Chapter 5: Maid, taking pulse
With two maids, he walked between the pavilions on foot. The snow on the ground had already been swept to both sides of the main road by his servants.
There was an extra paper umbrella on her head, which Lan'er held up to block the snow. Xu Disheng raised his head slightly, but didn't say anything.
He was able to speak at the age of one, and moved to Qingzhu Pavilion to live alone at the age of two. In the eyes of the Xu family, he was a very independent but somewhat strange young master.
After entering Tingyu Pavilion, there was already some snow foam blowing from the cold wind on my shoulders.
Jin Yu was holding a little girl and coaxing her. Seeing him come in, she smiled and said, "Sheng'er, come and see your sister, she can already speak."
Xu Disheng stepped forward and reached out to hug the little girl.
The little girl was about two years old. She looked at Xu Disheng with her big black eyes and said in a babbling voice: "Brother...brother..., mother...mother...come on."
Xu Disheng looked at the little girl's face that was very similar to his own, with a smile in her eyes.
After coaxing him for a while, he handed Xu Yan back to Jin Yu and said goodbye.
Jin Yu hugged the little girl Xu Yan, but suddenly saw some snow foam on Xu Disheng's shoulders, her face turned cold, and she looked at the maid Lan'er.
Lan'er also saw those Xue Mo, who had been standing behind not daring to make a sound. When she saw Jin Yu's cold and stern eyes, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, lowering her head and not daring to make a sound.
"Is this how you serve Master Sheng?" Jin Yu's voice was not loud, but in Lan'er's ears, it was like being struck by lightning.
He just knelt and kowtowed continuously without saying a word. Meier also knelt down and bowed her head deeply.
"Here comes someone," Jin Yu said.
Two Zhenjun soldiers in black armor walked in quickly, clasped their fists and said, "Mrs. Yu."
"Take these two maids..." Jin Yu's clear face showed anger, and she was about to deal with them according to family law, but was interrupted by Xu Disheng.
"Wait a minute." Xu Disheng looked back at Lan'er and Mei'er and said.
"Sheng'er, the family has its own rules, and they are just maids with low status. To live up to the emperor's salary, you must be loyal to the emperor. With a high salary, this is how you serve the master's family? If you do something wrong, you should be punished!"
Jin Yu also comes from a big family. Although she is generous to her family, she is extremely strict with her servants. In recent years, she has suppressed all the other ladies by virtue of the Jin family's backstage. Inside, no one dares to disobey.
"Sheng'er understands what my mother means, but I'm just used to it and I'm too lazy to change it again." Xu Disheng turned his head and looked at the two black-armored navy commanders behind him, "You guys can go out now."
The two black-clothed soldiers glanced at Jin Yu, seeming hesitant.
"Master Sheng asked you to go out, can't you hear me!" Jin Yu raised her voice slightly, and she was already a little angry.
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The soldier retreated slowly.
"Tomorrow is my Xu family's pulse test, which is held every five years. With a radius of four hundred miles, all school-age children over five and under ten years old will come to Zhenhai Fucheng. Those with Taoist pulses will be favored by my Xu family. Train them, and when they grow up, you can join the Imperial Guard or the Navy, as well as various other establishments. These are your future subordinates and subordinates! Your brothers are all waiting to recruit talents. You You don't care at all!" Jin Yu hated him for not arguing.
If parents do not have Tao channels, their children may have Tao channels because they are born with Tao channels.
But if both parents have Dao Meridians, then the chance of their children having Dao Meridians will be more than 90%!
Moreover, it is also closely related to the grade of the Dao Meridian. The higher the grade of the Dao Meridian, the higher the grade of the Dao Meridian of the children born from the combination.
Why can the Xu family dominate a land of four hundred miles in radius? Is being the emperor of this fiefdom just a piece of imperial edict from Da Chu?
If I give you a fiefdom, but you have no family, no strength, and can't protect it, what's the use!
Therefore, these warriors with Taoist talents are the foundation of these feudal families. The main family is powerful, and the branch families in various places follow closely behind, and then there are the warriors absorbed from these self-confessed areas.
Only in this way can the family continue, suppress the fiefdom, and prosper forever.
