Chapter 23: The Ghost Master
Qian Yongqiang opened his eyes and sat up, looking straight at him, not feeling scared at all.
But seeing that the person who came was wearing a light gray robe, his face was soft, and he bowed to Qian Yongqiang and said: "Thank you for your help tonight, bury the wreckage of my wandering for nearly a century, let me be buried in the ground, my soul has something to belong to, great kindness, never dare to forget!" β
Qian Yongqiang also arched his hand in the same way as the other party, and asked: "I buried your bones tonight, you know that your bones are in the wilderness, why don't you find a place to bury them yourself?" β
The person who came shook his head and smiled: "I am a person from the former Qing Dynasty, surnamed Li, and it has been more than 200 years since I passed away. What you see now is only my soul, I can see everything in the yang world in the underworld, and I can also perceive the things in the yang world, but I have no power to change anything, I am now like a breeze - a breeze that can't even blow the corners of your clothes. Actually, you're asleep right now, and my conversation with you is just a communication between the two of us. β
Qian Yongqiang found that the "person" standing opposite him was dressed a little abnormally, like a character in some TV series, but he felt a little different there.
"Qing Dynasty? Didn't the people of the Qing Dynasty all have big braids? β
"Yes, the people of the Qing Dynasty combed their braids, and I also wore a big braid like a pig's tail in the first half of my life, dangling behind my head, ugly and dead!" Li Juren shook his head slightly, which was very funny, and made Qian Yongqiang laugh in his dream.
At this time, if Huang Youcai or Li Qiming stood by the bed, they would definitely be able to see the shallow smile lines on the corners of his mouth.
knew that Li Juren was a ghost, but Qian Yongqiang still didn't feel scared at all. It's not because it's in a dream, but this ghost of Li Juren, there is no anger at all, only a peaceful atmosphere, which is 108,000 miles away from the ghost in Qian Yongqiang's imagination.
"Is it a big official?" Qian Yongqiang asked.
"Lifting people is not an official, but you can be an official if you take the exam, it's just that the official is not very bigγγγγγ" Li Juren looked at Qian Yongqiang and said, "Aren't you curious why I don't keep braids?" Want to know? β
Qian Yongqiang nodded, making a deaf look.
"In the first half of my life, I studied hard and finally gained fame, but after I was in the officialdom for a few years, I was tired of the world where I was deceitful and mercenary.
After being disheartened, he resigned from his official position, placed his affection in the ancient books of the landscape, studied the gossip of the Yin and Yang of the Mai Shenxiang Qimen Dunjia, and later found a martial arts secret book in a bunch of ancient books, and practiced for three and five years and was also able to fly the eaves and walk the wall, and the martial arts master who could hunt tigers and kill leopards.
"Since then, I have often taken advantage of the night to go down the mountain to eradicate bullies and bandits. After I died, I learned that eliminating violence and peace, eradicating the strong and helping the weak are also cultivation.
"Life in the mountains is poor, but it's also happy. Later, he thought that the braid was ugly, dirty, and far away from the world, and he was not afraid of the government looking for trouble, so he cut it and threw it into the wilderness. Haha, no official is light, no braids are cool! β
Li Juren talked about his life with great interest, and the two chatted for a long time, very speculative, and suddenly there was a sad and long rooster cry in the distance. Li Juren's face changed, and he smiled slightly embarrassedly, "It's getting late, I should go back." β
Li Juren was about to leave as he spoke, but seeing that Qian Yongqiang seemed to be reluctant, he said in a low voice:
"We are destined, I will come again in the future, I had a lot of skills when I was alive, but I have exhausted half of my life, unfortunately, I have not found a suitable successor when I am dying. If you are interested, I will choose one or two to teach you, and forget the regrets of my life! β
Qian Yongqiang thought for a while and said: "I like fortune telling, as well as reading feng shui, and my favorite is martial artsγγγγγγ β
Li Juren looked at Qian Yongqiang with a smile, shook his head slightly and said: "With your qualifications, you can't learn a lot of things. If you are greedy, I am afraid you will not be able to learn well! β
Qian Yongqiang's face was slightly red, and he lowered his head deeply, but he never meant to complain about Li Juren.
