After saying that, Lin Shan suddenly sighed, with a slightly gloomy look in his eyes. A ten-year-old child can't hide his thoughts very skillfully. Although he forgave his junior brother, looking at the broken notebook in his hand, the regret in his heart was still a little uncontrollable.

After receiving positive confirmation from his senior brother, Cen Chi's anxious mood finally became more steady. When his spirit relaxed, and when he saw his senior brother sighing worriedly, he felt a little empathy and hoped that he could relieve his worries.

After thinking for a moment, he asked, "What about the note...... Isn't it already spelled out? ”

"That's pretty much it, but a few words are missing." The young Lin Shan stroked the crumpled title page and said softly: "In the early years, I used to memorize this notebook, but then I didn't turn it over for a while, and recently I found that I forgot jì in some places, and no matter how I read it repeatedly, I couldn't remember what those missing words were." Master said that regular revision is more important than memorization, and that's true! ”

Cen Chi had a thoughtful look on his face, and suddenly said, "Maybe I remember!" ”

Lin Shan was surprised and said, "You? ”

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When Xiao Kuang, the twenty-second generation disciple of Beili, found his two junior disciples in a cave on the mountainside that had been occupied by wild boars, he saw two boys four years apart lying on the ground side by side, their heads close together, as if they were discussing something, and their hands were gesturing to a tattered book under their faces from time to time.

"Second junior brother, third junior brother, you really hid here." Xiao Kuang, the eldest disciple of Beili, accepted the oil-paper umbrella in his hand and walked into the cave, "You guys are lying on the ground, what are you doing?" ”

The young man Lin Shan noticed the person walking in outside the cave for a moment, and when he looked up and saw that it was Senior Brother, a happy smile immediately bloomed on his face, and he sat up and beckoned: "Senior Brother! What a genius the little junior brother is! He was able to never forget! ”

Cen Chi, who was lying beside him, also looked up at the entrance of the cave, and soon laughed happily, and called, "Big ...... Big brother ......" in his impression. Senior brother is not often seen, so whenever he opens his mouth to call this senior brother, he always feels a little jerky in the title.

After Cen Chi finished calling, he was ready to turn over and sit up like the senior brother next to him. Unexpectedly, after lying on his stomach for a long time, his arm was numb and unable to exert strength due to the pressure of his body, not only failed to support his body, but fell a mouth full of grass clippings without paying attention.

"Senior brother." Lin Shan hurriedly helped Cen Chi, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Cen Chi said truthfully: "My hands are numb. ”

At this time, Xiao Kuang had also walked closer, looking at the second junior brother rubbing his hands to the third junior brother, he was a little puzzled and asked, "Third junior brother, the master taught you martial arts, didn't you understand it?" The paralysis of the limbs caused by the behaviors of standing for a long time, sitting for a long time, and squatting for a long time should be relieved quickly. This is a heavy learning curve for us in the future. It is also a skill that must be mastered. ”

Cen Chi immediately lowered his head when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "I'...... I can't get the hang of it. ”

Lin Shan, who was on the side, explained to him: "The little junior brother is only six years old, and the days of practice will be long in the future, what is the hurry." Not everyone is like you, talent is in martial arts. Do you compare your ability to endorse books with your junior brother? ”

Xiao Kuang didn't argue with Lin Shan, but because of his words, he remembered something that he almost ignored, and asked with a smile: "Senior Brother Lin, how do you think that junior brother can never forget?" ”

Lin Shan pointed to the tattered booklet spread out on the ground, and carefully described what happened after Cen Chi took the booklet and read it just now.

After Xiao Kuang listened, he didn't show too much surprise on his face, and said with a light smile: "It seems that Master's eyesight is still keen. Good luck, too. ”

The two juniors had puzzled expressions on their faces.

Xiao Kuang hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Little junior brother, you stand up, senior brother has a question to test you." ”

Cen Chi hurriedly stood up and looked at Senior Brother, although he did not speak. But his expression was noticeably becoming more serious.

Lin Shan also stood up, and at the same time helped out: "It can't be too difficult, it's only been a year since the junior brother started!" ”

Xiao Kuang really wanted to play tricks on Lin Shan at this time, when did the relationship between these two children become so iron? But he just smiled it again in the end, and then put away his smile. His complexion gradually became stricter. He bent down and picked up a dead grass from the ground, then stared at the two juniors in front of him, and then broke the grass in his hand.

