Chapter 63 Senior Brother Osmanthus
Xu Fu became a student of Chuncai Lingyuan before he could remember it, which made him a little confused.
It is indeed not difficult to find a place to stay. There is a large house with twelve rows, from southeast to northwest, from Jiazipai to Guihai, a total of one hundred and twenty rooms.
Xu Fu found Genghai's room, pushed the door and found that it was unlocked. There were two beds and a table in the room, and one bed was empty.
Xu Fu put down his baggage and didn't know what to do. He waited until evening before the man who shared the same room with him came back.
"I didn't go to eat!" The man greeted in a very familiar manner as soon as he entered the door.
The person who came was carrying a square stool in his hand and had a large red mark on his face. It was none other than the young man named Xu who was recruiting students at the door.
"I forgot, don't you have any money? Come on, I'll treat you today!"
"Brother, I..."
"You don't have to be so different. From now on, you will be one of your own family. Just call me senior brother."
"I still……"
"You didn't bring a bedding, right? It's okay. I'll spread it out for you first."
"you……"
"Let's go quickly. It's too late and the food will be cold." The senior brother named Xu said and was about to walk out.
"Your face is dirty!" Xu Fu finally waited for him to stop and almost shouted these four words.
"Face?"
The senior brother surnamed Xu wiped it with his hand, looked at the red color on the back of his hand, and said with a naive smile: "I said Er Mao and the others laughed when they saw me."
After saying that, he immediately pulled out a wooden basin from under the bed. There was half a basin of water in the wooden basin. He squatted on the ground and started washing it. After washing, he poured it directly on the open space at the door.
"Osmanthus, you can do it! You have to wash your face before eating! Do you really think of yourself as a flower?"
"Don't talk nonsense! The sweet-scented osmanthus is just a flower!"
As soon as they went out, they met two teenagers, who started teasing this senior brother.
"Go away! Your whole family is a flower!" Lao Xu cursed helplessly.
The two laughed and left.
"Why do they call you Osmanthus fragrans?" Xu Fu asked curiously. Although this old Senior Brother Xu is not a tall and handsome man, he looks like he has nothing to do with flowers.
"I'm not my dad yet. I don't know who the hell I heard about naming a baby boy to bring flowers so he can support himself. When I was born, the osmanthus tree in front of my house bloomed, so he named me Guihua. Guihua." The word "rich" means "noble"!" Xu Guihua sighed, emphasizing the word "noble" in the end.
"Wealth and flowers bloom, what a good name!"
Xu Fu smiled slightly. A name is not just a code name. It contains the ardent expectations of the predecessors for their children and grandchildren. For ordinary people, wealth and prosperity are already an excellent wish.
"I don't know who gave me this name?" Xu Fu muttered secretly in his heart.
"Brother Xu Fu, you are knowledgeable and different from those rough guys."
Xu Guihua was very happy when she heard Xu Fu praise her name. She put her arm around Xu Fu's shoulders and said boldly: "We will eat well tonight!" She looked like she was about to break into the dragon's pond and the tiger's den.
……
Xu Fu looked at the bowl of noodles in front of him, and it was difficult to connect it with Xu Guihua's heroic Qianyun just now.
Is a bowl of vegetable noodles with a little bit of diced pork sprinkled on it considered "good"?
Then Xu Guihua came back with another bowl. His bowl was even more pitiful, not even a little bit of diced meat.
"Brother Xu Fu, eat, you're welcome. This is a small stove for the teachers of the Spiritual Academy. You don't dare to come here to eat." Xu Guihua said and scooped a spoonful of spicy oil from a white porcelain jar on the table. When you put it in the bowl, the noodle soup immediately turned red, which looked quite appetizing.
"Brother, the chili oil here is top notch. Eat as much as you want!" He said, pushing the chili oil in front of Xu Fu and taking a big mouthful of noodles.
Xu Fu only added a little chili oil and started eating it. In the past five days, what he had eaten the most was sour wild fruits. He had already been so hungry that he was dizzy. At this time, eating this bowl of noodles was no less than the best delicacies in the world.