When he was in school, he felt that he was stupider than other classmates, and for the same proof question, other classmates could do it by dividing it by two, but in his own hands, he couldn't do it even if he wanted to break his head.
When he was in school, he worked harder than others, but his grades always hovered in the middle and lower reaches of the class.
"Okay," Li Juren stroked Qian Yongqiang's hair and said kindly, "Don't be sad, everyone has everyone's chances, beauty has everyone's creation, although you are not qualified, but you are kind-hearted, and you will eventually succeed in the future!" β
Qian Yongqiang nodded, and watched Li Juren drift away. When it was over, Li Juren did not forget to tell him: "Don't tell outsiders about me and you, this is a secret between us!" βγ
When I woke up in the morning, I could remember the experience in my dreams.
"Is this true?" Qian Yongqiang was in a trance, "It's unlikely, maybe I buried my skull at night to have these messy feelings," this may be what people often say, 'thinking about the day and dreaming at night'." β
Qian Yongqiang was washing in the yard, first heard the proprietress selling braised vegetables next door scolding her husband hoarsely, and then saw the proprietress slamming the door and coming out, still scolding in her mouth, with a roll of gauze wrapped around her head.
"This is an injury", Qian Yongqiang pondered. I wanted to ask, but when I saw the hideous face of the proprietress and swallowed back the words that came to my mouth.
I thought, "This boss has endured this girl for so many years, and he still broke out, don't look at his usual cowering, today he actually broke this girl's head!" β
Just thinking about it, Huang Youcai and Li Qiming walked down from upstairs, and then the three of them went to the street to eat breakfast together, chatting while eating.
When Qian Yongqiang said that the head of the proprietress selling braised vegetables next door was broken by the boss, Huang Youcai laughed:
"Wrong, wrong. The head of the woman was not beaten by her husband, it was the two of them who were doing business outside and had a conflict with their peers, and the other party was also a couple of people, and they were beaten by the other party! β
"It wasn't her own man who beat her, so why did she scold her own man so hard?" Qian Yongqiang was puzzled, stared at Huang Youcai and asked.
Huang Youcai picked up a bowl of porridge, swallowed it with his neck high, and said slowly: "Two people fight against two people, Master Zhang is tall and stronger than the other party, so he should have the upper hand and will not suffer."
But when the fight started, the woman rushed up with a scream, and fought with the two of them, and they didn't fight for a long time, and the two of them pinched her.
When she looked back, she was standing there motionless. The other two were also scared at first, and were about to run away, when they saw that only one old lady was coming, they suddenly doubled their confidence, and the two joined forces to beat the woman hard, and her head was broken. β
"Master Zhang saw that his wife was beaten, why didn't he go up? Still standing there in a daze! Qian Yongqiang smashed his mouth, feeling unreasonable.
"Yes, the woman also wondered, she skimmed her two mouths, and tore up at her man, and slapped her man so that his eyes were full of stars.
Master Zhang was in pain, covered his face with both hands, squatted down and cried. The woman was even more angry when she saw her man's cowardice, punching and kicking around her man, scolding and scolding! β
"Hmph." Huang Youcai said angrily:
"This is usually she is too strong, grinding her own man to the point that there is no blood, when something needs her man to come out, how can a person who is usually only willing and bloodless can straighten his waist and protect his family?
"This old lady is self-inflicted, not worthy of sympathy!"
Qian Yongqiang thoughtfully, nodded and said: "As small as a family, as big as a country, it is a reason.
"A family, the men of this family is the guarantee of security, the equivalent of a country's defense forces. If this man is polished by his own family to become unmanly, the whole family will be looked down upon by the people around him, and even bullied.
