After Xiao Qing left, Xiao Guo was the only one left. Don't look at Xiao Guo's determined look when he just said he wanted to stay.
But she was alone at this moment, and she still felt a little panicked, especially when she saw the eyes of everyone looking at her.
She felt like a little sheep in a wolf's den, with no sense of security at all.
The shopkeeper wanted to give Xiao Guo some power, otherwise a young lady from a wealthy family like this would not be able to control her at all.
But Xiao Guo was not a fool. She knew that she must not give in at this time, so she forced herself to be brave, sat on the chair and said to everyone.
"Stop talking nonsense and come over if you have any dirty work to do. Just say hello!"
Xiao Guohao said angrily, but the shopkeeper and Lao Bai could see through her fierce appearance at a glance.
Lao Bai stood aside with his arms folded and smiled without saying anything, while the shopkeeper looked at the account book compiled by Xiucai in his hand and said with a smile.
"No hurry, no rush, before you start working, let's settle the accounts first."
"Is this necessary?" Xiao Guo continued to pretend to be strong.
"Of course there is. Look at the door you broke down, the horses you rented, and the room charges for these two days plus..."
The shopkeeper was not swayed by Xiao Guo's momentum at all, and carefully counted each of Xiao Guo's accounts.
And listening to the shopkeeper's detailed words, Xiao Guo also felt like she had punched the cotton, and she said helplessly.
"Okay, okay, how much it is, just give me the total."
Xiao Guo said nonchalantly that for her, who came from a wealthy family, the money was just a bunch of numbers.
The shopkeeper fiddled with the abacus beads and looked at Xiao Guo with a smile.
"The total is thirty-six taels."
"So cheap!"
When Xiao Guo heard this number, she laughed quickly and said that she had received more than this amount of lucky money during the New Year.
"I'll help you remove the loose ends. The total is thirty-six taels."
Seeing that Xiao Guo was still complacent, the shopkeeper generously wiped off the change for her.
But Xiao Guo said very grandly.
"No, I'll collect a whole sum for you, just fifty taels, which will be regarded as the reward for your hard work these days."
Seeing Xiao Guo's grand appearance, the shopkeeper responded with a polite smile. "Okay, then fifty taels!"
The rest of the people in the inn also smiled and looked at Xiao Guo.
Xiao Guo felt something was wrong, but she still pretended to be calm and asked. "Then how much is my monthly salary?"
The shopkeeper smiled and held out two fingers. "Two coins!"
Xiao Guo was stunned for a moment after hearing this. She didn't realize how many months the fifty taels divided by two coins were. She subconsciously reached out and grabbed the abacus on the shopkeeper's desk.
The shopkeeper said with a smile. "Don't forget it, you will have to work for me for more than twenty years in total."
"Ha, I advise you to reconsider. It's still too late to regret it now." Lao Bai on the side also chuckled at this time.
After hearing Lao Bai's words, Xiao Guo stopped immediately. It was impossible for her to surrender.
"Twenty years is just twenty years, who is afraid of whom?"
Xiao Guo said bravely. In her heart, she could only hope that Xiao Qing would quickly get money from home to redeem her.
"Okay, okay, since Miss Guo has no objection, you will be the handyman in our store from today on. I will leave it to you to wash the dishes, sweep the floor, and wipe the tables." The shopkeeper interrupted the conversation between the two with a smile. The situation is tense.
"Besides, I'll start with my ugly words. No matter what your status was before, from now on you will be an ordinary employee in our store and you must abide by our store rules."
"What if you don't want to do it? That's fine, as long as you pay back the money you owe us. You can come and go freely, and no one will care about you. If you come to stay with us in the future, we will give you a 20% discount." The shopkeeper was very generous. said.
Listening to the shopkeeper's words, Xiao Guo couldn't refute. It is only natural to pay back debts. But she is not afraid, she believes that her father and mother will definitely bring money to ransom her.
