Chapter 6: The Bear
Ten days passed, and Zhao Lin's body was developing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
First of all, he was tall, jumping up nearly three centimeters, and the speed made him a little uncomfortable, and occasionally accidentally bumped into something while walking.
The body is also a lot stronger, especially the main parts of the torso such as the waist and abdomen, chest and back, neck, etc., the muscles are stacked and edged and angled, and they are no longer as thin as before.
Often cramps in sleep, and even woke up in the middle of the night, Zhao Lin knew that this was because of the rapid growth of the body and the lack of calcium.
Meat, eggs and milk must be supplemented in large quantities.
He is frugal with his money, but he is willing to spend a little more on food.
Every time he finished eating, the spirit beast diagram would absorb the vitality in the food and release a stream of heat to promote the evolution of the body.
"Good physical fitness should be of great benefit to martial arts training."
Knowing that there is martial arts in this world, Zhao Lin also moved his mind in this regard.
As a traverser, which one does not have a dream of martial arts and a dream of cultivating immortals?
Especially in this place where the legal system is not perfect, and strength is relied on everywhere, martial arts is the capital of life.
There were still eight squares left empty in the Spirit Beast Diagram, and Zhao Lin had no intention of absorbing new beast spirits for the time being.
First, his current knowledge is limited, and the choice he has made may not be the right one.
If you absorb the unsuitable beast spirit, you will waste a grid in vain.
Second, he was worried that the two spirits might exceed the burden of his body, but they might not be as good as the current specialized strength.
……
"Is this the Liuhe Compound?"
In Xicheng, Qinghe County, a plainly dressed young man with a pig on his shoulder, stood in front of the gate of a house, and grabbed the copper ring to buckle the doorway.
The young man is Zhao Lin, in order to make money as soon as possible, he specializes in tasks with heavy goods and long distances, and he can earn a few more dollars by running.
Because he is down-to-earth and doesn't like to care, he quickly won the trust of Bangye, no longer sent people to keep an eye on it, and he could deliver the goods alone.
"What's the matter?" The door opened, and a yellow-faced young man walked out.
"It is written on the list, and the delivery will be delivered to the Liuhe Compound on Qingchun Street, which is your place, right?"
Zhao Lin took out a bill from his arms and handed it over.
The yellow-faced young man took a look at it, nodded and said, "It's here, put it in the yard." ”
Zhao Lin walked in with the pig on his shoulders and looked around curiously.
"Hey...... haha"
Before the winter had passed, more than a dozen young people were wearing only thin wrestling clothes, and some were even shirtless, walking in the yard, lifting stone locks, and trying to boil their strength.
These are nothing, the martial artists in the previous life also practiced like this, but when Zhao Lin looked at the few people with black belts on their waists in the east, his eyes lit up.
Some of them put their palms into the hot and smoking iron sand and rubbed them, and some of them hit their whole bodies with hammers the size of melons......
There were also two people practicing fists and feet, fists to the flesh, strong wind howling, Zhao Lin felt a little difficult to breathe when he passed by.
It's better to see than to hear, this is definitely real kung fu!
"May I ask how much is the tuition fee for practicing martial arts with you?"
Zhao Lin put down the pig, wiped the sweat on his head and asked.
Seeing that he was doing this kind of hard work at a young age, the yellow-faced young man not only did not despise him, but looked at him and said in a gentle tone: "Our Liuhe Sect is more strict in accepting disciples, and it also depends on the qualifications and temperament. ”
"They are apprentices, and they pay two taels of silver a month, and three months at a time."
Zhao Lin gasped, shocked by this number.
Six thousand dollars!
He felt that the phrase "poor and rich and martial" should be changed, and the rich and rich and heroic were almost the same.
"What, you want to learn?"
The yellow-faced youth asked with a smile.
Zhao Lin said calmly: "I want to learn." ”
The yellow-faced young man bowed his head and said, "Your body shape and skeleton are very good, and your qualifications should be fine." ”
And then I won't go any further.
Zhao Lin thanked him, walked out of the courtyard, and exhaled softly.
