Chapter 17: Bagua Steps

"What are you looking at?"

A childish voice came from behind him.

Lin Yi turned his head and watched the thin figure walk to his side.

He raised his head again, looked at the sky and sighed, "It's beautiful, isn't it?" ”

Arya also looked up at the red comet that lit up most of the sky - thanks to this thing, the convoy had to travel for two hours more every day.

"When it first appeared, the people in the palace called it Comet Joffreyβ€”of course, no one dares to call it that now." Lin Yi smiled.

"Gendry called it the Red Sword because he said it looked like a fiery red sword that had just been taken out of the forge of the forge." Arya spoke.

"Oh yes?" Lin Yi said with interest, "I think this parable is more than the doctrinal image of the seven gods. ”

"In the teachings of the Seven Gods, it is the sword that slays the seasons. The citizens of King's Landing call him the Red Messenger, also known as the Dragontail Star. Everyone thought it had an extraordinary significance, but in reality, it was just a red comet passing by Westeros. ”

"What is a comet?"

"A comet is a celestial body that revolves around the sun, and its body is not actually in the sky, but outside our world......"

"So far?" Arya was a little surprised, "But he looks big, and my father said that the heavens are infinitely high." ”

"In a sense, this statement is indeed true."

"I still believe it symbolizes......" Arya looked at the red sword in the sky, "it unssures me. ”

"You really should be upset." Lin Yi looked at the red comet in the sky, "When the light of a comet is as bright as our eyes, it proves that it is not far from us." ”

"Will it fall?"

"I don't know, but it's not something you should be worried about."

"Why?"

"Because by the time he fell, you would have died of old age!"

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Arya pursed her lips, she thought that Lin Yi was lying, how could something fall for decades, even the bravest eagle could not do it.

"Easy ...... Can I call you that? ”

Arya looked at him, looking at him with a serious expression.

"Whatever, as long as you like."

As he spoke, Lin Yi put his hand on Arya's shoulder, squeezed it gently, and then squeezed it down his arms.

Arya's face was slightly red, but she remained motionless.

After pinching Arya's muscles, Lin Yi nodded with satisfaction.

"It seems that your former teacher is an agile water dancer, and you have a good foundation."

"Of course! Celio is the chief swordsman of Braavos! Arya took it for granted.

Lin Yi remembered this chief swordsman, he had defeated five soldiers with only one wooden sword, but in the face of the heavily armed Sir Marin, a wooden sword was useless even if it danced into a sword flower in the sky.

It doesn't break defenses.

"Arya, you are very smart and talented enough, to be honest, there are many Braavos swordsmen who know the mantra of the Water Dancer, but there are very few people like you who can truly comprehend the essence of the mantra in a short period of time."

"Of course, I can see that this is inseparable from the fact that you cherish the opportunity to learn swordsmanship, people always cherish those hard-won things more, and this is also what I like about you."

As he spoke, Lin Yi put his hand into his arms.

"You're lucky, I'm about to go to the Great Wall to do what I have to do, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to get back, but those things are about to wake up, and someone has to stop them, isn't it?"

"Are you afraid of those things too?"

Arya's eyes widened.

"There is no one in this world who is fearless, Arya." Lin Yi smiled, "The so-called courage is to be afraid but still be able to draw the sword." ”

Arya nodded, remembering what Jon had said, the teacher's point of view was similar to Jon's.

"So, I'm going to find a clever and clever brat to pass on my swordsmanship, congratulations, cute boy."

"But why me? Why not Gendry? He was a blacksmith's apprentice, tall and strong......"

Arya asked again.

"Hahaha......"

Hearing Arya's question, Lin Yi laughed twice, and instead of answering Arya's question, he reached out and took out a piece of paper from his arms.

"Okay, it's rare that you got up so early with me today, take it."

Arya's face was implicitly excited, and she took the paper in Lin Yi's hand.

But the moment she saw the paper, Arya was stunned.

I saw a large circle drawn on it, and there was a square with a top edge in the circle, and the square was divided into nine grids, and each grid was drawn with the symbol of a square, and there were complicated and intertwined lines between the symbols.

"What is this?"

She looked up in a daze.

"This is called Nine Palace Gossip ......," Lin Yi said with a smile.

"Dog...... Middle...... Yaga? Arya repeated inarticulately.

"It's gossip ......" Lin Yi's face sank, and then he said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter if you can't learn this language, you just need to remember that this is a set of footwork for a small range of movement." ”

"No!" Arya's reaction was fierce and stubborn, "I have to learn." ”

"......" Lin Yi looked strange and asked her again, "Are you sure you want to learn?" ”

"Sure!"

"No regrets?"

"No regrets!"

"Good!"

Lin Yi was relieved, and then took out another piece of paper from his arms.

"Of course, before learning this language systematically, in order not to delay the learning process, you must first learn these words, come, read with me, this word is pronounced 'dubi'......"

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Looking at the dense square words on it, Arya couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, but since she had already said that she would not regret it, she naturally had to do what she said.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Expensive. Arya snapped.

"Yes, the tongue should be topped with teeth, pronounce it with me, 'Dui'......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Exchange. ”

"That's right, good learning!"

……

With the light of the red sword, Arya had been learning from the moon in the middle to the rising sun.

Lin Yi, who was a good teacher for the first time, did not feel tired at all, but was very satisfied with this student.

She is quick-witted, curious, and has the level of education expected of a child from an aristocratic family.

What surprised and pleased Lin Yi the most was that this child was actually very good at mathematics, at least at the level of elementary school students in her previous life, and she was also very talented in language, knowing a little advanced Valyrian and Braavos.

Although Chinese characters and English are not the same system language, she does not need to really learn Chinese, she only needs to be able to recognize the Chinese characters related to the Bagua step, and be able to have enough conditioned reflexes for hexagrams such as "Qiankun Xun to Gen Zhen Likan".

Similarly, Arya finally understood why Lin Yi laughed before at this moment - this kind of thing was extremely difficult for her to learn, and if she replaced Gendry, she was afraid that Lin Yi would kill him with a sword in anger.

"Learn here today, you are small and agile enough, learn this set of footwork, and you will be invincible in the duel."

"Duel?"

Arya looked expectant, but then thought of Celio.

"What about group battles?"

"Then it depends on whether you train hard or not." Lin Yi said meaningfully.

"I see!"

Arya's face was grim and she bowed respectfully towards Lin Yi.

Lin Yi smiled and motioned for her to put the paper in her arms.

"First of all, take what I just said to heart, remember to take it out and practice it from time to time when you are on the road, and I will teach you a set of breathing before going to bed at night...... That is, the method of breathing, so that you can have more energy in the morning. ”

"Yes!"

Arya put away the paper, her eyes full of hope for the future.