After eating five large bowls of noodles in a row, Meng Xiang calmly explained his financial situation to Zhao Xuezhu and put only eight big money left on the table. At this time, he had already made the worst plan and decided to bear the worst consequences. He gave up his plan to escape.

During the meal, Meng Xiang had already discovered that Zhao Xuezhu had known that he had no money to pay the bill. However, she did not expose him, and still greeted him enthusiastically. She even added several large pieces of thick beef with beef sauce to his bowl and put it thoughtfully under the noodles.

When I ate the beef I hadn't missed for a long time, Meng Xiang made a decision in his mind, and never used any tricks, accepted all the punishments from Zhao Xuezhu calmly, and never evaded.

After knowing his situation, Zhao Xuezhu neither asked him to eat the king's meal nor called the urban management to punish him. On the contrary, she took him in, nominally helping her, including food and accommodation, and she also had two taels of silver in every month.

Although the two taels of silver were very small, much less than the wages of some locals, Meng Xiang was still very grateful to her because he soon knew that Zhao Xuezhu's small noodle restaurant did not need help at all, and his income was very small. After all, he had lost all kinds of expenses and taxes, and his annual income was less than 100 taels of silver.

Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu were not in love at first sight. Although he was grateful to Zhao Xuezhu at first, he still tried not to look at the big birthmark on her face when he was faced with him. But as he got along slowly, the birthmark on her face gradually became less annoying in his eyes, because she was really a good girl. In such a difficult situation, she would still do her best to help those poor people who were encountered like him.

Meng Xiang spent a total of eight months at Zhao Xuezhu's house. Then he used the accumulated wages as a deposit to find a job in a fur shop. Although the work was tiring and the salary was low, he felt unprecedentedly relaxed because he no longer had to exploit the person he liked.

Later, in order to make a better life, he bought a copy of "Copper and Iron Bone" and seized all the time to practice. He wanted to improve his strength and become a hunter. Although it was very dangerous, his income would be much higher.

As the saying goes, it is said that it is a wealthy man who is rich in martial arts. Practicing martial arts requires money. The meager wages he earns in working in a fur shop cannot fill his growing appetite. In addition, the food he eats is not good and cannot provide enough qi and blood. The result of hard practice is that in addition to the dense scars on his body, the effect is minimal.

At this time, Zhao Xuezhu knew about his situation from somewhere, took out all her savings, tried her best to get delicious food for him, and advised him to persevere. It was Zhao Xuezhu's actions that slowly turned his love for her from love to love.

After practicing "Copper and Iron Bone", Meng Xiang began to join the ranks of hunters. Perhaps his original hunting experience helped him, which quickly adapted to the hunter's work. Although he did not dare to hunt beasts directly because of his low strength, he was good at getting some cubs.

In Tiemu City, some rich people like to raise some beasts for fun, so their income is pretty good, at least much higher than their income in fur shops. Gradually, he had some savings, and he used them to buy the most common "Night Battle of the Eight Directions" sword technique and practiced diligently.

In fact, Meng Xiang didn't want to choose "Night Battle at the Eight Directions" at the beginning. What he liked was a sword score - "Spirit Snake". But in the end, he changed his decision. One was that "Spirit Snake" was almost twice as expensive as "Night Battle at the Eight Directions" and he couldn't afford it. The other was that practicing sword technique required a long sword, and the lowest-level long sword in Tiemu City also required a hundred taels of silver. If he practiced the knife, he himself had a long sword. Although it was not very sharp, it could still be used.

Perhaps Meng Xiang really has some understanding of sword skills. He will not practice "Night Battles Eight Directions" for a long time, so he can emit some of its power. At least he can dance with a long sword and exert a good defense.

After a while, after becoming more familiar with "Night Battles Eight Directions", he joined the team to hunt and kill beasts. However, due to his experience and strength, his gains were very poor at the beginning, even lower than his income when he worked in a fur shop, which made him have to go to Zhao Xuezhu to have a meal with shame.

Fortunately, Meng Xiang still has some ideas about hunting. After a period of study and using traps to make up for his lack of strength, his income has gradually improved a little, and at least he can eat enough to fill his stomach.

After almost two years, everything went smoothly. Although Zhao Xuezhu's noodle restaurant was still doing lightly, although his income still did not increase much, although he encountered bottlenecks in "Copper Skin and Iron Bone" and "Night Battles in Eight Directions", and although the urban management still harassed them every now and then, at least it was not easy to be full and not warm in the food and clothing. Being able to do these two things is happier than many people in Tiemu City.

