For the next few days, Baicao went to class as usual, trying not to think too much about it. After school, she worked harder and kept the Songbai Gym spotless, secretly hoping that if she really couldn't go back to the Quansheng Gym, the Songbai Gym would be able to continue to take her in for the sake of her hard work.

Except for the first day when Master came back, she sneaked into the Quansheng Gym under the cover of Guangya, and she never had a chance to see Master again. When she met Guangya on campus, she wanted to ask about Master's recent situation, but Guangya always ignored her with a black face.

On this day, Baicao and Xiaoying came back from school, and as soon as they stepped into the door of the Songbai Daoist Hall, they felt a strange atmosphere, and the courtyard was empty, and there were no disciples. She and Xiaoying quickened their pace and walked forward, and found that all the disciples had gathered outside the practice hall, and they looked inside.

She and Xiaoying walked over.

The disciples of the Songbai Dojo turned their heads to see her, as if they had seen a monster, and stared straight at her. That strange look made Baicao's heart sink, when she was in the Quansheng Gym, everyone looked at her like this.

Don't......

She didn't have time to think about it, she took a few steps forward from the gap that the disciples had opened, and when she saw the long, kneeling figure with gray temples in the practice hall, her eyes were dizzy, and her head suddenly exploded!

"Master—!"

Baicao rushed in, panicking and trying to help up the master who was kneeling in front of the master of the Yu Pavilion, why was the master here, why was he kneeling, what was wrong?

"Baicao, get on your knees."

Qu Xiangnan sank his body, ignoring her anxious and panicked hands.

"Get on your knees!"

Hearing the order in Master's voice, Baicao struggled in his heart, and finally bent his knees and knelt beside Master, kneeling in front of the Master of the Yu Pavilion with him.

"Please take her."

Qu leaned south and asked the owner of the Yu Pavilion.

"Master! What are you talking about?! Baicao was shocked, and he couldn't take care of it anymore, so he got up and picked up the master. Qu Xiangnan maintained a leaning posture, pressed her back, and forced her to kneel down to the owner of the Yu Pavilion.

"She was born to practice taekwondo, and she is a rare good seedling, but because she followed me, she never had the opportunity to participate in actual battles and competitions." Qu Xiangnan said bitterly, "Please accept her, I believe she will definitely win glory for the Songbai Dao Hall." ”

He negotiated with Senior Brother Zheng several times, but Senior Brother Zheng still refused to accept Baicao again, and he himself was unable to come out of the Quansheng Gym to take her. The owner of the Yu Pavilion is a humble gentleman who is respected by the taekwondo community, and switching to the Songbai Gym will bring her better development.

"It's not appropriate."

The master of the Yu Pavilion frowned slightly, the disciple was personally sent by his master to change to the master, such a thing had never happened before. Ruobai stood behind him, and his gaze faintly fell on Baicao, who was at a loss like a child.

"Please." Qu Xiangnan lowered his body even more gloomily, "She has no father or mother, and she was expelled from the Quansheng Gym, if you don't accept her, she will have nowhere to go." ”

"I can! Master, I have hands and feet, I can support myself," Baicao bit her lip tightly, tears rolled in her chest, "Master, I am not angry, I make you embarrassed, you don't have to worry about me, I will live a good life no matter where I go." You are my master, you are a person like my father, you will always be my master, I will never worship others as teachers! ”

"Silly boy," Qu Xiangnan raised his head slowly, he hadn't seen him for a few days, and the gray hair on his temples had increased a lot, Baicao's heart was very painful, the master was not yet forty years old, but he was already as old as a man in his fifties. "Master doesn't want you to give up taekwondo, follow the master of the Yu Pavilion to practice, you will become a great taekwondo player in the future."

"Master—"

She didn't care if she could become a great taekwondo fighter in the future, she only practiced taekwondo because Master wanted her to do it!

"So, please take her, one day, you will be proud of her." Qu Xiangnan kowtowed heavily on the ground.

The owner of the Yu Pavilion was shocked and hurriedly bent down to help him, but he insisted on kneeling on the ground and refused to get up. The owner of the Yu Pavilion sighed and said, "Why are you suffering? ”

Over the years, Qu Xiangnan must have had a very difficult time. He also went to the World Taekwondo Championship in South Korea many years ago, and saw with his own eyes Qu Xiangnan's high spirits when he won the championship and fell into hell after being found to have taken banned drugs. After returning to China, he heard that Qu Xiangnan's wife was unable to accept the blow and gave birth prematurely, and she died after the child was born. Qu Xiangnan collapsed, and later he heard that Qu Xiangnan had seriously injured a senior brother in the same hall who laughed at him, and even beat that person inhumanely.

