That evening, watching Lin Shuhang return depressed in his bellyband, the witch ghost and Zuo Yunlang looked at each other.
"Lin Shuhang, what's going on? Why did you only borrow a bellyband after being here for so long?" the ghost ghost asked curiously.
Lin Shuhang said angrily: "Hey, forget it, I'm so unlucky today! I was almost arrested by a soldier."
Looking at the naked Zuo Yunlang, Lin Shuhang said: "Brother, I'm sorry, I didn't borrow any clothes."
Zuo Yunlang said: "What should we do? Brother Fang, we can't go into the city naked."
"There is no other way. How about I let you wear the bellyband?" Lin Shuhang asked, and then went to untie the bellyband.
Zuo Yunlang waved his hand quickly: "No, no, you better wear it."
The ghost ghost said at this time: "Okay, let me think of a way."
As he spoke, Wu Gui dug out a piece of white paper from his abdomen.
After walking to Zuo Yunlang with the piece of white paper, Wu Gui stuck the white paper on Zuo Yunlang's body.
After reciting an ancient mantra that no one could understand, Zuo Yunlang's body suddenly glowed with light.
When the light faded, Zuo Yunlang miraculously had a green suit on his body.
"No way? So mysterious?" Zuo Yunlang and Lin Shuhang screamed at the same time as they looked at the green dress.
"This is just a trick, not real clothes." Seeing the surprised looks of Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang, Wu Gui explained disapprovingly.
Zuo Yunlang said: "No wonder I still feel cold. It turns out to be a trick."
Seeing Zuo Yunlang suddenly dressed in Tsing Yi, Lin Shuhang also became excited.
"Quick, Wu Gui, help me get some clothes. I also want the clothes I wore before." Lin Shuhang said excitedly, holding Wu Gui's arm.
The ghost ghost said: "Don't wear those weird clothes. It attracts too much attention. Now we have to be low-key in our behavior. We must not be too ostentatious."
"Okay, it's up to you. You can help me get dressed."
The ghost ghost nodded, pulled out a bit of white paper from his abdomen, and then put his hand on Lin Shuhang's body.
With a flash of white light, Lin Shuhang had an extra piece of clothing on his body. It was a white brocade dress, a very luxurious one.
"Well, not bad, not bad." Lin Shuhang looked up and down at the white clothes on his body, and was very satisfied with this style of clothes.
The ghost ghost said: "Okay, let's go to the city and settle down quickly. These paper clothes are not good at keeping out the cold."
Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang nodded, and the three of them started walking towards Zezhou City ahead.
Zezhou belongs to the Beixue Dynasty and is a border city in the northwest of Beize Snow Region.
Although the area is not very large, it is very prosperous because it occupies an important geographical location. It is the only passage from the south to the north of Beize Snow Country.
The total population of nearly 200,000 is almost the size of a medium-sized city in the Snowy Region of Beize. It mainly defends against the Western Barbarians, who are known as barbaric people. It is one of the most important border towns in the Northern Snow Empire. It can be said that it has military and political capabilities.
Of extraordinary strategic significance.
Zezhou City is a bit quiet in winter. Walking on the streets of Zezhou City, Lin Shuhang and his party were very relaxed.
"Witch, didn't you say that Zezhou City is the most prosperous border city in the northwest of Beize Snow Region? Why does it look deserted?" Lin Shuhang asked curiously.
The witch ghost attached to Lin Shuhang explained: "Now is the coldest season of the year, so of course it can't be said to be lively."
"Oh, that's how it is."
"By the way, Wu Gui, Yun Lang and I are going to a martial arts academy to practice martial arts. Do you think there will be a martial arts academy in Zezhou City?"
"Yes, and there are more than one."
Wu Gui explained: "There are many martial arts schools in the Northern Kingdom. A major border city will of course have martial arts schools."
"Then let's find one quickly." Lin Shuhang said impatiently.
Zuo Yunlang on the side smiled and said: "Brother Fang, there is no need to rush into martial arts. If we want to learn true skills, we must be more cautious. There are many martial arts academies in the North, and it is difficult to distinguish them. If you enter the wrong martial arts academy,
Not only the hospital has wasted energy and money, but the time wasted and the youth lost are too much for us to bear. So we must be cautious."
Wu Gui said: "Yun Lang is right. You must not be hasty and careless when practicing martial arts. You must enter a good martial arts academy to learn the true skills. It is getting late now, I think we should find an inn to settle down first.
I’ll be at Xunwu Academy tomorrow.”
Lin Shuhang said: "But I will definitely get the money, and this is still a robbery. Yunlang, do you have any money?"
