Chapter 8: eight tripods

Chapter 8: eight tripods

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Song Dingding's heart skipped a beat. Although there were not many people looking at her, her face seemed to be smeared with chili peppers. Sweat flowed down her cheeks, causing her skin to ache.

She lowered her head and listened to the women behind her who were still laughing and discussing Li Hua, her heart moved suddenly, and she said in a rough voice, "I came here specially for Li Hua..."

Song Dingding was wrapped in fine cloth and put on a coarse men's clothing, which made her look slightly bloated. She deliberately used Shidai to blacken her skin. The tone of her voice was neither male nor female, and the disciple almost vomited.

Li Hua is not only the No. 1 Sword Immortal in Jiuzhou, but also the No. 1 Beautiful Man in Jiuzhou. I don't know who said that Li Hua will come to the scene today, so there are many more disciples who came to sign up today.

As soon as he heard that he was here for Li Hua, the disciple thought that Song Dingding was a broken sleeve from somewhere in the inner city to join the fun in Xian'an Garden.

Song Zhizhi's mother and daughter, who originally wanted to probe forward out of curiosity, also turned their heads in disappointment, and continued to fantasize about their life after becoming rich.

Song Dingding breathed a sigh of relief and took a few steps, only to realize that the rough clothes on his body were soaked with sweat.

In this scorching hot sun, she wrapped layer after layer of fine cloth in order to bind her chest, and then put on underwear and coarse cloth, it was naturally tormented to the extreme.

In the first round, a large number of people were screened out, and only a few dozen people were successfully promoted.

The second and third rounds are merit-based selection. Passing the second round means that you have been selected. It does not matter if you are eliminated in the second round, you can go to the third round as an alternative.

Song Dingding walked to the second round of interviews. Seeing that everyone was holding strangely shaped spiritual pets, he probably understood the content of the second round of screening.

The world of immortality in the original text is divided into five spiritual roots: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Among them, wood root is good at alchemy and medicine for healing, water root is good at close range attack, fire root is good at long-distance attack, and earth root is good at escape Ground assassination and other flexible attacks.

Only the Golden Spiritual Root does not refer to the immortal cultivator, but refers to the spiritual pet that is bound by fate in the immortal world. The spiritual pet of the higher the cultivation level, the stronger the Golden Spiritual Root aura.

For example, the spiritual pets of low-level disciples are mostly damage-resistant meat shield pets, which are not very useful, but in critical moments they can throw the meat shield pets to block attacks and damage.

In this way, low-level disciples can protect themselves when they encounter danger, so as not to waste time for inner city disciples to be distracted to save them.

It is a spiritual pet that even low-level disciples have. The original owner spent a lot of money and tried every means, but he could not find a spiritual pet who was willing to seal with her.

Song Dingding could only watch others pass by. Fortunately, although it seemed that everyone had a spiritual pet, not many people passed the second round. Some people bought chickens, ducks, rabbits and dogs from the market to pretend to be spiritual pets in order to pass the customs. .

There are six people who have passed the second round, and these people are the entourage candidates that have been determined. There are still the last four followers remaining, which will be selected from more than 20 candidates in the third round.

Just as Song Dingding was about to go to the third round of interviews, there was a burst of exclamations from the crowd behind him.

"Look! That's the painting of Xianli, the number one sword in Jiuzhou!"

"Oh my God, he is so handsome! I really want to be his Taoist companion!"

"He smiled at me, ah, I can't do it..."

…

Li Hua has long been accustomed to the performance of these women. He is familiar with his gentle smile and nods slightly at the women, with a graceful and gentleman's bearing.

The women swarmed up, not caring what to do or not, and they crowded around Li Hua to express themselves.

And Ma Yun beside him, like the air with no sense of existence, was completely ignored by everyone.

With a gloomy face, he forced a deep breath, as if he was trying his best to endure something.

Li Hua noticed Ma Yun's low mood, and said understandingly: "You are too young now, when you grow up, there should be girls who like you."

He was meant to comfort him, but when he heard Ma Yun's ears, he automatically blocked the other words and only heard three words - you are too young.

Ma Yun's eyes are cold, and his tone is gloomy: "You slandered me like this in front of Sister Pei?"

Li Hua was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "What?"

"Sister Pei treated me extremely coldly today, she didn't even drink the medicinal soup I sent, she told me a total of twenty-five words, or let me come to Xian'an Garden with you to choose a follower, it must be you in Pei Chewing your tongue in front of my sister!"

Li Hua sighed.

Daojun Wuzang would set up an enchantment in the dormitory on the full fifteenth night of the moon, and he would retreat alone until dawn.

