Chapter 23 Learning the arts
Zhu Biao carried the deer on his shoulder, and the rabbit and pheasant on the big knife went back. As soon as they entered the manor, the brothers surrounded him: "Brother Zhu, this is going hunting"?
also jokingly said: "Brother Zhu didn't bring a bow and arrows, how did he catch these, he didn't cut them with a big knife, right?"
Then everyone laughed, and Zhu Biao also laughed when he heard it.
Before he could finish laughing, the deer moved. Zhu Biao put it on the ground, and saw someone say: "This deer is still alive, Brother Zhu is a good method, admire and admire."
Zhu Yi inspected the prey and said, "This is an arrow wound, my brother has succeeded in taking in the apprentice."
Zhu Biao patted Zhu Yi, "The brother who knows me is also." Today I invite you to eat game, and you are welcome to everyone. Call those gentlemen too, this is why I have to thank people too." After saying that, he strode away.
Everyone stepped forward to ask Zhu Yi if Brother Zhu had accepted an apprentice.
Li Xiaogao happily went home. When I got home, it was already afternoon, and there was no one at home. Li Xiao took the bow and arrow to the bedroom. I touched it for a while and sighed at the wisdom of the ancients. I went to the kitchen to find something to eat. She had already missed lunch.
After dinner, Li Xiaowen Erzhu asked for a belt. She was afraid that the bow would hit the eye, so she carefully wrapped the bow around her belt. He sewed a cover with cloth and half-wrapped the quiver. And he took out twenty arrows from his quiver and put them in the box. And he filled the quiver with the arrows of his house. After doing this, Li Xiao happily went to bed. I slept with my bow in my arms.
Early the next morning, Li Xiao went up the mountain with a bow and arrows on his back. When Zhu Biao saw the bow and arrow, he understood that Li Xiao was afraid that people would see it. I thought he was really a smart kid, and he was also broken.
Zhu Biao took Li Xiao to trot half the hill and said, "Good boy, good health." I'll teach you a set of punches today, and I'll teach you how to use a knife when you learn it, and your master's most powerful thing is this big knife in his hand."
Li Xiao looked at the big knife as tall as her in her master's hand, and thought, can I really play it?
Zhu Biao took Li Xiao to an old wooden house and said, "This should have been used by Orion before, but no one uses it anymore." I'm here to teach you, and you're here every hour from now on." Li Xiao nodded in agreement.
Li Xiao went to the wooden house on time every day to practice archery. Practice with one hand for an hour. She learned boxing from her master. Bring your own dry food for lunch, or hunt some game and eat it on a barbecue. Shen Shi packed up and prepared to go home.
Outside the wooden house, a teenager learned to boxing very seriously, and the big man around him gave guidance from time to time. Life went by to the fullest. Time flies.
Three months later, the same wooden house outside. One big and one small two people are playing a set of boxing methods at the same time, boxing and punching, bending over and kicking, and the same action is very beautiful. Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction and said, "This set of punches, you played very well, remember to practice diligently in the future." I've got you a knife and put it in the house, so you can go and see it, and I'll teach you how to play with it tomorrow."
Li Xiao learned that he had his own knife, and happily ran into the house. Seeing the knife on the table that was different from the master's, he took it in his hand and weighed it. Then he came out of the house and said, "Master, this knife suits me very well." Li Xiao suddenly felt that the sky was dark, as if she saw her master's face darken. Instantly shut up inexplicably.
Where did Li Xiao know about this. It's a woman's knife. Although Li Xiao is tall, he is only an eight-year-old child. His master rummaged through the Zhuangzi and did not find a knife that suited him.
In the end, Zhu Biao saw this women's knife in the warehouse, and felt that the size was just right, so he took it and used it first. When this kid grows up, it's good to change it again.
Who knows that he is Zhu Biao's apprentice and likes women's knives. Tell him how not to get angry. Li carefully shouted: Master, I'm a woman, why can't you see it? I'm a little naughty in front of you. Archery is a little more skilled. Can go up to the house and trees, can shoot wolves and tigers. But I'm a real girl.
Zhu Biao was very satisfied with Li Xiao's performance in the past three months.
He had always been worried that Li Xiao's apprenticeship was for that bow, and in fact, it was the same. After all, who wants to waste time learning something else. But in the past three months, he has seen Li Xiao's seriousness and focus. He was delighted. The only thing that displeased him was that the kid grew taller and darker. It stands to reason that he should be stronger, just like him. But instead of being strong, he looked and felt thinner, which made him speechless.
Li Xiao has worked hard to learn boxing in the past three months, and he has not been lazy at all. Hunting only once in a while, it's not that her master said that she doesn't eat dry food and wants to eat wild animals.
She gets up early every day to shoot archery, practices boxing during the day, and only goes home after dark. If the Li family hadn't seen the things in the kitchen being eaten, Xiulan would have taken Li Xiao's dirty clothes every day and washed them. Everyone thought the child was gone.
Sanwang found out that Li Xiao did not come back from hunting wild animals on the same day, and came back in the afternoon. ran to ask Li Xiao what was going on. Sanwang is the one who cares most about Li Xiao in the whole family. Li Xiao's clothes were also washed by Sanwang begging her mother.
Li Xiao told Sanwang that she had worshiped a master as a teacher before, and she had to learn archery every day, otherwise how could she have such good archery skills, and she really thought that her grandfather taught her. Now she is a small archeryman, and her master wants her to practice archery to a great extent. So now I don't hunt, I have to go to the mountains every day to practice archery. Li Xiaozai first said sorry to his grandfather in his heart. She didn't dare to say that she was going to learn boxing, let alone say that she would have to play with a big knife in the future. I really don't dare. As long as the family knows, it will be light to lock her up for a few days.
Later, the old man also asked, and Sanwang said that the fifth sister went to learn archery. Worshipped a master as a teacher. Li Xiao's archery skills are superb, and the family is convinced. Especially the old man, his own archery, he himself knows best. The most reluctant thing in the family to let Li Xiao shoot arrows is Sanniang, since the dead man incident, Sanniang has not wanted to see Li Xiao shoot. I'm afraid of who she'll shoot to death again. This has simply become her heart disease.
Because of the dead man incident, Li Xiao is not very close to her, and sometimes avoids her. In addition, Li Xiao got up early and greedy for darkness in the past three months, and Sanniang didn't find a chance to talk to Li Xiao. She just wanted to talk to Li and stop shooting.
Li Xiao took the knife and said, "Master, can this knife be placed in this room?" My family is a farmer, and I'm scared to see this."
Zhu Biao didn't want Li Xiao to carry this woman's knife with him, so he said, "Just put it here, what are you doing with it on your back, you won't use it when you encounter danger, and it's cumbersome."
Li Xiao was also relieved when she heard this, she was really afraid that the master would ask her to carry this home.
Summer has gone to autumn, and Li Xiao has been practicing kung fu for more than half a year. The fist and knife techniques have been learned. The main thing is that the master teaches seriously, and the apprentice practices hard. Zhu Biao is already very satisfied with such results.