Seeing that Xiao Guo had no objection, the shopkeeper said to Lao Bai.
"Zhantang, take Miss Guo to familiarize herself with her work. I'll go back to my room and have a rest first. Oops, I was really exhausted yesterday."
As she spoke, the shopkeeper stretched her still sore muscles.
"Okay, you can go and rest first. I'll leave this place to me first." Lao Bai also responded.
If the shopkeeper is the manager of Tongfu Inn, then Lao Bai is equivalent to her lobby manager.
"Here, here is the broom, here is the rag..."
After the shopkeeper left, Lao Bai unceremoniously asked Xiao Guo to do this, while he himself transformed into Zhou Bapi.
Xiao Guo looked at Lao Bai's bossy look and felt angry in her heart. However, she was now a handyman, and these were her jobs. Besides, Lao Bai's martial arts skills were higher than hers, so she didn't dare not do it.
But Xiao Guo, the eldest lady, looks spoiled at first glance and has never done any work at home. Lao Bai was speechless for a while as he was dragging his feet in doing all the work, but fortunately there were not many customers in the store at this time, so he could barely cope with it.
"You've been dragging your feet to work like this. Do you still want to eat at noon?"
Listening to Lao Bai's scolding, Xiao Guo was so angry that she wished she could fight Lao Bai on the spot.
The scholar at the counter looked at Xiao Guo and Lao Bai like this and shook his head helplessly.
And while Lao Bai was busy training Xiao Guo, Xiao Liu was also busy training his master.
It is said that after Xiao Liu showed Lao Xing thirty-six drawings of sword techniques, he told him the process of obtaining this martial arts. Lao Xing was so happy that he knelt down on the spot and knocked against the blue sky outside the door. Got several heads.
He was looking forward to the stars and the moon, hoping that God would open his eyes. Unexpectedly, God actually gave him a secret book.
At the same time, Lao Xing looked at Xiao Liu with a more kind look. He wished he could hug Xiao Liu and kiss her a few times. This Xiao Liu is simply his lucky star! On the first day, he helped him solve the problem of male and female evil spirits, and on the second day, he brought him a martial arts secret book like this.
Seeing his master's joyful expression, Xiaoliu was also very happy. Soon the master and the apprentice, who had guarded Yun Kai Jian Yueming, didn't even clean up the room, and directly took the sword and sword skills to yesterday's martial arts training ground. , couldn’t wait to start practicing.
At this time, Xiaoliu's advantage of photographic memory was revealed.
Since Xiao Liu had memorized all the sword skills deeply in his mind, Xiao Liu swung one sword after another without even looking at the drawings.
Soon a whole set of knife skills was taught to Xiao Liu.
At this time, Lao Xing was still studying the third picture attentively.
When Xiao Liu saw his master like this, he didn't care, but continued to focus on waving the sword.
Although he has never practiced martial arts, he also knows that fighting with others is not about each side using a sword technique. Whoever has a better sword technique will win.
But it's about life and death!
In the moment of life and death, no matter how fancy your sword skills are, it will be useless. At that time, the only sword skills that could kill people were good sword skills.
If you deliberately pursue the move, you will fall into the inferior position, because only when the right sword is used at the right time, it is a good sword.
The meaning of swordsmanship is not to let you memorize moves to fight with others, but to integrate these moves into your daily movements, so that every move of yours is full of changes in swordsmanship.
In the words of modern science, it is to let your body form the so-called muscle memory, so that as long as you draw and swing the sword, although it seems that you are not deliberately using the sword, in fact, all your sword moves are included in it. .
Only in this way can your body make a decision before your brain when engaging in a life-or-death duel with others.
And this is the so-called recruiting from nothing to having a move, and then from recruiting to nothing. Don't deliberately pursue the use of moves, just try to swing the most correct sword at the most correct moment.
