Shangguan Rui's visit today brought news to Zhou Baopu, which made Zhou Baopu, who had always been cautious, feel an extra layer of worry.
Of course, he wanted to try his best to get three first-level grades in the entrance examination, and directly enter the ranks of the core disciples of Tianfu Tower, so that he could get the most Good resources and teachers can improve your own strength in the fastest, best and highest way.
However, when I thought about it, if I really did this, I would inevitably become a tall tree in the forest, and the wind would destroy it. Putting aside everything else, the Bloodthirsty Palace alone was a concern for him. As weak as he is, he can't think of having any capital to fight against this huge force.
However, in the end, timidity gave way.
In fact, underneath Zhou Baopu's caution, there was still an ambitious and passionate mind buried deep inside.
Perhaps because I have relatively little knowledge, I don't know how difficult it is to join the ranks of core disciples after the entrance examination.
Or maybe it was because Zhou Baopu heard that there was a successful example five hundred years ago, and it was as if a newborn calf was not afraid of death, so he had an impulse to join the ranks of core disciples.
This impulse, like a spark igniting a prairie fire, immediately set Zhou Baopu's ambition on fire.
People, it is always like this. When a goal is achieved, they always want to move towards higher and further goals.
Now that he thinks about fighting for it, Zhou Baopu can't help but think about how to fight for it all.
Because, judging from various signs, especially Duanmusen and Shangguan Rui's attitude towards the assessment, although it is not a wishful thinking to get three first-class grades, it is obviously not an easy task. If you want to achieve everything, you must still need some sufficient preparations.
Because he has been hanging out in Xuangui Mountain for many years, Zhou Baopu understands that a person's strength cannot determine his height.
Only the combination of strategy and strength is the sufficient condition to determine the height, so Zhou Baopu decided to concentrate on formulating a strategy that suits him.
However, in order to set up a strategy, there must be a breakthrough to find an introduction that can change Zhou Baopu's current situation.
But things are not optimistic now. The situation Zhou Baopu is in is really embarrassing.
It couldn't be said that he had no relatives or friends, but it was almost there, because in this strange environment, he felt a state of isolation and helplessness.
It was as if he was standing on an isolated island, with no people around, not a single ship, and he was the only one coming and going.
Although there are many disciples participating in the assessment, in Zhou Baopu's heart, if he uses his own strategy recklessly with a stranger, or someone who does not know the basics, it will be too casual, and the results will inevitably be biased. .
Of course, Zhou Baopu could find a breakthrough from Duanmusen and Shangguan Rui, such as learning some skills from them, but Zhou Baopu had already thought before that if he could not owe these two people any favors, it would be better not to owe them any favors.
Otherwise, Zhou Baopu would feel tired due to carrying some debts of gratitude.
Favor debt is the debt Zhou Baopu least wants to owe.
Of course, Zhou Baopu could also directly find Fu Chi. Maybe Fu Chi could directly help him cheat. Maybe Fu Chi could directly accept him as a core disciple, and maybe even accept him personally.
However, leaving aside Zhou Baopu's refusal, the matter itself is no different from a favor owed to others.
Somehow, Zhou Baopu's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a breakthrough.
While thinking quietly, Zhou Baopu suddenly thought of the middle finger that the young, skinny deacon gave him after the first assessment.
Although the middle finger gesture has an extremely derogatory meaning in daily life. That means looking down on the other party, despising the other party, and despising the other party. Even in the eyes of the public, it is no different from scolding the other party. It is a huge insult.
However, Zhou Baopu noticed that the middle finger did not necessarily mean an insult, it also had an extended meaning. It's just that this meaning is not very commonly used, so it is easily ignored by others.
At the beginning of his enlightenment, in order to teach Zhou Baopu how to read, the books Wang Caifeng gave Zhou Baopu were the most commonly used enlightenment books on the Blood Sacrifice Continent.
Although many years have passed, Zhou Baopu still clearly remembers a story told in the last few pages of that book.
This story is about perseverance. The general meaning is that a long time ago there was a child who wanted to become a strong man. Unfortunately, the master he found after all the hard work refused to teach him. However, the child was extremely determined, so he knelt under a tree full of peaches for more than three months.
When you are hungry, you pick some peaches to eat; when you are thirsty, you drink some dew collected in the morning; when you are tired, you lie down under the peach tree and sleep. In this way, I eat the wind and drink the dew, and finally become skinny and skinny. At the last moment of life and death, when the child was about to die, the master appeared.
After the master appeared, he said to the child: "You and I are not destined to be masters and disciples, so you should go wherever you come from?"
The child said angrily: "Refining blood is against heaven, why do you still have to do it ?" Talk about fate? If the master doesn't accept a disciple, the disciple would rather go to hell!"
The master couldn't help but feel moved when he saw the child so determined, but he didn't show it on his face, but said angrily: "You can't teach a child with strong words!"
After saying these words, the master seemed to be afraid that the child would not give up, and even gestured his middle finger to him vigorously. The middle finger, in the eyes of people at the time, was the biggest insult.
Who knows, when the child saw the middle finger, his eyes were very desperate at first, but then his eyes became brighter and brighter.
In the middle of the night, the child struggled to crawl to the master's door. With a slight push of his hand, the door opened.
When he crawled to Gao Ren's bed, he found Gao Ren looking at him with a smile, and opened his mouth to ask him: "It's almost midnight, why are you here if you don't sleep?" "Didn't you ask me to come here?
" Really?" The child's eyes did not show any timidity, but he asked the master in return.
The master pursed his lips and smiled, stroking his beard with his hand and said: "When did I ask you to come here?" "
During the day today, didn't you give me the middle finger and ask me to come in to apprentice at midnight today?"
The master listened. When the child said this, he thought that the child had wisdom, and felt that the child's perseverance was valuable and his understanding was great, so he violated his original intention and accepted the child with great perseverance.
That child eventually learned from an expert and eventually became a senior expert.
Zhou Baopu thought about this and suddenly understood the meaning of that middle finger.
Of course, Zhou Baopu did not know the whereabouts of the young deacon, but as a deacon, the young man would not have any difficulty in finding Zhou Baopu's residence.
According to Tianfu Tower's instructions, you need to pull the doorbell handle into the courtyard before taking a break. However, even as late at night is approaching, the doorbell handle outside Zhou Baopu's courtyard is still hanging empty in the night wind, rippling slightly. Standing, as if waiting for something.