Chapter 210: Wilderness
Except for Tie Wandao himself, no one else thought that he would choose a child with strong willpower but poor physical strength before the results came out. However, he could not reveal this criterion before the test was over. If he revealed it in advance, some children with good physical strength might pretend to have poor physical strength in order to be selected.
During the test, those children tried their best to show their advantages in physical strength, but no one expected that the characteristics they were trying so hard to show were exactly what Tie Wandao didn't want.
In a corner of the open field, the nine-year-old girl who was waiting to see Wu Xunsheng’s performance with a sly smile said to the nine-year-old boy who called Wu Xunsheng “stupid ass”: “Do you still remember what you said?”
"What?"
"If he is chosen, you should take off one shoe and put it on your head, then hop around ten times on one foot with the other foot. If the shoe falls off, hop again." The nine-year-old girl reminded him. After that, she asked the other children around her, "Did you hear what he said just now?"
The children who had heard it before nodded.
Under pressure from other children, the nine-year-old boy took off one shoe and put it on his head, then hopped on the other foot and started spinning around.
"One circle, two circles...it fell off!"
"It doesn't count if you fall, jump again!"
"One circle... Oops, it fell again!"
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Tie Wandao and his men took Wu Xunsheng on the road back to Tiecangting.
There are four gates in the outer area of Tiecang Court, east, west, south and north. Usually only the east gate is open. The other three gates are usually tightly closed and do not need to be guarded. The area around the south gate is the place that people in Tiecang Court go the least. Many people have never entered or left there. The south gate is located in a very vast wilderness. There are no houses nearby. It is even difficult to see a person in the wilderness. The south gate and the walls on both sides stand in the wilderness, dividing the wilderness into two parts - one part is inside Tiecang Court, and the other part is outside the court. There is a path in the wilderness surrounded by the inside. The path is quite long. Therefore, if you want to get close to the buildings inside after entering Tiecang Court from the south gate, you have to walk along the path for a long time. The wilderness outside the wall is vast and quiet. If people in Tiecang Court want to go to a prosperous place by going out from the south gate, they have to walk a long way.
Although it would not matter if other powerful people in Tiecang Court knew that he had specially selected a sparring partner for Tie Hongyan, and it would definitely be known by others sooner or later, but since Tie Wandao did not want to make it public at the moment, he asked his men to return to Tiecang Court from the east gate, and he took Wu Xunsheng through the south gate.
When the two arrived at the field, the fresh air, mixed with the fragrance of flowers, made Wu Xunsheng feel a brief sense of freedom and comfort. It was spring, and the field was full of tender green grass and wild flowers of various colors, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
It was already late, and not only Wu Xunsheng felt extremely tired, but even Tie Wandao felt quite exhausted. After entering Tiecang Court, Tie Wandao decided not to deal with things that night, but to rest directly. Therefore, he planned to arrange long-term accommodation for Wu Xunsheng the next day. That day, he let Wu Xunsheng temporarily live in an empty room, and Wu Xunsheng went to bed early. Before going to bed, Tie Wandao said to the spirit tablet of his late wife Tie Jinqi: "I have selected a sparring partner for Hong Yan today. I hope that with this child accompanying her in martial arts practice, she can make faster progress and make others look at her with new eyes and be convinced. I hope that she can become the 'real young patriarch' of the Tiecang tribe in the future, so that others will no longer be picky about her."
(End of this chapter)
