In the living room of the mansion, Lin Fei sat leisurely on a chair, watching the old housekeeper take the exam for Jingjiu.
The elf maid Luci standing by was about to fill Lin Fei's teacup with tea, but she was stopped by Lin Fei.
"Just bring me boiled water." Lin Fei, who drank a lot of scented tea today, now just wants to drink some simple boiled water.
"Yes." Lu Qi nodded, and then poured Lin Fei a glass of boiled water.
The old housekeeper took Jing Jiu's exam very seriously, and Jing Jiu, who worked in a bank, lived up to Lin Fei's expectations and answered the old guard's exams fluently, showing the style of a senior person.
After a while, the old housekeeper stopped his examination of Jing Jiu and said to Jing Jiu very confidently, "Very good. I hope you will take care of the accounts in the manor in an orderly manner in the future."
When Jing Jiu heard what the old housekeeper said, she knew that she had passed the exam. For a moment, the joy of success filled her heart.
When Lin Fei saw that Jing Jiu had passed the old housekeeper's examination, he said to the old housekeeper, "Tea Butler, I'll leave the rest to you. I'll go out for a walk first and then get familiar with the house."
"Huh?" Except for Jing Jiu, no one else in the living room understood what Lin Fei meant.
But he couldn't get lost in his own home again. It would be too embarrassing if something like this happened again... Lin Fei muttered in his heart, and then called the maid Luci to be his guide.
After Lin Fei and Lu Qi left, the old housekeeper Cha Tu took Jing Jiu to the place where the accounting office worked and arranged a place for Lu Qi to live.
Seeing that everyone else had left, Zhang Qiu, who had nothing to do, opened his mouth, and then sighed, "Oh...it's such a leisurely life these days, um...I'll go to the kitchen to find something to eat!"
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In the corridor, Lu Qi took Lin Fei to the garden at the request of Lin Fei.
Along the way, Lin Fei carefully observed his surroundings and remembered these reference points so that he would not get lost again.
I don’t know what to do with building such a big house. The royal family is really extravagant... Lin Fei, who had come a long way, complained in his heart.
Lu Qi, who was leading the way for Lin Fei, secretly looked at Lin Fei who was looking for the way out of the corner of her eye. She thought about it and called Lin Fei in a low voice, "Boss."
"Well." Lin Fei looked at Luci and asked, "Is something wrong?"
"The snack from your hometown you gave me in the morning was very delicious." Luci said.
"That's right!" Lin Fei said with a smile, "Do you like to eat?"
"I like it." Lu Qi nodded quickly and said, "I will give the snacks to others, and they also like it very much."
Elf girls also like to eat chocolate. It seems that my future plans can go smoothly... Lin Fei smiled and said to Luci, "Just like it."
"Boss, what's the name of that snack?" Luci asked curiously.
"Chocolate." Lin Fei said.
"Chocolate? The name of this snack is so strange." Lu Qi thought in her heart.
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Blue Star, Rongcheng.
Somewhere in the East District, there is a fighting training gym that has been open for some years, on the second floor.
It was now afternoon, and people were coming in and out of the first floor of the training hall from time to time.
In the members' area on the second floor, a building imitating a ring stands in the center. There are two figures on the stage fighting, and there are more than twenty members watching attentively.
"Huh... bang!"
"Bang...boom!"
The next second, there was a series of crackling sounds.
A figure screamed in pain and was knocked off the ring. There was a burst of cheers from below, "Brother Zhang is mighty!"
"Xiao Liu is not bad either. He lasted one and a half minutes longer than last time. Now he can fight Brother Zhang back and forth."
"Yes! Xiao Liu is really amazing. He has only studied for two months and has made such great progress."
"This is talent! I heard from Xiao Liu that he only practices in his free time and is usually busy with work!"
Amid everyone's discussion, the victorious Zhang Chaotai jumped off the ring, raised his hand to pull the young man named Liu up, laughed and cursed, "Stop pretending, you didn't get hurt this time."
The latter got up with a smile and said, "Brother Zhang, please show mercy."
