Chapter 20: Confinement

Li Kuan consciously walked into the confinement room, and when the wooden door slammed shut, the surroundings suddenly darkened, and even with Li Kuan's keen eyesight, he could only see a blurry outline. Coming to the bed and sitting down, Li Kuan began to think about how to spend the past few days. The environment was darker and quieter than he had expected.

At first, Li Kuan didn't think it was anything, but at this time it seemed so long, Li Kuan sat on the bed idlely, I don't know how long it took. Looking at the light under the door, which was not much darker than before, Li Kuan knew that it had not been long since the time passed, but it was only about half an hour. However, he felt that he had been here for a long time, and only then did Li Kuan really feel that this confinement was a world of difference compared to the cellar he had brought before. It's not easy to stretch out in such a small environment, let alone punch inside.

Slowly, Li Kuan felt that the sounds around him were getting clearer and clearer, not to say that he could hear the distant sound outside, but the sound of his own breathing and heartbeat. He felt his breath like the bellows he pulled when he struck the iron himself. Between exhales and breaths, he could even hear the sound of exhaled breath breaking through the air. and the heartbeat, like a big drum, the sound of dong vibrated Li Kuan's eardrums, making his eardrums hurt.

"Whew......" he let out a long breath to ease the oppressive atmosphere. But the effect does not seem to be good, and even the sound of gastrointestinal peristalsis begins to appear, is this an auditory hallucination? Li Kuan was not sure, got up, and set up a boxing ring in front of the bed, although he couldn't practice Xinyi Boxing. But the three-body pose doesn't take up much space, and it can still be practiced. It's still not going to work, but it doesn't have to really go forward. Just stay in a still position. Squat with your feet at 45 degrees, and do not lean forward or backward. Hands folded and index fingers together. The five fingers are as open as they can, as if they are grasping a large ball. Press down on your waist and abdomen and lift your hips. Including the chest, the spine and the crown of the head and the feet are in a straight line.

Standing like this for a while, Li Kuan took a step forward with his left foot. At the same time, the hands that were originally overlapped at the dantian, the left hand was also pushed out suddenly, and the five fingers were still opened vigorously, hitting the air with a loud sound. The index finger of the left hand is on a level plane with his nose. Directly facing the tip of the nose. At the same time, the legs are in a lunge. The knees are slightly buckled, but you can't see it, the left leg is pushed back, the right leg is propped forward, and the body remains silent.

This is only the first form of the three-body pose, and Li Kuan didn't fight any further, because he had already reached the wall at this step, and he was about to hit the wall any further. He maintained this position, and his breathing became calm and regular. The previously irritable mood also began to calm down. This posture has been practiced countless times in his two lifetimes, it is simply engraved into the bones, the only thing that this Xinyi Quan and Xingyi Quan have in common is this three-body pose, focusing on chicken feet, dragon body, bear arms, tiger and leopard head, which is the most basic thing of these two boxing techniques.

In this way, Li Kuan relieved the boredom caused by a long period of loneliness. It's just that this is only a symptom but not a cure, so although it can be cathartic a little, it will happen after a long time. After all, people are social animals, and if they stay alone, or in this dark and dead environment, normal people will become irritable. Li Kuan is still good, on the other side, Tong Zhan has already begun to scold his mother, and he is still scolding Li Kuan's mother.

This captain of the Hundred Cavalry Division from Xiangma was smashing things in the confinement room irritably at this time, and staying in this dark environment made him feel uneasy, and then he was inexplicably irritable, and what happened before him kept appearing in front of his eyes, and he thought he had forgotten a lot of things. But at this moment, he found that he remembered so clearly that the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty had ruined his family. In order to protect him and his mother, his father entangled and scuffled with a group of bandits and strongmen, and was finally killed on the spot, splashing him with blood. Tong Zhan suddenly found that he remembered all the scenes at that time so clearly, and his father's desperate gaze when he was dying pierced his heart deeply. Later, he and his mother jumped off a cliff, and his mother used herself as a meat pad to protect him, and fell to pieces. And the bandits were clutching their spoils, a bag of wheat, and laughing on the cliff.

"Ah......h Tong Zhan shouted, he couldn't forget these things, although he later learned a martial art and killed the group of bandits, but his dead parents could never be resurrected.

It's not just Tong Zhan, Liu Wei and Zhang Baoxiang are starting to go crazy, who of them doesn't have a lot of bitter past? In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, except for those real high-ranking families, who could be spared? All of them are hard-working people, but they are usually covered by their strong appearance, and now in this special environment, after peeling off the hard shell, the weakest part of their hearts is exposed, and they all have their own stories, and they are all silent and unable to extricate themselves. But this is only at the beginning, and as time goes on, these feelings will become more real, and they will be more deeply immersed in them. Until someone interrupts them, or breaks free from them.

