Chapter 9

After dinner, Wu Ma cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. Zhou Tiezhu went back to the blacksmith's workshop and looked at the stove and tools. On weekdays, Zhou Tiezhu lived upstairs in the blacksmith's workshop. Yan Dechang said he would go out and change his clothes. He went directly to the backyard to pull out the rhinoceros horse, put on the saddle, rode out the door, and didn't say what he was going to do. Yan Liqiang was the only one left at home, Yan Liqiang was idle at home all of a sudden.

In the past, he didn't have free time. During the period from dinner to bed, except for the time to eat, he basically practiced in his backyard. Yan Dechang would stand by and personally supervise Yan Liqiang. He never relaxed for a day.

Yan Liqiang's thin reputation among the teenagers in Liuhe Town is all his sweat over the years. He is not lucky.

Yan Liqiang's front yard is beside the Liuhe river. There is a water hammer machine tool powered by water in the blacksmith workshop, while Yan Liqiang's backyard is opposite to the front yard. Outside the backyard is a bamboo forest, which is very quiet.

The stable and forage room are under two tile roofed houses in the backyard. There is a peach tree in the backyard. Under the peach tree, there is a weapon rack. On the weapon rack, there are four weapons: the stick is the ancestor of a hundred soldiers, the sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, the sword is the courage of a hundred soldiers, and the gun is the king of a hundred soldiers. These are the four most common weapons and the four weapons that are most used and can kill people, For more than 90% of martial arts learners, their major weapons are basically one of these four kinds. To put it in more detail, because sticks are not very lethal, and not many people use sticks. Most of them major in three kinds of weapons: knives, guns and swords.

The so-called moon stick and year knife are guns for a lifetime. Guns are the most difficult to cultivate among the four weapons. Therefore, relatively speaking, fewer people cultivate guns than swords.

But Yan Liqiang majored in guns.

This was not Yan Liqiang's choice, but Yan Dechang had chosen it for him when he began to practice martial arts. Yan Liqiang didn't know why Yan Dechang, who didn't understand martial arts, chose such a difficult path for him. Over the years, Yan Liqiang has been practicing guns and basic skills of guns.

Not far from the weapon rack, there is a rack. Under one of the racks, a row of iron beads with the size of eggs are tied with a rope. This is the prop for Yan Liqiang to practice his gun. The row of iron beads is coated with phosphor, so it can be seen not only in the daytime, but also in the evening. The row of iron beads is green in the moonlight. It is very eye-catching and can also be trained.

The basic skills of marksmanship are three words: stop, take and stab - stop the gun, take the gun, stab the gun, stop is defense, take is hard work, stab is attack!

Yan Liqiang has practiced three simple words and three basic movements for eight years, but he can't even get started.

Because Yan Liqiang has not built a foundation and is not a real warrior, practicing these things can only be regarded as practicing a shelf and appearance. In this era, a person does not build a foundation and become a real warrior. No matter how hard he tries, he does not really master a kung fu.

Like today, he was beaten down from the challenge arena by Hong Tao with iron sand palm. To tell the truth, Yan Liqiang really didn't expect Hong Tao to practice iron sand palm at this time, because Hong Tao, like him, hasn't built a foundation and is not a warrior. Iron sand palm needs a lot of time to practice. It's unwise to spend a lot of time on these external Kung Fu at this time. As the saying goes, practice Kung Fu first, If you practice boxing again, you'll get nowhere if you don't practice Kung Fu. Boxing is external and Kung Fu is internal. If you don't practice Kung Fu, you have to build a foundation. Although these external skills look powerful now, they only show off for a while. In the end, they are a mirror, a water and a moon. It's hard to last long, and it's impossible to enter the house.

The time for a person to build a foundation is limited. God doesn't give you too much time to waste. Basically, if a person hasn't built a foundation before the age of 25, his hope of building a foundation in his life is very slim, that is, he has no hope of advanced warrior in his life. Just like Yan Dechang's Apprentice Zhou Tiezhu, when he was twenty-five years old, he was still far from building the foundation. He completely lost the possibility of building the foundation and came to learn a survival skill with Yan Dechang.

In the last life on earth, samurai seemed to be everywhere. Many people call themselves Samurai as long as they casually practice fighting for a few years, be strong, hang a knife on their body and dare to kill people. Such samurai, by the standards of the world, is completely nonsense.