After a while, the two bowls of noodles were completely eaten, leaving nothing but a few oily splatters at the bottom of the bowl.
"Are you full?" Xu Guihua asked cautiously.
"I'm full!" Xu Fu said with a smile.
"I'm still close, but my mother said, don't eat too much at night, it's easy to accumulate food." Xu Guihua said with a smile while touching her belly.
"Hey, isn't this Beauty Xu? She seems to have made a fortune, and she actually came here to eat."
As soon as the two stood up to leave, they heard a strange voice coming from the door.
Xu Guihua's face darkened, and then she immediately changed into a smiling face.
"Mr. Bai, you are here too." Xu Guihua hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.
"You are Miss Xu after all, and you have to dress up well. Why didn't you put on the box of rouge I gave you?" The speaker was a young man dressed in white with a frivolous expression. He looked two years younger than Xu Guihua.
Xu Guihua didn't respond, just smiled in apology.
"Next time if you don't wipe it off, I'll knock out your teeth, you hear me?"
Bai Cheng said, his face immediately darkened.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Bai." Xu Guihua responded while pulling Xu Fu out.
"Huh? New here?"
The Mr. Bai whom Xu Guihua spoke of glanced sideways at Xu Fu, who was wearing coarse cloth and straw sandals, and the disdain in his eyes was undisguised.
"Yes, Mr. Bai, this junior brother just reported for duty today." Xu Guihua replied hurriedly.
"This Polingyuan can actually recruit people." Bai Cheng cursed, turned around and glanced at Xu Guihua, and then said: "Don't let me see you here in the future, get away!"
The two of them walked out of the door, and Xu Guihua breathed a long sigh of relief.
"What a bad luck to meet him so late."
"Who is this person?" Xu Fu asked. The tone of the person just now was very annoying, as if this spiritual courtyard belonged to his family.
"Bai Cheng."
"Why are you so arrogant?"
"He is the grandson of Vice President Bai. Vice President Bai usually has a bad temper. He is in charge of most of the affairs in the courtyard, so no one dares to mess with his grandson." Xu Guihua whispered, secretly speaking. He looked around for fear of being overheard.
"Forget it, let's not talk about him for now. I'll take you around our spiritual hospital and just treat him as a snack."
"This is the largest school ground in our spiritual academy, and physical training is basically held here." Xu Guihua pointed to a few students who were still practicing in the field and said: "Although there are only a few people in our spiritual academy, the intensity of training is not as high as Other spiritual institutions are poor."
Looking in the direction of the school field, Xu Fu was unconsciously attracted by a luminous stone in the center of the field and remained silent for a while.
"Are you also a physical practitioner?" Xu Guihua looked at Xu Fu staring blankly at the stone that was as tall as a person and emitting green light in the school field, and asked him.
"Ah?...Yes." Xu Fu responded and continued to look at the magical stone.
"You are quite knowledgeable. This is the treasure of our spiritual courtyard. Although it looks ugly, it is a very precious luminous stone. I heard that it is because of this stone that the spiritual courtyard is located here." Xu Guihua introduced this piece Shitou is still a little proud.
"What a treasure!" Xu Fu exclaimed. For some reason, he had a strange feeling about this stone, but he couldn't explain the reason, so he had to give up.
As he was talking, a fire shot up into the sky not far away and disappeared in a flash.
"That's the Dharma Cultivation School over there." Xu Guihua patted Xu Fu on the shoulder, "I was shocked when I first came here, so I'm not surprised after seeing so many people."
Judging from the fire alone, it was scattered and without any decoration, and it was probably difficult to cause any damage. The person who cast it was probably just a newbie in the Dharma practice.
The two continued to move forward, but before they had gone far they heard an angry sound.
"Idiot, how many times have I told you that spiritual power must be consistent with the handprints, and the handprints are used to activate the spiritual power. If the spiritual power cannot keep up, what's the use of just putting on an empty show?"