"Little junior brother, can you tell the length of this grass?" Xiao Kuang grabbed the end of the folded withered grass with his fingertips and handed it out to Cen Chi's eyes, while his gaze stared at Lin Shan's hand hanging by his side, and said in a deep voice: "Senior Brother Lin, don't try to help cheat. ”

Lin Shan didn't speak, just tied his hands behind his back and turned his head to look away, looking unconcerned.

After a while, the voice of the little junior brother Cen Chi came: "Five inches." ”

"Well, that's good." Xiao Kuang nodded appreciatively, then pointed at Lin Shan, and said, "Senior Brother Lin, it's your turn." ”

Lin Shan turned his head and said with a slight surprise: "You didn't say you wanted to test me just now!" ”

"Come on, don't pretend." Because the length of the withered grass has been reported by Cen Chi, in order to be fair, Xiao Kuang's fingertips moved slightly, and retracted a part of the withered grass into the palm of his hand, "Give you three breaths of time, one, two......"

Before Xiao Kuang finished shouting three numbers, Lin Shan had already opened his mouth and replied: "Three inches and four points." ”

Xiao Kuang didn't praise Lin Shan like Kwa Cen Chi, but after receiving the answer, the other hand hanging by his side slid out a tape measure like a trick and began to measure it on the withered grass.

The total length of the withered grass was six inches and four minutes, so Cen Chi's report was not entirely accurate. The length of the section that was pinched and folded after that was three inches and two minutes, although Lin Shan did not report the correct length, but it was amazing enough to be able to "measure" the length of this withered grass in such a short time with the naked eye.

Cen Chi looked at the second senior brother Lin Shan beside him in a daze, although he didn't know how to express his admiration, but this did not prevent him from showing a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Actually, all three of us have a talent that ordinary people don't often get, which may be the reason why the three of us can get together, but it's not something to be proud of." Xiao Kuang only stopped at this point, and did not explain what to do if he couldn't be complacent, and then turned to say: "It's not early, we should go back." ”

Lin Shan didn't suddenly remember something until this time, and exclaimed, "Senior brother, is it ...... Master is back? He remembered the days when Master was in the cottage. The senior brother may not be in the grass house, but as long as the senior brother is in the grass house, then the master will definitely be there.

Xiao Kuang's eyebrows moved slightly, and his gaze swept over the pottery altar on the ground. A hint of wisdom appeared in his eyes, turned his direction to look at Lin Shan, and said lightly: "Senior Brother Lin, you're done." ”

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On the mountain road with heavy rain, Cen Chi, the last disciple of the twenty-second generation of Beili, was lying on the warm back of Senior Brother Xiao Kuang, and looked sideways at the Second Senior Brother next to him. Xiao Kuang wrapped his left hand around his back, held Cen Chi's buttocks steady, and hung his right hand at his side, carrying a wine jar that was blackened by firewood tied with a straw rope.

Parallel to him was the second senior brother Lin Shan, who raised his hands in a somewhat strange posture. One tall and one short, holding two umbrellas. The three of them walked back in the direction of the grass hut on the mountainside, and if someone could look down from the sky, there seemed to be two walking mushrooms on the mountain road in the hazy rain and fog.

"Senior brother, you really refuse to help me lie in front of Master?" Lin Shan was accustomed to a handsome face with an indifferent expression. A rare one showed a look of horror and worry.

"It's not that I don't help, it's that this jar really can't be washed back to its original color, and the wine that was originally contained in it can't be recovered. In the face of this situation, it is better for you to be honest. Xiao Kuang tugged at the corners of his mouth, not knowing whether the smile was a kind comfort or the joy of a theatergoer, "Now Senior Brother can only pray to you." Don't happen to pour out the most cherished jar of wine so that He can forgive you. ”

The corner of the young man's eyes twitched, and he asked with a somewhat nervous expression: "Senior brother, do you know which altar is Master's favorite?" ”

"Yes." Xiao Kuang smiled and said, "But does this altar in your hand happen to be that altar?" The senior brother couldn't see it anymore. ”

The young man holding two umbrellas next to him lowered his head.