If the government of a country blindly suppresses and wears down the blood of its own people, making the people like tame sheep, then once there is a foreign invasion, it can only count on a group of sheep to deal with jackals, tigers and leopards, then the results can be imagined! β
"Master, you're right!" Li Qiming echoed, "Some time ago, I received a set of Song history, and I briefly flipped through it, saying that the Song Dynasty suppressed martial arts and promoted literature, and in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin people invaded, and there were no elite soldiers available, and in the end, most of the royal family were omitted by the Jin people, and they were humiliated, and the death of the dead was really miserable!" β
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Qian Yongqiang has not been in the mood to receive goods recently, and stays at home every day thinking about what happened in that dream. He made up his mind that if the things in the dream were true, then he would learn martial arts without learning anything else.
First, to strengthen the body, do not love others to bully. If he learns martial arts, he won't be afraid if the fat and thin two men in black in the ghost market come again last time;
Second, he can also realize his childhood dream of martial arts - wandering the world, punishing the strong and eliminating evil.
When he was a child, he was fascinated by watching the movies of Shaolin Temple, and at that time he had a martial arts dream in his heart: wearing starlight, stepping on loess, and walking the world with a sword.
So far, Qian Yongqiang has gotten up early every night and waited for him to fall asleep, but the more he wanted to dream, the more he couldn't sleep, and sometimes he stared at the roof until dawn. I can't sleep at night, I don't have good spirits during the day, and I am ignorant day by day.
That night, at last, I stopped dreaming, and strangely enough, I fell asleep after a while. In the dream, he sat on the bed and looked directly at the opposite wall, hoping that Li Juren would arrive sooner.
It didn't take long for Li Juren to come in a long robe. Qian Yongqiang said to Li Juren: "I think about it, I only learn martial arts. I was weak and used to be bullied. Master, do you think I can learn martial arts? β
The master's call was a little abrupt, and Li Juren was stunned for a moment. Qian Yongqiang looked at him with blank eyes: "Master, can you take me as an apprentice?" β
As he spoke, Qian Yongqiang knelt down towards Li Juren.
"Of course, since I promised to teach you the skill, I am your master. Let these customs be dispensed with, and sit up and speak. β
Li Juren stretched out his hand to pull Qian Yongqiang up, and the clever Qian Yongqiang heard Li Juren say this, and quickly kowtowed three times, shouting master again and again. Li Juren laughed and gently helped Qian Yongqiang up.
"My martial arts, no door and no school, I comprehended it from an ancient boxing book, at that time this boxing book was seriously damaged, only the method of practicing qi remained, according to this practice, but in a few years, the strength doubled.
"I was in the deep mountains and old forests, observing the movements of large animals such as tigers and leopards, and combining the method of practicing qi with the body movements of tigers and leopards.
"There are not many tricks, but they are simple and practical, easy to learn and remember, but it is suitable for people who do not have a foundation in martial arts to get started quickly, but the method of practicing qi must be gradual and gradual, not three years and five years, in order to achieve a small success.
"I see that you have a good heart, and you are not a fierce person, so I have made up my mind to give it to you." As he spoke, Li Juren asked Qian Yongqiang to memorize the qi practice mantra with him.
In this way, for three nights in a row, Li Juren came to Qian Yongqiang's dream and taught him martial arts.
Finally, on this night, Li Juren saw that Qian Yongqiang's mental movements were all memorized, so he nodded with satisfaction and said:
"For the teacher to teach you this set of boxing techniques, you will practice every day, if you meet a person who is gifted and intelligent and kind-hearted, you can teach him, if my martial arts can be carried forward in your hands, then I will thank you for being a teacher!"
"The disciple will remember the teachings of the master, and will study diligently and practice hard, and choose the good to teach! However, if someone asks me what kind of boxing technique this is, how should the disciple answer? Qian Yongqiang asked.