiritual consciousness, and no matter how weak his body was, it was enough for him to pass the test and enter the county school.

The examiner Lu Tiehua showed even more appreciation on his face, and immediately said:

"You have passed the martial arts test. I will record your performance tonight. From now on, you can move around on your own."

After saying this, the other party threw the three gold ingot chestnuts back to Yu Que and ignored him.

Yu Que let out a long sigh, bowed and took his leave.

As soon as he walked away, the other candidates suddenly surrounded him, their eyes were burning, as if they wanted to eat him up:

"Brother, please give me some pointers!"

"Brother, please help me. When I enter the county school, I will respect you."

All kinds of flattery came flying towards him like they were free of charge, and a large number of candidates surrounded the remaining vacancies tightly.

Some of them shouted:
"Brother! You have nothing to do anyway, why don't you help me refine three ghost chestnuts? I'll give you 100,000 yuan!"

This number caused a lot of discussion among the people present. Some people exclaimed, while others were dismissive.

When Yu Que heard this, he suddenly stopped and his eyes lit up slightly.

When the people around him saw him like this, they immediately rushed forward with even greater enthusiasm, and even started bidding right away:

"I'll give you 110,000 yuan!"

"Damn it, if you can get into the county school, you'll make a fortune. I'll give you 150,000!"

However, Yu Que ignored the group of people at all. With gray air surging around him and a cold look on his face, he walked out of the crowd alone, picked up a human head ghost chestnut, and climbed onto the iron-smelting blast furnace again.

Not long after, the fourth gold ingot chestnut appeared in Yu Que's hand.

He did not sell the precious chestnut to anyone, but kept it in his sleeve.

While accepting it, Yu Que secretly glanced at the examiner Lu Tiehua.

Seeing that the other party had no reaction, he seized the time, hurriedly walked down the blast furnace, picked up two human head ghost chestnuts, and hurriedly refined them.

You know, whether according to Qian Huazhen's statement or according to the examiner Lu Tiehua's suggestion, this golden ingot chestnut is a good thing!
Since the examiner did not push him aside but let him move around on his own, Yu Que thought that he might as well refine a few more. Perhaps he would be able to gain a significant advantage in the final test.

Even if it is useless in the final test, he can take the extra chestnuts back home afterwards, which is also extra money and food!

In an instant, kerosene splashed and the iron furnace whistled.

Yu Que refined six more pills in one breath in the examination room.

A total of nine gold ingot chestnuts were stuffed into his sleeve pocket. They were so heavy that both sleeves hung down, and it was obvious that he was very rich.

Only then did Yu Que breathe a sigh of relief. He slowly walked to a corner of the examination room, sat down quietly to rest, and no longer practiced.

Refining this thing also requires effort and energy. Nine is the maximum number that Yu Que can prepare without affecting his condition.

As for the examination room, the rest of the candidates continued to refine ghost chestnuts in full swing.

After some of them successfully passed the test, during their free time, they coveted the bids of other candidates and actually started to refine extra precious chestnuts and sell them.

Examiner Lu Tiehua still turned a blind eye to such behavior.

Yu Que couldn't help but look up and take a closer look. However, he remained indifferent and had no intention of selling this item.

Time passes quickly.

One after another, candidates successfully prepared three ghost chestnuts and passed the test.

The number of ghost chestnuts in the field is also decreasing.

In the end, the candidates who had not yet succeeded, with pale faces, started to fight for the remaining heads. They fought each other for a while, which caused Lu Tiehua to reprimand and expel them repeatedly.

at last.

When the last ghost chestnut in the examination room turned into a wisp of burnt smoke, the candidate in front of the iron furnace, holding two gold ingot chestnuts, suddenly let out a desperate cry of pain:
"No!"

With only two gold ingot chestnuts, he could not meet the requirements for passing the test. The examinee's eyes flickered with anxiety, and he immediately looked at the examinee who only had one.

But there was a loud bang, and the examiner Lu Tiehua slammed the iron furnace in the middle, banging like a drum, and the other party shouted:
"The martial arts exam is over. Those who have passed, stand on the east side, and those who have not passed, put down everything in your hands and leave quickly." The outcome has been decided. Whether it is the candidates who have successfully passed the exam or the candidates who have not yet passed, they all feel that the lively and wailing in the venue can end.

But then, even more eye-catching things happened.

First, there were candidates holding one or two gold ingot chestnuts and trying to blend into the crowd. When they were picked out, they immediately knelt down, kowtowed, and rolled on the ground.

There were also candidates who were carrying one or two gold ingot chestnuts, but were stopped by the yamen runners when leaving the venue and had their gold ingot chestnuts taken away.

The candidates who left the room were stunned, their faces flushed, and they argued anxiously:

"This is what I made. You can't steal it."

But the yamen runners did not tolerate them at all and scolded them: "Bah! I told you to put down everything you have, but you little thieves dare to hide public property!"

Some older candidates were even subjected to humiliating treatment.

The yamen runners grabbed their hair, touched their crotches, ordered them to spread their legs, and used iron rulers to poke around the valley. They really treated the candidates who were leaving the venue as gold miners, fearing that they had hidden the gold in unimaginable places.

What made Yu Que and others even more stunned was that someone was actually found out, and after unbuttoning his belt, a gold ingot chestnut popped out.

It is truly disgraceful and not something that someone who studies Taoism would do.

