"Growing taller again? I should be 1.8 meters tall. Tsk, the white ape stake is really a good thing!"

In the bronze mirror, there is a slightly childish face, not handsome but decent, with sharp eyes and a faint greenish-black color around the mouth.

Nodding with satisfaction, Li Yuan went out refreshed. On the table in the outer room, there was a bowl of rice porridge, two steamed buns, a plate of side dishes and a few eggs.

"Where are the people?"

For three full days, Li Yuan didn't see much of Fatty Sun. He had a lot of meals in the morning and evening.

Early on the fourth morning, Li Yuan opened the door and saw Sun Hao, who seemed a little thin.

"How you fought that day is how you fight after that!"

Fatty Sun pushed open the door and walked out. His voice was a little hoarse and his eyes were a little complicated: "Don't, don't hide your clumsiness."

"Thank you for your support. Brother Sun, please give me some advice."

Li Yuan clasped his fists, a little worried: "In the past three days..."

"I'm fine, it's just..."

Fatty Sun snorted twice and waved his hands in annoyance:

"Let's go, it's getting late!"

Li Yuan closed the door after leaving. Inside the room, Sun Hao sat down depressedly, feeling really upset.

He is not a jealous person, and he has never seen apprentices with good bones and talents over the years, but this boy's talents are too good.

"I studied for three years back then, but I'm not as proficient as he was the first time..."

The more he thought about it, the more depressed Fatty Sun became. He reached out and lifted the hammer in the corner, adjusted his breathing and stood up on the white ape stand, gritting his teeth:

"I still don't believe it!"

…

"Genius is outstanding, but you have to control your temperament..."

After leaving the door, Li Yuan reflected.

He was very restrained that day, and just a little exposure of his hand aroused Fatty Sun. This level was just right.

If you use it with all your strength...

"Apprentices in the inner courtyard can move out and live there. As long as they have money, no one will care about it, but..."

Rubbing his eyebrows, Li Yuan sighed, he was still poor.

He still had seven or eight taels of broken silver in his hand, which was enough to rent a small courtyard, but he kept these medicinal foods to replenish his body. As for those few pearls, it was really difficult to get rid of them.

Although he hasn't gone out these days, the rare news that he used the banknotes has already spread throughout Gaoliu County, with noses and eyes.

"Senior Brother Li."

Wearing a white cloak and Liuhe black boots, Li Yuan turned around and saw Wang Gong. Standing next to him was a girl with a delicate face. She was Zhao Xiaoming, the youngest daughter of leader Zhao.

"It turns out to be Senior Brother Wang."

Li Yuan held his hand.

Although they joined the inner court in the same batch, they had little intersection. Only Niu Gui reluctantly integrated into the small circle of Wang Gong, Zhao Xiaoming and others.

A group of Lu Zhong, Du Yun and others couldn't get in.

"Senior Brother Li, are you going to the inner courtyard? We just happen to be together."

Wang Gong came over with a smile, and Zhao Xiaoming looked at him curiously.

In the past few days, Li Yuan has become a very popular figure in the inner and outer courtyards.

Number one in the inner courtyard, a genius who has mastered the cloak hammering technique to a minor level in just over four months, and the apprentice of Zhang Bi, the steward of the forging room...

"Senior Brother Wang, what is this?"

Li Yuan frowned slightly, neither cold nor hot.

After becoming his disciple, Lao Zhangtou often talked to him about things in the weapons forging shop. Qin Xiong was not only a member of the third shopkeeper Wang Ding, but also the latter's most capable disciple.

"The third day of the new year is the birthday of the Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva. A few of us accompanied our mother to offer incense. We just returned yesterday, but we were unable to attend Senior Brother Li's apprenticeship banquet..."

Wang Gong didn't care about Li Yuan's indifference. He smiled and took out a porcelain vase:

"This 'Blood Accumulating Pill' is the treasure of the Four Seasons Cottage, and should be considered as a gift from me."

Blood-accumulating Pill?

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly:

"Senior Brother Wang, this courtesy is too heavy..."

He had never been to the Four Seasons Cottage, but he had heard of this elixir. A bottle of six pills cost the second brother half a year's monthly salary. It was only sold in the inner city.

"What's this..."

Wang Gong smiled faintly and was about to say something when Li Yuan reached out and took the porcelain bottle over:

"Such a heavy gift must be given to my master? Since Senior Brother Wang is going to the inner courtyard, I will send it to you..."

"Well……"

Wang Gong was slightly stunned, and then he forced out a smile again:

"Here, isn't Senior Brother Li going to the inner courtyard?"

"It's not far to the left or right."

After weighing the bottle of elixir, Li Yuan bowed his hands and said goodbye, not caring about Wang Gong who had no smile on his face behind him.

"You just gave him a bottle of Blood Accumulating Pill?"

Zhao Xiaoming chuckled: "Young Master Wang is so grand!"

"...It's a shabby settlement after all!"

Wang Gong looked a little confused and left with a puff of sleeves.

When he returned this time, he heard Li Yuan's name several times from his father's mouth, and then he suddenly thought of trying to win over him.

Who would have expected...

…

"You haven't even grown your hair yet, why are you here to test your Taoist master?"

Putting the elixir into his arms, Li Yuan snorted in his heart. After becoming a disciple, he realized that the third shopkeeper was not a good person either.

On the day of the assessment, if he hadn't shown his talent and attracted the attention of the two shopkeepers, even if he beat Niu Gui, he wouldn't have even thought of entering the inner courtyard.

He might even be sent by that old Bangzi to work under Qin Xiong...

"Blood Accumulating Pill?"

There was the sound of forging and the heat wave. In the forge room, Zhang Ben poured out the pills, plucked some powders one by one with his nails and popped them into his mouth to taste:

"Well, there's nothing wrong with the medicine. It's sold by Sijicaotang. The little guy is willing to give it up. This bottle costs five taels of silver!"

"What are you doing?"

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment.

"Don't take elixirs randomly. Even if you buy them from a big drug store, you have to be careful, let alone if they have passed through other people's hands?"

Zhang Bi warned his apprentice:

"Inner courtyard disciples must go out, you must remember! Not only the pills, but also water and dry food, you can't eat them randomly!"

"Disciple noted it down!"

Li Yuan kept it in mind.

He had also been in the martial arts world for several years in his previous life, and of course he valued the experiences of these seniors. There might be blood behind these experiences.

"Well, just remember it."

Zhang Bi was relatively reassured about his apprentice and threw the porcelain bottle back to him:

"It's just a bottle of blood accumulating pill. He dares to give it to you. The old man doesn't have much ability, but he can still afford this thing!"

"Then it's all thanks to you!"

Li Yuan felt no burden at all and stuffed it into his arms with a smile.

"Okay, didn't Old Tang say he wants to give you a test? Then go as early as possible, and today's Thousand Hammers will be waived for you!"

Zhang Ben waved his hand.

He was still very satisfied with the progress of this disciple. Except for the higher losses in the first few days, the progress in the past few days made him a little stunned.

"It's unavoidable. This is how I rely on my disciples to buy medicine!"

Li Yuan shook his head repeatedly.

Being the disciple of the master of the forging house naturally has benefits. For every two thousand kilograms of wrought iron he forges, he gets half a tael of silver.
To be continued...