Because of the beating incident, the domestic taekwondo community completely canceled Qu Xiangnan's lifelong qualification, and he was not allowed to teach taekwondo and accept apprentices in any gym, and in the end, only the Quansheng Gym took him in because of his past feelings.

Unexpectedly, he secretly accepted an apprentice.

The main Yu Pavilion looked at the girl who was kneeling with Qu Xiangnan, fourteen years old, her eyes were as clear and stubborn as a deer, her body was slender, and her legs were slender. She has lived in the Songbai Gym for a period of time, and she is very able to endure hardships, although she and Kim Minzhu did not see him in person, but after listening to Ruobai's relay, she knew that this girl still had at least some qualifications to practice taekwondo.

If you keep following the curve to the south.

This girl will indeed be delayed.

"I'll just take her. No matter how well she practices taekwondo in the future, she is a member of the Songbai Gym. In fact, I also like this little girl very much, she can endure hardships and has tenacity. ”

Pavilion Master Yu reached out again to help Qu Xiangnan, and couldn't bear to see him kowtow to himself.

"Thank you."

Qu Xiangnan slowly stood up. His judgment was indeed correct, because of the previous events, almost all the people in the taekwondo world had a look of disdain when they saw him, and only occasionally when they met the Yu Pavilion Master, the Yu Pavilion Master would nod politely to him.

"I'm sorry, Pavilion Master Yu."

I didn't expect Pavilion Master Yu to really agree to Master, Baicao was grateful for Pavilion Master Yu's generosity, but she couldn't do it.

"During these days, the Songbai Daoguan took me in, and I will remember it. However, I can't turn my back on my master, who adopted me from a young age, taught me taekwondo, let me go to school, and taught me to be a human being. Master is my lifelong Master and my only Master, please forgive me. ”

She leaned over deeply, knowing that although she couldn't stay in the Songbai Dao Pavilion, she would always remember the kindness of the owner of the Yu Pavilion.

"Haha, it's really a good boy." Pavilion Master Yu nodded and smiled, "Okay, it is indeed commendable that you can have this piece of heart for your master." From now on, you stay in the Songbai Gym, and you can have the opportunity to fight and compete in actual battles and competitions, but you don't need to call me a teacher, do you think it's okay? ”

"Pavilion Master Yu ......" Baicao was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and at the same time felt extremely ashamed.

"That's it, Ruobai, you take Baicao to practice in the future." The owner of the Yu Pavilion instructed, and at the same time lifted Qu Xiangnan up from the ground.

"Yes."

Ruobai answered.

At dusk.

The sky is full of colorful clouds.

Baicao sent the master out of the Songbai Gym.

"Pavilionist Yu is a good person," Qu Xiangnan said with emotion, "The Gym Challenge is about to start, and he said that you have the same fair chance to compete as the other disciples of the Songbai Gym." ”

Baicao was stunned.

She also has a chance to participate in the Gym Challenge?

"Practice hard, remember Master's words, you have a good talent, don't waste it." In the glow, Qu Xiangnan told her again, "What you have to do now is to accumulate more practical experience...... You have too little experience in the past competitions, and you will suffer when you meet real masters...... Master hopes that one day you will become a great taekwondo player and stand in the highest and most dazzling position......"

"Yes, Master."

Looking at the back of Master Xiao Suo's departure, Baicao silently swore that she would definitely let Master wait for that day.

******

At night, the moonlight shone out the window of the hut, and Hatsuhara sat at the table reading a thick medical book, the murmur of running water and the rustle of leaves mixed together, making Yiqiē seem extraordinarily quiet. Occasionally, when he looked up, he could see the big tree outside the window, its dense branches and leaves, and the stars shining between the leaves, but there was no longer the lonely figure of the little girl sitting on her knees.

"Knock knock!"

There was a soft knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Hatsuhara put down the book in his hand and saw the short-haired girl gently push the door in. There seemed to be some joy in her fawn-like eyes when she saw him, but when her eyes fell on the book in his hand, she seemed a little nervous.

"I'm here to return the medicated oil."

