Late Qing Dynasty, Shanghai.

Nong Jinsun asked a bloodstained person to be carried into the Jingwu Sect.

Huo Tingen asked, "Uncle Nong, who is he?" Why did you hurt so badly? ”

Nong Jinsun sighed and said, "I don't know who he is, in short, he is Chinese." He was wounded by the Japanese. The Japanese are ruthless, and you and I know it all too well. I met it when I came back, and I can't die without help. ”

Speaking of the Japanese, Huo Tingen looked angry and said coldly: "Damn the Japanese, they will bully us Chinese." ”

The Japanese ronin of Hongkou Dojo are not less troubled by Jingwumen.

Nong Jinsun said: "Tingen, you quickly ask someone to ask for a doctor." With the doctor's treatment, maybe this person will still live. ”

Huo Tingen nodded and said, "Uncle Nong, I'll let Xiaohui go and ask for a doctor." ”

……

Chen Kang woke up and felt pain all over his body. The pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow made Chen Kang gasp.

"Where is this?"

Chen Kang observed the environment in the room.

Squeak.

The door opened, and a young woman dressed in blue walked in with a medicine bowl.

It is the female disciple of Jingwumen "Xiaohui".

Xiaohui was pleasantly surprised: "You're awake." The doctor said that you were seriously injured, and we were worried that you would not wake up. I've already boiled the medicine, so you don't need me to feed you anymore. Drink hot. ”

Chen Kang said: "Thank you for saving me. ”

Xiao Hui said: "It was Uncle Nong who brought you back to Jingwumen. If you want to thank you, you will thank Uncle Nong. ”

Chen Kang said secretly, it turns out that this place is Jingwumen!

……

Jingwumen has a very high status in the Shanghai martial arts world, and Huo Yuanjia is a well-known martial arts master in Shanghai.

After all, Huo Yuanjia used to be the first in Tianjin. After he arrived in Shanghai, he defeated foreign strongmen several times, adding a lot of glory to the Chinese people.

There are a lot of people who come to Jingwumen to apprentice, plus there is Nong Jinsun to take care of the martial arts hall, and by the way, there is no problem to do some business, so there is no problem in raising an idler.

In this way, Chen Kang stayed in Jingwumen to recuperate.

Chen Kang has a secret that no one else knows, he is not a person of this era, but a time-traveler.

Chen Kang is 37 years old, majoring in mathematics, and after graduating from university, he worked in several companies for a few years without making any money.

By the age of 31, Chen Kang left the big city and returned to the county seat, where he studied cooking with his father and worked as a chef in a restaurant.

A top student majoring in mathematics can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, so he can only be a cook? This kind of thing is very common in 2023. College students can't find jobs and can't afford to marry daughters-in-law abound, and Chen Kang is not the only one.

Chen Kang said secretly: "Since I won't die, let's change my way of living." Lao Tzu didn't want to pay off the mortgage anymore and didn't want to be a slave to the capitalists. I'm going to live for myself! ”

Four months later.

Chen Kang's injuries healed.

In order to continue to stay in Jingwumen, Chen Kang went to the kitchen to help.

Uncle Gen, who was in charge of the kitchen, didn't expect Chen Kang to be proficient in cooking, so he let Chen Kang stay in the kitchen to work.

……

Huo Yuanjia practiced boxing in the courtyard.

As a martial arts master, Huo Yuanjia's boxing is very pure, and the simple fist and foot moves give people a sense of beauty of combining rigidity and softness.

Huo Tingen walked over, handed over the towel, and said softly, "Father, lunch is ready." ”

Huo Yuanjia took the towel and wiped the sweat on his forehead and arms: "Then eat first." ”

Huo Tingen said with a smile: "Father's boxing skills have really reached the realm of perfection. In the past, my father was the first in Jinmen. Now my father is the first in Shanghai. ”

Huo Yuanjia glared at Huo Tingen: "What is the first in Jinmen." That's because I was young and ignorant, and I was too arrogant. Chinese martial arts are broad and profound, who dares to say that they are the first? I'm more proficient in boxing than I was back then, but I'm older. I'm old, Ting'en, and in the future, the Jingwu Sect will depend on you young people. ”

Huo Yuanjia was fierce and fierce in his early years, and was injured many times, although he is now recuperating with fists, some secret injuries cannot be healed.

Huo Yuanjia had clearly felt that his physical strength had declined. Maybe in a few years, I won't be able to do it myself. Martial arts can strengthen the body and fight and fight, but after all, it is not an immortal method, and it cannot make people immortal.

Huo Yuanjia sat down, picked up the rice bowl, took a bite of the dish, and his eyes lit up.

"Huh?"

Huo Yuanjia said: "Who made today's dish?" ”

Xiaohui said: "Uncle Gen has something to do today, so he went home." It's Chen Kang's cooking. ”

Among Huo Yuanjia's disciples, there was no one named Chen Kang, and for a while, he didn't remember who it was.

Nong Jinsun said: "It is the person I rescued a few months ago, he is Chen Kang." ”

Huo Yuanjia said: "I didn't expect Chen Kang's cooking skills to be so exquisite, not bad, really good." ”

Chen Kang served the last bowl of soup and said with a smile: "Master Huo, it is my honor that you like to eat the dishes I cooked." If you want to eat anything in the future, just tell me and I'll make it for you. ”

Chen Kang is good at Sichuan cuisine, but he also knows about other cuisines.

