The old man looked at Qiu Hu and nodded imperceptibly, and then said:

"You are now covering your mouth and nose with your hands, looking up at the bright moon, turning in circles, I don't stop, you don't stop!"

Qiu Hu didn't know why the old man suddenly made such a strange request, but he only hesitated a little and spun around as requested.

I don't know how many times he turned, Qiu Hu only felt that the moon in his eyes seemed to have an afterimage, and then it kept changing and faintly became three or four, and at the same time, his chest seemed to be about to blow up, blocking his head and his eyes bulging out.

"Stop!" The old man shouted.

Qiu Hu immediately stopped, only to feel that the sky was spinning in his eyes, and the old man in his eyes also appeared ghosting at this time.

"Within five breaths, show me the four directions of southeast, northwest, and north!"

The old man's voice was low, but it pierced Qiu Hu's eardrums, and he didn't even have time to think, so he instinctively pointed out four directions one after another.

After a while, Qiu Hu recovered his state, and he forgot which direction he was pointing in just now, so he had to look nervously at the silent old man.

"Good luck." The old man spat out a sentence faintly.

Qiu Hu breathed a long sigh of relief, it seemed that he had been blinded just now, but when he woke up at this time, he was naturally able to easily distinguish the four directions with his night vision eyes.

At this time, the old man found a stone out of nowhere and threw it directly to Qiu Hu:

"Look at this stone, there is a paulownia leaf painted on it with cinnabar, and one of each of the two baskets has been marked with this mark, now you go to the two forests and find those two stones and put them in the basket, and put the two baskets at my door before the end of the hour, even if you are barely qualified."

Qiu Hu took the stone and observed it carefully, only to see the shape of a paulownia leaf lightly outlined on it, and a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart, such a faint mark, how could he find it at that time, but now he has to find it again, not to mention that three or four hundred stones were scattered before, when will this be found.....

Qiu Hu naturally could only complain a few words in his heart, and then raised his head and was ready to respond, but where was there still a little old man in front of him, and when he looked up again, the old man was already outside the hundred-step stone stairs, and in a blink of an eye, he had disappeared.

Oh, if only I could have such a speed when I and the dog baby went up the mountain, Qiu Hu thought to himself.

......

The morning sun quietly poured out from the eastern hills, gradually rendering a glorious cloud, and a few rooster crows echoed between the mountain tops, and a few small cabins between the clouds seemed to be quiet.

The door in front of the courtyard was opened, and the dog baby walked out of it with a comfortable face, took a deep breath of the cool dew of the morning, raised his hand to stretch the muscles and bones on his body, and then made a big jump, and two backflips fell in the courtyard with both hands on the ground, and began to walk upside down around the edge of the small courtyard.

After walking two laps, the dog began to jump alternately with one hand, and each time he changed hands, his body and feet would make corresponding movements to maintain balance, and as the movements were skillfully carried out, a layer of fine sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

"Huh?"

There seemed to be an upside-down figure in the eyes of the dog baby, he immediately turned over, and when he turned around, he saw Qiu Hu carrying two baskets out of the stone ladder, walking step by step.

"Huzi!"

The dog baby screamed in surprise and immediately greeted her.

Qiu Hu saw the dog baby running, his tired face barely showed a smile, accompanied by him, went to the old man's door and put down the basket containing a few stones each, and took out the piece given to him by the old man from his arms, and then knelt down on his knees, raised the stone in his hand to the top of his head, and his eyes bloomed.

"Disciple Qiu Hu, complete the trial!"

Almost at the same time as Qiu Hu shouted, the door in front of him suddenly opened, and the old man stepped out, he glanced at the basket on the ground, and reached out to take the stone from Qiu Hu's hand.

"Well, although I only asked for one, but in fact, three pieces were marked in gray and white, and you brought them all back."

Qiu Hu couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, and he heard the appreciation from the old man's mouth, which was the first time that the old man affirmed Qiu Hu so far.

"Where are the parents?"

The old man stood with his hands in his hands, and his face became serious.

"Both parents died, but fortunately there were adoptive parents."

Qiu Hu still remained in a kneeling position, his hands on the ground.

"Age?"

"Ten years old."

The old man frowned slightly when he heard this, and pinched his fingers when he saw that the dog baby was also beside him. He was an orphan who was picked up by his master since he was a child, and he was raised by his master since he was a child, so the old man was also a master and a father to him, and there was actually no apprenticeship. But Qiu Hu is different, if you want the old man to accept apprentices, you must pass the test before you can apprentice, but there are three conditions for the corpse to accept apprentices:

First, the apprenticeship can only be accepted by the parents who are in writing; the second is to be at least 16 years old; The third is that he is more than six feet long and has an ugly appearance.

Qiu Hu's own parents are deceased, the note is avoidable, and the length is not a problem, and his appearance is barely qualified under the scar on the right side of his face, but the age difference is too great.

"Look up."

Qiu Hu raised his head in response, the old man looked down at his face, and then nodded slowly:

"For a period of six years, you are not counted as a disciple of someone I He, you are not allowed to take jobs on the road, you are not allowed to call yourself Mr. Footwalk, and you are not allowed to learn formal techniques. You can leave at any time here, and after six years, you can return to your hometown to take the note of your adoptive parents and give it to me, and then officially visit your family. ”

Qiu Hu immediately smiled when he heard this, he knew that the old man had been regarded as a disguised apprentice, and immediately bowed:

"Thank you, master!"

But the old man just snorted coldly, leaned to the side, and avoided Qiu Hu's big gift.

Qiu Hu looked up with doubts in his eyes, and the old man didn't explain, only picked up the basket and left.

"Come on, come on, get up." The dog baby pulled Qiu Hu up, "You are not yet an official disciple of the master, so he can't accept your apprenticeship, but I can treat you as my own junior brother in the future, hahaha." ”

Qiu Hu also grinned and shouted at the dog: "Senior brother! ”

The dog baby was directly stunned, and a touched expression appeared on her ugly face.

"It turns out that this is the feeling of being called senior brother, it's too comfortable, junior brother, don't worry, the master won't teach you the technique, I'll teach you everything I will."

"Huh? This is not good......" Qiu Hu looked stunned.

"There's nothing wrong with it, I'm your senior brother, and I have the right to teach you." The dog baby grabbed Qiu Hu's shoulder again, "Let's go, let's practice early kung fu with my senior brother." ”

"Good!" Qiu Hu's voice was a little excited.

The dog baby was even more excited, and took Qiu Hu to the small courtyard all the way without stopping, originally planning to temper the morning skills, but in the dog baby's gushing words, the two sat directly on the ground, one talked about the river, and the other listened with relish.

"This corpse, first of all, even if you have a good body, foreign kung fu is the foundation, in addition to your own physical strength, you must be proficient in fist and foot kung fu......"

"And this corpse, you must learn thirty-six skills. The first skill is the "standing merit" of the dead body, that is, the first thing is to make the dead body stand up. The second skill is the "walking exercise", that is, allowing the corpse to stop and walk freely......"