No one at the scene knew how this person had been able to collect this item in such a short time and how he had been so cruel.

You should know that a golden ingot chestnut is, at best, the size of an egg.

Yu Que also heard Qian Huazhen beside him talking to the people around him: "If we really take this out, will we still have the appetite to refine it?"

When the candidates who had passed the exam were watching the excitement with great interest and gloating over their misfortune, the examiner Lu Tiehua suddenly walked up to the crowd.

The other party had a cold face, pointed at each candidate in the crowd, and shouted:
"Put down your stuff and get out of here."

The selected candidates were stunned, uneasy, and did not move for a long time. Lu Tiehua was impatient and directly reached out to grab them and threw them out to the exit one by one.

Loud cries and noises suddenly rang out in the room:

"Why are you chasing me away?"

The candidates who passed the exam were feeling anxious when they heard Lu Tiehua shouting:
"All those who paid for it will be disqualified and will be treated as cheaters. Damn it, do you really think I'm a scarecrow?"

The next moment, the other party looked at the remaining candidates with a sneer and said, "Those who privately sell ghost chestnuts will be treated as assisting cheating. Your scores will all be lowered by one level as a lesson."

This time, another group of candidates turned pale.

When Yu Que heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and thought to himself, "It is true."

It should be noted that the county examination is notoriously strict, and it is already a rare opportunity for candidates to help and guide each other.

If one really wants to buy and sell items, no matter whether it is privately or publicly, it is because one is blinded by greed and is ruining one's own path to immortality.

This is why Yu Que didn't sell any of the nine pills he refined in one go. If Lu Tiehua wants to take them away later, he will hand them over honestly.

However, what made Yu Que happy was that Lu Tiehua merely glanced at his heavy sleeves without saying another word. He waved his hand and led everyone to the next examination room.

Suddenly, when everyone was leaving, one of the candidates who had passed the test turned around and shouted:
"Luo Laosan, you owe me one hundred thousand dollars, don't even think about shirking your debt!"

This person had a gloomy face. It turned out that when buying and selling ghost chestnuts, he did not take cash, but kept a record of it.

This scene once again made many people murmur in amazement.

Suddenly, Qian Huazhen, who was beside Yu Que, patted his chest heavily and said thankfully:

"Luckily, I saw that they were a bunch of poor people without any cash on them, so I didn't bother to make money from them... Otherwise, I would have suffered a huge loss!"

This guy is quite wealthy, but he was actually tempted to sell some gold ingot chestnuts. One can only say that this person is worthy of his surname "Qian". He is willing to spend money and is also obsessed with money.

Amidst the noise, the remaining candidates followed Lu Tiehua and walked out of the examination room, which was filled with fire.

The second stage of the county examination, the martial arts examination, is officially over!
Less than two hundred people passed the test.

………………

Then, to everyone’s surprise, the examination venue for the third level was not in the county school.

They boarded a long ghostly carriage, which was like a centipede and covered with iron armor.

The horses pulling the cart were more than ten feet tall, with green ghost fire coming out of their mouths and fierce eyes. It was obvious at first glance that they were not ordinary horses, but ferocious horses that ate meat and drank alcohol.

Amid the clanging sounds, a ghost carriage dragged everyone, braving the cold wind, rolling over the stone slabs, and heading towards the direction where the cold air was rolling from.

Everyone was sitting in the carriage, feeling anxious and uneasy, not knowing where the examination room would be.

Some of the smarter ones had some guesses in their minds, and their faces were even more embarrassed:
"Are you...going to drag us out of the city?"

"Damn it, how come this year's exam is the same as seven years ago? A lot of people died in that batch seven years ago."

For example, Qian Huazhen, who was sitting next to Yu Que, had his face trembling, and he was quite nervous.

Qian Huazhen's eyes shrank, and he whispered:
"The son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall.

Brother Yu, why don't we just stay where we are for a while? After passing the second level, we will most likely be admitted to the county school."

Although the Xianjia County examination has three levels, not every level must be passed.

Starting from those who have passed the second level, the county school will select the best candidates for admission, and the number of students varies every year.

There were even a few times when the number of people who passed the second round was insufficient, and the county school specially held additional examinations and selected a new group from some of the candidates who were eliminated in the second round.

As for those who had already passed the second level, they would naturally be admitted no matter how poorly they performed in the third level.

Therefore, Qian Huazhen's cowardly act of saving his life was very feasible. Especially since they were both members of the Alchemist Guild, and their martial arts exam scores were good, so they were basically guaranteed to enter the county school.

But Yu Que didn't want to do that.

This was not only because he didn't want to lower his evaluation, but also because from the moment he got on the ghost car, someone in the corner of the car had been staring at him.

Yu Que suddenly turned around, looked at the other person, and smiled.

This person is Fu Ling!

This guy also passed the second level. Rumors within the Fu clan said that this person was quite talented, and it seemed that it was not all lies or hype.

Fu Ling was delighted that the third test was held in the wild. This format would undoubtedly make it extremely convenient for him to take revenge!

Seeing Yu Que dared to look back at him boldly, he was slightly startled, and then the murderous intent in his eyes could no longer be suppressed.

But he didn't know that Yu Que was also happy that the examination venue was set in the wild.

Even if it is just to settle a cause and effect, Yu Que will definitely participate in this assessment outside the city and show his skills!

(End of this chapter)