Time flies. It is the fifth year that Meng Xiang has arrived in Tiemu City. If that didn't happen, maybe not long after that, the flower of love that sprouted in humility between Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu will have fruit.

They had already agreed that on Zhao Xuezhu's birthday, they would hold a small banquet and invite some friends and neighbors whom they knew to testify. They would form a small family. At that time, it was less than three months before Zhao Xuezhu's birthday. However, a notice issued by the city lord Qi Changzheng threw a huge rock in their peaceful life and produced a series of chain reactions.

The major immortal sect generals recruit disciples in Tiemu City in the autumn two years later. Both men and women before the age of thirty can participate. Once selected, they will not only have the opportunity to cultivate immortality and live a life like a god, and they will no longer have to worry about housing, food, accommodation, etc. But everything has a prerequisite, that is, both men and women must maintain their childlike body.

Just like most people, the lower the society, the more they want to change their destiny, even if the hope is very slim. Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu, especially Meng Xiang, as men, are even more so.

After discussing the two, they decided to wait for another two years. If one of the two people can be selected by the Immortal Sect, their lives will be greatly improved and they will never have to live such a hard life now. If good luck does not come to them, they will get married and form a family. Anyway, they are still young, and there will be no big impact on them.

In the next time, the focus of their lives was placed at the Longmen Conference two years later, but they did not know that it would take many conditions to become disciples of the Immortal Sect, and they had no hope at all.

During this process, Meng Xiang knew that to become a disciple of the Immortal Sect, one had to know ancient characters, and to enter the ancient arts museum, one had to pay a large sum of silver.

Although Meng Xiang rescued a barefoot doctor not long ago and learned some medical and herbal knowledge. Originally, he could treat people to increase his income, but the doctors in Tiemu City formed an association.

If a doctor who has not registered with the association, he or she has obtained the medical qualification cannot treat others. Otherwise, if he or she is caught, he or she will be thrown into a terrible prison and will never have a chance to make a comeback. In addition to the complicated assessment, he or she has to pay a membership fee of thousands of taels of silver. Meng Xiang cannot afford to pay so much money, so the hero is useless.

The medical and herbal knowledge that Meng Xiang learned was not completely useless. At least when he was hunting, he saw some valuable herbs that could be collected and brought back. Although those who opened medicinal stores and clinics were very dark-hearted and gave him extremely low prices, he finally increased his income.

After spending more than half a year, Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu took out all their savings and borrowed some money from acquaintances, they finally collected enough money for Meng Xiang to study in the ancient arts museum. But Zhao Xuezhu had no chance because her tuition fee was already overwhelming.

With guilt towards Zhao Xuezhu, Meng Xiang seized every little bit and every drop of time to study. Sometimes the dreams he said were all the ancient words. His efforts were rewarded. He graduated only half of the time before he got better, and his grades were excellent.

In the next time, they were preparing for the Longmen Conference. In fact, they had no idea what the major immortal sects would evaluate, so Meng Xiang took some of the time out to teach Zhao Xuezhu to learn to read.

Although she didn't know almost a single word before, during the process of teaching her, he found that she was extremely smart. He could remember many difficult words by just teaching her once, and many times she could learn from them.

After discovering this, Meng Xiang felt more and more guilty. He felt that the chance of being selected by the Immortal Sect with her qualifications was greater, but she gave him the opportunity. At that time, he sweared that he would never let her down.

With the expectations of Meng Xiang, Zhao Xuezhu, and many others who had the same thoughts as them, the day for the Longmen Conference to begin has finally arrived.

At that moment, Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu saw a strange scene they had never seen in their lives: immortals with white clouds and various magic weapons, giant birds with wingspans exceeding a hundred feet, giant beasts flying in the sky, palaces that covered the sky and large ships that were unknown length and width, etc. At that time, they were as stupid as many others.

With excitement, after paying the entrance fee of ten taels of silver per person, Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu entered the Longmen Conference, lined up in a long queue, and approached the masters who were hosting the major immortal sects to recruit their disciples little by little.

There is a saying that goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Three days later, Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu came out of the Longmen Conference one after another. The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, without even asking, they knew the result - they both failed.

However, as long as people live, their lives must continue. After a period of time, their mentality will return to peace. After a while, they will pay off their debts. When they have some savings, they will hold a small wedding, get married, live a good life, and don’t think about anything, just want to live together.

But they did not expect that a catastrophe would come to them, and the source of the disaster was the Longmen Conference, which once gave them infinite longings, and to be more precise, the so-called masters who came to recruit disciples.
Chapter completed!