Baicao clenched the small medicine bottle, there was less than half of the medicinal oil left in it, and it should have been returned to him a long time ago. Placing the bottle of medicine that was held warmly beside the medicine box, she bowed to him and said:

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Hatsuhara smiled and said that the bruise on her forehead was completely healed, and her skin was as healthy and shiny as autumn wheat.

"I ......" The small impulse in her heart made her can't help but want to sue him, "I will live in the Songbai Road Pavilion in the future, and the Pavilion Master Yu has accepted me." ”

"Ah, that's great."

The smile at the corners of the lips still has a perfect curvature.

She looked at him in a daze for a few seconds, and suddenly felt a little lost, and hurriedly said, "Then I'll go, don't bother you." ”

"Okay."

Hatsuhara got up and sent her to the door.

Ah, right.

"Hatsuhara-senpai, if I clean outside the house every day, will it disturb you?" She stood in the doorway and looked up at him.

"No, it won't."

Hatsuhara smiled, her head tilted back like a cute deer, her eyes full of cautious anticipation.

"Thank you!"

Baicao was as happy as if she had received the best gift, and she was finally able to do something for him. He healed her, gave her oil, and talked to her when she was sad, but she never knew what she could do to repay him.

******

In the early morning of the second day when the master of the Yu Pavilion officially accepted her, the disciples of the Songbai Daoist Hall were still asleep, and Baicao had already wiped the mats in the practice hall clean, washed the dirty Taoist robes that the disciples had changed the night before, and put them neatly on the clothesline in the courtyard.

When the disciples came out of the room in twos and threes and began to do various warm-up preparations, Baicao had already changed into Taoist robes, tied his belt, ran ten laps, and was holding on to a big tree to press his legs. It's been a long time since I've been practicing in a Taoist uniform, and she has a long-lost excitement in her heart, as if the cells in her body have come to life again.

In the morning light, the disciples all looked at Baicao with strange eyes, and their eyes fell on her robes and belts, and even Ruobai glanced at her before ordering the disciples to gather together and start formal training.

"Assemble!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! ”

Xiao Ying gasped and almost arrived before Ruobai's voice landed, whew, finally not late. Her hair was uncombed, it was unkempt, and she tied it up with a rubber band as she ran, when she suddenly found Baicao in the crowd, her eyes lit up, and she squeezed to Baicao and stood up.

"It's so dangerous, Huhu, fortunately I wasn't late, Senior Brother Ruobai is very terrifying!" casually practicing the basic movements with everyone, Xiaoying panted desperately, lowered her voice and put on a terrifying expression with the Baicao beside her.

"Didn't the alarm go off?"

Baicao remembered that he had set the alarm clock for Xiaoying and placed it next to her bed.

"It's ringing, haha, it's just one ringing and I'm going to kill it!" Xiao Ying said proudly, her voice couldn't help but be a little louder, Ruobai's eyes swept her through the team, and Xiao Ying was so frightened that she immediately closed her mouth and didn't dare to speak for a long time.

The sun is shining and cold in early spring.

After completing the basic exercises, Ruobai asked the disciples to start training in groups, practicing basic exercises such as front kicks, horizontal kicks, and back kicks.

Xiaoying and Baicao are grouped together.

Xiaoying held the target with one hand, and was surprised to find that the force on Baicao's feet was so great, and each kick kicked heavily on the target, so shocked that she could barely hold the target. But what surprised her even more was the robe and belt on Baicao's body.

"Your robes are too torn."

Xiao Ying said with a frown. What kind of robe it was, it looked like it had been worn for at least a few years, the original snow white had turned yellow, the material of the clothes was worn thin, and the joints of the elbows and knees seemed to have been worn out and patched. The pants are obviously a lot shorter, and the cuffs are up to Baicao's knees, can they be comfortable to wear?

"It's not broken."

Baicao lowered his head to check the Dao robe on his body, there was no torn, because the joints were patched by her, so it was extremely strong.

"Please, it's old!"

Xiaoying rolled her eyes.

"The older it is, the softer it is and the more comfortable it is." Baicao spun around and flew towards the target in Xiaoying's hand. This robe was given to her by her master when she first practiced taekwondo, and she thought it was so beautiful when she wore it that she secretly looked around in front of the mirror.

"Well, what about your belt?"