The standard of becoming a samurai in the world must be to build a foundation, but to build a foundation, you have to pass three levels. These three levels are more difficult than one level. Each level has a very objective and verifiable standard. Only those who pass these three levels and complete the foundation building are qualified to call themselves samurai. Only martial arts can really cultivate all kinds of Kung Fu and combat skills to a high level.

Yan Liqiang has been practicing martial arts since childhood. He has been sweating in this small courtyard every day, but he has not even passed the first of these three levels.

The first of these three levels is Zha Ma Bu, which is the basic skill that any martial artist must pass.

Zama step seems simple, everyone can, but in fact, there may not be one in 100 people who can pass this level.

What is a pass? You must combine your waist with your horse, put your whole body out from your feet, and tie a horse under your body before you pass. As long as you pass this level, if you really want to fight with boxing and foot Kung Fu, a person can get away from most people with one gear and ten.

In order to let Yan Liqiang pass this level, Yan Dechang spent a lot of money to buy a rhinoceros horse. The rhinoceros horse is kept at home, not only to let Yan Liqiang learn riding, but also to let Yan Liqiang experience the great power of the unity of man and horse when he punches and shoots when he learns riding.

When a person who really passes the horse step makes a fist, it is like riding a horse under his body. The strength of his feet, thighs, waist and back can be transmitted to his fist. Such a fist can easily crush ordinary people. There is a saying that the arm can't twist the thigh. Think about the comparison of the strength of the muscles on a person's arm and thigh, you can know how big the strength gap between the two is.

Ordinary people use the strength of their arms to punch people. Further, they can use the strength of their chest and back muscles. Professional boxers on earth can use part of their waist strength, but the sign of the success of the horse step can make you use the strength of your toes. That's why all martial arts practitioners regard the horse step as a basic skill. The horse step is well tied, Even if a person stands on the ground, he doesn't move like riding a horse.

Yan Liqiang didn't understand these principles on earth before, but everyone knows them in this world.

But knowing is not equal to being able to do it. Just as almost every high school student on earth knows that the atomic bomb comes from Einstein's mass energy equation, even if he knows the mass energy equation, it is not possible that everyone can build an atomic bomb.

As an ordinary blacksmith, Yan Dechang can only do his best to help Yan Liqiang pass the pass. He doesn't know the secret and can't afford a famous teacher to teach Yan Liqiang, just like most parents who want to succeed, Yan Dechang can only buy Yan Liqiang a rhinoceros horse according to the popular experience, so that Yan Liqiang can experience the mystery of horse steps after learning riding.

In this world, those real skills, those esoteric secrets and knowledge related to Kung Fu and martial arts are very, very expensive. Like the high-value patents of the commercial society on earth, those knowledge and skills are not owned by ordinary people. They are exclusive to a few people. Only real rich families have the confidence and resources to invite famous teachers, not to mention anything else, With the strength of the Hong family in Liuhe Town, the Hong family has no confidence and resources to invite any famous teachers.

Real masters are at least warrior accomplishments. They have skills, secrets and are willing to teach people.

Yan Liqiang knows that there are almost no such people in Qinghe County. There are two in Pingxi county. One lives in the county city of Pingxi county. His surname is song. He teaches Ma bu. After ten years of hard training, almost one-third of the people can pass the basic level of Ma bu.

Yan Liqiang's father naturally wanted to send Yan Liqiang to school, but he couldn't afford to worship the teacher Xie Yi. He wanted to worship the man surnamed song as a teacher. He wanted at least one hundred liang of gold and never bargain. All the property of the Yan family, including the blacksmith's workshop, is worth at most twenty liang of gold.

If there is no gold and silver on the ground, how can you learn real skills.

The kind of thing that you can only see in the earth's film and television dramas when you take a basket of eggs, cut a little pork and take two bottles of wine to worship your master and learn your skills. As for the kind of film and television dramas on earth, you can practice your martial arts skills when you worship your master and teach you martial arts secrets for free, Shifu and Shiniang also gave birth to a beautiful younger martial sister to soak for you, which is a plot that can't appear in a dream. Yue buqun in Jin Yong's novels will be born in the silver continent, which can simply become a worshipful * * level character.

The reason why the national martial arts County examination is so important is that the outstanding people in the county examination can have the opportunity to enter the National Martial Arts Museum at the county level to learn skills. The apprenticeship qualification of the National Martial Arts Museum at the county level is almost the only way for ordinary people to hope to learn some real skills, so as to advance to a warrior. Its gold content is naturally self-evident.

