Tzu Zhan said to Qi, "Shanhe, you are going to suffer a little. With that, he lifted a bucket of boiling water and poured it on Yu Qi, and suddenly, Yu Qi became unrecognizable, and with a bang, he fell to the ground.

Ci Zhan moved Yu Qi to the meditation bed, took a broken mat and covered Yu Qi, then walked to the courtyard gate, opened the door, and chanted: Amitabha.

The door suddenly opened, and the Qing soldiers were startled and retreated. When he looked closely, it turned out to be an old monk with white hair, so he surrounded him again and asked, "Yu Qike is inside?"

Ci Zhan said: "In the quiet place of Buddhism, what is there in seven or eight?"

The Qing general said: "Don't talk nonsense, let me go in and search." "The Qing soldiers swarmed in.

The Qing soldiers who searched the meditation room shouted: There is someone here.

When the Qing generals heard this, they asked Ci Zhan sharply: "Old monk, who is inside?"

Ci Zhan said: "It is Shanhe, a disciple of Lao Gao, who has smallpox and will not live for a few days. ”

The Qing soldier ordered people to go in to have a look, and a Qing soldier walked in cautiously, opened the broken mat and saw that a pig-headed person was lying there, only the air coming in, not the air coming out. was so frightened that he hurriedly ran out and said, "It's not Yu Qi." It's a living dead. ”

After the Qing soldiers withdrew, Ci Zhan immediately wiped Yu Qi's whole body with medicine. Yu Qi slowly recovered under the conditioning of Ci Zhan.

After this catastrophe, Yu Qi escaped into the empty gate and devoted himself to cultivation. I don't know when, the incense of Huayan Temple slowly flourished, and there were more and more monks in the temple. Seeing that there were many disciples, Ci Zhan selected some young monks with good qualifications to teach Shaolin boxing.

During the day, Yu Qi watched the monks practice Shaolin boxing, and at night he couldn't stop itching, so he asked Ci Zhan to discuss boxing, Ci Zhan and Yu Qi compared and drew in the meditation room, and both of them made great progress in kung fu. Tzu Zhan said that this is a good practice of entering Zen with martial arts.

One day, Yu Qi was resting in the yard, and accidentally found that a praying mantis and a cicada were fighting in front of him, Yu Qi was interested, grabbed a few and put them in his room, carefully observed every action of the praying mantis catching cicadas, and studied them differentiated, and realized the five major tricks: light, fast, far, accurate, and ruthless. He kneaded the praying mantis's technique into Yu Jiatong's fist, and couldn't help but feel a sense of enlightenment.

Drawing on the offensive techniques of the praying mantis, Yu Qi's techniques were suddenly enriched, and he summarized these techniques as: hooking, building, picking, hanging, sticking, dipping, pasting, leaning, Diao, entering, collapsing, and playing the twelve-character formula. With these twelve characters as the leader, Yu Qi evolved a set of ingenious mantis boxing. Compared with the original general preparation boxing, the praying mantis boxing is more continuous offensive, the so-called "do not fight, a trick to hit, a few hits" is to talk about a series of attacks, with a chain of tightly linked techniques to the opponent, so that the enemy has no respite. At the same time, it pays attention to the side attack, the virtual and the real are mutual, the long and the short are both, the rigidity and softness are combined, and the hands and feet are used at the same time, which is even more elusive and unpredictable.

After Yu Qi figured out this set of boxing techniques, he tried his hand with Ci Zhan, Ci Zhan was unable to deal with it, and was shocked, and asked: "What kind of boxing method is this?" Yu Qi laughed and said, "Even if it's a praying mantis boxing." Ci Zhan was overjoyed, so he grinded all day with Qi, and modified some of the moves to make them more suitable for the needs of actual combat.

After the boxing method was formed, Yu Qi taught the monks to practice in the temple. Because the monks have Shaolin Kung Fu, Yu Qi taught them according to their aptitude on the basis of Shaolin Kung Fu, and formed the praying mantis boxing style of Huayan Temple. Therefore, the praying mantis boxing passed down by Huayan Temple has an external power of iron sand palm, and its internal strength is Arhat Gong. The mantis boxing practiced by Yu Qi himself is the mantis boxing based on Tongbei boxing, which is the Tongbei mantis boxing recorded in Yu Haodong's family boxing spectrum.

Hearing this, Cheng Yu suddenly realized that Yu Qi was his ancestor. He asked Yu Haodong, since Yu Qi became a monk in Huayan Temple, and the survivors of the Yu family were in Yu Ji Village, how did this boxing score reach Yu Ji Village?

Yu Haodong continued.

