Madam, protect me!

There were a total of sixty-two grandmasters participating in this martial arts conference.

In the first round of the battle between the ten masters, there will be thirty-one competitions, which will be held over three days.

These thirty-one competitions can actually be completed in one day.

There were more people taking the imperial examination, and the time was tighter, and one subject could even be completed in one day.

But in this case, Li Nuo wouldn't have much time to send these masters to the confinement room to reflect. The longer the timeline is, the more adequate his preparations will be, and he can achieve his goal relatively easily.

The ten competitions on the first day ended in the morning.

In the afternoon, everyone can move around freely.

Whether you are competing on your own in the Wulin Village or going out to play as an individual or in a group, the Ministry of Etiquette will not interfere too much.

This also relieved everyone.

After the morning competition ended, it happened to be meal time.

There is an exclusive canteen in Wulin Village, and the freshest ingredients are purchased from the market every morning.

In order to give everyone the best dining experience, Li Nuo invited his family's chef to be the chief chef, and also borrowed several royal chefs from the palace. Even if they were just washing and cutting vegetables in the cafeteria, they were all chefs from major restaurants in Chang'an. kitchen.

Even working meals in three provinces and six ministries do not offer this kind of treatment.

Disciples from all sects were full of praise for the food in the cafeteria.

Even the masters who don't care much about food and appetite have to admit that although the rules of the court are a little stricter, they are done to the extreme in details.

The etiquette is comprehensive, no small sect will feel ignored, and everyone will feel respected.

The food in the cafeteria caters to everyone's tastes.

Several major cuisines of Daxia are available, and the taste is extremely authentic. It is hard for people to imagine that they can taste authentic hometown food thousands of miles away from home.

Some even discovered some more touching details.

Even the same cuisine, the same dish, has different tastes in different states.

For example, Haizhou cuisine, although it also belongs to a certain branch of southern cuisine, is used to adding more sugar when cooking.

Because a sect from Haizhou came this time, the kitchen used two methods for the same dish, and specially marked one of them as Haizhou flavor, which made this small sect with only five people feel like they were being treated. The taste of attention.

"This is delicious, junior sister, try it quickly!"

"This is not bad, senior brother, I will get you a copy!"

"No, no, no, I can't eat anymore."

"Oh, just take one bite, taste it, it's really delicious!"

…

The masters still care about face and are still very graceful when facing such delicious food.

But those young disciples don’t have this kind of concentration.

Faced with the dazzling array of delicacies, they ate this and wanted to try that, but their appetite was limited. They only tasted the next delicacies briefly, often putting them aside after one bite and looking for other targets.

Soon, the table in front of them was piled with food.

The scrap bucket at the door was also full of wasted food.

Disciples of major sects such as Sanqing Sect, Shushan, and Wuyue Sword Sect often have the magnanimity of the major sects and are able to restrain their appetites.

The disciples of those small sects were completely ignored.

Anyway, you don’t have to spend any money to eat here. With the idea that you can’t live up to the delicious food, too much food is wasted.

Although the masters of some sects also warned them not to waste too much, their tone was not harsh and it did not have much effect.

Bang, bang, bang!

At this moment, several dull sounds suddenly reached everyone's ears.

The sound was extremely abrupt, and everyone couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound.

The young official from the Ministry of Etiquette walked slowly to the front, glanced at the piles of food on several tables, knocked on a table, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, stop for a moment."

After he spoke, everyone in the canteen stopped chatting, and those who were eating also stopped what they were doing.

Even the masters were seriously prepared to listen to his next words.

In just a few days, he has established enough prestige in everyone's hearts.

When the disciples of various sects were arrested by the guards for violating the laws, he was the one who led them out.

Both the leaders of the imperial guards and the court officials they met treated him with respect.

He showed no mercy even to the master of Sanqing Sect.

Unknowingly, these martial arts masters had already paid enough attention to him.

Li Nuo glanced at everyone and said slowly: "You may not know that the holding of this martial arts conference is not smooth sailing. The imperial examination has just ended. The court spent a lot of money on the imperial examination. The treasury is empty. The Ministry of Rites proposes to hold it for the first time. During the martial arts competition, all the ministries in the imperial court were opposed. "

Everyone listened carefully. They really didn't know these things.

Li Nuo continued: "But the Ministry of Rites feels that the relationship between the imperial court and Wulin is not antagonistic. As Wulin is an important local force, the court should pay enough attention to it and actively establish contact with Wulin. With the unremitting persistence of the Ministry of Rites, Because of this martial arts conference, we have won some grandmaster privileges for the seniors here.”