Later, during the three years of dormancy in Tianmen Sect, each time it was about the fifteenth day, Daojun Wuzang would rush back to the Immortal Mansion to retreat two days in advance.

Just because the Tianmen Sect is not as good as the Immortal Mansion, and Daojun Wu Zang is full of evil spirits, even if he hides his spiritual roots, he is very easy to be detected when he casts a spell to lower the barrier.

And this time, in order to find the whereabouts of Chaos Lock, Wuzang Daojun didn't have time to rush back to the Immortal Mansion before the fifteenth.

Today is the full day of the fifteenth month. Daojun Wuzang ordered Li Hua to open Ma Yun, and he used the barrier talisman in Li Hua's hand to set up a barrier at the temporary residence of Tianmen Sect.

Naturally, Li Hua would not tell Ma Yun about this kind of thing.

It's not that he is very sincere to Daojun Wuzang, but because he has the contract Gu of the Immortal Mansion in his body. Before the contract ends, if he disobeys Daojun Wuzang's orders, he will suffer serious backlash.

"Maybe Miss Song died of poisoning. Miss Pei will be emotionally depressed today and have no appetite to drink medicine."

Li Hua used a coaxing tone to guide him: "This trip to the secret realm of Tianmen must be extremely dangerous. You and I can't accompany Miss Pei all the time. Why don't we choose a capable follower for him, maybe to please him."

Seeing Li Hua's sincere expression and very thoughtful thoughts, Ma Yun took back his temper, snorted coldly, and walked forward with a flick of his sleeves.

A boxy arena rose up from here, and Li Hua followed behind Ma Yun and walked to the venue for the third round of competition.

Due to Li Hua's arrival, the Xian'an Court was in chaos. The women who were not selected and should have left all depended on Li Hua's surroundings, and surrounded the ring with water.

After the disciples of Xian An Yuan had controlled the situation, the third round of competition and selection was officially started.

The candidates for the third round were all those who were eliminated in the second round. There were about twenty people, among them Song Dingding and Song Zhizhi.

The rules of the third round of the competition are very simple, that is, to show off your talents, or to be able to write poetry and songs, or to play the piano and compose music, you can relieve the fatigue of the various schools on the road, and take it out to make a face for the Tianmen sect.

They went forward to draw lots to decide the order in which to show their talents. Song Dingding drew the number plate with 16 written on it, which was extremely unfavorable to her. A total of 21 people participated in the third round of the competition. lined up.

People will have aesthetic fatigue, and the closer they show their talents, the more likely they are to be selected.

Compared to her, Song Zhizhi was very lucky. She got the third place to play, and danced a dance in colorful feather clothes in public.

With the talent show of the next dozen people, two more places were successively confirmed.

When it was Song Dingding's turn, only one follower was left.

Not only that, but she noticed that the judge was an appearance association, who also wrote poems and dances. If they were of the same level, good-looking people would be selected, while average-looking people would be eliminated.

She dressed up like this rough guy, if she was like them, showing off this romantic talent, she would definitely be eliminated by the judges.

"Please come to the stage on the 16th."

Song Dingding's back was straight and his arms were trembling slightly, as if he had made up his mind, he entered the ring with his teeth clenched.

"I, the talent I want to show is...cooking."

Before she could finish her words, there was already a roar of laughter under the ring.

"Is this kid here to be funny? The disciples who were selected to go to the secret place of Baiheguan Tianmen are all outstanding disciples of our Tianmen sect inner city, and they have long been fasting!"

"Presumably the selected disciples of other sects are also dragons and phoenixes among the people. Who would need a cook after fasting?"

"Hey, I've seen this kid! He was the one who came to see Li Hua in the first round of screening."

"It turns out that he is a broken sleeve! No wonder he looks neither male nor female, hurry up! It's a shame."

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Unbearable words surrounded Song Dingding. She lowered her head, her body was wet with sweat, her forehead was stuck in a lock of hair, and she looked very embarrassed.

Li Hua looked at her and raised his eyebrows.

Isn't this short, dark, and bloated boy who came here specifically for him?

Although he didn't have self-knowledge, his courage was precious, and it was rare for him to have a heart of pity.

Seeing that there were more and more ridicules under the stage, just as the judges were about to let her down, Song Dingding raised his head and asked in a firm voice, "Is only poetry and singing a talent?"

The judge was taken aback for a moment: "This is not..."

"Then let me try it."

Just when the judge was a little overwhelmed, Li Hua said, "Let him try it."