The reason why everyone in the world wants to build a foundation and succeed in becoming a warrior is that a warrior is not only a title, but also a privileged class that can completely surpass the ordinary class. Becoming a warrior means that he has become a member of the noble family, has the hope and ladder of prosperity, and is a person of people wherever he goes.

In ancient China, there was a saying that all things are inferior, only reading is high, but in this world, all things are inferior, only practicing martial arts is high.

The only reason why the Hong family in Liuhe Town is so powerful is that Hong Tao's great grandfather, that is, Hong Tao's father's grandfather, was the only warrior in Liuhe Town. Based on this, Hong Tao's great grandfather earned a huge fortune for the Hong family in Liuhe Town - dozens of shops and seven or eight oil rice workshops in Liuhe Town, There are also thousands of mu of good farmland in the town, which are the property of the Hong family. Thanks to one person, Fuyin's descendants have three generations

Thinking of this, Yan Liqiang suddenly understood the situation of the Hong family.

There have been no warriors in the Hong family for three generations. The old saying in the silver mainland says that the samurai Ze III was killed. The Hong family now looks beautiful, but the heart of the Hong family owner, that is, Grandpa Hong Tao, may have been full of a sense of crisis. Hong Tao is the only candidate among the young generation of the Hong family who still has hope for advanced warriors, so this time, the Hong family spared no effort in the county examination, Get angry in a hurry.

Hong Tao's becoming a warrior is naturally the most ideal result for the Hong family, but even if Hong Tao can't become a warrior, as long as no one in Liuhe Town can become a warrior in Hong Tao's generation, the position of the Hong family in Liuhe Town is still unbreakable, and no one can challenge, the Hong family can still continue to survive and place their hope in the future. Therefore, making Hong Tao a warrior is the primary goal of the Hong family, and making himself a warrior is the minimum goal of the Hong family. Thinking of everything he encountered in the challenge arena today, the ice ant, and the nervous look when Qi Dong came to see him, Yan Liqiang suddenly figured out everything. Qi Donglai's family is also an ordinary family in Liuhe Town. It's really mean! Yan Liqiang learned a truth from his previous life. When facing a problem, you can't escape. The problems that come for you are what you are destined to face. If you escape and retreat, the problems that come for you will not disappear. It will only change its face and continue to point at you, In the end, you will find that your space will be smaller and narrower until you can't retreat. In the face of a problem, either you defeat it or you are defeated by it. There is never a third way. Well, since God made himself a man for two generations, he also arranged to be born in such a magical world and choose such a road for himself, then he will live a vigorous life, go down this road resolutely, see what the scenery along the road is different, and see where he can go in the end. Suddenly he understood the plan of the Hong family and thought of his injury. Yan Liqiang's heart suddenly filled with infinite fighting spirit, and the whole person completely integrated into his current role“ If you don't struggle, what's the difference with salted fish... "In the moonlight, looking at the quiet backyard, Yan Liqiang said to himself with a smile on his face..... Yan Dechang rode out of the door on a rhinoceros dragon horse and didn't get home until nearly early in the morning. Hearing the sound in the backyard, Yan Liqiang hurried out of the house. What he saw was Yan Dechang with a tired face and a rhinoceros horse with a loud nose. Yan Liqiang hurried forward to unload the saddle and lantern of the rhinoceros horse, moved the rhinoceros horse to the stable, and added the essence mixed with distiller's grains to the stable. Then he returned to the room to see Yan Dechang“ You will leave Liuhe Town and Qinghe County tomorrow! " Yan Dechang sat on the wooden chair, wiping his face with the basin and wet towel sent by Wu Ma, and said solemnly to Yan Liqiang. Yan Liqiang was surprised, "ah, I don't know where my father wants me to go?"“ When I went to Huanglong County, I had a good friend in Huanglong county. When you went to Huanglong County, he would take care of you. Don't worry. There, you can rest assured and recover from your injury until you are well... "Yan Dechang said this, Yan Liqiang understood. His father Yan Dechang also saw the threat of the Hong family to himself, especially when he was hurt by Hong Tao in the challenge arena today, He is worried about what the Hong family will do to him. Just in case, he doesn't want to stay in Liuhe Town. Liuhe Town is almost the territory of the Hong family. He wants to go out and leave Liuhe Town temporarily. It's called recuperation, but it's actually to avoid disaster. Yan Liqiang was silent and nodded, "everything is arranged by your father!"“ Well, it's getting late. Go and have a rest after you incense your mother's holy throne... "Hmm!" This novel has been translated by www.novelhall.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation.