Following Lao Dao's footsteps, Bai Qi came to the backyard of Tongwen Hall.
Perhaps because of its proximity to the Blackwater River, the overall layout is dominated by water.
The pond is wide and lush, with lotuses planted everywhere, tree shades running along the ground, and vines clinging to it. All kinds of scenery blend together, making it appear extremely quiet.
Bai Qi walked through several winding water corridors and stepped into the east building. The interior is spacious and bright, and the long window skirts are finely carved with boxwood, making it simple and elegant.
The courtyard where the coach stayed was far more magnificent than he had imagined. Even if it was said to be the first-class luxury in Heihe County, it would not be an exaggeration.
"Master Xiaoqi, this is it. When you are tired from practicing on weekdays, you can take a rest. The bed, bedding, etc. have all been changed recently."
Lao Dao took out the key, opened the door, and led Bai Qi in.
The master bedroom is divided into an inner room for sleeping. The four-poster lacquered red bed is close to the wall. It is equipped with a table, flower table, and clothes hangers, and is separated by a landscape screen.
There is a small room on the other side with a large wooden barrel, which is a place for bathing.
Outside is a relatively conventional hall, with desks, calligraphy and paintings, ancient bookshelves, pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and other such decorations are all available.
If Bai Qi hadn't broadened his horizons and seen the world in his previous life, with his lowly background as a fisherman, he would have been overwhelmed by this intoxicating aura of wealth and would have been forced to be timid and cautious.
I'm afraid that if I get dirty or damage something, I won't be able to pay for it.
Lao Dao laughed and said:
"The water has been boiled and put in a big bucket. According to the young master's instructions, some medicinal materials have been added.
After Xiao Qiye has finished washing and put on the specially prepared clean clothes, go to the main hall to have dinner. "
Medicated bath?
The treatment is so good?
Bai Qi nodded pretending to be cautious, and waited until Lao Dao went out and closed the door before walking into the inner hut.
In the steaming heat, he took off the loose robe that Brother Sanshui bought and put it on the hanger casually.
The whole person was soaked in the big wooden barrel, and he couldn't help but let out a long and comfortable groan.
"So it turns out that really wealthy families live like this every day?"
Bai Qi put his hands on the edge of the tub. There was a wooden board like a small stool inside, allowing people to sit steadily. The medicinal materials boiled into juice were smudged into a green color and floated lightly on it, vaguely emitting a burning rosin-like smell. The aroma.
He was still recalling the words of Ning Haichan's instructions under the gold-lettered black plaque. The three rules were strong and powerful, and there was a deep feeling of being carved into his mind.
"Tongwenguan, what exactly is it?"
How could an extraordinary person like Ning Haichan be willing to stay in Heihe County?
Would you rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail?
Bai Qi rejected this idea. Even if the coach who dominates the martial arts school is placed in Yihai County, he should be a famous and powerful figure.
He can stare an expert to death with just one glance. This ability is almost like that of a ghost. It could be said that he is Zhou Tiancai Qi who has mastered the fourth level of training.
"It seems that I have recognized a great master..."
Bai Qi lowered his eyelids and called out the ink in his mind.
Fishing, reading and deciphering, distinguishing medicines, Eight Stages of Kung Fu, Golden Pill Great Strengthening Kung Fu, Breaking Evil Spirit Eyes, Bengquan, Arhat Hand Training...
All kinds of skills are condensed into large or small light spots that flicker and are slowly reflected in the eyes.
“Fishing and reading and writing are two skills with great potential, but we haven’t seen their upper limit yet.
The eighth level of Kung Fu has already reached its end. If you continue to progress, you won't be able to gain much insight.
Apart from the unbreakable ones such as Breaking Evil Spirit Eyes and Bengquan, there are the Golden elixir great strength exercises and Arhat hand training. These two disciplines can complement each other internally and externally and need to be exercised more intensively. "
Bai Qi stared at the nameless ink in his mind, and an idea came to him inexplicably:
"Can the various skills that are reflected in the skills be integrated up and down? For example, skills such as Ba Duan Gong and medicine discrimination, which have little room for exploration, can be further deduced and continue to make breakthroughs?"
Before he could think further, a slight tingling sensation like a needle pricked his body!
The dilated pores absorb the power of the medicine, and the results finally begin to show!
"I...day!"
At first, Bai Qi could remain calm, enjoying the scalding hot water moistening his muscles, gradually relaxing them.
But after about half a cup of tea, the bones of the body soaking in the tub suddenly trembled, as if a layer of melted wax had been poured on every place, which was burning and painful.
"Endure the pain for a while!"
Bai Qi raised his head and grasped the tub tightly with both hands, almost leaving blurred fingerprints.
The qi and blood in the body that were originally flowing smoothly seemed to be violently stimulated and suddenly surged!
The skin feels hot and the muscles swell, like a water bladder being blown open!
"It's almost squirting!"
Bai Qi gritted his teeth and his face turned red. The qi and blood that had been bathed in the medicine were so abundant that he had the illusion of turning into substance and rushing out from the seven orifices.
Just like ordinary people who take too much supplements and are energetic, it may cause nosebleeds.
"I'm really angry right now... What kind of medicated bath is this? It's more than ten times more powerful than the foot-scalding and scrubbing method of Jindan Da Zhuang Gong!"
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Half an hour passed by in a flash. After taking a shower, Bai Qi put on a black straight-fronted robe, a moiré belt, and a pair of satin boots, and appeared in the front hall of Tongwen Hall.
Although his skin color is still weathered and weathered, with a bronze color from the sun, and his hands and feet are even calloused, they are far less fair and delicate than the pampered young master.
