Chapter 4: Martial Arts for the First Time

Not long after the leader left with the hunting team, nearly half of the adult female members of the snake tribe also left the tribe, holding sharpened wooden sticks in their hands, and went to the small river more than two hundred meters south of the cave to fish, and Su Yan's adoptive mother was also among them.

After the hunting team and the fishing team left, the combat effectiveness left in the place where the snake tribe lived was sharply reduced, although there were still more than a hundred tribesmen, but most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, only three adult male tribesmen remained, and there were nearly thirty adult female tribesmen, but except for a few of them who could participate in the battle, the rest were pregnant women, and their bellies were already bulging.

Fortunately, if something unexpected happens, the adult female tribesmen fishing in the small river not far away will return quickly.

In the open space outside the cave, pregnant women, the elderly, and the sick sat scattered on the ground, and they were not idle, some weaved straw ropes, some weaved straw shoes, and some polished stone tools.

The children who have not yet grown up are naturally not among the laborers, they are in groups of three or five, playing with each other, and several children follow the fishing team to the river to play, originally Xiaohua Xiaoyue and the two sisters also wanted to follow, but were stopped by their mother, so they could only stay in the place of residence.

However, Satsuki Xiaohua did not sit in the sun or play with other children, but collected flowers around the snake tribe's residence, and then stuck flowers on her head.

Especially my sister Xiaohua, I like to put flowers on my head the most, so Su Yan named her "Xiaohua", as for Xiaoyue, her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon when she smiled, which is the origin of Xiaoyue's name.

In the past, Su Yan would also play with other children, and sometimes she would be pulled by Xiaohua Xiaoyue to collect flowers, but today's Su Yan honestly stayed in a vacant lot, doing some strange actions.

In the previous life, Su Yan was born in the Su family, a thousand-year-old family of traditional Chinese medicine, and how many wars and turmoil have been experienced and the inheritance has not been broken.

The name of this set of boxing methods is ordinary, called "Su's Boxing Method", but it is an authentic set of internal boxing, which can practice the internal force in martial arts novels.

According to the records of the ancestors of the Su clan, there are people in the Su clan who practice the martial arts in the "Su Fist Method", and they can be ten or even hundred.

It's just that with the passage of time, no one can practice the "Su's Boxing Method" to a high depth, and in modern times, even the internal force cannot be practiced, and the "Su's Boxing Method" can only be practiced as a force technique and health boxing.

There is a saying that has been widely recognized by the martial arts family, they believe that the air in ancient times contained a special ingredient, and the practice of internal strength needed to consume this special ingredient to transmit into internal force, but this special ingredient is constant, use a little less, so martial arts have been declining, and in modern times, martial artists can't even cultivate internal strength, and martial arts have completely declined.

Su Yan agrees.

Although modern martial arts has declined, but the Su family has maintained the tradition of martial arts, "Su boxing method" is divided into martial arts (thirty-six styles) and Wenquan (thirty-six styles), martial arts to kill the enemy Wenquan health, even if it is impossible to cultivate internal force, martial arts skills and Wenquan health also have a lot of effects, Su children have practiced martial arts since childhood, and even the internal strength of the heart method with only a few hundred words also needs to be memorized.

Reliving a life, it is a primitive era, the beasts on the land are running around, and there are countless poisonous insects hidden on the ground, what Su Yan needs most is strength, and practicing martial arts has become Su Yan's best choice.

And Su Yan also found something that made Su Yan excited.

In modern society, an adult man can lift about 50 catties with one hand, and an adult man who often does manual work can lift about 250 kilograms in two people under normal circumstances.

Su Yan speculated that primitive people were more powerful than modern people because they often ate meat and incorporated a small amount of mysterious ingredients in the air into themselves when they breathed. (The issue of salt will be discussed later.)

Now that he was able to control his body, after the hunting team and the fishing team left, Su Yan couldn't wait to come to a certain place in the open space in front of the cave and play a set of Wenquan 36 styles.

For the first time in his life, he practiced the thirty-six styles of Wenquan, and Su Yan stumbled into a complete set of moves, and he was already out of breath after the fight.

Su Yan is only eight years old this year, and he had a serious illness the year before last, so now he can only barely finish Wenquan once, and he is no longer able to think about it a second time, Su Yan also gave up the idea of playing Wenquan a second time today, as for the more difficult martial arts, don't think about it in a short time.

Since ancient times, there has been the idiom "poor literature and rich martial arts".

Poor people learn literature, they can hang their heads on the beams, they can dig holes to get light, they can catch fireflies and put a small yarn bag to read at night, in short, no matter how poor they are, as long as they can wrap their stomachs, eat a nest in three days, kick and pull a broken straw sandals to go to the capital, they can get fame.

Practicing martial arts is different, if you want to learn real kung fu, you need to spend money to apprentice, practicing martial arts is hard work, and you also need adequate nutrition, and you need to consume a lot of meat every day, which is not something that ordinary families can provide.

Now that Su Yan wants to practice martial arts, the most important thing is to have a good body, but as a minor, it is not a simple matter for Su Yan to eat well in the snake tribe, if Su Yan practices martial arts normally, his appetite will even exceed that of adult male clansmen, and it is impossible for the snake tribe to give Su Yan so much food.

In addition, a large number of medicinal materials are also needed when practicing martial arts, soaking in medicinal baths, and eating medicinal food, which can not only remove the dark injuries that appear when practicing martial arts, but also speed up the progress of martial arts.

Fortunately, Su Yan is still young, and his meridians are fragile and he can't cultivate internal force, and if he wants to cultivate internal force, he has to be at least twelve years old, and before that, he needs to take care of his body and lay a foundation, even if he does, he needs to consume a lot of food.

Food is a more troublesome thing for Su Yan, the snake tribe implements public ownership of food, all food needs to be returned to the public every day, and when it is time to eat, the leader or the person appointed by the leader distributes the food, and the food of a child like Su Yan is rationed, and it is impossible to take as much as an adult male clansman can eat.

After playing a set of Wenquan 36 styles, Su Yan sat on the ground, resting, and enjoying the warm sunshine, still thinking about how to get more food.

After a while, Xiaohua and Xiaoyue jumped up and down to Su Yan hand in hand, Xiaohua and Xiaoyue put the flowers in their hands on Su Yan's head, and Xiaoyue was still combing Su Yan's hair behind Su Yan's back.