Chapter VII Ten Years

On that night in Alberta, in the late summer of 1845, which was privately referred to as the "Wolf Plague," Governor Federo Hunt personally sent someone to question and consult with Mr. Howlett and make a rule that such a scourge should not be caused again.

Mr. Howlett became famous throughout Canada, and all the manor owners everywhere knew that there was an old madman in Alberta that he could not be provoked.

After the funeral, Lady Elizabeth was devout and converted to God, and this beautiful woman lived in seclusion, going to church every day, giving alms in the town, and caring for orphans and the elderly.

She may not have considered remarrying or leaving here without Mr. Howlett, but both she and Mr. Howlett knew that she was the root cause of John's death. Without James, the sole heir to the Howlett family, Lady Elizabeth may not have been better off than Thomas Rogan.

The old man had once again taken up the burden of the whole family, and his body was strong enough that if everything had gone on in peace, he might have lived to be eighty years old. But in order to give his grandson more time, Mr. Howlett had to grit his teeth and let him grow up as much as he could. James was still too young, but to the relief of the old man, he was able to see that what he was holding on to was so hopeful.

Canada hasn't changed much in the past decade, and a year ago a new Governor-General arrived, a hereditary marquis in his forties, who seemed dissatisfied with the fact that the lords of the colony's estates were too self-governing and were constantly trying to increase the authority of the Governor's Office.

Alberta's farming and farming operations were now largely under the control of Mr. Howlett after that night a decade ago, making him the biggest nail in the Governor's eye. It's no secret that Howlett is old now, his straight spine couldn't hold it a few years ago, and Alberta was eerily quiet before the storm.

On the other hand, the United States, which was founded less than 100 years ago, was in turmoil, with the rise of abolitionists, and the Free Soil Party, organized by people who opposed slavery in the Democratic and Whig parties, claiming to establish a free state in the western territories.

In 1850, after a dispute, the two sides reached a compromise, and Congress passed a draconian law on the pursuit of fugitives. In 1854 Congress abolished the geographical boundaries between slave states and free states, which was strongly opposed by the industrial bourgeoisie in the North. In the same year, the Republican Party was formed, officially with the aim of opposing slavery, and an even greater storm was brewing on the vast North American continent.

James Howlett's life did not take a turn for him after his father's death, and Mr. Howlett sheltered him with a large umbrella. Except for the first two years of homework study and observation, dealing with certain family accounts and personnel placement affairs, all his energy was on practice. And, to deal with a more and more strange body.

[Baduanjin] is the most widely spread and influential one of the ancient Chinese body strengthening and guidance techniques. There are many schools, including sitting and standing, civil and military, north and south, and many schools have their own practice methods.

In James's previous life, he practiced very few [Ancient Baduan Jin], and the reason why it was difficult was because it was too ancient, and many of the acupuncture points that were beaten were already blurred, and no one dared to practice them.

The [Yi Jin Gong] practiced every night is also called [Yi Jin Jing], which has been mythologized by various stories as the highest martial arts in the rivers and lakes, but it is basically just a kind of guidance technique to build a foundation and strengthen the body, but it is more focused on stretching the muscles and veins, flexible muscles and bones, so as to strengthen the qi and blood and prolong life.

This set of kung fu was exchanged by the former Bai Feng's mentor from the Shaolin Mountain Gate in order to repair and continue his body. It is also by relying on the internal organs of Baduanjin, swallowing and exhaling, the strong muscles and bones of the Yi Jin Sutra, and the rational yin and yang, in order to withstand the fierce practice of boxing. Without even these two sets of kung fu, he might not have lived to be thirty years old before he died young.

At the age of sixteen, James was basically able to complete all the movements required to practice these two sets of kung fu, especially the [Yi Jin Jing] to the end, not only can he achieve the so-called "one-word horse", "big horizontal fork", "snake plate, etc.", which ordinary people can understand, but can even get rid of the entire shoulder joint rotation, and the general shackles and joint skills can be ignored. And he also deeply realized the benefits of "Tongzigong", the body bones had already grown when he practiced in his previous life, and the progress of his practice was also very slow, and he persevered for seven years to reach his current state.

