Chapter 6 Shaolin Apprenticeship
As a sect with a history of hundreds of years, the scope of Shaolin's strength is far greater than Yan Xu imagined, and it is even more amazing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
With Yan Xu's footsteps, he saw more and more martial arts halls opened by Shaolin lay disciples along the way, and the local wealthy families were also very willing to hire Shaolin lay disciples as guardians, even if the local Yamen was born in Shaolin. This is all because of Shaolin's status in the rivers and lakes, if there is not enough backer, even the masters of the rampant side will not easily provoke the Shaolin bald donkeys, otherwise they may be overtaken by a large number of bald donkeys one day.
Yan Xu also went to those martial arts halls to see them, although the martial arts of those hall masters are not very good, but the basic skills are very solid, and the idle dozen or so people are not opponents, but they will not mislead people's children.
At the foot of Shaolin, Yan Xu was shocked by the large area of Buddha fields, but fortunately, these monks have not yet penetrated into the eyes of money, and the farmers who have rented Buddha fields for generations are living well. In fact, Yan Xu doesn't know the secret, many of the children of these farmers worship in Shaolin, whether they become lay disciples or monks who protect temples, it is a way out, and even because of talent or talent, there are not a few who gradually rise to the rank of senior monks and elders. They are closely related to the interests of Shaolin, they are the foundation of Shaolin, and they are also the most loyal supporters of Shaolin, even if the orders of the imperial court are not easy to use. In a sense, using religion and martial arts, Shaolin is equivalent to an independent kingdom, because the Buddha field does not need to pay taxes, and the farmers pay taxes to the monks of Shaolin. Moreover, the laws of the imperial court can't control these outsiders, even if they are murderers, if they are ordained, the imperial court will open their eyes, because the gods and Buddhas are beyond the mortal world.
Yan Xu followed many good men and women up the mountain together, did not follow in, but said to the warrior monk guarding the mountain gate according to the explanation of the walking monk, and after a while, the specially responsible leading monk came out.
showed the letter of introduction of the foot monk, and the leading monk nodded with satisfaction after seeing the above evaluation, and looked at Yan Xu with a more kind gaze.
"If you think about it, you can go to the Buddha hall with me to shave your ordination, and then you will be a monk." The leading monk said with a smile.
"The disciple has already thought about it, and the troublesome master has shaved these three thousand troubles." Thinking of the bitter faces of a group of little bald heads in his martial arts school when they first shaved their heads in the school, Yan Xu secretly smiled bitterly, is this considered retribution.
"There's Huigen." The leading monk nodded, took Yan Xu to the Buddha hall with his hands behind his back, knelt there after letting him worship the Buddha, stood behind him and raised his hands very happily, shaved his bright bald head, and gave him the Dharma name Kongjian, and then personally sent him to the Warrior Monastery.
Shaolin is divided into four generations of Xuanzhi Void from top to bottom, Shaolin abbot and elder are Xuanzi generations, aged about sixty or seventy, even if the monk has a way of health, there are not many people who are still alive, together with the monks who do not practice martial arts, there are only dozens of people, and they rarely ask about the things in the temple on weekdays, except for the abbot, everyone else is in a semi-retired state.
The first seat of each academy is the wisdom of the generation, forty or fifty years old is the golden age, serving most of the main positions in the temple, is the backbone of Shaolin, the number of more than 100 people, of course, they are also the main force of Shaolin Weizhen Jianghu.
The younger ones are responsible for cleaning the health of important places such as the Buddhist hall and the pavilion, and the older ones are responsible for copying the Buddhist scriptures and many affairs in the temple, and the number of people is more, there are three or four hundred people.
The empty character generation is a teenager Xiao Shami, who does some rough work of sweeping the floor, sprinkling water, splitting wood and planting vegetables on weekdays to hone his will, and when he is free, someone will teach them to read and hyphenate and the basic martial arts of Shaolin. If you don't have the talent to practice martial arts, when you become an adult, you will become an ordinary monk who copies Buddhist scriptures to maintain the operation of the temple, and if you have good talent and are willing to practice martial arts, you will be sent to the martial arts monastery for further study and concentrate on practicing martial arts.
The number of empty characters is the largest, there are hundreds of people, but many of them are the children of local wealthy families or farmers sent to the door, most of them will be vulgar in adulthood, which is also the origin of lay disciples, so the official monks of Shaolin have been maintained at about a few hundred, and there are not as many as imagined, of course, this does not count hundreds of warrior monks.
The first Dharma name of the Warrior Monastery is Zhijing, a typical Shaolin monk, if he is very young and has a hard line of martial arts, he can't find it in the pile of people with his ordinary appearance.
Maybe he took a fancy to Yan Xu's future, and he didn't mention him less along the way, and he said a lot about this Zhijing head.
This first seat was born as a warrior monk in his early years, but his talent was average, and he couldn't enter the warrior monk academy if he didn't ask for it hard. However, his perseverance and hard work have made up for the lack of some talents, and if he can't practice advanced martial arts, he will desperately practice the basic skills, and his long-term cultivation has never been boring, so that he has really broken out of a way.
After thirty years of penance, the martial arts of this Zhijing first seat can't even rank in the top 30 in the Zhizi generation, but if the solidity of the basic skills can be called the first in Shaolin, it can be ranked first. The above also took a fancy to his characteristics, and specially ordered him to preside over the Warrior Monastery.