Cen Chi, who was being carried by Xiao Kuang, suddenly shouted: "Senior Brother Lin, the rain, the rain is falling......"

The young Lin Shan hurriedly straightened his back again, and the two crooked umbrellas were like grass and trees that had been recuperating all night after the wind and rain, and they were reinvigorated. Cover the rain overhead.

Xiao Kuang glanced at the junior brother beside him, who was still depressed despite holding the umbrella high, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "In fact, before burning the jar, you can first apply a layer of mud on the outside, so that with the temperature of the firewood, no matter how you burn it, there will be no traces." ”

Lin Shan's eyes flashed with a hint of brightness very quickly, but soon it dimmed, he just sighed again and again and said, "How dare there be a next time!" Senior brother, you are always like this, waiting until the matter is over to make a statement. ”

"Really? I remember saying these things to you before. ”

"I don't remember at all."

"It's my business to say that I don't say it, but it's your business to remember it or not, maybe you need to suffer a little to remember it. This is not something that can be rescued by an abnormal talent, but it is caused by your mental slackness, which is a bad habit. ”

"You ......"

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Back at the cottage, Lin Shan obeyed the advice of the senior brother and calmly admitted his mistake to the master, but he did not reduce the punishment because of honesty at all, and as a result, he was beaten with twenty boards, and the flesh wound on his buttocks was bedridden for half a month before healing.

Without Lin Shan's help, Cen Chi really realized how heavy the two tasks of carrying water and collecting firewood in his daily homework were, more than three times heavier than reading and writing.

However, because he had to take care of Lin Shan, the senior brother stayed in the grass house and stayed for half a month, which was a rare thing in the past.

Because of this month's relationship, Cen Chi finally got used to calling Xiao Kuang his senior brother, but he couldn't change his name when he called his second senior brother Lin Shan, and he still habitually shouted out "senior brother". In this regard, Xiao Kuang first tried to correct it for a few days, but when he saw that it had no effect, he gradually relaxed.

In addition, Cen Chi also had the opportunity to fully understand what the second senior brother was talking about, which five pentathlon senior brothers were "able".

Among these five skills, Cen Chi experienced the most deeply the cooking skills of the senior brother, and the most shocking thing was the martial arts of the senior brother. He finally believed that a person could practice martial arts to the point that he could kill a wild boar with his bare hands, so the wild boar's den that day was hiding from the rain no longer dared to have a wild boar left, and he was really frightened by the methods of the senior brother.

And although he has an amazing memory, I am afraid that he will never be able to catch up with the level of the senior brother in martial arts cultivation.

Cen Chi realized that the talent possessed by the senior brother lay in his comprehension of martial arts, and this kind of heaven-given material could not be surpassed by himself.

The senior brother only smiled faintly at this, and only said: "The wise man is in charge of the world, and war is always better than peace and longevity, so in the future." People with good brains still have a brighter future than those with strong martial arts. ”

Cen Chi Yingying heard a certain meaning in Senior Brother's words, and immediately retorted disapprovingly: "Senior Brother, you are not stupid!" I don't know what you know......"

Senior Brother Xiao Kuang gently stroked the child's pigtail on Cen Chi's head, and said with a smile: "Senior brother is one multiple older than you. This knowledge is just the accumulation of time, and when you grow to my age, you will definitely be much better than me...... You little brain, you don't know where the limit of your memory will be? ”

Cen Chi raised his head and asked, "What is the 'limit of memory'?" ”

Xiao Kuang hesitated and said, "This senior brother can't answer it, but when you grow up, you will naturally know, because this answer belongs only to you." ”

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In addition to having a comprehensive understanding of the senior brother's personality, in the frequent intersection of this half month, Cen Chi and Xiao Kuang's way of getting along is similar to a question and an answer. And this pattern is repeated over and over again.

In this way, Cen Chi learned more about the sideways from Xiao Kuang. The reason why it is called a side door is because Cen Chi is pulling the banner of mutual assistance and discussing pedantry, but the questions are all doubts that the master teaches outside of knowledge.