Her hands were about to be numb, and Xiao Ying moved her wrist with a bitter face, and then continued to stare at the white strap around Baicao's waist with wide eyes in disbelief. She read it right, it's a white belt, it's below the black belt, red and black belt, red belt, blue and red belt, blue belt, green and blue belt, green belt, yellow belt, yellow belt, white belt, white belt, the worst white belt in the ten grades!

Even children who first learned taekwondo can get rid of their white belt and move up to a higher level after a little practice. How is it possible that Baicao is still a vaginal belt until now? Although she didn't know how many years Baicao had been practicing, at least when she was at the same table in junior high school, Baicao had already practiced taekwondo at the Quansheng Gym.

It's still a white belt!

It's incredible.

"Take a five-minute break."

As Ruobai's voice landed, the disciples either sat on the mat to rest or talk and joke, Pingping, who was wearing a yellow belt around her waist, stared curiously at the tie around Baicao's waist, with the same question as Xiaoying:

"Baicao, why are you tying a white belt?"

"I'm a white belt," Momokusa smiled sheepishly, "so of course I can only tie a white belt." ”

"Liar!"

"How is that possible!"

Xiaoying and Pingping shouted at the same time, they could defeat Jin Minzhu, who was a blue belt, and kicked Jin Minzhu out with one leg, how could they only be at the level of a white belt! Hearing the movement here, the other disciples looked sideways one after another, and their eyes almost all stayed on the white band around Baicao's waist for a moment. Yi Feng's position was very close to them, and when he heard their conversation, he yawned lazily and said:

"Didn't you take your gym's promotion exam, so you've always been a white belt?"

Baicao lowered her head and touched the white belt, the disciples of the Songbai Daoist Hall who practiced with her were at least white and yellow belts even if they were just beginners, and she had been wearing this white belt for several years.

"Well, I didn't go to the test."

Every color upgrade of the tie has to pass an exam in the gym, and the cost of the exam has to be paid, and part of the source of money for each gym comes from here. She didn't have the money to take the exam, and Master once wanted to pay her to go to the belt, but she refused. It costs a lot of money to take the tie test one color at a time, and Master's own life is already very tense. Although he was often ridiculed for practicing for so long and still being the lowest white belt when he was in the Quansheng Gym, is the quality of kung fu only proven by the color of the belt?

After being ridiculed for a long time, she became less and less concerned about these things. It's just that sometimes when I see the black belt around someone else's waist, I think that the fluttering black belt is lined with a snow-white robe, which is really good-looking.

"That's right, hehe."

Xiaoying scratched her head and said embarrassedly. Oops, how did she forget that Baicao is an orphan, her life is extremely frugal, and the meals she usually eats at school are so simple that they can't be simpler, and many times a little pickle and a steamed bun will send away lunch, where is the money to take the promotion exam.

"Assemble!"

Ruobai asked the disciples to reassemble together to practice in groups, as if he hadn't paid attention to the situation on Baicao's side just now, and shouted the password indifferently:

"Forward kick!"

"Horizontal kick!"

"Back kick!"

“……”

The disciples of the Songbai Daoist Hall were doing their movements in unison, clean and neat, and the snow-white Taoist robes were dazzling in the early morning sun.

And in the evening training, Baicao kicked backspin, and the target in Xiaoying's hand was kicked out!

"Oops!"

Xiaoying was shocked and took two steps back, turning her wrist in pain, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

"Excuse me, did I kick your hand?" Baicao hurriedly stepped forward to look at her hand, and saw that it seemed that her wrist was a little twisted

"Nope." Xiaoying was a little frustrated, "It's because the force on your feet is too great, and I can't hold your target." ”

"Ah, Xiaoying, you can't hold Baicao's foot target?!"

The surrounding disciples asked in surprise. Only when the strength of the two sides is very different, one side will not be able to hold the target of the other side. Among the female disciples of the Songbai Daoguan, except for Chu Wei and Xiuqin, Xiaoying is basically the best.

Xiaoying's face was black.

It's a shame to admit that. Although she tried to compete with Baicao several times in private, and lost to Baicao every time, couldn't she even hold Baicao's target? Obviously, Baicao and her are both fourteen years old!

Ruobai walked over.

He picked up the target that Xiaoying had fallen to the ground, stood in front of Baicao, and said lightly, "Backspin kick." ”

The grass was stunned.