Although the legal systems of each family are different, they all have a unified pulse measurement ceremony. Some are once every five years, some are once every seven years, and they are different.
Jin Yu herself is a sixth-grade Taoist, and the young family leader Xu Xiao is also a sixth-grade, so she is not too worried about Xu Disheng's qualifications.
It was only because he didn't care about recruiting his future subordinates that he got a little angry.
Xu Disheng did not argue anymore and bowed his head in agreement.
Jin Yu then smiled and said, "Then I will make arrangements for you, and send someone to help you recruit talents tomorrow."
"Yes, Mother."
Ordinary civilian warriors start practicing martial arts after measuring their Dao meridians and confirming that they have them. They are probably between five and ten years old.
The Xu family is also a family that has been around for hundreds of years, but the children in it have been using some techniques to strengthen their bodies since they were young, called "Chang Fist". This technique is completely used to lay the foundation for children, and is paired with a medicinal bath of nourishing elixirs. The children of the Xu family have been strengthening their bodies since before taking their pulse.
Xu Disheng started practicing "Changquan" when he was three years old, and he never stopped taking medicinal baths every day. Although he is five years old now, he already has the strength comparable to ordinary people's adults.
There is also a green jade flute that sheds green light in the sea of self-consciousness all the time, washing the body. Xu Disheng's soul power has always been like an arm's command, and he has made extremely fast progress in cultivating the Soul Nourishing Heart Art.
The next day, in Zhenhai Fucheng Square.
The square is about 200 square meters in diameter
It is as wide as ten feet, and there is a huge sixteen-cornered platform in the center. There is a statue on it, which is a young man sitting cross-legged.
This statue is exactly the statue of Xu Kunyu, the ancestor of the Xu family who was granted this place three hundred years ago.
There were so many people that almost all the shops around the square had suspended their business, and benches, tables and chairs had been moved out.
There are even people selling seats for half a tael of silver per bench, and people flock to them.
The pulse-testing ceremony held every five years is a grand event in the Xu family's fiefdom. It determines the fate of an ordinary family. Whether they will be willing to work and live a mediocre life, or they will rise to the sky and break away from their nationality, it all depends on today.
It has been five years since the last pulse-taking ceremony in the four-hundred-mile-wide fiefdom. In the past five years, there have been as many as 1,500 children between the ages of five and ten, not to mention the parents of those children and the bustling onlookers.
The entire square was crowded, but there was a large space in the center. From time to time, the palace guards would place seats, which were reserved for distinguished guests from the aristocratic family to watch the ceremony.
"My Erniu has been very strong since he was a child. I think Erniu is at least an eighth-grade Daoist!" A strong man held a little fat man and boasted to the people next to him.
"Stop dreaming, Niu Dasha, if you are confirmed to be in the eighth-grade Dao lineage, you will be included in the Xu family establishment, granted five acres of land, and receive a monthly salary of ten taels of silver! How can your family be so lucky?" A fellow villager couldn't stand his arrogance and sneered.
"If you don't believe me, just wait and see!" Niu Dasha snorted, firmly held the little fat man in his hand, and squeezed into the crowd.
This scene is just a corner of the square. In the center of the square came ten Zhenjun officers who were responsible for counting the number of people who were eligible for pulse testing, and dozens of government guards came around to maintain order.
"Give way!"
"Step aside!"
Several palace guards shouted.
On the south side of the square, the crowded crowd made an opening, and several palace guards worked together to lift a stone platform. The stone platform was obviously very heavy. Several palace guards were all warriors, but they were blushing and thick-necked from exhaustion.
"Is this a pulse measuring station?"
"Yes, I heard that it is a pulse measuring stone platform issued by Da Chu. Each county has one. It is usually kept at the Guo family in Ruyang County. When a family uses it, it will be shipped in advance."
"It doesn't look like anything new."
"You know what the heck, this stone platform is a martial treasure! And it was refined by the Great Chu court! If you have Dao veins, and what grade of Dao veins you have, you will know once you sit on it!"
"What is Wubao?"
"..., summer insects cannot speak of ice!"
There was a huge crowd of people, everyone was talking a lot, and even the ignorant people were talking nonsense in order to make people laugh.