Fortunately, the senior brother is obviously more patient than the second senior brother, and he is as friendly as ever. In the face of some strange questions often asked by his six-year-old junior brother, he never got irritable and angry.

It's just that compared with the second senior brother, Cen Chi soon discovered that the senior brother actually had a flaw that made him scratch his head very depressed, that is, although he had a serious expression when answering questions, he often said some words that he didn't understand. Moreover, this kind of understanding is that the more you explore, the more confused you become. There is no word at all, so many questions are explored to the end, and I don't know how to end.

For example, on the fifth day after the second senior brother Lin Shan was punished and beaten, the senior brother Xiao Kuang made lunch and brought it into the grass hut to eat with the two junior brothers, and Cen Chi suddenly thought of the way back from the wild boar cave five days ago. He has not been able to understand a word that the senior brother has said, and he immediately carried forward the spirit of studying and inquiring.

Cen Chi knew that when he asked a question, the senior brother would definitely respond with an extremely patient and meticulous explanation. The length of the article is long, Rao has a strong memory, and it is easy to get dizzy. So before he asked the question, he first went through the thoughts in his mind, and then slowly asked: "Senior brother, you said the other day, 'Having a talent is not something to be proud of', may I ask what is 'proud'?" ”

"The most commonly used meaning is complacency and pride, but in a few contexts, it can also be understood separately, such as 'comprehending the meaning' and 'achieving the intention' can also be used as a proud word." Senior Brother Xiao Kuang really carried forward his patience as always, "Little Senior Brother, understanding words needs to match the meaning of the words, you can pick out what I said as a word example, this is very good......"

"That's enough." Lin Shan, the young man at the table, couldn't listen anymore, knocked on the table and said: "I feel that I am the number one genius in the world, this is pride; I feel that I don't need to go to school anymore, and I will always be the number one genius in the world, which is complacency; When the two of them are together, they are proud, and it is you who ......" Lin Shan raised his eyebrows and stared at Cen Chi: "...... Little junior brother. ”

Because he was punished by the master five days ago, the young Lin Shan endured the pain of 20 boards, and a layer of skin was peeled off his buttocks, and he could only lie on his stomach in bed for the past few days, and he had to kneel on the futon when eating, which was quite uncomfortable.

And the most uncomfortable thing for him is that his ears are not clear, this little junior brother has hundreds of questions hidden in his head, and he seems to have memorized all the questions he has seen. It's just that the senior brother is so patient, pity the weak, answer all questions, and be too careful and cumbersome, I can hear Lin Shan's ear drums almost calloused, but because of the injuries on his body, he can't avoid it.

When he was lying on the bed to recuperate, he could also pull a few books to read, devote himself to the knowledge of books, and naturally be able to isolate part of the "noise" around his ears. But when it came to eating, I couldn't do it anymore. was forced to be noisy, and Lin Shan, who was a teenager, was also a little annoyed.

Cen Chi was frightened by the sudden voice of the second senior brother, but he didn't hear what he just said very clearly.

Senior Brother Xiao Kuang on the side didn't care, but he also interrupted the tirade that he was going to give to Cen Chi, and just reminded lightly: "Senior Brother Lin, don't knock on the table when you speak, pay attention to Sven, if Master sees you like this, the next person to be knocked on the head will be you." ”

Hearing the mention of the honorific title of Master in the words of the senior brother, the two junior brothers at the table were silent together. One is thinking of the pain when he was beaten to the board a few days ago, and the other is thinking of the sadness in his heart when he watched his senior brother take the board a few days ago.

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After eating, Xiao Kuang helped Lin Shan back to bed and lay on his stomach. Cen Chi jumped out of his chair and collected his chopsticks along the edge of the table. He was only six years old, and even if his back was straight, his shoulders were just as high as the table, and the bowl on the table was out of reach.

Although this little favor was meaningless, when Xiao Kuang turned around to put away the bowl, he still smiled at Cen Chi, who was standing at the table, and thanked him.

Cen Chi looked at the smile on Senior Brother's face, and a thought that had been entrenched in his heart for a long time finally burst out uncontrollably: "Senior Brother, why don't you live with us?" ”

Xiao Kuang didn't answer immediately, but just asked, "Isn't it good that you live with Senior Brother Lin?" ”