Zuo Yunlang shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Brother Fang, don't you know that I am naked now? All my money has been blown away by the wind."
"It doesn't matter, just a certain amount of money will do. Lin Shuhang, you pick up some stones, and I will use a blind trick to turn them into some silver later."
Lin Shuhang asked uncertainly: "Stone? Can it be done?"
"It should be fine for one night."
"Okay, Yunlang, let's move some rocks. The bigger the better, let's have some fun tonight."
The wizard said dumbfounded: "Stones can't do it, but if the money becomes bigger, who will believe it?"
Half an hour later, Zezhou, south of the city...
"Gentleman's Inn?"
On the street, Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang stopped in front of an inn.
"It seems like this one is relatively clean, well, this is the one!"
Lin Shuhang stretched his head and looked inside. Seeing that the inn was clean and bright, he chose this inn as a resting place for several people.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a gilt couplet in the store, which read, "If you don't dominate during the day and don't steal at night, you are a gentleman. A gentleman is magnanimous and has the breeze on his sleeves!"
The following letter reads: "Don't bully the old, don't humiliate the weak, you are a gentleman, a gentleman is noble and upright!"
He criticized "Children do not bully old men, it is the behavior of a gentleman!"
"You two gentlemen, do you want to eat and stay in a hotel?"
As soon as I entered the door, a waiter with a towel hanging on his shoulders immediately ran over with a smile.
"Stay in the hotel." Lin Shuhang responded.
"Okay! Please go to the counter over there and pay the bill."
Lin Shuhang turned around and saw a shopkeeper wearing a felt hat lying in front of the counter, fiddling with the abacus in front of him.
"Shopkeeper, please give us a clean room." Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang walked to the counter and said to the shopkeeper who was bowing his head to settle accounts.
The shopkeeper said without raising his head: "Room 16 on the second floor."
Lin Shuhang asked: "How much does one night cost?"
"Two taels of silver, one tael of deposit, three taels in total." The shopkeeper continued to fiddle with the abacus in his hand, and the beads of the abacus clicked with his experienced hands.
"Oh, then bring us some more food and wine." Lin Shuhang took out four taels of silver from his pocket and placed it on the counter.
The old hands that were moving the abacus quickly suddenly stopped.
The shopkeeper raised his head and looked at Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang up and down. They were so frightened that they panicked, thinking that the shopkeeper had seen through the deception trick used by the wizard.
"Sixteen rooms on the second floor, plus a table of food and drinks."
After the shopkeeper stared at Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang for a while, he suddenly took the silver that had been turned into four stones and put it into the drawer.
"Damn, I was shocked. I thought this old grandson saw the flaw?" Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Okay!" The waiter ran over in a hurry.
"You two, please come with me."
The waiter smiled and led the two of them upstairs.
Before going upstairs, Lin Shuhang did not forget to look back at the shopkeeper. Strangely, the shopkeeper also happened to look up at Lin Shuhang.
When their eyes met, Lin Shuhang's heart skipped a beat and he panicked.
It can't be a black shop, right? Lin Shuhang thought uneasily.
"Yunlang, be careful. Don't be fooled by that gentleman's couplet. This place may be a shady shop!" Lin Shuhang whispered to Zuo Yunlang.
Zuo Yunlang looked back in panic, only to see that the shopkeeper had already turned back and continued to fiddle with the abacus in his hand.
"What should we do?" Zuo Yunlang asked in shock.
“According to circumstances!”
"Two guests, Room 16 has arrived. Food and wine will be brought to you immediately."
The waiter opened the door and invited the two of them into the room. After that, the waiter went downstairs.
Seeing the waiter coming downstairs, Lin Shuhang hurriedly closed the door.
"Yunlang, be careful later, the food is poisonous. Also, don't sleep so hard at night, otherwise you may be made into a human meat bun!" Lin Shuhang reminded.
"Human meat buns?" Zuo Yunlang was shocked.
Wu Gui spoke at this time: "Yun Lang, don't listen to Lin Shuhang. It's not as serious as what he said. I don't think this is a black shop, but the shopkeeper is a little strange."
Zuo Yunlang nodded and said, "Yes, I also think the shopkeeper is very strange. What I saw just now made me panic."
Lin Shuhang said: "No matter if he is weird or not, if he dares to trick us in the middle of the night, I will kill him with a flying sword!"
…
In the early morning, the sun was shining brightly. He opened the window and looked at the people coming and going on the street. Lin Shuhang stretched lazily.
"I had such a good sleep this time!" Lin Shuhang rubbed his eyes and turned around to walk to the table.