"It's Teacher Wei Wen." Xu Guihua said with a bitter smile: "I don't know which unlucky guy was caught for extra training."
The two walked dozens of steps and arrived at a school grounds. This school grounds was a little smaller than the one before. There was a big brazier in the middle, and the fire was burning brightly. One person was scolding a trembling student next to the brazier.
"The purpose of forming seals is to better mobilize spiritual power. We must seize the moment when spiritual power is most abundant to cast spells. Timing! Timing! Do you understand?" The man said in a scolding tone while using his left hand very skillfully. After performing a few hand seals, he immediately punched, and a fireball the size of a fist flew diagonally upward, flying until it was two feet away before dissipating.
Looking at the solid fireball, Xu Fu couldn't help but admire in his heart that Chuncai Spiritual Academy is indeed well-deserved. As the book says, "You can see the whole leopard by looking at one spot." Any teacher can have such attainments in magic. This Chuncai Spiritual Academy is indeed famous. You really came to the right place at the Spiritual Academy.
"This is Teacher Wei Wen." Xu Guihua introduced Xu Fu in a low voice.
Teacher Wei Wen looked young, of medium build, and handsome. He was just a little impatient when he scolded the student.
"Xu Guihua, if you don't practice harder, why are you hanging around?" The teacher named Wei Wen seemed to have heard Xu Guihua's introduction, recognized him at a glance, and asked sternly.
"Yes! Teacher Wei, he is new here. I will show him the way. He will practice as soon as he goes back. He will practice as soon as he goes back." Xu Guihua hurriedly pulled Xu Fu and left the school quickly.
"This Teacher Wei is so competitive. No matter how hard we practice at the Spiritual Academy, can we still compare to those of the Great Spiritual Academy?" Xu Guihua complained as she walked.
"Compared to what?" Xu Fu asked.
"It's just the Spiritual Academy Competition. You've just arrived, so don't worry about it for now." Xu Guihua sighed. Although she didn't say it clearly, she knew that Chuncai's results in the Spiritual Academy Competition were not good.
"I think Teacher Wei has a very high level of cultivation, how come he can't teach well?" Xu Fu was puzzled.
"It's not a matter of teachers. Although there are not many teachers in our spiritual academy, they are all top-notch. It's these students..."
"What's wrong with the student?"
"Everyone with a bit of talent or money has been taken away by the Jucai Spiritual Academy. Most of the rest are from families with no money and mediocre qualifications. That's why Chuncai Spiritual Academy doesn't dislike us. Although everyone is not lazy either. , but compared with those people, to be honest, there is still a lot behind me."
These few sentences make the truth clear. Although Xu Fu has not practiced for a long time, he is deeply aware of the importance of talent and resources.
Chuncai Lingyuan is really not small. By the time the two of them returned to their residence, it was already an hour later.
"It's too late today. You can use my bedding first, and I'll get a set for you tomorrow." Xu Guihua rolled up the bedding from her own bed and spread it on Xu Fu's bed.
Xu Fu couldn't refuse. When he saw Xu Guihua lying on the wooden bed, he just found a piece of clothing to cover him. He felt warm in his heart. He returned the quilt to Xu Guihua on the grounds that he was afraid of the heat, leaving only the mattress and lying down with his clothes on. Feel cold. After sleeping in the open air for so many days, Xu Fu felt that it was a great pleasure to sleep on such a bed, and he fell into a deep sleep soon.
A set of bedding, two people, both sleep very soundly.
At dawn, Xu Fu was awakened by a slight creaking sound. No matter how careful Xu Guihua was, she couldn't keep up with the old bed board.
"Get up so early?" Xu Fu asked, the outside of the house was just turning white.
"I still have something to do. You can sleep a little longer and I'll come over to ask you to eat later." Xu Guihua wiped her face and went out.
Xu Fu stood up and looked at the bedside. A pair of new cloth shoes were neatly arranged. Xu Guihua had just placed them.
"What a good man." Xu Fu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
After a solid night's sleep, Xu Fu lost his sleepiness when he woke up and simply got up.
