Chapter 1 The Leper Monk and the Urban Boy
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As soon as the day dawned, the early risers had already stepped out of their homes to start a new day.
On the side of the road leading to the Old Town neighborhood. A teenager in sportswear is jogging in the morning with light steps.
The teenager's name is Liu Cheng, nineteen years old this year, he repeated his studies in the city's No. 5 Middle School after failing the college entrance examination, and he is going to take the college entrance examination again this year.
Liu Cheng's home is in the old town of the "small city", and he lives in an old-fashioned bungalow of tens of square meters. Liu's father is an ordinary clerk of the enterprise, and after Liu's mother was laid off, he was introduced to become a ticket seller at the city zoo. The Liu family belongs to the kind of ordinary people whose family background is average, not good, and not very bad.
At this time, it was the early morning of the day, and the sky had just dawned. The street lights on the road were not extinguished, and the road that had just rained was drenched, but Liu Cheng's running footprints were not messy at all. Liu Cheng has insisted on exercising since four years ago, and he has hardly been lazy.
Because Liu Cheng has been weak since he was a child, he often gets sick, which makes his parents worry a lot. When he was fifteen years old, he was also held back by his sports results, which affected his further education. In the summer of that year, an old monk with a leper head who was begging for food came to the community and happened to see Liu Cheng.
The old monk said that Liu Cheng was naturally lacking in qi and blood, but there was an ancient recipe that could cure the disease. Liu's father and Liu's mother also went to the doctor in a hurry, spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy this ancient prescription, and also took the old monk to live at home for a few months, which caused a lot of eyes from the neighbors.
The old monk was also generous, during which he taught Liu Cheng a lot of boxing techniques to strengthen his body, but he never came back after leaving. It's also amazing to say, Liu Cheng followed the old monk to learn a rough idea, and his body really improved.
Since then, Liu Cheng has become more and more fond of exercising, and has been persisting since he was in high school, and his health has been getting better and better. However, the transfer of interest also made Liu Cheng, who had good grades since childhood, taste the consequences, and his performance in the college entrance examination was abnormal, so he did not get into the first one.
So after repeating the study in the following year, Liu Cheng also paid a lot of attention and refocused his attention on studying.
By the time the street lights were completely extinguished, it was already half past six in the morning.
After Liu Cheng finished his morning run, he returned home. At this time, his parents had just gotten up, washing and dressing and preparing to go to work, and told Liu Cheng to go to school on time and not to delay the exam. Liu Cheng also agreed and returned to his room.
Closing the door, Liu Cheng took off his clothes and pants a few times, and then dragged out a porcelain jar from under the bed. Scrape some amber ointment out of it with your fingers and put it in a glass of poured medicinal wine to dissolve. After a while, the room was filled with a strong smell of Chinese medicine.
Liu Cheng slowly poured this cup of medicinal wine into his Tiangai Spirit, and then wiped it all over his head, face, body, limbs, and whole body with his hands. After exercising, the pores of his body were very open, and Liu Cheng's body was boiled red by medicinal wine after a while, like a ripe prawn.
Immediately taking advantage of this medicinal strength, Liu Cheng swallowed the remaining small half cup of medicinal wine into his throat, and then propped his hands on the ground and made a push-up position.
It's just that his body didn't move, and he supported it quietly for about half an hour, until the flushing on his body slowly faded. Liu Cheng stood up at this time, did not take a bath, but changed into a set of clean school uniforms, and slowly stumbled at home for a while, seeing that it was already past seven o'clock, then he picked up his schoolbag and went to school.
The No. 5 Middle School in the city is not far from Liu Cheng's house, about a few stops away. The school starts at eight o'clock every day, and Liu Cheng rides a bicycle, arriving neither early nor late. Liu Cheng is a repeat student, sitting in the corner of the last row of the classroom, no classmates in the class pay attention to him, and the teacher doesn't care, Liu Cheng is happy to be idle and lives in his own world every day.
When interest came, Liu Cheng listened to some lectures and took notes. When I was not interested, I pondered the boxing that the old monk taught me. In the first few months, Liu Cheng only learned a rough idea, and then slowly tasted it, but the more he practiced, the more flavorful he became.
After school in the afternoon, the junior high school students have to study on their own in the evening. However, as a repeat student, Liu Cheng did not have this constraint, and packed his schoolbag and left the school early. But instead of going straight home, he cycled to a health club in the new town.
"Yo, Liu Cheng still came so early. Aren't you going to take the college entrance examination and don't study at night?" Liu Cheng had just come to the door of the sports field on the third floor, and a young man in his twenties patted him on the shoulder. Liu Cheng's dull complexion also stretched a lot, and said with a smile: "Come and see the old classmates, it's much more interesting than studying." ”
Liu Cheng may be due to his parents' genetics, although he exercises diligently, his physique still looks thin, and he is only more than 1.7 meters tall. And this young man is more than half a head taller than Liu Cheng, born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, full of manliness, and the atmosphere of this fitness center is very compatible. His name is Wu Chaofan, and he is an old classmate of high school who failed in the college entrance examination with Liu Cheng, and he is also the young owner of this fitness hospital.
However, because of the way at home, Wu Chaofan is already a serious college student, and he is not the same as a repeater like Liu Cheng.
Seeing his old classmates, Liu Cheng looked much more relaxed and entered the training ground with Wu Chaofan.
The training ground is large, supplemented by carpets, and surrounded by many instructors and students. The most striking thing is naturally the young people who hit the sandbags, giving people a feeling of courage and blood. Wu Chaofan's fitness home is much more advanced than ordinary fitness centers, you can learn fighting, and there are even special coaches and sparring partners.