Zuo Yunlang, who was having breakfast at the table, smiled and said, "Yes, I haven't felt this comfortable for a long time."
The witch ghost attached to Lin Shuhang said: "Lin Shuhang, hurry up and eat. After dinner, we will go outside to find some martial arts schools to ask."
Lin Shuhang waved his hand and said, "I won't eat. I don't have the habit of eating breakfast."
While Zuo Yunlang was still eating, Lin Shuhang simply washed up, and then Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang went downstairs together.
"How did you two gentlemen sleep yesterday?" a waiter asked with a smile.
"Well, it's okay."
Lin Shuhang nodded and walked towards the counter with Zuo Yunlang. What was puzzling was that the shopkeeper was still fiddling with his abacus, and I didn't know what he was calculating.
Lin Shuhang stood in front of the counter and said: "Shopkeeper, check out."
The shopkeeper took out a deposit of one tael from the counter and handed it to Lin Shuhang. He said without raising his head: "Sir, please go slowly."
Who is he? He speaks coldly, as if he owes you rent money.
Lin Shuhang shook his head and turned around to leave.
"Brother, wait!" Zuo Yunlang grabbed Lin Shuhang.
"Shopkeeper, is there a martial arts academy in Zezhou?" Zuo Yunlang asked while lying in front of the counter.
At this time, the shopkeeper stopped fiddling with the abacus, looked up at Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang and asked, "Are the two guests going to practice martial arts?"
Zuo Yunlang nodded: "Yes."
"There are eight martial arts academies in Zezhou City, three in the east of the city, one in the west of the city, and four in the middle of the city."
Lin Shuhang asked: "Which martial arts academy is the best?"
The shopkeeper glanced at Lin Shuhang and said, "Your Majesty's Martial Academy."
"The King's Martial Academy?" Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang looked at each other.
The shopkeeper explained: "It's three miles to the right of our store."
"Oh, thank you."
After saying that, the two of them walked out of the inn and walked towards the King's Martial Arts Academy in the city.
After a cup of tea, the two of them arrived at the King's Martial Arts Academy.
This is a large-scale martial arts academy. The gate of the martial arts academy alone is nearly 50 meters wide.
But for some unknown reason, the door of the King's Martial Arts Academy is now locked, and there is only an old janitor sunbathing in the small room at the entrance.
"What a magnificent martial arts academy! It's such a big place, it's like a city!"
Standing at the entrance of the martial arts academy and looking at the majestic buildings inside the martial arts academy, Lin Shuhang couldn't help but sigh.
"Of course, the King's Martial Arts Academy is the top martial arts academy in Zezhou, ranking high in the entire Xizhou."
Hearing someone speaking, Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang hurriedly looked back and saw that the person speaking was the old man basking in the sun.
"Uncle, why is the King's Martial Academy closed?" Lin Shuhang asked, pointing to the locked door.
The old man basking in the sun said without raising his head: "The martial arts academy is on holiday, why not close the door?"
"Holiday?" Lin Shuhang looked at Zuo Yunlang doubtfully.
The old man explained: "The festival is coming soon, and the students also have to go home to reunite with their families, right?"
Only then did Lin Shuhang finally realize that the King's Martial Academy was on winter vacation, which was interesting.
Lin Shuhang asked: "Uncle, when will school start? We two brothers want to enter the King's Martial Arts Academy to practice martial arts."
"School will start after the holiday."
Lin Shuhang asked Zuo Yunlang: "How long will it take?"
Zuo Yunlang said: "The big festival will be celebrated in one month."
"It will take another month?!"
The old man said: "It won't be long, it won't be long. You two can sign up first, and after the festival, you can go directly to the hospital to practice martial arts."
Lin Shuhang said: "Okay, let's sign up first. Do you charge money?"
Isn’t this nonsense? Which martial arts academy doesn’t charge money?
The old man rolled his eyes at Lin Shuhang and said casually: "Of course we have to charge it. The registration fee is fifty taels of silver, the admission fee is one hundred taels of silver, and the teaching fee and living expenses are two thousand eight hundred and fifty taels of silver."
The old man sat up and slowly took out a registration form from the table and said: "There are three thousand taels of silver in total. Do you two have it in cash?"
"What?! Three thousand taels of silver?!" Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang almost jumped up when they heard that they wanted three thousand taels of silver.
"Uncle, are you kidding?" Lin Shuhang asked in surprise.
Although he didn't know the concept of three thousand taels, he understood the definition of silver very well. Now it would cost three thousand taels of silver, and no one could afford it!
The old man said angrily: "You kid, who are you kidding!"
Zuo Yunlang said: "Three thousand taels of silver, this is too expensive..."