But people rely on clothes, and Buddha relies on gold.
Bai Aqi, a fisherman who had taken off his short jacket and coarse linen clothes, now looked somewhat heroic and upright.
"It looks good, unlike Ah, who grew up in a miserable state and couldn't make a living."
Ning Haichan's Da Ma Jin Dao sat in the main seat, which was a grand master's chair made of red rosewood.
Hanging on the back is a large splash-ink calligraphy, "I am born the first among men, but I will live as long as heaven!"
"I've met the master."
Bai Qi looked at himself in the mirror and was stunned for a long time. It was the first time that he was wearing a full coat, robe, trousers and boots. Looking at the broad-shouldered young man inside, he felt a little unrecognizable.
this is me?
So unfamiliar.
Just like the Jianghu young hero often written in story books!
"How did you feel about the medicinal bath?"
Ning Haichan picked up the tea cup and scratched it twice with the lid:
"I can smell a medicinal aroma from afar. It seems that it has been marinated thoroughly and is delicious."
Bai Qi's face twitched. His master obviously knew that the first medicinal bath was very intense, but he didn't even say a word.
As expected, I was just waiting for now to make fun of him.
"My whole body feels so comfortable and I feel like a fairy! Thank you, Master, for the medicine!"
He raised his head, with the word calm written all over his face, as if he had completely forgotten the sour feeling of the muscles all over his body being congested and swollen.
"There's no need to say thank you. The eighty taels of silver for that bucket of water will be deducted from the tuition fee paid by Lao Liangtou."
The first words spoken by Ning Hai Chan Yun Dan Feng caused Bai Qi to break through his power instantly.
"Eighty taels!"
"Grind Rehmannia glutinosa into powder, boil Angelica sinensis in water, slice Polygonum multiflorum and white peony root, and add some Codonopsis pilosula... All good things to nourish Qi and blood and strengthen muscles and bones. Fry slowly for three hours.
Leaving aside the processing of the old knife and Tongwenguan's unique secret recipe, charging you eighty taels is already an extremely conscientious cabbage price.
If I am willing to sell, there will be a lot of people begging to buy three or five hundred taels, which is enough to level the threshold. "
Ning Haichan slowly sipped his tea and said matter-of-factly.
"...Master, may I ask how much money Liang Bolu gave you in total?"
Bai Qi thought that medicinal bathing was a welfare benefit for apprentices, but he didn't expect that it was a chargeable item.
The instructor's actions are serious and unreasonable, making it difficult for people to predict.
"Six hundred and fifty taels, almost half of his wealth."
Ning Haichan said calmly:
“The bad news is that you only have a maximum of eight medicinal baths before you run out of money;
The good news is that your muscles and bones are better than you thought before. Just four soaks are enough and you can save half your money. "
Bai Qi breathed a sigh of relief. He took eight baths for six hundred and fifty taels. None of the young masters in Yulan were so wealthy, right?
"But there's some bad news."
Looking at his disciple's distressed expression, Ning Haichan smiled and said:
"In today's meal, there is a pot of white lotus seed tonifying essence soup.
Schisandra chinensis, Cistanche deserticola, Achyranthes bidentata, red stone fat, seaweed sand, patchouli...the king and ministers are combined properly and simmered for an hour.
Convert to fifty taels. "
"..."
Bai Qi seems to have seen the day when he will be bankrupt and it is difficult to remain calm:
"I'm not going to spend one hundred and thirty taels in one day?"
Ning Haichan nodded gently, with a serious look in his eyes:
"You are a disciple of Tongwen Hall and a disciple that I personally accepted. Either you don't practice Kung Fu or you should reach the Great Perfection and show your unique and extraordinary talents.
Using the most sophisticated medicinal and dietary supplements to fill your previous shortcomings is only the first step.
Don’t think that eating meat and rice every meal is enough.
Those who eat grass are stupid, those who eat meat are strong, and those who eat breath live long... You grew up in a poor family, fishing and being exposed to wind and rain.
Although I relied on Zhuang Gong to strengthen my body internally and externally to nourish my energy and blood, and I also took a lot of supplements, I improved by three to four points.
But the foundation is far from solid, and when it breaks through in the future, it will be easy to be unable to continue.
This is also why those big martial arts schools say you lack potential.
Of course, they only choose small talents and don’t know how to choose big talents.
Our Tongwen Museum has always only recruited great talents, truly great talents who can transform themselves into ordinary people through martial arts! "
Bai Qi chewed on these words, and a look of understanding appeared in his eyes.
Practicing Qigong is like filling water. The process of breaking through levels is to change oneself from a wooden barrel into a water tank, then dig it into a pond, expand it into a lake, and finally turn it into a vast ocean.
Therefore, one of the rules of martial arts when giving personal inheritance is to value potential.
This represents a ceiling for future achievements.
"Aren't you a good fisherman? Why, the little boss of Baiji Fish Stall still has a habit of pretending to be poor?"
Ning Haichan smiled and told a joke.
"Don't expect the master to do everything well and pave the way for you.
With a family property as big as Tongwenguan, there is no need to spend money on anything.
No matter how famous a coach is, he still has no ability to turn stone into gold.
The third introductory lesson is that having a lot of money does not necessarily mean you have extraordinary abilities, but being penniless is doomed to be a miserable life.
It’s hard to make money, so why practice martial arts? Sit down and eat. "
Looking at the bowl of tonic soup that Lao Dao served him, Bai Qi swallowed with tears in his eyes, sucking and swallowing all the soup.
This is fifty taels of silver!
Not a drop should be wasted!
