Chapter 296: Hometown
"Why haven't I heard you say that grandpa practiced martial arts when he was young?"
Li Xing's eyes were puzzled.
His grandfather died very early, and died of a vicious illness the year after he was born, and there was no Li Keran at that time.
Therefore, Li Xing's memory of his grandfather, except for the old black and white photo on the spiritual seat of his hometown, has no superfluous impressions.
"yes, I haven't heard of it either. Li Keran also said curiously.
"It's still when he was young, and it is said that he was taught a few hands by the master of the martial arts hall...... I don't know much. ”
Lin Wenxiu pestle the chopsticks and recalled for a moment.
"But your grandfather does have real kung fu, and I saw him smash ten bricks with one palm......
It's a pity that I suddenly got esophageal cancer later, and I didn't have the money to see this serious disease in those years, and I was skinny when I died......
If it were placed today, it would not be ...... Alas, such a good person is just as ...... as your father"
As he spoke, Lin Wenxiu's voice brought a crying sound, put down his chopsticks, held his face with both hands and began to cry.
"Mom, why do you think about those sad things...... Don't cry. Li Keran was anxious, and hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks to appease Lin Wenxiu.
It's just that she herself cried, tears flashed in her eyes, and soon she cried together, and the mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried.
Faced with this scene, Li Xing showed a rare helplessness, he was not good at comforting others, whether it was in the past or now.
He could only comfort the big and the small in vain with his clumsy verbal skills.
It really shouldn't have been so simple to kill Gu Dayong at the beginning!
The nameless fire in Li Xing's heart, which had been silent for a long time, burst out again.
Fortunately, the mother and daughter didn't last long, and they quickly eased up, which made him immediately relieved.
It's just that after such a show, the next dinner has no appetite, and the two of them barely ate the rice in the bowl with red eyes, and then they didn't eat it again.
In the end, Li Xing swept the table full of soup and vegetables into his stomach, and after scrambling to wash the pots and dishes, he watched TV and chatted with them for a while, and then went back to the room to rest.
As for the martial arts practiced by his grandfather, Li Xing didn't mention it again, let alone pay too much attention to it.
Don't think about the secret books of magic or anything, those big sects are more important than life, and there is no possibility of spreading it at all.
Combined with the chaotic era when his grandfather was young, it was basically the widely spread hard qigong and other kung fu.
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Silent late night.
In the living room, a young man is sitting on the sofa drinking and watching a ball game being broadcast on TV.
There were no additional lights in the room, only the glow of the screen flashing on his face, and he poured sip after sip of beer.
Just when he saw the excitement.
"Rustle...... Rustle......"
The screen flickered violently, turning into a blur of snowflakes, and the broadcast of the ball game was no longer visible.
"it?" the young man's eyes widened suddenly.
"Why is there no signal all of a sudden?"
He grabbed the remote control he had thrown aside and pressed it twice the TV.
After a few moments, the screen reappeared.
"Rustle...... Sponsored by a large corporation led by Longming Group...... Rustling...... There is no threshold for registration...... Rustle......"
The game turned into an advertisement, and the screen was still flickering and unstable.
Syllable!
He angrily threw the remote control in his hand to the ground, which reverberated clearly in the quiet night.
"Damn! It's okay to insert so many advertisements, even the TV signal is so bad! Sure enough, you shouldn't go back to this broken place in the countryside on vacation. ”
The young man was indignant.
He picked up the remote control that had fallen to the ground and pressed the power button on the TV.
But after pressing the screen a few times in a row, the screen remains unchanged, and it turns out that the remote control has been smashed just now.
The young man was even more annoyed, and cursed fiercely.
He got up and left the couch, ready to go and turn off the TV.
That's when it happened.
"Knock, knock. There was a knock on the door.
The young man was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at his watch.
It was 11:20 p.m.
Who's going to knock on the door in the middle of the night? And it's this kind of country place?
Is it a thief? knock on the door to confirm that the owner is not at home?
Thinking of this, the young man immediately became nervous.
"Who?"
He deliberately shouted loudly, both to confirm the identity of the outsider and to wake up his parents, who were already asleep upstairs.
"It's me...... Can you open the door? A slightly timid voice rang out.
