Chapter 138: Ch. 62 Part 3
Xiao Ling: "Please give me a castle" 🥺🥺🥺
Yanzhi: "Give little wife a castle!!! Preferably a spaceship!!!!" ⚔️⚔️⚔️
Walking to the stand where no. 6 and no. 7 were entrusted with, Qing Zhuangzi cupped respectfully. "Who’s tokens do you have and your ages?" not bothering looking up to them no. 7 asked indifferently. They frowned inexplicably by such nonchalant attitude towards them, who in the capital did not know of them. It was a pity that the people here didn’t know, and wouldn’t care even if they knew who they were. Taking out nine tokens from his breast Qing Zhuangzi placed them on the table "brother Jinhua and brother Dafu, five tokens. The five of us." Zhuangzi reported including Shuge and him he pointed to three more, the two ger and the remaining girl, all looking to be young masters and young ladies from aristocrat families. He then pointed to the remaining four men who had the demeanor of soldiers who served in the army. "Four tokens from King Pingxi and uncle Fei."
No. 6 hummed and wrote down their names and ages and kept the tokens. "What about those behind you?" he arched his brows and asked. "Our servants." Qing Shuge said with a snort. His eyes shrank sightly at her rude tone "they stay for now, after passing the tests you can come for them." he simple said.
Qing Zhuangzi: "Understood!"
Qing Shuge: "Wait there’s a test?"
They spoke at the same time, Zhuangzi glared angrily at her. Ignoring their little actions "that should have been told to you by those who received the tokens. Whatever, 270 taels just pay up and climb up the stairs someone is there to tell you where to go." no. 7 interjected shooing them away with a sneer. Zhuangzi gave no. 7 the pouch containing the silvers, no. 7 went through with his qi and nodded. They cupped to them as Zhuangzi pulled Shuge away with the orders following. "What do you think? They’ll pass or fail?" no. 7 asked while pinching his chin. "Pass. Those four people following behind should be brought with them for that purpose, to help them pass." no. 6 said unfazed.
They brought back their attentions to registering the people from the village with their baskets of food items. On the other side where no. 3 and no. 5 were seated, a figure came to stand in front of them to register. Clothed in egg-green robes with narrow sleeves and a collar, and a wide belt of the same color around his waist. His hair help up in a bun with a wooden hairpin, tied behind him was a wooden spear. "Seniors!" he cupped respectfully, his voice sounding hoarse. "Lian Huan, seventeen years old from Yuchen county, here to register. I am a man!" he said emphasising. No. 4 stopped his movements of writing and held the brush, he arched his brows. "A ger!" he stated factly and continued his movements again. Lian Huan became nervous from his words. "No, I am a man." he anxiously denied. The sound of the bell was heard again, no. 5 frowned in dissatisfactions. "You’re obviously a ger, stop wasting time, pay up and proceed. Don’t waste people’s time!" he said angrily. Lian Huan’s eyes widened, he quickly took out the pouch from his breast place and gave it to no.3, no. 3 nodded after going through with qi. "Go up ahead, someone will tell you where to go." he instructed and turn to the person following. Lian Huan was still shocked as he climbed the stairs, before coming here he didn’t believe that they’d really accept women and ger, so he disguised himself as a men. When he was seen through by them he thought it was over and that they were going to send him away, but it seems they really meant to accept ger and women, he was inexplicable.
"The fourth bell has been rang, 1 more bell to end the registration, be fast!" No. 5 announced loudly. "Lixin, no. 5, let some of them come here. We’ve collected all tokens sent out and it seems there are no more people from the village coming." no. 7 shouted to them. They quickly divided the people lined up between them to fasten things up. After a while the fifth bell was heard. Without saying anything they closed the books and put away the brushes and inkstones, they didn’t even continue to finish up registering for those who were standing in front of them. They packed everything up from chairs to tables leaving nothing. "Registration is over, come back after three years!" No. 5 announced loudly and they started climbing up the stairs.