Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, we entered 1931.

For the Chinese, this is a very heavy year, and a war is about to come for the survival of the country and the nation.

Chen Qiang also began to try to add 400-meter sprint training to his space training.

The training of the 400-meter dash takes up a lot of Chen Qiang's energy, Chen Qiang spends 80 hours a day in the training space, and the time spent on 400-meter training is definitely more than 40 hours.

The 400m is one of the most difficult sprints, and it is physically and technically demanding. Unlike the 100m and 200m, the 400m is not a simple anaerobic exercise, but a mixed aerobic sprint with a large proportion of anaerobic and a small proportion of aerobic. This is not only a test of the athlete's physical fitness and special skills, but also a test of the athlete's physical distribution.

Physical allocation is the most critical element of running 400 meters, and different competitions, different physical conditions, different opponents, physical allocation schemes are different. A little hotter weather will be one method of physical allocation, and a little colder weather will be another method of physical allocation. If the 100 meters and 200 meters are both brainless rushes, then the 400 meters are a sport that requires brains.

It is precisely because the 400-meter event is quite difficult and there are too many technical points that need to be mastered, so if Chen Qiang wants to run the 400-meter well, he must do more training.

Fortunately, there are many similarities between 400 meters and 200 meters, and when practicing 400 meters, it is equivalent to practicing part of the 200 meters technique, so the training process of 200 meters will not be delayed.

And in the thirties, the 400-meter level of athletes was not very high. The national record is 52.6 seconds run by Liu Changchun in the National Games, which is equivalent to a relatively poor level among the national second-level athletes. In the future 400-meter sprint event, the national second-level athlete will achieve the standard time of 53 seconds.

Considering that Liu Changchun had an injury when he created this record, Liu Changchun's real level should be slightly faster, probably about 51 seconds, as long as Chen Qiang can reach the midstream level of the national second-level athlete, he will be able to compete with Liu Changchun for the national championship.

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In February of the Gregorian calendar, Chen Qiang ushered in the second Spring Festival after his crossing.

This time, Chen Qiang did not celebrate the New Year by himself, but was called to his home by Zhang Boling, and the Zhang family spent Chinese New Year's Eve together.

Zhang Boling has seven sons and one daughter, but only four sons are supported by adults.

The eldest son, Zhang Xilu, is already 30 years old, a mathematician, studying at the University of Wisconsin in the United States, and is engaged in mathematical research at the graduate school of the University of Chicago at this time, and is not in Tianjin.

The second son Zhang Xiyang and the third son Zhang Xizuo both graduated from Nankai University, and the fourth son Zhang Xihu is just 20 years old this year and is now at Nankai University.

Zhang Boling also has a younger brother named Zhang Pengchun, who once served as the provost of Tsinghua University and is now teaching at the University of Chicago.

Zhang Boling has always lived in poverty, and he invested all his money in education, so he never bought a house, and always rented a house.

The house where the Zhang family lives now is not the former residence of Zhang Boling in later generations. Zhang Boling did not leave any property when he died, and the former residence of Zhang Boling, a three-story English-style villa in Tianjin, was the residence that Premier Zhou found for Zhang Boling after the liberation.

The Zhang family did not hire a maid, and all the housework was handled by Mrs. Zhang herself. At that time, not to mention the famous figures in society, even many ordinary teachers or civil servants would also hire a helper.

I have to say that Zhang Boling is indeed a great educator, he has raised more than one million in his life, and even got the nickname of "Huayuan Monk", but he has nothing to do with himself, and he has invested all his family property.

A Chinese New Year's Eve meal, although not as rich as the Manchu Han banquet, made Chen Qiang find a sense of "home".

Braised pork, stewed pork ribs, steamed fish, stir-fried chicken...... Mrs. Zhang made a full twelve dishes, followed by dumplings filled with pork.

The table is staggered, the sound of firecrackers outside the window is gradually rising, and the new year is about to arrive.

Zhang Boling, who was drunk and hazy, took out a few red envelopes from his arms and gave them to his children and grandchildren.

This red envelope also has a copy of Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang hesitated, but still took the red envelope.

He also knows that Zhang Boling is very poor, and there must not be much money in this red envelope, but this heart is hard to change!

In Zhang Boling's heart, he already regarded Chen Qiang as his nephew.

In Chen Qiang's heart, Zhang Boling at this time is not just an elder, but more like a "father"!