The disciples' eyes widened, and Chu Wei and Xiuqin, who were practicing, also looked over in surprise, and saw Ruobai holding the foot target in his right hand, looking at the hundred grasses, and said in a deep voice:

"Spin kick!"

"Yes."

Baicao no longer hesitated.

She's determined!

Turn around!

Fly and kick out!

When she was in the Quansheng Gym, no disciple was willing to practice with her, and every time the master helped her with the target. Master told her to keep the target of the attack in mind, not to look with your eyes, to concentrate on it, and to hit it with one blow!

"Smack-!!"

The crisp sound of kicking seemed to be permeated with hurricane-like force, like the first thunder of early spring, echoing in the practice hall layer by layer.

The disciples stared blankly at Baicao.

Xiuqin's eyebrows wrinkled imperceptibly, Chu Wei looked at Baicao carefully, Yifeng yawned lightly, and Xiaoying cheered excitedly:

"Wow! Handsome! Baicao, you're so good! ”

Although he was not used to such direct praise, Baicao still showed a smile to Xiaoying with a slight flush on his cheeks, and then stood still, holding his breath to look at the expressionless Ruobai. He was teaching her leg strength, and the master had never asked her to practice well, and he didn't tell her what her leg strength was.

Ruobai put down the foot target in his hand, didn't look at Baicao, and said to Xiaoying: "In the future, you and Fengshi will practice as a group." ”

"Huh?"

Xiao Ying opened her mouth wide, that is to say, if the result of Senior Brother Bai's test of Baicao's leg strength is that she is not suitable for practicing with Baicao in a group, will Baicao have to change to a more powerful disciple to practice? Wow, Baicao is so powerful!

"Baicao, you and ......"

Ruobai's eyes looked at the disciples one by one, Xiuqin frowned and lowered her head, Chu Wei tilted her face slightly, his gaze stayed on Xiuda for a few seconds, Xiuda immediately turned white in horror and shook his head desperately.

“…… You and Yifeng practice in a group. ”

Yifeng: ?

This sentence undoubtedly made Ruobai lightly drop a bomb in the practice hall! All the disciples were about to faint, Chu Wei looked at Ruobai in surprise, Xiuqin's body stiffened, as if she didn't believe that Ruobai said it, Xiaoying was already stunned and completely stunned.

Baicao didn't quite understand why everyone had such strong expressions, but since Ruobai decided like this, there should be a reason for him. She bowed to Ruobai and said:

"Yes."

Then she bowed to Yifeng, who was sitting lazily on the mat, and said:

"Please advise."

Yifeng glanced at Ruobai, stretched her waist, stood up from the mat, and said to her with a casual smile: "Please give you more advice in the future." ”

"Yifeng is the second senior brother!"

Xiaoying couldn't recover from the shock, and continued to repeat the same topic until she was doing her homework in the evening.

"Senior Brother Ruobai is in a group with Senior Brother Yifeng every time he fights and practices in the hall, and only Senior Brother Yifeng can compete with Senior Brother Ruobai. Don't look at Senior Brother Yifeng, who usually likes to be sleepy, as if he is very lazy, in fact, his kung fu is super powerful, every time he competes with other gyms, almost all of them rely on him and Senior Brother Ruobai. ”

Xiao Ying Xingxing looked at Baicao, who was a little stunned, and said adoringly:

"If Senior Brother Bai lets you be in a group with Senior Brother Yifeng, it will be a recognition of your strength. I think you are very powerful, only Senior Brother Yifeng is worthy of practicing with you, and the other disciples are not your opponents! Wow, could it be that you can actually defeat Senior Sister Chu Wei and Senior Sister Xiuqin? Wow, Baicao, I love you to death! Why haven't you sued me before, you're the real master, the mysterious and low-key master......"

Is she that powerful?

Baicao held the pen in his hand and was stunned when he listened. Although she has always known that Xiaoying likes to exaggerate when she speaks, she can't help but feel a little excited.

When she was in the Quansheng Gym, except for Xiuda's accidental incident, she never had the opportunity to practice and fight against other disciples, let alone compete with other gyms on behalf of the Quansheng Gym. She didn't know what her kung fu was, what level it was, and whether it was possible that she could one day become a great taekwondo fighter as Master hoped, and win glory for Master and herself.

Maybe......

Can she really do it?

She bit her lip and felt her heart pound. She used to just see it as a dream, a dream that was out of reach, a dream that would work hard even if it was out of reach.

But does she really have a chance?