With Liu Cheng's family background, it is naturally impossible for him to come here to consume. He's a sparring partner, and he's here to work.
It was also an accident that Liu Cheng would come here to work. Because in addition to passing on to him the old monk piles and potions, there is also a link called Pai Da. Liu Cheng's family did not have this condition, so he simply had an idea and applied for a fight partner in this club. The sparring partner wears protective gear, which has a certain protection for the body, and the opponent who practices fighting is also a person of a certain level.
And the pay for this job is not low, 20 yuan per hour for the sparring partner in the children's group, 50 yuan per hour in the youth group, and 100 yuan per hour in the adult group.
Liu Cheng was recruited here in his sophomore year of high school and became a sparring partner in the children's group. Because of his flexible response, strong learning ability, and high ability to resist blows, it only took one year to pass the assessment and enter the youth group. After more than a year, he is now a sparring partner in the adult group, earning a considerable amount of 100 yuan per hour.
Changing into sports shorts and a vest, Liu Cheng moved his body, rubbed his head and face with both hands, and then slapped his chest and back, arms and legs, reactivating the medicinal energy in his body. After a while, Liu Cheng's body seemed to be smeared with olive oil, and it was coated with a healthy layer of wheat-colored luster. Putting on his protective gear and braces, he began to "face" his first opponent of the day under the guidance of his coach.
Wu Chaofan was also playing a sandbag in a corner, looking back at Liu Cheng from time to time. About ten minutes later, the student who beat people was already tired and lay down, and Liu Cheng was still alive and well, "confronting" the next opponent according to the coach's requirements. You must know that most of the sparring partners can only dodge and defend, and the physical exertion is much greater than that of regular students, but Liu Cheng can hold on for several hours.
This made the other sparring partners look envious. With Liu Cheng here, the business of this club has gone a lot smoother.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, the club closed, and the coaches and students packed up their things in twos and threes, ready to go home. The cleaning aunt turned off the headlights and began to clean, and Liu Cheng and other seven or eight sparring partners also took off their protective gear, wiped their sweat, and went to the manager to receive today's salary. Sparring is hard work, and the salary is paid daily.
With the 300 yuan ticket in his hand, Liu Cheng felt very satisfied. The family environment is very ordinary, and if a poor student like him wants to have enough money, he can only earn some pocket money by working on his own. Just as Liu Cheng had put on his school uniform again, said hello to Wu Chaofan and was about to leave, Wu Chaofan stopped him.
"Liu Cheng, your state is getting better and better. It's a pity that you are a sparring partner, and you only get beaten and don't fight back, otherwise I really want to see how you punch. ”
"Come on, Shaodong, the boxers here are all top-notch, and I'm very content to be a sparring partner. You, don't fire me. Liu Cheng smiled and patted Wu Chaofan's arm affectionately, and Wu Chaofan also smiled and nodded. "Don't worry, as long as you don't leave by yourself, I will definitely be reluctant to let you go here. ”
"Then I'll go home. Bye-bye!"
"Bye. ”
After Liu Cheng said goodbye to Wu Chaofan, he came to the parking lot to launch his bicycle and sped towards the old city. Wu Chaofan also got into the car and drove out of the parking lot, when the middle-aged man sitting in the co-pilot asked, "Chaofan, he still doesn't want to try?"
This middle-aged man is the club's head coach and a partner of Wu Chaofan's father.
"Everyone has their own ambitions, and I don't want to embarrass my old classmates. Wu Chaofan drove calmly and drove towards the garden community in the new city.
"But talent is rare. I teach those young people to fight every day, but none of them can compare to Liu Cheng as a sparring partner! If he can go on stage......" The middle-aged man said slowly, making Wu Chaofan also look fascinated, but in the end he still sighed.
"Look at him this college entrance examination. If he fails, I can persuade him again. ”
When Liu Cheng returned home in the evening, it was already eleven o'clock.
Liu's father and Liu's mother are both people who live very regularly and have fallen asleep early. Liu Cheng locked the bicycle outside the room, did not disturb his parents, and after returning home, he went into the bathroom and began to take a shower. However, after leaving the club, Liu Cheng's people seemed to be much duller again, standing in the hot water shower, just closing his eyes and pressing his head against the tiles on the wall.
After the wheat-colored sebum was washed away by the shower gel, Liu Cheng's skin returned to whiteness, and his slender body looked a little strange in the hazy moisture. He raised his head and glanced at the boy in the bath mirror, although he deliberately cut a hedgehog-like head in order to pursue individuality, he was a teenager, and his face was also covered with pimples, covering up his original appearance. However, between the eyebrows and facial features, there is always a little less masculinity.
Liu Cheng grabbed a handful of water with some irritability and wet the bath goggles.
After drying himself and putting on his slightly loose pajamas, Liu Cheng returned to his room and turned on the computer. On the search page, several common link prompts appeared again: Fighting, Football, NBA, Starting Point Chinese Network, Japanese Women's Special Troupe...... At the end, there is also a "hermaphroditism". These links are not set by the user, but are automatically generated by the computer based on the frequency of searches.
Liu Cheng deleted the last link, and then slammed the mouse hard. After the development of the Internet, Liu Cheng seemed to know that he had been in poor health since he was a child, what was the reason, he searched the web randomly, and he glanced back at the string of small Buddha beads hanging on the bedside from time to time. This was given to him by the leper master at the beginning, but unfortunately the old monk never came back in the past four years.
"Alas......" Liu Cheng sighed lightly and buried his head on the computer desk.