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Nuo continued to speak.

"The imperial court's allocation is limited. In order to save a little money, the Ministry of Rites is eager to break a penny into two cents. This Wulin Village was renovated on the basis of the Imperial Examination Academy. Although the living place is a little simpler, it is In other aspects, the Ministry of Rites strives to be as perfect as possible. The chefs who cook here are invited from the palace, and all the ingredients are freshly purchased from outside on the same day..."

"The Ministry of Rites does all this so that everyone can live comfortably and eat happily during the conference, but to see so many meals being wasted, to be honest, I am very disappointed..."

Li Nuo pointed outside and said solemnly: "Not to mention far away, there are many people in Chang'an City. It is difficult for them to eat three meals a day, and it is difficult to even drink a bowl of gruel every day. But here, the imperial chef carefully cooks Many people will throw away the pastries after just one taste..."

As soon as these words came out, in the pastry area, several hands that were about to taste a few different pastries slowly lowered their hands.

Some young disciples from small sects even lowered their heads silently, with expressions of shame on their faces.

Li Nuo continued: "The Ministry of Household Affairs has been strongly opposed to the Wulin Conference from the beginning. If the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs know that Wulin Village is wasting food and wasting the court's funding, they will definitely impeach the Ministry of Rites. By then, I am afraid that the first session The martial arts conference will also be the last one..."

Those disciples of various sects who wasted food buried their heads lower.

Silence, a long silence.

Throughout the canteen, you can hear a needle drop.

The young disciples of each sect did not dare to show their anger, and even the masters of each sect seemed to have returned to their youth when they were scolded by the elders of the sect.

He is obviously not very old, his face is still childish, his tone of voice is not serious, he is even a young child...

But what he said was so convincing.

I don’t know how long it took, Li Nuo spoke again, breaking the silence and said: "Every porridge and a meal should be remembered as hard-earned. I hope what happened today will not happen again. After lunch, anyone who wastes food will consciously Go to the solitary room to reflect for an hour. If a disciple makes a mistake, the senior masters of each sect should also be punished together. Only in this way can they wake up..."

After saying that, he walked out on his own.

After a long time, voices began to be heard in the cafeteria.

The disciples and elders of Sanqing Sect, Shushan, and Wuyue Sword Sect didn't have any other feelings, because they did not waste food, which benefited from the strict daily management of the sect.

The disciples of the second-rate sects all lowered their heads, ashamed and blaming themselves.

The masters of each sect had even darker expressions on their faces.

Thousands of miles away, I am so embarrassed that I have been thrown to Chang'an.

Look at those disciples from famous sects, look at them again, the difference is obvious.

"What are you doing with your head down, eating?"

"I can't eat it. If I can't eat it, what are you doing with so much?"

"Whoever brings it will eat it all for me. If you can't finish it and take it away, when will you finish it, when will you come here to eat!"

"It's a shameful and conspicuous thing, you waited until you got back!"

"Our sect has been completely disgraced by you!"

…

After eating, the masters of each sect consciously took their disciples to the introspection room.

Waste of food is wrong everywhere.

After experiencing being caught for spitting in front of others, being caught for littering, and being caught for walking on the street at night, they have subconsciously formed the idea that Chang'an has many rules.

It seems natural to be punished for wasting food and punish yourself.

It would be really embarrassing if only one of his family was punished.

But except for a few large sects, almost all the remaining small sects were spared. Everyone was punished together, so they didn't feel so embarrassed.

The relatively spacious closed room seemed extremely crowded with so many people pouring in at once.

The entire closed room was filled with the voices of masters scolding their disciples.

At this time, inside the Li Mansion.

Li Nuo was sitting in the yard, drawing something on a piece of rice paper. Out of curiosity, Su Qing stepped forward and took a look. His face immediately turned red and he spat secretly, wondering how he could draw this. Something inappropriate.

But when she took a second look, she was slightly startled and noticed a familiar feeling.

The few lines on the body of the unclothed woman on the paper seemed to be the meridians diagram of Yuqing Xinjue.

Why did he draw the meridian diagram of Yuqing Xinjue? Could it be that he wanted to crack Yuqing Xinjue but couldn't?

Su Qing didn't dare to look again and left silently.

She didn't believe that a little guy under twenty years old could do something that so many seniors of the Sanqing Sect had failed to do.

But this incident started because of her. She was worried that after Li Nuo failed, he would blame her if he saw her.

In addition to being satisfied with this son-in-law, she was also a little scared.

Thinking of the terrible scene where he had just reprimanded those masters, she slipped faster...