"Shi Keqi, what kind of sword is you messing with, stand on your horse and go. Yan Zhenbei heard the movement in the side hall and shouted.

After Shi Keqi finished squatting, he went to the alley where Xiao Budian lived, and found out that her blind date had been released, and the two would let go of a matter after they got married in a few days. He didn't go to see Xiao Budian, and he didn't know what to say if he was afraid of meeting.

After a day, Xu was busy because the martial arts hall had just opened this year, or maybe for other reasons, Xue Shiliu actually came to the martial arts hall every day. In the morning, Shi Keqi went to practice martial arts, saying that practicing martial arts was actually squatting on horseback, and after squatting for more than half an hour, he could also practice freely, but he could not interfere with others.

Once Li Dashi saw that he was squatting very hard, and wanted to teach him a few knife moves, but Yan Zhenbei saw and stopped him, and only let him squat on the horse.

Shi Keqi took a broom to sweep the floor in the backyard, there were already two people practicing martial arts in the courtyard, one was Yan Yanping, and the other was Xue Shiliu, the former was extremely serious, and the latter was absent-minded, and his moves were slowly swallowed, and his mind was not on it at all.

When Xue Shiliu saw him come in, his face was a little unpleasant. But when he saw Xue Shiliu, his expression became very strange, his mouth was wide open, and his tongue was sticking out, as if he had eaten two catties of poison.

Yan Yanping asked him why he made this expression, he shook his head and said, "Dazzled." ”

Xue Shiliu continued: "This kid is afraid of me. ”

Another day passed, after Shi Keqi saw Xue Shiliu, his face became pale, and he didn't dare to approach him, so he swept the ground far away. Xue Shiliu was even more proud.

On the third day, Shi Keqi shook his head at the gate of the courtyard and hesitated for a while, probably whether he was entangled in whether to enter or not, or whether he came in under Yan Yanping's angry urging. After coming in, he advised her to stay away from Xue Shiliu, and Xue Shiliu almost couldn't help but make a move on Shi Keqi.

On the fourth day, Xue Shiliu stopped Shi Keqi when he came in and said, "What the hell are you doing?" Shi Keqi shook his head vigorously and retreated again and again, but he didn't speak.

On the fifth day, he didn't turn around and left, and the ground was not swept, leaving Xue Shiliu, who was full of questions and wanted to attack.

On the sixth day, Shi Keqi didn't come in, Xue Shiliu and Yan Yanping came out to look for him, Yan Yanping asked him what was going on, and she couldn't figure it out because of his weird appearance in the past few days.

He was silent for a long time, and Xue Shiliu was annoyed and said: "Are you sick, or do you have a brain problem, why do you look strange every time you see me, be careful that I beat you." ”

Shi Keqi said: "Do you really want me to tell you the reason?"

Xue Shiliu almost said in a roaring voice: "Say, you said." ”

Shi Keqi hid behind Yan Yanping, popped out a head, and trembled slightly: "A few days ago, I saw a woman standing next to you wearing a big red dress and covering her head, motionless, and I felt furious when I looked at it. Especially yesterday she lifted her hijab, do you know what it looks like? Surely not, she doesn't have a head, big brother, I don't know why she looks like she has a head under her hijab, I don't run yet. Ah, she looked annoyed, sticking out her long, blood-red nails and pointing at me. ”

Xue Shiliu was taken aback and shouted, "Where is the woman in red next to me?" ”

Yan Yanping's breathing became short, and said: "No, no, it's sunny and white, Shi Keqi, don't talk nonsense." ”

Shi Keqi let out a miserable scream: "Xue Gongzi, she went around behind you, and her long nails were about to stick down on your head." ”

At this time, a gust of wind blew, Xue Shiliu felt cold behind him, and looked back, where was there any woman in red, but people had unconsciously taken a few steps forward.

