After dinner, Bo Jinhou, who was already embarrassed by Jiu Jin's manipulation, pestered Ye San to teach him the three axes more quickly. This is not difficult to understand. Bo Jinhou, who has never been exposed to this art, must be very fresh. Who has never dreamed of being a swordsman in the world?
When I was a child, I had only heard about and seen those powerful characters from the martial arts picture books of storytellers. I also thought that one day I could be like those heroes, wearing a cloak, sword, and happy revenge in the world. Now this wish has finally come true. It was close, how could Bao Jinhou restrain his impatience?
In the middle of the night, someone who has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has been accustomed to seeing famous masters in the world, how can he understand Bo Jinhou's eagerness? I originally planned to let Bo Jinhou get up early tomorrow morning and practice again by relying on the old saying of "a day's plan begins in the morning", but in the end he couldn't resist Bo Jinhou's persistent begging, so he had to turn on the light and go. courtyard.
There is no stove in the courtyard to keep warm as there is in the house, and the cool breeze blows suddenly. People who are still cold in this season don't want to come out. Even though I have been doing various exercises since I was a child and soaked in various medicinal herbs, I can resist the cold weather, which is something that can only be resisted by a few more days of qi flowing through the meridians. Subconsciously, I don’t like to go out in this kind of weather. Suffer this.
He couldn't help but look at Bo Jinhou, who was wearing only a single shirt next to him, and curled his lips in the middle of the night.
The moonlight was heavy but bright. In the middle of the night, he folded his hands and watched Bo Jinhou happily take the Xuanhua ax that was standing at the door and stand in front of him with a silly smile on his face.
"Hold the ax across your chest."
After saying this, he turned around and walked back into the house in the middle of the night. Although he could bear the cold, a house with a stove was always more suitable than the cold wind outside.
"Then what?" Bo Jinhou still looked very interested, and followed what he said in the middle of the night.
"Stand with your legs slightly wider than shoulder width. Your knees should be bent and your hips should be parallel to the ground. Point your toes forward, hold your chest and lift your back."
"This is the horse-rejection step." Bao Jinhou affirmed as he posed according to the twenty-four-character formula of the third watch of the night.
Ye Sangeng, who had already reached the door and was about to enter, didn't expect that Bao Jinhou knew the name of this posture. He came back to his senses and said, "Yes, let's step on the horse first."
Bo Jinhou looked disdainful.
Ye San is even funnier, "If you practice martial arts without practicing kung fu, you will be in vain; if you practice kung fu without training your waist, your skills will not be high after all. Don't underestimate the horse-baring. From ancient times, you have to learn the principle of horse-baring before fighting. Once the horse is tied, Only when the lower plate is stable will you not be easily knocked down when facing the enemy. Otherwise, not to mention these three axes, even if the lower plate is unstable, no matter how advanced the kung fu is, it will be just a show of fancy tricks. Like you, if you encounter someone who is stronger than you The battle will be defeated in just three or two big blows."
After all, Bo Jinhou didn't know the inner way, so he had no choice but to hold up a giant axe, which weighed 100 kilograms, and hit the horse's stride. He was very bored at midnight. He thought of the seven-star chain steps that he felt unfamiliar after using them a few days ago, so that he could draw sketches in the courtyard. A Beidou palace grid is formed, and the luck moves with a single step, shifting and shifting according to the laws of movement.
After touching a stick of incense, I felt a little hot on my body. I stopped in the middle of the night. When I turned my head to look, I saw that Bo Jinhou looked weak. His squatting movements, which were obviously no longer standardized long ago, were even more shaky now. Huang, even so, still insisted on holding up the 100-pound ax without taking a break, which made Ye San even more impressed.
Although it only takes a stick of incense, this short time should not be underestimated. It is the biggest disadvantage for such beginners. If you do it too hastily, you will only strain your muscles and bones. In addition, the weather is cold and windy, and moisture will invade inside if it is not kept intact. If it gets into the tight meridians, it will be impossible to carry a bucket of water, let alone practicing martial arts.
Ye San Geng immediately reached out and took off the hundred-jin giant ax and threw it aside. Bo Jinhou thought that he had not practiced well and made Ye San Geng angry. He endured the pain in his arms, legs and feet and wanted to explain, but he saw Ye San Geng. He returned his hand and pressed Bo Jinhou's palm, intertwined his four fingers and ten fingers, made a pirouette and then pushed with force, and there was a clear "cough bang" sound. Before Bao Jinhou could regain his senses, Ye Sangen gave another gentle tug. He released his hands and pressed his thumbs along Bao Jinhou's tiger's mouth, pressing Hegu and Lieque acupoints, and also connected Bao Jinhou's two acupoints under his feet. There are two acupoints on the leg, Zusanli and Weizhong. Then there was another bully. He leaned his right shoulder into the hollow door in Bo Jinhou's arms and hit it with force. His hands also quickly turned around and shot the five major acupoints of Zhongji, Guanyuan, Shimen, Qihai and Shenque. The last shot was made with a little more force. Coupled with the force of the shoulder support, Bo Jinhou's body flew into the air and swept backwards. In the middle of the night, his left hand advanced and retreated, followed Bo Jinhou's arm back and forth, then grabbed his wrist and pulled it with a force of four or two, and Bo Jinhou immediately stood upright. The body stood still.
Although it was late, it was actually very fast. Bo Jinhou was still in a daze and had not recovered from the continuous shooting and beating movements at midnight. It wasn't until the middle of the night that I took two steps back to close the distance between the two of them and realized that I felt refreshed and refreshed. All the 36,000 pores in my body were refreshed, and all my internal organs were feeling sore. The feeling also disappeared. Suddenly remembering the plots he had heard from those old storytellers before, Bo Jinhou said with joy on his face: "Have you opened up my second line of Ren and Du?"
The third night of the night was silent.
You haven't even started yet, not to mention the mental method of gathering energy and luck, and you don't even know how to open the Ren and Du channels? If Ren and Du's two meridians can be mastered so easily, wouldn't everyone in the world be a master?
"You were a little too aggressive in your horse training just now. You should take a rest before practicing again when you are tired. Don't you understand why you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry? I just activated your meridians just now, so that it will be difficult to get out of bed tomorrow because your body will be sore."
Not hearing the answer he wanted in his heart, Bo Jinhou was inevitably a little disappointed, and his face drooped in anger, like an eggplant beaten by frost.
In the middle of the night, I looked at my face and knew my heart. How could I not understand what he was thinking? It was funny. When I was a child, I was not as childish as him, thinking that if I meditate for a night, I would be able to fly like the legendary masters and pick leaves the next day. Can hurt people.
"Okay, no matter how easy it is to learn this skill, it can't be learned in a short while. If you rush for success, you will hurt yourself. Go and rest first, and I will teach you the three-axe tomorrow."
Bo Jinhou immediately showed joy, agreed and left.
Returning to the house at midnight, the sister in the house hugged the heater. She must have heard what happened in the courtyard, and said, "Aren't you afraid that you just scared him and he won't be able to come tomorrow?"
Ye Sangen curled his lips, "Don't underestimate him. After getting to know him this day, I think this kid has a stubborn temper." "How old are you, how come you still call people a brat? You are pretending to be mature and shameless." My sister joked at midnight. Bo Jinhou's temperament really matches that of his younger brother. My sister has always judged people very accurately. Although she can't see other people's faces, she can infer their temperament through their daily conversations. Otherwise, how could my sister have been praised since she was a child? It is the exquisite heart with seven orifices.
"Wasn't that old man at home so cruel to make me exercise like this?" Ye San added with more empathy.
My sister stopped talking and was thoughtful.
"Spring is about to begin, have you thought about where to go?" The younger brother, who could make a plate of peanuts alone for dinner and wine, suddenly changed the subject.
The elder sister, who didn't know what she was thinking of, sighed and leaned her body against the earth wall without feeling dirty, "It's been three years, from the Western Regions to Liaodong, and then south to the south of the Yangtze River. How can you remember the places you walked in those years?" You have taken me all over the place, where do you want to go? Southern Xinjiang? Ryukyu? Or west of Kunlun, where eminent monks are everywhere, Tubo Tibet, the backbone of China?"
When my sister asked her about it in the middle of the night, she didn't answer. After all, she was the child of the same mother, and the two siblings also had a good understanding of each other. My sister sighed and guessed that they were almost inseparable even in the middle of the night.
"Are you homesick?" Ye Sangen asked thoughtfully.
"Yes." My sister's eyes seemed to be looking out the window. There was moonlight shining into the house through a small crack in the window for ventilation, but it was the first month in this foreign country, so my sister couldn't see it. "I'm afraid it wasn't the words that layman Taibai said in this situation that have been passed down forever." Feeling her brother's loneliness, her sister added jokingly.
In the middle of the night, I didn't know how to proceed with these words, so I took another sip of wine and looked out the window like my sister.
"Did you say that the old man missed us?" my sister asked again.
Ye Sangen sneered, "The old man is only thinking about stabilizing his own position. It's strange that he thinks about us."
"Silly boy." My elder sister scolded Ye Sanguang in a mature manner, as if blaming him for being so stubborn at such an old age, "The old man is doing this for us as a family."
My sister is not much older than Ye San Geng, but this girl is already sensible early. In addition, my sister is generally more delicate than her peers. She has been taking care of her younger brother since she was a child. In Ye San Geng's eyes, she is a sister, and she also conducts herself in the world. leader. My sister's elderly tone of voice didn't seem inappropriate even in the middle of the night.
"Anyway, I promised my mother that I will never let you do anything you don't like." He raised his head in the middle of the night and took the last sip of wine from the jar, stood up and left.
My sister smiled bitterly.
In the middle of the night, my impression is that the two siblings have been inseparable since they were young, not to mention separated. When they were young, they were still indifferent children, no matter how their mother used to intimidate them, the two siblings never slept in separate beds.
My sister was not very old at that time, and she always liked to lead him around the mountains holding hands. There is a hawthorn forest at the back of the mountain. Two children, who are not tall enough, are trying to reach the hawthorns on top of each other. The elder sister is afraid that her younger brother will not grow taller, so she carries her younger brother hard with her already small and frail body.
One time I encountered a long snake with flower scales on the mountainside. I was so frightened that I just cried in the middle of the night. In fact, my sister was also so scared at that time that she even lost the courage to cry. But when she heard the cry of her brother, which should belong to the little girl who was being protected, she almost subconsciously She took her brother into her arms and comforted him. It was not until the guards who had been protecting the sister and brother in the dark since they were young came over amidst the old man's loud curses that my sister heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground.
Later, when they grew up, the old man in the family, who was more powerful than anyone else, arranged for the two of them to learn things they didn't like from the bottom of their hearts.
At that time, my elder sister was learning tea ceremony from Su Hongjian, who was famous for making tea only for the royal family. My younger brother naughtily peed into the red clay pot with a dragon head and a turtle cover that was said to have been left by the tea sage Lu Dongpo hundreds of years ago. My elder sister just laughed and scolded her. , scolding him for being naughty. As the national player Guo Bailing, who only had nineteen and three hundred and sixty-one pieces with the saint, learned the virtual attack and defense of the black heron with a hidden square and circular pattern, his younger brother secretly stole ninety-nine and eighty-one pieces, which were naturally formed only slightly. After polishing, the amber clouds of uniform size were polished, and even the national player, who was already old enough to walk with the help of a tiger-head crutch, jumped angrily, and his sister also laughed and scolded him for not knowing the importance.
Later, when my younger brother got a little older, he was forced to learn boxing, kicking and sticks from the nursing school at home. Whether it was the cold weather or the scorching summer heat, at a young age, he would practice squatting and boxing in the martial arts hall specially built for him. His sister always felt pain in his heart and face, but she still forced herself to beat him and massage his legs and feet which he couldn't lift his arms the next day. She told him that "you have to endure hardships to become a master." This kind of thing was heard at that age. A big truth that I don’t even understand.
Later, the younger brother wanted to go to the library that contained half of the world's martial arts treasures, so the elder sister went to accompany him regardless of the cold or summer. She watched him touch the sky after being grounded from the first to the third floor for three years. She couldn't express her feelings. of joy.
Then came the thing that the siblings never wanted to mention in the middle of the night. Even now, they still remember that night, in the rain, when they were addicted to alcohol and had to tie a wine bottle even when they slept. The only time my father dropped the wine bottle and he stood not far away without realizing it, my mother talked a lot to Ye Sangen.
"You are a man now. You can no longer let your sister protect you."
"You have to be obedient and stop being childish."
"You have to take responsibility and be a man who is upright and upright."
"You have to pick up that knife and treat him well."
"Don't imitate your father's love of drinking, which will harm your health."
"You have to remember what mom said, don't go in and out of one ear like your dad."
"You must remember the ancestral teachings of going to court and drawing a sword, and don't rush in."
"You have to understand that martial arts is a step-by-step process. It's a big taboo to become a master at once."
"What you want to do is to be the best in the world, otherwise how can you be worthy of Luan Hui's recognition of his master when he was first saved."
"You have to take good care of your sister and don't let her be bullied."
So from then on, in the middle of the night, I took what my mother said to heart.
At that time, the rich and wealthy dandy who used to be conceited about celestial phenomena at a young age and had nothing to do all day long seemed to have grown up overnight. After that, he was born and reborn in the world, and spent three years traveling around the Zhou Dynasty before he understood what my mother said.
After that, he regarded his sister as a nanny. Until that night three years ago, the rich man who had been regarded as the most obedient by the servants and maids at home since he was a child rebelled against the most powerful old man in the Zhou Dynasty. Just because of that The old man, who regarded the two as the apple of his eye, made a decision that his sister didn't like, so he led her to leave home in anger, and they have been away for three years until now.
He just didn't want to make his sister unhappy.
His sister loves him and understands him.
"Of course I will act according to your decision."
My sister raised her hand and touched the wooden box on her left hand side that never left her body without any trace of blindness. She held it in her arms and rubbed her cheeks against it.
"You are my brother." My sister murmured, smiling very nicely. "But I miss our mother."
What answered her was the wooden door that she gently passed by in the middle of the night.
The lights on the street made the whole city not dim, but it didn't seem as dim as the flickering candles at home in the distance.
Liangfeng said nothing, just whimpered.
When the moon shines again in a foreign country, it is really no better than a broken lantern in my hometown.