The old man turned his head and gave Zuo Yunlang a dissatisfied look and said, "This is only a year's fee."
Three thousand taels of silver is just a year's fee? Why is this old man talking so scary!
Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang were silent. Such an aristocratic martial arts academy was indeed beyond their reach.
"If you two find it too expensive, you can go to the west of the city. There is a small martial arts academy in the west of the city that only costs thirty taels of silver a year."
"What about that, uncle, don't be impatient, let's discuss it."
Lin Shuhang pulled Zuo Yunlang and walked far away.
Looking at the two people's backs, the old man said angrily: "You don't have the money to come to the King's Martial Arts Academy, and you don't even ask who are the people who can enter the King's Martial Arts Academy."
It was only later that Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang realized that the people who could enter the King's Martial Academy to practice martial arts were indeed not ordinary people.
As the top official martial arts academy in Zezhou City, Dawang Martial Arts Academy combines luxury and nobility, attracting countless children of dignitaries to come to practice martial arts.
It can be said that everyone who enters Dawang Wuyuan to practice martial arts has a prominent background, either rich or noble, and he is talking about the people in Dawang Wuyuan.
Beize Snow Territory is the most well-known martial arts country in the Lingqi Continent besides the Central Plains region. It has many martial arts academies, but there are only three types according to their nature, namely the folk martial arts academy, the official martial arts academy and the royal martial arts academy.
Among them, the Royal Martial Arts Academy is the highest-level martial arts academy among the three martial arts academy, but it is not open to the outside world and is only willing to serve the royal family of the Northern Snow Dynasty.
In the Royal Martial Arts Academy, the top martial artists in the entire Northern Kingdom serve as instructors to train martial arts talents for the Northern Snow royal family. There are also the most advanced and mysterious miraculous skills and secrets in the entire continent for the royal students to learn.
It can be said that the strength of every warrior who graduates from the royal martial arts academy cannot be underestimated! It is impossible for ordinary people to enter such a royal-style high-level martial arts academy to study. Because what it symbolizes is no longer just a mystery, but a
The country’s top secret!—That’s the secret chamber of a dynasty’s martial arts!
The official martial arts academy is the most special kind of martial arts academy among the three types of martial arts academy. It is usually dedicated to the training and reserve of official and military martial arts talents.
Although this kind of martial arts academy is officially run, it can make an exception to recruit martial arts talents from the private sector who have talents in martial arts. Of course, in this era of declining society, anyone with money can enter and practice martial arts.
In the Snowy Land of Beize, the Official Martial Arts Academy is the most formal and standard of all martial arts academies. The military attaches in it must be uniformly assessed and recognized by the Beixue "Martial Arts League". Only those who meet the qualifications can teach in the Official Martial Arts Academy.
Teaching martial arts is a kind of honor and honor recognized by the country.
Among them, Dawang Wuyuan is a state-owned martial arts academy jointly run by officials and the military.
Speaking of Dawang Wuyuan, it also has a long history. It is said that Dawang Wuyuan was built by a prince who ascended to immortality hundreds of years ago.
Over the past hundreds of years, the King's Martial Academy has cultivated a large number of martial arts eccentrics and martial arts geniuses for the Northern Snow Dynasty, and it has gained a high reputation. People from many areas have come to practice martial arts, and even some royal members of the Third Reich have traveled far.
Shan Shui went to Beixue Dawang Martial Arts Academy to further his studies.
Later, when Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang both walked out of the King's Martial Arts Academy, they were filled with emotion. Because being in the King's Martial Arts Academy was a turning point in their lives and destiny, where they not only got to know a group of people with prominent backgrounds and distinguished status.
At the same time, they also learned the martial arts that they both dreamed of. It can be said that they made the right choice to enter the King's Martial Academy!
However, this is a story for later and will not be mentioned here for the time being.
The Snowy Land of Beizawa has a long history. Here, there are countless folk academies, mainly targeting civilians who are adept at martial arts.
Although the folk martial arts academy is the lowest level and has the lowest qualifications among the three types of martial arts academy, the folk martial arts academy is very popular because it is aimed at the public. Of course, there are also some martial arts eccentrics who will become famous in the future, and even some warriors who become gods.
Therefore, the folk martial arts academy still has great influence in the Beizhe Snow Region and is an integral part of the Beixue "Martial Alliance".
Although they still don’t know what’s special about Dawang Martial Arts Academy, after hearing that Dawang Martial Arts Academy is the best martial arts academy in the entire Xizhou, Lin Shuhang and Zuo Yunlang decided to practice martial arts in this martial arts academy.