For those who don’t know how to use swordsmanship, their moves are too straightforward and thin; for those who know how to use swordsmanship, their moves are too complicated and unrealistic; and only those who know how to move but forget to move can make the moves simple and complex. , truly understand the secret of the moves.
And to do this, it's easy!
That’s practice, practice hard!
Xiao Liu made up his mind that from now on he would practice a hundred times a day to develop his knife skills.
Xiao Liu waved the official sword in his hand. Every time he practiced, his sword skills became more proficient. Originally, when he started practicing, there would be occasional pauses, but when he waved it for the ninth time, his sword skills became more proficient. There is no longer any pause in the sword technique.
The sword technique is smooth and straight, and the sword moves are fierce and sharp. It is obvious that Xiao Liu has found the point of force of each move. Now he is dancing the sword, and the silver-white sword light is flying up and down. No one dares to come close within a three-meter radius. body.
Even Lao Xing, who was practicing the seventh form, was frightened by Xiao Liu's posture. He was afraid that Xiao Liu would accidentally cut him.
Seeing Xiao Liu mastering this set of sword skills so quickly, Lao Xing looked at the seventh drawing in his hand and couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face.
But at the same time, he was also happy for Xiao Liu, happy that such a martial arts training material was not destroyed in his hands.
"Ah!" Xiao Liu shouted and struck the wooden man beside him with his knife.
With a crisp sound of "Pa!", the entire left upper body of the wooden man flew out in unison.
Lao Xing couldn't help being shocked when he saw this. If this was to hit a person, it wouldn't be better to split the person in half on the spot.
With Xiao Liu's magical power and his sword skills, Lao Xing secretly thought in his heart that maybe Xiao Liu was more suitable to be a catcher than him.
After chopping, Xiao Liu put away the knife and stood up. He was breathing heavily. To be honest, he did it nine times in a row. Even a body like Xiao Liu's was a little bit too much. Especially the last time, he almost exhausted all his strength.
"Xiao Liu, are you okay?" Lao Xing on the side asked with concern when seeing Xiao Liu like this.
"Master, I'm fine." Xiao Liu took a breath and said slowly.
"It's okay, Xiao Liu, you have to remember that when practicing martial arts, you must not rush, but go step by step." Lao Xing quickly educated him. Although he didn't know martial arts, he loved to listen to martial arts, so he knew a lot about these principles.
"It's Master." Xiao Liu nodded and responded. He also understood these principles.
"By the way, Master, how are you practicing now?" Xiao Liu suddenly asked curiously. He had been concentrating on practicing his sword skills since the first time, so he didn't know which move Lao Xing had practiced.
"Ahem!" After hearing Xiao Liu's words, Lao Xing coughed twice and said unnaturally.
"Is this my master? My master is naturally a little better than you, but now, it's getting late. Let's go patrolling the streets first, and I'll show it to you when I'm free."
Hearing what Lao Xing said, Xiao Liu couldn't help but not know what it meant, but he also knew that he wanted to save face for his master.
"It's master!"
"What about this sword technique?" Lao Xing looked at Xiao Liu hesitantly.
To be honest, if he hadn't seen that Xiao Liu had such an outstanding martial arts talent, he would have put it away directly. But now that he knew that Xiao Liu had such an excellent martial arts talent, he hesitated. This secret book is much more useful in Xiao Liu's hands than in his hands.
But he didn't know that Xiao Liu had the ability to remember things with photographs, and this sword technique had already been imprinted in his mind.
"Master, of course you will keep this secret book. After you have mastered it, it will not be too late to teach it to Xiao Liu." Xiao Liu said modestly.
He doesn't dare to say that I have already mastered martial arts. Just keep this secret book yourself. That's not crazy, that's stupid!
"Okay, Xiao Liu, let's go. Master will take you to patrol the streets." Lao Xing was also very happy when he heard this. At the same time, he secretly made up his mind to fight at night and learn this sword technique. No matter what, he could not be beaten by his apprentice. fell.