Back then, after Yu Defu and Mrs. Qi, Seventh Sister-in-law, and Yu Shoujing fled to Yuji Village, the Seventh Sister-in-law and others already brought some fine soft silver taels, and Yu Defu was good at farming, so the family life was worry-free. Yu Defu bought a maid for the old lady to reduce the burden of the seventh sister-in-law. Yu Shoujing studied in a private school, although Mrs. Qi said that the descendants of the Yu family would never become officials in the Qing Dynasty, but the book still had to be read well, and the context of the Han family could not be lost. Originally, this Yu Shoujing was weak, unlike his father and brother who liked to dance with guns and sticks, but he was good at dancing and writing with ink, so Yu Qi didn't like this little son very much. But after this baptism of blood, Mrs. Qi and her seventh sister-in-law both felt that on the contrary, a scholar like Shoujing could live a safe life, so after escaping to Yu Ji Village, they let Shoujing only read the books of sages. After a few years, under the Zhang Luo of the seventh sister-in-law, Yu Defu also married a daughter-in-law, and Yu Jizhai gradually showed a prosperous scene.

Only Mrs. Qi has been sick in bed.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, Mrs. Qi was lying on the bed gossiping with her seventh sister-in-law, and heard each other's maids in the courtyard shouting loudly: "You, a monk, have given you enough to eat, and you haven't gone away, but what are you doing sitting here?"

Mrs. Qi said to the seventh sister-in-law: "What is this girl shouting, daughter-in-law, go to the window and take a look." The seventh sister-in-law looked at the window and said, "Mother, it's a monk, sitting in our hall, I don't know why, the little maid wants to push him out." ”

Mrs. Qi said: "If he doesn't leave, he may still need some alms, see if there are any steamed buns in the kitchen, and then give him some steamed buns." ”

The seventh sister-in-law shouted to Shoujing: "Shoujing, you go to the kitchen and take some steamed buns for the monk." ”

Shoujing was reading in the opposite room, and when he heard the seventh sister-in-law calling him, he agreed: "Okay, mother." ”

At this time, the little maid suddenly found that the monk's eyes were moist. The monk stood up, untied a burden from his body, and whispered, "Give this burden to your mistress." With that, he walked away without looking back.

The little maid shouted, "Whoever wants your broken burden, take it away!"

Mrs. Qi pricked up her ears and said to the seventh sister-in-law, "Why do I sound like your man?" The seventh sister-in-law was also puzzled, and hurriedly ran out of the house, but the monk was nowhere to be seen.

At this time, Shoujing also came out with steamed buns. The little maid said: "This is the burden given by the monk, I don't know what is in it, it is dead and heavy." ”

The seventh sister-in-law and Shoujing opened the burden and were stunned, there was a gold ingot in the baggage, and there was a thread-bound book, which read: Tongbei Mantis Boxing Book.

When the seventh sister-in-law saw that this was not Yu Qi's handwriting, she shouted: "Mother, it's his father who has come back." He shouted and rushed out of the hospital like crazy.

The seventh sister-in-law ran along the village road to the single-plank bridgehead by the river, but saw that the single-plank was self-reliant and the flowing water was leisurely, where there was a shadow of Yu Qi.

The seventh sister-in-law sat on the ground and cried.

When the seventh sister-in-law returned home, she was stunned again, the old lady who had been bedridden for many years was standing at the gate.

The old lady was miraculously recovered.

That monk is indeed Yu Qi. At this time, Ci Zhan had passed away, and Yu Qi became the abbot. Before he died, Ci Zhan said to Qi: "Shanhe, you are not over." Take these and get rid of them. So saying, he took out a bag of gold from under the bed and placed it on the table. Then he bathed and changed his clothes, and sat down that night to go west.

This is the past when Yu Qi sneaked back to Yu Ji Village.

Yu Qi was dusty, and there was no hindrance, and he devoted himself to Buddhism, and lived until he was more than 100 years old before he sat down. So far, the tower courtyard on the west side of Laoshan Huayan Temple is still there, the tower courtyard is surrounded by a wall, it is the Tibetan bones of the abbot of the past dynasties in the temple. A seven-level brick tower in the courtyard is buried with the first generation of abbot Ci Zhan master, two cangs tightly wrap around the body of the tower, curvy and colorful, the name is "loose holding tower". A stone pagoda adjacent to the brick pagoda is the second generation abbot Shanhe's Round Death Pagoda.

This is how the Mantis Boxing Spectrum was transmitted to Yu Ji Village. Yu Haodong said that Tongbei mantis boxing was passed down in Yu Ji Village, mainly relying on the inheritance of Defu. Because Yu Shoujing was not good at martial arts, Mrs. Qi gave Yu Defu the boxing score and asked Yu Defu to practice according to the score. Yu Defu had already learned Yu Jiatong Beiquan from Yu Qi, and with his innate enlightenment, he quickly mastered the mystery of the Tongbei Praying Mantis. Tongbei Mantis Boxing was passed down in Yu Ji Village.

