Childhood Chapter 16 of I Am the Great Catcher
Huo Yuanjia looked at the boxing book for a long time and didn't move, his eyes could see his hands but couldn't reach it, so he could only look at the score and sigh. After a while, he asked me, "Zhang Ce, do you have a boxing score on this crossbar?" I shook my head.
"It seems that there is no hope of taking the boxing score today." Huo Yuanjia sighed and said.
"You can ask your dad or brother to come, their light skills can be taken off the boxing score, right?" I asked.
"If Daddy comes, he will inevitably have a fight with Senior Nose Li, Daddy loses a small matter, and Huo Jiaquan's prestige is frustrated and a big matter." Huo Yuanjia said without frowning.
"Then you should practice kung fu and come back to retrieve the boxing book in the future, okay?"
"If the boxing score doesn't go back for a day, the Huo family can't sleep well. It's only to blame my father and brother's generation for their low martial arts and the prestige of Huo Jiaquan. Alas. ”
"If you don't dislike it, you can come to my house for a few days and think of a way. Maybe my master can help you! He is a big master, and he used to be famous in Jiangnan. I said.
"Then excuse me, I'll come to your house and discuss it again."
Huo Yuanjia and I walked through the long grass in the yard tremblingly, but the poisonous snake still avoided it far away and did not attack us, which was extremely magical. Nose Lee sat on a chaise longue and drank tea, telling us that he would only stay here for seven days, and after seven days, he would travel the world with his fists, and then he would be indefinite.
Huo Yuanjia hated to leave, and there was no way at all. I wanted to comfort him, but I couldn't say it, and I didn't know where to start. I don't know if the master can win the nose Li and get back the boxing score for Huo Yuanjia?
When he came home, Huo Yuanjia's two servants were sent home by him to report the news, and they came back three days later. Huo Yuanjia stayed by himself and lived in my house, and his mother cleaned up the house where the sundries were placed and let him sleep. Now that the weather is hot, we spread out the mats and sleep together in the Westinghouse, which is very cool.
"Zhang Ce, you usually sleep on the kang in the main house with your mother, right?" Huo Yuanjia asked.
"Yes, we don't have a lot of houses, so we can't have a single room. But in the summer, I'd love to sleep in this room with miscellaneous items, and it's cool! I replied.
"I envy you. As a child, for as long as I can remember, I slept by myself, with only servants outside the house. Usually, my father is addicted to martial arts, my mother burns incense and worships Buddha, and my brothers practice boxing all day long. ”
"Then let's talk enough today. In three days, you may be leaving, and there will be no one to talk to you with. I said to Huo Yuanjia.
"Good. Today we talked all night and stayed up all night. ”
"You speak with a bookish voice, just like the teacher in our village. I can't tell that you are a child of a martial arts family at all! ”
"My father said that martial arts and cultural governance are inseparable, and if there is no principle of heaven, earth and the universe in your chest, it will be difficult to comprehend the supreme realm of martial arts. Therefore, like my brothers, I have been reading the Four Books and the Five Classics since I was a child, and I have to read every day. It's a pity that my father only let me study and didn't let me practice martial arts. ”
"Don't be discouraged, didn't you say that you want to create your own boxing method, and it is a boxing method that is suitable for you alone? After you create it, your kung fu will definitely be better than your father's, and it will definitely be better than Nose Li! ”
"It's easy to say, but it's hard to do. However, I've already figured out the name of this set! ”
"Really? What is it called, let's hear it. ”
"It's called: Lost Fist!"
"Why is it called Lost Fist?"
Huo Yuanjia turned over, looked out the window with his head on his hand, and said to me, "Our Huo family's ancestral boxing method is called Secret Sect Fist, and I want to create a name similar to Secret Sect Fist, which is more powerful than its Lost Trace Fist." So that everyone in the world knows that Huo Yuanjia is a sect master, not a weak and sick waste. ”
"You're so ambitious! It's definitely going to work. In the future, I will learn from you the Lost Trace Boxing, will you teach me? I asked.
"If I create a Lost Trace Fist, I will definitely study and learn from you. I think the rule of passing on the inside but not the outside is wrong, which can only make the kung fu generation inferior to the next, just like my family's Huo Jiaquan. In the future, I will recruit a wide range of apprentices and teach them martial arts regardless of each other, so that everyone can practice good kung fu. Do you think it's good? ”
"Good! That's how it should be. I have a good friend Xiaoyingzi, and he passed on to me the Luohan boxing he learned, and I also taught him the kung fu I learned, so how good. ”
"It's a pity that I'm still young and my kung fu is too shallow, so I can't get back the boxing book, so that Nose Li laughs at my Huo family." Huo Yuanjia mentioned the boxing book again, and he looked very relieved.
"Is there anything you can do? Why don't we sneak into his house, take a ladder, and steal the boxing score? I said to Huo Yuanjia.
"He is so strong in martial arts that we can't steal it."
Huo Yuanjia no longer mentioned the matter of boxing, asked my kung fu and master, and talked about some interesting things on the rivers and lakes. He knew a lot of things, he read them all in books, and no one usually listened to him, but he told me them all tonight. I didn't expect that there were so many sects and gangs in the rivers and lakes, and there were many powerful characters, I heard that there was a person named Zhu Honglan under the Hongquan sect, who founded a boxer, and now it is very famous in the martial arts. What else is Swallow Gate, Plum Blossom Boxing, Huo Yuanjia told me a lot of things, all of which are new things that I have never heard of, and they are much more interesting than the stories told by the master.
