Chapter 19: Apprenticeship
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, whether it is a true Taoist priest or a fake Taoist priest in the Yuxu Palace, they are full of joy and devote themselves to the festival activities. Wrapping zongzi, bunching wormwood, drinking realgar wine, warding off evil and driving away poison, and being busy. Among them, Wang Feng's children's shoes are the most active, scurrying around, and wanting to intervene in everything. However, his main purpose was to show everyone the beautiful purse that hung around his waist. This purse was made by Miss Zhong Ziqi herself, and was given to him before going home for the Dragon Boat Festival. There were so many true and false Taoist priests in the whole view, but they only gave him one person, and this kid didn't sleep for half the night. Of course, he didn't ask for it in vain, and gave back his nunchuck, which he almost never left his body, to Miss Zhong. Later, Zhang Weixin told him that the ancients had a saying that men and women sent things as love tokens, and it seemed that this Miss Zhong wanted to make a promise with herself. Now, this kid is even more happy that he doesn't know what his surname is, if it weren't for his brother suppressing him, he could run to the top of the hall and sing. His behavior was naturally despised by all the traversers, but he didn't care about it himself, but ran to Qingchen to ask for some knowledge about kinship. Qingchen couldn't give him a useful answer, after all, Qingchen himself was not married, and he had never been married to a certain girl, so he could only ask other people. However, Qingchen also brought him good news, or good news for the traversers, that is, the Fuyao Zidao Leader woke up.
When everyone learned that Chen Tuan Ancestor woke up so quickly, they were naturally quite happy, and it was still very rewarding to see such a legendary figure in person. At noon that day, Yu Xuzi invited Fuyaozi to have lunch with everyone, and finally saw this living immortal. It's just that this living immortal doesn't have the so-called fairy wind bones as they imagined, and a pair of small eyes seem to be half-open and half-closed because they haven't slept enough. Although everyone was a little disappointed, they still got up together and saluted Fuyaozi.
Fuyaozi asked everyone to sit down, opened his little eyes slightly, stared at Wang Kunjun who was sitting under him a few times, and then turned his gaze and swept over the faces of these so-called overseas returnees in turn. Then he picked up his wine glass and said a few words to congratulate the festival, and then signaled everyone not to be restrained, to eat and drink.
Although he is plain on the surface, he is very puzzled inside. Just now, he basically looked at everyone's faces, and felt that these people were similar to that Wang Kunjun's faces, and they were all people with double lives. And the vast majority of them are a kind of ordinary, a kind of wealth. The two lives are intertwined for a certain period of time, but it seems that the lives of the rich have a tendency to gradually dominate. If only one Wang Kunjun is like this, it can also be explained by odd numbers and even demons, and now these twenty or thirty people are like this, it is a bit incredible. It seems that I will have to stay here for a year and a half so that I can observe these people properly.
After dinner, Wang Kunjun found Yuxuzi and prepared to communicate with him about a decision reached by the committee yesterday. This motion was put forward by Zhang Weixin, who, based on the situation when he was in distress on the road two days ago, believes that the team's defense at this stage is mainly reflected in several modern weapons. And these modern weapons are too different to attract people's attention. Second, the quantity is limited, and in the case that there is no ability to supplement it at present, we should try to use it sparingly. Therefore, he suggested that some members of the team who had basic and potential should go to Yuxuzi or, if possible, directly to Fuyaozi - the latter was just a chance of luck, and basically no one in the team thought that they could succeed - to learn martial arts. In this way, after a period of practice, you can at least increase the safety factor when you go out. In a sense, everyone on the team can be called the essence now, and losing any of them is a huge loss. The Committee adopted the proposal after discussion and consultation with the persons concerned. Then, on a voluntary basis, twenty candidates were listed. Among them, the military faction except for Li Junwu, who is in his fifties, has signed up, including Lin Xiaoyu, a female military doctor. The three ladies of the car club did not sign up, and among the men, only Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng, Liang Ziyue and Lu Yue signed up. It can be seen from this that the hardships of these petty bourgeois white-collar workers from their previous lives are still incomparable with the soldiers from the People's Liberation Army.
Listening to Wang Kunjun's request, Yu Xuzi groaned slightly, and said: "All the Taoist friends have this will, and they are willing to devote themselves to my disciples to learn martial arts. However, I am afraid that the poor Dao martial arts are careless, which will delay the entry of all Taoist friends. ”
Wang Kunjun hurriedly praised: "Where did the Taoist chief speak." Not to mention the Dao Chang, it is the martial arts of Lingtu Qingchen Listen to my cousin, it is already outstanding, if you can throw yourself under the Dao Chang Sect and your companions, it will be our blessing. ”
After a few more humble words, Yu Xuzi said: "It's just that the Tai Master of the Poor Dao is now in the middle of the view, and if the Poor Dao wants to accept apprentices, he needs to report to the Tai Master, and he can only proceed with the consent of the Tai Master." The king waited patiently for two days, and waited for the poor Dao to ask for the permission of the master, and then discussed the matter in detail. Wang Kunjun knew that what he said was reasonable, so he went back first and waited for good news.