"Senior Brother Zhijing, this is the new warrior monk, handing over to you and taking his leave." The monk is also a monk of the Zhizi generation, and the entry is a few years earlier than Zhijing, because he is not talented enough and does not want to be the boring monk so he took the position of the monk, so naturally there is no need to be polite with Zhijing. And how many years of senior brother, he also knows Zhijing, listening to this wooden pimple talk is still free, nodded and left.
Zhijing knew at a glance that he was a person who was not good at words, and after seeing the monk leave, he took Yan Xu into the Warrior Monk's Academy.
After all, Shaolin is a quiet place outside the world, and it is impossible to show the martial and violent side of the monks in front of good men and women, and there are a lot of warrior monks, so the warrior monastery is placed in the back mountain and surrounded by high walls.
After entering, Yan Xu looked up and saw that there were hundreds of warrior monks or practicing fists and feet, or practicing weapons, as well as practicing his flying eaves and walking light body kung fu, all of them were proficient in martial arts, and they compared Yan Xu's martial arts school at once.
Coincidentally, at this time, dozens of warrior monks came back with their hands holding Shaolin's famous pointed bottom wood to carry water, allowing Yan Xu to enjoy it up close.
Walking all the way in, passing by a vegetable patch, Yan Xu saw a little monk scoop out a scoop of water and sprinkle it in the air, and the water flow gathered into a line to accurately pour it on a slip of green vegetables.
I didn't go far inside and saw a series of courtyards, these were the residences of the warrior monks, and Yan Xu naturally wanted to live here.
Asked the monk in charge of the courtyard to bring out a new futon and arrange for him to have a vacant bunk, Zhijing took him out of the courtyard and tested his basic boxing skills under a big tree in front of the courtyard.
Generally, the disciples who are sent by the fancy will receive a copy of the basic boxing method, and as soon as they come to the Warrior Monastery Zhijing will check how well they are practicing the basic boxing method. If you don't like him, you're out of luck, don't want to be taught other Shaolin martial arts until you practice the basic martial arts to his satisfaction. For this reason, many warrior monks would rather become lay disciples than stay under him anymore, and secretly rumored that Zhijing was jealous of the disciples with higher talents than him because he was poor in talent and could not learn advanced martial arts, and deliberately made things difficult.
Yan Xu didn't care whether Zhijing was really responsible or deliberately difficult, basic martial arts was one of the purposes for him to go to Shaolin, and the priority was still above Shaolin's peerless learning, it would only be too little, how could it be too much.
Each sect has more or less basic skills, but there are not many that are as comprehensive as Shaolin, and they are inherited up and down, no matter which basic martial arts they specialize in, there are corresponding low, medium and high martial arts to choose from.
There is no way, these bald donkeys have the Western Heaven Elysium as their backer, and they are congenitally detached from many sects except Wudang, plus the emperors of the past dynasties have rewarded countless fields and countless donations from good men and women, and their family background is not ordinarily thick. And the Buddhist scriptures are inherently very attractive, and the monks of Shaolin have attracted not only ordinary people, but also some people in the martial arts. With the temple is proficient in martial arts, good at medical skills, and many monks who are familiar with Buddhism, Shaolin's martial arts not only quickly formed its own system, but also continued to widen and thicken, and deeply laid the mark of Shaolin in all kinds of Shaolin stunts.
Yan Xu is not greedy for Shaolin stunts, what he lacks is basic skills and common sense, and he lacks the experience of many meridian acupuncture points and internal force transportation in internal martial arts.
And there is another advantage to becoming a warrior monk, the food of the warrior monk is independent, and the martial arts practice, especially the warrior monks, are all outside the martial arts, and just eating vegetarian food can train people to death. What's more, the early monks ate meat, but a certain emperor with a brainless stomach pain specially decreed not to eat meat in order to show his piety, and the following group of monks also began to eat vegetarian in order to cater to the emperor.
Of course, if you don't eat meat, you can also rely on medicine and dietary supplements, but even if the Shaolin family has a big business, it can't afford to supply hundreds of people to eat and drink, so there are warrior monks who can only be regarded as half of the monks, and the excuse is that they can return to the vulgar at any time, and the lay disciples can naturally eat meat.
This is also the reason why Yan Xu chose to become a warrior monk, he is the time to grow his body, naturally he will not be wronged, what if he is stunted.
The power of the inner family is not as good as the simple outer door kung fu and the inner family martial arts, but the combination of the characteristics of the two is ahead of the two in terms of opening up the potential of the human body, and the control of the body is a must. Ming Jin can twist the strength of the whole body into a rope, and when you practice dark energy, you can stimulate the bone marrow and internal organs, and if you reach the strength, it has many incredible abilities. Therefore, although Yan Xu has not been able to obtain the basic boxing method for a long time, he has already cultivated to the fifth layer, and his progress can be called fast.
If it is an ordinary warrior monk, the basic martial arts can already be contacted by cultivating to the fifth level, but Zhijing did not teach Yan Xu other martial arts, but continued to let Yan Xu practice more basic martial arts, and at the same time pointed out the problems that occurred in his basic boxing techniques.
If it is an ordinary genius, I am afraid that he will already be dissatisfied, but for Yan Xu, this is simply a good thing that cannot be sought, and Zhijing's profundity of basic skills also makes Yan Xu feel that this trip is worthwhile.
So in the strange eyes of the other warrior monks, one taught seriously, and the other learned seriously, which made the others very speechless.
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