Shi Keqi's tone became more and more terrifying: "She is following you, following you." ”

Yan Yanping said again and again: "Shi Keqi, don't say it." ”

Shi Ke screamed strangely, then covered his mouth with his hands, his eyes widened, and he turned his head and ran out of the martial arts hall. Yan Yanping was a little scared, so she didn't let Xue Shiliu follow, and went to the inner room to find Yan Zhenbei, leaving him alone in the early morning wind.

In the middle of March of the fifteenth year of Wude, a news came that caused an uproar in the entire Northern Dynasty, and the 30,000 barbarian cavalry that invaded at the beginning of the month slammed into the Great Wall army guarding the frontier.

The Great Wall is the city wall that stretches for thousands of miles in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the previous dynasties to defend against the barbarians, this encounter, the barbarians attacked the Great Wall town Dayong Pass, and when most of the troops in this area were gathered in Dayong Pass, the Great Wall was so long, there were always a few places that could not be defended.

The barbarians rushed out of the weak place with a false shot, bypassed the Dayong Pass, and attacked the hinterland of Youzhou to burn and plunder.

Anyway, they don't have logistical baggage, and they are not afraid of the guards cutting off the grain route, so they only need to consider whether the circuit will be blocked. There were two troops in Youzhou Tun, which was attacked by the barbarians, namely half of the Great Wall Army, 150,000 troops and 100,000 Youzhou Army, the Great Wall Army was responsible for the Great Wall Pass, and the Youzhou Army was responsible for defending important towns.

Seeing that the barbarians had few soldiers, these two armies made up a total of 100,000 infantry and cavalry troops, and wanted to strangle the barbarian cavalry on the plain, but who knew that the side with a large number of people was actually defeated and defeated by the side with fewer people in one morning, and the barbarians themselves suffered less than 2,000 casualties, and the 100,000 army of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was defeated, with more than 30,000 dead and wounded.

Every few days, in the courtyard of the Zhenbei Martial Arts Hall, Yan Zhenbei clapped his hands and asked everyone to stop training, stand in line, he looked at everyone expressionlessly for a while, and said: "Thank you for coming to my martial arts hall, in my martial arts hall, I don't want to teach you only martial arts, but also why I want to teach you why to practice martial arts." Yesterday, I heard a bad news, and I'm sure you have heard it too, that is, the barbarians invaded our dynasty again, and a few days ago they defeated the 100,000 troops of our dynasty, and the combat effectiveness of the army is not within the scope of our consideration. Just take the barbarian invasion as an example, do you know what this behavior is?"

After speaking, he paused, and said loudly to himself: "This is the logic of robbers, they can only rob and fight, and they are not allowed to fight back, and it will become more and more retaliatory when they fight back, do you say it?" ”

The crowd replied yes.

"I hope you don't have such logic, if you have such thoughts, please don't say that you have studied martial arts in my Zhenbei Martial Arts Hall, in case someone talks about this, my old face has no place to rest. Of course, I believe that you are not that kind of people, and the reason why we call those people on the steppe barbarians is not because they are backward and poor, do not know etiquette and do not pay attention to hygiene, but because they can't survive, they use knives and bows to rob and kill people, kill our men, and rob our women and food. Sometimes it's not that they can't live, but they just want to live a better life, so they come to a relatively wealthy place to burn, kill and rob, and do all kinds of evil. ”

"Like primitive animals, they follow the law of the jungle, and they feel that it is natural for them to kill people and take food when they are hungry. We can't live not to kill people, but to open up wasteland and farm land or find another way to make a living, and even some people starve to death without eating the food that comes to us, and very few people go to rob and kill. We take care of the widows and orphans, raise the young, advocate humility and courtesy, and the torch of civilization is alive and well on the fertile land. And they, with primitive bloodthirsty cruelty, want to destroy the gorgeous palaces we have built, the prosperity of civilization. ”

Speaking of this, the old man was a little emotional, but after a moment he adjusted his mentality and said: "You will say that many officials are now forcibly seized, and those in power collude with rich businessmen to prey on the common people, but most of them dare not do such bloody and brutal things, and they will always put on a layer of civilization for his robbery. They are afraid of the huge pen in the Huanghuang history books, afraid of forcing Liangshan to expose the uprising, and they dare not do bad things, and they give people a way to live, although this is also a very bad behavior, but it is much better than the extinction of the barbarians. ”

The early morning sun sprinkled on the old man's emaciated shoulders, as if gilding the old man's tall figure with a layer of golden light. There was silence in the audience, and everyone fell into deep thought.