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Traditional folk customs pay attention to "but fifteen is a year".

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the temple fair of Tianjin Niangniang Palace has already begun.

Niangniang Palace is Tianhou Temple, which is the oldest building in Tianjin, and the incense here has always been very strong. Since the Qing Dynasty, large-scale temple fairs have been held here, with various performances such as dragon and lion dances, stilt boats, etc., and with the gathering of people, commercial markets and New Year's goods markets have also been formed near the Niangniang Temple.

During the Chinese New Year, the Niangniang Palace Temple Fair is probably the most prosperous place in Tianjin, and it is no exaggeration to say that there are crowds of people, and the flow of people is more than the major scenic spots in the future Golden Week.

Chen Qiang also came to Niangniang Temple, of course he didn't come to visit the temple fair, but to stand on the platform of Wuzhou Pharmacy.

The crowded temple fair is, of course, the best time for traders to make money, and many businessmen in Tianjin will come to the temple fair to set up a stall, and the same is true for Wuzhou Pharmacy. Not only did they rent a large booth, but they also brought in three doctors to treat people on the spot.

Chen Qiang, as the spokesperson of Wuzhou Pharmacy, naturally wants to participate in such marketing activities.

Because of Chen Qiang's arrival, Wuzhou Pharmacy also specially cleared a road in front of the booth as a runway, which is about fifty or sixty meters long, allowing Chen Qiang to perform sprints live.

Modern people may think that there is nothing to perform in sprinting, isn't it just to throw off your legs and rush forward, which is not interesting at all.

But in the thirties, ordinary people didn't know much about sports at all, and they didn't know much about sprinting, so sprinting can also be regarded as a form of performance, which will attract a large number of passers-by to stop and watch. Even if Chen Qiang makes a squatting starting posture, it will attract countless curious eyes.

To put it simply, the common people have no knowledge, and they feel very fresh when they watch a sprint.

In that era, this was not only true of Chinese, but also of Americans, who had the most developed sports. For example, legendary American athlete Jesse Owens, who won gold at the Berlin Olympics, returned to the United States and made a living by performing sprints. And there are a lot of Americans who are willing to pay to see Owens perform a run.

The Berlin Olympics were held in 1936, and the Americans in 1936 still saw sprinting as a performance, let alone the Chinese in 1931.

And Chen Qiang is not running alone, he also accepts the on-site challenge of the people. If a certain audience member is willing, he can come up and compete with Chen Qiang to see who can run faster.

Ordinary people are sprinting with Chen Qiang, naturally they are abused and don't even know their mothers, but there are still many people who want to come forward and compare with Chen Qiang.

This is a very good campaign activity, just like those NBA stars come to China to do promotional activities, and they will also interact with the fans, and play a few rounds with the fans.

This is also the case with Chen Qiang now, running in a race with ordinary people, abusing others, and people are still very happy, and they will go to the stall of Wuzhou Pharmacy to buy something after the game.

Other stalls also invited artists to perform, trying to attract more popularity, some invited to lion dance, some invited to juggle, some invited to count the treasures, and sang the Xihe drum, but the effect was not as good as Chen Qiang's side, and the popularity of gathering was far less than Chen Qiang's here.

Because Chen Qiang is more involved in the masses here, it is far more attractive than those ordinary performances.

For example, watching a movie, if someone chats about barrage in real time, it must be more interesting than watching it alone.

A bad movie, or a movie that has been watched many times, I don't want to watch it by myself fast-forward four times faster, but if there are constantly people complaining, then the attraction will be much greater. While watching a movie, you can send a barrage to complain, and you can also spray with other water friends on the barrage, how interesting!

This is the participation of the masses, for example, the live broadcast industry is on fire, because it can interact with water friends in real time; Another example is the app, after having the function of this chapter, readers can comment after each paragraph, and sometimes this chapter is more interesting than the content, and it is much easier to find typos even after passing the level!

Those who danced lions, juggled, and sang the Xihe drum, the format of the program was fixed. For example, if you play juggling, use your head to hold a water tank, and use a wooden stick to turn a plate, these have to be done by the artist himself, and you can't invite an audience to come over and borrow someone's head to top the water tank!

Another example is the singing of the West River drum, the singing is a fixed repertoire, and the artist must also pay attention to a singing tone. The upper and lower sentences have to chase the stars and catch the moon, and the more sentences have to be tight five slow four, and the single sentence has a horse and three streams, the grasshopper goes up the mountain, the reverse cavity, the lower cavity, the cavity walks, and the spike of bangzi. These can't be changed, how the master has passed down how to sing, you have to sing, there is no on-the-spot response.

