The car drove through the ranch for a while before reaching the house, which from the outside was not very conspicuous among the vegetation, and the stone walls in the shade were stained with green moss. When you go inside, you have a different look, with modern decoration and furniture, and the snow-white room is very clean and bright, and the outside wall doesn't look like a room.

Pointing to the big-screen TV, hi-fi, DVD, and VCR in the living room, Madison Sr. said: "When I was a child, the only appliance I had at home was a set of radios, which were thrown away decades ago when the house was renovated.

This house is more than 90 years old and was built when my grandfather ran the ranch. There were seven bedrooms with bathrooms – and at that time my grandfather wanted to build a Madison family here. But I couldn't find a successor to the ranch, and the new generation of the Madison family had little interest in running the ranch, and there was a stone house near the wooded spring waterfall three miles away, and the interior looked a little older than here. There are five houses with bathrooms there.

If you're going to buy a ranch, I've already packed up my personal belongings. Those who are suitable here can be kept, and those who are not useful can also be given to the welfare society. ”

Andrew, Attorney: "Before my client confirms intent to buy, I want to look at the accounts of the ranch operation. ”

"No problem, I'll go get it."

Sitting down in the living room, Madison showed Zhang Cheng and the lawyer an account of the income and expenses of the ranch last year. The income is from the sale of cattle and the sale of liquor, and the annual sales of hundreds of thousands of dollars of whiskey are negligible in front of the sales of more than three million dollars of cattle. It's no wonder that Madison used wine as a start-up.

The biggest part of the expenditure is the wages of workers, and the wages of cowboys are also high in the United States, and the annual salary of a cowboy is more than 20,000 US dollars. The Madison Ranch employs thirty-seven people, and this piece is a million dollars a year.

The second big guy is the epidemic prevention cost and insurance cost of cattle (not only cattle, but also pastures), and the expenditure of this piece is hundreds of thousands of dollars a year - but there are also benefits, you have natural disasters and man-made disasters and plagues here, and the cattle died, and it was the insurance company that lost money.

Other bits and pieces add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, such as the machine is too broken to be repaired, and it is not unusual to replace it with a new one—it is not unusual for the old machine to fail.

However, the largest part of the above expenditure is the repayment of bank principal and interest. According to Madison. This is the debt of the previous ranch due to the expansion of the operation - fifteen years ago, Madison was ambitious to expand the ranch, so he was persuaded by the broker to take out a loan to buy land and cattle, and the ranch was doubled in size, but it was also almost dragged down by bank loans.

Fortunately, the income from the ranch is still passable, and the price of land in the United States has been rising in recent years, and the new loan has been repaid and the old money has been reversed back and forth, so that it has not been dragged to death. However, a large part of the income is given to the bank to repay the interest.

Speaking of which. Madison said: "I had known that I would have rented a ranch to expand my business instead of buying a ranch. At that time, I saw the adjacent ranch for sale, so I couldn't help but buy it, but the price of the land rose. Although I have paid a lot of interest over the years, I have not paid any compensation. But if you want to take out a loan to buy this ranch, you have to be careful to calculate the pressure of the bank to repay the loan, I almost suffered a loss. ”

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Don't worry about this, I bought it in full, zero pressure." ”

"That's pretty good," Madison said. ”

Madison also called his own lawyer, and while the two lawyers were preparing for the contract, Madison's grandson and a granddaughter, two children about ten years old, ran down from the upstairs to play with their grandfather.

Two little blonde foreigners saw Zhang Cheng, and one of the little girls asked, "Are you Chinese?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Yes." ”

The little girl clapped her hands: "That's great, do you know Chinese kung fu?" ”

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Yes." ”

Madison's grandson, the little boy, asked, "Is it the boxing champion who is great, or is the Chinese kung fu great?" ”

Zhang Chengyi thought about it and replied: "If you use the rules of boxing, it is natural that the boxing champion is powerful, if there are no rules, Chinese kung fu is powerful, and the purpose of Chinese kung fu was first invented to kill the enemy more effectively, and competitive sports that require referees are two different things." ”

Little girl: "Then can you teach me Chinese kung fu?" That way I can bully the boys at school. ”

Madison Sr.: "......"