Huo Yuanjia said happily: "Okay." In the future, I will be in charge of my diet, Chen Kang. ”

Taking advantage of Huo Yuanjia's happiness, Chen Kang hurriedly asked, "Master Huo, I want to learn boxing from you, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Huo Yuanjia glanced at Chen Kang and said, "Chen Kang, how old are you?" How did you want to learn martial arts? ”

Chen Kang sighed and said, "I'm 37 years old. ”

Huo Yuanjia said: "Thirty-seven, not a few years younger than me." Even if I teach you now, you won't achieve anything. ”

Chen Kang didn't give up and said, "Master Huo, I want to give it a try." ”

Huo Yuanjia nodded and said, "Then give it a try." When I teach my disciples boxing, you can watch from the sidelines. How much you can learn depends on your creation. ”

Chen Kang said happily: "Thank you, Master Huo." ”

……

The disciples who came to Jingwumen to learn martial arts were all young people.

Chen Kang is thirty-seven years old, his face is a little old, he has a lot of white hair, and no one believes him when he says that he is in his early forties.

Chen Kang used to stay up late and work overtime, and then worked as a chef, which was too hard. The body is very empty, and it is normal to look old.

Chen Kang wanted to learn martial arts, but it caused a heated discussion among the disciples of the Jingwu Sect. They had never seen anyone as old as Chen Kang who still came to learn martial arts.

Huo Yuanjia rarely taught his disciples to practice boxing in person, and it took about six or seven days before he came forward to demonstrate boxing once.

The matter of teaching boxing is basically Huo Tingen in charge.

Huo Tingen can also be regarded as having obtained the true inheritance of Huo Jiaquan, but he is still young, and his boxing skills are still lacking a little fire. However, it is completely sufficient to teach the disciples the foundation of martial arts.

Chen Kang's memory is very good.

When Huo Tingen was teaching boxing, Chen Kang was standing next to him and listening, watching, and following the gestures.

After listening to it only once, Chen Kang remembered more than ninety percent.

Collect information, analyze it, summarize it, and finally turn it into useful knowledge. Chen Kang uses mathematical thinking to learn martial arts.

Well, it seems to work pretty well.

……

Late at night.

Everyone else in the Jingwu Sect slept.

The light in Chen Kang's room was still on.

Chen Kang recorded all the words that Huo Yuanjia and Huo Tingen had said when they were teaching their disciples.

There is a lot of information in these words.

"The fundamental purpose of practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body, enhance physical fitness, and improve physical fitness."

"Punches and kicks, it's not that important."

"Breathing, mind, is the core of martial arts."

Chen Kang has his own values and logical thinking, knows how to analyze, and will not follow the crowd. Chen Kang used to have a lot of misunderstandings about martial arts, and he didn't even know about the real traditional martial arts.

He is now looking for the underlying logic of martial arts.

If martial arts is a skill, or a technique, then there must be traces.

If you find the fundamental logic of martial arts and understand why martial arts can strengthen your body, then the effect of practicing martial arts will be twice the result with half the effort.

In the industrial age, Chen Kangsheng paid attention to efficiency in everything he did.

Now that Chen Kang has decided to practice martial arts, it is even more important to talk about efficiency.

Because Chen Kang is 37 years old, there is not much time left for him.

……

Huo Tingen supervised everyone in the courtyard to squat and walk.

"Standing on the horse step pile, an hour. Start now. Huo Tingen said with a serious face.

Chen Kang suddenly asked, "Senior brother, what is the purpose of standing on the horse step pile?" Why do we stand on horseback? ”

Huo Tingen said: "Standing on the pile is to enhance your strength. ”

Chen Kang asked again: "Why can standing on the horse step pile enhance your skills?" ”

Huo Tingen was stunned, he had never thought about this question. Anyway, that's what Huo Yuanjia taught him.

couldn't answer, Huo Tingen was a little annoyed: "Chen Kang, do you practice?" If you don't practice, go back to the kitchen. ”

Why can standing on the horse step pile enhance the skill? Huo Yuanjia couldn't answer this question.

It wasn't until a few days later that Chen Kang figured out that the purpose of standing on the horse step pile is to stimulate the muscles and bones of the legs, enhance balance and stability!

Breathing, thoughts, and movements should be coordinated in place.

In this way, the effect of the training will be increased by several times, or even more than ten times.

Chen Kang said secretly: "Understand the principle, learn the move skills, as long as you train in a state of concentration, you can improve efficiency!" ”

Deep down, Chen Kang is very fond of martial arts.

Who didn't have a martial arts dream when they were young? Now that he has the opportunity to practice martial arts, Chen Kang easily entered a state of concentration.

The days that followed.

Practicing martial arts and cooking for Huo Yuanjia, Chen Kang did not feel tired at all, but felt very fulfilling.

Especially when practicing martial arts, Chen Kang indulged in it and was willing to do it.

Until this day.

Hongkou Dojo sent a challenge book.

Next month, Akutagawa Ryuichi will compete with Huo Yuanjia, so that Jingwumen can prepare early.