In terms of interacting with the audience, the drum is better than cross talk, listen to cross talk, you sit in the front row, shout "Teacher Guo, I love you", and Guo Degang will agree on stage.

But if you listen to a big drum, no matter what the audience shouts, the artists on the stage still have to sing step by step, and it is impossible to say yes to the audience after singing half a sentence, and then sing the second half of the sentence. It can't be like when a singer has a concert, he forgets the lyrics and points the microphone at the audience, shouting "Let's come together", the fans in the audience sing along, and the singers on the stage also remember the lyrics by the way.

When it comes to interacting with the audience, Chen Qiang's way of competing with others is obviously a hundred times stronger than other performance methods!

And this method will also arouse a sense of expectation in people's hearts, when someone goes up to challenge Chen Qiang, people will expect whether this challenger can win, and then everyone finds that they have not been able to win Chen Qiang at all, so they look forward to how much the next challenger will lose.

With the popularity that Chen Qiang has gathered, Wuzhou Pharmacy has also sold a lot of products.

Wuzhou Pharmacy started by selling "natural detoxification pills", and it was considered to have saved countless people back then, so the reputation of Wuzhou Pharmacy is still very good, and the people can trust Wuzhou's signboard.

The signature product of Wuzhou Pharmacy is still "artificial tap blood", which is still very effective in treating anemia. In old China, most people were deficient in nutrition, and lack of nutrition would cause anemia, and many people ate artificial tap blood from Wuzhou, which alleviated the symptoms of anemia, so artificial tap blood also had a title of "Jinmen Elixir".

In addition to artificial tap blood, Wuzhou Pharmacy also sells other medicines, such as "Yueyuehong" and "Women's World Treasure" for women's menstruation and blood activation, "Tiantian Juice" for stomach and deficiency, "Bark Pill" for brain and intestines, "Hypo Medicine" for blood clearing and detoxification, and "Lung Respiratory Gum" for phlegm and cough.

With a good reputation, coupled with the popularity gathered by Chen Qiang, Wuzhou Pharmacy can be said to be prosperous in business and business, and it has become the most profitable merchant in the temple fair of Tianhou Temple.

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In the crowd, there were several sturdy young people who were looking at Chen Qiang eagerly, looking like they wanted to go up and compete with Chen Qiang.

"That person is Chen Qiang, I heard that last year, he won two Japanese at Minyuan Stadium!"

"This Chen Qiang looks so young, he should be less than twenty years old."

"Not to mention, you see that he is really fast, and the people who go up to compete with him are a lot behind!"

"What kind of ability is it with ordinary people, if you and I are people who practice martial arts, it is also a big distance away from being able to win!"

"Who do you think is faster, Chen Qiang and our Senior Brother Zhao?"

"Of course, Senior Brother Zhao, Senior Brother Zhao practiced martial arts at the age of four, and began to learn light skills when he was eight years old, and now Senior Brother Zhao is walking on the wall like walking on the ground, how can this Chen Qiang compare to our Senior Brother Zhao!"

"That's right, Senior Brother Zhao's light skills have already been passed on by the master, and it is not easy to win this Chen Qiang!"

Several senior brothers touted it, which made the "Senior Brother Zhao" quite proud.

At this time, Chen Qiang won another game, and the few people who were won by Chen Qiang were not only depressed, but also looked elated, happily waving at the surrounding crowd, and then ran to the stall of Wuzhou Pharmacy and bought two boxes of artificial tap blood.

"Look, that Chen Qiang has won again! Not to mention, he runs very fast, Senior Brother Zhao, I think only you can win him! ”

"Yes, Senior Brother Zhao, go up and compete with him, let everyone know that our Zhenwu National Art Hall is powerful!"

"Yes, Senior Brother Zhao, go and give him Bibi!"

Several senior brothers arched their fire, and that Senior Brother Zhao also felt that if he didn't go up to compete with Chen Qiang, wouldn't it be a loss of face, so Senior Brother Zhao walked through the crowd and stepped forward.

I saw Senior Brother Zhao clasping his fists at Chen Qiang and said, "Zhao Jinhong in the Xia Zhenwu National Art Hall, I am here to ask for advice!" ”

Chen Qiang was a little confused, he performed at this temple fair for most of the day, and compared with the surrounding visitors and people more than 20 times, and for the first time he met a person who came up and hugged his fist to report his home, making it so formal, it was like a martial arts competition.