The shoes are a little small, but they are much better than the worn-out straw sandals from before. I have nothing to do after I get up, so I might as well go out and walk around by myself.
Xu Fu walked leisurely and looked at the students hurriedly passing by. Xu Fu couldn't help but sigh, it is indeed an old spiritual academy and they practice so hard.
"Zhan He."
"Have!"
"Xiao Yi."
"Have!"
……
"Do you still need to order Mao?" Xu Fu heard shouts from not far away, and sighed again. He didn't expect that the training at Chuncai Spiritual Academy was so strict.
Turning around, he saw a dozen people who had gathered together and were about to disperse. What surprised Xu Fu was that instead of books and cultivation tools, everyone was holding big brooms.
"This is……"
Before Xu Fu could react, he saw that everyone had dispersed. Xu Guihua happened to be coming towards him with a broom. When she saw Xu Fu, she happily said hello.
"Brother, what are you doing?"
"Work!"
"Why do you still have to work?"
"Who will pay you if you don't work?"
Xu Guihua smiled and began to clean up the fallen leaves on the road. She looked like a "veteran" at first glance.
"It's windy these days, and the leaves on the trees are falling a lot, so I have to work early..." Xu Guihua is very skillful with her hands and her mouth is not idle.
"Besides sweeping the floor, are there any other jobs?" Xu Fu interjected.
"Yes, I can mow flowers and plants, help cook in the canteen, organize books..."
"Then when will you practice?"
"It's during class!" Xu Guihua stopped what she was doing, looked at Xu Fu who frowned slightly, and suddenly understood, and then said seriously: "Junior brother, let's come to the spiritual academy. Who doesn't want to focus on cultivation? If you are willing to get up early and work late at night, there is nothing you can do about it! This means that the dean feels sorry for us children from poor families. By giving these jobs to us, we can not only earn a living, but also provide some subsidies to the family. This is already a lot. Okay, go and find out if there is any other spiritual hospital in the world that can take care of us like this."
"rational!"
Xu Fu nodded, deeply convinced. He also came from a poor background. If it weren't for chance, he would have been doing long-term work for the landlord's family and never see the light of day. After experiencing a period of time when he had no worries about food and clothing, Xu Fu found that he had forgotten his roots a little. His previous thoughts were too naive. Although practicing diligently was what a student of the spiritual academy should do, the more important thing was to have enough to eat and live well.
"I'm here to help you." Xu Fu grabbed Xu Guihua's broom and waved it immediately. Xu Guihua was not polite and found a dustpan to clean up.
"Junior brother, you can do it!" Seeing Xu Fu effortlessly clearing a large area of road, Xu Guihua praised sincerely. The work that originally took more than half an hour was completed in just one stick of incense.
The two returned their tools, went back to the house to wash up, had breakfast, and then went to the physical training school grounds to wait for class.
It was already broad daylight, and several students had already been practicing there.
"These are all celebrities in our spiritual academy." Xu Guihua pulled Xu Fu to sit on a stone bench aside, pointing to the people in the field and introducing them to Xu Fu.
"The tallest one is Lin Mao. His Wind Splitting Palm is invincible and can break a bamboo as thick as a thigh in one go."
"The naked one is Huo Qiao. He practices copper skin and iron bones. I heard he has already mastered it."
"The one with particularly fast footwork is Cai Li. He can run faster than Teacher Wei Wen's Fire Fist."
Xu Fu didn't pay much attention to Xu Guihua's words. Although his spiritual power was blocked, his vision was still there. In his eyes, the methods of these students could only be described as ordinary, and they did not surprise him.
"How about it? It's awesome! I will definitely compete for the top three in this year's competition!" Xu Guihua said with some pride.
"Yeah, not bad." Xu Fu responded casually. He had already set his sights on the strange-shaped luminous stone in the middle of the venue, and did not take Xu Guihua's words to heart at all.
"Okay? This brother has such a loud tone!" A sneer came from the audience. Apparently someone was irritated by Xu Fu's perfunctory answer.