After hearing this voice, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and the panic on his face dissipated.
He walked briskly towards the door, and pressed his hand on it as he passed the wall switch.
There was a "click", but the lights did not turn on, and the living room was still dim, only the faint light brought by the violently flickering TV screen.
"What the hell?" the young man frowned and looked at the lamp on the ceiling, but he didn't bother to look closely, and quickly withdrew his gaze and walked to the door.
Unlocking the locks of the door, he opened the door, and in the open space in front of the door, a slender white figure was standing in the moonlight, quietly watching him.
It was a thin girl, very beautiful, wearing a white dress, and her face was also pale, and she looked particularly haggard.
"Wenwen...... What are you doing here. ”
The young man looked at the girl, and with excitement, his eyes inadvertently swept over her delicate curves, and his Adam's apple squirmed vigorously.
"I'm so cold......"
The girl rubbed her smooth and slender arms, looked at him and muttered, "I want to ask you to borrow something......"
"What do you want to borrow, you tell me directly. The young man's heart was even more excited, and he took a few steps forward and walked to the girl's side.
"Your heart ......"
When the young man heard this, his face was suddenly ecstatic, and his heart was pounding, and he felt as if he was about to jump out of his chest.
Then the next moment he realized that it was not a feeling, but really left his chest.
"Thank you. ”
The girl kissed him lightly on his pale face, and then turned away, and the original pure white dress was dyed with plum blossoms.
The young man looked at the girl's back as she faded away, slowly lowered his head, and looked into his heart.
I saw a big hole in his left chest, and the blood hole was originally the location of the heart, but it was empty at the moment.
His heart was borrowed.
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Originally, Li Xingdu had already left his grandfather's boxing book behind, but what he didn't expect was that Lin Wenxiu took this matter to heart.
Early the next morning.
"Go back to your hometown today?" Li Xing wondered.
"Yes, go back and find those boxing books, and clean up the house by the way. ”
Lin Wenxiu packed up his things and said: "I haven't been back for a long time, and the house must be full of floating ash, so it's time to go back and clean up." ”
"It's rare to take a long vacation, so take the opportunity to rest and rest. Li Xing persuaded her.
Lin Wenxiu shook his head and said: "Mom is not in the workshop now, I sit in the office every day, there are two days off every week, and I am usually very idle from nine to five in the morning, so why do I need to take a special break? You two stay at home, and I'll just go back alone. ”
Seeing that she still didn't change her mind, Li Xing had no choice but to say, "Forget it, I'll go back with you." ”
His hometown is in the countryside of Longxi Town, although Gaocheng is not as good as Dongsheng City, but it is still a county-level city, and the development of the urban area is booming, and even two amusement parks have been built in the past two years.
Longxi Town is a small rural place, the streets are deserted, and there are few young people in sight, because they have gone out to school or work.
There is only one school in the town, and the quality of teaching is very worrisome, and it was for the Li Xing brothers and sisters to go to a good school that the couple moved to Gaocheng and took root in Gaocheng.
Although Longxi Town belongs to Gaocheng, there is also a considerable distance between the two, and it takes an hour to drive, plus the hometown is the kind of two-story small building, the area is very large, and it is very tiring to take care of it alone, so it is impossible for Li Xing to let Lin Wenxiu go back to do tiring work alone.
"What are you doing when you go back, it's rare to take a vacation. Lin Wenxiu disagreed.
Li Xing said casually: "I'm on vacation every day, I don't care about the ...... of the day or two."
"I'm going back too!" Li Keran suddenly jumped out of the aisle, still wearing a pink nightdress.
"You can't leave me alone at home, can you?"
She blinked at the two of them.
So in the end, the three of them went back to their hometown in the countryside of Longxi Town.
They called an online rental car, took some clothes they packed and went back to Longxi Town, and after a nearly hour's journey, they finally came to their hometown in the countryside.
By the time I arrived, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.
"When did the village pour cement roads? I didn't see it when I came back last time. Li Keran, who returned to his hometown, was a little excited.
She remembers the last time she came back, the entrance was still a potholed gravel road.
"At the beginning of the year, it was just built, and the village called me to invest money at that time, saying that it was to raise funds to build a road, but I hung it up directly. Lin Wenxiu kept carrying things off the car.