Zhang Chaotai, who likes fighting, no longer wears his usual white-collar attire. He is wearing a plain vest and trousers. He is sweating profusely and his hair is steaming. He looks completely different from the way he looked when he was a clerk in the company office.
After hearing what the young man surnamed Liu said, a complicated look flashed in his eyes, then he smiled and patted the other person on the shoulder and said, "Your progress has surpassed mine."
"No, no..." the young man named Liu said modestly.
At this time, someone around handed over mineral water, and two other people couldn't wait to jump onto the ring...
These people who competed in the fighting training hall were not fighting enthusiasts before, they were just ordinary office workers before.
After experiencing the feeling of punching to the flesh, they all fell in love with this sport. Although they are all amateurs, it does not hinder their love for this sport.
Life is stressful, and through this kind of real-life collision, the anxiety accumulated during work can be released... This is the advertisement for this fighting training gym when it first recruited students.
Not to mention, the effect of this advertisement is really good, attracting many office workers to sign up.
Relationships are built, and over time, these office workers who apply for cards have become friends with each other. In their free time, they will meet here to discuss matters.
Youdao is the best in literature and the second in martial arts. After more than a year of learning fighting skills, everyone will have the mentality of unwillingness to be inferior to others.
Coupled with the burst of spiritual energy, the students who learned fighting actually awakened their spiritual energy, and after a period of practice, they all became practitioners.
From the time when I first learned to fight to relieve stress, to now when I learn to fight in order to further improve my cultivation, everyone's original intentions have changed unconsciously.
Not long ago, the government issued a document announcing several policies to promote spiritual practice among the people.
Once the policy was opened, many well-funded gyms in various cities have increased their investment in fighting venues that help with training on the basis of the original ones.
Some small fighting training gyms are popping up like mushrooms after a rain.
However, because these small fighting training gyms cannot match those large gyms in terms of funds, in order to survive, they came up with a plan to jointly hold martial arts competitions and set up high bonuses.
Now, for the sake of the high bonuses, the students practiced harder and harder. As soon as this news spread, it attracted many people to sign up for membership in these small fighting training halls.
Seeing everyone's eyes on the ring, Zhang Chaotai stood on the outside, replenishing water with a mouthful of water, but there was a hint of loneliness on his face.
Last year in the competition organized by these small fighting training halls, he got a top ten ranking. He was very satisfied with this result at the time.
But this year has passed, and he feels that he may not even make it into the top twenty in this year's martial arts competition. He is not too surprised by this possible result, but he is extremely dissatisfied with himself, and is increasingly in crisis.
feel.
This sense of crisis is largely due to the increasing number of awakened people in Rong City. Their cultivation talents are better than their own, and their progress is naturally faster than theirs.
For example, the young man surnamed Liu who I fought with just now is only in his early twenties, he has only awakened his spiritual power for a few months, and he has only been training in a fighting training center for a short period of time.
But now, if Zhang Chaotai wants to defeat the opponent, he almost has to use all his strength.
It is conceivable that as time goes by, those who have the advantage of time will sooner or later be overtaken by these talented younger generations.
Those young people may not have to worry about this, but Zhang Chaotai cannot help but become pessimistic.
"Brother Zhang, are you going back?" asked the young man named Liu who had previously competed with Zhang Chaotai.
"Well, I have something to do, so I will go back today. You guys have fun!" Zhang Chaotai said to Xiao Liu with a smile.
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The sun sets in the west, and the sun that has been shining enthusiastically on the earth all day is finally going down at this moment.
In a park in the east district of Rongcheng, in a small square to the east, there was a circle of people playing and singing.
The person holding a microphone and singing the lead was an old aunt in her sixties.
She has silver hair, is well-dressed, sings well and has a good voice. She is probably a retired professional actor.
The other was an old gentleman. He was thin and tanned. He was wearing a cheap cultural shirt and a pair of plastic slippers that had a length of heel. He looked like a commoner in an alley.
Comparing the two, the old man's singing voice is slightly inferior, and the contrast between their images is huge.
