"Okay, it's getting late, let's just wash up here today." With water drops all over his body, he suddenly stood up from the barrel. Hongxiu and Xiren were both blushing and holding towels.

She carefully wiped off the water droplets on his body. Hongxiu was okay, she had been wiping the young master from behind, and she had become accustomed to it after so many years, so it was just a red face. However, Xiren had finally overcome the difficulties before and was able to reluctantly

However, Cao Yi left for more than a month after that. Now when he wiped Cao Yi's body, he didn't dare to look directly at it. His hands were trembling and he wiped hastily. Cao Yi took the towel from Xiren's hand and wiped it himself.

He got up and said to Xiren: "Xiren, go get some clean clothes." Xiren looked at Cao Yi with a complicated expression, nodded and went to get clean clothes.

After more than a year of living, Cao Yi has already adapted to the dandy life of taking a bath and being served by a maid. He doesn't think there is any inconvenience in being naked in front of the maid. Under the service of Hong Xiu and Xi Ren

After putting on the clean clothes for sleeping, he smiled and said to the attacker: "It's too late today, so I don't need you to warm the bed. You can go to bed early. Of course, if you really want to warm the bed for me, I will also

Won't stop you."

Xiren blushed at being teased and took half a step back, quickly folded his clothes and saluted, while Hong Xiu watched from the side, covering her mouth and snickering.

"Hongxiu, you should rest early today. You have to apprentice as a disciple tomorrow, so you have to be energetic." Cao Yi turned to Hongxiu and said.

"I understand, young master, you should rest early." Hongxiu replied softly.

Then the two of them helped Cao Yi lie down on the quilt, covered Cao Yi with the quilt, blew out the candles, stood up and left.

At this moment, Cao Yi was lying comfortably on his soft mattress, thinking to himself that the bed at home was more comfortable. After all, the bed in the camp was just for the purpose of not being cold, and had absolutely nothing to do with comfort and enjoyment. But at this time, it was missing.

Xiong Hu's snoring was a bit unaccustomed to him. Cao Yi laughed at himself. He didn't know how the other nine members of the Xuanzi Group of Tianfu Department were training today. Without him, he didn't know whether they would

adapt.

With a smile like this, Cao Yi fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up again, it was already the time when the horn usually sounded in the camp. It must be that his body had formed a biological clock, so he woke up automatically at about the same time without the horn sound.

However, Cao Yi slept well yesterday and is very energetic now.

Cao Yi got out of bed and got dressed by himself. Usually in Qingyun Pavilion, he would be helped by Hongxiu or Xiren to get up. However, after being alone in the camp for more than a month, Cao Yi got used to getting dressed by himself, and his speed was also trained very much.

Quick. Outside the room is the room where Xiren usually sleeps. As a bed-warming maid, Xiren's room is naturally connected with Cao Yi's room. At this time, Cao Yi saw that Xiren was still sleeping soundly, so he started playing tricks on him.

He slowly came closer and used his hair to tease Xiren's nose.

"Well..." Xiren let out a low groan, brushed the hair on his nose with his hand, opened his eyes and looked at it vaguely, then closed his eyes and continued to fall asleep. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes wide,

He looked at Cao Yi beside the bed. He let out a scream, then sat up half-whispering.

Immediately he lowered his head in embarrassment and said shyly: "Master, you are already up, and your servants have not helped you get up and get dressed yet."

"Haha, it's okay. Young Master, I have long been accustomed to dressing by myself in the camp. Since you're awake, get up too. I'm going to exercise first." Cao Yi responded with a smile, then turned around and went out to exercise.

In the camp, it is required to wear a sandbag before exercising or running. Without the sandbag, Cao Yi ran around the small school field in the yard with great ease. Compared with a month ago, it was a huge difference. The red sleeves on the back

, She Yue and others also joined in the running. Of course, the number of laps and the speed of running could not be compared with Cao Yi. After running a few laps, they started doing yoga on the mat beside them.

Cao Yi chuckled and greeted them, then continued to play with the stone piers and iron pillars for strength training.

After everyone has finished exercising early, everyone has breakfast together.

Then Cao Yi sent a servant to invite Wang Zhiyuan to come to Qingyun Pavilion to perform the apprenticeship ceremony of Hongxiu. In this era, apprenticeship was still a very solemn matter, and a series of ceremonies were required to show respect.

The ceremony is to correct the mentality, and it is also justified. From the moment you worship the master, the status of master and apprentice is determined. The master must teach the apprentice well. It is a responsibility. The apprentice must respect the master and fulfill his duties as an apprentice.

.Apprenticing to a master is a matter of handing over the art of eating to future generations. It is the hard work of one generation or even several generations. It is something that is held in awe. In this era, the apprenticeship ceremony can be said to be the most important thing.

Generally, disciples first worship their ancestors and the patron saint of the industry. This shows their respect for the industry and their piety in the industry. At the same time, they also pray for the ancestor's "blessing" so that they can succeed in their studies.

