Chapter 15: Abstinence
It has passed the sting season, the weather is warming, everything is recovering, the earth is melting in spring, and the people of Xiangyang, who have endured a harsh winter, get rid of the dark and cold house and thick clothes.
But this is not what all the people in the city expect, on the contrary, many prefer to live in the harsh winter with no hot food, no hot drink, no brazier for heating, because the warmer the weather, the later the spring ploughing, and the less the future harvest, such a disaster will only be more terrible than experiencing the cold.
Sometimes the sincere prayer of people's hearts can not change the cruelty of reality, at least the prayer of more than 200,000 people in the city has not been fulfilled, the siege has passed 100 days, and the more than 100,000 gold soldiers outside the city still have no sign of retreating.
It rained continuously for six days, and the bright sun finally broke through the clouds of the sky and appeared in the east.
"Xiao Yingying, come out quickly, it's naΓ―ve and cold." Seeing Ye Yingying, who was wrapped in a snow-white fur cloak, standing in the door of the house with shrunken hands, unwilling to go out, Wang Churen, who was in the morning light, greeted.
Listening to Wang Churen's call, Ye Yingying imagined the cold wind outside, couldn't help shrinking her body, tightened the cloak on her body even more, hesitated for a moment, and silently lowered her head and stepped out of the threshold.
Regarding Ye Yingying's cowering and depressed appearance at the moment, Wang Churen felt both pity and disappointment, and thought more and more that he should not hesitate and make a decision quickly, whether to teach her to improve her physique by "Easy Muscle Forging Bone Chapter", or not to have too many requirements for her.
It turned out that the Jin soldiers besieged the city for a whole winter, making the whole city scarce firewood, and the people in the city could only give priority to ensuring the use of fire for food, and the daily heating became very difficult.
Of course, Wang Churen didn't care about this cold, but he thought that he could take the opportunity to speed up Ye Yingying's internal cultivation, because people would naturally eat a lot when it was cold, and their bodies would easily become stronger, and under such favorable internal and external conditions, it would be extremely beneficial to the cultivation of the "Nine Yin Divine Skills".
So she asked Ye Yingying to practice more in the cold, and a few times even dragged her to meditate and practice in the ice and snow, but her qualifications were really poor, and her internal strength had increased, but she was still far from being able to exercise against the cold.
When Ye Yingying came to her side, Wang Churen stepped forward to unbutton her cloak, took off the cloak she was wrapping in, revealing a water-blue skirt inside, with the cold wind blowing in the cold of spring, and her body that was even more slender because she had grown taller couldn't help but feel a little nervous, seeing this, Wang Churen hurriedly stroked her back with his right hand, went to the cold air on her body, and comforted: "I won't force you to practice like that in the future, let's practice slowly, okay?" β
"Childe!" Hearing that Ye Yingying felt sad for no reason, her heart turned back and forth for a while, but she didn't know how to speak.
Seeing Ye Yingying's pitiful expression, Wang Churen remembered how he felt when he first saw her, at that time he inexplicably wanted to take her with him, hesitated, and said: "You are born with a weak physique, and most of the internal skills in the future will be half the effort, and it will be almost the same if you meditate and practice for two or three hours every night, and it is useless to meditate more, but the kung fu you practice is considered a divine skill, and if you practice it for twenty years, it will not be worse than those who are generally gifted and good at exercises, and the more you practice, the better your physique will be, so you can practice it slowly." β
After a pause to make Ye Yingying think, Wang Churen continued: "If you want to practice faster or get twice the result with half the effort, there are drawbacks for you, the way to hurry up is to practice an abstinence exercise, the longer the abstinence, the faster the practice, as for the way to get twice the result with half the effort, have you paid attention to Lu Dafeng's appearance recently, he just practiced that kung fu, it is a good thing for men, and it may be a big disadvantage for women, you choose." β
Ye Yingying, who thought that there was a turnaround, turned her heart and gloom, of course she was not worried about whether she would become a master in the future, as a contented person, she always felt that as long as she knew that kind of magical kung fu, she was already very powerful, she just didn't want to disappoint her son-in-law, and subconsciously she didn't want to be too far away from her son, and now the two drawbacks are impossible for her to accept, if she is abstinent, is there any point in living, can't love, can't hate, what's the difference between living and dying.