Some of the other people were dressed fashionably, and some were shabbily dressed, but they all paid no attention to it and just sang with great enthusiasm.
One song after another, the fun is endless. This is an equal world. When we come together, we are all ordinary members, and there is no distinction between high and low.
In the bamboo forest before, Qisehua, who had played several games of chess with the old people who had been defeated and defeated, stood aside and watched these humans singing happily.
"twitter……"
A crisp bird song suddenly sounded, awakening the colorful flowers that were addicted to it.
Qisehua, who looked like a primary school student, looked up at the tree nearby and saw the three sparrow brothers blinking at her.
"So many people gather together to sing, it's really an interesting activity. I wonder if I can join them." Qisehua left the crowd and walked towards the small square on the west side of the park, thinking about how to join this singing activity.
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"Huh... bang!"
"Bang...boom!"
Many people gathered around a small, somewhat crude arena.
"come on……"
"Hiss...this elbow hit was so hard! If I were to receive this blow, I would definitely give in immediately."
Compared with the singing activities in the small square to the east of the park, which make people feel soothing, the activities in the small square to the west of the park are a bit exciting.
This is a gathering place for those who come to this park to practice. Every time the sun sets, these people will compete in the arena in the small square.
"boom."
A figure was knocked away and fell to the bottom of the ring.
"Concession." The winner gasped and clasped his fists at his opponent.
When the winner stepped down, two more people walked out of the crowd, and their psychic energy fluctuations were no weaker than that of the winner.
Jumping up, the two mid-level first-level practitioners began to spar.
"Bang, bang, bang..." The two men's offensive was so fast that the surrounding audience was dazzled and overwhelmed.
"After the Chinese New Year this year, I will be thirty-two years old. The gap between me and them will only widen in the future." Zhang Chaotai, who had just come off the ring, looked at the two young people fighting fiercely and felt anxious in his heart.
"Am I just going to have to watch myself slipping away a little bit?"
The mineral water bottle in Zhang Chaotai's hand was suddenly crushed, and his eyes were confused. He left the crowd and sat down on a bench nearby.
At noon, after leaving the fighting training hall and finishing some trivial matters, he did not go to the fighting training hall again, but came to this park to compete with others.
He originally thought that there would be no decent practitioners in this park, but the result was different from what he imagined.
The opponent he had just sparred with was no weaker than Xiao Liu from the fighting training hall. Then, the two people who entered the ring after him were already firmly stronger than him.
They all have one thing in common, that is, they are young...
"I'd better not sign up for this year's martial arts competition. Last year, my results were in the top ten, but this year I can't even get into the top twenty. If I do, it will only add to the joke."
Just as Zhang Chaotai was muttering to himself, a short figure came to him and sat in the empty space on the bench.
"You look disappointed?" the child looked at Zhang Chaotai and said.
"Huh?" Zhang Chaotai was stunned when he heard this.
"Do you want to get stronger power?" the child said seriously.
"???"
Zhang Chaotai looked at the child sitting next to him with a strange expression. When he saw the child looking at him with a smile, he said calmly, "Children, it's getting dark. Go home and have dinner quickly! Otherwise,
Your mother is worried about you."
The smiling Qisehua took out a small glass bottle as thick as an adult's finger from his pocket.
Zhang Chaotai looked confused when he saw that the child did not speak, but instead took out a small glass bottle filled with transparent liquid from his pocket.
"You are my first guest, and I will give you this first bottle of spiritual liquid for free." After Qisehua finished speaking, she stuffed the small glass bottle in Zhang Chaotai's hand.
"Kid, you..." Before Zhang Chaotai could finish his words, he was interrupted by Qisehua.
"You are only in the middle of the first level at your age, and your cultivation talent is really poor. When you practice from now on, drink the spiritual liquid I give you in advance. You will be able to break through to the high level of the first level in no time."
"..." Zhang Chaotai looked at Qisehua with disbelief, thinking that this kid had watched too many TV series, so he acted like this.
In order not to let this strange kid continue to pester him, he smiled and nodded in agreement, "Okay, thank you very much."
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This chapter has been completed!