After a few minutes, the old man spoke again: "I have spoken of the concept of civilization and barbarism, and now I will talk about what belongs to us. You often practice martial arts with me, and some of you have been practicing for several months, I want to ask you, do you know what the real effect of martial arts training is?"

Some people replied that they were in good health, some people replied that they would learn more skills, and some people were silent in their emotions just now, and replied that they would defend their families and defend the country and drive away the barbarians.

Yan Zhenbei was noncommittal, and did not tell everyone whether the answer was right or wrong, he raised his eyebrows and said: "Let me tell you one thing first, last time I saw a student from the early stages on Dongjie, he was surrounded and beaten by a group of people, that group of people had not practiced martial arts, he wanted to fight back, a group of people were not his opponents, but do you know why he didn't fight back?"

"There are more powerful masters on the beating side to press the formation?"

"He's not feeling well?"

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Everyone talked about several possibilities, Yan Zhenbei shook his head one by one, paced a few steps behind his back, and saw that no one said any more, so he squinted his eyes slightly and said: "Because it was Yanai and their entourage who beat people, there are the sons of the prefect, the nephews of the same knowledge, and the nephews of the officials, ...... tsk, and they dare not fight back." I happened to be seen that day, and I saw from beginning to end that after the beating, he was beaten on his knees, lying on his stomach and begging for mercy, half of his body was stained with blood, and he looked very miserable. No one stopped, it was useless for him to beg for mercy, and in the end, if he was not afraid of beating him to death, he would let him go. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and said: "The reason is that the Yanai were bored that day, they were too bored, and they wanted to find something to do, so they wanted to find someone to beat him, and they just happened to spread him." When I was in the martial arts gym, I didn't like him very much, but I wouldn't not help him for this reason, do you know why I didn't help him?"

As soon as the words fell, a sonorous voice sounded: "It's because he obviously beat him, but he didn't dare to fight back." ”

The person who spoke was Shi Keqi, he was holding a broom in his hand, and he had just come out of the martial arts hall after cleaning, and when he heard what Yan Zhenbei said, he couldn't help but interject.

Yan Zhenbei glanced at him, nodded rarely, and said: "Shi Keqi is right, if you are afraid of fighting back and causing trouble to your family, you can escape, he doesn't dare to escape, I don't bother to ask, maybe he has a reason why he doesn't dare to escape, but in the final analysis, his character is too cowardly, and you can't help someone who is too cowardly." Shi Keqi answered very well just now, so let's answer what the purpose of practicing martial arts is. ”

Everyone looked at him, and under everyone's eyes, Shi Keqi was a little nervous, stretched out his hand and touched his head and said, "I think that it is the most important thing for a martial artist of my generation to do to do the righteous and righteous demon defense path." "Bang bang, there was applause.

Yan Zhenbei applauded and walked towards Shi Keqi and gave him a thumbs up, he looked excited, and his mood was a little excited, very few people who practiced martial arts in the martial arts hall could get Yan Zhenbei's approval.

Who knew that Yan Zhenbei's thumb turned down and said: "Chivalry and righteousness, only know chivalry and righteousness." Do you have any family members, have you considered the safety of your family members? Do they have the ability to protect themselves, and can they withstand retaliation? The so-called defending the country, there is a family to have a country, and only if you have the ability to keep your home can you think about national affairs. I think so, the most important thing for ordinary people to practice martial arts is that when you or your family are involved in unfair things, you will not be powerless!"

The students were silent, Shi Keqi drooped his head and hung his head, especially when he heard the word Baojia, he was even more touched, and he couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes, but fortunately, he lowered his head, and no one noticed his abnormality.