The soldiers who delivered the food only gently put the food in the hollow under the door, as for whether the people inside ate ate or not, they didn't care, they had seen a lot of such people outside this month, even if the identities of several people here were a little different, but so what? They are now only under the orders of Generalissimo Li Jing, as for the rest of the people, sorry, this is a confinement room, and all those who come here have violated military law, which was written into military law by Generalissimo when these confinement rooms were just built, and there is no other identity here, only the people who are punished.

So as soon as they put the bowl down, they stood on their sentry and waited until the next meal, and then took back the previous bowl of food.

Time passed quietly, two days had passed in three days, Tong Zhan, Liu Wei and Zhang Baoxiang had gone from the very beginning of the wow and wow screams to the current loneliness and silence, this qiē change made the sentry soldiers feel numb. Only the soldiers standing outside Li Kuan's door felt very strange, here was the new commander of the recruit battalion, Captain Li Kuan, who looked like a child, and the fluff at the corners of his lips that had not faded revealed his age. This kind of son-in-law who has just reached the crown should be the first to collapse. Several soldiers guarding the door thought that this little guy would shout if he couldn't last two hours, who would have thought that this child-looking Captain Yunlu would actually hold out for two days. You can even eat.

It wasn't until time slowly slipped away, and there was still half a day left, that the roars of the people inside began to come from Li Kuan's confinement room.

Li Kuan collapsed, in the past two and a half days, he first relied on the three-body pose of the Xinyi Fist to suppress the surging feelings in his heart, but by this time he couldn't suppress it at all. The tide of the past in his heart began to ripple, stirring those fragments of memories that had long been dusty, and appeared in Li Kuan's mind. When he was a child, his mother took him to his grandmother's house. The single-plank bridge in front of his grandmother's house made it impossible for him to move as a young man.

Later, his father died unexpectedly, and his mother washed her face with tears all day long, but for him. Hold on to the home that has become incomplete. Gray hair and wrinkles began to creep up her ends and sideburns, and the years left their mark on her countenance. Now I remember it clearly, the wrinkles contain his mother's strong love for him, and the white hairs are all the passage of his mother's hard work, and they are all quietly bred for his countless efforts.

Now Li Kuan found that in the depths of his heart, there was that kind of surging feeling. But thousands of years have separated him from his mother in two worlds, and there is no hope in this life to repay the person who loves him the most who has poured all his feelings and efforts into him. Li Kuan regretted endlessly. Endless remorse, I was adrift all those years, and the days I spent with her every year were numbered, and now that I think about it, it makes people's hearts feel like knives.

The corners of his eyes were soaked with a liquid called tears, and then burst out of the embankment, and Li Kuan began to lose control of his feelings and began to cry. It has been seven years since he came to Datang, and the emotions that have been suppressed in the deepest part of his heart over the years have been suppressed for too long, and the dust has been sealed for too long, which makes him feel numb. But now it is so fresh and unforgettable, maybe I will never forget it in this life.

Li Kuan closed his eyes, he wanted to see clearly the face that had begun to blur in his memory, and he wanted to engrave her face in his heart. I want to travel through that thousand years of time, and when I open my eyes again, I have returned to the polluted twenty-first century, to the world that he knows and stranges to the world, to the people he loves and loves him the most, and to be able to rejoice in her knees. Tears flowed down his cheeks, but Li Kuan didn't want to wipe it, he wanted to remember this feeling. This is the feeling of tears for his mother, and it is also the deepest feeling in his heart. Maybe I'll never get a chance to feel it again. Although he still thinks of the person he misses the most, he will not cry anymore, because she will be sad if he weeps.

When I opened my eyes, I was still in the dark confinement room, and I closed it again, and opened it again. On the dark dome, there seemed to be a mother's kind smiling face, she blinked her concerned eyes, and the corners of her mouth carried a tolerant smile: "Son! No matter where you are, remember that Mother always loves you! You have to be good, as long as you are good, your mother will be at ease! ”

"Mother......!" Li Kuan sobbed in a low voice, stretched out his hand, wiped the tears from his cheeks, and rubbed his eyes, trying to see more clearly. But the face was hidden again.

"When the time comes, Captain Yunlu Li Kuan will come out!" As the wooden door opened, the dazzling sunlight shone into the gloomy room, and Li Kuan put his hand in front of his eyes to resist the sunlight. Then he got up from the bed, his feet a little floating, but he still stood still, and took a step. I stumbled on my feet and almost fell, but then I regained my center of gravity and walked steadily in the second step.

Walking out of the confinement room and breathing the air outside, Li Kuan's mood became a little happier: Don't worry, the child will be fine, live well, please rest assured! Even if it has been a thousand years, the love you have given will always be remembered by the child! Li Kuan thought about this and strode in the direction of the new barracks.

Li Kuan left, leaving only the few guards and soldiers looking at each other, has this guy been in such a confinement room before, why is he so much better than the rest? In the distance, Chai Shao looked at Li Kuan, who was striding away, nodded, and turned back to his camp. (To be continued......)