Li Xingqi said: "How can I repair it without paying for it?"
"What kind of money is there, no one in the village has paid for it. Lin Wenxiu shook his head.
"There is a special fund allocated above, and the original cadres in the village want to take the opportunity to make a profit, but they don't know who reported it, and then they got off the horse directly......
Li Xing was speechless for a while.
After taking everything down, Lin Wenxiu took out the key and unlocked the door, pushed open the door and walked in, and a musty smell that had not been airborne for a long time poured into her mouth and nose, making her frown.
Fortunately, the musty smell was not too strong, and after Li Xing opened all the windows in the front and rear rooms, the front and back were ventilated, and it didn't take long for the smell to disperse.
There was no one living in the house for a long time, and the house was full of dust, and the three of them began to get busy up and down, cleaning up everywhere.
Each floor is two bedrooms, a living room and a bathroom, the workload is not small, if Lin Wenxiu comes back alone, I am afraid that he will not be busy with the cleaning task in a day.
Li Xing contracted the task of the first floor alone, dusting first and then sweeping, preparing to roughly clean up the dust first, and finally start to wipe it clean with a damp cloth.
While cleaning under the bed, he came across something, and when he leaned over, he saw an old-fashioned wooden box.
"Grandpa's box?" Li Xing's heart moved, and he reached out and pulled the wooden box out from under the bed.
The wooden box is old, the paint on it has fallen off a lot, the style is simple, and you can see that it is not a valuable item at a glance.
He blew away the dust on it, grabbed the copper lock on it with two fingers and pinched it gently, and the solid copper lock was easily pinched like mud.
Li Xing opened the wooden box, although he knew in his heart that there could be nothing good in it, but he still inexplicably felt a sense of anticipation, as if he was opening a treasure chest.
There were some old clothes in the box, and when he took them away, three neatly arranged thread-bound books appeared in his eyes.
Li Xing picked up the three yellowed books from the bottom of the box, looked at the names of the three books, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.
The three books are "Dragon Gate Piles", "Longitudinal Technique" and "Iron Sand Palm".
Among them are the pile method of standing on the pile, the light skill of holding breath in situ and the hard skill in the hand, all of which belong to those martial arts that have been the most widely spread in the empire.
It's the cheapest martial arts.
"You really shouldn't have expectations. Li Xing shook his head.
He opened the three books and took a few random glances, and found that they were quite comprehensive.
For example, in the "Gantry Piles", there are eight different pile methods recorded in detail, as long as they are practiced, practice makes perfect, it is a flexible footwork with eight different variations.
"Iron Sand Palm" is also very comprehensive, even the detailed recipe and production process of medicinal oil are available, and these records will not appear in ordinary cheats, it is the secret of the secret.
But for the current Li Xing, it is nothing at all.
"It doesn't look like what Mom said it is...... Grandpa can have such a detailed cheats, and he should accept a serious inheritance, not some martial arts master who taught him a few hands on a whim. ”
Li Xing looked at the three cheats and thought.
Then he put aside these thoughts and did not think about them again.
He didn't have much interest in understanding what stories his grandfather had when he was young, and he regarded this level of martial arts as a sect of inheritance, at most, it was just a small martial arts hall at the township level, and there was nothing worth exploring.
He put the three cheats into the bottom of the box again, and was about to cover the box and put it back, when there was a sudden pause in his hand.
Li Xing suddenly thought that he could take this opportunity to add a reasonable amount of money to his family.
Bring back the three cheats, and take three or four hundred thousand to go home with the excuse of the "Martial Arts Conference", just so that Lin Wenxiu can buy a car and change the car.
Thinking so, he picked up the three cheats again, closed the box and pushed it back under the bed.
When he came outside, Li Keran was drying the quilt taken out of the closet on the clothesline, ready to dry it for the evening rest.
"Brother, what is that?" she glanced back and saw the cheats that Li Xing held in her hand.
"Grandpa's boxing book. Li Xing raised it in his hand and waved it casually.
"Is there really a boxing book?"
Li Keran suddenly became interested and was about to come over to see the fun.
"Tick-"
A siren suddenly sounded, coming from a distance, gradually approaching.