Chapter 236 (1/2)

The crying young man was spanked by his father, who yelled in grievance, “I still want you to continue the family line! Don’t make a fool of yourself, still not rolling back home for your father?!”

There was also a poor family member with his son holding his thigh and his wife grabbing his arm. “My husband, are you really going to leave us? The gu people in Moran Hall will definitely die, once you go, wouldn’t we be… sob sob sob…”

His son also wailed, “Daddy, don’t go ah—”

“Chunxiang, my mother will take care of you. I’m useless and can’t support you, if I can become a gu person, State Master will give us one hundred taels of silver. You won’t have to worry about food and clothing anymore!”

Several of these life-and-death scenes played out.

Nan Xun didn’t know that she was born cold-blooded. She was used to seeing these kinds of scenes, and apart from some slight sympathy, she felt no extra emotions.

This group of people made five long rows, each with nearly sixty people. Counting them, there were no less than three hundred people rushing to be gu people.

This was more than what Nan Xun thought.

Although Nan Xun smelled sour and her clothes were in tatters to the point that she could almost overwhelm a beggar, the Imperial City’s common people still had good character. Though secretly looking in disgust and standing far away from her, they didn’t beat or curse her.

The loose and oversized clothing concealed Nan Xun’s exquisite body, adding a really rancid smell. No one would give her a second glance, and so Nan Xun was able to conceal her gender.

Everyone waited from morning to noon before a group of five disciples from Moran Hall finally came.

All five of them wore short white robes and looked pretty and young.

However, Nan Xun knew that some of them were probably the same age as her grandparents.

As for the state teacher, he might be… an ancestor.

When everyone saw the group of disciples coming over, they all showed admiration. Some of them even felt timid and bowed their heads, not daring to look at them out of fear that they would be disrespectful.

The five Moran Hall’s disciples each stood in front of one line and began selecting candidates for gu people.

The selection was much faster than Nan Xun had expected. They swept their eyes across the candidates and directly selected five strong men from the lines of people.

Nan Xun looked on helplessly at the other party who didn’t even glance at her for a mere second…

“Alright, everyone can disperse,” the one who seemed to be the highest in seniority said lightly to everyone.

Some of the people who weren’t selected showed disappointment, and some let out a sigh of relief, but there was no one who acted like Nan Xun. She ran directly to those disciples and shouted, “Brother, please choose me, don’t just look at my skinny appearance, even a hundred poisons can’t invade my body, I’m absolutely the best candidate to become a gu person! If you don’t believe it, you can let a venomous snake bite me!”

The people that hadn’t completely dispersed couldn’t help but reveal an expression of watching a good show.

Whatever the Moran Hall’s disciples said was what should be done. You just accepted it obediently, but he still dared to question them? Tsk, this sour and dirty boy won’t bleed to death on the spot right?

The disciple who had just selected gu people glanced at her briefly. “Boasting shamelessly, where would there be someone born with poison resistance under the heaven?”

Nan Xun’s eyes moved, and she immediately changed her words. “I don’t know if I’m immune to poisons or not, but when I was a child cutting wood in the mountain, the snakes I encountered all avoided and didn’t bite me!”

Nan Xun’s expression was sincere, as if she would take out her little heart to show them.

The other disciple standing nearby suddenly chuckled twice. “Second brother, since this little brother has so easily recommended himself, you might as well give it a try, see if snakes really won’t bite him.”

The man that was called “second brother” squinted at him and said, “Lord said to minimize disturbances, do you want to make the Lord angry?” [T/N: second brother means second senior brother, not because they’re related by blood]

Upon hearing this, the man suddenly became a mute. The other disciples were even more indifferent, showing no interest in Nan Xun.