With Li Hua as an example, others naturally changed their mouths: "Since Mr. Li Hua opened his mouth, let him give it a try."

The judges had to agree to the request.

Li Hua originally thought he would get a grateful look, but the young man in front of him shrank his head when he heard his voice, and lowered his head again like a quail.

In Xian'an Garden, most of them are disciples of the foundation-building period. They have not yet fasted, and naturally there are ready-made ingredients in the kitchen.

Most of the crowd followed Song Dingding to the stone table outside the kitchen in the mood of watching a joke.

Cooking is a kung fu job. Today the sun is shining brightly, and now everyone is crowded outside the kitchen. They feel sticky and greasy all over. After waiting for only a stick of incense, the women start to complain.

Li Hua also had some regrets. He had nothing to do with being a good person. In such a hot weather, he took Ma Yun to pick a random entourage, went to the teahouse to drink a cup of herbal tea, and listened to people talking about books.

"Otherwise, let's compare the rest first." Someone in the crowd suggested.

This is a nice saying, but to put it bluntly, it means to eliminate Song Dingding and then continue the competition.

The judge looked at Li Hua, but Li Hua pretended not to hear him. The judge glanced at the darkening sky and nodded, "Then continue..."

Before he finished speaking, Song Dingding ran out with the food box, and put the spicy crayfish that he had prepared, salted peanut edamame, a handful of kebabs, a handful of grilled tendons, a handful of grilled wings... on the stone in turn. on the table.

She raised her hand and wiped the sweat on her forehead: "Okay, let's try it."

Li Hua has not eaten grains for many years, mainly because he has no appetite for light food, and he does not like to eat heavy food. When he sees the table full of meat, he subconsciously wants to refuse.

But he waited here with everyone for so long, if he didn't eat one bite, he would slap himself a little bit in the face.

He hesitated for a moment, but raised his hand and took a kebab.

Song Dingding uses fresh mutton that is 30% fat and 70% lean, marinated with spring onion, ginger, cooking wine, onions and salt to remove the smell of mutton. Slowly roast it on medium and low heat until the oil is sizzling. A handful of cumin pepper paprika.

After this bite, the golden mutton skewers were wrapped in spicy and refreshing cumin peppers, and the mouth water fell from the cravings.

After Li Hua finished eating a bunch of it, he was a little stunned. Not only was this mutton not stinky, but it was also full of fragrant teeth. The taste was absolutely amazing.

He couldn't help but took another skewer, but Song Dingding held his hand and replaced the mutton skewer in his hand with the peeled lobster tail: "Try this again."

The lobster tail is covered with a bright red soup, and the fresh and plump shrimp has a faint garlic fragrance, which fully stimulates the taste buds on the tip of the tongue.

After Li Hua forgot his image and ate crayfish, Ma Yun snorted disdainfully and muttered coldly, "It's like I haven't eaten anything for hundreds of years."

After all, he picked up a crayfish, peeled it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

After chewing for only two times, Ma Yun was stunned. His pupils dilated slightly, and his lips trembled slightly: "What is this? How can there be such a delicious food in the world?"

Song Dingding was stunned for a moment: "This is a spicy crayfish with garlic."

While peeling the crayfish, Ma Yun recognized: "Very good! It's you."

The two of them eat very well, and they are handsome in appearance. They are as contagious as eating, broadcasting, and bringing goods. They soon made everyone drooling uncontrollably.

Song Dingding served two plates of crayfish alone to the judges and onlookers. After distributing them, everyone fell into the strong offensive of spicy crayfish unexpectedly.

"Mom! How can it be so delicious!"

"I've never eaten such delicious food in my life! I apologize for what I just said, no one can say no to such a good cook!"

"Give me another one, let go! Pull my hair!"

…

In order to compete for the crayfish, some people even started to tear it up, and it was extremely lively outside the kitchen for a while.

And Song Dingding worked hard all afternoon, and finally did not waste his efforts, successfully captured the stomachs of everyone, and won the last entourage.

Those who were selected as entourages, under the arrangement of Xian'anyuan, followed Li Hua and Ma Yun back to the inner city.

Coincidentally, Song Dingding and the others were settled into the Great Elder's mansion, and the place where she temporarily lived was next to her original yard.

More coincidentally, Pei Ming moved into the yard where she used to live, that is to say, Pei Ming is now next to her.

When Song Dingding remembered that Pei Ming almost cremated her, she couldn't help shivering. She was thinking about not showing up in front of the little junior sister for the past few days, when Ma Yun knocked on her door.

"Little brother, can I trouble you to go next door and give my sister a bowl of soup?"