"Cheng Yu, you used to learn all the general preparation boxing of the Yu family. From today on, I will teach you Tongbei Mantis Boxing, you are the eleventh generation descendant of Tongbei Mantis Boxing. Kneel down and pick up the punch. Yu Haodong held up his fist with both hands and said to Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed three times to the portrait of Yu Qi, and took the fist book with both hands.

After a few days, Cheng Yu lived in Yu Haodong's house, and learned to prepare mantis boxing with Yu Haodong, and the more he learned, the more he felt that the mystery was endless.

It seems to have become a habit, and every day before going to bed, Cheng Yu carefully opened the yellowed boxing book and studied it carefully. Especially the first page of the book to his disciples written by Master Zu, every time he reads it, Cheng Yu has many insights.

Master Zu wrote: All my disciples must seriously understand the word forbearance. A ninja can endure the unbearable things in the world, and he is a true husband. It is true that if you can endure it, you can endure it, and you don't have to endure it when you can't bear it. Forbearance is to keep upright, not to bend. Because of the uprightness and righteousness, the evil does not dare to invade. Hermit, the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail. Able to endure, and good at concealment, the way of self-cultivation of martial artists. However, practicing martial arts all day long is only for the old man to die between the old and the dead? As the ancients said, it is insignificant for the heroes to violate the ban with martial arts; cultivating a righteous spirit, helping the weak and eliminating evil, and conforming to the law are the avenues of martial artists!

Looking at it, Cheng Yu couldn't help but see the image of Master Zu wielding a big knife galloping across the field. After Yu Qi heard the familiar voices of his mother, wife and children, the situation of leaving Yu Ji Village with tears in his eyes also appeared repeatedly in Cheng Yu's mind. The man has tears and does not flick, Cheng Yu can imagine that after the ancestor finished writing the boxing book, he thought about it repeatedly, and wrote this letter to his disciples on the homepage.

Reading Master Zu's letter to his disciples, Cheng Yu also found the reason why he was no longer happy after graduation. He took the first place in the public examination, but was replaced by Wang Ji's three indiscriminate methods, and he was handcuffed in the bar when he was justified. Why is this happening? After this kind of thing happens, I will only deal with it in a worldly way of thinking, instead of "forbearance is to keep upright, not to bend," as the ancestor said. Because of the uprightness and righteousness, the evil does not dare to invade. "It's because I have lost myself because I have gone with the flow, so I am always unhappy.

"Cultivating a righteous body, helping the weak and eliminating evil and conforming to the law is the avenue of martial arts!" Thinking of this, Cheng Yu turned over and got out of bed, quietly came to the courtyard, and practiced boxing in the moonlight. He felt that today's punches were particularly relaxed and natural, and his whole body seemed to be bathed in moonlight, as if his soul was out of his body, and there was nothing in front of him. The feeling of being relieved to the end as the master said before was suddenly found.

The next day, when Cheng Yu practiced again to show Yu Haodong, although he was not as dedicated to practicing last night, he had already taken a big step. Yu Haodong was very pleased and continued to teach the following boxing techniques.

At noon, when Yu Fang came to deliver lunch, she told Yu Haodong and Cheng Yu that her grandmother had finally agreed to go back to the city with them. Yu Haodong said: "That's fine, after all, the conditions in the city are better, and it is easy to take care of them by living together." ”

Cheng Yu said: "Then we can't take the bus when we go back, I'll find my buddy and let his BMW run." ”

Yu Fang said: "This is the best. I was going to call a taxi. ”

Yu Haodong said: "Time flies so fast. I didn't expect ten days to pass so quickly. I think Cheng Yu's kung fu has almost learned, so you can prepare to go back to the city tomorrow. ”

Yu Fang said, "Just do it." Cheng Yu, can you ask your classmate if he can come and pick us up tomorrow morning?"

Cheng Yu immediately called Li Quan. Li Quan said: "My brother, it's right to find me about this matter, and I'll see you on time at ten o'clock tomorrow." ”

That night, Yu Fang made a table of dishes, invited Yu Haodong over, and everyone had a reunion dinner together. After the meal, several people talked for a while.

By this time, the moon had risen in mid-air, and the courtyard seemed to be sprinkled with mercury. Yu Haodong said to Cheng Yu: "Your work has made great progress. But your fist style is more than light and not powerful enough, if you want to go to the next level, you must work fast accuracy. Considering your scholarly personality, if you want to practice quickly, I have a way, I don't know if you dare to give it a try?"

When Cheng Yu heard this, he immediately said: "The problem that my uncle said is also where my distress lies. It would be great if my uncle could find a way to improve it. ”

Yu Haodong said: "Okay, if you dare to try, let's leave now." ”

Cheng Yu got up and followed Yu Haodong out of the courtyard gate, at this time the moon was in the sky, and the village was silent. The two of them hurried out of the village.