"Is this a decent person here, Zhenwu Guoshu Hall, a martial artist!" Chen Qiang glanced at Zhao Jinhong, and then made a gesture of please: "Mr. Zhao, please." ”

Zhao Jinhong walked to the starting line of the temporary painting, stood there with his legs apart, his hands behind his back, and looked ahead, quite in the style of a worldly master.

"Good!"

Seeing Zhao Jinhong's posture, Zhao Jinhong's juniors and disciples applauded one after another, and even some ordinary people who watched the excitement shouted for some reason.

The cheers that sounded around did not affect Chen Qiang's mood, he looked at Zhao Jinhong, and felt more and more that the other party was a little ridiculous.

"This guy just stands up straight, and he looks like a master, but if he starts like this, he must be slow to become a dog. How do I think he's not here to compete with me, but to pretend to be forced! Chen Qiang thought to himself in his heart, and then he didn't pay attention to Zhao Jinhong who was pretending to be forced, but squatted down and prepared to start.

The person in charge of giving the order was a guy from Wuzhou Pharmacy, and he didn't have a starting pistol, he directly took a gong, and when the gong was struck, it was considered a start.

"This gentleman is ready! When I shout one, two, three, and the gong sounds, you start running. The guy reminded him, and then called out one, two, three.

Immediately afterwards, the guy rang the gong, and Chen Qiang and Zhao Jinhong started at the same time.

I have to say that Zhao Jinhong, as a person who practices martial arts, reacts very quickly. The moment the gong sounded, Zhao Jinhong took a step.

Zhao Jinhong's standing start is naturally not as good as Chen Qiang's professional squatting start, although his reaction speed is also very fast, but as soon as they run together, Zhao Jinhong fell behind Chen Qiang.

However, Zhao Jinhong didn't care, he relied on his own light skills for more than ten years, and he couldn't fly the eaves and walk the wall, how could he not outrun Chen Qiang.

I saw Zhao Jinhong mention the dantian qi, use the footwork tricks of light power, and speed up violently.

However, in the next second, Zhao Jinhong found that instead of catching up with Chen Qiang, he was left behind by half a position.

"What's the matter, my light skills can't compare to this Western sports!"

……

"Senior Brother Zhao, come on!"

"Senior Brother Zhao, rush!"

In the crowd, Zhao Jinhong's juniors and disciples shouted one after another, cheering for Zhao Jinhong

However, after shouting twice, everyone stopped their voices, because Chen Qiang and Zhao Jinhong had already crossed the finish line one after the other.

The road cleared by Wuzhou Pharmacy is a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and for professional sprinters, it will be finished in six seconds.

What's more critical is that Zhao Jinhong lost, how could Zhao Jinhong's juniors and disciples have the face to shout again.

"What's the matter, Senior Brother Zhao actually lost!"

"How powerful Senior Brother Zhao's light skills are, we have all seen it, how can we lose in the blink of an eye?"

"Is that Chen Qiang too powerful, there is no vanity under the so-called fame, Chen Qiang is so famous in this Jinmen, he must have some ability." The brothers and sisters whispered.

But Zhao Jinhong looked at a loss. When watching the game from the sidelines, he felt that Chen Qiang was not worth mentioning at all, and those ordinary people lost to Chen Qiang just because they were too weak.

But when he really went to compete with Chen Qiang, Zhao Jinhong found that he was like those ordinary people, he gave it for nothing at the beginning, and the final outcome was also a fiasco to Chen Qiang. As a person who practices martial arts, he doesn't seem to be much better than ordinary people.

However, the arrogant Zhao Jinhong is not willing to fail, he is unwilling to pretend to fail!

"Let's compete again!" Zhao Jinhong said to Chen Qiang with some eagerness.

"Mr. Zhao, you have already competed once, and besides, there are so many guest officers around who want to come up and give it a try, I think it is better to give others more opportunities." Chen Qiang said with a pleasant face.

"I was careless just now, and I lost to you if I was careless! I, Zhao Jinhong, have been practicing light skills for more than ten years, and I don't believe that my light skills will lose to your Western sports! You're going to have to compete with me again! Zhao Jinhong's tone became cold, and he put on a posture of wanting to play a trick.

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