After Yuxuzi waited for him to leave, he immediately went to see Fuyaozi and explained their request. Fuyaozi pondered for a long time, raised his head and said, "In this case, then according to what we said a few days ago, we will meet their request." For the sake of the teacher, these people are all people with abundant true qi, and they are the materials suitable for cultivating the kung fu of my sect. Judging from their behavior in the past few days, they can also be called decent. Especially in the battle the day before yesterday, according to Qingchen, the guy named Wang Feng performed very well, and the other scholars, although they did not have any martial arts, they could also find a suitable opportunity in the battle situation, and use their so-called magic weapons to defeat the enemy, and it was rare to be able to do this. ”
Seeing that Master Tai did not object, Yu Xuzi agreed and prepared to go out. But he was stopped by Fuyaozi, and he saw Fuyaozi think about it for a while, and said, "The teacher thinks it's not appropriate for you to accept them as apprentices." Yu Xuozi was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand why Master Tai suddenly changed his mind again, and was about to ask, when he heard Fuyaozi say: "It's not that the teacher is against accepting them, but that it is not appropriate for you to accept them as apprentices." With their basic conditions, if you practice diligently, I'm afraid it won't take long for some people's martial arts cultivation to be above you. When the time comes, you will not be able to teach them, and if you speak out, you will not be ashamed of them. Therefore, the teacher intends to accept them as re-disciples, and you, the senior brother, will teach them martial arts on behalf of the teacher. When the comprehension of them reaches a certain level, and then the teacher personally guides them, what do you think? ”,
Although Yu Xuzi was a little unconvinced when he heard this, he thought that although those "returnees" had a good foundation, they might not surpass him within a few years, how could they reach the point where they couldn't even teach. But Master Tai has not accepted disciples for many years, and now that he has this thought, it is not good for him to forcibly oppose it. Moreover, it will take time to see what those people can achieve. You might as well promise to come down and talk about it when the time comes.
So Yu Xuzi bowed down and saluted: "Everything is according to what Master Tai said, and after two days, the disciple will convey Master Tai's meaning to the leader of the king." ”
Two days after the Dragon Boat Festival, Yuxuzi found Wang Kunjun and told him what Fuyaozi meant. Wang Kunjun naturally couldn't ask for it, so he readily agreed. Yu Xuzi pinched his fingers and calculated, and said: "Two days later, that is, the ninth day of the fifth month is the auspicious day of the zodiac, it is appropriate to apprentice, why don't you choose this day to apprentice?" ”
Wang Kunjun naturally had no objection to this, and the two discussed the specific ceremony again. Wang Kunjun said that it was still arranged by Yu Xuzi, and these "returnees" didn't know anything anyway, and they would make mistakes if they were blind and peaceful. When Yu Xuzi saw him say this, he took on the responsibility of it. And let Wang Kunjun not worry, he will teach them the relevant etiquette in the past two days, and will never let them make jokes at the ceremony, Wang Kunjun is more than grateful.
After sending off Yuxuzi, Wang Kunjun immediately informed the team of the good news, and the people who signed up were naturally happy, and those who did not sign up were also happy and congratulated the people who signed up.
In the early morning of the ninth day of the fifth month of the third year of Liao Yingli (the third year of Guangshun of the Later Zhou Dynasty, 953 AD), in the courtyard of the apse of the Yuxu Palace, a group of people knelt down under the black pressure, and the apprenticeship ceremony of crossing the crowd was underway. Because Fuyaozi decided to keep everything simple, the twenty people who apprenticed only kowtowed three times each and offered a cup of tea. It's just that these twenty people saluted each person with a cup of tea, and Fuyaozi Lao Dao also drank a stomach full of water. When Zuihou, who was also the youngest Mongolian warrior, Mutr, finished the tea, and the ceremony was over. Everyone stood up and bowed to Fuyaozi, and then turned around together and threw Yuxuzi to the ground, saying, "Senior brother." Yu Xuzi hurriedly stretched out his hand to help each other and said, "All the junior disciples are exempt from courtesy." Only then did everyone straighten up again, and for a while, the senior brothers and brothers shouted to each other, which seemed to be very lively, and the distance between them seemed to have narrowed a lot with the end of this apprenticeship ceremony.
The enthusiastic atmosphere brought by the apprenticeship lasted less than half a day, and it was broken by Fuyaozi's training task that afternoon. Since the vast majority of the apprentices have no martial arts foundation, although everyone's true qi is quite abundant, their bodies are quite lacking in speed and flexibility. Therefore, Fu Yaozi instructed Yu Xuzi to start training all the new disciples except Wang Feng and Zeng Zhilin from the most basic leg press, Zama step. So, from this afternoon, there were bursts of "miserable" shouts from time to time in the woods behind the Yuxu Palace. The traversers, who have long passed the best time to practice martial arts, have been trained physically in various ways, and the process is, in the words of Wang Kunjun: "It is very difficult for people to imagine." ”
That night, except for Wang Feng and Zeng Zhilin, the other eighteen martial arts students basically pulled their hips and dragged their legs to bed. And Wang Feng, Zeng Zhilin and other traversers who had not practiced martial arts became volunteer masseurs, massaging and relaxing these "tortured" companions one by one. I tossed for a long time, and I didn't go to bed until eleven or two o'clock at night. Although it is quite exhausting whether it is a martial arts student or a non-martial arts student, after such a contact, the friendship between everyone has unconsciously become deeper. And this is not only what Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan and others did not expect in advance, but also what they most want to see at this time.