As for the changes in Lu Dafeng's body in the past few months, she has always been strange, but it turned out to be because of her kung fu, thinking that Lu Dafeng was a thin scholar at the beginning, but now he has become a rather strong man, with strong muscles and bones, it is enough to wear a single coat in winter, if she learns, what will it become.
Ye Yingying, who had already made a decision in his heart, suddenly worried about another problem in his mind, these kung fu kung fu sons would do, but his figure was not like Lu Dafeng's at all, and he didn't go to the snowdrift to practice, he usually teased himself, but he didn't use his real hands and feet once, so would he practice the kung fu of abstinence, thinking of this, Ye Yingying's face suddenly changed, and she looked at Wang Churen with a nervous face and said: "Son, then what kind of kung fu have you practiced, do you practice faster or get twice the result with half the effort!" β
Wang Churen didn't care, just thought that she was still thinking about the choice, and said casually: "I have practiced both, don't you want to choose both?" β
Ye Yingying verified her conjecture, her face was extremely pale at the moment, her heart ached, and she couldn't help but say, "Why didn't Gongzi become like Steward Lu." β
How could Wang Churen, the fourteen-year-old girl's thoughts, think that she was still holding on to luck, so he said: "A person's mind control is not good at people's bodies, it will naturally be like that, just like some people will be very fat if they eat a lot, but some people will not, Lu Dafeng's spirit is not good at controlling the strength of his body, and he does not have the perseverance to induce and suppress it from time to time, he will naturally grow horizontally, my spirit can suppress the strength of the body, naturally there will be no problem, do you want to try?" β
Ye Yingying, who is the most proficient in facing reality, was sad alone for a while before sorting out her thoughts, thinking of the way to face it, her face returned to normal, listened to Wang Churen's question, and said with a smile: "Childe, I will practice slowly at night in the future, I will be Childe's maid in this life anyway, it would be good to follow Childe during the day to take care of Childe, if you practice as thick as Steward Lu, how can you take care of Childe, besides, I will help Childe in the future, Steward Lu will never be busy alone with so many things, Childe said that I would be a housekeeper! β
"You still say that you are a housekeeper, hmph, it's good if you don't lose!" Seeing that she was sincere and relieved herself of the hesitation of not forcing her, Wang Churen pinched the tip of her nose lightly, and pretended to be angry and said: "Do you know how much money you spent on giving clothes and food to those refugees, more than 120 yuan, you are afraid that you have forgotten that it is estimated that there are 3 and a half stones of rice in the city now, and you say it yourself, are you a success or failure?" β
Ye Yingying just felt that those refugees were pitiful, so she went there more times, so she really didn't care how many there were in total, but now when she was reminded, she realized that it was really a lot, and she had always regarded the price of rice as the old selling price of 800 Wen, and a little bit of accumulation, there were actually 120 yuan, and the inn only earned more than 700 yuan in the best business month in the past few months.
After careful calculation and comparison, Ye Yingying felt that she was simply a loser at the moment, although she did not regret it in her heart, Wang Churen did not blame her for just making a joke, but she was also ashamed and ashamed, and buried her head in Wang Churen's arms in the hazy eyes of tears.
Wang Churen didn't want to make her cry, and comforted: "Okay, okay, this matter is not your business alone, I think you should be careful and shrewd in managing money in the future, learn more from Lu Dafeng first, and don't treat 3 guan as 1 guanhua." β
"Yes, Childe." Ye Yingying nodded in response in Wang Churen's arms.