Chapter 3: Determination (2)
The moment he stood in the center of the battle platform and shouted his name loudly, a long-lost feeling of pleasure rushed straight to his head! The sunset cast ten thousand golden rays on her, her long hair was blown by the sea breeze, flying behind her, and people shouted her name in unison under the stage, well~~ Sha Luojia felt that he was really handsome at the moment!
I didn't expect to leave Medicine God Island and come to the martial arts training ground to go around, and it was really right!
This place was probably the place she was most familiar with on Medicine God Island, and it was something she had been used to since she was a child. When she was a baby, it was said that her father would hold her, and her father would practice with others, and she would sit next to her and play by herself, without crying or making trouble. When she was three years old, she remembers walking behind her dad and watching him practice for an entire afternoon. When she was older, her father began to teach her brother martial arts, and she followed her all at once, and her father also taught her. And then she would come a lot by herself, skipping school. Two years ago, after her father and brother died on the Isle of War, she covered her face, wrapped her red hair, carved a fake name on a wooden plaque, and came every day. Sometimes I stay for half a day, sometimes I stay all day, practicing, occasionally challenging or being challenged by others. Half a year later, she got the head of the martial arts training field, took off her mask, untied her hair, and put the wooden plaque engraved with "Hades, Light, Shaluo Hunting" in the first row of the stone table of the battle table. Dad's name tag has been in that position for many years. Then she didn't come often, because no one dared to challenge her with her nameplate. But every three or five days she would come in the afternoon or evening. People know her, and some people will be bold enough to come and have a few tricks with her. But she hadn't been on the stage for a year and a half.
And so it was when a tall, lanky, big-eyed man in a Twin Legion cavalry shirt ran up to her, holding up her name tag, panting and saying, "Great, Miss Ka, you're still there!" Someone named you to challenge you, will you come? She was really surprised! Her first reaction was, could it be that her uncle is here? Did her mother find out about her crazy plan and send her uncle to the martial arts training ground to find her? Kill her sharpness?
Then she's not afraid!
What was she doing?
By the way, she was sitting on the steps on the side of the martial arts training ground comforting a boy. She saw the boy being trained by his father, kicking off the dagger and slapping him to the ground. The left side of her face that was beaten was high and swollen, and the way she held back her tears but still had tears rolling down reminded her of her brother Ah Zheng.
He was seven years old when he and his father came to the martial arts training arena, and until then, reading in his room and following his mother to the temple were his two favorite things. Every time he comes to the martial arts training ground, he is reluctant, because his father always scolds him!
"How do you stand on your legs! Are you a big girl? ”
"One day, you won't eat! Your fist is worse than a mosquito bite on me! ”
"I'll do a somersault right after you get on the ground! Don't the books you read every day tell you what it means to be immediate? The interval between your two movements is enough for me to run around the martial arts training ground for a lap! ”
But that afternoon, my brother was beaten.
Dad gave Ah Attack a dagger and asked him to practice fighting with another boy who was a little older than him. The elder brother was a little flustered after being scratched on the other party's arm, and waved the dagger in the air as he retreated, trying to scare the opponent away. When Dad saw this, he stepped forward angrily, kicked his dagger away, and then slapped him in the face.
"Can a few drops of your own blood scare you like this?!" Dad's angry voice was filled with deep disappointment, "On the battlefield, if you show such stupidity, the enemy will know that you are afraid, and death will follow!" Tell you how many times! Defeat your fears, overcome your instincts, and victory will be yours! Why fight if you don't want to win? Why not go for the iron! Don't go sheep shearing! Or do you want to embroider more?! ”
The elder brother crouched with his head down, and the words of humiliation fell like a hammer on his tiny body. He clenched his hands into fists to support his body, but the ground between his fists began to be punched into a small hole by the falling tears.
Dad sighed. He probably thought that his son had never mentioned going to blacksmith or shear sheep or embroider, just as he had never said he wanted to learn martial arts.
He walked over, stooped down beside his son, took one of his small hands, and stretched his clenched fist out.
"Ah Attack, watch me, follow me." He raised his palm, palm outward, against the palm of his son, who was doing the same action, and pushed forward, "Push my hand hard!" Ah Feng did so, and Long Ran gently pressed hard to block his thrust, "Son, do you feel it?" That's how courage and fear work. The retreating side will be pushed down, and the forward side can move forward. He held his son's hand with his backhand, "I know you don't want to come to the martial arts training ground with me, you don't want to be here." However, you were born in the Hades family, and now there are only two men left in the Hades family, you and me. You can't choose this route, you can only move forward! Son, you can be braver, right? ”
Ah Zhan looked up at his father and nodded, he didn't want to let his father down.
"Good boy! Now think about the action you just made with your dagger. The tip of the knife is pointed inwards and upwards, swinging it into the air. That action means winning or losing, life or death, all counting on that knife. That's wrong. The knife is just a tool to help people win the opponent, and the way to win the battle should be to rush the tip of the knife outward. Not only does this grip allow the hand holding the knife to punch, but when you hit the opponent, the dagger in your hand can be stabbed down, and the downstab is the most powerful. Got it? ”
Sha Luo Hunt, who had been listening to the side, suddenly stepped forward at this time, picked up the dagger on the ground, and held it tightly with his right hand with the tip of the knife outward downward! She followed her father's footsteps in style, taking turns stepping forward with her left and right feet, swinging a continuous punch in the air with a dagger, and finally ending with a stabbing motion.
Akari will never forget the expression on his father's face at that time, his two thick eyebrows raised high, and his eyes widened in surprise.
After that, her father also began to teach her martial arts. Akari was six years old at the time, but instead of fooling her with fancy tricks, her father let her start practicing those really practical tricks. He taught her how to observe the movement of her body, so that you could anticipate his moves before the opponent made a move, and defend in advance. He taught her how to hit a single hit in a real fight, and where she should never hit if she was playing. The father soon discovered that he didn't have to treat Akari as a child when it came to martial arts.
She practiced the same gestures with her brother, with her father nodding and smiling at him when he did it, and Hugging, exclaiming, prickly kissing, and throwing into the sky when she was done.
My brother has always loved his sister, but he has never been able to enjoy kicking and rolling like his sister. Sha Luo's dream was to wander through the sea of books in the library of the Golden Crow, and he certainly never had the image of standing on the battle platform in the sunset and receiving the cheers of the crowd as the winner.
As she walked down the steps from the high platform, the excited crowd still shouting her name, thinking that she would leave tomorrow and head to the Golden Crow Temple on the Sun God Island, a sudden sting in her heart made her frown. She couldn't help but look up and ask the gods why they had arranged the fate of their brother and sister in such a way!
She hopes that the person who will take a boat to the island of the god of war tomorrow will be her brother Sha Luo, and it will be herself who died on the island of the god of war with her father two years ago.