Then the apprenticeship ceremony is performed, usually the teacher and the master sit on the throne, and the disciple kowtows three times, and then kneels to present the six-rite bundle of repairs and the post of the master. The so-called six-rite bundle of repairs is the six-legged bundle of repairs given to the master by the disciples in ancient times.

The gifts are: celery: meaning studiousness and diligence; lotus seeds: lotus seeds are hard-working, meaning hard work in education; red beans: meaning good luck; red dates: meaning early high school; longan: meaning perfect merit; dried lean meat strips:

To express the disciples’ thoughts.

Then the master or teacher gives instructions to the disciples, announcing the sect rules and giving names, etc. The instructions usually teach the disciples to respect their ancestors and abide by the rules, encourage the disciples to be clean, to study hard, etc.

As a wealthy family and Cao Yi's closest chief maid, Hongxiu's apprenticeship ceremony, the Cao Mansion naturally treated it with high standards. Not only were six-color gifts prepared early, but Cao Yi himself also prepared a big apprenticeship red envelope for Hongxiu.

, asked her to pay filial piety to the teacher, and also gave Wang Zhiyuan the six jars of Qinglian wine that had not been finished in Qingyun Pavilion. Of course, she also paid filial piety to the teacher in the name of Hongxiu.

"Teacher, please have tea!" Hong Xiu knelt in front of Wang Zhiyuan, presented the tea ceremony for apprenticeship with both hands, and said.

Wang Zhiyuan also took it with both hands and took a sip, then sat there and kowtowed three times from Hongxiu calmly, and then pulled up Hongxiu. Originally, Wang Zhiyuan was supposed to give the gift in return to his disciples, but in the past few years when he was the steward of the Cao Mansion,

, all the monthly money was donated to support the elderly and orphans of the Zhending Army. He had no property or valuables, so it was a bit embarrassing at this time.

Cao Yi didn't expect this to happen. He just helped Hongxiu prepare the gifts and ceremony for his apprenticeship. He forgot to prepare the gift from Uncle Wang. However, in order to alleviate the jealousy of Wang Zhiyuan and Hongxiu, the master and disciple.

Seeing embarrassment, Cao Yi had no choice but to say: "Uncle Wang has asked me to send someone to the capital to buy the meeting gift for Hongxiu. It will be delivered in a few days."

Wang Zhiyuan glanced at Cao Yi gratefully. At this time, the matter was temporarily over. He then took Hongxiu and said something about studying hard, learning to be a person first, and then learning to do things. Hongxiu naturally agreed repeatedly.

The apprenticeship ceremony is also officially completed.

Cao Yi naturally congratulated Wang Zhiyuan and Hongxiu on the sidelines. One became a great disciple and the other became a famous teacher. There was a wave of business exchanges, which made the two of them laugh.

"Uncle Wang, if you have nothing to do today, why don't you go with Hongxiu and the others to Zuixian Tower and give them some advice and guidance?" Cao Yi asked Wang Zhiyuan with a smile.

Hongxiu also looked at it expectantly, and asked softly: "Teacher, do you have time?"

"Haha, if you don't tell me, I plan to go and have a look, so that I can make some plans in advance for the establishment of the Taibai Chamber of Commerce." Wang Zhiyuan laughed while stroking his beard, with a smile on his face. At his age, he already knows his destiny.

He was alone and childless before. He grew up watching Qingzhao and Hongxiu. Now that he has accepted Hongxiu as his disciple, he naturally treats her as his daughter. As the saying goes, "My parents are the ones who gave birth to me and they taught me."

"Master", "Returning to a master is like reincarnation." Once he enters the master's door, the master is equivalent to half of his parents. He is naturally doing his best for Hongxiu's affairs at this time.

"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Wang. I also have to thank Uncle Wang for taking care of the matter of the old and orphans of the army." Cao Yi bowed his hand to Wang Zhiyuan, and then continued: "I will go directly to the Xinghuo Secret Camp of Taibai Villa later.

I went to Zuixian Tower with you. The rest of you should also seize the opportunity to ask for advice and learn from Uncle Wang attentively. If there is anything you don’t understand, you should ask more." These last few words are obviously meant for Hong Xiuwai of Qingyun Pavilion.

It came from the other seven maids. Rather than telling them to do things, it is better to say that it was deliberately told to Wang Zhiyuan.

"You little naughty boy, you've already plotted all this on your Uncle Wang... Haha" Wang Zhiyuan pointed at Cao Yi and said with a bitter smile. Apparently he had already seen through Cao Yi's intentions and said, "Don't worry, Cao Yi.

I will also guide you carefully, and I will ensure that each of you will be trained into talents who can play a role in the Taibai Chamber of Commerce!"

"Thank you very much, Uncle Wang!" Cao Yi thanked her sincerely, and then winked at She Yue and the others.

The seven maids were all smart. When they saw Cao Yi's eyes, they all came forward and kowtowed to Wang Zhiyuan together: "Thank you, Teacher, for your guidance!"

In ancient times, apprenticeship was a very particular and solemn matter, and there were many categories for disciples. She Yue and the others held a grand apprenticeship ceremony that was not as formal as Hongxiu. They could only be regarded as disciples, not disciples.
Chapter completed!