The next morning, I got up early to help my mother push the mill and press the grain, and Huo Yuanjia helped me push it together.
"Zhang Ce, it would be much more convenient if you bought a donkey to pull it."
"We can't afford to raise donkeys, and my family has little land and little grain, so it is enough to use people to push and plow the land, and when we have more money and land in the future, we can buy donkeys."
"You can also practice martial arts. It's not bad to usually push the mill and practice at the same time. Huo Yuanjia smiled at me.
"How do you practice?"
Huo Yuanjia asked me to dodge, he put one hand against the root of the wooden pole in the center of the mill, and pushed the mill to fly and spun up. I know that pushing the wooden pole in the middle of the mill, the closer you go, the harder you have to work, and leaning on the root is the most laborious, and I can't push it at all. I didn't expect Huo Yuanjia to be thin and weak, but his strength was so great!
He pushed the mill and flew around seven or eight times, and he was already sweating on his head and stopped. When his mother saw him pushing the mill, she brought him a bowl of tea and thanked him.
"You are the young master of a rich and noble family, you haven't done this rough work, don't be too tired. Let's let Ce'er come. ”
"Auntie, don't worry, I usually carry stone locks and wooden stakes, so I'm not afraid of getting tired." Huo Yuanjia said. He took the tea bowl and drank it in one gulp, his face shining straight in the direction of Yingguang, and the beads of sweat were crystal clear.
My mother was going to work in the field, Huo Yuanjia also went with me and my mother, we walked along the river, my mother carried a basket with a teapot and bowl, and Huo Yuanjia and I each carried a sickle and went to the field to cut the grass.
The birds in the morning are lazy, jumping around the edge of the field, unwilling to fly. The sparrows are jumping on the ground in flocks, and it looks really spectacular, just like the stones on the ground are jumping alive, which is very fun. I picked up a stone and threw it into the flock of sparrows, and with a bang on the ground, the sparrows flew up in fright and threw themselves into the green crops of the field.
Huo Yuanjia picked up a stone, aimed at a sparrow and shook his hand to hit it, and with a snort, the sparrow was knocked over and died on the ground.
"That's amazing! Huo Yuanjia, can you teach me how to hit sparrows with stones? ”
"Yes. It's not very difficult, you can hit it with a few more practice. ”
"Good. When I finished mowing the grass, I started learning. ”
My mother looked at Huo Yuanjia and me with a smile and said to us, "The two little brothers are so happy, let's go play." I'll just mow the grass by myself! ”
"No, Mom. I'm going to help you mow the grass. ”
"Yes, auntie, we'll help you mow the grass first." Huo Yuanjia also said.
Huo Yuanjia and I started to mow the grass in the field in a hurry, and I first taught him to distinguish the difference between grass and seedlings, and not to cut it wrong. There were only two sickles, and my mother asked Huo Yuanjia and me to use the sickles and pull them out by hand. I wanted to give the sickle to my mother, but my mother didn't want it, saying that it was the same with my hands, and told me to be careful not to cut my hands with the sickle.
The three of us worked, and in a short time we had removed most of the grass, and we piled it on the edge of the field so that we could collect it and feed the sheep. This year, my family has a new ewe, which is only a few months old, and I have to gather grass for her to eat.
After Huo Yuanjia finished mowing the grass, he took it to the edge of the field and piled it up, and he accidentally saw the grass pulled by his mother neatly piled up on the edge of the field. He leaned over and looked at it carefully, picked up a piece of grass, walked up to me, and said to me, "Zhang Ce, look! ”
I took the grass, read it, and asked him, "What are you looking at?" It's just a piece of grass. ”
"Intact, the roots are like the roots, and the stems are undamaged. It's unbelievable that my aunt pulled out the grass like this! I think my aunt is a hidden martial arts master, why don't you hide it from me? ”
"My mom doesn't know how to do kung fu. You are mistaken. ”
"You and I are friends, why hide it from me, my aunt's kung fu must be very powerful. If you don't admit it, forget it. Huo Yuanjia said a little unhappily.
"My mother never told me that she knew kung fu, I didn't hide it from you, God testifies!" I said hurriedly.
"Really? But ......" Huo Yuanjia was silent, and his mother was still pulling weeds in the distance, holding a handful of freshly pulled grass in her hand, and continued to walk lightly in the field, looking for weeds.
"Mom's strength is small, so the grass is not broken and damaged, right? It's not kung fu, you may be mistaken. I said to Huo Yuanjia.
He bent down and grabbed a grass with his hand, and pulled it vigorously, until the grass broke at the root, and only half of it was left. But looking at her mother again, she was also holding on to the grass stems, and she pulled them up with her hands, and she didn't damage the grass stems at all. I also tried, but I couldn't uproot the grass like my mother did. Could it be that my mother is really a martial arts master?
At this time, a woman's cry suddenly came from a distance, shouting loudly, "Help, there is a strong man!" Help me, help! ”