Zhang Cheng took the trouble to explain to the little girl: "Chinese kung fu can be divided into three types, the first is the embroidered legs of flower boxing, which belongs to the nature of performance and fitness. However, this kind of flower fist embroidered leg is very quick to learn, and if you are willing to learn it, you can learn it in about three or five months. You can learn from martial arts halls all over the world.

The second type of Chinese kung fu is similar to American boxing or French kicking, which is supplemented by the main skill of building muscle strength, which we Chinese call hard kung fu or foreign boxing. Those masters who embroidered their legs and met foreign boxing immediately appeared as prototypes, but the time to learn foreign boxing was relatively long. Except for the time to examine the disciples' minds, why should they practice for three or five years?

The third type of Chinese kung fu we call Neijia boxing, and it is also the strongest punch in Chinese kung fu. Practicing this internal boxing may not make much progress in terms of strength for three years, five years, or ten years. However, once you enter the door, you will have 30 years of kung fu for 30 years, and you will have 50 years of kung fu for 50 years, and your boxing will not decline because of your aging. Many masters of internal boxing were already over fifty years old when they became famous. ”

The little girl asked: "I understand what you said about flower boxing and embroidered legs and outer boxing, but what does inner boxing look like?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "To put it simply, it is a highly efficient killing punch. Neijiaquan relies on the strength of the whole body to concentrate on a point of explosion, not only the muscle strength, but also the strength of the internal organs and bones of the whole body, which can easily shatter a person's sternum or skull. There are no planks here, I can show you a demonstration. ”

Zhang Cheng looked at it, an ordinary pine plank one inch thick and one foot long, and then put the plank in front of the table and said, "We know that whether it is a punch or a kick, it is still easy to destroy such a pine plank. But what if it's just selective destruction......"

As he spoke, Zhang Cheng slapped his palm on the wooden board and quickly stopped it.

Everyone looked at the pine board again, but saw a half-inch deep handprint printed on the pine board, "wow" The little girl couldn't help but put her hand into the handprint in amazement. Madison Sr. was also an eye-opener, it is much more difficult to print a handprint than to break two, like boxing free wrestling on TV.

"This is Mingjin, which is used to break human bones." Zhang Cheng explained: "Find a pillow, it doesn't have to be too big. ”

The little girl quickly found a pillow. Zhang Cheng turned the wooden board over, covered it with a pillow, and then slapped it on the pillow. When the pillow was removed, another palm print appeared on the board, but it was much shallower than the first one.

Zhang Cheng said: "This is penetrating power, which is used to hit the enemy's internal organs. ”

The little girl asked, "How did you do that?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "You don't understand it deeply, to put it simply, it is to concentrate the direction of the force." You see, light scattering is harmless, but when concentrated into a laser beam, it is very powerful. ”

The little girl asked excitedly, "Can I learn Neijiaquan?" ”

Zhang Cheng poured a scoop of cold water on it: "Of course you can, but I have no plans to accept disciples for the time being." The inner fist takes people's lives, breaks people's muscles and bones, and hurts people's hearts, and accepting apprentices has always been very strict, and the inspection period will take several years.

I don't think modern people have time to spend more than a decade or more learning a Chinese kung fu, which is not a competitive sport. If you are really interested in Chinese kung fu, it is better to start learning from those martial arts gyms, and it is no problem to mix with a Hollywood action star. ”

Madison also nodded, and said to his granddaughter: "That's fine, you go to the martial arts hall to learn for a while and then see if you are interested." ”

Both adults said this, and the little girl had no choice but to say, "Okay, fortunately, there are a lot of martial arts gyms in Los Angeles." Can you recommend one? ”

Zhang Cheng thought about it and had an answer: "Wing Chun, this boxing method was invented by a woman, and melee short fights are more suitable for women." ”

In fact, Tai Chi is also very suitable for women or young and old, regardless of group, but for foreigners who don't even know how to understand the Tao Te Ching, it is really difficult to understand the subtlety of Taoist Tai Chi.

"Wing Chun, Wing Chun......" the little girl said after reading it a few times, "I remember." (To be continued......)