With such high tuition fees, it is prohibitive.
At noon, Zhao Lin sat on the embankment, looking at the boats moored on the shore, holding two buns in his hand and eating slowly.
Life has improved little by little, the initial existential crisis has been solved, and I have eaten steamed buns as I wished.
The next step is to take my brother out, let the whole family be fed and clothed, and after a year or two, when the money is enough, find a place to learn martial arts......
"Brother Zhao, rest!"
Zhao Lin came back to his senses and looked up to see Zhou Paotou walking over.
"It's okay, it's in a daze."
"Let's go, let's go to the restaurant and have a couple of drinks."
It is not easy for Lifu to make money, and most people are eager to break a penny in half to spend, only Zhou Paotou is generous, and the money is used in the five internal organs temple.
However, his elder brother is single, and the whole family is not hungry when he eats alone, and no one says anything.
"Brother Pao, find someone else, I just ate it."
Zhao Lin politely refused, and said in his heart that it was better to take more orders if he had that time, and others would have to find a chance to invite them back if they invited them to dinner.
Zhou Paotou squatted down and lowered his voice: "Brother, give face, I have something to tell you." ”
Zhao Lin was slightly stunned when he saw him solemn, not knowing what he was looking for himself.
But when it came to this, it was hard to refuse, so I walked with him into a restaurant on the side of the road and found a clean corner to sit down.
"Brother, we've known each other for a while, aren't you curious about the scar on my face?"
Zhou Paotou ordered a pot of wine, a plate of pig's head meat, a plate of peanuts, and took a sip of wine when the wine and food were served, and then asked Zhao Lindao with a smile.
Zhao Lin moved two chopsticks and stopped eating, and said: "As the saying goes, if you don't reveal people's scars, you won't ask if you don't mention me." ”
"There's nothing to say, it's being licked by the bear." Zhou Pao said with his hand stroking the scar.
"Is Xiong Zhen a bear?"
"Yes, but Xiong Zhen is different from ordinary black blind people, he can walk upright on two legs, and he is more ferocious, commonly known as man-bear."
Zhou Paotou said, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.
Zhao Lin didn't speak, and helped him fill the wine.
I only heard Zhou Paotou continue: "My family has been hunters for generations, and I have been hunting in the mountains with my father since I was ten years old. When I was seventeen years old, my father and I inadvertently entered the Ma Soul Circle. ”
"You know what a hemp soul circle is, right?"
"I don't know." Zhao Lin shook his head and said.
Zhou Paotou explained to him: "The deep mountains and old forests are exactly the same everywhere, and there is nothing to compare the direction, it is easy to get lost when you go to an unfamiliar place, we Orion call this the Soul Circle." ”
"But my dad was an old hunter, and he told me to just watch the trees grow. The sunny side is densely foliage, the direction is south, and the foliage side is north. ”
"We looked for the right direction and walked out of the mountains, but we didn't expect to break into the territory of a bear. According to common sense, bears are actually afraid of people, and they usually hide when they see people. ”
"But Xiong Zhen is different, he pounces on us when he sees us."
"My dad and I tried our best to escape, but we couldn't run away from it, and my dad saw that he couldn't escape, so he pushed me hard, shouting for me to play dead, and I was slapped by Xiong Zhen and broke my backbone......"
Zhao Lin said sympathetically: "Your father saved your life." ”
"yes."
Zhou Paotou pointed to the scar on his left cheek and said, "I was lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, and that bear didn't know if I was really dead or faked, so he came up and licked my face." ”
"I felt a steel brush on my face, and it hurt to the bone, but in order to survive, I gritted my teeth and endured it, and my face became what it is now."
Zhao Lin couldn't help but be in awe, and said in his heart that he was a ruthless person, and he could bear it, but after thinking about it, why did he tell this story to himself?
Zhou Paotou picked up the wine cup, raised his head and drank it all, his eyes shot out of bitter hatred, and said word by word: "This bear killed my father, and harmed me as a person, a ghost or a ghost, I will kill it for revenge!" ”