In the following years, James did not rush to practice the former Guoshu boxing method, but continued to repeat the practice of Baduanjin and Yijin Sutra every day. And with the accumulation and insight of the boxing method in his previous life, he practiced all kinds of foundation building pile skills and boxing techniques that he had never had the opportunity to try.

He wanted to build the most solid foundation to see if the soul of a martial arts master could cultivate the fist techniques of this life to the legendary supreme realm. However, the strange disease he thought was gone only intensified.

"Master James! Wait for me! ”

Rose O'Hara rode a white dove, which was already a "big girl", and chased after James.

The bright and bright red long hair was pulled into a bright red ribbon fluttering behind her by the wind, the girl's snow-white skin was a little dazzling under the sun, her beautiful eyebrows were wrinkled, her glutinous white teeth gently bit her plump lips, her straight and delicate nose bridge and face, and the freckles of her youth were long gone.

O'Hara, the little maid, has become a great beauty.

"Go back! I'll go for a walk in the woods, and I'll bring you a rabbit to play with when I get back. It's dangerous in the forest, you can't follow, don't play tricks! James turned back to O'Hara and shouted, urging "Panda" under his crotch to speed up.

It was one of Montenegro's finest offspring, with black and white fur, taller and stout than its father, and James named it Panda, a term that no one knew meant.

O'Hara pulled the white pigeon from behind, turned around and went back complaining, muttering things like "don't take me again", "bastard young master".

The sun shone through the branches of the forest, and the Tyndall effect was like a thin veil gently draped over the young man leading the horse. He was so tall and well-proportioned that he was in harmony with the somewhat oversized horse beside him.

James has neat short hair, black hair and black eyes, extremely broad shoulders, a somewhat small head, slender arms, almost knee-high, probably caused by the extraordinarily slender legs, the torso looks a little short, walking undulating like a beast with only a pad of flesh, vigorous and agile.

The handsome appearance is even a little more delicate than O'Hara, and the masculine temperament makes people ignore this somewhat feminine face.

James casually tied his horse to a tree, jumped on a boulder more than two meters high, sat down with his legs crossed in a lotus shape, and closed his eyes to recuperate. Thinking about the changes in my physical state these days.

"The onset of the disease is getting longer and faster, and the frequency is getting faster and faster, and the last month was actually in a state of 'sick body' for twelve days, and if it continues like this, it will become a complete waste sooner or later......" James closed his eyes tightly, his brows furrowed, and he was troubled.

In the short first two or three years, his body grew up healthily like an ordinary child without any abnormalities. With the practice of the two guiding techniques, the development is getting faster and faster, the physical fitness is also improving, and the usual dietary requirements are also great.

However, suddenly, one evening, James felt hot and weak until the next day. After that, it would be like this every once in a while, and at the time of the onset of the disease, the high fever could reach 40 degrees, the whole body was weak, dizzy, and the breathing was not smooth.

With the strong physical foundation cultivated by the increasingly profound boxing practice, he was able to barely maintain the normal life of ordinary people, and found some excuses to read and rest in his room, without letting others know that he had a strange illness again. The people in the manor have almost forgotten that Young Master James was often frail and sickly when he was young.

James didn't expect a doctor in this era to be able to diagnose his illness, not to mention that he had been a doctor for a long time and had a deep understanding of human internal surgery, so he had no clue about this strange disease with the level of knowledge of his own body as a boxing master.

Vaguely, it can be confirmed that the disease must be present at the genetic level. And there was nothing James could do about it. He is twenty-three years old this year, and it has been five years since he began to practice killing boxing, and with the physical foundation laid by the crazy foundation of the ancients all these years ago, he already has the destructive power of a dark power boxer when he is not sick, and it is enough to protect himself in this era when thermal weapons are still rudimentary.

In the future, if it really becomes this state of illness, he can only barely maintain the physical condition of an ordinary person, and this is still an optimistic situation that the condition will not deteriorate, because James can feel that this strange disease is becoming more and more irrepressible.

It grows stronger day by day, and it has to break free from the cage.